The Mena weekly star., 1917-05-24
THIS MAN SAYS HE
 FLIRTED WITH GRAVE
Fell 0R Until He Only Weighed Seventy Pounds. Takes Tan lac and Gains Twenty One
 Pounds.

I'll tell you the truth; if knew this Tanlac was not going to be sold any more l would buy every bottle on that counter over there before I left here tonight said w. A. Spit ger, at Patton-Pope's Drug Store, Birmingham, recently. Mir. Spitzer is a well-known painter employed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company, and resides at BIO South Sixty-eighth street. Bir- mingham
 Before l began taking it I only weighed i35 pounds. Today l got on the scales and tipped them at i56-a gain of 2f pounds and more than l ever weighed in my life. That's exactly what four bottles of Tanlac did for me. Just look at this belt 1 had to let it up four inches, and it is still tight on me.
 About seven years ago 1 con- menced having stomach trouble, and 1t kept getting worse until l began having attacks of acute indigestion. When these attacks came on me l 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, 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. Finally my Kidneys went back on me, and l don't believe I was out of pain night or day for four long years, and ac- tually got so weak 1 could hardly stand on my feet-much less work. l was fading away fast, and got down to where l only weighed 70 pounds. 1 was almost a walking skeleton, and l tell you 1 was flirt- ing with my grave, and guess would have been in it if it hadn't been for Tanlac. For four years I couldn't hit a lick of work. I guess 1 was as near dead as any man you ever saw to be alive. But, look at me now; l am strong and as well now as l ever was in my life, and can do as big a days work as any man.
 Yes, sir, if ever a mortal man has been through the rub am the man. l have paid out, I guess, not less than S2,500 in the past six or seven years for doctors bills and medicines, and have bought enough medicine from drug stores in Bir- mingham to own an interest in one of them, and l was lucky not to have had an undertaker's bill to wind it all up.
 T have been a painter all my life, and have had painters collie several times, so 1 guess that had lot to do with my condition. Anyway, there seemed to be nothing that would straighten me out Every time I heard of a new medicine l would get it. I read of Tanac one day. and that's one time 1 hit it right That's what saved me. Why, Tanlac just raised me out of my grave. l can now eat anything, and actually l eat so much l get ashamed of myself. My Iandlady 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 a meal don't satisfy me now, but l quit at that for fear | will overdo matters, but everything 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.N
 Tanlac is sold by Jackson5nDrug X Furniture Company, Mens, Ark; Fred w. Gray, Cove, Ark; E. H. But Ter, Hatfield, Ark; J. A. Chilean, Wickes, Ark; s. H. McCurley, Gran his, Ark. Adv.