Show HOW SALT cie CAME TO MAN IN THE LONG AGO ted indian regales Us with a quaint original version ot of how salt came to man and everything the salt man ian touched bore hie ills taste vohen he ile brushed a cliff it became a rock salt deposit bathed a salt maren 0 A GIFT FROM THE GODS told by a genial story teller of the tribe at ka nosh to his friend sev v I 1 toots in the days of the new when the earth was young and the years were few and untried begins ted adlan man and the animals liv ed together and talked a common tongue but man ate his food with out salt for he knew not its taste then did covach have compassion on man and create the salt man that man might have and know his taste and make food go bet ter adds the genial ted ted is a prince of story tellers al ways that genial smile and nice open opell way good spirits laughing and a master in the art of presenting en by recital of myths and ancient legends for says ted I 1 know lots stor lee les beckwith what white people ought ta to know so you do ted and as I 1 can pay for them I 1 am glad to have you tell them to me for thu the whites understanding the indian mind ever tiling thing imanil inanimate ate has a spirit the white with his scientific jargon sees salt as sodium chloride na cl CI what romance Is there to that what charm what fancied tale to hold children breathless who bit sit agape in long winter nights to hear how the salt man stuck hia his hand in an old woman a porridge and left some of his taste in it 9 none absolutely none four letters in na cl at most the white man sees no romance in it but the indian does to him ev grything ery lery thing has a spirit lake mead ow hill river dale the elements the tour four winds each object so how easy tor for that elemental spirit to clothe itself for manifestation in the human form to benefit man in whatever walk of life there was cry ing need the spirit of salt becomes a man with salt properties quaintly conceived and gives his person to man and as nice a fairy tale as one would wish this of ted a has all the charm that a naive tale simply told should have of a time on earth when god walked hand in hand with man or never tar far away at any time with this little preparation I 1 will let ted tell his story in hig his own de way ted a grandfather tale told from father to son long ta time me this etory story Is very many years ago it is handed down by father to son grey haired grandfathers tell it to theu theis grandsons in the proper season tor for telling stories when they may be told this la Is the story of salt trail ing over this part of the earth before the indiana indians knew about salt they didn dian t know what the salt was they eat their gravy without salt they cook their food without no taste but ita its own so one day the salt was comila colli over the earth by toot fool he means here the spirit of salt had entered enter id into the form of and become a man and the salt man was walking over the land it had a body the same as man mans a body but the salt was sent to go over the earth in human shape so that no one could tell what it Is this was so ordered by to vach this big man Is the covach dovach la Is the big man who made the and the birds and all the an emals and the seeds tor for the birds to eat and he made 4 man man catch what he can to eat comment interjected for better understanding covach Is the supreme being the great god the lord the ruler he Is superior perlor eu to stenobe read J W powell founder and first director ot of ution I 1 wish to present the in dian than a belief with all respect ct with all due reverence sir SIT edwin arnold gave us that beautiful poem the light on basla asta in all its sincerity andi and beauty of faith only possible by presenting it as a devotee a bellev jer er and as a bellver I 1 present the indian indiana s sacred faith in covach and in stenobe and in the multitudinous spirits of everything that exists it Is just like reading milton shakes peare heslop and the ancient greek poets I 1 BELIEVE what matter it oh ye stickler tor for words whether we worship the supreme aa as covach or spelled it jove a millen lum ago or god dmn t jove and quick silver visit bouchia and philemon disguised as beggars and yet we treasure Haw hawthrorne a wonder tales as classics and the salt man was disguised for the same reason to test the hearts of those whom he vis via cited so I 1 shall present it as a be llever FB T covach makes salt man and sends him to give hie ills taste to man covach made the salt so people can put I 1 it t into their food but the knowledge of it was only possible by the gift of the salt man who looked poor and begged food over the earth so hoyach he sent salt man to go over the earth and told him to break oft off a piece of himself and drop it at the hillsides ledges of nock rock salt you see FB and lie in the valleys and leave some there I 1 but don t let anybody know you said covach that Is to say be disguised as a poor man eo so that no f one may know from your tatters that you are the splendid spirit of salt the visitation of the clothed spirit this god made salt man the spirit of of salt must be in disguise giving aa as he reads the heart grimee grimes fairy tales hans chirstian ander son and our own beat bed time stor les are kneaded from the same dough and I 1 am sure ted Is not a garist from those sources FB salt man goes south meets people on virgin luver river salt man was on its way south jt t meet some people that was living along hia his way but it didn dian t stop tor for them it went down along the virgin river towards south some place on its iway to south he saw a old lady she was all by herself she was living in a little house made by little brush it was all fixed very nice ao so she couldn coulden t freeze when storm comes but she was poor and old and ragged by and by this human salt saw this house old lady all alone this old woman was cooking her dinner tabby daquay the sun was down it toward night anyway she was cooking her meal and it not very good meal at that and not taste very nice the human salt stop and waited until her food gets done where is the longfellow tor for this man teda recast worked into verse this theme la to a wonderful story FB the woman thought to herself I 1 wonder if it anybody have seen him this persona still she dida t know herself so her cooking was done and she said to him I 1 wish I 1 had some better food to give and some kind of stuff to make my food taste better you see how adroitly it is shown that the good eld old woman poor as she was shared her simple fare deprived herself for a guest guest the sacred greek word zenos by the gods the stranger and the poor are sent what to them Is given to jove Is lent and the gift to man 0 of SALT will come through this old heart beating in pulsations of hospitality for a ragged tagged wayfarer begging at her door the gods come to man in disguise happy he who rec their tread FB salt man stick his ills hand rand in mush and some of his ills tasting got leftt I 1 the man said I 1 will make it taste better it you want me to all I 1 have td to do ia Is put my hand in it the old woman said please don t put your hand in my pot you look like poor man not pretty and other thoughts ran thru the aged woman a mind but still he was her guest so she finished her plea I 1 don t want your hand to be put in my pot please don t he sat there for or while again ue ike the bureau of american ethnology fore ore she ate her mush she hobbled and director of the smithsonian in out to get something when she got out where she coul coulden couldn t see what his hand does the man stick his hand in the pot full of mush and some of his tasting got left in golly I 1 d give tour four million dollars it I 1 had written this thing FB and he quick got his hands out and got back where he was sitting so the old woman came back and start eating her meal mush and ehe she said to herself who made my mush taste lot bettera it must BE THIS MAN so human salt went out went on down south but to the old woman poor decrepit tor for on such the gods bestow their gifts had been given the knowledge of salt and ind it ia Is up to her to put her people next which ted will do FB juet just as soon as salt man was out of sight old woman hurried to her people she ran as fast as old joints could at last she get got to her peo pie and said there Is a ugly looking man went by my home he ile meet me there when I 1 was making my dinner and I 1 said something about no nice tast ing food to make him better meal and something to make it taste bet ter yet and he told me he could put his hand in it and make it taste bet ter I 1 told him you are very ugly and ind don t look nice to me and I 1 don t want your hand in my pot so I 1 went out and when I 1 came back I 1 tasted my food and it lot better so f thought I 1 come after you folks and tell you THAT MAN MUST BE SOME KIND OF TASTING FOOD and so salt got aspre spread id around she had some of the mush with her they all tasted the mush they said it sure la is tasting better they all said it would be better to kill that man and see what he Is then they all went out after him with their bows and arrows at last they found him going south so they went around him to his front around in front of him and waited tor for him to come by he came by and the men took a shot at him but they couldn coulden t kill him immor tal FB bui he couldn coulden t feel no aart every time they take a shot at him they break oft off PIECE OF SALT and took it back with them so they all thought he must be sent by covach to make our food taste better that Is the way salt Is spread over the world the end ted kanosh utah on the next page ted says dear sir how do you like my story I 1 think t very nice hope you enjoy it ted I 1 do indeed enjoy it I 1 think t Is li an exceptionally good story an honest tale speeds best being plainly told and yours is simply nicely arid and well told in all its na jve ive plainness without embellish ment I 1 sure like it and I 1 think folks will too this story dolled up and its worl words ut into choicest phraseology would bring applause anywhere ted la Is a past master in the art of story tell ing and tells me he has a repertoire aa as wide as who enter talked the sultan for a thousand and one ne nights I 1 thank you very kindly ted and later when I 1 can I 1 want more stor lea it la Is just the kind I 1 want thanks ted frank beckwith sr U lx alx i wo A k J |