Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-18
PRINCE NASRULLA.
Some Good Stories About the Son of the Ameer
 of Afghanistan.

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 New York, June 15.--(Special to the -Dispatch.)- evening paper prints this from London today: The first experience of Nasrulla Kahn with an elevator occurred in hotel at Birming- ham. He refused to venture into the car, and finally yielding to persuasion sent one of the hotel porters up in order that he might see how 1t worked Even this did not satisfy him. for when the porter came down he sent his page boy up. When the boy came down he sent his entire suite up. On their return they reported everything all right, but he was not satisfied even then. Pausing mo- ment he suddenly decided against the elevator and walked up the stairs.
 As for the shahzada himself, he is young man who Is taking things coolly and withal right royalty. His dignity is amazing, despite the fact that he has been brought up at semi-barbarous court, and that his mother was slave woman of mean extraction. l watched him at the agricultural hall a day or two ago while he was watching the per formance of a military tournament. He sat in the royal box between the Prince and Princess of Wales, and seemed to be talking to her with as much gallantry as though he were one of the well-bred Orleanisit princes so prevalent in Eng land just at this time. Tn riding through the streets in his carriage he bows with graceful courtesy wherever hats are lifted to him, and that homage is general, and, in his features at feast he shows no surprise at the wonderful sights which must constantly appear to him.
 True for a few minutes his equanim- ity failed him, and that was the other evening at a ball given by one of the great peeresses. The ameer's son was present with a lot of other royalties, and he was especially received by the hostess nd 0pn111otr6 inc nd staircase and through the magnificent drawing rooms to the seats reserved for persons of rank. The strcase was lined with beautiful women, as well as many who were not beautiful and no longer young, and on either side of the room through which he passed were rows of curious ladies with their eyes on the young for eigner Of course they courtesied as he passed. and the number and variety of bare shoulders that met his view seemed for moment to paralyZe him with as- tonishment. He halted, turned to one of the English officers attached to his suite who spoke Persian (the court Ian guage of Afghanistan), and exclaimed. "Is it possible; are all these women un- < dressed for me?" And the reply was given in a tone of such rebuke that the prince recovered himself and proceeded. but until he reached his seat he kept his eyes to the ground.
 I learned the particulars from one of the shahZada's officers. who also gave me one or two interesting particulars of the ameers son. He really Is more aston ished and concerned at what he sees of the wonders and powers of England, and when told that there are five or six other nations as powerful. as civilized as Eu- rope. and a dozen more smaller powers, any one of which could cope martially with AfghaniStan, he insisted on having some verses from the Koran read to him before he would allow the conversa- tion to continue. Then the United States was mentioned to him. and 1t was ex- plained that there was a country which was really a union of forty or more states. in which the English language was the universal language, and where upwards of SO, 100000 of people lived in- dependently of kings princes and nobles The comprehension of the Afghan prince seemed unable to grasp such situation, for the only reply he made was that he hoped he would never go to such an aw- full place.
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