The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-10-25
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Cor'lay, the sad faced, tender heart
e. pea>,i.; @irl OF Normandy ma lie great his
tory 10y one desperate act.
s'rkened by the >aturnalia of the French
revolution. and moved to desperation a> Robes
pierre aHtl Marat We're leading the flower Of
France 10 the Iuiliotne she determined that
she would put in eud to Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thousand
victims for the 4uillotine.
lie proposed to kill of! the enemies Of the
Revolution to make it PERPETUAL.
Horrible thought.
Nowonler ii fired the blood of this patriot ic
peasant -naid.
Gaining access 10 hi> closely Guarded quart
Cr> hy >thierfu-e. She found him in his bath,
even then ineNornble and giving written direc-
tons for further Slaughter.
lie asked her the names of the inimical dep
uits who had taken refuge in Caen. She told
him. and he wrote them down. .'rhat is well
Before week i over they shall all be brought
10 The @lillotiue.'
At these words, Charlotte drew from her
bosom the knife. and plunged it with SUPER
natural force up to the bill: in the heart of
Mlrat.
Come t. me. my dear friend. come to me-"
cried Harat. and expired under the blow.
In the (orcoran gallery al Washington is Il
famous painting CT Charlotte. represented as
behind the prison bars the day before her
execution.
Tor her suffering country, and OF unconquer-
able hate for her country's enemies.
hat a lesson III this tragic story! Two
handred. nay. five hundred thousand people
would Marat have sacrificed TO his unholy pas
sion OF power.
Methods are quite As murlerous and in
eNorabe as men, and they number their vic
tins by tine millions.
The page of history is full OF murders by
authority and by mistaken ideas. In the prac-
IT iiI,,In 4
millions have been allowed to die and as many
| more killed by uniustiIiabe bigotry and by
bunging.
But the age i. bettering. Men and methods
are improving \ few years ago it was worth
ones professional life TO advise or permit the
u9e Of a proprietary medicine. To-day there
are not two physicians many town in this coun-
try who do not regularly prescribe some form
| OF proprietary remedy.
ii. II. Warner, famed all over the wori as
the d>coVerer of Warmers safe cure, began
hunting up the Old remedies of the Log Cabin
days; after long ana patient research he sue
| ceciod in securing some of the most valuable,
among family records and called them Warm
ers Log Cabin lemetlies-the simple prepare
tion> of roots, leaves, ba!sams and herbs which
Were the successful Standhys of our grand
mothers. These simple, old-fasbionel sarsapa-
| riiia. hops and Guchu, cough and consumption
| aud other remedies have struck popular chord
| and are in extraordinary demand all over the
| land. They not the untried and imaginary
| remedies of some dabster chemist intent on
| making money, but the long-Sought principles
| of the healing art which for generations kept
| our ancestors in perfect health, put forth for
| the good OF humanity by one who is known all
| over the world as a phanthropst-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 in the hands Of
our grandmothers 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 ''hcalins of the nations"
| Corlay did the world an incalculable service
| in Kidding France of the bigoted and murder
ous Marat. just this man is doing humanity
| a service by rc-ntroducing to the world the
| simpler and better methods of our ancestors