Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-13
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-fxced 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 Al
| Robespierre and Marat were leading the
| flower of France to the guillotine, she deter.
mined that she would put an end TO Marat:
bloody reign.
| Marat had demanded two handred thou
sand victims Tor the gsiIIotine
| He proposed to kill OFF the enernines of the
Revolution to make it perpetual.
| Horrible thought,
| No wonder it fired the blood Of this patri-
otic 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
He 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 ell be brought to the guillosine."
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, cone to
me-" cried Earat, and expired under the
blow,
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington is a
famous painting of Charlotte, represented as
behind the prison bars the day before her
execution.
1t is thrilling, sad picture, full of sorrow
for her suffering country. and of nnconquer-
able hate for her countrys 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 VIC
tins 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 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 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 !
H. II. Warner, famed all over the world
as the discoverer of Warmers safe cure be-
Cabin DAYS; after long and patient research
he succeeded 10 securing some of the most
valuable, among family records, and called
them Warmers Log Cabin renedes--the
simple preparation of roots, leaves, balsams
and herbs which were the successful stand
bys of our grandmothers. These simple,
old-fashioned sarsaparilla, hops and buchu,
cough and consumption and other remedies
have struck popular chord and are in extra
ordinary demand all over the land. They
are not the untried and imaginary rem
edies of some dabster chemist intent on
making money, but the long sought princi-
pies 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 philanthro-
pist-a lover of his fellow man-whose name
is a guarantee of the highest standard of
excellence.
The preparations are 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 ser
vice 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
ancestors.