The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-01-30
MAN SAYS
HE FLIRTED
WITH GRAVE
Fell Of Until He Only Weighed Sew.
enty Pounds. Takes Tanlac
Gains Twenty-On
Pounds.

"Ill tell you the truth; if I knew
this Tanlac was rot going to be sold
any more I would bay every bottle or
that counter over there before ] left
here tonight" said W. A. Splitter, at
Patton-Pope's Drug Store, Birming-
lam, recently. Mr.. Splitter is a we'll
known painter employed by the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railway COM
pany, and resides at $40 South Sixty
eighth street, Birmingham.
Before l began taking it l only
weighed 135 pounds. Today l got on
the scales and tipped them at 156-a
gain of q pounds-and more than l
ever weighed in my life. That's ex-
actly what four bottles of Tanlac did
for me. Just look at this belt! had
to let it up four inches, and it is still
tight on me.
"About seven years ago l commence
ed having stomach trouble, and it kept
getting worse until l began having at
tacks of acute indigestion. When
these attacks came on me l would just
swell up like a mule with the collie,
and got as limp IS a rag. My breath
would get short, and my heart would
stop beating. The stomach pump had
to be used every time, as this was the
only thing that would relieve me.
Finally my kidneys went back on me,
and I don't believe I was out of pain
night or day for four long years, and
] actually got so weak I could hardly
stand on my feet-much less work.
l was fading away fast, and got down
to where l only weighed 70 pounds.
l was almost a walking skeleton, and
I tell you l was flirting with my
grave, and guess l would have been in
it if it hadn't been for Tanlac. For
four years | couldn't hit a lick of
work. l guess | was as near dead as
any mar you ever saw to be alive.
But, look at me now; l am strong and
as we'll now as l ever was in my life,
and can do as big a days work as any
man.
eyes, sir, if ever a mortal mar has
been through the rub l am the man.
! have paid out, l guess, not less then
in the past six or seven years
for doctors bills and medicines, and
have bought enough medicine from
drug stores in Birmingham to own
interest in one Of them, and / was
lucky not to have had an undertaker's
bill to wind it all up.
81 have been a painter all my life,
and have had painters collie several
so guess that had a 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 l would get it. l
read of Tanlac n 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. l can now eat any
thing, and actually | eat so much l get
ashamed of myself. My landlady said
The other day she would have to raise
ny board. l told her, though, she
must remember that for four years
'he made money off of me, and that I
vas only making up for lost time.
Why, seven or eight biscuits at a meal
lon't satisfy me now, but l just quit
It that for fear l will overdo matters,
,ut everything tastes so good to me
low! And sleep! why, l never would
wake up if they didn't come in and
hake me. l haven't a pain about me
low"
Tanlac is sold in Greenwood by /.
'. Mcintyre Drug Co.; in Sidon, by
Ills Drug Co.,. in Berclair by l.. B. |
hartman; in Itta Bena by Moore Drug I
o.; in Minter City, Miss, by B. M. J
crawford & Co. |