The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, December 13, 1907, PART ONE Pages 1 to 8, Page SEVEN, Image 7
BATES A CANDIDATE.
Announces That He Has Consented
to Have His Name Placed in
Nomination.
Barnwell, Dee. 10.-When seen by
your correspondent today and asked
whether he would be a candidate for
the position of judge in the second
judicial circuit, Senator George H.
Bates said that he would not be a
candidate in the sense of making a
regular political campaign for the
position: that he had been urged by
a number of members of the bar l
from different sections of the state
to allow them to offer his name in
this connection and to put it before
the general assembly this winter;
that he had coneented to this and if
elected would accept and do his ut
most to discharge the duties of th1r
offie'e with -credit.
Senator Bates makes the fourth
candidate in the field f?' the posi
tion. Solicitor Davis and Col. Rob
ert Aldrich of the local bar have an
nounced themselves and Capt. Saw
yer of the Aiken bar has also decid
ed to enter the race.
LUCK IN BUYING ANTIQUES.
More Pitfalls Than Ever For the
Amateur Hunter in France.
Paris. November 21.-Did some of
you, in traveling through France last
summer pick up veritable art treas
ures in out of the way places, where
the duplicity of the dealer hath not
1tued. a, t:'ke them back to
America with you? Did you free;
yourselves from the professional an
tiquary's trickery and go exploring
on your' own account? Better look
again at your finds, any of you who
are not altogether experts.
The discussion growing out of the
notoriety a .'Wed by the church
rebber, Thon . of whose exploits
the cables have told, has brought to
light sundry incidents of antiquaries'
experiences among both the true and
the false examples of ancient art and
artisanship, for which the increas
ing number of amateur collectors and
the rivalry of great museums have
made so good a mai-ket. Some tales
would make 'the thrifty weep at bar
gains too soon let go. just as the
same exarmples of enticing opportun
ities arorse in others the enpidity
which profits through th2 exploits of
tevarious Thomases.
the s-n of an antiquarv. d.raws elo
nu-ant kooans 'AcOr hia f thers books
and memoranda. In 1830 his father,
already known as Pere X., as his
son is also ealled familiarly today,
kept~ a shop of antiquities and of
various art works, and among his
patrons was a savant of aoble family,
who liked to visit Pere X more often
( on a friendly basis ,than as a cus
tomer.
"For,'' he used to say, "your shop
is the shon of the thousand franes.''
"The thousand francs!'' exclaims
te present Pere X. "It is a phrase
worth remembering indeed.''
A thousand franes then was a
maximum price for a work of art,
appearine exorbitant. Today for a
thousand francs you can ''t find any
thing worth while.''
Pere X, the younger, became re
miniscent.
"I've known some collectors of a
very original life,'' he remarked.
One -was 'a provincial superintend
-entf of works, who devoted every
moment of his leisure -to nosing in the
old quarters of his city and among
houses where the poor lived, and he
succeeded in this way in buying
some objects of very rare character
at absurdly low prices.
'\"He was not versed in ardihaeo
O.ogy, but he had the eye. In our art
it is necessary to have the eye. It'
is a gift; one has it or one has it not,
it can scarcely be acquired.
"This supervisor of works came
eventually to Paris, at a venture
opened a store below Montmartre
nd in twenty years had amassed
salth and a notable collection also.
"Take Sauvageot. who left his
llection to the Louvre. where we all
mire it now. He was a clerk in the
:1 service, who used at nizht to
vthe violin i2' a concert hall here
Peris.
"H'e had only modest means 'o
chas the fine things which to-'
have their place in the National
enm. But then he had luck, as
he bought for a houndred
3s a statue, which is today valu
$9.000.
It listen to this story of Baron
1-and- not once has it been
ned here latterly during all
1k about Thomas's taking the
of Ambazae to Ei'gland!
1r. the world1 is losinl2 its
on Pichon came into posses
the sum of 10,000 francs of
a golden pyx of rare workmanship.
The gold in it alone would melt
dowg for 6,000 francs.
The pyx had been especially
made and presented by a pious bene
factor of the church to a Spanish
religious order, but with the condi
tion that the order never part with
it. However, the Order probably
had need of money. At any rate the
pyx was offered to the Louvre be
fore it eame to the notice of Baron
Piehon. And the Louvre spurned it !
"Well; after Baron Pichon bought
i;. it was sent to England, and later
woe-t to a London museum at a price
of 200,000 francs. Heirs of the ori
ginal donor tried to force Baron
Piehon by law to return the pyx to
the Spanish Order, but the Baron
won the case.
"One day I met on the Boulevard
one of my friends, who is part of the
administration of our fine arts de
partment, and I asked hina if it was
true that the pyx had been offered to
the Louvre. He looked foolish and
said yes.
"'Heah! You deserve to be flog
ged!' I cried at him.''
'But from those accounts of the
true works of art which traverse the
market of the antiquaries and of the
gentlemen dealers, the talk passes to
the forgeries of all kinds which not
only stuff the collections of the
amateurs, but find their way into the
great museums and even dot the mod
est .acquisition of the occasional buy
ei.
There are, as is well known, not on
ly the great houses. where reproduc
tions are openly made, but hidden
chambers, where the fabrication of
false antiques is industriously car
ried on, and whence the resultant
work is carried surreptitiously and
planted for the future education of
the innocent as well as the libeial re
numeration of the workman.
An interesting example of the care
and pains which these quiet swindl
ers take to land their fabrications
where generous prices are likely to
reward their cleverness and their in
nenuity is told by Pere X. One of
Pere X's friends, on whom he was
calling one recent evening, asked the
antiquary to look at some veritable
finds which the host was most proud
to display.
The finds were of copper and of
earved wood, excellently worked.
They had an ancient aspect, but they
were, as Pere X promptly told his
friend, altogether modern. The host
declared it impossible, until Pere X
proved it to him.
Heart-broken, he then exclaimed:
"Why, I found those in Brittany, in
the homes of peasants and others,
from whom I bought them myself,
and the owners were eherishing them
as having been in their families many
er-es through generations.''
PeeX and the saddened, but wis
er, Paris amateur made an investiga
tion. They found that these false
antiques were.being made by the doz
en in a smal1 room, near the Place
de la Nation, here in Paris, and that
the swindlers then distributed them
over those regions of Brittany, where
the wealthy and fashionable Paris
ians go during the summers.
The false antiques were judicious
ly scattered among t:he homes of the
natives, 'who were promised, and
paid, you may be sure, liberal com
missions on the high prices they were
informed would readily be paid for
these objects by the moneyed visitors
of the summer time. The natives
soon found this a lucrative industry,
which involved little labor, and were
glad to further it; natives, whose
'home lands are invaded in the sum
mer by urbanites, being much the
same the world over and looking up
on the summer visitor chiefly as good
to be plucked.
XMA8 HOLIDAY RATF.S.
Account Xmas. holidays the South
ern Railway announces special 'ex
eursion rates of on-e and one-third
first-class oneway fare plus 25 cents
for the round-trip to all points south
of the Ohio and Potomac and east
of the Mississippi river, including
Washinton. D. C.. and C'ineinnati.
Tickets will be c.n ,sale December
20th to 25th, inclusive; December
30th to 31st, 1907, and January 1st.
190, with limit good to leave des
tination not later than midnight
January 6th,. 1908.
Apply to the nearest agent of the
Srothern R.ailway or address J. C.
Lusk, Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, S. C.
January a Home Sewing Number.
When Christmas is safely out of
the way for another eleven months,
every woman is justified in turning
her attention to her own needs, and
specially to t1l practical side of her
cwn wardrobe. January is the best
month for home sewing and especial
1. appropriate to the white month is
the making of underwear. Every wo
man likes to k:nw the latest innova
tions in dainty lingerie, and she will
find a great deal of useful informa
tion in our regi-uar fashion article
which is devoted entirely to this sub
ject this month. A new and practi
cal device for the sewing-corner is
illustrated and described, and there
are many helpful suggestions for the
hobe seamstress. The needlework de
partment offers many pretty novel
ties, and the glove question as well
as good taste in handkerchiefs is al
so discussed. ''Dressing a Baby Doll"
will help many a reader in time for
Christmas, as the January maga
zine reaehies you ten days before
the great festival.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that the un
-dersigned will make a final settle
ment of the estate of W. B. Oxner,
deeeased, before the probate judge,
at Newberry. on the 28th day of De
eember, 1907, at 11 o'-elock a. in.,
and will immediately thereafter ap- .
ply for letters dismissory as such
-executor. All parties having claims 1
against the estate will send them,
duly attested, to myself, or my attor
neys, Messrs. Blease & Dominick, on
or before said. date. All parties in
debted to the estate will make pay
ment in like manner.
Annie P. Oxner,
Executrix estate of W. B. Oxner,
deceased.
Having decided I
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