The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-03
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THIRTEEN
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IL is unlucky. The most absurd
things are believed. There is belief
in the potency Of the rabbit foot
Some believe the appearance Of a
comet portends war, and hundred
other foolish superstitions. are still
deeply rotted in human imagination
Like Friday, the number 10 is ESQ
ciated with the life of Christ. There
were Is persons at the Lords Sup
per. Many eminent persons have be
lieved 1S is productive of ill-luck
Queen Victoria once refused to 81,
with 10 at table. Many Of the
large hotels and steamship compa
MES have no bedrooms or staterooms
numbered 10.
Thirteen, as does Friday, cuts
quite a figure in American history
The Union began with Is colonies
and there were 13 articles in the Ar
ticles Of Confederation. The motto
"E Pluribus Unum," has IL letters
in it, and the words, American
Eagle" contained Is letters. Above
the head of the eagle on coins are
13 stars, the olive branch has Il
J leaves, while the thunderbolts mum
Der Is. On the eagles breast is the
shield with 10 bars, and each wing
has 10 feathers.
The first official American flae
had 10 stars and 10 stripes. The
stars have been increased in mum
Der, but the 13 stripes remain.
Woodrow Wilson's name has 1;
letters in 1t. He was IL years 6
professor in Princeton University
and then became the thirteenth pres
J ident. He has had no bad luck az
far.
1t was in 1913 that Balboa dis
covered and crossed the Isthmus O
Panama. 1t was on Friday, April %
1904, that the United States com
pleted its purchase of the Panam,
canal property from the French own
ers, and in 1913 the canal was prac
tically completed.
} The war Of independence, Gale,
Revolutionary" takes Is letters t
spell it. Our navy began with 1
! little ships, and John Paul Jones'
who was no hoodoo as naval off
Ger, had name composed Of IL lei
tiers, and he was IL years old whe
} he came to America.
On May 10, 1907, the settlers lane
ed at Jamestown, and the first pei
I mament settlement by Englishme
began in America.
y On Friday, July Is, 1917, congress
passed the famous ordinance for tn
= government of the territory nortf
y west of the Ohio river.
On September 10, 1888, congress
proposed the day when state legis
latures should vote for presidentia
electors, when the electors shout
meet and when the new presiden
should be inaugurated, the same BIZ
ing the first Wednesday In March
1889, which happened to be the 4tf
There was a Thirteen club in Ne,
York for many years. and its men
bers were long lived as any othe
citizens, in spite Of their habit Q
sitting 10 at table and defying a
traditions about good and Ill lucl
They made as pecial feast on any FIR
, day that fell on the 18th Of the mont
and smashed mirrors, spilled sal
walked under ladders, sat unde
= opened umbrellas and cheered whe
their candles went out.
A Thirteen of the sixty-four know
1 elements in nature are combined
! the making of the most wonderf
Il thing on each--a human being,
| he National Museum at Washingto
| the material composing man weig
/ ing 154 pounds, can be seen, in be
il ties and jars, the exact quantities
| each of these primary elements. tt
| visitors will see SO pounds of wat
Il -46 quarts-and the proteins, ia
I, and minerals in varying quantitie
| OF these elements five are minera
Il or metallic, five are gas and thr,
i non-metallic, or 13 in ALL Water
Il composed of oxygen, SS.9 per cen
| hydrogen, Ill per cent These ty
Il gases, the quantity in this 154-poul
n man, would fill 2,79S cubic feet, al
| the 81 pounds of carbon expanded
81 to gas would take up 1000 cub
i feet. The lime in the bones won
i weight pounds, and the live bon
A contain % per cent of water, and d
II blood SO per cent.
II With proper effort the good luck
10 could be easily established al
u evidence in favor of Friday being
II lucky day could be rapidly accum
lated and the newborn belief won