Many such have been woven since and have added greater strength than any others, twining the cord of sex and home-building and race-founding.

But this was a slight and weak one, being only the thread of the life of one of Reuben Vanderpoel's daughters--the pretty little simple one whose name was Rosalie.
They were--the Vanderpoels--of the Americans whose fortunes were a portion of the history of their country.

The building of these fortunes had been a part of, or had created epochs and crises.

Their millions could scarcely be regarded as private property.

Newspapers bandied them about, so to speak, employing them as factors in argument, using them as figures of speech, incorporating them into methods of calculation.
Literature touched upon them, moral systems considered them, stories for the young treated them gravely as illustrative.
The first Reuben Vanderpoel, who in early days of danger had traded with savages for the pelts of wild animals, was the lauded hero of stories of thrift and enterprise.