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6 THE NATURAL DRINK. Water is the natural drink for man if man had continued to live in a natural state, and only those that 'nave made it a study know what a man in a natural state is. Many hooks have been written on this subject. When, man emerged from his natural state he approached what we ('all civilization. We ;ind that In* labored with sweat on his brow; we find that in connection with farming he raised more grapes than could be consumed. When he tried to preserve them for future use he found that the sub stance had turned sour and had an astringent taste. This astringent flavor we rail alcohol to-day; this grape juice with the astringent flavor is called wine in the Holy Writ. This wine was turned into strong drink by adding grain of the tield. Wine and strong drink were used in verv early times almost immediately after man emerged from a nomadir or shepherd life and stepped into the life of a husbandman or farmer. By experience* it was found that tin* abusive ust* of wine will bring on a state of intoxication. In those days tin* record shows that on different occasions some men imbibed too freely. The Holy Writ gives us the history of the Israelites: by coming in contact with the descendants of this ancient people you will find to-day that these have not fallen and become victims of King Alcohol. The descendants of Israelites called Jews to-day art* the most temperate people in all things; most all of them use intoxicating alcoholic liquors to-day, hut they do not abuse it, and hence they are a mon ument to the balance of mankind. Man in his natural state drinks water, but when man has to "work in order to make a living and fill all kinds of hazardous occupations, such as mining, mill work. farm work, turpentining in tin* open woods, digging phosphate*, all kinds of labor- Some Causes for Discontent in Georgia. While the teachers of Georgia and their wives and children cry in vain for a little more bread and tin* just appeals of the old soldiers and their wounds go unheard, the solons of the State and all high-born Georgia ring with noise of great feasting. A trip by the solons to Chattanooga at an expense of over $2,000 to the tax-payers is in planning, and a hill has been introduced to raise the salaries of members of the Assembly from $l6O to $250; those of the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate from $l6O to $450. At the same time large numbers of “pap-suck ers." whose onlv service to anvone in the State is the political influence they exert every two years for their benefactors must continue to be provided for. THE REASON ions work under the parching rays of the hot sun that is the time In* drinks too much water, that is the time he gets much sicker from the abuse of water than a few soothing drops of alcoholics for stimulating purposes. The use of alcoholics in moderate quantities for hard working men is a God-sent stimulant. If alcoholics prescribed by the best educated class, the doctors, is good stimulant for convalescent and sickly people, whv is it not good for hard-working men that have a sound mind, that know how to use it and when to use it .’ There are a few leaders with a very few sincere followers that should style themselves anti-alcohol ists. They pretend to be Christians, followers of Christ Jesus: they try to disfranchise the great bulk of people from the use of alcohlics; they try to pro hibit the salt* ami use for consumption of same. If they are Christians they have no more right than Jesus had. and there is no passage on record in the Holy Writ that prohibits the use of wine on any occasion. How much Christian sympathy do these kid-gloved leaders display for their fellow man by d isfranchising him from a comfort and necessity.’ This kid-gloved variety of mankind does not seem to come in contact with the horny-handed sons of toil: thev onlv measure evervone bv their own kid gloved variety. They do not seem to know tin* hard ships a man endures making his daily bread; they do not seem to know that man needs wine as well as bread. Tin* anti-alcoholists seem to be in cahoot with the devil. Tin* outcome will be that they will have many men put in jail, or rather turpentining, for endeavoring to get their supply of alcoholics: they ought to know beforehand that their success will be a great sin on them and their generation. In these hard times, too. when we haven't money to feed and nurse our old soldiers who staked their lives to defend our homes, nor the inonev with which to pay our teachers the bare pittance of S3O per month for services in the schools. The dignified names given to two offices created in 1902 for the sole benefit of the “pap-suckers'’ are “General Oil Inspector" and “Compiler of Colonial and Confederate Records." The latter is filled by a man or fellow who is sometimes referred to as the “one-eyed boy of Pigeon Roost;" the other by a physician who operates a sanitarium in the moun tains for consumptives and inebriates. The physician makes a draft for SIOO on (Ca lonne) Park. State Treasurer, every month and gets