The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-10
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

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| Charlotte Corday, the ad.f.ced
tender.hearted peasant girl of Nor
mandy made great history by one
desperate act!
| Sickened by the saturnalia of the
French revolution, and moved to
desperation as Rohespierre 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 gulllotinel
He proposed to kill Off the enemies
Of the Revolution TO make it perpet.
ual!
Horrible thought!
No wonder il fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maidl
Gaining access to his closely guard.
I'd 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 In,
imical deputies who had taken re,
fuge in Caen. She told him. and he
wrote them down. "That is we'll !
Before q week is over they shall all
be brought to the guillotine."
At these words, Charlottes drew
from her bosom the knife, and
plunged 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 uns
der the blow!
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash.
inglon is a famous painting off Char.
lotte, represented as behind the prison
bars the day before her execution.
1t is q thrilling, sad picture, full of
sorrow for her suffering country. and
Of uncomfortable hate for her coun.
trys enemies.
What lesson in this tragic story!
Two hundred, nay, FIVE hundred thou
sand people would Marat have sacri-
feed to his unholy passion OF power !
Methods are quite as murderous and
memorable as men, and they number
their victims By the million
The page of history is full Of MUIR
ders by authority and by mistaken
ideas! IL the practice of medicine
alone how many hundreds of mill, rs
haye been allowed 10 die and ~ many
more killed by upjus,i6able bigotry
by bungling!
But the age Is lettering. Men and
methods are improving. A few years
ego 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
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 research he succeed.
ed 10 securing some of the most val
liable, among family records, and
called them Warmers Log Cabin
remedies-the simple preparations Of
roots, leaves, balssms and herbs which
were the successful standbys of our
grandmothers. These simple, old
fashioned sarsaparilla, hops and
buchu, cough and Consumption and
other remedies have struck q popular
chord and are in extraordinary de-
mand all over the land. They are
not the untried and imaginary rene.
dies Of some dsbster chemist intent
on making money, but the ng-sought
principles Of the healing art which for
generations kept our ancestors in per-
feet health, put forth for the good Of |
humanity By one who is known all |
over the world a. o philanthropist-l
q lover Of bis fellow man,-whose |
nsme is q 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 |
raised up the sick, cured the lame, and |
bound up the wounds Of de.th, 20 in |
their new form but olden power as
Log Cabin remedies, they are sure 20 |
prove the "healing Of the nations"
Corday did the world an incalcuIa>
bic service In Kidding France Of the |
bigoted and muierous Marat, just ~
ibis man is doing humanity o service |
By re-introducting TO the world the
'in pier and better methods of our