The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1915-07-07

July gets its name from Julius Cae-
sar,wh hose name is called the greatest
| in history. He first attracted atten-
ton by refusing to marry an heiress.
After that his rise was rapid. He is
described as a red-headed man looking
about as Mr.. Redfeld, our Secretary
of Commerce and Labor, would look
after a fire. He was Of noble birth,
but had democratic streak in him
like Mr.. Roosevelt. He was always
member of what the Romans called
! the popular, or as we would say, the
democratic, party. He FIRST tried pol
tics, but when he saw bow much cas-
Ter successful general went to the
top, he took up war.
But happy in war though he was,
Caesar was never quite happy in Of
, fee He always had trouble in his cab
met, and along toward the last the sit
uation became a political scandal.
Brutus, who was his Secretary OF
State, complained that Caesar. who
was literary and left his own com
mentaries upon his wars, was writing
all the diplomatic notes and compelling
Brutus to sign them. Brutus was him
self an orator, editor and chautauqua
lecturer. He had no mean command
of letters himself, and felt fully cap
able of writing anything TO which he
ought to sign his name. While ad-
mitting the purity Of Caesars Latin,
he still esteemed his own, and when
it came to expressing the finer shades
of meaning and emphasis he liked his
own a little better. Bsatus moreover
held it to be beneath his dignity as a
great man and the virtual head Of
his party to subscribe his name TO any
thing but his own stuff, and such emf
ment men of letters as Casca upheld
him in that assertion Of his profess
sional right. Caesar refused TO take
these Representations seriously. He
went on writing notes and requiring
Brutus to sign them. Brutus tried TO
restrain himself, but when he consid-
cred that the particular phrases and
forms in which he always expressed
himself We're probably losing their
vogue and could not be revived, he be-
came desperate. Finally Caesar
brought in a particularly important
note to the Aquitanians which Brutus
thought that he should have written
himself, and he resigned. Caesar ac-
cepted the resignation, and about an
hour later when he went out for
lunch, Brutus and Casca jumped out
from behind the Pillar of Pompey
and assassinated him. Thus died Cae-
sar, whose name is perpetuated in the
calendar, and whose month gives Us
some notion of the hot time he had
/ in the short while he lived.
The festive calf will show us how
The Russians crossed the River Bug,
And ice-cold grape juice will endow
The system with its potent drug.
The mailman will load up his Ford
With picture postals twice a day,
The city people out to board
viii do handspring in the hay,
The camper will forsake his home
To take a few mosquito scalps,
The modern soldiery Of Rome
VIII learn to yodel in the Alps,
The none too firmly anchored cook
Will blithely sail beyond our reach,
And the summer girl will bait her
hook
For some Prince Charming at the
beach.
The Turks will hold the Dardanelles
till we can sell our dollar wheat, and
what with plauditory yells the season
will be hard to beat. The glad wheat
growers will agree that Allah certain
ly is good, the water jug beneath the
the tree will tone the beverage with
wood, the farmhands rolling from the
hunks will rouse the swallows in the
caves, the college sprinter in his
trunks will push the binder stacking
sheaves, the farmer in his gratitude
will toast the Turks from twenty
gourds, the hired men by dreams i'm
bued will all aspire to having Fords,
the waterboy will rush the jug to
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