The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1882-05-27
" Pickety" in Kansas.

We make the following extract from
Mr.. Charles l. Braces article, entitled
Wolf-reared Children, " in 81 Nicholas .
"Pickety'' is a. New York street arab
who has been induced to leave the Bows
Lodging House and eco Vest:
Pickety at first thought he might be
sent where bears would hunt him, or
Indians catch him, and that he would
earn very little and would lose all the
sights and fun of New York, so he was
almost afraid to go; but, on hearing all
about it, and seeing that he would new
er come to much in the city, and espe-
cially hoping to get more education in
the West, and by and by to own bit of
land for himself, he resolved to Join a
party under one of the western agents
of the Childrcn's Aid Society and 90 to
Kansas.
We have not time nor space to follow
his fortunes there: everything was
strange to him, and he made queer
work of his duties in farmers house;
but the strangest thing of all to him
was to be in a kind, Christian family.
He wondered what made them all so
good, and he began to think he would
like to be as they were, and most of all
like the One he had heard of in the
Lodging House meeting.
He was careful to write to his New
York friends about his new home, and
here is one of the letters received from
him, after he had been in the West a few
months:
Mn MAoY-Dear Sir: 1 write You these
few lines hoping you are in good health at
present, and not forgetting the rest of the rem
Ilcinen Ilat ftmetnD i'll the Ihil1rpD's Aid
Society. am getting splendid with my
studies at school, and send you my monthly
report Dut please r. turn 1t, MS ! want to keep
all my reports. have good place and like
my home, and am glad came
The first time rode a horse bareback he
slung me OFF over his head and made me sick
for a week. also had diphtheria but am all
right again and in good health and can ride or
gallop horse as fast as any man in town.
When summer comes will learn to pillow and
SOW, and do farmers work. / Will get good
wages ont here. 1t is nice country, for there
with anything.
mere and have plenty of fun. l have fun with
the mules, horses, pigs and dogs. No pegging
stones at rag-Pckers or tripping up men or
tranps IN the Bowery or City Hall Park.
Tell Banty send him my best respects.
Tel him it is from Pickety,' and he willknow
Yours truly, --."
He learned his farm work fast and
soon made himself very useful; the next
winter he went to school again, and be-
came very good scholar. He knew
how to make money, too when the far
mer gave him a calf, or a lamb, or a
sheep, he took good care of il. and by
and by sold it, and bought other stock
with the proceeds, and in this way,
after few years, he had saved con-
siderable sum. With this he bought
some Government land" on which he
built shanty; and so he began to be a
"landed proprietor"
He was no longer Pickety," but had
a Christian name, and for his last name
took that of the kind people to whom
he felt like son. He had acquired a
fair education, too; and the neighbors
liked and respected the New York
orphan" as they called him. He had
quite lost his wolfsh nature by this
time, and now had a new one, which
had come to him from the Good Being
he had heard of in the lodging house.
through the ciyiiizing, Christian infiu-
ences that had been thrown around
him. And here we will leave him-s
thriving farmer on his own land.