The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-08-11

The Manner I'm Which News
papers Oktmin their Most In.
-serest1ng ReadfnS..Am Excel.
lent illustration of IL.
Few positions in journalism are SO
important to good newspaper, and
yet so easily filed as that of the tex
change editor" 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 hun
dreds Of papers. They send their
paper to all the leading journals in
the country, besides TO number Of
country papers in the immediate vi
entity. Every one of these papers are
read by the exchange editor, and if
he finds something novel and inter-
esting, 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 a 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. In large city,
like New York, where interesting
news is plenty, few ale needed, as the
columns are we'll 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 enter
tanning story, which is from the Pitts
burgh Dispatch, journal which is
extensively copied, has been going the
rounds Of the newspapers:
"Very seldom do e'read Of an ac-
tual case of recovery, where hope had
altogether been lost, to parallel that
which was Monday investigated by a
Dispatch reporter who had heard in
various quarters persons talking to
their friends Of cure, see mingly lit
tie short Of marvellous, that had been
performed. The plain facts in the
case referred to, without exaggera-
ton, are these, as they were learned
from the mother of the young man,
his pastor and other persons we'll
known in the community:
"William Lincoln Curtis is the
name of the young man in question.
He is now employed at II. X. Porter
q Cos locomotive works in Pitts
burgh, Pa. A year ago he resided
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
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
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
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, and
he became rapidly reduced to the
semblance of a skeleton, while vitali-
ty reached its lowest possible condi-
ton, 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 Pittsburgh informed
his parents that he was In imminent
danger Of total paralysis, and direct
ly afterward they announced to his
sorrowful mother that they could give
no hopes of recovery. The mother of
the boy believed, from his excessive
debilitation and all the signs of de-
cline, that he was going into consump-
ton, and, although scarcely hoping to
give him even temporary relief, deter
mined to use all the means, poor as
was her condition.
The young man finally commenced
taking that wonderful medicine, Pc
RUNA. Almost at once the good effects
were perceptible. In two weeks quite
change, for the better, was percepti-
BILE by all the friends of the invalid.
In six weeks almost all the enlarge
ment had been reduced completely,
while in spirits and strength the pa
tient was quite as well as he had ever
been in his life. Nearly three weeks
ago he resumed work as a machinist
at his old place, able to perform as