The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-05-26
I probably have the spring-tevel

I probably have the spring-feve,
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 frequent
desire to sit down in an easy-chair and
rest for a couple of centuries He
would not 90 out in the backyard and
dig up gold if he knew there was a mine
of it 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 60
out to see warm personal friend
try new horse, he doesn't
care who's going to be
candidate for the State Legislature, and
he hasn't enough interest in the common
veal to 90 to the front door and kill
book-agent. His notes 90 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 60 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 u 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 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 COM
paratively happy.
Having spring-fever once is no safe
guard against having it again. You
can have spring-fever once a year, and
each attack is likely to be severer than
the preceding one. incubation for
spring-fever IS no good. NJ. Pasteur
might put pint of spring-fever virus
in a man, and yet he would fall a 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. 1t 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 l was small boy I 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 therefrom
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, can
only recommend that the friends of the
patient give him perfect quiet and let
the disease take its course.-ScoN Way,
In Puck.