Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1883-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
How They Do 1t.
The Manner an W1ich Newspapers
Obtain their Ifost Interesting Read
ing-An excellent Illustration Of it.

O0tU1N their IlEOSt Interesting lead
ing-A1l excellent Illustration Of it.
Few positions in journalism arc so
important to good newspaper, and
yet so easily filled as that OF the eek
change editor" To those that are
unsophisticatcd into the workings of
a large newspaper, il may be stated
that the exchange editor is man
who uses the scissors and the paste
pot. All newspapers of metropolitan
prctcntions have exchange lists of
hundreds ofpapcrs. They send their
paper to all the leading journals in
the country, besides to a number of
country in the immediate vicinity.
Every one of these papers are read
by the exchange editor, and if he finds
something novel and interesting, lie
cuts it and credits to the paper from
which it is taken. When he gets q
number OF these clippings, 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 more clip
pings than others. Ina large city, like
New York, where interesting news is
plenty, few are needed, ,as the columns
arc well crowded without thcm.-
In Cincinnati, st. Louis and cities
further west, the papers Will be found
well filed with them, and there is no
mistake but that thcv make MIGHTY
GOOD reading.
For instance, the following enter
tanning story. which is from the Pitts
Djspatch, a journal which is extensive
iv copicd. has been noinn the rounds
of the newspapers;
every seldom do VIC read of an
actual case Of recovery, where hone
had aItoopthor boon lost +o noroIIeI
thot wbiGh wes Monday investigated
by Dispatch reporter whohad heard
in various quarters persons talking tc
their friends of cure, seemingly
little short tofmarvclous. that had been
performed. The plain facts in the
case referred to, without exaggcra-
ton, are these, as they were learned
from the mother Of the Young man,
his pastor and other persons well
known in the community:
''William Lincoln Curtis is The
name of the Young man in question.
He is now employed at II. K. Porter
& Co.'S locomotive works in Pitts.
burgh. Pa. a wear ago he resided
with his mother, on Giant street
About that time he went to bed
one evening with 8 violent pain in
his shoulder, the result, he thought
of a cold The next morning the
shoulder was greatly swollen, the pain
was intense, and aches were felt ali
through his system. His. case was
speedily developed into violent form
Of chronic rheumatism, among the
first notable features of which was the
paralysis of his left arm.
He gradually GREW worse and in 3
few months the elbow and knee Joints.
and both ankles became cnormouslv
ENLARGED. In March last tho chpei;
homes BEGAN In onIoroc and unon his
left side narticuIorly snrooding Lis
face out of ali resemblance to his
former self. The pain in all his Joints
became intense; fever. with it's dctc-
riorating effects was now added. and
he became rapidly reduced to the sem.
blance of skeleton, while vitality
reached its lowest possible condition.
and his sufferings were of such an
indescribablc character that those whc
most loved him sometimes thought i:
would be better if he was called away
At this time physician well known
in Pittsburgh informed his parent;
that he was in imminent danger of tota
paralysis, and directly afterward they
announced to his sorrowfui mothe
that they could give no hopes o
recovery SII,
Inc: Inc young man nhaliy commence
p,ng faMtng 'lhI 10 %4noerlui meo'clne 4,so e,n5
nffoctS rl''V9s ,.co,,4;hIo a. III 'I go ~,
v'aoI.s ~ ori+o - olonro rop+im.1 For Tho - hotto,
vas 1 noIcc'tiLTo cot h[t III M t6o ' fricnds ~