The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-09

| told that its advertising is steadily in
! creasing and that the Chinese are begin
| ming to appreciate the value of news
papers for selling goods. There are many
| Chinese patent medicines. and such adj
| vertisements may be seen in every jour
| nal.
Patent Medicines for Bound Feet.
| In one of the interior papers of a few
| days ago I saw medicine for bound feet
advertised. 1t was displayed with a
| scare head and with faces sad and joy
| full, labeled, Before and after taking
| The translation reads:
Our Lily Print Powder has been sold
| for many years and it is miraculous in
| its effects. BY its use the foot can be
| bound tight without painfully swelling.
and yet can be easily brought to mar
row point. Price per bottle forty cash.
, Also our Paragon Powder, the sole cure
. for sores caused by the binding. Sixty
cash bottle. Sold only at the drug
store at the sign of Great Good Luck, in
Precious and Moral street. All others
are limitations
The same paper advertised pills for
| women and pills for men. 1t also an
| nounced the virtues of hair restorers. and
drugs certain to make Chinese pigtails
| grow.
One advertisement related to a runa-
| way 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 Pekin. The change in dynasty, the
opium evil and the new army are graph
! ically pictured. Papers of that charac-
| ter are popular, and they are rapidly in
creasing in number and circulation. The
daily journals now contain the news OF
! the court, and are full of interesting gos-
sip about the prince regent, the empress
dowager and the highest officials
Government Press Regulations.
Within the past few months the inn
peral government has been rather
strict as to the character of matter going
| into the newspapers. Most of the Pc
kin papers must be submitted to the CEN
sors, and a bulletin of press regula IS
has been issued, which provides now
| newspapers may be established and how
| they must be carried on. This bulletin
| lies before me as l write. 1t provides
| that 20 days before newspaper is es-
tablished its name and policy. and the
names OF the publishers editors and
printers, must be sent to the officials;
and at the same time security amount
| ing to $500 must be filed Herewith. All
editors, publishers and printers must be
of sane mind and over 20 years of age.
They must have never been punished or
imprisoned and must be in good standing.
All daily papers must be submitted to the
local censors before midnight of the day
previous to their issue; and all correc
tions of misstatements must be in the
following issue.
There are many restrictions as to the
character of the news to be published.
The reports of the proceedings Of closed
trials are prohibited, and all secret de-
crees must be held back until they are
officially issued. The articles provide
against the publication of anything
which is likely to destroy the stability
Of the government, or to lower the stand
ards of the living of the people. The
fines for the various offenses are fixed:
and for some imprisonment not exceed
ing six months, is the penalty. All pa
pers may be suspended at the will of the
government, and all persons signing ar
ticles which are published shall be liable
in the same way as the editors. Alto
gether the regulations are strict, but in
fast changing country, such as this
now is, they are almost a necessity.
The Pekin Gazette.
The old Pekin Gazette has been modi-