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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- |
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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
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THE FORT MILL TIMES, F
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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.
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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.
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< 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
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