The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
N THE fourth of August, f7s2.
 the East India Company's ship "Grosvenor" was wrecked off fha noaaf af Natal. A full ac-

the coast of Natal. A full ac-
 count of this disaster was published at the time In Lloyds shinping Gazette" and also in a sup nisrnent to Duncan's Mariners Chron- iele." recall what the Kaffir wreckers reported, that all the ships stores were lost except a copper-bound treasure chest that was run ashore at the last moment and secretly buried.
 Tn 1894, being in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Company. 1 was ordered to proceed with an ade- ouate force to Unkwani River, Pondo- land. which Is near the seat of the fatal mishap. My instructions were to recover if possible the nine bronze howitzers included 1 nthe ships arma- ment. and of the cargo especially to secure the chest reputed by rumor to contain certain gold, silver and copper coins of an unknown but considerable value.
 Having executed my commission. with what success I leave my employ CTS to state, I shipped in the month of March. 1895 in the Danish bark Dag ma" by way of the Madeiras for Lon don. The voyage was unusually rough and tempestuous, and in the Bay of Riscay the breakers rolled SO high, that it was with much ado, and only by the exercise of the best seamanship that we escaped going to the bottom. Our vessel was due at Southampton May 2, bat leaIky hold and a split propeller so delayed our voyage, that we did not sight the cliffs of Albion till the early part of June. This enforced de- tention entailed heavy loss upon our underwriters, and left us to vent our maledictions upon the Danish admiral ty, and to appeal in vain to stormy and offended heaven for restitution
 On reaching London I learned that Sir Peter Fowlkes, my immediate em- ployer, had died during my absence, and I was referred to the scientist Sir William Crookes as the proper func- tionary with whom to advise for the reception of my report. Now, as good fortune would have 1t, Sir William, of x ray celebrity, was an uncle on my mothers side, and having no other near relatives in England, made bold to repair at once to his abode After most cordial reception, he informed me, that I had timed my visit most oppor- tuneiy, for that Madame Svorza, the most celebrated hypnotist and clairyoy- ant on the continent, had consented to give e private seance at his home that very evening--that her trunks and paraphernaiia were already in the hall, and that cards of invitations had been issued to such members of the Royal Society as felt an interest In spiritism and other occult phenomena.
 At o'clock it would have been a difficult feat for wheel to have reach ed the curb in front of the Crookes mansion by reason of the dense throng of carbriolets. The guests were of the most distinguished order. Sir John Lubbock, greatly interested in tele- pathy, was there. He spoke of physical force exerted at distance and in- stanced gravitation as a striking ex- ample. "Etheral medium or no etheral medium" he exclaimed, 'it is far more likely to suppose that this force acts distance than to magazine that 1t operates through a medium, the most mysterious and psychological, solid as adamant and yet, by universal admis- sion elastic and penetrable," The Ital- ian philosopher Luigi, predeceseor and anticipator of Marconi, was there, and perplexed while he edified his hearers with a discussion of the. electric cur rsnEg of the air, that charged with articulate messages, fly like homing pigeons post haste to their destination from Naples to Palermo, Mynheeer Won Postleburgher, the distinguished Elem ish savant was also present. Well do | recall his lofty brow, hls beaming eyes, his expressive mouth. Ans ideal philosopher, yet I must confess that I was quise taken aback at seeing pro- nounced scientist decked out in a close fitting pink surtout with a Dresden Collar and an Effinger tie Truly a sage in the apparel of a fopi With monocle to eye, replying to Sir John remarked, that telepathy in his opinion was purely subjective, that unlike gravitation and the electric waves of Luigi. mind could not project itself to mind, that there was no wave. eth eral or other, in the case, but that. "in obedience to aome obscure mental law. simultaneous trains of thought were generated, reciprocal ofN course, but nevertheless wholly distinct and iso- lated. He added furthermore, that "by intuition, not by reflection. we read what is pictured on the canvass of our inner being--the actual replica of the distant and out" (Sic)
 The truth of this view was so ob- vious, that the entire body assembled accepted 1t, more from the lucidity of the statement than from the appar- ency of the fact itself. Postleburgher only voiced what each of us had konwn from childhood. but which had gone wild and uncoralled because 1t had never been previously draped in intel- Mgible words.
 Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace had e good deal to say about the earth's be- ing the centre of the Universe. and absurdly held, that 1t was the only