Show northern cli china afis N many 7 FAIM northern no ith china is the country of fairs in any given district there is a constant succession I 1 of largo large gatherings at which it is not uncommon for as many as 10 persons to bo be congregated tile the fairs are sometimes called the poor mans market marke V for the tha display ot of secondhand hand clothing which the owners wish to dispose PO se of at eechou and at another point on the grand canal there are annual fairs held from the beginning of the twelfth month to the fifteen fifteenth tl day of tho same month at which there is a great display of foreign go goods especially woolens sold at cheaper rates than at other times this is called gram grain fleet and is one of the products of the I 1 vici vicious ous system of grain taxes about vessels are am annually employed I 1 for transporting the shantung grain tax to Tung Tunge chow how near peking and upon their return these ve sels bring large quantities of from ertsin en tsin which are sold goote at the fairs faim while some of tho fairs al areher hela at tunes rigidly fixed and varied most of them are never wholly im bertain as to time worth north china herald |