The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-10-04
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 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
patriotic peasant maid!
Gaming access to his closely guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she found
him in his bath, even then inexorable
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 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 to the hilt
in the heart Of Marat.
"Come to me, my dear friend, come
to me-" cried Marat, and expired un-
der 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, aad 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
inexorable as men, and they number
their victims by the millions.
The page OF history is full Of mur.
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 pro.
prietary medicine. To-day there are
net two physicians in any town in this
country who do not regularly pre-
scribe some form of proprietary rem
edy!
H. H. Warner, famed all over the
world as the discoyerer of Warmers
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
Warmers Log Cabin remedies-the
simple preparations of roots, 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 demand all over the land. They
are not the untried and imaginary
remedies of some dabster chemist in
tent on making money, but the long
sought principles of the healing art
which tor generations kept our ances.
tors in perfect health, put forth for the
good of humanity by one who is
known all over the world as philan-
thropist-a lover OF his fellow man
whose name is guarantee of the
highest standard OF excellence.
The operations are OF decided and
known influence over disease, and rs
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 ma
tions."
Corday did the world an incalcula-
BILE service in ridding France of the
bigoted and murderous Marat, just as
this man is doing humanity service
by re.introducing to the world the sim.
pier and better methods of our ances
tors.
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