The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-24
HE FOUND HIS IDEAL.
Romantic Soul Of Il Sailor Man Got
Him In Bad.

(New York SUM-
me three retired Seamen who sat
outside the tobacco store at the foo
OF BROOKLYN Heights had nothing bu,
word Of disparagement for the wood.
en- Indian who stood with one foot ad.
attitude beside them. 1t was the opin-
Ion Of all three %ex-sailors that the In
dlan was q poor creature.
II isn't any sort of a t%igurehead
to have" remarked the Oldest en-
mariner scornfully. Now on ships
iigureheads always mean something.
What does an Indian mean?"
Its a trade sign" said the propri.
etor d~efensively.
maiden in a long flowing robe. shad-
ing her eyes as she gazes earnestly up
the street," demanded one of the
customers.
The proprietor laughed bitterly. Ev.
cry n would mock such an image,
ne said. Besides. such a maiden was
NOT associated with the supplying Of
TOBACCO to an unesthetic neighbour
hood.
II knew a man who had such a
fgurehead In front OF his shop. and
he died rich." said the Oldest man Of
the sea with conviction. He was a
mate OF. mine on the brig Cassowary,
which piled between Philadelphia and
New York. This mate Of mine stole
the figurehead Of the Cassowary on a
dark night as she lay at a pier here,
all because he vas so struck with
n type OF beauty to which the lady
Slim creature with long tresses and a
sort OF empire gown, and many a
time ne used to say to me, That's the
very image OF the woman l want to
marry When I'd ask him why he
didn't marry her he'd shake his head
mournfully and confide to me that he
hadn't seen her in flesh yet.
one day he said to me, being more
melancholy han usual, that he'd SIM
to find a woman like the lady of the
Cassowary. That very night with my
heip he %unfastened the figurehead,
and buoying it with inflated rubber
belts towed 1t up the river, and hid it
In a little cove. In the morning there
was great CONSERVATION about the
loss Of the tigurehead. accompanied
by the strongest language l had ever
heard our skipper use. But my mate
he got the fisurehead of The cove
AFTER the hue and cry had quieted a
PIT n had it wrapped and driven in
lana. Then he set up the lady in
front OF his tobacco store.
There was no statuary in that
New Jersey village, and the very best
people in town took to my mate at
once as the only local patron of one
OF the fine arts. He soon did q rush
Ing business. He told part Of the
truth. too, how she was his ideal Of
female beauty; and the women Of
that town actually encouraged their
husbands to buy tobacco Of him.
But while his business was n
and he got into real estate and other
things. making a lot of none for
those days. the lady brought him to
disaster at last. One of the Young
women Of the town looked a good
deal hke the statue, and as h had
made up her mind apparently that
h was just going to be married to
my mate she studied the flgurehead,
liz up her hair as the lady's was
DONE, n wore the same kind Of
dress. Soon every one remarked on
her likeness to the statue and YOU
could see that people were beginning
to expect him to marry her. NV
mate. who suspected the young wo-
mar OF designs on his peace, held out
as long as he dared against her arts.
maintaining that she didn't resemble
the ~figurehead at all. But public
opinion was too strong against him.
She bossed him from the hour OF the
wedding and he died rich, but under
strict discipline and very unhappy"