Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-11
L CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl of Normandy, made
great history by one desperate act.
Sickened by the saturnalia of the French
revolution, and moved TO desperation as
Robespierre 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 il perpetual.
Horrible thought
No wonder it fred 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 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 well. Before week is over they snail
all be brought to the guillotine.'
AT these words Charlotte drew from Der
bosom the knife, and plunged it with
supernatural force up to the hilt i'll the
heart of Marat
Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me" cried Marat, and expired under the
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 a thrilling, sad picture, full of sor-
row for her suffering country, and of I'M
conquerable hate for her country's ene-
mics.
What 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 unjustitiabl
bigotry and by bungling?
But the age is bettering. Men and
| methods are improving. A few years ago
II was worth ones professional life 10 ad-
wise or permit the use of a proprietary
medicine. To-day there are not two physi-
clans in any town in this country who do
not regulsrlarlv prescribe some form of pro-
prietary remedy.
ID. ii. Warner, famed all over the world
| as the discoYerer of Warmers safe cure, be-
gan builtlAIS up the Olu TtIlSCltS OF IIe Leg
Cabin days; after long and patient research
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. bal
| sans and herbs which were the successful
stanGbys OF our grdudmothers. These SIM
pie, old-fashioned sarsaparilla, hops and
buchu, cough and consumption and other
remedies have struck a popular chord, and
are in extraordinary demand ali over the
land. They are not the untried and imag-
mary remedies of some dabster chemist in
tent on making money, but the long-sought
principles OF the healing ART which for gen.
erations 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-nan
whose name is a guarantee of the highest
standard of excellence
The preparations are of a decided and
known influence over disease, and SIS in the
hands of our grancmothers they raised up
the sick, cured the lame. and bound up the
wounds of death, 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 an incalculable
service in Kidding France of the bigoted
and Elurderous Marat, just as this man is
doing humanity service by reintroducing
to the world the simpler and better meth
DDS ofour ancestors.