Show TAILS PAILS AFTER TEN CENTURIES There Thero is nothing of oj tra tragic ic sound or meaning in the tho mere mero announcement that the Pekin Gazette has suspended publication Delinquent subscribers lack of patronage and other othor causes have havo made mado man many newspapers suspend publication in the tho course of f the thc histon history history his his- tory ton of But nut the tho Pekin Ga zette antedated even the tho history of journalism journalism itself as is the modern world knows Knows it for it Was vas was first published bd asfar asfar as ns far back as Hl A. A D D. A A. hundred an and fifty years rs e before William am the Conqueror Conqueror Con Con- set foot upon English soil Boil tho the enterprising editor of the Pekin Gazette Gazette Ga Ga- zette which a was then a monthly was was was' airing his opinions Four Femur hundred and fifty years later the Gazette to meet the demands of its HH readers became a weekly At the beginning of ot the tho nine uin nineteenth century it was made a Its only great regret probably a as It it t passes from scene of time the labors of 1000 1001 years jeara ea is is that it leaves behind a hatred rival t the thc e Pao Pao which ich is is about 20 years older |