Show GEM CHAFFEES MISTAKE xsWhat Gen Chaffce should have done when he observed these abuses perpetrated perpe-trated in the name of civilization and the troops of the allied forces were rivaling in the intensity and character of their efforts the achievements of All Baba and the Forty Thieves was first tto have written to Field Marshal von Wiildersce on the general subject of the weather with a few incidental paragraphs concerning the superiority for graphs concclnlnJ laundry purposes of the Yin Ordinaire o liUlcly lhe Forbidden City over Schuylklll wuler Ilavinsr thus established an entente en-tente cordiale ilh the commanderin chief Con Chaffee should have addressed ad-dressed a second communication to the Count calling his attention to the fact that Richard roker had sailed for England and asking him in view ol the emergency what he thought of the status QUO ante in the Tiyinsvaal coupled cou-pled with a recommendation lo thc commissariat that they should use a less explosive kind of bakingpowder in the dumdum bullets served to the American troops In lieu of breakfast rolls A communication of this nature would have been strictly in accord with the pecuiar kind of diplomatic I usage which now prevails at Peking and wouldhave appealed with singu lar force to Gen von Waldcrsee Once In a receptive moon as the result of two such tactful missives the commander com-mander would probably have permitted Gen Chaffee tot address to him a third communication couched In equally diplomatic language asking him if In view of the approach of the Christmas season the Field Marshal considered it in accordance with the best etiquette for the Christian soldiers of Western civilization to steal everythIng the heathen Chloe was unfortunate enough to possess from I cloisonne jar to the tomb of his ancestors Harpers Weekly 0 I |