Quinine has been without change during the month. The shipments of bark from Jåva have been smaller than the previous months, and indications of the market tend to a firm tone for some time to come. Now quoted at 31c in 100-oz. cans for Ne Y., 32c for P. & W. Usual advance for smaller packages.

Opium.-Advices from the primary market during the fore part of the month indicated severe damage to the crops; later advices do not confirm this report. The dealers seem to have the article pretty well in hand, and prices are firm at present figures. Now quoted at $3.35 to $3.40.

Morphine. Contrary to expectations, this article experienced a decline of IOC per ounce on April 4, and a further decline of 10c on April 13. This decline was not warranted by the condition of the crude material, but on account of severe competition between the manufacturers. Now quoted at $2.25 for s, P. & W.; 10c less for N. Y. Ounce vials, 20c less. Alcohol advanced Ic per gallon on April 6, making the price $2.49 in bbls., $2.52 in s; $2.60 in 10-gal. cans; less 8 per cent per gallon for cash in ten days. Berries, Saw Palmetto, have advanced to 55c in lbs.; 50c in 5-lb. lots.

Camphor has further advanced and is now quoted at 60 to 65c in bulk.

We give an extract from late advices which state that the Formosa Government has awarded a contract to an English firm, granting this said firm the exclusive right to handle the camphor output for about eight years. The government will buy crude cam phor at 35 yen per picul (yen is about 50c, picul about 133 lbs.), and will sell the same to the contractors for 95 yen per picul, first class, and 85 yen for second. This applies to crude camphor, but will give an idea of what is proposed to be done.

The contract further provides that the camphor must be placed on the Hong Kong and London markets at certain prices. The Formosa Government must be furnished with securities to the extent of $1,250,000, and the contractors required to expend in the business not less than $1,750,000.

The Formosa Government will furnish the principal part of the camphor used in the world, and, therefore, virtually have a monopoly of the

business.

Camphor trees require about fifty years to mature. Therefore, the outlook for lower-priced camphor is not very promising.

Cloves are firm at an advanced price. Now quoted at 15 to 18c as to quantity.

Cocaine. This article declined on April 4, 25c per oz.; advanced 25c on April 12. There is a good demand and the market is firm at present quotations. The decline figures were below the cost of importing, and the advance naturally followed.

Cream Tartar is very firm. Now quoted at 25 to 30c. An advance on this article is not unlikely.

Codeine. On account of sharp competition between manufacturers, this article has been reduced 25c per ounce. Now quoted in oz. vials at $5.25; in s $5.50. Hydrochlorate sulphate and phosphate, $4.75 in oz. vials; s $5.00.

Ergot has advanced 5c per lb. Now quoted at 70 to 75c; powdered, 5c higher.

Gum Ammoniac, in tears, has advanced to 35c per lb.

Leaves, Buchu, declined. Short now quoted at 31 to 34c; long, 45 to 50c.

Lycopodium has been advanced to 65c.

Mothine or Naphthalin.—The large demand for this article has influenced the price, and is now quoted at 3c in bbls.; 4 to 5c for smaller quantities. The high price of camphor will prohibit its extensive use for moths and cause the consumption of mothine and other insecticides to increase.

Menthol has been reduced on account of heavy competition. Now quoted at $2.90 to $3.15.

Oils, Heavy.-Cod Liver is firm; an advance noted. Now quoted at $1.25 and $1.50.

Linseed.-On account of the advance in seed this article has reached the highest price which has been known for a long time. Now quoted at 62c for raw, and 63c for boiled.

Oils, Essential-Clove, in sympathy with the spice, has advanced. Now quoted at So to 90c.

Wintergreen has declined. Now quoted at $2.15 to $2.25; artificial, 75 to 85c.

Root, Ipecac, has been further reduced. Now $3.40 in lbs.; powdered, 10c higher.

Sal Glauber has advanced to Soc in bbls.; 1 to 3c in smaller quantities.

Seed.-Burdock now quoted at 25c.

Colchicum at 35c.

Flax very firm. Now quoted at 4c in bbls.; 5c for smaller quantities.

Turpentine is easy. Now quoted at 55c in bbls.; usual advance for smaller quantities.

New and Seasonable Sundries.

Atomizers, Century.—This line is first-class in every respect and should have a place in every druggist's stock. No. 5, two tips, improved, doz. $8.25; No. 10, adjustable, with fluid tube, $9.50; No. 15, improved tongue guard and three tips, $11.00; No. 20, improved, three tips, $9.25; No. 25, improved, four tips, $10.75; No. 30, adjustable, with fluid tube, $12.50; No. 40, adjustable, with fluid tube, $10.50; No. 50, adjustable, with fluid tube and three tips, $12.00; No. 100, one tip, for water, bent, $4.75; No. 150, two tips, for oil, bent, $5.50; No. 200, two tips, for water, curved, $5.50; No. 250, two tips, for oil, curved, $6.25; No. 300, combination atomizer, $9.00. Newport Atomizer, $3.50 per doz. Atomizers, Davidson's.-No. 50, doz. $12.50; No. 58, $11.50; No. 59, $20.00; No. 61, $22.50; No. 546, $8.75; No. 548, $7.50; No. 561, $9.50 per doz.

Atomizers, Oliphane Oil.—Improved styles and new prices. No. 1, without patent inner tube, doz. $5.50; No. 4, with patent inner tube, $6.75; No. 2, with nasal and throat tubes, $7.50; No. 3, with nasal tube only, $6.00.

Bags, Ice, screw cap; these will soon be in season. No. 76A, doz. $5.00; No. 76D, $7.50; No. 31, $7.50.

Bands, Rubber.-Price reduced; package or string (in 4-lb. boxes), lb.. $2.50 net; less, $2.75 net.

Bandages, Suspensory.-Now in demand. "The Perfect" is the best value for the price, doz. $1.25.

Bottles, Nursing, Favorite.-With removable metal cap. They come in both straight and bent neck, doz. 40c.

Breast Pumps, English.—Competition has reduced the price as follows: Doz. $2.00.

Brushes, Bath, Leiner's.-New prices. The season is now at hand for this class of goods. No. o, doz. $4.50; No 1, $8 00: No. 6, $9.00; No. 7, $9.00; No. 8, $6.50; No. 10, $6.50; No. 32, $7.00; No. 33, $9.00; No. 34, $13 50; No. 43, $6.00; No. 44, $9.00; No. 65, $2.50; No. 66, $5.00; No. 67, $5.00; No. 68, $3.00; No. 85, $3.00; No. 86, $2.50; No. 87, $3.50; No. 88, $4.50; No. 90, $4 00; No. 99, $7.00; No. 306, $2.75: No. 343, $6.00.

Camphor Ice.-Imperial Crown, No. 1233, in tubes, doz. 75c. Extracts.-Imperial Crown Perfumery Co.'s latest odors: Carnation Pink, lb. $3.25; Colonial Rose, $3.25; Chypre, $4.25. All three of these odors are growing very popular. The Chypre is on the order of the Imported Jicky. Very strong and lasts for

ever.

Eye Shield, Texas.-Clear, blue and green. Just the thing for cycling, etc.; doz. $1.50.

Fly Papers.-The season is now at hand for this item. Fly Paper, Poison, Deutcher's, in sheets, 14x18, ream $8.00, quire 45c; Seibert's Old Reliable, sheets, 14x18, ream $4.00, quire 30c; Sleeper's, sheets, 14x18, ream $4.00, quire 30c; Seibert's, 8 sheets in envelope, 50 envelopes in box, box 75c, doz. 25c.

Fly Paper, Sticky-Tanglefoot, large, 10 boxes in case, case $3.20, box 35c; small, 15 boxes in case, case $1.70, box 15c.

Tanglefoot is now the only sticky paper, the manufacturers having absorbed all the other companies.

Fly Buttons-Green's, 3 doz. in box; box 90c.

Gum, Chewing, Union—and clock. An eight-day wall clock free with 100 packages Union Gum for $3.50.

Van Culin Brothers' Grape Fruit, price advanced; 5-box carton $275, box 60c.

Ink, Arnold's.-A slight advance in this line. Quarts, doz. $5.00; pints, doz. $2 90; %-pints, doz. $1.55; 4-oz., doz. 8oc; 2-oz. cones, doz. 40C.

Mailing Cases. - Round drug, wood cap, No. 90, 1⁄2 oz., per 100 $3.05. doz. 45c; No. 100, 1 oz., per 100 $3.60, doz. 6oc; No. 110, 2 oz., per 100 $5.50, doz. 85c; No. 120, 3 oz., per 100 $6 00, doz. $1.00; No. 130, 4 oz., per 100 $6.40, doz $1.05.

Sea Salt. The warm weather now approaching should create a demand for this cheap luxury. An ocean bath at home. Now is the time to fill the window with it. Bahama, in 10-lb. bags, 100 bags, 1c; less, 15c per bag; Atlantic, in 4-lb. bags, 100 bags, 7%c; less, 8c per bag.

Soap, Brown's Tar-Boxes of 50 cakes, in cartons, small, case $1.90; boxes q 100 cakes, in cartons, small, case $3 75. Medicated Tar, three cakes in box, doz. 75c.

Graham's Cuticular-Doz. 75c.

Shaving, Imported Italian.-A cream, put up in rubber bal

loons. This is the finest article for shaving on the market. In two odors: A La Rose and Fluers de Italian, doz. $3.00. Syringes, English Enema, Maroon, doz. $12.00.

Wax, Sealing, Pontius' Pure.-A superior article of fruit-can wax, and put up in handsome cartons to retail for 5c; packed 6 doz. in box (retails $3.60); sold by the box only; box, $1.80.

The Season is Now Approaching for Lubricating Oils. We give quotations for the different grades and sizes of packages, for the convenience of the trade: Lubricating Oils.Bbl. 2-Bbl. 10-gal. 5-gal.

Oil, Castor, No. 1.... Oil, Castor, No. 3...... Oil, Castor, spec'l com'l

$1 02 $1 04 $1 06 $1 06

Sponges. The sales of Sponges, at the Nassau Exchange, for the two weeks ending March 10, amounted to $19,510, and for a similar time, ending April 7, $9,873. Prices realized by sponge gatherers was most satisfactory. Representative buyers of European merchants advanced prices over American buying agents. A demand from South Africa for Reef sponges for surgical use in the British-Boer war, sent the prices up from $1.00 to $1.20 per pound. Medium Nassau sheepswool averaged about $1.70 per pound; but medium sheepswool, $1.50. Vessel owners who experienced heavy losses by the August hurricane, are reported to be "picking up.”—[STANLEY ADDERLEY, San Francisco.

Changes and Additions in Proprietary Goods. Anti-Phymin, dozen, $15.

Big 3, Hale's, dozen, $12.

Catamenth, dozen, $3.75.

Celery, Beef and Iron, Henley's, dozen, $8.

Celery Vesce, toc, doz. 75c; 25c, doz. $2; 50c, doz. $4.
Chloridum, Limonon's.-Price reduced to $8 doz.
Cocovena, small, doz. $1.35; large, doz. $2.25.

Cure, Burk's Dyspepsia, doz. $4; Chryso Corn, doz. $2; Coke's Dandruff, in gallons, gal. $4.50; Cubeb Cough, 25c, doz. $1.75; Hall's Painless Corn, doz. $1.75; Krause's Cold, doz. $2; Lichty's Cough, 25c, doz. $2; 50c, doz. $3.75; Lindley's Fit, doz. $12; Sneed's Cough, doz. $2; Sneed's Chill, doz. $2; Sneed's Cuticle, $2; Sneed's Constipation, small, doz. 65c; large, doz. $1.50. Gaduline, doz. $9.

Liniment, Billington's, advanced to $1.75 doz; Cala Cactus, doz. $4.

Oil, Ostrich Nile, doz. $3.75.

Ointment, Excelsior, doz. $11.

Orangeine, 50c, doz. $4.

Organo-Ferrin advanced to $5 per doz.

Pills, Krause's Little Liver, doz. $1.75; Vigoran's, doz. $15.
Salve. Lichty's Witch Hazel, doz. $2.

San-Cura, doz. $9; Cathartic tablets, doz. $2.

Snuff, Scotch, Garrett's -The Atlantic Snuff Company, of Philadelphia, has sold out to the American Snuff Company, of

New York, which is a part of the Tobacco Trust. Hereafter the following prices and conditions will rule for W. E. Garrett & Son's Scotch Snuff:

Tin cans, I oz., half-gross boxes, box $3; Tin cans, 11⁄2 ozs., half-gross boxes, box $5.30; Tin cans, 2% ozs., half-gross boxes, box $6.75; Tin cans, 3% ozs., half gross boxes, box $9; Packs, I oz., half-gross boxes, box $3; Packs, 1% ozs., half-gross boxes, box $5.30; Bottles, 6 ozs., boxes of 4 dozen, box $10.50; Packages, 3% ozs., boxes of eight dozen, box $9.60; Packages, 1⁄2 lb., boxes of 4 dozen, box $11.25; Packages, 1 lb., boxes of 2 dozen, box $11; Small Bladders, per lb. 48c.

Sphenoids, 1⁄2 gross in box, box $15; 1 doz. in box, box $3.40. Tablets, Clarence Dyspepsia, doz. $4; Stuart's Catarrh, small, doz. $4; Stuart's Catarrh, large, doz. $8.

Tea, Nubian, large, doz. $7.50; I dozen small free with each dozen large.

Tonic, Dr. Clay's Laxative Iron, doz. $2.

C. F. Simmons Medicine Co.'s Goods.-This company has just been incorporated, and publish the following list:

Medicine.-M. A. Simmons' Liver Giant, doz. $7.50; dry 25c package, doz. $1.88; candy tablets, 25c, doz. $2; liquid large $8; medium, doz, $4; small, doz. $2.

Cordial, Dr. Simmons' Iron, doz. $6.

Wine, Dr. Simmons' Squaw Vine, doz. $8.
Tablets, Dr. Simmons' Squaw Vine, doz. $8.
Killer, Dr. Simmons' Rheumatism, doz. $8.
Restorer, Dr. Simmons' Manhood, doz. $8.
Go-No-Glee, Dr. Simmons', doz. $8.
Sedative, Dr. Simmons' Antiseptic, doz, $2.
Tablets, Dr. Simmons' Teething, doz. $1.65.
Exterminators, Dr. Simmons' Worm, doz. $1.75.
Water, Dr. Simmons' Painless Eye, doz. $1.65.
Beardarine, (Hair Renewer), doz, $6.65.

Chillarine, (Tasteless Chill Cure), doz. $4; Candy, doz, $4.
C. C. C. (Pile Remedy), doz. $8.

La Providencia, (Female Remedy), $1.75 size, doz. $14; $1 size doz. $8.

Balsam, Dr. C. Williams' Wild Cherry, doz. $3.75.
Cure Kanka Tobacco (Guaranteed), doz. $8.
Color, Golden Rod Butter, doz. $2.

Where Vaccine Should NOT be Stored.Near a stove.

Near a radiator or register.

Next to a steam pipe.

On the top shelf of a hot room.

At a temperature above 60° F.

NECROLOGY.

Dr. J. W. Rogers died at his home in Shelby, Center County, Texas, April 18. The doctor was 55 years of age, and had been interested in the drug business, as well as the profession of medicine, for some time.

Dr. Thos. D. Reed, of Montreal, Canada, met with a severe accident some months ago. During the severe winter weather, he fell down a cellar and never fully recovered from the shock. He was removed to the Royal Victoria Hospital and given every possible attention. His death occurred March 29, closely following a paralytic stroke. The doctor was one of the most familiar figures at the annual meetings of the A. Ph. A., and will be greatly missed by many of our readers on these occasions. The doctor was editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal, dean of the Montreal College of Pharmacy and a teacher of physiology in a dental school. He was much interested in general educational work.

DR. THOS. D. REED.

Since writing the above we find the following sketch, penned while sitting in convention with Prof. Reed at the Put-in-Bay meeting of the A. Ph. A. last September:

T. D. Reed, of Montreal, Canada, was the character of the convention. Of medium height and slim build; wearing a long black coat and high silk hat; having a long, thin, black beard, but no mustache; longpointed nose supporting rimmed nose-glasses; stoop

the vaccine.

shoulders, long fingers and an inquiring countenance, the good doctor never fails to attract attention. His forehead extends to the occiput, which is fringed with long hair. Our Canadian friend is rather past middle life but is still in the prime of activity. Strangers are puzzled to know whether he is an oldtime apothecary, circuit minister, or four-courts lawyer. In convention, Mr. Reed follows closely all papers, and in discussion evidences that he knows whereof he speaks. He is relentless in criticism, but

No Quicksilver Mines are known to exist in Ecuador, but mercury in a metallic state has been found in various localities, even in the suburbs of Guayaquil

on the hill Santa Ana. M. Van Isschot found it in Los Rios, on the banks of the Collay, in the Eastern Cordillera; on the Esmeraldas; and in the cultivated valleys of Cuenca and Azogues; but the source of the formation is unknown. The mercury is in too minute quantities to be workable, although found in a free

state.

Thos. D. Reed long live and often visit the A. Ph. A. conventions-is the wish not only of his many friends in the States, but also the students and teachers of the Montreal College of Pharmacy, of which he is. dean.

Vanillin is produced in potato peelings. It does not exist in them when fresh, as originally supposed, but is generated by the warmth and the action of the oxygen of the air.

Bind MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST as a work for reference.

VOL. XXI.

No. 6.

Editorial

Mr. T. Ashby Miller, the local secretary for the Richmond meeting of the A. Ph. A., greets you from the cover of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for June.

Labor Strikes constitute one of the great problems for the present age to solve. We sincerely hope it will be settled in a way that will enure to the benefit of mankind in general. That the subject is a great

one cannot be denied.

The daily press is, as a rule, quite timid in discussing the subject. This is especially true at a time when the most excitement prevails. This is very excusable, for we all know from experience how apt such discussions are to inflame those people who have taken an active part in the difficulty. Divines have preached sermons on this topic; orators have expatiated upon it. It is well that discussions are held so as to set us all a-thinking. Only in this way will we arrive at the solution of the problem. America has solved a good many questions of importance, and while absolute perfection cannot be obtained on any mundane matter, yet a close approach to it may be the outcome of proper study.

At the recent Industrial Convention held at Chattanooga, several speeches were made in reference to strikes, boycotts and lockouts. We will reproduce one made by N. F. Thompson, secretary of the Southern Industrial Convention, which is full of interest. Mr. Thompson spoke as follows:

Realizing the fact that political parties could not at this time be expected to deal with compulsory arbitration properly, it was, nevertheless, apparent that some agency should be found to awaken public sentiment regarding it, for there is no question to-day before the American people that begins to compare in importance with the one of how strikes and boycotts can be checked in their destructive and deadly tendencies.

If sectionalism received its death-blow when the sons of the South responded equally as promptly as did the sons of the North in answer to their country's call during our recent conflict with Spain, there is need that we should cement, in still stronger bonds, the ties of our re-united country by coming together as we do now in this convention from both sections to consider how we may remove a greater menace to our Government than was ever the armies of Spain or than would be, for that matter, the hostile forces of the entire world combined.

Danger in Labor Troubles.

I am not an alarmist, but have ever been an optimist in my be

Jief of the higher destiny of this country. Still, I am not blind to the dangers that are confronting us as a people The history of the downfall of the most powerful nations of antiquity teaches us that a country has more to fear from internal forces of disintegration than from outside foes, and no patriot who understands what is necessary to perpetuate this Government in its purity and power, but what must view with apprehension and alarm the growing tendency of the laboring classes to engage in strikes and boycotts at the dictation of labor union leaders and labor organizations.

If I dared permit myself to utter any prediction of the possible downfall of this country, I would say it would come through some such internal sources of disruption and danger as those which labor unions are bringing upon us.

The frequency of strikes and the pernicious influence of the boycott are real dangers to government which no words of mine can unduly magnify or overestimate. They are weakening the ties of citizenship among thousands of our people.

Disregard Rights of Others.

They are creating widespread disregard for the rights of others, equally as entitled to the protection of organized society as their own. They are destroying respect for any and all authority, save that embodied in the demands and commands of labor leaders and labor organizations.

They are educating the employed against the employing classes, creating antagonisms where mutuality of interests demand the utmost harmony and friendship.

They are demanding State and Federal authorities, class legislation and class discriminations, contrary to the very fundamental principles on which this Government was founded; and last, but not least, they are bringing reproach upon the judicial tribunals of our country, the only safe-guards of a free people.

Is this an overdrawn picture? I do not think any one can truthfully say so; on the contrary, if he will only consider for a moment the extent to which labor organizations have gone in some communities, and the efforts that are being made to extend their power and influence throughout the land, it will be seen that I have not in any sense overstated the menace they are bringing to our country.

Every factor that enters into our industrial life is sought to be brought under their influence and dictation, and the boycott comes at once into action with its malign and deadly power, wherever their demands are sought to be overcome by independent forces.

Even Coffin Factories Unionized.

The "union" movement is so prevalent that one of the Chicago pápers announced recently that the Woodworkers' Union had succeeded in “unionizing" the coffin factories of that city, and to make their job complete, the same paper suggested that they should "unionize" the grave-diggers, who would then refuse to bury the dead, unless it was brought to them in a "union" coffin, which would amount to refusing Christian burial to a non-union corpse.

And this same Woodworkers' Union claimed to have "unionized" the cradle factories, which would make a non-union father walk the floor with his non-union baby. If the coming generations must be rocked in union cradles or not at all, why not be married by a union priest with a union-labled license, and a union mandolin band, and the bride arrayed in a union trousseau? Having "unionized" us from the cradle to the grave, would they stop there? Will they not try to extend their authority over the resurrection, and refuse to rise until Gabriel uses a union-labled trumpet? Or will they decline to enjoy the delights of Paradise until the angels use union- labled harps?

Surely the common sense and sound judgment with which the American people have so long been credited will assert themselves and put an end to this union tyranny

I am aware that the excuse is given that labor organizations are necessary to offset the power of financial combinations, misnamed trusts.

Public Lost Sight Of.

We have labor on the one hand claiming all rights for itself. with capital combining on the other for its sole advancement and protection, until there is grave danger that the superior rights and claims of the public will be lost sight of in this struggle for supremacy between the two.

This is why I advocate compulsory arbitration for the settlement of differences between labor and capital, because the public have the supreme right to demand that the disturbances constantly arising from strikes and boycotts shall cease. We are so woven into this great governmental fabric of ours that not one thread that enters into the woof or warp can be broken or misplaced without affecting more or less injuriously the entire product of civilized humanity around us.

I hope to see the recommendations of this convention go forth for the creation, in every Southern State, of such a board of arbitration as will render strikes and lockouts an impossibility, and when we do this we will point out the way to the North the proper channels through which their labor troubles can and will be settled. This is not sectionalism but the very broadest of Americanism, and on that platform alone do I stand.

The Proprietary Association of America held its eighteenth annual meeting in New York City the first week in May. Four sessions were devoted to work, and then the convention enjoyed the entertainment provided by the local trade.

The action of this association which most vitally affects the retail drug trade is its re-indorsement of the N. A. R. D. plan. Representatives from the N. W. D. A. and N. A. R. D. were present. The conference promises more and better results than has been the case with any previous consultation among retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers. The N. A. R. D. plan as outlined in recent issues of this journal was, upon motion of Thomas Doliber, of Boston, unanimously indorsed.

The attendance was unusually large and representative. F. E. Holiday, chairman of the N. A. R. D. executive committee, was the most prominent representative of that organization, while William J. Walker, of the N. W. D. A., spoke for the wholesalers.

According to the reports of the secretary and treasurer, the present membership of the association is 174. During the past year nineteen members have been taken from the record, but the association was never stronger or more valuable to individual members than at the present time. There is a balance of $5,208.00 on hand. The expenses of the association last year reached about $8,000.00.

The trade-mark question very naturally interests the proprietary manufacturers. The committee on that subject paid a compliment to the American Pharmaceutical Association on account of the good work which it is doing. The manufacturers have decided to establish a committee of the Proprietary Association to watch trade-mark affairs as carefully as a similar committee of the American Pharmaceutical Association is doing. The committee also recommended the establishment of a trade-mark bureau, consisting of lawyers who have made a special study of the subject. The idea is to consult them and thus avoid much long and expensive litigation.

At the last annual meeting a committee on advertising was appointed for the purpose of determining the circulation of publications, and carrying out other similar work. The chairman reported that the committee had not been able to spend a single dollar of the $500.00 appropriated for the purpose. The conclusions were "that it could be demonstrated that there are publications enough for us to use which