Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-10-08
SEALS OF THE STATES.
/ Labor Generally Recognized IN
/ AmeRfcmn Coats oG-Axme.

ceeus TO illustrate as follows.
Maine has as her supporters i husband
man leaning on his scythe and sailor
resting on an anchor.
New Hampshire shows ship on the
stocks with American banners displayed.
and group Of busy shipwrights as yet
unconscious of the benefits OF protection.
Vermont places beneath her towering
pine tree three erect sheaves and a red
COW nobIer beast than any Of the lions,
grifins. bOaYs and bears that ramp and
roar through the forest Of European her
aldry.
Massachusetts, has a decidedly war
like coat-of-arms, with her belted and
moccasined Indian, and her dexter arm
clothed and grasping q broadsword, :"
and Rhode Islands sancher" has no ref
erence to maritime interests. Nor do
Connecticut's three vines, supported and
fruited, relate to vinticulturc, but, in
stead, to the three original plantations
of Hartford, Windsor, and Weathers-
field
New Yorks arms have no recognition
of labor or trade, if we except the two
vessels approaching each other on the
Hudson.
New Jersey, however, displays three
plows in an escutcheon, makes Ceres one
of the supporters, and takes as crest a
horses head.
Pennsylvania supporting horses are
of the rampant odd war-horse breed,
but her shield is charged with peaceful
emblems--a plow; on sea navy proper,
a ship under full sail; and stalk of
maize. This coat-of-arms was taken
chiefly from tho old seal of the City of
Philadeldhia adopted in 1901, which
had in three of its quarters balance,
wheat sheaf, and ship sailing upon an
ocean.
Delaware shows in one division Of her
azure shield a COW, and in the other a
shcaf of wheat and bundle of leaf to-
bacco. The crest is ship under full
sail. and the supporters are mariner
and hunter.
Maryland in adopting the arms of Lord
Baltimore. was so fortunate as to obtain
as supporters fisherman and plowman.
Virginia, on the reverse of her great
seal, which is nothing if not classical,
shows Ceres, with hen cornucopia in one
hand and an ear of wheat in the other
West Virginia has an encyclopedia
coat-of- arms. On the dexter side Of her
ivy-twined rock is farmer, clothed in
the traditional hunting shirt of the
mountain region, MS right arm resting
on the plow-handles, and his left sup
porting a woodman's ak, with, at his
feet, sheaf of wheat and corn-stalk.
On the sinister is q miner with pick ak
OH his shoulder, and barrels and Jumps
of mineral at his feet, while an anvil, on
which rests sledge-hammer, is partly
seen.
North Carolina has on her shield a
Ceres with the cornucopia in one hand
and in the other three wheat ears.
Georgia has always celebrated trade
and industry with elaborate enthusiasm.
When George IT, chartered the colony, In
1882, one face of the seal represented a
provident and laborious colony of silk
worms, sericulture being the special OBJ
iect of the new settlement. When it
became crown colony, in 1851, its
seal showed on one side the genius of
the colony presenting skein of silk to
the king. The convention of TIT
adopted seal wherein was shown IAN
elegant house and other buildings, with
sheep and cattle, q river running through
the same with ship under full sail''
"a description leaving not doubt as
to whether the river ran through the
elegant house. or the sheep. The pres
ent sea, adopted in 1898, bears the fol-
lowing elaborate devise: "a view of
the seashore, with ship bearing
the flag of the United States rid
ing at anchor near a wharf, re-
ceiving on board hogsheads of
tobacco and bales of cotton, EN-
blematic of the exports of the State !;
at small distance, q boat landing from
the interior of the State with hogsheads
ETC., on board, representing her internal
traffic; in the back part, man plowing,
and at small distance flock Of sheep
in different postures, shaded by -four
ishing tree the motto, Agriculture and
Commerce. Not bad coat-of-ar
for the thriving Southern commonwealth.
Florida places side wheeled steam
boat on the river in the middle ground
Of her coat-of-arms
Arkansas crowds the shield upon the
bosom Of her eagle with steamboat, q
beehive and plow, and shcaf Of wheat.
Tennessee places in one division of her
coat-of-arms pillow, wheat sheaf, and
stalk Of cotton, with the word, ssAg
riculture. The lower half occupied by
loaded barge, with the word, Com
merceo
Minnesota shows q farmer blowing,
his gun resting on a stump, while an
Indian recedes before him toward his
bright home IN the setting sun.
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