The weekly soliphone., 1917-01-25
THIS MAN SAYS HE FI,IRTED WITH GRAVE
Fell Off Until He Only Weighed Seventy Pounds. Takes Tanlac and Gains Twenty-One Pounds.

'Tll tell you the truth; if l knew this Tanlac was not going to De sold any more I would buy every bottle on that counter. over there before I left here tonight" said w. A. Spitzer, at Patton-Pope's Drug Store, Birmingham, recently. MT. Spitzer is a well-known painter em- ployed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company, and resides at 91O South SiXty-eighth street, Birmingham.
 Before I began taking it 1 only weighed 135 pounds. Today l got on the scales and tipped them at 156-a gain of 21 pounds-ahd more than I ever weighed in my life That's exactly what four bot | ties of Tanlac did for me- Just look at this beltt l had to let it up four inches and it is still tight on | me.
 About seven years ago l com menced having stomach troubie, and it kept getting worse until | began having attacks of acute indi- Igestion. When these attacks came on me I would just swell up like a mule with the collie, and got as limp as "a rag My breath would get short, and my pulse so weak, l was afraid my heart would stop beating. The stomach pump had to be used every time. as this was the only thing that would relieve me. Fi- nally my kidneys went back on me, and I don't believe 1 was out of pain night or day for four long years, and I actually got so weak IT could hardly stand on my feet Imuch less work. l was fading away fast, and got down to where l only weighed 70 pounds. I was almost a walking skeleton, and l tell you II was flirting with my grave, and guess I would have been in it II 1t hadn't been for Tanlac. For four wears I couldn't hit a lick of work. I guess I was as near dead as any lman you ever saw to be alive. But, look at me now; am strong and as we'll now as I ever was in my life, and can do as big days work as any, man.
 'Yes, sir, if ever mortal man has~been through the rub l am the man. I have paid out, I guess, not lex than $2,500 in the past six or seven years for doctors bills and medicines, and have bought enough medicine from drug stores in Birm- ingham to own an interest in one
 of them, and I was lucky not to
 have had an undertaker's bill to
 wind it all up.
 q have been a painter all my life, and have had painters collie
 several times, so guess that had a lot to do with my condition. Any way, there seemed to be nothing
 that would straighten me out. Ev- , cry time I heard of new medicine
 I would get it. l read of Tanlac
 one~day, and that's one time l hit
 
 Why, Tanlac just raised me right
 out of my grave. I can now eat s anything, and actually l eat so
 much I get ashamed of myself. My ,landlady said the other day she
 would have to raise my board.
 told her. though, she must remem- , Der that for four years she made
 money off of me, and that l was . only making up for lost time. Why, ' seven or eight biscuits at a meal don't satisfy me now, but l just quit at that for fear l will overdo = mattres, but everything tastes so - good to me now And sleep! why !, I never would wake up if they = didn't come in and shake me.
 haven't a pain about me now" Tanlac is sold by Hardesty X ' Lackey in Paragould, and in Mar n maduke by the Marmaduke Phar- 70 macy. (advt.