Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — Superstitious Anxiety. [ARTICLE]

Superstitious Anxiety.

The advent of the year 1903 has aroused a certain amount of anxiety among the superstitious in the French capital, no inconsiderable number, for the Parisian is much given to occultism and kindred “sciences,” as the professors of these arts proudly term them. For it has been noted that the first and last figures of the date 1903 form the dreaded thirteen, and that, worse still, if the figures be added together the terrible total is again reached. Then it has been discovered that there are no less than three Fridays that fall on the 13th of the month, a combination that oan only spell disaster. A number of oocultists have been eonsafced by the enterprising Parisws reporter, and they nave done their beet to reassure the public mind Ip Stating that the influence of the •amber 13 must not be exaggerate end that the only occasion on talfieb it undoubtedly exercises an unfavorable influence is when peoph down thirteen to table.—Golden Penny.