The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-06-22
The Japanese Forty Years Ago.

AhO cdPdnO50 OAty chTb ago.
Poulson's American Daily Advrnser, for
January IL, 1916, contains reference to
the japanese at that period, which is worth
quoting as showing the change that has
been effected in the Japanese policy since
Commodore Perry's visit It's as follows:
The Empire of Japan. which comprises
a large Island on the eastern coast of Chi
ma, continues to resist the efforts Of COM
mercial nations to establish intercourse
and commerce with them, and TO exclude
foreigners from their territories. or all
the European nations the Dutch alone
have obtained limited privilege 10 trade
at single port. The Russians have sent
two formal Embassies TO Japan, accompa-
MED with costly presents to the Emperor,
but without success. The presents were
refused on the rretext that it was contra
ry to the law of the Emperor to receive
presents without sending those equally
valuable in return ai,lstimt !! was out Of
his power to send an equivalent. "Ja-
PAN" says the reply to the Russian en-
bassador, 'has no great wants, and has.
therefore, little occasion for foreign pro-
ductions. Her few wants, as well as those
she has contracted by custom are amply
supplied, and luxuries are things which
she does not wish to see introduced" The
Russian ship was constantly surrounded by
guard OF boats to preven. all intercourse
with the shore. The crews were prohibit
ed all acts Of religious worship while in
port, and the Commander only permitted
II slight intercourse with the Governor of
Nagasaki. Every foreigner entering Ja-
pan without the Ernperor's permission is
punished with death.
NIGHr AIR.-An extraordinary fallacy
is the dread of night air. What air can
we breathe at night but night air? The
choice is between pure night air from
without, or the foul air generated with
in, most people prefer the latter
An unaccountable choice. What will
they say if it is proved to be true that full
ly one-half of all the diseases we suffer
from is occasioned by people sleeping
with their windows shut? An open wind
ow most nights in the year will never
hurt any one. This is not to say that
light is not necessary for recovery. In
great cities night air is often the best and
purest air to be had in the twenty-four
hours. | could better understand shut
ting the windows in towns, during the
day, than during the night, for the sake
of the sick. The absence of smoke the
quiet. all tend to make night the best
time for airing the patient. One of our
highest medical authorities on consump-
ton and climate has told me that the AIR
of London is never so good as after ten
o'clock at night. Always air your room,
then, from the outside air. if possible
Windows are made to open, doors are
made to shut--a truth which seems ex-
tremely difficult Of apprehension. Eve
ry room must be aired from without,
every passage from within.
BsS" A democratic paper published in
Fayetteville, n. c., says Of the Bell and
Everett ticket:
Give us the Philadelphia platform of the
Black Republican party y thousand fold,
with Seward for President and Wendell
Phillips or Lloyd Garrison for Vice Presi-
dent, before you give us such ticket.
That's honest. We like to see man
openly choose that which best suits him.
ply~ During the late VIOLENT storm a.
Pennington, Iowa, little girl four years
old was carried by sudden gust of wind
and lodged in a cherry tree few rods
distant her clothes having caught in the
branches of the tree, where she remained
unhurt. The anxious father ran to and
fro seeking her, when the little innocent,
dripping with rain, peeped down through
the branches of the cherry tree eXclaim-
ing-"I'm here PAP No tree had ever
before borne such sweet fruit for the
happy and grateful parent.
PoLITNEss AT HoME.-Always speak with
politness and Difference to your parents
and friends. Some children are polite
=, and civil everywhere else except at homes
but there they are coarse and rude
Shameful!
Nothing sits so gracefully upon child
rem, nothing makes them so lovely, al
: habitual respect and dutful department
to their friends and superiors 1t makes
> the plainest face beautiful, and gives tC
, every common action nameless but pc
= cuiar charm.
u MY son, hear the instruction of tn,
u father, and forsake not the law Of tn.
u mother, for they shall be an ornamen
Il to thy head, and chains of gold about tn.
neck. ."-PRovERBs, l. 8, 9.
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