The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-10
LAST SHOT FROM THE LOCKER.

The Post has done what II could to put
brake on the century discussion. Its
efforts have been as unprodrctive OF sue
cess ms would be the attempt 10 dam UP
the swlrling torrent OF Niagara by stretch
| Ing a fish net across 1t. Like Niagara II
! goes on forever. Dlsclalming any inten-
tion of adding vitality TO the interminable
discussion. The Post reproduces the fol-
lowing from tho New York Journal:
The Twentieth century begins at midnight
| OF December 81 1900, that is to say, at the
| beginning Of tho first day of 1901
| The Twentieth century does not begin on
| the first day OF 1900. In other words, the
! Nineteenth century Ii not finished until the
end Of the year 1900.
! We have tried in vain to mako this tact
clear 10 some of our huge army OF intell-
gent renders. We will try again, and for the
las. time,
You admit that you have not finished the
Nineteenth century until you have finished
nineteen hundred years.
Now. then. instead OF nineteen centuries let
US take nineteen dollars, each dollar CON
| ahtlng OF 100 cents as each century consists
OF loO years. suppose man owed you nine
/ Teen dollars and paid you one cent at time.
| When would you consider the payment com
n.ete? When would you have your nineteen
dollars In your poCket7
When he paid you eighteen hundred and
nlheleen- niue cents you would not haYe your
nineteen dollars But when ne had paid you
nineteen hundred cents you would have youi
nineteen dollars, and your twentieth dollar
would begin with the payment OF the nexl
cent
Similarly, when Father Time has paid u.
eighteen hundred and ninety-nlne years h.
| Mas not paid us nineteen centuries He mus
give give us one more year, namely. the nineteen
hundredth year to make the nineteen cen
turles complete. After he shall have given u,
thht year he VIII begin to pay us the twentieth
century ana The first year OF that century
VIII be nineteen hundred and one lust as the
nrHt cent OF the twentieth dollar ls tho nine.
teen hundred md first cent The nineteen
hnnaredth cent Is only the last cent Of the
| nlueteen uouars' and the niuetoen hundrcdth
! yeor IL only the last year Of the Nineteenth
For the love Of Heaven. get this in your
neads and keep It there. And whatever YOU
90 don't write VS. any more ietters saecly
| proving that the Nineteenth century ends
ana the Twentieth century begins whom we
| nave only lived through eighteen hundred and
| ninety nine years. The Nineteenth ccnt,ir,
viii end when VIC shal have lived tbromg5
nineteen hundred wears namely IN ,bc tsr
day n December 1900 '"' ''''
II this does not convince YOU come 10 the
journal oince with $1,000 We will gladly
alive ron SiS9g IN change II YOU aceen9 nv
( We VIII believe that the Nineteenth centurS
ends 81 the end Of 1900 n you don't accent
s sIsss ~ exchange for your $1,000 then YOU
/ ttll the end OF 1870, GUS
" YOU are not prepared to mako this 1901,
tes' don't lot us hear from you
! win reference 10 the above The Post
declares "them's our sentiments Now
pun on your dogs and lot us go our wsy
In reasonable freedom from Twentieth
centnry turmoil We have been fusillsded.
enhiaded, bombed. iyddited and shrapneled
ny these Twentieth century dsputants
with an unrcmitting energy before which
the walls OF Byzandum would have been
orumbled into indistinguishablc dust in
thlrty minutes and Ladysmlth Yielded nm
Inc ghost IN seven Waterbury seconds.
hosclusko has ssllen and freedom
Shrleked. In the name OF Heaven and I'M
der the admonltion of peace on earth and
good VIII TO men spare us any further
communications on the Twentieth centur,
row Let It die and over the SPOT whore
reclines his silenoed turbuleucy write
'Reauiescat In pace" and theu--so about
your business.