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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-05
By George AIDE,

FIorine for Keeps, but when one of
them thought of clinching with old
Eagle Eye, the Family Sleuth, he
weakened.
Florine would have remained a Dead
Card if she had not gone on Witt to
a neighboring City where she bumped
into the Town Trifier He had Way
of proposing to every Girl the first
time he met her. 1t always seemed to
him such a cordial Send-Off for
budding Friendship. Usually the Girl
asked for Time and then the two of
them would Fiddle and Fuss and Make
Up and finally send back all the Letters
and that would be the Finish. Florine
fooled the foxy Philander. The Mo-
ment he came at her with the Mar
riage Talk she took a firm Hold and
said, you're on! Get your. License to-
morrow morning. Then cut all the
Telegraph Wires and burn the Rail-
road Bridges"
They were Married and, strange as
it may appear, Mother Immediately re-
signed her Job as Policeman and said:
THANK goodness, I've got you Mar
ried Off! Now you can do as you
please"
When Florine found that she could
do as she pleased she discovered that
there wasn't very much Of anything to
do except Settle Down. After about
seven Chatting Dish Parties she ex-
pended her whole Stock of pent-up
Ginger and now she is just as Quiet as
the rest of US.
MORAL: Any system is o. K. if it
finally Works Out.
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one who had been in the Liquor Bust
ness at one time.
Florine was up against it ever so
Hard. She had to go out in the Grape
Arbor when she wanted to chew Gum
and she kept her Reading Matter under
the Mattress. Nearly every high
speed Bachelor in Town had been for
hidden the Premises because of the
Stories that were going around. The
kind that Mother approved were of the
Lilac Division with White Puff Ties
and their Hair glued down. They talk
ed about Choir Practice and sometimes,
when they were sufficiently wrought
up, they played Charades.
The only Chance that Florine had to
mingle with the Popular Boys was to
go down Town in the Afternoon and
just happen to meet one OF them at
the Ice Cream Parlor. Florine learned
to be quite a Happener. But on the
way home she would have to fix up a
few Jules Vernes for the Old Lady In
the Watch Tower. Mother knew that
it didn't take Hours to be measured
for Shirt Waist.
"Wait until I get married" Florine
would say. "Pll make that 20-hour
Flyer look like Steam Roller. If
Mother doesn't let up on me, Eli learn
to smoke Cigarettes"
At times she was so Desperate that
she was ready to join a Troupe or
elope with a Drummer. She wanted to
get out among the Bright Lights and
hear the Band play. And she knew
that she couldn't turn Flip-FIops and
break Furniture and play Rag Time
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of either OF the other two commodities,
but they caused him infinitely more
trouble and excitement, if not so much
more expense.
There We're few schemes and arti-
fees to which he would not resort to
who struck his fancy in the remoteSt
degree.
Clever Work of Detective.
Had it not been for this fact and the
logged perseverance of Harry G. Lord,
a private detective in the employ of
an eastern agency, who had erroneous
ly put Gergens down in the category of
check raisers, this story would not have
been SO profusely illustrated.
When Lord chased Gergens from
Hornellsville NY, to Cambridge, Ohio,
and from thence to Anderson, Ind,
through Chicago to Baraboo, Wis,
where they were both in the same ho-
tel at the same time, although for a
short period unknown to Lord, the man
really thought he was wanted for some
of his numerous matrimonial escapades,
but Lord was after him in the belief
that he was a notorious eastern check
raiser, and never discovered the error
until he went through large grip or
satchel, which Gergens in his fight
from the sBaraboo hoteIileft behind.
While Lord was greatly disappointed,
on going through the satchel, to find
that;shis man was somebody else, he
was extremely surprised at gthe find
he made. 1t contained, besides four
or five beautiful odd-shaped pipes, and
some minor articles of wearing apparel,
fully three score photogra phs of Wom-i
en-. Gergens in some ways was a me-
thodical fellow His photographs were
all ornamented on the back with neat
specimens of his penmanship, in the
shapeso of the woman's name, and in
most instances of some incident in con-
neetion with her history. Be it said,
Sas the one Item to his moral credit,
however, that in not a single instance
was there anything suggestive of vul-'
garity. Neatly wrapped in a piece of
white oilskfn, and tied with a stout
piece OF cord Lord found thirteen pho
tographs. On the opposite side of each
of these pictures, all of which were fe--
males. was found a statement to the
effect that the original was wife No. 1.
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mists of the country are still in the
land of the living.
OF the thirteen wives whom Gergens
married in almost as many years, sew
en- of them, Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 and II
subsequently went through the for
mality Of securing a divorce in the
courts. Not in single instance did
he appear to fight the case, and not in
a single instance, so far as is known,
did the officers directed to serve legal
summons upon this much wanted man,
succeed in securing personal service.
He was too elusive.
No T. Miss Loretta AlVers, a proud
spirited daughter of honest Puritan
Vermont parents, died of broken
heart within five months after she had
welded q man whom she had every
reason to believe was not only heart
whole, but as pure and sincere in pur-
pose as herself. Her death was fol-
lowed shortly afterwards by that of her
invalid mother, whose demise was
doubtless fastened by her daughters
disgrace, and within year after the
death of the mother the father dis
posed of his possessions in Northern
Vermont, said farewell to plying
friend who knew of his grief and left
for the West, where he was swallowed
up in the great land of hustle, hustle
and hurry, in so far as former &C
quaintances were. concerned.
But No. 10, the pluel1y little blonde
daughter of a native Kentuckian
taught the miscreant that there was at
least one woman on the face of the
earth who had pluck enough to resent
so great an insult She deliberately
drove him out of the country by sheer
pertinacity Of purpose, and after cut
ting a wide swath in the city of Monte
yideo, South America, for whence he
was obliged to flee after having gained
the affections Of and swindled
wealthy Brazilian widow, he is said to
have settled down as a small merchant
and dealer in minging stocks in the
City of Mexico, operating under an as
sumed name, by means the first sub
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duce rice flour, corn flour and potato
flour.
The paste of the highest grade is
translucent and of the shade of very
light amber. Pure white macaroni may
seem more attractive, but its clear COL
or is often due to the admixture of rice
flour. In the case of macaroni of the
first quality, the whitening is brought
about by the kneading process, which
is continued from IS to SO minutes.
Francois Scaramelli, famous Ital-
ian macaroni manufactures is thus
quoted:
IF macaroni Is permitted to take
cold, as / may express it, during the
drying process, in spite Of it's condition
as respects the quantity of gluten and
the duration of the kneading process,
1T lacks the elasticity which perfect
! macaroni should have. When the pro-
duct Is properly cured, one should be
able to take a section meter long,
and, holding it up by the end, it should
bend readily. like a whip, without
breaking. The same macaroni improp-
erly cured, will break; 1t will break be-
fore cooking and it will be still more
brittle after having been cooked. This
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sight. Then began one of the most in
tereSting and exciting experiences in
Gergens' life, which finally ended in the
singular capture at Baraboo, and the
abandoning of the man hunt, after it
had been learned conclusively that he
had gone to Montevideo. During all
this time he kept up desultory COR
respondence with one man, and through
this agency much has been learned of
the great career of Gergens since he
left the states. He captivated the
heart of a wealthy young Brazilian
widow and managed to swindle her
out of a large sum without even mar
rying her.
Recognized in Mexico.
He was finally compelled to leave the
country to save his life, so Infatuated
were the reativeS of the woman, and
for time he was lost sight of by his
friends back in the states. He is said
to have drifted into Valparaiso, Chill,
and from thence to Mexico, after some
trouble with the daughter of an Amer
lean widow in Valparaiso. Just the
nature of this affair is not known in the
north. 1t was not known what became
of him until he was recently recog-
niZed by member of one of the Gates
touring parties in the city of Mexico.
He was conducting a small store and
| doing some quiet specializing in Mex
lean and South American mining
stocks, and assumed at least an air of
prosperity. He affected not to recog-
nize shisssold acquaintance when first
2accosted, but finally admitted his iden-
tity and told some of his more recent
experiences, and how he happened to
be in Mexico. He insisted upon and re-
ceived sort of guarantee from his
northern friend that the name under
which he is now doing business should
not be made public. He declared that
ne was tired of being bounded from
one end of the world to the other, and
that he was through with women for
all time, unless" he added, with a
quaint smile, Il find someone down here
who would marry me and settle down
to quiet country life with me-" But
he insisted that his matrimonial esca-
pades had been discontinued and that
he expected to be on the square in the
future. Np-a
But will be? Arthur E. Chase.
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elastic quality causes the macaroni
after cooking to retain its original form
desired by all lovers of the food while
the inferior article melts together and
becomes more. like PASTE"
In all of the large factories the mac
aroni is dried in rooms in which the
temperature is kept at about 20 degrees
Fahrenheit, except in summer, when
the weather alone regulates this mat
ter. Vermicelli and macaroni are hung
on racks, and the edible pastes nodded
into forms are placed in drawers. This
is the so-called French system" and
any variation in the temperature eau
ses the macaroni to warp. The small
manufacturers have great difficulty in
curing their product, and it must be
consumed in a week or so, or the de-
terioration in the quality is so rapid
that customers protest. More care
fully prepared macaroni, especially if
it is packed in tight boxes, retains its
excellence from six months to year
in ordinary climates, although every
gourmet" who cares much for this
food insists that the sooner it is eaten
after coming from the factory the bet
ter.
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From the kneading machine the
dough passes to steel presses by which
it is converted into marketable form.
From the presses the product goes to
the drying rooms, where it is sea-
soned, after which it is packed and
placed on the market.
While all this is apparently easy,
nevertheless, before the batch is pre-
pared for the petrin or kneading ma
chine, a practical test is made with
each lot Of semolina to determine the
amount Of gluten it contains. A GER
tain quantity of the semolina Is put
into a basin of water and kneaded
by hand until the starch and other
matters disappear in the washing and
the gluten remains in the hand.
Very slight differences in the amount
Of water are necessary for the produce
ton Of various kinds of pastes, the
yermicelli requiring shade less than
any of the others. The mixture of
semolina and water, properly kneaded,
supplies the true macaroni, but with the
increase In competition and changes
in public tastes. demand has arisen
for an edible paste In which eggs are
kneaded. Manufacturers also intro.
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wheat essential to this industry.
The United States, the greatest of
all Wheat-growing countries, has vet
according to Consul General Skinner. to
ship its first pound of wheat to Mar
settles for the manufacture of maca-
ROM. But it's macaroni wheat has
found a market at home.
An illustration close at hand is the
factory of the Minnesota Macaroni
company, located on the West Side in
this city, which turns out from four
to five thousand pounds of macaroni a
day.
Grows in the Dakotas.
The macaroni wheat is raised in both
OF the Dakotas. 1t differs from the
wheat that makes the whitest flour in
that 1t possesses a much larger pro-
portion of gluten, which is essential in
the manufacture of macaroni.
Some idea of the magnitude that the
market for macaroni wheat may at
tain is illustrated in the case of that at
Marseilles, which in thirty years has
grown to such an extent that its pres
ent daily requirements are $4,000
bushels of wheat. With the introduce
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If the average person should be ask
+ ed whence macaroni comes, he would
fanswer Immediately, from Italy"
Several years ago this was true, for
the reason that the native wheat of
Sicily and that Of southern Italy pos
sessed adj the attributes desirable in
macaroni grain. The industry had it's
birth in Naples and the reputation of
the Neapolitan manufacturers rests to-
day chiefly upon the fact that they
had this wheat with which to work
But the manufacture of macaroni is
fast becoming an important industry
in the United States. AS this country
is now raising macaroni wheat that is
converted into macaroni every bit as
nutritious as that manufactured in
Italy and France.
In a detailed account of the manu-
faetuEe of macaroni Robert P. Skinner,
consul general at Marseilles, relate how
, the extensive manufacture of macaroni
sand semolina in that city has devel-
oped a great wheat growing industry
in the colonies of Algeria and Tunis,
owing to the inability of the soil of
France to produce the proper kind of
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Special to The Globe.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. At took thir-
teen matrimonial experiences in the
highly seasoned and variously check
erred life of George L. Gergens before
he succeeded in, finding wife with
sufficient grit and stamina to run him
out of the country to avoid the wrath
a4sof wronged woman and that of her
relatives and friends. The thirteenth
wife, after having married twelve 9TH
ers without having gone through the
slight formality of having secured a
legal separation from his previous at
tachment, or waiting for her to die,
was his undoing. She was Miss Louise
.sMay Vanderbragg, daughter of we'll
e,to-do farmer who lived near Pine
Crossing in Kentucky.
His matrimonial experiences may be
briefly recapitulated as follows:
No. 1. Miss Sarah Gernhausen, of. KEN
. lucky.
No. 2. Miss Fanny j. Doane, of Ken
No. 3. Mrs. Charlotte Narvling, of In
diana.
NO 4. Miss Esther McDeIis, of Ohio.
No. 3. Miss Mary A. Jones. of Indi-
No. 6. Miss Louise Dernhiller, of New
York.
No. Z. Miss Loretta Alvers, of Yer
mont. ,s.1.
No. s. Miss Mary Jensting. OF Florida.
s,4 No, Miss Clice A. Aggens, of Illinois.
No. TO-. Miss IIortense Terwiller, Of
Pennsylvania.
No. IL. Miss Agnes L. D. Bressley, of
Tennessee.
Keptucky.
No 10 and his hoodoo, Miss Louise May
Nanderbrasg, of Kentucky.
Seven Children by Seven Wives.
=, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and II each gave
birth to one child, and these children
of one of the most remarkable biga-
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speculations or manufacturing sites in
which to invest his money as matter
of mere investment.
The Dernhiller woman of New York
was. an old maid with considerable
money, but no good looks and an easy
love to her in a methodical manner,
and make her think she was the only
woman he ever loved. AT least, her
neighbors gave her that sort of a de-
scription.
He married her, got her money, and
deserted her within three weeks.
Deceit, Disgrace, Divorce.
While much more of this mans Won
derfuI story could be told, as relates to
his numerous matrimonial experiences,
there are very obvious reasons why, in
several instances, mere mention of the
women whom he made his dupeS is
made. Deceit, disgrace and divorce
followed in his wake. Divorce suits
We're never contested, and like a verit
able will o. the Wisp, the defendant
could never be found. He never Gull
tivated friends and relatives of those
whom he married. He carried forged
credentials and letters of introduction
from all sources, but is never known to
have raised a dollar on any of the work
of his pen. He would resort to some
of the cleverest possible, schemes to
meet women with money. Beauty cut
no figure. He could court as assid-
uously the scrawny old .spinster as the
coy and sweet young maid, or the pref
ty,s viyacious widow. He never tripped
himself and could always satisfy his
victim that he was just what he rep
resented himself to be.
But the thirteenth wife was more
than he had bargained for. Not only
did he fail in securing her handsome
little fortune, but the little Kentucky
blonde enlisted the sympathies and
pocket books as well of relatives and
friends, and employed some OF the best
private detective talent in the country
when Gergens deserted her, after, in
the only known instance, failing to Sc
cure his dupe's money. She married
the man because she loved him, but
When,s in some manner, she began to
have her suspicious aroused, Gergens
discovered that for once he had met his
match. He tried to quietly drop out of
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terfuge of this character to which he
has reSorted This information comes
from a prominent physician in Mexico,
who is an old friend of Toledo news
paper man, and also from a present
resident of this city.
Tale of Thrilling Interest.
Few tales of fact or fancy contain
as much of thrilling interest as is en-
bodied in only a meager account of the
life and adventures of this truly re-
markable bigamist
George L. Gergens was born in the
small hamlet of Aitllin, lumber set
tlement on the Northern Pacific rail-
road a few miles west of Brainerd,
MINI. What education he received
came from the rudimentary teachings
he received at Aitkin, few months at
Moorhead, Mimi, and q years thor
ough schooling at st. Cloud. one of
the most historic old settlements of
the state. He was not a remarkable
youth, so far as can be learned. About
all that has been cleaned relative to
his boyhood career comes from rem
iniscences from a couple of lumbermen
Who formerly lived at Grand Rapids,
Mimi, who came to Aitlzin for trading
supplies, having them shipped there
from the old firm of Linnman & Koop,
for many years inthe mercantile bust
ness in Brainerd. He roughed it some
when young man; doing some work
in the lumber camps in the counties
Of Cass and Itasca, Minnesota. But
that sort of life soon became INSULT
GENTLY strenuous to satisfy his NOR
bid craving for the larger world be-
yond the great Northern pine forests.
1t is said that Gergens made his first
money stake by marrying a squaw
woman, but, as this cannot be def,
nitely stated, and he has enough sub
sequent matrimonial adventures steuhis
discredit that are fully established as
matters of history, this first possible
incident in his career can pass With
mere mention.
Gergens had three hobbies that Were
remarkably well developed. Those
three hobbies were women, pipes and
photographs.
He made extensive collections of
each. To be sure, his collection of
women was not as numerous as that
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Copyright 1902, by
Robert Howard Russell.

A nee there was full sized Girl
named Florine, whose Folks
~ kept close Tab on her. Any
49, night-blooming Harold who
presumed to keep the Parlor open after
Midnight heard low Voices in the Hall
way and then Rap on the Door. Ii
Florine put on her Other Dress and
went to Hop, then Mother would sit
up and wait for her and 1 O'clock was
the Outside Limit. Consequently Flor
inc would have to duck on the Festivi-
ties just when everything was getting
good. Furthermore, she would have to
warn Mr.. Escort to behave himself
when they drew near the House.
Nothing doing at the Gate" she
would say warningly, Its Dollars to
Dumplings that the Girl Detective is
peeking out to get a Line on my Con-
duct She has her Ear to the Ground
about four thirds of the Time and if
any one makes a Move, then Mother is
Next If Father takes a Drink at the
Club and then starts Homeward on a
fast Trolley, Mother knows all about it
when he is still three Blocks from the
House. What's more, she is a knowing
Bird and can't be fooled by Cloves or
these little Peppermint Choo- Choos.
The only time when Mother kisses
Father is when she wants to catch him
with the Goods. Look Out! This is
our Corner"
AS soon as they had landed at the
Gate, little Florine would say in loud,
clear Tones that would carry as far as
the Sitting Room Window, "Oh, Mr..
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along after Midnight until she had be-
come a Respectable Married Woman.
So she had her Distress Signal out and
used to drop very Broad Hints when
she was chatting with the Lads who
happened to be in the Soda Water Re-
sort when she dropped in. They liked
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,Polloi, which is Greek for Selling Plat.
ers. According to Mother, there were
only about s Families in town that
really belonged and some of them
didn't Belong enough to hurt. Florine
found herself cut out of many a Good
Time because the Chaperon for the
Occasion CHANGED to be related to some
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Gilblitz, I have had a most charming
Evening and 1 wish to thank you most
heartily"
Whereupon the Escort, standing 8
Feet away, with his Concertina Hat in
his Hand and the Face in the Moon
light beaming with child-like limo
cence, would come back thusly, Its
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Manufacture Is Simple.
The method of manufacture is conn
paratiyely simple, as modern meehani-
cal methods are simply engagements
Of the old family process by which the
housewife mixed -four and water,
kneaded the batch, rolled it into sheets,
cut 1T into strips and hung it out to
dry.
In the modern factory the semolina,
which is coarse or vgranulated -four
from durum wheat, is measured into
steel pan about eight feet in diameter,
within which travels a stone Wheel
Water is added, the machine is put in
motion and the wheel moves slowly
around the pan, thus kneading the
batch until it attains proper consisten-
cy.
Just ahead of the wheel is set a
small steel pillow to gather and turn
oyer the mass, SO that it falls under
the rim of the approaching wheel, thus
guaranteeing an even kneading of the
whole amount Of samolina measured
out
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Manufacture Is Simple.

ferent designatories referring to form
lc.s.x
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TCE there was q fuII-SiZed Girl
named Florine, whose Folks
kept close Tab on her. Any
night-blooming Harold who
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true heirs come forward in person or
BY attorney TO receive it.
The pity of IL is that large proportion
Of the victims Of these sharpers will not
acknowledge to themselves that they
have been fooled When the expected
share of the estate does not come. they
believe that a conspiracy was formed TO
rob them. In the matter of the Case
estate, for instance, Judge White can
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depend on it that some Of the -,..-.
his discouraglng replies To rbei- ,.ents ot
VIII firmly believe that be ii -''i-iTias
splracy 20 keep the "rightfui bsi-,.S3 con
their property, and thar he - ron
large share Of the plumber hi7-etI5-is
viii be more fortunate than -5r..I RI
diSmterested respondents to- sir-ii- otlf-
quiTleS II an indignant heir Do M
tell him so by letter. N'-a not