The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-03

members, although the organization
month and a half. 4 fine new silver
| service has been secured and com.
mitteo is now working on plans for &
/ big ceremonial session and banquet "a
! be held i'm the near future at which
permanent officers will be elected. The
program for this entertainment will be
announced later. II Is expected that
plans win be formulated at this ban
quet for increasing the membership of
this society and a rapid growth Is pre-
dcted for It,
Tho Capitolino Wolf.
The history OF Rome and the inn
portant part it took i'm the developing
civilization is taught i'm the schools of
every country, and i'm the teaching
every school boy reads or hears of
Romulus and Rcmus saved by the wolf
from drowning to found the city which
grew To rule the world. 1t is a strange
folk lore legend OF the infant twins
Romulus and Remus, prospective heirs
TO a crown. thrown into the River
Tiber 10 perish, by a cruel uncle who
was wrongfully King and who feared
they might later claim his throne; of
their rescue and care by a mother
wolf, sent by divine Intervention TO
save them; of a shepherd of that re-
gion later finding and caring for them
until they grew up to manhood; of
their discovering their identity; be
coming great and powerful destroying
their uncle and founding city called
Rome on the banks of the Tiber at the
spot where they had been found and
rescued by the wolf
Thi Italian Tradition.
Tho tale is found in many books
and is told by all historians of Rome,
ancient and modern. at greater or less
length and with minor variations. 1t
is a popular oral tradition of the Ital-
ian people of today. one version
eliminates the actual wolf and relates
that it enormously became a part of
the story through a name given in
derision TO the wife Of the shepherd
who found the twins, she being called
the wolf on account of her temper
and conduct.
some of the old historians relate the
story in all seriousness as reliable
others give it as an historical
but popular myth. Livy. the learned
Roman historian, whose works are re-
yarded as one of the most reliable and |
precious relics of Latin literature, tells !
he story as true, stating that some |
loubt it i'm its entirety, but he regards
I as true tale OF divine Intervention |
20 save the twins and lay the found |
alton for the nation's greatness and
glory.
Like soripturaI Story.
There seems a strange analogy in
he pagan story OF Romuus. after |
whom Rome took it's name, and the
'criptural story of the prophet Elijah
Both are said TO have been divinely |
'escued and reserved for great work |
n behalf of their people, Romulus fed
)y a wolf and Elijah by the ravens.
rhe story of each is that he never
asted death, but when his life's work |
vas done he was translated to heaven
n chariot of fire during a great
storm.
And so it was told and boosted and |
believed by the Roman people that by |
iivine aid their proud city was found |
I'd. This story has an added charm |
In portraying and teaching the soften
Ing powers Of the maternal instinct |
which led even this fierce, wild mother |
wolf to pity and tenderly care for the
hungry and helpless young of the
VOLTS greatest enemy.
owing to the legend and the part
It took in founding the city the wolf