The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-28
HIS OWN BIoGRAPHER.
Bill Nye Writes sketch of Ills
Career, MOdestIy Yet TruthfuIIy.

Career, MOdestIy Yet TruthfuIIy.
From the Washington Star.
According to a statement made by BIZ
Nye, who writes funny pieces for the
newspapers, more or less interest has
been manifested by the public in the
details of his life. Apprehensive that
some biography might be constructed
which would distort the truth of history
MIR. Nye has written his own biography
which Is as follows:
Edgar Wilson Nye was born in Maine
in 1850, Aug 25 but at years of age he
BOX his parents by the hand, and tell
ing them that Piscataquls county was no
place for Them he boldly struck out for
| St. Crox 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 rail
road that II would be a good idea TO
build TO St Paul as soon as the company
could get a grant which would pay them
two or three times the cost OF construc-
ttOn. The following year he adopted
trousers and made Sl70 from the sale OF
wolf scalps. lie also cleared twenty
seven acres of land and raised some wa
termelons. In 1854 he established and en-
dOwed a district school in Pleasant Val
ley. IL was at this time that he began
to turn his attention TO the abolition OF
slavery in the south, and to write aru-
Giles for the press, signed ''Neritas, IN
which he advocated the war OF 1850, or
as cOOtl d. AAlD 6DFRA AtAhNAA| NSNAR 90
In I'm 1854 he graduated from the farm and
began the study Of law. He did not adj
vance very rapidly in this profession, FAIL
ing several times in his examinations and
giving bonds for his appearance at the
next term of court. He was, however,
a close student of political economy, and
studied personal economy a. the same
time, till he found that he could easily
live on 10 cents a day and his relatives;
Mr. Nye now began to look about him
frqs a rNau a r..
and as Wisconsin had grown to be so
thiclly settled in the northwestern part
of the state that neighbors were ire
quently found as near as i've miles apart
he broke loose from all restraint and took
emigrant rates for Cheyenne, Wyo. Here
he engaged board at the lnter-Ocean no
tel and began to look about him for a
position in a bank. Not succeeding in
this he tried the law and Journalism.
He did not succeed in getting a 1ob Tor
some time, but finally hired as associate
editor and janitor of the Laramie Boom~
erang. The salary was small, but his
latitude great, and he was permitted to
write anything that he thought would
please the people, whether Il was news or
"By and by he had won every heart by
his gentle patient poverty and his delght-
full parsimony with regard to facts. With
a hectic imagination and an order on
restaurant which advertised in the paper,
d ds s whether S schol kept or not.
''Thus he rose to justice Of the peace
and finally to an income which Is re-
ported very large to everybody but the
assessor.
tifuI children by his first wife, who is
still living. She is a Chicago girl and
loves her husband far more than he de-
serves. He is pleasant to the outside
world. but a 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 great
ness and gentle baFbarism.
"Hc eats plain food with both hands,
conyersing all the time pleasantly with
any one who may be visiting at the
house II the children do not behave he
kicks them from beneath the table till
they roar with pain, as he chats on with
the guest with a bright and overlooking
stream Of bon mots, which please and de-
light those who visit him to that degree
that they almost forget that they have
had hardly anything to eat.
I'm conclusion, Mr.. Nye Is in every re-
spect a lovely character. He feared that
injustice might be done him, however
in this biographical sketch, so he has
written It himself"