Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-10
MEDILL AND MUD.
The Old War-HOrse of Journalism Die.
oOvers the Virtue of n New
ModloInal VaPIakv

mouAOAnbA hhEA0Jys
There are only few of them left.
Since Chas. A. Dana's death, Joe" Me-
dill, the old war. 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-
tion. That is what "Joe" Medill has been
doing of late, and he feels that il 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 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 its value. He was
accompanied by his private physician, DR..
Toros SarkisiaD, young Armenian sci
enlist of high attachments. The great ed
itor was mud-mummi6ed 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 mode the opposition
tremble.
The final result of the experiment was
an unqualified success. "Joe" Medill went
back to Chicago in September, and wrote
an editorial about Magno-Mud with his
own hand. Next, he sent his son-in-law.
r. s. 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 be a regular
visitor four times year.
This mud-treatment in which Mr.. Medill
found so much virtue, is peculiar, yet log
lcal. After all, every form of life springs
from the earth, which is the great destroy
er and assimilator Of dead and effete mat
ter. All life is fed at the breast Of Mother
Earth. At the Indiana Mineral Springs is
beautiful little natural amphitheatre, the
slopes being grown with magnificent oaks
At the foot Of the cOnverging hills, 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,
fed by the deciduous foliage Of the oak
trees, This peculiar soil saturated with
mineral salts for ages, is as soluble as
sugar, and being devoid of clay is not
sticky in the least. 1t is not, therefore, in
any sense related 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 encased in
the substance, steamed to a proper temper
ature 1t then acts as a poultice. stimu-
lates the skin, superficial blood vessels and
nerves, opens the pores and Initiates the
blood, dissolving 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 professional colleague, VIM.
Penn Nixon, late of the Inter-Ocean, now
Collector of the Port Of Chicago is another
mud-devotee So is Ex-Gov. John P. Alt
geld which shows that mud is more pow
erful than politics. because it unites in a
common purpose two men, who are, polit-
ically not exactly bed-fellows.