The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-01-30

cinating fellow of forty with all the
acuteness and experience and Will
power of a man of sixty-tive-magnlll-
cent, withal and having the loVeliest
of all rose gardens to court her In!
Again one says: What chance?
Of the wooing there is no record avail
able-but what matters? Here is the
triumphant Herman Sielcken back in
New York with his bride, to whose
eminent disturbances all eyes do hon.
age, not SO many months previously
he had left his home at the Waldorf
Astoria, the suite he had singly and
alone tenanted for so many long years,
confirmed in his widowerhood, he and
his friends believed. And it may be
that Mrs. Windroth was equally as
sured of determination to devote her
life to her children. What, then, could
have altered conclusions so profound?
Paradise of Roses.
Surely it was the enchantment of
the rose garden. Let us look at 1t.
1t is framed by sub-alpine pastures, by
the pine giants of the lower Black For
est. 1t looks down on the city OF
springs. Literally it is a sea of color.
, There are 10000 rose bushes in 1853
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 the exquisite es-
sence that all those blossoms exhale
when the month Of June and that good
old gardener, the sun, has saturated
the air with his nourishing warmth?
1t is but step from the rose gar.
den to the lovely lake that spreads
like mirror under its frame of trees
and all ahoat with water lilies, or to
the great Conservatives to whose en-.
richment Brazil-where the owner of
the rose garden has so many good
friends-had contributed the rarest
orchids.
Roses and orchids and tree-embow
cred lake ON which there are swans
and water-liiies and an atmosphere vi.
brant with exquisite perfumes. 1t was
a place for miracles, for romance for
the reminding of love in bosoms
whose fires they thought long dead.
One More to His List of Successes.
Do you wonder now? Now will you
be surprised that it was quick, a
vivid and impetuous wooing that no
friend of Herman Sielcken-none of
those who had seen his shrewd, keen,
patient, calculating mind at work on
problems of tinance-would have
dreamed him capable Of? Such, how.
ever, 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-Baden, keep
ones name out of the paper-but as
little as possible about the wedding
Here was a chance to surprise certain
New Workers. who, having no imagina'
ton. thought the coffee king welded
to their own old fool game of money
grubbing. With what his daring and
resources had already won-why that
coffee valorization affair was one Of
the biggest coups ever pulled off-two
prodigious crops Of coffee from the
plantations of Brazil, threatening to
swamp the worlds markets and send
the prices below cost to the ruin OF
the planters, and Sielcken to the res.
cue, had engaged seventy-ive millions
from the New York, London and Ger
man bankers, bought 1t all up and
doled it out at prices higher than ever
Why. a man who could do that could
do anything. And had he not crossed
swords with the omnipotent E. H. Har'
riman in his prime and wrested from
him control Of the Kansas City South