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Show ZSheWeeKivV Tancrama. j STAMPS AS MONEY. The recent theft of stamps in the Chicago postoffice has led to the suggestion sug-gestion of several plans either for . making such thefts impossible in the future or for making them unprofitable unprofit-able to the thieves. Assistant Postmaster Post-master Hubbard believes that if "stamp certificates" were used in senu-ing senu-ing small sums by mail, a great source of danger would be removed. The mail order houses would be required to-refuse to-refuse stamps and to insist upon "stamp certificates," and in this way the use of stamps as currency would be largely curtailed. As things are at present, when not only small but frequently fre-quently large sums are sent from one place to another in the shape of stamps, it is comparatively easy for a man to work off a fairly large block of stamps within a few years, and if he has bought those stamps 'at reduced rates he makes a considerable saving. The new plan would interfere seriously serious-ly with such practices and would confine con-fine postage stamps to their proper function of appearing on the outside-of outside-of envelopes. Another suggestion that has been made looks more directly toward to-ward . the "fence" part of the stamp stealing business. If it were made an offense for any private dealer in stamps to sell more than a dollar's worth at a time, the sale of larger quantities would be regarded as in itself a confession of improper methods meth-ods of securing the stamps. |