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Indianapolis Monroes Iron Clad Age (Newspaper) - May 10, 1884, Indianapolis, Indiana It. It the Iron Ghet a eve Olite your times to urdu to my 10, 1884. To him Jed age. He it a. A Iva a. . May 10,1884. If we am a vim pm my Jyle m we to tbs a Llu Elbl a end la no Freedom Arcima Keiit to the Conata Talon xxx 8�c. 1, to lither coat my nor any so to shall make in jaw in Qiming Ani Citaku bibent of religion or factoring any particular religion or prohib-3tii�g the free or permitting in any degree a Union of Efa Barcli and aute or granting any sect it. Or to ast number of sects or re Drees of grievance a.,8kc. 2. No religious test shall Ever be require Das a condition of is ifs a or As a Qualls Catlon to any office or Public Trust in any state. No person shall of 1 Etc Bese proved of any of his or Hei rights priv lager or capacities or Duqua fied for the performance of any Public or private duty or read tiered it competent to Gore evidence in Finy court of Law or equity in cons Muenck of any opinions Hershe May we on the subject of religion. No person shall Ever be required by Law to contribute directly or indirectly to the support of any Reli Gibsob society nobody of which she or he is not a voluntary Mem her. 8kc. 3. Neither the United states nor any state territory or municipality or any civil division of any state or territory shall Levy any tax or make any gift Grant or appropriation for the support or in Aid of any Church Rufli Giohas sect , or any school Seminary or institution of learning in which the Faith or doctrines of any religious order or beet shall be taught or inculcated or in which religious rites shall be observed or for the support or d Aid of any religious Charity or purpose of any sect order whatever. Sbc.4. Congress shall have Power to enforce the various provisions of this article by appropriate leg ablation. Jan. 8,105,-9y funeral extravagance. The unnecessary Cost of mortuary display in new s tyranny exercised until subjects Are under a round poverty pinched to provide trappings for inanimate clays some inquiries among the undertakers. New York Sun. A gentleman of moderate Means who has an extensive experience in american hotels told a reporter of the Sun the other Day that when he applies for a room he asks the clerk to Send him to one that is not elaborately furnished. Quot i desire Quot the gentleman went on to say Quot to leave to my family All the Money t can without depriving either them or myself of what we ought to have in life and i Don t want any unnecessary expenditure at my death. If i die in a first class hotel in this City my estate must pay expenses according to the room in which the undertaker finds my remains. He will provide a a mpg my ice Box and a whole con i 8ervat or f. Of Flowers and perhaps Flias a re my body for a $1,500 coffin if i am in amp to Doua a a Broom i vet. Him a Hiatt iat i Practised econ May his preparations for the arrival of my family will not be so costly. Then again the Bill that the hotel will present against my estate will not be so Large if i die in a room that is plainly furnished As it would be in a pretentious room. It is you May know a practice of the landlords to charge for fumigating the room in which any person Dies and the charge is based on the value of furniture in that room for it is assumed to have been destroyed As hotel furniture by a death in the room and the item for fumigating in your Bill is sometimes As much As Sion. This demand for $100 for fumigation is not always insisted upon. I once heard of a reduction made by a first class hotel in this City in favor of a woman who told the clerk that she could not find the Money to take her husband s body to their Home in the West if she paid More than $50 for the fumigation and upon this showing of facts the clerk graciously reduced the figures accordingly. At another time i had the curiosity to ask an undertaker about this charge and he laughed at the notion of a death s destroying a room s furnishings and said that he could rip up the carpets and turn a to Oil upside Down and fumigate it for $5, and think himself liberally paid. I once heard it a Man to moved out of a new York hotel when he was nearing his end saying that if he must die he would die where his family would not be required to pay for the House in which he died. Indeed knowing what i do i am inclined to think that it was not All a joke when a new yorker said he was walking around to save funeral the reporter was told a an undertaker that every room in a new York hotel in which a person Dies is fumigated the Assumption being that every malady that ends in death is in a degree contagious. Quot Bat the new York landlords Are not so Hai d on you As they Are in some cities Quot the undertaker continued Quot for in some other cities Lite body must be taken to an undertaker within an hour after Quot you Don t favor cremation Quot was asked. Quot Why a hould i Quot the under taker relied Quot cremate and half any it roots Are gone. Cremate and where is my percentage on a casket Costiuc up to All the Way from ? where is my profit on the Flowers costing All the Way from $10 up to $10, of the Floral display at Alexander t. Stewart s funeral Cost $10,000. His coffin Cost $1,500. Cremate and what becomes of the six factories in this City each employing from 25 to 150 men at coffin making and making shrouds and other things pertaining to the grave ? cremate and what becomes of a score of Marble cutters whose sole business is to sculpture monuments for the cemeteries around new York Quot Quot but the body perishes in time the reporter ventured to interrupt. Quot Why should it not immediately after death be reduced to an inoffensive powder Quot Quot that is not our View of it. We undertakers look no further than to make a neat respectable funeral according to the Means of the relatives. We could put a body away in the $2.50 Pine coffin of the commissioners of charities to be buried at their Cost in a Trench in the Potter s Field. But our customers invariably want the reverse of this. The poor the very poor especially a Pinch themselves and indeed run in debt to give their relatives the most respectable funeral that they can give. It is they say the last that they can do for their friends and they do it in a far More costly Way than they can afford. They saw the Black silk velvet that covered the Cedar of Commodore Vanderbilt s coffin and when Horace Greely s body Lay in state in the governor s room they saw the White Satin with which his casket was lined and they see Flowers and coaches at every funeral. They want As much of this As they can get and some of them Lay aside Money for months and even years to be expended on elaborate funeral with Flowers costing from $50 to $100 More. Now 1 can get up a very respectable funeral for 5, including an imitation Rosewood or Walnut casket icing the body a Wreath one coach Herriage and the grave. Some undertakers would charge More for the same funeral. But it is Seldom that we Are asked to make such a common sense funeral As i speak of. Instead the widow who have $5,000coming to her will insist Iii it on a genuine Rosewood or mahi any a ask to even though i Tell her Hemlock will last longer and there must be a train of coaches and then As a final Mark of affection from $250 to $1,000 of her Means must go up in Marble Over the grave. Quot yes we do make a difference Between the Rich and the poor of the churches to which we Are attached. The congregation of the Church to which i am Sexton expect me to do things right Down to the Bottom Dollar of profit when i Bury a poor member but when a wealthy member goes to his Long Home they understand that the dignity of our Church is to be maintained by a showy funeral and they look upon a big Bill of expenses with approval. For example within a year past i have buried two wealthy members of the congregation and when i answered an inquiring brother that my Bill in one Case was $650 and in the other $700,. The comment was that it might just As Well have been $1,500 in both cases. Quot is there Competition you ask. Yes. There Are undertakers who pay physicians commissions for giving them notice of a patient s being near the Point of death and they Are sometimes in the House of death applying for the funeral before the body is cold. There was once an undertaker who spent the busiest part of every Day in the Coroner s office and he did this for years until we combined and took measures to oust him just As the coffin factories Here elbowed out the Cincinnati firms that used to sell coffins Here. Quot do we get poisoned sometimes. I know an undertaker who is so badly poisoned from a Mere scratch on the hand Liat he can hardly get about. I usually Wear a rubber Glove and As to infectious diseases Why i fortify my system against cont Ion. I use a coarse Towel when i get up every morning and with it scour All the dead skin from every part of my body thus giving the pores Opportunity to do their work. Then i breakfast on Oatmeal and milk and other nutritious and easily digested food and thus i am fortified against any contagious disease. But if i am going where there is contagion i take the precaution to put camphor into my pockets. Quot do the Ever beat us Down you ask. None but the provident and Well to do. An instance occurs to me of a Friend whom i knew to re a a be moderately wealthy a onic it Idiz her friends who had been Bra ghz to near Tork to be Opeil the Ipoh As a last Chance of escape death by tumor died under the surgeon s knife and they charged $1,000 for killing her. My Friend called i on me in a common Woolen shawl that she had borrowed. We undertakers get to be observing you see. She saw that i noticed the absence of the Sealskin and camels hair shawl that i knew she had and she laughingly explained that she had come to be directed to an undertaker who would not know her ability to pay and that so had put on cheap attire under the impression that an undertaker would be More moderate in his charge than he would be in dealing with a lady in Sealskin and diamonds. I ought in Justice to her to add that the Money she thus saved was not for her self but for her Friend s a Clergyman said Quot persuasive words do not deter the poor from incurring expense that they cannot afford in mortuary matters. The example set by municipalities when the drape the streets As they did drape them at the time of the obsequies of Clay and of Webster and then for Lincoln the Greely pageant although comparatively simple and the Stewart funeral and scores of less showy displays All fostered the feeling that 1 find everywhere particularly among the poor that there is evidence of civilization in manifesting respect for the dead. C Astom is beginning however to modify some of the evils of extravagance in funerals notably in the introduction of the evening funeral. Its not prompted by motives of Economy it is True its purpose is to enable men to attend funeral services which they cannot very Well do when the ceremonies Are performed in the Busy hours of the Day. Evening funerals followed by private morning burials Are Likely to become fashionable and if there is no other gain through them they May Well be encouraged As dispensing with the Cost of a caravan of coaches. As to expensive Flowers i know that some persons would dictate their entire omission at their entire own obsequies. A Case occurs. To me lady who was by n a Means and whose Benevol Eifim Dence of anything Lut parsimony and who invariably carried a Wreath to every funeral she attended. It was her express desire that when the last words were spoken for her there should be Only a modest Bunch of violets on her breast. And we complied with her Petroleum How obtained and piped. Scientific american. An interesting pamphlet entitled Quot manual of Petroleum Quot published by the financial news association in this City gives the following the Petroleum bearing roce is a Sandstone existing in irregular shape whose extent and form Are found Only by experimental Boring. This Rock lies on a level and is from 5 to 30 feet thick varying in the different Fields. The depth to which a Boring has to be made to reach it depends on the Topography of the overlying Countey. The deepest Wells Are in the Bradford which is the largest Field. Some Wells there Are Over 2,000 feet deep while about Oil Creek they do not penetrate to More than a third of this depth. The earlier theories were that Petroleum existed in crevices or fissures of the underlying Rock but it is now established that it permeates the entire bed of Sandstone the forcing Power for the flowing Well being furnished by the pressure of Gas. After the Well has been flowing a considerable time this pressure diminishes and with the final escape of the Gas pumping has to be resorted to. No one can attempt to predict How Long a Well will last nor How soon it will give out. Some Wells have been pumped for years and others have failed entirely within a few weeks and the Quantity of Oil afforded varies from less than a barrel to Over 4,000 barrels a Day. How they get Oil. In Boring for Oil a wooden Derrick of Plank and boards is erected. It is usually 20 feet Square at the base 60 to 70 feet High with Corners so arranged that the top is about 3 feet Square. Here rests a heavy piece which holds the Pulley Over which the 2-Inch drilling Cable works. In the less elevated localities it is necessary to drive pipe to prevent the caving in of the Well and the influx of water. This i is of wrought Iron 8 inches in diameter and is driven in 17 foot sections by. A heavy Maul erected in the Derrick. Since it is to guide the drilling tools great care is taken to keep it Strait. The engine usually of 15 horse Power is placed near the Derrick 12 feet from the Center of which is placed the Quot Samson Post a heavy piece of Timber 20 Iii Hes Square and 12 feet High the top of which is prepared to receive the walking beam. This beam tapers slightly each Way from the Center. It is about 15 inches Square and of such a length that when properly balanced on the Quot Samson Quot Post one end is Over the Middle of the Derrick floor. To this end is fastened the Cable and drilling tools which weigh some 3,000 pounds and the other end derives Power from the engine giving the beam a rocking motion which lifts and drops the tools. They Are lowered and drawn by the Aid of the Quot Bull Quot wheel and Shaft. Ani 8-Inch Hole is drilled below the veins of fresh water which Are shut off by a wrought Iron casing tube 5 inches in diameter lowered in sections 18 feet Long. After the necessary length of casing is introduced the size of the Hole is lessened to inches and this size continues Down till the Well is completed. After Oil is struck the tubing pipe of 2 or inches diameter is let Down inside the casing and a seed bag dropped in Between the tube and the casing. This bag is of leather and is filled with flax seed. When it becomes saturated with water it swells and makes a water tight joint so that no water can get below it. Four men two drillers and two blacksmiths Are required to sink a Well and the Cost runs from 75 cents to $1 50 per foot. The Rock pulverized by the blows of the Drill is removed by use of the Sand pump. This is a heavy Metal tube 6 feet Long which is rapidly lowered with every 6 feet of Progress the drilling tools being first withdrawn. The Sand pump has a valve in the lower part which closes and retains the contents until the surface is reached. Torp doing a Well. The process of Quot Torp doing Quot a Well is resorted to when the Well shows signs of giving out. A tin Shell filled with a c9uple of Gallons of Nitro Glycerine is dropped Down and exploded bursting the Rock at the Bottom. The effect of this is generally to at once largely increase the yield for the time being. The pipe lines. The storage and transportation of Petroleum is in the hands of two companies whose pipes cover the entire Field of Pennsylvania and convey it to reservoirs hundreds of Miles Distant. The largest of these companies the United pipe lines is controlled by the Standard Oil company. These lines Are six in number two run from Olean to Communipaw on new York Bay another runs to Buffalo one to Cleveland one to Pittsburg and the sixth to Milton station on the beading Road. Its pipes in the aggregate Are Over 3,000 Miles Long and it owns Over 600 tanks with an aggregate storage capacity of 20, barrels. The nucleus of this great system existed prior to 1876, when there were several other lines under different organizations. Between 1876 and 1879 they were All absorbed by the Standard Oil company. The other company is the Tidewater pipe line company controlled by messes. F. B. Gowen and James e. Keene which connects the Bradford Field with Tamanen station on the beading Railroad. This was started in 1879, and altogether handles but about one seventeenth of the business transacted by the United pipe lines. The pipe lines not Only connect the various Fields with the Market Points but also the Fields with each other. In dealing with the producer the pipe lines Send a Man to the Well when the tank there is full. With his measuring Rod he takes a gauge of the Oil in the tank and runs the Oil Oft into the connecting Arm of the pipe line by Means of a Stop cock. When he finishes he measures the depth of the Oil that still remains in the tank and makes out a certificate giving the depth of the Oil in the tank at the beginning of the rim and its depth after running off the Oil. One copy of his certificate is Given to the producer and another is sent to the head office of the pipe lines. The books Are kept there and an entry is at once made giving the producer credit for just the number of barrels run off less three per cent deduct for waste. The producer receives Cei Tifi Cates in lots of 1,000 barrels each for just what Oil he is entitled to which Are Good anywhere for just that much Oil or its value save that when a Holder wants the Oil it represents delivered he is required to pay Twenty Centa a barrel for Pip age and a further charge of fifty cents per 1,000 barrels per i cents per i Usu Garreis per Day for storage. No storage charge is however made against the p for the first thirty Day. These certificates Are subject to a double storage charge if not returned to the company for renewal within six months of their Date. It is not to be supposed that the pipe lines stand the loss which occurs when a tank takes fire. This loss is assessed on All the Oil in store each Holder of an acceptance being taxed his share. The loss Frona this source is however very trifling. The pipe lines convey the bulk of the Oil to terminate Points but not All. A considerable Quantity is conveyed by pipe to convenient stations and then shipped by rail in the Oil tank cars so familiar to the sight and of factories of the tourist. The pipe lines work by Gravity where that is possible and where it is not pumping engines Are set up and the Oil is forced through the pipes. The Oil that is carried by the pipe lines is crude Petroleum. The refining necessary to fit the Oil for its commercial uses is done principally at Cleveland Buffalo Oil City Pittsburg and in the Vicinity of new York City. The bulk of the Petroleum exported is refined Oil. Saving by co operation. Scientific american. An intelligent englishman lately gave in conversation some facts in regard to the working of the co operative system in several towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire which seem to sustain the claim to the advantages of this system. In some of the Woolen and Cotton factories the majority of the employees Are stockholders the shares being one Pound. The internal Economy practice in these Mills would Surprise some of our manufacturers the subject of waste making and waste saving being carried to its utmost practicable limits and this without the enforcement of arbitrary rules but by the willing and common consent of All the operatives. The Quality of the goods produced is excellent Selling readily even on a generally Dull Market. These cooperative associations can easily obtain Money whenever it is needed on two and a half per cent. But their influence on the operatives is fully As remarkable As is their financial Success. Habits of Economy have taken the place of the periodical weekly extravagance the shillings before wasted at the Quot Public Quot going into the fund to increase the Stock holding of the operative. The most significant evidence of the combined moral and financial benefits of this system to the operatives and All concerned is the abolition of the Quot Blue these co operative establishments run six clays in the week with a full complement of hands. The custom of monday loafing to sleep off the sunday Debauch is fast passing away in fact has passed away in the co operative Mills the operatives put in full time and also save the shillings. John Bull slow but liable to Quot catch London april 22.�?the refusal of or. Gladstone to incorporate a clause a franchising female taxpayers in the present government Bill to enlarge the franchise has Given the woman suffrage movement a tremendous Boom in England. The Hon. William Woodall member of parliament from Stoke on Trent has moved in the House of commons an amendment to the franchise Bill giving the right of suffrage to every woman paying a certain amount of taxes. A great Public meeting is being organized to take place in st. Jame s Hall London next thursday evening in the interest of the Woodall amendment which has already become the subject of a popular movement which is rapidly spreading All Over England. At thursday s meeting Twenty prominent members of parliament Are already announced to speak. The principal address will be made by a daughter of Bichard Cobden. Many Good politicians predict that the Woodall amendment will be forced by popular favor upon the government. The thoughtful passenger Send Here for Job printing and books and lures his friends on . Is a Cegula or educated and leg air qualified Jbv Simian and the most pc cd a Ful As Hia practice will prove. He hns for Twenty years treated exclusively All diseases of the sexual orgasm in the cures of which he stand pre eminent. Feb Matoba he a and if def nay As the result of self abuse in youth and sexual excesses in maturer years causing exhausting dreams and loss of sexual Nower rendering marriage improper and unhappy Are cured permanently by an outside application in sixty Days. No stomach used. It is one of or. Fellow s valuable discoveries which is entirely unknown to the medical profession. Send three 2 cent Stamps for his Book Quot private counsellor Quot giving Lull information. Address pm. R p Fellows Vineland new Jersey and say where you saw this advertisement. From the ironclad age. Quot or. Fellows is an outspoken infidel therefore no cheat or Humbug. The Freethinker a of the land should give the doctor their a gentleman who is quite prominent before the Public is a lecturer and author writing us Udd it it a a recent uate Tays Quot there is perhaps no Art that can claim the attention of the human mind of More importance than alleviating human suffering stopping tiie of disease and thus extending the period of human life. And 1 know of no phys Ciao More sup Eiful in the draft Lee of this Art than or. R. P. Fellows of Vineland n. J. His Success in nearly All forms of chronic and sexual diseases seems to be absolutely wonderful. He seems to have no use Lor the word fail in his practice. This i know by actual trial having been relieved of a bad Case of kid my and seminal disease by his new method when All other Means failed. Try Bim by nil n eans. If you Are ally cited with any of the maladies incident to this age. I deem it my duty to say this much for the Benefit of sul Jering May 8, 84.Otto Wettstein jewelry store Rochelle ills. Over 100 Gold watches ranging in Price from 10 to $400, in Stock continually. Silver watches. Chains necklaces but Ace Letts rings pins earrings lockets Etc. Alito silverware optical and fancy goods of every description in proportionate huge Yuanli Iii. A Fine Silver 3 ounce Case Elgin watch >9. A Fine Silver 4 ounce Stem Winder. 11 jewels Quick train dust proof move rat . Best 4 ounce Case Stem Quot Winder full 16 jewelled watch Patent Lula or 126. All 26 per cent below lowest a tar Ces. A lady a Good Gold Elgin Mem Winder 925.00 >4 Karat cases same movement ass. A Chronograph Quot Fly Back Quot % second Hoise Ilmet in verb Estes Karat heaviest cae 9175. Doable Quot split one fifth second horse timer for double record Best watch in the world. T200. Also Quot repeaters Quot striking hours quarters and minutes Sloo less than Broadway prices ladies watches ornamented with Fine baskets of diamonds and rubies variegated Era bossed Flowers and Birds enamel artistic engraving locked backs Etc. Bend me a Check or Post office order the amount you wish to invest for a watch or other goods and i will Send prepaid to apy part of the United slates any article desired and refund oath if not entirely eat factory. I please All. Peier to Rochelle National Bank and Brothers Fouet and Remsburg the former says Quot i stepped Over to see Otto Wettstein the staunch Liberal of Bobelle. I found him up to his ears in business Selling and sending off goods. His Large jewelry establishment is truly mar Volos for a town the size of Rochelle. I would advise All our Liberal friends who Are in want of anything in the Jewely line to Send to him and they will make a great saving by so doing Quot correspondence solicited Otto wett8teiw, 9dec82 Rock Helle Ilis. 24nov83 read or. Wood s advertisement. And consult him by letter in Ray complicated rhymes . Chandler . Just out a volume of m18cellanous Prepis <25 pages. These poems appear in print for the first time in this edition of rustic rhymes or Chandler is an aggressive Nudel and rhymes on religious subjects from infidel reasoning. The a Ham pretences of Church and clergy Are versed in deserved ridicule. Themes of the Here and hereafter Are dressed in agnostic language. Julany of the Semi religious customs and teachings of an artificial society ure appropriately burlesque in All this the author has essayed simplicity of diction rather than strained eloquence of words. The work has received Many Hilgh encomium from liberals with words of kindest appreciation. All freethinkers who desire a beautifully bound volume of infidel $1,50, sent Post Pai 1, address All orders to a t. Chandler m. D., a Phiiip Bellville. By. Reference is Given to the Captain of the ironclad. Feb. 2-4u1 the invention of an old infidel or. L. Pyle rheumatism powders 0�i.t sure cure. After Many trials i have found my no 1, 2 and 3 powders taken for several Days will cure Beuma it Tim of the worst kind i put the u up in boxes of thirty Oue powders each for mailing. Will tend that number Tor al and one 3 cent stamp. It scarcely Ever Faila Liere two boxes Are used according to i reckons. Send age sex and How affected. Directions on each Box. Each powder is prepared from a Plant and Are so Good that a babe would eat All of them and cry for More less than a thimble full will cure. No restriction to business. Address or. I. . Miller a Koui. Dec 8. 83 Tom Bible a no dire of Akey to Bible investigation con Vainio is with references to the Moat Plain nod striking self contradict Lois of the b0-0�iied inspired Svaip Tam. Poat paid 25 cents. And it Drem this a my eat pm. In. Ltd it a a i. A

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