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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.
tion. Messrs. Tips & Riedel have an experience in this business of several
years, and are justly esteemed among the best hardware merchants in San
Antonio. Thus we have the advantages derivable from that great factor,
experience, combined with unexceptionable business ability, the highest
grade of commercial honor and liberal and enlightened policy, a combina-
tion that must insure success unless the natural order of business ethics is
reversed. This firm occupies a large building 50 x 85 feet in size. They
keep in stock every article pertaining to the business ; shelf and heavy
hardware, cutlery, mechanical and professional tools, etc. Their goods
have been selected with that critical judgment only acquired by experience
and education. Four competent assistants are employed. Their stock,
which is full and complete in every department, consists of hardware, iron,
steel, nails, stoves and tinware, table and pocket cutlery and agricultural
implements, etc., which is valued at $25,000, the transactions reaching
$60,000 annually. Their trade extends through this state and Mexico.
The relation of bare facts in connection with a house of this character, as
to its growth and importance, is argument enough, without comment on
our part, to direct the attention of business men to it, and to the exalted
commercial position held by its proprietors, entitling them to the esteem
and confidence of the public.

G. A. DUERLER—Wholesale Manufacturer of Strictly Pure Candies,
Dealer in Fireworks, Nuts, Fruits and Cigars; No. 220 Commerce
Street.
The human race is naturally lovers of sweets and the most popular
form is confectionery. Tradition does not furnish the epoch when con-
fectionery was first in vogue, but it was certainly very nearly
cotemporaneous with the use of sugar, which was known many centuries prior to
the Christian era by the people of China and India. Pleiny, the Roman
author, refers to the sugar candy which the Chinese made in ancient times
and which found its way in small quantities, even to Rome. It was of
course but crude and imperfect compared with that of modern times.
Early in this century the French directed their talents in this direction, and
through their discoveries and improvements, candy manufacturing has
closely approximated to an art. For years the manufacturers of other
countries were dependent upon the French for all improvements iii this
business ; but American inventive talents and genius have not only equall-
ed, but surpassed them. The very best, so called, French candy, is now
made by our domestic manufacturers. In all cities claiming metropolitan
proportions, the manufacture of candy has become a business of the
greatest importance. In San Antonio there is but one regularly first-class
establishment devoted to this business, that of G. A. Duerler, which is
also the most extensive in the State of Texas. Mr. Duerler established