Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-10-10
HOW THEY DO IT.
The Manner in Which NeWspa-
pers Obtain their Most IN
teresting Reading-An
Excellent IlluStra-
ton OF it.

Few positions in journalism are 50 important
to good newspaper, and yet SO easily filled as
that Of the Exchange edtor.P To those that
are unsopisticated into the work ngs Of a large
newspaper, it may be stated that the "ex-
change" editor is man who uses the scissor
and paste-p0t. All newspapers Of metropolitan
prctentions have exchange lists of hundreds OF
papers. They send their paper TO all the lead
ing journals in the county, besides TO a numb
of country papers in the immediate vicinity.
Every one ofthese papers are read by the ex:
change 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
q number Of these clippings, he hands them to
the managing editor to make a selection from.
The latter choose the most interesting of them,
aud those are published in the paper upon
the following Gay.
Some Newspapers use. more clippings than
others In large city, like New York, where
interestingsnews is plenty few are needed, as
the columns are well crowded without them.
In Cincinnati St. Louis and cities farther
west, the papers will be found well filled with
them, and there is mo mistake but that they
make mighty good reading.
For instance, the following entertaining
story, which is from the Pittsburgh Dian".~h
a journal which is extensively copied, has been
going the rounds Of the newspapers:
Very seldom do we read of an actual case of
recovery, where hope had altogether been lost,
TO parallel 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
bad becn performed. The plain facts IN the
case referred to, without exageration, are thtse
az 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. lie is now employed
at II X Porter & Co.'S locomotive works in
Pittsburgh, Pa "A year ago he resided with
his mother, oil Grant street. About that time
he went 10 bed cne. evening with n VIOLENT
pain in his shoulder, the result he thought of
"A Id. Tht. next morning the shoulder was
greatly Swl en-, the pain wGg intense, and
aeha4 were fylt all through his system. Ilis
case was specify developed into a violent form
or chrOac rhehmatism, among the first nota-
bic features Of which was the paralysis Of his
left arEi.
L He & ..duAlly grew worse, and In few
mon ha ti.d chow and knee joints and both
ankles baaaghe. enormously enlarged. In
March last tho cheek bones began to enlarge,
and up "A lis left side particularly, spreading
his face gu. of all resemblance to his former
self. The pain in all his joints became in
tense fcyer, With its deteriorating effects, was
now ad led and he became rapidly reduced to
the semblaace Of q skeleton, while vitality
reached its lowest possible condition, and his
suffering Wcte Of such an indiscribabie charac-
ter that those who most loved him sometimea
thought ~ ,,oald be better IL he was called
away At ;his time physioi we'll known in
Pittsbu III informed his parents that he was
in immilert danger OF total paralysis, and di-
rectly aiterWard they announced to his sor-
rowful mother that they could give no hopes
of recovery
The yoang man finally commenced taking
that wonderful medicine, PEEUNA, Almost
at once the good effects were perccptiblc. In
two we h. quite change. for the better, was
percept bic by all the friends of the invalid
In six we.ks almost all the enlargement. had
been red iced completely, while ia spirlt5 aud
strength thc patient was quite rs well as he
had even been in his life. Nearly three weeks
ago he re~rBed work rs a machinisi at his old
place, able to perform as much labor as ever III
his life
"The mother Of Willie Curtis in stating II
these facts. said; Indeed, connot look upon
the cure much less than as a miracle. Dc
not hesitate in sounding the praise Of PEEuNA
and in recommending it to all my friends
Ny heart is full Of gratitude for my boys re
covery was really like that Of one snatchcd
from the jaws of DEATH ,"
The pastor Of the church where the young
man attended Sabbath school Yas visited, AIN 4
he really confirmed the facts Of the defomIed
bones the emaciatcd condition from disease,
and Of the doctors having given him up. The
yonug man entered the minister's house with
the reporter, and the pastor, who had not seen
him since his recovery, was greatly surprised
at his improved condition. Said he, 'ilhc hat
not spoken ! would not have known him"
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