Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — The Weapons of Caesar. [ARTICLE]

The Weapons of Caesar.

Ff one of Caesar's legionaries who | fell in the “pacification" of Gaul could be waked from his long sleep and placed in the trenches, he would find one or two familiar things, even if he failed to recognize the landscape. The appalling racket, the bursting shells, the spectacle of men struck down by invisible agencies of death-—these would be new and awesome. But the helmet would Lb ye a rather familiar feeling on his brows, and if he took part in a charge he would show himself a most efficient man With the “trench knife," Por this new weapon is just the old Roman broadsword revived and brought dowij to date. The blade is a bit shorter than that to which the legionary was accustomed—ls inches i instead of 18. But the point and I edge are keen, the steel is good, the hilt is plain, and the injunction to : ‘thust at the face" is as sound as I ever. With this accustomed weapon i in his grip and a cloak over his left I arm in lieu of shield, Cains of the j Tenth Legion would he a nasty war- | rior to meet on the chalk knolls of I Champagne. —Chicago Journal.