At bughts in the morning nae blythe lads are scorning; The lasses are lanely, and dowie, and wae; Nae daffing, nae gabbing, but sighing and sabbing, Ilk ane lifts her leglin, and hies her away.

THE DAFT DAYS Now mirk December's dowie face Glowrs owr the rigs wi' sour grimace, While, thro' his minimum of space, The bleer-eyed sun, Wi' blinkin' light and steeling pace, His race doth run.

Dowie, drooping, gloomy.

Let him come over and we will show him a time that will make old Pap Dowie's reception look like a twinkle.

Now lang, lang are the nights And dowie are the days That sae cheerie were ance for me.

At bughts, in the mornin', nae blythe lads are scornin', Lasses are lonely and dowie and wae; Nae daffin', nae jabbin', but sighin' and sabbin', Ilk ane lifts her leglin and hies her away.

OTHER AUSTRIAN SCENES CRACOWBy Mènie Muriel Dowie ON THE ROAD TO PRAGUEBy Bayard Taylor THE CAVE OF ADELSBERGBy George Stillman Hillard THE MONASTERY OF MÖLKBy

BY MÉNIE MURIEL DOWIE Cracow, old, tired and dispirited, speaks and thinks only of the ruinous past.

Miss Dowie became the wife of Henry Norman, the author and traveler.]

The day before her death, she took my hand, and 'Davy,' says she to me'Davy,' poor body, she repeated (I think I hear her yet)'it wad been a great comfort to me if I had seen ye settled wi' a decent partner before I dee'd; but it's no to be.' "Weel, as I was saying, my mither dee'd, and I found the house very dowie without her.

" Rachel knew the verse, because she had formerly noticed that it moved some chord in his memory connected with an old love affair in which his heart had been scathed; but she hesitated, for the meaning it conveyed was dowie and ominous.

Such are, for example, The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, Fair Helen of Kirkconnell, The Forsaken Bride, and The Twa Corbies.

Mrs. Henry Norman (Muriel Dowie, author of "A Girl in the Carpathians") made a brilliant little speech.

As we passed Zion Temple, near Twelfth Street, the home of the Dowieites, the Professor said: "A very remarkable man, that Dowie.

Dowie is down towards the small end of the scale, but he is none the less there, and differs in kind from your average citizen in his power to influence and control others.