Show SPIRITS HIS A brother of the late senator le land stanford of california thomas welton stanford is a resident 0 mel bourne australia some years ago he made the acquaintance of a laundry man named charles bailey who speed ily convinced him that bailey pos sensed wonderful powers in the spirit world weekly stances were held in stanford s rooms at w aich the spirits that obeyed bailey are said to have brought him instantaneously from the remotest spots in the globe whatever the sitters chose to demand diamonds from africa gems from persian mines priceless coins from the bachnan dy nasty and the reigns of the Ptole mies octagonal clay tablets covered with cuneiform inscriptions written in the dawn of history parchments and papy rus containing hieroglyphics of the earlier egyptians and jews a live ibis from egypt jungle sparrows from in dia sitting on their nests and chirrup ing excitedly a shovel nosed shark a foot and a halt long entangled in sea weed from which the salt water still dripped and rolls fresh from the himalayas which go bad after they have been baked for twenty tour hours were all deposited before the eyes of the astonished circle at the bid ding of stanford and his friends many egyptian antiques which the medium said were obtained from ancient tombs of egypt were sent to dr jordan president of stanford university call fornia who however declined to re belve them as he wa unable to accept mr stanford s explanation of the way in which they were obtained the an hiques have accordingly been returned to melbourne |