The Mintage: Being Ten Stories & One More

’Tis here you’ll find the mintage of my mind.—Goethe.

Elbert Hubbard
The Mintage by Elbert Hubbard


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All success consists in this: you are doing something for somebody—are benefiting humanity; and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Riding on the Grand Trunk Railway a few weeks ago, going from Suspension Bridge to Chicago, I saw a sight so trivial that it seems unworthy of mention. Yet for three weeks I have remembered it, and so now I’ll relate it, in order to get rid of it.
And possibly these little incidents of life are the items that make or mar existence.
But here is what I saw on that railroad train: five children, the oldest a girl of ten, and the youngest a baby boy of three. They were traveling alone and had come from Germany, duly tagged, ticketed and certified.