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Show I'rtHiMvuU n I'onIhsm HUni.. I If Trehliteiit MeKinley's portrait lit put on one of thn poHt.iK. .stamps of tho tiiunlry, um dispatrhe from WahhitiK-ton WahhitiK-ton havo itald 1. likely to ho dnno In t t-as" thu poritothto department biiiiKri out a new inhue. his portrait will be the I ninth of s president to he lined in thr.t ! wry. says the New York Hun. Ever ' i-i n" I' licit) Hum's poatotlbo bef:an utukliiK stnnips In I-S17 or tbcte:.bnuu ih- fiuo of WttHhliiKion liau appeared on one of the stamps In every regular i Ihs ie, and with a sinnle exception on a stump of low value vnd general mho. Benjamin Franklin's face hits ulwayl adorned postage Mumps of low value, and has thus become familiar to people peo-ple who send or receive letters ever since 1M7. I'l c-shlenla cither than Washington whose faces have appeared on the stumps are Ji-irersou, Jackson, Lincoln, (larlli-ld, tirunt, Madison atul Tavlur. tlf the stamps of higher values the 8-ceiil stamp now beats Sherman's picture, tho ID-cent Webster's, the 1S-cent 1S-cent Clay's, the 3u-cent Jefferson's, ttis M-cuiil Jefferson's, the dollar stamp retry'.!, the two-dollar .Muillsou's, ant the flve-clollar Marshall's. i ji |