The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-02-02
Value Of Q Store Mirror.

IT don't believe that we could get
along without that mirror at the back
of the shop" said the druggist to o
customer who questioned the wisdom
of expanding so much money upon one
big piece of plate glass still. it did
not save us from losing another lot OF
plasters the other day, now that the
plaster thieves are out of jail.
You never heard of the plaster
thieves? Well, / wish we hadn't. No,
it is not that people are in special need
of being plastered up, but plasters are
easy things to take. You can get a
good deal of value in one big, flat box
of plasters. There is no Individual
mark on them to prevent their being
sold again, and they are lighter and
easier to carry than bottles. Plaster
stealing has become a regular business.
A couple of young fellows who have
made us their victims several times
were sent up to serve a term for the
offense. We know they are out again
now, for they paid us a visit only the
other day and took off few boxes in
the same old way. You wouldn't think
we could be caught half dozen times,
mirror OF ITO HllTTOT, Dul we NAVE peSi'
II was taken in the first time. Two
young fellows came in and gave me a
small order that took me away for
few minutes, and while / turned my
back they put several boxes of plas-
tiers under their coats and walked out
with them, and i didn't know 1t for
some time. l remembered them, how
ever, and the next time l CHANGED to
come in just as some one else had TAX
en- a small order, but that time l was
in time to keep them from taking any
thing. 1t wasn't long before they were
in again, however, and that time they
We're caught. 1t was the mirror that
did it, for the man who waited on them
was one who did not know them. But
he saw a suspicious movement, bounced
upon them, made them put down half
a dozen boxes, and told them If they
ever dared to show their faces again in
the place he would throw them out.
They have been in jail since, but now
they are out, and We have suffered once
more. What do you think of that for
persistence and cheek? They have a
regular fence for these things.
But it is not the regular thieves that
we have to be most careful to guard
against, though 1t was one who took
one of the first things I missed after
had been in the business. There was
big bottle of quinine pills standing
on the top of the screen behind which
we put up the prescriptions. 1t held
500 pills and they We're more expensive
then than they are now. | stopped back
of the counter to get the salve that had
been ordered, and the man reached up
and slipped this into his pocket and ]
was none the wiser for a long time.
I didn't suspect him at first, l thought
one of the doctors who came in fire.
quently had taken it.
Doctors take such things? Well, l
guess so. Take a doctor who has a
drug habit of some kind and there is
not much he will not take that he can
get his hands on, if it is in his line. And
then there are other people and always
children who can't resist picking up
something that is lying so conveniently
within reach. No, mirror is neces-
sity when you have to have half your
stock of goods lying around on the
counter.'-N. Y. Times.