Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-04
A CLAIM 10 Human Gratltude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad faced, ten
der hearted peasant girl OF Normandy,
made great history by one desperate acti
Sickened by the saturnalia of the
French revolution, and moved to desper,
alton as Robespierre and Marat were
leading the flower of France to the gull
lotine, she determined she would put an
end to Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victims for the guillotinel
He proposed to kill off the enemies of
the revolution to make it perpetual
Horrible thought
No wonder it fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maid!
Gaining access TO his closely guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she found him
in his bath, even then memorable and
giving written directions for further
slaughter.
He asked her the names of the inImi>
cal deputies who had taken refuge in
Caen. She told him, aud he wrote them
down. That is well Before a week is
over they shall all be brought to the
guillotine."
| AT this words, Charlotte drew from her
bosom the knife, and plunged it with SUI
| pernatural force up to the hilt in the
heart of Marat.
Come to me, my dear friend, come tc
me, cried Marat, and expired under the
blow
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington
is famous painting of Charlotte, repre-
scented as behind the prison bars the day
before her execution.
1t is thrilling, sad picture, full Of
sorrow for her suffering country, and OF
uncoI Querable hate Tor her country.
enemies.
What lesson IN this tragic story Two
hundred, nay. five hundred thousand
people would Marat have sacrificed t.
his unholy passion of power!
Methods are quite as murderous ant
memorable as men. and they number thei
victims by the millions,
The page of history is full of murder
by authority and by mistaken ideas! |,
the practice of medicine alone how man
hundreds of millions have been allowed
to die and as many more killed by unius
tifiable bigotry and by blInglingl
But the age is lettering Men an
methods are improving. A few years az,
it was worth ones professional life t
advise or permit the use of a prOprietar
medicine, Today there are not TWO ply
sicianS in any town in this country VIII
do not regularly prescribe some form c
proprietary remedy!
H. Fl. Warner, famed all over th
, world as the diScoverer Of Warmers sal
cure, began hunting up the old remedie
of the Log Cabin days; after long an
patient research he succeeded in securin
me the most valuable, among famiI
records. and called them Warmers L0
Cabin remedies-the simple preparation
OF roots. leaves, balsams and herbs whic
were the successful standbys of OF
, grandmothers These simple, old-fasl
> Toned ssrsa parlla, hops aud huchu coua
+ and consumption and other remedies ha,
= struck 3 popular chord and are in eXtr
/ ordinary demand all over the land. The
: are not the untried ana imaginary rem
!. edes of some dabster chemist intent {
! making money, but the long sought pril
1 ciples of the healing art which for gene
atiOns kept our ancestors 10 perfe
health, put forth for the good of huma
. iry ty one who is known all over Il
;, world as philanthropist-a lover of b
fellow man.-whoSe name is q 9uarant
of the highest standard of excellence.
O The preparations are of decided al
/ known influence over disease and rs