The Shadow World

, and no sooner had I shown my face inside th

medium?" dem

haven't got her!" e

she has promised to appear a li

ng her to dinner?"

, besides, I was quite sure you wou

she perform for a living? What kind of a pe

; for, like most psychics, she believes in spirits. She says her 'controls' have especially urged her to give me sittings. I am highly flattered to think the spirit folk should consider me so particularly valuable to their cause. Seriously, I hope you will

ness long?" asked Mrs. Qu

rs old, I believe, but she sits o

he ma

aph of it. She has two children 'in the other world.' Please don't think all mediums the ignorant and vicio

ad been greatly upset by her own performance. Bart Brierly, the painter, was there to defend the mystery of life against our scientific friend Miller, whose conception of

violent opponents of the metapsychical, you know very little of the subject you are discussing. To sustain this c

I have avoided doing so, for I resp

nounce himself convinced of the truth of many of the so-called spirit phenomena. It is instructive to recall that when he was willing to hazard his scientific reputation on

d I consider the secretary justified. To

secretary was due simply to prejudice, and many of those who voted to ignore that report are to-day more than half convinced that Sir William has been justified. Each of his experiments has been repeated and his finding

rd repudiate that early

an account of experiments tending to show that outside our scientific knowledge there exists a force exercised by intelligences differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. This fact in my life is well understood by those who honored me with the invitation to become your president. Perhaps among my audience some ma

experience?" asked Mrs. Cam

hat he went again and again to see her. Dissatisfied with the conditions under which the wonders took place, he asked Miss Cook to come to his house and sit for him and his friends. This she did. She was a mere girl at the time, about seventeen years of age, and yet she baffled this great chemist and

tie King' episod

om my notes his exact words." Here I produced my note-book, and read as follows: "'I have seen a luminous cloud floating upward toward a picture. Under the strictest test conditions, I have more than once had a solid, self-luminous, crystalline body placed in my hand by a hand which did not belong to any person in the room. In the light, I have seen a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope on a side-table, break a sprig off, and carry it to a lady; and on some occasions I have seen a similar luminous c

rd, "you're joking! Crookes

tom forms and faces-a phantom form came from the corner of the room, took a

"Was all that in his rep

wa

hought he was crazy. The who

ions scales were depressed without contact, and a flower, sep

ve the reputation of a really great scientist,

mpers in 'Lily Dale' could be

birth of a sentient, palpable, intelligent human being, who walked about in his household, conversing freely, while the medium, from whom the spirit form sprang, lay in the ca

ween Crookes the chemist and Crookes

hat this 'Katie King' phantom actually talked with the

like a pearl in her purity. Her flesh seemed a sublimation of ordinary human flesh. And the grace of her manner was so extraordinary that Lady Crookes and all who saw

dressed?" ask

he essentials," I exclaimed. "U

ook like t

when Miss Cook was suffering from a severe cold, Sir William tested 'Katie King's' lungs and found them in perfect health. On several occasions he and several of his friends, among them eminent scientists, saw 'Kati

that excuse," said Howard

d he had the assistance of several young and clever physicists, and yet he could not convict Miss Cook of double-dealing. The story of the final séance, when 'Katie King' announced her departure, is as affecting as a scene in a play. She

as that

ny up to her and had spoken a few words in private, she gave some general directions for the future guidance and protection of Miss Cook. From these, which were taken down in shorthand, I quote the following: "Mr. Crookes has

idence!" inter

across to where Miss Cook was lying senseless on the floor. Stooping over her,

earfully entreated "Katie" t

two were conversing with each other, till at last Miss Cook's tears prevented her speaking. Following "Katie's" instructions, I then came forward to suppor

d: "Could anything be more dramatic than this sad farewell

it was as idle as the blowing of the wind. "The man was duped. It i

odge, and other scientific men were convinced of the truth of these phenomena. In Europe, as early as 1853, the work was taken up in the true scientific spirit, and Professor Marc Thury and the Count de Gasparin completely demonstrated the fact of telekinesis; and at about the same time that the Dialectical Society was getting into action, Flammarion, the astronomer, took

d Mrs. Cameron exclaimed: "There

shouldn't wonder. She i