The Springdale news., 1889-12-20
MRS. MOLL'S AILMENTS.
She Was Finally Cured in a Very
 Lively Manner.

Mrs. Rebecca Moll was one of those unfortunate women who are always .'ailin'.n She was never free from a misery of some kind and never knew what it was to see "a we'll day. n Her conversation chiefly referred to the diseases she was suffering from, those she had had. and those she ex- pected to have. She always spoke in plaintiye and dejected little whine but at the same time wished it to be understood thut she was quite resigned to her fate. She was sure that she had suffered from most of the mala- dies common to humanity. and warm ly resented the idea that any one had had more diseases than she.
 She loved to dwell upon the many times that -four doctors had given her up, and when it was confidently sup posed that .'eyery breath would be her last. It might, however, have puzzled her to give the exact dates of these trying occasions. Certainly they had not been within the remem- brance of some of her friends who had known her twenty-five years.
 These friends were, indeed, some what skeptical in regard to the genu- ineness of Mrs. Rebecca Mol's mala- dies. They doubted her oft-repeated statement that she had had the small pox, the genuine Asiatic cholera, the yellow fever distinct shock of par ,l al l, of They did not believe that her left lung was "clean gone, or that she ever recovered from combined at tack of typhoid fever, diphtheria, congestion of the lungs and black measles.
 One reason for their doubts regard ing this last statement was that it was proved that on the day following that on which all these diseases were at their height, Mrs. Moll had walked three miles to a quilting; but when reminded of this fact she said, calmly: ''Some folks git over sickness quick er'n others, and m one of that kind. :"
 It was not uncommon for Mrs. Moll to be breathing her last" one day, and enjoying a cup Of tea at the house of a neighbor mile distant on the next The ease and grace with which she took on and threw off disease was matter of surprise to her friends and of satisfaction to herself.
 There was one person, however who had firm faith in the genuineness of all Mrs. Moll maladies. and that per son was her patient and atfectionate husband, Mr Pliny Moll.
 What my Becky has eudoored no one but inc and her knows he often said, earnestly, Many an a-many' $ the time I've set by her sick bedside an said to myself: Is she a-breathin' or ain { she a-breathin'?' and I've rig to my feet thinkin l was a widow man tbtS time-yes, sir. An ag'in when she's been settin' right in her chair I've looked at her an said: You dead, Becky Moll?' an when she'd say, so feeble like: l ain't quite, PHny, I've said to myself: Well, it won't Do long fore you will be, Becky Moll, if you ain't better right forthwith an faster.
 So good Mr. Moll bore in patier the inconveniences to which D. Moll's many sudden and acute i ''aG ,',l, N< and intending ailings subjeaat aal,,al ,',,'' As they kept no servant, ben as ',,la a,a. 7asca 7tic confusion resultedrs Mol, haa %9 ,9 be almost canrifease' to bed from the breakfast table, leaving NIr. Afon to wash the dishes and attend to other do- mestic duties. But Mr. Moll made nc complaint. He would go to work pa tiently and sometimes tearfully saying: .'Poor Becky, poor Becky! it's a sight harder on her than it is on me
 One day Mrs Moll went to bed, and did not get up again as the days and weeks wore on.
 Il shall never get up again. Pliny," she said to her husband, I'm done fer. l don seem to have the first mite of stren tn, an I've a kind of a feelin' of goneness all the time. There's somethin' the matter Of my back an chist, an it ain't long I'll be a burden to you
 Old Dr. Philbrick was called. He seemed unable to understand the ease of Mrs. Moll, but told her anxious hus- band that he'd 'have her around in few days.'
 No, you won't" sald Mrs. Moll. resolutely, as she came out of the stu DOT into which she seemed to have fallen. "Pliny might as we'll be made to understand the truth, doctor, an it gan be kept from me e'
 Doctor Philbrick did not have Mrs.