Goldsboro weekly argus., 1914-01-15
SPIRITS FIND MINE
Dead Friends Direct mediator"
to Gold Deposit.
AZ Least Old Trustum n. Brown os
Malne, Their confldant, Declares
They Did-NeIghbor Felt
His Power.

Bangor, Me.-Trustum II. Brown,
the MEDIATOR was in Bangor, re-
Gently, on his return from visit to
Boston, and although eighty-six years
of age he tripped down town like a
boy and told with enthusiasm all
about q new treatise he has Just COM
p1eted on t'The Truths of Christ and
the Errors of Christianity" Not
long ago the Mediator demonstrated
his reputed supernatural or unusual
powers by locating a gold mine in
California, getting his Information, he
said, from the spirits OF intimate
friaQds long dead.
For many years Brown has occu-
pied a little cabin on q mountain
slope, spending his time chiefly in
fishing, hunting and philosophical
meditation and research, all the while
holding communication with the
spirits Of the departed, he says. He
calls himself Mediator between God
and man."
Beyond delivering exhortations
wherever he may find q listener, the
Mediator's principal occupations are
trapping for furs and bear bounties
and preparing and pedd1ing a medi-
cine, compounded from forest roots,
barks and herbs, warranted to cure
every human malady. His gala time
OF the year is when the Spiritualists
Of Maine hold their annual camp
meeting at Etna Pond in Penobscott
county. This he always attends, en-
tering into the spirit of the occasion
with an enthusiasm that makes the
S0F np hi fhA
fcult OF the whole proceedings.
The Mediator's only neighbor is
Nymphas Bodf1sh. Becoming offended
at Bodfsh, the Mediator, SO the story
runs, laid the curse on him that he
should catch no bear in his traps for
= 500 years. Bodf1sh went on setting his
traps, but caught nothing. Then he
went to the Mediator to try to in
duce him to life the curse. The Medi-
ator at last relented to the extent of
taking off 200 of the 500 years. Bod
fish went home and thought it over.
Even 300 years seemed too long a
time to wait, and again he called on
the Mediator, who consented that the
200 years rebate should run forward
from the beginning instead of back
from the end of the original 500. At
the end of the season the customary
array of bear pelts was hanging on
Bodfsh's fence to dry.
Brown says the spirits told him OF
the existence Of a very rich mine In
California. They described is so
carefully that the Mediator felt sure
he would be able to find 1t, and he
notified some of his earthly friends on
the coast. The Californians told him
to come on and locate the mine, and
he did so, returning with the news
that he had pointed out the location
OF a gold deposit that would make
them milIionaires. For himself he
had no interest in wealth.
One day the Boddshes gave Brown
q cat.
when / got that cat home
Brown said, 81 took it out in my cook
room and placed a pan Of fish on the
table, and I said to the cat: 'Bodfsh
cat, there is pan Of fish on the
table. I am going out OF the room for
q while and while I am gone do not
want you to touch those fish. If you
do, Bodfsh cat, ] viii kill you. Now,
remember Well, I went out Of the
room and returned when I said ]
would and part of the fish was gene.
Did I kill the cat? Well. couldn't
break my Word.' Asz