The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-05-16

her power One OF her first prognostica-
lions was that Hanotaux would lose the
portfolio of Foreign Affairs in the French
Cabinet. and when this came to pass two or
three weeks later 1t occasloned great sur
prise. She also predicted that De Labru-
yere would be acquitted. and this also
proved true. She likewise announced that
Queen Victoria would be in fresh mourning
this year, and less than a week later camo
the news OF the death Of Prince Henry OF
Battenberg. Her prophecy of a split in the
house of Orleans also was realized. but 1t
will take some time to prove the truth OF
an additional prediction to the effect that
the Orleanists will never again reign in
France.
NOT UNLIKE SCHLATTER.
Innumerable cases are on record where
she made remarkable statements regarding
the past lives OF a miscellaneous lot OF
callers. Some OF these journeyed from far
off sections of France to get advice from
the Angel Gabriel through the girl prophet
ess. and most OF them were peasants OF
whom she could never have heard before.
No one has accused her OF chicanery, for
she declines to accept any money for her
services. In this respect she is not I'M
like Healer Schlatter. who created such a
furore In the United States some time ago.
and whoee work was extensively discussed
by psychologists here.
Just prior to Easter Sunday Mile. Coue-
don left Paris for q visit to relatives in the
country. Her father. who is a substantial
well-to-do wine merchant, feared for her
health. as she had been living under a
great strain since she conceived the idea
of her angelic connections. He is a mat
ter-of-fact business man, but he has wit
messed SO many strange things within the
past month and a half that he firmly be-
neves in the heavenly agency Of his daugh-
ter. Her mother also places implicit faith
In hop n a ,tuh$a a n prprhatae1 r
WHERE THE PROPHECIES LIVES.
The Couedons live on the fourth floor OF
on apartment house in the Rue de Paradis.
q very strange coincidence. Owing to the
vast crowds Of people who have filled the
street day and night since her lame as a
living in the neighboring houses have
been sadly Inconvenience About the first
of the month they Joined together and
made a complaint to the police, character
tzing Nile. Couedon as a nuisance. This,
tn connection with her failing health. WAC
the occasion of her visit to the country.
On her return to the city she will make
no more prophecies at her home, but will
give tho communications In some church.
Mile. Couedon 10 very bitter against the
newspapers. as she regards them as the
cause OF all her troubles with the %neighbors.
She has been strongly opposed to newspa-
per fame from the first. and 1t was only
by thu exercise Of some artlAce that the
Paris reporters were able to see her.
Usually they introduced themselves at her
home as scientists and in this way man
aged to obtain the information they were In
search of.
HOW THE PROPHECIES LOOKS.
Mile. Couedon is not quite twenty-five
years old. She is not as pretty as the av-
erage French girl, and is decidedly common,
place in both face and figure. In a group
OF twenty or thirty girls 5he would be tho
last one to attract attention. She is mat
ter-of-fact In all things with the exception
of her belief in her heavenly relations.
She was reared with all the care Of tho
average French girl whose family is in
fair circumstances. She never left her
home except In the company OF her mother
or q servant. and from childhood has been
a regular attendant at the Church Of Saint
Vincent de Paul in the Place de Lafayette.
The priests of this church have known
her for many years and were among the
first to resent the few i%nsinuations made
al to her object. People who at first ac-
cusad ner Of having some perfdiols pur-
pose changed their opinions when tho
quiet. commonplace character OF her pas:
life became known. Her sincerity and hon
esty are not doubted. although her claim
that she Ia the mouthpiece of the Angel
Gabriel is TOD preposterous for general
acceptance.
With a number OF doctors and men and
l WOMEN interested III pnSycuOiOSlcal mai
tiers, I called upon Mile. Couedon just
before her departure from this city. The
party was ushered into the dining room
Of the apartments where Mile. Couedon
and her father, en- unusually tall and portly
gentleman with a broad, fat face and white
hair and mustache. were in waiting. Mile.
Couedon was the most ordinary looking
person In the room. She sat in a large
hair piled up with cushions near tie VIA
low and her father stood near her.
After the intrcductions Mile. Couedon
fxcuoed herself for a few minutes, and
Then she had left the room her father
Explained that his daughter made her COM
liunications while In a trance. you muat
tddrecs her" he said, when she Is under
he influence. as My Angel" Mile. coue-
bn rSfirned and esumed her seat near
the window. The father signaled to US
ind We kept silent. The girls body began
10 grow rigid and her ndir. which Ia very
Gne. seemed to become dry and stiff. Her
eyes were remarkable. The pupils con-
tracted until they seemed almost to fade
away, leaving only a pale iris, changing
In color from topaz to sapphire and then TO
sea green. Her eyes began to roll in an
untsual way and much of the time only
i the whites could be seen.
ASK what you WILL said the father;
and one Of the gentlemen asked about his