English: A shorthand example in Benn Pitmann system, published in The Business Man's Encyclopedia, 1905. Transcription: "For the third time the Congress of the United States are assembled to commemorate the life and the death of a president slain by the hand of an assassin. The attention of the future historian will be attracted to the features which reappear with startling sameness in all three of these awful crimes; the uselessness, the utter lack of consequence of the act; the obscurity, the insignificance of the criminal; the blamelessness- so far as in our sphere of existence the best of men may be held blameless- of the victim."