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Show twenty yeara. And the comfort should ooma to Oermany that h u never better preparad for wir thin she U right now. Tbsra ,ara no avi-dcneea avi-dcneea tht nature slipa a tog when the comes to thirteen, though for tome unexplained reason great many people tight ahy of that number, and would rather slip up on the iea on any other day. They hold It aa they do misfortune of arcing th new moon over the left shoulder. But really those things do not eount any more than loap year to the girl who waa not married last year. Old Father Time has no special datee on which misfortune are to eome to men or nations. SUPERSTITIONS. Gtrrpant who r iuclined to be urxrstitiou Are repeating in whispers the decUratiou of a trrt Uumiaq -oothayer iuad in th last century cen-tury that in 1013 Germany would be involved in a tremendous European war. It may ba possible, because great wars arc liable to come to any nation. Germany was on tha verge of a great war laat summers o be waa three years ago; but just now there are no especial espe-cial portents in her sky. and thert are no evidences evi-dences that 1913 ia to be a year devoted to trouble. 4 .We are going to have a now president this year, but the promise of trouble ia not ball ao great as i4 was twenty years ago, and then be--auso of ita experience and discipline the Ameri- an people have settled down into the belief that .Ivy -virn 'aland a Dcmoeratic president once in |