The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-11-22
How They Do 1t.
The Mannerin which Newspapers
Obtain thefr Most Interesting
Reading.-An Excellent IilUstra.
ton OF 1t.


Reading.-AR Excellent Allastra.
tiOn OF 1t.
Few positions in journalism are 80
important to q good newspaper, and
yet so easily filled as that of the g ex-
change editor" Those that are unso-
flsticated into the workings of large
newspaper, it may be stated that the
!" exchange editor is tile man who
uses the scissors and paste.pot. All
newspapers of metropolitan preten>
tions have exchange lists of hundreds
of papers. They send their paper 10
all the leading journals in the country
besides number of country papers i'll
the immediate vicinity. Every one of
these papers are read by the exchange
editor, and if he finds something novel
and interesting, he cuts it and credits
the paper from which it is taken.
When he gets number of these clip
pings he hands them to the managing
editor to make selection from. The
latter chooses the most interesting Of
them, and those are published in the
paper upon the following day.
Some newspapers use mere clippings
than others. In large city, like New
York, where interesting news is plenty
few are needed, as the columns are
we'll crowded without them. In Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and cities further
west, the papers will be found we'll
filled with them, and there is no mis-
take but that they make mighty good
reading.
For instance, the following enter
tanning story, which is from the Pitts
burg Dispatch, a journal which is ex-
nsively copied, has been going the
roands OF the newspapers:
VERY seldom do we read ofan actual
case of recovery, where hope had alto,
gether been lost, to parallel that which
was Monday inveitigated by Dis
patch reporter vino had heard in vari-
GUS quarters persons talking to theiE
friends of a cure, seemingly little snort
of the marvellous, that haa been per
formed. The plain facts III the case
referred TO, without eXagerati0n, a:e
these, as they were learned from the
mother of the young man, his pastor,
and other persons We'll known i'll the
community
"Willism Lincoln Curtis is the name
of the young man in question. He is
now employed at FL. *. Porter & Cos
locomotive works in PittsburS, ia a
year ago he resided with his mother
on Grant street. About this time he
went to bed one evening with a VIC.
lent pain in his shoulder, the result, he
, thought, of cold. The next morning
the shoulder was greatly swollen, tbs
pain was intense. and aches were fell
all through his system. his case wa;
, speedily developed into a violent form
i of chronic rheumatism, among Ght
r first notable features of which was tn,
: paralysis of his left arm.
) He gradually grew worse, aud in !
few months the elbow and knee joint
= and both ankles became enornousl,
! enlarged. In March last the cheei
0 bones began to enlarge, and upon hi
v left side particularly, spreading bi
q face out of all resem blance to his for
S mer self. The pain in all his joint
Il became intense; fever, with its deteri
D Grating effects, was now added. and h
became rapidly reduced to the sem
o blance of a skeleton, while 'vitaiit
reached its lowest possible condition
/ and his sufferings were of such al III
O dascribable character that those VII
q most loved him sometimes thought
Il would be better if he was called away
n At this time physicians we'll known
a Pittsburg informed his parents that {,
), was in immediate danger OF total pa
. alysis, and directly afterwards The
:, announced to his sarrowiul mothe
i that they could give no hopes of recoN
- cry.
The young man finally commence
taking that wonderful medicine, Pl
RUNA. Almost at once the good etfac
. were perceptible. In two weeks qui
:, change for the better was perceptib
by all the friends Of the invalid.
:. six weeks almost all the enlargement
had been reduced completely, while
spirits ard strength the patient W
quite as well as he had ever been in il
n1 life.
vi "The mother of Willie Curtis
stating all these facts, said: 'Indee
[ cannot look upon the cure much le
" than as a miracle. DO not hesitate
sounding the praise of PERUNA, al
in recommending it to all my frieD,
20 My heart is very full of gratitude
" my boys recovery was really like I'll
of one snatclted from the Jaws Ofdeat
The pastor of tb* church where t
I'll young man attended Sabbath scli,
was visited, and he readily c0niirH.
ed the facts OF the deformsG bones, t
i'll emaciatsd condition from disease, Il
lu- OF the DOCTORS having given him /
ali The young man entered the lninis;e
lai house with the reporter, ami the pas
tes who had not seen him sine. bis rect
VII cry, was greatly surprised at his i
Ia proved condition. Said he, g if he Il
he not spoken, [ would not have kno,
'ty him"