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

fed. 1t is now issued in a different form,
but it comes out regularly and has a
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 Gazette, the first daily
newspaper of our civilization, began Its
publication in 1915.
Until recently the Pekin Gazette was
set up from movable type made of wood,
and printed on double pages of about the
size and shape of the old-fashoned pat
ent drug store almanacs- 1t then con-
tained as It ! oes icw The Inn erial de-
crees, and gave the official news of Pc
kin. 1t recorded the times when the EN-
peror went out to sacrifice at the Tenn
pie 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 slcing to death and 9TH
er punishments, which were so common
until the new regime came in.
The Pekin Gazette of today is largely
devoted to the modern movements now
going on over China. 1t contains memo
rails relating to the schools and the es-
adjustment of constitutional government.
1t is full of edlcts regarding the opium
evil and the importation of morphine; and
it has much to say about railways. and
foreign loans 1t contains now and then
a paragraph concerning the Emperor
| and the Empress dowager, as well as
some of the doinys of tine prince regent
and his cabinet officials. 1t is more In
teresting than were the issues Of the
past, although it is stald and steady and
lacks the gossip of the new Chinese
dailies.
A Womans Daily.
The only woman's daily newspaper pub
| lisl1ed in Asia, if not in the world, is is
sued by a woman in Pekin. It's editor is
a Chinese girl belonging to a well-to-do
family. Her paper is known as the Pc
kin Woman's Journal 1t is published in
an attractive form and is written in class
ic Chinese. 1t is largely devoted to edu-
cational matters, and especially to the adj
vancement of woman. 1t advocates the
anti-footbinding movement. supports the
anti-opium crusade, and. in general, is
for woman's rights from a Chinese stand
point
Foreign Newspapers.
There are now foreign papers published
at nearly all of the ports of this country
There are a half dozen or more here at
Shanghai. The North China Daily News
and the Shanghai Times come out every
morning, and the Mercury and Gazette
every evening. The French have a daily
known as L'Echo de Chine. and the Ger
mans have one, the Ostasiatishe Lloyd.
Shanghai has four foreign weeklies. Tien-
tsn has several daiies, including the Pc
kin and Tientsin Gazette, and so has
Hongkong including the Honkong Press,
the China Mail and the Hongkong Tele-
graph There are papers published in the
, English language at Annoy, Foochow and
Hankow, and there is German paper
published at Tientsin in Shantung. The
Japanese have several papers in China.
and there are Portuguese journals in
Macao and Hongkong
All of these papers cater to the foreign
population. They are mostly blanket
sheets OF the style which we used to nave
and they sell on the average at cents
per copy. AS far as advertising is con-
cerned they are well supported and most
of them are run at profit.
Chinese Papers Abroad.
There are quite a number of chinese