Middletown transcript., 1888-10-04
A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE.


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 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 per-
petual
Horrible thought!
No wonder it fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maid
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she
found him in his bath, even then mex
orable and giving written directions
for further slaughter
He asked her the names of the ini-
mical deputies who had taken refuge in
Caen. She told him, and he wrote
them down. "This is well Before
{. 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.
ssCome to me my dear friend, come to
me,'' cried Marat, and expired under
the blow
In the Corcoran gallery at Washing
ton is a famous painting of Charlotte,
represented as behind the prison bars
the day before her execution.
It is a. thrilling, sad picture, full OF
sorrow for Ier suffering country, and
of uncomfortable hate for her country's
enemies.
What a lesson in this tragic story
Two hundred. nay, five hundred thou
sand people would Marat have sacrlflc-
ed 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 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 Dlgotry ana
by bungling
But the age is bettering. Men ana
methods are improving. A few years
ago it was worth ones professional
life to advise or permit the use OF a
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 rem
medyl
Fl. 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 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 sue
cessful standbys of our grandmothers.
These simple, old-fashioned sarsa-
parilla, hops and buchu, cough and
consumption and other remedies have
struck a popular chord and are in ex-
traordinary demand all over the land.
They are not the untried and imagin-
ary remedies Of some dabster chemist
intent on making money, but the long
sought principles Of the healing art
which for 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 a phi
lanthropist-a lover Of his fellow man,
whose name is guarantee of the
highest standary 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 ridding France of the bigoted
and murderous Marat, just as this man
is doing humanity service by e.in-
PRODUCING to the world the simpler
and better methods of our anc estors.