La Junta tribune., 1917-07-05
STORY OF JULY
By Margaret P. Boyle

first month OF the year. Indeed, there
has not always been . January. 4
very long time ago the year had
but ten months and began with
March.
THE people must have grown
tired OF trying to find names for the
months BY the time they reached
July. for that was just called Outs
tilis. the fifth month. You sss. Jvly
really is number five. II you begin
to count from March. The Sexons
called II Mead month.
After while there was very
great man among the Romans. He
is called the greatest Roman that
ever lived. His name was Caius
Caesar. II was long. long ago that
he lived. In the century before
Christ came to earth.
He Was . great general and con-
Quored many countries. Among them
WAS Germany. Then he went ON 70
England to win that. Britain II IVES
called then. because the people Who
lived there were savages and paint-
ed their bodies. And their word for
paint vas brit They fought very
hard to save their little island. bot
the Romans conquered and livea
there many years. 5ftt
I'm some parts Of Englaad you
can find parts OF the great stone wall
they built and other traces Of then.
But some times II II not we'll 70
stay away from home too loag. So Il
was with Caesar. While he was eoaa,
Pompey. whom he had thought one
Of his very good friends and hslD-
ers. thought he would like to put
himself in Caesars place.
"Pompey tried to get large army
against Caesar and TO have the peo-
pie say that he should never come
hack to Rome. But Caesar heard
Of II and hurried home. He followed
Pompsy to Greece This frishtsaed
IhtM. y -sha&sbsp6UsA tS'HuvpE -
And whea Caesar got there. In
stead Of finding Pompey. some one
handed him Pompey's head and his
ring. He took the ring. but ! know
you will be glad to hear he would
not have the head. but gave orders
for II to be buried.
Caesar had great warn In Egypt,
too. He won them very easily. In
telling about II he said. I came. I
saw. I conquered
AT last he came back to Rome.
Then everybody was very glad. They
had . great celebration that lasted
for four days. Caesar rode around
in . beautiful chariot. In front OF II
walked . great chief andd the sister
Of the Egyptian queen.
Caesar gave presents to every
one. They had . great dinner. too.
and 20 many people were invited
that II took twenty-five thousand
tables to hold them. Then q beauti-
ful awning made Of silk In many
colors WAS put up. The people sat
under this while they watched men
called Kladiators fight with lions
and other wild beasts. This was n
queer way to have fun, wasn't It?
I think our way Is much better.
Julius Caesar wrote = book about
his wars. Perhaps you have seen
some Of the older boys and girls
translstinE Il into English. for It
WAS written In Latin. hope that
some day you will do Il for your
self. am afraid that you will think
that Caesar thought = great deal
Of himself. for he tells 80 often In
that book what wonderful things
he did.
But he thought great deal OF
Rome. too. and tried to do whatever
would be best for II. He saw that
he could govern Rome better than
any one else. SO he placed himself
at the head OF the nation. In order
that he might be able to help the
people.
"iic did many good things. We
calendars have cause TO be grateful
to him for he changed the calendar
40 that We have leap year every
four ycars. as We heard In the story
Of February.
But there were Jealous folks
then Just ~ there are now. And
some Of them began TO think that
Julius Caesar waited too much. and
that the very best thins they could
do was 70 Kill him. 30 they laid
. plot 70 stab him TO death.
One Of the famous ausurs warned
Caesar that he would b. killed. But
peshsDs he dldat bslisvs the auSurs.