The Monte Vista journal., 1898-02-12
MEDILL AND MUD.
rhs Old war-Hor.s OF Journalism Dis
cover the Virtue Of New
Medicinal Variety.

rhs Old War-Horss Of Journalism Dis
cover the Virtue Of New
Medicinal Variety.
There are only few Of them left.
since Chas. a. Dana's death, joe Nc
an, the old war.horse Of the Chicago
tribune, Is the chief surviving representa-
tive OF the old school Of virile, aggressive
editorial giants.
10 have mud thrown at them was part
OF the profession ut all times, but to find
health in mad is rather n modern innova-
ion. That il what Joe" Medill has been
loing of late, and hc feels that il his old
friend Dana had found the same source of
us still
Mr.. Medill is nn investigator and when
the stories OF the miraculous Magno-Mud
nt Indiana Mineral Springs began to spread
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..
Ioros sarkisian, young armenian sci-
enlist OF high attachments. The great cd
itor was mud.mummiied daily for several
weeks and gained visibly In weight, strength
and vitality. The CHIEF evidence of his re-
cuperation was . series OF editorial sledge-
hammer blows, which made the opposition
tremble
Tho final result of the experiment was
back to Chicago In September, and wrote
an editorial about Msgno-M Mud with his
own hand. Next, he rent his son-in-law,
X. 3. Mccormick, down for q little Of the
mud-treatmsnt. In November he went
down again, aud since the new bath house
L. complsted he expects to be . regular
vi itor Tour times = year.
This mud-trca,ment in which Mr.. Aedill
found .o much virtue, is peculiar, yet log
ical. After all, every form OF life springs
from the earth, which IN the great destroy.
o. and as.imiiator Of dead and eflets mat
Ter. All NE is fed at the breast OF Mother
Earth. Al the Indiana Mineral Springs II
. beautiful little natural amphithSatre, the
slopes being grown with magnificent oaks.
AZ the foot Of the couverginx hills. . big
Lithta spring gushsx forth at the rate of
5000 barrels . day and floods the soil,
which consists Of rich black porous loan,
fed by the dsciduous foliage Of the oak
trees, This peculiar soil s2turated with
mineral salts for ages, IL - soluble -
sugar, and bsing devoid Of clay IL not
sticky In the least. II 10 not, therefore, in
any sense related TO the conventional mud
Of the roadway, Of the Chicago street Or
10 the variety which clings to your heels
The mud il applied to The patient on .
cot, the subject bsing entirely encased In
the substance, steamed TO proper temper
aturo II then acts as . poultice. stimu.
lates the skin, superficial blood vessels and
nerves, opens the pores and Initiates the
blood, dissolving all uric acid deposits
Nothing can bc simpler or more rational
Mr.. Acdill at the time Of his laAt visit
shared the benehts 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-dcvotec. So is EX-Gov. John r. Ait
geld, which shows that mud Is more pow.
erful than politics, because IL unites In q
common purpose two men, who are, polit
Ca ly not exactly ts-l'fellows.