The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1883-11-14
HOW THEY DO IT.
The Manner in which Newspapers Oh.
tain their Most Interesting Reading
AN Excellent Illustration of it.


tain their Most Interesting Reading
AN Excellent Illustration of it.
Few positions in journalism are so
important to a good newspaper, and
yet so easily filled as that of the "ex.
chage editor" To those that are un.
sophisticated into the workings of a
large newspaper, it may be stated that
the Exchange" editor is a 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 to
all the leading journals in the country,
besides to a number of county papers
in the immediate vicinity. Every
one of these papers are read by the ex-
change editor, and if he finds some.
thing novel and interesting, he cuts it
and credits to the paper from which it
is taken. When he gets a number Of
these clippings, he hands them to the
managing editor to make a selection
from. The latter chooses the most
interesting of them, and those are
published in the paper upon the fol
lowing day.
Some newspapers use more clip.
pings than others. In large city,
like New York, where interesting news
is plenty, few are needed, as the col.
umns are we'll crowded without them.
In Cincinnati, St. Louis and cities
further west, the papers will be found
we'll filled with them. and there is no
mistake but that they make mighty
good reading.
For instance, the following enter.
tanning story, which is from the Pitts.
burgh Dispatch, journal which is
extensively copied, has been going
the rounds Of the newspaper:
Every seldom do we read of an &C.
tual 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 ofa cure, seemingly little
short of marvellous, that had been
performed. The plain facts in the
case referred to, without exaggeration
are these, as they were learned from
the mother of the young man, his pas
tor and other persons well known in
the community: William Lincoln
Curtiss is the name of the young man
in question. He is now employed at
H. K. Porter q Co.'S locomotive works
in Pittsburgh, Pa. A year ago he re-
sided with his mother on Grant street,
About that time he went to bed one
evening with violent pain in his
shoulder, the result he thought of a
cold. The next morning the shoulder
was greatly swollen, the pain was in
tense, and aches were felt all through
his system. His case was speedily de-
veloped into a violent form of chIonic
rheumatism, among the first notable
features 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 enlarge, and upon his
left side particularly, spreading his
face out of all resemblance to his for
mer self The pain in all his joints
became intense: fever, with its deteri-
Grating effects, was now added, aud he
became rapidly reduced to the SEM
blanoe of a skeleton, while vitality
reached its lowest possible condition,
and his sutferings were of such an in.
describable character that who most
loved him sametlmes thought it would
be better if be was called away. At
this time physicipns we'll known in
Pittsburgh informed his parents that
he was in immediate danger of total
paralysis, and directly afterward they
announced to his sorrowful mother
that they could give no hopes of re.
covery.
The young mau finally commenced
taking that wonderful medicine Peru.
ma. Almost at once the good objects
were perceptable. In two weeks quite
a change, for the better, was noticed
by all the friends of the invalid. In
six weeks almost all the enlargement
had been reduced completely, while in
spirits and strength the patient was
quite as well as he ever had been in
his life. Nearly three weeks ago be
: resumed work as a machinist at his old
Place, able to perform as much labor