nebraska, the thirty-seventh state, was admitted march 1, 1867. the name signifies "water valley." colorado, the centennial state, was the thirty-eighth. she was admitted july 1, 1876. six other states have been since admitted when the political sign was right. still, they have not always stuck by the party admitting them to the union. this is the kind of ingratitude which sometimes leads to the reformation of politicians supposed to have been dead in sin.