The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-10-19
Strange Ideas and Superstitions
Concerning It Among
Many. @s..s5
President Cleveland and Chauncey
n. Depew rlixed Up With
the Haunted Ones.
Wanamaker, Lord Rosebery and
G. p. Huntington Not Exempt
From Its Tolls.

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Next Sunday is the 18th and I am
sorry for it, 7. said Chauncey M. Depew,
glancing from his big red SofdpgS clSairst t sto
the calendar. 81 don't like thesl .;3tth. a ain
superstitior1s man Thirteen to me is
full of fate, and on that day my flesh
creeps, and l feel as though thousand
unseen inaps held the reins Of my destiny
writes James Barton in the Inter Ocean
s.I sat down to dinner once on the 18th
with thirteen people at the table. Within
two weeks one of us died. Again tried
it. This time one Of the guests dropped
dead within an hour. 1t was at a we'd
ding breakfast. And the third time
tried the feast of thirteen the result was
SO painful for myself that don't want to
talk about it for print
II am a believer in the unseen at all
times. ] don't say this is superstition
Man comes into the world avs4er'o''r'v
He departs he knows not how or why;
nor whence. Why, then, is IL sllall5v ~
suppose that mysterious things surround
him? M: 5.s. 5s2
II have had many strange thingsThap-
pen to me on the 18th especially. Once
was placed in a queer position OF inde-
cision. 1 knew not which way to turn
for my best good. All the night lay
awake thinking and planning. Next
day I forsook my own thoughts and COM
muned with the unseen. l asked high
er 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. I saw which way
to turn Is this superstition? II it is,
put down Chauncey M. Depew as the
most sperstitious man that walks.
s "A l5ort that cure at Lourdes. / visited
there on the 18th, though think for that
matter the day of the month had moth
ing TO do with the case. Nor do assert it
was influential with any [ have mention
ed-merely a coincidence. At Lourdes
there were thousands Of sick people wait
ing to be dipped in the healing spring.
This one girl, to whom my attention was
called, was in chair, with painful sores
on her. knee. While Z was there within
an hour, these healed and the girl walked
with ease, though terribly -emacjated.
"People of mind of all ages have be-
lieved in superstition, from Brutus down
and from Brutus back. Julius Geasar
was the only man who took no stock in
superstition. Perhaps if he had he would
have been better off. The soothsayer
warned him: Beware the ides CT
March!" But he laughed at her. Ceasar
met his fate upon the ides of March.
II am not going to say what I believe
iii putting on my left shoe first or but
toning my left suspender first or pick
ing up a. pin when / see it unless want
the pin. Rut 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 limited vision"
President Cleveland has superstition
which is thus told by a gentleman who
has fshed with him every spring and
fall for years
s.ssfllG DIESluSuL lS oCAt1Ouo e1OOtet
thirteen, though he doesn't want people
to think so. He refuses to think so MIN
self. But his friends know his little fail
ing and hunor him.
cone of the presidents superstitions is
about fishing. He does not like the thlr-
teenth fish He is afraid he will not
catch another and that he will have to go
home with thirteen fish. Never take az
home thirteen oranges or thlftsenof any
thing that is to be eaten.
when the president catches his thir-
teenth fish he plays it 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. II there are
many worms or little chopped bait in the
can the fish can have collation. and
think he is at his own coral reef table
for while. His after fate is soon de-
cided.
seIf the president catches another fish
in a minute the thirteenth fish is taken
out Of the can and strung upon a tWlg
with the others. But if no other one y
caught then the thirteenth fish is thrown
back into the water, little the worse for
his excursion The president doesn't
hlOWa ~. .UGOplS ESSSHsss q.
with the thirteenth fish, but have seen
him do it many times. Z
Coils P. Huntington window, the
window which projected too far over the
street of his Fifth avenue mansion, was
found on measurement to be thirteen
inches over the line. In the air high as
thiswindoW is, the thirteen inches appear T
trifiing. But from the bay indoHs OF
the other houses the difference can be
easily seen. It is no laughing matter to
take thirteen inches off the vision OF
millionaire. g
What made Huntington 50 extra super
stitious about this house was the fact
that the day he discovered the measure
ment q workman fell thirteen feet and
was killed and thirteen daye later anoIh-
er Wor kman was killed. falling from q
hefEat 0f twice thiM cen teet- He left g 9
fanliI sof thirteen, count ne Qlal
snautlae led Il sslltll
sts ne alairt tsg
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