One of the jottnger proprietors of one of the big department stoics up town that advertise "bargain sale" on a: special pteannounced day every week has been winning all expenses by betting bet-ting with his coteiie in Dclmonlco's that Rttssel Sage would be one of the llrst to arrive at hisstotc on the morning morn-ing of the marked disposals. He knew fiom cpeiience that the veteran financier fin-ancier lately In the spring and fall misses one of these "dealing out." Mr. Sage picks up bargains in all sorts of things which he can find use for, from a pair of trousers (W.50 original price $7) to small kitchen untensils marked down fiom 5 cents to a penny apiece. "If eveiy one would bo as Judicious in theh buying as I am," Mr. Sage once observed to the nariator of this tiuc stoiy, "there would be less poverty pov-erty and the mortification and sulTer-ing sulTer-ing lesulting thciefrom. Nearly every one lsllvlngbejond his means." New York Times.