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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS VISITOR FINDS "Hempel the Lovely” as Pleased as a Child at Great Reception Given Her Singing. This Is the short and simple story of a reporter's meettnif behind the scenes with Madame Frieda Hempel, the Lovely. Atlanta has seen them—the bril liant opera stars—as they have played their parts and sunt? their wondrous arias and melodies. She has seen them as, flushed and pleased, they have come before the curtain to re wive the homage of 6,000 noisy pairs of hands. But what does a peep behind the scenes disclose? How do these great and almost awesome people act? How do they behave themselves in the few moments from the time they make their low bows of acknowledgment and dlsapepar until they again are pouring forth their golden notes? That’s what several thousand wor shiping Atlantans who have attend ed the opera want to know. And that’s what a lone and profes sionally inquisitive reporter wanted tt know. To hie dying day He will be glad that he found out when she, whom he promptly deified In his heart us "Frieda, the Lovely,” was the prin cipal songstress. And Then That Chorus— Just how he ever stumbled through the small army of stage hands, scene shifters and other attaches without meeting summary annihilation at the hands of some of them, he will never know. His most terrifying experience was when he was about to be swal lowed up In a great bevy of comely maidens of the ballet. There must have been a thousand of them. At a safer distance he could have admired their flaunted charms. As it was, his only thought was precipitate flight. Only the sweet notes from that moment from the stage held him. It was Madame Hempel, as Violetta, just concluding the wonderful duet with Macnez, as her lover, in the ( tun ing room scene of “La Travlnta.” At the final note the vast stilled audi ence broke into tumultous applause. It was a triumph. She and Macnez were called before the curtain once and then again and again. And when sh e returned behind the Society Leader Gives Race Meet v • *!• v«v •{••»£. •!•••!* **« • Guests Come on Special Trains Mrs. LeBus Hostess at Lexington Tobacco Magnate’s Wife Hires Real Jockeys for Speed Trials at Private Track. LEXINGTON. KY„ April 24.— Guests from New York. Philadelphia. Boston, New Orleans, Louisville, Cin cinnati and Chicago are here to-day for the society race meeting given this afternoon by Mrs. Charles Le Bus, wife of the millionaire president of the Burley Tobacco Company at their noted farm “Hlnata.” More than 300 guests came, some on special trains from Cincinnati. The race meeting was given under the auspices of the Kentucky Racing Commission as well as a special dis pensation of the Jockey Club of New York, Mrs. Le Bus having made a special trip East to secure permis sion. Forty trophy cups were offered for the races. Regular jockeys, here for the race meeting which opens Saturday, rode the mounts. Besides there was a cup and egg race for expert polo riders, women and men, from the East. Notables Named as Judges. Mrs. Le Bus selected as judges Gov. James B. McCreary, John E. Madden, Nicholas Longworth, Thom as C. McDowell. Thurston Ballard, of Louisville, and Percy M. Chandler, of Philadelphia. The stewards were Gen. John B. Castleman and Gen. W. B. Haldeman, of Louisville. The of ficial starter was Mars Cassidy, the regular Jockey Club omcial. This is how it came about: When Mr. and Mrs. Le Bus ra- moved to Lexington from the little town of Cynfhiana, Ky., a few years ago, they could not entertain their friends as they desired because >f the lack of a suitable house. Just about this time the famous stock farm of J. K. Newman, the No v York turfman, who had lost interest in the turf since the New York laws prohibiting betting went into effect, was put on the market. Mr. Le Bus promptly bought it. Like Japanese Residence. It has an excellent private race track, and Mrs. Le Bus transformed the older buildings after her own ideas. She likes Japanees things and she has made the place a typical Japanese residence. And she calls it “Hinata”—Sunshine. When she had everything arranged to her satisfac tion she decided to give a “house warming” in the shape of a “society race meeting.” Seven years ago Mrs. James B. Haggin opened her great country house, Green Hills, on the magnifi cent Elmendorf estate at Lexington, with a baby ball, at which more than 200 persons socially prominent in Kentucky and other parts of the country disported themselves in ha biliments such as the£ had not worn since they wer^ at the spanking age Mrs. Le Bus planned her race meet ing as an entertainment to eclipse in novelty that devised by Mrs. Hag- gin. To-day’s affair was the first race meeting ever given by a woman with official authority. Although only one day’s duration, it took a special act of the Kentucky State Racing Commission to sanction it, and a special dispensation had to be obtained from the Jockey Club of New York before the horses could run there without being outlawed from the big race meetings to be hell at Lexington, Louisville and Latonia. Mrs. Le Bus spent several days In New’ York making arrangements for the meeting. She bought more than 40 trophy cuns as prizes. The hand somest Is of gold and went to the winner of the mile for three-year- olds and four-year-olds. S3,50 Recipe Free, For Weak Men. Send Name and Address Today— You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. I I have in my possession a prescription for rvous debility, lack of rigor, weakened man- rod, failing memory and lame back, brought i by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies youth, that has cured so many worn and ner- ius men right in their own homes—without any Iditlonal help or medicine—that I think every ian who wishes to regain his manly power and rility. quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So have determined to send a copy of the pre- cription free of charge, in a plain, ordinary I scaled envelope to any man who will write me for it. Tills prescription comes from a physician who has made a apeeial study of men and I am convinced It is the surest-acting combination for the cure of deficient manhood and vigor failure e'er put together. I I think I owe it to my fellowman to send them a copy in confidence so that any man any where who is weak and discouraged with peated failures may, stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I be lieve is the quickest-acting restorative, upbuild ing. SPOT-TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and ( <UB himself at home quietly and quickly. ( • ,U9t me a line like this: I)r. A. E. Robin- Luck Building. Detroit, Mich.,, and I i . - nd you a copy of this splendid recipe ( In * plain ordinary envelope free of charge. A < Kretft many doctors would charge $3.00 to $">.00 ( i"r merely writing out a proscription like this— \ but I send it entirely free. scenes, the reporter, shamelessly spy ing upon her, saw that her eyes shone and that she was greatly moved by the spontaneous tribute Atlanta had paid her art. • Yes, she had sung in the largest city of the greatest nation of the universe —which is New York, U. S. A., of course—but it is doubtful If she ever sang to a more responsive audience than the one right here in Atlanta. Stars, Too, Sometimes Happy. As she turned to her companion in triumph she was transfigured with joy. She smiled happily at Macnez and he caught her hand, kissing It gallantly as a token of his own admiration of her talent. The reporter, gazing vacuously, sud denly came to’ himself. He had been instructed he must talk with Mme. Frieda and ther e she was disappear ing. By a hurried maneuver he in tercepted her. He knew he must say something to her. Confusedly he heard himself making sounds. But she understood and replied: “It warms me more than I can tell to sing for such appreciative hearers,” she said, smiling. It is, you know, my first American tour, and, of course f the first time I ever have been in the South. I am delighted. “The audience was very, very goo 3 to me. 1 never can forget it.” Madame Gracious. As she talked she smiled hfcr beau tiful smile. Then she extended her hand In farewell as she moved toward her dressing room. The reporter bent low over the hand. Who shall say he did not emulate the gallant exam ple of Macnez? The knight of the stub pencil and the decrepit typewriter shook himself. Realities oegan to take form before his eyes. He saw other stars pacing back and forth near the rear of the stage. He saw them ordered about by I directors as though they were stage , hands. He hears with awakening in- ! terest one of the chantresses led | through the first notes of the song she | is to sing in a moment. The “supes” stumble about and get in each other's way. Woe betide them if they hinder the stage hands in their all-important work. The “supes” pal j pably are nervous. those ballet girls! The reporter un avoidably encountered them again as he fared forth from the building. They did not get the glory of the occasion that had inspired the stars. They only romped and chattered between acts and made saucy remarks to a poor. unprotected reporter. One shapely minx, the extent of whose raiment was in inverse proportion to that of her many beauties, actually made faces at him. If only there had not been so many of them— But what did he care if they did make faces at him? Had not ,the great, the lovely Frieda smiled on him —or at him? Had she not even spoken to him? There was a lilt in his heart and a song on his lips as he went forth. The song was not grand opera. Its words were only these: “Makes no difference if she is "Madame,” she can keep on kickin' my heart aroun'.” Grrandoperitis Is Now A1 the Rage Among Atlantans HIGH COST OF BEEP IS BLAMED ON TICK F UNLOVING young people who aren't awed by grand opera— now- that Atlanta is having a spasm of it—have invented a new game. Grandoperitis, it might be called, and it consists of singing or speaking every day of subjects as absurdly as grand opera lines are written. George Ade’s satire, written several years ago on the spur of the moment after he had been reading a libretto, may be taken as a sample of how the game goes. Ade’s opera was called “El Janitoro,” and he pre faced it as follows: What If people in real life followed the methods and motives of grand opera? Take a fire in a flat building, for Instance. Suppose that Mr. and Mrs. Tyler, grand opera characters, are seated in their apartment on the sixth floor of the Helvetia. Mr. Tyler Is reading a newspaper. Mrs. Tyler advances to the center of the room. Mrs. T.— 1 think I smell smoke. Mr. T.— She thinks she smells smoke. Mrs. T.— I think I smell smoke. Mr. T.— Oh! What is this? She thinks she smells smoke. Mrs. T.— What does it mean, what does it mean? This smell of smoke may indicate That we’ll be burned; oh! awful fate! Grand Chorus— Oh hasten, oh hasten, oh hasten away, Our terror we would not conceal. And language fails to express the alarm That in our hearts we feel. Mr. and Mrs. T.— Ah! language fails to express the alarm That in their hearts they feel. Until Pest Is Eradicated Georgia Will Continue to Buy Meat in West, Says Expert. The cattle tick is responsible for the high cost of beef in Atlanta, de clared Dr. E. M. Neighbert, head of the United States Board of Aniniitl Industry for Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, to-day. In a few days 30,000 head of cat tle will be shipped from Florida to Oklahoma and Kansas to be fatten ed. They will be shipped back to Florida and Georgia and sold at fancy prices. “When the Southeastern States get rid of the tick,” said Mr. Neighbert, “cattle may be grazed and fattened just as easily in Georgia as in the West. There are now only twelve counties in Georgia that have been freed from quarantine restrictions. "Dealers pay approximately $10 a head for the scrubs of Florida and Georgia. It costs that much more to ship them West. Then they are sold for more than three times that cost. “That is why the price of beef is so high,” Mr. Neighbert asserted. “The 30,000 head that will be ship ped from Florida is an example of J.M.H1G2 Ctixsm. 3 argams HAT SALE Beginning at 9 o’clock To-morrow, We Will Offer a Lot of Splendid Trim med Hats—Values to $10. While They Last, $5.00 Hats $7.50 Hats $8.50 Hats $10.00 Hats $3.50 For Choice Big Purchase Long Silk Gloves Pair $1-00 Values 0«/C Just received 1.000 pairs new fresh 16-button length Silk Gloves In white, btaek and champagne; wfth double finger tips and reg ular $1.00 quality, to-mor row, 69c. Sate Silk Hose .At $1 Pair the Condition that has obtained for years and will continue until the cat tle tick is eradicated.” Wilson Seeks Men To Fill Big Posts For ladies wishing the even ing colors, also white, black and tan silk hose, we will cut the price of Kayser’s $1.25 quality and will also give McCallum’s and Gordon Hosiery in the sale—special pair, $1.00. i At 47c Pair Goes to Capitol to See Senators. Important Awards Expected Within Week. GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF To Keep Down Dust. MACON.—Either dally sprinkling with water or once-a-week sprinkling with oil will be the method employed by the city to allay the dust in the unpaved streets. Council has decided to keep the dust down. At War on Vice District. MACON.-—Rev. W. N. Ainsworth, former president of Wesleyan Col lege, is leading a crusade to abolish the restricted district in Macon. He has appeared before the grand jury with evidence. Sued by His Mother-in-Law. MACON.—Sam W. Collins, a tailor, who recently went in bankruptcy, is being sued by his mother-in-law, Mrs. C. A. Henry, on a note for $750. She wants it paid out of the homestead of $1,600 allowed him by the Bankruptcy Court., (Enter the Janitor.) Janitor— Hold, I am here! Mr. T.— Ah, it is the janitoro. Mrs. T.— Can I believe my senses Or am I going mad? It is the janitoro, It is, indeed, the janitoro. Janitor— Such news I have to tell! Mr. T.— Ah, I might have known He had such news to tell. Janitor— I came to inform you That you must quickly fly: The fearful blaze is spreading, To tarry is to die. The floors.underneath you Are completely burned away, They cannot save the building, So now escape I pray. The flames are roaring loudly, Oh, what a fearful sound! You can hear the people shrieking As they jump and strike the ground. Oh, horror overtakes me. And I merely pause to say That we’ll be burned—oh-ii-h! aw ful fate! Mr. T.— Behold, the smell grows stronger yet, The house is burning; I’d regret To perish in the curling flames; Oh! horror! horror! horror! Mr. and Mrs. T. (duet)— Oh! sad is out lot, sad is our lot, To perish in the flames so hot. To curl and writhe and fry and sizz, Oh! what a dreadful thing it is To tfiink of such a thing. Mrs. T.— We must escape. • Mr. T.— Yes, yes, we must escape! Mrs. T.— Come, let us fly! Mr. T.—’Tis well! ’Tis well! We’ll fly at once. WASHINGTON, April 24.—Presi dent Wilson, for the second time, vis ited the Capitol to-day to discuss patronage with a number of Demo cratic Senators. He could see more Senators in less time by going to the Capitol. It is expected a number of impor tant ambassadorships and other awards for faithful campaign work ers will be decided on within the week. Secretary Tumulty predicted to-day that practically all the important posts now vacant will be filled within the next fortnight. By actual test, thousands of women have pronounced these stockings wonderful for wear. They are pure thread silk with high spliced lisle heel, lisle toe, sole and deep garter top. In white, black and tan; pair, 47c. A Sale of Undermuslins At 87c $1.00 and $1.25 values. Just received from our buyer now in New York a perfectly lovely lot of Princess Slips, combina tions, crepe and nainsook Gowns, new skeleton skirts, new styles in Drawers and Corset Cov ers. You will certainly find values greater and styles lovelier than you ’ve ever seen at such a price 87c Sale Sample Crepe Waists Silk Crepe and French Crepe Nov- elties--The Loveliest Stlyes Ever Seen Just as plainly I many 'of them are in actual physical ! pain’. The shoes they wear are not I their own. They are part of the ; “properties." Some of them are too ; small and the wearers hobble about in pathetic anguish. Powdered wigs and the costumes, not too well fitting, add to their discomfort. All appear to be taking themselves seriously but the ballet girls. Oh, Trade Board Raises $4,000. COLUMBUS.—In the first day’s work for new members of the Colum bus Board of Trade and to raise $8,000 for the coming year’s business campaign, more than $4,000 was se cured. (Enter all the other residents of the apartment building. They range themselves in a semi-circle be- hand Mr. and Mrs. Tyler.) Mr. T.— Kind friends, I have some news to tell. This house is burning; it is well That w r e should haste ourselves Women of the Chorus— What is this he tells us? 11 must be so. The building is on fire And we must go. Men of the Chorus What is this he tells us? It must be so. The building is on fire And we must go. That the building’s doomed for cer- * tain Oh, haste, oh, haste away! Mrs. T. Oh! awful message, How it chills my heart! Yet we will sing a few more arias Before we start. Mr. T.— Yes, yes, a few more arias and then away! Grand Chorus— Oh hasten, ch hasten, oh hasten away. Our terror we can not conceal. And language fails to express the alarm That in our hearts we feel. Mrs. T.— Now’, ere I retreat. Lest death overtake me I’ll speak of the fear That convulses and shakes me. I sicken to think what may befall, Oh, horror, horror, horror! Mr. T. - The woman speaks the truth, And there can be no doubt That we w’ill perish teoon Unless we all clear out. Grand Chorus— Oh hasten, oh hasten, oh hasten away, Our terror we can not canceal. And language fails to express the alarm That in our hearts we feel. These are identical values that others sell at $7.50 to $10 each. The most exquisite waists that ever delighted the eyes of wom an^Come, make ypur choice and = early, as they won’t be here long High’s Greater Corset Dept. The Mecca for [Every Woman Who Wants the Best in Corset and Corset Fittings—Second Floor . Sr away And save our lives without delay. And then the librettist adds: “But why Ko farther? The supposition is that they continued the dilatory tac tics of grand opera and perished in the flames.” NERVOUS PEOPLE Improving Water System. COLUMBUS.—The Columbus Water Supply Company has purchased more than $100,000 worth of water mains to be laid in the principal business and residence sections of the city. A new’ standpipe and a settling basin w’ill be built. NEW VAPOR TREATMENT p ^ ho dread having teeth extracted, filled or crowned should call at my office and I will demonstrate to your entire satisfaction that I can do it painlessly. I am the Painless Dentist Seeks $10,000 for Prosecution. COLUMBUS.—Two suits have been filed in the Superior Court of Mus cogee County by G. T. Sapp for $5,000 each against H. T. Williams, a merchant, who charged him with lar ceny after trust and disposing of mortgaged property. Sapp was ac quitted. Relieves Three-Year-Old Child of Severe Attack of Croup Instantly. Mother Unable to Find Any thing That Affords Relief Until This New Treat ment Was Used. $5 a Set aacflie Fillings In Silver, Plati num and Amalgam, 50c. 22-K. Gold Crowns,'! , Crowns , Porcelain and Bridge Work, j * Dally .. Sunday . 8 to 8 .10 to 3 They never 6lip or drop. 1 guar antee them for 20 years. Lady Attendant and Ladies’ Rest Room. Phone Main 1298. Terms: Don’t Worry Gold Dust Vulcanite sets do not make the mouth sore nor have rubber taste. Dies While on Visit. FORSYTH.—John H. Dews, of Griffin, died here yesterday w’hile on a visit to his niece, Mrs. Thomwell Gamble. Although 84 years of age, he was apparently in excellent health. Mrs. Laura C. Dunn, of Atlanta, is a sister. Memphis. Tenn.—Mrs. ’J’. A. Hag gerty, of 508 Manassas Street, says: “My little three-year-old boy has been subject to severe attacks of Croup and Bronchitis, and 1 was unable to find anything to give satisfactory re lief. Our druggist recommended Vick’s Croup anrl Pneumonia Salve, and. alter using it, find that it gives perfect satisfaction. Hereafter will always keep a jar on hand.” This new vapor treatment is in the i form of a salve and is applied exter nally, doing away with the danger of dosing little stomachs with, medicine. It is rubbed on the chest and throat and covered with warm cloths. The body heat releases antiseptic vapors, which are inhaled with every breath direct to the lungs, affording instant relief. At the same time it is ab sorbed through the skin, taking out all soreness or tightness. The worst eases of croup are relieved, in fifteen minutes, severe colds in one night. The leading druggists sell this new treatment to their customers with the guarantee that if It does not afford quicker relief, and if they do not like it better than any other treatment they ever tried, the full retail price of 25c, 50c or $1.00 will be returned. Exclusive Dealers in ‘Lily of France’ $5 to $25 Exclusive Dealers in Exclusive Dealers in ‘Redfern’ ‘LaVictoire’ $3 to $10 73 1-2 Whitehall St. Triple Affliction Kills Child. F’ORSYTH.—Marion, the 8-year- old daughter of J. D. Shi, died in the Macon hospital. Following an opera tion for appendicitis, measles broke out, which was complicated by blood poisoning. DR. WHITLAW, Painless Dentistry Largest and most thoroughly equipped office in the South. Entrance 73^ Whitehall Street; 4th door from J. M. High Co. (Over the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Store.) Opposite Vaudette Theater. Reference: My work and Central Bank and Trust Corporation. Bloodworth Now Captain. FORSYTH.—O. H. B. Bloodworth. ,Tr., who since 1909 has been the first lieutenant of tfie Quitman Guards, of this place, has received his commis sion from Governor Brown as captain of Company M, Second Infantry, Na tional Guard of Georgia. 9 Atlantan Champion Debater. ATHENS.—The champion debaters to represent Phi Kappa Literary So ciety in its clash against Demosthen- ian have been chosen. The winners are C. B. McDaniel, of Atlanta, and Russell Patterson, of Athens. The debate takes place at commencement. Fly Escape Screens Made to Order and installed. They turn ’em out. We make them with or without the Escapes. Artistic, light and strong. Call us up for estimate. W. L. Barnhart, Agent, ivv 2fi!>4. 220 Brown-Randolph Bldg. included in the elegant new Spring models of the Lily of France Corset, the Boneless figure corset is at tracting much attention from fashionable women. You are invited to see them. For many years we have been exclusive dealers in the celebrated Redfern Corsets which have no superiors at the prioe. See the new lines of long-hip, low and medium bust models, Tricot, Batiste and Broche Corsets, $3.00 to $10.00. $3 to $5 1 We have two new laced front La Victoire models to show you as well as the com plete line of lovely corsets for Spring; all are boned with wahlon. low, medium and high bust, long-hip models. $3.00 to $5.00, == AT THE BEST CORSETS AT -H We sell all the best makes manufactured. War ner’s, R. & GF., Thompson’s, W. Bi, High’s Special, P. N., etc., in all styles to fit all figures. J.M.HK2I CGifflftNY.