The Delta independent., 1888-11-06
A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE

Charlotte Corday, the sad faced, ten.
der-hearted peasant girl of Normandy
made great history by one desperate
act.
Sickened by the saturnalia OF the
French revolution, and moved to des.
peration as Robespierre and Marat
were leading the flower of France te
the guillotine, she determined that she
would put an end to Marat's bloody
reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand 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
patriotic 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 fur.
ther slaughter!
He asked her the names of the inim-
ical deputies who had taken refuge in
Caen. She told him, ,and he wrote them
down. "That is we'll! Before week
is over they shall all be brought to the
guillotine."
At these words Charlotte drew from
her bosom the knife and plunged il
with supernatural force up to the hilt
in 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 Washing.
ton 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 unconquerable hate for her country's
enemies.
What lesson in this tragic story!
Two hundred, nay, five hundred thous-
and people would Marat have sacri-
feed to his unholy passion of power!
Methods are quite as murderous and
inexorable as men, and they number
their victims by the millions.
The page Of history is full of MUIR
ders by authority and by mistaken
ideas! In the practice of medicine
alone how many hundreds of millions
have been allowed to die and as many
more killed by unjustifable bigotry
and by bungling!
But the age is bettering! Men and
methods are improving. A few years
ago it was worth ones professional
life to advise or permit the use of a
proprietary medicine. To-day there
are not two physicians in any town in
this country who do not regularly pre-
scribe some form of proprietary rem
cdy!
II. H. 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 research he succeeded
in securing some of the most valuable,
among family records, and called
them Warner Log Cabin remedies
tho simple preparations of roots,
leaves, balsams and herbs which were
the successful standpys of our grand.
mothers. These simple. old-fashioned
sarsaparilla, hops and buchu, cough
and consumption and other remedies
have struck popular chord and are in
extraordinary demand all over the
land. They are not the untried and
lC"Culcb u SOluc udDSLCr
chemist intent on making money, but
the long-sought principles of the heal
ing art which for generations kept our
ancestors in perfect health, put fortn
for the good Of humanity by one who
is known all over the world as phi
lanthropist-a lover of his fellow man,
whose name is guarantee of the
highest standard of excellence.
The preparations are of decided and
known influence over disease, and as
in the hands Jfour grandmothers they
raised up the sick, cured the lame, and
bound up the wounds of death, 80 in
their new form but olden power as
Log Cabin remedies, they are sure TO
prove the "healing of the nations"
Corday did the world an incalcula-
BILE service in ridding France of the
bigoted and murderous Marat, Just as
this man is doing humanity service
by re-introducing to the world the
simpler and better methods Of our an
ccstors.