The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-28
Pizun and Kl-Nine.

She wasn't after hair-dye. cosmetics, scented
soaps or any of those gimcracks, but when the
druggist had finished putting up a prescription
to cure a long-faced boy of hacking cough, she
turned from the stove and asked
"Do you keep drugs and medicines and pizens
and so on ~
"Ob, yes we keep all such things.
And ki-nine."
"Yes. we have quinine-'
:. Well, L called in to see about gettin' pizen
and some ki-nine, but dunno. 30 many iolks
have been slaughtered by druggists mistakes that
I'm eanemost afraid even to ask for camfur gum,
tho [ suppose 1 can smell scamfur gum further
off than any other woman in Michigan. Have
you killed anybody by putting up morphine for
bakin powder ,"
Never"
4" Been in the business long?@
"0nly twenty-one years"
/ a. well, YOU orRr know gum Rablc from sweet
lie by this time, but some men arc awful keerless'
I've had q brother pizuned by wrong meoiclne'
and. I'm a little shaky. Where Is your XII
. This is it" be replied, as he took down the
jar. ,
She wet her finger, pushed it into the jar and
then rubbed it on her tongue.
Tastes like it, but dunno. Sure that am I
morphine"
Yes, very sure
s.Sure your clerk washed the jar out clean
afore he put the ki-nine IMP
Oh, L washed It myself.
g IL this shouldn't be ki-nine you'd have the
law put to YOU the worst kind. We've got
money in the bank, and we'd never settle for no
$40, 900"
81 know it to be quinine.'-
"Well, then, gimmie Is cents worth, and L
want down weight. too. film treated well I'm
a great hand TO trade at one place, but the min
NIT | see any stinginess or cheatin' a yoke of oxen
couldn't pull meinto that store again"
He weighed out the drug, labeled it with great
care, and then she said:
Now l want 10 cents worth of pizun to kill
rats"
"What kind
why the pizun kind Of course. Pizun is
pizuu the world over.
Don't seem as-you were used to handling
EN-"
stDo you want arsenic ,"
" Certainly, but you want to be powerful keer-
full I'm q woman of fifty and I've nuss'd the
sick eyer since [ was q girl, but never handle
pizun without n chill creepin up my back.
Where is it?"
He handed down the jar and she smell OF the stop
per, shook her head, turned the jar around and
whispered
That looks a powerful sight like cream-a-tar-
ter,''
"Oh, no-that's arsenic and no mistake"
swell, I've got to take the chances, 'ose.
I'll take ten cents worth-doWn weight. ny
one who will be stingy sellin' pizun viii. Se
! 5tluSy III Oluef lHIDSei anu L Oo hatS ii etlbSy
person. My first husband was powerful stingy,
and he was struck by lightning"
When the poison had been weighed and la
beled she carefully took up the package and said
"Now, then, write on this that it is to be
kept in the old china teapot, on the third shelf
in the pantry, and that it's for rats. Then write
on this that it is to be kept in the old cOfeepot
in the cupboard, and it's for chills."
The druggist followed orders, and the old lady
! put the opium in her pocket and the "ki-nine'
in her reticule, and went on saying
G 1t may be all right, but 1 dunno. Ifmy old
man is took off instead of the rats. Iii begin a
lawsuit next day after the funeral !'-Detroit
Free Press.