Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-10-05
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced,
tender-hearted peasant girl of Nor
mandy made great history by one des-
perate 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 thn guillotine.
He proposed to kill off the enemies
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 guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she found
him in his bath, even then inexorable
and giving written directions for
further slaughter!
He asked her the names of the inim-
ical 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 all be brought
to the guillotine:'
At these words. Charlotte drew
from her bosom the knife, and plunged
it with supernatural force up 10 the
hilt in the heart of Marat.
Come to me, my dear friend come
tome cried Marat, and expired under
the blow.
In the Corcoran gallery at Washing
ton is famous painting Of Charlotte,
represented as behind the prison bars
the day before her execution.
1t is 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 thou
sand people would Marat have sacri-
feed to his unholy passion of power.
Methods are quite as murderous
and ineXorable as men, and they mum
Der 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 of millions
have been allowed TO die and as many
more killed by unjustitiable bigotry
and by bungling.
But the age is bettering. Men and
methods are improving. y 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. II. Warner, famed all over the
Il, - ii nf nr'u
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 records, and called
them Warner Log Cabin remedies
the simple preparations froots, leaves
balsams and herbs which were the
successful standbys of our grand
mothers. These simple, old fashioned
sarsaparilla, 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 making money, but
the long sought principles of the heal
ing 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 philanthropist-a lover of his
fellow man,-whose name is guaran-
tee Of the highest standard of excel
lence.
The preparations are of decided
and known influence over disease, and
as 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 healing of the
nations
Corday did the world nincalculable
service in Kidding France of the big
oted and murderous Marat, just as
this man is doing humanity service
by re introducing to the world the
simpler and better methods OF our
ancestors,