The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-12
PAINTER RAwSON'S BOYS.
.,crIPoo 1BRRoBs," THBT DIslP-
s,IRED IN TBB DEAD or TfsHE

n. uinstais 11h Thep ce~s hnes.
r,.,vo most preeocious youths In the town
=, uulsd.le. N J.. have been missing since
ia, morning. tie question whether
~. h,ys zone of to write poetry. to escape
u.i..irq or to organize = branch band OF
,,...roo Terrors and live in cave They
~, !, the dead OF night armed with shovel
and q bed spread
~, Rsvson Their mother was the painters
I..o,d wife n daughter Of Laura Keene, the
..,r.., who was on the stage In Ford's The
-. Washington. when Abraham Lincoln was
10, They are heirs to q considerable estats
and are 10 years old
rbs,e boys have been at once the terror and
a.. ;ov q, Hillsdale. While they haven't been
.d,.y,i,sd as town attractions to people look
-, ,or homes in tho country roundabout. few
r.op. ever visited the town but the youths
~. polpted out to them as the kids as can
~ I. chickens eye at forty rods with q blow
ain. or write q poem"
Th.y we're ready for any sport from dsmming
IN. ,oulre's creek and flooding his cellar to
.,,ctIna nrecracker into q chickens mouth
and blowing Il up. or holding a dogs head in
md middle until Il was drowned. They were
4, rssdy to write poem about what they had
Acme or to draw diagrams Of human skeletons
and give lessons in anatomy to the other boys
vbo with them. made up the band Of Kicka-
200 Terors. Their names were Albert and
Ilpbsus, and you couldn't tell them apart at .
distance OF rod
Tn. painter Rawson. . 1ne-lookinR man
With flowing white beard. told . Sun reporter
last night all about the boys.
Now I'll tell YOU" he said in answer to q
question. You see. my boys are boys-real
boys always taught my boys at home until
this year. when they went to the new school
here. They were considerably advanced,
several Years ahead OF the school; in
fnet, far beyond the studies that are
pursued here. aud I suppose that accounts for
truancy. They were led away By other boys,
some Of whom don't TO to school at ALL Why.
II wasn't long ago that found them digging
. cave In the bank OF Pascack Creek.
and preparing to carry on tho life OF
buccaneers. was walking around one morn
ing. and way over by the creek 1 saw smoke
coming up from the bushes The creek has .
thirty foot bank. and half way up found they
had excavatsd place ten feet deep and ten
feet square. They had fioored 1t and rooted
II with boards. They had filled 1t with
cooking utensils which they had borrowed
from the house here. and they were going to
have q good timo there roasting chick
ems which they were going to borrow from
hen roosts. With Charley Titus. Bobby Hit.
Res Demorest. and Sammy Mundy they
had organized band and christened them
selves the Kickapoo Terrors-boys all over.
you see. Well. kind Of broke up that plan By
slumping in the sides OF the cave and caving
In the roof But that didn't break mp their
playing hooky. They won't of every
little while. 1 supposed they were at
school all the time last week. but Mr.. McKen-
Lie. the principal. told me yesterday they had
not been there at all. Monday morning they
went to westwood to my son-in-law. Mr.. JAG
yards, and they stayed there until 10 o'clock
In tho evening. They got home about
half past 10. and went to bed q little
after that. Maybe half an hour afterward my
wife heard q noise as II one OF them had got
up and gone down stairs to get somethine to
Iound. and the spread that had been on their
bed was missing. That's all there Is OF the
Mr.. Rawson's son,in-lsw is 90 years of age:
daughter three years ago. and since that time
"NoN." SAID Mr.. Rawson. resuming his
story. nobody has seen tho boys since then.
:fs m as aan'i ,nns shss T ssss
we're there. and l went over and asked
p% He s ss ;as{ S had sSs sS% t Ssi
j.ccard still said they were away. though he
omitted that they had been back since my
Jscesrd's part. Hos been interfering with
my family since he stole my daughter. three
ago I'm much sSsh about the
homie SSs cold ana s 1S sSss
what might have led the boys into wlck ed mess.
sec, how they got the idea OF banding to.
from Pack ami Judge. I've bought those papers
Tor them for ten years past Livery little while.
about the Indisns"iGst about as SENSATIONAL
~ the dime novels, you know. and moro
snticinG because so much more poetical and
them go TO school here, Why. It WAS baseball
ball after school, Iu Sss. they w.se @.s%isSeas
Thsy were hoys. With this Kic ka poo band they
. going to live As 1 said. on borrowed
catch fsh in the creek. There's about one
Like angels visits. you know, but they were
could tR.s S borrow Sn "sS e? a%s
chicken OF at three rods With a blowsun.
lhey would borrow some OF my brass picture
..lalgg and they'd make bully blowRuns.
The painter spoke proudly. He told then OF
sone OF the other accomplishments the boys
Rememher now" he said. these boys
nave read The Sun 10 me every day since they |
were Years old, and so they are almost as |
Well posted on he politics OF the country and |
en affairs generally as any well-informed adult. |
they can tell all about the Constitution OF the |
hited states, all about the form OF govern |
meit, and the form OF government OF States |
lnd counties and towns. They are posted In |
astronomy as far as any book can post my |
IofJ, and they have got ideas OF their |
oNn, For Instance, they deny the law OF |
Gravity. They deny the nebula as thing un- /
lsasonable and i'm pro liable. They write poetry. |
NOW had calf which they ehoksd to death |
While was at the Worlds FAir-innoeent. you |
lho" -didn't mean to do it-they were
lust training him. Had a rope around |
hs neck and were teaching him circus tricks, |
hs Was stubborn. and pulled on the rope and /
smoked to death. Well as L started to sAy, |
AALsrt wrote a piece OF poetry about that. |
] They'd write poetry about all those things"
ht lawson got a serapbook nlled with |
ppottIy clipped from various papers and signed |
Now, here's the one about the calf" he
I'D II was headed Bully. which was the |
aAms OF the calf. and II ran as follows;
Oar Fanny Is JERSEY COW
the sind the railroad Kills
And pays hundred forty for.
And settles all the biils
Nov Bully vas her latest calf
When ls nine old
Tn sure that ~ you'd make IOu laugh.
II hAi MS IricGs we're tod
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