Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-25

ness in the ground they passed over as well
as by some trees and bushes along their
line. We had none except their protecting
fire.''
Colonel John Esten Cook says:
"The fault of fighting two brigadess
against one whole corps and a division of
another was with somebody, but not with
Cooke or kirkland. They only obeyed the
orders to advance, and as | have shown in
the case of Cooke, protested against being
rushed into the slaughter pen without some
support. They under orders like "rhe Six
Hundred" rushed right Unto the jaws of
death"
Well might General Lee, the noble old
Roman, say, "Well, we'll, General, bury
aboutit." Iheard it said, and the Northern
papers so stated a few days after the fight
that the Federel loss was only thirty-five
/ do not know how this is, whether true or
not. But Just think of it! A loss of thir-
ty-fve on one side against l ,26O on the 9TH
er, the thirty-ive out of more than corps
and the l 1,2G0 out of two brigades, and all
in less than forty minutes. Indeed we did
"go into the jaws of DEATH" If the thirty
five be correct, then / lost more out of my
own company than the whole of Hancock's
and Warren's troops did. l entered the
fight with G5 men and officers, and lost 4S,
seventh North Carolina regiment had 4l6
and lost 2OO OF 33 officers only 3 escaped
unhurt.
But, while we might dwell longer on
the sad part of this scene, there is always
something ludicrous to happen even in such
a battle. Just before leaving Gordonsville,
Va, on the 9Th or 9th of October, new
clothes had been issued to our brigade. Our
men wore their old clothes on the march to
Bristoe and had them at the fight. When
we were compelled to retreat up the hill
under the deadly fire Private j. H. Lathing-
house of company H, TWenty-seVenth North
Carolina, finding his knapsack too heavy
and fearing he would have to throw it away
and lose his new clothes, stopped about half
way up the hill, threw off his knapsack,
opened it, jerked off his old clothes, donned
his new ones and then continued his trot up
the HILL 1t is the only instance of which |
have ever heard of man changing his
clothes under fire; but clothes were very
good things to have in our army at that
date.
Sergeant Fleming, also Of company II,
was shot through the right shoulder and did
not know it until next morning, when he
complained of his gun having kicked terri
bly and his shoulder being very sore. Maj.
Webb called his attention to hole in his
coat, and on pulling it off he found a bullet
hole through his right shoulder. Happily
it hit no bone.
WIVES AS COMpANIONs.-It has become
the fashion to talk about girls as at present
brought up as more ornamental than use
full. Old bachelors occasionally indulge in
TRADES against woman's ignorance of house
keeping. If these lay sermons are correct,
the only mission of wife is to bake and
sweep and sew. Now we do not under
stand the Importance of such requirements.
A girl has no right to marry poor man II
she is entirely ignorant of household mat
ters, and most young men in this country
are comparatively poor, and have their
fortunes to make for themselves. But to be
ignorant of household affairs is one thing
to be drudge or upper servant is another.
We have often seen lively, pretty girl, al
ter few years of marriage, sink into
listless, careworn matron. a wife should
be something above mere menial. She
ought to be a "helpmate," and no wife can be
that, in the higher sense of the term, unless
she is a companion. Many an otherwise
excellent woman, perfect in the ordering OF
her household, and capable, when necessary,
of working heartily herself, drives her hus-
band to the company of pot-house compan-
ions because she is no companion Tor him.
We do not say that doctors wife should
study medicine, or a lawyers wife study
law, or a mechanics wife should learn his
trade, in order to become a companion to
her husband. This is not what we mean.
But every man, even the most illiterate,
has his peculiar tastes and sympathies; and
it should be the business of q wife to dis
cover them, to interest herself in them, and
to be able to talk appreciatively about
them.
The poorer a couple is, unless in the case
of actual day laborers, the more they are
thrown together, and the more need there
is of this companionship. With the very
rich, society occupies much of the time or
the wife, if not Of the husband, and there
is, perhas, less absolute need of this com
panionship. But even with the very rich,
a capacity for companionship would add
greatly to the mutual happiness of husband
and wife, and often prevent sad family
tragedies. Wives, neglect not your house
hold duties, but be something more than
mere hOusekeeperS-be Intelligent cOmpan-
ions to your husbands.
CASTS FROM POMPEII.-A museum has
been erected in Pompeii, in which are pre-
served plaster casts of some of the people
who perished in, the eruption; These peo..
ple were covered up by the fine ashes just
Where they fell, and in positions in which
they died. The ashes hardened, and al
though the bodies, with the exception of a
few bones, entirely disappeared in the
course of age, the hollow places left in the
ashes were exactly the shape of the forms
and features Of the persons who had been
there. An ingenious Italian conceived the
idea of boring into these hollow molds and
filling them up with liquid plaster of Paris.
When this became dry and hard, the ashes
were removed, and there were the plaster
images of the persons who had been over
taken and destroyed before they could es-
cape from that terrible storm of hot ashes,
which came down in quantities sufficient to
cover whole city from sight. In some of
these figures the features are very distinct,
and we can even distinguish the texture of
their clothes and the rings upon their fin
gers. There are eight of these figures, men,
women, and girls, besides the cast of a large
dog. To stand and look upon the exact
REPRESENTATION of these poor creatures who
perished here seems still more to shorten
the time between the present and the days
when Pompei was lively, bustling city
"Personaly C0nducted," By Frank R. Stock
ton, in ST. Nicholas.
REFUGE FOR CRIMINALs.-By examin-
ing a map of the United States small strip
several millions of acres in extent, marked
"Public land" will be seen dividing the
States of Kansas and Texas. This strip of
the country was left out by mistake in the
original surveys and is not included in any
State or Territorial jurisdiction. Neither is
it reached by United States law. 1t Who'll
ly without judicial authority and is cOnse-