The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-02
Heart H'r'.ls.

| AHo hcoAG tuo uccl COlSiuCL-
ed by many Of tho dying, in past times
as votive gift peculiarly sacred. And
many instances are on record Of the
burial of the heart apart from the place
where the ashes Of the body might re-
pose. One Of the earliest instances of
this mode of heart bWial is that of
Henry II. Of England He died In a
passion Of grief before tho altar of the
church Of Chinon In; ll89. His heart
was inferred at Fontsevault, but his
body, from the nostriis of which tradi-
tion alleges blood to fh,ve dropped on
the approach of his rebellious son,
Richard, was laid in 3 separate vault.
When Richard C~ur 70 Lion fell be-
meath Gourdan's arrow at the siege of
Chalway, the gallanNheart which, in
Its gseestness and metfy, inspired him
to forgive and even to- toward the luck
less archer, was, after his death, pre-
served IN casket In the treasury of the
cathedral which william the Conquer
or built at Rouen; f6rRlchard by last
will directed that HIS body should be
Inferred In FontevraUlt, Eat the feet of
his father to testify his sorrow for the
uneasinesa he had cr9ated him during
his life timo," Heslbequeathed his
heart to Normandy, put Of his great
love for the people thereof. In Scot
land there have been aany instances of
the separate burial Ofthe human heart.
The earliest known fs that connected
With the founding and erection Of New
Abbey by Deragilla, daughter OF Allan
the Celtic lord of GaIaway, and wife
of John Baliol, fatherof the competitor
of the Scottish crown. Baliol, to whom
she was deeply attached, died an exile
in France In 1869, but Derargilla had
his heart embalmed, and as the Scott
chronioon records, ''loykt and bunden
with sylver brycht, ,".and this she al
ways carried about With her. In 1889,
as death approached, ,rshe directed that
sthis silent and daily companion in
life for twenty years. should be laid
upon her bosom when; she was buried
In the abbey she had founded. During
the repair of Christ's church at Cork
(lreland) In 1919, human heart, In a
leaden case, was found imbeded among
the masonry; but to whom 1t had be-
longcd, what was its story, the piety or
love Its owner wished to comm emorate
no legend Or inscription remained to
tell. When the body Of the Emperor
Napoleon was prepared for interment
at st.. Helena in May, 1921, the heart
was removed by medicinal officer to
trana Ge sSIdeneda sn aeHHe grrYef ase. Nine. Bor-
had made some vow,ndra raegn4tbbR9ssgHf "a a
vehement desire to obtain possession of
this as a precious relic, and the doctor,
fearing that some trick might be played
him, and his commission be thereby
imperilled, kept it all night in his own
room In a glass dish. The noise of
broken glass aroused him from a wax
ing doze, and he started forward, only
In time to rescue the heart OF the EN-
peror from a huge brown rat, which
was dragging it across the floor to its
soldered up in silver urn, filled with
spirits by Sergeant Abraham Milling
ton Of the st. Helena artillery, and
placed in a casket. In 1774 Sir Francis
Dashwood received the singular be-
quest Of a human heart, as the oSitua-
ries of that year record, that when
''Paul Whitehead, Esq, gentleman
much admired by the literatt for his
publications, died at his apartments in
Henrietta street, Covent Garden,
among other whimsical legacios was
his heart, which, with ESQ he be-
queathed to his lordship."