Arizona republican., 1921-04-28

door on the right. as you go out. Or 1t was some 20 years ago. A pinch or dust.
 I doubt if other than Richard him. self ever wore that heart into battle. If l am wrong, if any one save the original owner ever carried it, I would like to know it.
 Your lawyer orator of past age and history was mixed in his facts. fear. Old Joe Blackburn of Kentucky was of that picturesque school of history. Sir Walter Scott grafted onto the Southern Confederacy. Slouch hat of huge and ancient cavalry cut. mus tachios and goatee cut after the style affected by Little Brooches, Napoleon III, who was popular with some of my southern kin because they thought he was going to get around the Monroe doctrine and build a French-Austrian monarchy out of Mexican and Confederate territory This old silver-tongued war-horse used to send his clarion voice athwart the breeze in every election. You would be sure to hear every time something like this: With lance in rest and visor down, We will scatter the foes of democracy''-all that man. on horseback stuff, Shining Sword" dope that the last William of Ger many fed his people on. They were mostly always wrong So I am bet ting Lawyer Campbell was wrong.
 It was the heart of King David of Scotland that was lost in battle.
 King David of Scotland had the Iep- rosy. He vowed to go on a pilgrim age If cured. He claimed to be cured, but wars at home prevented his going
 He had more than the Lion Heart ever had He lived with them a life time, while Richard hunted them up because he was out of a job and had plenty of time for pilgrimages. King David may have had merely a bad case of Scotch itch. But on his deathbed he tried to make good his broken vow He had his faithful Douglass of the period promise to carry his heart above his own brave l neart on a pilgrimage-to Palestine | if possible
 Douglass tamily owned great s~f tates in France It is likely that Eaas Douglass went down there first. There being no pilgrimage on foot at the time, he decided to do the next best thing-help the Spanish out in their wars against the Moors.
 Douglass led a charge. The Spanish Knights failed to follow him in his ardor. to put the case mildly. At any rate he found himself alone. sur rounded, with no hope of rescue. Scorning to follow the Spanish knights backward. he stood high in l l ing the heart of King David far into the press of the enemy in front. wiz the cry, NGo where thou vast er6< | wont to leadi" and charged headlorA to his own death.
 II IS likely that the Moors admired the hand-earved filagree work of the casket, and probably took ii for some sort of talisman as well. They n,a,.o ! great on both silver work and charms | themselves At any rate. the casLef Iound a resting place at last in the treasure house Of an Indian Raiah where It was found seeeral centuries tater ana identified by an English of tieer- l assume it was an officer. for they had sue ha nose for Indian loot | "a few years ago.
 IL was only a few years aro that the heart of King David came hack to the British Isles.
 IT the old lion heart of Richard was Sser lost in battle. I would like to know II. l can find nothing on tbat
 Though l could supply dates. nsn,as and the essential facts of the other legend which. think, has been rnixe.1
 up with a famous heart.
 1T you go into the mountains of
 North Carolina, every bad or. vulgar
 9yoiy VIII De attributed to Feb Vance
 lie was buried when I was a school
 boy; But 1t all happened to him. ac-
 coIuIhg to the mountaineers. who
 loved him and his homespun ways
 An lhulan told me once that a chief
 would do some big thing-kiIl ,rn
 pears alone. or three partners out of
 oile oen-get a big name. and aftey tlat everything that anyone else had uohe would be attributed to him. Ue ' dccouheed to me for the demigods in that way, the Greek Hercules for in stance, he mentioned by narne and [ .Scounted Tor his exploits in that way
 'houSh admitting that Hercules was , r very brave man if not very v,ise . Richard the Lion Heart had no r,o. l hopoly on bravery. And he had no, as e uld some others who were too busy { eo go to the holy wars, as was rhe
 scotch king Respectfully.
 HARTLEY SKINNER. tMr. skinner will observe that L,,< is . correcting no error of The Repuh v. /. Whlch only printed the story Of the
 London Times that an iron box said ; to contaln the heart of Richard I had !, recently been found in the ruins oi SieIroSe Aooey; the statement of 2
 Ioi iiLler PhoenlX physician of twenty x years ago that he had seen tho boz t in Melrose; and the oft-reneated ref, r. erehce Of a campaign orator of a SCOT, oI years ago to the use the Crusader, e made Of the box in their wars witt @ the Saracens.
 Itl That the heart was in the British @ Museum twenty years ago. as MT n skinner states, must have escaped n the knowledge of the London Times 1t which chronicled its recent disco<fl9
 in Melrose.)
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