Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — HIS OWN EXECUTOR. [ARTICLE]

HIS OWN EXECUTOR.

A Well-known Gentleman’s Philanthrophy and the Commotion Canned by One of His" Letters. [Rochester. Democrat and Chronicle.] We published in our'local columns yester- | day morning- a significant letter from a gen- I tieman known personally or by reputation to nearly every person in the land. Wes have. received a number of letters protesting against the use of our columns for such "palpable frauds and misrepresentation?;” therefore, to confirm beyond a doubt the authenticity of the letter, and the genuineness of its serUiments, a reporter of this paper was commissioned to aseeytain all the possible facts in the matter. Accordingly be visited Clifton Springs, saw the author of the letter, and with the following result: • Dr. Henry Koster, the gentleman in question. i 5.63 or 64 years of age, and has an extremely cordial manner. He presides as Superintendent over the celebrated sanitarium. which accommodates over 500 - guests, and is unquestionably the leading jiealth resort of the country. Several years ago this benevolent man wisely determined to be his own executor,, and, therefore, turned over this magnificent property, worth >300,000, as a free gift to a Board of Trustees, representing the principal Evangelical denominations. Among the Trustees are Bishop A. C. Coxe, Protestant Episcopal, Buffalo; Bishop Mathew Simpson, Philadelphia, Methodlot Episcopal; President M. B. Anderson, of the University of Rochester; Rev, Dr. Clark, Secretary of the A. 8.. C, F. M., Boston. The benevolent purpose! of the institution is the care: Ist—of Evangelical missionaries and their families whose health has been broken in thenwork. 2nd.—of ministers, of any denominations, in good standing. 3rd. —of members of .any church: who otherwise would be unable *to secure such care and treatment. The currentexpenses of the institution are met by the receipt from the hundreds of distinguished and wealthy people who every year crowd its utmost capacity. Here come men and women who were once in perfect health, but neglected the first symptoms of disease. The uncertain pains they felt at first were overlooked until their health became impaired. Thej- little realized the danger before them, nor how alarming even trifling ailments might prove. They constitute all classes, including ministers and Bishops, lawyers, Judges, Btatesinen,millioriaires,.journahsts, college professors and officials from j all parts of the land. - Drawing, tho morning and Chrmi-v-le from his pocket, the reporter remarked, “Doctor, that letter of yours has created a good deal of talk, and many of our readers have questioned its authenticity.” “To what do you refer?” remarked the Doctor. “ Have you seen the paper?” “Yes, but J bate not had time to read it yet.” The reporter thereupon showed him the letter, which was as follows: .UtinOS SIRINOS.SAV'TAIiIUM Co., I Clifton Springs, N. Y., 0.-t. ii, 1883. > Dear Sip. : 1n ni using Warner’s Safe Cure,’' and I regard it as the best remedy for some forms of kidney disease that we have. lam watching with great care some cases I am now treating with it, and J hope for favorable results. I wish you might come down yourself, as I would like very much to talk with you about your sterling remedy and show you over our institution. Yours truly, [Signed] Henry Foster, M. D. “1 do not see why anybody should be skep- • ti< al concerning that letter,” i emarked the Doctor. ••Isn't it unesvai for a physician of your standing and influence to commend a propri-, etary preparation.” “I don't know how it may be with others, but in this institution we allow no person to dictate to us what we shall use. Our purpose is to cure the Sick, and for that work we use anything we know to be valuable. Because I know Warner’s Safe Cure. Is a very valuable preparation, I commend it. As its power is manifested under my use, so shall I add to the completeness of my “Have you ever analyzed it. Doctor?” “We always analyze before we try any preparation of which we do not know the constituents. But analysis, you know, only gives the elements; it does not give the allimportant proportions. The remarkable power of Warner’s Safe Cure undoubtedly consists in the proportions according to which its elements are mixed.” While there maj- be a thousand remedies made of the same elements, unless they are put together in proper proportions, they are worthless as kidney and liver preparations. “1 hope some day to meet Mr. Warner personally, and extend fuller congratulations to him on the excellence of his preparations. I have heard much of him as the founder of the Wagner Observatory, and as a man of large benevolence. The reputed high character of the man himself gave assurance to me in the first place that he would not put a remedy upon the market that was not trustworthy;' and it was a source of a good deal of gratification to me to find out by actual experiment the remedy itself sustained my impressions.” The conclusion reached by Dr. Foster if precisely the same found by Dr. Dio Lewis, Dr. Robert A. Gunn, Ex-Surgeon-General Gallagher and others, and proves beyond a doubt the great efficacy of the remedy which has awakened so much attention in the land and j-escued so many men, women and children from disease and death. It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they, have in them the more noise they make in. pouring it “Stabye Out” is the unwelcome name of a town that meets the eyes of tramps in Wyoming Territory.