The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-02-01

h 90 s3 9i 99 w VI 9s 30 100
Each of these periods represent
a year beginning on the first OF
January and ending on the 3lst OF
December, and the figure or figures
numbering each of the periods. In.
cludes the whole of the 365 days.
There are some people who take
a bag of pennies and count their
dollars this way: Taking up the
first penny they say cone dollar
two cents, three cents, four cents
Ave cents" and so on up to l0C
cents and then say zone dollar
and begin on the next 1.-TWO dollars
two cents, three cents, four cents
five cents" and so on up to 100 cents
and say "twc dollars"
But other people begin with one
cent and count 100 and then say
none," so that when they count out
1900 pennies they have $500 and
not $3.50 as the other class have
or rather claim to have. The first
named put the cart before the horse
and came out wrong the latter be-
hind 1t, and always come out right
A man horn on the first day OF
the 6rst January was not spoken
of as year old until the flrst of the
next January; then he was called
zone" year old, and so on until the
first day of January beginning the
period numbered 100, that being
his 9sth birthday and the Tooth
year of his age. The age of time
and the age of the man are synany-
nous, and had he lived until Jan.
l, 1900, he would have been 1900
years old, that ought to be plain
enough to any one familiar with
ordinary notation.
You will observe in the above
square of a century that all the
tens come in the last column.
whereas they really come in the
frst column and properly run from
10 to so on the left and from to
80 on the right.
The reason ia obvious. The era
began with nothing 20" to its credit.
Only days sonnted during the
first period Of 365, and it was only
after the asst mOment of the 8lst OF
the frst December was ticked of
did they say 'ione," indicating
that the first year had passed and
the second begun, hut would not
be finished until the 3lst of the sec.
Ond December.
This pushed the numeral l over
into the second space anl so on, un.
til 10 came over into the left hand
column. and put all the mines in
the right hand column so that the
proper square Of the first century
begins with O in the upper left
hand corner and ends with 80 in
the lower right hand corner. There
was no birthday of the man or tile
era on the first of The first January,
and the numerals are merely used
to designate the concurrent birth.
davs of the man and the era and
one Is added to the birthday to de-
clare the cage" or number of years.
"But," says some one, "there was
no 0 year or century," Perhaps not
but these same people insist that
the Goth century will begin on the
lst day of January 1901. You
must treat the centuries as you do
the years. IF the second century
did not begin until the lst OF jan
uary POI, that IL on the l0lst birth
day of the man and the era, what
becomes of the calculation
You must treat the years as units
and the centuries as units also. II
you insist that the year one must
be "counted" before it has passed
you must keep on calling II one
until 1t Is ended. You would call
the SECOND year "2" from its begin
ming, not at Its end and when you
reached the 10Th FIRST of January
ca. d. l9) you would not be on the
2Oth year by a whole unit or 865
days and fraction, since 1t took
all Of the 1856 days of A. d. is TO
make l8 years, and would require
all the a6S days Of A. D. 10 to COM
plete 10 years.
There are 866 parts Ia the unit OF
the year aud 100 parts In the cen