Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-02
A claim 70 Human arAutuds,


Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, ten
der hearted peasant girl Of Normandy
made greAt history by one desperate act!
sickened by the sAturnalia Of the
French revolution, and moved 10 deEpera
tion as Robesplerre and Marat were lead
ing the flower of France to the guillotine,
she determined that she would put an end
to Marats bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victims for the guillotinel
He proposed to kill of the enemies OF
the Revolution to make 1t perpetual
Horrible thought
No wonder IT fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maid
Gaining acc, ss TO his closely guarded
quarters by 0 eubterfuge, she found him
in his bath, even then inexorable and
giving written directions for further
slAughterl
He asked her the names OF the inimlcal
deputies who had taken refuge in Caen.
She told him, and he wrote them down.
"That is WE'LL Bef re . week Is over
they shall all be brought TO the guillo
t me-"
At thess words, Charlotte drew from
her bosom the knife, and plunged 1t with
supernatural force up 10 the hilt In the
heart Of Marat.
"Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me" cried Marat, and expired under the
blowl
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington
Is famous painting OF Charlotte, repre-
sented 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 un
conquersble hate for her country's enc
mics.
What lesson In this tragic storyi Two
hundred, nay, five hundred thousand
people would Ma at have sacrificed to hi
unholV passion Of poWeIl
Methods are quite as murderous anc
memorable as men, and they number
their victims by the mi lions.
il The page OF history Is full Of murder
by authority and by mistaken ideasl II
the practice of medicine alone how many
hundreds Of millions have been allowed
to die and as many more killed BY un
justitable big try and by bung'ingl
But the age is betteriDg. Men ant
methods are improving. A few years agt
It was wor h ones professional life to ad
wise or permit the use ofproprietary medi
lcine. 10 day there are not two physi
clans In any town in this country who d.
mot regularly prescribe some form of pro
prletary remedy
H. Ii Warner, famed a over the woTll
as the discoverer Of Warmers safe cure
began hunting up the old remedies of th
Log Cabin days; after long and patlen
research he succeeded In securing som
of the most valuable, among family re
cords, and called them Warmers Lol
Cabin remed.es-the simple preparation
of roots, leaves, balsamB and herbs which
were the successful stand bys of ou
grandmothers. These simple, old-tash
ioned sarsapaIilla, hops and buchu
cough and consumption and other RENE
dies have struck popular chord and ar
In extraordinary demand all over tn
land They are not the untrled ant
imaginary remedies of some dabste
chemist intent on making money, bu
the long-sqnght principles of the healinl
art which for generations kept our ances
tors in perfect health, put forth for tn
good OF humanity by one who is know
all over the world as a philSnthropist-
lover of bis fellow maH,-whose name 1
a guarantee of the highest standard o
excellence.
TIE preparations are of decided an
known influence over disease, and as i
the hands of our srandmothers the
raised up the sick, cured he lame, an
bound up the wounds of death,so in thei
new form but olden power as Log Cabii
remedies, they are sure to prove th
"heAllng of the nations
Corday did the world an incalculabl
service in Kidding France of the bigote
and murderer Mara, just as this ma
is doing humanity a service by Ie-intrC
dueing to the world the simpler and be-
Ter methods of our ancestors.