The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-06-05

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ssssA NEW TWO CENT STxlfl'Yl! g
The new two cent postage stamp
will be the old one before long, &C
the Posofice Department is nearly
ready to supplant it with another.
There has been much criticism Of
the portrait of Washington on the
present stamp: Some OF the carpers
content themselves with averring
that it smirks, while others say that
it looks more like Mr.. Dooley
than like the Father Of His Country.
+ The experts Of the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing declare that
there is nothing the matter with the
plate from which the stamp 10 print
ed, and that the mark is due to the
fact that the red ink runs" blurr-
ing the ine lines. Printed in any
other ooler, they say, it would have
q different appearance; but the
Universal Postal Union has decided
upon red as the color for all postage
stamps Of the value of ten confines
or their equi valent, and in American
money ton centimes equal two cents,
The remedy is the re-engraving iof
the plate in stronger lines. The
design is also to be somewhat
changed.
People who prize curios will do
we'll to save the .''Dooley" stamp,
as it is evidently designed to become
rare, having had an unusually brief.
run-briefer even than that of the
oblong stamps of the issue of 1869,
in which portraits were discarded
and the two-cent stamp bore a de-
vice Of postboy on horseback blows
ing horn. In those days two-cent,
stamps were used only on drop
letters 80 called-that is letters
intended for delivery in the cities
in which they were mailed. The
three cent stamp, which was then
used for general domestic CORES
was blue, and it's device
was locomotive. The series was
the prettiest ever in use in this
country, excepting, perhaps, the
special issues put forth on the oe-
casions of the expositions at Chicago
Omaha and Buffalo. But it was
One reason of it's qn-
was its diminutive sise,
and another was the widespread
preference for portraits over
symbolic design. :s~<c
The most beautiful postage STAMP y
that have ever been issued were thH
French stamps with allegqic9tI
figures. It is a curious fact that the
Americans, whose metellic coinage
has never borne portraits, have
always liked portraits on theiri
postage stamps: Neither have they
the printing Of portraits Of
celebrated Americans on their |
paper currency. Yet the First Con
gress took the stand that portraits
on money were incompatible with
true p.publicanism, and when the
bill dnevn by Hamilton and Jeffer-
son wbinh provided for the estab-
lishment Of the mint was under
discussion, to single Congressman
thought it worth while to say a
word On the subject of the ration
bet tween gold and silver which il
but there was a hot debate
over the proposition to impress
ortraits of the Presidents on the
dollar, and the Goddess Of Liberty
was; finally substituted, for the
rea son that it was feared that plac.
ing the head of Washington on the
coinage Of the republic would SAVIOR
of Caesarism and tend to undermine
the foundation of political freedom.
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