The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-08-06

the mississippi valley, IN payment
for fuel, wharfboat dues, stores,
wages, port charges, etc. Thous-
ands upon thousands If dollars
were taken out of the city every
week by packets bound for points
in Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio
rivers and their tributaries. the
Wabash, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Red.
During the panic of 1857 the
bank withstood a two days run
upon it and came out with flying
colors, while others fell all about
it. This established its credit so
firmly that one of its notes was as
good as a national bank note is to-
day.
The bank was known both as
the Citizens Bank of Louisiana
and La Banque des Citoyens de la
Louisiana. The denomination of
the notes in English and French
were as follows: Five, cinq; ten,
dix; twenty, vingt; fifty, Gin
quante; one hundred, cent; one
thousand, mile. 1t will be readi-
ly seen that the French names of
any denomination but ten, were
unpronouncable, and no one at
tempted it; but the ten, dix, "
seemed to attract the eye and to
mete a public demand. AS a result
the ten dollar notes of the Citi
zens' bank was seldom, if ever, re-
ferred to in any other way than as
dixie, and, besides, it was the
most natural way in the world to
identify this particular note The
denomination too, was a convent
ent size for the steamboat men to
meet their obligations with, not too
large nor too small; and of the
many thousands of dollars taken
out of the city every week by the
river boats, a larger proportion
was in dixies. . In consequence,
these notes had a much larger cir
culation than any other notes is
sued by the bank, and ere long
the expression, a dixie note, :" or
note issued from the Dixie
Bank" was very common among
the large number of people every
where who was familiar with the
currency. This was the most
natural thing in the world, for the
word dix is prominent on the
front of the note, and so much so
on the back that the observer, IN a
hasty glance, would see nothing
else.
a common, almost universal,
expression used by the steamboat
men. when leaving from the up
river country for New Orleans,
to answer to inquiries as to their
destination, was: We're going
south after dixes," or going to
Dixie Land.
Gradually, the southern country
began to be known along the river
ports as Dixie Land" because so
much money came from it. From
this beginning the word has grown
to general usage, and today it is
synonymous with the south every
where.
The healthy old man wears his gray
hairs like a silver crown. What if
he be threescore and ten if therel is
still fire in his eye, frmness in his
step, command in his voice and wis
dom in his counsel? He commends
love and reverence. Yet how few
wear the mantle of age with dignity.
Dim eyed, querulous of speech, halt
ing in step, childish in mind, they
flag superfluous on the stage" drag
ging out the fag end of life in sim
pie existence. The secret of healthy
old age is healthy middle age. The
man who takes care of his stomach
who keeps his body properly nour-
ished, will find that the body does
not fail him in old age. The great
value of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discover lies in the preservation of
the working power of the stomach
and other organs of digestion and
nutrition. From this center is dis
tributed the nourishmento of the whole