Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-27

Charlotte Corday, the sad.faced, ten
der-hcarted peasant girl Of Normandy
made great history by one desperate act!
Sickencd by the saturnalia Of the
alton as Robespierrc and Marat were
leading The flower OF France to the gull
lo:ine, she determined that she would put
an end to Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victims for the guillotine,
lie proposed to Kill off the enemies Of
the revolution to make it perpetual
Horrible thought,
No wonder IL fired the blood Of this
patriotic peasant maid.
Gaining access TO his closely guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she found him
in his bath, even then memorable ana Civ
ing written directions for further slaugh-
teri
he asked her the names Of the inimical
deputies who had taken refuge in Caen.
She told him, and he wrote them down.
That is well Before a week is over
they shall ali be brought TO the guillot-
inc"
At these words, Charlotte drew from
her bosom the knife and plunged it with
supernatural force up TO the hill 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 nj Washington
is a famous painting Of Charlotte, repre-
scnted AS behind the prison bars the day
before her execution.
1t is a thrilling, sad picture, full Of sor-
row for her suffering country, and OF IN
conquerable hate for her country enc
mics.
What a lesson in this tragic story, Two
hundred, nay, 800, 600 people would
Marat have sacrificed to his unholy pas
son Of power.
Methods ere quite 90 mnrderous and in
cXorablc as mcn, H.ti tIcy 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
hundreds Of millions have been allowed
to die and as many more killed by unjust
i1iable higotry and by bungling!
But the age is lettering. Men End
methods are improving. A Jew years
ago it was worth ones professional life
to advise or permit the use Of n proprie-
tary 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. 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 Sc
curing some of the most valuable, among
family records. and called them Warner S
Log Cabin remedies-the simple prepare
tons Of roots, leaves, balsams and herbs
which were the successful standbys Of our
grandmothers. These simple, old fash
toned sarsapariila, hops and buchu, cough
and consumption and therremedieshav
struck n popular chord and are in extra
ordinary demand all over the land. They
are no. the untried and imaginary rene.
dies of some dabster chemist intent on
making money, but the long sought prin-
ciples Of the healing art which for genera
tons kept our ancestors in perfectheaith,
put forth for the good Of humanity by
one who is known all over the world as
a phiianthropist-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 IS IN
the hands Of u grandmothcrs they raised
up the sick. cured the lame, and bound
up the wounds of death, SO in their lex
form but olden power az Log Cabin rem
edies, they arc sure TO prove the healing
of the nations"
Corday did the world an incalculable
service ia Kidding France Of the bigoted
and murdcrous Marat. just as this man is
doing humanity a service by rein;roduc-
ing TO the world the simpler and better
methods Of our ancestors.