Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-25
HAS NOT EATEN FOR 30 DAYS. A. B. Landis of Waynesboro, Fa., Finds His Health
 Greatly improved After Long Fast Here.

Without any ostentation about feat that fills most people with wonder, A. B. Landis, an inventor, and for the last 30 years a we'll known resident of Waynesboro, Pa, came here a little more than a month ago and set himself to 30 day fast which was completed last Saturday evening. MT. Landis has had a room at the home of Frank L. Lathrop, No. 493 West Main street, so as to be near his friend, Charles c. Haskell, at No. 458 West Main street of whose theories and discoveries along been a student and follower for a num- Der of years.
 It was at Mir. HaskelPs table on last Saturday evening that Mir. Landis broke his 30 day fast with a light meal of strained lima bean soup and toasted Triscuit. rNothing ever tasted so good" appreciatively remarked MT. Landis as the first mouthfu1 of soup passed his lips. which was the first food he had taken since he began his fast 30 days before. In the present week he has eaten only lightly, per- haps not over four pounds in food, but he has gained twelve pounds in weight.
 MT. Landis finished his self appoint ed test the picture of vitality and sat- isfied that he had demonstrated sew eral points that he had expected to prove, as he tells in the statement be- low, which he gave out on Friday. He confessed to neither ravenous appe- tite when he was at 1engt at liberty to take food. nor did he have any acute hungry spells or unusual sensations while he was not eating. The only sensation he spoke of was something of gone feeling about the third day, that he was not eating food was for gotten. In the thirty days the only thing that passed his lips was pure water and a little orange or lemon juice.
 While his family in Waynesboro was in Sympathy with his intention of fast ing, he came here to be associated with MT. Haskell and to be away from the friends whose overanxiety would be botherSome if he stayed in his home town. While here he spent much of the time working upon an invention, also spending considerable time out doors He is shortly to leave for Bos- ton and then after returning for brief call upon MT. Haskell will re- turn to his home in Waynesboro The following is his statement of the pur- poses of his fast and his observations at it's conclusions:
 The question naturally arises why did I take the recent 30 days fast which I commenced on the evening of May 18th and ended on the evening of June 18th.
 Stoutness Doesn't Mean Health.
 Eight years ago, being very obese then Cweighing PIP pounds, with height of feet '1-4 inches) I was in declin- ing health (contrary to what most persons thought I was, who think stoutness means healthy and was treat ed by the drug doctors without any improvement, but all the while grow ing worse. I commenced reading up other methods of treatment for health, and trying them, such as osteopathy, homeopathy, physical culture. etc. without much improvement. The aiI- ment that I then had (eight years ago) was of very grave and serious character. as I have since learned. The doctors then did not know what it was, but I have since learned about others who complained in exactly the same way. and who have since passed away, that the trouble was what is known in medical terms as .arteria sc1erosis" (hardening of the arteries), which was never known to be cured by drugs, and, for that matter, no form of disease ever was cured by drugs as nature alone restores to nor