to line the inside of barrels with rosin,
but always the stuff stole forth to freedom. Freight, cartage, leakage,
cooperage and return of barrels meant loss of temper, trade and
dolodocci. Realizing all these things, H. H. Rogers, aided by his able
major-general, John D. Archbold, revolutionized the trade.

The man who now handles your kerosene does not handle your sugar. He is
a specialist.

In every town in America of more than one thousand people is a Standard
Oil agency. The oil is delivered from tank-cars into iron tanks. From
there it is piped into tank-wagons. This wagon comes to your door, and
the gentlemanly agent sees that your little household tank is kept
filled. All you have to do is to turn a faucet. Aye, in this pleasant
village of East Aurora is a Standard Oil agent who will fill your lamp
and trim the wick, provided you buy your lamps, chimneys and wicks of
him.

And this service is Standard Oil Service--it extends from Halifax to San
Diego; from New Orleans to Hudson Bay. In very truth, it covers the
world.

This service, with prohibition in the South, has ruined the cooper's
trade, the trade that introduced H. M. Flagler into the Standard Oil
Company.

The investment in cooperage used in the oil business has shrunk from a
hundred millions to less than five millions, while the traffic in oil
has doubled.

And the germ of this service to the consumer came from the time when
Henry Rogers worked a grocery route for a co-operative concern that cut
out the expensive middleman and instead focused on a faultless service
to the consumer.

* * * * *

The name "petroleum" is Latin. The word has been in use since the time
of Pliny, who lived neighbor to Paul in Rome, when the Apostle abided in
his own hired house, awaiting trial under an indictment for saying
things about the Established Religion.

Until within sixty years, the world thought that petroleum was one
simple substance. Now we find it is a thousand, mixed and fused and
blended in the crucible of Time.

Science sifts, separates, dissolves, analyzes, classifies. The perfumes
gathered by the tendrils of violet and rose, in their divine desire for
expression, are found in petroleum. Aye, the colors and all the delicate
tints of petal, of stamen and of pistil, are in this substance stored in
the dark recesses of the earth.

Petroleum has yielded up over two thousand distinct substances, wooed by
the loving, e