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Title: The Mintage

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Release Date: January 12, 2006 [EBook #17504]

Language: English

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'Tis here you'll find the mintage of my mind.--_Goethe._

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Elbert Hubbard

The Mintage
Being Ten Stories & One More
By Elbert Hubbard

Copyright 1910
Elbert Hubbard

CONTENTS

FIVE BABIES
TO THE WEST
SIMEON STYLITES THE SYRIAN
BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN
SAM
CLEOPATRA AND CAESAR
A SPECIAL OCCASION
UNCLE JOE AND AUNT MELINDA
BILLY AND THE BOOK
JOHN THE BAPTIST AND SALOME
THE MASTER

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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.

FIVE BABIES

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.

They were going to their Grandmother at Waukegan, Illinois.

The old lady was to meet them in Chicago.

The children spoke not a word of English, but there is a universal
language of the heart that speaks and is understood. So the trainmen
and the children were on very chummy terms.

Now, at London, Ontario, our train waited an hour for the Toronto and
Montreal connections.

Just before we reached London, I saw the Conductor ta