Show HIE J1I1MSSUT1 FLOODS Those who have never en Ibo Mlislsilppl or Mltourl livers at all have not only isolated a sectacleol considerable grandeur but can form not wen the remotest conception of tile silent power contained within the mighty volumes of water flowing steadily to the sea But havluit teen Ibo Irmtboy are one and lb a same nearkit Charter MoWlluo the water Is l low Is nothing to compare with the awfully magnificent Samoa which Is presented when the volume Is swollen considerably and this In turn dwindles l Into Insignificance when broiijlil Into comparison wllb llm stated things now and for a few weeks past Prevailing The river Is I normally about a mile In wldtt but when leaps beyond Its boundaries and goes cavorting alooc the lowlod It spreads In 114as to five ten and even twenty m lea I from shore lo shore It Is at such llmis the most merciless destroyer In the world All the damage done by all the cyclones cy-clones we have any record ot does not amount to more than a respectable fraction of that which one such Violin I lion as the one now upon the Mississippi Missis-sippi valley and the country further mouth causes It sweeps away every thing that Is I movable and lakes It far beyond the hope of recovery frame or log and ooietlmes event brick orstoLe houses crops ot all binds anything end everything that can be torn down or uprooted Is tumbled pell melt Into the maw of the devouring monster ae he goes rearing and turbine lo the gulf Another serious feature of the destruction Is Ibo vast army ol people left homeless and destitute In some cases the homelesaneis and destitution itto Permanent so Ir as previous PON Stations are concerned for It Is Dol alone hcuiea and eDects that are swirled away by the flood but sj Ir resistible Is the force Walton the flood brings IJ tear upon everything It meets tbat farms and plantations ground god garice fine a cut out abd practically annihilated Instilling the whole face of nature completely changed It la altogether a mist oe cldedly awelniplring situation even at Ibis great distance still to ben the suffering and sorrow which It our ou-r even measurably Comprehended n becomes a moot lamentable one 09 wellThe The levees I placed for protection along the banks of the river ire like some other things that might be named a protection when they protect is but a good deal worse than nothing wben they do not Tnoy are the moans of banking up the water until It reaches an abnormal height and If the dykes are weak In any point the enormous iresiure upon them soon finds that point and penetrates pene-trates It whereupon the wnole structure struc-ture gives way like so much affairs precipitating upon the adjacent country coun-try a mighty flood whose force Is I Inestimable In-estimable and awful In Its wild des Irucllvenesi whereas If there were no Such obitructlons the water would I flood the surroundings gradually and with opted Add power which com pared with the other case would amount to mildness Itself albeit powerful enough lo do considerable damage before ubldlng A good and perhaps the only good feature ol the situation Is Ibo del gbtlul spectacle of practical sympathy which such calamities evoke among the whole American people and when necessary the civilized civil-ized 1 world Congress wss luckily In setslouand II came promptly to the intent while It Is I a Certainly that all other aid required will be on band even without the alklne That this will be considerable start from the Immtdlale wants of tbo sufferers Is amply evidenced In the loss of growIng grow-Ing crol cattle and other Metals of ubslstence to which the people looked is their reliance for the coming year Lverytlllog that tan his will be done I aud then Ibo privations sorrows labino and sullerlnifs must Ultuuut to more than wo cn Virn ao Idles 01 |