The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-14
State Nicknarnes
New York Tribune.)

New York Tribune.}
The popular names bestowed on the
states of the Union have had varied
origin. The reason for the sobriquet
Empire State bestowed on the one con-
tanning the most population and the
greatest wealth, with the metropolis
of the country and the most extensive
commerce of any seaport, Is apparent.
Like it's motto of excelsior" aiming
at higher achievements" the name of
Empire State has peculiar significance,
and the constant aim OF all her public
spirited citizens is to keep her in the
forefront.
OF widely different significance and
| origin Is the name of Nutmeg State"
applied TO the land of steady habits"
| II harks back to the days of the thrifty
progenitors of the present Yankees of
| Connecticut, whose number is slowly
yielding to the invasion of foreign inn
migrants in all parts of the farming
J territory, as we'll as of the few cities
/ of the last Of the New England states.
as they are commonly enumerated. The
! Yankee peddler. who devoted his en-
ergy to making wooden copies OF the
nutmcEs brought from the East Indies
| by the sailing vessels in the early years
( of the colony and palued them off Cn
! the uns,lspecting rural public, Was
much like the spice manufacturer OF to-
| day who grinds up coCoanut shells TO
/ adulterate pepper. nutmeg and Cinna-
mon when sold i'm the ground form,
| fully as much wooden nutmeg" IS con-
sumed in this way now as when the
| imitation spices were sold as original
I To the same period belonged the trick
/ of the Yankee who had several bushels
of wooden shoe pegs which were eN-
/ posed TO the rain and became useless
/ for their contemplated purpose. The
veracious historian asserts that the
owner sharpened the other ends and
then sold them for oats, thus putting
! adulterated food up TO horses. In these
days they would doubtless have been
manufactured into breakfast food
Keystone State.
The name given TO Pennsylvania Of
/ the Keystone State" vas derived from
! the fact that when the original thirteen
| states were arranged i'm the form of an
| arch, the one bearing Tie name of
/ the Quaker. William Penn, formed the
| keystone.
So too. the name of BAY State" was
applied to Massachusetts from the fact
\ that il was originally known as the
! Massachusetts Bay Colony. Or. Josiah
G.. Holland named one OF his works Of
| fiction The Bay Path" from the old
/ highway which led from the COnnecti-
cut valley TO the bay on which the
| Puritans built their capital city, taking
it's name from the old Boston in Eng
land.
OF the original states made out Of the
! thirteen colonies none has a more in
| taresting name of historical association
/ than the Old Dominion. The colony
| oa the James river named both its first
! town and the stream on which it stood
/ for the Teigring sovereign, James VI Of
| Scotland and James l of England, son
| of Mary. Queen of Scots. and the royal
/ pupil whom his tutor. George Buchan-
an. the most learned man Scotland ever
produced and whose picture adOrns the
cover Of every issue of BlackwoOd' 8
/ Magazine. soundly birched for INSIDE
meanors in the classroom. The colony
| received the name Virginia from the
| Virgin queen. whose foot was protected
| from the mud by the cloak which the
! gallant Sir Walter Raleigh laid down.
| The name Virginia was first a general
one for all the English settlements on
| this side of the ocean. Captain John
/ Smith, IN his History of Virginia"
which first appeared in 1929. had q map
! of the settlements of Virginia, includ-
! ing New England. a. well as the settle
ments further south The "Faerie
| Queen" was dedicated by Edmund
Spenser 80 Elizabeth Queen of Eng
| land, France and Ireland and Sovereign
Of the Dominion of Virginia" Up to
the time Of the revolution Virginia was
referred to In all official documents as
| The Colony and Dominion of Vir-
| ginia. Captain Srith also speaks in
his history of "old Virginia" and new
| Virginia" the latter being the New
| England colony.
| The Old Dominion Virginia refused
to recognize Oliver Cromwell and the
protectorate after Charles 1 was behead-
ed. and transferred it's allegiance TO
| Charles II, who was in exile on the con-
| tinent. Cromwell sent fleet to bring
| the insurgent province into subsection.
| but as soon as the death of the pro-
tector was made known the cavaliers
renewed their allegiance to Charles II
| and he was proclaimed in the colony
as King of Great Britain, Ireland and
Virginia before he assumed the crown
I'm London. In gratitude for the loyalty
shown. the king caused the arms OF
| Virginia to be quartered with those of
England. Ireland and Scotland as part
of the Old Dominion, and they thus APP
peared on coins struck by King Charles
| and his successors.
When. in civil war days. West Vir-
| ginia was cut off from the Old Dornin-
ion II was proposed to bestow the name
| of Kanawha on the new state. but the
tOS al 10 mold O..
! 70 the name of Virginia. even with the
prefix West. and now many of them
call the part of the territory that Sc
coded with the other southern states
Old Virginia 'I was BON in Ole Vir-
ginny," proudly said the aged negro
who served out liquid health at a min
| eral spring in West Virginia, visited be
the writer a few years ago. The pop
ular sobriquet for West Virginia Is the
Panhandle State. in allusion to the nor
ton OF the state which sticks up aIonc
the Ohio river between PENNSYLVANIA
and Ohio and contains the former cap
ital Wheeling. the largest city in the
state. The name Pan Handle is also
given to railroad traversing that ter.
ritory.
Green Mountain and Pine Tree.
From physical peculiarities other
states have derived their nickuames
The Green Mountain State is so names
from the range which diversifies lis
scenery and is only TRANSLATES, -.