The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-13
SUP2RSHITIONS OF CREEPY l3.
"tS at inutr To-Day Would BRING lou-
bly, Bad Luck" Says Df. DtpaE.
Hs TELLS OF SOME CURIOUS INCIDENTS.
The Presidents Superstition About the
"I3th Fish" and what He Does with
It.-Befroihal Gifts Made by Jc"Hi-
Ter. for Those who Plight Their
Troth To-Day.


"Ncxt Sunday IS the 18th, aud I'm sorry
for it," said Chauncey VI. Dcpew' siahc-
ing from his bl red oiiice-char al inc
calendar. Il don't like the 18th. am d
superstitious man. Thirteen 10 ne - iNA
OF fate. and on that day my flesh creepS
and / feel as though thousand unseen
imps held the rcins Of my destiny.
Il sat down 80 dinner once on the I'th
with thirteen people at the table. Nithih
two weeks one OF us died. Again iried
It, This time one of the guests dropled
dead within an hour. 10 WAS AT "A Ntp-
ding breakfast. Ana the thha YIN, /
tried the feast of thirteen the result was
80 painful for myself that don't want 10
talk about IL for print.
II am a believer IN the unseen at an
times. / don't say tins Is superstition.
Man comes into the world myst'fiousi!'
He departs he knows not how or Why
nor whence. Why. then, is IL strange
TO suppose that mysterious tnlnss sur
round him?
STRANGE HAPPENINGS.
81 have had many strange things hap
pcn to me. on the 18th especially. once
/ was placed In a queer position oil IN
decision / knew not winch way 10 turn
for my best good. All tne night / lay
awake thinking and planning. Next night
] forsook my own thoughts ana commuh-
ed with the unseen. 4 asked y Hl5Aer
Power TO tell me what 70 do. Nhen uay
daWned my course was written as piaiiif
before me as though IL were white tnain-
el on lamp-black. is this superstition
If IL is. put down Chaunccy NJ. Depew as
the most superstitiOus man that walks.
about that cure at LOurdes. visited
there on the 18Th, though / tnlnh LOT lIdt
matter the day OF the month had noinlhs
TO do with the case. Nor DO assert IL
was influential with any l nave ntHtioh-
ed-mereiy a coincidence AL Loutdes
there were thousands OF sick people wait
ing to be dipped in the healing spring
This one girl 10 whom my attention was
called. was in u chair. with painful sores
on her knee While / was there, Wlthla
an hour, these healed and the sirl walk
ed with ease. though terribly cmaclalei.
"People of mind Of ali ag IS nave De-
lieved in superstition from Brutus down
and from Butus back. Julius caesar was
the only man who took no stock IN sI-
perstition. Perhaps, ~ he hal. ne woull
have been better OF The soot lsaEei
warned him. Beware the ides OF March
But he laughed at her. Caesar met his
fate upon the ides OF March;
81 am not going To say 1hat believe
I'm putting on my left shoe first or but
tOning my left suspenlcr first or picking
up a pin when ! see 10 unless / want the
pin. But | am willing TO declare that
there is no man who can AFFORD 10 say
that there Is positively nothing in. the
world beyond his own limited vsion.'
cLEvELAND's THIsrErSIH FIsH
President Cleveland has u superstition
which is thus told by a gentleman who
has flshed with him every spring and
fall for years.
"The President is superstitious about
thirteen, though he doesn't want people
TO think 80. He refuses 10 think 50
himself But his friends know his little
falling and Eumor him.
"One Of the PRESIDENTS supersuuOns is
about fishing He does not Ike the thr-
tenth FISH he IL afraid ne will not catch
another and that he will have 20 20 home
with thirteen fish. This means death.
Never take home thirteen oranges or
thirteen Of anything that Is 70 be eaten.
"When the President catches his thir-
teenth fish he plays IL carefully and takes
IL off the hook gingerly. He wouldn' {
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 iu
the can the fish can have a COLLATION. and
think he is at his own coral-reef table
for a while. His after-fate Is soon de-
cided.
~ the President catches another fish
in a minute the thirteenth fish is taken
out of the can and strung upon a twll