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Show People Who Vanish. Among tho periodic waves which strike our groat centers there is none so strange as1 tbat of mysterious disappearances. disappear-ances. Such a wave selects its victims from all clashes, ages. Men, women and children aro impartially its prey. Sometimes Some-times the absentees return in a dazed condition unablo to tell of their whereabouts. where-abouts. Others present a mystery darker dark-er still, for they never return and are no more heard of. Foul play, a crazed fever for wandering, promeditated flight, aro called to account as causes, but some of these mysteries have neither apparent cause nor end. It is a queer and weird feature of our modern life that theso mysterious disappearances can so easily take placo and their subjects be neither traced nor recovered in spito of our crowded civilization. But perhaps per-haps it is because of it. Baltimore American. |