The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24

mained But in the 18th century 1t was removed by Bishop Gillis of Edenburgh
 and taken to that city. But now no one
 seems to know anything of it's where 1 abouts It is as lost as if gulped down
 by an earthquake.
 Upon the death of Henry his son Rich | ard, .'The Lion Hearted" came to the
 throne. He reigned ten years, not one
 of which was spent in England. He was l off in the wars with the crusaders, and
 part of tho time in prison in Austria, in
 an old castle on the banks of the Danube.
 have seen this old castle. In the days
 of Richard it might have been considered
 a strong dungeon, but in these days a less stalwart man than he could not long
 be kept within its dingy walls. While
 preparing for the siege of Chaluz, Rich
 ard ventured near the walls, and was rec ognized by youth on the ramparts, who discharged an arrow at him which took 1 effect in the left shoulder. The wound
 was not necessarily fatal, but it was rendered mortal by the bungling surgeon l in his efforts to extract the arrowhead.
 which has broken off from It's star. Richard forgave the young man as he stood before him bound with chains. In l bitter anguish and sincere repentance for his sins Richard died, being AZ years old. In his will he directed that his body be buried at the feet of his royal father, at Fontevraud, and that his heart be taken to Rouen. The heart was borne to the cathedral of Rouen and around it was
 built an elaborate silver shrine In the course of years the silver of this shrine
 was melted into money that was used to ransom St. Louis from the Turks. Being
 unprotected the heart disappeared. In
 17SS it was found and restored to its to the cathedral and was afterwards found on exhibition in the city's mu-
 scum. In 1869 it was replaced in the
 cathedral where it lies today. Above 1t
 there is metal plate with the inscrip-
 tion:
 "Hic jacet Cor Ricardi Regis Anglorum." !" It Is now as much like a dark shrivelled
 walnut or a ball of brown dust as a
 heart. Yet this is the heart of a hero of the Crusaders, the heart of him whom Sir Walter Scott causes to tread with the lTdIfp Ol Il hlllS tiiOu6H tlC romance of "Ivanhoev'
 And in this dark and shrivelled heart Is all that's left of Natures past,
 Of him who rode with lofty rnein,
 Through carnage red and armors sheen. A nephew of Richard the Lion Hearted. the Earl of Cornwall, who had spent his life in the wars in Europe and in the Holy Land, died. His body was buried in Worcestershire, but his heart was given to the Abbey of Rewley, near Oxford. Before this, however, this same Earl son had died. His heart also was plucked from his breast and finally found a rest ing place in Westminster Abbey.
 When a lover is said to have given his heart to her whom he loves most no one snpposes that the material heart is meant. Yet here is a case where the heart poet
 ical and the heart physical were given to the keeping of a woman. How faith fully she kept it let the story tell: Der orqilla was the daughter of Lord Allen of the Celtic Clan of Galloway, in Scot land. She was loved by young Baiiol,
 the son of the Scottish lord who had
 unnecessarily contended with Bruce over the crown of Scotland. The course of