Show STUMP PENCILS ARE MASCOTS bers ot of the sew new york stock exin chang superstitious about lead sticks talking of voodoos hoodoos and mascots said aid a member of the stock exchange reports the new hew york post the boys oatlie floor of the exchange are as superstitious pers lilious as A n lot of sailors if I 1 you dont dodt believe it you look atthe leill lead pencils they are us using ing the next time you are in the building you wont find a man using a long lone lead pencil why by because a 10 long T pencil Is a hoodoo boodoo of the worst kind they illey always cut a new 12 el V bencil p encil in hall before they sharpen it some of these pencils ne acquire quiro tile the reputation ot of bei ing lucky Les sAllan a week ago I 1 came down without my pencil which by the way la qa B lucky luclid one every memorandum made with that pencil results in a profit for me aud and I 1 bor borrowed one from a friend on the floor lie ile handed roe me a stump about an inch ion long and aid you can use that its a lucky pencil sure enough I 1 made two deals in the morning and each netted me a bandoma profit 1 I was about to make a demoran me moran dain of come stock I 1 had bad bou bought 12 when my friend approached and said here take this pencil and let me 11 have ave mine again ive lost on every deal since I 1 loaned it to you sure eno b I 1 lost on that deal and the luck went back to the owner of the pencil when you 3 ou get hold of a lucky pencil ion W to 10 ban hang on oil to it souie of the boys have little lucky joil not more than au all inch long iong I 1 i guard them as they would r I 1 I 1 es cs N ou through carelessness or ac nt cause them to break the lead ir hey hp v lose whatever regard they I lui ji 3 oil oi and forever aal afterward iward revan as 26 inimical some of the them i ili 0 wit nt tale five dollars for a little lit te e of pencil worth considerably less in da a cent |