Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1888-10-20
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Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl Of Normanyi mao'
great history by one desperate actI
Hickened BY the saturnalia OF the French
revolution. and moved to desperation g
Robespierre and Marat were leading the
flower Of France to the guillotine, she de-
termined that she would put an end 70
Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thou
sand victims for ths guillotinel
He proposed to kill of the enemies OF the
Revolution to make 1t perpetual
Horrible thought
No wonder It fred the blood Of this patri-
otto peasant maidi
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by q sEbterfuge, she found him IN
his bath. even then memorable and giving
written directions for further slaughter
He asked her the names Of the irirhical
deputies who had taken refuge IN Caen.
She told him, and he wrote them down.
sThat is well Before q week is over
they shall all be brought to the guillotne."
At these words, Charlotte drew from her
bosom the knife, and plunged 1t with SUI
pernatural force up to the hilt in the heart OF
Marat.
aCome to me, my dear friend, come to
me,n cried Marat, and expired under the
| blowl
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington is
a famous painting Of Charlotte, represented
as behind the prison bars the day before
her execution.
It is thrilling, sad picture, full OF sorrow
for her suffering country, and of unconquer-
able hate for her country's enemies.
Whata lesson in this tragic storyi Two
hundred. nay, five hundred thousand peo-
pie would Marat have sacrificed to his UNI
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 ideasi In the
| practice Of medicine alone how many hun
dreds Of millions have been allowed to die
and as many more killed by unjustihable
bigotry and by bungllngl
But the age is lettering Men and meth
DDS are improving. A few years ago 1t was
worth ones professional life to advise or
permit the use Of 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
edy
Il. n. 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, anC
called them Warmers Log. Cabin remedies
the simple preparations Of roots, leaves
balsams and herbs which were the sue
,essful standbys Of our grandmoth
crs. These simple, old-fashioned sar
saparilla, hops and buchu, cougl
and consumption and other remedies hav'
struck popular chord and are in extra
ordinary demand all over the land The.
are not the untried and imaginary remedies
Of some dabster chemist intent on making
money, but the long-sought principles II tn
healing art which for generations kept ou
ancestors in perfect health, put forth for tn
good of humanity by one who is known al
over the world as philanthropist-a love-
Of his fellow an,-whose name is guaran
tee of the highest standard Of excellence.
The preparations are Of decided AM
known influ, ice over disease, and as In tn
hands of our grandmothers they raised u
the sick, cured the lame, ana bound up tn
wounds of d, .th, 80 in their new form bu
olden power as Log Cabin remedies, the
are sure to prove the "healing of the ns
tons"
Corday did the world anincalculable serv
ice in Kidding Franco Of the blgoted an
murderous Marat, just as this man is dom
humanity a service by re-introducing to tn
world the simpler and better methods
our ancestors.