Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1887 — Page 12
THE UN" DI AN APOLIS JOURNAL. SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1887 TWELVE PAGES.
12
A COLUMN ABOUT DRUGGISTS
Gossip About Somo of the Medical Compounders of Wide Acquaintance. Peculiarities of Character Which, in Some Instances, Ara Tamed to Trofit and in Others Win Topalaritj. Indianapolis now haa orer ninety drug stores, the casual obeerrer might think this number in healthful city the size o Indianapolis more than required, bat the business of the druggist Is a peculiar one in that it ministers to the luxury and pleasure of those in health quite as much as to the necessity of those who are sick. During the present summer the demands of those in health rather exceed the calls of those who are sick, as in addition to the sale of articles of the toilet and numerous kickshaws there has been an unprecedented run upon mineral waters and drinks dispensed at soda fountains. The well-ordered drue store is usually counted tJDon to keep all the odds and ends of ererytbinp that is not sold in other 6tore, and a long rray of notions that people forget to purchase and nerer actually need until Sunday morning before church time, and then want very badly, t . One of the oldest druegists in the city is James W. Bryan, who for many years occupied the northeast corner of Louisiana and Illinois streets, and has what is distinctively known as the railroad trade. Mr. Bryan probably knows tiearly every member of every passenger crew that comes into the Union Depot, every railway postal clerk, and in short nearly every one connected with passenger travel. He began business in 18C2, in a little room on South. Illinois street, tinder the Spencer House, and now, after a quarter of a century, is back at the same place, the building he occupied havin&r been removed so that the new Union Depot might be built upon Its site. Mr. Bryan is waiting for a room in Mr. Faehr'a new building, which is to be erected opposite JacKson square. Mr. Bryau proposes to tick to the depot. Frank Carter is doing a thriving business at the corner of Massachusetts avenue and St. Clair street. He has been in the drug trade ever vine he eou'd look over a soda water counter, and is a thorough pharmacist. Emll Martin. on Madison avenue, has, probably, the largest drue and prescription business on the feouth Side. His trade is largely German, but he does business in all languages. Mr. Martin has accomplishments outside the prescription counter. He is a fine shot, and is a member of the Indianapolis Target Shooting Association. "When the Pharmaceutical Association met last year a number of members, unacquainted with Mr. Martin's gift in the line of marksmanship, prevailed upon him to co into a shooting gallery. After ringing the bell twenty times, or more, in enccession, the proprietor, who gave cigars with each center shot, begged him, with tears in his eves, to desist. Harvy Pomeroy, at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania and North streets, is the handsomest member of the trade in the city. He has a fine neighborhood patronage and one of the best locations in the city. George Mueller, at the corner of East and 'Washington streets, is the successor to the business established by his brother. Ii. H. Mueller, nd has a pood trade. He is a recent graduate of the Cincinnati C'ollece of pharmacy and is considered well equipped for the business he is mgaged in. which now demands men of education and skill in pharmacy rather than mere dealers. One of the best known drngcists of Indianapolis is W. H. Short, opposite the Grand Hotel. Who has risen to fame as the originator of the Bilk-shake. Mr. Short now has many imitators and it is said that the sale of milk-shakes the city over is nearly as treat as that of beer. While being non-intoxicating it is an admirable beverage for hot weather. Joseph R. Perry is not merely a druggist, but an editor and publisher, conducting the Indiana Pharmacist, a thrivinc periodical devoted to the interests of the apothecary. Mr. Perry was, in former years, addicted somewhat to politics, but recently has confined his attention to the drug trade and is bnilding up a good business. He is ome thing of a humorist and has on many occasions contributed very readable articles to the Journal. John N. nurty is strictly a pharmacist, as he does not deal in any patent medicines or proprietary articles. He has made mnch reputation as an analytical ehemiat and was the first to call attention in a clear and understandable way, to the impurities in the city wells, Indianapolis haviaff erown to be a populous city without thinking particularly about the kind of water the inhabitants were drinkine. Dr. Hurty, who is entitled to the title of doctor and also that of professor, is a lecturer upon chemi3try and has been upon the stau at the Indiana Dental College, the Indiana College of Medicine and Purdue University. He is frequently called upon in courts of justice for expert testimony, his most recent appearance in that character being in the trial of the tally-sheet conspirators, when the acidulated sheets were submitted to his inspection. George W. Sloan has been in the drug business in Indianapolis all his life, except the first thirteen years, when he went to school and played hookey Just like other boys. Dr. Sloan whose position at the Indiana Medical College gives him the title entered the business, beginning with the rudiments, in 1843, in David Craighead's store, where what is now the east half of the Bowen-Merrill Company book store, is located. Robert Browning was chief .clerk. Dr. Sloan continued on, Mr. Browning .became a partner of Mr. Craighead in 1850. Mr. Craighead died four years later, Mr. Browninn succeeding to the business. In 18G2 Mr. Browniog took his junior into partnership, and the firm of Browning & Sloan then organized continued for nearly twenty-five years, when they separated. On the 8th of March last, Dr. Sloan opened his present establishment. Robert Brownine, the veteran druggist, better known t'aan any cno in that business in Indiana or perhaps in the West, came to this city in 1843, forty-focr years aeo. a bright, active lad from Shelbyville, this State, and took service in the drue store of Mr. Craighead, of which he afterwards became the bead. He has always been closely attentive to business and it is said has not had a week's vacation in forty years that is, a week of recreation and pleasure, as when he took his trips to the East they were solely devoted to work. Since Mr. Sloan retired from the house the firm has been Browning & Son. The well-known drug stand at the corner of Pennsylvania and Market streets, which has been occupied for over twenty-two years bv a prescription store, is now, as it has been for nine years, conducted by W. H. Allen. This is a popular pharmacy with an established trade, and Mr. Allen's business goes steadily on without the fluctuations incident to many lines of trade. He does not take to novelties, of which the business is now prolific, yet he now has on ixhibit and takes pleasure in showing to his friends a neat device, calculated to put the drug elerk on his guard and prevent accidents. The device is a thin board, covered by metal plates, upon which bottles containing poisons are placed. The plates are covered with a battery, and when a bottle is lifted from its place a bell Is rung and the plate under the bottle flies up, xhibiting the startling word "poison." For nearly forty years there has been a drug Store at No. 40 East Washington street In its early days this stand was occupied by Hannaman & Duzan, next by William Hannaman, then by their successors, Stewart & Morgan, and afterwards by Stewart & Barry. These firms sombined the wholesale and retail trade until the last named firm removed to South Meridian Street to become exclusive wholesalers. They were suoceeded by Ward Bros., who, as their predecessors did, combine wholesaling and retailing and continue the profitable business that was always attached to this locality. J. B. & J. E. Hendricks, at No. 100 East Washington street, enjoy what is known as "the farmers' trade" in addition to an excellent eity trade. Proximity to the market and the court-house makes this a prominent and favorite Dlace with rural visitors, and even before Hendricks Bros, succeeded to the business it had a well-established trade of the character Indicated. In addition to a ceneral drug trade '.his house has paid special attention to physieiDi "PP15' Bnd surrical instruments, a trade in at ia no longer, as it once was. connected with he wholesale drug business, though Browning fc Son and Ward Bros., like Hendricks Bros., a ten attend to this elass of trade. A drae store that ia a sort of neighborhood reort n the one at the corner of Fort Wayne avenue and St. Clair street, kept by Walter S. Hrown. It is usnslly the meeting place of the Capitol City Natural-gas Company, nearly all of the directors of which live in tbat neighborhood, and it seems to answer all the purposes of a club-house, as well as a convenient apothecary shop, for many persons. Of course, its popularity is largely dun to its proprietor, who is a son of Dr. Hyland T. Brown. He id a great fisherman, and sounds nearly as much time as Enos U. fted at Broad Hippie and along the banks of Whito river. Jnlius Hang, the New Denlson Hotel druggist. Is a young roan who hss been r markably successful in building op a trade in specialties of nis own lf.rention. Daring the winter months Maas's cream, a popular healing preparation for
chapped faces and hands, brings him a great amount of trade; and during the summer months
Haag's koumiss, which is highly indorsed as a nealthful drink, is in great demand. FASHION JOTTINGS. Reman scarfs and sashes are again in fashion Enamel pansies and daisies are popular lace pins. The pale green formerly known as eau de nil, is in favor again under a new name, "Baltiqne." White satin Tarn 'o Shanters. with rackets embroidered on them, are the proper headgear for tennis. The latest nonsense recommended for a beau f ul complexion is to rub the face night and morn ing with olive oil. A curious freak of fashion is the revival of the old fashion of wearing miniature portraits in lockets, brooches and bracelets. For fishing and yachting no gown Is found as serviceable as dark blue flannel, trimmed in any way tbat best suits the wearer's taste. Dark red velvet belt, cuffs and rolling collar are often seen. The sleeves of dresses are undergoing a won .derful change: puffs and Vandykes, and inser mods, with high epaulet, characterize many or - . them, and it is no longer necessary that they should match the bodice. Low-throated dresses are very much in vogue at the various watering-places; these showing lapped surplice fronts, or those finished with wide velvet revers, which diminish to a sharp point as they reach the waist. Tnese revers join a wide Keailor collar, which sometimes quite covers the upper portion of the shoulders in tht back. The changeable silk parasol looks very pretty so long as the sun does not shine upon it; but when it does the person underneath it begins to repent, unless she is one of those almost trans-Jucent-Iooklnz women with, fair hair on wnoea faces colored reflections have no vnbeconiing effect. Such a woman fears nothing from sun light, and the only revenge which a rival can take is to look on and say, "Poor thing I bcrolu lous !" MWBMW Summer Resort Echoes. Kew York Mall and Express. Excursion parties are financially helping along the season at Caps May, even ii the temporary social advantage to the place is small. They have lately had a series of terrifying thunder showers in the Catskills, and many of the hotel people have been prostrated with fear. A fine specimen of a ruffian is the average hackman at Dong Branch, who, when not swind ling strangers, is cracking jokes with the local police. Bathing accidents, due to the foolhardiness of bathers, are reported in increasing numbers, and thus are the holidays ended in grief and sorrow for many. So-called reading-rooms at the average summer hotels are about as appropriately arranged and suitable for the purpose as would be the laundry of the establishment. A woman who daily bathes three pet dogs in the surf is one of the gratuitous attractions at Cape May. where she has had all the glory of seeing her name in the papers. The proprieties of life are not so closely observed by all the young people at Narragansett as to excite remarks. There must be something about Narragansett air conducive to a "go-as-you-please" existence. Dancing, card-playing, wines and liquors are prohibited at the Mohonk and Minnewaska hotels, which are unique among summer resorts, and are always crowded from the beginning to the end of the season, which is alw.ays carried up to October. Some of the people at Richfield, who have been "coming here for thirty years," are a nuisance, especially those who undertake to have matters and things at the hotels conducted as they want them. Such people should hire a cottage, or stay at home. Hotels are not good enough for them. Every summer hotel has its young lady who will sing or play for the boarders without being asked a aecond time. Sometimes her vocal or instrumental efforts are pleasant to hear, but more frequently she is only to be esteemed for her great courage and self-possession under trying circumstances. "Say, you there !" shouted the Western man at the White Moun tain Hotel to the exasperatingly airy student waiter, "if you don't get my mashed potatoes at once without any more of your Greek foolishness, you'll never finish your collegiate education 1" And he raised a plate as if to fling it, and the student flew. HUMOR OP THE DAI. Not a Fatal Case. Sew York Snn. "My dear," said a very sick husband, "if I die will you see that my grave is kept green!" "Yes, John," was the sobbing reply. "You know bow gladly I would do as much for you," he said. Then the lady dried her tears and the sick man got well. - Not Going Away. San Francisco Chronicle. "Going away this summer, doctorr "No, sir, I can't" "Come up into the woods for a day or two with us. It's only from Saturday till Sunday night." "Can't do it. I've got several rich patients, and they might get well while I am gone." A Fishing Excursion. If ew York Sun. "My dear girl," said a fond father to his daughter, "surely you're not going to take all those trunks to Saratoga with you?" "Yes, papa, every one, and they are few enough." "But what in the world have you got in 'em?" . ... v a . . i uaii, papa, saia tae aear gin Drignuy. Cows and Milk. I)skota Bell. A drove of high-priced blooded cows has been secured for the Territorial agricultural college, the Holsteins coming from New York and the Hereford from Chicago, A native Dakota briudle cow with large white spots on her sides, only one horn and a bad eye. has been retained to furnish milk for the institution. The professorship of milking is still vacant. Free Pews. Yonkers Gazette. "Whar'd ye' git dat load of lumber, Br'er Jimson r "Down ter de Healin' Ba'm Chu'ch." "Dasso, Br'er Jimson J Why, has dey tored de buildin' down 1" "Oh. no. sah I Hit's dar yit, but I hearn Parson Blowhard say dat de pews was free, so 1 riz up 'arly dis mornin' an' went down dar an' ripped up a pa'r of 'em an' fotched 'em erlong." Another Version. Boston Transcript. "Hobbs is an ignorant fellow. I was speaking about the Revised Testament, and if you'll believe it, he bad never heard of it." "I am surprised at that. But, by the way, they teli me that the revision has fallen flat, and that the dealers don't sell one copy where they sell a dozen of the old version." "Oh! then there is another version? Strange my friend Hardcover, the bookseller, never mentioned tbat fact to me." Disappointed Mules. Dakota Bell. A dispatch from Rapid City says that a hailstorm passed over there the other day, which killed all the mules in a wagon-train belonging to the Northwestern Transportation Company. This statement needs a little explanation. Of course the hail-stones didn't really kill the mules, but when the first ones struck them every blessed mule turned around and kicked himself in two trying to reach the cloud. It is the first time on record that a mule ever kicked at anything he didn't hit. JLaid Away on Ice. Pittsburg Chronif le. "Daniel." "Yes, sire." "The press is making a great fuss over Higgins and tbat Baltimore business." "It is, sire; in fact, it is indulging in ghoulish glee and noisy enthusiasm to a large extent." "No levity, Daniel. What 1 wanted to say was that the press does not appear to know that civil-service reform is out of season wheji a second-term boom is being cultivated." The Other Patients. San Francisco Chroulcle. He was a physician. A doctor is a man you send for in a hurry for a street accident or something like that. When he comes to your house he's a phvsician. He was a physician and he had an office, and on the table in the middle of the room there was a album fall of pretty actresses and people. You were supposed to look at it whila yon were waiting to find out whether you were to be operated upon or given a prescription. "Who are those ladies whose .pictures you have in that album?" "Patients whom 1 have cured at various times." "And where do you keep ypur other album?" "What other album?" "The patients you haven't cured. The doctor socked it to him in a dose of medicine, j
HEADING FOR THE BAY.
Sunday-School Lnun for Aug. 14, 1837. The -Beatitudes. Matt, v, 1-16. Golden Text Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John i, 17, THE GREAT SERMON. It was the custom of the Master to prepare for the great days of His life by spending the night before in prayer and solitude. The mental and the spiritual preparation was far more than the physical. He was about to select the twelve from his disciples who were afterwards known as the apostles, and he was to preach the great sermon tbat should clearly make known to the people the truths he came to establish, the doctrines and laws of the kingdom of heaven. The disciples undoubtedly met the Lord in the early morning in some mountain not very far from Capernaum, at a place tbat he designated. He probably preached to this body of his disciples, "in the mount," the longer sermon as given by Matthew. When the people heard of the departure of the disciples they fol lowed after, and in large numbers gathered in the plain at the base of the mountain, and there Jesus preached a second discourse, tne one re corded by Luke. It was natural to repeat seme things he had 6aid, but the variations of lan guage andsceneimply two discourses, and not, as some have held, that the account given oy Liuke is simply an abbreviated form of the one ser mon. We may fitly speaK or tnem as "tne sermon on the mount" and "the sermon on the plain." as the authorities have done. Matthew probably placed this discourse so early in his gospel that he might give the reader a fair and clear idea of the sermons of the great Teacher. TbU was simply a characteristic one We have grown so familiar with its teachings, and our moral ideas have been so trained in this same school, that we fail to feel how wonderful it is. Bat all of the early Christian fathers quoted from this more than any part of the record. Plumptre pays that in recent times it has attracted the attention of those not accepting Christ as the Son cf God more than any part of the Bible. Religious Notes. They that will not abide God's time can not receive God's blessing. One of the rarest of Christian virtues is patience amid unjust, unkind remarks about one's self. Robert Hall: The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example. Sir Thomas More wrote in his journal: "I make it rav business to wish as little as I can, except that I were wiser and better." The tongue shows to a physician the disease of the body; to a philosopher, the disease of the mind; to a Christian, the disease of the soul. The Rev. Mr. Tong, a Chinese Baptist preacher, delivers exhortations in front of a large pagan temple in Chinatown, San Francisco, every Sunday. Congregationalism is growing in Pennsylvania. It has now ninety-five churches in tbat State, and has made a net gnin of 60 per cent in church membership since 1880. Talmage : There is no such detective as prayer, for no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man 10,000 miles off. It alights on a ship mid-Atlantic. The South Sea Islanders at their last missionary meeting raised $1,531 for a new yacht to carry the gospel to New Guinea. This represents a degree of generosity and sacrifice not often paralleled in the home churches. The Rev. Dr. J. M. King, of New York city, is authority for the remarkable statement that out of 300 families who admitted to canvassers from his church that they had no copy of the Bible, 200 lived in brown stone fronts. Locke: Let no one say tbat he cannot govern his passions, nor hinder them from breaking out and carrying him to action; for what he can do before a prince or a great man he can do alone, or in the presence of God, if he will. We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. Whlttier. Thirty-eight Protestant missionary societies are at work in China. They have 725 missionaries in the field, of whom half are women. There are 1488 native helpers, ordained and nnordained, and the communicants number 28,50G. ' Should all the weight of life Be laid across our shoulders, and the future, fife With wm and strutrcle, meet us face to face At just one place. We could not go. George Klingle. The Rev. George Mueller, founder of the famous orphange, returned to Bristol on June 13, from a preaching tour of 37,000 miles, ineluding the United States, Australia, Japan, China, Straits of Malacca, and through the continent of Europe. He was heartily welcomed by the 2,000 children at the orphanage. Spurgeon: Sing in fine weather! Any bird can do that. Praising God when all goes well is commonplace work. Everybody marks the nightingale above ail other birds because she singeth when the other minstrels of the wood are silent and asleep; and thus doth faith praise God under the cloud. Songs in the day are from man, but God himself giveth songs in the night. Zion's Herald: Ho who mopes continually over the state of his own heart, gives entertainment to what has been quaintly called the "house devil, self.'' It is far better, nay, is is positive duty, not to indulge such moping, but to spend one's time in "steadfastly contemplating Christ." It ia only by "looking unto Jesus" that this tormenting "house devil" can be ex orcised. The Sunday School Times referring to the jocose division of the Church of England into Altitudinarians, Latitudinarians and Platitudinarians, suggests that in most religious bodies another class, which it designates as Lassitudinarians. is quite numerously represented. The secret of Lassitndinarianism is a broad, comprehensive and all-inclusive indifference to religious things. The Christian Register opens a series of articles upon the practical benevolent work of the varions denominations with au account of the Episcopal charities of New York. It is an impressive exhibit. Much of the work is done in an unsectarian spirit. Out of 25.459 patients cared for at the St. Luke's Hospital, for example, only 10,323 were connected with the Episcopal churches. Let us then labor for an upward stillness .An inward stillness and an inward healing; That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vjyn opinions. But God alone speaks in us, and we wait In sincleness of heart, that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits. That we may do His will, and do that only! Longfellow. Have you ever tried to make yourself happy hy causing others to be so? If not, perform kind acts, no matter how trifling, for those around you, and you will be surprised to see how quickly the medicine will begin to take effect. A few doses will cure the most aggravated cases of the blues. It will relieve selfishness, despondency and discontent. It is the best medicine for the purpose advertised. Dose: one kind act each day. Warranted to cure. Jeremy Taylor: Some men talk like angels and pray with fervor, and meditate with deep recesses, and speak to God with loving affection and words of union, and adhere to him in silent devotion, and when they go abroad are as passionate as ever, peevish as a frightened fly, vexing themselves with their own reflections; they are cruel with their bargains, unmerciful to their tenants, and proud as a barbarian prince. They are, for all their fine words, impatient of reproof, scornful to their neighbors, lovers of money, supreme in' their own thoughts, and submit to none. All their spiritual fancy is an illusion. They are still under the. power of their passions, and their sins rule them imperiously, and carry them away infallibly. The Church Fair and Festival. Dakota Bell. So it came to pass that the ladies worked. They made forty-seven frosted cakes. 3,000 cookies, ninety-one plain cakes, twelve freezers fnll of ice cream, bought sixty quarts of strawberries, persuaded all the papers to give them long, free notices, paid for the job printing with a 25-cent ticket, sat up nights and labored with fancy work, and rained their chances of salvation by putting prices upon it: and likewise, among miscellaneous things, pounded ice, and walked around on a trot and waited on the table, and washed dishes, and got confused making change, and forgot to give the newspapers complimentaries, and spoiled their best dresses, and carried chairs and tables, and tired themselves out, and finally made themselves sick, all of which, without any exception or omission, they did in holding a church fair and festival in aid of foreign missions, and the next day, when the reporter asked tnem how much they made out of the operation, they told him cheerfully that by close figuring they had onJy lost about $7.38. but that they were going to hold another week after next, and hopd to do a little better. And then the wicked paper came out and said that "the ladies who had charge of the recent church festival report that they cleared a handsome sum, and are so gratified with the result that they will give another ehortly."
The Popular
.MILK
This most healthful and delightful summer drink was originated m Indianapolis by
SHORT, THE
Opposite
The demand has
that almost every is besieged by this cooling beve
sity for improved
facilitating 'the Milk Shakes bee
tive that HOR Have put This new invention is superior to any of the Milk Shakers now in use. It has the fnll power of the up and. down movement comtoined with a side motion.
Mik
Every drug store and restaurant, to keep up a Milk Shaker. FOR SALE BY
Macliines furnished on shortest notice by " " "
ssrSyrup for Milk Shakes
OF THE -AGrE
IS THE
Jill
Grand Hotel, on Illinois Street."
upon the market a now and improved
(Ti 1
i On 9 sent by express. '
Beverage
SHAKE
DRUGGIST,
become so great corner drugstore patrons seeking porrn T'ln o to cooc!
apparatus for
manufacture
a me so impera-
MAIN
THE SIMPLICITY OF OUR ' MILK SHAKER !
renders it more desirable than any other. It also requires less power than any other machine, and it is more rapid. Price of double Shaker 18, with full instruct ions and one! dozen glasses. Patent applied for.
with the times, should have 1
DRUGGIST, H H JLJL Opposite Grand Hotel,, South Illinois Street express or freight. - '--"" i
of