Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-08
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, ten
/ der-hearted peasant girl of Normandy
made great history by one desperate act
4 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 de-
termined that she would put an end to
Marat's bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred thou
sand victims for the guillotinei
He proposed to kill off the enemies OF
the Revolution to make it perpetual
| Horrible thought
No wonder it fired the blood of this
patriotic 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.
ssThat is well! 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 hilt in the
heart of Marat.
''Come to me, my dear friend, come to
me-" cried Marat, and expired under the
blowi
In the COrcoran gallery at Washington
is a famous painting of Charlotte, repre-
scented as behind the prison bars the day
before her execution.
1t is a 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 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
memorable 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
to die and as many more killed by unjus-
tifiable bigotry and by bungling!
But the age is lettering. Men and
methods are improving. few years ago
it was worth ones professional life to
advise or permit the use of proprietary
medicine. To-day there are not two ply
sicians in any town in this country who
do not regularly prescribe some form Of
proprietary remedy!
Fl. III. 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 succeeded in securing some
of the most valuable, among family rec
ords, and called them Warmers Log Cabin
remedies-the simple preparations of
roots, leaves, balsams and herbs which
were the successful standbys of our grand
mothers. 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 RENE
dies of some dabster chemist intent on
making money, but the long-sought prin-
ciples of the healing art which for gener-
ations kept our ancestors in perfect
health, put forth for the good of humaui-
ty by one who is known all over the world
as phIlanthropist-a lover of his fellow
man,-whose name is IA 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 in their new
form but olden power as Log Cabin RENE
dies, they are sure to 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-introduc-
ing to the world the simpler and better
methods of our ancestors.
The fresh fruit crop of California this
|