The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1905-04-13
WATER NOT NEEDED
TEXAN THINKS MANKIND is BET
TER WITHOUT 1T.
After Many Years Abstention Major
schiermier Points to Himself as
Proof Of the Truth Of HIS Theory
The Late Gen. Lawton a Conve

Major Theodore Schiermler tnlnkS
he has disproved the theory that
drinking water is necessary 20 the
existence of a human being. He has
not taken a drink of water for many
years-just how many he does not
know, but It is ten or fifteen.
He found that water did not agree
with him and he quit drinking it. He
also quit eating all kinds of bread at
the same time.
He began to take on flesh soon after
he stopped using water and bread and
IS now fat and the picture of health.
Although he is of middle age his com
plexion has the pink color and deli
cate appearance of that of baby. His
muscles are well developed and hard,
and to all appearance he is in perfect
condition.
Even in the hottest days of summer
he Is not troubled with thirst. Occa-
sionally he drinks a glass of beer, but
il IN not often that he partakes of that
| beverage.
He subsists principally on raw meat,
served in the form of tartar steak, and
| raw eggs. He eats few vegetables.
The thirst which Major Schiermier
| from the use of water for drinking
gradually disappeared.
An old frCatiersman. Capt. ]. G..
| Merrill, in discussing the matter Of
water drinking said that in the earlier
days, when frontier officers had to
take long chases after Indians and
border desperadoes, the water supply
! question never troubled the men, and
they would have given it little
thought but for the fact that their
horses had TO have water
Drinking water is habit. just like
drinking whisky is," continued Capt.
Merrill. 81 belonged for several years
to Major Jones company of rangers
and there were several men in that
company who had trained themselves
TO go for days at stretch without a
drop of water passing their lips II
their thirst made them uncomfortable
they were wont to moisten their
mouth and throat with the juice of a
cactus. | got so used to going with
out water on my long rides over the
plains of west Texas that | still care
very little for the fluid Frequently
day after day passes without my
drinking a drop of water or anything
except a small cup Of coffee which
| take at my breakfast.
Il can show scores OF old Texas
frontiersmen who do not drink n gal
Ion of water a month and are in the
best of health and condition all the
time. also believe that the less
water a person drinks the longer he
will live.
"One Ealf OF these long, sinewy
wiry, lank and lean fellows you see or
the ranches in west Texas and in th'
little towns drink so little water tina
they hardly know what it tases like
but these same men can Outright ant
outwork three of the ordinary ia
wafer topers.
"The late Gen. Lawton had trainet
himself to go for days without touch
ing water to his lips. He could stan,
any amount of marching and har,
work.
HE got his first knowledge of tn
uselessness of and injury Of drinkin
large quantities Of water from III
| Texas frontiersmen while servin
. with his cavalry troop in this state
!, He began to practice abstaining fror
water drinking and it was not lon
until he could go for days runnin
, without partaking of it,"
1t is Capt Merrill's opinion tina
many ills of the body are caused b
the water drinking habit.-New Yor
y Sun.