The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-08-29
Rev. E, Nuestamp. No. s.
Ills Autobiography Concluded.
HIS PRINCIPLES.

olwaze hav made it pint to set a GOOD
eggsample to the rizin generashun ov vipers-
az Wltnis theze fax. I never wood foller the
bent ov my inklinashuns fur enuff to steel suf-
iishently at time to get into Jail for the same
never made it pracktis 10 ware q better
oYerkote away from a party of publick house
than to it, but hav bin suffishently accom-
modatin to ware a worse / often. The same
oy hats Ditto oV luther things. waz never
gllty oV passin kownterft munny-noin it to
be such-unle3s got its full valyoo.
never perfessed to be q temprence man,
and then guzzle amung strangerz; or a relig-
u man, and swaIe and lie and tawk about nv
naberz when 1 thawt the minister and kongre-
gashun woodent find it owt. never chude
ennything but my yittles and gum, and never
smoked ennything but hamz and trikeeny
(Which IL Norwegian for little anamil that
lives in the meet Ov hogs and sum luther
foax.)
olwaze keep away from babies-for don't
like en-, but they olwaze kry after me-that
IL after they see me. never try to make sho
ov myself by ridin horse back threw the
streets, but when l doc l olwaze lead the horse
back to the startin phase, and that is perty-
muchly the same thing.
THE RESULTS OF HIS LIFE TO THE PRESENT
The results ov my pilgrimage so fur, haz bin
PIlIclPiy intimate acquaintance with pills
ana grim age, and luther things oV equal inter
est amung which things may menshun, that
the cheet object oy livn with most foaX seems
TO be as follers With boys and gurls ov both
sexes, bumps buddy noziz, kryin and handy
WIN young ladiz, -dressiz, huzbandz, shig-
mons, (Which IL kompozed oy 2 Chinese wurdz, |
sing; which means tuner, and non which STAINS |
Tor korn- basket, land yoonited means a tuner
about the signs ov korn basket q stickin on
the chronological bump ov female self esteem)
and partiz,a and lirtashun. With young men,
iashlnable pants, fast horses, gurls and ter
packer. With old wimmen, nabers that amt
Jest what they awt to be,stoekins to darn and
straWng tea. With old men, greenbax, stamps
kurrensy, oils and muny which last wi klas-
Slz ar after more or less, and mostly more.
oncet on time, in dream, thawt | wood
Try experiment to illustrate the answer to the
question For what do we live'' went threw
Inc streets ov CRATE city, and evry purson l
met asked, "Ov what or 700 hinkin,'' with
5nls rezult: There waZ a thousand ov EN-, five
hundred men, and five hundred wimmen.
OY the Wimmen, ]
l64 waz thinkin ov fashns, bunnets &c
llY Waz thinkin oy husbands, children, low
ers &c
4 Ya2 thinkin how they kood urn Twin.
Waz thinkin oY heaven. #r .a
~ Wazzent thinkin oy ennything at ALL
Oy the men
PSI waz thinlkin how thay kood get rich.
10 Waz thinkin about gittin marrid h
W waz thinkin how thay kood get into Of
LOS wa1 thinkin about horses, billyards and
hGoning in pertickler &C., and l waz thinkin
tbout Jesus Christ, but afterward fownd he
Yaz intunaly swarm, woke up and waz glad
It waz dreem.
HIS DEATH.
My final end hazzent klozed vet but all flesh
S grass, what amt trikeeny, and if will be
node down, and kast into the uven and baked
sum time. And when that takes phase let sum
kind friend shed parting teer, and on nv
DOM stun kauze a inskripshun to the folIerin
effect to be subscribed.
Here rests oil that remanes ov what il left
",
Rev. E. NUEs TAArP.
He lived life ov principle,
lie died ov the liver komplaint.
Old Time haz at last extinguished hiz
lamp,
An 50 we hav planted Rev. E. Nuestamp,
May he sprout in heaven.
Yours truly
REV. E. NUEsTAMP,