' jpptwp~? g?tjr? Tow* W)|m4 Oat, Anderson, Wk 18.? Fire late this jftirnoon nearly destroyed the entire l^tro of Ix>wndesville, one of the old and most picturesque settlements the Southland, and located about iwenty-flve miles south of this place, fhe fire originated in dry #*ass near the railroad tracks and spread to the til niiH anora torles, Columbus, Ga., for a pa>kav{o and a free booklet about babies. w ? BETHUNE NEWg NOTES. Happenings of Interest As Told By Our Correspondent, Bethune, S. C., Feb. 20.? At a mass meeting of the residents and patrons of this community held in the school auditorium Friday evening, it was voted to erect a high school building. This step has becom^-a necessity since the consolidation of the outlying dis tricts. Friends of Miss Dana McSween will be pleased to know that she is recov ering from a short illness. Miss Mc Sween is one of the most remarkable women of our day. In spite of her age, 91 years, her mentality is as keen as a young person nnd she wears no glasses. She makes the most ex quisite tatting and dainty crocheting, together with other hand work. She lives with. Jier - nlecty Mrs. -Dana. Cly burn. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Truesdell, daughter, Edna, and son, Roy, and Mr. Karl Koseborough, of Lugotf, V/ere visitors of Dr. E. Z. Truesdell Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. McCaskill are receiving congratulations over tho ar rival of a little son, Sunday morning. Of interest to the Bethune folks is the following clipping taken from the Jonesville items of Sunday's State: "Miss Helen Smith of McCormick re signed her position as teacher in the graded school here and left I* riday for her home, where she is soon to be married." Miss Smith is soon to be come the bride of Mr. B. W. Best. Mrs. Burke and Eldon Severance of Columbia spent Sunday in town with friends and relatives. Misses Mary Bethune and Elizabeth Gay of Hartsville were the week-end guests of Mrs. L. D. Robertson. Misses' Mamie Lou McDonald and' Fannie Lee Baker spent the week end in Columbia with the latter^ sister. The Aid and Missionary Society of the Methodist church met with Mrs. W. H. Hearon Monday afternoon. Misses Margaret Hearon and Kitty Best spirit the week-end with the former's parents at Clyde. Mrs. 3. L. Norwood and children of McBee were guests at the home of Mr. N. A. Bethune Saturday. Mrs. L. D. Robertson was at home Friday evening in honor of Misses Bethune and Gay of Hartsville. Music and games were enjoyed throughout the evening, after which a course was served. . Dorothy Parrott entertained about a dozen of her little friends Friday af ternoon in honor of her 13th birthday. After an interesting contest, games and music, the mother of the hostess served fruited jello, whipped cream and cake. John Steen, a white tenant living on J. A. McCaskill's place was thrown from a Ford Monday afternoon and sustained injuries from which he died at the Camden hospital the following morning. The unfortunate man com monly known as "Preacher Steen," was returning from Columbia when the accident occurred on the W.-A. highway, a few miles east of Camden. A wheel came off of the machine, pitching Steen on his head and render ing him unconscious, from which he never revived. He is survived by his wife and three small children. , Rev. W. H. Joyner Dead The Rev. W. II. Joyner, 91 year old veteran of the Confederate war, who died at the Confederate home Sunday morning after a brief illness, was laid to rest yesterday morning in Elm wood cemetery at 11 o'clock. The Rev. W. R. Bouknight conducted the funeral services which were held at the grave. The Rev. Mr. Joyner entered the Confederate service in 1862 with Com pany D, Twentieth South Carolina vol unteers, and served as a gallant sol dier throughout the war. He was for 40 years a Baptist minister and came to the Confederate home from Or angeburg county about seven years ,ago. ? Tuesday's State. Miss Mary Doyle packs two heavy sacks of mail orer a ten-mile route Wiy diy In East Syracuse, N. Y. DIVERS PERFORM UNUSUAL TASKS Engineering Problems Arm Solved With Their Aid. Diver* uie somttUme* called upou te perform unusual lunko, as ihelr at tempts hi reacue work lu the tlooded Ut'iUUng pit show. Not long ago the police bud to culi iu the at? rv lev* of u diver to search for stolen Jewelry iu tlio muddy bottom of (lie Uegent'a canal, tuul, occasionally they 'a re asked to look for rings uud other valuables that huve fallen from piers and yachts. Winchester cathedral owes us pro* ent stability to the work of a diver iu the employment of a firm of w reek salvors and treasure-raiser*, lie had to work In a pit below the foundations, placing bags of cement in the dark by sense of touch. Though the tdeu of employing a diver to restore the solid ity of the building was a last resource, It wus a complete success, and oue of the "silffest propositions that a diver has ever been called upon to tackle" was brought to a satisfactory conclu sion. The divert employed in the Iteddlng pit are using the pipe-line type of dlv Ing dress, but the self-contained type is frequently used for uausual work. It was only owing to the existence of the self-contained type that the Severn tunnel was freed from water after It was thought that this great under-.* taking would hAve to be ^andoued. After the water had broken Into the workings of the tunnel, It was found that the slulees at the face were opened. Diver Lambert and Mr. Fleuss, the Inventor of the special div ing-dress employed, investigated, going 1,200 feet along the tunnel In the dark, constantly meeting with obstrqctlons and stumbling over sleepers and rails. At last Lambert closed the sluices, or rather thought he bad closed them, btpt not knowing that one of them worked on a left hand, screw, he shut one only, to open the other. He there fore, had to retrace his steps and cor rect the error. In Canada some years ago divers were used In connection with the po lice to nnravel a dlsnppearanoe mya * 'rs\ ? ~ ? I ~ 1UU IlKtllUf^VI \J A U 11IIUV IIUU VVM stantly bee^i threatened by "bad hats," and one day he disappeared. Divers went down, and there among a litter of old machinery they found the body. The man had been bound with wire, weighted, and dropped to his death In the shaft. After grim work like this, laying dock foundations rind cleaning ships' bottoms are prosaic tasks.? London Tit-Bits. Then He Shut Up . It Is annoying when one goes to the theater and has one's view obstructed j by the hat of a woman seated In front. Nobody has much sympathy for those of the fair sex who choose to wear tbeLr largest hats while seeking amusement; but, on the other harid, there is the crusty old man who finds fault with everything and ' pretends that he 14 unable to see the stage even when the hat In front of him Is of th^ smallest variety. One of these wtos at the theater when, after fidgeting for some time, he growled In a loud voice to the girl In front of tilm : "Do you mind remov ing your hat? I can't see through wood." The girl turned and looked at him quietly for a moment, and then said, dfclmly: "Very well, change $eats; I can." Farm Boy's Pig Rise About eight years ago a farm boy In a remote section of Rowan county, N. C., joined a pig club which the coun ' ty agricultural extension agent was organizing, and, as pig club members do under tho guidance of the coufity agent, he fed and cared for ? a pig, In this case a Poland China gilt. Dur ing the next year the county lost Its extension agent. Recently when a new agent came to the county he found, ac cording to sports to the United Statos Department of Agriculture, that the club member, J. H. Morgan, now grown and on his own farm, had kept up his club practices, developed a herd of Poland China hogs of excellent type, and was regarded as the best hog grower In his community. Followed Instructions Teacher glanced at (lie clock nnd saw thnt the hands pointed to five min utes before ten o'clock. looking round the class, she noticed that Fred die Franks, the bad boy, was late again, lis usual. "ftas anybody seen Freddie this morning?" she inquired, and at that j moment tho truant, looking rather Mus tered, entered the room. ! "Why are you late again, Freddie?" asked the teacher in stern tones. "Well, ma'am," replied Freddie, the ingenious, "just as 1 was coming along to school at half-past eight ? police man shouted out to me: Til, sonsy, mind the steamroller!' So, of course, I stayed there and did as he told me." Great Head ? Mr. Gaxsam ? Yes, I suppose I can claim n financial success, and just think. I started business with a shoe string. Miss Green ? Mercy! It's genius! A man who could get anybody to buy one shoestring couldn't help hut sne eeed? -Boston Transcript. Many Thermometerg Unfit So thorough Is ?he Inspection to ?rhich clinical thermometer tubes are Wfijecffd thnt nb->ui 73 per cent are rejected as unfit for use it t ' Mr * ~ BOY FORCED TO DIG CRAVE BY MANIAC Youth Escape* Burial Aliv * by Attacking Madman. l>anl el sou. Coon,? Kdwarxl t'lnkhaiu, six I or n years Old, saved himself from burin) alive by turning on 10