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Show no picxAJTErrarzs thebjs. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is declared by the manager in charge that through the South Lewis Morrison and his performances of Mephlsto in "Faust." with the fiery brocken scene and Its other features, is something of a terror to the colored population. His principal billboard advertisement ad-vertisement reads: "The DevU is Coming," Com-ing," and this announcement, spelled out and repeated among; the cabins, is enough to bring out all the voodoo charms In the neighborhood. At a Southern hostelry recently, where all the attaches are colored, the actor rang for ice water, but no one responded. respond-ed. He rang again and again with the same result. Finally, starting wrath-fully wrath-fully for the office, he found a very black and small boy huddled in one corner of the hall. "Come here, I want you, I've been looking for you for half an hour," roared the actor, angrily. "Foh, me, auh; oh-h' Lawd, I ain't done nothing. I seen you at de show, sun. Please, suh, don't you touch me." The boy was so evidently terrified that Morrison took pains to set him at ease, and succeeded in drawing him into a conversation, which revealed the fact that not a colored boy in the hotel would voluntarily answer the bell; "de debble" was ringing. "I was plumb scared myself, suh; but dere was Just one thing about that place you was in dat tickled me to deft, suh." "What was that?" Inquired the actor. ''Dere wasn't a pickaninny ob any kind down dere where you was, suh." |