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Story oF the Royal Couple Whose BOdies
 Are Buried i'm Florida,

Story of the Royal Couple Whose BOdiea Are Buried in Florida,
 In the well kept little cemetery in the quiet little city of Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, side by side beneath the shade of the trees, rests all that was mortal of a once well known prince of royal blood and his American bride their graves turfed over and marked by plain marble shafts One of these stones bears the following inscription
 Departed this life April IS, 1917, Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat, son of the king of Naples and Caroline Murat, aged forty-seven. This monu, ment is dedicated by his wife Catherine in perpetual memory of her love
 Upon the other shaft is cut these words
 Sacred to the memory of Princess C. A. Murat. widow of Colonel Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat and daughter of the late Colonel Bird c. Willis, of Virginia She departed this life on the 9th day of August, 1867, In the sixty-fourth year of her age A kind and aiTectionate wife and sister A sincere and devoted friend None knew knew h h..c7 tt but to love ner. None named her but to praise. This monument is erected to her memory by her bereaved brother and sisters.
 The Prince and Princess Murat re, sided upon their plantation in Jeffer- son county. east of Tallahassee, and owned numerous slaves They lived in grand style, and pictures of their royal robes and magnificent jewels are yet fresh in the memories of old resi- dents
 When tho remains of the prince were brought from Tallahassee for burial the funeral cortege presented a novel appearance. There were car riages, buggieS, wagons, carts and buck boards, drawn by blooded horses, ordi- nary horses, shabby horses, mules, don keys and oxen. Everybody for miles around attended, and among the mourners were POO slaves. all in fune- real black, and there yet remained upon the plantation many slaves either too old or too young to come
 Prince Murat was an eccentric char, acter, and old citizens who knew him we'll delight to tell anecdotes and remi- niscences of his peculiar doiugs Sev. eral of his former slaves are yet living in and about Tallahassee, and they, too, are proud to have one listen to their marvellous tales of ''Maus Muh- raw The prince had three fayorite slaves-Mingo, Jerry and William who took part in all his hunting, fish ing and exploring expeditions
 The prince was great sportsman, and he always shot any bird or beast that came within reach of his gun. lie never shot anything but once that he did not eat in fact, he was often heard to say that before be stopped he in tended knowing the flavor of every animal fish or fowl to be found in Florida.
 One day he brought in bird and de livered it to William with instructions to cook it.
 Good Gawd, mausa, yuh Rin't gwan tuh eat dat ting, is yuhp asked Will liam.
 T will eat zat crow, William; you cook eet
 But, mausa, dats uh buzzard"
 You cook eatP
 The buzzard was pluckcd and put in the pot to parboil but soon the atmos- phere became so dense with such a pe- culiar effluyia that even the prince had to hunt purer air He did not eat that bird. Detroit Free Press.