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Show Blood in the Bearings. When the American engineers were building an electric power station In the Mysore territory in southern India they found that something was wrong with the lubrication of the machinery. The oil disappeared. They discovered that a Hindu must, by his religion, take a periodical bath in oil. To him oil is oil. The workmen had drained the bearings for bathing purposes. How to stop the thieving was a puzzling problem prob-lem until some one solved it. The Hindu does not eat meat, and he will not touch anything that has blood on it. Two or threo animals were killed, therefore, and blood was dripped into the bearings. bear-ings. There was no more stealing of oil, however many other things were stolen. The World's Work. |