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Show DtOOD IN THE DEARING8. Hindoo Thieves Would Not Steal the Oil In American Machinery. The prcjudlco against blood that li a part ot the rallglon of the Hindoos has been mado to servo a useful pur pose. Whon the American cnglneeri wero building an electric power station sta-tion In tho Mysore territory in southern south-ern India they found tbat something was wrong with tho lubrication of th machinery. Tho oil disappeared. They discovered that a Hindoo must, by1 hll religion, take a periodical hath In oil. To him oil Is oil, Tho -vorkmen had drained the bearings for bathing purposes. pur-poses. How to stop tho thlovlng was a puzzling problem until somcono solved It Tho Hindoo does not cat meat and he will not touch anything that has blood In It Two or threo animals wero killed, thereforo, and blood was dripped into tho bearings. There was no moro stealing of oil, however many other things wero stolen. |