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never regrets that his ancestor among the Puritans of Xew England 

 used coat armor and was styled gentleman. Still if he pastes the old 

 arms in all his books, say a thousand or two, and has them stamped on 



no further back than 1776, when a certain painter of Boston was turn- 

 same city and of Xew York (and perhaps Albany also) who furnished 

 scores of these arms daintily painted after the blazonry of the English 

 books. These heraldic painters never fail to find arms, or if the name 

 of the applicant should not be found in Burke's general armory, they 

 have only to issue them of their own fabrication. Price $10. But 

 some people search for themselves. They assume that if any one of 

 their name in the " heraldry book" is credited with a coat of arms, it 

 belongs to the family in the broadest sense, and that every one through- 

 out the world bearing the name is entitled to use it. It has also been 

 noticed that when the American college of heraldry was applied to for 

 arms and a family, the family was as sure to be found as the arms, and 

 the connection generally reaches high up among the nobility. There 

 is therefore no good ground for complaint of those who choose to use 

 their family arms when everybody can get one so easily or can even 

 fabricate one for himself, hang it up in the parlor and say nothing, 

 and the next generation will never know the difference. 



Arms IN the Capitol 

 In the center of the New Capitol now in process of erection is 

 a large open court placed there to give light to the surrounding 



on the 1 court and that are in the story above the chambers of 

 the Senate and Assembly are sculptured the arms of six families 

 that have become more or less distinguished in the history of the 

 State. The vertical length of these arms as sculptured is about 

 four feet, and as they are placed so high from any possible point of 

 observation this is none too large to enable one to distinguish their 

 several devices. It may be difficult to make on stone such a carving 

 a- will indicate the color or tincture of the various objects employed 



