The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-06

! the. name that is fast disappearing
from the rude cross. That cross still
stands erect. though some of the later
ones have fallen on their faces. and
weeds do not grow rankly on the ele-
waited mound.
All the stones and wooden crosses that
Eseau lies buried is grave whose own
er, could he be summoned back to
! life, might tell the story of "ze gram
lady" For according to the inscrip-,
| lion On his comparatively new tomb
ctone Paul Bibeau was born the same
| year that Nine. de Rousseau was born.
| though his birthplace was Sorel Can.
ada, instead of Paris. But Paul BIZ
beau lived to a ripe old age, dying in
Little Canada in 1865, and Joseph, the
fisherman, says that he was a resident
of Little Canada in the early sos.
Resting near Paul Bibeau Is Veronica
Millette, his wife, who was born in
1S03 and who died in 1866; and two
others of the same name, Pierre, aged
twenty. who died in "a, and Francois
x, aged twenty-five, who died in '5S.
Father Cotton, though he displays
an even livelier interest in parishion-
ers dead than in parishioners living,
can tell nothing about the mysterious
Nine. de Rousseau. "She was born in
troublesome times, poor LADY,! Who
knows? Perhaps ali her life was full
of trouble. When came here first.
that was in the '60s-she had been dead
several years. The house in which she
lived was burnt down. The trader who
called himself madame's husband had
gone away. The people all spoke of
her as the great lady. 1t was true,
doubtless, that she was high born But
what does it matter now? Poor ma
dame, she is now equal only to the
poorest"
But the priest had forgotten the ele-
waited and isolated mound. -
If Father Cotton cannot tell the story
of Nine. de Rousseau, he can tell some
interesting stories of his own, Like.
Nine. de Rousseau Father Goiffon was
born in France, but his birthplace was
Lyons, instead of Paris. A younger
man, inspired by the zeal of the earlier
missionaries, he came to the great
Northwest and he has never left It,
See" says the good cure of Little
Canada. And he points to the wooden
stumps on which for thirty-three years
he has walked. The terrible blizzard
of go took these and If 1 had not
fought like tiger to save myself it
would have taken the rest of me, too"
On the Northwest frontier Father
COTTON had two small missions, and
several times during the year he was
forced to come down to st. Paul for
provisions and other things necessary
| for his people. He made the journey
| in one of the old Red river carts, often
when the Sioux Indians were in an
| ugly mood and when to fall in with a
narauding party of the painted saw
| ages meant instant death.
But the missionary's worst foe Prov.
| ed to be the blizzard instead of the
savage. To appreciate the story one
must listen to Father Cotton tell it in
| his own language, with a multiplicity
| of gestures and with the expressive
| shoulder language that only the
Frenchman born is able to use with
| effect.
One month it took the missionary to
| come from his mission to st. Paul. One
| cold January in 1860 he started on the
! trip in the hope of reaching ST. Paul
the first Sunday in February But out
on the prairie blizzard overlook him