Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-07-13
A Wall from the "JungIe."

whoops," the kissing of Snakes"
and the roar of wild beasts there
comes waited in on gentle zephyrs
from the Potter 'jungles' bar
barrie wall at the truth that was
told in the Press of the 29th ult. :,
when the writer chanced to cut too
deep when he truthfully called
those would-be ball players ''rob-
bers."
The "Cheap John" editor of the
principal "Filipino' organ, The
Enterprise, makes blind-stagger
at a vicious editorial in an attempt
TO bolster up the highway robbery
on that famous Wednesday, and
to descry the PRESS and "the 2X4
county" for defending the interest
of justice and fair play.
BY the way, in justice to Editor
Mullin, l wish to state that he did
not write the article, but it was re-
ported and written by a man, who,
perhaps, knows about as much
about the game as the average
Potter county savage and who
has played ball ''2, x4' it ever
became known to civilization that
unique specimen of mans sup
posed prehistoric ancestor was
running an apple butter" paper
in the wilds Of Potter county.
Perhaps this spirited, corn-fed
editor has just awoke from a Rip
Van Winkle sleep and imagined
that he was rolling nlne-pins in the
mountains, or hunting robbins"
with an antiquated blunderbuss.
Take my advice, old man, and go
take another nap, and perhaps you
will wake up to find that some
benign hand has removed from
your shoulders the shrouds of an
tiquity, and you will, perhaps,
have more pleasant taste in your
mouth.
After having an epileptic fit over
our 2X4 county, he gets the rickets
and roasts the Press, because,
while throwing peanuts at the
monkeys cage it failed to throw a
few at the big fellow. Well, what
ever the PRESS may he, or the
county may be, have the satisfac-
tion Of knowing that the PREss has
ever stuck to one party and one
principle; it has never been a poll
! teal jumping-bean, changing prin-
ciple with the alternate success OF
, any old party-always on the win
ming side, in the hope of gathering
in a few political sheckels.
He next apologies for the I'm
pire, and says he is not a native
but came from Olean. Well,
will apologize for charging poor
Potter with being responsible fol
| this morbid example of degenerate
, manhood who has the audacity tC
pose as a base ball umpire without
a thourough and complete knowl
edge of the game and rules anC
that he was utterly devoid of this
requisite was signifed by his de
cisions and his solicitation o
pointers from the visitors. Out
side of a ball game | do not ques
ton this mans honesty of purpos,
or qualifications of an upright gen
tleman, but he is woefully out O.
place in ball game.
The Democrat quotes the article
from the PRESS and soliloquizes
thusly: '"The writer of the abov,
article has undoubtedly been uI
against some cheap. "chink" laun
dry fairy-tale tobacco, or had a bat
cook who rung in a few green one.
on him while he was YEARLY lab
oring under the outrageously in
sane idea that the cheap bunch O
''clover kicking" "sod bursting
comedians, who drove the hill t.
play here on the Wednesday il
question, could play ball." ant
finishes up by calling the writer
few pet names which he had addet
to his choice vocabulary while
basking under the baneful infiu
ence OF a July sun in some charit
able institution for the weak an,
insane, and begs him "to excus
himself to the world at large fo
being on earth, F" while he goes o.