Show free state under which heretofore they nourished flourished so long and prospered grospe prospered red so much and we do strictly charge and command that the said eald fast bo be I 1 everen reverently aly and devou devoutly aly observed by all our I 1 ov I 1 ng subjects 4 u in england our dominion of wales and town of 0 berwick upon tweed as they tender the favour of almighty god and would avoid ills hla wrath and indignation and upon pain of such punishment as w we may justly inflict upon all such a aa contemn and neglect the performance of so BO religious a duty 4 and for the better and more orderly solemnizing solemn izing the same balne 0 wo o have given directions to the most reverend the arch archbishops bishops and the right reverend the bishops of england to compose a for form of prayer suitable to this occasion to be used ir in all churches and places 0 of f worship and to take care th the 11 I 1 same amo be timely dispersed throughout t their heir respective dioceses given at our court at st james the thirtieth day of october one thousand seven hundred dr e d and seventy six in the seventeenth year of our relan reign As it turned out the divine majesty to whom tha hanoverian king wished to appeal for aid evidently decided not to take sides with that ruler against ills his rebellious subjects and for that reason it would appear that there was at least one friday the almli which was a lucky day tor for america even though it may h have abt been unlucky for england alore recently than this example of freday the lath be belfi hlucky lucky rather than unlucky for the american per pie Is the fact that the man ebo 1 C 11 to lend lead our troops in the world war gen john J pershing was born on friday the and one of the greatest victories of ills his men was that at st which was as won on friday tile the I nth ith in fact there tire are many people who not only scorn this superstition but never pass up a chance as the avla a la tors pictured above did to defy this and other jinxes jinkes there was once a famous thirteen club which used to smash a mirror before it sat down under umbrellas thirteen at a table on oil the occasion of its monthly dinners on the thirteenth and there Is no record that bad luck trailed any of its members and got them in bad several years ago three chicago couples were married on friday the lath at the hour in cell no 13 of tile the old convict ship success which wits was then on exhibit ionIn the river each bride carried a lilack black cat find thirteen mirrors weri brohen at it the time of the ceremony per emny so fr far as Is known knon all three of these have suffered ered ng disastrous fate in an ape of what we are pleased to term enlightenment and progress it Is interesting to note how the superstition about the number 13 lias survived when other superstitions seems to td be going into the discard the belief that this number Is a hoodoo r to be worldwide world wide in france especially in parl paris a no bouw houw hears bears that number in the french capital there here are persons known a as a fourte eners who are held in reserve to make fourteen ot ft cammer parties when it Is discovered that there are likely to bo be only thirteen guests present england has haa left thirteen oft off its ita license plates for automobiles and the italians never uso use the number in lotteries lott erlea the turks dislike the number so much that the they y have dropped it from their cocab vocabularies U negroes in every land fear the number and it Is also taboo among limong the indians indiana of mexico and central america and americans are anra just as superstitious ious about it as any other poo peo pie only recently a great railroad system announced that it had paid deference to the superstition by eliminating the number thirteen iteen from its passenger trains it was stated at the time that many people refused to ride on those trains if they knew the number because they feared bad luck would befall them several new york hotels have no room 13 nor floor the number being purposely omitted the same Is true of some office buildings in order to avoid using the num her ber rooms and floors in hotels and office buildings and cabins in passenger ships are numbered 12 A railroads and steamship lines report that travel Is lightest on the of tile the month and if it happens to be a friday tile the then the number of travelers Is almost negligible what Is the un luckiest piece of money to own no it tide the 2 bill its tile the quarter say any some folks and hero hera Is wily why there are 13 letters letter in ti the words quarter dollar the engla ene hns has 13 feathers in his tall 13 long feathers in eack each wing 13 arrows in one foot holds a branch with 13 leaves in the other foot bears a rib bon ban in its boulli with 13 letters on it the shield over the birds head contains 13 stars nud and there are 13 stars stara on the other side of the coln coin I 1 but for all the superstition about this number it must be admitted that there here to I 1 much to be said on both sides aides of f tile the question for instance here are two different views on oa the subject the following news item from tile the washington star presents one philadelphia E W tallman ne newly ly elected manager director or of the auto mobile club of philadelphia has haa no fea fear at the no 13 As president of the kt IKI ganir club mr tallman recently remarked to his fellow members 1 I have been in philadelphia ladelphia 13 years been married the same number of years my birthday falls on the lath of the month I 1 have motor license no 1313 and everything in my life has been associated its is oct with no 13 in taking charge of the motor club 0 on n the mr tallman enters upon the task of adding four new flora floors to the clubhouse house and garage fit at no 23 south twenty third street which will provide additional facilities for hundreds of new members and from the new york herald tribune cornea comes this addition to tee teen lana niana chicago life Is made up of a number berof of things the accent in the case of irvin S H berlins berling of winnetka being on the word number r mr r derling applied for a motor car license end and got it it was no 13 of all the numbers in thebon the box tills this was the last one lie he wanted so BO he ha sent it back another license arrived it was wa s no 68 58 and mr air berling observed wit with h hardly any tax on his arithmetic that five alv anti and eight total thorten etri so he sent that back in due courie course there arrived the third license it happened to be no 67 which also alao totals thirteen lie he returned it and now awaits the fourth hoping that it will not arrive next friday which he has noted falls on the thirteenth of january the number of letters in mr berlings full name add thirteen and his street address lake avenue does tao tam |