The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-06
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
desperation as Robesrierre and Marat
were leading the flon r of France to
the guillotine, she determined that
she would put an end to Marat's
bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hun
dred thousand victims for the gull
lotine
He proposed to kill off the enc
Eiies of the Revolution to make it
perpetual
Horrible thought!
No wonder it fired the blood of
this patriotic peasant maid
Gaining access to his closely guard
ed quarters by a subterfuge, she
found him in his bath, even then
memorable and giving written direc.
tions for further slaughter
He asked her the names Oh Tn
inimical deputies who had taken
refuge in Caen. She told him, and
he wrote them down. "That is well
Before week is over they shall all
be brought to the guillotine I"
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 ex-
pired under the blow
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash
ington is a famous painting of Char
lotte, represented as behind the
prison bars the day before her
execution.
1t 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 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 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 hundreds
of millions have been allowed to die
and as many more killed by unjusti-
fable 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 permit
the use Of a proprietary medicine.
To-day there are not physicians in
any town in this country who do
not regularly prescribe some form
Of proprietary remedy
II. II. 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
most valuable, among family re-
cords, and called them Warmers
Log Cabin remedies-the simple
preparations Of roots, leaves, balsams
and herbs which were the success
full standbys Of our grandmothers.
These simple, old-fashioned sarsa-
parilla, hops and buchu, cough and
consumption and other remedies
have struck 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 max
ing money, but the long-sought prin-
ciples of the healing art which foi
generations kept our ancestors il
perfect health, put forth for the good
of humanity by one who is known
all over the world as a philanthrop
ist-a lover of his fellow man,
whose name is guarantee of the
highest standard of excellence.
The preparations arc of decided
and known influence over disease
t and as in the hands of our grand
mothers they raised up the sick
cured the lame, and bound up thu
wounds of death, so in their new
form but olden power as Log Cabir
remedies, they are sure to prove tn,
"healing Of the nations"
Corday did the world an incalcu
liable service in Kidding France of tn,
bigoted and murderous Marat, jus
t as this man is doing humanity
service by re-introducing TO the worlC
the simpler and better methods o
I our ancestors.