The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-05
A Claim to Human Gratitude.


Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, ten.
der-hearted peasant girl of Normandy
made great history by one desperate
actl
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
woul1 put an end to Marats bloody
reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victims for the guillotinel
He proposed to kill off the enemies
of the Revolution to make it perpet-
uall
Horrible thought
No wonder 1t fred the blood of this
patriotic peasant maidl
Gaining access to his closely guard
ed quarters by subterfuge, she found
him in his bath, even then memorable
and giving written directions for
further slanghterl
He asked her the names of the ini-
mical deputies who had taken refuge
iu Caen. She told him, and he wrote
them down. "'That is WE'LL Before q
week is over they shall all be brought
70 the guillotine.
AT these words, Charlotte drew
from her bosom the knife, and plung-
ed 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 Wash
ington is famous painting of Char
lotte, represented as behind the pri-
son bars the day before her execution.
1t is a 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 storyl
Two hundred, nay, five hundred thous-
aud people would Marat have sacriic-
to his unholy passion of powerl
Methods are quite as murderous and
memorable as men, and they number
their victims by the millions.
The page of history is full Of murd-
era 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 unjusti6able bigotry
and by bungling!
But the age is bettering. Men and
methods 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 regularly pre-.
scribe some form of proprietary re-
medy!
Ii. II. Warner, famed all over the
world as the discoverer of Warner'i
safe cure, began hunting up the old
remedies of the Log Cabin days; after
long and patient research he succeed
ed in securing some OF the most valu
able, 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 grandmoth
ers. These simple, old-fsshioned sar
saparilla, hops and buchu, cough ani
consumption and other remedies have
struck popular chord and are in ex
traordinary demand all over the land
They are not the untried and imagin
ary remedies of some dabster chemis,
intent on making money, but the lone
sought principles of the healing ar
which for generations kept our ances
tors in perfect health, put forth fol
the COOL 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 preparations are of decided apd
known influence over disease, and al
in the hands of our grandmother
they raised up the sick, cured thu
lame, and bound up the wounds o.
death, so in their new form but older
power as Log Cabin remedies, they
are sure to prove the ''healing of thu
nations"
Corday did the world an incalculab
lie service in ridding France of the BIZ
goted and murderous Marat, Just a.
this man is doing humanity servlc
by re-introducing to the world tn
simpler and better methods of our an
cestors.