The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-06
Ali Hafed,. aue,t.
From Success

From Success.
Why thus longing, thus forever siphipe
For the far-off. unattained and dim
While the beautiful, all around thee
lying,
Offers up its low. perpetual hymn?
Harriet Winslow.
In little cottage overlooking the rive,
Indus and miles of beautiful countrv
stretching away to the sea, there lived a
Persian named Ali Hated. Blessed with
a beautiful wife and ronping children; an
extensive farm, with It's fields of grain
gardens of flowers, orchards of fruit and
hundreds of acres of forest; plenty OF
money and everything else that heart
could wish, he was contented and happv
One evening a priest of Buddha visited
him. and, sitting before the fire, explained
how the world was made, and how the
first beams of sunlight condensed on the
earth's surface into diamonds; adding that
a drop of sunlight the size of his thumb
was worth more than large mines of con-
per, silver or gold; that with one of them
he could buy farms like his; that with a
handful he could buy province; and thas
with mine of diamonds he could pur-
chase a kingdom.
Ali Hated listened and no longer thought
himself rich; for he had been touched
with discomfort, before which all wealth
seems to vanish. Early next morning he
woke the priest who had caused his I'M
happiness, and anxiously asked where he
could find a mine of diamonds.
what do you want of diamonds?" ask
ed the astonished priest.
II want to be rich and place my chill
dren on thrones"
'All you have to do Is to go and search
until you find Them" said the priest
But where shall go?" asked the pooh
farmer.
Go anywhere-north, south, east or
west"
How shall I know when have found
the placer
''When you find river running over
white sands between high mountain
ranges, in those white sands you will find
diamonds" answered the priest.
The disconnected man sold the farm for
what he could get, left his family with a
neighbor, took the money he had at in
terest, and went to search for the coveted
treasure. over the mountains of Arabia,
through Palestine and Egypt, he wander
ed for years, but found no diamonds.
When his money was all gone and STAR
walton stared him in the face, ashamed OF
his folly and of his rags, poor Ali Hated
threw himself into the ocean and was
drowned.
The man who bought his farm was a
contented man. who made the most of his
surroundings and did not believe in going
away from home to hunt for diamonds or
success. While his camel was drinking, one
day, he noticed flash of light from the
white sands of the brook. He picked Up
pebble, and, pleased with its brilliant
hues, took it into the house, put 1t on the
shelf near the fireplace, and forgot all
about it. The old priest of Buddha, who
had filled Ali Hated with the fatal discon-
tent, called one day upon the new owner
of the farm. He had no sooner entered
the cottage than his eye caught that fash
of light from the stone.
HERE'S a diamond! here's a diamond
the old priest shouted, In great excitement.
HAS Ali Hated returned?'
NO. said the farmer, NOR Is that da-
mond. That is but stone"
They went into the garden and stirred
up the white sand with their fingers, and
behold other diamonds more beautiful
than the first CLEANED forth.
Thus the famous diamond beds of Col
conda were discovered. Had Ali Hafed
been content to remain at home, and dig
In his own garden, instead of going abroad
to search for wealth, only to find poverty.
hardship, starvation and DEATH he would
have been one of the wealthiest men in the
wolrd, for the entire farm abounded in the
richest of gems.
1t is curious how near-sighted we are as
to OPPORTUNITIES The majority of us have
yet to learn that "our grand business is,
not to see what lies dimly at a distance,
but to do what lies clearly at hand"
Through lack of this belief, men and wo-
men without number have sold farms or
estates, and given up good positions and
homes to go Somewhere else" because
they were sure, if they could but change
their present condition, that they could
succeed. The richest gold and silver mine
in Nevada was sold for $42 by the owner,
to get money to pay his passage to other
mines, where he thought he could get rich
Prof. Agassiz told the Harvard students
of farmer who owned farm of hundreds
of acres of Improbable woods and rocks,
and concluded to sell out and get into a
more profitable enterprise. He decided to
go into the coal-oil business; he studied
coal measures and coal-oil deposits, and
experimental for long time. He sold
his farm for 5000, and engaged in his new
business 200 miles away. Only a short
time later, the man who bought his farm
discovered upon 1t a great flood
of coal-oil, which the farmer had
previously ignorantly tried to drain off
Thus the world has seen one man after
another fail hopelessly while in quest of
success. On the other hand, by grasp
ing opportunities where they were, thou
sands have made fortunes out of trihes
which others, in the wild race for riches,
have overlooked. There is power and for
tune lying latent everywhere about us,
waiting for the eye that can see and for
the mind that can utilize. We tread heed
lessly upon the lids of great secrets of
nature, easily discoverable to the obser-
want eye, and which would help all man
kind along the upward path of civilization.
Information Wanted.-"And now"
said the lecturer at the close of q discourse