Pinch Prince Antwerp Police Have "Count De Toulouse-Lautrec" Disgraced Russian Officer Was Arrested in New York, Chicago and Many European Cities Siberian - Ex-Convict, He Sought to Rule Bulgaria ... .The Count de Toulouse-Lautrec, famous In several countries as a swindler, was arrested recently at Antwerp, Belgium, charged with cash ing stolen coupons. He protested against his arrest on the ground that he was an American citizen and dis played naturalization papers Issued In Tlllnois. It was found on investiga tion that he had heen released but recently from Siberia. He has been !n prison for fraud In half the civil ized countries of the world. Nicolas Erasmus Savlne Is perhaps the most notorious swindler now llv fng. He styles himself Count de Toulouse-Lautrec because of a marriage which he says took place between his fat.'ier, a general in the Russian im perial army, and a Countess of the emigre house of Toulouse-Lautrec. Tie was born In Russia In 185S. Un der the name of Savine he held a commission In the Russian Imperial Guard. He was of an excellent fam ily and had a considerable fortune. At one time he seemed to be on the road to high honors. He fought gal Tantly In the war of 1876 between Russia and Turkey and received three wounds at Plevna. After the war, however, he fell Into evil ways. He became entangled In Nihilistic plots and he took to gambling. Some where about 1880 his entire fortune was dissipated, and he was obliged to resign from the army. With the equipment of a handsome presence, an unusually complete edu cation and a wide and Influential ac quaintance, he started for Paris and began his career as a swindler. His apartments became the headquarters for the most reckless gamblers of the capital and Savlne was successful In plucking them. Soon afterward, lie worked his way Into the secret diplo matic service of four Governments at tho same time, selling the military secrets of the each to the other three. About this time he married Mile, flemence Vervoort. This lady ap plied for a divorce from him in 1902 n the ground that he had deceived her at the time of their marriage by pretending to be the Count de Toulouse-Lautrec. The French courts npheld the plea, and the French scions of the old house of Toulouse Lautrec indignantly repudiated Sa vlne. He, however, Insists with an earnestness that Is not simulated that he is the head of the Prussian branch of the family, which was established at the time of the French Revolution. Driven from Paris at last, Savlne made his way to Bulgaria just after the deposition of Prince Alexander, when Stambuloff was ruling the conn try -as dictator. With a beautiful and clever woman named Madeleine he had been doing several cities of Europe, Including Monte Carlo, and fn 1886 he found himself with her In Venice. According to his own story the events which followed, Savlne became friendly with Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, anr the latter sug gested that Savlne maVj a try for the Bulgarian throne. With a retinue wardrobed through the kindness of Don Carlos, Savlne and Madeleine started for Sofia, and soon arrangements were made with Stambuloff for the carrying out of Savine's desires. The "count" then went to Constantinople to secure the approval of the Sultan and while there was arrested at the request of NEW LAW WILL PROTECT TIMBER. Louisiana Would Prevent Cutting of Tress Loss Than Twelve Inchos In Diameter If the Legislature of Louisiana passes the forestry law proposed by the Governor of that State, and said to have the support of the largest tim ber owners, it will be the most ad vanced step yet taken b'y any State to regulate timber cutting on private lands. By the terms of the proposed atatute, the cutting of trees under twelve Inches in diameter, four feet from the ground, will not be per mitted. The law does not apply to those who In good faith wish to clear the land for agricultural purposes, or .who need the timber on the ground for roads or ditches, or in fhe case of an owner or tenant who uses the wood for domestic purposes. The lumberman will be required to fell his trees in a way to cauBe the least damage to young timber, and the refus9 must not be left where its presence will Invite fire or otherwise endanger the small trees. The pen alty provided for violations of the proposed law is a fine of $25 to $100 for .each offense, and Imprisonment may be added. Each tree wrongfully out will constitute a separate offense. The proposed law not ouly delimits offenses and names penalties, but also sets forth the reasons why such a law is thought advisable. Timber is becoming scarce, it says, and ought not to be needlessly wast ed. Forest destruction will carry with it other evils besides dearth of wood. It will cause destruction, soli rosion and - increase floods ' and droughts, to the damage of the whole people. The forests ought not be wholly cut down, the proposed law iurtier says, because they assist in abstracting disastrous tornadoes. of Swindlers. the Russian authorities and hustled to St. Petersburg. Of Savlne and Madeleine, Stambuloff said in his memoirs: "There was in Europe at one time an association much more dreadful than that of the Thirteen celebrated by Balzac, for the secret of it was never discovered, and It was com posed entirely of two individuals, a man and a woman. Imagine two beings full of genius, witty to the tips of their fingernails, knowing everything, able to describe everything, disabused from every thing, believing in nothing, having neither God nor soul nor conscience, learning, speaking all languages, young in spite of Methuselah's ex perience. "Suppose that, united by an In comparable admiration, these two beings should have given themselves to each other unreservedly, and you will comprehend what must have been the Invincible strength of these two accomplices." The Russians having got hold of Savlne, made short work of sending him to Siberia. He served a term at hard labor at Tomsk and at its close In 1894 was sent to Vladivostok as a colonist. Thence he escaped into Korea and took ship for San Fran cisco, where he nosed as a contractor for the Trans-Siberian Railroad. In 1895 he beat his way to Chicago, and there he was soon arrested for larceny. He wriggled out of that and came to New York, where he was ar rested, charged with assaulting a Tenderloin cabby. The Russian Con-sul-General made a statement in which he denounced the "count" as an Imposter, and the count challenged the ConBul-General to a duel as soon as he should be released. He was acquitted in General Ses sions. The Consul-General laughed at his challenge and in 1900 he was again arrested In Chicago on a charge or circulating $500,000 worth of fraudulent Cuban war bonds. His wife was with him at the time. The arrest was made at the request of the Canadian police. He was taken to Montreal and sentenced to f ve years In a penitentiary. He was released on parole, swindled a number of people by an other stock and bond deal and was nabbed in New York in December, 1901, Just as he was taking a steamer for France. He had no ticket, and only $38 in his clothes when arrested. His wife had returned to France while he was in the Canadian peniten tiary. The Canadian Government had had enough of him and didn't apply for his extradition, so he was re leased. In 1903 he was arrested In Lisbon and again turned over to the Russian authorities, against the protest of Germany, which wanted him for a number of frauds in bat country. He was started off tor Siberia again for writing letters to various peopje from the Emperor William down, es caped, and In 1905 was arrested at Bremen and taken back to Russia. At this time he had $50,000 In his possession. He was sent to Siberia for a third time, but again escaped. Savlne attributes the greater part of his troubles with the police of Europe and America to persecution on the part of Russian agents because of his attempt to be chosen Prince of Bulgaria. New York Sun. The Supreme Court of Maine re cently ruled that that State may law fully restrict the clearing of privately owned forest land if the public would be injured by such clearing. Louis iana's proposed law goes still further In the same direction and follows the lines of the opinion rendered by the Maine Supreme Court. It is worthy of note that the two States which are first to take this advanced stand in forest protection are 1600 miles apart and have forests not at all allkl in character, different soils, climates with few points in common, crops of wholly different kinds, geography and topography of opposite extremes, yet each realizes the immense importance of its forests and how essential their protection is to the continued pros perity of its people. . Moose Packed the Hunters. Premier Hazen, who returned home after a canoeing trip on the Tobique River with Surveyor-General Grimmer and members of their fami lies, tells an exciting moose story. One night Mr. Grimmer, Mlsi Grimmer, Miss Hazen and two guides were in a canoe with a lantern pad dling around to catch sight of a moose. In the shallow water they passed .a big bull. The light was so placed that he could not see the ca noe. Some one changed Vie position of the lantern, and it flashed in the animal's eye. Frightened, it sprang for shore, with the result that Its tore feet landed in the canoe and the moose brushed against the Surveyor General. Another bound and the moose was over them and the canor sank with all hands in the water. It was Bhallow, so there was nothfhg worse than a ducking. St John Cor respondence Toronto Globe. The tunnel through the backbone of the Cordilleras that wUl connect Valparaiso with Buenos Ayres is pro gressing rapidly. Work is pushed day and night. At the presect rati It will be opened In J J 10. New York spends more money on education annually than any other city in the world. New York City has added 4,100, 000 to its population in the last cen tury. A recent German estimate of the world's railroads give them a total length of 563,771 miles. Buenos Ayres has a population of 1,200,000, of which about eighty per cent. Is foreign, the Italians forming about sixty per cent, of the foreign population. St. Petersburg authorities have Is sued an order forbidding the students of the cadet corps to read "Sherlock Holmes" and other stories of a simi lar character. The ladles of a Methodist church out in Missouri resolved to use the money they had thought of spending on Easter hats toward lifting a $700 mortgage on the church. Terrific sand storms occur in the Shantung provinces of China. Around tombs and other places where tho soil Is not disturbed the annual de posit of these storms can be distinctly traced for ages, layers of an eighth of an inch being the minimum for any season. South Africans practiced Irrigation nearly 400 years ago. . St. Louis reports a case of hypno tism over the telephone at a distance of 150 miles. Philadelphia Is. preparing to spend $6,000,000 on new docks on the Del aware River water front. Ten billion newspapers were circu lated in 1907, and the figure will be considerably raised this year. The net revenue of the New York City postoffice during the fiscal year just ended was $11,815,137.71. A complete clear-out of old lubri cant will often change a sluggish au tomobile to a lively and responsive affair. Longest prize fight on record oc curred at Cheshire, England, in 1825, between Jack Jones and Pat Tunney, 276 rounds, requiring four and one half hours. The Indian empire has the cheap est postal service in the world. E. C. Laston, an Englishman, who has issued a challenge to the world for the memory championship, although only a young man of twenty-three years, is a veritable walking encyclo pedia, for he has memorized 40,000 dates of the principal events in the world's history since the creation. FRAMING IT CP FOR HIM. Fight in the Street Faked For tho Disadvantage of the Unwary. Three or four small boys waited outside a down-town restaurant the other evening until a man came out who appeared to be a little the worse for food. As he paused at the side walk's edge. two of the boys squared oft and began apparently to fight with the heartiest ill-will. One was short; the other tall. The little fellow was seemingly having all the best of it, when suddenly the big one ran. "Come on, get after him," said the Inebriate on the sidewalk. "Bet you a dollar I can lick him," said the big fellow, stopping in hla flight. Then too the other small boy! about volunteered to bet with the tipsy man. He might have made the bets but for a friend who came out of the res taurant just then. The friend knew the game and dragged his man away. "Just a plant to get a bet down. Then the big fellow will lick him and take the money. They split," he said. New York Sun. Fisherman Dodged Sivordflsh. The fishing schooner Dorcas was cruising off Georges Thursday when her lookout espied a big swordflsb. The man In the cralle drove the iron and booked the fish. James Wallace went In his dory to get the fish. The swordfish saw him coming and charged directly at him. Wallace had just time to scramble to the stern when the fish struck the boat and the sword penetrated the dory so that nearly two feet of the blade eitended through the hole. The fish was rendered helpless, and Wal lace knocked It on the head. Boston Herald. A "Slick" Answer. It was a wise young man who paused before he answered the widow who asked him to guess her age. "You must have some idea of it," she said, with what was intended for an arch sldewise glance. "I have several ideas," he admitted, with a smile. 'The only trouble is that I hesitate whether to make you ten year younger on account of your looks or ten year older on account of your brains." Then, while the widow smiled and blushed, he took a grace ful hut speedy leave. Illustrated Bits. THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS. Methods Used In the Campaign of Education in New York. Were a war in the United States to take off every year 150,000 persons wo would be horrified beyond meas ure. Yet this is the estimate of the American loss from tuberculosis. A feature of the State campaign has been a kind of tuberculosis revi val meeting, a mass meeting at which the citizens are stimulated by speak ers of experience and wide reputation to an awakened social conscience. Recently the New York committee distributed among the Italian tene ment house population 10,000 col ored pictures of a canal in Venice. On the borders of the hanging picture ore printed simple instructions about the care and prevention of the dis ease. Only five years ago the committee on the prevention of tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society -of the city of New York was appointed. What has this committee done? The handbook and the directory of organizations, sanatoria and hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis In the United States not only have been of great assistance to pioneers in tu berculosis work, but have had a di rect influence in forming public opin ion and creating a general interest In preventive measures all over the country. The "don't" card, which in simple language gives suggestions re garding the prevention- of tuberculo sis, has become a standard form of literature for. general didactic use. Its circulation has literally run up into the millions. Lectures on tuberculosis, mainly stereoptlcon, given during the five years under the auspices of the com mittee, have reached an audience of some 150,000 persons. The traveling tuberculosis exhibition, containing models, photographs, charts, etc., has been shown in many places In New York City to probably half a million people. In the summer of 1907 the com mittee resurrected for day camp pur poses . an old city ferry boat, and proved In one summer that at rela tively small cost " increased weight, good color and a lasting appreciation of fresh air and cleanliness can be gained by consumptive "stay at homes." Especially Important has been the establishment of ten special tubercu losis clinics and the organization of a system of distinct dispensaries, which prevent overlapping and dupli cation of effort and look toward the ultimate dispensary control of tuber culosis. Review of Reviews. Division of Time. Though the fundamental division of time, the day, appears Intuitive to most persons, it Is well to remember that in the arctic regions the marking of this division is by no means easy. During several successive months the sun is either always below or always above the horizon, and the only method a very uncertain one of distinguishing between day and night is to observe the times of high and low tide. Division of time into months conies from the motions of the moon. Malays, Polynesians and Australian aborigines reckon time ex clusively by months and days. That greater unit of time, the year, characterized by the regular succes sion of the seasons, has presented the greatest difficulties to eiact determin ation, partly because the seasons are not sharply distinguished in some re gions, partly because of the universal dfBlre to establish among the year, month and day simple relations which find no support In the facts of astron omy. Inhabitants of Venus, if there are any, must find it extremely difficult to establish units of time. Venus al ways turns the same face toward the sun; so the planet has no day, and the lack of a moon deprives it of a month. Finally, it has no year, for its axis of rotation is perpendiucular to tho plane of its orbit, and the lat ter is almost circular. Chicago News. The Game of Fly-Loo. Seven men in a broker's office wait ing for something. Nothing turns up. Each takes from his pocket a lump of cut sugar and places it on the table. The new rule Is that any player may immerse his lump in any acid, liquor, liquer, cordial or chemi cal he thinks most attractive to files. If a dollar limit is agreed on, each places his bet beside his lump, and the player whose lump attracts the first fly gathers in the pot. You sel dom see a game of fly-loo these days with a higher limit than $10, but $100 or even $500 a lump was noth ing In more prosperous times. There is no "book making." The police do not interfere. No District Attorney is allowed to butt in. Why, If you are clever with your eyes you mny see fly-loo played dally in public eating houses and in lunch clubs. Wher ever there is a fly there can be loo. New York Press. Enough to Scare Her. "Bill" Smith is a Bucks County storekeeper, and last spring he came down to Philadelphia to purchase his stock of goods for the summer trade. The goods were shipped immediately and reached his store before he did. Among the lot of cases and packages was a bot shaped something like a casket. When Bill's wife saw this one she uttered a scream aad called for a hammer. The drayman, hear ing her shrill cries, rushed in to see what the trouble wai. The wire, pale and faint, pointed to the following In scription on the bos: "BUI inside." Philadelphia Ledger OUR NEW AMBASSADOR TO GERMANY, JiW'.'.;s: " -;-ili)ioni;il.'i"iW'tTil it' iiiii',jiiumjul.i.'.iihiimil.ii T HON. DAVID JAYNE Novel Ice Cream Server. An entirely new method of serving Ice cream is the recent patent of a New York man. He abolishes the old system by means of a spoon. As shown ' in the illustration, this Ice cream server Is in the form of a cylin der, which Is attached to a handle. Sliding within the handle and the cylinder are a piston and a plunger, so devised that the insertion of the Instrument Into the receptacle con taining the Ice-cream will cause the receiver to be filled. Pressure upon the piston causes the contents of the cylinder to be expelled. The plunger Is operated In a novel manner by means of a trigger which is net in the handle convenient for operation by the fingers of the operator. Wash ington Star. The Frenchwoman's World. No one who has ever talked to a middle class Frenchwoman can have failed to see that she is Interested in nothing outside her own country, and in very little outside her own family. To the female Gallic mind the world beyond French frontiers is a world of barbarians. It Is this curious mental attitude which makes our neighbors across the Channel in a sense the Chinese of Europe. Sketch. A Young Lady From Town. Young Lady From Town (who is too frightened to run) "Lie down, sir; He down!" London Weekly Tel egraph. Authority. "Going to marry Miss Mannish, eh? How did you discover that she was the one Ctrl in the world for you?" "She told me." Houston Post. Building Trestle Bridge at the United IIP fill- i V 1 L 111" h H1 HILL, OF NEW YORK. Democracy Under Foot, One of the Ohio Congressmen tells the following as Indicative of the pes simistic view of the average politician when in the throes of defeat: The day after the routing of Parker In 1904 ono of the Democratic news papers in the Buckeye State sent out a circular telegram soliciting expres sions of opinion from" various poli ticians throughout the State. It hi claimed that the quaintest of the lot was the report of one county chair man, expressed in these terms: "County has gone for Roosevelt by 150. The people are lu minority. Heaven help us!" Philadelphia Ledger. , ; , Insulated Screwdriver. 1 Working around electric wires with an ordinary screwdriver has been the cause of numerous Injuries to the op erators. Contact with the live wire, of course, results In a short circuit. How easily such accidents can be averted Is shown by a Connecticut man, who has Invented and patented the Insulated screwdriver shown here. Instead of constructing the handle of wood it Is made of non-conducting material. The latter also incases the metal Btuink to within a few Inches of the end. This allows ample sur face for tho operator to grasp and operate the screwdriver without fear of being electrically shocked by con tact with a live wire, and Is thus as sured of piotectlon from such acci dents. Washington Star. The Rod Breast's Note. A deaf man was walking on the railroad track with a friend when an engine rounded a curve behind them and opened its whistle full blast. The deaf man smiled and turning to his friend said, "Listen; that's the first robin I've heard this spring." The Argonaut. Stylo Versus Fashion. A coat may be fashionable but not stylish, or it may ba stylish and not fashionable. Fashion is capricious and ephemeral; sometimes sane and" beautiful, but frequently the fad or fleeting folly of the moment. Fash Ion is for a day; style Is for all time. Tailor and Cutter. The Chinese guilds of South China are selling stock for the organization Df a Chinese steamship company to run to San Francisco or Seattle. -. . States Mllitar Academy at West Folnt it I .AM
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