The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 29, 1911, Page 2, Image 2
TINIEST MIDGET FOUND HEKE.
Negro Child May be Smallest Person
in the World.
About nineteen inches in height,
two and a half years old, weighing
exactly eight pounds, and particularly
strong and bright for a child
of her age, Frankie May Fordham,
a little negress, living with her parents
at No. 7 Heyward's court, is believed
to be about the smallest person
in the world, with perhaps one
or two exceptions.
The child is a. veritable marvel.
She was born in February, 1909, being
the fourth child of Henry and
Kate Fordham, the husband being a
viaw vard employee. The first three
children, who were born away from
Charleston as the family have been
liere only about a year, are hearty
and full sized; but it is the baby that
is the wonder of the family. The
child is not a deformity, but is probably
one of the most perfectly-formed
negro children in the city.
Nothing was known generally of
the midget's existence until yesterday,
as efforts have been made by
the parents to keep the fact of her
diminutive size secret, as they feared
iidnapping; but a reporter, having
received a mysterious "tip" in the
form of an unsigned pencil-written
letter, visited the house last night
and marvelled at many things which
ie saw.
He was met by the husband at the
front door of the house, which is a
neat two-story affair, and was ushered
into the bed room, where thei
orjrl \r\ hpr nisrht
JUIUUJCI uau mv HV.W o** - ? ?o?gown,
just ready to put her to bed.
As the reporter entered the room,
the child, catching sight of the fath.
er exclaimed, in a sweet and childish
-voice, with perfect enunciation:
"Hello, papa."
The reporter glanced to see who
it was talking and really had trouble
in locating the owner of the voice,
finally espying the tiny tot on the
floor. She was playing around in
3high glee at the prospect of staying
up a few minutes later than her regular
bed-time, and danced and sung at
a great rate; showing unusual precocity
for a child of her age. Her
eyes which are dark brown, are ex
? a
ceptionany clear ana piercing, ana
her hair is silky and rather long, absolutely
unlike a negro's. Yet she is
yery dark, and had many of the racial
characteristics.
- The child weighed five pounds at
birth, and gained three pounds during
the first six months of her life.
Since that time she has not taken on
an ounce, and several well known
^doctors who have examined her, according
to the parents, have stated
that she will never gain another inch
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v in height or another three pounds in
weight. Her parents have reconciled
themselves to this and lavish their
affection on the little girl, who is certain
to make a friend of every one
she meets. She dances prettily,
looks intelligent and talks fluently,
heing able to string words together
into short sentences already.
The parents state that they have
already received many offers from
vaudeville and side-show managers,
, some having already offered as much
as fifty dollars a week and transportation
for the mother under a
five-year contract; but all of these
offers the parents have turned down,
hoping for the ultimate development
of their little one to her full stature,
although they have now become al
most sure that their hope is vain.
The father and mother now seem to
think that they will keep and educate
the child until it reaches the age of
sevn or eight years at least, before
thinking of any vaudeville departure.?
News and Courier, June 22.
Sensation May Come.
Columbia, June 23.?Some startling
developments may follow the
' ' adoption of the text books by the
State board of education last night.
The changes made will be effective for
five years. They mean changes
amounting to nearly eighty per cent,
so that buying of new books is laid
upon patrons of public schools. It
- charges levy on the people a tax
of nearly a half million dollars. State
Superintendent Swearingen says that
if Winthrop should be wiped out by
fire it would not entail such a loss
as new text hooks contracts.
It is noticeable that the American
Book Co., better known as the
school book trust, got the lion's share
of the business. In the opinion of
those opposed to the adoption, the
only redeeming feature is the liberal
exchange allowance on a number of J
contracts. Roll calls were necessary,
hut the board voted in most cases
viva voce, refusing flatly to use the
blanks Swearingen had prepared
showing how each member voted.
Gov. Blease says that he consented
to the adoption of Thomas' history
only on the understanding that the
;author would so amend the books as
rto indicate that Sherman burned Columbia
and he says that he was not
interested in any house or firm. He
says that he has no criticism to make
of the board's*action in any respect.
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AVANT CAPTURED IN TEXAS.
Implicated in Murder Near Georgetown
of Mrs. Bigham.
Cameron, Texas, June 20.?W. B.
Avant, alias William Benjamin, was
arrested here to-day by Sheriff
Hooks. Avant is wanted in Georgetown,
S. C., where he was tried for
murder and convicted of manslaughter.
Following his conviction, the
case was appealed and the sentence
was affirmed. Upon hearing of the
affirming of his case Avant, accompanied
by his wife, fled to this State
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When arrested to-day he was engaged
in selling sewing machines and
was located at a boarding house.
Upon his arrest by the sheriff he admitted
that he was Avant, and said
that he would go back to South Carolina
without requisition papers. He
is about 35 years of age, and is of
good appearance.
How Nordica Got Her Start.
The Woman's Home Companion is
starting a series of articles describing
"The Girlhood of Great Singers."
The first article, which is in the July
number, is the story of the girlhood
of Lillian Nordica. Following is a
brief extract:
"Madame Tietjens, the dramatic
soprano, came to Boston to sing in
opera. She sent a message to the conservatory
asking to hear any unusual
talent that they might have there.
Lillian Norton (Nordica's name) was
sent in response, her mother accompanying
her. The visit was made on
a matinee day, and the prima donna,
to spare herself, deputed her sister to
receive them. Though regretting a
lost opportunity, the aspirant started
to sing. Before she had gotten very
far, a door opened softly, then was
thrown wide, and Madame Tietjens
entered. In her enthusiasm, she took
the accompanist's place at the piano.
"Work ahead, and you will be great,"
she said simply. Being warmhearted,
she added, "When you come to
London, I will help you." That
friendly offer was, unfortunately,
never realized, for Madame Tietjens
X i eyj_
aiea noi long arier.
"While they were talking, a little
old lady came in, a harpist at that
time in the orchestra, Madame Maretzek,
widow of the impresario. She
had been a prima donna. Her interest
took a practical turn. 'Come to
me on Staten Island next summer,'
she generously offered, 'and I will
coach you in your roles.'
"That summer she studied twenty
roles. In the autumn she came out
in concert in New York with Brignoli,
and in the early spring following was
fairly launched on her career as soloist
with Gilmore's band, an organization
ranking with Sousa's. , The
test was strenuous for one so yohng;
often two concerts a day, and arduous
travel, for they toured the whole
country.
"Gilmore, with his warm, Irish
heart, recognizing her gifts as well
as her pluck, once exclaimed, 'You
will yet be crowned Queen of Song
in your own country.'
"Years later, Madame Nordica
recalled his words, when a diamond
tiara from American admirers was
passed over the footlights to her at
the Metropolitan Opera-House in
New York."
VUI 1' 1911V1II1V1I*
One out of every 400 persons in
the United States is engaged in the
task of catching enough fish to satisfy
the appetite of the remaining 399.
In other words, there are nearly a
quarter of a million men who catch
fish not because they like the fun of
it, but because they are paid for it.
They catch approximately 1,000,000,000
pounds of fish a year, and this is
worth, all told, upward of $50,000,000,
or, say, two-thirds of the total
capital invested in the industry. A
considerable part of the capital, over
$20,000,000, is tied up in vessels, of
which a recent enumeration showed
85,115.
Maryland has by far the largest
number of professional fishermen. Its
figures are 42,812, as against the 29,379
of Virginia, Maine with 16,945
and Massachusetts with 14,363 follow,
and then comes Alaska with 13,106.
Other States with more than
10,000 are North Carolina, 12,045,
New Jersey, 12,030, and New York,
11,560.
It is Virginia, However, that catclies
the most fish. Its showing 378,183,358
pounds, as against New
York's 228,092,285 and Alaska's
165,326,990. But Alaska's catch is
worth the most in the market?$10,000,000,
or more than twice as much
as the next two, New Jersey and Virginia.
Alaska also has the most
money invested in fishing boats,
something above $3,000,000. Massachusetts
is a trifle under the same
figure. New York and Maryland
have invested about $2,000,000, and
Virginia, California and Maine all
more than $1,000,000. Virginia has
the most fishing vessels, 13,200 in
number. Maryland's number 11,496,
New Jersey's 7,084, Maine's 6,238
and New York's 5,289.?Harper's
Weekly.
ST. MATTHEWS SELLS BONDS.
R. M. Marshall & Bra. of Charleston
Successful Bidders.
St. Matthews, June 21.?Bids for
the $20,000 issue of bonds by the
town of St. Matthews were opened
by the town council to-day at 12
o'clock, as advertised. A number of
attractive offers were made. However,
it was the good luck of Charleston
to carry off the plum, R. M.
Marshall & Bro. of that city being
the successful bidders. The price
paid was $20,425. The people of
St. Matthews are naturally very
proud that these bonds have been
sold and that their promise to the
citizens of the county has been kept.
He Swam Hell Gate.
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A Liirmiug tait; ui escape nuui me
House of Refuge, on Randall's Island,
says the New York Times, and of
swimming through Little Hell Gate,
past watching guards and pplice
searchlights that swept the surface of
the stream, was told to the East One
Hundred and Fourth street police by
seventeen-year-old Alexander Siegel
last night when Detective Mancini
and Lennon took him there after
they had captured him in an exciting
chase over roofs and through scuttles
from One Hundred and Fourth
street and Madison avenue to One
Hundred and Sixth street and Park
avenue.
"I was sick of the place," said the
boy referring to the House of Refuge,
to which he had been committed for
violating his parole, after his release
on the burglary charge, "and I made
up my mind to leave. About midnight
on May 20, when all the lights
were out, I tied the bedclothes together
in a rope. One end I fastened
to the bed posts, the other I let down
from my window on the fourth floor
to the grain ladder on the second.
"It was easy after that. I crawled
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over ine soum eua oi uie i&muu,
keeping in the dark where the guards
couldn't see me. Then I took off my
shoes, threw them overboard, and
jumped into the water. Almost at
once I was whirled around and
around. I lost my breath, but there
isn't a better swimmer around the
docks then me, and pretty soon I
got past Randall's Island, then
Ward's Island, and into the East
river.
"Pretty soon 1 saw a tug coming
close with scows behind it. I swam
close underhand strokes so they
wouldn't hear me, and I managed to
catch hold of the end scow. That
took me through Little Hell Gate,
and pretty soon I could see the end
of the Street Cleaning Dock, at One
Uiindrai4 on/1 Tl^in/1 OflH IrTIPW
the scows were going to put in there.
I was nearly frozen when we reached
the dump, so I left the scow and
struck out for the dock. Just as I
was going to climb up I saw a cop
standing near. I could see the police
flashlights sweeping the river,
too; and I wasn't going to take any
chances. So I swam out again and
floated down the 'river. But I was
almost all in then.
"I reached the College Point Ferry
dock, at Ninety-ninth street, but
I was blowing hard. As I was climbing
up a police launch crept along,
and they threw one of those search
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they must have missed me, and I got
safely aboard the dock. Then I ran
home, and by the time I got there,
you bet, my clothes were dry. That
was 3 o'clock in the morning.
"The next day I got a job as
wagon boy, and I've been working
ever since."
Married Men's Troubles.
It was marrietd men's night at the
revival meeting.
"Let all you husbands who have
troubles on your minds stand up,"
shouted the preacher at the height
of his spasm.
Instantly every man in the house
except one arose.
"Ah!" exclaimed the preachdr,
peering out at this lone individual,
who occupied a chair near the door.
"You are one in a million."
"It ain't that," piped the little one
helplessly as the rest of the congregation
gazed suspiciously at him.
"I can't get up?I m paralyzed."?
Ladies' Home Journal.
GRIMSLEY SERVING SENTENCE.
Taken to Chaingang.--Appeal to Supreme
Court Abandoned.
Ernest E. Grimsley, the young
white man who was convicted in
Richland county court recently for
the murder of Mrs. Rosa Bessinger,
at the Acme lunch room on Taylor
street, May 6, has been taken to the
county chaingang and started serving
his life sentence.
Urimsley was taKen to tne penitentiary
and then carried back to the
county jail pending an appeal to the
supreme court. It is understood that
the appeal has been abandoned.
Grimsley is only about 22 or 23
years of age. At the trial a plea of
insanity was put up. He also killed
Walter Sandifer, a nephew of Mrs.
Bessinger, but was not tried on the
charge. R. H. Welch, of Columbia,
was his attorney.
SENDS REQUISITION FOR AVANT.
Georgetown Deputy Sheriff Goes to
Texas for Fugitive.
Columbia, June 22.?As a precautionary
measure Gov. Blease to-day
furnished Deputy Sheriff H. H. Ward,
of Georgetown county, who is on his
way, with a formal requisition on
Gov. Colquitt, of Texas, for W. B.
Avant. although Avant, under arrest
at Cameron, Milan county, Texas, has
announced himself willing to return
without a requisition. Avant and
Dr. G. C. Bigham received sentence
of three and a half years each following
the killing of Bigham's young
wife at Murrell's Inlet in 1909 from
gunshot wound at the hands of j
Avant. Bigham is at large.
Gov. Blease telegraphed Gov. Col-|
quitt to have the sheriff of Milam
county hold Avant for a requisition.
This was done following the receipt
of a letter from Solicitor Wells, who
said he had located Avant at Camej
ron, Texas. Avant's wife is with
him.
Didn't Look Right in Print.
Thp arivprtiser who had received
a free pull entered the provincial ofI
fice with anger and disgust written
all over his face.
"I'm sure you meant well," said
he, "but that's a nice thing you've
gone and printed in your paper this
week about my business."
"What's a nice thing?" asked the
editor.
"Read it and see."
The editor read: "If you want to
have a fit wear Brown's boots."?
Red Hen.
Wanted to be Forewarned.
It was ash-dav. Pat and Mike
were obliged to halt their heavily
loaded cart to make way for a
funeral. Gazing at the procession
Pat suddenly remarked: "Mike, I
wish I knew where I was going to
die. I'd give a thousand dollars to |
know the place I am going to die."
"Weil, Pat, what good would it do
if you knew?"
."Lots," said Pat. "Shure I'd never
go near that place."
Trapped in Wolf's Hole.
"The fact that Sam Lawson is alive
to-day," said Col. Joe Ellswell of
Sweot Wells, in the Texas Panhandle,
"shows the stuff they make their citizens
of over in Oklahoma. Sam Lawson's
brother-in-law, Miles Blodgett,
lives in Deaf Smith county, grand
old Texas and Sam went over there
to spend a week or so with Miles.
Quite a few wolves 'kept up their
bothering of folks in that chunk of
the Panhandle and Sam hadn't been
there a day before he went out to
hunt wolves.
"He didn't come back that day and
next morning the folks started out to
have a look for him. They found
his horse on the prairie, saddled, but
without a bridle. Thirty men scoured
the country all day but couldn't
find the missing Sam nor any sign
of him.
"The hunt was kept up until late
in the afternoon of the next day, and
then one of the searching party
came upon the feet and legs of a man
sticking out of a hole in the ground.
The feet and legs were Sam Lawson's.
The hole in the ground was
a wolf den and Sam's body was cov???>?
+ViHpp-n with dirt and
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stones.
"His face wasn't buried. Sara was
alive and no time was lost in unearthing
him from his living grave.
He was so much nearer dead than
alive that it was not until some time
after he had been carried home and
cared for that he could give any account
of how he got into the extraordinary
situation in which he was
found.
"He had trailed a wolf to its den
and discovered that the hole contained
a number of wolf whelps. In
order to get to them he had dug
down on a slant as if he were making
the entrance to a dugout. In
the trench thus made he lay down
flat on his stomach to reach into the
hole after a pup.
"He got the pup, dragged it out
and killed it and gave it a toss back
from the trench. He had tied his
horse to a bunch of bear grass near
the hole and the dead wolf whelp
fell directly under the horse's nose.
That scared the horse and he began
to plunge about.
"His plunges caved in the bank
upon Sam where he lay flat in the
trench. The falling stones and earth
buried him.
"By a frantic effort he managed
to work with his hands enough dirt
down into the hole under him so
that he uncovered a breathing space,
although he was almost smothered
before he succeeded in accomplishing
the task. The weight on him
was so great that he could not move
as much as a finger after that and
succor had arrived not a moment too
soon. Sam had lain there helpless,
without food or drink, two nights
and nearly three days.
"He was able to get around in a
couple of days and went right back
to Oklahoma where, he said, they
didn't call on a fellow to put his
makeup to such strenuous tests."
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Seven full four years' courses, in
Agriculture, Engineering, etc.
Cost per session of nine months,
including all fees, board, heat, light,
laundry, and necessary uniforms?
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Students who are financially able,
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Scholarship and Entrance Examinations.
The College maintains 124 Agricultural
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Scholarships, worth each $100.00
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(Students who have attended
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Scholarship and entrance examinations
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Next sessions opens Sept. 13, 1911.
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