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LONE STAR STATE PHILATELIST.
form of ballot to be used shall be ap-
proved by the Board of Trustees. It
shall be signed by the members voting
and enclosed in sealed envelopes, in-
scribed BALLOT, and directed to the
Committee on Credentials. It may be
sent to them in any manner desired.
At such elections a plurality of the
votes cast shall elect, and no vote
shall be counted that shall not have
been received before the closing of
the polls; nor shall any member be
permitted to vote in any other way
but the prescribed form, or to change
his vote after it has once been received
by the Committee on Credentials.
Section 2-At all elections taking
place at the time of the annual con-
ventions, the polls shall close at noon
of the first day, and at all special elec-
tions at such time as shall be named
in the call for election.
Section 3-The Secretary shall cause
blank forms for the ballots, and paper
envelopes for enclosing the same, to
be mailed to each member entitled to
vote, at least thirty days before the
date fixed for closing the polls.
ARTICLE 8.-PROPERTY.
Section 1 -All officers shall at the
expiration of their term of office, de-
liver to their successors all books, pa-
pers, monies add other property in
their possession belonging to the so-
ciety.
ARTICLE 9 -AMENDMENTS.
Section 1.-This Constitution can be
altered or amended only by the con-
sent of two-thirds of all the members
present, or represented, at the con-
vention. The votes shall be taken by
ballot, under the direction of the
Trustees, or in open convention.
Cbe JAmateur Rutbor.
Any one who wishes to become ac-
quainted with the dreamy side of lit-
erature should examine the batch of
manuscripts received by some period-ical. After passing through the sev-
eral stages of amazement, irritation
and disgust, he can readily understand
why the amateur author is a bane to
literature of all kinds, and more es-
pecially to the editor whose task it is
to review these effusions. One would
readily come to the conclusion that
persons who find they are incapable,
through Jack of brain power, of doing
anything else, think themselves amply
qualified to turn author. They would
not attempt to compose a symphony
or paint a picture without previous
instruction, but as for writing-well,
all that is necessary is to invest in pen,
ink and paper. Perhaps it is some
limpid verses of so doleful a cast that
they may be said to have one foot in
the grave, from the pen of a stripling
of 13 years. But if the editor is a cau-
tious man he will not be prepared to
take any such risk. Too often the
editor publishes these articles out of
pity for the author. And now that he
has run the gauntlet of the merely
tedious, the mildly ridiculous, the
wildly absurd-the positively illiterate
comes, in the shape of a professional
production. He discourses on subjects
of which he knows absolutely nothing.
He informs you that stamps are made
of paper, (as if we thought they were
made of cast iron) and at the same
time using such words as we would
not find in Webster's. It would be
well if editors were to send these
youthful aspirants a letter of good ad-
vice, informing them that they should
return to school and learn grammar
and spelling before attempting such
things. Certainly the literature of the
day is overstocked with these puerile
attempts at journalism. A high class
magazine will not insert these articles.
We can thankfully say that in OUR art
there are very few such articles pub-
lished in our select magazines,although
the amateur magazines are padded
with them. EDIOMES.s
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Lone Star State Philatelist, Volume 4, Number 3, April 1897, periodical, April 1897; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1129255/m1/12/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The University of Texas at Dallas.