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Show 'too bright for business Small Boy Put an End to Thefts ol Candy Taster But Lost Hit Job. A small boy began Us business ca reer in a flve-and-ten-cent store last week and he also closed the first chapter of It In the same store two days later He waa oTerzealoue in his efforts to protect hie employer's interest. inter-est. Every merchant displaying coun ters of candies unprotected bv glass 1 or wire screen covers loses pounds of candy weekly through the petiy thievings of candy-tasters who help themselves to one or aa many pieces as they can grab while passing the unprotected sweets The small boy feeling the responsibility responsi-bility of his position reported the raidti on the candy to the manager, who. appreciating the child's interest, explained to him that It was almost impossible to deal with such culprlta and that at least 15 pounds of candv were confiscated weekly in such fash-Ion fash-Ion Part of tho boy's work was to un cover the counters In tbe morning, and he was on the Job good and early the second day of his employment. He assured the salesgirl at the candy counter that there was going to be a reduction In candy-tasters that day-She day-She thought nothing of the remark until 6he noticed that every one helping help-ing hersolf to tho sweets almost immediately im-mediately clapped her hand over her mouth and ran for tho door Tasting her wares herself, she discovered tho upper layors of them liberally nprln kled with cayenne pepper. Half an hour later the boy who j thought he had solved tho candy-tast ers' problem was oat on tbe street, ruefully contemplating a pepper shaker shak-er while he wont on the quest of a |