“I was called by the spirit when I was but seven years old. I have received many calls since. I have the power of healing by the laying on of hands. I carry a bottle of olive oil with me with which I anoint any one who wishes to be healed, after the devils are cast out of the body. I have a good constitution and have never had a doctor.
“My father is eighty-five years old, has served as a State senator in Wisconsin, and he is rugged and strong. I eat no pork or fish that do not have scales. I bar catfish, for catfish are scavengers and unclean. I eat coarse bread and drink pure water.
“Latter-day churches are ignorant in their evils, and that is what is causing so much backsliding. I have telegraphed President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan many times, and they have always followed my advice, especially in the maintaining of strict neutrality. I have received personal notes from our president, thanking me for my advice and prayers.”
Interesting New Inventions.
J. B. Deidrich, of Streator, Ill., has invented a bread slicer which he believes will be especially valuable for restaurants and boarding houses. The knife is not much different from the ordinary bread knife, but it is suspended from a frame which causes it to come down in the same place each time it is swung for a cut. There is also a gauge which insures every slice being of the same thickness. With its use there is no danger of bread more than an eighth of an inch thick getting by the censor.
Two Wisconsin inventors have patented a kerosene lamp that is automatically extinguished if upset or even lifted from a support.
A screen has been patented that is raised and low[{61}]ered with a window so as not to interfere with the light when the window is shut.
The latest aëroplane invention is the use of a recording phonograph by which the operator may make notes of his observations.
A conveyer belt has been recently made for an Ohio stone quarry which cost $6,000, weighs 12,000 pounds, is 839 feet long, and 26 inches in width—one of the largest ever made, if not the record breaker itself.
For carrying baskets that lack handles of their own, a folding wire handle has been invented.