El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-08

bottle forty cash :. Also our Paragon
Powder, the sole cure for sores caused
by the binding Sixty cash a bottle,
of the Great Good Luck, in Precious
and Moral street. All others are imi-
tations'
The same paper advertised pills for
women and pills for men. 1t also an
nouRced the virtues of hair restorers,
and drugs certain TO make Chinese pig
tails grow.
One advertisement related to a run
away wife, and another. to a female
slave for the return of whom a good
reward was offered.
Nearly all these dailies publish car
toons. This is especially so of the
papers of Picking. The change in dy-
nasty, the opium evil and the new
army are graphically pictured. Papers
of that character are popular and they
are rapidly increasing in number and
circulation The daily journals now
contain the news of the court and are
full of interesting gossip about the
prince regent. the empress dowager
and the highest officials
Governments Press Regulations.
Within the past few months the i'm
perial government has been rather
strict as to the character OF matter go
ing into the newspapers. Most Of the
Poking papers must be submitted to
the censors, and bulletin of press
regulations has been iseued. which
provides how newspapers may be es-
tablished, and how they must be car
rled on This bulletin lies before me
as / write 1t provides that twenty
days before newspaper is established
its name and policy and the names of
the publishers. editors an dprinters,
must be sent to the officials; and, ar the
same time, a security amounting to
$500 must be filed Herewith. All ed
itors. publishers and printers must be
OF sane mind. and over twenty years
of age They must never have been
punished or imprisoned. and must be
in good standing. All daily papers must
be submitted to the local censors be-
fore midnight Of the day previous to
their issue; and all corrections of mis-
statements must be in the following
issue
There are many restrictions as to
the character of the news TO be pub
lshed- The reports OF the proceedings
OF closed trials are prohibited, and all
secret DEGREES must be held back until
they are officially issued. The articles
provide against the publication of any
thing which is likely to destroy the
l.
the standard Of the living of the people.
The fines for the various offences are
fixed; and for some Imprisonment not
exceeding six months, is the penalty.
All papers may be suspended at the
VIII OF the government, and all per-
sons signing articles which are pub
lished. shall be liable in the same way
as the editors. Altogether the regula-
tons are strict. But in a fast chang
ing country. such as this now is, they
are almost a necessity.
The Peking Gazette.
The old Peking Gazette has been
modified. II is now issued in a diff
ferent form, but it comes out regularly
and has wide circulation all over the
empire. This is the oldest journal in
the world. 1t was being read by the
Chinese centuries before America was
discovered, and it had been in existence
over 500 years when the Frankfort Ga
zette, the first daily newspaper of our
civilization. began its publication in
1915.
Until recently the Peking Gazette
was set up from movable type made OF
wood, and printed on double pages of
about the size and shape of the old
fashioned patent drug store almanacs.
1t then contained, as ii does now, Inc
imperial DEGREES, and gave the official
news of Picking. It recorded the times
when the emperor went out to sacrifice
at the Temple of Heaven. and when his |
imperial majesty prayed for snow or
rain, or started the spring blowing 1t |
gave the official reports from the |
provinces; and the sentences of slicing
to death and other punishments, which |
were SO common until the new regime ]
came in