Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-02-17
MEDILL AND MUD
The Old War-H Horse OF Journalism Dis.
covers the Virtue Of a New Med
icinal Variety.

There are only few Of them left
Since Chas. A. Dana's death. "Jos~
Medill, the old war-horse OF the CHI
cago Tribune, is the chief surviving
representative of the old school s
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 innovation. That is what
Joe" Medill has been doing of late.
and he feels that if his old friend
Dana had found the same source OF
vitality in time he might BE abiding
with us STILL
Mr.. Medill is an investigator ans
when the stories of the miraculous
! Magno- Mud at Indiana Mineral
Springs began To spread over the
country, the great editor became Ia
terested and eventually decided to try
! this mysterious substance on his own
rheumatic limbs and weigh its value.
He was accompanied by his private
physician, DR. Toros Sarkisian, a
young Armenian scientist of high al
tainments. The great editor was
mud mwmmified daily for several
weeks and gained yisiby i'll weight,
strength and vitality The chief
evidence of his recuperation was II
series of editorial sedge- hammer
blows which made the opposition
tremble
The final result Of the experiment
was an unqualified success Joe"
Medil went back to Chicago in Sep
TENDER. and wrote an editorial about
Magno-Mud with his own hand. Next
he sent his son-inla law, X. 5. McCor-
mick. down for little OF the mud
Treatment In November he went
dcwn again and since the new bath
house is completed he expects To be
regular visitor four times year
This mediterranean in which Mr..
Medil found SO much virtue, is pecu-
liar, yet logical Alter all, every form
of life springs from the earth, which
is the great destroyer and assimila-
tor OF dead and effete matter AL
lie is fed at the breast of Mother
|
Springs is "a beautiful little natural
amphitheatre, the slopes being grown
with magnificent oaks. AT the foot
OF The conversins hills, a big Lithia
spring gushes forth at the rate Of
1900 barn els day and floods the SOIL
which consists OF a rich, black porous
Iuam fed by the decduos foliage of
the oak trees TIL peculiar soil
saturated with mineral salts for ages,
is as soluble as sugar, and being de-
void OF clay is no. sticky In The ieaSt
1t is not, therefore, in any sense re-
lated to the conventional mud of the
roadway, of the Chicago street or TO
the variety which clings to your heels
The mud is applied TO the patient on
a cot, the subject being entirely en-
casod in the substance, steamed TO a
proper temperature. 1t then acts as a
poultice, stimulates the skin, super
fetal blood vessels and nerves, opens
the pores and Initiates the blood, dis
solving all uric acid deposits. Nothing
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 profess
sional colleague. VIM. Penn Nixon,
late of the er-Ocean, now Collector
of the Port of Chicago, is another
mud-devotee SO is Ex-Gov John P.
Altgeld, which shows that mud is more
powerful than politics, because il
unites in a common purpose two men,
who are, politically not exactly bed
fellows.