The Lamar register., 1916-07-05

July gets its name from Julius
Caesar, whose name is called the
greatest in history. He devoted u
great deal Of thought to his monu-
ment, and finally decided to give his
name to the month in which he was
born. He had just conquered Egypt,
and the pyramids had not impressed
him as being a permanent memorial
like hot weather He thought We
would always have more or less hot
weather, and to be inscparably as
sociated with it in the popular mind
struck him as the best possible safe
guard against being forgotten. He
was laughed at in an age when every
other great man was projecting his
fame down the corridors of time in
some conventional manner, but time
has abundantly proven the wisdom of
his choice. The foundation of his
fame was laid by his campaign against
Gaul. Rome had been annoyed
great deal by bandits in that quar-
ter anad Caesar was finally sent
across the border to eXterminate them.
He had no more than fairly gotten
into the country before the people,
who had promised to help him, began
to be troublesome, and some of his
men were finally massacred by the
Aquitanians, who had been particu-
larly bow-legged lot in the attempted
cooperation. The result was war, in
which Caesar performed his historic
feat of dividing Gaul in three parts.
The extent of his undertaking may be
judged from his own commentaries, in
which he says that the Belgians, who
are still holding out in the present
war in Europe, were among those
whom he whipped. He subsequently
conquered England, which no one has
since been able to do; but he never
got very far with the Germans. After
hitting their line a few times without
being able to punch a hole in it, he
concluded that they were not in SYM
pathy with the bandits and would
probably have caught them had they
come their way. No satisfactory study
of Caesar remains. He seems to have
been man very much like Mr..
Roosevelt, but was more fortunate for
having been assassinated at the height
Of his career. He formed third
party on an occasion when he was
not nominated for some office he want
ed, and when he abandoned the party
and all the friends who had followed
him into it by selling out, Brutus
and some others who had given up
everything for him laid for him by
the Pillar Of Pompcy and cut him up
into mincemeat. Marc Antony said
the trouble with Caesar was that he
wanted everybody to stay put, but
would not permit other people to feel
that they could lay their hands on
him.
The festive calf will show us how
The Carranzistas will skidoo,
And smoke from that unhappy row
Will paint the skies a darker hue.
T. Roosevelt and his four boys,
With both his sons-in-laws as well,
viii add their shouts to all the noise
And make the welkin ring spell,
The hired man will pitch the hay
As if at each terrific thrust
Before his righteous anger lay
A Greaser dying in the dust.
The trains will rattle by with troops
Onrushing to the Rio Grande,
And some Of our blood curdling
whoops
Will palsy Europe's bloody hand.
The warning Kaisers and the Kings,
for all their shot and all their shell,
will little know of these fell things
until they hear our battle yell. There
won't be any poison gas or kindred
monkey business here, nor any Yep
pelins to pass above us when the
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