Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-04
A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE

A CLAIM TO HUMAN GRATITUDE.
Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced,
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 des-
peration as Robespierre and Marat
We're 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 humid
red thousand victims for the guillo-
tine!
He proposed to kill off the enc
mics OF the Revolution to make it
perpetual!
Horrible thought!
No wonder he fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maid!
Gaining access to his closely guarded
quarters by a subterfuge, she found
him in his bath, even then memorable
and giving written directions for fur
Their 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 well
Before a week is over they shall all
be brought to 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 ur-
der the blow!
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash
ington is a famous painting of Oh; r
lotte, represented as behind the
prison bars the day before her execu-
ton.
1t is thrilling, sad picture, full of
sorrow for her suffering country, and
of unconquerable hate for her coun-
try's enemies.
What a 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 murderoEs
and memorable as men, and they
their victims by the mil
lions.
The page of history is full of MUIR
ders 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 unjustifab!e bigotry
and by bungling!
But the age is lettering. Men and
methods are improving. A few
years ago it was worth ones pro-
fessional life to advise or permit the
use Of a proprietary medicine. To
lay there are not two physicians in
any town in this country who do not
prescribe some form of pro-
prietary remedy!
II. Ii. Warner, famed all over the
world as the discoverer of Warmers
iafe cure, began limiting up the old
of the Log Cabin days after
ong and patient research he sue
,eeded in securing some of the most
among family records, and
allied them Warmers Log Cabin
'emedies-the simple preparations of
'oots, leaves, balsams and herbs
which were the successful standbys
IF cur grandmothers. These simple,
)ld-fashioned sarsaparilla, hops and
oucha, cough and consumption and
)ther remedies have struck Il popular
,hord and are in extraordinary de-
nand all over the land. They are
not the untried and imaginary rem
,dies of some dabster chemist intent
IN making money, but the long
sought principles Of the healing art
which for generations kept our ances-
.ors in perfect health, put forth for
Inc good Of humanity by one who is
known all over the world as a phi
anthropist-a lover of his fellow
man, whose name is a guarantee
of the highest standard of excel
ence. /