The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-06-21
This MAN SAYS He
FLIRTED With GRAVE
FELL OFF UNTIL HE WEIGHED
ONLY SEVENTY POUNDS.
TAKES TANLAC AND GAINS
TWENTY-ONE POUNDS.

'I'll tell you the truth if knew
this Tanlac was not going to be sold
any more would buy every bottle on
that counter over there before | left
here tonight" said W. A. Splitter, at
Patton-Pope's Drug tSore, Birming-
ham, recently. Mr.. Splitter is well
known painter employed by the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railway Com
pany, and resides at 90 South Six
ty-eighth street, Birmingham.
Before ] began taking it l only
weighed 1876 pounds. Today | got
on the scales and tipped them at 156,
gain of 81 pounds, and more than
ever weighed in my life. That's
exactly what four bottles of Tanlac
did for me. Just look at this belt!
had to let it up four inches, and it's
still tight on me.
"About seven years ago | COM
menced having stomach trouble, and
it kept getting worse until | began
having attacks of acute Indigestion.
When these attacks came on me l
would just swell up like mule with
the collie, and got as limp as a rag.
My breath would get short, and my
pulse so weak was afraid my heart
would stop beating. The stomach
pump had to be used every time, as
4ho o,n1xy fhitoO tbaf lid
relieve me. Finally my kidneys went
back on me, and | don't believe was
out of pain night or day for four long
years, and | actually got so weak
could hardly stand on my feet-much
less work. l was fading away fast,
and got down to where | weighed 70
pounds. | was almost a walking skel-
eton, and tell you was flirting with
my grave, and guess | would have
been in it if it hadn't been for Tan
lac. For four years l couldn't hit a
lick of work. l guess | was as near
dead as any man you ever saw to be
alive. But look at me now; / am
strong and as we'll now as | ever was
in my life, and can do as big days
work as any man.
Eyes, sir, if ever a mortal man has
been through the rub | am the man.
| have paid out, guess, not less than
$1,000 in the past six or seven years
for doctors bills and medicines, and
have bought enough medicine from
drug stores in Birmingham to own
an interest in one of them, and | was
lucky not to have had an undertake
er's bill to wind it all up.
81 have been a painter all my life,
and have had painters collie several
times, so guess that had lot to do
with my condition. Anyway, there
seemed to be nothing that would
straighten me out. Every time L
| heard of a new medicine | would get
it. l read of Tanlac one day, and
that's one time l hit it right. That's
what saved me. Why, Tanlac just
raised me right out of my grave. |
I can now eat anything, and actually d
eat so much l get ashamed of my
self. My landlady said the other day
she would have to raise my board. l
told her, though, she must remember
that for four years she made money
off of me, and that was only making
up for lost time. Why, seven or
! eight biscuits at meal don't satisfy
me now, but l just quit at tnaC Tor
fear l will overdo matters, but ev-
erything tastes so good to me now
And sleep! Why, never would wake
up if they didn't come in and shake
me. l haven't a pain about me now. "
Tanlac is sold exclusively in Daw-
son by Dawson Drug Co., in Bron-
wood by Wall Drug Co., in Graves by
D. M. Dismuke, in PARROT by City
Drug Store, and in Sasser by Davis
! Drug Co.