Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1901 — Baden-Powell’s Rudeness. [ARTICLE]

Baden-Powell’s Rudeness.

During the campaign in South AfrlOR, last year, Gen. Baden-Powell tapped R telegraph wire, and heard the Boer commander Grobler ask Gen. Botha to •end re-enforcements at once, as the British had cornered him. This story was related by the London papers, and Baden-Powell was much applauded for his strategy and good luck. But one little girl, 5 years old, had opinions of her own concerning the exploit. She listened very attentively to the account of the proceeding and to the approving comments of the elder members of the family, and when they had finished she said, decisively: “Well, I think it was very rude of him to listen."