Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1904 — A Simple Water Mill. [ARTICLE]

A Simple Water Mill.

A simple tvater mill that belongs to the class of “reaction” mills, which are turned one way in the effort to throw a stream of water in the opposite direction, is made of a clay pipe. Cut away one side of the mouth end of the stem with a knife (not your best one) or rub it away with a file or on a grindstone—that is to say, until you have laid bare, so to speak, the bore of the stem for half an inch or bo. Then stop the hole, both at the end and at the side, with sealing wax, leaving only a small round hole at the point farthest from the end. Now all you have to do is to fasten a fine cord with sealing wax to the edge of the bowl at the precise point that comes nearest to the smoker’s mouth. Tie the other end of the cord to the chandelier or other convenient object and pour water gently into the bowl. A fine jet of water will shoot out sidewise from the little hole in the stein, and the pipe will begin turning. It will keep on turning as long as there is any water in the bowl and indeed a good deal longer by the effect of momentum.