The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-11-17
Correspondence Of the TIMES.
News From North pacoIaf

ETA JANE, Nov. 13.-Nothing has oc.
Cured in the backwoods during the past
week that will interest the readers of the
TINES this week.
We forgot last week to give our opinion Of
the question submitted to us by "court of
competent Jurisdiction" made up princi-
pally Of Trial Justices, Deputys, Sheriffs,
Lawyers, Editors, Printers, newspaper cor
respondents. Doctors, Merchants, Clerks,
Teachers, wage workers and citizens gener-
ally. A man who is trying to shoot q squir-
rel follows it around q tree, without getting
TO see il, the squirrel keeping the tree be-
tween the man and himself oil the time.
The question is: Does the man 60 around
the squirrel ?"
The first and only thing for us to decide in
this case is, what is meant by "going around"
If number of concentric circles are drawn,
we evidently conclude that the outer or
larger circle encloses lis around) the smaller
ones. This being true, the circle made by
the man around the tree encloses that made
by the squirrel around the tree, and conse-
quently the man has gone around the squir-
rel. Viewed in this light it matters little
whether the motion of the squirrel be around
the tree or up and down it. it is practically
aud logically the same, simply because the
man has placed himself at every point of the
compass from the squirrel, and therefore
If the argument prevails that the relative
positions of the man aud the squirrel are
not changed by the motion of each, then the
mechanical conclusion is that the man has
not gone around the squirrel. This, of course,
in our judgment, is the weaker of the two
arguments. Yet, ut the same time, il is
entitled to such consideration as TO make it
potent factor in explaining the question
what is meant by "going around" While
we do not claim that our judgment is correct
mechanically, yet it is logically, and therefore
those who differ with us are At liberty to
appeal to the following committee chosen 10
correct our errors Messrs. Lem Brown,
Mike Sellars, and Mack Dormsn.
Several COWS in this neighborhood were
made sick from eating drowned corn last
week. Drs. Brown, White and Sarratt,
were each called to see some of the worst
eases. Although the treatment of each was
somewhat different, yet each patient re-
covered.
came down from Gaffney last Saturday with
the mail. To most people he is curiosity.
Our friend and Brother, L. w. j., in his
flippant description Of our situation, resour-
ces and surroundings, went so far as to stir
up the ireful indignation of some Of our best
neighbors who think he was rejecting on
them and the neighborhood generally.
Deputy Sheriff, John Whtlock, was
around last week trying to regulate the do
mestic aud marital affairs of q few house
holds in this section. He is always trag-
ging about what good wife he has, and
while we believe everything he says about
that, we can't help thinking how badly
cheated she and Mrs. Vox have been in the
way of husbands.
What say you, Mr.. Editor?
There will be preaching at Salem next
Sabbath, 10TH instant. Unless our Presby-
terian brethren do better in the future than
in the past they will soon find their church,
Sunday school and prayer meetings all run
mainly by Methodist forces. Especially is
this true in regard to numbers, at least. But
in committing the work to them we feel that
we are leaving it to true and loyal hands
and hearts, Come welcome, welcome, well
come, brethren. VoX
The editor is too cid and too smar: to