The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-05-05
away all they had-wives, children and
goods-to obtain it.

away all they had-wives, children all
goods-to obtain it.
At the time Of the discovery of Amer
lea the Northern Indians we're almos
wholly fishers and hunters, and they live
on the fruits of their skill. We know
also, that the prairies ofNorth Americ'
were rich in salt springs and deposits
and yet it is known that the Indians use'
no salt. The Mexicans were tillers o
the aoil and lived upon the products, ant
| they not only enjoyed the use of sal
| with their diet but understood the meth
cd of its preparation, which fact wa
made known to Columbus by natives o
Mexico whom he found upon the Yves
Indian Islands. tits told of the natives
upon certain of the Pacific Islands tha
they live wholly upon herbs and fruits
and that they drink the salt water of th'
ocean with evident relish and delight.
Most of the peoples of the Australian
aud East Indian Islands live upon
mixed diet, and they take up with th'
fish drawn from the sea the moderate
quantities of salt which they need witt
their food, Prof. Bunge relates that h'
only knows of one people of the Trop-
ical Islands that subsists almost exclu.
sively upon the fruits of the field, ane
that race is on the Island Of Sumatra.
Of that people, Bunge says, not only
must the thirst and craving be most in
tense and the use of salt With them 9
burning necessity, but they hold it al
most as sacred thing and swear by it.
A form of oath used in the administra
tion of justice amongst them runs al
follows: "May my fruits and harvest
fail, my beast die, and never more ea'
salt, if I speak not the truth"
Such instances as we have given with
many more, have led German profes
sor to state the following as law: al
all timeo and in all lands those people
who have subsisted upon purely animal
diet have either known nothing Of the
nature of salt or they have known it
merely to eschew and abhor, while the
peoples who have lived upon vegetable
foods have found salt to be an indispensa'
bic article thereof" There appears, how
everyone other law which becomes equal
ly fully established, and it is that the non
use of salt and the inordinate use of ii
are each co-incident With low type Of
development and civilization. We have
seen that the peoples who we're ignorant
of salt, or who despised it, were normads
and without any organized life. They
were untamed hunters and lived upon
the prey of the arrow and the spear.
And the great salt. eaters, what were they
but the dreariest, most isolated mush'
rooms of the earth In the earliest and
crudest period of their existence they
were hidden and unknown in the last.
to be-discovered shades and corners OF
all lanes. They fed upon such fruits
as nature placed unsolicited before them
or they scratched the earth and knew
and were nothing beyond.
Upon the awakening from the parasitic
condition of the liyers on herbs and the
tanning down from the wilderness of the
chase, with the gathering of the tribes
and races in communities organized and
stayed, the tillers or walters upon the
soil gave of their herbs and fruits with 8
measure of salt to the SONS of the "bow,
and the litter presented meats in return
And with the further commiDgling Of
interest, habits, and tastes it came to be
that they were no logger distinctly and
diametrically lovers and haters of salt
And to day the extremes of taste and ne
cessity il the matter Of salt no longer
exist. Some persons may have greater
relish fer it chan others, but none crave
and die for it. Even to day, however, we
can observe the remnant of distinctions
which are we'll nigh passed away. Ir
this country, and in all countries, 1t ii
seen that the rural communities, who
who live in the midst of abundance O.
vegetables and fruits, are the creates
consumers of salt. In France, it is showr
ststistically that the peasaDtry, who sub
sists very largely upon the products O
their gardens and small farms, consume
almost exactly three times more sals pei
capita than the population of the towns
Common salt is steady factor in al
healthy, dietary conditions of life. Il
cannot be eschewed or over INDUCED
without penalty for the abuse. III il
attempted to over ride nature, and us'
salt in excess in the preservation of meat
ne know the tale of disease-of scrofuls
and uncleanness-which has to be tole
by the consumers of those meats. Ant
scientific research is said to be unfolding
the fact that the craving for salt, with
the eating ofherbs, is based upon an alb
solute, undeniable physiological need
As it has already been said, only fe7
articles of diet better indicate the life
taste, and condition of peoples than the
measure of their consumption Of salt.
A War Incident,
It was at the terrible Eattle of Frank
lin, Tenn. During the latter part OF tn
battle Gen. Hood walked backward ant
forth in front of his tent and looked a
the cannon belching fot.h and tearing
IL, s,,ke froro tho fort In ,ocnqf Grove