Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1913 — Page 2

NAPOLEON ACHILLE MURAT, FLORIDA’S CITIZEN PRINCE

SALLAHASSEE, the capital of Florida, was for some years the home of Prince Napoleon Achille Murat, son of Joachim Murat, whom Napoleon made king of Naples. The prince and his •wife were buried in the Episcopal cemetery of the town, and visitors to Tallahassee may still see their graves and- also - the house- in which__tha 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 princess are in the public library, and many white haired men and women are still living who remember the interesting, strangely assorted but devoted couple. ‘ Among those who remember the princess with peculiar affection is Fanny Taylor, a very old negro woman, the daughter of Patsy Lee, who wae the personal maid of Katherine 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 of 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 of the former cottage, in which were recently burned many historic and beautiful pieces of Murat furniture, because, as Fanny expressed it, “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 frrom royalty. Fanny showed a recent visitor with modest but evident pride two silver teaspoons, three forks and an old fashioned twisted gold brooch given to her mother by Princess Murat. From a wash cloth of finest birdseye linen hemmed with almost invisible stitches, and the last one ever used by the princess, Fanny unfolded two locks of gray hair, one of the mistress and one of the maid. The last and most cherished possession displayed was a small photograph of the princess taken during the latter years of her life. Of both the prince and princess their former slave remembers many interesting incidents. One of these was the well known anecdote of how during an absence of the princess the prince dyed all the household linen, the lingerie of the princess and every dress that the servants did not hide from him a vivid pink. The dye used, tradition says, was pokeberry juice. On another occasion he invited a Tallahassee friend to stay for dinner, urging the fact that he had killed a "turkey buzzard” and was having it cooked. A sawdust pudding was another of the odd culinary conceits remembered against him. Nothing could have been more royally brilliant than the prince’s first 20 years nor more democratically dull than the last 20 years of his life. He was six years old when Napoleon made Joachim Murat king of Naples; and as the heir to the throne little Achille was known as the prince royal of the Two Sicilies and with his younger brother, Lucien, spent a pampered childhood at the court/ which his father and mother established. When Achille was fourteen years old his father and Napoleon became estranged, and at this most inopportune time the ktag of Naples also lost the loyalty of his Italian subjects. In an effort to regain his power by force he was captured and executed and his wife and sons were sent as prisoners to Austria. It was after several years of wanderings over Europe that Prince Murat drifted to America at the age of twenty, and it was in Florida that he spent most of the remainder of his short life. When Colonel Murat, as he was called by most of his American

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Meerschaum Quickly Colored When Autocrat of All the Ruaaias Issued His Orders. A European contemporary tells an entertaining story of how a pipe was colored "by order of the Czar." An artist, who had spent some years In Russia, received as a parting gift from the Czar (Nicholas I.) ah enormous meerschaum mounted with diamonds. Noticing that the recipient waß look-

friends, arrived in Tallahassee the belle of Florida was Katherine Willis Gray, a young widow who lived with her father, Col. Byrd Willis, who had sought and made his fortune in the new territory of Florida. Mrs. Gray had married a Scotsman at the age of fifteen and was left a widow at sixteen, and as her child also died she returned to live with her parents at Willis kail, near Fredericksburg, Va., and accompanied them when they moved to Florida. The Willis home in Tallahassee on South Monroe street, near the capitol, was a center of the social life of the state. The beauty and charm of the young Virginia widow, who was then only twenty-two years old, immediately captivated the son of Caroline Bonaparte and his courtship seems to have been as ardent as might be expected from a temperamental Frenchman. However, the young woman was not only beautiful and wealthy, but her mother was Mary Lewis, a niece of George Washington, and not even the dazzling fact that Colonel Murat’s mother was a sister of Napoleon could blind the eyes of the blue blood of Virginia to the knowledge that his father, Joachim Murat, was the son of an obscure innkeeper. Beside which the prince was eccentric to a degree that was almost ill bred. He spoke a burlesque of the English language and was perhaps easily affected, but certainly often affected, by wine. He wae, however, an intensely interesting companion, and was eagerly-sought socially and valued as a sincere and unchanging friend. The courtship of the greatest belle and the only prince in Tallahassee was watched with interest by the friends of the couple and with approval by the parents of the young woman; and when the devotion and undisguised admiration of the prince finally won there were hearty congratulations and good wishes for them from many parts of the United States as well as their adopted state. Mrs. “Gray and Colonel Murat wefe married July 30, 1826, anJ went to IFvF at Lipona, his large plantation in Jefferson county, the name of which was transposed to Napoli, the city with which he had so many associations. It ivas one of the most beautiful estates in Florida and near the township in the same country which was given to Lafayette by the United States government on his visit in 1824. The prince becoming restless on his Florida plantation, he and his American princess went abroad, and being forbidden to enter France and Italy they went to “Little Paris,” as Brussels is called, where they spent two delightful years. The prince, who was a close personal friend of King Leopold, was made a colonel in the Belgian army and had command of a regiment of lancers. Both he and the princess were Immensely popular, too popular, in fact, fW the fine Bonaparte face of Prince Achille was so much like that of his uncle, the great Napoleon, that he was often stopped on the street and embraced by old soldiers, who fell on their knees before him. The Powers saw and trembled for fear that he might be able to enlist soldiers enough to restore his family to their former thrones, and his regiment was disbanded. Prince Achille made a memorable address to his men, speaking to them in seven different languages, one after another, and then

ing somewhat pensively at the gift, the Czar asked him what he was thinking about. The artist replied that he was thinking of the time it would take to color the pipe—probably five years. Learning that the artist would not be leaving the country for fifteen days, the Czar took the pipe back again, and sent it .to the Palace guard-house, where the following “order of the day" was issued: “Under pain of the knout none must smoke any other pipe but this. All

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returned with hie wife to his Aznerteaa freedom. During a year'* stay In London the bfeauty and the charming personality of the princess made a great impression among English nobility, and they were of real financial assistance to members of the exiled Bonaparte family. especially Louis Napoleon, the cousin of Prince Achille. The following year Prince Lguis Napoleon came to America expecting to, visit his “Cousin Kate” and “Cousin Achille” at their southern home, but he was recalled from New York by the Illness of his mother. - The prince, with his active mind, became at one time very much interested in the study of law, to which he devoted his entire time and quickly masted it. He was admitted to the bar in New Orleans and formed a partnership with Mr. Gamier, and for several years made his home in the congenial French city, where he divided his time between his beautiful town house and a large sugar plantation which he bought on the Mississippi river. Not understanding the culture of cane, he lost a great deal of money, but learned at the same time a great deal about the people and their life, which he recalls in Mb books on America. Returning to the ever cherished neighborhood of Tallahassee the prince £nd princess spent a number of years at Econchattie, another of their plantations, and it was then that the fighting blood of the Bonapartes was aroused by the continuous outrages of the Indians, and the prince in command of a regiment fought with Americans for American rights. The prince was a brave and daring soldier, quick, firm and resourceful, but his wife proved herself a mats worthy of a Bonaparte by following him through every peril of the campaign,pursing him through an almost fatal case of fever and remaining with him until the bloody little war wa» over.

At lovely Econchattie, with its gianl live oak trees hung with long graj moss and the whole world about il fragrant with flowers, Prince Achille Murat died April 15, 1847, and it wai at Econchattie that his widow spent the summers during the twenty year* she survived him. She died August 6 1867. Bellevue, just two miles from Talla hassee, is more closely associated witt the princess after the death of Prince Murat. She bought the place and witt her favorite slaves settled there t« spend the remainder of her life. It U a pretty white cottage of four immense high pitched rooms, set on a beauti ful hill overlooking Tallahassee to the Cast. An oleander lined walk leadi from the road to the doorway, and al’ about the house are enormous mag nolia trees, covered most of the yeai with big white blossoms, red berried holly trees and grapefruit trees whicli at all seasons are beautiful with eitbei fragrant waxy blossoms or pale,yellow fruit The entertainments given by thi princess at Bellevue were noted al‘ over the south for their lavish hos pitality, and were enhanced perhap* in interest by the service of solid goli and the imperial livery of the Bona partes. The privilege of using the re< and gold livery was bestowed witl $40,000 on his “Cousin Kate” by Louit Napoleon after he had become -em peror. In the cottage were also a marblt bust of Caroline Bonaparte, many ex quisite pieces of French furniture and other handsome gifts presented to hei by Napoleon when, with the othei members of the Bonaparte family, she went to Paris for his coronation. On many occasions she was selected by him for especial honors and welcomed as a princess of France. On one occasion she was Invited to a court function at the Tuileries and was told that she would know hei position at table by the rank of the person with whom she went in to dinner. As one after the other of the dignitaries present passed out before her to dinner her heart sank at the sight of the few nonentities left. Hei unaffected surprise and delight greatly pleased the emperor when he himself came quickly in, offered her his arm and seated her beside him at the table. The emperor was never tired of listening to the animated stories of his American cousin and he and Eugenie begged her to make her home in France, but Mme. Murat could not forget the friends left in Florida an<| that many plantations and slaves needed her personal attention, so she returned to America and to Bellevue. When the close of the war left Mme. Murat penniless, although possessed of thousands of acres of fertile farm landß, and she and her several hundred slaves faced starvation, the emperor came to her assistance and gave her a Ihrge yearly income, on which she not only lived in great comfort but with which she did a vast deal of charity, helping many stricken families and friends in Florida and Virginia. Mme. Murat made another visit to Paris in 1866, where she spent a year In an effort to regain her failing healths She became seriously ill on her return and after a long illness at Bellevue she went to Econchattie, where she died.

the necessary tobacco will be supplied." The Cossacks went cheerfully at the job day and night, and at the end of the fortnight the pipe was returned to its owner, inscribed: “Colored in fifteen days by order of Nicholas, Emperor."

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NEGLIGEE GARMENTS HAVE ELABORATE GARNISHMENT. • ————— . Lace In Profusion la the Distinguishing Mark—Combinations of Ay* Sorts Allowed in Apparel for Boudoir Wear. Lace plays as great a part in negligee wear as ty does in all other types of feminine dress. Usually the elaborate lace trimming Is what strikes the eye first In modern peignoir or room sack, and details of foundation material, ribbons, little silk and chiffon flowers and other trimming fallals make themselves evident afterward. Though crepe de chine and shadow lace, with suitable garnishment of rosebuds, form the most aristocratic type of sacque or full length negligee, there are pleasing models of much less expensive character for the average woman’s midsummer wear, such as is shown in the illustration. Dotted swiss is combined with lace or with very fine machine embroidery in hand effects. Dotted batiste and plaited • net, flowered crepe with net frills and similar summer combinations that one sees in the season’s wear and as these lovely little affaire are surprisingly little-priced ho woman peed go away for a week-end visit without a fresh and becoming garment in her suitcase for idle gossip. Full length negligees are almost Invariably draped, for drapery just now seems to be an obsession with femininity. Even the humble kimono of ordinary cotton crepe is likely to be caught up at the knee under a rosette of ribbon to convey a suggestion of* clinging drapery, and as for the expensive models of chiffon, crepe de chine and lace, clinging is surely the word for their exquisite lines of grace, produced by artful but seemingly artless drapery. Now French negligees of allover lace

Full Length Negligee.

are hung over white chiffon foundations having upper sections of flesh colored tulle so that the fashionable effect of semi-nude shoulders Is achieved without any real immodesty whatever. French negligees also are of fine net embroidered with chenille flowers in pale mauve, rose or lilac. Ribbons have a larger place on negligee wear than has been the in

FROM SCRAPS OF CRETONNE

Many Pretty and Serviceable Articles May Be Made In the Odd Moments of Leisure. After hoarding up scraps \of cretonne left from window draperies and furniture covers, a clever woman emptied her patch bag one day and from the oddly shaped pieces of cretonne made many pretty articles. A large roll of rose-sprigged French cretonne furnished material enough to coyer a hat box. To successfully accomplish this, cut a band long enough to encircle the box and wide enough to cover the sides, with allowance ftjade for turning in at the top and bottom. With bookbinders’ paste join the ends at one corner. Slash the edges so that they will turn neatly and paste In place. Cover the lid in the same manner, and to properly finish the box. line with cretonne or plain material, pasting the sides, bottom and top smoothly to the pasteboard foundation. This .makes a lovely box In which to keep your best hat and la one which need not be concealed from view.

Useful Coats.

No more useful garment than the coat of lightweight worsted has been Included In woman’s wardrobe In years. These coats fill almost every requirement of a summer wrap. They are gracefully appropriate for wear with the draped afternoon costume of crepe de chine, lansdowne or foulard, are jauntily attractive over a short skirted outing costume, and will answer for short motor trips and for travsl by rail or by water. The rather

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Model of white cluny lace over Chiffon, with draped skirt. Trimming of black maline and sash of same material.

several seasons, though in most Instances wide, soft bows are also made with this twisted-up ribbon. The sash is of course a feature of negligee wear, just as it is of all costumes, this season, and many little sacques of soft fabric have weighted girdles which knot at the front or at one side of the front and hang below the edge of the sacque to the knee.

MAY BE CURLED AT HOME

Not Necessary to Send Plumes to Professional Cleaners When They Become Bedraggled. - The present fashionable ostrich feather, although it is not so tightly curled as the old fashioned plume, looks even more bedraggled and forlorn when It is out of curl thaii the old one did., Yet fogs and mists or rains are as frequent as ever, and ostrich feathers are now worn at all tinies of the day and night, regardless of the weather. Plumetis feathers were put forward to fill the role of a feather which moißture would not change,'but they do not take the place of the regulation ostrich feather. There is only one thing to do If you wear ostrich feathers, and that is to learn how to curl them. It, is as good as impossible to send a feather to the professional cleaner to be curled every time there is a summer shower. When the moist hat with feather trimming is removed put it, if-pos-sible, near a fire. Heat often restores a good deal of the Joat curl When this is not possible let the feather dry thoroughly and then recurl it with a nail file, the blunt edge of a knife or some other steel or blade which is not sharp. * Work with one or two of the fronds of the feather at a time. Catch them between the thumb and the blade near the stem of ,jthe feather and slowly and firmly draw the thumb and the blade along the fronds to the edge. If necessary go over some of the feathers twice. It Is surprising how rapidly this curling can be done; and if it is carefully done after a little practice the feather will look quite as well as if it had been curled by a professional

severely cut models of dark or neutral colored material are the most satisfactory—and usually the smartest. Sdmetimes a bright-colored Bulgarian collar adds a touch of gayety and very exclusive coats of this sort have linings of American Beauty or emerald green silk. Mandarin yellow is another favorite lining hue. Very good looking sport coats of pin striped black or navy serge, with trim lines and trimming of white pearl buttons, may be foun£.

Bleach for Waists.

When perspiration has left a yellow mark cover the blemlßh with peroxide of hydrogen, leave until dry, then cover with ammonia and wash. Ammonia water can be used to wash woolen waists on parts where perspiration has left marks. The ammonia will clean the material without Injury to the fabric, and also destroy all odor. Often a mark In fine material may be removed In the following manner: In a saucer or pan place a lighted match and cover with sulphur. When it begins' to burn cover with a funnel to hold in the fumes. Hold the dampened material over the end of the funnel, and In most cases it will bleach the spot. Work by an open window where there Is a strong draft, in order to avoid Inhaling any -of the fumes.

Silk Stocking Hint.

You can prolong the wearing quad ties of Bilk stockings to a much great er extent by sewing a piece of soft silk on the inside of both toe and heeL Japanese wash silk is good. Darn It in around the edge. Also sew a pleca of the silk at the top whore the garters fasten.

OTHERS ALSO IN HARD LUCK

Youthful Artist, However, Wee In Ne Mood to Extend Sympathy to Fellow Unfortunate. Two youthful artists having a studio in Philadelphia, wherein they not only work, but lodge as well, were obliged! to make shirt, not long ago, during a period of financial stress, with such meals as they could themselves prepare In the Stddio. One morhifig as the younger pf thetwo was “sketching In" the coffee he gave utterance to kmd and bitter complaint "This is a fine for gentlemen to live!” he exclaimed. “Oh, I don’t know,” was the airy comment of his friend. “Lots of peo-< pie are far worse off. I was reading’ only this morning of a recluse who cooked his own breakfast for 19 years.” 1 - . '. V "He most have been awfully hungry when he finally got It done,” re-* joined the other, savagely.—Harper's* Magazine.

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