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DOLCINITES 393 DOLERITE scattered over all Europe. Besides his madonnas the most famous are his "St. Cecilia," "Christ Blessing the Bread and Wine," and "Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist," in Dresden. He died Jan. 17, 1686. DOLCINITES (from Dolcino, their founder), a Christian sect which arose in Piedmont in 1304, under the leader- ship of Dolcino, who was opposed to the papacy, and otherwise held tenets like those of the spiritual Franciscans and the Paterines of Lombardy. At the in- stance of the Inquisition troops were sent against them in 1307. After mak- ing a brave resistance Dolcino and a number of his followers were captured. They were first tortured and then burned alive. DOLDRUMS, among seamen, the parts of the ocean near the equator that abound in calms, squalls, and light baf- fling winds; otherwise known as the horse-latitudes. DOLE, a tov/n in the French depart- ment of Jura, on the Doubs, 29 miles S. E. of Dijon by rail. It contains a Gothic cathedral, a college, and a library; and it has quarries, foundries, manufactures of metal wares, and a trade in wine and cheese. Pop. about 16,000. Dole, the birthplace of Pasteur, is the Dola Sequa- norum of the Romans, of whom many traces remain. It was in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries a strong and oft-dis- puted fortress, and the capital of the Franche-Comte with a university and a parliament DOLE, CHARLES FLETCHER, an American clergyman and writer, born in Brewer, Me., in 1845. He graduated from Harvard University in 1868 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1872.* He served as minister in Port- land and in Jamaica Plain, Mass., from 1879 to 1016. Among his writings are ♦The Citizen and the Neighbor" (1884) ; "The Golden Rule in Business" (1895); "The Theology of Civilization" (1899); "The Spirit of Democracy" (1906) ; "The Ethics of Progress" (1909) ; "The Burden of Poverty" (1912). DOLE, NATHAN HASKELL, an American literarian; born in Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 31, 1852. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1874, and after several years of teaching, engaged in literary work in Boston and New York. He was literary and musical edi- tor of the Philadelphia "Press" until 1887, when he became literary adviser to the firm of T. Y. Crowell & Co. His principal original works are: "Young Folks' History of Russia" (1881); "A Score of Famous Composers"; "The Hawthorn Tree" (1895) ; "The Mistakes We Make" (1898), and "Omar, the Tent-Maker" (1898). In 1899 he edited the complete works of Count L. N. Tol- stoi, whose novels, "Anna Karenina," "War and Peace," and many others he had already translated. He has also translated "Maria y Maria," "Maxi- mina," and "Sister St. Sulpice," from the Spanish of Valdes; "The Letters of Victor Hugo," novels from the French; and a multitude of songs for music, operas, etc. In 1896 he edited a multi- variorum edition of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," containing many translations in English, French, Ger- man, Italian, Hungarian, and Danish. Among his more recent works are "Life of Tolstoi" (1911), "Spell of Switzer- land" (1913). He has lectured widely before women's clubs and other institu- tions. In 1882 he married Helen James Bennett, well known for translations from the French and German. DOLE, SANFORD BALLARD, an American statesman; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23, 1844, his parents being missionaries on the island. Dole received his early education in Oahu College, Honolulu, and completed his studies at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. He studied law in Boston and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1873, returning in the same year to Hawaii. In 1884 he was made a member of the Legislature and a^ain in 1889. He had been in the meantime, in 1887, appointed an Asso- ciate Judge of the Supreme Court, under the monarchy, which post he resigned to accept the leadership of the revolution that overturned the monarchy in Janu- ary, 1893, and established a provisional government on the 17th of that month. The proposition for annexation of the is- lands being rejected by President Cleve- land, a constitutional convention was held in Honolulu, and on July 4, 1893, a republic was formally proclaimed, of which Judge Dole was elected president. After the annexation of Hawaii in 1898, he was one of the five commissioners ap- pointed by President McKinley to rec- ommend to Congress such legislation concerning the Hawaiian Islands as they should deem best, and was subsequently appointed governor of the islands. He retired in 1915. DOLERITE, a variety of trap-rock, consisting of labradorite and pyroxene, with generally some magnetite. It may be either light colored crystalline, or granitoid, or dark-colored, compact, mas- sive; either porphyrite or not, sometimes crypto-crystalline, and also a cellular