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Show A TOPER AT 108. Queer Habits of Oldest Man In the Marltlmo Provinces. Maxim clocan, the oldest man In tho Maritime provinces and tho wealthiest citizen cit-izen along the shores of the St Lawrence Law-rence gulf is dead at the ngo of 1W ears and 7 inoulhs He was thu gran lion of Iiouls (logan, who fought under Montcalm In the defense of Quebec l.ouls ran away tn slits eltv before the entrs of the llrillsh troops He and a few of Ihe wealthier citizens loaded a schooner with plate, Jew-elr. Jew-elr. and monev and set sail for Kranee They carried enough viiluahtes to enable en-able the pnrtv to Iho lu luxuri fur tho rest of their lives Hut for two dnjs the schooner faced head winds and on emerging emerg-ing Into thl gulf of Ht Lawrence ,i hulo struck the craft, swept her down me const of New Krunswlck and ran her on a ledae Just outside of e'Vlcugnc Hearing the Count d'JIautrovo on bis hack, l.ouls (Inmui mam ashore at Cologne. Co-logne. Point He acted as a bodv serv int to the not l man until the Count died In 17t Uernre his death the Count told him nlKiut the greit riches which had gone down wllh the schooner i nrtlcularly describing de-scribing three largo boxes filled with gold coins 1 his story was handed down in Die Go-gnn Go-gnn ramtlv from father to sop and on the day nf the great equinoctial gale, Seji-tember Seji-tember 23 1&3 Maxim Oogan who was then SI jears of age, went down along the shores ot tho gulf and found two of (he lost boxes He would never tell how much Ihev contained but us he never did any work after that dalo und drank costly French wines and brandv for more than sixty J ears, besides leaving a fortune at his death the neighbors have Inferred that there must hjvo been fully I.Miwj In tho treasure boxes In addition tn much money Maxim Oogan Oo-gan left eight children, all or whom are living hi luxury and surrounded by children chil-dren and grandchl! Iren He also Teft a reputation for being able to drink more liquor than any oilier man hi the provinces Tor more than lift) j ears he drank n qilurt of brandy everi day and finished up at night hy taking a pint nf extra drv champagne He sriont most of his lime out of doors, going from llace to plucs to nverseo tho work on Ids faims snd In his factories and ho never seemed the worse for liquor In the morning Until he was to jears of age he could lift a larger load then anv man he had ever met and when nls voungest son beat him by JW poundr In a public trial, lhe old man threatened to kill him and had to be Id away ts the noarest barroom where his anger f.TSdunlly abated under tho Influence of b-andy and soda 'When he celebrated his listh birthday last April he walked to the spring buck of his homo, and holding his full weight on his palms und tues drank from (he pool without touching his knees -Cologne IN II ) Cor-teepeinjei.ee Cor-teepeinjei.ee Chicago Inter-Octan. |