The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-21

inheritance in comparison seem almost as scarce as the proverbial red herrings tnat grow in wood
 The poverty of the family, the abso- lute necessity of helping them, and the narrowness of business opportunities In the homo town are the goads that drive to find . quicker way to bread and butter than the slower methods of Southern cities permit. The obvious reason why their choice falls oftener on New York tagton of example. the old obedience te the principle Of the birds of feather" One brother. whose only equipment was the education given him by . highly cui- tured father and mother, worked his way timore. was admitted to the bar, came to New York. and pushed his way up. until he was receiving the largest salary they paid; At present he holds high ofncial has never forgotten his obligations to the family group in the Southern land. When he was receiving saIary of two thousand dollars he sent half of 1t home, and his brother. successful in another line. with q salary of eighteen hundred dollars . year, lived on eisnt hundred dollars himself and contributed nearly . hundred dollars a month to the family expenses.
 Such as thu sse are the men who count in the warp and wool of a city's business and for industrial succe 1t can never have too many.
 The southern Society.
 An important factor in preserving the outlines of the Southern colony in New York has been the Southern Society, founded fifteen or sixteen years ago. It suffered temporary eclipse few years back, but emerged later in much better shape to meet the needs of its members. a year, bring the members together so- cially. At these newcomers find well come. and the older members an audience. But that is not all: Love of the South hundred members from the sixteen South ern States. The South. its past, its pres ent. or it's future. makes the theme for the speeches, and the applause comes shuts out no loyalty for the new. We, of the shifting North, whose dwelling places have the span of years lease, can understand only by proxy q South s. sheltered his family for generations. In the rush. and tear, and whirl of coumer- cial struggle the memory Of 1t might snp away even from him, were 1t not for the society that calls him as Southerner to meet the general company of his broth CTS who otherwise merged as individuals in the multitude, would lose all the pleas ures of Southern kinship and all the ad- vantages of organization
 Positions Held by southsrnsrs.
  railroad presidencies if ". H: New man, Presid, mt of the New York Central. and William q. RaoHl. President ot the Mexican National Railroad, one Of tho largest Tn Mexico, gre to be taken as fair examples. They At comfortably also into the shoos of bank presidents, as James stillman, President of the National City Bank, the largest m the country James T. Woodward, President of the Hanover National Bank, and more than half-a-doEen of their Southern brethren besides heads of many or the ..ost lfnpor- tant banks in the city, can readily testlfy.
 The pinnaclee of the various protes sions in the city nave enough Southern representatives to make more than one Northerner break the Tenth Con,mand ment. Four judges arc on the nst-WH- liam A. Keener' Judge Judge or 1o.sn5 sne sppremS 6slS and Augustus Van Wyck. ex-Justices or the Supreme Court. -
 As lawyers, the number of Southerne-s in New York s legion to A ,,s story os is ,n r0's bog and rapidly sinking. A Scotcnman came along and the freuzied EnSiishihan shrieked at him: ..,
 Help. help! How can l get out
 The Scotchman slowly removed his pipe and looked. ''Hoot, mon, ne answered, ciamly, "I dinna think ye can get out. Then he went on his way. No better antipode than the sublime indinerence oI the Scotchman could possibly be found for the attitude of the average southern aT He has the keenest sympathy with his kind and If he could have done noth- ing else he would probably have jumped genially into the bog to keep the Ehg- iishman company. This sympathy gives one reason why the Southern lawyer IS so often a particular success In ms pro, fession. He thinks of his client nrst ana his retainer afterwards. He sees out or his clients eyeglasses, identides him with himself prepares the case, ana pleads it as if he were working for an- other ego Whatever the case, his per sonal interest is enlisted. and George Cor don Battle and James W. Osborne, just now working with equal fervor on oppo- site sides of the well-known Molneux case make an interesting study Of two North Carolinians pitted against each other.
 The adjustable point of view which puts itself in the other mans place at Will is the quality pre-eminently required py the medical profession. A patient needs to be understood as well as anaIyzea' to be dosed spiritually as well as pnysl- caliv bv some one who diagnoses tenn nerament and malady alike. man may have the pharmacopoeia at ms tonsue end aut having not sympathy ne misses half his vocation. The Soutnerner With his quick appreciation Of dinerent per sonaI Iities. his love of people, hls aosorp- ing interest in every human iAct' Is iusai mstsriai for a doctor. It Is no wonder that Nau York's cross streets are pune tuated with signs of successful southern Sactors Several of these doctors stand evnong the first ten in the city. with an interna tional reputation to their credit. Dr William M. Polk. grandson Of q Pres ident. son of the lighting Bishop, and Southern to the core; pr. Walter B.