Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-02-21
MEDILL AND MUD.
The Old War-Horse of Journalism Dis
covers the Virtue of a New Med
icinal Variety.

There are only a few of them left
Since Chas. A. Dana's death, Joe
Medill, the old war-horse of the Chi.
cago Tribune, is the chief surviving
representative of the old school o.
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
modern innovation. That is whas
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 ant
when the stories of the miraculous
Springs began to spread over the
country, the great editor became in
terested and eventually decided to try
this mysterious substance on his owl
rheumatic limbs and weigh its value
He was accompanied by his privat'
physician, DIR Toros Sarkisian, {
young Armenian scientist of high at
tainments. The great editor wa
mud -mummified daily for severa
weeks and gained visibly i'll weight
strength and vitality The chic
evidence of his recuperation was |
series of editorial sledge-hamme
blows$ which made the opposition
tremble.
The final result Of the experiment
was an unqualified success. Joe
Medill went back to Chicago III Sep
TENDER, and wrote an editorial abou
Magno-Mud with his own hand. Mex
he sent his son-in law, r. S. McCor
mick, down for little Of the mud
treatment In November he wen
down again, and since the new bait
house is completed he expects to b.
regular visitor four times year.
This ud-treatment in which Mr.
Medill found so much virtue, is pecu
liar. yet logical After all, every form
of life springs from the earth, which
is the great destroyer and assimila
tor of dead and effete matter AL
life is fed at the breast of Mother
Earth. At the Indiana Minera
Springs is a beautiful little natural
amphitheatre, the slopes being grown
with magnificent oaks. AT the foot
of the converging hills, a big Lithia
spring gushes forth at the rate OF
5000 barrels a day and floods the soil,
which consists CT a rich, black porous
loan, fed by the deciduOs foliage OF
the oak trees. This peculiar soil
saturated with mineral salts for ages.
is as soluble as sugar, and being de-
void of clay is not sticky in the least.
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 olings to your heels.
The mud is applied to the patient on
a cot, the subject being entirely en-
cascd 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
SIGNAL colleague, VIM. Penn Nixon.
late of the Inter-Ocean, now Collector
of the Port of Chicago, is another
mud-devotee. So is Elk Gov John P.
Altgeld, which shows that mud is more
powerful than politics, because it
unites in a common purpose two men
who are, politically not exactly bed.
fellows.