Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-11-19
SHORT HAND.

, any and every thing "short." Shol
hand,s short speeches, short sermons
short songs, and short sequels tu sen
Itimental stories. Short prayers, an'
short pie-erusts-short actions for dam
: ages, short accounts. We love. shor
foes and short friends; that each ma.
4 do the damage that they can, ant
quit us. There is. such a passion will
us, for shortness. that, after all, w
think a short life is preferable to
long one, since we live only to grow
gray in sin, and sightless in iniquity
Short life. like short pleasure, Is
bright and colored with rainbow hues;
lin short life we live not long enough
4 to discover that the brilliant ''bow
cloud" in heaven, is nothing but light
-''immaterial light reflected; the
very shadow of nothing. In short
life, We live not long enough tc see
the apple of our eye the doll-baby
of OUT hopes and affections, the main
object of our existence, melt away
into SIN dust before our eyes. We
love sun-shiney days, that We may
mot get sat;a5aa with the flowers on
earsh's green carpet, whilst they are
dressed in their holiday apparel
Give us a short spring time. and a
fleeting winter, that our affections for
earth be not frosted. "Short hand ,
has special claim uron US --for'life
is brief dream, too short to learn
anything longiy drawn out. Tele-
graphing brevity has a strong claim
upon us. A friendly epistle should
never consist of more than ''All's
wellr or sAll's dead" Phonograpby
the science of .short hand" has
strong claim on our sympathles, and
we have friend untiring in his per-
severance to convince the W rid that
short hand is to be the ultimatum Of
mans felicity. We think with him.
We hope to see the day come, when
all conversation will be carried on in
dumb show, without the use OF mean
ingless words Thus, when friend
meets friend, instead of going through
the senseless colloquy of when did
you come down? how long are you
going to stay? when do you go back?
and what do you think of the wealth
,er? will all be dispensed with, and
in their stead few mods of the
head, and several complaisant smiles,
will serve the full purpose of friend
ly greeting. In the statutes Of law,
how eminentIy serviceable will short
hand signs become? Instead Of two
millions and half Of stupid books, the
names of which a natural life time is
not sufficient to call over, we will have
but one volume. in which will be writ
ten in signs that all may read the
whole law and the gospel, DO On.
to others as you would like to %
be done unto;' and if you don t
YOU shall be damned summarlly
and without benefit Of 'appraise-
ment. Think of this. Then, JUS
tice will be dealt out brief without
reference to old foreign cases In the
rubbish of the law library-then we
shall have no long-wlnded speeches
lin trials, to mystify the simple naked
truth. We shall have the dead man
brought. before the Judge to con-
4 front the crimipal--the knife with
which day light was admitted; and
the witnesses may be sworn without
the test Of the .svoir dire This
! will be. when shorthand prevails as
a system; then, instead of.velumes
Of mere language and rhetoric, we
shall have laws, simple in their ma
ture and easily understood.