The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-29
I probably have the spring-fcvel

I probably have the springfcvel worse than most people; but l suppose the symptoms are about the same in all cases, only varying in virulence.
 A man with the spring-fever wants chiefly to be let alone. His pulse is regular but slow, aud he has a frequent desire to sit down in an easy-chair and rest for a couple of centuries. He would not go out in the backyard and dig up gold if he knew there was mine of it there, ready coined, six inches be- has struck, who will arbitrate, nor who won't. If the baby falls downstairs at his feet, he calls his wife from the next room to come and pick it up. If the house takes fire, he waits for the neigh bors to come and put out the flames or throw out the furniture. He won't go out to see a warm personal friend try new horse, he doesn't care who's going to be a candidate for the State Legislature, and he hasn't enough interest in the common veal to go to the front door and kill a book-agent. His notes go to protest, he loses his interest in the music of the dinner-bell, and if the cook and the ker- osene-can, and the stove, and the rest of the kitchen fixtures go through the kitchen-roof in one scene, he just sits still wherever he is, and waits for some one else to go and get the particulars.
 You can't excite man who has the spring fever. The tailor may spoil his spring trousers, and yet there will be no bloodshed. The shop-keeper may give short-weight, the milkman may skim his milk with a subsoil skinner. the butcher may send him the poorest cuts from the toughest part of the oldest horned inhabitant of the county, the as- sessor may raise the valuation of his property two hundred per centum, and total stranger may come into the hall and borrow his new plug-hat off the rack, and yet he knows no excitement, no riot, no fatal results. Oh, there is no mistaking these symptoms of spring. fever for those of any other disease.
 The only thing that troubles the vic tim of the malignant spring-fever is the realization of the fact that when he is awake he must think. If his thinker would only keep quiet, he could be con- paratively happy.
 Having spring-fever once is no safe guard against having it again. You can have spring-fever once year, and each attack is likely to be severer than the preceding one. Inoculation for springfever is no good. M. Pasteur might put pint of spring-fever virus in man, and yet he would fall vic tim to the disease just as soon as the epidemic opened for the season, and have it bad.
 l can offer the great number of fellow victims of spring-fever who will read these lines no remedy for this distress ing disease. It will run its course in spite of every thing you or your anxious friends may do, and if you medicate it, you'll make it worse.
 When was small boy I had the spring-fever annually, and just as bad as I have it now. Some of my friends feared it would prove fatal, and others feared it would not. Occasionally an apple-tree switch was applied externally as remedy; but the benefit therefrom was only temporary. The application did not reach the seat of the disease, and, after the effects of the irritant wore of, the spring-fever always took fresh and harder hold than before.
 With all my great store of personal with spring-fever, I can only recommend that the friends of the patient. give him perfect quiet and let the disease take its course.-ScOH Way, in Puck.