The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-10
MaJuh Gutrippali's Spidnh.

lhe Hot Springs Ark correspondent of
the st. Louis Globo-D tmoCrat SAYS: II was
standing behind Msjsh Gutrippalis chair
AZ the Arlington the other hight watch
ing game OF poser in which he was hard
~ holding his own, when just having fallen
heavily ona queen full, he laid aside his som
brero to mop the beaded perspiration from
ms brow, ,nd in doing so exposed start
ling work OF art in the shape of monstrous
spider tattooed into the skin of his shining
poll. was fascinated by the horrible thing,
which was SO cleverly initiated in India ink
that 1t stood out from the scalp In all the re-.
sem6lance OF life. 1t made my flesh crawl
all over to look nj it, and experienced an
almost l"-csistabe inclination to smash /,
with room and then 'chug' it IN and
down a half dozen times, as | have seen
courageous women do, to make sure had
crushed it. Majah looked Indignantly around
to see If his i'll luck could be traced TO the
tact that any one was sitting with his foot
on rung OF his chair, and caught my fas-
cinated gaze,riveted on his spider In mo-
ment his i'll humor had vanished, md his
red and rotund countenance bcamed with
the pleasure which the inventor of n
patent churn feels in explaining It's move.
menls Mt II county mir. "Ahw said he II
see You are admiring my spidah. | llatuh
myself that it was lather a clever iaeah.
What Is the idtah' you ask. Why, my deab
tellah pilgrim, it ought to be obvious TO a
pusson of yo' appah'nt dissunment. Flies.
SAIL That tells the whole stoh'y. You see
you may help me TO three k'yahds. Mr.
Deaier-evah since lost my hair from the
tevah have been pes cred to death with The
intunnol flies. They made life bur.
den TO me, sab, every time | uncoyahed nv
head, an AS | couldn't wear nv hat in
church, | dreaded for Sunday TO come
around. tCome to the centah, gontlemen,l
tried q wash O. pennyroval an carbolic
aeld, put IL took the skin often my head, and
then the pesky flies was wussen ever. Last
August there came along Il drunken loafer
who said he was shipwrecked sash, and
he was taitooin' mummaids an sbins
an anchors on all the bows IN
town. caught the ideah from b,r,
L asked him if he could tattoo n
spidah, and he said he'd never tried II hn q
ne guessed he could with little practice, SO
engaged him a good big spidah 10 sit for
his portrait and paid niggah So to let him
practice on him He tattoed that niggnb
until at little distance he looked like CAM,
Oonstentenus, the tattoed wonder of RAJ.
NUNS suckus He had spidah all over him
me artists fust efforts were horrid danhs
ouI he Kept on improving with each spidah
wanted him to practice couple o DAYS
mo oeto' trustin' him with the ioh o. fres.
coin my rink, but the niggah Kicked like a
mule, and swore he'd throw up the lob and
forfeit his pay rather tn N have another
needle stuck into him /; and had to come 70
time. How did it show on the niggab,s
black hider Well, you Q, he used re3 int
on the niggah. felt shush if he couli 90,
the outlines all right could trust him with
tne shading and perspective of the
work you see he has made
a mighty good job out of it. The
spidah is so natch'rsl an life-like that be'd
deceive the elect, and as CONSEQUENCE No
ny has lit on my head since il WAS nut there
For the first week or two | was otfultv afraid
the I'll little cusses would drop on The
swlndle and give it 10 me hvtter'n ever bpt
they didn't. By rights ougher patented
the invention, and charged a royslty ON
every spdah. BY judicious advertising I
mghva made a fortune outen /. Rut
hadn't the heart to do it. beouath tho in
venton to the ay.blown bald heads AZ tho
greatest and freest country over which ths
eagle ever screamed, sab, and when / ala
my name will DO cut in inaelibe letters on
the adamantine walls O. the temple O. fame
alongside o the buffers who discovered vac.
c'nation and the Frginny patriot who dno
up the secret o mixin green's in his lcker
You hear my offal hawn."