A good lesson to young people inclined to exaggerate the hinderances
to their success in life, and to think that their chances are too poor
to justify honest exertion, is furnished by a young colored man of
Columbus, Ohio, F. P. Williams by name, now serving in that city as
census enumerator. Several years ago he was run over by a train of
cars, his arms being so mutilated that both had to be taken off near
the shoulder. Lacking hands he learned to write legibly by holding his
pencil between his teeth. He writes quite rapidly, and in his work as
enumerator takes an average of 200 names a day.
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