The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-04-12
That n.0ther Sum ;,

MR. EDITOR In your paper of last
week I fad the following
.'ANorHER 'SUM.'-Suppose man to
start from Pulaski on Saturday at noon,
and travel West at the same rate the earth
turns on its axis. If he inquire every
minute what day of the week it is, where
viii be first be told, cit is Sunday pr
And, as it is constantly noon to him, he
sees neither morning nor evening. and yet
Saturday changes to Sunday. How is it 90
AS I read the above paragraph late last
Friday night, was in doing, dreaming
moode, and I dreamed that actually made
the trip suggested. And here is the result.
thought was all mounted and ready to
start little before time. 1 observed with
pleasure that 1 had the inside track, that
the sun would travel about 5 miles per
minute, and that I would have to travel
only about 10 miles in the same time. I
thought would look about me a little be-
fore starting on this, as yet, rather fast ex-
cursion looked behind me to the East,
go degrees, and the sun was just setting at
London, and night was fast closing in over
all the Eastern Hemisphere. What day is
that which is Just closing there The
Atlantic Gable dispatch answered the ques-
ton as it passed over the wires to New Or
leans eLondon, Saturday, o'clock pm.
The week closes dull cotton 121d /;
1000 bales changed hands to-day"
IL. IL =
Saturdays sun which was just setting at
London, was high noon at Pulaski, and I
looked to tie West, 80 degrees, aud the
same sun was just rising on little island
-Massachusetts-in the Pacific ocean,
started, passed over San Francisco, and
every body answered Saturday. In six
hours I reacHed Massachusetts Island
saw but one man there, down-east Yam
kee-he drew '4Ayres' Pill Almanac out
of his pocket and answered, Saturday,
He had gone there from Califonsa, and con-
sequently had carried the Almanac and the
day of the week with him, he Counted the
California day. looked again to the West.
the morning sun had begun to light up the
Eastern hemisphere. 1t was already -
o'clock at Jeddo, on the island 1shon,
and was broad day light as far as Gassa, in
Central Asia. '.As I passed 'Jeddo, I asked
three olive complexioned gents, "What
was the day p They answered in gi65er-
ISL which 1 did not understand, and 1 dc
net think they knew Sunday from Monday
I so@a preached Lassa, cpd in the eastern
portion of the town aae-ohildren were jus
coming out of a small Missionary Chapel
1 asked little girl, she answered ia pretty
good English ''La Don't you know it't
Sunday We've just been to Sunda!
school," As I passed on, the people il
the great cities of Christendom were stream
ing in and out of church and cathedral, anC
everybody said cit was Sunday
passed London and in six hours wa
again in Pulaski, and it Sunday. the
considered that the 'sum" was solved
That Saturday had slipped off at San Fran
cisco and was lost in the broad Pacific
was slightly remembered at Massachusett
Island by dint OF an Almanac. And whe
it touched the Eastern Hemisphere, as
had seen it rise there first upon Jeddc
was indeed a new day. and called 'Sun
day" IN Christendom Europe. After max
ing the trip il is all plain enough. The frs
settlers came here from Europe-travelle
west-and so, like the Immigrant from Ca
ifornia to Massachusetts island, they car
the calender and the day of the week VIII
them. And so we count the Europea
day, albeit, it is six hours earlier reachin
US. The people of the Eastern Henri;
Phere count the new day, as they hav
done from time immemorial, as it rises t
them out of the Pacific Christian Eu
rope takes up the day aud follow it roun
until it is lost in the Pacific.
If any of your learned Quid Names al
disposed to criticise this, it was only
dream.