The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12

picture of man falling from tree
 the supposition being that he Exclaimed
 I T slip" In a window of the chapel
 at Eullingstone. Kent, the seat of sil
 F. H. Dyke, Bart. may be- seen tne
 armorial bearings of Sir John Pecns
 which consists of two peach trees bear
 ing fruit Upon each peach is i'm printed an old English E. the whole be- I ing surrounded by a wreath.
 | According to some authorities the 'lys" in the royal arms of France are a play on the name of Louis. ancientiy spelt Loys. The arms of Spain exhibit, quarterly. a castle and a lion. palpAbie | pun upon the united provinces of Cas- | tile and Leon. Birds and animals ng- ure in numerous coats-of-arms where the name of the bearer can be so in- dicated, and make an interesting study. The house of Pelham, for example. dfs- plays three pelicans upon its coat-of- arms, and their crest Is a peacock The Bacon family escutcheon dipicted boar, and the Lambs. three lambs. Per haps one of the best of the hundreds in this category Is that of the Wyiies
 which bears a fox. meaning willy. Count rIortc of Spain has a sunfiower upon his shield. and De1sie of Scotland.
 daisies. The coat-of-arms of Miles standish of New York Is purely play upon the name and consists of three standing dishes. The crest Is an owl
 with a rat in it's talons. William Finer wheelock of Morrfstown. New Jersey. displays on his shield three of Philadelphia, give another example of the simpler heraidry in three cart wheels.
 Even hotel may have it's coat-of- arms. The Nyellow aster, as Is well known, is the emblem of the Astor family and the architects have display ed 1t most skilfully in the Hotel Astor in New York Throughout the mag niffcent, seventmillion- dollar structure it is used over and over again in the elaborate decorative designs. with ex- celient artistic effect. whether the guest of the house goes to the sumptu- ous roof gardens, to the banquet rooms. the Indian room in the basement or to any other part of the hotel his eye Is constantly attracted by the flower that symboifzes the distinguished American family, whose name has been given to the hosteIry. The Hotel Cecil in Lon don, the temporary home of so many Americans. instead of simple flower or crest, bears on its fetterheads the elaborate and complicated coat-of-arns of the Cecils, the family name of the Marquis of Salisbury.
 Taste for heraldic lore is beyond question growing in this country. Even railroads, as we'll as hotels, have their symbolic devices. If a great deal of Taking is being done. that Is nothing new under the sun. woman oted | in England not long ago who had de- voted a whole lifetime to unmasking false claims in heraldry. Her investf- cations proved that intruders and forg- | CTS were far more common in the Mid- de Ages than they have ever been In modern times, and that in almost count less cases their pretensions finally were accepted. There are British nobies to- day, who are descended from ricn burshers of the twelfth. thirteenth and fourteenth centuries who bought their armorial trappings as unbiushingly as the American new-rfch buys his. IL was to dispute the claims of pretenders that the Herald's Coilege--which stfii | exists-was started in 14S3 by King Richard III. Most of the mischief had already been done and fruitful hield of controversy lay open to the authorities of the College--a field which has been cultivated with great assduity for more than four centuries.
 If it is objected that the use of family | svmbols-such as the Astor's yellow aster-is undemocratic the historian
 moves forward to remind us that Washington, Jay. Livingston, John
 Adams. and q lot of other Revolution ary heroes were addicted to the crest
 habit. There is, furthermore. a tradi- tion that Cromwell. inveterate hater of kings. was having his own pedigree
 searched for titled ancestors when
 death cut him short.