The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-12
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl of Normany, madS
great history by one desperate act!
Sicl1ened by the saturnalia of the French
| revolution, and moved to desperation as
Robespierre and Marat were leading the
flower # France to the guillotine, she de
| termined that she would put an end TO
Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thou
sand victims for the guillotine!
He proposed to kill off the enemies of the
Revolution to make it perpetual!
Horrible thought
No wonder it fired the blood of this patri-
otto peasant maid
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by subterfuge, she found him in
his bath, even then memorable and giving
written directions for further slaughter!
He asked her the names of the inimical
deputies who had taken refuge in Caen.
She told him, and he wrote them down.
''That is wenl Before a week is over
they snail all be brought to the guillotine."
At these words, Charlotte drew from her
| bosom the knife, and plunged it with su-
pernatural force up to the hilt in the heart of
Marat.
g Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me- cried Marat, and expired under the
bowl
In tho Corcoran gallery at Washington is
]
az behind the prison bars the day before
her execution.
1t is thrilling, sad picture, full of sorrow
| for her suffering country, and OF uDconquer-
| able hate for her country's enemies.
What lesson in this tragic storyi Two
| hundred. nay, five hundred thousand peo-
pie would Marat have sacrificed to his I'M
holy passion of power
Methods are quito as murderous and in
pxrva bln mon and they number their
victims by the millions.
The page of history is full of murders by
authority and by mistaken ideasi In the
| practice of medicine alone how many hun
dreds of millions have been allowed to die
and as many more killed by unjustiHable
bigotry and by bunglmg!
But the age is lettering. Men and meth
DDS are improving. A few years ago it was
worth ones professional life to advise or
| permit the use of proprietary medicine.
To-day there are not two physicians in AM
| town in this country who do not regular
| ly prescribe some form of proprietary rem
| edy!
H Fl. Warner, famed all over the world
as the discoverer of Warmers safe cure,
began hunting up the old remedies of the
Log Cabin days after long and patient re-
search he succeeded in securing some OF the
most valuable, among family records, and
called them Warmers Log Cabin remedies
the simple preparations of roots, leaves,
balsams and herbs which were the sue
,essful standbys of our grandmoth-
crs. These simple, old-fashioned sar-
saparilla, hops and buchu, cough
and consumption and other remedies have
| struck a popular chord and are in extra
ordinary demand all over the land. They
are not the untried and imaginary remedies
of some dabster chemist intent on making
money, but the long-sought principles Cf the
| healing art which for generations kept our
ancestors in perfect health, put forth for the
| good of humanity by one who is known all
| over the world as a philanthrOpist-a lover
| of his fellow man,-whose name is a guaran-
| tee of the highest standard of excellence.
The preparations are of decided and
known influ, &C over disease, and as in the
hands of our grandmothers they raised up
the sick, cured the lame, an. bound up the
wounds of tn, so in their new form but
| olden power as Log Cabin remedies, they
are sure to prove tho "healing of the ma
| tiOns."
Corday did the world an incalculable serv-
| ice in Kidding France of the blgoted and
murderous Marat, just as this man is doing
| humanity a service by reintroducing to the
! world the simpler and better methods Of
our ancestors.