Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-14
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Quaint Virginia City Near lanes
town Exposition Grounds.
.NoRTHERNER ON IT'S PEOPLE.
Some Of Them Still. Seem to Live In
the Days Of Captain Johri Smith.
Living Lions In Store Window as an.
Advertisemen n Colonial Relics.
Norfolk, Va. is a thriving, bustling
city with an ambition to become great
some time, but there Is certain ele-
ment Of the inhabitants who still APP
pear to- exist in the days Of Captain
John Smith, who would not have so
large a place in history had not an in
teresting maiden with a copper color
ed skin saved him from Mr.. Pow
hatan, then chief of that region, writes
q Norfolk correspondent Of the New
York Evening Sun. The Hon. Pow!
hatan will be best remembered as a
gentleman whose chief aim in life was
to see his victims laid on the stones,
50 that he might beat their heads with
q club Els costume usually consist
ed Of a nose ring and q fierce look.
Those Norfolkers who live in the
past do not seem to care whether the
world Is round or fiat, and its move
ment on its axis never disturbs them.
They help to imparts that delightfully."-
rural air which is part of Norfolk's
charm. One such citizen was found In
the conductor Of q trolley car bound
FOR the Jamestown exposition grounds
the other day. The car had crossed a
small stream Of water about eleven
different times In the course of its
devious windings, and because Of the
persistency with which the water kept
company with the car a northerner
asked, What body Of water is that r.
That ERE water Is done called
Hampton Roads, Z replied the con-
ductor. q 3a
There was nothing in the offing ex-
cept a fleet of oyster sloops and a few
second class ducks.
Tain't Hampton Roads,. spoke up
q negro. That water is Boush creek
Having been SO enlightened by the
conductor, the northerner forbore to
ask him any more questions for fear
he might receive too much knowledge
In too short a time The conductor
was bad, but the tailor who was visit
ed In the morning with request to
mend garment was worse.
II really have not got the time" he
said. I. Around the corner is another
tailor who win be glad to do 1t while
you wait, sir. Yes, sir, he will do it
while you wall. 2
Everything goes here" laughingly
remarked a man from Chicago, who
had just seen an exhibition Of the rural
3 side Of Norfolk. a hen ran amuck on
the main street and darted into a drug
store, where she flew up on the souve-
mir counter as lie about to lay an egg.
"a native reached out and seized her by
three tall feathers Then he stuck her
under his arm and walked OF with her
as calmly asif he were carrying bun.
die Of shoes.
As rat the size OF q kitten ran out OF
q business building on CRANKY street
In the evening hours. Maybe he had
heard of the exposition and Of the good
things IN the edible line. to be obtained
there. a half dozen citizens who lined
the sidewalk lifted their right feet ten
tatiyely and each in turn stamped at
I the fleeing rat. They all missed and
3 resumed their original positions.
"a department store on the main
street kept three lion whelps in Its
show window on opening day. "a crowd
collected around the snarling little fell
] lows, and one man spoke thus to an
other, IF one Of those cubs should
scratch itself SO that It bled. the
mother would eat 1t up. 3
How so?' was the surprised query.
Well, the sight Of blood just nat
urally makes her hungry, and there
would be nothing to that cub.
But for all It's oddities Norfolk has
many features about It to captivate
\ the visitor when the sun shines or the
i moon glimmers softly at night, impart-
ing mystic air TO its brick paved
streets In the residential quarters. The
streets are narrow, with that southern
picturesqueness which must be seen to
be appreciated. Most Of the houses are
OF brick, and there are many spacious
white wooden stoops with colonial pill.
lars. Everywhere the fragrant magno-
lila spreads its branches.
Aside from this Norfolk Is cradle
he'd OF history. Not only Captain John
Smith helped TO make It famous, but
men like Patrick Henry and Henry
Clay lifted their voices there In de
Tense Of liberty and the Union. Sir
Thomas Moore was there and wrote a
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