THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES -.--, ' - L # B. ........I.................... ....... ..... ^A* sf*' * DALLAS, TEXAS " PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER, TO VERBATIM REPORTING. COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY H. M. PERNIN. DETROIT, MICH.: O. S. GULLEY PRINTING HOUSE, 1-.'. 14 AND 16 LARNED STREET EAST. 1882. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, MAY, 1882, BY H. M. PERNIN, IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C. PREFACE. On commencing the study of the Reporting Style contained in the present volume, the short-hand student must necessarily be familiar with the principles of the I Corresponding Course, which precedes this, and also be I j able to write correctly with it. After correctness is : * I I attained, it is not essential that the student should linger [ upon it, although the greater ease with which he can c/ j ] ! write in it will assist him much in using the contracted ** I >. [ style .with rapidity. The modes of contraction presented in the present 29 j I volume are formed, for the most part, from the actual j experience of the author, both as reporter and teacher t*> * !*" i ^ : of the art. In this, as well as in the preceding course, 5 j the exercises are graded. A small portion only of the I 1 I contractions are given in each lesson, so that even the j !j | youngest learner will not become puzzled or dis- { t I 3 P I couraged by attempting to memorize too many rules or { | illustrations, before putting each rule or illustration I j : : into practical use. In this method the Reading Exer- I | . | | cises are placed immediately after the illustrations, so I 4 " * '"""" .......................... ................. .................... .............. ............. ..... 'yf.yf. 448576 f PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. I that the application may be seen at once in them, and I transferred to actual practice in the Writing Exercises which follow. The present mode of contraction is not based, as in other methods, upon arbitrary word signs, but upon the application of eight simple rules depending upon the proximity or distance from it of the word following the contracted one. But for very small and frequently recurring words, many of which are found in nearly every article that is written, the eye becomes so accustomed to the form that they may be written in the same manner as if they were contracted by rule, and yet be readily recognized with- out the next word being placed in position. The alpha- betic and miniature word-signs, found in the annexed table, are adopted into the Reading Exercises from the beginning, and the learner should practice writing the table a number of times, until he is perfectly familiar with its contents, and can write them readily and recognize them at a glance in the Reading Exercises. Later on, a more extended list is given, but as the entire number is not more than a couple of hundred, the mind will not be greatly taxed in remembering them. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 5 * I . On the pages opposite the Beading Exercises will be ! found the same matter in print in the Writing Exer- } cises. but the student should not refer to them except I in cases where it is absolutely necessary. Before j ! writing he should peruse the Beading Exercise, care- j j fully, a number of times until he becomes familiar with [ it, and lie will then be able to translate the opposite j page of print very readily into short-hand again. By j taking up the forms of contraction a little at a time, j the learner will have no difficulty in readily applying | them: and when the last chapter has been reached he ! j will find that he has the contractions fully at his com- ; I mand without any effort at memorizing, and can apply } them without hesitation. A large number of Beading I and Writing Exercises is given for the purpose of I making the short-hand student thoroughly familiar I with his work by the time he has gone through the j pages of the present volume. j 6 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. T ADVICE TO STUDENTS ON TAKING UP THE j KEPORT1NG STYLE. In the first place, write over the contents of the j table of alphabetic word-signs a number of times, until I j perfectly familiar with their forms, and then apply j them in all the following writing exercises. j Study each of the illustrations so thoroughly that it I will not be necessary to refer to them on subsequent j occasions. When they are fully impressed upon the j I mind, go over the Reading -Exercise that follows, and [ carefully note their application, meantime covering the j j j Writing Exercise so that the eye will not rest upon it ; j I only referring to it in difficult cases. When this has 1 : J | been done, translate the Reading Exercise into long- j hand, and then compare your manuscript with the I Writing Exercise in book, with which it should agree, j I I ! If correct, close the book, and translate your long-hand I I matter into short-hand. This done, again refer to the j j book, and see if it agrees with the short-hand matter in j ; Reading Exercise. In class, the students may exchange \ PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 7 * j j j and read each other's manuscript, and the teacher may j then compare them with original in book. Do not be confined to the exercises given in the "' Reporter," but write articles from newspapers, maga- zines, etc. Read everything that you write. This is of essential importance. It is worse than useless to spend your time in learning to write short-hand unless you are able to read it readily. If possible, engage some one to read aloud to you while practicing. This plan will save much time, and is much more satisfactory than being obliged to con- tinually refer to the article beiug copied. It will also nccustom one to dictation, and does away with that I I feeling of nervousness natural to those beginning prac- j tical work without having this advantage. Practice regularly, two hours per day if possible; much more is accomplished in two months with even j half that amount of practice than in six months of spasmodic exertions. Theory will never make a re- porter; the hand, as well as the head, has its own share of work to perform, and in order to be a successful short-hand writer, both must work together. Every possible opportunity should be embraced for * 8 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. [ putting your knowledge of the art into practical use. | Always carry a small note-book and pencil, and on I every occasion that presents itself, jot down conversa- j j tions, sermons, lectures and so on, or as much of them : as you can. Do not be discouraged if the speaker gets | ahead of you. AY hen you b?gin a sentence, always I I complete it. You are yet only a student, not an expert, j and cannot expect to take the whole discourse verbatim. It will be much more satisfactory when you come to I ! translate your notes, to find that you have taken a few | complete sentences, than pages of matter that you can j I make no sense of. I Little by little the required speed will come. Never I j allow yourselves to be discouraged. You can surely j accomplish what so many have accomplished before I j you, and the feat is not so very difficult. What other 1 branch of learning could you acquire in the few I months' time that this demands? There is no royal I road to learning of any kind, and short-hand is no I exception. " Practice " must be the motto of him | who desires to become a reporter. Do not let this j practice cease when your writing is rapid enough for I I office work. Fit yourself for any department of the I 4 _ #& PERNIN'S PRACTICAL, REPORTER. 9 : Avork. By this method there is no more study required ! for one branch than another, but the student must I j keep up his practice until he acquires rapidity enough I for neAvspaper, court reporting, etc. Then, if an I opening occurs, he will be competent to fill it, provided [ his general education is what the position demands, j The student as he advances may contract his writing j by rule still shorter than that contained in the Reading I Exercises in the book, as these exercises are only in- tended for the learner, and not for the expert. ** i 10 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. | PHONOGRAPHIC ALPHABET. i CONSONANTS. ; \ 1 ' P pr&v : \ f /at vv_y s, z. see, zee. 1 b bray \ v rat /^~\ sh, zh, sAe, ajure. j / k key / 1 Zaw ^rs je, ch, jaw, cAaw. / & 9 / r raw ") m, 7tte, - t to h Ae } n, wo. d do th the j ng, si/i^. i NASAL VOWELS. COMBINATIONS. ah at au all V_ xih wp ^ a "to -> an pan. ^~ en, in, pen. i <-- OW OZfl 1 , J . ,- on, un, upon. Go old o , I bet.bit (Before p and i, am, C oo hook. em, im, om, urn, take the same form respectively as the above.) ample, empire humble I i *........~ ............. V ^ ^ J . PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 11 LESSON I. ALPHABETIC WORD-SIGNS- SIGNS FOE FAMILIAE WOED8- o- ah, at. k before. awe, all. \. after. our, out. V^ afterwards. -0 how. v/ from. o oh, owe, owing. 6 most. ( who. 3 never. v of. \ ever. ~ aye. \ every. s_ he. I above. c you. we. C perhaps, almost. / I. a number. -> an. ^ what. ( one. ^ that. . ^ when. _ to the I 1 put. but. J I behind, beyond. / could, quite. \r upon. / good, go. 6> without. the, (to, when joined to next word), and, (do, when joined to next word), for. I also, about, whom. \ very. ( woman. / less. | because. X railway, sign of repetition. ^ whoever. <^ sp, such. ^ whatever. ^_^ should, sure, judge, church, just. \ whenever, forever. C more, much. Z together. 3 no, not. _ thou. knowing, known now. * 12 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING- AND WRITING- EXERCISE I. 1 No man can safely speak but he who loves silence. 3 f J 2 Of all the sisters of Love, the most charming is Pity. V o - 3 No one is placed on earth to do nothing. 4 Everyone must rind out for himself the key to the riddle of life. 5 People seldom improve when they have no other i, ^n yx - A ) v*/ model but themselves to copy after. G Make up your minds to do a thing and you will do it. f 1 " ^ > ^ ^ 7 The sun set behind us, but before us was the sea. 8 Be sure you are right then go ahead. [ ^ - / A_ -^ / * " 9 Before all and above all, to thine own self be true. ^ o - ( ', >' > ^ / -/ 10 "Whatever you do, do it well," is a very good motto. 11 It is much more easy to preach than to practice. -A-' - f ' t %. ...............I.........!..... ...... .....mr........!....... ....!.. .11. ..I. ....1. 1.1...... ..I V' J PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 13 ' 12 How much of each of our lives is lost beyond recall! t 13 You all did love him once, not without cause. What t O - /\ C ' '_, ) cause withholds you now to mourn for him ? 14 Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. \ ) c/ _A^ ^ G, \ \ c/ C ^ _A^ 15 Look at those to whom you speak; never at those of -7 whom you speak. / o ^> 7" 1(5 Yesterday is as to-morrow in the forever. ^^~' ^ ^ -frP "- \ T 17 Leisure is too beautiful a garment for every-day wear. 18 The good judge was kind and just to all offenders. 19 This poor woman is the one of whom I spoke to you. v^ ^ { -^ - <- ^ .( ; ^, -. 20 We will go there together, before the flowers have faded. * C / -S -}' , k - ^^ ^ V^- 21 What mere could anyone have done upon that occasion ? 6 ( / *" \ , V ^> 2^ { 22 It is now quite dark at five o'clock in the afternoon. *w a / 23 Waste neither time nor money, but make the best 6- >' -c ? c , \ f - L- use of both. 14 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. SUPPRESSION OF WORDS. In reporting a lecture, or writing from dictation, such words as a, an, tlie, and, of, at, to, upon, by, from, and others of a similar nature, may be frequently omitted when the sense of the sentence will oblige them to be restored. The reporter must, however, rely on his own judgment as to the extent these omis- sions may be carried. Where his work is of such a particular nature that the substitution of a for the might give a different meaning to the text, it would be safer in such cases to write every { word, but a little license in this respect may be sometimes taken with advantage. JOINING OF WORDS. The words to, do and so may be joined to the words that follow them by dropping the i sign, which cannot always be readily combined in a word, and adding the - to the following word, thus: to-see,-^_^ to-say-^_^ to-g<> d or still shorter, by using the word sign / for go / To-do-so may be written " < ^' ; to-do-him^, ; so-far " . This principle of joining simple words together may be employed wherever it does not interfere with clearness in reading the combinations. Parts of the verb may be nearly always joined; thus: to-be \ ' ; to-have-besn ] ; couLd-have-been V ^i . ; and when the subject is a pronoun, it may also be added, as: it-inay-be ~r he-could V ; yoit-iritt */ ire-were / I y . On, in and of may also be joined to the words follow- ing, as on-the *- , in>-the *- , in-which ^ , on-their ^ \ of-them ^ of-it <-^. . PEPXIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 15 * BEADING EXERCISE H. -^S *- r O -> c > V*, />. . . o^ In cases where a question is asked, and a negative reply given embodying the words of the question, the negative may be indicated by the n sign ) followed by the sign of repetition; thus You tcitt remember the time? No, you witt not remember it, for you irere too young may be written A" >. W \ -U fc ^ ' / - by so much as a questioning thought. I say, if you-have found I ^ C ^ /-^^^ ^_ >. /v_?, \ / your place no matter where or what it-is you are a happy man. 3 C/ / / <* - / . -t ^ I give you joy of your good fortune : for if you-do-the work of / ^ * nr ^ v. that place well, and draw from it all that it can-give you of mer- -o l^ ^"j __ ^ S/^o-o ^7 ^ ^ <- riment, and discipline, and development, y&u-are or you-will "-v~ ) - __ ~~^i 7 ^ become a man filled up, made after God's pattern, the noblest ] . ( v-^), . v product of the world a self-made man. REVIEW OP LESSON SECOND. How may a repeated word or phrase be indicated f When the repeti- tion is in the negative, bow is it indicated ? How are the Punctuation Marks represented in short-hand ? How are proper names indicated f When should they be abbreviated and when not ? *# ' * PEKNLN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 19 LESSON III. OMISSION OF CONSONANTS. The learner may have observed that, in common pronuncia- tion, certain consonants are heard very indistinctly, and as there is no difficulty in understanding the speaker under such circum- stances, so, by dropping these indistinct consonant sounds in short-hand, something will be gained in rapid execution, and the writing will still remain sufficiently legible. In ordinary conver- sation, of has the sound of uh; thus: A lump of coal. Here and in similar instances of sounds like uh. and the sign of uh, as given in the table of alphabetic word-signs, may be substituted for it, either where it stands alone in a sentence or where it is used in a combination. This sound, which is also the short sound of u, may be used for long u in cases where the latter does not unite readily with the sign following it; or the sign may be omitted and a dot placed immediately under the place it would occupy if written ; thus: beauty \* pure \ This is according to a rule given further on in the book, but may be adopted with advantage here. T may be omitted after k, as: facts T u " " " n, as: constantly T " " " " t, as: mvst T " " " " p, as: abrupt I> " " " " n, as: kindly D " " " before m, as: admirer D " " " " c and/, as: advite R " " " oh, as: charge R " " " " m and , as: former "/and v, as: therefore N " " " " gh, gth, as: change K " " " , as: success Where t and rl follow each other in the same word, the first of the two signs may be omitted; as: Spendthrift < *\sfl~* When a word follows another whose initial sign is similar to the final sign of the preceding one, or when one of the signs is t and the other d the final sign may be dropped, and the two words joined, as: A sUk cloak <_>/ short time - great deal /^ ^ ** 20 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING- EXERCISE IV. ON THE OMISSION OF CONSONANTS. 3. c- 9. n. WRITING EXERCISE V. Carrier, furrier, barrier, parallel, warrior, superior, inferior, courier, career, lily, filial, causes, misses, opposes, discusses, amazes, scissors, Cesar, teases, possesses, resists, sizes, losses, endorses, ceded, elected, mated, abated, deeded, faded, jaded, goaded, coated, braided, impeded, exceeded, kneaded, pleaded, meted, lighted, guided, benighted, righted, knighted, delighted, beaded, plated, laded, completed, babble, probable, people, pep- : P 61 ". goggle, cackle, bibber, bible. PEUNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 23 ABBREVIATIONS IN FINAL rl and Ir. The contractions for final rl nd Ir, like those contained in I the preceding exercise, are introduced for the purpose of dis- } pensing with the awkward appearance which these two upward ! strokes present when written one after another. Final r may | therefore be indicated by a slight upward tick inclining to the 1 left; thus: peddler L ' , teller _> and final I by a slight up- { ward tick to the right; thus: furl ^/~ moral ^ . These ticks must he made by the lightest possible drop of the pen, very short, so as not to be confounded with i, and written in a straight, inclined direction, so as not to be mistaken for any of the Nasal Combinations. When a word terminates in I or r which contains a similar sign either at the beginning or in the middle of the word, the final I or r may also be indicated by the tick sign; thus: latter f-> riddle /* ' If care is taken in the formation of the tick signs, they may also be introduced into words containing the upward strokes which do not terminate the word; as: Ourlt furls ^_/ enrols. / / ^~' * READING EXERCISE VI. L/ \f S> -2 *-S (S WRITING EXERCISE VI. Barrel, whirl, carol, peddler, unfurl, curl, pearl, caller, teller, sterile, girl, laurel, oral, jailer, paler, railer, sailor, tailor, whaler, exhaler, staler, earl, churl, moral, sorrel, miller, letter, ladder, rather, ladle, cradle, braver. * # T 24 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 7. _ ( _ BEADING EXERCISE VII. _A> v- c - iy^ -A V >- - !.. REVIEW OF LESSON FOURTH. How may the second of two similar consonants be indicated which occurs in the same word ? How may vertical or oblique consonants be contracted ? Give the contractions for final Ir. NVrite the final rl. How may ,j, these signs be written, when they follow each other but are not terminal signs? ^ . * c 26 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. LESSON V. CONTRACTED PREFIXES. As a great majority of words commence with the prefixes given in the present lesson, a contracted form of writing them will be found to be of much assistance in acquiring speed for reporting. PRO, PRE, PER. These may be classed among the most | frequently recurring prefixes, and may be abbreviated with great j advantage. Pro is represented by a light accent written from j right to left and placed near the beginning of the sign following j the omitted prefix; thus: protect 7. proceed ^^ problem Vl Pre is represented by a short inclined dash written down- wards from right to left through the beginning of the following sign; thus: predict ' f ~~2. preserve > A prefix 'S Per is represented by a similar dash written in the opposite direction; thus: permit C- perfect ^ perjurer -^-\/ CON, COUN, COM. These prefixes are all contracted by the same form, which consists of a light accent written in the oppo- site direction to that used to represent pro; thus: connect ~2 conceal " ^-^ complain " \7) commit _ country \_/ > Dis, DBS, is represented by a short dash placed immediately - .-i_ above the beginning of the following sign, as: discreet I/' dissolve ~ message THE CONTRACTED PREFIXES PRO, PRE, PER, CON, COIN, COM, IMS, DES, MIS, MES. i Is I I sr , n ' .^ y f S \ \/ - , x V. V 1 ^L ^ \ _ ^ -^ -j- I/ !' -/" ~-^ ^ .- 9 8 PEKNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. WRITING EXERCISE VIII. Probable, probate, problem, proceed, proclaim, produce, profess, profane, proffer, profound, profit, progress, project, prolific, prolong, propose, protect, protest, protract, provide, ] provoke. Precaution, precede, precept, precious, precise, predict, prefer, prefix, prelate, prepare, premise, prepay, presage, pre- j : scribe, present, preside. Perceive, perdition, perfect, perform, peril, period, perish, perjure, permit, perplex, persevere, pertain, pervert, perspire, personate, perspective. Conceal, concede, conceit, concise, concrete, condense, con- dole, confide, conflict, conform, confront, congeal, consent, : consist, console, common, combat, compel, comfort, commend, | counsel, country, county, countenance. I Disable, disagree, disarm, disaster, disgrace, disciple, disclose, discount, discard, displace, descend, describe, desert, design, desire, despair, desolate, destine. Mistake, misplace, misdeed, mishap, mistrust, misuse, mis- print, miserable, message, Messiah. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTEK. 29 ADDITIONAL PREFIXES. In addition to the previous list of prefixes, there are a num- ber of others which, although not of such common occurrence as the former class, yet are written frequently enough to admit of contraction: SUB, SUP, SURP, may be written in a contracted form by a vertical line passing through the following sign at about one-third of its length above the sign; thus: suppose -t, subject \~p subtract ^j** supply ^ . As the r before p is very indis- tinctly heard in ordinary pronunciation, it may be omitted and the same contraction used for surp as for sup; surprise j( t< - J surpass ^^ TRANS may be represented by a short vertical line passing through the following sign at equal distances above and below; thus: transact f- transmit Qj- transform *& SUPER, SUPRE, may be represented by a vertical line inter- secting the following sign at two-thirds of its length above it: supersede **\s* superfine \ supreme * counteract 4r- contribute o- NOTE. - lu cases where the sign following the contracted prefix is traced in a similar direction to it, it is allowable to give the prefix an inclined form, taking care, however, to observe its proper distance at either end. 30 PKRNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING EXERCISE IX. OK THE CONTRACTED PREFIXES SUB, SUP, SURP, TRAKS, SUPER, 8UPUE, EXTRA, EXTRE, EXTRI, INTER, ENTER, TNTRO, CONTRA, CONTRI. CONTRO, COUNTER. ..i........i........M........... u ......,.n... M ........u.... n ~'^ * 32 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. i TABLE OF dONTR ACTED PREFIXES. PREFIXES. SIGN. EXAMPLE. APL'M. | Pro, ' Product, Per, pre. x / Persist, predict, ^r i-z Con, coun, com. v Conceit, compel, * "*l / Dis, des. Dissolve, desert, -A */" Mia, mes, Missive, Messiah, A -<; Sub, sup, surp, t Submit, supper, f / | Trans. i Transaction, t^r Super, supre, i 4 Superb, supreme, y i i Extra, extre, extri, -* Extract, extreme, -c -C i Inter, enter, intro, *- Interest, intercede, ^r- ^~ Contra, contri, contro, counter -*-- Contrary, control, -^ -S- DOUBLE PREFIXES. Precou, y Preconceive, XjC/ \ Uupre, t Unprepared, ^~ Diseon, jp Disconnect, 4- | ludis, ^o Indisposed, *&~s Miscon, V Misconduct, 1 2_ Uncon, "^ Uncontrollable, r^l Reeom, recon, / Recommend, reconcile, /^__ Irrecon, >s Irreconcilement, -XLxt Accom accoun, i Accomplish, accountable ^ IRREGULAR PREFIXES. For, fore, X Forbid, foretell, L Self, w^ Selfish, self-control, Just, /TV Justify, ^^. Circum, Circumflex, ^ LATIVE may be represented by the signs Iv /\ ; thus : relative /*\ ^ BILITY may be represented by the signs bt - ; thus: debility I ability L The following double affixes may be contracted by joining the contracted signs of the simple affixes; thus FULLY may be rep- resented by \ as tastefully - SN ~\> ; FULLNESS by the signs fn ^ as Tiatefulness as heedlessly previously V *" , LESSNESS by In Ss as senselessness IVENESS by vn V as repulsiveness /+s\, OUSNESS is indicated by sn ^ ^ as serioustms ^^ -2 ABLENESS is indi- cated by bn k as in sociableness ^.-6"^ . SCIOUSNESS, J 3 TIOU8NE88, SEOU8NES8 by MA ^~\^ ; and GEOUSNE88, DEOU8- NE88 by jn ST\^ as consciousness ~*^~\^ ; hideousness. = J J PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 87 ' 5 TABLE OF CONTRACTED AFFIXES. AFFIXES. SIGN. EXAMPLE. APL*N. Ness, D business, Uj Full, N useful, 5^N Ment, c torment, ^~ Less, / useless, ^y Clan, tion, cion, sion, ^ Grecian, omission, /^ Able, ible, i notable, terrible, ^1 DOU Ably, ibly, BLE A L iFFIXES. notably, terribly, *l Lative, A relative, /A Tative, Bility, ? representative, debility, T Fully, Vj usefully, VA, Fullness, ^ usefulness, c^. Lessly, lously, /> endlessly, seduously, ^_y Lessness, /O uselessly, vy Iveness, V attractiveness, ^s Ousness, ^) nervousness, ^Vx \ Ableness, i) desirableness, frr\ Sciousness, ) consciousness, ) ^ Tiousness, ) ) fictitiousness, j L^*^\ Deousness, ) hideousuess, i ^ Geousness, ) ^ ) gorgeousness. ) ^> 448576 f 88 . PEKNTN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING- EXERCISE XI. ON CONTRACTED AFFIXES. -* V[ %%* ^> o -e/ o P- o <\ (X o ## PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 39 ' WRITING- EXERCISE XI, ON CONTRACTED PREFIXES. Business, uneasiness, kindness, blindness, goodness, great- ness, wickedness, coldness, softness, hardness. Ornament, refine- ment, refreshment, retirement, measurement, discernment, 1 enchantment, statement, temperament. Faultless, useless, regardless, shapeless, homeless, shameless, sinless, merciless, art- less, faithless, speechless. Graceful, hurtful, skillful, disgrace- ful, doleful, sorrowful, joyful, lawful, faithful, respectful, hope- ful, trustful. Movable, navigable, notable, palatable, passable, peaceable, preferable, sociable, tenable. Position, occasion, contraction, sanction, Grecian, passion, question, suspicion, motion, pension. Truthfully, mercifully, sorrowfully, tastefully, skillfully, revengefully, awfully, gracefully, spitefully, success- fully. Cheerfulness, hopefulness, pitifulness, painfulness, peacefulness, spite fulness, thankfulness, truthfulness, hateful- ness, skillfulness. Hopelessly, senselessly, painlessly, listlessly, pitilessly. Ruthlessness. senselessness, shamelessness, thank- lessness, lawlessness, heartlessness. Defectiveness, submissive- ness, effectiveness, persuasiveness, relativeness, repulsiveness, destructiveness, delusiveness. Feasibleness, disagreeableness, sociableness. unreasonableness, desirableness. Argumentative, meditative, representative, recitative, demonstrative. Mutability, sociability, fallibility, tractability, malleability. Graciousness, maliciousness, ferociousness, facetiousness, fictitiousness. Frivi- lousness, mysteriousness, imperiousness, seriousness, deliri- ousness. 40 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. BEADING EXERCISE XII. >f - [^ c Co 5 PEUNEN'S PRACTICAL REPcmTEU. 41 V WRITING- EXERCISE XII. { 1 The hopeto and meditative reprvsentutire of a noble house [ reflected on the mutability of all things human. 2 In the deliriousness of excite//^ra, the graced** youth, heed- less of observation. reckfc**^ quaffed the palabrfl? refreahm^rt^. 3 The desirableness of the \oc&tui made amends for the de- fectireness of the tenement. 4 The natural cheer/W/tes* and sociability of the young man's temperame/tf, combined with his truthfidne**, were the reasons of his rapid advance?/**/^ to an enviable position. \ 5 It is useless to enter intq any busiw** engagement for which I one has no ability, or which is disagreeable. 6 The seriousness of the occasion demanded that all sensefe** frivolousnm and extravagant show should be rfwpensed with. 7 The beauti/uZ ornament was hopefe*sy crushed into a shape- less mass by the carefejwi^ of the awkward waiter. | 8 The lawfes robber leaned listfotsfy against the wall and dis- I played the utmost heart&ssn^** while looking upon the scene of j the terri&fe disaster. ; 9 The artless heir was f&ultkMly attired, and with the utmost sociability moved gracefully among his guests and contributed much to the enjoyment of the entertaim/K-Hl 1 . 10 The meditoft're client was possessed at times of an argu- menbittte turn of mind, and on that occa<>rt did not display his usual mysteri0#ns of REVIEW OF LESSON FIFTH. Give sign of ment, neat,fvll. lets, &c. How are double affixes written ? Give list of single affixes 7 Give list of double affixes ? How may the latter be employed ? Give example with fully, fiUlnest, &c. In what words will the use of the contracted affixes be found most advantageous. How are | dan, /ion, don, sion, written ut end of word? Able, and iblef Ltisly, lously ? Oumett, lettnettf 42 . PEKNEN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. LESSON VI. SCALE ILLUSTRATING THK MANNER OF CONTRACTIOH ON THE VOWEL AND COMBINATION i, 6, T, 5 ' oo, uh - ah, ow. |-an. en. - (on, un. The above scale represents the manner in which words may be abbreviated on the vowel sounds and combinations. On this simple formula, rests the basis of all the rules for contractions. Instead of memorizing thousands of arbitrary word-signs, as in other methods, this system is abbreviated principally by the above scale. The short line represents a part of the word written until a certain vowel sound or combination has been reached, when the remainder of the word is left unwritten, and the next word placed in position to the written part to indicate the sound on which the word is abbreviated, and thus, with the assistance of the general context, supplying the remainder of the word. When the abbreviation rests upon the long S sound, the next word is written as far below the incomplete -w C - The words IPOS and against being placed at a certain distance below indicates that the next sign following the L and M signs i& a. In like manner in the sentence: Harry peeled the apple, the 8 sign in peeled is abbreviated by placing the word following .,, PEUNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 43 beneath, a little to the right; thus: Harry p apple 1_ V A the Words containing i, 8 or I sounds, may be contracted on them by writing the next word as far above the last sign of the written part of the word to be contracted, as is indicated in the scale; i immediately above and the 8 or I a little to the right; thus: Time flies quickly, -\ v^ Are you going to the city? 6 c c/ = \~^~? ?. When it is desired to contract words on the oo and uh signs, write the next word close below the last sign of the incomplete word as indicated in the scale, and directly under the last written sign for oo f : a little to the right for the uh sign ^ ; thus : Look not upon the wine, /) V (< ^ The little bird hat lost its nest, - /~ L, ^~ ^^ ^~ * Words are contracted on the and au signs in a manner just the reverse of the rule given for 00 and uh; the next word being placed directly abate the last sign of the written word for 0, and a little to the right for au; thus: Blessed are they that mourn, for they shatt be comforted, ]/^~~/ -=> - C N _ o<] * V~x Ton were the cause of this, c. c/ /^_ _^__, ^ To abbreviate on the ah and ow sounds, write the next word on the same line as the incomplete word, and in* close proximity to it for the ah sign, and a trifle to the right for the ow; thus: John is a bad boy, ^~^~ ^^> o L . The clouds in the sky, - *"*- - x Words containing the combinations an, en are contracted on them by writing the word following, through the last written sign of the incomplete word, at the same distance from the end of it as 1 is indicated in the scale; thus: The intelligence of tlie people is the #* 44 PERNLN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. security of the nation, - *' \v ^ v - // *v_ ^ Again I say to you, countrymen, J / \^_y t -4 The contractions on the on, un sounds differ from the fore- going only in writing the following word closer to the end of the sign as represented in the scale; thus: Kind hearts are more than coronets, ana simple faith than Norman blood, /* C As am, em, om, um, when written before p and b are nasal combinations, they are contracted in the same manner as an, en, on, un. When a word of two or more syllables terminates with any of the combinations, it is not necessary to either write or contract it as the remainder of the word will indicate it; thus: situation<^-$~^, protection '^-^ , execution 1^^, x The last word in a sentence may be contracted by placing a dot below, above or in proximity to the written part of the word according to the vowel sign to be contracted; thus: You have come at last, *\ ~~^__ 3 y ^ In contracting the word stand on the combination an, the last written sign is t, and the initial sign of divided, the position word, being d, it is impossible to intersect them, as both run in the same direction. We. therefore cross the end of the t sign with a PEIININ'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 46 little dash, to indicate the contraction, and write the next word on the same line. Owing to the awkward appearance of the writing, it is not generally advisable to abbreviate two consecutive words by posi- tion, especially if written one above the other. In such cases, the contraction of the second one may be indicated by a dot instead of by the following word. Final vowel signs should seldom be cut off, as they can generally be written as quickly as the pen could be raised to contract them by position. Words separated by a comma may be placed in position to each other, but not when separated by any other punctuation mark. In contracting by position, it must be remembered that the distance is calculated from above or below the end of the final sign of the incomplete word; thus: He picked up a piec* of money, w /I U-> V- G , the next word up being placed a certain distance above the end of the p sign, in picked, and not a certain distance from its commencement. 5 i)K ""****'" '* 46 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. BEADING- EXERCISE XHI. CONTRACTIONS ON a AND e. a, e 7 l- V v > - c x_/> -J ^ v_ t I/ >. C i/ _^> - ^ ->_/ - /^ V, /x ) r ^~i U? . / -r cr^s > > X \ / V C ~ X "t . PEKNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 47 " "WHITING EXERCISE XHI. CONTRACTIONS ON a AND e. 5, 5 Art is the application of knowledge to a practical end. I Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. | Education is the cheap defense of nations. Maintain the place I where thou standest. There is but one easy place in the world, j I and that is the grave. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess f I the land. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God. ! | A penny saved is a, penny gained. No one is placed on earth to \ I ! do nothing; there is a state, an office, a labor for each. He is truly { I | great "who has great charity. No accusations should be advanced j 1 except upon proof sufficient to maintain them. Tis as rauch of j | a trade to make n book as to make a watch ; there's something \ | more than wit necessary to make an author In this world of : ' " j change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost | Situations are like skems of thread or silk; to make the most of : i | I them we nml only to take them by the right end. Faith is not a j | : : bel/^f that we are saved, but that we are loved. Every one makes I his own reputation; the world only puts on the stamp. Lan- 5 j guage is the close-fitting dress of thought. Proverbs are the ! I | cr^mi of . nation's thought. Great names degrade instead of ele- ! : 1 j vate those who do not know how to sustain them. Ti3 late j | before the brave despair. A straw or a feather sustains itself long : 1 in the nir. The truly brave are .soft of heart and eyes. ^ 48 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING- EXERCISE XIV. CONTRACTIONS ON i, 6 OR I. -/ ^ ! / ^ ;> J"+ -^ ^~ ^ \ _. ^ 3 S"' >- /^ '/ s-i^- \/ (y~* -y^, _ r . ^ C c_^ ^ .^_ /- j, / ^/J^-w.t/^^/_ * X ^ a V^ /-^^ ji- .0 J/-0 /- oS- X- , "-X s k - A x/'.-^-v v. ^"^ \^^^ c \A ,-r. i. *7|n PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 51 WHITING EXERCISE XV. CONTRACTIONS ON oo, uh. oo, uh We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence? A certain statesman has said : Youth is a blunder, manhood a strug- gle, old age a regret. Truth fears nothing but concealment. A w,ord fitly spoken 1 3 like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Rid- icwle is the test of truth. Always look on the bright side. Read- ing makes a full man. We loose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of momenta. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. Religion is the best armor a man can have, but the worst cloak. A failure in a good cause is better than a triumph in a bad one. Distrust him who talks much of his honesty. In youth we feel the richer for every new illusion; in mature years for every one we lose. Flowers are banners of the vegetable world which march in various and splendid triumph before the coming of the fruits. The gratitude of the lowly is precious. Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out in long- hand. God has put something noble and good into every heart which His hand has created. 52 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. "I BEADING- EXERCISE XVI. CONTRACTIONS ON AND au. $' 0, au _/^^_ >\ C - f ^"_ 4 5 / u _y / / 3 ^ (9 * PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 53 WRITING EXERCISE XVI. CONTRACTIONS ON AND au. 6, au The gratitude of the lowly is precious. The hand that rocks the cradle rles the world. A broken-down scholar is like a razor without a handle. Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. An apt quotation is as good as an original re- mark. Laws are like cobwebs, where the small flies are cawght, and the great break through. We must do everything for others; if only to divert our minds from what they fail to do for us. Sor- rows are our best educators. How far that little candle throws its beam. The flower of meekness grows on a stem of grace There is in all this cold and hollow world, no fount of strong, deathless love save that within a mother's heart. A delicate thought is a flower of the mind. Look at those you are talking to, never at those you are talking of. Words at the touch of the poet blossom into poetry. Man is the glory, jest and riddle of the world. On every height there lies repose. The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. Woman, like gold, is a legal tender the world over. Philosophy is the science of realities. Doubt is the accusing attorney in the Court of Truth. The flow- era of rhetoric are only acceptable when backed by the evergreens of truth and sense. The granite statue, rough hewn though it be, is far more imposing in its simple and stern, though rude propor- tions, than the plaster-cast, however elaborately wrought and gilded. PKKNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING EXERCISE XVII. CONTRACTIONS ON ah, ow. ah, mn -\ /fZT^X c/ - / <.//- I L^ I c Ij /> 3 __^- / PBRNIN'B PRACTICAL REPORTER. 55 ' WRITING EXERCISE XVII. CONTRACTIONS ON ah, ow. ah, oin The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. Short- hand should be put into practical use. To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of ] social life. The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remain- ing two. Contact with a high-minded woman is good for the life of any man. To make home pleasant and attractive should be the aim of every man. Let the dead past bury its dead. Try to dis- charge your duty under all circumstances. A man is educated who knows how to apply his education to all practical purposes. We are all busy busy writing epitaphs. We do not let a day pass without doing something in this line ; and we are all busy, not in writing epitaphs for others, but in writing our own. There is a post which is gone forever, but there is a future which is all our own. I count this thing to be grandly true. We mount to the summit round by round. Never be cast down by trifles. "What ranger of the clouds can dare, proud mountain king! with thee compare." Shout aloud the praises of L our king. [ ' ' " * **" 56 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. BEADING EXERCISE XVIII. CONTRACTIONS ON an, en, in. \-an, en, in C P ~ r l_x & -i ^% r / U- - 6 _/^ (^ LA ^ /* ^6 ^-^ <*-s\ > ^ * c C r v^- _ <_XS^ ' ^ ^- 7 , , PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 61 ' WHITING EXERCISE XX. THE SNOW OF AGE. "No snow falls lighter than the snow of age, but none is heavier, for it never melts." The figure is by no means novel, but the closing part of the sentence is new, as well as emphatic. The Scriptures represent age by the almoud tree, which bears blossoms of the purest white. "The almond tree shall flourish" the head shall be hoary. Dickens says of one of his characters, whose hair was turning gray, that it looked as if Time had lightly splashed his snows upon it in passing. " It never melts " no, never. Age is inexorable. Its wheels must move onward they know no retrograde movement. The | old man may sit and sing, " I would I were a boy again," but he I grows older as he sings. He may read of the elixir of youth, but 1 I I I he cannot find it ; he may sigh for the secrets of that alchemy j i which is able to make him young again, but sighing brings it not. ! He may gaze backward with an eye of longing upon the rosy j | scenes of early years, as one who gazes on his home from the deck *#' 62 ** PKRNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. J I/- TIIE SNOW OK AGE. \/ L / 75 < - ~ / - . -## PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 63 | ._. THE SNOW OF AGE. I of a departing ship, which every moment carries him farther and I farther away. " It never melts." The snow of winter comes and sheds its white blessings upon the valley and the mountains, but soon the sweet spring comes and smiles it all away. Not so with that upon the brow of the tottering veteran. There is no spring whose warmth can penetrate its eternal frost. It came to stay. Its single flakes fell unnoticed and now it is drilled there. We shall see it increase until we lay the old man in his grave. There it shall be absorbed by the eternal darkness, for there is no age in heaven. Yet why speak of age in a mournful strain? It is beautiful, I ] honorable, eloquent. Should we sigh at the proximity of death, I when life and the world are so full of emptiness? Let the old exult because they are old. If any must weep, let it be the young [ at the long succession of cares that are before them. Welcome I ! the snow, for it is the emblem of peace and of rest. It is but a I temporal crown which shall fall at the gates of Paradise, to be replaced by a brighter and a better. ## 64 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL, REPORTER. i BEADING- EXERCISE XXI. GOLDEN GRAINS. ^ V- \ C -^ - -^ <^ 3 \ K "^ ~V r -} ^ <\ _ u_./"7- V, 3 \ c_ >c -^ ) r/ { y c, I c I i/ ^L X ** PEKNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 65 WRITING EXERCISE XXI. I GOLDEN GRAINS. j Selected from various orations by James A. Garfleld. | 1. Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. 2. Things do not turn up in this world until somebody \ i turns them up. 3. If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best i possible substitute for it. 4. It is no honor or profit merely to appear in the arenr.. j The wreath is for those who contend. 5. Many books we can read in a railroad car and feel a har- { mony between the rushing of the train and the haste of the ! author. (5. Our national safety demands that the fountains of polit- | ical power shall be made pure by intelligence and kept pure by I vigilance. 7. In order to have any success in life any worthy success I you must resolve to carry into your work a fullness of know- 5 ledge not merely a sufficiency, but more than a sufficiency. 8. Young men talk of trusting to the spur of the occasion. i That trust is vain. Occasions cannot make spurs. If j-ou expect to wear spurs you must win them. If you wish to use them you must buckle them to your own heels before you go into the fight. 9. Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms strength and force each possessing peculiar qualities and perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, the thunderbolt. 10. From the genius of our Government, the pathway to honorable distinction lies open to all. No post of honor so high but the poorest boy muy hope to reach it. It is the pride of every j American that many cherished names, at whose mention our hearts beat with a quicker bound, were worn by the sons of pov- erty, who conquered obscurity and became fixed stars in our firmament. # #*-' *6 | - <-** PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING EXERCISE XXII. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PEKNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 67 WRITING EXERCISE XXII. AUUAHAM LINCOLN. The analysis of Mr. Lincoln's character is difficult, on ac- count of its symmetry. Its comprehension is to us impossible, on account of its immensity, for a man can be comprehended only by his peers. Though we may not get its altitude, nor measure its girth, nor fathom its depths, nor estimate its richness, we may get somewhat of the impress of its purity, the inspiration of its heroism, and the impulse of its power. It was centered about a few strong points. His moral sense, his reason, and his common | sense, were the three fixed points through which the perfect cir- [ cle of his character was drawn the sacred trinity of his great manhood. Had he lacked either of these he would have failed, and we would have been buried in the ruins of a Republic. With- out the first, he would have been a villian; without the second, a bigot or a fool ; without the third, a fanatic or a dreamer. With them all, he was Abraham Lincoln. He was the representative character of this age. He incar- nated the ideal Republic. No other man ever so fully embodied j the purposes, the affections and the power of the people. He came up among us; he was one of us. His birth, his education, his habits, his motives, his feelings, and his ambitions were all our own. Had he been born among hereditary aristocrats, he ] would not have been our President; but born in the cabin and I reared in the field and in the forest, he became the Great Com- I moner. The classics of the schools might have polished him, but JL f PERN IN 's PRACTICAL REPORTER. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. i 61 L PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 69 5 ' j . __ ABRAHAM LINCOLN. | they would have separated him from us. But trained in the com- j mon school of adversity, his calloused palms never slippe4 from [ the poor man's hand. A child of the people, he was accessible in I I the White House as he had been in the cabin. There are many noble heroes who illumine the darkness be- hind us with the radiance of some single virtue, but among them all I see no Lincoln. He is radiant with all the great virtues, and his memory shall shed a glory upon this age that shall fill the eye of men as they look into history. An administrator, he saved the f nation in the perils of unparalleled ciril war. A statesman, he jus- ? tified his measures by their success. A philanthropist, he gave liberty to one race and salvation to another. A moralist, he bowed from the summit of human power to the foot of the cross, and became a Christain. A moralist, he exercised mercy under the most absolute abeyance to law. A leader, he was no partisan. A commander, he was xmtainted with blood. A ruler in desperate { j times, he was unsullied with crime. A man, he has left no word of passion, no thought of malice, no trick of craft, no act of jeal- ousy, no purpose of selfish ambition. Thus perfected, without a model and without a peer, he was dropped into these troubled years to adorn and embellish all that is good and all that is great in our humanity, and to present to all coming time the represent- i ative of the divine idea of Free Government. * ** 70 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING EXERCISE XXIII. EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE. r V - O ^ T L. 3 - - , . C V L t L < -> * ys_^ t J /r; - I- V PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 71 I .._..._ --,,- . READING EXERCISE XXIII. EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE. I I While we bring our offerings for the mighty of our own land, shall we not remember the chivalrous spirits of other shores, who shared with them the hour of weakness and woe? Pile to the clouds the majestic columns of glory; let the lips of those who can speak well, hallow each spot where the bones of our bold re- pose, but forget not those who, with our bold, went out to battle. Among these men of noble daring there was one, a young and gallant stranger, who left the blushing vinehills of his delightful France. The people whom he came to succor were not his people; he knew them only iu the melancholy story of their wrongs. He was no mercenary wretch, striving for the spoils of the vanquished; the palace acknowledged him for its lord, and the valleys yielded him their increase. He was no nameless man, staking life for reputation: he ranked among nobles and looked unawed upon kings. He was no friendless outcast, .seeking for a grave to hide his cold heart; he was girdled by the companions of his childhood; his kinsmen were about him; his wife was be- fore him. Yet from all these lie turned away and came. Like a lofty I | tree, that shakes down its green glories to battle with the winter's j { storm, he flung aside the trappings of place and pride to crusade *. 4 PERNCN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. * * EULOC4Y ON LAFAYETTE. i r O -/ - ^ A, -A. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE. i I for Freedom, in Freedom's holy land. He came; but not in the j j ] day of successful rebellion; not when the new-risen sun of Inde- : pendence had burst the cloud of time, and careered to its place in I | the heavens. He came when darkness curtained the hills, and the { tempest was abroad in its anger; when the plough stood still in I I the fie'd of promise, and briers cumbered the garden of beauty; I | when fathers were dying, and mothers were weeping over them; j when the wife was binding up the gashed bosom of the husband, j and the maiden was wiping the death damp from the brow of her j lover. He came when the brave began to fear the power of man, | and the pious to doubt the favor of God. It was then that this j man joined the ranks of a revolted people. Freedom's little { j phalanx bade him a grateful welcome. With them he courted j I the battle's rage; with theirs, his arm was lifted; with theirs, his { ( blood was shed. Long and doubtful was the conflict. At length I kind Heaven smiled on the good cause, and the beaten invaders I fled. The profane were driven from the temple of liberty, and ; at her pure shrine, the pilgrim warrior, with his adored command- ] er, knelt and worshipped. Leaving there his offering, the in- I cense of an uncorrupted spirit, he at length arose, and, crowned I with benedictions, turned his happy feet toward his long-deserted home. After nearly fifty years he has come again. Can mortal tongue , PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE 1 ^ X) -S~ < - c v ->X 9 ixi 7 _y v^ ^r ^il^Jl ** -TW ""' _ (A- PERNIN'S PRACTICAL, REPORTER. 75 EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE. I I tell, can mortal heart feel the sublimity of that coming? Exult- I I ing millions rejoice in it; and the long loud, transporting shout, { like the mingling of many winds, rolls on, undying, to Freedom's | furthest mountains. A congregated nation comes around him. j Old men bless him, and children reverence him. The lovely come I | out to look upon him; the learned deck their halls to greet him; ] the rulers of the laud rise up to do him homage. How his full : { ! heart labors! He views the rusting trophies of departed days; he I j i [ treads upon the high places where his brethren moulder; he bends j I ! before the tomb of his father; his words are tears, the speech of - j sad remembrance. But he looks around upon a ransomed land | and a joyous race ; he beholds the blessings, those trophies secured, I for which those brethren died, for which that father lived; and j I again his words are tears, the eloquence of gratitude and joy. Of all the myriads that have come and gone, what cherished | memories ever ruled an hour like this. Many have struck the redeeming blow for their own freedom ; but who, like this man, I I has bared his own bosom in the cause of strangers? Others have | lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another? Matchless chief! Oblivion shall never shroud his splendor; and coming I generations shall repeat the beloved name of Lafayette. 76 PEKNIN'S PUACTICAL REPORTER. REMARKS ON THE USE OF WORD-SIGNS. The following pages will be found to contain a list of the most frequently recurring phrases, and their combination into phraseograms. There is, also, given a page of word-signs formed from words which cannot be contracted very briefly by rule, to- gether with a list of common abbreviations and their correspond- ing abbreviations in short- hand. The advantage gained by form- ing the word-phrases into combinations is, that they can be writ- ten together without raising the pen ; whereas, if abbreviated by rule, each word of the phrase would have to be written separately- As there are not more than a few hundred of them in all, the memory will not be taxed to any great extent in acquiring them. No effort should be made to memorize them, but the learner should, instead, write each page many times until they become familiar enough to him to adopt into his writing. Should he desire to carry this mode of abbreviations still further, he can do so by writing only the principal sounds of the words contained in other phrases. In addition to these printed lists, there are special contractions used in every profession and every department of business. For instance, the clergyman, the lawyer, the merchant, the book-keeper, the telegraph operator, &c , will each use special abbreviations in his long-hand writing which he may carry with advantage into his short-hand work, by writing these contractions in corresponding phonographic characters. As figures may be written very rapidly, no special signs are given for them. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, efcc. may be written 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c , and once, twice, thrice, &c. I, 2. 3, &c. # PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 77 LIST OF FAMILIAR PHRASES. X ^f a few days ago. t y*-^ as follows. \ a few moments ago. c w after you went away. g^irr a short time ago. f) a long time ago. 6~>_-7 a short space of time. v-e-o after all that. \-a-r after that time. '-s v and so forth. @\ at all events. ' as great as. ., as much as. *~syf as far as. U by means of. ti by every means. K by no means. ^-A/ ^, as far as it goes. ^~f by some means. ## 78 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. j 4 bye and bye. \f dear brethren. [/ by right. \J dear friend. ^ can be. \^ every now and then. 2 can it be. V every one. \ can it be possible, can have been. V-s everything. V-i^^ everything else. 2.1 cannot. V-r every time. H cannot be. \f everywhere. A cannot have been. \/ n ~ far from it. / I could not be. s. , far be it from me. j> could not have been, do not. ^~o for all that. V/ forever and ever. * do you. \_,- for instance. V, do you not. \-v_x, for example, * did you. v/^ from time to time. _, did you not r~^^. gentlemen of the jury. / dear sir. y he can. _ dear madam. 7 he can be. /\ dearly beloved. 2. he cannot be. 'K dearly beloved brethren < -i he had been. bk__J._ J w B PERNJN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 79 ' i . 1 Y he could not have been -*-i I know it to be so. '~3j 1 KS in 1 he would not have been he should nothavebeen how could you. how are you. -\ I might have been. **-4 I must be. *V7 I shall not be able to go d-* I might have said so. * how will you. .2 I never said so. c 7 I am, .d? I must say. s I am not. Oj I was not. (/^ I am sure. / I will. H I believe that. i^O I will not. ^~ I do not. 1 I would. ^ I do not know. I did not. * p I would not be. "V^r-, if it is to be. |. I have been. I have not had time. A-^ if it is possible. V if he did. fc I have not been. I have said so. r \>/ if they were. \/ if we were. t /1 I may be. I may as well be. V^ if you were. "\ if you do. Lk I may not be there. / in the meantime. f 80 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. / in fact. t-O it will not be. wi-> in order to get it. -O it will never be. y ^ in the course of. C-T r it would seem. "t_/ inasmuch as. r^J^ just as long as. s f in spite of. s^y^ just as well as. ^ in general. *- know it. *-(/ in such a manner. ^ know all about it. *- x ~^ /> in some degree. ^V^ know there is. --- it is. C many as possible. Q it is not. many more. v I it appears to be. J? more and more. <-j it could not be. <^j it has been. | | -> t it would have been. (&L-. most likely to be. Lno better. i -I^> no doubt. - a , it ought to have been. \^>-^. no such thing. -^~^i it is said to be. i not knowing. ^-^ it is so. i-^. neither of them. 1 -^ it is true. \j*~-' not in the least. i it will. | ^ it will be. I 'V'" not only. ^y of all. 1 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. " 81 * v -- of it. ^"^-k ps)int of view. ^ of him. * present day. -v' of her. ^^ ([uite likely. >s r of them. v ^ quite enough of it. ^ o of that. S railroad. ^ ^/ of this. ^^-^ say so. ^-^"^ of which. *w5~^_ say to them. ^~of course. <-^~ t say unto you. ^/ /> ~ X X_ 1 of course it must be. *~s seems to be. ( on hand. v^ see how. A- on account. ^1? see how he can. A-v_ on account of. _/ one another. v _ / _o so that. 1 _ ought not to have been ~ i s~] so as to be. | g } out of the way. 9* police court. 1 ] l/ 1 *^ prisoner at the bar. ^y -^ so far as you can. ^^^ f so there should be ^-^-> so very little. t.. J r 82 PEKNIN'S FUACTICAL REPORTER. 1 i ^-^ r some of them. i_x to do as. ^ v-x-^ something has been said v <-y such as can. _o that is not. -_/ that is the question. i ^_x to do so. \ to have been. - to be sure. V-\ -T^.^-. to do something. _^-v_? that is to say. : *j/ to take care. -y there can be no doubt. -r to me. ._/ there are. i -.. to him. --/V therefore. -^. to them. ~+\ there has been. -^_ to it. ~T^) there is no objection. -i to put. -*~l there ought to be. r they may not go. -7 , they may as well. ^ to give. \ x we know. J : 5 Owe do not know. -oO this is well known. v_^ this may be. \we have been, vyl we shall be. -i to be. j to be able to. _ l _^ > _ -r to do this. v^5 we are not. , ' we were. _, we were there. i .^^.^ to do it. p we can go. j7 TJT * 1 | PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 88 * : i we have had. t-~2 who would not be. v we will. j_ what is it. v i we will be. Cs-\ with which. ^ v' we will be sure, we will try. were they. S~\ with respect. c/ you are. c/ you are not. v x were we. < -s~ you do not. x x were you. c/ you will. e/ which are. c 'r you will not be. which are now. f you must be. impossible. J acquainted. <2^\ immediate. \_ advertise. indignity. U afternoon. ~/'. irregular. V^, afterwards. ^7 language. i already. C magnificent. *L^> candidate. / magnitude. e/^ character. C. meanwhile. . Antiquities. Celt, Celtic , ** f88 "" 7i"i> PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. c.c. v^. -'County Clerk; D. D. ; Doctor of Di- Chief Clerk. vinity. C. C P.v-'.- ' I Court of Com- Deg. 7 Degree. mon Pleas. ' Ch. C. ^7 Church of Christ. Dem. r- Democrat. Chron. IT Chron i c le s ; Dept - * Department. Chronology. Cit. ^^~ Citizen Depon. -n Deponent. C\v. -\ . Civil. Dent. ?-- Deuteronomy. C. J. ^. s~ \ Chief Justice. D. F. V Defender of the Faith. \ j Clk. ?. ! Clerk. Diam. i Diameter. | Co. ^ County ; Com- Diet. 2_ Dictionary. ! pany. j C. O. D. / o Collect on De- Dim. -r Diminutive. livery. Com. / Commissioner ; Dist. ^r District. Committee. Cong. 4 Congress. Div. - ? Division. Const. l~-s- - Constitution. Doz. ^_x Dozen. Cor. ^ Corinthians. Dr. / Doctor ; Dear ; Debtor. Cor. C. ^^ -'. Corresponding E. ~ East. Clerk. Cor. Sec.,/^ -s) .Corresponding E. E. ~ . w. Errors excepted. Secretary. 9 | Cr. if Creditor. Eg. / For example. C.S.A.^^ ,/ C o n f e d e r ate Elec. */l. Electric ; Elec- | States of Am. tricity. Cop. c/ Copper; Coptic. Emp. I Emperor; Em- press. Cwt, 6. Hundred weight Eucy. *^*y Encyclopedia. -Cycl. ^x Cyclopedia Ep. 1 Epistle. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 87 ] | Itov. S Envoy; Enve- Inst. v^_^_. Present month ; I \ lope. Institute. Esq. ^~1- Esquire. J. s~\ Judge; Justice. i : Etal. -rf. And others. Jr. rS Jury ; Junior. Etc. -~y And so forth. J. A. <*"v v/ Judge Advocate, j Fig. V Figure; Figura- J. P. <^. I Justice of the tive. Peace. Fo. ^. Folio - 1 L. D. " Doctor of Laws, j Fr. N/ Franc. K. C. B. / ^ 1 Knight Com'der j of the Bath. Gen. O.. General ; Gene- sis. K. G. /. <~* : * Kuight of the j Garter. Gen. ^x,. Gentleman. K. P. / \ Knight of St. Patrick. Geol s^~ . Geology. K. S. G. / ^ knight of St. Handk. ^-7 Handkerchief. George, i L. Lord ; Lady. Hhd. Hogshead. i Lp. A Ladyship, Lord- j Hist. ^>-r-. History. ship. Lat. >~ Latitude. H. M. C . Her Majesty. i j L.C.J'.^s N. Lord Chief Just- I II. M. S..C.^ Her Majesty's ice. Hon. Service. Honorable. Legis. s~^- ' Legislature. Hort, i~ Horticulture Lib. A, Librarian. i H. R. - / House of Repre- Lt. />- Lieutenant. sentatives. Lt. Col. /^ Lieut. Colonel. H. R. H.-/. His Royal High- ! ness. Lt. Gen. '"-^ Lieut. General, i i. e. /. w. That is. Lit. / Literature; Lit- ! Int. Interest. erallv. * '88 PEBNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. LL B LL.D. / x. i. Bachelor of Laws. /- / - Doctor of Laws. Mus. ^. Myth. (^ i Museum, Mythology. L.S.D. M. A. /. ^.Pouuds.shillings and pence. C . -^ Master of Arts. Naut. - N. B. T. i Nautical. Take notice. Manf Mad C Manufacturing. _ . Madam. Nom. ^, Nos. cXy . Nominative. Numbers. Mile. Ms. March O" Mademoiselle. ^-' Manuscript . s* ' Marchioness. N. P. > - J N.v.an V Obj. 1o. Notary Public. C Nativity of the Virgin Mary. Objective. Marq. Math. f Marquis. ~ Mathematics. Obs. 1^, Obt, t. Observation ; Observatory. Obedient. Met, Reform. ternoon. j P. 0. 1. o. Post Office. Regt. f Regiment. Pop. 4 Population. Rem. Remarks. Pp. M Pages. Rep. /? Report; Re C porter. Prop. I/* Proprietor; Pro- . Represent. peller. /i Priv. t^ Privilege. . Republic. Prof. ^ Professor. Rev. /\ Reverend ; Rev- elation. : Pron. I/ 3 Pronoun. Rht. / Rhetoric. Prot. i7~ Protestant. R. S. /-^. ^ Right side j Pro-tern. I ^ For the time. Scr. *_ ^/ Scruple. Prov. iX Proverbs, Prov- Sculp ^fA Sculpture. Pros. I/" ince. Prosody. Sec. ^ Secretary. 1 P. S. \ x^ Postscript. Sen. v^x^ Senior ; Senate ; v Senator. Pub. L Publisher; Pub- lication. Serg. *~-J A Sergeant. Ques. 1^, Question. Servt.v^XL - Servant. Q. B. / 1 Queen's Bench. S. L. ^_/. / ' Solioitor-at-Law Q. C. / ^-> Queen's Council Sq. ^-/ Square. V j Qt. ^ Quart; Quantity. Vs. N ' Versus ; Against j Qu. fJ Query. Vul. V/ Vulgar ; Vulgate R. River ; Railway. Wp. ^ Worship. Rec. ' Received. Wpf. ^ Worshipful. Reel. /^-^~ u Receipt. Zool. / Zoology. , *(* Ml Ml ^' N R"7r '""*" PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. ABBREVIATION OF PROPER NAMES. | Eng. / Eph. N England. Ephesus. Jno. Jo. ^\ John. ST& Joseph. Estli. ^> Esther. Kan. J Kansas. Ezek. -^ Ezekiel. Kent. _ Kentucky. Fr. ^ French; France. La. ? Louisiana. G.B. / 1 Great Britain. Lev. /\ Leviticus. Geo. ^ George. L.I. / ' Long Island. Ga. ^ Georgia. Lou. / London. Heb. 1 Hebrews, Minn. { Minnesota. Hin. -v Hindostan. Maj. ^\ Major. Hung. 7 Hungary. Muj G w- T\_ Major General. | la. 6 Iowa. Mass. Ci_/ Massachusetts. I Ice. o Iceland. Math. . Matthew. | 111. w/ Illinois. M. C. C ^-s Member of Con- Ire. */ J.Chr. O 7 Ireland ; Irish. Jesus Christ. M P. M. D. gress. C. 1 Member of Par- liament. C. Doctor of Medi- J.H.S. ^. s 1 S Jas. /-^ 1 Jam. rTb _j Jesus Savior of Men. i James. Jamaica. Me. M. E. Mex. cine. C Maine. C w. Methodist Epis- copal. C Mexico. ^Jer. ^/ Jeremiah. Miss. U_/ Mississippi. ^ ..................... ......F..t>..I.>lll>II Sf ^1 p "%;?} PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 91 1 N. A. 3 - North America. R. N.s 3 Royal Navy. Nath. ^- Nathaniel. R C. ' ( ^ Roman Catholic. N. B. 3 \. New Brunswick. S. A. v > ~ South America. N. C. :> ^ North Carolina. Sam. ^ Samuel. Neb. 3 Nebraska. Sans, v ~-2~-^ Sanscrit. Nem. p Nehemiah. Sax. New Orleans. Switz. v / Switzerland. N. Y. 3. ^ New York. Teun. x Tennessee. N. Z. 3. s^ New Zealand. Tex. -7 Texas. O. United States Navy. (J. T. < <- Utah Territory. Va. \ Virginia. W. T. C. - WashingtonTer- ritory. V.C. \ . ^" Vice Chancellor. Zach ^^ Zachariah. Vt. \_ Vermont. E. W. C N. 3, S. " E S. E. N. W. > . S. E. S. S. E. ^. S. W. w . N. N. W. 3 w. s. w. T. r f DIRECTIONS. East. West. North. South. East Southeast. Northwest. Southeast. South Southeast. Southwest. North Northwest. West Southwest. S*. ** ** PKRNIK'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. ** 93' Mon. C- Tues. -r^-/ Wednes. ^ Thurs. -../^ DAYS OF WEEK. Fri. Sat. Sun. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Ju. ^-i MONTHS. July. ^V Aug. 7 Sept. Oct. L Nov. ^ Dec. 94 PKBNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. READING EXERCISE XXIV. SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY. -S ' J - '^ C f 2^~ v . /-_ _ /] I X ! *** -^i^- Jj^. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 95 "' r WRITING- EXERCISE XXIV. SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY. Mu. PRESIDENT: It is natural to man to indulge in the illu- [ sion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth j au d listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into | beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and 1 arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the num- j 1 ber of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not ( | i | the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For j I my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to j { know the truth; to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but oue lamp by which my feet are guided; and that I is the lamp of experience. I know no wa} - of judging of the fu- j : ture but by the past, and judging by the past, I wish to know what | there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last [ ten years, to justify those hopes with which these gentlemen have I been pleased to solace themselves and the House? Is it that in- \ \ sidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? \ j Trust it not, it will prove a suare to vour feet. Suffer not your- I : [ self to ! it- betray ed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious I I reception of our petition comports with those warlike prepara- j tions which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and : armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we * 96 PKRXIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. SPEECH OK PATRICK HENRY. 4 L / 7 ^~ ' "^ \r^ ^ A v^ ' /- A *s, *~S* > & V "f r ( b ^ 1 <*/* A -o \ _ ^ ^ .^^ A^ < " ' ^ _ 1 >, ^ <" '-.. } V > ~M V \ v^ ^ J ^-^ ^^ V PERNIN'S PRACTICAL, REPORTER. 97 SPEECH ov PATRICK HENRY. shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjection the last argu- j { ment to which kings resort. I ask these gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to sub- mission? Can they assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of warriors and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. I ! They are sent over to bind and rivet upon Us those chains, which I the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have | we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. .Have we any thing new to offer on the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it lias been all in vain. \ Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms j shall we find, which have not b-.-en already exhausted? . Let us not, I beseech you. --ir, deceive ourselves longer. We have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which | I rooming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; f wo Lave supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the [ | throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyranni- I j. c-vl hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been >MMW*I1I I II J !! IIMIIIIIII L **- -, 3 1 5 #-*" PKKNIN'S PKAOTICAL RKIMWTEU. OF PA-THICK HENUY. --:;* . i ^ ' ' y /^y \ > ? ^ -f i -H // v 1 f t_ I r - PEHNIS'S PRACTICAL REPOBTBB. SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY. slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and I insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge in the fond hope of peace and reconciliation There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free if we mean to preserve inviolate those inesti- mable privileges for which we have been so long contending if we mean not falsely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until the glorious object of our contest shall be j j obtained we must fight I repeat it sir, we must fight!' An i appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak unable to cope with so j formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and in- j j action? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by j lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom j of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot? Sir, j we arc not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which ! the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of , people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country 100 PERNJN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. SPEECH OP PATRICK HENRY. _ c/- -\ K . . s / ^ - P / C - v 1" tf Y _ * ## . ' .^ V V- PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY. as we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the con- test. There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come!! I repeat it, | sir, let it come!! Tt is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. These gentlemen may cry peace, peace but there is no peace. The war is actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field ! Why stand we here idle? What is it that these gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH. I f 103 K'NIN'S PllACTICAL REPORTER. "#* f READING- EXERCISE XXV. A CENTENNIAL ADDRESS. / * p - // c c -7 ^ - t< VA <^" -* ^/ 9 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. A CENTENNIAL, ADDRESS. ' I oppressions of tyrannj'. Our constitutions have never been en- | feebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world. Such as we { are, we have been from the beginning; simple, hardy, intelligent, I accustomed to self-government and self-respect. The Atlantic rolls between us and any f ormidable foe. Within i our own territory, stretching through many degrees of latitude and I longitude, we have the choice of many products, and many means I of independence. The government is mild. The press is free. I j Religion is free. Knowledge reaches, or may reach every home. I What fairer prospects of success could be presented? What I means more adequate to accomplish the sublime end? What { | more is neccessary than for the people to preserve what they { themselves have created? Already has the age caught the spirit I of our institutions. It has already ascended the Andes and I snuffed the breezes of both oceans. It has infused itself into the f life-blood of Europe, and warmed the sunny plains of France, and I the low-lands of Holland. . It has touched the philosophy of { i I Germany in the north and, moving onward to the south, has j 5 opened to Greece the lessons of her better days. Can it be that America under such circumstances, can betray j [ the inspiration of whose ruin is, "they were, but they are not." j Forbid it, my countrymen, forbid it, heaven! I call upon you, fathers, by the shades of your ancestors, by Hie dear ashes | which repose in this precious soil, by all you are, and all you ex- pect to be, to resist every project of disunion, every encroachment jl upon your liberties. ** 108 PKHMX'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. A CENTENNIAL ADDRESS. V ;j ^ v / XJ - U . ^ /- /^^ i /> / i ** Co -s_i_ ' v/ -. ^ V_ ^Co "^-- ^O^v/ J^,^/ _/ PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 109 * r A CENTENNIAL ADDRESS. I call upon you, mothers, by that which never fails in woman, the love of your off-spring; teach them as they climb your knees or lean upon your bosom, the blessings of liberty. Swear them at the altar, as with their baptismal vows, to be true to their country, and never to forget or to forsake her. I call upon you, young men, to remember whose sons you are, whose inheritance you possess. Life can never be too short, which brings nothing but disgrace and oppression. Death never comes too soon, if necessary in defense of the liberties of your { country. I I call upon you, old men, for your counsel, and your prayers, I and your benedictions. May not your gray hairs go down in I j sorrow to the grave, with the recollection that you have lived in | j vain. May not your last sun sink in the west on a nation of I slaves. I No I read in the destiny of my country far better hopes, j far brighter visions. We, who are now assembled here, must j ! soon be gathered to the congregation of other days. The time for ] our departure is at hand, to make way for our children upon the j theatre of life. May God speed them and theirs. May he who [ at the distance of another century shall stand here to celebrate j this day, still look around upon a free, happy and virtuous people. j | May he have reason to exult as we do. May he, with all the 1 enthusiasm of truth, as well as poetry, exclaim, that here is still I j his country. Zealous yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; i Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL KEPORTEB. READING- EXERCISE XXVI. PORTION OF TESTIMONY GIVEN IN A PATENT CASE. ** .''.:'. ...r... - - v - M ............... ............ PERNIN'S PRACTICAL, REPORTER. WRITING EXERCISE X2VI. PORTION OF TESTIMONY GIVEN IN A PATENT CASE. NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ) COUNTY OF SENECA. .>. >ii..i.>-.i 'ii.-'i'. "s f*~ ( S^ T 124 PERNIN'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. I have studied your work on Phonography. For the benefit of education it should be taught in all our schools and colleges, and I think it our duty to propagate it as much as it is in our power. [Prof. A. Maiuville, St. Viateur's College, Bourbonnais Grove, Kankakee Co., 111. About one year ago a copy of your instruction book on Du- ploye's Phonography fell into my hands. A brief examination convinced me of the tinriralll m< rit* of Duploye's system. I have since taught about a hundred pupils to read and write by your method. My pupils have been of ages from eight years to sixty. Without an exception they have learned rapidly, and have become active agents in recommending the system to others. The more I write it, the more I am astonished at its wonderful simplicity and its surprising legibility. [Col. B. Mason, Pres. Yonkers Military Institute, Yonkers, N.Y. I can say of your system of Phonography that I have derived j more pleasure and profit from two months' study of it than from I one year's study of Graham's hand-book of standard phonography. I It contains no abstract word-sign to burden the memory. Every- I thing is a logical gradation from the first page of the ' ' Instructor " [ to the last page of the "Treatise of Abbreviations." [D. Hall, Principal School, Caseville, Huron Co., Mich. I feel that I have made excellent progress in your System of Stenography. I started a while after two Graham students, who are taking instructions from the official court stenographer here, and with the little instruction received by mail I am far in ad- vance of them, and am now reporting for one of our papers. I, at one time, studied the Munson system faithfully, but did not know much more when I left off than when I commenced at least, could not read half what I had written a short time after- ward I think the Duployan is "the " system for anyone to adopt, unless he wishes to devote a lifetime to acquiring the art. [Arthur Nicholas, W. Federal St., Youngstown, Ohio. PERNIN'S PRACTICAL, REPORTER. 125 T I am employed as stenographer in the general offices here of I the Wabash, St. Louis & P. R'y, and experience ho difficulty in j either writing or reading your system. I am now fully convinced I that I made a very profitable investment when I concluded to j take lessons from you. My friends will scarcely believe me when [ I tell them that I was fitted for my position in four months, and ) it is hardly to be wondered at when one considers the length of I time it takes to acquire any of the other systems of short-hand [ now in use. If the Duployan system were only extensively ad- | vertised, and the general public made aware of how easily it is 1 learned and how rapid and legible it is, very few would care to | adopt the other systems which, witli their word-signs, shaded I lines, etc., burden the memory so greatly, and after years spent in acquiring them, they are then no better, nor as good, as the Duployau. I shall always be most happy to give your system that recommendation that I feel sure it merits. [J. F. Barren, Sten. Wabash Gen'l Office, Detroit, Mich. We, the undersigned members of last winter's class of Sten- ography, are pleased to state that we think the Duployan System superior to and more easily attained than any other short-hand method now in use, and can highly recommend it to all intending learners. -[Charles E. Ovenshire, W. Seymour Mclntosh, Wm. J. Moore, with Throp, Hawley & Co., 85-87 Jefferson avenue, Detroit. It is with pleasure that I write to inform you of my progress in Stenography. It is but a trifle more than four months since I first saw your system, and I can now easily take in full the dis- courses of the most rapid speakers among our corps of lecturers. At the end of the first mouth, putting less than two hours' work to it per day, not only had I mastered the principles of both cor- responding and reporting styles, but could apply those principles j at the rate of thirty-five words per minute, and I have no hesitancy [ in asserting that any one of ordinary ability can, by confining his [ mind to it daily for two hours, be able at the end of three months [ to do as I am now doing. Not the least among the superiorities Y 126 PERNIX'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. I i j of your system over all others which I have investigated is the j j facility of reading it. I take pleasure in recommending it to the I { public for its simplicity, the ease with which it is learned and j { read, and its great practicability to all who have need of a rapid : j and legible system of writing. [Very truly yours, W. LeRoy 1 j Crissman, Law Dept. Michigan University, Ann Arbor. Please send rne by return of post a copy of your "Practical | j Reporter." I have taught the system from your "Phonographic j j Instructor" to several gentlemen here, who are all delighted with I j its simplicity. I should like to be appointed agent for the sale of j { your books here. [Yours truly, John M. Sloan, 20 N. Frederick j j Street, Dublin, Ireland. ' .*.........,,.. PERNFK'S PRACTICAL REPORTER. 127 ^ PERNIN'S Phonographic Institute. INSTRUCTION PRIVATELY OR IN CLASSES. TERMS: CORRESPONDING COURSE, $15 00 REPORTING COURSE, - 15 00 COMIM.ETE COURSE, 30 00 TUITION BY MONTH, 10 00 SIN (.1.1 I.I.--ONS. 1 00 N> i-.Y MAIL, EXCLUSIVE OF POSTAGE, each, 50 to Classes. 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