Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Patience Finds a Way. [ARTICLE]

Patience Finds a Way.

A writer in the New York Ledger mentions a worthy old men, “Uncle* Alden Palmer, who uttered a good, many sensible sayings of his own and was fond of quoting the maxims of others. One old sentence that he often repeated was: “Patience and perseverance will accomplish all tilings.” Qaa< day in at the old man’s mill in Norway*. Me., he had repeated the old axiom in. good f«'th, when a self-important mixn. who was waiting for grist disputed him. “No, sir. I can tell you many things, which patience and perseverance cannot accomplish. ” “Perhaps you can,*' replied Uncle Palmer quietly; “but I have never yet come across the thing. Will you name one?” “Will patienoe. and perseverance enable yon tef carrywater in a sieve?” “Certainly theywill.” “I would like to have you tell, me how it is to be accomplished.*' “Simply by waiting patiently for water to freeze.” A country where they ba\ e to tore Tor ! water is a healthy one—it is a well country— I —Carl I‘rvUel'i Weekly.