The mirror., 1895-08-15
Literary No{cs.

The Twice-a-Week edition of the
New York World has been converted
into the Thrice-a- week. 1t furnishes 3
papers of pages apiece, or eighteen
pages every week, at the old price of
one dollar year. This gives 156 papers
a year for one dollar and every paper
has pages eight columns wide or 48
columns IN all. The Thrice-a week
World is not only much larger than
any weekly or semiweekly newspaper,
but it furnishes the news with much
greater frequency and promptness. In
fact it combines all the crisp, fresh
qualities of daily with the attractive
special features of a weekly.
1t was shortly after my admission to
the bar that gave my hand in marriage
to my present wife, writes Edgar Will
son Nye ("Bill Nye") in the fourth ar
ticle of the series "The Woman Who
Most Influenced Me- in the August
Ladies Home Journal. Before that I
had only a meagre confidence in my
own ability. I had grave doubts about
amounting to much, and my lack of
confidence in myself was shared by my
tailor.
But the right sort of wife gives man
feeling of self-reliance that he cannot
get elsewhere. He finds for the first
time that he has an audience. Friends
heretofore may have f1attered him. but
he fears that it is flattery, while his
enemy, he feels has been unjustly severe.
His wife generally shows genuine
feeling of confidence and security in
him which is revelation. At first he
is surprised and then he resolves to de-
serve that confidence. 1t is very diff
cult in publication which goes into
nearly every home in America to snow
ones wife completely under with en-
comiums, thus using up the space
which some other man wants to use for
his own private eencomiums, but in order
to fully and honestly answer the ques-
tion put to me | must state over my
own signature that my early industry
and ambition were stimulated by the
never-hagging faith of my mother, and
the still more deadly combat later on
turned in my favor through the loyalty
and confidence shown by my wife, who
alone knows through what trials she
has helped me.
Among the strange vagaries which
Fortune plays from time to time in
tho circumstances ofthe world, and the
passions and prejudices which she
arouses in the minds of men, there are
none more irregular and inconclusive
than those which form public opinion
in regard to the leaders whom it chooses
for reverence or applause. One strives
in vain to find some common ground
for the acclamation which lifts one man
above his fellows, or which singles
certain individual from amid a group,
as the object of fealty and homage. 1t
is not often goodness, nor always great
ness. Purer souls than some chosen
could be found for the seeking; loftier
spirits and larger hearts than those that
have fettered the minds and actions of
their race, by holding them in restraint,
and forcing cooperation.
There are heroes in the public eye,
who do not even appear to have pos
sessed that fascination which we call
for want of a better name-humanity
in dominating the love and loyalty of
their kind. AS one turns the pages of
history, and passes in review the long
array of dominant spirits, who in diff
ferent ages have held men in thrall,
there is scarcely single trait upon
which one can lay hands and say, "Here
lies the common secret 1t is by turns
glory and humiliation to confess
that such and such men have ruled man.
kind-so inexplicable are the choices
made by popular fancy, and so equally
have saint and sinner aroused the ad-
miration of the masses. = Mary E.
Blake in Donahoe's Magazine for Aug.