Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-03-01
a CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced
tender hearted peasant girl of Nor
mandy made great history by one des-
perate actl
Sickened by the saturnalia OF the
French revolution, and moved to des-
peration IS Robbespierre and Marat
ereleading 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 the guillotine
He proposed to kill off The enemies
of the Revolution to make it per-
petual!
Horrible thought!
No wonder it fred the blood of this
patriotic 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 fur
ther slaughter!
He asked her the names of the in
imical deputies who had taken refuge
in Caen. She told him, and he wrote
them down. "That is we'll Before a
week is over they shall all be brought
to the guillotine."
At these words, Charlotte drew from
her tssom the knife, and plunged it
with supernatural force up to the hilt
to the heart OF Marat.
in Come to me my dear friend, come
me-" cried Marat, and expired UNI
der the blow.
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash
ington is a famous painting of Char
lotte, 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 coun-
try'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
memorable as men, and they number
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 unjustifable bigotry
and by bungling!
But the age is lettering. Men and
methods are improving. A few years
ago it was worth ones professional
life to advise or permit the use of Il
proprietary medicine. To-day there
are not two physicians in any town in
this country who do not regularly pre-
scribe some form of proprietary
remedy!
II. 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; af-
ter long and patient research he sue
ceeded i'll securing some of the most
valuable, among family records, aud
called them Warmers Log Cabin rem
edies-the simple preparations of roots,
leaves, balsams and herbs which
were the successful standbys of our
grandmothers. These simple, old
fashioned sarsaparilla, hops and
OuCuuy COuSh aiio CONSUMPTION duu
other remedies have struck popular
chord and are in extraordinary de-
mand all over the land. They are not
the untried and imaginary remedies of
some dabster chemist intent on max
ing money, but the long sought prin-
ciples of the healing art which for
generations kept our ancestors in per-
feet 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 a guarantee of the highest stand
ard Of excellence.
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 an incalculable
service in Kidding France of the
bigoted 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.