Show TWO STAI ES among the groat great new years papers that ti amelto this office was one from los angeles and another from portland doth both were profusely illustrated both pave elaborate descriptions of the resources property and industries of their theft respective regions the southern paper was filled with pictures of palms summer houam orange groves and flowers dowers which made one on feel eel that drowsy feeling which cornea comes when the sun shines warm and all nature Is shrouded with wibb a semitropic semi tropic trople haz the northern paper aper has snow enow capped mountains great forests great fisheries and the talk was waa of lumber interests of fiall interests or iron and coal mines of furnaces rolling mills and ship building yet to be and the mighty commerce to STOW grow from the I 1 trade trad e beyond the tha pacing A corn comparison parl of items la Is interesting in the he one ones the only state slate that kleins are produced successfully in the other the greatest forests lei in the world in the one Is an account of orange ato lemon groves in the other the pictures ot of some of the logs cut in the northern oani with men standing beside I 1 them not reaching up to halt their height as they lie he in the yards in the one a modern southern home surrounded by luxurious trees and covered cove e red with flowers in the other a ship yard so natural that one can almost hear the hammers ling abere two regions are only three days sall all apart by sea eta and only one and one half or tm days by rail and yet every thought in the th one section Is as different front from the other as a tropical borost la Is din different tr from a northern forest of maples beaches and hemlocks hem locka it will be euil cull ous oua t to 0 note the change in tile the men inen of those two twel regions in the next fifty years tho the one will remain a st strong rorer vigorous enterprising race rac the other i inless they alve a latent intent resolution which tife warm climate and the lux urle i of wealth cannot break down will be an indolent people located as a rule on oil small binal 1101 dings and depending on tile the proceeds from ten to twenty acres of orchard or vineyard tor for ei a livelihood tt it wu will be a careless race too because they will riot pot have to build warm houses housea bicy will h have VO to make very little provision aRal cold summer will viii practically bo be with them all the round and the only thing they will havo to he be careful of will bo be to keep their roots roofs from when the wintry rains come to bring brine out all that there Is in a boy in the way ot of energy and courage and enterprise it would be better for him to rustle in the woods or in iron mines or in the fisheries of 0 the north to have the most coir comfort fort with the least outlay to be absolved from care cabe and to b bk bask k life away anway in pleasure the tha southern section would be ba the bent beat but the contrast between tle the two newspapers newsy pera la Is a marvelous v one when wo we consider they were gotten up in adjoining states they are about as different M though they were printed in different hemispheres and contemplating the two one wonders how as the country becomes more awl more filled find and competition becomes more and more severo severe it will bo be possible to hold this republic with all its diversified interests under one lae flag |