Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13

Pioodoiy nave the Sprlng-ieVer
worse than most people; but 1 suppose
the symptoms are about the same in all
cases, only varying in virulence.
A man with the spring-feyer wants
chiefly to be let alone. His pulse is
regular but slow, aud he has frequent
desire to sit down in an easy-chair and
rest for couple of centuries. He
would not 60 out in the backward and
dig up gold if he knew there was mine
OF 1t there, ready coined, six inches be-
low the surface. He doesn't care who
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 90
out to see warm personal friend
try a new horse. he doesn't
care who's going TO be Il
candidate for the State Legislature. and
he hasn't enough interest in the common
veal to 90 to the front door and kill q
book-agent His notes 90 to protest.
he loses his interest in the music of the
dinner-bell, and if the cook and the kerr
osene-can, and the stove, and the rest of
| the kitchen fixtures 90 through the
| kftchen-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 a 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
| SCISSOR NAV raise the valuation of his
property two hundred per centum, and
a total stranger may come into the hall
and borrow his new plug-hat off the
rack, and vet he knows no excitement,
no riot, no fatal results. Oh. there is
no installing 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 COM
paratively happy.
Having spring-fever once is no safe
guard against having it again. You
can have springfever once year, and
e:lCn aIUack Is llkclN 10 bc ScN clcl
the preceding one. incubation for
spring-fever is no good. NJ. Pasteur
might put pint of spring-fever virus
in man, and yet he would fall vic
tim to the disease Just as soon rs 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. 1t will run its course in
spite of every thing you or your anxious
friends may do, and if you medIcate it,
YOU II make it worse.
When | was small boy l had the
spring fever annually, and Just as bad
as 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 a remedy; but the benefit therefron
was only temporary. The application
did not reach the seat of the disease
and, after the effects of the irritant wore
off. the spring-fever always took a fresh
and harder hold than before.
With all my great store of personal
experience with spring-fever, l car
) only recommend that the friends of thu
patient give him perfect quiet and lie
the disease take its course.-ScOtt Way
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