Rests Entirely : ¢ ith Yourself . frre ssser seca seas wn Waists ef from our land, and now---right d, White Waists are things you'll Junce an early and complete shoy. - e collection of new and beautify] vine worth will appeal to you on. here's a partial list rey : WHITE LAWN: WAISTS, wij, ~ embroidered front, in very design and all extra quality of lawn, front pleat of embroidery: sertion, full sleeves with 4 a deep tucked enfi' bationed 1 49 to elbow. Our special eqeh, 10 NHITE LAWN WAISTS, with hand. embroidered front and two row. lace insertion, also clus am ters of fime 'tucks, our | 3 | price derar' ue . Sivas 1 : ® VHITE TAWN WAISTS, of ope quality, with new buttoned hack and handsomely embroidered 1 ] Each .... 0) LAIDLAW & SON -- front, same - general style, Nearly Doubled by y article is of regular worth very w, after all. our regular stock is it great reductions--and we buy so--away they go in the follow- 8 Towelling of this useful, really ial, which we secur. | the greatest price ie vear; full 25 inchos| arly sold at 15¢. af yt after 10 o'clock; | 1 wish, per yard Binsin 09 adies' size and 30 of and every one a ample and therefore erfect material and l new and nobby riety of materials; | in the regular way ider very low-priced 2.00 each, on Mon- iter 10 o'clock, you hoice at half-price of m, each only... : der Shawls |, good large sizes in shape, neat and | regularly sold at mornifig after of ur choice, 'onky........ ., e specials. LAIDLAW & SON --o . TIERED SR we LAIDLAW & SON -- ind Misses' Skir | ! ! WEED BKIRT, with invisible stripe, style of hoxspleating all around th rnate pleat showing a n tentte, both pleats and scams op wide tucks at about flating on down to 5 I ir gpecial only... . 1 Black Kid s at $1.50 elits, Cuban or low heels, ch swell shoes as we will 'Biiy early. SHOE STORE Whether You o 1] SECOND SECTION. --- By John R. Morrison. "The country would undoubtedly be millions of dollars better off were it pot for the floods that afflict it each spring with the melting. of the snows and the heavy rains. How many millions ? It were fool hardy for anyone to try to estimate even approximately the total damage to property that ehas resulted from floods within, sey, even the past ten years. In that time it is safe to say that vary few sections have not suffered f more or less from the effects of high') foolhardy daring. and downrigh water. Each recurring spring is sure he m--and_ always cstimates of the to bring floods to some parts of the | © country. Most of these floods how- ever, are not generally heralded; only | ¢ when a flood THE DAILY BRITIS KINGSTON, ONTARIO, y gine) A i SATURDAY, MARCH 31, { lamage to property, wd rail n the Even now making, for doubt 2 to say nothing of the loss of communication by road similar tales are at 2 presents unusually dra- |! not that " matic features, or becomes more than | somewhere throughout this broad land of local, does the great reading. public | F&gIZ waters are coming down, and - become aware of it and its ravages. people, laden with what possessions For example, who except those per- | they could hastily gather. are fearful sonally interested knows that two | IV Hecing towards high land and years ago the Little Wabash river, in | salety. y Sothern Illinois, overflowed in its Who has calculated the damage to lower courses and drowned out seve- | property in Pennsylvania at the time ral thousand acres of growing wheat of the Johnstown flood, when prac and newly planted com ? tically the entire state was under The damage wrought by such com. | Water ? The money lost in the west ively. insignificant overpours | the floods of three years ago had = tops, in the aggregate, the damage beén set down approximately, at forty due to such spectacular floods as that millions. The same year one-fourth eo which inundated Kansas City three | as much property was said to have years ago or overwhelmed Johnstown [been destroyed in. the Southern Ap in May, 1889. palachian region, and in 1901 ten Let your mind dwell for a moment | millions was estimated as the loss in on the destruction that has been | the same region from flood. Think of | wrought by floods since the settle- | the destruction occasioned by the one ment of the country by the white | hundred and ninety-nine day man. Excepting 'those commmities.| the Mississippi Valley in 155 not near water or situated on eminen- | damage around Fast St. Louis. in | * one. ces that even mighty torrents cannot | 1903, was over twa millions. Water | Se > reach, no locality is without its own | ¢Scaping through a si crevas at 3 es _-- 7 a} fewer chances to escape except flood stories and traditions to relate |'Hllaworra, La, destrc 1 property | It has been estimated that along | allowed .to overflow th hie found. jew ® han i the a thus to all who will give patient ears. | valued at $23,000000. This happened |just one bayou of Southern Louisiana | every spring. Some years i cor. at the mouth, ane has necessitated There arc the paint marks on fences |in 1887." Just one crevasse--and in the Lafourche-- thousands of acres of | tain planter, whose crop of sugar car in th thang 4d much to do with and bridge piers--incidents -of humor, | 1875 the crevasses in the Mississippi | tillable land have been created by cre, | had been drowned out by water esca; or Ie Wii BE -- ris Ee ee levees' were reported by a federal | vasses during the last fifty years. Ab f ing through sev, sowed his wat. | establi ek Be 4 + constructed government engineers as being too | ninety miles be New Orleans, | er-log th ri and in pr | Sow are lhe 'eves x : Threatened mimerous to mention the river in a generation Ing some- | per he harvested al op ! {and kept jn condition nowadays tia . . In view of these scattering : 1 t | ' sl . weaved | there little danger of crevasses e thing like forty thousand acres in «pn rrade ice, worth u ard With Paralysis |. Tu inemtive on nine to | un | y- ATE at dor, Th el | Three youre ago, this spring, when the cay i ifs county . el ye 1 thousand dollars is ved t eaters reached ecord height, only oy thin i) use POMILEY. From, He Here formerly «existed what was [one of the most valuable crops his |%2 a ! nigga 3 o of settleme spring floods have | " 3 W really serie we » The Doctors Told the Writer of the on : i Tai a ty Sorag b ohh ave known as e Jump. It w as a strip plantation had yielded him in years. jhwe yn . e constructed by a Letter Quoted Below--Restor- Yosses a ror wating: a billion ¢ I N of land, less than 8 sia J. a nile [, il nd it was so new. that Ber ; )SSeS apgrogating thon or two i Jide sopare ; he ssissip it a ah y ation Brought About By dollars ? DE UI Leip] Ae 1 Inceasing Height Of Levees [ muda grass had not had time to got y rom the gv and a ody of w " > { ' JOU Use Of | cal Oyster Lake. In order to save a The tir th ips along the Mississip: 15 hold in the xi} and with p EH : a | : ) \ are built by" the piobecr lets, | penetratin v and forming « Ben Floo strip of more than fort es, fisher. | P1 Wer } pen y : Dr, Chase's efits Conferred By d strip of m than forty miles, tish Bers lL I LU Diohet ; pen Bling a Probably the most destructive of all | men were in the habit of dragging or Se richness the oil. ard & . The sowing of Herma Nerve Food natures forces, a flood still brings | jumpir boats over this strip ing in them despite the peril of floud. 1 ve5 on the levees has done much many benefits in its train. in gling dy of water Eo ! : | 1 . : { crevasses If | 1 o h ther. This pre gradually: wore | ater: counties, states and | u he number of crevasses in It is customary to consider paralys dit were practicable to permit the j anv ot in the strip ni ne day in | railroads n° construciing levees, | { high water. Also, it has been 18, insapitywand other diseases of the ; Jississippi to overflow its banks as ja road in th dg flood . | and finally, in 1582, the federal gov- |¢ 1 it that lovee stands best Mery eg Ml . XY noun doves the Nile every spring, the sedi- | 1837, when there was a flood, a ere . ay t 1 of the sort of as afllietions which come upon 2 | i ed a "the | ernment was induced to make its nrs vhich nstructed of th ort « a person without warning and which [Ment that the - waters leave behind | vasse occurred in BR a appropriation for levees. Since then, | earth found' in its locality. The sys are therefore, unavoidable would be the best possible fertilizer | Jump," and the sediment-laden waters the governtioht las. been: actively on. t vatrolling the levees has now As a matter of fact such results are | the land could have. The banks of the {swept int Fhe crevasse gagea in construction and main. | I to un science, and at the preceded by months, if not years of | €T8t Tiver cave in at the rate of nine | sound 9 4 u lake. 'Joday 15 00nce of the lovous along the river | of warning from the water s¥mpioms which point to an exhaust- | 265°% Per mile below Cairo. The aver- [it 15 no more 4 le re : Shou south of Cairo, and makes every efiort | he weather bureau. paid od condition of the nervous system. | 28° height of the bank is from thirty ands of eres of, hs ii wy a and in in times of peril to aid the local au- [a luntecr patrols are pacing up 1 nptoms are such. however. 119 forty-five feet. From this one source | 1903, a bill was introduced in congress thbritics iin r Battle to keen tf A nd cnatantlV. TRYTOWIng v7 pass th m by : not | ing alone, the river receives annual directing the secretary of the trapsury love intact and to fight [EY wihen walls hedging e © as not being |, + 1 s ion i eVees act a to igh ack n wal ging concern and thinking that 332,000,000 cubic yards of sediment; | to sell hirty-five thousand acres 1 go 0" op 2" ames 0ocur he mighty torrent by vear away of thems Ro "| and many more millions of cubic yards | still own by the federal govern With the passing of time the levees ' sahil Slecplessness, por , ig are recvivea from the Missouri, the | ment i] A 8, nervous headach in- s t " . have grown considerably in height. In [ Cre digestio bodily okt hey ns ian Red, the Ohio, and other tributaries. The rice planters of Tonisiana have 1420 oh h ' nl > I" { X 1 130 Miles Of Crevasses. raknoss : 3 10, 8 8 . 2 the only oot « ' ' spells, twitching of the nerves 9 oy Something like 300,000,000 cubic yards | been materially benefited from time to | oo) Sus SEE CEE WBC CFC in " not a few creva ity to concentrate the yen \ of the sediment are discharged into [time hy floods Did many of them five feet, in 15D, seven fact. The ay r. jes w ' due to cutting of loss of memory are amon he ane the gull. Before the levee systein was | have their way, the levees round about age i . ity foot i 8 the by nterested parties, A eo « ! hf . i sx . 8 Ov Ve ' and » Ww common indications of TE a inaugurated, most of this sediment | them would be destroyed and the river levees are os high as thirty and Jorty | bronk 'on the Missjesippi side, for ex Yous system. It is so Pi ! iy was deposited in the river valley, when | e---- -- -- -- fet Exeept for gaps shout the jample, would relieve the pressure and step . ometimes ony 81 ihe banks were overflowed. Indeed, in | ? Be gaps about the 1 oye danger of flood 'on the Atkansas lp from such symptoms to prostra- | !¢ banks were owed, rh wh WHO HAS ASTHMA ? mouths of 'such big rivers as the Red ang tion, paralysis, locomotor ataxia or in this fashion the entire valley was ee and the St shcis, 'the banks of the | side ana the temptation to disregard sanity oe ' . t hrough . centuries of spring | eat ai tiny. | the rights of the Missiseippians would nity, ual Lup itary es EO hall "| Let Thema Know of the One Per. | Mississippi v Cairg are continy- [Ihe FIERTZ SHY the part of some Ar nulants and narcotics. though | flooding--our richest farming 'valley | ously super sed "with lovees, their [DC 100 great on the part o ro Sometimes affording taporasy he due entirely to floods. mament Cure. total Niner length being about. four. | kansas planter, fearful for his crops, only hasten the chara of the| Every erovasse that occurs in time of | Doctors advance diferent theories as | 0" hundred ~ miles TE. ol ' AD , . OH o jssissippie levees is o the f Asthma. : : ~ * Q nerves, Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, . on flos odin the. My focded he th Pry 1 dion 1 's the Enough money to make a man one JARGAINS 1 the other hand, reconstructs and re-| 18iR to cover the floodéd land with th The isnt materiab-ats thet 4 the richest in the world has been :DICINE stores the wasted and "depleted Nerve river's richest alluvium. The deposit | cure you wa \ spent on the leveos, Not long ago it MED Ye s "te TV [ sn th ox, ng 2 le rally Se sel of the ! orne remedies. are useless--n, . - coll naturally raises the level of the land | Internal ren "Iwas stated that the national ~overn A woman once. wrote us Naturall : and this of itself is beneficial. Some | good t : AS Naturally, gradually and certainly | & ; 4 s } 1 air wp, | Ment, the states ana the various devee i rad Th o ti this great © Boiepy 1 ils into thy | times the depth of the deposit is a But use the ozonated air cure, 8-1 fistricts had cxpended 5 grand total that she was not gomg to rr i} Pp sis mto the " : 44 . and ' + ( exp Rr ha 10 - : ~ ¥ blood and the nervous system ihe life] 190! ot gore on the ew and it is tatrijuzone ; aad asthma won't hang | Pl tv million dollars. Of: this sum buy Scotts Emulsion any Sustaining prinein! : Gi M never lesa than several inches, In any | ro ver ang. . tional gov 6 furnished 3 : "pag the nerve fog roe whieh ig case, it it sufficient to act as a sterl- | No room for doubt Catarrhozons the Rational Fomor nt has § iwnished | more Because it cost too e © ody and so!. » t . os). in experiment one: ¢ 0 * PY ATS Yo 2 . effect lasting benefit. : ing fertilizer for from five to fifteen f i x 3 ua Rpetin n Bevis cured pevian] not take into account the big sums much, Said she could get Miss ¥ : years, | ROUIANCS NAV se ; Tor 34 ? . i nll Write hy Athone, he * hore ate numerous instances of al | ently and quickly, like Edward J poured out for teveans be bie dua, some other emulsion for less 3 ase ve F 8 y L { - i Ry Ra nt KHAO individaals, of . "Q ' done me 5 world of faut. 1 -- Bin luvium filling up lowland and swamps, joe onnor, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, Tava ro e pioneers down to the pre money. Penny wise and i 31 tz * 8A 3 : . sultiv ; ov who writes ! 3} : . 13 "A vB bed with fainting spells, bodily weak- making. tase cultivatable. A Hug re 3 oghood T had been a] ent. and by the railroads. The latter | pound foolish. Scott's Emul- Bose, Sh : courred some vears ago in fro 0 o Br ! : . nek es a . Aah night wu. > 4A Teutieas, léenlons the Mulberry Grove plantation, Lonis constant rom asthma and ca- | have put fortunes in Nay that their s£10n costs more because it 1s irequently had cramps io the | '7° TOF ' 3 pons , + nose and t wer Pr might be adeguateic nrote stomach and ad cramps io the = Tay (Borts to close it proved | tarth. My nose and throat al- pi -- Sarnlit ear the total | worth more--costs more to entire] and: would at times become i nd the planter saw his ent | ways stopped up with mucous and 1]ed got nowhere near the tots i : ar % Jnsensible, not knowing what futile. { 0 : . oy ruined before his | had droppings in the threat, cost of levee construction ence the make. We could make * going on until others told a fron: oF Suga it ¥ w Rr Smik 5 atin sathe 11] first lover wae raised, millions should . ' : . 5 tetwards others told me af eves. But when the waters had gone | Whe n r thn "t Yi a es pe h be added, to those spent by federal Scott's Emulsion cost less by ¥ { 4 Y Yo 's © was quickly | thought contd ve throug i § he ed, to OS T : 4 : ; a doctored with several doctors and | down. the man's sorrow was. Wi i I would sit up and gasp for | and state governments, using less oil. Could take pax fold me 1 was _ threatened with could He. They gave fae relief. hut tire. no cure me. After sufferine for | gat vears 1 began the use of Dr.! "ase's Nerve Food and. it hes de na | mw WR than all the medicines I | os Ur. Chase's X ase's Narve Wo, oY hh : at all dealers, ia od, 3c, a box, or Edmanson) Dales & the flood had left behind sufficient Inviam to fill all the swampy lands the rear of the plantation, thus givi him over two hundred that could be profitably At the time to he worth one hundred dollars acre. Tts value had undoubtedly Co. Toronto, creased as the years have gone by, turned to jor when he discovered that | more acres this land was estimated be al in ng | ith and i ""Catarrhozone was a me. It has made me entirely well and endures great distress Godsend to | 1 speak of it just as I found it. tilled. p2 Your druggist sells Catarrhozone; { two months' treatment costs ; trial an | Size 25c. By mail fre N. o'son in- | & Co., Hartlord, Conn, USA, and | hingston, Ont, The increase in levee heights should not he set down to a conflantsincrease in mean flood heights, Tt is vartle due to a desire to keen shove the height al each record flood, The mean flood heivht is no ereater now than it was in the dave ths pioneers. Then, too, as the chain of levees has hecome more und more complete, the river has less care in making it, too. If we did, however, Scott's Enfilsion wouldnt 'Be the standard preparation of cod liver oil as it is to-day. SCOTT & BOWNE, Toreate, Ont, » 1 tory if not his family's existence. And tales are told in the levee country of swamp vimber Ahieves who stole down jo-em- pbankments and eut them, that the swamps might be . flooded and their plunder floated away to market, Sys- tematic patgol has reduced to the minimum of danger from this source, and a man would think twice now be fore undertaking to cut a levee, He knows that he would be taking his life in his hands--be almost certain to be detected and shot, for in times of danger a patrol's beat is 'usually not more than half a mile in length, The record year for crevasses was 1875. A board of United States engi neers, reported that they were too nu- teen million people in the Yellow River | Valley. This twas in 1342, Fuydiuia of ghousands were drowned; mil- lions died as a result of the famine dis rectly due to the flood. The loss of life at Johnstown made the whole world shudder, but how small it seems when compared with the loss of lile in any of the floods that have afflicted China since the enormous flood plains, created by the alluvial ita of her two t rivers, have been densely populated. And that means a matter of some: thing" like three thousand and more years before the beginning of the Christian era. merous to mention, and that the comer bined: width of the breaks was one hundred and thirty miles. This is on- Jv fifgy-eight miles shorter than the distance by rail between New York Sw and Baltimore. The levees now bordering the "Father of Waters" be low Cairo would more than reach the metropolis and New Orleans, 1,341 miles, or between the metropolis and Omaha, 1,352 miles. All work connected with flood fight ing on the lower Mississippi is strenu enongh, but the really heroic struggle comes when the attempt to render a crevasse harmless by means of a "run around." This is a semi- circle of bags, filed with earth, built around the crevasse, and some dis- tance inland. from it. Then gentlemen planters work without question along the meanest of negro reoust abouts, giving and taking with them in the univerkal anxiety to stem the deetructive current. At such time the grimness that settles down on all is worthy of deseription by a master realist such as Zola was. Some of the richest men wf the Mississippi river country have worked for hours at a stretch on the levees and stand. ready to do ro again when occasion de mands, Kt is neighbor help neighbor, no matter who he may be, for no one ever knows when he will need all the assistance he ean possibly summon in the battle to keep the waters from burying his good acres and imperiling his family and plantation hands ous side The Worst Of All Floods. Our greatest floods are in the Miss issippi 'Valley; twelve, particularly de structive, have occurred in less than a century. But pot the worst of all these fipods is to be mentioned in the same breath with the raging torrents that periodically afflict several other portions of the globe. Perhaps the worst Hoods in all his leaving out the consideration, of course, the deluge--take place in the valleys of the Yellow and Yangtse rivers of Chind. Levees have been nmintained along the rivers for many centuries, one marked effect has been to raise their respective levels above that of the valleys; consequently when the artificial barriers give way in any place appalling disaster is certain to follow, Five years ago the loss of life in the Yangtse floods was so great that it could be estimated only roughly in thousands. Hundreds of villages were wiped out, literally, not so much us the foundation poles being left, and with the houses went the inhabitants en masse, men, women and children. In the Kiang-8i district alone, 150,000 persons wera in imminent danger of starvation before any semblance of re lief could got to them and hun dreds of women and' children 'were sold into slavery that food might be tained for those left. The Yeilow river flaods of seventeen vears ago drove from home and utter ly ruined about twenty million peaple iowa number xufficient to make five New York cities, or equal to the combined populations of New York, Pennsyl- vania, Illinois and Mississippi. 'The property loss, of course, was estimat ed by several millions of dollars, and the donation of two million dollars made by the emperor went a very little way to give relief. aig One of the greatest--pérhaps next to the deluge, the greatest authenticated destructive flood since history began-- ve oh was that which brought death to thir- tne] Got Confused, u "For my J" said Mrs. Parti ton, "1 can't deetive what on airti sefentiont di comin' to. When 1 wa young, i 3 Sunde Tr Sl yond provision, multi plying, replenishing, atid the common: dominator, and know all about rivers and their obituaries, the covenants and domitories, the provinces and the umpire; they had eddification enough. but, now they have to study bottomy, algier-aby, and have to demonstrate suppositions about sucyphants of ecir- cuses, tangents, and dingonues of par- allellograms, to say' nothing about the oxhides, asshead, cowsticks, and ahstruce triangles."' And the old lady breame so confused with the technical names that she was forced to stop. Mechanics, Farmers, Sportsmen, To heal and soften the skin and re- move grease, and rust stains, paint and earth, ete., use The 'Mase ter Mechanic's" "Tar Soap, Albert Toilet Soap Co., Manufacturers. ' Your enemies can be relied upon keep you from growing conceited your friends should fasl in their forts. TI to if o- Will not save a diseased tree. Whats ever it is that threatens the life of the tree must be discovered and attacked Pruning directly. It is the same The with rheumatism which B cho has been considered in- cura in stages because the ordinary rem stead of going at the root of the dis- case simply prunes the branches. The trouble is in the bone or joint and must be got at there, must be driven out, This is where the pre-eminence of Tuck's Rheumatic Bone Oil comes in over all other remedies. It goes straight at the root of the trouble in the quickest and most direct way, penetrates to the Lone and effects a sure, pepdhanent and specdy cure, Here is" what one sufferer says of it: 5 Dear Sirs, You ask me if Tuck's Bone Oil did me any good. 1 can tell you that it did. It cured me of rhen- watism and nothing ever helped me for neuralgia until I got that. I sui- fered everything for years from rheu- matism and at times I thoughi it was going to my heart and would kill me. All my neighbors know how I , suffered and they all know that Tuck's Bone Oil cured me, because | tell ev: erybody 1 see. I took small doses of it, about four drops in milk, and 1 had it thoroughly rubbed into my legs, which were both aficeted. It seemed to penetrate right fo where the pain was and even the first application gave me relief, but the grumbling pain came back in a few hours, 1 kept on using it, and before '1 had used all of the fourth bottle I was complotely free of rheumatism, During this time | had a terrible attack of neuralgia. J I used Tuck's Bone Oil + almost in- stant relief. 1 am wi for you to nse this any way you ke, because E think Bone 0il should be known of hy everyone. ¥. H. DEAN, ai Farnham, Queber. For rheumatism, lame back, neur- algia, sprains, coughs, colds; quings or bronchitis, in short foe any and & kinds of inflammation there .ing..to.equal Tuck's Boné Oi De Should be, - the, { in ome. For sale ors at 50. a 'bottle or sent by. The Tuck Bone Oil Co., Smith's Falls, Ont, Cala