The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-02

Of patient study and severe practice,
and notes taken by their use were only
inteliegible to the writer, and even he
could not decipher them after the
subject matter was forgotten.
StenOgraphy has passed away, and
PhonOgraghy is to-day almost univer-
sally employed for the purpose for
which it was invented and used-ver-
batim reporting. Indeed, so perfectly
adapted is it to this purpose, that the
best stenOgraphers of England and
America have long ago thrown aside
their arbitrary forms for the philOso-
phical sound-writing of which we
speak.
Photography is based on an alpha
bet of the simplest forms possible to
represent the elementary sounds of
the language. Beingso philosophical,
it is easy to learn; its principles can
be understood at one lesson, and an
hours daily practice for six months
will enable a good student to write
from 120 to 175 words per minute, and
additional practice will give the pow
er to write 2OO-the average rapidity
of speech is 120 words per minute.
It is not only to the reporter that
Photography is valuable, but to stu
dents, professional men, especially
clergymen, lawyers and authors, and
indeed TO almostevery one who writes
at all, it offers invaluable assistance.
The student at college cannot afford
TO dispense with its aid. Any medi-
cal student can testify to the unpur-
chasable value to be attached to such
"Text Book" The lawyer would
save himself years of drudgery by the
employment of Photography. Thos.
II. Benton, upon being presented
with a verbatim report of one of his
tpeeches, Photographed by little boy,
said, ''had Photography been invent
ed forty years ago, it would have saw
ed me twenty years of hard labor"
The minister's most arduous labor is
in the manual preparation of his ser
mons. Photography can be written
from four to eight times as rapidly as
long-hand. By the employment of
the corresponding style, equal to one
hundred words per minute, he would
relieve himself of more than three
foUrths of his labor, and, moreover,
improve his sermons; for how fire.
quently when one is writing do
thoughts come so rapidly that he can
not record them, and the beautiful
forms In which the first inspiration
presents them are lost forever, ere
the slowly moving pen comes to trace
them on the paper.
Photography would save the weary
author many hours of toll at his desk,
when the midnight oil wanes low in
his lamp, and thus give to him length
ened life and capacity for worthier la
bors.
To the man of business, whose cor
respondence infringes upon his valua-
ble time, Photography offers an easy
relief. He has only to spend an hour
in debating to his photographic clerk
the letters which it will take him six
hours to transcribe, and thus at once
free himself from the distastefuI labor,
and add five hours to his time each
day for other duties.
As profession, reporting is profit
able. A rapid writer can readily
make from 81, 900 to s, 900 per annum.
During the late war, large number
of Photographic reporters were en-
ployed upon Courts Martial, at SO |
per day. The time viii certainly
soon come when every County Court |
in the United States will have its reg (
ularly appointed reporter, which will 1
enable those thus employed to enjoy
the delights of home in connection
with their profession.
Tens Of thousands of citizens, who |
sit at their eOzy breakfast tables and |
read the Congressional news and |
speeches, or, being absent from the /
lecture or sermon Of the previous eve
ming, congratulate themselves upon
finding full report thereof spread be-
fore them, never give a thought to the
beautiful art by which this pleasure
is secured TOR them. Photography
may truly be called the diligent and
beautiful handmade of universal edu-
cation, for the press is one of the great
agents thereto, and its efficiency very
largely depends upon this art.
The great beauty ard value of Pho
biography consists in its order and
simplicity-in the arrangement Of its
various orders, groups and classes of
forms, cOntractions and monographs.
The laws of analogy and consistency
are kept constantly in view, which
renders it a delightful aud fascinating
study, and gives to the person who
masters its principles and enviable
accomplishment, an unfailing source
of amusement and Intellectual profit,
and valuable profession.
In calling the attention of the mass
es to this beautiful and useful art, the
writer, having practieed photography
for fifteen years, is glad of this oppor-
tunity to publicly acknowledge his
Indebtedness to it for a great share of
his enjoyment, intellectual improve.
ment, and, when used for that pur-
pose, pecuniary profit. Y. 1,