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year old boy playing on the track. The situation was such that he could save his boy by losing his own life. He chose the latter alternative, and was instantly killed.
In 1874 when the news flashed over the wires that little Charley Ross had been kidnapped or stolen from his parents in Philadelphia, this entire continent was moved in sympathy for the little boy and his parents and friends. Such was the feeling that the name of Charley Ross became a household word in every family all over the land. His picture was sent to every part of the country. The press freely advertised him and gave the parents every possible assistance to find him, while thousands of letters of love and sympathy were written to them from every part of the United States and Europe. If half the children in Philadelphia had died in a single day it would not have created a greater sensation over the country than did the abduction of little Charlie Ross. No one can imagine what his parents have suffered. Yet through all these years of painful anxiety they have had some hope that their dear lost boy may one day find his way back to their home, not as the little boy now, but as a young man in all his strength of manhood.
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