The morning times., 1895-10-13
EXERCISING TO-DAY'S SPELL
Betrothal Gifts Made by Jewellers
for Those Who Plight Their
Troth To-Day.

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imps held the reins of my destiny.
Il sat down at diuner once on the 18th
with thirteen people at the table. Withir
two weeks one OF us died. Again l tried
it. This time one of the guests dropped
dead within an hour. 1t was at a wedding
-reakfast. And the third time l tried the
feast Of thirteen the result was so painful
for myself that don't want TO talk about
ii for print.
II am believer in the unseen at all
times. / don't say this is superstition
Man comes into the world mysteriously
He departs he knows not how, nor why,
nor whence. Why, then, is 1t strange TO
suppose that mysterious things surround
him?
STRANGE HAPPENINGS.
Il have had many strange things hap
pen to me, on the 18th especially. Once
l was placed In queer position of inde-
cision. / knew not which way to turn for
my best good. All the night lay awake
thinking and planning. Next night / for
sock my own thoughts aud commu ned
with the unseen. asked a Higher Power
to tell me what to do. When day dawned
| my course was written as plainly before
| me as though it were white enamel on
| lampblack. l saw which way to turn. Is
! this superstition? IL il is, put down
Chauncey NJ. Depew as the most supersti-
uous man that walks.
| About that cure at Lourdes / visited
| there on the 18th, though think for that
matter the day of the month had nothing to
| do with the case. Nor do assert 1t was in
| fluential with any l have mentioned
merely coincidence. AT Lourdes there
We're thousands OF sick people waiting To be
dipped in the healing sprilg. This one girl,
| to whom my attention was called, was in a
chair with painful sores on her knee.
! While / was there, within an hour, these
healed, and the girl walked with ease,
| though terribly emaciated.
People of mind OF ali ages have believed
| in superstition from Brutus down and from
-Brutus back Julius Caesar was the only
| man who took no stock in superstition.
Perhaps il he had he would have been bet
| ter off. The soothsayer warned him: Be
ware the ides OF march, Bat he laughed al
her. Caesar met his fate upon the des of
| March.
II am not going to say that l believe in
putting ON my left shoe first or buttoning
my left suspender first or picking up a pin
when / see it unless want the pin but 1
am willing TO declare that there is no man
who can afford to say that there is positively
nothing in the world beyond his own linn
tied vision"
cLEyELAND's THIRTEENTH FISH.
President Cleveland has superstition
which is thus told by a gentleman who has
fished with him every spring and fall for
years:
The President is superstitious about
thirteen, though he doesn't want people to
think so. He refuses to think SO himself.
But his friends know his little failing and
humor INN.
let &c
about fishing. He does not like the thir-
teenth fish. He is afraid he win not catch
another, and that he will have to go home
with thirteen fish. This means death. Never
take home thirteen oranges or thirteen OF
anything that is to be eaten.
when the President catches his thir-
teenth fish he plays il carefully and takes
it off the hook gingerly. He wouldn't
hurt 1t for the world. Nearby stands a
bait-can full of water, and into this can
goes the thirteenth fish. If there are many
worms or little chopped bait in the can the
fish can have collation. and think he is n {
his own coral reef table-for a while. His
after fate is soon decided.
"If the President catches another fish in
a minute the thirteenth fish is taken out
of the can and strung upon twig with
the Others. But If no other one is caught
then the thirteenth fish is thrown back
into the water, little the worse for his
excursion. The President doesn't know
people see him maneuver with the thir-
teenth fish, but have seen him do it many
times"
TOO MANY THIRTEENS.
Coils P. Huntington's window, the Win
dow which projected too far over the street
in his Filth avenue mansion, was found
on measurement to be thirteen inches over
the line. In the air, high as this window
is, the thirteen inches appear trifling.
But from the bay windows of the other
houses the difference can be easily seen.
1t is no laughing matter to take thirteen
inches off the vision of a millionaire.
What made Huntington so extra super
stitious about this house was the fact that
the day he discovered the measurement a
workman fell thirteen feet aud was killed,
and thirteen days later another workman
was killed falling from a height of twice
thirteen feet. He left family of tbir-
teen, counting his blind old mother. That
settled the mansion and the question of
thirteen.
But, while thirteen is an unlucky num-
ber. 1t is also very lucky one Properly
exercised. the illluck flies away ard comes
back. bringing good luck. The blood
red garnet. for example. is an unlucky
stone at all times On the 18th as n gift
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your hands in his blood. Bad luck comes
with the stone. But If you take thir-
teen of the garnets and set them close
together and present them upon the 18th
you have the Lucky Gift of the whole year.
A little knot of purple ribbon upon
the breast is the badge of the Kings
Daughters, even without the small sill
yer cross. But on the 13tll-particularly
if the 18th fall upon Sunday-the knot
of Durnlp is worn with n different sip-
nifcance.
Take strip of ribbon any width and
thirteen inches long and tie it in knot
with two bows and two ends. Take
another strip of purple ribbon. thirteen
inches long, and put it around your neck
Suspend the first bow from the strip of
ribbon until it hangs right over your heart
This is the Love Charm of the thirteenth
Sunday With this worn over the heart
there is a magnetic force at work, and no
man can resist it. Proposals are spoken.
one after another, whether accepted or re-
iected, the charm will always exert an in
fluence upon the person through life.
wANAMAKER's 1s.
John Wanamaker once told q partner
in business that he was not superstitious,
but hated the number 13 1t did not look
symmetrical"
''Wanamaker," tells the friend, "never
liked to see 13 of anything. A firm
began manufacturing sets of dishes, thir-
teen plates, thirteen cups and saucers, and
thirteen Of everything. This is to meet the
craze for 49, wrote the firm, and it will
be popular, because buyers like to know
they have an extra cup in case of breakage'
"But Wanamaker did not like 1t. He
looked at the dishes and sent them back
He didn't like thirteen chairs in a reception
room, and would move them around in the