Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-13
A Claim to Human Gratitude.
Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tend

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl Of Normany, made
great history by one desperate acti
Sickened by the saturnalia of the French
revolution, and moved to desperation as
Robesperre and Marat were leading the
flower Of 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-
otic peasant maid!
Gaining access to his cIosely-guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she found him in
his bath, even then inexorable 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 Welt Before a week is over
they shall 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.
"Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me, cTl6u Mil tIt, tlLlN piIC Co tiO
blow
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington is
famous painting of Charlotte, represented
as 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 a lesson in this tragic story! Two
hundred, nay, five hundred thousand peo-
pie would Marat have sacrificed to his un-
holy passion of power!
Methods are quite as murderous and in
exorable as men, and they number their
victims by the millions.
The page of history is full of murders by
authority and by mistaken ideas! In the
practice of medicine alone how many hun
dreds of millions have been allowed to die
and as many more killed by unjustitiable
bigotry and by bungling!
But the age is bettering. Men and meth
DDS are improving. A few years ago it was
worth ones professional life to advise or
permit the use of q proprietary medicine.
Today there are not two physicians in any
town in this country who do not regular
ly prescribe some form of proprietary rem
edyl
II. 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
cessful standbys of our grandmoth-
crs. These simple, old-fashioned sar-
saparilla, hops and buchu, cough
and consumption and other remedies have
struck q 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 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 infiu, zee over disease, and as in the
| hands of our grandmothers they raised up
the sick, cured the lame, an. bound up the
wounds of d. .th, so in their new form but
olden power as Log Cabin remedies, they
are sure to prove the "healing of the ma
| tions.''
Corday did the world anincalculable serv-
ice in ridding Franco of the blgoted and
| murderous Marat, just as this man is doing
humanity a service by re-introducing to the
world the simpler and better methods OF
| our ancestors.