The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus. The exact division which the triumvirs made of the Roman world Is not known to historians, but generally the terms were that Caesar should take all there was and Pompey and Crassus should fight for what was left. Pompey soon became dissatisfied with this arrange ment and raised a. civil war. Caesar met him at Pharsalia with the famous Tenth Legion, and when the war correspond ents arrived all that was left of Pompeys army was one chariot wheel and bent helmet That was the way the Tenth Legion cleaned up a job. Wherever it once put down revolt it wasn't feasible to get up another insurrection without first having a resurrection.
 While Caesar was in Gaul decimating the population so they couldn't pad the census returns his enemies got the upper hand in the senate and relieved him of his command Instead of obeying Caesar turned his legions and marched on Rome. At the Rublcon he paused, and, shaking the bones in the box, threw three sizes. .The die is cast he declared, and plunged into the stream. When the sen ate heard he had crossed the Rub con it adjourned without waiting for the vice president to put the motion.
  world, and had carried his conquering arms into every province, including Britain. In some respects the expedition into Britain was the most difficult he un- dertook, and once while crossing the English channel he came very near throwing up the whole project The Britons welcomed the Romans with open and other kinds of arms, and made them feel right at home. Historians have com fcented on the fact that the Britons were he only people subjected by the Romans who did not mix with them and receive some tincture of their civilization That shows how careless history is about de- tails. The fact is that the Britons mixed with the invading Romans so freely that it was found impossible to pry them ap IT . after death, and when the reception was over Caesar had to bury them together If there is any example in history of two races mixing more closely than the britons and the Romans on this occasion the present writer is not aware of it.
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 The anti-imperialist crowd had long been trying to wreck the Caesar steam roller without success, and now when he was undisputed ruler of the world with the whole machine from election com missioners down to the precinct workers Tn his hands, there was but one resource left and that was to pot him. The lead CTS in the conspiracy were Brutus. a disappointed officeseeker; Cinna a muck raking poet, and Cassius, who had indi- gestlon. On the ides of March, as Caesar was sitting in the senate drawing up a bill to gerrymander Gaul by dividing it into three parts so as to increase sena- torial representation, the conspirators ap- preached To distract his attention and make him mad Cinna upset his inkwell on his new spring toga. As Caesar start ed to remonstrate by calling Cinna but terfingered mutt Cassius stabbed him in the neck with paper cutter,. and the others closed in. For while Caesar de- tended himself with a 12-pound copy of the report of the committee on the Rec lamation of Arid Lands in Iberia in four volumes which lay on his desk but he was overpowered by numbers and soon sank, pierced with 2S wounds and a num- Der of vain regrets His last words were :: "Brutus, am sorry I have but one life to give to my country. for If had an other I certainly would devote it to get ting your goat"
 Julius Caesar was not only great as a author, orator. lawgiver and many other things His untimely death brought to an end many great plans he had under way He had a scheme for draining the Pontine marshes and another for drain ing the public treasury. Owing to his un- expected assassination he only had time to carry out one of these plans. The Pom tine marshes arc still undrained.