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Show BLOOD IN THE bCARINCS. Hindoo Thieves Would Not Steal thl Oil In Amricn Machinery. The prejudice sgulust blood that ll a part of tha rollgion of the Hindoos has been made to surve a useful pur poa. When the American uttlneen were building an eloctrle power ala-Uoa ala-Uoa la th Myaor territory la outa rn India they found that aometlilng waa wrong with the lubrication of th machinery. The oil dlaappoHred. They discovered that a Hindoo must, by bit religion, take a periodical bath in oil To him oil la oil. Tha -vorkmen bad drained the bearings for bathing pur poses. How to atop the thieving waa t puullng problem until someone solved It The Hindoo doea not eat meat and a will not touch anything that haa blood In It Two or three anlmkl were killed, therefore, and blood wa dripped Into the bearing. Thar waa o more atoallng of oil, however many ether things were stolen. |