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Show ACTS LIKE A MAD, MAN. ' H Human Being, Half Animal, Refuses jH to Wear Any Clothta. vFfal Menomlneo, MlctiT'p'fTiclnls at tho H Menominee county poo. house one up against a strange proposition. Willi ';H ono mnn who lt y half mnn mid half an I mnl on their hands another chnractcr of tho'samo kind has been thrust upon them. Tho first chnractcr wan brought lo the poor houso years ago, His tuimo Is James Kngcn and ho wns born In Marinette county. Tho man hns no ' H mind ut' all. Ho refuuoa to wear clothes and bis body Is almost covered with long hair. Hu eats from tho lloor 'H of his dwelling llko nn animal, can Jt not say a word and tho only round ,H lie maktis Is n whimper like an mil- ;H mat. The authorities long ago gave up the Idea of trying to clothe him ns ho would tear the clothes off of li'in- 'aVAl self a moment aftor they had been 9Bl put on, Ho (Ioch not know his own HBl mother and recognizes only the keen- or who "brings him Ills food. HBl The second character whom the' an- thorltlrs now have on their lmntl' Is ', jHBl Kdwart) Blmcnfi'ii. who wn ill nnu iBVJ tlmo a brlght-inlndeil li'.l'c hry In Dm ''1 public schools oi tbo city, but who flU now refuses to say a wnrd, tcroae'' to flj keep clothes on himself nnd, lll.c tin- 'fH geu, eats and nets In alt ways like an BH animal. At an early age his brain be- )BH gau to kofton and ut 1C years of ago HH he had no Intelligence nt nil. HI BV condition ban grown worse and sep- flBl urate quartern wil hnvo o be g'ven flU |