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' T:. ROSE MONARCH CONQUERED BY GREATER KING God of Love Leads Herman Siel cken in Silken Chains tc the Altar of Hymen. QUICK, IMPETUOUS WOOING SURPRISED HIS FRIENDS Man of Many Millions Has Won the Heart and Hand of the Beautiful Widow, Clara Windroth, Daughter and Heiress of the Late Paul Isenberg, One of the Sugar Magnates of the Hawaiian Islands. NEW YORK.?Tbo Coffee Kins lias found a consort, lie has allied himself to tho royal liouso of sugar. Almost you might say it is a marriage of commodities?some one hints at a trust?a uew and subtle way of evading Undo Sam's Sherman law. Perish tho thought?tho commodity phrase of the alliance is a poor coincidence. Tho coffeo king?his name is Herman Sielckcn?has felt Uncle Sam's teeth over that coffeo valorization scheme of his. It Is not ho Inner ago that ho was accused of the high j crime of advancing the cost oX the j breakfast coffee of the American people one-quarter of a cent a cup. All ' to his own and Arbuckle's and Morgan's, and a lot of Liraziliuns' advantages. No more of it for him. Besides, marriage and business are two different propositions?at least they are to a quite romantic person like Coffee King Slelckeu, who only thinks of coffee and railways and high llnance about eight months a year. The other third of his time he Is a connoisseur of roses. A collector of rare blossoms, he has at lladenBaden one of the loveliest of all roBe gardens. And when he is not superintending the skilful art of his many gardeners he 1b being godfather und foster-father In general to the picturesque little Qerman spa in which he spends his summers. Well Called the Rose King. What Interest could a princess of sugar?royal in her own right?have In a mere coffee king? There are so many commodity monarchs in America?monarchs of ice, of zinc, or salt, or coke, or of caramels. And all tliut most of them have is?just money. The princess has so many millions of her own that money is almost a vulgarity to her. But in Baden-Baden Herman Slelcken is a real rose king, a gentleman bountiful, and he lordB it in a palatial villa surrounded by delightful gardens. Why, then, drag in coffee? Undoubtedly it was the romantic lover of roses, the Grand Seigneur of Baden-Baden, who attracted the beautiful Mrs. Clara Wlndroth, daughter and heiress to the late Paul Isenberg, Herman Sielcken. one of the sugar magnates of the Hawaiian islands. She had come from ittremen, her home, to visit relatives at the Spa, and inevitably sho was brought to visit Mariahalden, the villa of the roses. Perhaps nothing was more remote from her own ideas about her future than that she, a charming and graceful young widow?for she is Just around the time of lifo at which Balzac says women are most fascinating?would thero moot hor fate In the person of a man nearly twice her own age. Had Inside Track of Rivals. Yet that is exactly what happened. Herman Sielcken is actually sixty- j live years of age, but be it remembered that one Is only as old as one's 1 arteries. The coffee king, or, more properly, the rose connoisseur, In feel- i lng. In intensity, in vigor, in imagina- ! toiu is far younger than most men of forty. What chance then, had a widow (for MrB. Windroth had been mar- ' riod and has two children , however courted and petted, and even pester- j ' cd an she has been by all the young oliglbles of firemen and even of Berlin and Munich, against a brilliant, fas- | I" -> ? " , _ ' * V "*? 1 ^ A. ' - ~ ' % % Hkk^ ^HH PtRaH * ' v'"" Vn MRS. HERM/l dilating fellow of forty with all the acuteuess and experience and will power of a man of slxty-flvc?niaguillcent, withal, and having tho loveliest of all rose gardens to court her in? j Again one says: What chance? Of the wooing there is no record avail- j able?but what matters? Here is the j n 111 hii>iiiiiii iierman sieicKen back in , New York with his bride, to whose eminent desirableness all eyes do homage, not so many months previously lie had left his home at the WaldorfAstoria, the suite he had singly and alono tenanted for so many long years, confirmed ia-hls widowerhood, he and his friends believed. And it may be that Mrs. Windrotli was equally assured of a determination to devote her life to her children. What, then, could have altered conclusions so profound? i Paradise of Roses. Surely it was the enchantment of ' the rose garden. Let us look at it. , It is framed by sub-alpine pastures, by the pine giants of tlio lower lilack For- j est. It looks down on the city of springs. Literally it is a sea of color. There are 20,000 rose bushes in 1G8 different varieties. There are high hedges and gergolas hung with roses. In the center is a bower on which they cluster in magnificent profusion. Can't you imagine tho exquisite essence that all thoso blossoms exhale when th> month of June and that good old gardener, the sun, has saturated the air with his nourishing warmth? It is but a step from the rose garden to the lovely lake that spreads like a mirror under its frame of trees and all afloat with water liiles, or to the great conservatories to whose enrichment Brazil?where the owner of the rose garden has so many good friends?had contributed the rarest orchids. Hoses and orchids and a tree-embowered lake on which there are swans and water-lilies and an atmosphere vibrant with exquisite perfumes. It was a place for miracles, for romance, for the rekindling of love in bosoms whose fires they thought long dend. One More to His List of Successes. Do you wonder now? Now will you be surprised that it was a quick, a vivid and impetuous wooing that no friend of Herman Slelcken?nono of tnoso wno hart aeon his shrewd, keen, patient, calculating mind at work on problems of finance?would have dreamed him capable of? Such, however, is the influence of roses, when indeed all their color and fragrance are focused by the sly god to make a nimbus for some lovely lady. When the queen had succumbed to his ardor and had named the day, the shrewd Sielcken became his wary, humorous self again. One cannot, when one Is grand seigneur of Baden-Iladen, keep one's name out of the paper?but as little as possible about tho wedding. Here was a chance to surprise certain New YoAers who, having no imagination, thought tho coffee king wedded to their own old fool game of money grubbing. With what his daring and | resources had already wqn?why that coffee valorization affair was one of the biggest coups ever pulled oft?two prodigious crops of coffee from the plantations of Brazil, threatening to swamp the world's markets and send tho prices below cost to the ruin of tho planters, and Sielcken to the res- ' cue, had engaged aeventy^flve millions from tho Now York, London and German bankerr, bought it all up and doled it out at prices higher than ever. Whv. a man who could do that rmild do anything. And had ho not crossed swords with the omnipotent EI. H. Harriman in his prime and wrested from him control of the Kansas City South \ THE FORT MILL TIMES, F s<7^ ^^^7. is ;l' iN SI ELCKEN. em railway, which the magnato ha< commandeered as part of his Unioi Pacific system? And had he not mad himself its president? Hadn't ho com to Ainericn a mere German lmml grant boy without a cent?why, h might be as great as Morgan if?well if he'd go on. Of course he'd go oti It was to get a rise out of thes dodderers, his contemporaries, tha young Sielcken kept down the new of his marriage to the barest ar nouncement, and stole back to th Waldorf-Astoria and inscribed the rej ister: "Herman Sielcken and wife. Then ho descended to his otilce 01 Wall street ami invaded the coffee ej change, his throne room. Somo on greeted him with: "I nover thought it of you, Slelckei: to marry." "Well, 1 was lonely," replied th cofTeo king.?Magazine of the Ne\ York Sunday World. WILL AGAIN STAND EREC" According to Report, the "Ingenu Slouch" Is Soon to Become a Thing of the Past. Vague hints and whispers hav come from i'aris that the ingenu slouch, by whatever name it goes the drooping figure ?- is doomed t pass the way of all th?i fashionabl fig'irag of the past. So the girl wh lias let her line, straight back ge curved and her broad, full chest ge flut, must set about holding hersel up again. You might as well ba ii tllH Vfl Tl rilfird r\f nnrlaLf even if you have just learned to carr; off the fashionable slouch gracefull; without suffocating yourself by cor trading your chest. At the time that the drooping fifi ure first became fashionable som theatrical man dubbed it the "ingenui slouch," it is said. It was adopter by all the chorus girls of Broad wa; and he had good opportunity to stud; it at first hand. Doubtless some equally observan theatrical manager will find som good name for the upright figure, i it really does become fashionable There is no telling what thnt nam may be. But it will be descriptive, i It lives to be popular. The only way to get. any sort o figure, drooping or upright, is to prat tico holding your body in the requlrei position. Most of us are born stralgh fortunately, and If we practice deei breathing we can expand our chest and force our lungs Into their rlghtfu grooves vithout much difficulty. Activities of Women. Wishing to encourage independence Turkish womon are now taking u] aeroplanlng. England has over 100.000 womei and glrlB working In their own home for wages. Of the several thousands of womei who work in New York city. 25.00 are married. Japan has a Smtt.h College clu' formed by graduates living in tha country. The vlves of men who work for th New York Railways company wll have passes now, having receive them as a Thanksgiving present fror Theodore Shonts, president of th company. Miss Elizabeth Dinwiddle of Ne> York, manages 346 small dwelling owned by Trinity church In that cltj She spends all of her time attendln to the repairs of these houses, whlb shelter 1,800 families. r*'1 ORT MILL, SOUTH OAROUNA =FRftME FOUR BILLS TO CURB "TRUSTS" ! ' MEASURE APPROVED BY WILSON HAS NO ESCAPE LOOFHOLES. TO BECOME LAWS VERY SOON Penalty for Restraint of Commerce, Unfair Business and Interlocking Circctoratcs ? Ample Provisions Made for Trade Commission. Washington. Jan. 23.?The administration's trust bills, embodying the program laid down by tin* president in his ivcnt u: 'ssage, ha\<> been presented to congress. The bills have received the approval of Mr. Wilson and the Democratic leaders of both houses of congress. With little modification they will be enacted into law. Their purposes are: 1. Definition of unlawful monopoly or restraints of trade. 2. Prohibition of unfair trade practice. 3. Creation of an inlcrstato trade commission. 4. Regulation of corporation didectorates and prohibition of interlocking directorates. Unlawful Monopoly Defined. Unlawful monopoly is defined as any combination or agreement between corporations, firms, or persons designed for the following purposes: 1. To create or carry out restrictions in trade or to acquire a monopoly in any interstate trade, business, or commerce. 2. To limit or reduce tho production or increase the price of merchandise or of any commodity. 3. To prevent competition in manufacturing, making, transporting, selling, or purchasing of merj chandise, produce, or any commodity. 4. To make any agreement, onjj ten into any arrangement, or ara rive at any understanding by o which they, directly or indirectly, 0 undertake to prevent a free and |. unrestricted competition among o | themselves or among any purlt chasers or consumers in the sale, i. | production, or transportation of o any product, article, or cominodt ity. 3 The penalty for violation of the law i- .s flxed at not more than $">,000 or imo prisonmeut for one year or both. ;- Guilt is made personal through a " section that whenever a corporation n shall be guilty of the violation of the [- law the offense shall be deemed to e cover the individual directors, oitlcers, ' and agents ol' such corporation, as l, authorizing, ordering, or doing the prohibited acts, and they shall be puuo ished as prescribed above, v A paragraph prohibiting holding companies is to be added to this measi ure. p Covers Unfair Trade Practices. 1.111 i-i * ? - < urn luiuiuiiing uniair trade practices declares that to discriminate ? in price, between different purchasers of commodities, with the purpose or intent to injuro or destroy a competitor, either of the purchaser or of the 0 seller, shall be deemed an attempt to ? monopolize interstate commerce. ~ it is specifically declared that the ? law is not intended to prevent dls? crimination in price between purcliasu ers of commodities "on account of 1 difference In tin! grade, quality, or 1 quantity of the commodity sold, or f that makes only duo allowance for [l difference in the cost of transporta tion." t Further, it is prescribed that nothy ing contained in the act shall prevent l" persons from selecting their own customers, "but this provision shall not '* authorize the owner or operator of R any mine engaged in selling its prodR i uct in Interstate or foreign commerce * to refuse arbitrarily to sell the same y to a responsible person, firm, or cory poration, who applies to purchase." An attempt at monopoly nlso is del clared to exist for any person to make u sale of goods, wares, or merchandise | or fix a price charged therefor, or dis" ! count from or rebate upon such price, " on the condition or understanding that the purchaser thereof shall not | deal In the goods, wares, or merchan; disc of a competitor or competitors of the seller. d Deals With Damage Suits. A Judgment against any defendant H in a suit brought under the anti-trust I law the bill provides shall constitute ns against such defendant conclusive t evidence of the same facts and be | conclusive as to the same Issues of i law In favor of any other party In anv b other proceeding brought under and P Involving the provisions of the law. For the beneiit of partios injured in u tho.r business or property, by any pers i son or corporation found guilty of vioj bating tho iaw the statute of iiniltat> J tions applicable to such cases shall be 0 jsuspended. Injunctive relief Is accorded against b , threatened loss or damage by a violat ' tlon of the act under tho same conditions and principles that Injunctive reft lief against threatened conduct which 11 | will cause loss or damage Is granted J by courts of equity, n It Is required that a proper bond o shall be executed against damages for an injunction improvidently granted, v and It must bo shown that the danger & of irrepnrable loss or dainagn Is lm' mediate. K Hits Interlocking Directorates. b Concerning directorates, tho bill on that subject, which Is to become ef {. ' ' ' V fective two years from date of approval of the act. provides: "No person engaged as an individual or us a member of a partnership or as a director or otter oflloer of a corporation in the business of selling railroad cars or locomotives, or railroad rails or structural steel, or mining or selling coal, or conducting a bank or trust company, shall act as a director or other ofllcer o? employe of any railroad or other public service corporation which conducts an interstate business. "No person shall at the same time be a director or other oillcer or employe in two or i*ere federal reserve banks, national banks, or banking associations OP nthop honl"" v?uvi uittino V/t WIUOl companies which are members of any reserve bank; and a private banker and a person who Ih a director in any state bank or trust company not operating under the provisions of tho recent currency law shull not be eligible to serve as a director in any bank or banking association or trust company operating under the provisions of the law." Violation of these sections is made punishable by a tine of $100 a day, or by Imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. if any two or more corporations have common director or directors, tho fact ijiall be conclusive evidence that there exists a real competition between such corporation and such elimination of competition shall be construed as a restraint of interstate trade and be treated accordingly. The trade commission bill provides for commission of live members, with the commissioner of corporations as chairman, and transfers all the existing powers of tho bureau of corporations to the commission. The principal and most important duty the commission besides conducting investigations will be to aid the courts when requested in tho formation of decrees of dissolution. With this in view, tho bill empowers lie court to refer any part of pending litigation to the commission, including tho proposed decree, for information and advice. Much Criticism for Bills. The trust bills as framed will be the Rlllilee* r\f ?t diiui |> n iiicism on ID6 part of progressives of all parties who claim they do not go fur enough. It will be declared thnt the definition of monopoly remnins inadequate that the prohibition of unfair trade practice does not cover this evil in our economic life that interlocking stock control is not covered and that the pow- ! ers of the proposed trade commission ; are insutllcient. It is interesting to note that the proposal to place the burden of proof upon a combination believed to be violating the law lias been omitted. No attempt is made to prevent or destroy | monopoly based on patents. The greatest dllllculty exerienced in the effective enforcement of the law has been found to be TYr the unwillingness of the courts to impose jail penalty. It remains optional under the proposed measures wilit the courts to line or imprison. Trade Board May Disappoint. In connection with the trade commission President Wilson declared in ids message that the country "demands such a commission only as an ' indispensable instrument of informaHon uml publicity us a clearing house for tho facts by which both the pub- ; lie mind and the managers of great I business undertakings should be I guided." The bill prescribes that the commission acta are to oonstituto a "public record" but tho body Is authorized In *..(.ls.. * ' j.wuiiv; tin* lmormauon "in such form and to such extent us may h?? necessary" or "by direction of tho attorney general." it is apparent that the public mind j cannot be guided unless it has the facts, and then it will not get unless | tho commission or the attorney gen- i oral deems it politic. In other words, public hearings will not be held as they are held by the Interstate commerce commission. Settlement of Differences. The most important, feature of the bill is that which legalizes the policy of the administration of terminating an unlawful condition by agreement between the combination attacked nnd tho attorney general. This feature is comprehended under a section which requires the commission, upon tho request of the attorney general or any corporation affected, to investigate whether a combination is violating the law. In case tho commission should find tho violation to exist ii must report to the attorney general a statement of the objectionable acts and transactions nnd the readjustments necessary for the offending combination to conform to the law. I These conclusions aro to be "advisory to the attorney general in terminating by agreement with the corporation affected or by suing the said unlawful conduct or condition." In other words, whatever may bo the agreement made by the attornoy general with tho combination investigated, it will give tho reorganized combination legal standing, so long as it conforms to the term of tho agreement. Thus it is proposed to place by law a tremendous power in tho hands of tho attorney general. This power has been assumed to attorneys general, and particularly so by Mr. McReynolds; Will Give Courts Advice. In a statement accompanying the bill made by Congressman Clayton, chairman of tho house Judiciary committee. It is said that the "principal and most important duty of the commission, besides conducting investiga tions, will bo to aid tia courts, wh?q requested, in tho foraat Hon of d?or?*< of dissolution, nwt "California Syrup of Figs" cant harm tender stomach, liver and bowels. Every mother realize^, after glrlni her children "California Syrup of Pigs" that this Is their ideal laxative^ because they love its pleasant tast* and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and Imvnla with. out griping. When cross, Irritable, feverish or breath is bad. stomach sour, look at the tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspconful of this harmless "fruit laxative," and In a few hours all the foul, constipated wast6, sour bile and undigested food pnsseH out of the bowels. and you have a well, playful child again. When its little system is full of cold, throat sore, hns stoinacli-acho, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic?remember, a good "Inpldo cleaning" should always bo the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs" hundy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 60ecnt bottle or "California Syrup of Figs." which has directions for babies, children of nil ages and grown-upi printed on the bottle. Adv. An opportunity Ls a good bit like a wasp. It takes a lot of experience to know how to grasp it without getting stung. Only One "BROMO QUININE'* Thai la LA.XAT1VH BROMO QUIN1NH. Look fot the signature of H W OHOVH. Cares a Oold InOne Oor, Cures Grip la Two Days. 26c. Overheard. "Katherine lias such a taking way."" i wish she had a way of bringing back."?Boston Evening Transcript. Paw Knows Everything. Willie?Paw, what is a piece de r?slst&nce? Paw?A. steak after your mother getB through frying It, my son. Maw?You go to bed, Willie. RUB-MY-T1SM JH Will cure your Rheumatism and all kinds of aches and pains?Neuralgia, Cramps, Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Old Sores, Burns, Antiseptlo Anodyne. Price ?Adv. So to see my lovely shopping said a to a caller the other to me for M are the compartn^HH^^^H^f^^^^^B this side there Is a little open the little there is a cute little for your change, with one side^^^^^B^flj^^^^^B tinned off for car tickets. the do economical?" "Why, it takes so long to open all^^HHI^IR the things and get to your street car tickets that by the time you do whoever is with you has paid your fare." Knew What Would Happen. Lovely weather, isn't it? A lady whom we know went to see the doctor yesterday. "Well, how are you today?" said the physician cheerfully. "Well, doctor," she replied, "the cold I caught Tuesday la a little better. thanks to your prescription. But the one I caught Thursday is much worsn. Tho thing I called to see you for. however, is the sovere cold I caught last night." Tho doctor sat down and wrote a long line of hieroglyphics. "Here." he said. "Is something for the one you catch this evening with that V-neck and those Rkfmp skirts, flood afternoon!" FRIENDLY TIP. Restored Hope and Confidence. After several years of Indigestion and its attendant evil influence on the mind, It is not very surprising that t ? one finally loses faith in things generally. A N. Y. woman writes an interesting letter. Sho says: , "Three years ago I Veered from an attack of peritonitis w^$ch left me in a most miserable condiuon. For over twi> year* 1 suffered from nervousness, weak heart, shortness of breath, could not sleep, etc. "My appetite was ravenous but I felt starved all the time. 1 had plenty of food but it did not nourish me be^ cause of intestinal indigestion. Medical treatment did not seem to.aclp. I got discouraged, stopped medicine and did not care much whether I lived or died. "One day a friend asked mo why I didn't try Grape-Nuts food, stop drinking coffee and use Postum. I had lost ? faith In everything, but to please my friend I began to use both and soon becamo very fond of them. "It wasn't long before I got soma strength, felt a decided change In my system, hope sprang up in my heart and slowly but surely I got better. I could sleep very well, the constant craving for food ceased and I have better health now than before the attack of peritonitis. 'My husband and I are still using Grape-Nuts and Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battla Creek, Mich. Read "The Rosd to Welt' vllle," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever rend the above letter? A new mit appear* from ttaae to tlia*. Ih?| am genuine, trno, aad foil at knau - ~ I