Relief for Mississippi Valley Sufferers
By Editor
It would seem that if there is in the country a needy class which demands help, it is the sufferers in the Mississippi Valley. The floods have been very severe this year. Levee after levee has broken, and even Baton Rouge and New Orleans have been in great danger. Thousands have been driven from their homes, many have lost their houses, and crops have been swept away. But few, comparatively, of the survivors in the Titanic disaster suffered, yet thousands of dollars has been raised all over the country for this; but there have been no great appeals, so far as we know, for the relief of the sufferers in the valley of the great Mississippi. It is a great, suffering old world. Calamities have come and will come; they are with us perennially and constantly, and the hard-hearted among us doubtless need them to arouse our sympathy and take us out of ourselves.