Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-27
NYE,s BRILLIANT CAREER.
Bill Tells the story of His LIfs-How He
Abolished Slavery.

Abolished Slavery.
Bill Nye was recently approached for
sketch of his career. Unwilling to
trust to the tender mercies of biog-
rapher for a faithful presentation of
his noble deeds, the king of humorists
issues the following autobiography:
Edgar Wilson Nye was born in
Maine in 1850, Aug. 25, but at two
years of age he took his big parents by
the hand and, telling them that Pts
cataquis County was no place for them
he boldly struck out for st. Croix
County, Wisconsin, where the hardy
young pioneer soon made home
for his parents. The first year he drove
the Indians out of the st. Croix Valley
and suggested to the Northwestern
Railroad that it would be a good idea
to build to st. Paul Us soon as the COM
pany could get a grant which would
pay them two or three times the cost of
construction. The following year he
adopted trousers, and made 1915 from
the sale of wolf scalps. He also
cleared twenty-seven acres of land, and
raised some watermelons. In 1854 he
established and endowed a district
school in Pleasant Valley. 1t was at
this time that he began to turn his at
tention to the abolition of slavery in
the South and to write articles for the
press signed "Veritas," in which he adj
vocatcd the war of 1860 or as soon rs
the government could get around to it.
'In 1855 he graduated from the farm
and began the study Of the law. He
did not advance very rapidly in this
profession. failing several times in his
examination and giving bonds for his
appearance at the next term of court.
He was, however, a close student of
political economy, and studied per-
sonal economy ut the same time till
he found he could live on 10 cents
day and his relatives costly.
MIR. Nye now began to look for a
new country to build up and foster,
and rs Wisconsin had grown to be SO
thickly settled in the northwestern
part of the state that neighbors were
frequently found as near as five miles
apart he broke loose from all restraint
and took emigrant rates for Cheyenne,
Wy. L. Here he engaged board at the
Interoccan Hotel and began to look
about him for a position in n bank.
Not succeeding in this, he tried the law
and journalism He did not succeed in
getting job for some time, but finally
hired rs associate editor and ianitor of
the Laramie Sentinel. The salary was
small but his latitude great, and he
was permitted to write anything that
he thought would please people,
whether it was news or not.
by and by he had won every heart
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delightful parsmony with regard to
facts With hectic Imagination and
an order on restaurant, which adver-
tised in the paper, he scarcely cared
through the livelong day whether school
kept or not.
He is the father of several very
beautiful children by his first wife, who
is still living. She is a Chicago girl,
and loves her husband far more than
he deserves. He is pleasant to the out
side world but perfect brute in his
home. He early learned that in order
to win the love of his wife he should be
erratic and kick the stove over on
the children when he came home. He
therefore asserts himself in this way,
and the family love and respect him,
being awed by his greatness and gentle
barbarism.
HE eats plain food with both hands,
conversing all the time pleasantly with
any one who may be visiting at the
house. If his children do not behave,
he kicks them from beneath the table
till they roar with pain, as he chats on
with the guests with bright and ever
flowing stream of bon mots which
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to that degree that they almost forget
that they have had hardly anything to
eat.
I'm conclusion, Mr.. Nye is in every
respect Il lovely character. He feared
that injustice might be done him.. how
ever, in this biographical sketch, and