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Rambling Notes. I (BY "VIGILANT.") BAZAARS! Much, has been said from time to time by clerical and lay speakers, attacking and defend. ing the righteousness of bazaars as :mea.nis for the raising of funds wherewith to liquidate debts upon churches and chapels. As in many other like schemes, so with money-raising bazaars, there are divers opinions as to the appropriate- ness of the mode of "raising the wind." Some good people express a holy horror of them, whilst others see no harm in the raffle and the draw. Others state that bazaars 'are only cloaked method,s of fleecing those who are not invulnerable to the plausible appeals of the numberless vendors that throng the bazaar rooms, and immediately succumb to the plead. ings of the vendor and pay a price for an article that is just thrice or more times its value. What- ever view one takes of the morality of the under- takings, it is a fact everyone who attends a bazaar ought to know that high prices are ex- pected of the visitor, and indeed the manner in which the charming sellers fostertheir art with naive pleadings is one of the most valuable as.

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