St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-10-13
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

\ Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl of Normany, made
great history by one desperate actl
i Sickened by the saturnalia of the Frencl
revolution, and moved to desperation a.
Robespierre and Marat were leading thu
flower of France to the guillotine, she de
termined that she would put an end t.
Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thou
| sand victims for the 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 patri
| otto peasant maid!
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by subterfuge, she found him IN
his bath, even then memorable and giving
written directions for further slaughter!
He asked her the names of the inimcal
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. v
At these words, Charlotte drew from her
bosom the knife, and plunged it with su-
pernatural f9kce up to the hilt 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 at Washington 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 upconquer-
able hate for her countrys enemies.
Whata lesson in this tragic story! Two
hundred, nay, five hundred thousand peo-
pie would Marat have sacrificed to his un-
holy passion of power!
Methods are quite as murderous and in
exorable 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
practice of medicine alone how many hun
dreds of millions have been allowed to die
and as many more killed by unjustitiab!e
bigotry and by bungling!
But the age is lettering. Men and meth
DDS are improving. A few years ago it was
worth ones professional life to advise or
permit the use of proprietary medicine.
To-day there are not two physicians in any
town in this country who do not regular
ly prescribe some form of proprietary rem
edy!
Fl. III. 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 re-
search he succeeded in securing some of the
most valuable, among family records, and
called them Warmers Log Cabin remedies
the simple preparations Of roots, leaves,
oalsams and herbs which were the sue
,essful standbys Of our grandmoth-
2rs. These simple, old-fashioned sar-
'aparilla, hops and buchu, cough
md consumption and other remedies have
struck popular chord and are in extra
ordinary demand all over the land. They
ire not the untried and imaginary remedies
If some dabster chemist intent on making
money, but the long-sought principles If the
lealing art which for generations kept our
ancestors in perfect health, put forth for the |
rood of humanity by one who is known all
ver the world as a phlanthropist-a lover |
Il his fellow man,-whose name is a guaran-
ee of the highest standard of excellence.
The preparations are of decided and |
,nown inf1ut ice over disease, and as in the |
ands of our grandmothers they raised up
he sick, cured the lame, am. bound up the
Wounds Of d, .th, so in their new form but
lden power as Log Cabin remedies, they
re sure to prove the "healing of the ma
IONS"
Corday did the world an incalculable serv-
&c in ridding France of the blgoted and
lurderous Marat, just as this man is doing
service by re-introducing to the
world the simpler and better methods of
ur ancestors.