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KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Consultations In English or German. Office in Lyon's Building, Allegheny street. JOHN G. LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, # BELLEFONTE, PA # Office in the rosau fuszaerly eecupied by He latew. P. WUaen. ftc JHillkrim §##rtsl. A SUMXBK KVIC How hushed the busy hum of ilmj I How mildly spread* tlio parliug ray Its yellow light O'er yonder cloudless western sky: While dusky night Mounts up the liquid arch on high With rapid (light. The ruah of Kno'a rocky stream. The cowboy's rustic shout aud scream Break ou the ear; And deep wlthiu Die darkening vale Pale sparks apptar—- Which fluting fireflies unveil As night draws near. Hushed Is the grove, aud still the ueat; Warmed by the mother's wing to rest The tender brood Forget to ope their yellow mouths Aud cry for food, Till morning streaks the east wKh red, Aud wakes the wood. Soon to you poplars'* towtrng height The watchful crow will wiug his flight And perch on high, To hall, freah mom, thy early biuah, With Joyful cry, And wake the minstrel lark and thruah Jo melody. A \ LKV ROMANTIC STORY. Mattie's story was simple enough. The orhpau girl of a former servant in a wealthy family, Mattie had shared the lessons and the play of the younger daughter of the house, until a time came when it was convenient to turu the humble companion adrift to work for herself. It may have been a piece of ill-luck his neighbors ascribed to Drew, that it should have been to his farm the girl came as help to his sister, or it may have been a piece of his good nature that made him agree to take under his roof this pretty lass, untrain ed for service and educated far above her station. Drew's widowed sister, Mrs. Bankes, who lived with him and whose child it was Mattie had come to nurse, amongst other duties too numerous to mention, for there was but one servant kept— Drew's sister exclaimed in despair when the farmer brought home the young, lady-like,delicate-looking girl : •'We want a strong, hard-working lass ! This one doesn't know her right hand from her left. She is as good as a lady, or as bad, and has never milked a cow in her life ! What are you think ng of to bring her here?" "Ah ! that's just my luck ; well, we must do the best we can with hor. If the steward had never mentioned her to me now—but then he did mention her, and here she is." There she was, and there she stayed, apt to learn, willing to be taught, grateful for the real kindness she met with. Mattie was soon the best hand at milking for miles around, and soon devoted to the baby. Three years passed quietly, and then came the ro mance of Mattie's lite. She was twenty that summer. Adam Armitage, a grave man, was fully ten years her senior. A great traveller, a member of the world-renowned scien tific society, a student and a discoverer —he was between two scientific expedi tious, refreshing heart and brain by a walking tour through the home coun ties. Adam's walking tour ended at tbe farm Drew had taken only a year before, and the dwelling-house it had been found more convenient to inhabit than the smaller building on the old land close to the road. Mr. Armitage found tli e pure air of the Downs good for him. He made friends with all the family. To Mattie it was delightful to meet once more some one with all the tricks and manner of the more refined society among which her youth had been passed. Little Harry followed his new friend wherever he went ; Har ry's mother called him a right-down pleasant gentleman ; the , farmer called him a good man. They all missed him when he went away, Mattie most of all; but the fol lowing summer saw him there again, a welcome old fuend this time, and no stranger. Drew, a keen observer of all that went on around him, was not so much taken by surprse as his sister was, when one day toward the end of this second visit Adam and Mattie were both mysteriously missing. A strong armed country lass made her appear anoe before night. She was the bearer of a note from Mattie, confessing that she and Mr. Armitage were married, and hoping the servant sent might sup ply her place, so that uo one would I* inoonvenienced. Drew might shake his head and look thoughtful, but Mr. Armitage was his own master, and it was net the first time a gentleman bad married a country lass. Besides, the deed was done and past recall. They had gone quietly to one of the churches in the town, and from whence the sound of bells floated up to the farm, and had been married by special license. Adam had taken a lodging for his bride, and there they passed one brief, bright week of happi ness, then one morning they walked quietly back together, Mattie blushing and smiling, and looking so lovely and lady-like in a simple dress that she used to wear before she came to the farm that they hardly knew her. Adam explained that he meant to leaye his wife for two days —no more— in the care of her old friend, at the end of that time he would return and fetch her. There were arrangements to make with regard to the scientific expedition about to start immediately. It would sail without him now, but it behooved him to do his best that his place should be as well filled as might be. There was also his mother to see, and prepare for receiving Mattie. Mattie walked a little way with her husband and the farmer, along the breezy uplands and then Adam sent her back, and hastened his own steps in the direction of the little station at the foot of the Downs. When he came again, he said, laughing, that it would be from B statical, and that he would drive hi a fly through the Stone dene gate and along the track, the only approach to a carriage road leading to the farm. Mattie went away smiling, as he meant she should do, and only paused now and then to look after the two men as long as they remained in sight. It MILLHEIM. PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 13,1882. was natural that she should feel a lit tle afraid of this unknown lady, Adam's mother, but that fear was the only shadow on Mattio's path. It was an idyl, a poem, as true a love story as the world has seen, that had written itself here in this out-of-the-way spot on the lonely Sussex Downs. On the third day they might look for Adam to return, but that day passed, and many another, until the days were weeks, and the weeks months, and he neither came nor wrote. Muttie re membered how when she had turned to look back for the Inst time upon that homeward walk, she had seen his fig ure distinct against the sky for an in stant, and the next lost it entirely as he passed out of sight over the swelling lines of hills. Just so she seemed to have lost him in one instant out of her life. And yet she never lost faith and trust in him—never ceased to watch for his coming again. Drew, after a time, either goaded to the step by his sister's loud-voioed ar guments, or prompted to it by las own sense of what was due to Mattie, not only took pains to ascertain that the marriage was real enough, but the fur ther pains of searching for and finding the uddress of Adam Armitage in Lou don. It was strange how this girl and her former master both trusted Adam in the face of his inexplicable silence ; in the face of even a more ominous dis covery made by Drew when in town— the discovery that lie had never men tioned Mattio's name to his mother, or alluded to Muttie at all. As for Adam, Mrs. Armitage had declared he was not with her then, and that she could not give an address that would hud him, au assertion that confirmed Mattie in the idea that he had so often spoken to her. As autumn passed aud the evenings grew chill with the breath of the com ing winter, Mattio's health seemed to fail. The deep melancholy that op pressed her threatened to break the springs of life. In order to escape Mrs. Bunkos the gill took to lonely wander ings over the Downs ; wanderings that ended always at Stonedene ; until, with the instinct of a wounded animal that seeks to bear its pain alone, or from the ever present recollection of the hist words of Adam, when he said it was by way of Stoncdcne that he would return, she besought the farmer to send away the woman in charge of the house and allow her to take her place. Drew yielded to the wish of the wife whose heart was breakiug with the pain of abse' ce and the mystery of silence, and Mattie on this foggy day had al ready lived months at Stouedene, on the w itch always for the coming of Adam. The fo£ increased instead of dimin ished with the approach of evening. Drew could not see his own house until he was close to it; as ho had remarked, the mystery of Mattie's a flairs was not more impenetrable than the veil hiding all natural obj cts just theu. When he hnd put up the horse and gone into tea, Mrs. Bankes, as she bustled about pre paring the meal which Mattie's deft little fingers had been wont to set with so much qnietness as well as celer ity, did not lail to greet him with the question : "Well, how is she?" "She" had come to mean Mattie in the vocabulary of the farmer and his sis ter. "About as usual in health," Drew re plied, lifting the now five-yeara-old Harry to his knee, "but troubled in mind, thongh to be sure, that is as usual, too." "She is out of her mind," exclaimed Mrs. Bank as, irritably. "Everyone but yourself knows that; and if you do not know it, it is only be cause you ate as mud as she is—or any one might think so from the way you go on." "Nay, nay," said Drew gently, as the butter dish was set upon the table with a vehemence lhat made the teacups rat tle. "There are no signs of madness about Mattie—unless you call her trust in her husband by so harsh a name." "Husband ! A pretty husband, in deed 1 I've no patience with him, nor you neither. As if it were not a co n mon tale enough ! It would be better to persuade the gitl to come home and get to work again than to en courage her in her fancies, while you pay another servant here—and times so hard as thev are." "I was 1 Linking to-day," the farmer went on, softly passing his broad palm over the blonde head of the child upon his knee, "I was thinking as I came along of how it stands written : 4 He that loveth not his brother whom he had seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen ?' At that moment the shadowy form of some one going to the front door passed the window, against which the fog pressed closely. Drew set little Harry on his feet, and rose slowly, listening with intentuess aud a surprised look that made his sister ask what ailed him. "Rover I—the1 —the dog does not bark; who—by the mercy of Ueaven, it is the man hi.t.self 1" cried Drew, as the door opened witli a suddeunoss that caused Mrs. Bankts to drop tho plates upon the biick floor. For Adam Armitage stood upon the threshold. Adam, pale and worn, a shadow of his former self, but himself unmistakbly, Adam looked around the room ss though seeking some one, smiled in his old fashion at Harry, gave a half-curi ous half-indifferent glance to Lnm Bankes, and he turned to the farmer. "Drew," he said simply, "where is my wife?" "Mrs. Armitage is waiting for you at Stouedene, sir. There,was some talk of y our coming back that way." "Waiting?" Adam threw up his hands with a passionate gesture. "What can she have thought?" "She has thought you were gone, after all, upon that voyage, and that your letters miscarried. Sometimes she has thought you were dead, Mr. Armitage. but never—"Drew broke off and held out his hand. "We knew you could expluin what has happened, sir, he concluded. Adam drew his hand across his eyes in the way a man might do who has lately been roused from a bad dream and has some trouble to his thoughts. "That has happened," he said, "which, if it had not befallen me my self, and become a part of my owu ex perience, 1 should find it difficult to be lieve possible. A strange thing has happened"—hero the old smile they re membered so well broke the light over his face—"aud yet a thing not more strange, tut the world goes, thau that you—l say nothing of Mattie—but that you should have trusted me thrifUgh out. I detected uo distrust in your voice, uo doubt in your eyes, not even when they first met mine just now. They call mine a rare case, friend ; they might say the samo of your belief iu me. But—Stouedene. did you say ? Walk with me there and hear my tale as we go." "This evening, and iu this mist, and you, sir, looking fur from well," began Eliza Bankes. "Mattie has waited so long already that one night more will make hut little differcuoe." One night, one hour more than I can help will make all the difference be tween wilful wrong and a misfortune that has fallen on all alike," said Adam. He would not be dissuaded frotu set ting out at ouoe, and in another minute the two meu were pursuing their way through the driving mist, Adam talking as they went. After parting from Mattie ho had taken a train to London, where, arriv ing in due course, he drove into a cab to his mother's house in Grosveuor street, within a few yards of which his cab overturned, aud Adam was thrown out, falling heavily upon his head. After a long interval, however, he ope - ed his eyes and recovered conscious ness, and, as he did so—slowly at first, but after a time more fully—the as tounding discovery was mode that his memory was entirely gone. However, this state was one from which, so said his friends, science could at will recall him, and the operation necessary to restore Adam to himself was deferred only until his health per mitted of its being attended by a mini mum risk. It was while Adam was iu the state al>ove described that Drew had seen Mrs. Armitage. A proud woman, Bhe was ill -pleased to hear that he had mar* ried alarm servant; for that was tho one fact that, stripped of Drew's pane gyrics upon Mattie's superior education and refined mauners, alone stared her in the face. Hastily resolving that there was no need to embitter her own life by ua attempt to recall to her son this ill fated marriage, she did not hesitate to deceive the unwelcome visitor. Change of scene had been ordered for the pa tient, and before Drew colled at the house iu Grosvencr street for the sec ond time, Adam and his mother were gone. It was in Paris, months after that, that the operation was finally and successfully performed, aud the first word of Adam was Mattie's name. The first effort of his newly recovered pow ers was to relate to his mother the his tory ol his marriage and to write to his wife. "God grant the suspense has neither killed nor driven her mad 1" he exclaim ed. v It was to his mother's hand the letter was confided, and with that exclama tion ringing in his ears, Mrs, Armitage stood beside the brazier filled with charcoal and burning in the ante-room of their apartment in the Champs Ely sees. She was not a bad woman, but the temptation was too strong to allow this affair to unravel itself, and what would turn up. If the girl were dead, why no harm had been done, and this terrible mistake of her sou's was recti# tied at onco. If the other alternatives were to prove true and Mattie had lost her senses, Adam would be equally free from her, or measures oould be taken to insure so desirable a result. Mrs. Armitage tore the letter into pieces, and awaited by the brazier until tho fragments were charred. Adam asked no awkward question, aud was not even surprised at receiving no answer to his epistle, siuoe in it he announced his coming. The first day his health admitted of it ho set out alone for Eug- Und. Such was the story. When Drew had told of his efforts to seek Adam, and hail mentioned that uo letter had reached Mattie, Ada n was at uo loss t# understand the part his mother played. But he uever spoke of it theu or at any future time. The house door at Stonedeuo stood ajar; evening had closed in now, aud the chilly fog was still abroad, but the figure at the gate was dimly discernible. Adam hastened his steps. "For heaven's sake, sir, be careful; the suddenness of it might turn her brain," cried Drew, laving a detaining baud upou the arm of his companiou. Ad'im gently shook him off. "Suddenness," he repeated. "Aye, it is sudden to you—and to Mrs. Bankes, but for me aud for Mattie, whose thoughts are day aud night, night aud day full of each other, how cau it be sudden ?" Drew stood still and Adam went on alone until his footsteps became audi ble and Mattie turned her head to see him standing at her side. Adam had been right; no fear was there L>r Mattie's brain. All exjite ment, all surprise and wonder came afterwards ; at the first supreme mo - ment, and with a satisfied sigh, as of a child who has got all it wants, Mattie held out her arms to him with one word— "Husband 1" As Adam drew her to him it was not only the mist or the darkening evening that blinded Drew so that for a moment or two lie saw neither of them. People say Drew's luck has turued from that day Stouedene found a tenant. It is newly done up and prettily fur nished now; Mr. and Mis. Armitage come down here once or twice a year with their children for a breath of fresh air aud to visit old friends. ,Aw exchange ualts: "What would a twemy-tiva cent cigar amount to if you had no match?" Juat a quarter oi a Uol ia brother, Uiv us another, KxpctaUon The whole Mohammedan world is excited over the expected end of the world this year. The Moslems say that most of tho signs which are to precede that dreadful hour have already been accomplished, and that but two more are wanting. Those in which they pro fess already to see the fulfilment of prophecy are many, some of which are tuiuHlts and seditions, innumerable earthquakes aud eclipses, and the de cadence of faith among men. In the late war between Turkey and Russia they see tho fulfilment of the prophecy that Gog and Magog, the fair haired tribes oT the North, should break forth across the barriers which Dhu'l Kar vein built against them in the mountains of Armenia. Iu Gla Istone they see tho anti-Christ. The two signs wanting are the descent of Jesus upon the earth and the appa itiou of the Malidi. In anticipation of the early coming of Christ,tho cleansing and repairing of the Eastern Minaret of Jesus, of the great Mosque at Damas cus, was begun about two years ago. The apparition of the Malidi, is. how ever regarded as the greatest of all the signs foreshadowing the end of the world. Mohammed it is said, prophesied that the world should not have an end till one of his own family should rule over Islam, whose name and whose fa ther's name should be the same as his own and his father's own (Abdullah)r It has loug been the belief of tlie Mos lems that a descendant of the Propliet of the tribe of the Koreish will rule over the Arabs about the boginuing of the fourteenth century of the Hegira, aud that At that time the Mahdi will r veal himself at Mecca and the era of the Ca liphate be brought to an end. The be ginning of the fourteenth century is uea. at hand; the Caliph of Mecca, Abdul Mutt&llio, is reported to have raised the standard of rebellion and proclaimed himself ruler over the Arabs; and to cap the climax, so to spsak, the Mahdi him self has appeared at Mecca iu the per son of Abdullah, the son of Mohammed, by a mother of the name of Einiueh. The names of the Prophet, his father and mother, are properly grouped to gether, aud ihe circumstances of time and place all answer to the prophecy. If anything else were needed to convince the faithful that the end of the world is at hand,may be found in the cholera now raging iu Mecca, and which the Arabs call "the yellow wind of fire." aud this is the fire which, according to prophecy shall consume the Hedjaz at the mo ment when the Mahdi makes his appear ance. These things are now regarded by ♦he Mohammedans as of greater im portance than the settlement of finan cial questions, Government reforms, etc. indeed, in comparison, those things which so deeply interest other people are th# merest trifies to Moslem nations. High Heel*. Kecently a modest young gentleman at tended the morning service in a fashioua bie church, and was kindly shown into a luxuriously cushioned pew, and had hard ly settled himself, and taking observation of his neighbors, before a beautiful young lady entered, and, with a graceful wave of the hand preventing our friend from rising to give her his place, sunk into a seat near the end. When a hymn was given out she skillfully found the page, and with a sweet smile that set his heart a thumping, hand ed her neighbor the book. The minister raised his hands in prayer, and the fair girl knelt, and in this posture perplexed our friend which most to admire uer beauty or her devoutneas. Presently the prayer was concluded, and the congre - gation resumed their seats. Our friend respectfully raised his eyes from the fair form he had been so earnestly scanning, lest when she looked up she should detect him staring at her. After a couple of seconds he darted a furtive glance at his charmer, and was as tonished to see her still on her knees. He looked closely and saw that she was much affected, trembllug in violent agitation, no doubt, from the eloqueut power of the preacher. Deeply sympathizing, he watched her closely. Her motion became more violent; reach tug behind her, she would convulsive ly grasp her clothing,and strain, as it were, to rend the brilliant fabric of her dress. The sight was extremely painful to behold, but still he gszed, like one entranced with wonder and astonishment. After a minute the lady raised her face, heretofore concealed in the cushion, and with her hand made an unmistakable beckon to our friend. He quickly moved along the pew toward her, and inclined his ear, as she evidently wished to say some thing. "Please help mo, sir,* she whispered, "my dress is caught and I cau't get up." A briet examination showed the caune of the difficulty. The fair girl wore fashioni> bio high heeled boots, kneeling upon both knees, these heels, of course, .were aimed out at right angles, and in this position the highest hoop of her now skirt caught over them and thus rendered it impossible for her to raise herself or straighten her limbs. The more she struggled the tighter was she bound, so she was constrained to call for help. This was immediately, if not scientifically rendered, and when the next prayer was made she merely inclined herself upon the back of the front pew— thinking, no doubt, that she was not in a pray&g costume. —The average pay of the St. Louis school teacher is $615.51 a year. —Austin has been very kealtny this i year. Heading Signs in Use Iky. It s easy enough to bo a weather prophet. All you've got to do is to keep your eye on the sky, and it will be a very sly storm indeed that steals a march on you. : ' The speaker was a gentleman living on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, who has done a great deal of sky gazing, but says be has uo desire for a public reputation as a weather-wise man. "Look out of the south window. Do you notice fcnose long, narrow, misty looking clouds in parallel rows that seem to be advancing upward from behind btaten Island with the precision and steadiness of a line of battle? They are the advance guards of an approaching storm. The barometer has not given the sligntest sign, aud it probably will not until that skirmish line has rescued the zeuitn, which may take hours, and yet I am as cei lain that a storm is comiDg as though I saw the ram falling." "Do you mean that you can foretell a storm by the clouds sooner than by a barometer ?" "Anybody can. These winter storms, especially, announce their approach some times two or three days in advance. Whenever you see those parallel stripes of clouds rising tn the southwest and moving in ranks slowly across the sky, you may be sure that wet or snowy weather is at baud. Why should not the clouds tore tell the weather? There cannot be a storm or any considerable change of weather without clouds, and there is al most as much difference perceptible in clouds as in faces, if people would but notice them closely." "Do clouds always foretell storm f" "No; some clouds give assurance of fair weather. A very little practice will en able anybody to read this language of the clouds. It is more like studying a lan guage thau you would suppose. You know in Latin a chauge in the termination of a word changes its meaning. Just sea change in the form of clonds changes its meaning. It is no mere chance vork, but a certain change always means the same thing, if *cirTi' turn into *cirro strati,' every meteorologist knows what that means just as well as the boy at the head of the Latin class knows the differ ence between 'Hie' and 'liujua.' "Then clouds are not all of one kind?" "By no means. About eighty years ago Luke Howard, an English Quaker, whose business required him to take long walks in the open air, completed a classi fication of clouds that have ever since been in general use. One of the most wonderful phenomena ever witnessed in the sky led Howard to study the clouds. This was in the great dry fog of 1781, that overspread the whole of Europe and part of Asia and America, reaching to the summits ot the AJps, aud lasting from one to three months, according to locality. The greatest terror prevailed aud the end of the world was thought to be at hand. "Howard noticed that there are three principal kinds of clouds, which he call.'d cirrus, cumulus and stratus. Anybody I can see the difference between these clouds I at a glance. Ike cirrus is the highest of all the clouds, kou must have often seen it in the form of white filaments, sometimes called 'mare' tails' aud 'cats' tails.' Stretched across the blue sky like delicate lace work, it is very beautiful. Travelers say that on the summit of lofty mountain peaks, from which they could look down upon tne heavier clouds, they have seen these wispy cirri floating over head, apparently as far away as when seen from the earth. In calm summer evenings, long after sundown, these clouds may be seen reflecting the most t delicate lints ot color from the last rays of sun light that illuminate the higher regions of the atmosphere. "The cirri are composed of little crys tals of ice. These clouds and their de rivatives cause the h&los that are sometimes seen about the sun and moon. It was probably cirro-strati that caused the great display ot moondogs and circles the other day at Denver. Cirrus clouds* indicate storms aud clear weather, according to its appearance. If they appear in their most delicate forms alter stormy weather, theu a period of settled; weather is at hand. When they show themselves in parallel streaks fair weather has lasted for some time, they are the first indication of approaching change. Cirri, when greatly tangled and knotted, show stormy weather close at h&id. If their borders grow taint aud indistinct, there is rain coming. "Cumulus clouds are characteristic of EummejL The farmers call them thunder heads when they poke their sm these clouds frequently appear before a 1 thaw. Between summer showers they 1 accompany increased heat. They are common in dry weather. • "The cirro-stratus commonly appears in shoals resembling fish in shape. Its popular name Is the 'mackerel shy.' It is almost a sure indication of approaching stormy weather. When it settles dowu into a thin veil, covering the sky, and making the sun and moon look dim, It is certain to be followed by snow or rain. You will see in it that form following hose streaks that are now rising in the outh west and covering the sky before the torrn comes. "Did you ever see a battle in the clouds The cirro-cumuli and cirro-strati are nat ur&l enemies. The first-named is a fair weather and the last a foul weather cloud Wheu they meet, as they sometimes do, after a summer storm has partially cleared, there is war in the sky. The cloudy squadrons encounter in mid-heaven to set tle the question whether sunshine or storm shall prevail. It the cirro-cumuli succeed the weather will clear; if the cirro-strati are victorious, there will be more foul weather. It is a war of destruction, and the battle usually ends by the total dis appearance of one or the other of the two kinds of clouds, ail assuming the form of the successful party. "Cumulo-stratus is the grandest of all clouds, and so it is the appropriate fore - runner of great storms. If you ever hap pened to go up the Hudson when a thun der storm was gathering in the Ustskilli ' you must have seen this cloud dropping on the mountain tops and hiding the great peaks like a vast curtain. Whenever you see these clouds looming up you may be sure that a violent change in the atmos phere is close at hand The cumulo-stra tus consists of a layer or foundation of dark-colored stratus cloud nearest the earth, surmounted by bulky piles of very dense cumulus, not wnite aad smooth like the fair-weather cumulus, hut rough, dark and threatening. *'oo6 of the grandest sights in the world is the majestic march of the cuinuio 81rat us clouds across a hilly country dis trict in advauce of a violent storm. Ani mals, as well as men, are intimidated by the fearful appearance of the heavens, and show their fear by trembling and hurrying to places of shelter. These clouds com monly uiake their appearance first in the uortbwest, rising black and threatening above the horizon. Soon the rumbling of heavy thunder is beard, and as the clouds approach the zenith, blotting out the sua, fitful gusts of wind arise, followed by periods of oppressive calm. Sometimes a whirling motion is seen in the clouds to the earth, it is a tornado, and nobody ca.i tell what damage it may do. The cumulo-str&ii foretell a storm sev eral hours in advance. The longer they linger near the horizon the more vioieut the storm is apt to oe. "The last class, or rather tab class, of clouds is the nimbui, or black rain cloud, which spreads over the heavens just as the storm begins. , it is made up of a mixture of all the other kinds, and appears in every storm, but is seen in its most characteristic form in a thunder storm. Sometimes it approaches, within a few hundred feet of the earth, and at other limes it is 2,000 or S,OOO feet high. While it always appears black or gray from be neath, it is, in fact, surmounted by a snowy-white cap of cirrus or cumulus. I have sometimes, in the hills of Central New York, seen from an elevated station the passage of a storm through a distant valley. The glittering uppers urf aces of the clouds then preserve a beautiful ap pearance, while underneath they are dark and forbidding, and the pouring ram hides the landscape. '"On account of the mixing together of the various classes of clouds, it is some times diihcult to accurately distinguish them apart. A little practice, however, will enable any observant person to de tect the prevailing characteristics. In dications vary slightly tor different locali ties, aad some kuowledge of local pecu liarities is therefoie necessary. Any one who watches the clouds