Have You A Pet Superstition?

"Idon't believethere is a man living -who is without his pet superstition, " remarked a secoiidhand furniture man the other day. "We constantly have people who sell us articles of honsehold use and come in after a few weeks - fiometimes only days - and try to buy theni back again, with the explanation that they have had 'bad luck' ever since the sale was made and neverwould have good luck again until the bargain was undone. "One woman who had sold us her .grandniother's clock f airly wept because it was gone before she could buy it in again. This idea is not confined to uneducated or ignorant people by any tneans. "At this very time I knowa business man of great culture and refinement ■who is vigorously pursuing an old wooden desk which he owned many years ago - a desk on which he made an enormous amount of money by a few lucky strokes of his pen. The desk passed from hand to hand and out of bis possession. He is now earnestly endeavoring to trace it aud purchase it, believing that recent business reverses and hard times will flee away, if he can only stretch bis legs once more under