The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-02-11
MEDILL AND MUD.
Tho Old war-Horso OF Journalism Dis
covers the Virtue of y New
Medicinal Variety.


There are only few of them left.
Since Chas. A. Dana's death, Joe Me
dill, the old war.h horse of tLs 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 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. LII
Mr. Medill Is an investigator and when
the stories of the miraculous Magno-Mud
at Indiana Mineral Springs b gan to spread
over the country, the great editor became
interested and eventually decided; to try
this mysterious substance on his own rheu-
matic limbs, and weigh las valne. He was
accompanied by his private Physician, Dr..
Toros Sarkisian, young armenian sci
enlist of high attainment. The great ed
itor was mud-mummi ed daily for several
weeks and gained visib.y in weight strength
and vitality. The CHER evidence ofhis re'
cuperation was O series o. edi oil ial sledge'
hammer blows, which made lie opposition,
tremble. ,. s.s-.-,al
The final result Of the experiMnnt wus
an unqualified success Jos" Medill went
back to Chicago in Septemi er, and wrote
an editorial about Mngno-Mud, With his
own hand Next, he ,eiit his sonsiIi-law,
r. s. Mccormick, down for a little OF the
mud-treatment. In November ne went
down again, and since the new pnthihouse
is completed he expects TO bs a .leguiaf
visitor four times p year. IA 4,t .!.,
This mud-treatment III which Mr. Medill
found SO much virtue, is pecaiar, yet log
ical. After all, every II nj OF life syringe
Ia .t el.a. IL fVDy
er and assimilator of dead and eifete mat
ter All life il fed at the breast OF Mother
Earth. At the Indiana Mineral Springs Is
beautiful little natural amph theatre, the
slopes being grown with maguiht entl0abs
At the foot of the converging hills. a big
Lithia spring gushes forth at the rate OF
5000 barrels a day and floods the roll,
which consists of rich, black porous loan,
fed by the deciduous foliage of the oak
trees, This peculiar soil saturated with
mineral salts for ages, is rs soluble az
sugar, and being devoid of clay is not
sticky in the least. 1t is not, therefore, III
any sense related to the conventional mud
of the roadway, of the Chicago street Oh
to the variety which clings to your heels
The mud is applied to the patient on
cot, the subject being entirely encased II
the substance, steame tOa proper temper
ature. Ii then acts as poultce stimu
lates the skin, superficial blood vessels and
nerves, opens the pores and Initiates the
blood, dlssolving 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 mterOcean, nov
Collector of the Port of Chicago is another
mud-devotee. So is Ex-Gov. John Z. Alt
geld, which shows that mud is more pow
erful than politics, because it unites in
common purpose two men, who are, polit
ically not exactly bed-fellows.