The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-04-23

into one stock?" His audience under
stood without difficulty this Simple yet
striking Illustration, to the ineXpress-
IDLE delight of St Patrick. From that
day the shamrock became the emblem
of Ireland.
France has for it's national emblem
! the lily called the "flower-de-luce"-in
French fleur-de-lis. The origin OF this
emblem, whether representing a lily
or the head of javelin, has been dis
puted. Certain it is, however, that the
figure was quite early adopted by the
kings of France; and, though of royal
significance, it is popularity used by
the French people, to the exclusion of
imperial or republican insignia. Bona
parte, when crowned as emperor, re-
placed the lily by the bee, but it never
took the popular fancy, Notwithstanding
its historical associations with their
greatest emperor, Charlemagne. Re
publican France never adopted any en-
blem except it's tri-color flag and its
liberty cap.
America has no national emblem, al
though several of the states have their
popular insignia. Maine, for instance,
is the pine Tree state and on its
public seal is the effigy of pine tree
Famous for it's lumber, for it's dense
and extensive forests of this timber,
1t has been well chosen. South Car
Dina is called the "Palmetth state"
from the tree which abounds so extern
sively there. Its seal, too, has a fig
ure of this tree upon it. Ohio is the
Buckeye state" so called from the
buckeye, or horse-chestnut, tree, once
so common and so useful to TIE pio-
neers in early times.
Several of the older states are known
" nh
Connecticut has no fewer than four:
Freestone state, Blue Law state, Land
of Steady Habits, and Wooden Nutmeg
state. Virginia has three: Mother of
States. Mother of Presidents, and Old
Dominion. Kentucky, besides sharing
with Arkansas and California the cpl
tibet, Bear state, enjoys undivided pos
session of Corn-cracker state and Dark
and Bloody Ground.
Thirteen states have double nick
names, as follows: Massachusetts,, Bay
state and Old Colony; New York, En-
pire state and Excelsior state; Maine,
Lumber state and Pine Tree state; Del
aware, Blue Hen state and Diamond
state; Mississippi, Bayou state and
Mudcat state; Illinois, Prairie state and
Sucker state; Georgia, Cracker state
and Empire State of the South; Kan
sas, Garden state and SQuatter state;
Nevada Silver state and Sage Hen
state; Minnesota, Gopher state and
New England of the West; Florida,
Gulf state and Peninsula state; Mich
igan, Lake state and Wolverine state;
and, finally, North Carolina, Old North
state and Turpentine state.
Eighteen of our commemorative are
designated by a single epithet: Wis
consin, Badger state; Ohio, Buckeye
state; Missouri, Bullion state; Tennes-
see, Big Bend state; Colorado, Centen
nal state; California, Golden state; New
Hampshire, Granite state; Vermont,
Green Mountain state; Iowa, Hawkeye
state; Indiana, Hoosier state; Penn
sylvania, Keystone state; Rhode Is
land, Little Rhody: Texas, Lone Star
state; Maryland, Old Line state; Ore
gone Webfoot state; Louisiana, Peli-
can state; West Virginia. Panhandle
state, and South Carolina, Palmetto
state.
Not all the foregoing names, possibly,
are given by school Biographies; but
they have all been used by good writers
and speakers so frequently that one is
apt to meet with them in histories,
biographies speeches, and story books
and, accordingly, it is well for patriotic
young folk to know their application
Uncle Edward in Ave Maria.