Little Superstitions

"I dou'tbelieve tbere is a mau living who is without hia pet Buperstition, " reruarked a seoondhand furniture man "We constantly have people who Bell us articles of household use and cunie in after a few weeks - soinetimesonly days - and try to buythem back again, witb ths explanatiou that they have had 'bad luck' ever siac8 the sale was made and UBver would have good luck agaiu antil the bargain was uu done. "One woman who had sold ub her grandmotheï'8 clock fairly wept because it was gone before she could buy it in agaiu This idea is not coufined to uneducated or ignorant people by any means. "At this very time I know a Louisville business man of great culture and refiuement who is vigorously pursuing an old wooden desk which he owned many yeai's ago - a desk on which he made an emrnious amount of money by a few luc' y strokes of his pen The desk passtJ from hand to hand and out of his possession He is now earnestly endeavoring to trace it and purchase it, believing that recent business reverses and hard times will fie,e away if he can ouly stretch his legs once more under