Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-12
rnr LFrrN AND LEvEE SYSTEM.

shirts cost the lucbless, witless sons Of
Hams.
THE LEFTY AND LEvEE SYSTEM.
Yo,r sherman correspondent, who,
Inv the way, writes well. tells that he
once approved Cowdon's outlet, sFs-
tenn or theory OF diffusion, as distih-
uuished from Eads' OF 'eoncenira-
ton" lie now believes in the "seour-
ing OUT process. So do !. The Mis-
sissippi has finally occurred out, | be-
lieve, The Ia. t vestige of work done at
the cost of six or seven millions by
Eads' river commission. The more
money expended on levees, the greater
the destructiveness Of floods. Tie
higher the levees, the higher
the water rises forever. The
Chinese gave origin TO the
theory and system which your cores
pendent approves. They leveed the
Hoangho river until its banks We're
one hundred feet above the PLAN
through wheel it scughtiis way to the
sea. 1t still rose higher and overran
these levees. and finally breaking
through these earthen walls, carved
foritself another channel to the ocean,
Mr.. Davidson, q traveller in the Orient,
tells ihat 'it destroyed Il million lives
~, a. a,,1t,;ra - 10, On these Invee.
- ,,nliav OF t,n
N NT;neielin,,; wiii enaIiy divert
49,. Iai'SSTn;s s ,.,i ron Nv Orleans and
sue " tn ''Il TIA A,cbafsIavn so
ioiee ~ 11 ".tpH. ~. ~ f,,,ir oe Savi-
l'S G"aoi No., hos .Iacnurad ontn NOT
,,,r,, - ',,o,r,'oi az M, river INIT The
, ,riy ' n,',n,niDsinn itsaif
'''N' O'''''''' ..
NA"AkIEs or INV hiS9i9aii ~
The river forever lengthens itself by
depositiug mud at its mouth, Lei us
suppose that the whole country, thus
made through ages, south OF New VI
lans should sink one hundred feet.
Then New Orleans would be on the
sea shore and the sea il fourteen feet
lower than New Orleans. INTO
this the Mississippi would plunge,
if the earth were of stone, down prec-
ipice fourteen feet high. But The stone
ITSELF would be worn away, and the
river at New Orleans would be of the
sea level. In other words, its surface
would be lowered fourteen ieel
at its new mouth. Would not
the whole surface OF lhe
whole stream and OF It's great
tributaries be also lowered? Cowdoh
finds that ten miles from New orleans
This IA feet OF the rivers surface may
ne turned mo iake po ~ .,lf "nd
to this level he would reduce the II cod
tide of the river. If this diversion
of fourteen feet of the surface of water
Of the river do not prevent floods by
accelerating the current, slowest near
est the sea if the height of the river
and its tributaries be not sufficiently
lowered by diverting Its superabund
ant water into Lake Borgne, other out
lets should he made and The iiver's trib.
utaries diverted from 1t by new channel
into the gulf. Levees, as the Chinese
and Italians and Austrians, in dealing
with the Danube and other streams,
have found, aggravate every evil de-
signed to be remedied. In fact no
streams running like the Mississippi,
through an alluvial plain,
can be oflectually levied.
The fact, too, Is fact, ms every dweller
on the iivor banks knows. that the
Mississippi levees itself-builds up its
own banks-and the hig her the banks
the higher the bottom, and therefore,
as the levees nre perreeted. the surface
of the water is lifted M until lis great
est hei:ht is six feet higher than be-
fore the levee system was inaugurated
mrs s,,,,,,,,r,lrr
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Did you ever watch IL dew-drOp on a
sweetheart lnng 400 y" rov, II See how
the crystal drop stands up; how
| lis molecules or particles are
drawn together by forces of
atlra ton among these particles.
Why does not this little drop of water
spread over the leaf? There is "A force
within these particles, constituting
this tear-drop of Dame Nature that
draws them together, even as you and
your sweetheart COLLAPSED and The dew
drop remained spheroidal. This same