The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-10-10

A CLAIM TO HUMAN
GRATITUDE.


Sickened by the saturnalia ot
the French revolution and movsa
to desperation as Robespierrs and
Marat were leading the flower ~
France to the guiiotine, she do
termined that she would put an and
70 Marat's blody reign.
Marat had demanded two hmm
dred thousand victims for the guiI
otine!
He proposed to kill off the ena,
mics of the Revolution to make !.
perpetual
Horrible thought!
No wonder it fred the blood of
this patriotic peasant maid!
Gaining access to his closely
guarded quarters by a subterfucs
she found him in his bath even
then memorable and giving writ.
ten directions for futher slaughter
He asked her the name of the in.
imical deputies who had taken ref.
uge in Caen. She told him and be
wrote them down. "That is WE'LL
Before a week is over they shall ali
be brought to the guilotine."
At these words Charlotte drew
from her bosom the knife an plum.
ged it with supernatural force IN
to the hilt in the heart of Marat
Come to me, my dear friend.
come to me-" cried Marat and ex.
pired under the blow.
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash.
ington is a famous painting Of
Charlotte represented as behind the
prison bars the day before her ex.
ecution.
It is a 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 hun.
dred thousand people would
Marat have sacrificed to his unholy
passion of power.
Methods are quite as murderous
and memorable as men and they
mum Der their victims by the mil.
lions.
The page of history is full Of
murders by authority and by mis-.
taken ideas! In the practice of
medicine alone how many hun.
dreds of millions have been allow.
ed to die and as many more killed
by unjustifable bigotry and by
bungling!
But the age is lettering, Men
and methods are improving. A
few years ago it was worth ones
professional life to advise or per.
nit the use of a proprietary medi.
cine, To-day there are not two
physicians in any town in this
country who do not regularly pres
cribe some form of proprietary rem
edy!
H. 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
valuable, among family records,
and called them Warmers Log Cab
in remedies-the simple prepare.
tions of roots, leaves, balsams ana
herbs which were the successful
standbys of our grandmothers'
These simple old. fashioned sarsapa.
rilla, hops and buchu, cough and
consumption and other remedies
have struck q popular chord and
are in extraordinary 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 of 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 phil
lanthropist-a lover of his fellow,
men, whose name Is a guarantee OF
the highest standard of excellence;
The preparations are of decided ana
known influence over disease, ana
as in the hands of our grandmothers
they raised up the sick, cured sng
lame ard bound up the wounds Oh