The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-22

Murat, whom Napoleon made
king of Naples. The prince and MS
wife were buried in the Episcopal
cemetery OF the town, and visitors 10
Tallahassee may still see their graves
and also the house In which the
princess lived before her marriage
with her parents, Col. and Mrs, BYRD
Willis. The plantation OF Prince
Achille is near by, a portrait OF the
prince and a photograph OF the prih,
cess are In the public library anu
many white haired men and women
are still living who remember the IN
teresting, strangely assorted but deVot
ed couple.
Among those who remember the
princess with peculiar affection ID
Fanny Taylor, very old negro
woman, the daughter of Patsy Lee
who was the personal maid of Rather
inc Willis in Virginia before she went
to Florida and was still her maid after
her marriage.
Patsy. with several other former
slaves, was remembered in the Will oil
the princess, and Patsy's daughter still
lives in a cabin near Bellevue, which
was the last home Of the princess
The cabin is new, but is on the site oil
the former cottage, in which were re-
Gently burned many historic and beau
tiful pieces of Murat furniture, be
cause, as Fanny expressed IL, there
was no mankind about to put out the
fire." The cabin is as clean as a pin
in honor perhaps of the fact that In
It are gifts FROM royalty.
Fanny showed u recent visitor WITT
modest but evident pride two silver
teaspoons, three forks and an ole
fashioned twisted gold brooch giver
to her mother by Princess Murat
From a wash cloth of finest birdsey'
linen hemmed with almost invisible
stitches, and the last one ever uset
by the princess, Fanny unfolded two
locks of gray hair, one of the mistress
and one of the maid. The last ant
most cherished possession displayed
was a small photograph of the princess
taken during the latter years OF heI
life.
OF both the prince and princess
! their former slave remembers man!
interesting incidents. One OF thes'
was the well known anecdote OF hov
! during an absence of the princess tn,
prince dyed all the household linen
the lingerie of the princess and ever.
dress that the servants did not hid
from him a vivid pink. The dye used
tradition says, was pokeberry juice.
On another occasion he invited
Tallahassee friend to stay for dinner
urging the fact that he had killed
turkey buzzard" and was having
cooked. A sawdust pudding was al
other OF the odd culinary conceits re
membered against him.
Nothing could have been more roy
ally brilliant than the princes fire
20 years nor more democratically du
than the last 20 years of his life.
He was six years old when Napoleo
made Joachim Murat king of Naples
and as the heir to the throne littl
Achille was known as the prince royt
of the Two Sicilies and with his younl
er brother, Lucien, spent pampere
childhood at the court which his fl
Their and mother established.
When Achille was fourteen year
old his father and Napoleon becam
estranged. and at this most inoppo
tune time the king Of Naples also loi
the loyalty of his Italian subjects.
an effort to regain his power by fore
he was captured and executed and b
wife and sons were sent as prisoner
TO Austria
II was after eeveral years OF wa
derings over Europe that Prime
Murat drifted to America at the af
Of twenty, aad 1t was in Florida thi
he spent most Of the remainder Of h
short life. When Colonel Murat, as
was called by most OF his America