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just th, and lengthen life. the calendar of the years. WARNER'S REMEDIES. s e R i A Red Letter Day 1s the 22d of February, ASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY—and it is right and Since the day when Washington first saw the light what a number of red letter days brighten Hundreds of inventions and discoveries now annihilate space, lighten toil, deaden pain Among the great discoveries of the nineteenth century none stand out more prominent thanthat of Warner’s Safe Cure, a vegetable preparation for the cure of that terribly insidious disease—Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Dr. Bright of England. at it is so. etc., instead of Bright's disease. Dropsy, heart failure, convulsions, etc,, are but symptoms of Bright's disease, a disease hefore which physicians stand aghast. Bright’s disease and consumption do not Kill at once. There are first, second and third stages. diseases is at their inception. they can without lungs. The kidneys have few nerves of sensation, hence Bright’s disease cannot be detected except by its symptoms or a micro- Prominent among the symptoms are fickle appetite, failure of eyesight, nervousness, frequent desire to pass fluids, constipation, chronic rheumatic pains, gradual fail- ure of strength, pallor of face, swelling of the ankles, shortness of breath, chilis, fever, scanty, high colored fluids, etc. have all of the symptoms, but one of them continued for any length of time is a warning that the kidneys are not doing the work nature intended them to do and that the body through that failure is surely becoming poisoned by the deadly acids which ought to be eliminated. scopical examination Warner’s Safe Cure is a specific for kidney disease when taken in time and according to directions. miracles, but it will do all that human agency can accomplish. It is the part of wisdom to get rid of kidney disease and to begin to-day. AMUSEMENTS. [ Medical sévice free. Address Warner's S8afe Cure Co., Roches! of the fluids of the body. The disease was first named by It had been known previous to his time as dropsy, and death certificates were given, and are given to-day, by repu- table physicians, for dropsy, heart disease, heart failure, convulsions, The time to treat these terrible Bright's disease is consumption of the kidneys, and no man or woman can live without kidneys any more than r, N. Y. Microscopical examinations on application A person may not It wil not work Thira and Last Week, the Famous BOSTONIANS. | X1 AND FRIDAY “THE SERENADE.” SATURDAY HT AND SATURDAY | INEE “ROBIN HOOD.” Beg. NEXT MGNDAY, DENMAN THOMPSO AND New Production of Entirely OLD HOMESTEAD. Mr. Thompson eitively appear ngagemen the first time < resenting his orig- | omb Lyt n 5 oec WE NEVER LIE, NEITHER DID GEORGE WASHINGTON, ABOUT A PLAY. 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Pa. utck- | HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBR JARY 22, 1900, ISLAM TEMPLE SHRINERS HAVE A GLORIOUS NIGHT HE {llustrious nobles of the anclent Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine Wwho belong to Islam Temple of this | city were the exclusive possessors last night of the Alcazar Theater for a theater party to the members | and their wives, lady relatives and their | friends. It was a ladies’ night par excel- lence, for they outnumbered the nobles | who occupled seats all over the house. each wearing a fez and a magnificent jewel of the order. The vestibule of the theater was deco- rated with carmine silk drapings, red lan- | terns and a bower of ferns, the whole pro- ducing a beautiful effect. As each lady entered the theater she was presented with a small silk American flag and a | souvenir programme in the shape of al red fez with black silk tassei. Shortly be- | fore the curtain rose the orchestra struck | that familiar alr, “We Won't Go Home | Till Morning,” and then followed the soul- | inspiring strains of the ‘‘Star-spangled | Banner,” when the entire audience, num- | bering nearly twelve hundred, arose, the ladies waving the little flags and all join- | ing In the chorus with a hearty good will. | It was a sight the like of which has | never before been seen In this or any other | theater in San Francisco. The play ‘was the “Prodigal Father,” | and it was interspersed with many hits at the Shriners which were Greek to the | ladies but well understood by the members and highly appreciated. When Miss Bla- ney, the leading lady, appeared In the first act wearing a fez she was greeted | with a round of applause. Preceding the third act, Reuben P. Hurl- but, the fllustrious potentate of Islam Temple, appeared behind the footlights and delivered a short address, telling the i audience how to form after the perform- ance and march to the hostelry on Mason | street. He stated that it had been ar- | ranged to have five hundred there, but when it was announced that there would | be 750, the landlord’s hair turned gray in | a minute, and when subsequently told that he should provide for 1200 he sur- | rendered the house to the Shriners and | they were forced to engage another ca- terer. While he was talking little Miss Bdith Cooper, who took part In the per- formance, rushed up to the speaker and | called him *‘Uncle Hurlbut,” when he took | her in his arms and kissed her. He then | on one bended knee crowned her with a | fez of the Shriners, and while he was do- | ing this the curtain was raised and he | found himself in the midst of the actors | and for a few moments one of them. To escape, he opened a bottle of sparkliug | wine and the Shriners with one accord sang ““Oh, We Are Awful Dry,” but there was no response from behind the foot- lghts. The members and guests marched to the | hostelry, where they divided into three parties, occupying the three floors of the | building, and were served with a colla- tion, and on the lower floor the {llustri- | ous potentate who concelved the idea of | the entertainmert acted as toastmaster, and at midnight called on W. E. Smith to | responded to the toast, “‘Washington, the Father of His Count He was followed the toast of “The Ladles,” and “Uncle George” Bromley gave one of his charac- teristic talks, fuil of sparkling humor. Tha Temple Quartette rendered several excol- lent vocal selections, and there was danc- ing on the first and third floors after the formalities of the night, and at 4 o'clock this morning the party sang “‘Auld Lang Syne.” | The {llustrious potentate was assisted | e o e e o e T CE o L 2 s:'O\fi» A 4 on dn Sl S i o o S S FPS AP AP S SN S S REUBEN P. HURLBUT, THE ADVEiTEEMENTS OH, MY BACK! Have you dull, dragging pains below your kidneys? Do you feel tired and always want to sit down? If you do, you will find quick and wonderful re- lief in my Elec- tric Belt. It is nature’s rem- edy for these troubles. The Dr. McLaughlin Method of appl electricity glves me power to gend The stron ,‘:!:enlng current direct to the worn-out muscles, to give them new life, cause a better irculation. in a few days a permanent cure. o wear it while you sleep. test it . If you can’t, I will send you my booklet free, telling all about it. DR. M. A. McLAUGHLIN, 03 Murket st., cor. Kearny, S. F.; Burdick Block, cor, Spring and Second ste,, Los Angeles. | ict, W, Blackwell, by Charles L. Patton, who responded to | ! DO 0000+ P09+ 40+ 45060 +2+0 00+ 0 C. S. Benedict, by Nobles Thomas L. Hill, Rob- Willlam E. Lutz, Thomas Morton, ert Moore and Hiram T. Graves. There were present the following named, who were accompanied by ladles: John R. Aitken, Robert Ash, Charles H. Ab- bott, George S. Andrus, F. H. Ames, George R. Armstrong, Louss A. Arzner, Winslow An- derson, Henry Ascroft, George E. Ames, George L. Alexander, J. G. Allen. C, T. Barton, C. M. Bredhoff, C. §. Bene- Charles Bone, S. Bonifield, Samuel W. Buckbee, A. O. Budingtun_Thomas Dr. E. R. Bryant, Waiter N. Brunt, H. Brown: George T. Bromley, Henry Boble, H. A. Brown, Richard Beicher, Peter D, Bernhard, A. W. Bishpp, A. A. Batkin, George W. Bennett, J H. Bennett, R, P. Burr, J. H. Brunings, H. 1. Burns, Alexander Bergen, H. Block, Joseph Black, Georse H. Burnham, Phil T. Browne W. W. Bingham, Frank Boskowitz, E. J. Beni- | dict, A. C. Bauer, Louis F. Brenner, Robert Bragg, Paul Boettcher, W. E. Bridge, G. E. Bacon, Paul W. Bennett, Dr. George E. Bush- nell, Charles Bliss, Peter T. Barclay, John A. Britton, A. W. Baldwin, John Barneson. Dr. W. H. Craig, R. N. Carson, J. H. Cunard, J. J. Crawford, Charles M. Coglan, C. W. Con- lisk, J. C. Campbell, Edgar B. Carroll, John Morrison Curtis, E. P. Colgan, R. B. Culverwell, J. F. Chandler, Walter C. Campbell, Frank M. Cartan, W. H. Crim, Andrew Christensen. George H, Dyer, T. Byron De Witt, Henry P. Dalton, W, W, Douglass, J. E. De Golia, B. B. Duncan, Dr. Charles W. Decker, V. D. Duboce, E. E. Drake, Aaron Doud, W. S De Guerre, George E. F. R. Drinkhc E. Dow, Cyrus E. Dow, Robert Day, Dorn, L. P. Degan, W. G. Downing. Luther J. Evans, R. C. Emery, Daniel J. Edgar, J. Stanley Ewing, Chester H. Evans, J._P. Edwards. Theo Frolich, J. P. Fraser, B. P. Flint, Roger B. Friend, ‘H. M. Furman, E. C. Flag. John Farnham, M. O. Feudner, C. L. Field, G. Mortimer Franks, J. B. Fuller. John Gillson, George D. Graham, George E. Goodman Jr., Samuel Gamble, John H. Gray, G. T. Grilner, Albert T. Glass, W. 8. Gage, A. F. Gunn, U. Grant, H. Grauerholz, B. F. Garratt, James M. Gassaway, W. G. Gillesple. Joseph Hund, W. C. Heyer, A. T. Hatch, E. Hughes, George J. Hobe, J. Hendy, W T. Hamilton, T. V. Harris, R. P. Hurlbut, F. L. Helmer, Andrew Hanseiman, O. J. Husted, W. A. Haisted, Edward B. Hindes, Ralph L. Hathorn, A. Hallet, Christlan Hellwig, N. C. Hacke, Henry C. Hubbard, R. B. Hale, W. 8. Hume, J. H. Heitman, A. Hasselman, Daniel E. Hayes, J. H. Hertrobe, Richard Herring, E. C. Hughes, S. C. Hammond, L. M. Hoefler, C. L. Haskell, M. J, Humphrey, H. E. Holmes. Adolph Hromada, Thomas R. Horton, J. H. Hatch, George E. Howe, Thomas L. Hill Dr. H. 1. Jones, Martin Jones, M. Johnson, lorin L. Jones, Phil D. W, R. Jones, H. W. Jackson Alpheus Kendall, Willlam D. Keyston, Chas. 3. King, Henry Knust, A. F. Korbel, Henry C. Keyes, Roy T. Kimball, Anton Krieg, Thomas Kyle, L. J. Kendrick, Thad B. Kent, Joseph Knowland, C. G. Kenyon, J. R. Know- land, Thomas Kirkpatrick, Frank Koenig, H. jer, William Kidston, Thomas A..Keables. ank B. Ladd, A. V. Lancaster, . Laws, H. Low, Curtis H. Lindle aQ Q, n, George John Lackmann, A, Luhrs, B. H. Lucke, W, T. Little, W. W. Lyman, John Lee, W. E. Luts, John Lee Jr., W.'J. Lander, R_IH. Lioyd. S. G. Murphy, C. H. Murphy, A. W. McKen- zle, F. W. G. Moebus, R. B, Murdock, Captain J. McAllister, R. Menzel, H. S. Miller, Frank McGowan, J.' Alfred Marsh, R. H. Mowbray, John Martin, D. W. Martin, H. B. Maxson, Willlam McLaughlin, N. W.' Mountain, F. Morgan, William S. Moses, Thomas Morton, A. M. McDonald, R. B. Moor, James McCrosson, Frank K. Mott, Samuel D. Mayer, Frank W C. J. Marston, C. C. 'Moorehou: B. McCullough, William' Mooser, James . Adolph Meyer, A. McElroy, F. W. Marvin, S. A. Mc- Donnell, Willlam McKay, J. J. Melgs, A. W. Morton, L. R. Mears, H Manning, H. E. Mathews, James McNab, A, McLaughlin. C. N. Neuhaus, Thomas H. Nicholls, George H. Neuman, Burr Noble. Osborn, A. L. Ott, R. O. Osborn, D. R. L. liver. William B. Pettes, Dr. F. M. Perronnet, J. Jewett, B. C. Jones, | Lippman, H. D. Loveland, M. H. Logan, | c T, M. McLeachlan, J. G. Lieboid, | S. Potts, Thomas K. Parker, G. Charles L. Patton, Jonathan 3f R. Payne, Thomas C. Pinckne: Pearce, A. L Piper, W. R. Parnell, E. T E n, J.'M. Phillips, Warren 3 ips, H. H. Pitcher. H. B. Réam, Theodore Refchert, | . H. D. Rowe, J. H. Reler, Dr. H Reid, B. N. Rowley, E. O. Reiser, Louis P. Robinson, H. R. Robbins. Roesch, 'C W. H. Smith, M. Simonoff, W. A. Starbird, & W-’ i n e e ol he o e o b e e e e s I R e e e SR S O O S SR SR e e S D R SR Y B e e I S LJ ILLUSTRIOUS POTENTATE. J. Harry Scott, J. Fred Schlingman, W. H. Striker, Millon G. A. Somers. A. 3. Schetzel, J. B. Schindler, G. H. Stebe, W. F. Southard, J. G. Spaulding, Edwin A. Stevenson, M. J. Savage, Sigmund | Sichel, Dr. T. Wilson Serviss, M. Storn, E. C. o G. Stahlman, J. 8tin, . E. mith. Edward R. Thompson, W. S. Taylor, F. L. Thirkield, . Toohey, E. K. Taylor, F. L. Tu pin, G. Howard Thompson, William Thomas, B. N. Trobock, P. S. Teller, George Thompson, Edwin W. Tucker, James M. Troutt, John Ton- ningsen, Thomas Thomson. Henry P. Umbsen. 1 Van Bergen. Frank J. Veen, Voorhies, E. J. Vogel. W. H, Wilcox, James A. Wilson, Eugene Wooden, Frank W. Webster, L. Wadhams, M. J. Whithey, Robert Wieneke, Louls Weinmann, E. B. Willis, Dr. R. B. Willlams. John Wag" ner, Clark Wise, C. H. Weatherwax, L. G. Wallace, John H. Willlams, Edwin Whipple, C. H. Weaver, W, Welch, C. T. Wendell, George W, Wittman, F. W.' Williams, Asa R. R. J. Van Wells, H, W. Westphal, J. M. Wilkins, C. S. Wright, George Wolters, W. J. Whitney, C. A. O. F. Westphal, M. 'A_ Wheafon, E. . von Wefs . H, Wagener, Dr. A, burg. A. Wee John Nelles Young, C. G. Young. Two Insolvents. Petitions in insolvency were filed yes- terday in the United States District Court as follows: J. N. Thissell of Solano Coun- ty, liabilities, $1566 20; assets, Panl aussen. San Francisco, $%06; no assets of value, There are sixty-two lawyers in the pres- ent slature of New York, less than a h of the membership of Washington’s Birthday, The best holiday dinner in the city will be served at Zinkand's to-day. Try it and youw'll belfeve it. . | i { | bet. | waging among As: Strong, Charles W. Slack, F. | | lowing hymn of THE LITERATURE OF NINEVEH AND BA Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. III. ASSYRIAN LITERATURE. There is something of a dispute betwean students of things Egyptian and Ass:ria: | as to which records reach further into the past. If we could credit the imagination | of certain scholars the history of Assyria goes back to the fabulous period sounds almost geological. At there is age enough here tery of antiquity to this study; discovery and deciphering of these records form another ckapter in the romance of modern scholarship. In 1842 a French Consul, P. E. Botta, be- gan to make excavations near Nineveh, where he found ruins of great extent. The objects sent by him to the Louvre were sufficient to awaken the curlosity of schol ars. A few years later the work of cxca vation was taken up by Layard, and the ruins unearthed by him in Nineveh and Babylon from 1845 to 1850 are described by him in volumes that have become claasics of English literature. Here for centuries had lain, under mounds of earth blown u by the wind, the remains of a mighty c ilization that long ago had aroused the in- ! L e S e can scholar, Professor Haupt of Balti- more, has done more than any other one person to restore the poem, so far as res- toratic i Even the name of quite recently a matter y. The word was al- leograph style, reading, Izdubar, f anything better. character onal u . a word which ntly sas or conqueror. The following analysis and extracts of the poem are abridged f trow’s work already a We are Intro¢ 1 t to_the anclent city of Uruk (or Erech), which apparently for some offense to thée gods is suffering a terrible siege. Then in some unknown way (the text is here very fragment we see the city under the control of Gil- to gamesh, probably its conqueror. The in abitants, in despair at the tyranny of Gligamesh, appeal to the gods, and the creature Eabani, half man and half be: is t to save them. The wiles of gamesh to win Eabani to his side are graphically told, and at last the monster is seduced by a fair woman, Ukhat, sent out by the Prince to allure him. Gilgamesh and Eabani are friends, and together the fast march now B = = SR ST AP 0T BT~ B2 1ok HIE & | S VaxE JE = H Y | « B Jnok g N H oL T A EM o= Bk ¥ =T B =H ¥ F et CH-T2 H EADH i oF AR «1«14 »Y o« Foe i Aot BE b L e e e e a2 o >~o-+& L 4 . e “« [T HE <F <8 WInk B H of F « 529 ok “MHE H b D SLAB WITH CUNEIFORM WRITING (In the British Museum.) B « Fd R B oI D R e R Q@i et eieieteieisseisieteieiededetrese® terest of Herodotus and other historians. ) Among others things Layard found sev- eral rooms filled h the relics of a re- markable library. the custom of or library of these recor however, for the most wretchedly mutilated condition. Some | 30,000 of these fragments were sent to the British Museum, and the interpretation of | these and of later finds has given us a unique knowledge of that pnrtl"ndof n it ad clent tory. It is good to America work. In 1857 the University of Pen vania sent a party to the spot with result that about 20,000 fragments hav been collected in the university museum in_Philadelphia. The characters employed by the Ascyri- ans were as peculiar as the b used instead of paper. Thes the called cuneiform, or wedge-shaped char- even be- acters, which were known to w fore the time of Botta and Layard, from certain Inscriptions on stone, but which defied interpretation until greater re sources were at our command. 3 cuneiform writings are in several differ Styles and languages. Those of old date are not strictly wedge-shaped. but are made of short, straight lines and are ihe simplified cutiines of ideographs, fcture words, that kad been employ or stone Inscriptions. When they came into use a wedge-shaped Instrument was or d handy for pressing the marks on the molst earth, and we have genuine cuneiform writing. This writing was now ideo- tlabic—that is, some cnar- acters stood f a word, while others were Dhonetic and recorded a syllable. When, later on, the Persians conquered Assyria they adopted the same method of wri but in a much simplified form, using cnly forty-two characters as a phonetic alpha- graphic and s There Is at present a vivacious dispute | syriologists in regard to | the people who first inhabited the fertile valley of the Euphrates and Tigris. It used to be held, and many still hold, that this people, called the Akkadians, or Su- merians or Sumero-Akkadians, who bullt Babylon and originated that great civili- o of the Turanian race and zation, were quite different in language and character from the erians, who later subdued them. Other aintain that from | the first the inhabitants of Babylon were | of Semitic source, akin—that is, in lan- guage and religlon—to the Hebrews and Arabs. However this may be, the civili- zation of the country as known to the an- clent Jews and Greeks, and as we see it reflected in its ruins, was chiefly Semitic. As has been said, the tablets already interpreted include almost ever; vlnrm of literary and incidental writing. What may in any true sense be reckoned as litera- ture is all strongly imbued with religlous jdeas. Apart from the interest of mere antiquity and the slight influence that As-| syria had on more important clyilization, it cannot be sald that this literature has | any great intrinsic value. Professor Jas- trow, in his recent handbook of the As-| syrian religion, divides the subject treat- | ed into five groups—magical texts, hymns and prayers, om:lns nng !nr\gt'astlsfi (;\?- v, epics and legends. Note the fol- OO e Nebucnadneszar, the king | so well known to us in the Bibie, to the od Marduk. The translation is Professor | O Eternal Ruler! Lot Grant that the nam lovest, ‘Whose name Thou hast mentioned, may flourish as seems good 'nthu. on the right path. Sl he ruler who beys Thee, the creation of a It 15 Thou who hast created me, | And Thou hast Intrusted to me sovereignty over | mankind. According to Thy merey, O Lord, which Thou | bestowest upon all, Cause me to love Thy supreme rule. Tmplant the fear of Thy divinity in my heart Grant to me whatsoever eeem good before Thee, Since it is Thou that dost control my life. Notably the most interesting and im- portant part of Assyrian literature is com- prised in certain mythical poems and in the great epic of Gil fam»sh. Were space at command it would be profitable to study in detall some of these minor poems, and espectally the famous lines which tell of the descent of Ishtar, god- dess of love and fertility, into hades, and of the blight which her absence caused to the upper world of light. The description here given of the realm of the dead, on whose portals the dust lies ever undis- turbed, is one of the most graphic ple- tures éver portraved with the pen. But we must pass on to the longer poem, of | which the descent of Ishtar was formerly | supposed to be an episode. i e great epic of Assyrian lterature is | contained on_twelve tablets, each tablet | holding a book, and extends through some 30,000 Tlnes; but, unfortunately, the ut- most diligence hitherto has fafled to dis- cover more than half the whole poem, and much that has been discovered is in 80 entary a state as to make inter- by of the Universe! | of the king whom Thou on extremely doubtful. An Ameri- | deceased, against an enemy who inhabits a strange fortress situated In a grove of wonderful beauty and shaded by a great tree. The enemy Is subdued, and apparently Eabant is made lord of the mystic garden, whers he can follow out the instincts of his haif animal A new element is now in- troduces d we find Ishtar, the queen goddess, 'pleading for the love of Gilga- mesh. There is a note of curfous mys- tery in the words with which the hero rejects her advances. Too many lovers have suffered a strange i1l at her hands— Tamuz, a Hon, a shepherd, a bird of the forest.' Of the bird he sa i his pinfons. e stands and laments, <O, my ions. In revenge for this refusal Ishtar's father sends upon him a savage bull, but the hero and his friend destroy the beast and Gilgamesh-offers up his horns as a sac Then the gods snatch away Eabani, and send sickness upon Gligamesh: and the hero in his grief and pain travels afar off by a road beset with fantastical dan- gers to Parnapishtim. who alone of man- kind is immortal. He climbs a fearful mountain, is ferried across the boisterous sea and at last meets the undying hero face to face, only to hear that death is in- 3 evitable and that he, too, must die. ‘But | how then hast thou escaped death ks Gligamesh; and in reply Parnapishtim tells him the story of the flood—how for its sins his city was buried under the water. and only_he and his wife, being warned by a god, saved themselves in a “six-storied” boat. When the flood sub- sides the gods are repentant for the evil they have wrought and grant him immor- tality. There is a striking similarity be- tween this episode and the story of the flood in the Bible, and unquestionably the two aceounts are different versions of some anclent tradition. When the waters have diminished the As Soah sends birds just as the H ah: 1 sent fort The dove But, finding But, no resting place, returned; Then I sent forth a raven 1, seeing the waters had the but did mot n mud, ‘return. Gilgamesh is healed of his sickness and the undying hero to seek the lant of immortality. He finds the plant, but a demon snatches it from his hand and he is forced to return, healed but still mortal, to Uruk. Last of all we see him wandering from temple to temple lamenting his departed friend Eabanl. He even sirives to learn of the state of his friend in hades, and we see Eabani “rise up like a wind" and stand before him. Gilgamesh cries to him: Tell me, my companion. sent by ell me. my companion, which thou hast ex- me. perienced; oh, But the sad reply Is: I cannot tell thes, my friend, I canmot tell thee! And so this strange poem, whose age no man can guess, comes to an end. Harvard University. PARKER WILL LEAD ST. LOUIS’ FIGHT C. A. Parker, who has been appointed to the commissionership of the St. Louls Traffic Bureau, vice A. J. Vanlandingham, will lead the battle of the St. Louls jobbers at the sessions of the In- terstate Commerce Commissioners, soon to be held in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland. He is credited hers with being the strongest man that the St. Touls people could have selected to repre- sent them. He was formerly traffic man- ager of the Missouri Pacific and after the collapse of the Western Freight As- sociation he assumed the management of two large Eastern concerns, making his headquarters in Chicago. He now resides in St. Louis. Much local interest has been manifested in the succession to Vanland- ingham, who prepared the case for the St. Louls merchants for, the present pro- ceedings. The Pacific Coast will be g resented before the Commissioners . 8. Pilisbury as attorney, and he will b assisted by President Wakefleld Baker, Trafic Manager Loveland and W. R. 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