The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15
New York TImes.O

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In knocking about the world n
meets with many queer travellers,
travelling for many queer reasons. The
writer was once a passenger on a
Mediterranean steamer with an aged
German princess of one of
the petty German "mediatized" houses,
who lived entirely on passenger ships.
She was a tail, angular woman and
looked the very picture in dress, man
ner and physique of a New England old
maid from the rural districts. Al
though she kept primly to herself, h
was a kin old body, and used to
like to watch the younger people at
their pastimes and firtatiOns. The
story was that the relatives of the an
gular princess-she happened to be the
only member of the family who had
any mOney-had tried to put her in an
insane asylum, and the old lady, in dis
gust, had shaken the dust of the father
land from her garments and vowed
that hereafter she would spend her
time entirely among strangers. So she
went sDoard ship at Hamburg and be-
gan 70 travel, changing from ship 10
ship a. the different ports and keeping
far beyond the reach of designing rela-
tives. That was eight years ago. 1t
would be interesting to know if the
princess is travelling still; or, if she
died. where and how.
Few people have a stranger reason
for travelling than Edward Welsh, who
trots around the world with a big black
bear, in the life of which is supposed
to be contained the life of Welsh's en-
ployer. an Indian nabob. In 1856 Welsh,
who two years before had become
financial adviser to a native ruler in
India, was in a way of becoming the
real rular Of hfE p,ncfarsS J0.osDsn,g
and all the court was furious with jeal-
ousy. So they put up a job on Edward.
The nabOb of Nawab was induced to
consult a native priest, or mullah, as to
how long he would live. The mulIah
declared that the nabob would live as
long as a certain black bear which was
then in the palace menagerie, and when
the bear died the nabob would die. A
veterinary surgeon from Bombay was
sent for. and he decided that in order to
prolOng the bears life he should be kept
in a temperature varying between so
and 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The nabob
was frightened. and decided that the
bear with whose life his own was so
curiOusly bound up should at all hazard
be kept in the required temperature.
Then the thing happened which de-
lighted the hearts of the courtiers.
Above all men the nabob trusted Ed
ward Welsh. and to him he committed
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bear. He was told to spare no expense.
Unlimited money was at his disposal,
but he must travel about with the bear
and keep it always in a temperature
between so and so degrees. So Welsh
found himself exiled from court, with a
black bear on his hands, and now
travels about lodging extremes of eli
mate, while the old native advisers of
the nabOb have things their own way.
The native state, the administration of
which Welsh had begun to reform, has
dropped back again to its former con-
dition; and as for the nabob. secure in
his confidence in Edward Welsh, he has
Disendowed the city jail, stopped at
once the city drain;
Turned to beauty fair n frail, got his
senses back again;
Doubled taxes, cosses all; cleared away
each new built thana;
Turned the Two-lakh Hospital into a
superb a
Heaped upon the Bukhsh Sahib wealth
and honors manifold:
ia himself in eastern garb; squeezed
his people as of old.
The news from the nabob's domains