The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-03-24
STATE MECHANICS.
Why Peaceful Citizens are Called
"TadpOles." "Bugeaters,"
and Other Things.

he said:
IL pray that heaven may bestow
its choicest blessings on your city;
that the devastation of war in which
you found it may soon be without a
trace: that well-regulated and ben
efcial commerce may enrich your
citizens, and that your State at
present that seat of empire may
set such examples of wisdom as shall
have tendency to strengthen the
Union"
And from that day to this New
York has been known as the Empire
State.
Back in early days before America
as "A nation began to make history,
somebody wrote a romance and call
ed it Las Sergas de Esplanadian,'
and somebody else published it in
1910. In this tale beautiful pagan
queen. called Calafin, living in a
kingdom called California, furnished
an army of Amazonians to Esplana-
dian, Emperor of the Greeks. to and
in defending Constantinople against
Eastern infidels. This land of the
pagan queen was filled with gold.
Cortez. the explorer of later date.
had read and beer impressed by this
tale. When he sat out upon his eX-
dition of adventure his mind was
thrilled at the thought of new riches
he was to acquire, and thus he called
the land which he discovered on the
Pacific Coast California. From that
day to this it has been known at the
Golden" state, and its people have
been nicknamed gold hunters.
1t is an interesting matter for in
vestigation, this of how the States of
the Union came to be called what
they are called to-day, the manneri
which they acquired their various
nicknames, and why their respective
citizens are characterized by the
more or less odious epithets that
cling to them. In other words, why
are North Carolinians called Tar
Heels" citizens of Colorado called
"Rovers," Indianians "Hoosiers" or
Missourians "Pukes?'
1t is recalling facts in history to
answer. In the first place, most of
the States which from this Union
took their names originally from the
stream or mountain that formed a
conspicuous feature of the territory
and these had been previously NAM
ed by these Indians.
The State Of Colorado was named
for the river. The word means
red" As general thing, Colora-
do streams are clear limped and re-
fleet the blue of the heavens and ma
lures green. but when mountain
storms arise there is rolled through
these disturbed waters quantities
of red sand. Hence the name.
Colorado was admitted into the
Union heyear of the Centennial, and
hence its namesake, the "Centen-
NAL State" Its people are called
,Royers," an epithetic that was call
into being by the Pixies Peak gold
fever.
To Missouri, named for the river
the indians called Big Mussky,'
and her people is attached the repre-
hensible nickname of "Puke." This
dates back to 1897, the time when
the Galena lead mines where draw
ing people from all over the country.
SO many of these came from Mis-
souri, that other Missourians who had
gone on before remarked that the
state had taken a sudden "puke."
Several years previous of this time
there had been a big exodus from
these same mines that had given
rise to the nick names of the citizens
of Illinois, or Tribe Of Men, as the
Indian original of the name signifies.
A large party while boarding the
steamer at the Galena wharf was
asked, where We going?' TO
hum," was the reply. Well was
the reioinder of the old miner, We
put me in mind of suckers. They
do go up the river in the spring,
shawn and all return down again in