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let us imagine a conversation with that real or mythical personage whom the newspaper reporters describe Mr. Russell Sage to be. Suppose somebody were to say to this man, "Here are you, a gentleman of eighty-six, with no family but your aged wife, possessed of many times more wealth than you and she could ever possibly use or enjoy; and yet you put yourself to extreme discomfort, and even risk your life to avoid the insignificant loss that you might suffer from being absent from your office for a single day. It is unreasonable." Certainly he must be a man of sense, even of exceptional force of reason. Then he could only answer, "I know it; but it is my passion. I was born so." The conduct of few men can be regulated by accurate calculation as is that of this Russell Sage. Let the newspapers declare that some of the brokers who understand him best make a point of carrying in the hand into his office a packet of greenbacks or bank bills of large denomina-