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ness; you can take positions, and
maintain them unflinchingly. Some

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maintain them unfinchingly. Some
times people think you headstrong,
and all who know you well expect
that when you make an effort to ac-
complish anything that it will be done
promptly and thoroughly. You
should be known for dignity, ability
to manage, to lead, to direct.
You have strong love of justice,
which gives to your moral tone eleva-
ton and strength, and it tends to
make you censorious. You are more
honest than devout; have more hope
than faith, and in the daily affairs Of
life you brace yourself up with conf
dence in your own power and in the
prospects which are before you, trust
ing to the energy and to the enter
prise with which Providence has en-
dowed you rather than to the special
interposition of Providence to work
out your purposes. You incline to use
oars, and, if Providence send favor
able wind, you adapt yourself to it /;
but if not, you work your way with
the oars. You believe in sails, but
you believe more emphatically in oars,
because oars are within your own con-
troll, while sails depend upon some
thing over the supply of which you
have no control. You would like a
business which required sharp and
earnest effort rather than one which
required more skill and talent. You
would prefer to be a business man
rather than to be in a profession where
one had to wait for call, a patient, or
client. 90
You recognize the dangers that lie
| in your way and seek to make every
thing safe, and though you will drive
rapidly, you keep sharp lookout for
the course you steer. You are ambi-
tious to triumph over opposition, have
moral independence to carry your
views as part of yourself, and it is
not common for you to lean upon 9TH
ers for advice or assistance" .AF
Mr.. Williams is endowed with
strong will-power, great tenacity of
purpose, is quick in perception, fertile
in resources, is active and energetic,
with tough, wiry, rather than a ro-
bust frame, enjoying uniformly ex-
eellent health, not having been sick a
day in fifty years, except for two
weeks with yellow fever in 1852. His
life has been one of devoted industry
and earnestly practical results. In
ured from youth up to close applica-
tion to some useful occupation, Mr..
Williams is as actively engaged as at
any former period of his life. In his
business transactions he does not
waste time or words, but acts, as it
were, by intuition, rarely stopping to
reason, but reaching his conclusions
by his first impulse. ''Instinct," he
says, "is honest, while reason is sub
ject; to Thousand influences and is
often unreliable" Mr.. Williams has
allowed himself few seasons of repose
or recreation, but has found time to
visit Cuba, Canada, various portions
of the United States, and has made
the tour of Europe twice. ..
An example of the wonderful. ver-
satility- of Mr.. Williams is found in
his literary works. Amid the turmoil
of commercial career, and during
the busy years through which he has
passed to the honorable position he
how holds, he has found leisure to
present to the world in literary form
some of the results of his vast eXper-
ience. From time to time he has
written, modestly, without effort or
pretension, yet with an ability which
would do credit to some of the prac-
tised pens of literature, series of let
ters upon topics of high interest. His
"Letters to Young Men, Success and
Failure, Making and Saving" may
be perused with profit by all who
wish to emulate the worthy example
uf worthy man.
There is no citizen in the South,
who, by his teaching, and example,
and by the introduction of wise and
beneficent measures, and by the foun-
dations of financial institution for
the encouragement of the young, by
building and founding commercial
houses, has been of more benefit to the
city and State of his adoption than
George w. Williams.-1he Ffna'a-
cier.
John Ninaman'S Pen.
n,,o ,,o, with which John makes his