The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-22
ANGEL GABRIEL.
Paris Greatly Interested in His
self.Deelared Mouthplece.
MLLE. COuEDON,S pROPHECIES.
Fearfal CaIanltlss, She says, Are % FAN
Upon Great Britain aud France Crowds
stand Tn Lins for Audience Receptions
stopped for Time on Complaint Of
sslghbOr-oharEs. No Fees.

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paris Correspondence New York
World: The Angel Gabriel Is among
US, it appears. he attingly chose Holy
week for his Paris debut. HIS mouth
piece IS by name Mile, couedoa. She
lnhabits small apartment in the Rue
Paradls-prophetlcaIly named, It would
seem.
BY the lips Of this strange young per-
SON Gabriel has said many things to
many people. for thousands have flock
ed to the Rue ParadIs and threaded the
narrow corridors and stalrways that
conduct TO this modern Sybll
He has spoken with the tongue OF pro-
phecy. He predicts that the Bourgeois
ministry will fall; that a great Euro
pean war will result from events IN
Egypt; that France is to be punished;
that England is to receive O heavy
blow, her population decimated, her
pride crushed, her wealth destroyed;
that leader will arise for France, not
from the side Of the Orleans nor yet
from the Bonapartes, but q new per-
son, now In other lands and unknown
who is to govern France, also that the
clergy win be punished because oil It's
pride and want Of charity.
He sends a message TO Henri Roche
fort, saying that he must learn 90 I'M
derstand the law OF God and bids him
make his peace with Him. To Jealous
wives and love-lorn men and maids the
words Of the heavenly messenger are
sometimes troubling. for he doesn't
mind speaking plainly 70 them. scien-
lists, clergymen and doctors are STUDY
Ing the case.
Opinions of the strangest kinds are
ventured, even that the whole matter Is
n worked-up scheme on the part OF the
BoulangIst party In furtherance OF their
plans.
science Is bankruptcies Bruneuere de-
elared some months ago-mystlclsm, at
least. Is solvent.
satanlsm, magic, mysterious doc
trines, echlromancy, religious dellrium
are In the air.
The mild Indications are found In the
Bossut sermons at the Badiniere, IN the
religious programmes elsewhere. IN
Huysmans turned Trapplst, IN eX-Min-
Ister Turduet distributing half-worn
shoes among the poor, in the three-sided
Paul Verlalne.
on March 1 last the monthly meeting
OF the Society Of the Psyche Sciences,
In the Rue Serpente, was made notable
by the presentation Of an interesting
subject, girl Of twenty years. II was
announced. as a case OF lllumlnism, Or
in other words, OF sanity Inspiration.
The young woman was Mile. Henrietta
Couedon.
II remains TO this day unknown what
we're the conclusions arrived ut by the
learned society, whose president Is
Able Brettes, canon Of the Cathedral
OF Notre Dame, as to the merits or
,demerits of Mile Couedon's preten-
slons. A whisper Of the fact that she
had appeared before the society got to
the press and materiallzed in the form
OF a little paragraph In the column OF
.'Faits Divers" (varied facts), as what
YOU call "CIty Items are styled In the
French Journals. From this seed grew
a tremendous crop OF curiosity, tertll-
lied and cultivated by the publication
Of larger and larger items, day by day,
until the subject ook up columns upon
columns OF the Partisan press.
Angel Gabriel'a Telephone.
Ut was thus that millions Of readers
speedily became aware Of the existence
ence. the pretenslons and the where
nbouts of this modern witch Of Endor,
far removed as he Is in dignity and
power from the creature who frighten-
ed old King Saul almost out OF his
whole skin Mile. Couedon does not
raise visions direct from the abode OF
the head. She simply serves as the
receiver OF an invisible telephone ,as It
were, connected by a special wire with
the Seventh Heaven, where the Angel
Gabriel may be supposed to occupy one
OF the cabinet oces of the Most High,
and whence he delgns to communicate
by this means with this mortal world.
II Is cited as one thing In favor Of
Mile CouedOn's prophetic faculty that
abe announced beforehand the forced
resignation OF Berthelot, the chemist
minister. But the most striking thing
of all, perhaps, about the amlable
correspondence OF the Angel Gabriel
with the children Of men Is his conde-
scensIon to matters of small individual
import. He may be said to have made
It his mission. for a limited engage
ment only though II be. to give oppor-
tune warnings toe human Kind against
specific designs Of the Spirit OF EVIL
GElE JULIET ~ tAkAEhh kAA~ NAAhh
communications Mile. COuedon utters
them In loud voice, modulating after
the fashion of one recitlng poetry on
the stage, and with metrical division Of
poetic feet and more or less successful
efforts at rhyminE. In this wise, one ut
al least OF the traditions Of sybillne
prophecy Is observed In the spirit, II
not absolutely in the letter.
All sorts OF 'isms" concern them
selves with Mile. Couedon's manifesta-
lions. Splrituallsts, OF course, rs they
always do In regard to any new thing
of the sort, claim them as fresh proof
OF the truth OF their belief. Theoso-
phIsts pronounce them a phrase OF oc-
cultism. Crowds Of the most mixed
composition imaginable have gone to
No, 40 Rue Parndis, and stood for hours
about the portals or encountered the
vestibule and stairway OF the house in
which, in the fourth story thereof, Mile.
Couedon and her parents i've.
Visitors stand In Lime.
The1exes, the professions. the social
class were COMPOUNDED in a tumble of
seeltsr after the latest sensation. Mock
Ing lncreduiltyr rubbed elbows with med
ltative doubt and fervent belief, The
curlOsIty-seekrs stood In line as people
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