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Show I i YOUTH LIVES IN THE PAST Wlaconaln Boy Reared by a Talented Recluae Is a Moat Accoti-pliahed Accoti-pliahed Latlnlat. Ilnvton, Wis GiiKtavft ltaiiuian of this place Is ho complete a l.atlnUt that, could he be transported to an-' an-' It lit Itiune. Its latiRiiae would bo entirely en-tirely familiar to hlni. Aside from bis unbue knowledge of Ijitln he Is altogether alto-gether untaunht lie has never attended attend-ed Mhool a day, can speak Knlii-h not at all and (ierman only In the colloquial col-loquial form common here. He la IS Scats old. When he was three cars old he win adopted by Henry lUiiman, a tub J D S s s ..V I i M , A . ; '-'hi I li A .."vvr: ;'! Custave Bjumjn. nted ret Inse who has lived here In n 1 ov4 I that was once a Mablc, for rnany years hl't-usted be Haiti, with over thing periaining to modern life. I'.auman ilctermlneil to rear his foster Hon In the nl mosphci'o of n by rone flKC The classic toin-'ue of Home was the only language tauglit to th boy by bis ceentric parent, who wan well able to follow bis part, be having been a noted Latin nebular In Furopo When the lad was ten yt ars old he possessed a knowledge of Latin that the hi bool taught outh of twhn hi HKO could not lltie ever to ipial Now, he Hpeal s the ancient tongue ho wi ll and reads ami writes It with nuth fluency that he may well be nald to have revived a dead language. The ehler llauman's desire to bring up the boy In an atmosphere of aloofness aloof-ness from nil that Is modern has Imhti well carried out. The youth has never ridden on a train, used a tclephonn or In any way mlnrlod In the life of the village, which, narrow as It Is, repro-scnts repro-scnts to blm.the great outsido world, full of evils and temptations. |