Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — A Reliable Superatition. [ARTICLE]

A Reliable Superatition.

Several men were talking of superstitions so common among all classes of people. As a matter of course, one of the things touched upon was the sup-’ posediy fatal number thirteen. An old colored man who happened to be within he .ring distance felt moved to remark: “I to tell you gem’men not to make fun o’ dat thirteen bus’ness. I ain’t superfishus, but I tell you don’t you eat at no table whar dar’s thirteon. I done do dat, and I hope to die if pretty near every one of dem ain’t dead and buried.” His hearers expressed surprise at his remarkable statement and asked for par.iculars. “Well, some of dem got killed and one thing an’ another, and some jest natehelly died. But they is pretty near all gone to-day.” “How long ago did this thirteen at table incident occur?” “Now, lemme s-e. Been about thirty year since the war, ain’t it? Well, I specs it must a happened fifteen or twenty years beforo tho war broke out. But it makes me feel about as oneasy as though it was only yisierday. I specs I’ll be the next most any day.”