Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — SuperstitionS Drummers. [ARTICLE]

SuperstitionS Drummers.

“I have known commercial travelers," said a hotel clerk to a New York Tribune reporter, “to stay out until the early hours of Sunday morning and yet they would get up and go to churoh Sunday no matter how severe the weather was. They said they were not particularly religious, but that they made it an invariable rule to go to church on Sunday or they would have no success during the week. I remember a case of a young fellow who came in from the train late one Saturday afternoon. 4 I never had a worse week in my life,’ he said. ‘Why, I haven’t taken one decent order. And the reason is I neglected to go to churoh last Sunday as is my usual custom. lam going out to-night and may be out late, but I want to be called in time for church to-morrow forenoon.’ He did not come in until 4 o’clock in the morning, but he insisted on being called at 9 o’clock, and though it was raining pitchforks went to church after a hearty breakfast. I joked him when he returned, and declared that he had not been to church. But he told me the minister’s text and several good points of the sermon. Well, he declared that he had good luck all that week, and booked sevoral of the largest orders he had ever taken in this city.”