The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-10
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday, the sad-faced, ten
der-hearted peasant girl of Normany,
made great history by one desperate act.
Sickened by the saturnalia of the
French revolution, and moved to des-
peration as Robespierre and Marat
were leading the flower of France to
the guillotine, she determined that she
would put an end to Marats bloody
reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victims for the guilotine!
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 closey-guarded
quarters by 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 inim-
ical deputies who had taken refuge in
Baen. 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 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 blow
In the Corcoran gallery at Washing
| ton is a famous painting of Charlotte,
represented as behind the prison bars
| the day before her execution.
1t is a thrilling, sad picture, full of
! sorrow for her suffering country, and
of uncouquerable hate for her coun-
try's enemies.
What lesson is 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 millions.
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 unjustifiable bigotry and by bung-
ling!
But the age is lettering. Men and
methods are improving. y few years
ago it was worth ones professional life
to advise or permit the use of pro-
pretary 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, began hunting up the old
/ &c I VI of
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 preparations of roots, leaves,
balsams and herbs which were the sue
cessful standbys of our grandmothers.
These simple, old-fashioned sarsapa-
rila, hops and buchu, cough and con-
sumption and other remedies have
struck a popular chord and are in eX-
traordinary demand all over the land.
They are not the untried and imaginary
remedies of some dabster chemist in
tent on making money, but the long
sought principles of the healing art
which for generations kept our ances-
tors in perfect health, put forth for the
good of humanity by one who is known
all over the world as a philanthropist-
a lover of his fellow man-whose name
is 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
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
service in Kidding France of the bigoted
and murderous Marat, just as this man
is doing humanity service by reintro-
ducing to the world the simpler and
better methods of our ancestors.