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Show The Philadelphia Times immortalizes immor-talizes the commercial drummer in a special editorial, making him the most important ngency in rocdem commercial affairs. As thus: Whither ho goes there ho opens warehouses ware-houses and stores in miniature, pluming in obcuro village?, hs it were, the palatial pala-tial odiiicos of our cities, and 6preadirg before his humble t patrons the products of tho most di-tant factors. W hn we Jook back unoii ihe primeval daya of our trade, and reflect upon tha narrow and tortuous channels through which it uaed lo llow, the brotd and easy streams in which its transit U now accomplished excite a feeling 'f admiration for the drummer, lo whom tho chango isjso measurably owing. It is within the memory of any middle-aged merchant when tho drummr was a rare and lightly valued element io Ihe conduct of b -sin- ss; whfn, now so important has , he become to th establishment and con- tinuaitCtj of trad ho i tho actu-1 con troller of patronage and tho embodiment of merc-iiuile go-d will. So vast a ligure his he grown to bo in Ihe world which ignored liim I |