Arizona republican., 1903-07-12
FRIDAY NOT UNLucKY
On the Contrary, Statistics Show that
 It Is Day of Good Fortunes.

Friday It has been discovered by a painstaking and laborious statistician. is not the unluckiest. but actually the luckiest day of the week.
 Taking al the great calamities which befall humanity. the painstaking gath erer of facts has discovered that the general average gives the title of duck fest day to Friday, and that of un- luckiest to Monday.
 The moral is plain. Beware of Mon day.
 Tn one line alone it has been found that Friday deserves its present title. In railroad accidents Friday heads the list So it is wise. If you be supersti- tious. to avoid beginning a journey on Friday.
 The thirteen superstition" was knocked in the head long ago and 1t was to be supposed that an iconoclastic age would take a punch at the Fri day dread before long.
 Sir William Churchill was one of the first to discard the superstition.
 Friday Is my lucky day" he writes. "I was born, christened, mar ried. and knighted on that day, and all my best accidents have befallen me on a Friday"
 It has been necessary for a person to admit being superstitious to ac- knowledge a preference for beginning certain things on any other day than Friday This feeling is inborn in near ly all nationalities except the Scandi- navian.
 Sir William Churchili's experiences might not be accepted as disproving the general rule against Friday under takings. but the conclusions of the statistician may have more weight.
 First he takes the record of assas- situations. In these he discovers that Sunday Is e-eminently the conspicu- ous day. Wednesday comes next, counting attempts which did not sue ceed as we'll as attempts which did. Saturday Is third. and Monday fourth. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday are | equal
 There is a possibility that the person having In mind such an attack chooses any other day than Friday, in the be- lief that the day will prove unlucky for him. An examination of the records of such attacks in the last 150 years has disclosed the fact that the would be murderer looks on Friday as an un- lucky day for his attempt. That might be construed to prove either side of the argument, but it is fair to accept the statistician's conclusion in favor of Friday as the lucky day.
 As a side issue he has discovered something which might be used to bol- ster up the thirteen superstition" Of all the assassinations attempted or ac- complished during the last century and a half 1-3 per cent have fallen l ha of he proportion would have been about 1-3 per cent
 Three famous men, among others, he finds were assassinated on Friday Abraham Lincoln. William Mckinley and Nasr-ed Deen, Shah of Persia Three attempts were made to kill Alexander II. of Russia on Mondays two to kill Bismarck on Mondays. an6 three to kill Louis Philippe on Tues days.
 The sailor has a right to consider Friday his luckiest day if exemption from shipwreck be considered. It has been a pet superstition of the sea that Friday is the unlucky day for sailing This is found to be extraordinary ,as the number of shipwrecks occurring or that day of the week is the smallest.
 To secure this conclusion, the statis- tician examined the records of the dis asters to British vessels from 1895 tC the present day. He found that 9 per cent happened on Thursday, 16 pel cent on Saturday and Sunday, IA pel cent on Monday and Wednesday, 1. per cent cent on Tuesday and only per cent on Friday.
 By examining the record of railroad disasters from 1893 up to date it wa: found that the nervous person whC fears to begin journey on Friday car point to some substantiation for thu fears. It was in this item alone tha the day kept up its reputation.
 Wednesday Is the best day to begir a journey. Saturday. Sunday anC Monday are close rivals to Friday while Tuesday. Thursday and Wednes day have small records.
 The greatest danger from fire ha been on Monday Wednesday and Sat urday are next, and Thursday show the smallest fire loss. Sunday, Tues day and Friday are about on equa footing. Friday having a shade tn worst of it.
 summary shows the following:
 The worst days for murders-Sunday
 The worst day for fires-Monday. The worst day for shipwrecks-