The state herald., 1898-02-11
MEpILL AND MUD.
rho Old wsr-Horse of Journalism Dis
covors tho Virtue of New
Medicinal Variety.

Tho Old war-Horse of Journalism Dis
covers tho Virtue of New
Medicinal Variety.
There are only few Of them left.
Since Chas. A. Dann's death, joe Me-
dill, the old r.horse Of the Chicago
Tribune, is the chief surviving representa-
tive of the old school of virile aggressive
editorial giants.
To have mud thrown at them was part
Of the profession at all times, but to find
health in mud is rather a modern innova-
ton. Tint is what Joe" Medill has been
doing OF late, and he feels that II his old
friend Dana had found the same source Of
vitality in time he might be abiding with
us still.
Mr. Medill is IN investigator and when
the stories of the miraculous Magno-Mud
at Indiana Mineral Springs began to spread
over the country, the great editor became
interested and eventually decided to try
this mysterious substance on his own rheu-
matte limbs, and weigh it's value. He was
accompanied by his private physician, DR..
Toros SarkisinD, q young Armenian sci
enlist Of high attainments. The great ed
itor was mud-mummifed daily for several
weeks and gained visibly in weight, strength
and vitality. The chief evidence OF his re-
cuperation was a series OF editorial sledge-
hammer blows, which made the opposition
tremble.
Auc VI tut Nus
an unqualified success. Jos" Mcdill we-.
back to Chicago in September, and wrote
an editorial about Magno-Mud with his
own hand. Next, he itnt his son-in-law,
X. 4. Mccormick, down for little of the
mud-treatment. In November he went
down again, and since the new bath house
is completed he expects TO b. a regular
vi itor four times year.
This mud.treatment in which Mr.. Medill
found 80 much virtue, IL peculiar, yet log
ical. After all, every form Of life springs
from the earth, which is the great destroy
er and assimilator Of dead and efYetc mat
ter. All life is fed at the breast of Mother
Earth. Al the Indiana Mineral Springs is
q beautiful little natural nmphithentre, the
slopes being grown with magnificent oaks
Al the foot OF the converging hills. n big
Lithia spring gushes forth at the rate OF
5000 barrels a day and floods the soil,
which consists Of a rich, black porous loan,
fei by the deciduous foliage OF the oak
trees, This peculiar soil saturated with
mineral salts for ages, Is as soluble ns
sugar, and being devoid Of clay il not
sticky in the least. II is not, therefore, In
any sense related to the conventional mud
OF the roadway, OF the Chicago street o.
to the variety which clings To your heels
The mud is applied TO the patient ON a
cot, the subject being entirely encased in
the substance, steamed to n proper temper.
aturc II then acts ms n poultice. stimu.
lntes the skin, superficial blood vessels and
nerves, opens the pores and lithiates the
blood. dissolving all uric acid deposits.
No. hing can be simpler or more rational.
Mr.. Medill at the time Of his last visit
shared the benefits Of the Magno- Mud Cure
with several other shining lights from
Chicago. His professional colleague, VIM.
Penn Nixon. late OF the nter.Ocenn, now
Collector OF the Port Of Chicngo Is another
mud-devotee. So IN Ex-Uov. John Z. Alt.
geld, which shows that mud is more pow.
erful than politics, because II unites In a
common purpose two men, who are, polit
icnlly not exactly tcd-fellows.