Scribner's magazine . To keep away small-joox the nativeserect fences across the paths leading totheir houses and hang snake skins,spines, and other charms, outside theirdoors to frighten away the disease. Themedicine-men also use the Weesheema, asmall cross wound around with coloredthreads, which is hung on the end of astick and waved in the air to ward oft*disease and evil. Lying on the mum-mies of Peru this form of charm hasbeen found, and I also understand thatsuggestions of this i^ractice are stillfound among the Zuni. DAYS By John Hall bigham What is the message of days, what is the thou
Scribner's magazine . To keep away small-joox the nativeserect fences across the paths leading totheir houses and hang snake skins,spines, and other charms, outside theirdoors to frighten away the disease. Themedicine-men also use the Weesheema, asmall cross wound around with coloredthreads, which is hung on the end of astick and waved in the air to ward oft*disease and evil. Lying on the mum-mies of Peru this form of charm hasbeen found, and I also understand thatsuggestions of this i^ractice are stillfound among the Zuni. DAYS By John Hall bigham What is the message of days, what is the thought they bring-Days that darken to SN^inter, days that sweeten to sj^ring? Is there a lore to learn, is there a tmth to be told ?Hath the new dawn a rav that never flashed from the old? Day that deepens to night, night that broadens to is the meaning of all, what is the word they say? —Silence for aye and aye, and the heart-beats never cease Till toil and life and tlie day are the night and death and LITTLE DARBY By Thomas Nelson Page II THE company in which Little Darbyand the Millses had enHsted wasone of the many hundred infan-try companies which joined and weremerged in the Confederate Army. Itwas in no way particularly signalized byanything that it did. It was command-ed by the gentleman who did most tow-ard getting it up, and the officers weregentlemen. The seventy odd men whomade the rank and file were of all class-es, from the sons of the oldest andwealthiest planters in the neighborhoodto Little Darby and the dwellers in thedistrict. The war was very different fromwhat those who went into it expected itto be. Until it had gone on some time itseemed mainly marching and campingand staying in camp, quite uselessly asseemed to many, and drilling and do-ing nothing. Much of the time—espe-cially later on—was given to march-ing and getting food ; but drilling andcamp duties at first took up most of was especially hard on the poorermen, no one kn
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