Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1903 — Proof Positive. [ARTICLE]

Proof Positive.

A missionary in charge of a small church on the Indian reservation at Onondaga held Tuesday evening services for his people, at which subjects upon which he lectured were not strictly religious. One evening, when the little building was well filled with braves and their squaws, he described the solar system, and told them that the earth revolved about the sun and ilso turned over once in every twentyfour hours. Early the next morning the priest was awakened by a knock. He spened the door to find a big Indian - wrapped in a blanket standing on the porch. “Why, Obaga!” he exclaimed. “Is anything the matter?” "Missionary lied,” grunted the Indian. “I lied? What do you mean?” “Missionary say world turn over evsry night. Injun go home, set up stick, put apple on stick. If world turn over, apple fall off. This morning apple on itick. Missionary lied. Huh,” and with this parting grunt he strode down the path, unheeding the priest’s calls.