Show The hope that the worst was over in the stress of the floods on the lower Mississippi was not borne out by the events A number of Important breaks In the levees were reported yesterday with the river at highwater mark at NJew Orleans The Louisiana levees are reported to be holding the breaks being along the Arkansas frontage where vast volumes of water are pouring through This is bad for the Arkansas people but the spill should relieve the pressure below There are great tracts of low land on the eastern Arkansas border that can hold large lakes of water wa-ter and these will be backed up by the floods so that they will not begin to discharge dis-charge unlll the floods decrease So far fortunately no loss of life is ic ported and though the Hoods are away beyond the average the low lands will be enriched by the silt which will be deposited de-posited upon them With sufllclent expenditures ex-penditures tinder an enlightened system of engineering which will Include upriver up-river storage of flood water as well as unbreakable dykes bplow the Mississippi Mississip-pi 1 will some clay be held in control the I same as if It were but an irrigation canal |