Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1910, Page 22

NUARY THE ewspapers Beginning to Play Important Part in Public Life in China OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JA 9, 1910. A i = £ Title page of a Paking 1llustrated d;il)' with Opium Cartoon beneath the newspapers. Most of the Peking pa- pers must be submitted to the censo and a bulletin of press regulations has been {ssued, which provides how news- papers may be established, and how they must be carrfed on. This bulletin lies be- fore me as I write. It provides that twenty days before a newspaper is e tablished its name and policy, and t In a GOmPOAil’\‘g newspapers for selling goods. There are many Chinese patent medicines, and such advertisements may be seen in every Journal. is thinner and better than ours. oo 7 Hh et 3 This s necessarily 0, as many * .._—q_— P -~ of the characters are black, Gattoon, from Ghinese Papet. and they hold Ink like a sponge. ., : The advertisers often want Ohina now looks at the world through the right end of the glage R white letters on a blaak back- ground and the paper must be good or the ink will show Patent Medicines for Bouna Feet. In one of the Interior papers of a few days ago I saw medicine for bound feet \ (Copyright, 1916, by Frank G. Carpenter ) HANGHAL 1900.—(Speciul Corre- spondence of The Bee.)—China is now looking at the world through the ght end of the opera glass. Its four hundred millions have their almond eyes 9 wud It wants something yellow to sur up Its blood. Moreover, it is finding that something in the new newspapers, whieh are now springing up all over the empire. Within the last three or four years about 40 perlodicals have been established, “nd half that number of dallies are now coming out In the different citles. There is & 'yellow journal on the borders of Tibet; newspaper reporters are interviewing the statesmen In Peking; and the native editors are demanding a boycott against forelgn goods down in Canton. There are already (wenty-one dailles in the Chine: capital, and eight here in Shanghal. Five baye been started ‘v Hongkong; and more In Canton and otrers of the provinclal capi- tal These journals represent overy shade of opinion, and not a few of them are sen- sational. Some are ardent supporters of the Imperial government, and others are criticising )t. Some boeom certain local issues, whiie othe denounce them. The public officlals are beginning to wake up 10 the power of the newspaper, and not & few of them are starting journals to for- ward thelr views, Here in Shanghal there are altogether about 100 perlodicals. These inelude month- lies, weekiles and dailies, the latter being Agong the most important in China. pipers are published in the forelgn section of the elty, and are therefore free from government inspection, This allows their editors more latitude of expression than is permitted to the papers in the native towns, and the Shanghal papers therefore go out 10 all parts of Ching i In a Chinese Newspaper Office. 1 spent some time going through the es- tablishment of the most lmportunt of these papers. It is known the Sin Wan Pao, and has about the largest circulation of wny newspaper in the empire. It belongs to a limited liabllity company, made up largely of Chinese, but most of the stock is owned by an America, Dr. John C, Ferg- uson, who is also proprietor of the Shans: hal Times. It was with Dr. Ferguson that 1 went through the offices. The Sin Wan Poa is situated ol what might be called the Fleet street of China. This is a part of the Shantung road, which is lined with newspaper offices, and lles in the heart of forelgn Shanghal, with big business build- ings on either side. The most of the papers, however, are housed In low, dark, (li-lighted structures, the offices being reached by narrow stairs. 1 was especlally Interested in the sleeping accommodations put up for the composi- tors and editors. It will seem strange to our newspaper men that the employes of Chinese dallles should be “slept and eaten.” Their wages always Include board and lodging. But the meals cost but a few cents each per day, and the lodging is not @8 good as the steerage accommodations of an Atantie steamer. For instance, in one Journalistic bullding I found ten men sleep- ing In a bedroom not over twelve feet square. They lay one above the other in bunks bullt around the walls, and the only private property 1 could see was the boxes in which the men store thelr clothes. Not only the compositors and reporters, but some of the editors sieep on the premises in this way., They are always on hand and there is no troubi¢ in getting out an extra at any hour of the might. Wages of Newspaper M As 1 went through \ne esiablishument I asked as to the wages. They are exceed- ingly low. Compositors are paid by the month. They each receive from 82 to § for thirty days pf hard work, there being no rest on Sundays. The men are the apprentices—boys who have had a slight education and are learning to set type. Bd- itorial writers are fairly well paid, some recelving as high as $3 & month, while re- porters get 2 cents and upward/ per day. Bome space work is done, and correspond- ents are pald for what they send in, ac- cording to the valuation of the editor. The Stn Wan Pao has in all about 300 corres- pondents who send In letters and telegram: ‘They represent every section of the Chi- nese empire, and especially the large citles and the provinoial capitals. The paper gets the news of the world by cables through the Reuter Assoclated Press. Much of its correspondence Is sent in ol approval, and not & few of the writers are paid small salaries with bonuses for extra work. oa B Printers’ Unton, 1 found many queer things in the man- agement of this newspaper office. In the first place, the printers are not hired indi- vidually. A contract is made with the foreman, who sets up the paper at so much per day and employs his own as- sistants. In this he has to conform to the printers’ unlon, for everything in Chins 1s done by gullds and labor or- ganizations. The employbrs have also o . union, and so have the newsdealers. The have to pay the latter gulld copy of their clreula- push their sales not The latest gulld s that of the newspaper owners. They have combined together not tv cul prices and to defend themselves from the printers and others. % The Sin Wan Pao has a circulation of about 20,000, but this is equal to more than 100,000 in the United States, because every copy of a Chinese newspaper Is sold over and over again. It first goes to the rich, who use it for the morning. In the after- noon the boys call for it and eell it again. In the morning it is worth 14 cash, or about one-half cent American. [n the afternoon it will bring a quarter of a cent and the next day perhape half that. Every copy s supposed to reach five different families. 80 that, as far as the advertise- ments are concerned, it touches five times as many people as a United States journal. But come with me into the composing rooms and see how a Chinese newspaper is made. The printers work In pens made of type cases, which rest on the ground and rise high above their heads. The cases slope backward and each contains thousands of lead characters. The types are thicker than ours, but not so tall. They are made in the establishment, and boys are kept busy day in and day out casting new type for the paper. Some of the dailies are now putting in stereotyping out~ fits, and the Sin Wan Pao is cast in cyl- inders just lke an American newspaper. It Is run off on a rotary press, which prints 80,00 an hour. It goes to press at 4 o'clock in the morning and has tele- graphic ncws up to that hour. The paper used by the Chinese journals through. The Sin Wan Pao is using a glazed onion-skin paper, which is made of Norweglan wood pulp especially for this market, It looks as though It were greased. gy How the Papers Look. 1 wish I could show you one of these new Chinese newspapers. The Sin Wan Pao, when spread out, would cover a big double bed. It is divided up into pages or sections, each of about the size and shape of a gentleman's handkerchiet, The printing 1s done only on one side of the sheet, and the whole is a collection of characters such as are used on the tea boxes, With cartoons, the electros and wood cuts of advertisements scattered through here and there. The paper begins at the back and one reads up and down the columns instead of across them, as with us. The first page is taken up Wwith the title and important advertisements. This space commands the highest prices, and the ‘‘ads” upon it bring three times as much as those on the inside of the paper. The sccond page has the table of contents, and the imperial edicts telegraphed from Peking, while the third has heavy editorials on leading ques- tions. Further over there are special tele- grams from all parts of China, und still further important news and correspon- dence. The Chinese news has the first place, and local telegrams often crowd out the cables. The paper has also law ‘re- ports, transiations from the foreign news- papers, personal gossip and even fashion notes. 1 am told that its advertising is steadlly Increasing and that the Chinese are beginning to appreciate the value of now advertised. It was displayed with a scare head, and with faces sad and jovful, labeled, “Before and after taking.” The trarslation read! ‘Our Lily Print Powder has been sold for many years, and it {s miraculous in its effécts. By its use the foot can be bound tight without painfully swelling, and yet can be easlly brought to a nar- row point. Price per bottle 40 cash.... Also our Paragon Powder, the sole cure for sores caused by the binding. Sixty cash a bottle. Sold only at the drug store at the sign of Great Good Luck. In Pre- clous and Moral street. All others are imitations.” The same paper advertised pllls for women and pills for men. It also an- nounced the virtues of halr restorers, and drugs certain to make Chinese pigtalls grow ot One advertisement related to & runaway wife, and another to a female slave for the return of whom a good reward was offered. Nearly all these dailles publish cartoons. This is especially 8o of the papers of Peking. The change in dynasty, the oplum 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 journalsj ow eontain the news of the court, and are full of Intercsting gossi about the prince regent, the. empres dowager and the highest officlals, Government Press Regulations. »Within the last few months the im- perial government has been rather strict as to the character of matter going into names of the publishers, editors printers, must be sent to the official and, at the same time, & securily amouni- ing to $600 must be filed therewith. All editors, publishers and printers must be of sane mind, and over 2 years of age. They must have never been punished or imprisoned, and must be in good standing. All dajly papers must be submitted to the local censors before midnight of the day previous to thelr issue; and all corrections 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 deerees must be held back until they are officially issued. The articles provide against the publica. tion of anything which is likely to destroy the stability of the government, or to lower the standard of the living of the peopl The tines for the various dtfenses are fixed; and for some imprisonment not exceeding six months is the penalty. All papers may Dbe suspended.at the will of the government, and all persons signing articles which are published shall be liable in the same way as the editors. Altogether the regulations are strict, but in a fast changing coufitry, such as this now is, they are almost a necessity. FL S Peking Gasette. The old Peking Gazette has been modi- fied. It 1s 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. It w being read by the Chinese centuries before and Ghinese Railroad Nms'bof 4 Anerica was discovered, and it had been in existence over 500 years when the Frank- fort Gazette, the first newspaper of our civilization, begsn its publication in 1615. Until recently the Peking Gazette was set up from movable type made of wood and printed on double pages of about the e and shape of the old-fashioned patent drug store almanacs. It then contained, as 1t does now, the imperial decrees, and gave the officlal news of Peking. 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 plowing. It gave the official reports from the provinces and the sentences of slicing to death dnd other punishments which were so common untll the new regime came in. The Peking Gazette of today is largely devoted to the modern movements uow going on over China. It contalns me- morials relating to the schools and the es- tablishment of constitutional government. It is full of edicts regarding the oplum evil, and the impoytation of morphine; and it has much to say about rallways and foreign loans. It contains now and then a paragraph concerning the emperor and Stories and Anecdotes of People Worth While The New Mimister to Ch ILLIAM J. CALHOUN, the new minister to China, was & Cai- cago lawyer with little more than a loeal reputation in 1896, when he fought for McKinley's nomination and for his election ~. Bryan, relates the Washing- ton Post. On the stump he at- tracted & lot of attention, and some of his friends say that & story he told at a big political meeting in Chi- cago had as much bearing upon nis future Ccareer as anyihing he ever did or said. It Wb at the closing meeting of Pergil, tue so-called “Klag ially,” over by Mark Hanna, that Mr. sprung (his: “I was reeently campalgning down in that part of tne state we call ‘kgyp.,’ " said he, “and was Just getung saried on my speech, when & man who was the worse for several drinks bioke in: “°I can lick any man in Egypt,’ he re- marked loudly. Nobody paid any attention, ‘'L can lick any wan in the country,’ he volunteeied again. “Nobouy uccepied the challenge “'1 can lick (be scuffin’' out of any man in the siate of Limols, declared ths scrappy- member. No takers. “'l can lek any —— —— man In the whole United States, and I can lick hun 10 death,’ was the last chalienge. “A little stubby raliroad brakeman walked slowly over to him, planied a flst on the would-be champion's jaw, and the latter passed down and out. ‘len minuies lacer he came Lo, " “Phe mistake I wis that i tried o bite 0if too much ter- Faory. Uiy story made the hit of the mee.ng, cuught Mr. Hanna's fancy and, accord.ng 10 report, drew Mr. Moxinley's acention agaln to Mr..Calnoun. At any rate, Presi- dent Mciinley appointed him to the Inter- state Commerce commiss.on, and u carcer in public lite followed. presiged Caihoun X oy Peddler to Feach Kin Down in the state of Georglu, relates the Boukkeeper, they have peach orchards where vne can walk & mile in a scalght line and not get beyond the end of a row Of peach (fees. After the civil war anyon could go through the same country aad sec nothing but cornfields. Now, mure penches are produced on he Georgia soll than in any other portiom of the United States, with the possible exception of Call- fornia. This revolution lu horticuiture was brought about by a Copnecticut Yankee J. H. Hale as a boy began his start in life by varrying fruit and truck in baskets to Hartford, Conn., and selling it trom house to house. He finally accumulated enough money to plant & little orchard of his own In the suburbs of Hariford on ground that people sald wes unfit for any crop. Hale thought differently and when his orchard grew from an acre to over a hundred acres and his income from the peaches to thousands of dollars & year, Shey realized that they had been mistaken. Why Marion 0.-:!." Wondered. One of the best known guldes in the capl~ tol at Washington used to be Colonel Jasper E. Snow, formerly & Kansas City lawyer, the cam- | Who @iways sal in republican conventons and voted for Biaine as long as there was & Blatne to vote for. Colonel Snow used to tgll this little story of the late Marion Crawford. He had met Mr. Crawford in Florence, Italy, and when the novellst came to Wash- ington Colonel Snow was the first person who showed Mm the doors made by the novelist's father, Thomas Crawford. ‘‘hese are the senate bronze doors on the eastern portico. They represent scenes connected with the revolution and the founaing of the government, ‘'ne panel representing Washington's re- ception at ‘Trenton wnes on s way to his inauguraugn in New York contins among the populace portrgit figures of the scuip- tor, his wife, his three chluaren and Kan- doiph Hogers, the sculptor of the main doors Of the capitol ‘4ne novelsl, wno had never seen ihe doors betore, quickiy iaentitled his mother and father. “Yes," #aid he. “mother used to,wear hes hair just like that.” Then, gasioy 4t the largest child, a Fauntleroyisn tigure in ki, with iong flowing hair, he added speculatively: “HuUL L wonder it L ever reauy wd look like tnat.” Sy Good Story of Modjeska. There 1y u pretty story of Modjeska and & new leading woimnan who was piay wie part of kiisavetn in Scailler's dreary play, “Mary Stuart.” The new leading woman, who was to assume the part of (he red-naired sov- ereign, was & beautiful young person whose Lng experience had been winfted 0 a few seasons In nodern sociely piays. Un tae night of the first periormance, in the most umporiant svene of the drama, where the capdio Mary contrones Elizabeth in Foiher- Ingsy peicn, B Was Dot well, The new iead- LI o usinl, WERTIng & Wig for (he tirst Ume In uer cureer and looKing uncomiorioie in the high Klizabethan rutf, was Ul ul eass in the beginning, and losing one of tne chief words and thereby the meter, from her opening lines, she began to tlounder, and soon * dried up” completely ‘Chis ‘et Schiller's unhappy Mary stand- ing in the center of the stage waiting o be adequately ‘Insulted. But Blsabetn's mind was & blank, madame could see that, and, jumping tc her last speech, the cur- ta was brought down. Everybody on the stage was distressed. But instanty tne beautiful young woman, disguised as the Irate ilizabein, rushed 10 the “star's’ side and sald; “Dear madame, 1 am so sorry, but you know you do look 50 lovable In this part it was impossible for me to say those terri- ble things to you." For & second there was a mixed expres- sion on Modjeska's face, and then she for- giviogly patted the speaker's cheek and walked awa — Papal Guards and Augelo. The papal troops are sticklers on miil- tary salutes. An ordinary priest, for in- stance, is only entitied to shoulder arms, while & monsignor gets present arms, and for & bishop, a little guard is turned out, while & cardinal has t(he whole guard turned out to do him honor. As clergy~ men of different raunks are continually passing 10 and fro in the Vatican palaces the soldiers on guard are kept preity busy and their work seems to consist in saluting. A few days ago, relates a correspondent of the New York Sun, an old peasant In his Sumday cloihes entered the Vatican from the bronze gates toward d.izk and showed a card to the Swiss soidler on guard. “They told me,’ said tne old peas- anc in a marked Venetan accent, “thac by SHOWINE LS card 1 can be admitted.” Toe soldler was hail incuped 10 send tae old man away, but he huppened Lo Klance at tne card. immeaiately he sprang and_preseited arms. he ut wan a DWILE YOIGER ULl duu n presclied sulLUcy L Loyal saluce. was astonsned. He areu at (ne soldlers, W owug Famaned mo.dou- 1ve Inutes, noc catmly washed Vauean waul only to the Kuard s.conas attention sune Ume in Gers twenty VhelLel W T laWn and @ bugier loudly caned - e anu wiain Lew utie, arms 10e wu Prasady Wun UL dils Bul and WOO dlew Bl iva: Kauwing arwl walaug LoF Wil oo, he OUC Buw belObOG dkuuad Lae W enrance, ne deucia @ o als0 guaraed HoTe e wsdill suuwed e Tuyie by e tnd saute. S greatly asconished the old peasant WHiheU @widy, Wl &> be Knew (nat ele are (WU enrdnices 40 toe Vadas nomMe Whery s Kiswers liveu, 8 BHOKL istince fruim e Yadean. SHLOW I8 A0 WL YUl ke baCK 50 500D T u oon U Liw aodlll reLOVEd e went ashed LU (WO U WOweD, “is wupl Ul oF busy 7 ine Loreign soldiers wijl not let me in repiea . s Lae pope, WHO Was JGUAIIK [ubvANd L0 & vaul Aud & ws bruther, Angelo, wine suop ac Ies), (0 spena ne Caris- Was KIed.y Qisy- Latl, Mau CUBL ey sawe of Wi Lie wan o Al Waum lie mas Louaays i b pointed. A secretary was sent (o inquire and some time atter vewurned o the pupe, ue- compunied by tie vld peasant i hiy Bun- day cloties, who expiained (he cause of the deiay. ‘Yhe papal 1roops have ceived sict uiders Lot Lo render military LORY:s o “the Mlost Serene S.gnor An- gelo Sario, the holy father's broer,” and the old peasant from Riesi now en.ers ihe Vatican without any neéd of showing tne card on which the pope himself had writ- “This 18 my brother.” Edin Don'ts, Mr. Ldison Is also still busy with his new storage battery, whicn, he claims, will solve the traction question. This, too, has been scoffed at from the beginning; it is a long timo since Mr. Edison began in- vestigation in this direction, but when a successtul portable method of storing elec- tricity Is developed another industrial revo- lution will be accomplished This leads up to the point to which spe- clal attention 15 directed, says the Hook- keeper, In his experiments with these bat- teries Mir. Edison has,had men at work for years with @ paticnce unparalieled. More than a haif tone of reports on experiments with batteries have been made. Two of his best men had to give up the work be- cause of its unending monotony to save themselves from nervous breakdown. The work was continued night and day for more than three ¥ and more than 5,00 ex- perlments were made without obtalning the Cuius uwis & Te- en results which Mr. Edison wanted. to whom this was told exclaimed: “Then all those experiments were prac- tically wasted.” “Not at all,” said Mr. Edison. “I now krow 9,00 things not Ao do' 1l of which Indicates that it is as important to knuw wuat not to do as what to do. A visitor “Thou Art the Pilot.” It is not often that the German emperor aliows himseif Lo be snubbed by one of his OoMn subjects, but an accual instantce 0¢- curred lust summer. His majesty was on Luary tae Honenzoiern, nd &pproacniig a certain German pore on tne Aortn sed. Lie lnperial yacht took on @ piiot, and (18 AULLOFILY posied numsell At tne wneel. Lne emperor, Who regaras Bimeell as a Peliect Inusier Of Sleering, siauoned him- seil A0 Ak vielnity vd e puot, and sug- gested GIVING hun a nand at tne wakel, Lhe roukn -u0g, DOt recognizing the CMPRIOE, \UINEs Hiouna With & saark. “Are yOu puot, Or gm 17" he growied. Allmgeu, Whnelm 11 rewied crestiallen to \noUgNL beler nUDUEs rewned o e W BreAl HWBLILY jaid & LOX 0L PIHOL Wi the Femurs: w0t niy e T i brive, ro ot U WL lew Coiarn LuBIUE L Auou ALC e He Wis cougenial. Harry HouuW e, (e uwoes vioker, while ouL vu u ot Torced to war IMEnLUCKy, Was 1 HECOIINOUALIUDY &L Lagwe Uiy City, reports the Cin- Caniail ine uotel waed o tile Waus, and at 1 0 ciock in tne morn- 10K HOLOWEL Was aWaKened DY tue hall A young man was galsing objections be- CAUSY LY FeqUESL 10F ACCOMMOUALIONS Was vetusea. honowell opened (e door of his room and invited the YOUng mah L0 whare his bed wita him, having siged him up as uustworthy and clean. A'he latier was protuse in his thanks and siarted to make hix toilet. First he opened his paper vaiise and abstracted a bottle of liquid with which he proceeded (o rub his hands. “What's the matter?” asked Hollowell “Oh, I'm troubled with the ecseina, but I'm still your friend,” replied his room- mate. From the vailse he procured another bottle, the contents of which hé rubbed upon his neck. “You see 1 am also atflicted with the ton- #ilitls to such an extent that I'can scaroely swailow, but I'm still your friend.” The next step was to request Hollowell to drop some medicine into his left eye. “Pal,’ he said, “you are & friend worth having." Hollowell looked at him with great ad- miration and sald: “Well, my son, for & man that can't eat, see very well, or shake hands, you are about the most congenial son-of-a-sea-cook 1 ever stalked up against.” RN was volces in Remington at Wounded Knee. In & number of reminiscences of the late Artist Remington in the hington Post, Major John M. Burke ‘of the United States,” tells of his experience during the Pine Ridge campaign: “Remington was one of the most\cour- ageous men I ever knew. Had he fol- lowed bLils own inclinations we should have read his obituary many years ago, instead of today. It is & great loss that thie artist should have died so early— only 48—but we that he lved for may well be thankful the last twenty years. If, I say, he had followed his own bent, he would have been killed in the Indian uprising on the Pine Ridge rescrvation in 1891 Remington was a daring, adven- turous fellow. He learned to paint amid the very scenes he deplcted on canvas. He went thromgh the battle of Wounded Knee and was the constant companion of Lieutenant Casey, one of the heroes of that campaign. These two passed through a blizzard that winter, to which the re. cent storm was llke a summer zephyt. When they got back to th agency, thanks to the scouts under Lieutenant Colonel Charley (“White Hat") Taylor, Reming- ton Mad a severe cold and the surgeons there, who had been sent for in antle- ipation of some scrious work, commended Remington to go home. He demurred as hard as he knew how, but the dociors wouldn't listen to him, and Remington had to go. “The next Aay Lieutenant C with whom Remington surely would have been, was killed wnile on a scout, and 1 wired Remington on his way to Omaha of Casey’s death. Had he remained at Pine Riage we would not now in all probabiity have the many great works of art that Rem- ington has left us.' Mark Hanua When Senator Hanna was walking through his factory in Cleveland, some years ago, on the lookout for new ideas or anything which would aid the pr business, he overheard a little ri léd remark ‘Wish 1 had old Hanna's money and he was in tfe poorhouse.” The senator returned to his office, relates the National Magazine, and rang to have the boy sent to him. The boy came to the office timidly, just a bit consclence-stricken and wondering if his remark had been overheard and ready for the penalty. As the lad twisted his hands and nervously #stood on one foot before the gaze of those twinkling dark eyes fixed on him by the man at the desk, he felt the hand of Uncle Mark on his shouldet: “S0 you wish you had eld Hanna's money and he was in the poorhouse, eh? Buppose your wish should be granted, what would you do?" “Why," stammered the lad, “the first thing I would do, sir, would be to get you out of the poorhouse.’ Phe senator laughed and sent the boy back to his work. Today he is one of the managers of a large factory, but he never tires of telling the story that held his first Job. nd the Hoy. ress of -headed The mother of lttle six-yearfold Mary had told her a number of times not to hitch her sled to passing slelghs, feeling that it was a dangerous practice. It was such fascinating sport, however, that Mary could not restst it, and one day her mother saw her go skimming past the house behind a farmer's “bobs. When she came in from play she was taken jo {ask, her mother saying severely, “Mary, haven't I told you that you must not hitch onto bobs? Besides you know it is against the law."” Mary ossed her head, “Oh,” she sald, “gon't talk to me about the law. It's all I can do to keep the Ten Command- ments, the empress dowager, as well as some of the doings of the prince regent and the cabinet officials. It is more Interesting than were the issues of the past, although it is stald and steady and lacks the gossip of the new Chinese daflies. RGPS Womai Daily. The only woman's daily newspaper pub- lished in Asia, If not in the world, is ia- sued by a woman in Pekin Its editor Is a Chinese girl belonging to a well-to-do family. Her paper is known as the Peking Woman's Journal. It is published in an attractive form and is written in classio Chinese. It s largely devoted to educa- tiohal matters, and especlally to the ad~ vancement of women. It advocates the anti-footbinding movement, supports the anti-opium crusade, and, in general, ls for woman’s rights from a Chinese standpoint. —s Forelgn Newspapers. There are now forelgn papers published at nearly all of the ports of this country. There are a half dogzen or more here at Shanghal. The North China Dally News and the Shanghal 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. Shanghal has four foreign weeklies. Tien- tsin has several dallies, including the Pek- ing and Tientsin Gazette, and so has Hong kong, including the Hongkong Press, the China Mall and the Hongkong Telegraph. There are papers published in the English language at Amoy, Foochow and Hankow; end there is a German paper published at Tsingtau in Shantung. The Japanese have several papers In China, and there are Portuguese journals in Macao and Hong- kong. All of these papers cater to the foreign population, They are mostly blanket sheets of the style which we used to have, and they sell on the average at 6 cents per copy. As far as adverusing is concerned they are well supported and most of them are run at a profit. il Chinese Papers Abroad. There are quite & number of Chinese papers vutside China, some of which have a considerable circulation here. There are three such In Singapore, one in Penang, seven In San Francisco, four in Honolulu and one in Manila. Japan has two, Sydney two, und there are a number in Hong- kong. The empire also has several misslonary journals, some of which are medical and others religlous. It begins to have maga- zines, and with the new scuools and the new civilization it will probably bulld up a new literature. 1 understand that the princo regent 18 contemplaing starting an organ of his own, He Is greatly Interested In newspupe and has glven orders to the graud coun- cll to have deputied read all the Chiness dalles and to furnish him abstracts of the* Important news contalned in them. kight men have been chosen to transiate the foreign papers, and his highuess has these classified and pasted away in & sorap book. It is said that Yuan Shih Kai, owned a newspaper while he was in Peking, and that several of the cabinet officers are sccretly Interested in the different jour- nals there. The statesmen watch the pa- pers see whether they are properly mentioned and a desire for motoriety is springing up among them. usy s They Want Korelgn News. Now that China Is adopting the new cvillzation, the high officials are anxious to learn what Is golng on all over the world. They are studying public opinion in New York, Berlin and London; and they watch the market reports. China is borrowing many millions of dollars from outside nations to develop her country as to rallways and other things, and the government has know what Eoes on abroad, The Assoclated Press telegrams are forwarded to the viceroys and to the cabingt officers at Peking as 500n as they are received, and they are translated and read before they appear in the newspa- pers, The government officers are greedy for articles about China, and one of the lead- ing cabinet ministers at Peking recently told his interpreter to give him a full translation of the London Times from day to day. The man protested that such a thing was impossible as well as unnece sary, saying that the English local news and the announcement of marriages, births and deaths were of no value to China., The cabinet minister replied chat he wanted the whole thing, snd that he weuld get another loterproter. I am told that the Times 1y now translated for him. FRANK G. CARPENTER,