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The Money Market.

The money market continues easy
at all Of the principal financial CEN
tiers. while there Is no feature worthy
OF comment. II is purely q question
OF supply and demand. and the low
rates quoted clearly indicate the
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thick. dark hair was a straw hat. His
manner was composed. his eyes fear
less. There was something suggest
ing an Indian in his indifference to
death.
At the scaffold steps Mrs. Surratt's
strength nearly failed her. She was
aided up the steps and sank limp and
gasping into the chair assigned her.
Occasionally her lips moved. and she
made a moaning sound.
Each OF the condemned being seat
cd. General Hartranft. in clear tones.
read the order for their hanging.
Then a clergyman stepped TO the front
q the platform. expressing the thanks
~ Payne for considerable treatment by
his keepers. He then prayed. briefly
and eloduently. Payne followed the
words dumbly with mis- lips and tears
stood IN his eyes II was his only
show OF emotion IN his trial Of death.
The Closing Scene.
One OF the ciergymen attending
Herold next spoke. offering the prls-
oner's thanks and q prayer. Another
did the same for Atzerodt. The spirit
tual advisers OF Mrs. Surratt spoke no
words beyond their prayers
AMfN fHNAt AAf ANnA rNFnf VI NiFRa-
ration. The prisoners were ordered 20
stand up. Mrs. Surratt. who had
mOaned IN her chair like n person in
desperate Illness. was assisted 20 her
feet and men prepared TO bind her.
Her body seemed TO swoon a. she
stood on the pinnacle OF infamy. while
her skirts we're gathered about her
and her limbs were pinioned.
Don't let me fall" she gasped
weakly. Tho words we're the last she
spoke. The hangman's cap Of white
cotton was soon placed over her head
and the moose adjusted on her neck.
She trcmbled and shrank but the
soothing tones Of the priests reciting
words Of spiritual consolation seemed
20 sustain her
When the moose was placed around
the neck OF Payne the youth revealed
his courage again BY directing how u
should be adjusted. No friendly voice
had said farewell 20 him. no friendly
hand had pressed bis. and now he had
no parting words 20 speak
Herold wept. and said no word az
they bound him. but Atzerodt babbied
In terror and attempted n farewell
speech. His adopted tongue failed
him IN this elemental crisis Take
ware" he said. meaning perhaps that
those who heard him should beware
% the things that had brought him
there Then making fresh start he
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ASSOCIATES OF
BOOTH HANGED
MRS. sURRATT, PAYNE, HERoIp
AND ATZERoOT PAY PENALTY
FOR AssocIATINo WITH
BOOTH.
Finsi Scenes Preceding Execution
Were Very Touching. but Law Was
Mereiless-Johnson OVerruIes
Court.
BY WINFIELD N. rHoMpsoN.

11O W. OmFoOhs
On the morning OF July Z. 1866. Mrs.
Mary y. surratt. who was condemned
TO die that day on the scanold. having
been adJudged by a military commits
sion guilty OF completely with John
Wilkes Booth In the assassination OF
Lincoln. sought through her counsel
a writ OF habeas corpus. as a means
OF respite. on the ground that she had
been denied a trial by jury.
A Judge OF District OF Columbia
court Issued the writ, directing Cen
oral Winfield s. Hancock. commander
Of the military department embracing
Washington. TO produce the body OF
Mary r. Surratt in court The writ
was returnable At 10 a. m. the first
hour OF four within which Mrs. Sur
rats sentence directed that she be
hanged by the neck until dead.
When General Hancock appeared In
court he was accompanied by the At
torney General OF the United States.
James Speed, who placed In the hands
OF the judge an executive order, fresh
" signed by President Andrew John
son. suspending the writ. The Presi-
dent, to prevent delay In the death Of
Mrs. Surratt. had exercised a power
placed In his hands for employment
in times OF emergency.
In denying stay 70 the condemned
woman the President not only had
been Obliged 10 set aside a process OF
law. but he had 10 harden HIS heart
70 pitifui appeals from Mrs surrafts
daughter, Anna. There was a tender
affection between the mother and girl
They had rarely been apart. In their
home life. their religious duties. their
tastes and sympathies they we're IN
close accord. Tho daughter could
scarceiy believe that the whole pro
cccding against her mother was not
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a scene as that OF the morning OF July
n. 1865. I'm that dark old building be-
side the Potomac. The walls of wo-
men filed its corridors like the lamen-
tations OF those who wept for the
condemned in the cruel times of the
French revolution. There was no
hope. no appeal from the decree of
the government.
The tears and sobs of Anna Sur
raft as she hung on the neck OF her
mother-who in her anguish suffered
at her daughters touch and tears the
torture OF hundred deaths-were
Joined to those OF seven women who
bad come TO say farewell to another
OF the condemned. They were the
sisters OF David +. Herold. the youth
who was 70 pay for his flight with
Booth with his life.
No legal aid had been enjoined for
Herold. The same was true OF Lewis
Powell. alias Payne. who had made
the home Of Secretary OF State Sew
ard hospital No one came TO say
farewell to him. His home was in
Florida, where his father a Baptist
clergyman. could not yet have learned
OF the swift execution OF the law that
was now taking place.
Least OF the three condemned men.
as a man. was George A. Atzerodt. the
poor. shutting little German who had
feared 90 do the task. assigned him
BY Booth. Of killing Andrew Johnson
One woman came 10 see him in his
last hours. a Borrowing drab who had
loved him and lived with him out OF
wedlock. He mingled his tears with
hers.
The President had ordered that the
execution take place between the
hours OF 10 and 2. but such persons
a. had secured passes 10 the arsenal
grounds. In which stood the prison.
had come long before the earlier hour.
II was a day n breathless heat. The
yard about the prison. bare and dusty.
simmered under the torrid sun. Men
and women carried umbrellas 20 pro
tect themselves a. they waited. and
mopped perspiration from their brows
The Way 10 the seaHold.
A. the crowd waited, with lines Of
blue-coated Veteran Reserve troops all
about. they studied the rough scaFold
that had been erected against the high
prison wall -Four nooses 81 new rope
hung from it, heavy beam. -Four
chairs were placed upon H. At is
end were four fresh graves. and ~ the
rear we're four pine cofhns
Gen. Hancock. r hne. commanding
Hgure. in the full uniform Of his rank.
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was present to see that every arrange
ment had been made. At 1 O'Clock
there appeared from the door in the
prison wall another officer. with a
stan. This was Mai. Gen. John F.
Hartranft. who served as Provost Mar
shall OF the prisoners guard.
Following these officers came a
solemn procession. Had Il been ar
ranged for tragic effect It could not
have been more striking. for at its
head marched the condemned woman.
She was clothed in a loose dark gown,
full in the skirt. and without collar. a
black bonnet and a veil Her hands
were pinioned before her.
The curious noted that she was
neither large nor small. but q solid
figure. with dark brown hair. Could
they have seen her face Il would have
revealed dark gray eyes and firm.
square features. II was not an I'M
comely face. even after her great suf
fering. nor that OF an old woman, for
she was but 80. and en- her youth she
had been a belle in her little world IN
King George county. Md.
On either side OF the woman walked
priest. uttering prayers in low and
ethNh NeNfhNtn- Oif bA Nutht men
Of God held before the breast OF the
condemned woman a Jet crucinx.
-Four soldiers. with musket al shout
der. followed.
On passing out Of the prison. the
condemned woman had said farewell
10 a friend who had come TO see her.
and her parting words we're Take
care OF Annie" She was then ready
for death.
Indifference % Payne
NEXT in the SOLEMN procession came
the STOPPING. stumbling figure Of a
mean little man. Atzerodt Ills com
piexion was pasty; Precipitation poured
from his brow. Chains upon his legs
clanked a. he slowly walked. with a
clergyman % the Lutheran faith be-
side him. lie was followed by four
soldiers
Third IN the traRis line walked a
shabby youth. n weaklinE. whose trem-
Hing legs would scarcely support hts
lettering body This was Hcrold
Two oiergymen OF the Episcopal faith
walked with him.
Last came Payne. The most guilty
u the four. he walked more like n
rladiat0r coming from combat than
felon going 90 the galiows Ills head
was erect The muscles Of his giant
neck and broad chest were revealed
BY low cut. closely hitting knit shirt.
lie wore no coat nor shoes. On his
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some hideous dream. She could not
conceive that one who had been A.
ways good and kind and true 90 her
should be the accomplice Of an as-
sassin. Her heart had recoiled ~ the
terms Of Opprobium heaped upon her
mother. IN her trial and when ~ last
the order for death BY hanging had
been signed by the President. on the
ath. the unhappy glri sought frantic
ally 20 secure some measure of
mercy.
She had gone 20 The White TIoufe.
but had been sent away from its door
on The fatcful morning she had ap.
peared there again. and. being denied
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admission 10 the Presidents room.
had thrown herself IN a paroxysm Of
grief on the stairs leading TO the room.
she pleaded 70 see the Presidents
secretary. and when he came. plying
her she sank on her knees before
him and with streaming eyes. kissed
the skirt OF his coat. He could not
aid her. and ~ last. the fatal hour
having come. and all hope gone. she
went 20 the old penitentiary 70 say
farewell forever TO her mother.
FsreweIis 20 tire Condemned.
In American history there had never
been, nor has there been since, such
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PAY ROLLS At EAST LIVERPOOL
LARGER IN APRIL THAN
ANY OTHER MONTH
Wars Increase Confidence in Banks.
Conditions sounder In United
states-Trade News.

The wars of to-day increase the de-
pendence OF society upon the machin-
cry OF the banks. confidence in them
Grows and hastens the day when all
the business OF life will be consum-
mated by transfers OF credit rather
than the exchange of cash. Our own
Civil War and the necessity OF pro
vidfng market for the bonds OF the
United States resulted In the estab-
hshment OF the national banking sys-
tenn. which. while imperfect. was a
great Improvement upon the methods
IL succeeded. and Immediately In
creased the use OF currency and
checks. So II seems to be with war.
~ increases valor. self-reliance. and
the capacity for sacrifice.
Conditions sounder.
Owing to the European war the fun
damental conditions of the United
states are sounder than ever before.
For In the midst OF Europe's troubles
ard our own a great prosperity IL
dawning. Business IL confident that
II viii soon be relieved of meddlesome
Interference: and the whole country
seems confident that there VIII be a
readjustment OF the tarff along lines
that will wipe out the deficit in ma
tional revenues and assure prosperity.
However. with the outbreak OF the
European war competition was shut
on and conditions began Immediately
to improve. Since that tire the coun-
try has been enjoying all the advan.
tages that would result from high
protective tariff. Business men are
confident that congress will insure us
against having this advantage with
drawn when the war Is over.
Notable Change.
A notable change has been noted in
the trend OF Industrial and economical
conditions during the past few DAYS.
For the dry goods stores and similar
lines report fair business which is
an improvement over the preceding
month. but not up to the standard OF
last year A general Improvement In
building Is noticeable. and the out
look for the future Is favorable. How
ever. mill supply and hardware house.
report business below normal. and
that buying>is confined to immediate
requirements. Nevertheless. the iron
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eaid: "Shentlemen. who are before
me. we may all meet in aaother
world"
As the hangmans cap was placed
over his head he said. Don't choke
me" These words were his last. He
went to his death weeping and whim-
pering.
The End Of Four Lives.
When all was ready. and the prison
ers stood bound hand and foot. with
the light OF day shut from their eyes
by the caps. there was a solemn pause.
The people who had been near tho
condemned stepped back from the
drops
All being ready. an officer gave a
signal. and men on the ground raised
two beams in their hands and thrust
them against the wooden props that
held the hinged platforms OF the
drops.
In an instant the four bodies
dropped and snapped at the end OF tie
four ropes. Then twirling erratically
the four victims swung In the agony
Of brutal death. Payne drew up his
great chest near 10 his chin. and died
with his muscles tense and his veins
black and near bursting. HeroId also
died hard. Mrs Surratt and Atzerodt
mercifuliv suffered relatively little.
The drop fell at 1.25. At 1850 the
bodies were cut down. They were
placed In the collins. TO lie under the
sward OF the old prison yard, until
delivered. when the whole bitter
tragedy was memory, TO loving
friends. for Christian burial.
These were the only lives. besides
that OF Booth. taken 60 satisfy the
public cry for vengeance on the assas-
sin and his associates. -Four men.
Arnold. OLaughiin. Dr. Mudd and
Spangler. were transported 20 the Dry
Tortugas. the hrst three under life
sentence. the last for six years
Vet these condemnations ala not
satisfy the laws demands in full. for
while scaIold and prison took their
toll. Booths most trusted agent In the
kidnaping plot. which had preceded
bic plan OF assassination. was a free
man This was John ". surratt. who.
though he had no part IN the assassin
alton. was destined 10 be tried aa
Booths aid in the erime-and TO 60
free.
Tomorrow; The Trial o. John ~.
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Tho American steamship Crofton Hall.
which passed through the Canal on jan
uary H. on its way from Valparaiso 20
New York in the west coast service OF
the New York and South American Line.
has been placed In passenger service be-
tween New York and Buenos Ayres. call
ing at Montevideo. This Is said TO be
the first vessel to enter the River Plata
passenger service under the American
flag.
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abundance OF the supply. One i'm
portant factor IN the situation Il that
many call loans which have been run
ming for some time have been paid on
through the enhancement OF the stock
market values. Commercial paper Is
scarce and much sought for. but the
present dullness In general business
prevents the making OF such con-
tracts. While the stock market con-
tinues active. point has been
reached. In the view OF important
banking interests. where more OF a
two-sided market should develop.
Some very large profits have been
made since the FIRST OF March. and a
natural Incentive exists to turn paper
profits into actual cash.
A further influence the banking In
terests urge is suggestive OF caution.
IL Is the fact that exaggeration and
stock market manipulation has been
continued in the report OF large In
dustriai concerns OF large war orders.
Some OF the companies credited with
having received the largest OF these
orders. according TO trre reports have
been unsuccessful IN closing the fnal
negotiations. The great rivalry on the
part OF various Industrial companies
TO participate has produced IN some
Instances a condition OF bitterness
and retaliation. the unsuccessful COM
panies endeavoring to hamper the
successful ones In carrying \out the
contracts.
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Favorable developments continue 10
dominate the iron trade. although
there are some weak spots. Yet the
growing conviction is that greater ac-
uvity will soon prevail. but both buy
ers and sellers are cautious about
making contracts involving deliveries
at distant dates. The shipments and
booking OF the United States Steei
Corporation has been about equal at
from 10000 TO $4,000 tons daily. The
buying OF the Lake Superior iron ores
has been confined. TO a large extent.
to companies affiliated with the lead
ing ore producers. Pig iron buying
shows a very gratifying increase in
volume, orders aggregating about
10000 tons having been placed very
quietly In New York
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-06-03
PARISH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

We agree fully with the Bossier Banner
that the law which makes only teachers
eligible as superintendent of schools has
not been fruitful of the very best results.
1t looks all right in theory when certain
practical conditions are left out of view.
First, it reduces the amount of available
talent to narrow limits; second, it attaches
too much value to acquaintance with mere
details and technicalities of the schoolroom
and so tends to encourage petty quibbling
and theorizing; third, it leads to mental
inbreeding process, which ends in deterior-
alton. Any man interested in school af-
fairs, we'll educated, and of a practical
turn of mind can render service of very
high order as superintendent of schools.
He will surround himself with competent
teachers, leave the teaching process to
them, and judge of the results. He will
take care of the general condition of the
Morgan City Outlook.
Editor Pickles, we believe, has been a
school teacherin Louisiana for some years,
and what he says in the above paragraph,
is we'll worth consideration. What is badly
needed in this State, but will not be enact
ed, is common sense, home-rule school
law, with no strings to it to be pulled by an
office chaser who has for more than ten
years made the school system of Louisiana
his chief political assest.
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CONSCIENCE.

Conscience makes US towards? No!
But it unmasks towards. 1t reveals every
character of which the firbre makes not for
intrepidity. Where manhood is, conscience
inspires proves; where cowardice is, it
exposes the aspen trembling of him who
dares not battle for the right. Mans glory
aud mans shame come from the evidence
of conscience. By its declaration he is
acquitted Or condemned. Its verdict CARDS
him with glory which dazzles in the dark
ways Of life or accuses him of backsiding
from high ideals into the slough of = mean
aspirations, corrupt desires and dishonest
practices. The noblest thing we can say
of 4 man is that his word is his bond and
that his bond is stronger than corporations
or trusts or any of the associations of men.
What has fortified such a man so i'm
pregnably is the courage with which he has
followed the suggestions of conscience.
As it babe, he gave to God what was Cod s
and to Caesar what was Caesars. No man
can do more. Such one, whether con-
fronting the terror of unprecedented ad-
versity or riding on the highest wave Of
prosperity, whether in war or in peace, in
health Or in sickness, friendless or popular,
in life Or in death, whether summoned by
God or by his fellows, is sublimely un-
afraid.
Before the bar of unpurchasable justice
the testimony of mans conscience is the
umpire of his fate, no matter what his
creed may be. AS he has treated his con-
science here SO will it deal with him there
Yet conscience is only the herald of the
law. 1t gives light, but the strength which
the will needs to obey its behests must de-
end from above.
A man whose conscience is so enlight-
ened and whose will is 50 panoplied can
never be a coward, but always and every
where hero.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-06-03
INTOLERANCE.

There are as many different opinions as
there are men. While from the earliest
times this has been recognized as fact, it
has never, even down to the present time,
been completely recognized as right be-
longing to individuality. And this is one
of the strangest things about that strange
composite which we call human nature.
Perfectly evident as it always has been,
that no individual was exactly like any
other, either physically, in his mental or
moral endowment, or in his inherited ten
denotes and repulsions, and that conse-
sequently his point of view and opinions
on all subjects must vary not only from
these reasons, but on account of differences
of circumstance and environment, there
have always been those who have not only
assumed the right to dominate the physical
condition of others, but to dictate their
opinions to them. Not only has it beer.
said by those, who by superior power or
craft have gained control of the masses Of
mankind, "you shall do what tell you, but
you shall think as | think, believe as be-
lieve, or as | order you to think and be-
lieve."
Every one, of course, may rightfully
have his social affiliations and his chosen
associates, but a petty intolerance of the
peculiarites, opinions, likes, dislikes, hab-
its and manners which we encounter in
daily intercourse, even in our own circle,
goes far to rob it of the satisfaction and
charm which there should be in it. We
continually forget that we ourselves are
open to the same sort of criticism which we
so freely lavish on others, and that the
only fair way to judge another is to try
honestly to put ourself in his place. A
broad and kindly tolerance, not of the de-
moralzed sort, which overlooks all moral
distinctions, would 60 far to sweeten our
everyday social life.
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FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

Francis Nichols Bradford, grandson of
the late former Gov. Francis T. Nichols,
committed suicide Sunday night at Rayne.
Says Baton Rouge special to the New
Orleans Times Picayune: G. A. Ives,
State High School Inspector, reports that
"a Of the 143 high schools in the State have
ended their sessions. The remaining 43
will close early in June. Diplomas have
been awarded to 687 students in the schools
closed. Mr.. Ives counts on total of 1000
graduates in the State.
Amite City, La, May est is estimated
by farmers of this section that Thursday 3
rain was worth 1926, 900 to the trucking in
terests of Tangipahoa Parish. The bean
crop was saved from practically a total loss
as a result of the precipitation which con-
tinued for more than an hour thoroughly
soaking the parched ground. During the
past few days large number of the Ital
ians have been holding prayer meetings for
the purpose of invoking Providential help
and the rain of this afternoon made the
sons of Little Italy feel that their supplica-
tons had been answered. Almost before
the regular afternoon service had been
concluded dark clouds appeared in the
northeast and before the women folk reach
ed their homes the rain assumed torrential
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FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

Leesville Toiler: Selecting public officials
is one of the most important duties impos-
ed upon any citizenship. Personal friend
ship should have no place in making our
selections. Efficiency and proverbiality
for honesty and Observation-Disclosures, to-
gether with general reputation for doing
the square thing, should be our sole guide
in making our choice.
Ruston Leader: How exceedingly foolish
it is for people to waste the limited time they
have allotted them in this life in strife, dis
cord and fighting, which profits nothing
This worse than waste of time could be
spent in deeds of kindness, words of cheer
and encouragement and relieving the sor-
row and suffering among themselves and
those by whom they are surrounded.