Show seemed like a sermon now and then sothern admits visitors to his dressing room he did so in cincinnati where he entertained a somewhat nervous and excitable gentleman during his moments off the age in the midst of one of their monts during which the visitor expos volubly there entered the room a dignified and decorous colored man who advanced to the center say ing in an earnest monotone have you no fear of goda and mysteriously departed as he came mr sothern s guest was greatly dumfounded but was too well bred to ask questions resuming his ment he again grew heated in bis re marks and again the colored man quietly and mysteriously entered and clearing bis voice declared if you were the devil himself do you ou could make me like oua to the guests surer se the actor took the interruption as a matter of course so sothern s visitor in a dazed manner continued his argument only to be interrupted again and again by the same colored intruder abis time with the I 1 know you now and god knows I 1 pity you mr sothern s guest was now too surprised to talk he sat in a col lapsed condition until the same mar bad entered three separate times and in an expressionless voice had said I 1 am as changeless as the sun I 1 will carry my soul pure to heaven you are the strange woman you shall be as beautiful as I 1 am and as happy this last reman was too much for the mans nerves he was barely able to gasp sothern what the does this meana Is this a joke or an insane asylums who Is this fellows that said the actor that Is sm ply my dresser lewis his duty Is to notify me of the progress of the play by lines in that manner I 1 now when my cue comes oh said mr sothern s guest wiping great beads of perspiration from his face I 1 was beginning to believe I 1 had em |