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Show People Who Vanish. Among the periodic waves which strike our great centers there is none so strange as that of mysterious disappearances. disappear-ances. Such a wave selects its victims from all classes, ages. Men, women and children are impartially its prey. Sometimes Some-times the absentees return in ajjd condition nnablo to tell of their hereabouts. here-abouts. Others present a mystery darker dark-er still, for they never return aid are no more heard of. Foul play, a crazed fever for wandering, premeditated flight, are called to account as causes, but some of these mysteries have neither apparent cause nor end. It is queer and weird feature of our mode'n life that these mysterious disappearar ces can i so easily take placo and their subjects be neither traced nor recovered i:i spite j of our crowded civilization. Bnt perhaps per-haps it is because of it. Baltimore American. |