Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1907 — Tribune Writes Up Elizur Sage. [ARTICLE]

Tribune Writes Up Elizur Sage.

The Sunday Chicago Tribune had an article filling nearly a whole page, devoted to Elizur Sage, of our city, the material for which wa« obtained several weeks ago by Mr. West, a member of the Tribune editorial staff who came here for the purpose. The article is very liberally illustrated, with a picture of Mr. Sage and family, and, as alleged, thejresidences occupied before and after the receipt of Uncle Russell’s legacy, and also a large allegorical picture representing Mr. Sage in the character ot'si poor and hard working farmer, busy with a hoe. planting or perhaps hoeing, potatoes i n on? corner of a field, while his wife and son are just as busy in the opposite corner harvesting the miraculously quick giown crop. Over their heads is just ar->

riving a vast flock of winged money bags. The reading matter of the article is very interesting and no doubt genuine and accurate, aud so also is the picture of the family, but the before and after fortaue residences, arc evidently snap shots by the artist at the first houses he came to which seemed by their appearance to fit in we 1 with the rest of the article. Certainly neither of them would be recognized by Mib_Sage as any he had ever lived in.