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Notes  and  News. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I    February,  1900. 
The  Philadelphia  Association  of  Retail  Druggists  will  give  a  grand 
progressive  euchre  and  dance  at  Horticultural  Hall,  on  Wednesday,  February 
7,  1900.  There  will  be  150  handsome  prizes  distributed.  The  object  of  the 
entertainment  is  to  create  an  interest  in  the  association  and  its  work.  It  is 
desired  that  every  druggist  in  Philadelphia  take  an  active  interest  in  the 
affair  and  assist  in  making  it  a  success.  The  officers  of  the  committee  are  : 
Chairman,  D.  M.  Harris,  4000  Girard  Avenue  ;  Secretary,  C.  H.  Campbell,  1800 
Market  Street ;  Treasurer,  H.  C.  Blair,  Jr.,  800  Walnut  Street. 
A  New  Drug  Journal.— The  first  issue  of  The  Northwestern  Druggist,  a 
monthly  publication  devoted  more  especially  to  the  interests  of  the  druggists 
of  the  Northwest,  made  its  appearance  the  early  part  of  December.  It  is  in 
magazine  form  and  is  under  the  direct  management  of  the  Chapin  Publishing 
Company,  of  Minneapolis. 
The  Bookman,  one  of  the  best  literary  magazines  of  this  country,  will  con- 
tain in  about  ten  numbers,  beginning  in  March,  Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd's  story, 
"Stringtown  on  the  Pike."  This  story  will  interest  not  only  those  who  know 
Professor  Lloyd,  but  the  members  of  our  profession  as  well,  as  in  one  place  he 
touches  on  a  problem  that  cannot  but  come  home  to  every  physician  and  phar- 
macist. The  novel  treats  of  Kentucky  life  as  seen  by  the  author  in  a  little  and 
undiscovered  corner  of  the  State.  It  ought  to  be  more  generally  known  that 
there  is  probably  no  greater  opportunity  for  any  author  in  literature  than  the 
study  of  Southern  life.  There  is  a  something  markedly  individualistic  and 
attractive  in  the  Southern  American.  His  traditions  and  life  are  peculiarly 
idealistic  when  his  motives  and  objects  are  understood,  and  it  is  questionable  if 
a  work  has  been  produced  recently  which  is  equal  to  Lloyd's  "  Stringtown  on 
the  Pike  "  as  a  literary  production,  and  particularly  as  a  truthful  reproduction 
of  the  life  of  one  of  the  most  interesting  classes  of  primitive  people  in  America 
to-day.  We  cannot  but  regard  it  as  being  important,  that  in  the  history  of  a 
country  we  have  a  faithful  portrayal  of  the  life  and  habits  and  motives  of  its 
people.  Our  faith  in  American  literature  is  strengthened  by  the  entrance  into 
it  of  professional  men  like  Weir  Mitchell  and  John  Uri  Lloyd.  The  proceeds 
of  this  new  book  will,  like  those  from  Btidorhpa,  be  devoted  to  the  Lloyd 
Library,  which  is  a  free  public  library,  and  is  pledged  to  be  donated  intact  to 
that  university  best  calculated  to  serve  science. 
The  National  Pure  Food  and  Drug  Congress  will  hold  its  third  annual 
meeting  in  Washington,  D.  C,  at  Columbian  University  Lecture  Hall,  begin- 
ning at  12  m.  on  March  7,  1900. 
The  Purpose  of  the  N.  A.  R.  D. — In  one  form  or  another  the  question  is 
constantly  being  asked,  "  What  is  the  N.  A.  R.  D.  for?  "  Much  of  the  corres- 
pondence that  goes  out  from  the  national  secretary's  office  relates  to  this  ques- 
tion. The  following  is  a  sample  reply  :  "  You  ask  in  your  letter  the  '  object  of 
forming  an  organization.'  To  answer  briefly  and  directly,  the  main  object  is  to 
put  money  into  your  pocket  and  the  pockets  of  the  other  druggists  of  your 
county,  by  saving  their  business  from  impending  demoralization.    If  this 
department  store  at  keeps  on  doing  business  it  will  not  be 
long  before  the  druggists  of  your  own  town  will  find  their  revenues  diminish- 
ing perceptibly,  and  it  is  this  we  would  like  to  prevent.  It  is  difficult  to  con- 
ceive how  any  question  could  appeal  to  )7ou  with  greater  force." 
