The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-06


looking forward with confidence to the
fulfillment of this prophecy.
The prophecies is dark-haired woman
OF prepossessing appearance. When she is
in the prophetic mood she closes her eyes
and her face assumes an unearthly ex-
preston. She speaks in rough. metrical
verse At times this becomes highly poeti-
cal, and suggests the Psalms Nearly all
the lines end in Sc with an acute &C
cent? or Ger" the commonest examinations
in French.
As an example of Mile. Couesdon's pro-
phetic outpourings in their highest form,
1 will repeat her predictions of the great
fire of the Bazaar de la Charlie. This was
made to the Camtesse de Maille and sew
eral other ladies OF the highest society.
who were visiting her out of curiosity in
MAY 1896:
Near to the Champs Elysees,
] see place that is not high,
This Is not for piety,
But approached for piety,
Which is not Yeritv
I see the fire lift itself
1 hear people screaming,
I see flesh drilled
And the bodies calcined:
I see them by shovelfuls.
The fire of the Bazaar de Ia Charlie
which was on the Champs Elysees, &C.
cured in May. 1897, exactly a year after
the prophecy.
Mile. Couesdon has within the past
months enjoyed a tremendous renewal of
popularity, owing to the fulfllment of her
prediction that President Faure would die
suddenly.
In the course of a conversation with
your correspondent she declared that she
had no intention of marrying, as had
been reported. because IN that case she
would lose her gift of prophecy.
When I visited Mile. Couesdon I found
her in highly inspired and prophetic
mood. 1 asked what she forsaw Of the
future of the United Stotes. After time
she closed her eyes and said:
1t will not be easy:
War will come;
Again it will come:
1t will not be easy.
I see a great day coming-coming for
America:
All America. North and South, under
one government, will be united
The great American Republic will
stretch from pole to pole
The day is not far distant In the life oof
a nation.
Greet statesmen will strive to bring the
whole continent under the American flag
War will not be waged 10 bring this
about
Mexico will ask for admission to the
United States after the death of Pr~si-
dent Daz and 1t will be granted
The South American countries will see
the prosperity and happiness of Mexico
under the American faS.
They. too, will ask to be admitted, and
their wish will be granted.
Canada Will remain longest out of the
Union.
America will have another great war.
Il viii be greater war by far than that
with Spain.
It will not he with Germany, neither will
it De with France.
It will be with the country that is now
making loud professions Of friendship for
America
Statesmen will see clearly the wisdom Of
ny predictions.
Germans in America Will never permit
their fatherIaud to wage war against the
United States
Englishmen have no such power.
II will be the most terrible war ever
waged
But America viii be finally triumphant
in the end.
Then the American navy will be the
greatest in the world
a great change will come over the Unit
ell States.
4 time OF great trouble is coming.
This viii be due TO her rich men.
The common people viii remain sound
and virtuous
The rich men will become corrupt. ava
ricious and degraded.
They viii ruin themselves with their
own fucalcu bic riches
President Mckinley is not going 70 die
suddenly IS did President Faure.
He viii be elected President a second
tira1.
His health will far him during his sec
ORD .erm-
Then great sorrow vii bsfsli him:
A s7rra " in which he vii. have the SYM
pathy Of enemies as wei as friends
America Viii have 70 pay the penalty
NJ her coming CORY. She Eiu pay With
The blood % be- best sons
Her negroes vii become good citizens.
They ~iI make splendid soldiers for her
colonies
IN me middle II -hc next century there
vii re q great literary revival IL Amer.-
The language y the T-1i,ss STATE. ~,
spread from Green land - cape Horn.
The English 'a1E1sEe vii - governed
by Auer.la and NOT ~ Enrlsna
An American EfH reach she North pole
ana mother tbs s51th uoie
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