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LEFT SAGEBRUSH 178 SAG HARBOR death he had acquired $70,000,000, after having devoted Targe sums to various philanthropic institutions. His biggest do- RUSSELL SAGE nation was toward the Russell Sage Foun- dation, whose purpose was to inquire into the sources of poverty and seek their elimination. He died in 1906. SAGEBRUSH (Artemisia Ludovici- ana), a low irregular shrub of the order Composite, growing in dry alkaline soils of the North American plains. The name is also given to other American species of Artemisia. SAGE COCK, the Centrocercus uropha- sianus, called also cock of the plains. It is the largest of the American grouse, and the male has a distinctive character in the bare spaces of orange-colored skin on each side of the neck, which he in- flates during the mating season. Range from the Black Hills to California and Oregon, and from British Columbia nearly to Arizona. It feeds on the wormwood of the plains, and in conse- quence its fiesh becomes so bitter as to be unfit for food. SAGES OF GREECE, SEVEN, Solon, Chilo, Pittacus, Bias, Periander, Cleobu- lus, and Thales are those most generally named as the seven wise men of Greece, and they were the authors of the cele- brated mottoes inscribed in more recent times in the Delphian Temple. Solon, through the imprudent course of his father, was compelled to engage in com- mercial adventures in other lands. His work on returning to Athens was that of a wise, unselfish patriot, who sought to compose the distractions, social and po- litical, which then rent the city. His motto was, "Know thyself." Chilo, one of the ephori, was a Spartan, who early directed his attention to public affairs, and many of whose maxims are quoted by the ancient writers; one of the most famous of these was, "Consider the end." Pittacus was a native of Mytilene, in Lesbos, became a soldier, rose to supreme power in the state, acted with great pa- triotism, and having done much for the people, voluntarily resigned his power. "Know thy opportunity," or, as it is some- times rendered, "Be watchful of oppor- tunities," is attributed to him. Bias, a native of Ionia, was a poetical philoso- pher, who studied the laws of his country and employed his knowledge in the service of his friends, defending them in the courts of justice. Said Bias: "Most men are bad." Periander was distinguished for his love of science and literature, which entitled him to be ranked among the seven wise men of Greece. Of Cleo- bulus, of the island of Rhodes, who was remarkable for strength and beauty, but little is known. His favorite maxim was, "Avoid excesses." Thales, a celebrated philosopher, born at Miletus, and founder of the Ionic sect, traveled like Solon, and it is said learned, while at Memphis, geometry, philosophy, and astronomy. He is said also to have invented several fun- damental propositions which were after- ward incorporated into the elements of Euclid. He taught the Greeks the division of the heavens into five zones, and the solstitial and equinoctial points. SAGHALIEN. See SAKHALIN. SAG HARBOR, a village in Suffolk co., Long Island, N. Y.; on Gardiner's Bay, and on the Long Island railroad; 100 miles E. by N. of New York City. There is an excellent harbor and regular steam- boat connections with New York. Here are a union school, the Academy of the Sacred Heart of Mercy (R. C), several banks, two weekly newspapers, and many handsome summer residences of New York business men. The village has flour and cotton mills, and manufactories of tools, watch cases, cigars, and leather. Sag Harbor was originally the site of Indian settlements, and many interesting relics have here been exhumed. The pop- ulation varies, being larger during the summer season than at other thnes.