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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-18

folding its crimpied petals. are beginning a
! fight for the fortune OF his mother.
The ioval mite of humanity will soon wage
war for his rights: he will struggle in all
his baby heiplessness to win back the great
fortune lost for love.
THREW WEALTH AWAY
FOR HER LOVE.
The world remembers with much admira-
ton the piucky little woman who. one year
ago. threw vast wealth to the four winds
for the sake of marrying the man she loved.
The romantic wedding Of Mr.. Lewis Her
zog. a Philadelphia artist. and Miss Fannie
McComb caused something Of a sensation at
the time. yet these two quiet. unassumins
and thoroughly happy young persons were
simply following out the deSres of their
hec-tS
] The union. romantic as II was and fraught
| with such financial sacrifices. was a beau
tifui one of pure and deep affection.
For years these two had known each other
and for Some time an engagement had eX-
listed between them.
Both. however. lived much abroad. Mr..
HerzcG was studying and working. gaining
recognition and fame in the best exhibitions
and art centers in Europe.
His finance spent ali of her time extern
sively travelling through foreign countries
picking no rare antiques. exquisite bronzes
and beautiful enbroideries.
/ Some zine ago they returned and. met
as>Sl in New York. On account OF family
objecf>ln their path of true love ran far
from smoothly. On December 81, 1901. These
two quietly slipped over to the Brick Church
and were married by the sympathetic Doc
tor Van Dyke.
Afterwards they spent q delightful honey
moon among the palms and orange blos-
SONS Of the South.
The world. except their own circle of
friends. much to their relief. promptly for
got all about them. though many a young
woman envied the courage and strength of
affection displayed by the bride in follow
ing her own inclinations
Men considered her husband a lucky man
TO have Won a woman whose love was not
bounded by the many millions she forfeited
FATHERS ROMANCE HAD
BEEN SIMILAR.
The action OF the father in disinheriting
his daughter for marrying the man she
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The Elixir
OF ITO E0Aor
AI) S0Ztu5,

cwers-an exhibit which showed or seemed
to show, not so much, perhaps. that matrf-
mony is conducive to longevity as that the
man who survives matrimony can survive
anything.
Doctor Schwatz did not appear to view It
In that light. .
1t may be that Mrs. chwat objected.
Such things happen.
SPECIALIST LIVED TO AN
UNTIMELY OLD AGE.
Then there was another specialist. a
Frenchman this time. who lived to an I'M
timely old age and who had no prescription
whatever.
But it was supposed tina he had. The
supposition delighted him.
To those who consulted him he gave DIFF
ferent recipes.
The ingredients varied, but in perversity
they were Uniform.
According to sex and quality he recon-
mended intoXication, assault and battery.
high crimes and misdemeanors Of every
kind.
The manufacture Of this nonsense cheered
him considerably.
AS a consequence he had . prescription
without suspecting 1t. -
It was the faculty for being always
amused.
That is as good as another.
Pain is one of the greatest deterrents to
longevity.
Boredom is the phantom Of pain.
Exercise that. and. while you will not
live forever, You may manage to be quite
hale and hearty when you die.
These views ave a false air Of originality
which people wiser than ourselves have dis
dained.
There was the great Alexander.
He believed in an elixir of life. He not
only believed in 1t; he tramped over india
to. find 1t. The quintessence of the dream
Of that belief visited Bacon.
He tried to produce the waters IN q still
They represented to him not life merely,
but lucre.
His still produced nothing 50 important.
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but II we may credit everything we read
and, writing as we do. that is rather diff
cult-there have been alembics which ere
ated both.
THERE WAS THE
CoMTE DE SAINT-GERMAIN.
IF these the most ample was the prop
erty of the Comte de Saint-Germain. who.
erupting in France during the reign OF the
Pompadour, declared that he had supped
with PLATE and had assisted at the Coun-
Gil of Trent.
Just when that occurred we forget, and
1t is too much bother to look 1t UP.
But. anyway. 1t was a long time ago.
Other accounts which he gave of himself
| must have been equally conciliatory, for.
though he looked very young, people who
| We're very old were ready to swear that
| they remembered him loking just the same
when hey were adolescent.
His age. therefore, was enfgmatic. So
also We're his resources. With nothing so
commonplace as a rent roll. he lived mag
| nifcantly, entertained royalty and bewitched
a King.
He did better.
He bewitched women. He made dow
eSers demoiselles.
Or. to be precise, he turned q middle
aged person into a damsel.
We are not making this up.
There is an account of it in the Gazette
de France. The Gazette says that all
L IL Id ohAA Ae~
| that Immediately afterward the Count de-
| parted.
We will not attempt to follow: we lack
the art.
We will not attempt to explain: we lack
the ability.
But we may note that in Hesse, years
later, when, for reasons which were propa-
bly, satisfactory to him., he concluded to
| die, his papers. which were sought, had
vanished.
Among them was the secret.
That secret Is rumored to have com
| from Flannel.
| Flannel WAS
A POOR BOOKSELLER
I Flannel was a secondhand bookseller,
| poor as a rat and perhaps not much more
honest.
One day an ignoramus. brought him .
manuscript.
Flannel looked it over and purchased II
for a lard.
A lard Is q penny.
There is nothing like being exact.
In looking 1t over Flannel, who must have
possessed our scrupulousness. saw that II
was a treatise on the art of making youth
and gold at will.
Hence the penny.
But though he saw that. he did not see
that 1t was profoundly abstruse. Virtue is
ever rewarded.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBhIC.
We want a great deal mere below.
We want It earnestly.
We want It long.
There Is an adags to the contrary. but to
say one thing and mean something else
happens to everybody, however devout.
These remarks are induced by the an
nouncement of q discovery effected by Doc
tor Loeb OF the University Of Chicago.
This gentleman has produced a solution
Of salts by means Of which decrepitude can
le rejuvenated.
90 much the better.
But we should like to Sc the solution at
work.
II we were not in errorAnd It would not
surprise us in the least II We were-two or
three years ago Professor Metchnikof an
nounced that he had prepared a lymph
which would do the same thing.
Then there was Doctor Brown-Sequard,
who compounded a serum for the same pur-
pose. What happened to Professor Metch-
nfkof we never heard.
But we learned that the serum did not in
terfere with Doctor Brow~n-SeQuard's obitu-
aries.
Now comes Doctor Loeb.
This gentleman says, or n reported to
have said, that old age can be prevented.
We are Of the same opinion.
Nv WAY of remedy an early demise seems
to us sovereign.
p,,t there are other devices less summary.
sir James Holden, an English specialist. was
Of the opinion that the secret Of longevity
consists in omitting everything which we
like to do and in doing everything which We
don't.
II IA obvious that he was right The
sh,n0s that we like to do are either injurious
|, or UBIQUITOUS. unless they happen to be both.
4 and expensive to boot.
& Sir James was a theoromatist on the SUBJ
sect. There have been others.
1t is curious that they all disagree
Doctor Schwatz, for instance. a Berhnese
smocislist, prescribed matrimony as a cure.
By way of demonstration he exhibited a
ut a. c~eptenarIans. al Of whom were Wild
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tanning to the legal entanElements Of tAs
family.
CONTENT TO LET
THE WORLD GO By.
I'm our little crows nest. as w can re-
remarked Mr.. Herzog one day last wssk.
We look down upon the world with unen-
vious eyes.
are as happy q We can be with our
home. our work. our friends. our pleasures
and now that We have this little man.
patting his baby's wrisglinE ~hands'to add
to our happiness We fell that our blessings
are quite complete.
AT present I am devoting myself to pic.
turesque New York Harbor. The tusboats
and small craft plying busily about the bay
inspire and interest me extremely. and I
find them very artistic and excellent ma
terial for pictures.
Here is. a sketch Of Brooklyn Bridge I
am working on. It's IN old subject. almost
ton in its massive form and the peculiar
lighting sometimes surrounding It,"
The point Of view for this picture - far
below the bridge span. with the massive
strL cture stretching overhead. 50 that its
far end is lost In the heavy fog and smoke.
chosen was a gray-blue one and the smoke
quite foglike in its density.
The patch of river has great. thick look
ing swells, lark colored and Utmost muddy
in appearance, so that they seem to leaden
to break into foaming spray. 1t was the
| unusual tones Of the scene which appealed
to the artist.
Mr.. Herzog says that he has trained him.
self to memorize everything he sees. In
| cor trast to many artists. he is opposed to
| painting anything from nature.
Pictures of this kind, to his mind. be-
| come cold and are usually lacking in spirit.
although perhaps accurate in effect and
color.
He likes to choose views with which We
| are all familiar and to paint them when the
| light imparts a peculiar glamour. His style
Is broad. bold and strong in color.
CHANGING about his studio the visitor sees
| pictures wonderfully varied in their subject
One sunset on the North River shows land
and water in a rich, red glow. while a pass
ing boat puffs out a thin trail OF smoke that
looks cold and blue. in contrast with the
warmth of everything else.
Another scene represents a spirited caval.
~ charge. There Is a bit showing bolster
Gus weather on the bay. besides q
on Long Island. boats of the Battery. ana
many others characteristic OF New York.
Among these charming home SURROUNDINGS
the child's future seems full of beautiful
promise, and even though the fortune re.
| mains beyond its grasp. its sunny life will
be undisturbed by vain regrets.
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loved seems unfair in the face OF his own
youthful romance.
The incidents in the story OF the father
ard that OF the daughter are identical. One
would have thought that during those last
days Of life his heart might have melted
toward the separted lovers. that a review
of his own unhappy first love affair might
have made him relent toward his child. and
nave deferred him from action that might
sadden her future as his own had been
saddened.
But apparently he remained firm In his de-
termination to cut her of with a compare
lively small share of the fortune. though
from the impending suit the Inference Is set
up that he may have been feeble and infrm
during these days OF illness, which fact
would explain his last act.
When James Jennings McComb was q
youth he fell in love with a southern GIL
the daughter of a banker. but. having no
fortune. his suit was rejected by the giris
father. Quietly leaving the field for wealth.
Ter %suitors. young McComo oevoteo mn
self to work and. by the invention OF an
| arrow tie buckle for baling cotton. ne soon
began to make money. -,
He became interested in building a diVi-
sion OF the Southern Pacific Ra,iroao' All
the while adding to his fortune. until. IN
side of a few years from the time ne gave
up his Southern sweetheart, he rose to be
one OF the WedIluieSt Hci "a NV
In the meantime he had married a MISS
Rayne. of New Orleans. a ~well-known ana
much honored name In that city.
After her death he married his FORMER
sweetheart and built for her a beautiful
mansion on the Hudson River, at Dooos
Ferry. where the family lived up TO the
time OF his death. nearly two years ago.
So runs the story Of the man who, forget
ting the misery and heartache he suffered
at the hands of a stern parent. was SEEM
inyly willing to consign his chfld To an
equally unhappy lot.
A codicil TO the will provided handsome,
" for his laughter unless she married
against her fathers wishes. but allowed her
az ma a wear IL she obeyed her hearts de-
sire.
Almost distracted between her desire TO oe
dntifu1 and her love. she appealed to the
Judge. who said that the only way to test
the validity of the will was for her 10 oe-
come Mrs. Herzog. -
There was little personal regret for the
,oss of the money until the birth OF the
baby. though Mrs. Herzog deplored tne
lack OF that which made it possible for ner
to do more good to the deserving.
HAPPINESS UNRUFFIIED By
LEGAL BATTLE.
The tiny son. however. adds new COM
plications to the affair. and the fortune that
was so willingly risked. even lost. for Mrs.
Herzog should not be taken from the child.
Judging from their energetic and decisive
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characters. the struggle for justice ana
equity will be contested to the utmost.
Much as this wealth means to them and to
the baby. neither Mr.. nor Mrs Herzog let's
the affair interfere in the slightest with the
happiness and enjoyment Of their life.
1t would be difficult to find in the city Of
New York-in the world. for that matter
two more ideally happy creatures than
these two.
Their studio home is a delightfully."- coy
and attractive spot. Pictures in every stage
| of completion are scattered about MIR. Her
] zog's quarters.
, Next to his domain is the charmingly fur
nished reception-room. in which are seen
many Of the rare pictures. Japanese prints.
hronzes and Eastern embroideries picked up
during their separate travels.
Beyond this room come the apartments
devoted to the little son and heir.
Though Mr.. Herzog has lived much abroad.
has studied and painted the scenes typical
OF his foreign Surroundings. he Is enthusiast
: tic over the opportunities presented in New
York and its immediate vicinity.
! He Is devoting what time he can steal
| from the companionship of his little family
to painting a series of harbor views
Mr.. Herzog is an extremely versatile man.
, not only in his treatment of subjects. but in
! choice OF work.
| His democratic spirit pervades his work
and his studio breathes the atmosphere Of
! the true workshop. In former years he de-
i voted considerable attention to illustrating.
! One of his best pictures hangs in the
| Pinakothek. at Munich. and another. also
purchased by the German Government. is to
be seen in the National Gallery. in Berlin.
Two of his larger works were purchased.
one by Carmen Sylvia and the other by her
husband, the King of Roumania.
He has received several medals and hon
orable mention at the International exhibi-
tions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herzog lave many tastes in
common The are familiar with several
| foreign languages. and they are fond Of
studying in its native tongue the history
and customs of each country through
which they have travelled. While not I'M
Outstanding the %echnical part Of her hus-
bands art, Mrs. Herzog possesses rare
critical faculties, besides having a nature
full of strength. and stimulating qualities.
! and the artist likes nothing better than to
| have his wife sit in the studio and offer
| suggestions while he stand before his
easel.
Mr.. Herzog is a very enthusiastic artist,
though extremely modest.
He predicts a great future for American
art. and. while reviewing the various ex-
hibitions Of the last year. asserted that the
foreign work being done was not as con-
scientious nor as healthy as our own.
He is always glad to discuss this topic.
though refusing to dwell on any matter per-
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1t was years before he was able to make
head or tail of It.
The story of his efforts, the story Of the
head and ultimately the tail. which finally
appeared, Flannel set forth at length in a
work entitled 'Trafte des Lavures." which
Is on view to-day at the National Library
of France (Rue Richelieu. a gauche).
1t will be seen. therefore, that we are not
making this up. either.
No, indeed.
Nor yet the sufficiently attested fact that
no sooner had he got at the gist of It all
than. presto, he exuded gold. He waded
in It; he built hospitals by the acre n
churches by the score.
This philanthropy Of his IL = matter Of
record.
So also Is the fact that a century or two
later it was currently reported and gener-
ally believed that Flannel, astoundingly
young. insolently rich, but no longer phil
anth-opic. was filling other lands with the
splendor and the uproar OF his orgies
Whether It was he who under the name
Of Saint-Germain bewitched a King and
charmed the Pompadour we may surmise
and never know. g.
But this is history.
He did have a secret.
What is more to tho point. 1t was a secret
which others shared. Among these-and
there were many Of them-the most tan
gihle and brilliant was Cagiiostro.
C~AGLIOSTRO WAS A
GREAT MAGICIAN.
There was the great magician.
We lack the .~pace-which Is a detail. for
we also lack the vito write him up as he
deserves.
Neither have we at our disposal the long
and windy pages In which Carlyle used to
write him down.
But there are compensations in all things.
a fact, we assume, which was known to
Cagliostro, who knew pretty much every
thing. including Carlyle's dialect. which
was a feat in itself.
Cagliostro knew what would happen the
day after Tomorrow. the coming month.
the following year.
He knew how to f%oretell- the fall Of the
Bastile and did.
anything they desired. He knew how to be
rich. though poor: how to De young, though
old.
Abilities such as these presupposs q So
cret.
A secret .cagMostro had. and thank for
tune. he did not get away Win II!
His secret consisted IN mot ha'ins any
and yet in appearing to have one.
1t is the greatest Of all.
No. there We exaggefaee. Is nut 'no
greatest, but 1t runs 1t ciose.
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The greatest was discovered by q good
| looking young chap who happened to inter
est a Princess OF Spain.
To get him out of her way he was dis
patched to another world. to a better one
to the tropics which Columbus had found.
There age overlook him, and here the plot
thickens, for he learned that near by was
q land on which sprouted the fountain OF
youth.
Were this fiction. we should arrange to
have him find the fountain and a more ap-
p%roachable Princess as well-two Princess
es, for that matter; three, II need be; a.
many as our readers could want.
But this is not fiction.
1t is the history OF Ponce de Leon-not
the hotel at St. Augustine. but the adven-
turer after whom 1t was named.
The fountain was not found by him, but
Florida was. and with 1t not youth. but
fame.
REAL LONGEVITY
IS HARD TO ACQUIRE.
There 4, real longevity for you, the one
and only way to balk the grave.
But 1t is HARD to acquire.
Its production presupposes brains instead
| of serum, and luck in lieu OF lymph.
In the conjunction Of these two little
| things Is the secret of long life, and 1t Is
the difficulty Of blending them which makes
| the elixir rare.
The ingredients which Doctor Loeb II
| compromising may not prove moro or less
| eficacious. yet. even 50. we should prefer
the others every trip.
So would every Christian. Besides, death
Is not as bad as it might be. It has its
| inconvenience of course, but life has also.
The easiest way to avoid them is to tie q
| knot in your handkerchief as a reminder
| that they, exist. and then proceed. to for
get them.
Old age Is the outcome Of years, and years
| count double when they don't. count Quin-
| tuple to those who allow themselves to be
bothered.
We none Of us can change the course OF
| events, and a good plan IL not to try.
In our private practice We have obtained
excellent results from a serum made OF
| equal parts of Indifference and of health.
Another serum quite as -s~ervtceable Ii
| given in Ternyson's pharmacopoeia.'
1t consists in recognizing that the noise
We make is but the hum Of gnats In the
glare of a million million Of suns.
The prescription Is useful, for the rea-
/! son hat 1t teaches us not TO take ourselves
| too seriously.
| It is the worry over our own naif idea
4 of our own Importance which, biting at the
| cells of the brain. gnaws there until there
. ID nothing left to niDele.
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Ne discordant sounds fall upon his baby
cars; no iuharmorious sights greet his In
FAINT eyes.
The artistic beauty that is associated with
the atmosphere of an artists home Is al
ready having its influence on this mite Of
humanity.
This charming environment but adds to the
interest in his baby career, for upon him
has fallen an inheritance more unusual.
perhaps. than of any other child living.
Little Edward Rayne Herzog is the young
est child to appear in a case at court. AL
ready his tiny hands. like a rosebud I'M
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rs -: the -oiden infant only c5oes and
smiles in the sweet contentment of baby
hood. while his tiny hands. no larger than
a walnut. beat the air with ineffective
blows.
setting.
A loving mother fondiy tends him; a proud
and devoted father studies his every whim
and motion. while together they build beau
tiful plans for the future of this their first
born
Everywhere tho babes eyes turn they
meet perfect and beautiful love.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY EEPUBL1c.
Nc newborn babe Of royalty. no infant
scion Of 4 time-honored race ever began Its
career under more extraordinary circum-
stances than has a certain little child re-
Gently born in New York City.
About i've weeks ago Edward Rayne Her
sog took his first peep at the great world
beneath him from his cosey httlo nest AT
the top Of the Bryant Park Studios.
Scarcely had this infants blue eyes opened
upon his surroundings when the tiny crea-
ture was ~entangled in a lawsuit
Involving several millions of dollars
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Then We die, and It is best that We
should.
Even without worry 1t Is best.
In mythology it Is rumored that there was
once a people who had nothing to bother
about and an elixir which enabled them to
live forever.
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Thu. rumor adds that they killed them
selves from sheer ennui. OF course they
did.
Death has its disadvantages. and 50 mas
But death Is natural, and elixirs are not.
To respire, aspire. perspire and expire -
the lot Of every one.
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The action OF the father In disinheriting
his daughter for marrying the man she