Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-08-16
BREAKS HIS FAST IF TWENTY-S|X
 DAYS James Hall Experiences Real Hunger And
 Eats
Is Confident That He Has Baffled His
 Malady
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

(From Tuesdays Daily.)
 James Hall, who for twenty-six long days abstained from food in the hope of curing his stomach of collapse that was steadily rendering him weaker as the days passed, Sunday night took food for the first time after his long fast. He had passed twenty-six days without partaking of any food, sub sisting wholly upon water, which he drank in large quantities, but in small doses at frequent intervals. For the first time since he undertook to adopt this starvation theory to give his sto- mach an absolute rest, genuine feel ing of hunger came upon him Sunday night.
 He retired as usual about half past nine, but could not sleep. When his friend who is attending him came in about an hour later, and asked Hall how he felt, the latter replied that he was hungry. His friend then urged him to get up and eat something, but he replied he would wait until morning. A few moments after, however, he changed his mind, and arose, going into the kitchen, where he prepared a bowl of stale bread and milk. This he ate, and declared that was all he want ed. He then retired for the second time, and slept sOundly until yester- day morning, when he partook of breakfast of poaehed eggs and toast.
 When questioned by a Journal-Miner reporter yesterday afternoon he was down town, and said he had never felt as well in the past two years, or since he was taken sick, as at the present time. He expressed the utmost eonfi- dence in the efficacy of his treatment, and thinks that all that is required in eases such as his is to have the cold nerve to undertake to do without food until the stomach gives notice of a healthy desire for nutrition. He de. clared he felt like new man, was not at all weak, in the sense that one might think from his long fast. and that he is confident he will regain the flesh he lost by fasting, as quickly as he lost it, if not in less time.
 MT. Hall weighed himself yesterday morning, and found that he tipped the scales at 101 1-2 pounds, just IS I-2 pounds lighter than when he started in on his remarkable fasting treatment. He weighed but 120 pounds at the time be undertook this treatment. and for some time before had been steadily losing flesh. His lungs. which are supposed to be affected, were then bothering him, pains being almost con- tinual in the region of his chest. He was afflicted with distressing cough. and was supposed to have been in the final stage of consumption.
 "Since became accustomed to do- ing without food" said MT. Hall to q reporter yesterday. "my lungs have bothered me very little The first few days it was hard for me, but after that I gradually grew better I felt it, and am certain of it. My cough has grown better all the -time-doesn t bother me at all now, and believe with the; course of fo0ti I will adopt I will regain the flesh have lost with in possibly less time than it required to lose it.
 ''I have never felt as. well as do today since l was first taken sick. Of course, I am very thin, and may appear sick for this reason, hut I can assure you am now on the roqd to a rapid recovery. Now that my stomach is again healthy I can soon nourish nv system to point where I can fight of my lung trouble. It seems simple e"ough after all. How can a man c-peet to recover from lung disease when his stomach will not do its duty, and nourish his system!
 My sincere wish is that others who may hear of my treatment may benefit by it. This is the one reason I show no hesitancy in talking of my ease for publication. I will eat again this ev- ening, and shall prepare a strong nut ton broth for my evening meal. I am sure I know how to care for my stom- ach from now on. and am absolutely certain that I will be well man within a few months. I have learned there is