The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-13

That was shocklngly unpleasant dil
covery which was made by q family
somewhere in Georgia, q few days ago
when it accidently trauspired that
one OF the young ladies had been chris
toned and called for years by the en-.
tirely Irrelevant aud excessively iuap
prupriate name OF wet Dog" True
the lnGian equivalent sounds much
moro musical, and TO the mind and ear
of the uniformed conveys no hint OF
its truO Significance, but the signih.
cance Is there, all tbs same, aud tho fact
remains that the aifactionAte
but misguided parents, In nam
ing thair daughter "Eufaula.n
| fixed upon her for life the opprnbrious
| epithat which wo have mentioned. IL
would have been bad enough, of course,
II IL had been proved that the term
moant wet hen, or wet
canary, or wet dove, or some
thing OF that kind, but wet dog, of all
birds and animals under the sun, is
simply ineXcusablo and unpardOnaDle
Think of what it involves to tho young
lady, and tD tho corrnlative young gsn-
lleman who Is most Interested la her self
and her virginia., chasto name. any
best beloved -Eutaula?p quotha.
"lhine own EufaulaW iorsooth. H. is
evident chat, ia the light of the horri-
bic truth that has boon flashed over
their minds, the entire Correlp1 ndeuco
OF the beautiful past-letters, notes. bill
l0tsdouX, sonnets aud all-with ali the
endeaEiug terms therein emb llmol,
must now be consigned TO the cruel
flames forever and all done over again,
which, however, may DO q oOmp9nsa-
ton within itself.
Evidences, of which this is the latest,
multiply daily, that the poetical Indian
OF the story-books, Is an unmitigatsd
fraud, having no counterpart on tue
plains, aud being really non.eNisting
anywhere outside tho pages of Cooper's
novels. Gen. Crook has demonstrated
that the bravest of the brave will even
work when no is paid TO do so, aud tina.
u dollar IL quite as much an object Of re-
gard with him as with white man,
rhero are hundreds of Commauches
who are now dancing down the corn.
rows of the west In frehgied efforts to
learn how 10 keep tho pillow In its an.
pointed furrow, and whose blood .curd.
ling war-whoops have given place 90
excavations and objurgutiOus levsled at
tho patient mules tu8t lead them In the
| iamy paths OF civilization, Hhe ardent
Apache lodges behind the corners OF his
% I'm In ambush for new lrid epgs IN.
stead OF haunting rocky deHles Ia eager
| expectation OF transporting omicraht
trains, and like the stern Sioux. ua-
| GENTLY suffers the pains OF blckachs
while toiling in the sun and pulino
| boot aud turuip tops for mild-Oyed kiug
instead OF lifting scalps from cory heado
IN the small hours between mid. tnht
and day. lt would surprise no one AZ
any limo To ~ tina Sitting Bull was
an applicant iOI the postmastarship of
his tIibo, or that Standing Bear and
Rowling Wolf were rivals for the posi-.
ton OF route agent on one OF tho old war
trails. Human nature is the same altar
all, everywhere, and you do not have 70
scratch a savage very deeply to find the
man.
II IL not that the savage OF old times
haa chHnged-we are only coming to
know him better. ChingachgOok and
Uncas and Hiawatha and Powhatan.
and all the rest Of them, were the same
as their descendants and representa-.
lives of to-day, only We LOOK az them
aIar on, through the cloudy, softening
atmosphere Of fiction aud of history
which Is but little better than fiction,
The noble red man ofto.day eats grass
hoppers, and seldom baths, and there
Is goot reason to believe that Red
jacket and King Philip were not in-
sensible TO the attractions of roast dog
AS an article of diet. The poetry with
which the race has been invested does
not pertain to them. Ii has lts origin
and end in the imagination of those
who have rhapsodized concerning them,
and the true, original savage was ever
aud remains a heather aud nothing
more--until he Is civilized,
In no particular, perhaps, Ia this fact
maze palmer than III respect of tho
names which these heathens conferred
upon themselves, aud have imposed
upon the places where they once dwelt,
but which now happily know thom no
more. First, as regards their own
names. We ind that the mellifluous,
msgniloquent aud polysyllabio titles of
to-day are transferable Into such nick
names AS Scar-Faced Charlie, HoleI i'm
his-Blanket ShacknsRty jim, Young
Nan. Airaid-of. iii ACCOMPLISHMENTS. One
Eyed Blapksnake, aud Man. Who
PAY His-Debts, what Confidence.
We ask, can be roposed In tbs claim that
corresponding titles In ancient times
meant Eagle-Eye, Heart-of-Stone, Tine
Great Warrior, Switt-Arrow, Boss. ,u-
his.Own-Wigwam, or other such CON
densed expressions OF the REQ )gni 10 n
0f savage heroic attributesS
IL Is no petter whom we look into the
origin and derivation OF names OF rivers
and places. Passing by such unpro.
aud outrageous cOmbins.
lions as Mayagnsdunid, Molechem-
kemumk, Mooscluimaguntic, nd Chin
IN o9gabamtOOk A hoiug honoala ua