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* MILLEB. 513 MILLER'S TALE. Congies-ses (IS'HSl). He was elected to the L'nited !Slates Senate in phue of Thomas L'. Piatt, who resigned in ISSl and served until 1887. In 18S8 he was the unsuccessful Kepubliean candi- date fi)r t;oveinor of New York. MILLER, WlLLl.vit (1782-184!)). Founder .i| the religious .seel called 'Jlillerites" or '.Second Adventists.' He was born in I'ittslicld, Alaas., but when he was four years old his parents re- moved to Low Hampton, N. V., which continued to be his home during most of the remainder of his life. He served as a captain in the American Army during the War of 1812. but soon after its close liecame deeply interested in religion and de- voted himself to the study of (he Uible. As early as 1818 he came to the conclusion that Christ's second aiivent had been prophesied for the J'ear 184.'t. and during the succeeding years becanu' the author of a creed founded on this basis. In 183.'! he was licenseil to preach by the Baptist Churcli in Hampton and Whitehall, and in the same year issued a pamphlet entitled Evidence from (S'cii'p- tiirc mid Historic of the Second Coming of Christ aboiil the Year /.S'/.f; and of His Personal Reign of One TItousand Years (1833). Soon afterwards he began to lecture on the same subject to large audiences in the New- lOngland and Middle St;ites. As the year 1843 drew near his followers awaited the second coming with intense excitement. When the year ended he wrote to them confessing his error and acknowledging his disappointment. Later he set October 2'2, 1844. Kven after this second failure many of his disciples remained faithful to him and continued so till the day of his death. Consult White, t<Ketches of the Chris- li(in Life and I'uhlic Labors of William Miller (Hatlle Creek, 1875). MILLER. W1LI.IAM Allen (1817-701. An English chemist, born at Ipswich. He studied medicine at King's College. London, and then went to Germany, where, in 184(i. he entered Liebig's laborat(UV. After his return to Eng- land he became demonstrator of chemistry at King's College, and in 1845 was promoted to the ])rofessorship. He contributed several interesting ments of Chemist m Theoretical and Practical (lS,5.'-)-,-)7). MILLER, William Hallowes (1801-80). An Engli^li iiiineralogist. He was born at ^'elin<lre, near Llandovery, and was educated at Saint .John's College. Cambridge, where, after graduat- ing in 1821). he became fellow and tutor. In 1832 he was appointed professor of mineralogy', ami in 1838 was elected a fellow of the Koyal Society, in 1838 appeared his famous syslem of crystal- logra|ihy. the most consistent and adaptable yet devised. From 1843 to 1854 he was engaged as member of a Covernment commission in replacing the stanihu'd of weights and measures, which had been destroyed by lire. In 1870 be served on the Commission Internationale du Mi'^tre, and from lS5('i to 1873 was foreign secretary of the Hoyal Society. He contributed frequently to the scien- titic press, and published several text-bonks on hydrodynamics and hydrostatics, MILLER, William Henry Harrison (1S40 — 1. An .merican lawyer. .-Mtorney-General of the United States in 1880-03. He was born in .Vugusta. Oneida Countv. N. Y.. and graduated at Hamilton College. Clinton. N. Y.. in 1801. He removed in that same year to Ohio, taught school at Mauinee for six months, and then enlisted as a private in the Fighlyfourth Ohio 'idunteers, a three-months regiment. W hen his term of enlist- ment was completed, be read law for some time at Toledo, and in 1803 settled in I'eru, Ind., as superintendent of schools. There he was ad- mitted to the bar. In 1800 he removed to Fort Wayne, where he practiced his profession until 1874. when, having established his reputa- tion, he went to Indianaixdis to become the law partner of Benjamin Harrison (q.v.). Their association lasted until the death of the latter, e<intinning throughout Harrison's administration as rresiilcnl, during which period Miller served as Attorney (ieneral of the United States. MILLERAND, nu'rriix'. Alexa.ndke ( 1859 — ). A French Socialist, born in Paris, where he was educated at the Lycee Vanves and the Lycge Henri H'., and studied law in the university. He began to practice in Paris in 1881, was counsel to the striking miners of Montceau-les-Mines in 1882, and was elected to the municipal council in 1884 and in 1885, as a Radical Socialist, to the Clianiber of Deputies. To this ollice be was elected again and again, first in 1880. when lie carried on a vigorous anti-Houlangist cam])aign. In the same year he became proprietor of Im I'ou', which he made his personal organ. In the Chamber of Deputies Millerand urged many re- forms, esi)ecially industrial, and came into promi- nence as editor-in-chief of the Petite Ri'-pithliqnt: (until 1800) and as an impassioned orator. In 1899, as leader of the Parliamentary or Oppor- tunist Socialists, he was made Minister of Com- merce in the Waldcck-Rousseau Cabinet, and in this ollice |)rocnred. in October, the pas.sage of an industrial bill assuring workmen one day's rest a week, only a certain ])ereentage of foreign labor, a set rate, and a fixed day; in 1900 jiasscd a law making ten hours the maxinmm day for women and children; and in general made many attempts to insure workingmen against loss and to |)rociire the adoption of compulsory arbitration. In 1902. just before the Cabinet went out of oOiee. a bill was passed making eight hours the maximum day for French miners. Consult La'v, Uamxra do Millerand (Paris. 1902). MILT^ERITE (named in honor of W. H. JMiller). . native nickel sulphide that crystal- lizes in the hexagonal system, has a metallic lustre, and is of a yellowish color. It occurs usually in capillary crystals in cavities with crystals of jjther minerals, especially in Bohemia, in Saxony, and in Cornwall. England; in the l'nited States it is found at Antwer)). . V.; in l.aniaster County, Pa.; and espwially in geodes in limestone near Saint Louis, Mo., and .Milwau- kee. Wis. Millerite has been made artilicially in groU])s of needle-like crystals. MIL'LERSBURG. A village and the county- seat of Holmes County. Ohio. SO miles south of Cli'velaiid ; on Killbuek Creek and on the Cleve- land. Akron and Columbus Railroad I Map: Ohio. (! 4). It has manufactures of foundry and machine-shop products, tlour, brick, lumber, etc. There are dejiosits of coal and iron ore in the vicinity. Populirtion, in 1890, 10'23: in 1900, 1908. MILLER'S TALE. The. One of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It is the familiar story of an old husband de<'eived by a young wife. In this case the husband is a rich old simpleton, n car-
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