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Show OIL HAS REVOLUTION- w IZED LIFE. With the exception of the art of printing, it may well be doubted if any Miiirle industry lias brought so many and sweeping changes to the . wr rid as lias the modern production and use of petroleum. None, perhaps, has wrought its revolui ion in manners, customs, modes of life, relations of the individual to the f-vcial er!ai;l;shmeiit, in so short a period of time as has the oil industry indus-try along with those others that are collaterial to and dependent upon it. Our picsent age of machinery would have been impossible but for petrol rem to lubricate the wheels and gears, the flying spindles, the steam-driven steam-driven Titans of power the rail -road locomotive and the giant power plants of our ocean-going ships. Petroleum has made the motor car possible, revolutionizing life in the country, affording quick and inexpensive inexpen-sive transportation to the people ovoyv.licro, eliminating distance as a factor in social and business relations. A vast c:ontintent has virtually been converted into a neighborhood by the multiplication of petroleum;, driven vehicles ve-hicles and the construction of good roads. If petroleum and its products should suddenly be banished from the earth, modern-day civilization would instantly come to an end. |