The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-11-28
HOW THEY DO 1T.
The Manner in Which Newspapers OBJ
tain their most Interesting
Reading-An Excellent
Illustration Of it.

Few positions i'm journalism are so important
TO a good newspaper, and yet so easily filled as
as that Of the "exchargo editor" To those
that are unsophisGcated into tho workings ofa
large newspaper, il may be stated that the tex
change editor is a man who uses the scissors
and paste-pot All newspapers of metropolitan
pretontions have exchange lists of hundreds of
papers. They send their paper TO all the lead
ing journals in the country, besides to a num-
bor Of country papers in the immediate vicinity.
Every one Of those papers ore read by the ez-
change editor, aud if he finds something novel
and interesting, he cuts 70 and credits to the
paper from which it is taken. When he gets q
number OF these clippings ne hands them to
the managing editor to make a selection FROM
The latter chooses the most interesting of them
and those are published i'm the paper upon the
following day.
others. In large city, like New York, where
interesting news is plenty, few are needed, as
the columns arc well crowded without them.
I'm Cincinnati, st.. Lofts and cities further west,
the papers will be found well filed with thom,
and there is no mistake but that they make
mighty good reading.
For instance the following entertaining
story which is from the Pittsburg Dispatch,
journal which is extensively copied, has been
going the rounds Of the newspapers:
"Yery seldom do we read of an actual case of
recovery, where hope had altogether Deen lost.
to parallel that which was Monday investigated
by Dispatch reporter who had heard in var
iOus quarters persons talking to their friends of
a cure, seemingly little short of marvellous, that
bad been performed. The plain facts in the
case referred to, without eXasgcratiOn, are
these, as they were learned from the mother
Of the young man, his pastor and other persons
well known In the community:
:'Wiiham Lincoln Curtis Is the name of the
young man i'm question. He is now employed
at II. X Porter E Cy's locomotive works in
mother, on Grant street. About that time he
went 10 bed one evening with a violent pain i'm
bis shoulder the result he thought OF q cold
The next morning the shoulder was greatly
swollen, tine pain WIS intense, and aches We're
teltall through his system. His case was speed
lily developed into % violent form Of chronic
rheumatism, among the first AOtGJle features Of
which was the paralysis of his left arm,
he gradually grew worse, uud IN iow
months the elbow and knee joints, and both
ankles became enormously enlarged. In March
last the check luu4s began 90 euUrgc, and up
ON his left side particularly, spreading his face
ont Ui alLrgsemnlanCe to his former self The
pain in all his joints became iutonsei fever,
with its deJerIOuJiug effects, was now added.
and he became rapidly reduced TO the sumblauce
of q skeleton, while vita lty ieaChed its lowest
possible condition, aud his suieriugs were of
such an indescribable character that those who
most love him sometimes thought it would be
better if he was called away. At this time
physicians we'll known in Pittsbnrg informed
his parents that be was in imminent danger of
total paralysis, and directly afterward they an
nounced to his sorrOWful mother that they
could give no hopes of recovery.
The young man finally commenced taking
that wonderful medicine, Peruna. Almost at
once the good effect were perceptible. In two
weeks quite a change, for the better, was per-
ceptbe by all the frienks of the invalid In
six weeks almost all the enlargement had been
reduced completely, while in spiHts and
strength the patient was quite as well IS he had
ever been in his life. Nearly three weeks ago
he resumed work al maohinist at his old place
able to perform as much labor as ever in his
life,
"The mother Of Willie Curtis in stating all
these facts, said: Indeed 1 cannot look upon
the cure much less than as a miracle 1 do not
hesitate in sounding the praise of Peruua, and
i7 recommending it to all my friends. My
heart is very full of gratitude for my boys re-
cOvery was really like that Of one sn0tehed
from the jews Of DEATH"
The pastor Of the church where the young
man attended sabbath sonool was visited and
he readily confrmei She TACT of the deformed
bones, the amGIated condition from desease,
and OF sAo doctors having given him up. The
young man entered the minister's house with
the reporter, and the pastor, who had not seen
him since his recovery was greatly surprised
at his improved condition. Said he, IF he had
not spoken, would not have known him."