Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-11
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl of Normany, 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 sud To
Marat's bloody reign.
Garat had demanded two hundred thou
sand victims for the guillotine!
He proposed TO kill of 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 a subterfuge, she found him IN
his bath, even then iuexorahie 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, aud he wrote them down.
''That is WE'LL Before a week is over
they shall all be brought to the guiiIotine."
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-" 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 thrilling, sad picture full Of sorrow
for her suffering country, and of uDconquer-
able hate for her country's enemies
What's lesson in this tragic story! Two
hundred. nay, five hundred thousand PEG
pie would Marat have sacrificed to his I'M
holy passion Of power!
Methods are quite as murdercus and in
exorsble 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 proprietary medicine.
To-day there are not two physicians in any
town in this country who do not regular
" prescribe some form of proprietary rem
edyl
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 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-
ers. 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 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 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 influence over disease, and as in the
hands of our grandmothers they raised uI
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
tons"
Corday did the world an incalculable serv-
ice in Riding France 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.