Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-14
Lift IN OLD AORFO[K
Quaint Virginia City Near lanes
town Exposition Grounds.
NoRTHERNER ON ITS PEOPLE

Some Of Them Still Seem to Live In
3 the Days Of Captain Johr Smith.
S Living Lions In Store Window as an
Advertisements Colonial Relics.
Norfolk, Va, IS a thriving. bustling
city with an ambition to become great
some time, but there is a certain ele-
|ment of the inhabitants who still APP
pear to exist in the days Of Captain I
John Smith, who would not have so
large a place in history had not an in
teresting maiden with copper color
ed skin saved him from Mr.. Pow
hatan. then chief of that region, writes
a Norfolk correspondent Of the New
York Evening Sun. The Hon. Pow
hatan will be best rememb as a
gentleman whose chief aim in life was
to see his victims laid on the stones.
SO that he might beat their heads with
a club His costume usually consist;
ed of O nose ring and a fierce look
Those Norfolkers who live in the
past do not seem to care whether the
world is round or fat, and its move
ment on its axis never disturbs them.
They help to impart that delightfully."-
rural air which is part of Norfolk's
charm. One such citizen was found in
the conductor of a 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
persistencyswitn which the water kept
company with the car a northerner
asked, tsWhat body Of water is that?
That ERE water is done called
Hampton Roads" replied the con-
Iductor. 49, S&
There was nothing In the offing ex-
cept a fleet Of oyster sloops and q few
second class ducks.
Tain't Hampton Roads, & spoke up
a negro. That water is Boush creek. Z
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
Twas bad, but the tailor who was visit
Led in the morning with a request to
mend a garment was worse.
7 really have not got the time" he
said. & Around the corner is another
tailor who will be glad to do 1t while
you wait, sir. Yes, sir. he will do IT
I while you wait, z
Every thing goes here, !" laughfngly
i remarked a man from Chicago, who
had just seen an exhib ton Of the rural
side OF Norfolk. "a hen ran amuck or
Z the main street and darted into drug
store where she few up on the souve
81 mir counter as II about to lay an egg
a native reached out and seized her by
i three tail feathers. Then he stuck hel
under his arm and walked off with hel
4 as calmly as-if he were carrying bun
die Of shoes. ss 3t
a rat the size OF a kitten ran out q
II business building on CRANKY stree
4 In the evening hours. Maybe he had
4 heard Of the exposition and Of the gooi
things In the edible line to be obtainet
4 there. "a half dozen citizens who lined
the sidewalk lifted their right feet ten
tatively and each in turn stamped a
Z the fleeing rat They all missed and
resumed their original positions.
A department store on the mali
street kept three lion whelps in I'll
( show window on opening day Acrowt
d collected around the snarling little fel
M lows, and one man spoke thus to an
other, s'H one Of those cubs should
scratch itself SO that It bled. thu
mother would eat 1t up 55ss s5,
How SO q was the surprised query
8 ssWell, the sight Of blood just nat
urally makes her hungry, and Their
q would be nothing to that cub.
IL But for all Its oddities Norfolk has
many features about it to captivat'
the visitor when the sun shines or th'
moon glimmers softly at night impart
ing mystic air to its brick payet
streets In the residential quarters. TIL
j streets are narrow, with that southern
81 picturesqueness which must be seen t
be appreciated. Most of the houses ar.
Of brick, and there are many spaciou
q white wooden stoops with colonial phi
lars. Everywhere the fragrant magno
liza spreads Its branches.
Aside from this Norfolk is cradl
bed Of history Not only Captain Johl
4 Smith helped to make it famous, Blu
men Hike Patrick Henry and Henri.
u Clay lifted their voices there Id de
Tense OF liberty and the Union. 81
Thomas Moore was there and wrote I
1 poem about the Dismal swamp. not e
distant General Lafayette was Their