The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24

blended sweet soprano with their bass.
 And the song itself! Nothing in the we rds beyond silly doggerel-but a silly | doggerel which laughinEly referred to all | tho Southerner held dear. The music. | catchy, with a spark of the vital fire in
 the lit and turn of the dashing phrases,
 struck a responding chord in every list
 ener hailing from the Land of Cotton.
 And the origin of the song? There are | several explanations. Everybody knows
 the name of the jolly comedian, Dan
 Emmet. who immortalized the ballad, but few know where he got the phrase One
 theory, long since exploded, was that ! the expression "Dixie's Land came from | the phrase. Mason and Dixon's Line. The other was that certain farmer down in New Jersey, just before the war, ran his
 fields with negro labor. and assumed the manners and the bearing of a Southern planter. His name was Dixie, and topl-
 cal songs of the period referred to his es-
 tate as a miniature Southland. Audiences
 which did not Know the local reference
 South, and Emmet. in his famous ballad, so used the expression
 However there Is another story, and
 one which brings the subject homo to New Orleans. For twenty years prior to the Civil War the Citizens Bank of Louisiana was the great financial insti- luton of the South, and ranked among the one or two largest in the land. It's name was as familiar upon the Paris Bourse and the London exchanges as is now the name of the City National Bank of New York. Tn the days of shin plasters" and depreciated State bank currency, the issues of the Citizens Bank passed at par all over the land
 The best known Issue was a ten-dollar note. done in red upon one side and black and red upon the other. The fea- ture of this denomination was that the most conspicuous part of the engraving Was the French word Dix" Upon the r.vers steamers, on the ships bound for New York, on the stage coaches which west from Galveston, these bills were termed "Dixies." Not one man of any twenty that handled them knew that dix meant ten.
 Upon the upper Mississippi and the Ohio people began to speak of the South az Dixie's Land. and as the years passed they forgot why the name was applied Tho gamblers who won luscious rolls of the "Dixies" at poker played with the roof removed, the victims who gave up their rightful walletfuls of red and black currency. the Irish deckhands and the negro roustabouts-all spoke of Dix ies Land.
 The Civil War came on. Months passed, | and Buffers army occupied the city. Butler ordered the Citizens Bank to pay back all deposits to private individuals in Confederate bills, and ordered that | all sums due to officers or representatives l of the Confederacy should be paid to the | United States government in United | States coin. More than s225.OO0 was thus | confiscated. and the bank has now pend- | ing in Congress a war claim for this ] amount Later Gen. Butler made the | Citizens Bank of the United States depos- | itory and distributing center for the ter rtory under his charge.
 After the war came new banking laws, new customs, new ways and habits of | thought. The "Dixies" had gone out | during the changes inaugurated imme- | diately before the Civil War, and by the |