The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-10-05
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

"a Nldlu 10 human GraLlGud0.
Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, tender
hearted peasant girl of Normandy 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 off the enemies of the
Revolution to make it perpetual
Horrible thought
No wonder it fired the blood of this pat
riotic 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 further slaughter
lie asked her the names of the inimical
deputies who had taken refuge in Caen.
She told him, and he wrote them down.
THAT is well! Before 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 super
natural force up to the hilt in the heart of
Marat.
Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me-" cried Marat, and expired under the
blow!
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington
is famous painting of Charlotte repre-
sented as behind the prison bars the day
before her execution.
1t is thrilling, sad picture, full of sor-
row for her suffering country, and of un.
conquerable hate for her country's enemies
What lesson in this tragic story! Two
hundred, nay, five hundred thousand people
would Marat have sacrificed to his unholy
passion of power!
Methods are quite as murderous and in
exorable as men, and they number their
victims by the millions.
The page of history is full of murders by
authority and by mistaken ideas! In the
practice of medicine alone how many hum
dreds of millions have been allowed to die
and as many more killed by unjustifiable
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 a proprietary medicine.
To-day there are not two physicians in any
town in this country who do not regularly
prescribe some form of proprietary remedy!
ii. 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, and
called them Warmers Log Cabin remedies
the simple preparations of roots, leaves,
balsams and herbs which were the success.
full standbys of our grandmothers. These
simple, old-fashioned, sarsaparilla, hops and
buchu, cough and consumption and other
remedies have struck popular chord and
are in extraordinary demand all oyer the
land. They are not the tntried and imag-
mary remedies of some dabster chemist
intent on making money, but the long.
sought principles of the healing art which
for generations kept our ancestors in perfect
health, put forth for the good of humanity
by one who is known all over the world as
philanthropist-a lover OF his fellow man.
whose name IS guarantee of the highest
standard 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 10 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