Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-06
Thirty Pounds in 80 Days
REMARKABLE GAIN IN WEIGHT
OF A CALIFORNIA Miner.
a Physical Wreck and not Expected to LIve-Re Begins
tho Use Of Pink Pills and In Three Days Is Atls to
WaIk-HIs Friends Corroborate His Testimony.
from .as Republican, Santa Rosa, Cal,

The reply came at once and to the points
"By the use of a medicine called Pink Pills
for Pale People" he said.
"How many did you take :" was my next
question, and he answered, three boxes"
and continuing, said: ,c.u,
our City Clerk, Mr.. c. L. Mabley, and de-
termined to try them. As YOU. probably
heard. DIR. -, manning one Of the lead.
ing doctors of this city, had told me that
could not recover and that my left lung was
completely gone. was in despair,-my
family IN want-and !, as believed, a.;
most at the brink of the grave, and ! .grasPec
! eagerly at the chance to try Pink Pills. Not
being able 10 walk to town / asked my friend
Perry Fits to get.me the first box, and.
we'll look at me now" he ended laughingly.
"Have you any objection to my, publish
ing an account of your case? 7" asked us we
parted. .. 49,
slider that / owe a solemn duty to my fellow
man in giving it out to the world, and an
more than willing to tell my story to anyone
who is likely to be benefited"
On leaving Mr.. Falkner's house / drove
direct to the residence Of Mr.. J. +. Fits, on
College Avenue, and asked him to tell me
something of how "Jim" Falkner regalned
his health. He corroborated all Of the fore
going statements and added: When ne
6rst asked me to buy him a box OF Pinh
pills I had no idea of his getting well, as ht
was a pitiful sight. His eyes were SUM
deep into his head and the blue veins SHOWED
clearly through his deathly. white skin
Thinking to humor the vagaries OF q maj
not long for this world, ] went to the drul
store Of Paul T. Hahman,. on Exchang'
r Avenue. and asked the proprietor II he MAJ
aDy Pink Pills, and at the same tim aske'
him what they were good for. Mr.; Hahmal
informed me that they were good Tor an
disease of the blood, that he sold lots O
them, and that they were, invaluable as
home a box and gave them to jim. In thre
DAYS he told me they were helping him, an
after the second box he was handling lun
Der in my yard"
Mr.. Fits is a postmaster and the presen
2 Recorder of the Santa Rosa Lodge Of ~
! u. w, and a ~well-known citizen of this city
E After bidding him goodbye | drove TO tn
civ Hall to see Mr.. Mabley, the Clerk.
/ found him in his Office at work, and ate
the usual greeting | began relating the stor
r of Mr.. Falkner as above. | had not pre-
) ceeded far when he interrupted me b
saying:
III know what you are going to tell m
+ and am familiar with the whole story
Here he pulled open a drawer in his desl
and produced a box of Pink Pills.
n "You see | have them right at hand al
the time" he said, "and would not be with
y out them. When I first anne here Pinl
g Pills could not be obtained in town and
sent East for them. Now all the drug store
keep them, and, as | verify believe, sci
e more of them than any other one remedy.
s at was through me that Falkner hear
of this fine remedy, and / can say for my
# self, that they have strengthened and bull
me up when all else failed. I have recon-
It mended them to fully two score people, al
of whom have been benefited"
n Wishing the CHEEKY City Clerk good day
n I crossed to the Court House and foun
Sheriff Allen in his Office. Stating my el
rs rand, / asked him to state for publicatio
what he knew of Pink Pills and the recover
a of his old mining partner, Falkner.
m "Wcll, sir" said the genial "Sam," :"
< know they are a fine remedy, though | ha,
ii never had occasion to use them myself, at
at / know that they saved the life of James
ne Falkner."
RS Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will
or sent post paid on receipt Of price, 30 cents
box, or six boxes for $3.50 (they are new
ne sold in bulk or by the 1907 by addressing 7
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady. N.