The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-31
TYPICAL INCIDENTS IN THE
 VARIED LIFE OF RUSSELL SAGE

s1ouHt vernon worth f<3suVDs IT sne
 would discontinue the first suit. MT Sage said he knew nothing about the woman or her suit
 fsniIant of the old school. Tn the presence of ladies Mir. Sage ranked IS a gallant of the old school There was certain homeliness in his courtesy which was attractives Tn bus mess life he impressed one with the
 belief that he learned at 12 what the roverage citizen of 80 does not seem to
 fully gfosp--that is, that there Is but little if any sentiment in a mans bus mess relations, and that if man has an aspiration for wealth he must insist upon value received every time, and
 also give it every time.
 SrickIer TOT BusineAs Rules. Many stories have been printed de- tafling how a brother of Mir. Sage had borrowed $50 from him and that MT Sage had -exacted mortgage on his brothers property at 6 per cent. inter- est as collateral for the loan. An- other story was to the effect that one of MT. saee's g-andmephews had died in the Will County poor farm of Ilii- nois All of'these stories were shown to Mir. Sage and he declared that he had never heard of the Sage who had died in the poornouse, and that the story nbout the $50 loan to a brother | was erroneous. He said 1t was to "a tnephcw He also said that lie had a number of nephews who had got in the habit of calling upon him and that his accepting the mortgage was to teach his nephews that they must be bound by business rules.
 Great Lover of Horses. MT. Sage was great lover of horses He was clever horse trader, and sue cessful in swapping. Morning and evening. before and after business. he was seen spinning through the park. But after the great panic in Wall street in 1884. when he lost that $s.000.0oo. he occasionally took a spoonful of whiskey at night before retiring and this was the limit of alcoholic stimu- lant indulged in by him. There were no holidays in this busy mans life. In the warm season he ran down sf- ter business to his summer cottage at Lawrence. to return the next morninG Rut winter and summer whAp in health --and he was almost never mi--he was at his desk every day.
 Clothes the sssiopshod. Kind.
 MT. Sage was usually attired In what are IudfcrousIy known in wall street as siopshod clothes They were Ill fif- Eting. and if diversity of rafment Is an 1 evidence of Anglomania Mir. Sage was an fnexcusabIe example. His coat. waistcoat and trousers were frednentiy of three different patterns. His shoes l weer thick and enduring. and his scarfs were homely. But at all times his linen was of immaculate whfto- ness The iewelry he wore consisted of . gold chain and watch.
 Mir. sage's birthdays always were .tx u-A S~. uy~r wrtas. he was S2 years old he received a let ter of congratulation from President Mckinley. On his efehty-third birth day he gave this explanation of his good health.
 Tt is very simple, indeed. I always have kept good hours anr taken as much sleep as my system needed. Wnr-, " and the loss of sleep from any cause will undermine the strongest con- Etitution never have used tobacco in any form, and the argument that others have been able to use it withou. Injury never has appealed to me. T have been temperate in the use of stimuiants. and in fact I have tried to he temperate in all things. Simple food is the best for health ana com fort. Men cannot help getting old. but they can prevent the feeblenAss and decay rom showing before 1t Is time by following the laws of nature" Spend Less Than You Make. As laid down bv himself once Aev- oral years ago this was Mir. Stages rule of life:
 Let every man lay down the rule for himself that invariably he will spend less than he makes. Then he Is safe. No man can be happy in this 1 life for any length of time if he does rot live up to this principle, no matter l haw dazxlingly he starts out or what his prosbects are If he deviates from l this rule. heNwi1i come sooner or later l to grief. aFfe must save to suceeer in something to be happy.
 sThat man surely faces acute misery who at 30 is not better of than he was at 20. It is a simple process, and Tor Iits nonobservance there can be no pos lkikle excuse. Let the boy CT man live SO | that he always has something to lay bv. and he is certain to have in the l end a competence to protect him