Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-09-14
Whispers from the Other Shore.


Whispers from the Other Shore.
&" DO you hear us when we call you, do You heed
the tears we shed,
o beloved, immortals. o ye dead, who are not
dead?
Speak 70 us across the darkness, wave to us
giimmering hand.
Tell us but thai ye remember jewellers in the
. silent land"
Is the land q silent one? Is it a
Bourne whence no traveller returns?
Are there not more things in Heaven
and Earth than are dreamed of in
your philosophy-te thousand times
more? That there has been preju.
dice for many years against the thing
that could the most surely establish
the souls Immortality, is not strange
perhaps, since evil is always qIick to
seize upon any instrumentality that
can be made to work evil, and this mys-
terious power has certainly been used
for that purpose by the worst element
Of Earth, air, or whatever they make
their home; and then We live in the
same old world that denied Jesus
Christ, and said "Take Him away and
hang Him." How this power has been
used for evil and for good. l will try
and show as we'll as my poor ability
will allow. That such a conspiracy
could be conceived and carried out as
it has been, right here in our midst,
and against people who never laid
straw IN the way of the conspirators,
seems almost incredible, and yet it is
the simple, plain truth, and in this
Twentieth Century and supposedly
free country; a conspiracy that has al.
most ended in tragedy, has gone on
for years and has been unearthed by
the same power used for good instead
of evil.
In Prof. Hyslop's recent articles on
"The Unknown" no stranger incl
dents are related by this student OF
psychology. That science will some
day reveal the hidden forces of this
mysterious power, there can be no
question, for in all things science wins
and the impossibilities of to-day be-
come certainties of tomorrow. All
who know Mrs. Della Crosby, will re-
member what q devout, conscientious
Spiritualist she was; honest, and sim
cere, in all she said and did. The last
time / saw her, she came to bid US
goodbye, on the eve of her departure
for California. Just as she was leav-
ing she said, think this is my last
visit to you in my mortal form. l be-
lieve l shall soon pass to the other
world; but shall return often to you.
How l wish you believed as ! do.
Then our friendship would not be in.
terrupted, for you would see and hear
me speak to YOU" My answer was,
that neither believed nor disbelieved;
that had known little of her faith.
Mrs. Crosby sat thinking a few mo-
ments, then said, "The time will come
when you will believe, for shall come
back to you and you shall know and
feel my power. 1 shall watch over
aud if any danger threatens you, /
shall DO near" This was indeed the
last time We met, for only q few
moaths later she was permitted to
pass to the other world, just "a she had
expressed q desire to do, and / saw all
that was mortal of my friend laid to
rest. One October evening, I heard a
quick, decided step and summons to
let some one in. As opened the door
CHEEKY voice said, Il can stay over
only one car; did not intend to come
tonight, but l was pushed up the hill.
I said will 60 another day, when
can stay longer but they said, No,
60 now so you see / am here, don't
know why. There is something have
to do for you, do not know what"
" Come into the dining-room," 1 an.
swered, it "is sunny and warm and we
can hear the car" AS I opened the
door, she started in and l noticed her
look around the wall, near the cealing.
q" DO you stay in this room much?"
she asked. EYES," l answered. al
thought 3d." said she, "now l know
why l came to you" Then turning,
she began speaking to those invisible
to me-" Oh, you demonsl You imps
OF darkness! You iucarnate fiends!
Skulk into the dark while you can,
but into the light you shall come
every one of you! We will see who
you are; hide your heads! / would, if
l we're you. You think you can sit |
down upon the innocent and those
who you think are alone and defence.
less-do you? Now know that l am
after you, and not one of you will es.
cape me-. There is . detective on your
trail 10 whom closed and bolted doors |
are nothing" To me she said, "You
have felt the blows, but you did not
know whence they came. Now turn
and fight for your life. They have at.
tempted to kill you in moro ways than
one; every wrong that fiends could
devise they have tried to do by you, but |
when life is made too hard for us, then
hands are sire tched down from Heaven
to help US. Do you know who sent me
me here to night? It was Della Cros-
by; here she comes now. She lays her
hand on your chair and says, Though
every earthly friend forsake you, 1 am
here and through the dark waters will
60 with with YOU One by one, this
medium, who was an old friend OF
Mrs. Crosby, has drawn the portraits
OF those whose acts she promised to re-
veal to US, portraits 80 startlingly life.
like, that he who runs may read. As
she has described them, 1 have said
more than once, at cannot be-; but
time has proved her right in every.
thing so far.
She has told Of . dark woman, who |
for years before we knew her, bad used |
all the blackart possessed by a demon,
TO wreck and ruin our lives; how she |
plotted, schemed, and worked unceas.
ingly to gain her ends; how she has
pursued, bounded, logged our foot
steps; interfered with our business and |
family affairs; in fact, any and every
thing a fend could think OF to do |
that would injure US, that woman
has done. Does this sound iucredu-
lousf It is true, and the truth can be
furnished. As Seattle had her Mother
Damnable, in early days, so has Thurs
ton county had hers, in more danger
GUS form because unknown. And not |
in our family alone has she worked her
wicked will. Those who never saw her |