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THE WORLD’S EAIRS
to find a market in the country of the
exhibition, and it should be a peculiar
aim of tbe Commissioners to encourage
the manufaeturers of such goods to
exhibit.
It is for tbe Commission to watch that
neither the general interests of the nation
be sacrificed to the individual interests
of the exhibitors, nor the reverse. Ex-
hibitors will best serve both their own and
the national interests, by sending goods
of current manufacture and sale, but of
careful workmanship, and which are
marked with tbe common price of sale at
the place of manufacture. Even the most
successful exhibitors find, however, that
the advantages to be obtained by an Ex
hibition in increase of business rarely ap-
pear at once, but require two or three
years to gradually establish themselves.
It has long been the usage at Agricul
tural Shows and other Special Exhibitions
to give exhibitors immediate encourage-
ment by buying up their goods for a lot-
tery, to be held at the closing of the exhi
bition. At Paris this has now been tried
for the first time at a Universal Exhibi
tion; shonldtheattempt prove satisfactory,
judicious lottery purchases can un-
doubtedly be made oneif the most etfective
means of attracting desirable exhibitors to