The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-26
MAHA'S SNOWY STAMP SET
FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS SOU
VENIR OF THE 1898 EXPO
in General Style, but Are Orna-
mented with Scenes Typffyfng
Western Life and Especially
when the Country Was In Its
Primitive Condition.

when the Country Was in Its
Primitive Condition.
The new issue of trans Mississippi
postage stamps now being printed by
the bureau of engraving and printing
will lee on sale at the st. Paul post
Office this week.
The new series have been authorized
BY the postofTice department at Wash
ington to be issued to mark the date
of the opening of the Omaha exposi-
ton. but, owing to the great amount
of work on hand, the bureau has been
unable TO get the new issue out as fast
as was expected, and the first of the
Omaha EXPO" stamps will be sent
through the mails next week.
Postmaster Smith was one Of the
first 10 get his order in for the new
stamps, and it is expected that the st.
Paul office Will be supplied as quick
as any of the first-class postoffices.
The demand for the new issue has
exceeded all expectations, and the pop
ularity of the Worlds fair issue prom
Uses to be duplicated if not exceeded
in the new Omaha issue.
When it was first proposed to au-
tEoriZe this issue frequent protests
were received by the officials at Wash
ington from the various philatelic So
cieties all over the country, but since
the issue has been authorized there has
been a great demand for the stamps.
both from the stamp collectors and
people wishing to secure them as SOU
Venirs
The trans Mississippi stamps differ
materially in size from the ordinary
series the engraved space being about
seven-eighths of an inch wide by about
one and three eighths long. The de-
signs are also unlike those of the or
binary stamps, consisting of a border,
with a central panel indicative in some
way of the development of the great
region west of the Mississippi river.
The border. which forms in its inner
lire an irregular framework to the
scene represented, consists of a fiuted
figure on either side, with interior
cross bars beginning in a single, line
near the bottom of the stamp and en-
larging until it reaches the shield in
each of the upper corners, upon which
is engraved the denomination of the
stamp. At the top, connecting the two
shields, and united to the f1uted frame
work on the two sides, is a curved tab
let. upon which, in small white capitals,
are the words, United States of Amer
lea.
Above each of these is a projecting
ear of corn, and at the bottom of all
on, a straight black tablet are the
words, Postage One Cent" Postage
Two Cents" and so on, in white capt.
tails.
The scenes represented on the
stamps, together with the colors of the
several denominations. are the
Observation-Disclosures on the Mississippi"
from painting by Lanprecht now in pos
session OF the Marquette college of Milwau-
kee, Wis, representing Father Marquette in
boat on the Upper Mississippi, preaching to
the Indians. Color, dark green.
Two-Cent-" Farming in the West from
photograph, representing a Western grain
field with a long row of plows at work. Color,
copper red.
our-Cent-"Indian Hunting Buffalo" re-
production of an engraving In Schoolcraft's
History of the Indian Tribes. Color, orange
Five-Cent-'' Fremont on Rocky Mountains, "
modified from a wood engraving representing
the Pathfinder painting, the United States flag
on the highest peak of the Rocky noun
tains. Color dark blue.
Elght-Cent-'Troops Guarding Train" rep
resenting a detachment of United States SOL
dieFs conveying an emigrant train across the
prairtes, from a drawing by Frederick Rem
ington, permission to use which was kindly
given by the publisher, R. H. Russell, of New
York Color, dark lilac.
Ten-Cent-"Ha rdships of Emigration, -
from painting kindly loaned by the artist
a. G. Heaton, representing an emigrant and
his family on the plains In a prairie
schooner" one of the horses having fallen
from exhaustion. Color, slate.
Fifty-Cent-"Western Mining Prospector !"
from drawing by Frederic Remington per
mission to use which has been kindly given
by the publisher, R. H. Russell, of New
York;, representing a prospector with his
pack-mules in the mountains, searching for
gold Color. olive.
One-Dollar-"Western Cattle in Storm"
representing herd of cattle, preceded by the
leader seeking safety from a gathering storm.
reproduced from large steel engraving after
a picture by j. MacWhirter-the engraving
having been kindly loaned by Mrs. C. B. JON
Two Dollar" Mississippi River Bridge
from an engravins-a representation of the
great bridge over the Mississippi at ST. Louis
Color, light brown.
No rans-Mississippi postal cards or
stamped envelopes will be issued.
The series of stamps will be discon-
unued Dec. 81, but will be good for
postage any time afterwards.