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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. 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