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EFFECTIVE OCT. 20, 1899.
TRAINS LEAVE RICHMOND,
BROAD-STREETS TAT1ON

BROAD-STREET STATION
seo A. M Daily, with Parlorcar. for prinei.
pie stations Newport News old
Eoint, Norfolk and Portsmouth
Connects at Norfolk with Old Do
minion Sc sam Ship except Sunday
s;ts P. M, Daily with pullman. for local
stations, Newport news, Old Point
Nortolk and Ports,n outh: Connects
at Old Point with Washington
steamers, daily with Baltimore
$3.50 =, steamers except Sunday.
1o:a0A. n; Day Express except SUNDAY
csIveTton. Manassas. Gi e4ssn;-
drta, ana Washin gton, st Union
Station, Charlottesville for Lynch
eurg;at Basic for Hsgerstown.
T;le "a NJ. Daily, with Pullmans TO Cincinna-
Il. Louisville aud 81. louis. stops
only at important stations Con-
meets at Gordonsville for Orange
and at Orange with Southern Ry.
northbound; at Covington for Va.
hot Springs.
Meals served o. DiniE. cars
No. Local Trains except Sun
day, following above train from
Gordonsvtlle to Stauuton
s'So r. M accommodation, except Sunday for
IO:sOp. M, Daily, for Cincinnati, with Pull
man to Hinton w Va, and Cor.
tsville- Meals served or Dining
Cars. Connects at stanton lex
cept sundaylfor Winchester, Va,
and at Covtngton, Va. daily for
Virginia Hot Springs.
TRAINS LEAVE EIGHTH STREET
STATION.
lea A. ~, Daily, for Lexington Lynahbu re-,
and Clifton Ferge. Connects eT-
cept Sunday with Buckingham and
Aoerene. Branches, and at Cliff
ton Forge with No. lfor Cincinnati
e;ee p II, Except Sunday for Colu.. ola
TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND,
BROAD-STREET STATION.
SEQ A. NJ, Except Sunday from boswell.
$3.50 A NJ. Daily from Cincinnati.
Ii:% - ~, Daily from Norfolk ana Old
Point
$50 p. NJ, Daiy. from CinOinnssi and Louis
Vile.
$50 =. NJ, Daily. from Norfolk. aud old
Point.
7:4s p. NJ, Excep, SUNDAY. from Clifton
Forge.
TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH STREET
STATION.
$40 a. NJ, Except Sunday from Columbia
6'SO r. ~, Daily from Lynchburg, Lexington
and Clifton Forge, ana except sun
day from New Castle. and Rosney.
JOHN ID. POTTS,
Asst. General Passenger Agsnt.
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Southern Railway
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IN EFFECT NOVEMBER, Ia. 1899.
Trains Leaves Richmond, Va.

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IN EFFECT NOVEMBER, Ia, 1899,
Trains Leaves Richmond, Va.
11.oo r NJ. NO IL SOUTHERN EXPRESS sAily
~ Atlanta Augusta Jackson Vile, and
Joints South Sleeper for DsnVtlle.
Greensboro. Salisbury. and Charlotte
SLEEPER open at Richmond $3.50 D. m.
Stops for passengers at local stations
Connects az Danville AID Charlotte
with New York and Florida Express
mo SSl carrying through sleepers be
tween New York and Tampa. with con-
nectious for all Florida points, also
connects at Danville, Charlotte with
the Washington ano Southwesterp Linn
tied no $40 carrying through sleepers
BETH New York and Nashville New
York AID Memphis and new Yors and
New Orleans. also. Pullman Tourlst
sleeper Mon, avs, Wednesdays and Fri
DAYS, Washington to San Francisco
without change, with CONNECTIONS for
All points in Texas, Mexico and Cali.
forniA
n:oi No. Z, solid train daily for Chan
lotte. N. q. Connects at Aoselsy with
Earmyiile and Powhatsn railroad ~
Keysvtlle for Clarksvtlle. Oxford, Hen.
derson and Durham and at Greens boro
for Durham, Raleigh, and winston
Salem at Danytlle with NO. IS United
new Orleans and poin Is South, which
carries sleepers New York TO new Or
leans ana New York to Jacksonville
and Miami for Nassau and Habsna.
Through sleeper Salisbury, to Mem
phts.
Q 100 2. NJ, NO II, LOCAL, daily except Sunday
for kevsvine and intermediate points
TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND.
6 go A. n.
e:2sr. n, from Atlanta Augusta, Ashsviile
and all points south.
$40 r. NJ, from Keysville end local stations.
LOCAL FRKIsHr TRAINS.
NOS. 81 and ga between Manchester ana Ne
apolis. Va
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Men and Women ms TransEressors.

Statistics show that man bears false
witness 100 times to woman's IT;
man for forgery and counterfeit coin
ing was convicted 100 times to a wom-
ans II; in France women are sum-
moned before the tribunals four times
less than men. Taking the whole Of
Europe women are five times less
guilty than men.-Chicago Chronicle.
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Poetic Forethought.

The poet wrote of summer heat
In verse with mad abuse replete,-
Those savage rawlings. coined to gold.
Bought wood to shield him from the cold
Detroit Free Press
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R. r. P. RIG PEnSss'Gs..v.o
& PoToNAc.
Schedule in Effect January 10, 1900.
LEAVE BYRD ST. STATION:
SIS A NJ. Daily, for Washington and
Milford ana F'essr,cSsSurs'
=. Pullman sleepers to New YORK.
':ss a M, Daily, except Aond.v for
the New York and EIorids
special" COMPOSED entileIy OF
Pullman vestibuled sleeping
compartment, dtalpg, library,
aed observation cars. No ex-
IRA chsrge ether Than regular
Pullman fare. Does net stow
at Eliza or local stations Com
mences January 19th
and points North. stops af n.
bl, Glen Allen. Ashland TAy-
lorsyile, Boswell, Ruther Glen.
Penoia, Milford, Woodslane
Guinea, Summit, FEedericks-
burg, Brooke, and wideWaaer,
Pullman car.
s.4S A NJ, Daily, except Sunday, for
Washipg ton and ointS North
stops as Eles, Glen Allen, Ash
lane, Taylorsvil'e, boswell
Ruther Glen, Penola, Milford,
MoSdslsne, Guinea, summit,
fredericksburg, 8roOl e, and
1880 M. Daily, except SUNDAY, fol-
Washington and points North.
Stops at EIba, Glen Aliea, Ash
land, boswell, Milf rd, And
Connects with Congressional
Limited at Washington.
7:46 r. M, Daily for Washington ana
points North. Stops at Elba,
ashland, boswell, Milford
whitewater stops at other sta
mond to New York- sleeper
Washington to 4hiladelphta.
ARRIVE BYRD-STREET Station.
$40 A. NJ, Daily: stops at wIde-water,
Brooke, fredericksburg, M.
Elba. stops at other statioAs
sundays. sleeper New York V
SEQ P. M. Dolly, except sunday. stops ~
fredericksburg, Milford, Dos
wen, ashland, Glen Allen and
tlgton.
e:2sIP. NJ, ball. stops only at Fred 'ksburr
DIswell, Ashland and alba,
Pullman cars frOm Eew YORK.
~ Brooke, Frederick sburg, sum-
init, Guinea, Woodslane, Mil
ford. PenOis, Ruther Glen, LOS
well, T4ylorsvine, Ashland.
~ Gien Allen, and Elba, sleep,
~. &. N. Dsay except sunday. froa
Washington, nd points North,
the New YORK and FIoride
81 ecial' sakes No l cal stops,
ana does not stop 81 Elbs.
&Ss J ACCOMMODATIONS TRAINS.
H(Daily except Sunday F}
700 A. NJ. Leaves EIba for ou,ntico.
400 +. M, Lesqes Byrd ct. for FIedsrisks-
burg,
f;S1 p. III Leaves Elba for shlsnd.
40 A. M, Arrives EibA from shland.
20 A. NJ IriVes Byrd direct station from
80 fredericksburg.
COS p. M, Arrives e be fIom Ashland,
W.P. T,YLoR, Traflc NanaEor,
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SIDEWALK GOSSIP.

Miss Nancy Black-But amt Jimmie
McGinnls dead in luv wild hisself?
Miss Martha White-Yes, an he amt
got nc rivals, neither.-Chicago Record.
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VIRGINIA NAVIGATION
CoAPANY'S JAMEs-RIvER LINE
:, 10 Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point, Nevports
NeMs, Olaremount, and James River landfnrs
nnu connecting at Old Point and Norfolk SnT
nashing ton, Baltimore and the North
Ah rocAhoNrAs LRAvEs MONDAY, WE'D
-, NEsDAT AND FRIDAY AT Z A M
EIectrtc-cars direct to wharf Fare onlv ~ q.
s sn4 SI-Oo 70 Norfolk, Portsmouth, Old Point
slo newport News. Music by a grand Orohee
Freight received daily from above-nAn.a
pisces and All points In Eastern VirRtnfs ans
IRWIN wEIsIGER,
Supcrtntendsa
EDWARD K. BARNEY
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Put hand on white wo nan, Jasper Fla
Attempted Assault. Port 5ibson,M Ms
Criminal Assault. Bell Buckley, Tenn,
Attempted Assault, CIem GA.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-19

and went back three times most igno-
miniOusly, there was a popular reaction
of feeling, and the man who had been
locke upon as the prospective savior
of Ladysmith was reluctantly regarded
as a Dragging and bombastie blunderer.
Butler, it is true, may have been slight
ly indiscreet in the language of his
home dispatches. but it was not until
after Ladysmith had been finally re-
lieved n the supercilious correspond
ent a actually traversed that for
bidding country that stretches between
the little Tugela and the beleaguered
town that the real difficulties of the
ease were appreciated and presented to
the reading public. In fact. many have
since expressed wonder that the heavy
artillery of the British was ever moved
over such rough country. The Tugela it
self is a rocky and rugged banked little
stream, and it must also be remember
ed that it was crossed while in the
flood by the English general. The ter
ritory between the river and the town
where General White was shut up is
made up of a series of shaggy and bro
ken kopjes. rough, rocky slopes and
deep ravines, affording the best oppor-
tunities for Boer intrenchment. It was
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the war office in London and the world
at large that the struggle in South At
RIGA has marked a revolution in the
methods of military warfare. Old
standards of attack and defense have
been upset. Out of the exceedingly IN
pleasant experiences of the British
forces during this Boer war have come
many new maxims. The old military
manuals used to declare that an at
lacking force in the enemies country
must ave three times the number of
men of that of the defenders. That old
axiom has been for all time d~issipated.
AS Richard Harding Davis pointed out
regarding the advance of General Bull
Ter beyond the Tugela, the country rose
hill after hill like the waves in a rough
sea. What each hill held of the enemy
could not be guessed until it's crest a
been felt by the British. Each wave of
that great, rolling sea of rock had to be
fought, diminutive battle after battle
Such frontal attacks could be made
only at a tremendous sacrifice of men.
AS for hanking. such a thing was i'm
possible. The Boer knew the country.
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a supply of ammunition for the Is
Founders. Half UP the hill each
o was guided from a protecting shelf
of rock to its destination. Not once vas
there any scarcity of shells on the hill
crest. This feat of French was one of
the most remarkable of the campaign,
for by getting the Is Founders up on
Coles kop they could be so trained that
they dropped shells into the Boer lines
5000 yards away and so assisted in
cutting off their retreat.
Some idea of the way in which Moth
er Nature has fortified his country for
the Boer may be obtained from the fact
that its only doorways are such rough
and narrow passes as Laingsnek and
Van Reeman's pass. This latter pass
is the loophole into the T~ransvaal
through which creeps the Netherlands
railway, running from Delagoa Bay to
Pretoria. Either of these rocky noun
tain passes can be garrisoned by a COM
paratively small force of men in such a
way as to menac the passage of an
army of thousands. In fact, all the Ma
tai frontier that fnnges the land of
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sance and an occasional stolen march
by night for the creation of some new
line of renches first by the one end
then by the other.
On the whole, it may be stated that
the South African campaign has taught
the military world many very valuable
lessons. One has been the advantage of
long range guns. Another has been the
necessity for cavalry and the advan-
tage ensuing from the mobility of
mounted troops. Still another is the
lesson that an intrenched enemy, armed
with the modern magazine rifle and US
ing smokeIess powder, is able to stand
off a force many times his superior,
and that this same superior attacking
force must stand at least ten to one if
the attacking general wishes to make
sure of his success.
TRISTRAM w. WILCOX.
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Dom Paul is made up of the widest and
ruggedest mountains, completely wall
ing the one country off from the other.
That the rougher country in which
much of the campaigning took place has
been a godsend to the Beers may be
judged from the fact that in the one in
stance where the struggle has occurred
in open and level country they have not
had the success they experienced when
among their befriending kopjes and
rocks. h is i~nstanced in the siege of
Mafeking, which held out week after
week when it was solemnly predicted
by ever the British themselves that
Baden-Powell and his little beleaguered
army were doomed. Most of this little
army were irregulars and volunteers,
and, although for a considerable time
they were outnumbered by the besieging
forces, they were able to make a bold
stand against the Boer lines. It was
simply a matter of trench building. the
object of Baden-Powell being to keep
the Boer line of i-ntrenchments as far
out from the town as possible, n that
of the Boer officers, Of course, simply
the reverse So the situation resolved
itself very much into a prolonged artil-
lery duel, with an occasional reconnois-
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When General French grasped the
situation at the battle of Colesberg. he
not only ordered his men to scale Coles
kop, but also directed that the artillery
be taken to the top of this great rock.
Younger officers looked at the 0 and
said it was impossible. Even though a
big gun or two were posted on the hill,
it was pointed out, it would be impossi-
BILE to carry ammunition to such a
height. To the crest of that rocky en-
inence it was 1,400 feet from the camp
in the plain below, and it was all that
a man, free and unburdened, could do 10
scale the rocks. General French per-
sisted that the guns had to go up, and
up they wen Three ropes were at
tached to each gun. Thirty stout men.
tool hold of each rope, n foot by
foot those huge engines of death were
drawn skyward. When the guns were
posted on the summit, the question of
getting up ammunition had to be on
sidered. his difficulty was solved by
stretching a steel cable from the sum-
init to the British camp some 1900 feet
below. IN this steel cable a small car
riage was fitted by means of pulleys,
and up and down this inclined wire the
little a went, on each round carrying
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In the meantime the foe exhausted his
own fire, and when the lull came in the
leaden rain the rush usually took place.
With the magazine rifle this sort of
thing is out of the question. At Modder
River the Beers built their trenches at
the very edge of a steep river bank,
and this afforded them sufficient cover
for the movement of re--enforcements
and the bringing up of supplies, nearly
all of which was don quite out Of sight
of the attacking British. The smoke
less powder gave no hint of the source
of the v~olleying. The magazine rife
gave the Boer plenty of reserve fire,
and his fine artillery played from some
secure position in the far distant back
ground.
When the news of General Buffers
third repulse on the Tugela reached
England, there was a brief space Of
time when British faith in their once
glorihed general wavered. It was a Bit
ter blow to the jingoes, who had swal-
lowed this somewhat indiscreet gener-
ais assertion that there would be mo
going back When Butler did go back.
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precisely the sort OF country in which
the burgher sniper and s~harpshooter
was most at home The way in which
Joubert's men succeeded in holding
back the British, valiant as were the
men on either side, was a clear demon
stration that the Boer had adopted the
method of warfare most suited to the
country in which he was campaigning.
Although the English looked upon the
relief of Ladysmith as a great success
for their forces, it was such only in a
qualified degree. The British losses had
been tremendous, and their final ad-
vance through the mountainous passes
of Natal was possible only after the
practical withdrawal of the Boer forces.
In fact, if Field Marshal Roberts had
not sized UP the general situation n
caused the drawing off of Jouberts
forces by menacing Bloemfontein, it re-
quires no military expert to see that
Ladysmith must soon ave fallen into
the hands of the Beers and that Butler
would have remained, battered and
checked, for many a week on the wrong
side of the Tugela.
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IT has, In truth, been the rivers and the
mountains of the lower end of the dark
continent that have made the struggle
against the Beers such a tremendous
one for the British. This the Beers
themselves anticipated long before the
outbreak Of the war, and their method
of campaigning has been Of a nature
calculated to extract full advantage
from every opportunity offered by the
peculiar physical conditions prevailing
in their country. The Boer knew he had
nature on his side. otherwise it would
have been suicidal for him and his lit
tie republic to declare war on the Brit
ish empire, with its tremendous wealth,
its almost limitless n its
varied and -farreaching military expert
cnce.
South Africa. in the first place. may
be described as a fertile plain, a water
less desert and a mountainous wilder
ness. 1t has practically all the distinc-
tions Of climate. conformation n gen
eral conditions that are to be found
anywhere in the world. First, there is
the coast country, and then the hinter-
land, with its rough mountains and it's
tablelike plateaus. Then comes III
Great Karroo. the vast rolling desert
that embraces the Transvaal and III
Orange Free State, fertile enough in
500 E[HNHa 1851 8&1 AEALAA[ lin baL
rem and dry as a bone during the rest
of the e These inland deserts can
not support the life which crowds upon
them. Day by day food has to be pour
ed in. An invading army going into
that country must have a far distant
base of supplies, and, great as are the
distances, the lines Of communication
must at all times be kept open. This
naturally. is no easy task. The very
conditions which made the country
north of the Vaal and west of the
Drakenberg mountains so inaccessible
to the British Of 40 years ago and KEEP
Il walled off from the different Cape
colonies until the Beers were bold
enough or desperate enough to pierce
that forbidden north have made it dur
ing the present campaign a stronghold
to its defenders and rendered it a diff
cult task for the British forces to rount
up the armies of Dom Paul and his PEG
pie.
Two decades ago, when the "ruineks'
and the %burghers were at war, the Brit
ish found it just as hard to get int
Boer territory. 1t was at Laingsnel
and Majuba Hill that they learned theii
little lesson. At these battles Boel
armies infinitely smaller than the Eng
lish in number completely defeated anc
routed the latter, and did so with com
~paratively little loss. In fact, it hai
slowly dawned on the English officer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-19

ANE OF the deplorable features Of
warfare is the fact that a modern
campaign always ~proVokes a flood
Of militant poetry. Most of it is very
bad poetry, though most of it fortunate
~ is also soon forgotten. An occasional
passionate %outburst, nevertheless, dur
ing some great struggle often sinks
deep into the hearts of the people.
Among such must be included the re-
Gently published little poem Of William
Watson, who was one of the also rams"
not long ago for the British poet lau-
reateship. This poem, which stirred up
the jingoes of Great Britain TO white
hsat. runs as follows:
When lofty Spain came towering up the seas
This little stubborn land to daunt and quell,
The winds Of heaven were our auxiliaries
And smote her that she fell.
81, not today is nature on our side!
The mountains and the rivers arc our foe.
And nature, with the heart Of man allied,
Is hard to overthrow.
This outspoken and rather indiscreet
young poet has described the South At
rican military situation in a nutshell.
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he held the passes and could cut off any
movement of the less mobile attacking
force.
1t was a maddening position for the
British. 1t was not simply because the
British commanding officers made tao
teal errors that so much English blood
was Intellectually spilled along the
banks of the Tugela. The science of
modern warfare had changed, and the
military leaders of Tommy Atkins had
not yet realized the fact. Three things
had combined to bring this lesson home
to the combatants of both sides. One
was the rough nature of the country,
the other was the magazine rifle, and
the third was smokeless powder. 1t
was not a welcome or pleasant change
for Tommy. He discovered that he had
to fight a foe whom he never had a
chance of getting sight of. With abso-
lutely no reduction in the hardships and
dangers of warfare, it was robbed of its
old time element of excitement and op-
p%ortunity for personal distinction. Hard
work took the place of heroism. The
painful dragging of immense naval
uns up steep hills, shouldering artil-
lery up mountain sides and the eternal
digging of trenches took much of the
romance out of the thing for both men
and officers. Today, with the new
weapons and with smokeless powder.
it has been established that at least ten
men, when attacking, must meet one
man i~ntrenched before his position can
be carried. At the disastrous battle of
Magersfontein, for instance, where the
British were moved down in heaps, the
Beers were entirely out of sight and
were not even seen by many of the
British. In fact, there were English
soldiers fighting away through tina
battle who did not catch sight of one
single Boer during the entire engage
ment. These %burghers, though vastly
outnumbered. lay comfortably in their
trenches and quietly sniped the British
as they approached into the zone of fire.
Their position, it is true, had been cho-
sen with great care and much skill, but
such a position might have been taken
up in any part of South Africa outside
of the unbroken veldt. The three lines
of enche at Magersfontein were as
i-mpregnable as a triple walled for
tress, and it was nothing but mad and
blind valor to try to rush them. This.
of course, the British tried again and
again to do, elinging to their old tradi-
ton of the irresistible British charge.
1t took some time to ~disillusionize them,
and the lesson was a very bloody one.
With the old fashioned single shot
rife of 80 years ago, the rush was alto
gether a different matter. The plan
! then was to hold your fire and advance.
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HI DEADLY How1rzER.

This deadly modern weapon of war;
fare has been doing good work in the
Transvaal war. Yet, owing to the fact
that muzzle loading howitzers weigh
ing from four TO ten tons were used in
a former generation, the ordinary civil
ian has scarcely comprehended the tru0
meaning of a IS incl breechloading
howitzer." whose bore when parallel
is three feet seven inches from the
ground. Unless all stand clear" when
this gun is fired, the recoil, in spite of
the drag Shoes" will impoliteIy knock
the leaders over. So abominably does
the howitzer kick hat it positively
jumps on its own accoun backward a
distance of five yards even with drag
shoes"-a brake like those used on
w-agons-while without drag shoes it
runs back from % to 30 yards. When
firing at a range of 1900 yards, so per
cent of the rounds drop within q space
Of % yards.