Show NORTH AND SOUTH The North and the South are being bound together in a way which will malce them altogether homogeneous before be-fore long A sample Is given by the Baltimore Sun I tells that a 500000 plant for the manufacture of Cotton mill machinery Is about to be estab lished in Atlanta Of this amount Atlanta At-lanta capitalists have agreed to raise 100000 while of the remaining 100000 5350000 has already been pledged and I it will be furnished by English and New England capitalists The account I says the new enterprise will give em loymcnt to several hundred skilled mechanics and the output of the plant is expected to reach 3500000 annually I will be the only Industry of the kind In the Soulh And there will be handsome secretaries sent there and superintendents and foremen and the Southern people will call them Yankees when they talk entirely among themselves them-selves But the Atlanta young ladies will discuss the handsome secretaries and more than one Montagu will fall In love with more than one Capulel and the disastrous results which followed fol-lowed thc first alliance of that kind will not succeed This will be Increased as time goes one until the children will I ho rocked to Bleep half of the time by the lullaby of Dixie and half by Yankee Doodle I will be discovered discov-ered too sometimes that when it comes lo shrewd business many Southern South-ern men can outYankee a Yankee and when It comes toan allnight bout there is not a person in the world that can throw down a Yankee whose Incll nations turn that way S S Prentlss went from Maine to the South when thor tho-r lnl was vastly more acute than It Is I now and when he found out the i ways of a then ihorotighbred in that region he adopted them with an alacrity which allowed thai he had all iho original elements within him He could ouldrlnk the best of them h nIt n-it was necessary he could fight the best of them Vhen he could not help a friend up he woull lie down beBldo him and when It came to talking It was found he had a llule In his throat and that he was a very glory of the earth and when n few years more goby go-by It will be discovered that after all we are only one peoplp and all the i differences that have crown up have I boon because of the different environ I ments of tho two sections I The New York Times tells how the I Boers were prepared tor war The TImes says It was not In lS03 or because of anything done by Englishmen in I that year that the Doers determined to try their strength wllh Great Britains Away back in 1894 Oom Paul and his people bought 500000 worth of big cannon can-non from Germany and spent the same aiirn for rificK in Austria The Krupp puna were delivered Ihenext year and included two of what were then the most powerful cannon In the world I They wore forlyclght feet IonS and I j weighed 120 tons threw a shell weigh I t ing 2300 pounds and burned 001 pounds S of powder each dicharge In 1S05 another other half million was expended on n number of longrango field guns and several mountain and bush guns especially espe-cially adapted for use in a hilly country coun-try and n hot climate were bought The next year ISiMJ tho Boers began to 1 secure the cannon they found most effective I ef-fective in Iho present war six Creusct 1 guns These they have increased to twentyfour These guns arc vcr I swiftly loaded their recoil Is 1 broken by springs and they carry to n distance I of n trifle less than five miles Eight shots may b fired each minute without healing the metal and every gun goer into acton provided with 111 rounds i of ammunition AH through 189C 1807 and a part of 1898 tho Boers continued I to strengthen their armament and to I fortify their capital and their frontiers The result was that when the war came I they wore all ready perfectly equipped I with Bibles and rapidfire guns I |