People Who Vanish

Among the periodic waves which strike erar great centers there is none so strauge as that of mysterions disappearauces. Sucb a wave seleots its victims froin all classes, ages. Men, vvomen and children are irnpartially its prey. Horuetimes the absentees return in a dazed condition unable to teil of their whereabouta. Others present n rnystery darker still, for they never return and are no more heard of. Foul play, a crazed fever for wandering, premeditated flight, are cailed to account as oauses, but somoof tliese mysteries have neither apparent canse nor end. It is a queer and weird feature of onr modern life that these inysterious disappearances can so easily take place and their snbjects be neither traced nor recovered in spite of our crowdod civilization. But