The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-04-06
CAPT HOBBS SAYS He
SUFFERED TWENTY YEARS.
Prominent Nashville Railway Official Says
New 10y Has Come 10 Him.
TOOK FRIENDS ADVICE
Gained Twenty Pounds 0H Two Bottles
OF TaDlaC and Thinks II Is
The Finest Medicine,

A message that will probably in
terest more people than any of the
thousands of endorsements hereto
fore given the famous medicine,
Tanlac, is the remarkable statement
given to the press by Capt T J
Hobbs, who resides at 2110 Aclon
Ave, Nashville, Tenn. Capt Hobbs
has been a passenger conductor on
the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road for thirty-seven years and is
one OF the most popular and widely
known railroad men in the South.
Il suffered with this trouble for
fifteen years." said the genial cap
tain to a Tanlac representative who
had heard of the unusual case that
was the talk of the railroad yards,
and during this time spent on an
average of $500 a year trying to get
cured. The doctors said l had en-
largement of the liver.
well, 1 don't know whether it
was that or something else," he
continued, but l do know that for
the last three years l have not had
a single good nights rest, and have
not been able to lie on my side at
all. 1 got so I could scarcely eat
anything without suffering for hours
afterwards, and 1 fell off ffty-fve
pounds. I'm rather a big fellow, as
you see, and my normal weight is
25O pounds, but I fell off to 1875
and was getting so weak ! could
hardly drag myself through the
train.
"Of a night when 1 would lie
down my right side would pain me
so badly that it felt like an iron pin
was being driven through me. My
digestion was terrible, and l took a
lot of medicine, but nothing would
do any good.
Every summer for fifteen years
l would go to Red Boiling Springs,
where the water and rest would
patch me up temporarily, but in a
short time l would lapse into my
old condition. ! was just on the
verge of giving up all hope of ever
seeing well day again when my
engineer said to me: Captain, why
don't you try Cooper's new medi-
cine? All the railroad hoys are talk
ing about it, and it is certainly
worth a dollar to give it trial.
well, 1 went into Demoville's
drug store and got a bottle, and |
guess you can see at a glance what
it has done for me. ] am now on
my seventh bottle. l sleep as sound
as a dollar and can lie on my right
side without the least discomfort.
1 just sleep so soundly that l don't
hear the alarm clock half the time
and guess I'd miss my train if
Mrs Hobbs didn't yank me out OF
bed. I don't believe I would ever
wake up.
Il enjoy my meals, too; I just eat
everything in sight. A few nights
ago I ate a big bowl Of cabbage,
something I very much like but
have been unable to eat for years.
My! But it tasted good-and it
didn't give me one bit of trouble.
For a long time my work drag
ged on me. It worried me and l
couldn't take the interest in it I
used to, but nothing worries me
now except my hunger, for it does
seem like 1 can't get enough to eat.
I now go to bed with a wire edge on
my spirits. l enjoy my work just
like I used to. All the boys have
noticed the change.
After I had taken two bottles OF
Tanlac, 1 weighed and found l had
gained twenty pounds. That was a
few weeks ago; but / know [ weigh
a great deal more by now. If had
known you We're coming out to see
me I would have weighed again.
I'll say this: 1 think Tanlac Is one
of the finest medicines 1 ever heard
of in my life, and I am glad to rec
ommend it to everybody. All my
friends know about it, you can bet
on that, and l know of about thirty
of the boys who are taking it."
Taalae, the master medicine, is
sold by Kingstree Drug Co, King
stree; Mallard Lumber Co.'S store,
Greelyville.