Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-16

her power. One or her fret prognostica-
tions was that Hanotaux would lose the
portfolio OF Foreign Affairs In the French
Cabinet, aud when this came 20 pass two or
three weeks later 1t occasioned 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
tho news OF the death OF Prince Henry OF
ba,'enherg. Her prophecy Of a split in the
house OF Orleans also was realized. but X
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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
of 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 q
furors 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 a visit 10 relatives in the
country. Her father, who is q 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-
lieyes In the heavenly agency OF his daugh-
ter. Her mother also places implicit faith
In her daughter as a prophecies.
WHERE II PROPHECIES LIVES.
The Couedons live on the fourth floor OF
an apartment house In the Rue de Paradie,
a very strange coincidence. Owing to the
vast crowds OF people who have filled the
street day and night since her fame as a
prophecies began to spread, the people
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
ising Mile. Couedon as a nuisance. This,
In connection with her falling health, was
the occasion OF her visit to the country.
On her return 10 the city she will make
no more prophecies at her home. but will
give the communications In some church.
Mile. Couedon IN very bitter against the
newspapers. as she regards them as the
cause OF all her troubles with tho nelghbors.
She has been strongly opposed TO newspa-
per fame from the first. and Il was only
by the exercise OF some article 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 " decidedly common,
nlaro In hnfh fara and dotra IN q uratn
OF twenty or thirty girls she would be the
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 the
average French girl whose family Is In
fair circumstances She never left her
home except in the company OF her mother
or a 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 his church have known
her for many years and were among the
FIRST to resent the few insinuations made
as 10 her object. People who at first ac-
eus>d ner OF having some perhdious pur-
pose changed their opinions when tho
quiet, commonplace character OF her past
life became known. Her sincerity and hon
esty are not doubted. although her claim
that she is the mouthpiece OF the Angel
Gabriel Is too preposserous for general
acceptance.
With a number Of doctors and men and
women interested In physiological mat
ters. 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
md her father. en- unusually tall and portly
gentleman with a broad, fat face and white
hair and mustache. we're In waiting. Mile.
Couedon was the most ordinary looking
person In tbs room. She sat In . large
hair piled up with cushions near the wsn-
low and her father stood near her.
After the introductions Mile. Couedon
rxcuoed herself for a few minutes. and
shcn she had left the room her father
Explained that his daughter made her COM
nunicatlons while In q trance. You must
address, her." he said, when she Is under
he influence, as My Angel" Mile. Coue-
on rsiirned and resumed her seat near
the window. The father signa!ed to us
and we kept silent. The girls body began
10 grow rigid and her hair, which Is very
nne, seemed TO become dry ana stin. her
ewes were remarkable. The pupils con-
,racted until they seemed almost to fade
away. leaving only 0 pale ira, changing
In color from topaz TO sapphire ana tnen q
sea green. Her eyes began TO roll In an
unusual way and much OF the time only
the whites could be seen.
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