Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-18
4 claim 10 Numan Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad faced, tender
hearted peasant girl OF Normany, made
great history by one desperate act!
Sickened by the saturnalia OF the French
revolution, and moved to desperation as
Robespierre and Marat were leading the
flower of France to the guillotine, she de-
termined that she would put an end to
Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thou
sand victims for the guillotine!
He proposed to kill on the enemies Of the
Revolution to make it perpetual!
Horrible thought!
No wonder it fired the blood Of this patri-
otto peasant maidl
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by subterfuge, she found him in
his bath, even then memorable and giving
written directions for further slaughterl
He asked her the names OF the inimical
deputies who had taken refuge in Caen.
She told him, aud he wrote them down.
That is well! Before q week is over
they shall all be brought to the guiliotine."
At these words, Charlotte drew from her
bosom the knife, and plunged it with su-
pernatural force up to the hilt in the heart OF
Marat.
"Come to me, my dear friend, come ia
me-" cried Marat, and expired under the
blow!
In tho Corcoran gallery at Washington is
a famous painting of Charlotte, represented
as behind the prison bars the day before
her execution.
It is thrilling, sad picture, full Of sorrow
Tor her suffering country, and of unconquer
able hate for her country's enemies.
Whata lesson in this tragic story! Two
hundred. nay, five hundred thousand PEG
pie would Marat have sacrificed to his un
holy passion Of power!
Methods are quite as murderous and in
exorable az men, and they number thei,
victims by the millions.
The page Of history is full OF murders by
authority and by mistaken ideasi In the
practice Of medicine alone how many hun
dreds 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 meth
DDS are improving. A few years ago it was
worth ones professional life to advise or
permit the use Of q proprietary medicine
To-day there are not two physicians in any
town in this country who do not regular
~ prescribe some form of proprietary rem
edy! rsts
81. II. 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, ano
/ calIoQ them warmers Log CaOln r6mcQleS
the simple preparations of roots, leaves
balsams and herbs which were the sue
cessful standbys OF our grandmoth
ers. These simple, old-fashioned sar
saparilla, hops and buchu, cougl
| and consumption and other remedies have
struck . popular chord and are in extra
ordinary demand all over the land. The,
are not the untried and imaginary remedie
| Of some dabster chemist intent on maxim.
money, but the long-sought principles of tn
healing art which for generations kept on
ancestors in perfect health, put forth for tn
good Of humanity by one who is known al
| over the world as q philanthropist-a love
Of his fellow man,-whose name is a guaran
tee Of the highest standard of excellence.
The preparations are of decided an
known influence over disease, and as in tn
hands of our grandmothers they raised u
| the sick, cured the lame, and bound up tn
wounds of death, so in their new form bu
olden power as Log Cabin remedies, the
are sure to prove the 'healing. of the M
| tions.'
Corday did the world an incalculable sery
ice in ridding France of the blgoted an
murderous Marat, just as this man is dom
humanity q service by re-introducing to tn
world the simpler and better methods G
| our ancestors.