Show BELATED HONORS There is one characteristic of human na nature that flint thatis is a mean one Jules Verne was the bright man mall that wrote most interesting stories After a while he lie died as most men do that either write or do not write and now from Paris comes the news that a a. wonderful statue is to bo be erected on the public square at Amiens the tho Picard city eity in which Verne found his wife and in which a a. majority of his books were ww written ritten The day the statue is to be dedicated the city eity will be paraded paraded paraded pa pa- by a cavalcade of floats upon which will figure the chief characters of Jules Vernes Verne's books booles That is all right but why could not a little of that have been bestowed upon Jules Verne while he ho could have enjo enjoyed cd it 7 He lIe is asleep now and does docs not need any appreciation by his countrymen It really has a a. look a little like the tho building of monuments and making a saint of Joan o of Arc Are Franco France made it very warm for her in this world and we do not believe if her spirit could be consulted it would care a straw for the Honors being heaped upon her memory and then she knows by this time whether she sho is iR a saint or not |