The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-05

hard, then a process is resorted TO
whereby the water is rendered as soft as
rain water.
Take the deep-well water from say the
Putnam House well. That is of Is deg.
of hardness. That Is, it will take 10
times as much soap to make the same
lather with one gallon of this waite, as
Is needed To make an equal lather with
one gallon of pure soft water. In other
words, il takes 81 ounces of soap in the
enc case where IL takes = ounces in the
other. Therefore, in order tn soften this
water, We must remove, 10y precipits-
ton, the lime, magnesia and other min
erals held in solution.
We SILL, by the two processes COM
bined, then get IA beautiful supply of
good, health-gIving water; supply
equs' to the hest IN the world.
IL. CISTERNS
are not To be considered, when "A supply
of good water IL To be had from any other
source. As usually arranged, cisternS
take the water from the roofs of houses.
Now, we can see that the dead leaves
dust, vegetable matter and bird drop
pings must go from our house roofs into
our cisterns. No filter made can satisfy
us that we shall then get good water. \
brick or charcoal filter will take out "a
sion, but not that held in solution More
over, water stored in cisterns always be-
comes stagnant. We are often saluted
with a Whit of air from our cisterI S
which Is awful. Stagnant water de
velops the lower orders of animal life
Stagnant water is the most perfect car
rler OF diseases arising from putrefying
matter. Stagnant water Is the most
subtle enemy we can Introduce into our
Il. Ill 4 !.
mense hoppers where disease is kept On
tap.
Ill. WATER II POISONED
in various ways, but we will only con-
slider some of those most To bc feared 10y
the average householder. We have to
fear sickness from the fact that our
sources of water supply become poisoned
by decaying vegetable or animal matter,
by human eXcTement, gases and sewage.
We do not assume that our supply of
well or cistern water is good b, cause we
have carefCly attended To the sanitary
condition of our premises. Our well
may he poisoned 10y privy vault, or
putrefy ing ma,se IL mile away. Re
Gently a case came to my notice where
the supply of water from a well tasted
salty and porky. There was no doubt of
1t, the water was contaminated by the
presence of pork and salt Careful
search showed that the owner of the
| well had emptied u barrel of pork brine
in one corner of j = field more than 700
feet away. The salt was carefully gath
| cred up, aud the philosophy of the matter
| eXpla ned, To prevent another similar
| occurrence. In two weeks the water in
that well was a good as ever. This Is
the way that wells become contaminat ed.
| Wat, VIII absorb gases VcIy rapidly.
| That IL may he better understood how
great Is the transfrsive quality of water,
| the following illustration il gwen. IL {,
long pipe be taken and bent in the shape
of w and filed with water, and we in
| trOduce at one end some ammonia or
| sulphuric acid, we shall quickly find that
at the other end of the pipe the water is
| jmpregnated with the liquid introduced.
Water is better distributor of pl'sons
| than iron iS of heat.
| ". WATER CONvE.S DISEASE GERMS
| by its own motion or gravity. That
germs of several diseases reproduce them
selves in water is Il we'll known fact, ana
when water becomes poisoned by such
! minute atoms AZ these, the results are
| terrible. That some idea of the size of
these spores may Ice had, | will say that
the most powerful microscope made is
unable To furnish us "A sight of them.
| Then how many must we sometimes
| d"'Hk AT one Sulp
! Y. WATER SUPPLY.
| Plainly our source of water supply
/ Is far below us, at leo L $50 feet. This
water Is not fou'ed by any animal or veg
etable mattor, and we can easily Remove
such minerals and gaseous matter iis II
hol IN solution or suspension. More
| over, the supply y constant, atrording ~
sufficient water for all possible usos
Drouths do not fect the quantity nuI
| qua'ity of this supply. We shall hav,
no one limiting that some one has found
1t convenient to connect his sink dra, a
with our supply.
Nature works for the gSOd of man
kind, and she has given US these sourc,
of wa r for nitary purposes. Let n
| hasten To avail ourselves at this fact ano
! get a system of water supply that vii
| boom our town more than ANYTHING else
| ECIE.