CHAPTER XXI.
ABOVE RUBIES.
The best way to settle the quarrel between capital and labor is by allopathic doses of Peter-Cooperism.
-- TALMAGE.
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
-- EMERSON.
"One ruddy drop of manly blood the surging sea outweighs." Virtue alone out-builds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
-- YOUNG.
He believed that he was born, not for himself, but for the whole world.
-- LUCAN.
Wherever man goes to dwell, his character goes with him.
-- AFRICAN PROVERB.
The spirit of a single mind Makes that of multitudes take one direction, As roll the waters to the breathing wind.
-- BYRON.
"No, say what you have to say in her presence, too," said King Cleomenes of Sparta, when his visitor Anistagoras asked him to send away his little daughter Gorgo, ten years old, knowing how much harder it is to persuade a man to do wrong when his child is at his side.

So Gorgo sat at her father's feet, and listened while the stranger offered more and more money if Cleomenes would aid him to become king in a neighboring country.

She did not understand the matter, but when she saw her father look troubled and hesitate, she took hold of his hand and said, "Papa, come away--come, or this strange man will make you do wrong." The king went away with the child, and saved himself and his country from dishonor.

Character is power, even in a child.

When grown to womanhood, Gorgo was married to the hero Leonidas.