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Show enemy.: The same tactics wefe .used a few weeks ago by the Russians ia the fighting around Mukden. - When Verne wrote his Toor of the World in Eighty Days" the accomplishment of such a feat was regarded impossible. Yet'it. has been done by many since then in less time than eighty days. v For ingenuity of plot, sustained interest and art of story-telling, any one of .Verne's books is worth a hundred volumes 'of present day fiction. His works may. hare served no great purpose, but they entertained enter-tained and stimulated a taste for good reading. They were the honest works of a sincere and brilliant bril-liant man. Fiction and Reality. With the passing of Jules Verne, who is reported ; critically ill, a remarkable literary career will close. ' He wrote clean, wholesome fiction, and he had re-: re-: jnarkable ingenuity in working out plots. His "Twenty Tbousand Leagues Under the Sea' 'twas a novel that thrilled young and old. Few books ever held the reader's attention closer than that .work. It was intense with interest, and while it ' rwas wholly imaginative, it showed that the novelist i Was really in advance of the inventors. The story : of the wonderful submarine boat was regarded as xnerely the figment of an imaginative brain, but now practical' submarine boats are an old story. Mod-' Mod-' era science has made real everything Verne im- i- Bgined. Another instance of how fiction antedated prac- ticalingenuity is to be found in Mark Twain's "Yan-: "Yan-: kee in King Arthur's Court.'' Twain had his hard- beaded Nineteenth century mechanic charging I wires with electricity to check the advance of an |