Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-17

( = q Nh = ~ EN IN w HItts NkM>EAFEES
! uhrAiN THEIR MOST INTERESTING
REApiNG AN EXCELLENT TLLts-
RATION OFT.
| Few positions In journalism are so
mporiant 70 good pcNspaper, End
yet 50 easily titled ns that az the tex
change editor" ~ those that are un-
Sophisticated into the woikings Il a.
large newspaIer. itnas ba stated hat
the ''exehange' eassor il i man who
uses the scissors and paete-pet. All
newspapers of metropolitan preten-.
tions have exchange lists OF hanareas
Of papers, They send their paper To lil
the leading journals In the country, he
sides to d number of country rane:s I'M
the immediate vicinity. Everyone Of
these papers are read bt the exchange
editor, and il he finds something novel
and interesting, he cuts il aud credits
10 the parer from which it Il taken.
When he gets a number az these clip
pings, he hands them 20 the managing
editor 70 make a selection from. The
latter chooses the most interesting of
them, and those are published in the
paper ulon the following day.
Some newspapers use more clippings
than others. Ina large city, like New
York, whore interestlng news Is plenty.
few are needed, as the columns are
well crowded without them. In Cin-
cinnati, st. Louis and cities further
west, the papers Viii be found well I'LL
ed with hem, and there is 40 mistake
but that they make mighty good read
| ing.
For instance, the following entertain
| ing story. which Is from the Pit sburg
Dispatch, a journal which is extensive
" copied, has been going the rounds Of
the newspapers:
VERY seldom do we read OF an act.
uai case Of recovery, where hope had
altogether been lost. to parallel that
which was Monday Investigated BY
Dispatch reporter who had heard In
various quarters persons talking to
their friends of cure, seemingly little
short OF marvellous, that had been per-
formed. 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 persons we'll known In the
community:
civilian Lincoln Curtis is the name
of the young man in question. He IL
now employed at II. X. Porter x Co.'S
| locomotive works in Piitshurg, PA. A
year ago he resided with his mother, on
Grant street. About that time he went
to bed one evening with u violent pain
in his shoulder, the result, he thought
OF a cold. The next morning the shoul-
der WAS greatly swollen, the pain was
intense, and aches We're felt all
through hts system. His case was
speedily developed into a violent form
OF chronic rheumatism among the first
notable features Of which was the par
alysis of his left arm.
lie gradually grew worse, and IN a
few months the elbow and knee joints,
and both ankles became enormously en-
larged. In March last the cheek bones
began to enlarge, and upon his left side
particularly, spreading his face out Of
all resemblance to his former self.
| The pain in all his joints became In
l tense; fever, with its dcferiorating ef-
| fects, was now added, and he became
| rapidly reduced to the semblance Of n
skeleton, while vitality reached Its
| lowest possible condition, and his suf-
| ferings were II such nm indescribable
character that those who most loved
him sometimes thought IL would be bet
ter ifhe was called away. At this time
physicians well known in Pittsburgin-
formed his parents that he was In Inn
ninent danger OF total paralysis, and
d .rectly aftefwaid they announced to
his sorrowful mother that they could
give no hopes .frccoyery.
The young man finally commenced
taking that wonderful medicine, PERU
MA. Almost at 1nce the good effects
were pegcertiblc. In two weeks quite
a change, for the better, WAS peicept
biz. by all the friends OF the invalid. Ia
six weeks almost all the enlargement
had been reduced completely, while in
spirits and strength the patient was
quite as well as he had ever been In bis
life. Nearly three weeks ago he re-
sumed work as machinist ut his ola
place, able to pcr.ormas much labora
ever in his lie.
'srhe mother # Willie Curtis IN sta
t.ng all those facts, said: Indeed I
cannot look upon the cure much less
Than "a "a miracle. do not hesitate in
sound NJ the praise Of YTRUEA. and in
recommending il to all my friendf.
My heart Is very full of gratitude for
my Ioy's recovery WAS really like that
or on sna'cbed from the laws ofdeath.v
The past) ~ # the church where the
y3ung man attended sabbath school
was visited. and he readily confirmed
the facts az the deforn ell bones, The
emaciafe1 condition fsoin disease, and
Of the doctors having gwen him up.
The young man entered the minister's
house with the reporter, and the pas
tor, who had not s. zen him snce his re-
cOyery. was greatly surprised at his inn
proved condition. SAID he. iii he had
not spoken, ! would not have known
hin,