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HIS OWN EXECUTOR.A Well-Kuown Gentleman's Philan-Ihropy ami the Commotion Caused by One of His Letters.[UofhestPP Democrat and C lironicle.]We published on our third pa?e yester-tlav tuoruing a significant letter from a gentleman known iiersonally or by reputation to nearly every person. in the land. We have received a number of letters protesting against the use of our columns for such “palpable trauds and misrepresentations;’* therefore, to confirm beyond a doubt the authenticity of the letter, and the genuineness of its sentiments, a reporter of this paper was commissioned to ascertain all the possible facts in the matter. Accordingly he visited Clifton Springs, saw the author of the letter, and with the following result:I)r. Henry Foster, the gentleman in question, is sixtv-three 01* sixty-four years of age and lias an extremely cordial manner. Ho presides as Superintendent over the celebrated sanitarium, which accommodates over five hundred guests and is unquestionably the leading health 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, ns a free gift to a Hoard of Trustees representing the principal evangelical denominations. Among the Trustees are Bishop A. C. Coxe. Protestant Episcopal, Buffalo; Bishop Matthew Simpson, Philadelphia, Methodist Episcopal; President M. B. Anderson, of the Tdiversity of Rochester: Rev. Dr. ('lark, Secretary of the A. B. P. F. M.. Boston. The benevolent purpose of the institution isthecare: First, of evangelical missionaries and their families whose health has been broken iu their work. Second, of ministers of any denomination in good standing. Third, of mem Iters of any church, who otherwise would be unable to secure such care and treatment. The current expenses of the institution are met by the receipts 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. They little realized the danger before them, nor how alarming even trilling ailments might prove. They constitute all classes, including ministers and bishops, lawyers, judges, statesmen, millionaires, journalists, college professors, and officials from all parts of the land.Drawing the morning Democrat and Chronicle from his pocket, the reporter remarked, “Doctor, that letter of Tours 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 not seen the paper ?”“Yes, but I have not had time to read it yet.”The rejiorter thereuiion showed him the letter, which was as follows:Clifton Springs, Sanitarium Co., I Clifton Springs, N. Y., Oct. 11,1*S3. | DkarSik: lam using Warner’s Safe Cure, and I regard it as the best remedy for some forms of kidney disease that we nave. 1 am watching with great care some cases I am now treating with it, and 1 hope lor 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] HEXKY FOSTER, M. D.“I do not see why anybody should be skeptical concerning that letter, remarked tlie doctor.“Isn’t it unusual fora physician of your standing and influence to commend a proprietary preparation?’’“1 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 purnosc 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, 1 commend it. As itB power is manifested under my use, so shall I add to the completeness of my commendation.”“Have you ever analyzed It, doctor?”“W’e aiways analyze liefore we try any preparation of which* we do not know the constituents. But auulysis. you know, only gives the elements; it not give the all-important proportions. The remarkable power of Warner’s Nafe Cure undoubtedly consists in the proportions according to which its elements are mixed.” While there may l»e 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 hoiie 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 ns the founder of the Warner 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 deni of gratification to me to find out by actual experiment that the remedy itself sustained my impressions.” The conclusion reached by Dr. Foster is precisely the same ton ml by lr. Dio liewis, Dr. Robert A. Gunn, Kx-^urgeon-General Gallagher and others, and proves beyond a doubt the great efficacy of the remedy which has nwhkened so much attention in the land and rescued so many men, women and children from disease and death.THE FEMALE HUSBAND.Objections to the New Matrimonial W riii k le.[Peck’s Sun.]The State, and in fact the whole country, has been much interested, for two weeks, over a queer case of marriage at Wait pun. A young man, or an alleged young man, named Frank Dubois, wooed and won a girl, and they were married. All moved along happily, to all outward appearance, until two wrecks ago, when a man named Hudson appeared upon the scene and claimed tiiat the ‘‘man” Dubois was his wife, Mrs. Hudson, who hud deserted him, and who was | the mother of his two children.• The story was believed, and Dubois• and the girl he bad married went away from Wauptm to Brandonf Fond dti Lac, and finally to Chilton followed by tireless newspaper reI porters, until the cotiplo were foot ) sore, and wished they were dead, liis said that Dubois has confessed thu• lie was a woman, and his wife lias ad 1; mittcd as much. The wife was iu t formed of the fact after they wen s married, and both agreed to keep it s r secret, which they would have done l! very likely, for all time, only for tinII appearance of Hudson, ll is a quee a freak, and the deceived wife lias ever; t, reason to be offended'at the deeeptioi a that 1iuh been practiced upon her y It is hud enough foa drl to marry a 111:111, but to man*; iv what is supposed to be a mini, am *e then find that the husband is t, woman, must be heartreudiug, Wlm the object of the female lmsbaiti iv could have been llm world will neve id know, but hereafter H’wlll stand girl • iu hand to refer suitors to heir puteuts, when they propose matrimony, or cause them to produce a certificate that they are what they seem. The marriage relation is an excellent thing for the world at large, but if it is fooled with iu this way by amateurs, it w ill be brought into discredit and will become very unpopular. The idea of a womau playing husband. and trying to split wood, or drive team, is absurd.The best w oman in the world could not take the place of a man and do chores around the house, and go dow n town nights, and eonie home full of election whisky, without giving himself away. Such a husband would be of 110 account on earth, in case of burglars getting into the house. Imagine a burglar entering a bed-100111 occupied by such a couple, in the dead hour of night, to burgle. The spectacle of twro heads going under the bed clothes at once, and two female screams, where there wras one pair of pants on the floor, would mix up the most hardened burglar, and make him think he had struck a lunatic a*y lum.What would such a husband amount to if a neighbor should call to whip him because his children had been throwing oyster cans over the neighbor’s fence. The female husband would get behind his wife and cry. Suppose the w ife of a female husband should be taken sick in the night, and wairt a doctor. The feminine husband wouldn’t dare get up and jump into a couple of pants, anil go down town on a run after the doctor. He would want the wife to get up and go with him. Suppose a cow* should get into the garden, and had to be driven out. All such a husband could do would be to pull up his vest and shake it like an apron, and say “shoo,” and run into the house when the cow turned her head to nip a cabbage. What would such a*Lus-band amount to if an old lover of the wife should call, and ofTer to kiss the wife for old acquaintance sake. All the female husband could do, would le to pull his hair and pout. Suppose the house caught fire in the night, such a husband couldn’t grab pants in one hand and a pail of water in the other, and go out on the roof. The female husband would have to make an elaborate toilet, and go to the fire in a carriage. 0, female husbands are never going to take the place of the old fashioned male article. A female husband could never go to a caucus and smoke election cigars, and come rolling home in the morning without somebody came home w ith him. Such a husband would make a nice appearance riding a horse as marshal of the day on the Fourth of July. It is well that the female husband business in Wisconsin is thus early nipped in the bud, and it is hoped that an end has been put to it for all time.
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Cincinnati Weekly Times
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 22, 1883
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