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Show COURAGE OF RU8SELL 8AGE. Close Friend Sheds New Light on Character Char-acter of Financier. Twenty years ago few persons could got Into tho presonco of nussoll Sago without passing Inspection by John E. McCann, who for a long tlmo was Mr. Sage's confidential clork, says the Wall Streo Journal. Mr. McCann served eulch ntly In that position, but ho had a soul for poetry, and after ton years ho loft finance for literature. Now that Mr. Sago has dlod, Mr. McCann contributes to tho Journalist a romarkablo tribute to his character Ho speaks of hlnj as a genius. Ho says ho was a deoply religious man. who had often during a lull In tho storm of business "muttered a llttlo-prayer," llttlo-prayer," and who In the panic of May, 1881, "when tho unlverso seomed crashing about his ears, looked and acted llko ono In dcop communion with the Inl'iilto." Ho declares that .Mr. Sago w.-m n "truo man and n gentleman." gen-tleman." w: Ho It was impossible for him to crln:'. ho did not know how to offend de'lbcrntely. Tho proof of his moral c rago u.i bo found In thu fact that for nearly 31.000 days ho Insisted on living his own li'g In his own way, regardless of criticism, whereas a weaker man would havo been made a reckless spendthrift by tho rldlculo to which Mr. Sago was subjected becauso of tho carcfulntea of his personal oxpendlturen |