The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
More Misdirected ENERGY.

tine'' and Count de Toulouse .
and SO forth, In Antwerp, where he is
alleged to have disposed of stolen
coupons, recalls the record of that
rather picturesque soldier of fortune on
this side of the Atlantic.
The prince" claimed American citi-
zenship for purposes of self-protection,
but it was proven by investigation that
he recently escaped from Siberia.
whittier he was sent by Russia after
being extradited from Bremen.
According to the Chicago Tribune,
Savine was a cab driver in Chicago,
and at different times a billiard mark
er and waiter, on his way back to
Europe from Siberia. After the Span
ish-American war was declared he en-
listed and served in Porto Rico. Later
he was arrested in Canada and served
a year in jail for minor offenses. He is
said to have been born of an aristo-
cratic Russian family and to have in
herited at the age of % 100000 acres of
land and invested capital to the
amount of $5,000,000. He squandered
his fortune and went to Paris to live
by his wits.
Some time ago he plotted to secure
the throne of Bulgaria, and was about
to get the sanction of the sultan Of
Turkey, when Russian secret service
agent recognized him in Constantinople
and dragged him from the portals of
the palace to the Siberian mines.
Escaping to Tomsk, he began his
swindling career again, was rearrested,
and sent back to prison. He was clev-
err enough to make a second escape.
Had he elected to try making an hon.
est living he might have remained at
liberty, but once more he began his old
vocation.
How much a man of such resource
fitness and energy might have
achieved IL he had applied himself to
respectable calling after having fritter-
ed away an immense patrimony.
Prince Savine." at one time an Of
ficer in the Russian army, a man of
education and nimble wit, had the
necessary equipment for successful
career as a chevalier d'industrie, but
the prospects are that he will die in
Siberia, a rather sorry failure even In
his rather unambitious calling.-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal.
Boy Is a Human Storage Battery.
E. G. Alloy, a 7-year-old boy of
Russian parentage, born in America
and living in Houston. has been dis
covered to be human storage bat
terry of electricity. The widowed
mother fears the boy is possessed. He
is red-headed. freckle-faced. and
blue-eyed. A court of medical ex-
perts electricians, and physicians has
made remarkable tests with the boy.
His strange powers were accident
which had been put in one tooth. The
boy picked UP the disconnected
porcelain knob that was used to con-
meet an electric fan with an electric
light wire and thrust it into his
mouth. AS the metal cap touched
the metal tooth filing, the fan began
to revolve and then to buzz at full
speed. A S2-candlepower bulb was
attached to the end of the wire and
the light burned brilliantly.
When a steel thimble was put on
the boys finger and he grasped the
end of the wires in his hand, the
same result was obtained. A piece of
iron held in the boys hand for
few moments becomes highly
magnetized. A hammer with an iron
handle held in his hands will attract
taeks at a distance II feet.
Placed on a glass-legged stool. any
one touching him received a shock.
An ordinary fiat iron held in his
hands for five minutes and then
passed over ten-penny nails driven
into hard wood will pull them with
ease.-Galveston dispatch to New
York American.