Show T. T p 1 WATER NOT NEEDED TEXAN THINKS MANKIND IS 16 BETTER BET BET- TER WITHOUT TER-WITHOUT WITHOUT IT Aft After r Many Y Years Years' ars' ars Abstention Major Points to Himself as Pro Proof of the Truth of H Theory Theory- The Late Gen Lawton a Convert Con Major Theodore S thinks I he Chas ihas disproved the theory th that t drinking water is necessary to the existence of a human being He has haa pot taken a drink of water for many years years just just how many he does not I know now but it Is ten or fifteen He found that w water ter did not agree with him and lie he quit drinking it He also quit eating all kinds of bread at atthe atthe atthe the same time He began to tale on flesh soon after he stopped using water and bread and andIs andIs andIs Is now fat and the picture of health Although he is of middle of-middle middle age his complexion complexion com com- has lias the pink color and delicate delicate delicate deli deli- cate appearance of that of a baby His muscles are w wel 11 developed and hard hoard and to all appearance he Is is is' in perfect condition Even In the hottest days of summer he Is not troubled with thirst Occasionally Occasionally Occa Occa- he drinks a a a. glass of beer b but t tit It is not often that he pa partakes takes of that beverage He subsists subsIst principally on raw meat served in the form of tartar steak and andraw andraw andraw raw eggs He eats few vegetables The thirst which Major had when he first began to abstain from the use of water for for drinking gradually disappeared d. d An old frontiersman Capt J. J G. G Merrill in discussing the matter of water drinking said that in the earlier days when frontier officers had t to take long chases after Indians and border desperadoes the water supply q question estion never troubled the themen men and they would have given it little thought but for the fact that their horses had to have water Drinking water is a a. a habit just lIk drinking whisky is continued Capt Merrill I belonged for several years to l Major ajor J Jones Jones' nes' nes company of rangers a and d there were several men In that tha company who had tr trained themselves to go for days at t a stretch without a drop of water passing their lips Ups If their thirst made them uncomfortable they were were wont to moisten their mouth and throat with the Juice of a cactus I got so used to going going without without with with- out water on on my long rides over the plains of west Texas that I still care cara very little tor for the fluid Frequently day after day passes without my drinking a drop of water or anything except a a small cup of coffee which I 1 take at my breakfast I can can show scores of old Texas frontiersmen who do not drink a gallon gallon gal gal- lon Ion of water a month and are in the best of health and condition all tho the time I also believe that the less water a person drinks the longer he ha will live Jive One half of these long sinewy wiry lank and lean fellows you see on the ranches in west Texas and in the little towns S drink so little water that they hardly know what it tases like Jike but these thess same men can can outfight ana outwork three of the ordinary fat water topers tapers The Tho late Gen Lawton had trained himself to go for days without touchIng touchIng touching touch- touch Ing water to his hrs lips He could stand any amount of marching and hard work He got his first knowledge of the uselessness of and injury of drinking large quantities of water from the Texas frontiersmen while serving with his cavalry troop in this state He began to practice abstaining from water drinking and it was not long until he could go for d days lys running without partaking of it It It Is Capt Merrills Merrill's opinion that Jn many many 1 y Ills of the body are caused by bythe bythe bythe the water drinking habit New New York Sun un |