Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — Hard Water. [ARTICLE]

Hard Water.

Do you realize how hard water is when a boat sails through it at full speed? Water passing at 50 miles an hour is not the limpid liquid we are accustomed to bathe in. If you put your arm overboard: from a hydroplane running 5 0 miles an hour and strike a wave crest, the probability is that you will break your arm or wrist, because at that speed the water has not time to give, or even to change shape, and striking it is like striking so much metal. If a swordsman should enter one of the great hydraulic - quarries where a stream of water, under enormous head, is used <to wash down hillsides, and attempt to cut into one of those streams, his sword would fly in pieces without being able to penetrate the water. The stream is like a bar or iron -—Boston Transcript.