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DOLPY's BIG FAMILY.
Twenty-one Children, With the Parents,
Make Up a Little Community.

Thomas Goldsmith Harrington Dolby Of
}i}gin, Ills, is the father of 81 children.
This interesting family, presided over by
q dainty little woman who is the mother
OF seven members of it, is rated as one Of
the really biggest things in the northern
part of Illinois.
The Dolby family forms q community
by itself, settlement in Elgin known as
Cedar Hill. 1t fills page on the city di-
rectory and runs the gamut of ordinary
names.
1t does business under the style of Dolby
& Seventeen Sons, while all the sons and
daughters hold stock in the corporation.
1t buys flour by the barrel, meat by the
quarter wooden goods by the bolt, fish by
the frkin and shoes by the case. The fam
lily owns its own factory for aluminium
work and to each man, woman and child
on she pay roll boss and father mean the
samo. Tho factory has never had any
strigrs, excepting such as very strict par
ent may deal out, and one of the most pas
toru sights Elgin ever secs is the Dolby
family in a big wagon going for an outing.
1t is like attending a church social to
call at the Dolby homestead ON Cedar Hill.
There they arc, all manner of DOlbys, from
the young woman to the youngsters in
knickcrbockcrs, either clustered about the
stove or ranged along the dining board,
like guests at table d'hote. S,he house
is perpetually full, and from cellar to gar
ret there are Dolbys whose names are
known with certainty only to the heads of
the family and the census taker. There
are % covers at each meal.
Mr. Dolby believes he can instruct his
flock better than any one else, and so each
Sunday the house is turned into church
and Sunday school. He is the supcrin-
tendcnt, and the family is variously divid-
ed into grades and classes. As all the chill
drcn are fond Of music, there is regularly
organized choir, with several instruments
to help it out. Each Sunday in the year
Mr.. Dolby gathers his 81 children about
his knees and tells them how to live
Honesty is his creed, industry his ritual,
brothcrly love his motto.
Mr.. Dolby is an Englishman-a type.
He is all of 3 feet tall without his silk hat
His face is rosy and his blue eyes dance
and flash under brow which is high and
wrinlllcless. His whiskcrs are a plagiarism
of Chaunccy Depew's. Mr.. Dolby was born
in 1910. He was an inventor before he
became a father the first time and has been
both ever since. The family came over in
sectiOns-l4 of them in 1884.
The Dolbys deal largely in butter for ex-
port. They also make the aluminium
boxes to ship it in. This industry does not
keep the entire family busy, so they spend
days and nights in the workshop devising
patents and wrestling new secrets from al
minimum. Many patents have been issued
to the family. The Dolbys do not hire
outside help, and prefer running behind
the orders to using imported laborers The
family is as ontentcd and happy as it is
numGrous.-New York Sun.
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A FLOATING CHURCH.
Missionary Ship on Which Grog ana To.
bacCo Are TabOOed.

Missionary Ship on Which Grog ana To.
baccO Are Tabooed.
The missionary brigantine Pitcairn has
just been at Oakland, Cal, fitting up fol
voyage to the South seas. Tho Pitcairn
belongs to the Seventh Day Advcntists
and was built five years ago at a cost OF
100000 Captain Graham, the master of
the ship, does missionary work among the
islands. He is accompanied by his 9-year
old daughter Eldon.
Missionary Graham makes his little ship
a floating chapel, and the sailors are COM
PEELED to attend religious services twice a
day. Nc greg or tobacco is permitted on
board.
The captain practices the old rule Of do.
ing unto others as he would have them dc
unto him If circumstances We're reversed,
and all eat at the same table, sleep in the
same compartment, pray together and fare
just alike.
All the money used for the construction
of the vessel was contributed by Sunday
school children throughout the country,
and the support of the crew is derived in
the same way.-San Francisco Examiner.
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GENERAL RUGBR's TRANSFER,
Report That He VIII Succeed General
Schofield as Lieutenant General.

Not in many days have military circles
been in such flutter as they were over the
transfer of General Kruger from Chicago to
Washington. Army officers have been try
ing to find out what it all means, and in
well informed circles there is strong sus-
picion that General Kruger is the new ia
vorite of the president, and that he has
been brought to Washington for the pur-
pose of succeeding General Schofeld as
lieutenant general.
The friends of General Miles are not
willing to admit that the senior major
general is to be thrustiaside in favor of an
other. They are quite sure President Cleye-
land would not violate the proprieties of
the cHSc III this manner. At the same
time &c are good reasons for saying the
prcei.'r., IS much infStuatcd with General
Rugca and looks uI'On him as the fore
most American soldier of this day
General RugGr's assignment to the prep
aration of new drill tactics is more in the
nature of a preteXt than anything else,
and, as matter of fact, he will have
precious little to do between now and next
September, when General Schoficld is to
retire. The belief is quite strong here that
on the retirement of General Schotleld
General Kruger will take up his work as
general of the army and that he will next
fall succeed to the title of lieutenant gen
eral in case congress gives the necessary
authority for his Chicago
Times Herald.
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What MY Lover Said.

By the merest chance in the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me.
In the tall, wet grass, with it's faint perfume,
And tried to pass but he made no room,
Oh, tried, hut he would not let me.
So l stood and blushed till the grass grew red,
With my face bent down above il.
While he took my hand as he whispering said
How the clover lifted each pink, sweet head,
To listen to all that my lover said!
Oh, the clover in bloom, love IT'D
In the high, wet grass went the path to hide,
And the low, wet leaves hung over,
But could not pass upon either side,
For found myself when I vainly tried
In the arms of my steadfast lover,
And he held me there, and he raised my head,
While he closed the path before me,
And he looked down into my eyes and said
How the leaves bent down from the boughs
oerhead,
To listen to all that my lover saidl
Oh, the leav3s hanging lowly Ger meD
Had he moved aside but a little way,
/ could surely then have passed him,
And he knew 1 never could wish to stay
And would not have heard what he had to say,
Could only aside have cast him.
It was almost dark, and the moments sped,
And the searching night wind found u.s.
But he drew me nearer and softly said
How the pure, sweet wind grew still, instead,
To listen to an that my lover said!
Oh, the whispering wind around usD
am sure he knew when he held me fast
That must be all unwilling,
For l tried to go, and would have passed,
AS the night was come with its dew, at last,
And the sky with it's stars was filing
But he clasped me close when would have
fed
And he made me hear his story,
And his soul came out from his lips and said
(How the stars crept out where the white
moon led,
To listen to all that my lover saidl
Oh, the moon and the stars in gloryD
I know that the grass and the leaves will not
tell,
And I'm sure that the wind precious rover
Will carry my secret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One word of the many that rapidly fell
From the soul speaking lips Of my lover,
And the moon and the stars that looked over
Shall never reveal what n fairylilke spell
They wove round about US that night in the
dell,
In the path through the dew laden clover,
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart
swell
As they fell from the lips of my lover
Homer Greene in San Francisco ArGonaut.
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HE KNOWS THEM ALL.
Jim LOvett Is Sort OF Sherlock Holm
In His Sphere.

Jim Lovett Is Sort OF Sherlock Holmes
In His Sphere.
Jim Lovott tho elevator starter in the
Postal Telegraph building, New York, has
succeeded in mastering the names of the
5000 people who work in the offices there.
Lovett's feat would be remarkable under
any circumstances, but is particularly so
in this case because the building has been
open only few months and up to a week
or so ago new tenants were coming in
daily, each tenant bringing with him three
or four clerks.
Among the people in the building Lovett
is known as the walking directory. Clerks
bookkeepers stcnographcrs and typewrit
ers, as well us the $50 men and girls en-
plOyed in the company's operating room
are all known to him, and in most eases he
is able to give an accurate description of
any one of them. There are couple OF
dozen John Smiths, and no end of William
.Joncses, to say nothing of string OF
Browns and Whites, but if you happen tC
want any Green's particular John Smith
or Bill Jones, all you have to do is to give
Lovett a slight description of him and he
will answer:
ooh, yes; know him. Got q mole be.
hind the left ear. He's with Blank, Blank
& Blank, sixth floor, Cos. Going up?" and
before you realize what has happened you
find yourself in an elevator going rapidly
skyward.
In modest way Jim Lovett is a sort OF
Sherlock Holmes.
81 started in life as an elevator man in
hotel, " he said, land bengfond of study
ing human nature l made q practice of re
membGrng the names and features of the
guests of the house. l got 50 that l could
call men by name who had not been inside
of the house for a year, and who had been
entirely forgotten by the clerks and othel
employees of the house. l discovered in
this way that 1 had good memory, and
can tell you it has served me in good
stead many a time
81 have been in hotels all over the coun
try ever since and have become master oJ
faces and names. My last place was at the
Waldorf, where 1 had charge Of the hat
coat and umbrella stands, and there, more
than any other place l was ever in, had
to exercise my powers of memory 1 came
here as an elevator man and in few
weeks secured the place of starter. There
are now about 500 tenants in the building,
and including clerks and operators some
5000 people l managed to get the office
holders in my head first and in Il few
months had them all down fine. Then
started in on the others, and now I think
can tell you the floor and number of the
room where anybody is employed"
Loyott is very proud of his accomplish
menu and takes Otfense if anybody con
suits the directory by the elevators when
he is aroUntl.-New York Sun.
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Marvellous Results.

From a letter written by the Rev. j.
Eunderman of DimOndale, Mich, we
|re permitted to make this extract: 81
AVE no hesitation in recommending Dr.
ting's New Discovery, as the results
/ ere almost marvellous in the case of my
Fife. While | was pastor at the Baptist
hurch at RiveS Junction, she was
|rought down with pneumonia, succeed
big la Grippe. Terrible parOxysms of
bughing would last hours with little in
eruption, and it seemed as if she could
OF survive them. A friend recommend
b DR.. Kings New Discovery; it was
uicll in its work and highly satisfac-
bry in results" Trial bottles free at
|. D. Gibson's Drug Store. Regular
lie SOC. and S1.00.
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AN IDIOTS INVENTIONS.
Las Several Valuable Patents, Although
He Is Quite Crazy.

AAo 10 GuAbS SIdAJs
Ferdinand Haisch, carpenter, was ar
Bsted recently in San Francisco on the
barge of incorporating in female attire.
With the aid of an interpreter Haisch
Explained that he had only one suit of
hens clothes. When he wanted to change
10 was compelled to don a section of his
aborate female wardrobe.
Haisch is n man who has an interesting
history. What he has accomplished may
let bring him wealth. For one improve
'lent on a gas engine he has been offered
III, 600 by a New York firm. Several east
I'm men have offered him largo amounts
II money for his numerous inventions.
He will not sell them, although he con-
Family advertiscs them for sale. How or
Ehoro he obtained the costly dresses found
his room is II mystery to his friends.
Several years ago Haisch was thriving
|ontractor and builder with a large place
II business. While working on building
|e fell from u scaffold and crushed his
llull. For tw- years he was confined to
is bed. A delicate surgical operation was
Performed and nearly all of the bones were
|emOvcd from Haischs skull. Although
lis life was saved, his reason was shat
pred Since that time he has not been in
is right senscs.--San Francisco Exam
her
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SHE IS A HEROINE,


Pursued by Fire and Smoke, She Saves Her
Charge at the Risk of Her Life.
Pauline Dakeuf q nurse, % years old,
proved herself a heroine in u recent frame
tenement house fire in Williamsburg. Miss
Dakcuf had charge of Mrs Mary Phillips,
an invalid, on the top floor.
A boy employed in the grocery stUe on
the ground floor went to Il room behind
the store with lighted candle and dropped
it on a bed. Flames spread rapidly, and
the halls were soon filled with smoke.
Miss Dakcuf was in her patient bedroom,
and did not hear the cries Of fire until all
the occupants Of other apartments had fled.
Miss Dakouf wrapped Mrs. Phillips in
bed overs and carried her through the
smoke filled hall and to the foot of a lad
der leading to the roof. So dense was the
smoke that she found it necessary to cover
her face with her apron. Then she climbed
the ladder carrying the invalid. She was
almost overcome by suffocation, but she
struggled bravcly on, and by desperate
effort lifted the scuttlc cover with her head,
and placed her charge on the roof. She sue
ceedcd in reaching the roof herself and
then dragged Mrs. Phillips to the roof OF
the adjoining house. Having completed
her task, she sank exhausted.-Ncw York
Herald
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Miss presIxi. Walking Delepate.

Miss Lottic Preski, 10 years old, is tn,
first female walking delegate to be ap
pointed in New York. She is trying to or
ganize the women who make garment!
against the expiration of the existing agree
ment of the workers and the employers.
Miss Presbi has already discovered thai
female walking delegates are unpopular
with the sweatshop bosses, so she nominal
ly resigned her honor of walking delegate
few days ago. She still, however, con
tinues to 40 effective missionary work
among her sisters. By the expiration o
the existing working agreement in Au
gust she expects to have fully organized
3, 900 women workers. New York Herald
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THE HAT PROBLEM.
How Two Sailors Tried to Solve the Cues
tion In Theater.

Another effort to solve the question of
dealing with unmanncrly women who in
sist on wearing largo hats in thcatcrs was
made at The Academy of Music, New
York, the other evening. Two sailors from
the United States ship Chicago bought
seats in the gallery, and after the first act
went to see the manager. They said they
had paid to see the play, and that they
could not because of the big hats of two
women. They had asked the women to
take their hats off, and they had refused.
One of the managers joEingly advised the
sailors to take the hats off themselves if
the women refused.
After the next act the women went
down to see the manager. The sailors HI
taken the advice seriously. 1t is impossi-
Bile to describe what the women thought
and said about it. The manager restored
something approXimating to peace by Civ
ing the sailors seats in another part of TIE
house and letting the women do as they
liked about wearing their hats.-New
York Tribune.
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Sold a Girl For Fifteen Ponies.

Rosa Whitcface, a pretty Indian girl,
now pupil of the Caddo Indian school at
Wichita, Kan, has been sold by her father
to her sisters husband for 10 ponies. The
Indian whose wife she is to become is 70
years old and already has other wives. She
is only II. The girl has appealed to Pro
fessor Montgomery of the CaddO Indian
school to save her from such fate and
he is exerting every energy to assist her.
He has made an appeal to the citizens OF
FL Reno, and a popular subscription is be-
ing taken up in order to raise a sufficient
sum to pay her travelling expenses to Wash
ington, where she desires to go that sh-
may make & personal appeal to President
Cleveland. The girls father is incxora
Bile, and her aged lover insists upon the
contract being carried out.-New York
Sun.
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Deadliest Poison Known.

The most deadly poison is that which
.Tas discovered by Professor Frazer of Ed
'nburgh and known as shophanthidin an
african plant. AS little as one thousand
|nillionth part Of an ounce of crystallized
|hophanthidin produces distinctly in
urious effect upon the heart, and a very
mall quantity is fatal.
Another deadly poison is cyanogen gas,
he principal ingredient of hydrocyanic
Pr prussic acid. AT ordinary temperatures
t is simply gas but can be condensed
by cold and pressure into thin, colorless
liquid and becomes solid at 30 degrees +.
he inhalation in its gaseous state of a
most minute quNncity would cause instant
Reath.
One of the most deadly poisons is ar
|eniureted hydrogen, which is formed by
accomplishing an alloy of arsenic and zinc
With sulphurio acid. 1t is a colorless gas,
possessing fotid odor of garlic, and acts as
most deadly poison.-Family Magazine.
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Carlisle to Run For Senator.

1t is becoming pretty well understood
that Secretary Carlisle is going to make {
vigorous fight for the Kentucky senator
ship, 1t is that or practice law with him
and he fears that he has been too long il
public service to make a success in u pri
vate professional career. Until the silvel
movement started in the west Mr.. Carlisle
believed he had good chance to be the
Democratic candidate for president next
year, but all such dreams are now dispell
ei.-ChicagO Times-Herald
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Soul Problems.

Alta recent gathering in this city of we'll
known American authors the subject of
|osterity's verdict on current literature
anne up. Tho tendency of time IS to
weed out the superlluous, remarked a
boted novelist Il am of the opinion that
Inly works of great psychological interest
esist the influence of time in literature.
There is a psychological interest to The
lady or the Tiger 1t will be remembered
when much of Stockton's work is forgot
en-. DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde will live
10 keep Stcvenson's memory green. If
Fou want immortality, deal with soul
problems. New York World.
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She Should Have a Monument.

They are going to erect monument in
New England to the memory Of the man
who discovered the Baldwin apple. The
housewife who invented the New England
practice of serving apple pie at breakfast
certainly deserves u monument if there is
to be general distribution of apple me-
mentos. The doctors and undertakers
should look to this as matter of graft.
tude.-Now York Mail and Express.
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Had No Hard Feelings.

An extraordinary incident took place at
the Manchester police court, where two
men who were caught in the act of max
ing spurious coin at Droylsden were re-
manded. Before being removed to the cells
one of the men asked to be allowed to pre-
sent his watch to the detective who arrest
ed him for making so clever capture.
The stipendiary was greatly amused, but
declined to entertain the application
New York Herald
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Mahomet Goes to the Mountain.

A Boston clergyman is taking the fu-
ture by the forclock, and as he finds his
church deserted by his pleasure loving peo-
pie on Sunday in the summer time he pro-
poses to have service early enough in the
morning so as to give them the day He
evidently believes the Sabbath was made
for man and is willing to sacrifice himself
for his conviction.-Ph iladelphia Press.
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A Brilliant Idea,

Clerk-Mr. Muldoon, we have an order
or hard wood kindlings, but the hard
wood is all gone
Mr.. Muldoon (dealer)-Sind 'em saft
wood.
"They will notice the difference, be-
kause soft wood burns too fast"
"Be jabers, thot's so. Wet it."-New
York Weekly.
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Two Hints.

Two hints for playwrights. The Maine
woman whose divorce was set aside after
her second marriage and the expiration of
90 year lease of 1876 acres in the center of
Jersey City, now worth thousand times
as much as it was when the lease was
made.-Boston journal.
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An Early Prediction,

Looking to the issues which are likely
to dominate year hence, we regard Har-
rison as much the most likely nominee Of
the Republicans for the presidency in 1896,
unless dark horse like Governor Hast
ings shall win in the scramble.-Phila-
delphia Times.
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Couldn't Name the Books of the Bible.

AT gathering of ministers and mem
bers of various ""ligious denominations re
Gently, the question arose as to how many
in the company could repeat the books o.
the Bible in their order. Out of the 200 OF
more present one person only, and that
person a woman, had the confidence tc
raise her hand and acknowledge that she
was equal to the occasion.-New Bedforo
Journal
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The President and his Cabinet seem
have approved of Great Britain's Mic
raguan policy from the first. This
makes the international disgrace of the
Administration have three prominent
hapters; one each on Samoa, Hawaii
! nd Nicaragua.
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RuckIen's Arnica Save.

The best Salve in the world for cuts,
|ruises, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever
ores, letter, chapped hands, chllblains,
orns and all eruptions, and positively
ures piles or no pay required. 1t is
uaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
honey refunded. Price 25c. per box
FOR sale by G. D. Gibson.
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Not Content with Bloomers.

A number of girl students in the Uni
versity of Michigan have decided to wear
knickerbockers hereafter. They expect
that all the girls in the university will
soon follow their example.-New York
Tribune.
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Boomers Booming In Boston.

Mrs. Mary Sargent Hopkins, editor Of
The Wheelwoman and an authority on BIZ
cycle matters, is to have II special exhibit
ton at the Boston pharmacy fair of bicycle
costumes for women and will lecture on
the subject once a week.-New York
Times.
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New Paper For PhiIadeIphia.

Herbert Welsh is about to start a weekly
newspaper in Philadelphia, to be called
The City and State.-New York Tribune.
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The Kind 1t Was.

Johnnie with a book)-Papa, what
.oes conspiracy of silence mean'
Papa-Don't know One in which Wom-
n are not concerned, 1 fancy. Detroit
Tree Press.
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The Monroe doctrine has now supplant-
ed Napoleon and Trilby as the object of
popular attention. But no matter to what
extent it may spread it has one saving
grace over the others-it cannot well be
dramatized. Baltimore American.