Show working W 0 k 0 g of a the endeavor of a st louis mar to secure the courts curts aid ald to remove the hoodoo which he is convinced pursues him wilt excite interest in the minds of many people who aho have bae felt at some in their lives that there must be something occult in the persistence with ith which misfortune pet petty or serious seems to pursue them bad luck N 1 a subject which has often been given careful consideration aeration by the human mind and it will remains in great doubt among many whether there is not really a personal fate sure enough that shapes their ends rough how hew them as they may we can hardly expect the law courts to do anything for us A court can not enjoin a hoodoo as it would a corporation po ration for the strong enough reason that a hoodoo is always original in its methods and unanticipated in its there is something of the hoodoo in what 19 called the perversity of inanimate A man who is really and truly hoodooed will drop his lead pencil the point will break off as it strikes the firor and it will then roll under his desk where he ho can not get it without moving the desk As he undertakes to do this the elastic apparatus that bu suspends spends his lower loer garment will burst and the ink bottle on the desk will upset this is what one might call the hoodoo when ahen it isora is borc tas in at its best and is not overlooking anything A good active woojoo may keep this up for several days until the victim is thoroughly tau thu cowed coned or his spirit broken when nhen it will depart as suddenly as it cime and leave him in peace astrology has sought to explain ahse tempests of bad luck by bs the position of the stars at ones birth alere saturn uranus and the aun were ere at the time you were born will wil s decide for your whole life for instance that ou 0 will miss trains sometimes m ou may by our own onn strength of mind and volition partially overcome this you may make it a rule to start for our train an hour before any one else does even then the malignant influence of your natal planets may compel a breakdown n in the street car or in some other way aa accomplish the purpose foreordained for them on the morn of creation we must each accept pur hoodoo as wa we do some hereditary defect and do the best we can to minimize min mize its effects st I lauh glob democrat |