The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-11-03
Autobiography of ,.Bll Nye."

Maine in 1850, August %, but at two
years of age he took his parents by
the hand telling them that Piscata.
quis County was no place for them
he boldly struck out for st, CroiS
County, Wisconsin, where the young
man soon made home for his pa.
rents. The first year he drove the In.
dams out of the st. Croix valley and
suggested to the Northwestern Rail
road that it would be a good idea tt
build to st. Paul as soon as the, COM
pany could get grant which would
pay them two or three times the cost
of construction. The following yeal
he adopted trousers and made SI7t
from the sale of wolf scalps. lie also
cleared u acres of land, and raised
some watermelons. In 1854 he estab-
lished and endowed district school
in Pleasant Valley. 1t was at this
time that he began TO turn his atten-
ton to the abolition of slavery in the
South, and to write articles for the
press signed "Veritas," in which he
advocated the war of 1860, or as soon
as the government could get around to
it.
In 1864 he graduated from the
farm and began the study OF, 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, close stu
dent of political economy, and studied
personal economy at the same time,
till he found that he could easily live
on ten cents day and his relatives.
Mr.. Nye now began 10 look about
him for new country to build up and
foster, and as Wisconsin had grown to
be SO thickly settled in the northwest
ern 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, Wyoming. Here he en-
gagged board at the Inter- Ocean Hotel
and began to look about him for po-
sition in bank. Not succeeding in
this, he tried the law and journalism.
He did not succeed in getting a job
for some time, but finally hired as
associate editor and janitor of the
Laramie Sentinel. The salary was
small, but his latitude great, and he
was permitted to write anything Rat
he thought would please, the
whether it was news or not. { visiting
By and by he had won evd peach
by his gentle, patient poverty az, tree.
delightful parsimony regarding aP-
With hectic imagination, and an or
der on restaurant, which advertised
in the paper, he scarcely cared through
the livelong day whether school kept
or not.
Thus he rose to Justice of the
Peace and finally to an income which
is reported very large to everybody
but the Assessor.
He is the father of several beautiful
children by his first wife, who is still
living. She is Chicago girl, and
loves her husband far more than he
deserves. He is pleasant to the out
side world, but perfect brute in n
home. He early learned that in ord,
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 awcd by his greatness and
gentle barbarism.
He eats plain food with both hands,
conversing all the time pleasantly
with anyone who may be visiting at
the house. If his children misbehave,
he kicks them beneath the table till
they roar with pain, as he chats on
with the guests with a bright and
ever-fowing stream of bon mots
which please and delight those who
visit him to that degree that they
almost forget that they have had
hardly anything to eat.
In conclusion, Mr.. Nye is in every
respect lovely char cter. He feared
that injustice might be done him,
however, in this biographical sketch,
so he has written it himself.
RELIGIOUS.