Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — An Untimely Interruption. [ARTICLE]

An Untimely Interruption.

The boys tell a good one on Jim Barndollar, of the Osage Agency. It seems he had sent his washing to a full-blood Osage squaw, who was to have it done and bring it home on Saturday night. The squaw failed to fulfill the contract, however, and on Bunday Jim had to goto church with the same suit he wore during the week- In the meantime he had sent word to his washerwoman to “ bring them shirts.” He had just got comforta-' bly seated in the church, and the grave minister had opened up in thunder tones on sinners generally, when in stepped a big Osage Indian with a package under his blanket, who began making all kinds of unintelligible signs to our friend.Jim appeared-to take no notice of presence, however, until by his audible whisperings and frantic gesticulations the Indian had attracted the attention of the entire congregation, and fairly horrified our hero by drawing forth a shirt with a stunningly clean front, several pairs of socks and other things that go to complete a fashionable young man’s wardrobe. This was too much for him, and he immediately arose and, beckoning the persistent laundry-clerk out, he then and there exhausted both the English and Osage vocabulary of* epithets, after which he took charge of the clothes and told the dusky warrior to go his way. Profane language is prohibited at the agency, but it is said that Jim made good use of all the emphatic religious adjectives that came within his grasp Coffeeville (Kan.) Courier. < ’ Nuts that ripen all the year round— Herald.' * n