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IK CHANGES 1 DEATH SENTENCE * TWO MEN FROM ELECTROCUTION. fcoggans, a Newberry Negro, LnAofli Canfan/ioJ PnRiainiA<) I cauu ?JV?UVUVXV V vwuuvvu Life Imprisonment. I Courier. la, April 27.?<3ov. (Manning luted the sentence of James km electrocution to life impt in the State penitentiary ^W^jj^bor. Gowan, who is a colBd AK, killed his brother-in-law ^pme months ago, and at the March Herm of Court was tried, found guilty Band sentenced to be electricuted on ^Htbe 30th day of April, 1915. The un teurl circumstances connected witfn E granting of this plea for commutBg of sentence was the very fair and [fcdid statement made by Geo. T. ow, an attorney, of Greenville, acted as counsel for the defence ppointment of the court, Judge Bore. Mr. Motlow is candid to say PHit he went into the case on two ^Bfcours' notice- without being prepared, through an Vvver-zealousness to obey what he thought was the wishes of ^ th6 court, and, moreover, that this was the first time that Eie had ever attempted to speak in the court of comL mon pleas and general sessions before a jury, and that he was so excited and B "his nerves were so overwrought on ac W count of the excitement caused by this being his first jury trial in this ^<court in whick Ebe ever undertook to to a jury or to examine a witKj before a jury, that he broke down B that on this account he feels that . . . He defendant has not received the * ? - ? veseniaoon max aae was euuucu <.u Kceive in a trial for bis life. The pe; Btion that the sentence be commuted |^Hras signed by nearly all the members MRkfthe Greenville bar who heard the by all members of the jury, and & Devore wrote that in Ihis opinion Bids of justice would be met by Buting the sentence. Solicitor k/ concurred. The board of * * iVJ, ? ? examined muu uu?> vmc unnbd recommended that the sen. A commuted from electrocuBp imprisonment at hard t Commuted to life, ntence that Gov. Manning Hbd from electrocution to io +>iat e\f V?l! fcans .was convicted at Bj. court, 1913, in NewWtie killing of Spurp^mthe previous October. Bn respited from time to BBlease, and the last time Pining to give the board of p tn f-'-nrmighlv av Io this case. The jurors who rgans were petitioners that nee be commuted, setting k since the trial considerable arisen in their minds as to [of the condemned and that borne to the conclusion that be unfair to tf.emse^ves as . J 1 -L _ gl ? +1, _ I. unjusi lO uuggaua ttcic cut; Wf not commuted "so that if Hll prove his innocence he will Hi be beyond tbe help of man." Hssing on this case the board of 9s said: "All twelve of the ju sked that tftls negro's sentence fmmuted from electrocution to life isonment. In addition the judge fho /?#ko Soins in this reauest. I IBle we do not consider it the prov-' E of tbe board of pardons to retry Pes we have gone into the records fthis case very carefully because tfbe fe of a human being is at stake. The ise against Goggans is, in our opinn PTtremelv "weak and we unhesi Bttingly recommcnd to your excellency Hnat the sentence be commuted from MBkectrocution to life imprisonment." Keeping His Secret. Wben Lord Wellington was comwa mander of an array in India a certain ricb man offered him*$">00,000 for some V secret information on a very important J question. Wellington looked thought-! b fui a few moments, as it he were) * A * l/\nnr4-h h A ^ 1^ U LLl'rf, iuc ICIL1(>UI 11VU. At icii^ui UQ Hit appears that you can keep a se^^^Certainly." said the man. feeling sure that he had gained his point. I "So can I," said Wellington. Goodj I morning, sir." And the man went away i I with ^crestfallen air. Foresight Defined. The children had read the word fore| sight In the reader, and the teacher was endeavoring to make it plain. utj- ? oaM "Ho lAnMrto IrVIVSIgllU OiJC ouiu, 10 iwaui6 ahead. Now. Freddie, you give me an czampie of foresight if you can." "Well, foresight would be not to eat too much breakfast when you knew jrou were going out into the country to your grandmother's for dinner," explained the boy.?Indianapolis News. mm ? pays Twilight Slee\ By K According to a New York letter, th( twilight sleep treatment in childbirth has been abandoned at the Polyclinic I Medical school and hospital in thai | city. It has been abandoned, too, at t>'.u city hospital on Blackwell's Island one of the largest institutions of it: kind in the world. ?At the Jewish Maternity hospital, or East Broadway, the use of the treatment has been so restricted as now tc apply to only about one-half of the women wi.o formerly were considered eligible. At tiie Sloane Maternity hospital, th( method is being used only in a com paratively few selected cases; and thi< is true at present at practically al the institutions in Greater New Yorl where no stork pays visits under medl cal supervision. ! The reason given at all the hospital; -* /<> ? ) is tne same?too many * oiue uauit-*, i too high percentage of deaths anion; the twilight sleep infants. . Records in Germany. According to the latest German sta tistics, the infant mortality in twiligh sleep cases is about 2 per cent. abov< {the normal in some places there, j At the city hospital, on Blackwell'i 'Island, where the twilight sleep treat. ment ias been abandoned, it was sai( this step was taken by the experts ii charge of that division of the service because there did not seem to be an: | particular advantage in the drug treat ment. Most of tt':e experiments with 'twi light sleep at the city hospital wer< under the supervision of Dr. Georg< j P. Shears, under whose advice, at th< Polyclinic clinic, the treatment ha* been abandoned in that institutioi also. J Dr. A. J. Rongy, in charge of th< i twilight sleep treatment at the Jew lUotamitv hrkcnitfll nn East Broad' l^U MVWf. ?- - y way, said that experiences that hav< pointed out danger to such an exten' in the treatment that its range ha: been restricted about 50 per cent. Tells of Its Dangers. "We use it now," he said, "only ir selected cases, and we recognize tfta" I U it were universally used it would b( dangerous, except in the foands ot tn< most skilled and experienced practitioners. "We know tae treatment better now We find it is good only in certain selected cases, in tedious cases. Twilighi sleep is not advisable in short cases. "We have learned, too, mat iwiugm sleep and painlessness are not, as som? at first thought, synonymous. Th< trufo is, we now realize that twiligbl sTppn simDlv destroys the recollectior of the pain. The pain was there. In the early days of twilight sleei usage. the Jewish maternity was ar enthusiastic center of its application. At the Metropolitan hospital, or Blackwell's Island, where the twilighl treatment was begun a year or mor? ago, and then was stopped, has beeu resumed recently, -but only in a few seifitted cases. There have heen only two cases "tftere in the last week, and it was stated at the institution last night tfoat tbe mortality among the "twilight new born" is undoubtedly higher than among the infantS born in nature's own method. "Blue babies" is the complaint at the Metropolitan, wttere a puimoior is kept constantly at band in twilight sleep cases. Also, it is complained, the twilight sleep cases are more difficult to handle, because they require every minute to be watched. vkinwvTts. fcwori/n HOLT) COTTON JL AXILUliAHiJ Ws/AAV V ?' ? John L. flfcLauren Thinks Retention of Staple Will Keep Up Price. End of Wiir Will See Inflation?The Future Basis of Credit. The Record. "Recently large amounts of cotton have been sold at from 9 to 10 cents, and if we wish to borrow money on what is left the farmers should absolutely hold it and not permit the price to decline, because tr:e borrowing power has direct relation to the market price," said John L. McLaurin, State warehouse commissioner, wnen asked Wednesday morning what effect the action of the British ministry forbidding the exportation of cotton from England would have on the cotton market "fWle now (have it at 10 cents basis of middling," continued Senator McLaurin, "and we should hold it there because when hostilities cease there will be an enormous de mand from the continent of Europe for American cotton, and it will not be a question of price, as they are obliged to have it at any price." Senator McLaurin is doubtful thai gold will be the medium of exchange, as in tJbe past, for, he said, "there is not enough gold in the "world to form a basis of credit even, to say nothing p Abandoned \ r. Y Hospitals ?, Testimony at the Sloane. t! Dr. Edwin B. Cragin, of the Sloane' ; Maternity, said that the twilight sleep t is being used in that institutiOR only in selected cases. ; Notwithstanding that fact, and the , extra precautions taken, the mortality j 5 among infants born under the treat- j ment has been above toe normal, he ? t added. j "The mortality among the mothers,'' i ) he said, "has not been more than the j ? normal average. I am not prepared to, I, say what per cent, above normal would j represent the infants' deaths, i | "I think it is the general experi-; -1 ence that twilight sleep increases the ! - ? x 1 * Vi y-v rt nn* V\Arr? 5( UlQrictilt^ amuug LUC uci> uuiu. 11 "We have not entirely stopped the ( c1 use of the drug in the second stage, j -1 but I think its use in that stage is J attended with some danger and is so s | recognized, generally, in tl'ie light of j ' experience."' ? Tthe number of twilight sleep cases | at the Sloan Maternity tas not yet roached 100, counting the whole se ries since the beginning. At the out-j t set there was considerable trouble in 2 getting the consent of prospective' j mothers to undergo tJhe treatment. 5 j At the Lying-in hospital, where the ' -, twilight sleep treatment is still being 11 tested by two of the doctors, the drug 11 is used only in selected cases, and a 21 close analysis is being made of the J results. j An analysis of a part of the series of test cases already has been pub* a - lis1 ed in a medical journal. Accora? ing to the data, there has been a s slightly higher mortality under the ? treatment, but it is not considered s very significant. i "Don't use the twilight sleep method of bringing babies into the world," was 5 thp advice t)ie visiting Southern sur - geons received at the New York Poly I clinic Medical School and Hospital, on i April 22. fc It was given to them by Dr. George! 3 P. Shears, head of the obstetrical de-! partment of the institution, in the! presence of Dr. John A. Wyeth, pres- j 1 ident of the faculty. t T:e advice, it was stated, was based j i upon the experience at the Polyclinic : with twilight sleep mode of dealing ! - with childbirth, where it had been tested for quite a while under various . conditions upon women of different - social and physical status. t Percentage That Die. One or more infants?it was nox. t stated f:ow many or what per cent, of ? the whole number treated?died under j i the treatment, the percentages that so: t perished being above the average to i be expected under the old-fashioned manner of dealing with childbirth. j >: But for ti:e prompt application of a -1 pulmotor, it was stated, probably would have been more fatalities, but, i as it was, artificial respiration was est tablished, and the "blue babies" were; * ' -L- " ? ?~rrva1 r>/-?*/vr and I - brougnt DacK lo a UUJUiai WW. . i condition. Dr. Shears said that any doctor who knows anything of opiates knows that ; it is bad to give them to a new-born ( infant, and yet, in the twilight sleep | : treatment, t):e opiate is given to the :! ' child, through the mother, even before i its birth. i Under twilight sleep, the visiting j surgeons were told, the new-born child j - - -11 *? o ; ( is likely not to Dreame iur 4U11C j i little while. .... TV: ere was no evidence of injurious , effect upon the mothers; whatever j pain they suffered was forgotten, the ;. drug destroying their recollection at that point. ! of the payment of billions of dollars of debt created by this war in Eu- j rope." He looks for interchangeable! products, supplemented by corporate1 and individual credit, to be the basis, ; of international credit. : The full text of Senator McLaurin'sj f i interview follows: "The Associated Press dispatch pub-, lished in yesterday afternoon's Rec-j ord, saying that t':e British ministry< ! had forbidden the exportation of cot- j I i ton from the British Isles to any ports I thn.cp nf France and Italy is in | j line with the attempt that England1 j has made from the very beginning to ! j force American cotton to come to England. Primarily her object is to prevent Germany from getting cotton, and as goods of any kind, cotton included, destined to ports on the Black Sea, North Sea, or the Baltic, are con-j traband of war, this would effectually give England a monopoly of the Amer ican crop. "In the beginning of the *ar sTie announced that her navy would keep the sea swept clean, and that we could Bend all of our cotton to Liverpool. This would (fcave been a fine thing for "f^norian^ if chA o.ould have absorbed : the American crop at 5 to 6 cents a . pound, and then resold it at the coni elusion of the war to the continent of l Etarope for 20 to ZQ cents a pound. ' Germany answered this ker sub KMMaaaaHBMMHaOTMHaHMIMMnBMBMWMgaOBMMMHMM marine blockade, so that it is about ( as unsafe to ship cotton to England 1 as to tie continent. "The very heavy exports of cotton and the advance in the price is attributable in a large degree to England's : -r> ??4- + f r\ nrnmiilooto fTlic f\T- I CL niLCiivJun iv yj x v/ili v^?*w v? j der after iher mills had been supplied 1 j with cotton. The tendency will be , temporarily depressing on the price 1 of cotton, but recently large amounts < of cotton have been sold at from 9 to 1 10 cents, and if we wish to borrow j ( money on w&at is left the farmers should absolutely hold it and not per- j ( mit the price to decline, because the . borrowing power has direct relation to J t'ne market price. We now have it at j 10 cents, basis of middling, and we j should hold it there, because when hostilities cease G-ere will be an enormous demand from the continent of Europe for American cotton, and it will not be a question of price, as tney are obliged to have it at any price. "All of Europe is now on a paper basis, and this leads to extravagant j and reckless buying. I sometimes j doubt whether gold in the future will i be the medium of exchange that it i-flc hppri in the Dast. There is not enough gold in the world to form a basis of credit even, to say nothing of payment of the billions of dollars of prAntPH hv this war in Europe. UVfc/V v* VM.WU _ It will make a tremendous change in our methods of doing business, and as money really represents the products of the soil, I look for international I credit to rest more and more upon in-1 terchangeable products, supplimented I by corporate and individual credit. There is a very striking illustration in Russia sending i:er treasury notes recently, amounting to about $300,000,000, to France, and Prance discounting these notes against the clearing 4,1 T\n?/1onaltflt. r\n fh d. tihPnfV that UI UiC jua.1 utiututo, vii ?j this would release the enormous stores of Russian wheat, which would take care of tfte notes. So that we see Russia and France using wheat as a banking basis, just as we are attempting in several of the Southern States to use our cotton as a basis of credit." , I Aisle on the Car In a Wreck. A veteran railroad man gave a piece of valuable advice not long ago. MTf pun nror rraf Intn a irwi/>fr ** Ha A. J J VU C'WI MJVV U ?f VV MV said. *'and have time to follow out this suggestion. remember tbls: Always stand In the atsle. Most of tbe Injuries thai are suffered occur because tbe vie- ' tiro Is crushed between tbe seats. If , you are in tbe atsle you may be thrown I #Aa?n?ife^ K m* 4 A 11 1 n Kflt fKftWn I 1UI woiu auu hi uinru a uiuci uui luvic is much less chance of receiving serious hurts. It isn't always possible to get out of your seat before the crash comes, but IT It Is follow that advice." ?Pittsburgh Press. Dome of th? Rock. The name "Dome of the Rock'* Is one that has been conferred on the celebrated mosque of Omar, at Jerusalem. it stands on Mount Moriah. on the site once occupied by the tern pie of Solomon. Immediately under Its dome an Irregular shaped rocfc projects above tbe pavement This rock was tbe scene of many Scripturaj events and ba9 been greatly revered q era a hv .To wo and Mfthammpdans. 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