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Show CHARLEY ROSS IN WAX. Said Charley Ross's father to a Times reporter: When I was up in Canada for the first time, six or uoven .months ago, working out a clue, ono ol my friends thore told mo that Cole's circus had been along with n wax figure of Charley Ross. Almost tho first thing we saw in the town was a fence posted over with circus bills. On one of tho bills was a huge cut of a boy, labelled Charley Rush, and tho small bills advertised wax figures of Charley Ross and the whole Rots family. When wo got lo the circuB tho first thing wo Haw in the monagorio tent was a big cage divided into two "parts. In the first part, nearest tho entrance, was a woe begone looking family, label led The Intemperate Family." The other part was labolled "Tho Rosa Family." A beautiful little boy, in wax, a trod on the top of a Binall round table. Ho was about the size of Charley, hut didn't look anything at all liko him, Mrs. R88, who sat in tho background, back-ground, wih gorgeously drcasod in the very latest fashion; hut p,ho wore a bright green drc.s, and tho real Mrs. Ross hasn't worn anything hut black for a long time. They had mc standing thero just behind Charley, finely drCHMcd, but nothing liko mo at all. Besides these they hud a number of children Heated on stools, and the only figure that looked anything like any of us was a little girl that roally looked very much liko my little girl. While wo were talking I happened to hoar the proprietor's name mentioned behind me, so 1 turned around and asked him whether his figure wnsan exact representation of Charley Ross. "Oil, yes," ho answered, ''I had that made under my own supervision, and I know tiiat it's porfect." " -Vhero did you got tho picture of tho boy?" I iHkud him. " Oh, I got it from his father niy-Helf," niy-Helf," ho replied, without any hesitation. hesi-tation. " I'm very intimalo with tho Kosm family go to thoir house every time I visit Philadelphia. ThoRo arc exact likenesses of thowholo family," And he gave me an excellent reason for having been at my house, whuh' was very plausible, but then I knew j he had never been here. I know the family so well," lie1 continued, " that I have oflered $2,-000 $2,-000 reward for the return of the boy on my own account; and I'll pay it, too, every cent of it." I asked him whether be thought I looked anything like the figure of Mr. Ross. "Oh, no," he said: "you don't look anything like him at all. by, have you ever been mUtakcu for him?" " Yes," I told him; " I have beon taken for him very often. I am Charley Ross's father." Well, sir, Mr. Ross continued, laughing quietly, he was the t worst taken down man I ever saw in my lifo. Pie stood there for two or three minutes and couldn't say a word. After awhile he put his hands on his hips and said: " Good Lord, Mr. Ross, you don't say bo !" Then, after a while, he took hold of both of my bands, and held on to them warmly. " You don't tell mo you're the father of that boy ? Well, well, well. I'm glad to soc you, and fcmean it, every word of it, about that $2,000 reward, and nothing would please me better than to have a chance to pay it. But 1 really did meet you once, Mr. Ross, I was introduced in-troduced to you in the mayor's office, in Philadelphia." " And I rather ' think he was," Mr. Ross added, pa- iBTthetically. Well, for some time he was so confused con-fused he didn't know what to say. But, to relieve him, I asked him to tell me candidly where he got that wax figure of Charley. "Why, I sent my son down to your store in Philadelphia," he replid, "and begot itofyou." I told him I guessed not. Then I asked him where ha got the rest of the family. "Well," said ho, "as you're Mr. Ross, I wont mind telling you; but I wouldn't tell anybody else. You see we used to have an intemperate family and a temperate family. So we let the intemperate family stand, and just changed the label of the other from 'The Temperate Family' to the 'ROS3 Family,' and put the figure of Charley in front. That's the way we fixed it." I was a little taken back myself at this, but the man evidently sympathized sympa-thized deeply with me, and at the (aarne time he had an eye open to business, for as I was leaving him he said : "Now, Mr. Ross, when that boy's found I want you to let me have him to exhibit. He'll draw better than anything else I can get. and I'll give you $1,000 a week foi him for thirty weeks." I told him, said Mr. Ross, that 1 would rather see the boy before I made any bargains, and that ever then I guessed he wouldn't ever maki an attraction in a circus. Philadel pbia Times, |