Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1913 — Page 6

OFFICIAL PROGRAM FIREMEN’S CONVENTION, DECATUR IND. THURSDAY, JUNE 26th. Forenoon. 7:00 a. m.—All committees from city department and citizen's reception committee will assemble at city ball, headquarters. 7:00 to 10:00 a. m.—Reception and registration ot visiting firemen. 10:00 a. m.—Address of welcome by Mayor J. W. Teeple. Response by G. F. Rogge, of Fort Wayne, president of the association. Convention proper at I. O. O. F. hall. 10:30 a. m — Exhibition run by the Bluffton and Decatur fire departments from the city hall to Sixth street. 11:00 a. m.—Free attraction, The Tyrons. East Monroe St. • Afternoon Program. 1:00 p. m.—Formation of parade on Monro street, looking west. Formation - The town or city selected as the next meeting place of the association will be accorded the honor of leading the parade. LINE OF MARCH. From City Hall west to Seventh street, south on Seventh to Adams, east ou Adams to Second, north on Second to Marshall, west on Marshall to Fourth, south on Fourth to Monroe, east to Second, south on Secon to Adams, west on Adams to Fourth, north on Fourth to Monroe, east to Che city hall and there disband. 3:00 p. m. Hose laying contest, to take place on Monroe street. Under the rules the contesting companies must run 200 yards, attach to hydrant and lay 200 feet of hose. First prize, S2O, and second prize, sls. 4:00 p. in. Water battle on vacant lot west of G. R. & I. railroad, between Eighth and Madison streets; First prize, $10.00; second prize, $5.00. • •! Evening Program. 6:30 p. m. —Band concert on Court street. First Class—First prize, $10: second, S2O. Second Class—First prize, $35; second, S2O. Decatur bands barred. SOO p. m—Free attraction. The Tyrons. East Monroe Street. Special Prizes. For largest uniformed company in parade, sls; for second largest uniformed company in parade, $lO. For largest delegation, sls. Automobile parade—best decorated car $5.00, second $4.00, third $3.00; fourth $2.00; Fifth SI.OO. Best decorated business house, $5.00; second, $3.00; Best decorated residence on line of march—s4.oo: second $3.00. LIFE IS NOT ALL SUNSHINE ESPECIALLY IF YOUR FEET HURT But if you will try a pair of Old Time Comfort slippers or shoes you can stop the hurting and by the way you should see the handsome oxfords and Dumps in Button Lace or strap in all leathers. You get good shoes of ELZEY&HACKMAN OPP. COURT HOUSE IND. fl iu he m A Mi H 3 Ih | LiiiMsh Ipl ’ ULY, IO to 13.

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The Red Spot on the Water A Story of the Borderland of Immortality By F. A. MITCHEL

The day of witches, vampires, fairies and the like Is over. We read of the Lorelei of the Rhine and peruse such poems as Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (the beautiful woman without mercy) or Heine's water fay, not because we believe either the woman or the fairy to have existed, but be cause of the sensations aroused by the weird pictures drawn. Nevertheless there is a class of poopie among us who are not disposed to > break down the barriers between the natural or the supernatural. And have we not societies for psychical research, composed of earnest and many ofj them extremely intelligent persons, who make It their business to gather information about supernatural ap pearanee*? Personally I am neither convinced nor unconvinced as to the feasibility of such investigations, though 1 have' bad an experience calculated to throw me on the affirmative side. That experience I will give just ns it occurred or, rather, as it communicated itself through my senses, leaving each reader to make for himself or herself an 1 explanation to fit the case. During the spring I worked bard in order to get ahead with my office; duties that I might enjoy a vacation ! during the summer. Nevertheless | when 1 left home about the Ist ofj duly I never felt better tn my life. I , mention this because the state of one's j health is an important factor in com- i ing to an explanation of such happen-j Ings as the one that came to me. it is • a well known fact that persons suffering from bodily ills are more apt to i see ghosts than persons in good health, i The scene of my outing was on the ; coast of New Hampshire. I stayed, nt a hotel where there were a great many young Indies and but few young | men. I thought at first that I would I>e in clover, but since I knew no one to introduce me I was obliged to see them going about in each other’s company. ignoring me completely. I was told afterward that there was scarcely any of them but would have been glad to meet a marriageable man. and I considered myself n fair specimen of a bachelor. Why I should have been so completely ostracized I don't know. I am of opinion that it was the spirit of clique so strong in these girls that it overpowered their natural disposition to mate. After trying in vain to break through the shell that kept me away from them I undertook to amuse myself In other ways. I was fond of boating and spent a part of my time on the water. I took long walks. 1 did not bathe, for the water was too cold. A few miles up the shore from my hotel was a cliff a hundred feet high. A path led around its edge, fenced by a rail over which one could look down. Immediately below was a fiat rock surface against which the waves rolled, then deflected, pushed off in another direction, surged in through a cleft, then out again. All day long this process continued, and as I watched it I could not but wonder why. And why was I there looking down upon It? All wns query, no answer. ' Nevertheless the place was fascinating to me. and I went there often. One ! evening, when at twilight the great globe of the moon was rising out of the water. I thought I would like to go to the cliff and see it as it would appear under the different light The ; young ladies of the hotel were walking in couples and platoons, witb their arms around each other's waist, back ; and forth on the piazza. and as they saw me start off. evidently for a moonlight walk, I thought I could detect wistfulness in the faces of some who saw me depart. If any of them would have liked to be my companion she | wns obliged to restrain her desire, for | she had not been introduced, add even ! If she had I did not belong to the set lof her associates and she would have been shocked at herself to become intimate with any other. i The distance to the cliff was about ; three miles, and when I bad traversed It I approached the rail cautiously, put >a hand on it. then stood looking over. | The moon was exactly in position to I cast its rays into the recess In the j rocks below. Slowly a wave, resemI bling for all the world a leviathan of the sea. would sluggishly lumber in. : roll against the rock, seem astonished ; at having been stopped, swim over to a perpendicular surface on the other side, glance and ipove on Into the cleft But what is that red spot on the wa ter beside the rock? Is it an afgban, a shawl or some other wrap that has fallen from the cliff, or has it been washed in from some boat out on tl -3 ocean? So Intent on it wns I ibat I leaned over as far ns 1 dare to get a better view of ft When n wave passing the place where it floated was in shadow the red spot was not visible; shen when the moon struck full upon It it was tike blood. I was suddenly ednaefous of the pres ence of some one beside me. Why 1 . know not, for I beard no sound, not t footstep nor even a person breathing I I drew bar k and turned my head. There, leaning upon the rail in the | same position as I, was a young girl. I It occurred to mu that she must ba ’•

one of a party that hud come -probably from the hotel where I was stopping—for a moonlight walk. I looked quickly over my shoulder for her companions, but saw no one. There were only the rocks here nnd there covered with verdure, the trees standing back, the path winding on eastward, the girl beside me, all bathed in the soft light of the moon. I wus embarrassed at this being standing so near me at such au hour without the slightest appearance of reserve. I was trying to think of some remark, some question that would not sound brusque, when she broke the silence: "Isn't it beautiful?" "Beautiful, but somehow jnst now there seems something awful about IL What is that red thing floating below? In certain lights It looks like blood." "It is blood! Come away. It affects you unpleasantly.” She turned and walked back a short distance from the verge ot the cliff. What could I fio but follow her? She sat down on a rock surface that formed a convenient seat and such position as to make room for me beside her. Wonderingly I asked: “Are you from the hotel where I am staying?” “No,” she said, but offered no word as to where she came from. “I cannot imagine,” I continued, “any ot those young ladles coming here alone and at this hour." “There is not sufficient to tempt them to break through the conventional forms that bind them. Perhaps it is well that they do not. I stayed at one of the hotels hereabout one season and i was bound by the same code as they are bound. I pined for freedom. 1 came here alone. I have been coming ever since.” “Why?" “I cannot keep away.” There was silence between us for a few moments while I wondered. Presently I asked: “And why can you not keep away?" “Something happened. If I were to tell you what it is it would shock you. It would have shocked me had I that it was to happen. For a brief i space it filled me with horror. Then”— She paused. “No,” she continued. “I am not here to Increase your burden of life. I know that you have been looking forward for months to your outing and now that It has come you are disap- ■ pointed. You see about you that com- | panionship which would enable you to enjoy every moment of it but between you and me it Is that hedge of conventionality which you find Impossible. 1 know what It is, for I was once fettered by It myself. Now It is nothing to me. I can go where I like, express what I feel. I am disenthralled. And to prove it I will tell you that tonight I come here to meet you." “To meet me!” “Yes. You do not know me, but I know you. Often I have seen you leaning over the rail looking down into tbe chasm. Every’ thought that passed through your brain vibrated In rny being. You are nearer the line that divides the finite from the infinite than one mortal in millions, and when you look over the cliff down upon that scene, the sluggish waves following one another In never ending succession, you feel within you that which is akin to the infinite.” She paused while I looked nt her in wonder, then added: “And why have I come to yon tonight—l who have seen you so often here? Why have I made myself known to you? I will tell you, and I am not ashamed to tell you. for I am abso lutely pure. It is because I love you." I have a dim remembrance of her rising and going to the cliff, of my following her and leaning on the rail beside her and looking down into the chasm. Then I was alone. The scene below was beautiful as before, and the red spot was gone. 1 stood gazing on the water where it had been, now limpid, like the rest, while an awe crept over me. Then I cast glances about me for my companion and shuddered at the vacancy she had left Then I was seized with a desire to get away from the place as quickly as possible. I walked back to the hotel fjlle<l with emotions of which it would be impossible to afford the slightest Inkling. AU I can say is that they were such as I had never experienced before. At the hotel I found no one to tell mo anything about the cliff, but on one of my walks, stopping at a bouse for a cup of water, an old man told me there had been a special reason for placing tbe rail at the verge of the abyss. Years ago, when the region first became a summer resort, a farmer saw a girl standing there. He turned away h’s glance, and when he looked again she had disappeared. Going to tho cliff, he looked down and saw what be at first supposed to be a red shawl floating on tbe water. Upon investigation it was discovered that the girl he had seeM had fallen over the cliff, had struck tho rock surface below and bounded off into the water. It was her i blood that appeared to him like a red garment Until writing this I have kept my secret. First I have shrunk from revealing it; secondly, I have not dared to do so for fear of being considered of unbalanced mind. 1 have never since visited the cliff, nor would 1 do so for the world. That which prevents me is having felt, while looking over It when the apparition led me back to It after telling that she loved me, an almost uncontrollable desire to throw myself down' into tho chasm. White I d® oat pretend to assert that mv ’ -»ee wy not have been ths result us a temporary mental tion, I cannot refrain from thinking that some mortals mny have in them certain leanings toward the Infinite to which the great mass of humanity ar* strangers.

SPECIAL NOTICE. The school board will receive sealed blds for 200 tons of 2,000 pounds each of White Ash domestic him coal to be delivered in blns nt the Central and Ward school buildings in Decatur, Ind, not later than August 19, 1913. Sealed bids to be filed with the secretary not later than 8 p. m. on June 30. The successful bidders to file way-bills of loads hauled with his bill after tho coal is delivered; also show the number of tons put In each building. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. O. L. VANCE, IRVIN BRANDYBERRY, FRED J. FRUCHTE, 150t6 School .Board. o NOTICE. Decatur, Ind., June 23, 1913. On account of the large crowd, and extra heavy expenses, we, the undersigned livery and feed barn owners, will be compelled to charge twentyfive cents and furnish feed for tl*' horses, but will accept n» feed. Ernest Schlickman, Third street. Schlickman & Beel, Second street. Sale Barn. Fashion Stables. Riverside Livery Barn. 150t2

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