New-York tribune., 1897-12-26
A THIRD FAST.
DIR HENRY S TANNER SAYS HE MAY TRY
1T AGAIN.
he is NOW VISITING IN DETROIT. AND is HALE
AND HEARTY At THE AGE or SIXTY FIVE
SOME INTERESTING FACTS REGARD
ING HIS TWO GREAT


ING HIS TWO GREAT FAsTs.
From The Detroit Free Press.
Whitc-hairod and sixty-fve years old. Dr. iienry
S. Tanner the famous faster. l. paying his rn' Nisi
TO Detrcit. The doctor is. however. IN iulI pos
he would be ready and willing TO make the attempt
to beat or equal his record at any time - &c.
The TACT D., he said in a semi icJoruiaI "d?.
have my back up over the boast Of that woman IA
Ncw-York that she can beat me she seems seems IT,, TO
think am nobody. nut Size has yet to prov, pE ~
something better than talk that she Is dh'au oi
The doctor il; VIII be remembered. tasted forty
days and nights in Ncw-Nork city. Ia TN" ilrSt
But hc felt thai he could not continue longer IN
that line ani began to walk every day to Central
mo- he coniiIucd. Il fcl, not the slightest i'll
elects from the fast. ON the other hand. thinN
ana s.cep in norma. allowance: ! first laStrd u.
Minneapolis few ears before $50 the year ol ne
rhcumat!sn. and attempted the fast as means
o. irhei; tor eleven dayS hept !, up ana h, & th%
To-, tone d and al al PAIN passed FGm That & region d'
and determined to continue it as iong as | could
Al the end Of fory.two days felt that ! had
only my friends knew of it,
The, Ncw-Ycrk fast was held under the eyes Of
oniy thirty eight pounds. When started. every
,y nody predicted th4t coud not last more thnn
rabe message from the oueenc physi ian. advi;
us my first meal. one doctor in Ncw-York advised
me to tax as a square mcai lick at postage
my stomach. and advised a g0o!. long smell al
some well-donc toast. one and all predicted that
my stomach would prove 10 be a wreck. Ny d.
EcStivc apparatus. they claimed was irrciricvab y
ruined might consider that my days were num-
bered few
"on the morning Of the last day Of The fas,
sniaI 10y cam" Up to IN. nibbling ripe peach. !
asked him TO LET me hold it. put my lips |
wanted 10 taste Of it, but that would give cIcr, body
a chance 10 say had weakened and wanted 10
last out the forty days. ! had promised You
viii TO hand il back TO him; but did IT, | asked
hllh 10 come back at noon. when my time would
De dp lie dld so. 4 mairOnlN woman with him. |
saw her pat her hand in her pocket ard AXE from
II big. ripe. yellow peach and give II to him
suppose she was hs mother. Then the little fellow
trcttcd over TO where ! sat. and an immense crow
looked ON as siabh'd it from hia hand and took
on" hi-. Ions. juicy bite fl0m IT, The memory q
mat naNor IrecTs with ne yet dcvourod every
bit Of the fruit.
.''The general Suprosiiior is that my first catabr
after the idat Wis WtirI n4, lon THIS arose
from the fact that had Away declared that
would begin on "a melon. Npt long after the peach
"hich d"nk. and al imm,us, Georgia wal.f-
melon, Welel.irs about forty pounds E,tXtrn futt
time and Hidn cht lad dcvourcd aN of b.. and ~,
inuch refreshed. ! do not ctrc 60 puf nor. 900, 4
meat and vegetables and became. :, all ilf"nts
and purposes. rational human being
- th' pTactIc" 81 medicine derived somc good
from my dch' tcIpcnt Tn phy~i'laus learned fht-
the Use of al onOllc StimUliuts Wa nu' necessary.
- arrest tl' wasting OF tissue used non, ia my
iS' ana ever sine then Tie usr II the stuff iu Oh,
8 hroOln has been greatly decreased
When minors are iumurcd n min, and ship
VIZ k,d sailors are HarOou'I on barren island
hot!illt To cat ~ either cast th'S usually LAT
about twelve days Tn doctor SAYS This JOS because
tilc HnN oi Hfc without sustendn'". SO they Civ"
up ana allow d"n'h 10 take possession OF them.
f. Of as long as te did ana perhaps longer and
give others . chance t. them