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istration as minister of justice and attorney-general of Canada, Nov. 12, 1897, and became government leader in the Senate. He was the author of The English in Africa and several brochures on international and political subjects. He is an acknowledged authority on constitutional law and the practice of Parliament.

Mills, James, born in the County of Sim-coe, Ontario, in 1840. Graduated from Victoria College in 1868, and taught in Cobourg Collegiate Institute for three years. He became principal of the high school at Brant-ford, and for ten years was in charge of the farmers' institutes which he organized. He organized and superintended the traveling dairies of the province, and published First Principles of Agriculture. He became president of Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm at Guelph in 1879, and successfully performed its duties until 1904. He resigned in 1904 to become a member of the railway commission. This position he now holds. Dr. Mills more than anyone else has contributed to the phenomenal success of the college at Guelph.

Mill'viHe, N. J., a town in Cumberland County, on Maurice River, connected by electric railway with Bridgeton, is in southern New Jersey, 40 miles southeast of Philadelphia It is served by the West Jersey Railroad. North of the city are an extensive public park and a fine sheet of water. Mill-ville possesses churches, schools, a fine high school, two libraries and banks, and has cotton mills, iron and glass factories, dye works, bleacheries and machine shops. Population 12,451.

Mil'man, Henry Hart, English divine, historian and poet and dean of St. Paul's, London, was born at London, Feb. 10, 1791, and died near Ascot, Sept. 24, 1868. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and in 1812 won the Newdigate prize with a poem on The Apollo Belvedere. Early in his career he published poems of much merit, several being in Latin, and in 1821 was elected professor of poetry at Oxford. His published writings, besides his verse, embrace a History of Christianity, a History of Latin Christianity, a History of the Jews, Lives of Horace and of Edward Gibbon and the Bampton Lectures etc. He successively was canon of Westminster, rector of St. Margaret s, London, and finally dean of St. Paul's.

Mil'ner, Alfred, Viscount, P. C., G. C. M G., ex-governor of Cape Colony, of Transvaal and the Orange River Colony and high commissioner of South Africa, was born in 1854 and educated in Germany, at King's College, London, and at Balliol College, Oxford. Early in life he studied law and became a barrister In 1885 he became private secretary to Geo. J. Goschen, then chancellor of the exchequer, and from 1888 to 1892 he acted as under-secretary for finance in Egypt, which enabled him to write Eng-

land in Egypt. He was appointed governor of Cape Colony and chief commissioner of Great Britain in the negotiations at Bloem-fontein in May, 1899, preceding the Boer War. In April, 1905, he resigned after eight years of arduous and brilliant toil, when he was presented with an address in appreciation of his services with over 370,000 signatures. He is a man of ability, and in 1901 was made a peer and in the following year a viscount. In 1895 he wrote Arnold Toyn-bee, a memoir of the enthusiastic worker in the social-settlement movement.

Milo (mi'Id), a Grecian athlete, born in the latter part of the 6th century, was celebrated for his enormous strength. Six times he was a victor in wrestling in the Olympic games and as often in the Pythian. He is said to have carried a live ox on his shoulder four times around the race-course of the Olympic games and then to have eaten the whole animal in one day. When Pythagoras and his scholars found the house in which they were gathered falling, Milo held it up on his shoulders while they escaped. But in his old age his strength proved his ruin, for in trying to split open a tree with his hands he was caught and held fast until devoured by wolves.

Miltiades (mtl-ti'd-dez), an Athenian general, who lived in the early part of the $th century B. C. He was ruler in Chersonesus and took part against the Scythians, and was one of the ten generals chosen to resist the Persian invasion of Attica. When the generals were hesitating whether to risk a battle immediately or defend their country behind the city-walls, through his influence the vote was in favor of a battle at once. When his turn came to command, he engaged the enemy and won the famous battle of Marathon. He was given command of a fleet of 70 vessels and made an attack on the island of Paros, but failed in the attempt. He was condemned to pay a heavy fine and was thrown into prison because unable to pay. He died in prison (about 489 B. C.) of a wound he had received at Paros.

Mil'ton, John, one of the greatest of English poets, ranking next to Shakespeare, was born at Cheapside, London, Dec. 9, 1608. He studied under private tutors and at Christ's College, Cambridge. When he had finished his studies, he was prevented from entering the church, the only profession he desired, by its disturbed condition at the time. He settled at home to study with the distinct purpose of making himself a poet. He had already written Hymn to the Nativity and some Latin verse. At this period he wrote only four poems, Comus, Lycidas (in memory of a friend), L'Allegro and // Pen-seroso In 1638 he visited Italy, and received much attention from its poets and literary men He hastened back to England at the news of hostilities between Charles I and Scotland, and the poet long gave way t© the statesman. His prose-works consist