St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 14, 1900
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SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH—OCTORER 14, 1900. ~ THOUGHT THE WIL OF COD WAS BES Jean Jacques Mistrot, Friend of the Poor, Is Dead, TOLD HIS STORY TO THE NEEDY MANY MISFORTUNES HAD COME INTO HIS LIFE, With Fortitude He Recovered His Losses and Became Again a Wealthy and Philan- throphic Man. Special Correspondence of che Sunday Post-Dispatch. DENVER, Colo., Mistrot of Bryan, Saturday morning. requiem mass at the Logan Avenue Chapel Sunday morning. Jean Jacques Mistrot was a man worth knowing. He had a history. Oct. Tex., 19.—Jean Jacques died in Denver ried the most beautiful Spanish in Louisiana. He made an immense fortune down.there and he lived like a prince and game alms like a feudal lord. He family of 12 children part of the time in a high-walied old palace in town and part of the time at the great plantation ‘‘up' the girl bayou.” That plantation is a tradition of luxury in Louisiana to this day. There was room in the stables for a hun- @red horses, and it was nothing for the Mistrots to entertain a house party of 200 | Guests. But one day there was a fire and the great warehouses -of M. Mistrot were burned to the ground, and then there came a flood and the great mills of M. Mistrot were de- stroyed, and M. Mistrot stood and smoked his pipe and said tranquilly: “It is well. the good God does it for the best. It will make men of my sons.” And then the war came and the Mistrots'! were poor, very, very The great house on forlorn and forgotten at bayou. Some northern carpet baggers rented the house in town for their head- quarters and the Mistrot boys went out to seek their fortunes. They found a fortune, every one of them. But they worked hard first. Some of them Were errand boys, and some were even por- ters, but none of them stayed at these things long. Thev made money, made it hand over fist. They left Louisiana and went to Texas. Two of the brothers started a little shop in a small Texas village. It prospered. One year there was an overstock of goods, pt mor, the bend of the extra goods. It prospered, too, so they started another shop and another and an- other until al) Texas was dotted with the Mistrot stores and the Mistrot brothers were millionaires, Old Jean Mistrot smoked his pipe and was tranquil. ‘‘All is well,’ Ne said, “‘the good God knows what is best. He has made men of my boys.”’ an hap- as young daughter, looks, by the way, as her voungeat who blooming pily first with one son and then with an-| other. They saw up around grandchildren springing and life was well, but their them one day there was a wedding anniversary | 1 the Mistrot boys plotted together. ‘Let us give father and mother a and an income of their own,” they “Something which will make them perfect- ly independent,”’ and they made up a purse among them, a purse of a munificent for- tune. When they presented it to M. their father, his hale old face flushed. it that I am a beggar,’ he said, ‘“‘that you ive me elms?’ and then. the hought out a business and gave it to their father and he managed it so well that ina few vears he paid back his sons the money they had given to rich and prosperous merchant himself. He was famous all through Texas for his charity, and when any one wanted to get him to tell the story of his life had but to complain to him of poverty or of ill fortune. an: ‘ home of age and over, invite the one who com- plained to dine with him And when they had drunk togethef cof the wine of Burgundy and had sipped the black coffee M. Mistrot would light hfs vjipe and say: “All is well, the good God teal what is best.”’ and then he would tell how he knew this and bid the man whose heart was hefivy to hope. TOOK WOM4N FOR WOLF. Nelson Fernstrom While Hunting Shot _ Mrs. Stromer. ST. STEPHEN, Minn., Oct. 13.—While Nelson Fernstrom was hunting near here he mistook Mrs. Stromer for a wolf ana instantly killed her. The woman was out Searching for cattle and climbed up a Strawstack to sce if she could locate them. Night was approaching, and in the dark- ness Fernstrom made his fatal mistake There was a solemn | He was born | in France, came to this country and mar- | Kept his beautiful wife and his great | the plantation stood | So | they started another shop to get rid of the | ' neath 'he fled instead to America. said. | brothers. tance pursuit. the business and was a/ dairy 'ferred by Cambridge A PRISON CELL Rev. Rowland P, Hills Makes the Change. _— ——— — S -—t SENTENCED FOR TWO YEARS TOO MANY WIVES I8 THE CAUSE OF IT ALL. | First Wife Chased Him From Eng- land and Is Responsible for His Incarceration. Special Correspondence Sunday Post Dispatch. OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 13.—From dignitary "in the Episcopalian Church of England to a cell in jail, awaiting transfer to the Ne- braska penitentiary to serve a sentence on conviction of bigamy, is the record of Rev. Rowland P. Hills, A. M., D. D., LL. D., B. A., curate of the church at Balsover, | England. Within a short time; unless freedom 'comes through some unforseen shifting of fate or the law, he will be No. 1313, or some other numerical cognomen in the state | prison. | Dr. Hills has just been convicted at Blair, | Washington County, of having two wives— one a cultured English woman, whom he _courted clandestinely and married secretly | during the heydey of his priesthood in KIn- gland; the other, a mere strip of a rural ~ one galion o warm) a 3-gal- lon tank of water in 39 minutes. The even is so veotilated that and zincs, On'y $1 Down and $1 p2r Week. oe oe Jy tag et # x - ah is ee bites 3 r a ' Ingrain nice patterns....... Better grade,large assortment, Abo —Oll Cloth, i ec grade...... ) Brussels Carpets, the @c qualit $7.50, $9, $12.50, $ CARPETS. Carpets, Brussels Carpets, 29¢ ne quality...... one Velvet shades......... Lace Curtains, large selection, as low as. ‘ee eeeeece : 18. Portteres, 19¢ (2c ¥ 49¢ ROOM-SIZE RUGS; 15, $ all co.ors.. ®.¢,? A ap eR ag 108A TR ge! STE Mien = tigy ag: + a «
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