| Show SOME KENTUCKY superstitions from the louisville post it would astonish you to know the number of persons in this state who are not superstitious but who do believe in signs while returning front western kentucky last week I 1 sat talking with a party of seven gentlemen in the smoking compartment of a pull man car when one of them pulled from his pocket a graveyard rab birgl foot which he said had always brought him good luck another of the gentlemen exhibited the feather of an old gray goose which had been given him by a negro charm seller in the purchase the owner said he knew the thing was a mere flebut tri he part with it for any amount of third member of the party had an aim old steel pen which had been used by the governor of a southern state in writing the pardon of a condemned condemn od man this nonbeliever non believer in strange 1 I signs said he prized the omen higher than anything he possessed as he had succeeded ever since he got it them the J sleeping car conductor carried in we his pocket an irish potato shriveled to td one third its former size which nevet never failed on a rheumatism case A fifth y gentleman had this to say fellows im no believer in those meaning meaningless lew emblems but I 1 cant help feeling badly if I 1 fall to see the new moon over ny my my right shoulder t the only two members of the patty who had not spoken left the car smiling at the vapid tollies follies they too were doubtless believers in if f they had only expressed themselves |
