The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-11
A Claim to Human Gratitude.


Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced
tender-hearted peasant girl of Nor
mandy 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 to
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 perpet-
ual!
Horrible thought
No wonder it fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maid!
Gaining access to his closely guard
ed quarters by asubterfuge, che found
him in his bath, even then memorable
and given written directions for furth-
er slaughter!
He asked her the names of the in
imical deputies who had taken refuge
in Caen. She told him, and he wrote
them down. "That is WELT Before a
week is over they shall all be brought
to the guillotine.
At these words, Charlotte drew
from her bosom the knife, and
plunged it 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 Wash
ington is famous painting of Char
Iotte, represented as behind the
prison bars the day before her execu-
ton.
It is a thrilling sad picture, full of
sorrow for her suffering country, and
of unconquerable hate for her coun-
try's enemies.
What a lesson in this tragic story!
Two hundred, nay, five hundred
thousand people would Marat have
sacrificed 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 ofmillions
have been allowed to die and as many
more killed by unjustifiable bigotry
and by bungling!
But the age is bettering. Men and
methods are improving. Al 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
prescribe some form of proprietary
remedy!
II. 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; af-
ter long and patient research he sue
ceeded 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 successful standbys of
our grandmothers. These
simple, old-fashioned sarsa-
parilla, hops and buchu, cough
and consumption and other remedies
have struck a 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 princi-
pies of the healing art which for gen.
erations kept our ancestors in per-
feet health, put forth for the good OF
humanity by one who is known all
over the world as a philanthropist
"a lover of his fellow man,-whOse
name is a guarantee OF the highest
standard of excellence.
The preparations are OF decided
and known influence over disease,
and as in the hands of our grand
mothers 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 nations"
Corday did the world an incalcul-
able service in Kidding France of the
bigoted and murderous Marat, just
as this man is doing humanity q
service by re-introducing to the
world the simpler and better meth
DDS of our ancestors.