Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-12-04
HOW THEY DO IT.

THE MANNER IN WHICH NEWSPAPERS OBJ
TAIN THEIR MOST INTERESTING READING
AN EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATION OF IT.
Few positions in journalism are so i'm
portant to good newspaper, and yet so
easily filed as that of the Exchange edi-
tor" To those that are unsophisticated
into the workings of large newspaper, it
may be stated that the exchange" editor
is a man who uses the scissors and paste
pot. All newspapers of metropolitan pre-
tensions have exchange lists of hundreds of
papers. They send their paper to all the
leading journals in the country, besides to a
number of country papers in the immediate
vicinity. Every one of these papers is
read by the exchange editor, and if he finds
something novel and interesting, he cuts it
and credits to the paper from which it is
taken. When he gets number of these
clippings, he hands them to the managing
editor to make selection from. The latter
chooses the most interesting of them, and
these are published in the paper upon the
following day.
Some newspapers use more clippings than
others. In large city, like New York,
where interesting news is plenty, few are
needed, as the columns are well crowded
without them. In Cincinnati, st. Louis,
and cities further west, the papers will be
found well filed with them, and there is no
mistake but that they make mighty good
reading.
For instance the following entertaining
story, which is from the Pittsburgh Dis
patch, a journal which is extensively
copied, has been going the rounds of the
newspapers
''Very seldom do we read of an ANNUAL
case of recovery, where hope had altogether
been lost, to parallel that which was Mon
day investigated by a Dispatch reporter
who had heard in various quarters persons
talking to their friends of a cure, seeming
ly little short of marvellous, that had been
performed. The plain facts in the case re-
ferred to, without exaggeration. are these,
as they were learned from the mother of
the young man, his pastor, and other per-
sons well known in the community
civilian Lincoln Curtis is the name of
the young man in question. He is now en-
ployed at H. K. Porter & Co.'s locomotive
works III Pittsburgh, Pa. A year ago he
resided with his mother, Oh Grant street.
About that time he went to bed one even
ing with violent pain in his shoulder, the
result, he thought, Of cold. The next
morning the shoulder was greatly swollen,
the pain was intense, and aches were felt
all through his system. His case was
speedily developed into a violent of chronic
rheumatism, among the first notable fea-
lures of which was the paralysis Of his left
arm.
He gradually grew worse, and in a few
months the elbow and knee joints. and both
ankles became enormously enlarged. In
March last the cheek bones began to en-
large, and upon his left side particularly,
spreading his face out of all resemblance to
his former self. The pain in all his joints
became intense; fever, with its deteriora-
ting effects, was now added, and he became
rapidly reduced to the semblance of a skele-
ton, while vitality reached its lowest posi-
BILE condition, and his sufferings were of
such an indescribable character that those
who most loved him sometimes thought it
would be better if he was called away At
this time physicians well known in Pitts
burgh informed his parents that he was in
imminent danger of total paralysis, and di-
rectly afterward they announced to his sor-
rowful mother that they could give no hopes
Of recovery.
The young man finally commenced taking
that wonderful medicine, PERUNA. Almost
at once the good effects were perceptible.-
In two weeks quite change, for the better,
was perceptible by all the friends of the in
Will. LII Ola W0GhS dlLllOsb dill UuO 6IlldTR0-
ment had been reduced completely, while in
spirits and strength the patient was quite
as well as he had ever been in his life
Nearly three weeks ago he resumed work
as machinist at his old place, able to FER
form as much labor as ever in his life.
''The mother of Willie Curtis in stating
all these facts, said: Indeed, cannot look
upon the cure much less than as a miracle.
do not hesitate in sounding the praise of
PERUNA, and in recommending it to all my
friends. My heart is very full of gratitude
for my boys recovery was really like that
of one snatched from the jaws of death. ="
The pastor of the church where the young
man attended Sabbath school was visited,
and he readily confirmed the facts of the
deformed bones, the emaciated condition
from disease, and of the 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 re-
eovery, was greatly surprised at his i'm
proved condition. Said he, eff he had not
spoken, would not have known him.