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Show .. . 1 the esr of common smi nowaday is that raised In Kuri over the puri'hie by Americans of old world art tfasures. One might gather, from sll th tmtbub. that we pilfer Ihcue objects of art as yd some fashionable people do souvenirs from the tables of their hotel. Th French first, now the Kngllsh. are beating beat-ing their breasts ami calling for a thunderbolt thun-derbolt to strike dh these impious invaders in-vaders who bill a bit higher than the collectors col-lectors over there csre to go. These laments, however, are not new. When th Venetians attempted to corner the beauties of the world in thlr Island city no doubt the nations of that da v. along the Mediterranean, lifted an out-t out-t rv over the vulgar, despoiling merchants of the Adriatic. The Greeks, the Egyptians, Egyp-tians, the Carthaginians, probably forgave for-gave the Romans for their abuse of th" firebrand and the aword far easier than they did their stripping of temples rich in sculpture and carvings. War was a poor war which did not bring priceless Ux'J home to the Imperial city. Cleveland Leader. l BUYING OLD WORLD ART. One of the silliest crlea jarring upon |