Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — A Water Test. [ARTICLE]

A Water Test.

It is one of the easiest things In thJ world to tell pure water from the iiaw pure. If you want to test the color oil the water just fill a colorless glass bot-l tie with the water and look through it! at some black object, and the dlstinc-j tiveness with which you can see the] object will give you an Idea as to thej amount of clay or sand there is In the j water. Then pour out one-half the water, cork the bottle tightly and set it In a warm place for about twenty-four hours. Remove the cork and smell the air In the bottle. If there is an offensive odor, even the slightest, the water is unfit for domestic uses. Well water, no matter how bright and sparkling, is nine times out of ten putrescent. Then, as a matter of course, decomposition is sure to set In In a day or two if yot put the bottle In a warm place