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We live in an age of steam and electricity; the magnetic wire is quivering from east to west, across the ocean and continents, while the tide of activity is coursing onward with corresponding velocity over the vast ocean of commerce leaving to wealth and distinction all who are good pilots, and to poverty and oblivion all who do not understand the points of the compass.
The commercial interests of our country have attained to such immense proportions, and has so thoroughly monopolized the brain and muscles of our people that all departments of our lives are so per vaded with business ideas, customs and maxims, that the success depends largely and almost universally on a thorough and practical knowledge of them.
The great profession of business is wider than any other. In fact it is the profession of all professions, because by it we are able to purchase and enjoy the fruits of all others. Its laws, its usages, its methods, its vocabulary, established by common consent of business men, are now reduced to a science which can be, and is as successfully taught as any of the other professions.
The young man or woman who enters any of the numerous avenues of business to-day without the training which a first class Business College imparts, does so with the same disadvantages that the physician does who has not attended a theological seminary, and his chances of success are no better.
The age in which we live, the advanced methods of doing business, the rapidity of transportation, ease of communication, and the complicated machinery of business all demand preparation. He who enters the commercial race of to-day with any hope of success must be trained—thoroughly trained for his work. He must think quickly and act promptly and properly. He must not only know what to do, but how and when to do it.
Every business man has a right to expect that all professing to be business men, and who desire to transact business with him are familiar with the customs, usages, laws and practices of commercial and business transactions. He does not consider it any part of his duty to explain the character or the rights and obligations of the parties under a bill of lading, a warehouse receipt, a draft, a check, bill of exchange, contract, bond, deed or mortgage. He is not a lecturer on mercantile law or mercantile morals, and has neither time nor inclination to instruct those whose duty it is to be familiar with all these things before engaging his attention.
The vast majority of those whose active minds and busy hands direct and control the complex net-work of systems which are necessitated by our numerous commercial and manufacturing interests are former students of commercial colleges; and of those an overwhelming majority were poor boys and young men whose only capital in life was their business education and integrity of character. No better investment of time or money can be made than in acquiring knowledge of business affairs.
The demand for competent, educated stenographers conversant with business forms and customs has increased one hundred fold within the past two years; and any one who will master any of the practical courses given in the Lawrence Business College and Academy will carry with him a positive guarantee of lucrative employment.
Short-Hand, Type Writing and Correspondence.
WHERE TO BE STUDIED; THE BOST SYSTEM TO STUDY; THE TIME REQUIRED TO LEARN THE ART; THE REMUMERATION ITS PRACTICE AFFORDS; THE NECESSITY OF SHORT-HAND WRITING; AND THE PROBABLE CHANCES OF OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT AFTER IT IS ACQUIRED.
To meet the numerous inquiries, we are constantly receiving in regard to Short-hand writing, we have deemed it expedient to publish the following sketch and thereby endeavor to answer more in detail and more satisfactorily than we could by personal letters, the questions which are of most interest to the student about to enter upon the stenographic profession.
The Necessity of Short-Hand Writing.
What electricity is to business, steam driven machinery is to power, phonography or short-hand writing is to the rapid placing of one's thoughts or ideas upon paper. In this age of enterprise, inventions, and continual hurry, when lightning express trains are too slow for business men, the ordinary method of writing is too slow for editors, judges, courts, where testimony must
be taken, and managers of extensive business enterprises who have much correspondence. The services of a competent stenographer being considered indispensable for the dictation of business letters, papers, law-briefs, etc. All admit its great value in the rapid transaction of business, and the extent to which it is used in the professional and business world is only limited by the supply of competent writers: new avenues for the employment of Short-hand writers are opened up everywhere, and the great question to-day for the would-be-stenographer is—not shall I be able to find employment, but am I competent to fill the positions that are ready to be filled?
Mainly through the invention of the Type-writer has the art of Phonography in its various forms found a field of usefulness that was scarcely contemplated by the most enthusiastic friends of its earlier days. Through the happy combination of short hand and the type writer, there has come great good to the business man, and he is thoroughly convinced of the fact that there is a shorter and better way of conducting business correspondence than by the tedious and laborious process of hand and pen.
What System to Choose.
There are many systems of Short-Hand in use, and a much larger number that
have proven valueless. The system taught in this, and all leading short-hand schools in the country is "Standard Phonography" by Andrew J. Graham. This system is used by a large majority of the reporters of the United States. Some of the evidences that it is the standard, and the one that the wise student should adopt are as follows:
The fact that those who have learned other systems almost invariably "switch off" on the "Graham," and endeavor to adopt the speed expedients of his system in order to patch out the deficiencies of the system they have learned, thereby greatly increasing their speed and proficiency in reporting. The fact that this system is used wholly or in part by a large majority of the reporters of the United States, and that Graham's works have been adopted as text books in most commercial and other colleges. The fact that many of the distinguishing characteristics of Standard Phonography have been appropriated or imitated by rival authors. The fact that the text books of this system meet with an immense and steadily increasing sale; and the fact that a fair and honest comparison of the principles of speed, legibility, etc., of Standard Phonography, with those of other systems, will demonstrate that Standard Phonography is as far ahead of the alleged easy angle-worm system as a
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SCIENCE CROWNS THE INDUSTRIES.
BY JOSEPH STOTLER.
O farmer, a crown will be placed on thy head;
And thou be made king among men:
T thy toll and thy wisdom gives nations their bread;
And thou art justly placed at the head
Of all of the kingly train.
And thou at the left so awarthy and brown,
Mechanic with hammer in hand,
Thy blows have well earned thy right to the crown
That brings the contentment and wealth and renown;
And gives the a right to command.
O sailor, who braves the wild storms of the sea,
And cuts a wide pathway of foam.
Thy calling a noble as noble can be;
A crown for thy labor is waiting for thee,
Awarded by loved ones at home.
The merchant who brings to the ice-locked North the wealth of the tropical climes. Deserves to receive a bright crown for this worth; And stand among nations as crowned the fourth Great monarch among modern times.
No stains on the thrones nor the sceptor thus earned; Desolation ne'er lurked in their shade: But deserts to Gardens of Paradise turned And brighter the incense to liberty burned When to them true honors were paid.
'Tis Science, fair goddess, that holds in her hand
The crown of true worth to be given to-day;
The sword and the battle-axe at her command,
Unlaureled and unhonored in every land,
Are laid rasting and worthless away.