The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-11-01
A Claim to Human Gratitude.

Charlotte Corday. the ad-fac.d.
tender-heartcd peasant girl Of Nor
mandy made great history by ONE
desperate act,
Sickened by the saturnalia Of the
French revolution. and moved to dies
peration as Robespi.rre and Marat
, were leading the flower Of France to
the guillotine. she determined that
she would put an end TO Marat !
bloody reign.
Marat had demanded two hundred
thousand victims for the g,iillo,ine.
lie proposed to kill Of the enemies
Of the Revolution to make it perpet-
| ual'
Horrible thought
No wonder it fired the blood of this
patriotic peasant maid.
| Gaining access to his closely guard
ed quarters by subterflge. she
found him in his bath. even then in.
exorable and giving written direc.
tions for further slaughter.
lie asked her the names Of the i'm.
imicable deputies who had taken ref
uge in caen. She told him. and liz
wrote them down. That Is we'll
Before Il week is over they shall al
b. brought TO the guillotine.'
At these words. Charlotte drew
from her bosom the knife. and pl,ing
ed it with supernatural force mp ID
the hilt in the heart OF Marat
Come to me. my dear friend com.
to me-" cried Marat and expired I'M
der the blow.
In the Corcoran gallery at Wash
/ lngton II Il famous painting Of Char
lotte. represented as behind the nris
on bars the day before her execution
1t i a thrilling. sad picture. full oj
sorrow for her suffering country. ano
Of unconunerable hate for her coun
trs's enemies.
/ What II lesson in this tragic story
Two hundred. nay. five hundred
thousand people would Marat hay,
sacrificed to his unholy passion o
power,
Methods are quite as mur,lerou
and memorable as men, and the,
number their victims by the millions
The page of history is full of muir
ders by authority and by mistake,
ideas. In the practice of meaicin
alone how many hundreds of million
have been allowed to die and IL
many more killed by unjustifiabl
bigotry and by bungling.
put ttlt deS IL x. MpIl tilt
methods are improving. \ few year
ago II was worth ones professions;
life to advise or permit the use Of
proprietary medicine. To-day ther
/ are not two physicians in any tow
, in this country who do not REGULAR
prescribe some form Of proprietor
! remedy
! IL. II. Warner. famed all over tn
| ,pnrlI ti,., Il 81
, safe cure. began hunting up the oil
: remedies OF the Log Cabin days: afte
long and patient research he succee,
: ed in securing some of the most val,
: able, among family records, and cal
dies the simple preparations of root
: leaves, balsams and herbs While
= We're the successful standbys of ot
grandmothers. These simple. oil,
fashioned sarsaparilla hops and b,
chu. cough and consumption and OF
err remedies have struck popul;
II chord and are in extraordinary d
t mand all over the land. They nj
o not the untried and imaginary rem
dies of some dabster chemist inter
;. on making money, but the Ion,
IA sought principles of the healing nj
Q which for generations kept our al
y cestors in perfect health, put fort
Is for the good Of humanity by one vi
Y il known all over the world as ri
n lanthropist-a lover of his fellow lna
Whose maine Is a guarantee of Il
d highest standard of excellence.
r The preparations are of decitl.
q and known influence over diseas
: and as in the hands of our gran
n mot hers they PA SaI y,., fha si.I: .,
le ed the lame. and bound mp Il
:, wounds Of death, SO i'm their he
form but olden power as Log Cab
z remedies. they are sure to prove Il
It healing of the nations"
.. Corday did the world an incalcul
~ BILE service in Kidding France Of ii
IL bigoted ana mIrderous Marat, iu
0. a. this man is doing humanity a !.
Of vice by re-introducing TO the wor
the simpler and better methods
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