Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-05-30
HASKIN LETTER
GHOSTS IN COURT
Bv FREDERIC ]. HASKIN

ter faith? If notorious liar dies and
departs for that limbo where communlca-
tive spirits live, is there any reason 10
believe that he will there become para
gon of truthfulness? Will death make
fool wise, or q malicious person kindly
Out in the west there is certain plac-
er deposit of gold which has been the
grave OF many. fortunes. One man aIteh I,
another has tried to get this gold, and al
have failed. Finally along came an in
ventor with a most ingenious and e1-
pensive plan for getting the gold lie
had absolute faith in it. 1t appeared
that he was in communication with the
ghost of his dead sister, and that she
had impaired this plan to him, and mao
told him it was sure to succeed. ne
spent every cent he owned and comn @
ghost was wrong. Very likely II the
sister had been alive she would nave
given just the same advice, and very
likely this man would have replied that
women know nothing about mining, ana
would have kept his money in his pocket;
But since his sister had been translated
to the spirit world, he reasoned in some
obscure manner that she had there pc
come an expert on hydraulic mining.
taken.
no reason to believe that ghosts are any
more truthful or infallible than human
beings, and if believers in spirits would
only keep this in mind great and grow
ing burden of trouble would be saved the
human race. Consult the record of the
Society for Psychic Research, upon which
the whole argument for splrlhsm Is
based. You will find little evidence that
ghosts know more than human beings or
fr,l nd mt n
dence that they are picayune and some
times malevolent, like the living. Is It
not well, therefore, to take the commun-
ications of your dead friends and rela-
tions with a grain of salt, the same as
you take those of the living?
Here is another example of meddle-
some ghost who sought to make trouble.
A young and attractive widow was in
vited by an older woman who lived ID
the same boarding house to join her in
some ouija board excursions to the land
of the dead. They Immediately got into
communication with the spirit of the
young woman's dead husband BE pro-
ceeded to criticize her goings and COM
ings at great length He objected to the
man she went with. He told her that
such and such a man was immoral, that
another ate cocaine, that third had a
wife living in Australia. He advised her
TO give up al lrlNoudeS 3ao stay a.
home nights
The young widow was considerably
troubled at first But she had strong
common sense. She reflected that even
if spiritism was a true revelation, there
were fake mediums, and her elderly
friend might be one of them. She also
reflected that her husband in life had
been a jealous fellow, inclined to lie
about all possible rivals, and she saw DO
reason to believe that death had re-
formed him. She was able TO prove that
some of the messages he had sent her
from The Beyond were not in accord
with the facts.
When the next ouija board session
came off, there was struggle. Hubble
tried to get in some more advice, but the
young widow had strong hands. Instead
of hubby it was the defunct aunt of her
elderly friend who got the floor. This
departed lady informed the elderly friend