The Somerset reporter., 1888-10-04
Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad.faccd, tender
hearted peasant girl of Normany made
history great by one desperate act.
Sickened by the saturnala of the
French revolution. and moved to desper
alton a. Robespierre and Marat were
leading the Hover of France to the quill
otine, she determined that she would put
an end to Marat's bloody reign
Marat had demanded two hundred thou
sand victims for the gullotne
He proposed to kill OFF the enemies Of
the Revolution to make it perpetual
Horrible thought.
No wonder ii fired the blood of this pa
triotie peasant maid
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by Il subterfuge, she found him
in his bath, even then memorable aud
giving directions for further slaughter,
He asked her the names of the mimi
cal deputies who had taken refuge in
Caen. She told him, and he wrote them
down. That is we'll 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 hllt in the
heart of Marat.
Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me, cried Marat, and expired under the
blow,
In the Cocoran gallery at Washington
is famous painting of Charlotte, repre-
scented 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 I'M
conquerable hate for her country's enc
mics.
What a lesson is this tragic story
Two hundred, nay, five hundred people
would Marat have sacrificed to his unholy
| passion of power
! Methods are quite as murderous and In
cXorable as men, aud 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
| hundreds Of millions have been allowed
to die and as many more killed by unjus-
tihable bi2otry and by bungling
But the age is betterng. Men and
methods are improving. A few years
ago it was worth ones professional life
to advise or permit the use of a proprie-
tary medicine. To-day there are not
two physicians in any town in this coun-
| try who do not regularly prescribe some
form of proprietary remedy,
H. ii. Warner, famed all over the world
as the discoverer of Warmers safe cure,
began hunting up the old remedies of the
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 preparation
of roots leaves, balsams and herbs which
were the successful stand bys of our
grandmothers. These simple, old fash
Toned sarsaparilla, hops and buChu,
cough and consumption and other rene
dies have struck popular chord and are
in extraordinary demand all over the
land. They are not the untried and mag
| 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 per
feet health, put forth for the good of hui
manity by one who is known all over the
world as n philanthropist-a lover of his
fellow man-whose name is n 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 rails
ed up the sick, cured the lame, and bound
up the wounds of death, so that in their
new form but olden power as Log Cabin
remedies, they are sure to prove the
'healng of the nations
Corday did the world an incalcuable
service in Kidding France of the bgoted
and murderous Marat, just as this man is
doing humanity Il service by re-introduc-
ing to the world the simpler and better
| methods of our ancestors.