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Libertyville Independent, 17 Feb 1927, p. 10

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Vad--Now, sonny, my advice to you hfldfiom~mm¢1 be a brilliant character, composed: three qualifications, --©\ 4. ~B o -- s Bon--You're right, dad:; "property, riches and money, ' Rome's old--world 'greatpess was due to Caesar more than to any other man. spiracy under betionai mmfld'tl.h the senate, March 15, 44 B. U., the He ruled Romeé justiy. *~ + .€ But ambition wrecked hbim as it had many another great man... Having conquered the world"he longed to be king. Rome hated the idea of a king Mark Antony, Caesar's friend, pub-- Ucly pressed royal honors on him, The people stood mute. COnesar, quick to feel the public pulse, refused the crown. A fnction rose against bim, work-- ing secretiy for fear of the populace ber and other demagogues and polit A IAISOF conquest of Spain made Caesar master of nearly all the world. to Rome. The river Rubicon divided his Gallic province from Italy. Should be cross that river under arms it would be an act of open war against Pompey. 4 Cressr did not hesitate With his legion of véterans hbe crossed the general who was becoming the peo-- ple's idol, the senate, at Pompey's of-- der, deprived Caesar of office, ordering him to give up his command at once and to return home, under penalty of a treason charge. ~Caesar had ~two eourses open to him--either to obey meekly and to lose all he had gained, or to defy the order and thtis render himself liable to death as an enemy power in Rome. To weaken the great years as the foremmost Latin textbook Tor schools and a model of literary engulfed i -:oil't-:::uh paigns which, as "Caesar's Commen-- taries," has endured for.nearly 2000 lingland ; then, as Gaul again rose in a mighty confederacy of revolntion, he crushed the uprising and stemmed the tide of barbarism which would otherwise have swept over the Alps gent tribes. For the next eight years he was constantly on the battlefield; often fighting in the front rank like a plunged him deep into debt. At the age of forty he formed a trinmvirate (triple alllance) with <two famous men, Pompey and Crassus, by which the three were virtually to share among them the sovereighn power of Rome. Caesar, in the division of of-- fices, was made governor of northern JItaly, Gaul (France and Ewitzerland) and the Alps, This office was no ainecure, for the provinces were swarming with insor-- A Inter congquest of (triple alllance) with <two famous men, Pompey and Crassus, by which the three were virtually to share among them the sovereighn power of Rome. Caesar, in the division of of-- Hces, was made governor of northern state. He spent the next tweive years in building up the weitare of the plain people, whose fortunes 'were at low ebb, and in trying to beal civil aiz putes and secure equality for all Ro-- man citizens. This course made him tremendously popular with the peo-- _ On Suila's death Caesar returned to Rome, receiving high office in the Cresar's uncie by< marriage. -- Sulla drove Caesar from Rome and kept him out of the city for years, during which period of exrile the young man pro-- eceeded to perfect himself as a sol-- high rank, exiled from his home city. He bhad fallen into the hands of Cilt-- clan pirates and his attendants had gone to seek his ransom. When they eame back with it he promptiy armed a 'Heet, returned to the place of his captivity, overcame and crucified the pirates, According to his promise. Rome, being a republic, was for centuries swayed by two contending factions--the Patricians and the Pie beians. In the early part of the last eentury B. C., the city had passed ine young man who thus with death was small, bald MNOWMm'hnmhm power you wouid be wiser to kill me than to bold me for ransom." '"Why?* asked the puzzlcd pirate ALBERT PAYSON Ternun® rs fell upon "Caesar and as «i9 uy Dodd; Maad & TI'rs w&l h , later, of ail these ac =:-g§¢.! .: ar -- h me in your ~ be wizer to . for ransom." | he m.' es ' return and thus jested ald and of} -- M n 2 i . *Anirn . tfeamk in a a1." 3 1200 maee P o " 12 O ww Mivd_Iooks down fromthe air off, is unusual photograph was~taken from an airplane: looking straight mnm.mnu.mx-wmflmmmmch m water of San Diego (Calif.) harbor during maneuvers of the Pacific fleet.! Speeding Up "You mustn't get into bed yet. B by ; you baven't said your prayers !* "res T have; T --said them while 1 was cleaning my teeth, to save time." ; Hard 10 zxplain . Futher--How is it that 1 digscover you kissing my daughter? _ 'Young Man--I don't know, sir, un-- "Yesterday Salefno sudden}y lost tontrol of his car." ; "How sot" ~*He couldn't pay his Installments." mine at seven o'clock sharp. 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