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PHYSICIANS PLAN NEW EYES FDR BLIND ffl Remarkable Surgical Opera tion Contemplated for Poor Newspaper Seller. Continued From Page One rushen tn a hospital, where Cashin will be waiting ready for the operation. The cornea, the seeing power of the eye. will be put in place of the useless cornea of the news seller and sight that has for years been lacking will be re stored. If the blind man's optic nerves still retain their long unuaed power. The cornea is the anterior horny transparent part of the outer coating of i the eve ball, and on It sight :nr<e’y I depends. Confident That He Will Regain Sight. The possibility of success of the op eration I* admittedly slight, but Cashin is supremely confident. He believes that the days are not many before he w ill sec again Clay remains silent in the Tower waiting for the supreme court to an- . ewer his prayer for rehearing He has apoken rarely since condemned His friends and lawyers say that he Is mad. If the court finally decides that Clay must die. his relatives will bt asked for his eyes Whether they will consent or not is another tonllngent on which Cashin's hopes depend Claj has been In prison since the spring afternoon when without appar ent cause he ’vent to the home of a sister-in-law. In l.ee street, and shot his ■wife down In the hallway of 'he resi dence. Mrs Clay had not been living •with her husband for some time on ac count of his Irregular habits At bls trial, no defense was made gave a plea of Insanity. Three hlten- Ists were appointed by Judge Roan, who tried the case They examined Clay a number of times. Their report to the court was that the man was feigning madness The jury sentenced him to die. His hanging was fixed for July 23. but an appeal was taken to the supreme court, and execution of the sentence was stay ed until the final ruling could be made. Despite his high hope. Cashin con tinues to sell papers each day at his o'-l stand, at the corner of Whitehall and Alabama streets His regular pa rr-mv hav. noticed a new hopefulness in h s face though. There is almost a ll?h In his eyes. For though others ma' s< "ff Cashin be lieves that lie will see Legislature May End in Night Session While members of the rules commi’- ’ « of both houses hope for adjourn- ment of the 1912 session nt 6 o'clock this afternoon, every indication points to 'he night session which invariable nis/ks the closing hours of the Georgia legislature. However, members of both houses have plain!' indicated that they m. wear' of the grind and would tolerate' but few bills of general nature. The senate yesterday, W D Dickerson bo ding the floor to prevent action, al lowed the firemen's qualification bill end the enti-filler fertilize bill to die for want of second reading While Dickerson wa« aiding the railroads in killing leg’s'ation demanded bv organ ized labor the house defeated the fol lowing bills: The West' n and Atlantic commission, resolution calling for an Investigation of the state board of hea'th. and a bill to regu'a e garnish ment p oceedings before a justice of the peace Both hot: ?< lik'd the bill requiring rai oa l to equip pas.-enger coaches w itn < indcr idler-to"* and parsed it. The house also approved a series of birls regulating militia on riot duty. On. the whole the 1912 session has been one of oratory rather than action. Not mo e than fifteen bills of a genera! nature have been passed, tine of these, the Tippins bill, wa- disapproved by rhe governo . and at least one other the appropriations bill will walk into a veto if the senate fails to keep the Well, Now, Just Look Who’s Coming In! on By George McManus Rl ATLANTA 1 ~ («*«<»«•] I w®. kX TM@i C ~ L F'"* A—Aw'^ J <wwsL' i @ ' WAITtN<q FOR \ VcAl k r~ C / /?/' i 1 t^“'A \ ■ ’* 'J SightlessNeivsdealcr Would See Through Ey ep of Convicted Murderer AM AZING OPER AT 10 N PLAN NED TO EN D BLI NDNESS LvLcov/’' ■■ ■ •“.■T 4PW* • jftk . 3?* ■ w ■ shmia 80? BABY BORN ED ASTOR MOW Heir to $3,000,000 Will Bear Name of Dead Father, John Jacob Astor. NEW YORK. Aug 14—A $3,000,000 baby was born at the Astor mansion. 84(i Fifth avenue, today at 8:15 a. tn. It is a boy and will bear the name of its father, John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic in the greatest marine disaster of modern times. The hl-1h of the child was announced by Dr Edwin B. Cragin in the follow ing statement: "A child was born to Mrs John Ja ob Astor at 8:15 o'clock this morning. It is a boy and its name is John Jacob Astor Tile mother Is In good condi t ion " Dr. Cragin later announced that John Jacob Astor the fifth weighed 7 3-4 pounds. By the will of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor this posthumous heir was left $3,000,000. There had been rumors circulated '1 at if the posthumous heir we ea boy i contest would be instituted by Colo nel Astor's widow. Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, to secure greater wealth for her son. This matter will be determined later. Preparations so the arrival of the millionaire babv were made early yes 'Tdav afternoon when Mr. and Mrs Force paents of Mr’. Astor. were summoned to the Fifth avenue man sion but the accouchement was delayed for many hours. Baby Is in Excellent Health. Di (Tagin has been in constant at tendance upon Mrs. Astor since the week before last. In making official announcement of •he birth Dr. ('ragin said that the baby, ns well ns Mrs Astor, was In - xcellent condition \t the same time Dr. (’ragin said hat ho did not look for any complica- Hons. but that he expected rhe young moth* ■ and her baby to continue dointr well. There had been considerable fea v among the relative* of Mrs. Astor as io the outcome of the accouchement be aqse of her physical sufferings and expenditures timed to meet the de pleted treasury. What Law-make’s Have Doh«. The work of the 1912 session, aside front the bunch of local bills accom panying the annual law-making, may be summed up briefly as follows: The abolition of the justice court system in towns of mo e than 20.000, if demanded locally. i X general revision of the laws gov erning insurance companies and the •ale of insurance. | An exemption of farm products from taxation for one year. A repeal of the dog tax A request upon the governor to bring suit to conset ve Tallulah Falls. A revision of the laws governing the department of agriculture T<» require state house officers to keep mon this reports of fees. To appropriate monex for the gen eral expenses of the state and other pu poses 'Jilt ATLANTA GLOK’jHAN A5 D NEWS W EDSESDAY. AUGi S I 14. 1912. GRUND WILL iPRDBE LYNCHING COLUMBUS, GA, Aug. 14—Law abiding citizens of Columbus and Mus cogee county today a e making de mands for an immediate and thorough Investigation by (he grand jury of the lynching here late yesterday afternoon, when a sixteen-year-old negro youth was taken from officers in Ihe court house, hurried to the outskirts of tne city and there shot to death. The grand jury meets tomorrow, when the probe is expected Io begin. The negro, Tom Cotton, alias T. 7. McElhenny. had just been convicted and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for killing Cedron Land, a white boj, six miles north of the city, on Sunday, June 30. Yesterday the court room was crowded with relatives and friends arraigned for trial in superior court-. All went well until after the jury had returned » verdict of guilty. Judge Price Gilbert had pronounced the three years sentence, court had been ad journed and officers had started to re turn the prisoner to jail. As Bailiffs. R. L. Willis and J. T. Darby started out of the court room, relatives and friends of the Land fam ily crowded around the officers, with drawn revolvers, and demanded the custody of the prisoner. The officers refused. Then the mob forcibly took the negro from them. Reaching the street with the pris oner, eighteen members of the mob held up a passing street car. put the negro aboard and forced the motorman to speed to the outskirts of the city. At Wynton switch the negro was taken from the ear to a nearby field, where he was riddled with bullets. His bsdy was left lying in a ditch. A coroner's jury was impaneled last night and returned a verdict of ''death by gunshot wounds at the hands of un known parties." mental stress resulting from the disas !er to the Titanic, on which she was a passenger with her husband. Unusual interest from the social, financial and legal viewpoints attaches to the status of the new child. There is a possibility that the birth of the boy may mean a legal contest for the re distribution of the $150,000,000 Astor es. . tate. Under the terms of the Astor will, the sum of $7,000,000 was set aside for each child born, other than the children, Vincent and Muriel, of whom Mrs. Ava Willing Astor was the moth er. The legal question involved is whether or not the language of this provision of the will is to be construed as a provision for the new heir—that is to say. a specific provision. Lawyers differ as to the answer to the question. Wardrobe Worth More Than $2,000. The new baby had a stock of baby clothes ready for him that would de light a w hole congress of mothers. The little wardrobe represented an outlay of more than $2,000 for the essentials alone, and much of the embroidery on . the dainty little garments was the handiwork of the young mother. Much of the flimsy, fluffy raiment was imported from a Paris dealer, and the best exports in New York worked , for months upon some of the dainty things in which baby Astor will coo his w inning way Into the world of fashion ‘ and finance. The baby is the fifth of the name, i John Jacob Astor, the first, was born In 1758, the second in 1788, the third tn 1822 Colonel John Jacob Astor, father of the present owner of the r name, was the fourth to bear the name >f the founder of the family fortune. K io y wk *** ROBERT L. CLAY AND HIS EYES. POLICEMAN SHOT TRYING >1 TO ARREST THREE MEN CHICAGO. Aug. 14.—Policeman James McGloom was shot through the neck .' and probably fatally wounded in a re- ‘ volver battle with three men whom he * tried to arrest. The men fired at Me- ( Gloom after he had fallen to the side- t walk. The policeman tried to crawl to t the station, three blocks away, but ( fainted from loss of blood: Other offl- f cers heard the shooting and rushed ( from the station. They found Me- , Gloom. SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. i August 14, 1912. Judgments Affirmed. Milledgeville Cotton Company vs. Ba- 1 con: from Baldwin superior court —Judge 1 James B Park. Hines & Vinson, for plaintiff in error. M. E. Evans, Allen & Pottle, contra Becker et nl. vs Donalson et al.: from Decatur—Judge Frank Park M. E. O'Neal, Pope & Bennett, for plaintiffs in error. Donalson At Donalson, T. S. Hawes contra. Lee vs. Pearson et al.; from Crawford Judge Felton. Robert L. Rodgers, for plaintiff in error. H. A. Mathews, contra Hendrix et al. vs. Bauhard Bros.: from Cherokee Judge Morris. P. D. DuPre. for plaintiff in error. E. W. Coleman, contra. Wilson vs. State from Lee Judge Long icertitied by court of appeals). Charles H Beazley. I' .1 Ragan, for plaintiff in error. Ware G. Martin, solicitor, contra. Judgments Reversed. Smith, tax collector, et al. vs. Whidden: from Tattnall—Judge Sheppard. H. H. Elders, for plaintiffs in error. Mann & Milner, contra Winkles vs. Simpson Grocery Company: from Polk Judge Edwards Bunn & Bunn, for plaintiff in eror. T. W. Lips comb, John K Davis, W W. Mundy, con tra DARK MEN STAND LIQUOR BETTER THAN FAIR ONES WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. —After two years careful and thorough investiga tion. the medical corps of the United States army has succeeded in demon strating that in one respect at least men of dark complexion enjoy a de cided advantage over their lighter com rades, regardless of age or national ity. This is in their ability to success fully give battle to John Barleycorn or resist the ill effect of the alcoholic stimulant. Observations on enlisted mon gath ered from the Philippine scouts, Phil ippine constabulary and Manila police force show that the ability to withstand tropica! climate and other hardships is about evenly divided and thousands of observations along other lines show that in fatality: muscular strength, in tellect. etc.. It is about six of one and half a dozen of the other. RAILWAY MAIL CLERK ACCUSED OF ROBBERY Systematic robbery of registered mail on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad between Atlanta and Nashville resulted in the arrest today of W. H. Kelly, a postal clerk, when his car reached Nashville. Kelly lives in Atlanta. Postoffice in spectors had placed a dummy letter in tlte mail sack and it was through this that, they say, they traced the crime to tlie clerk. He will be brought to At lanta for trial? Do you want to change jobs'.’ Perhaps the one you have doesn't suit your taste. Or surroundings are disagreeable. Or salary isn't large enough. Or there's no chance for advancement If so. your chance to change is offered today in The Georgian's Classified Pages. LABOR CONTRACT Li IS HELD VALID Supreme Court Draws Distinc tion Between Georgia’s Bill and That of Alabama. Drawing a wide distinction between the Alabama law recently held uncon stitutional by the United States su preme court and the Georgia law, the state supreme court today declared constitutional Georgia’s labor contract statute, sometimes called the peonage law. The court’s decision was made in the ease of Tim Wilson, a Leesburg negro convicted of misdemeanor for violation of the contract law. The case was cer tified to the supreme court by the court of appeals. While general phases of the Georgia statutes have been submitted to court test before, today's decision is the first handed down by the high court on the constitutionality question since the United States court knocked out the Alabama statutes in the famous Bailey peonage cases, as a violation of the thi teenth amendment to the Federal constitution. First Ruling on Entire Law, The Georgia contract labor law passed in the interests of planters in 1905 makes it a misdemeanor for a la borer to refuse to carry out a contract, to perform work for which money or goods of value has been advanced. Un der the Georgia construction, it must be shown that the laborer deliberately intended to defraud his employer by accepting contract wages. Georgia Law Not Affected. Justice Atkinson in writing an opin ion in which all justices concurred carefully drew a distinction between the Alabama law and the Georgia law, intimating that the Federal court de cision did not affect the soundness of the Georgia law. According to the Bailey decision, the .Alabama law made the refusal to work out a labor contract prima facie evi dence of criminal intent and allowed the employer making a contract with a laborer to receive one-half of the flne imposed in the event of a conviction for misdemeanor as provided by the law. In discussing the working of the Georgia law Justice Atkinson says: "in order to constitute a criminal in tent, which is tiie basis of the law. sat isfactory proof of the contract must be I shown, the procuring of money thereon, or other things of value, the failure tn perform the services contracted for, or failure to return the money advanced * * * without good and sufficient cause.” NICARAGUAN REVOLT. FAILURE. NEARLY ENDED WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Alarmed by the possibility of American inter vention. the Nicaraguan rebels have ceased their bombardment of Managua, the capital, according to a cablegram received by the navy department today from Commander Terhune of the scout cruiser Annapolis, which is in Nicara guan waters. The revolution is falling flat and federal troops are winning steadily in northern Nicaragua. Five persons were killed in the bombard ment of Managua. PLDM PROMISED BY I. B. FOB HID . DE HARRIMAN Willing to Send Depew to Paris to Gain Magnate’s Money for Campaign. v WASHINGTON. Aug. 14.—0 f the Roosevelt-Harriman incident in 1904 and the contribution by the railroad magnate of more than $200,000 to the New York Republican state campaign, still another conflicting version was re corded today when B. B. Odell, former • governor of New York, testified before the senate committee investigating campaign expenditures. Odell, who was chairman of the state committee in 1904 and governor from 1901 to 1905, testified that the contrl- i butions, totaling approximately $250,- 000, w’ere collected by the state com mittee outside of a $500,000 contribution which had been promised by the Re publican national committee. Records were kept of these contributions, but were destroyed at the close of the cam paign. he said. “Was your attention ever called to a letter purporting to have been writ ten by E. H. Harriman to Sidney Web ster in 1906. in which Mr. Harriman is said to have stated that in 1904 Presi- Z dent Roosevelt sent a request asking him to come to Washington?" asked Senator Clapp. "T have seen the letter?" "Do you know anything about that request outside of the letter?” “I do.” "State what you know.” Harriman Called on T. R. "Along early in October of 1904 1 was requested by Mr. Harriman to lunch with him. 1 went to his office and during luncheon he showed me a letter from President Roosevelt asking him to come to Washington. We had some conversation as to what the pres ident desired to see Mr. Harriman about, and I said it was my opinion that he wanted to ask about the situa tion in New York and consult about the financial conditions. "Mr. Harriman said he did not care to go, but. after talking the matter over, he said he would go. I requested Mr. Harriman to visit Mr. Roosevelt, and I requested him to bring to the at tention of Mr. Roosevelt the situation in New York regarding the senatorial campaign. I told him the organization was in favor of the election of Gov ernor Black to succeed Senator Depew. / but at the same time they felt kindly , toward Senator Depew and would like ' to see him taken care of. "I suggested that Mr. Harriman ask Mr. Roosevelt if he could not send Mr. Depew as ambassador to France. Mr. Harriman went to Washington and a few days after I again lunched with him and ascertained what had occurred at the conference with the president. I He said I was right. 1 Promised to Appoint Depew. . "The president was anxious about the financial conditions in New York and f he would like to have Mr. Harriman's help. Mr. Harriman said the president ’ told him that if necessary he would do : as requested about Depew. Harriman • said he was ready to help the national ( 1 committee. I suggested that he wait ' until the committee had exhausted alt s other sources. “Subsequently Mr. Cortelyou came to my office and told me they were unable ‘ to raise the money due the state com mittee. I told him it was a very em barrassing position for me and he asked > if I could not help out. Lcalled up Mr. , Harriman on the telephone, told him ’ the situation and told him that if he ! desired to help the national committee I the time had come. He told me to send Cortelyou and Bliss to his office. Then ' Mr. Harriman telephoned me that he j had made arrangements and had raised | $240,000, which he had turned over to Bliss. Bliss later gave me a check for $200,000 and I gave him a receipt for 1 this.” Odell admitted that representation had been made to Harriman that the finances of the campaign were in a se rious condition, whereas they were not. t “' ’ FOUND—If you lose anything, and will t advertise it here, you will surely recover ; it it found by an honest person. A three time ad seldom fails. Remarkable recov- * eries are brought about every day through this column.