The Washington critic., 1888-10-04
A claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the ad.faccd, tender
hearted peasant girl Of Normandy, made great
history by one desperate act
Sickencd by the saturnalia Of the French
revolution, aud moved to desperation as
Robespierre and Marat were leading the flower
Of France to the guillotiue, she determined
that she would put an end to Marats bloody
reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thousand
victims for tue guillotnel
lie proposed to kill of the enemies OF tho
revolution TO make II perpetual!
Horrible thought!
No wonder IL fired the blood Of this patriotic
peasant maidl
Gaining access TO his closely guarded quar-
ters by subterfnge she found him In his bath,
even then inexorabc aud giving written direc-
tions for further slaughter!
He asked her tho names Of the inimical dep
uties who had taken refuge in Caen. She told
him and he wrote them down. "'rhat is well!
Before week is over they shall all be brought
to the gullotine."
AT these words Charlotte drew from her
bosom the knife nnd plunged 1t with super.
natural 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 blowl
In the Corcolan Gallery at Washington Is q
famous painting OF Charlotte, represented as
behind the prison bars the day before her exc
cutiUn.
1t is a thrilling, sad picture full OF sorrow
for her suffering country, and of unconquer-
able hate for her country's enemies.
What lesson Is this tragic story Two nun
dred, nay, five hundred thousand people
would Marat have sacrificed to his unholy pas
sion of power
Methods are quite as murderous and inexor-
| able 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 prac.
| ticc of medicine alone how many hundreds ol
millions have been allowed to die and rs many
more killed by uniustfable bigotry and by
| bungllng
But the age is bettering. Men and methods
are improving. A few years ago 1t was worth
ones professional life to advise or permit the
use of proprietary medicine. To-day there
arc not two physicians in any town IN this
country VINO do not regularly prescribe some
form of proprietary remedy!
II. IL. Warner, famed all over the world as
the discoyerer of Warmers safe cure, began
hunting un the old remedies of the Log CaDir
days; after long and patient research he sue
ceeded in securing some of the most valuable
among family records and called them war
ner's Log Cabin remedies-the simple prepara
tion Of roots, leaves, balsams and herbs, which
were the successful standbys OF our grand
mothers. These simple, old-fashioued sarsa'
parilla, hops and buchu, cough and consump
tion and other remedies have struck popular
chord AMI are in extraordinary demand all
over the and. They are not the untried and
imaginary remedies of some dabster chemist
intent on making money, but the long-soughl
principles of the healing art which for genera
tions kept our ancestors in perfect health, put
forth for tle good of humanity by one who Ii
known all over the world as phllanthropist--
lover Of his fellow-man-whose name is q
guarantee Of the highest standard of excel
lence. The preparations are of decided and
known influence over disease, and MS In the
hands of our grindmothers they raised up the
sick, cured the lime 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 he nations'
Corday did tn, world an incalculable service
in Kidding Frame of the bigoted and murder
GUS Marat, just Is this man is doing humanity
service by relntroducing to the world the
simpler and bette methods of our ancestors