Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-28
]. B. Rumfdii, be E1poundsr Of the Hdenlc scho0l
Of Health Ia Chat With Man Who
Lives sn Wheat-His Physical
+ tid Religious Theory.


/ It'd Religious Theory.
Yestereay afternoon while the REG
1srER reporter stood in one OF the flour
and feed STOKES on Market street tall
clerical lsoking gentlemen, with rather
spare frame and features walked In ana
asked 70. a quarters worth or graham
meal. Indeed, with such studied,
methodicll, intellectual air, the scribe
became clrious as to what disposition
he was q make OF his purchase.
The re5orter soon learned upon IN
auiry tina the clerical looking gentle
man intended to eat it, and what's more,
eat 1t rtw. And still further II
was to constitute his entire meal.
Learning that the gentleman
was Possessed OF a rather
UNIQUE al novel appetite, the reporter
learned is abiding place, and called
at John 2oemer'S boarding house, at
the corne. of Main and Twenty-iirst,
but he wis not ia at the time. The
proprieto stated that he only occupied
a room there, but ate his meals, what
little he ate elsewhere, bat could usu-
allv be found at a residence on
Eoif stree, Just below Twenty-second
street. Iere dhe reporter found the
clerical looking gentleman in question.
BELosGs TO rHE EDENIC scEooL.
The nale of khe gentleman is j. B.
Rumford aud heNhails from Los Gatos,
Cal. abort ten miles from San Jose. He
lives. as b expreESe6 it, "in the warm
belt of Cfiforniaj" He said he had been
here two geeks, And when asked how
he happned I'd strike Wheeling, he
said thatle caube here by the dictates
of God. lie travels about the country
whereverhe Spirit moves, 6uS he can
never te whlt place he is going TO
next untihe hkars the dictates OF God.
as IT true that 'youl diet is confined
wholly 10 wheat?" asked the reporter.
Eyes, J perhaps live largely upon
wheat, although / do occasionally eat
other THINKS, but never anything that is
cooked. am believer in the Edenic
system of.iving, the name of the system
being derived from that primeval gar
den Of which we have all read so much.
For ten years now l have practiced the
principles of this system, and never
felt better stronger and healthier in
my life"
Mr.. Runlford has not tasted a piece
OF beei-stelk in ten years, neither has
he eaten eggs cooked in any shape, nor
rrrCE on PIE
pudding or cake, nor slipped of any cof-
fee, tea or milk. His main diet for ten
years has been raw wheat and plain
water, varied occasionally by fruit.
Everything cooked, said Mr.. Rum
form, lis a perverted natural product,
and should never be taken into the
system. As soon as ever you cook a
thing il is de-vitalized, it is dead. And
doctors say that dead matter is poison.
And how peopleIn the face and eyes OF
these indiS3utabe facts can load their
systems with the cooked products Of
nature is beyond my comprehension"
How much wheat is necessary daily
to keep the system going?" asked the
reporter.
II claim" said Mr.. Rumford, as he
Stroked his long hair, "that with from
one-half TO three-Quarters OF pound or
wheat a day a man can do hard days
work. There is u great amount of nu-
triment stored up in this dish. While
at my Edenlc home In California eat
but one maal a day, but since have
been travelling l have eaten two meals a
day MOST of the time, but never at reg
ular intervals, only just when
HAPPEN TO FEEL HUNGRY,
and then usually raw wheat and water.
One of NY favorite dishes when at home
is berries and raw meat mixed. l eat
all kinds of berries and fruit. The
three things that most people eat re-
gard the most Injurious are bread, but
ter and sugar. All are perverted
natural products. Mix | regard as
very poisonous to the system. And,
speaking Of the one meal a day, / tried
that plan on pair of work horses on
my farm in. California, and it worked
admirably. The reason Of 1t is this. II
you feed a horse heavy meal in the
morning, the food that you have placed
in the animals stomach cannot possibly
be available until il is turned into muscle
the next day. And if you commence
to work horse soon after the morning
meal, the force that is necessary 10 di-
gest the food is divided TO sustain the
muscles at the same time, whereas If
you feed a horse just before bedtime
the food is converted into muscle by
morning and then he can work with i'm
punity, The same principle holds good
with human beings, only the trouble is
people eat cboked food at nearly all late
supperS, and this is what works ruin.
Some physicians will tell you that
cooked food aids in digestion, because
the cookingi process partly digests the
food. by htgving the
Fooib PARTLY DIGEsTED
before it enters the system takes away,
in measure, the functions of the di-
gestic organs, and the food is assimila-
ted after reaching the stomach. The
organs of diEeStio1, in this way, become
thoroughly but OF order, and this is
partly what produces dyspepsia. And,
again, the liver becomes overcharged,
and this is 1.-THE cause OF all the liver
medicine with which every drug store
and grocery etore Is now filled. To per-
sons earnivot OCsly inclined raw meat Is