A term applied to commercial agents who travel for wholesale mer-chants and supply the retail trade with goods, or take orders for goods to be ship-ped to the retail dealer. Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing Dist., 120 U. S. 489, 7 Sup. Ct 592, 30 L. Ed. 694; Singleton v. Fritsch, 4 Lea (Tenn.) 96; Thomas v. Hot Springs, 34 Ark. 557, 36 Am. Rep. 24; Strain v. Chi-cngo Portrait Co. (O. C.) 128 Fed. 835