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CONOOaD, N'OV,, 23, 1896.
OUh SNAKE.
We print tod y the whole snake
story of which our esteemed neigh
bor' tLe Charlotte News seems a
littloahy, The author settles this
snake story on the bide of truthand
we hope it dates an epoch from
which 8 lake stories shall no longer
produce a smile Of incredulity.
The News is particular to
disclaim the snake with feet and
legs(w 3 thought he had been in
the newspaper field long enough to
find there were nota few of them,
but not the kind that editors kill or
delight in having killed.) Bat this
' is the year of strange mixtures, and
if this, particular snake of which
Brother Dowd says Mr. Cook, Col.
v Cook, or Dr. Cook, told him hap
pens to be' a little mixed up with
humanity, lizzardanaty or froginity, j
it is not so much out of the order
oi disorder of things after all for
this year of '96.
When anything unusual is re
ported in the snake line somebody
is 8 v re to give you a scanning of
the face to see if it is not all in an
infl imed eye or a worse inflamed
brain or a carbonized inner lining,
but those symptoms are not found
in this particular instance, at least
ii6T-with all the witnesses that are
produced in testimony of the gen
uineness of this particular snake
etory. We ourselves felt some dis
appointment at the testimony of
two young ladies who saw the
enake ancLspoiled the fake. Young
... ladies are not bothered with the
.. 'tangles" and they always tell the
truth if you don't ask of their age
or matrimonial aspirations.
Naturalists say there are from
1500 to 1800 species of snakes and
. 'jim-jamers" see , about twice the
number, we believe. They all fail
to describe any species with feet and
legs, but with all that number you
wcfuld not be surprised at seeing
eorne with blue eyes and red hair.
No, this snake story is postively
true and it is our snake too.
The feet and legs and claws are
unusual if not unprecedented ' and
scores Cabarrus one head mark
f his snakeship w ding this
way. Bro. Dowd or some one else
may intimate that the ancestry of
our snake were not altogether dig
nified and engaged in some crossing
of species to throw off the curses
placed on Mother E ve's seducer, but
it might be as difficult to substan
tiate this theory as it would to re
fate the theory that the ances
tors of this particular enake caught
the evolutionary drift of the age,
and that had not Mr. Dennis Giles
cut oft his generation, our own
posterity might b&ve found a new
rival in this line of snakes with
not only legs and feet but hands
also, nor do we have to Btrain our
imagination to see our snake's great-great-great-grand-son
coiled on an
editorial tripod or poised on a stu m p
slinging from his forked tongue the
kind of stuff Brother FDowd also has
had to contend with in the late
campaign.
We repeat this story is reality,
substantiated by the most irrefraga
ble testimony and whether born
here or not his wise old ancestry
doubtless directed him toward
Cabarrus for further development.
WHEN JEL.ECJTORS PlEi:T.
A very timely question has been
asked us by one of the Brjan elect
ors of t!iis State, namely on wtiat
day should the elecors meet ? The
doubt, of course, 'arose- from the
confusion created by the difference
of datetf prescribed respectively by
the New State El cioTi Jaw and the
Act of Congress on tin Rubject.
The day prescribed by the State
law, section 67, is the first AVednes
day in December, That prescribed
by Act of Congress is the second
Monday in January.
The Act of Cong ress is controll
ing, as is settled in the case of
McPhersou vs. Brocker, 146 IT. S.
Reports, page 35. The case is an
interesting one and covers exactly
the point at issue here, where there
is a difference in time between the
State law and the United States
Statute. In the opinion, while the
electors are accounted State Officers
in the same sense, in fact, as mem.
hers of the Legislature, yet the ju
risdiction is given to Congress as to
the time of meeting.
Therefore, we do not see that
there is any doubt about the fact
that the second Monday in January
is the day on which the electors are
legally required to meet. News
and Observer.
CF.McKESSOX BIDS ADI
p.
We note with regret that Mr. O F
McKesson retires from the editorial
field. If The Standard is one of
the exchanges to which the retiring
editor referred as an old familiar
friend, we can only say that the
feeling is reciprocal. The image of
Mr. McKesson is associated with the
Morganton Herald and its brilliant
editorials have the ring of his ora
tory. In bowing a reluctant adieu
to Mr. McKesson, we wish long life
to the welcome Hex aid and "a horse
shoe" to brother Cobb,
Loose clothes and downy cushions
bring only a negative sort of com
fort to the woman who is suffering
with some disease or derangement
of the organs distinctly feminine.
Some clothes and some positions
make the pain and the discomfort
seem less. - Perhaps the nerves are
most affected and this in turn dis
turbs the digestion. Nothing will
ever completely relieve but a radi
cal cure. Tho start of so-called
"female complaints" may be a very
slight thing indeed. It may be
that in the beginning some small
by genie measures would Btop the
trouble. Certainly at this time, a
little bit of the right medicine would
stop it, When the trouble becomes
worse, it is harder to cure, but still
it can be cured. Dr. Pierce's Favo
rite Prescription will positively
cure any trouble of this character.
It may be absolutely relied upon.
It affords lasting relief to a woman
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monev ii it iaiis to cure.
The sporting season' is here and
the birds are having a hard time of
it. Much objection is rendere'd to
the destruction o whole co vies as is
the casefwhen a fine hunting dog
scents them. r w have been told
that the partridge does not destroy
chinch bugs. Wp are informed by
reliable authority that they do eat
these bugs and
farmer's friend,
moderate huntin
to them! scatters
are therefore the
It is believed that
t and ehootiDg in-
hem to much ad-
vantege'in that it crosses them in
mating and prevents in and in
breeding, which! is productive of
thrift and prolific growth. There
would probably be. little objection
to the sports of the hunter if the in
terests of the farmer and his friend,
- - ' r
the bird, received a due share of
consideration.
Fifty Years Ago.
president Polk in tile White House cbatr,
While in Lowell wa Doctor Ayer ;
Both were busy lot human weal
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necessities of the bowels and
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stantaneous. That this popu
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World's Pair 1893.
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