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old-fa fashioned rifles and less than a
hundred captured MauSerS. Arrived at
the river, he was, met by the volleys Of
the Spanish troops.
He knew that it was useless to make
a frontal attack. In one night he
marched up his side of the river ten
miles, where he forded, and by dawn
next morning he fell on the left flank
of the intrenched Spaniards and utter
ly routed them. The Spanish commando
ing. officer deserted his men and escap-
ed off the coast in a boat, leaving most
of his force prisoners.
That was the last organized resist
ance made by the Spaniards against
Tino. What was left of their decinat
ed ranks retreated northward, with
Tino close on their heels, picking up
stragglers.
On Aug. 10, 1898, the day the Ameri-
can flag was hoisted in Manila, Tino
entered the important northern town of
Vigan, next in size to Manila on the
island of Luzon. The Spaniards had
passed through the day before, taking
with them the local garrison and the
bishop of Vigan and his monks, the
bishop having under his care several
carreton7 loads of treasure in silver dol
lars.
Tino raised the insurgent tricolor
over the bishops palace, left small
force to garrison the town, and after
only few hours sleep continued his
pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards. 1t
was simply a contest of endurance, and
the boy of twenty won. 1t was the
rainy season. and the soldiers marched
in slush to their hips. At town called
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In hot, dusty office in one of the
government buildings at Manila sits a
young Filipino, not quite twenty four,
dark even for native, thick-lipped
but with intelligent features. Carefully
he pores over the official papers before
him.
A quiet, modest young native he
seems, but few Of his countrymen have
had a more strenuous life or so bril-
liant a career; certainly no other of his
years. For this is the ex-insurgent
chief, the famous guerrilla leader, Gen.
Tino, who was colonel at IS, general
at nineteen, and at twenty conquered
Northern Luzon from the Spaniards
and brought it under native rule.
This lad, also, for over year defied
the new commander of the United
States army, Gen. S. B. M. Young,
when the latter was military governor
of Northern Luzon. No other insurgent
leader gave Gen. Young half the trou-
bic that this boy did.
Tino's character is a strange one. His
enemies among his own people are
numerous, some call him cruel and
bloodthirsty, some weak and foolish
and others denounce him as an unscru-
pulous brigand.
His friends maintain that he has with
him all the possibilities of a Napoleon.
Tino, at twenty-one, they say, several
times defeated a Spanish army greatly
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-11
RICH MEN SAVE MONEY
BY USING PRIVATE CARS

In the minds of ordinary persons
private cars. with their sumptuous fur
nfshings. are an extravaganza of the
very rich, or vehicles for presidents
and directors of railroads to travel over
the country in elegant leisure.
AS matter of fact these private cars
are great investment for the railroad
companies. In many instances they
pay for themselves over and over
again. Where there was one private
car ten years ago there are twenty to-
day. From luxuries they have becoflfe'
a medium OF saving time and a BUSH
ness gain. All the important lines keep
1--WE or ten private ears, and thew. all
bring good profit
The private-car system was intro:
duced when the theatrical stars jump
ed in and got more than the cost of
them in advertising. The private cars
Of Mary Anderson, Patti and Langfry
attracted attention all over the coun-
try. One of the first men to gain in
the business end of private car was
G. W. Bunting, a Western millionaire.
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old hand. last week. eve have a set of
rules such as Never drink out of another
mans flask or smoke one of his cigars.
and Never keep a memorandum after re-
porting it,
''Of course in this. as in every other
business, men have their specialties. One
man can keep a crowd of brick throwing
strikers off a front platform and yet CAM
spur up a boarding house keepers mem
DRY as to events that happened fifteen
years ago.
Another may have too weak lungs to
stand rainy nights watching in a Ten
derloin areaway and yet can put on a
dress suit and say, Madam, understand
that you have not been invited to this
ceremony and must hence escort you
without disturbance to the door, with
such genteel front that the rest of the
wedding guests think he's a foreign
count looking only for the great Amer
lean rock.
Every firm, too, has its pet line. One
handles strikes; another, commercial
cases. There's one house that does almost
entirely society function business
dresses its people up in glad rags and
liveries and has women to assist the
dressing room maid and see that no Iadv
goes off with a sealskin cloak and leaves
a raglan.
"They guard the front stairs to see il
the butler knows all the guests and the
back stairs to see that no bogus walters
or musicians ring themselves in. If any
one seems not to have any friends in the
room, first the servants and then the
hostess are asked to identify him or her.
If they can't, the hollow -chested, soft
voiced man gets in his quiet work and
there's never any scene or scandal"
A class of detective work which few
big firms care to handle is that connected
with divorce suits. While the manager
quoted at the beginning of this article
was speaking. knock came at the door
followed by the entrance of an assistant.
Across the threshold waited a black
haired red-cheeked woman.
AS the manager saw her he shook his
head
You'll never guess what she had the
nerve to ask us to do he explained.
when the whispered consultation was
over and the door was closed again. "She
wanted US to get an out-of- town mans
home address for her.
Seems innocent? Maybe. But no ac-
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Sdb64g Is Good Business; PAY Being Good and Life Cas-

from place to place until he finally puts
him to bed
ut would be illegal for one of us to
stop a suspected cashier from going
into gambling house, wouldn't it?
Well, it would be equally out of our
province to force suspected forger to
come with us.
DO you remember Carl Becker, the
man who made those cunning imita-
lions of French bank notes and who
has just been released from a Califor-
MIA prison? We spent most of 1884
tracing him about. But when we final
ly located him in his workshop near
Evergreens cemetery in Brooklyn one
of US had to wait outside the door
While the other hunted up the cop on
post"
What the manager Of this agency
said about the Verdue case in particu-
lar and the province of the private de-
tective in general is confirmed by man
ayers of the most of the larger detec-
tive concerns Of the city. "a private
detectives night stick is his head" is
the.yusual way Of putting it. Some
managers even go so far as to say that
physical strength and courage are not
at all an essential in the business.
The men who are on strike duty need
determination, of course. But the trac-
ers OF bank clerks. searchers for miss
ing heirs and shadowers of suspected
husbands require only sufficient STAN
ina to withstand snowy nights in wind
swept doorways, while the qualifca-
lions of a watcher of wedding presents
or of a guard at a Fifth avenue recep-
ton resolve themselves into an alert
eXe,4ag soft voice and a manner ire
Sistible to maids and buffers.
Nerdpe was not, strictly speaking, q
professional detective. That Is, he had
not gone through the regular training
required by most long established
firms. He was engaged in an outside
business which took up most of his
time during the year, and thus belong
ed merely to the number of indinter-
entity successful men who apply FOR
temporary work as detectives While
waiting for something to turn up.
These men call day after day at the
agency. and are. either assigned to a
case of slight Importance or are sent
out as the side partners of members of
the permanent staff. Verdue was with
one of the latter when he was killed.
The permanent employees. on the 9TH
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| cessory to bIackmail for minel Even.
straight divorce evidence getting We Eev-
er touch.
mo private detectives testimony goes
for anything before a judge The only
thing an agency can do is to find wit
nesses. and in nine cases out of ten these
have already been bought up by the other
side"
The same manager was asked what
kept men in a business the glamour OF
which must obviously wear Oft in few
years.
IT'S the good pay, steady work and
fairly easy life" he said. "A good dete5-
tive earns IS a day and expenses. Then a
man can keep at it up to the time he's
sixty. Besides they often graduate from
US into being the confidential man OF a
corporation, the guard of a bank. or tba
special man Of a hotel As for the life
the strikes are the only trying feature
But we're not called in to breaI, every
strike, ana while few Of the present gen
Grafton like TO fight ali the time. there
are still some who aren't aversc to a
little lighting part Of the time"
Two popular notions which the ,nanae,ar
was emphatic in declaring mistaken we're
that private detectives wear DISCUSSES
and that they receive handsome presents
as a reward for their services.
No detective is sufficiently conspicuous
In city to need a disguise" ne OK
planned. And in country cases we find
1t quite convenient to change our men
frequently, as much to get several diff
ferent views on the same matter as for
any other reason.
AS a matter of fact. although We IN
fortunately didn't do it in poor Verdue's
case. we generally hire q room near where
the suspected person lives, and thus our
watchers are rarely disturbed by the
What are you hanging round for?- Of Of
ficious DULLES.
As for the gold cigarette cases and
silver mounted pistols which Sherlock
Holmes used to receive. we try as much
as possible 10 keep our clients and our
operators from knowing each other. This
keeps the client from Fostering the oper-
ator with private instructions. and the
operator, If he should ever chance to go
wrong and leave US. from going TO the
client and saying: I know such and such
a thing; how anxious arc You 20 have me
forget it7'
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outnumbering his own forces, while
Napoleon was four years older when he
simply captured a fort. Napoleon, they
further contend, had behind, him Eu-
ropes best soldiers; Tino fought with
ragged battalion of raw recruits who
never before had fired a gun. Napo-
leon was trained tactician; Tino rose
from civil life, from the school room.
The most warlike of the F'ilipinos
have been the Tagalogs. This is not
because their natures are more agrees
sive, but because Manila, which was.
the center Of Spanish tyranny, is the
heart of the Tagalog district. Oppres-
sion has made them what they are.
Tino is a Tagalog, born in the prov
ince of Cavite, as was Aguinaldo. When
the first insurrection against the Span
iards broke out, in 1897 Tino, then
mere school boy, joined the insurgents,
and so distinguished himself for brav-
cry and military skill that Aguinaldo,
in rapid succession, raised him to
colonelcy and then conferred on him
the rank of hrigadier general and made
him one Of his personal advisers.
Later, when the Tagalog chief was
banished to Hongkong, Tino went with
him. Thus they became warm personal
friends. 7H rs
When-sth Americans, in 1898, brought
Aguinaldo back to his native land Tino
accompanied his chief, and Joined him
in conquering the Tagalog territory
from the Spaniards, whose garrisons
were driven northWard, where they
gathered into quite an army. Then,
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hungry he said ''you may not favor the
Americans. Ii your philanthropic spirit is
as lrrepreSSIble as it appears to be YOU
may devote few thousand pesos toward
SHOES for our own country sOldieTs-be-
gin there
The merchant refused and was thrown
into prison until he complied with TinO's
wishes.
Tino remained in the north until the
latter part of the year 1895 Then the
Americans pressed hard on Aguinaldo in
the South, and he ordered Tino to re-
infOrce him
The boy general left a small garrison i'm
Nlgan to guard the prisoners, and with 800
riilemen marched down to meet the ad-
vancing Americans. But American artillery
drove him back.
Now comes a singular incident As the
Spaniards had fled before TinO, he now
retreated over the same ground before
Gen. YOung'S cavalry. At a town called
San Fernando he made a stand with 200
men, all that was left of his force.
Gen. Young advanced, and when he came
up to the insurgents at San Fernando he
was alOne-ahead Of his men-with only
an escort Of forty. The general charged
Tino and his 200, and drove them back
scattering them into the jungles.
Fifty miles further up TinO made an
other stand in what was considered an i'm
pregnable mountain pass Tangadin. Again
he was defeated by inferior numbers. The
Texans under Young simply walked up
the pass without stopping.
That was TinO's last pitched fight.
ThencefOrth he pursued guerrilla tactics.
and in that manner he kept Gen. GOung's
cavalry on the hustle for about year.
Finally he surrendered, after AguinaldO'5
capture
Now he enjoys a civil Office under the
government he 50 stOuty resisted. and
lis superiOrs say that he is a good one.
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BY E. w. Townsend.
Copyright, 1903. by Robert Howard
Russell.


Russell.
We is back in town again, and I
feels so fit to have stones to walk on,
noises to keep me from falling asleep
in de daytime and cars and cabs to
dodge to keep me in training, dat has
to sing me little song about it, or trun
a fit.
When we gets settled in our town
house Whiskers says to me, "Chames,
he says to me- "Chames, 1 am expect
ing visit from me fren from Boston,
and he is a student of sociology
What's dat? Sociology? OATS de
void, de very void Whiskers used.
And me fren being student of So
Geology" he says, L may want you for
to guide us on some little tour where
we may observe" he says, "de lower
orders in DER natural habitat" he
says, using woids nearly as dudley as
Mr. Paul's.
Yes, sir" says. Would de habitat
be near de Bowery, or Helps Kitchen,
or Poverty Hollow, or Cherry Hill, or
Little Italy, or Little Hungary,
Wen wait and see how me fren's
mind is disposed" says Whiskers.
Being from Boston he has more mind
10 be consulted dan most of me frens,
anu we ii see HOW lie Is WOlhlllS HIS
intellectuals, says Whiskers, calling
his fren dat hard name witout wink.
l was on to his fren all right. He's
dat sporty boy from Boston who visits
us very year, and I has had a run-in
wit him and Whiskers before now. He
tips fine, and dat sociology he studies
won't never be teached in no school.
Well, pretty soon de sporty Boston
boy shows up, and 1 takes his tings to
his room.
''Will it be Scotch or rye, while you
dress for dinner?" I says, opening his
trunk
Rye" he says, (which I drinks only
for to help stem de rising tide of form
invasion. Wit plain water" he says,
for it is more patriotic to drink as our
ladders drank dan to drink as our sons
drink" and wit dat he gave me a SOL
emn wink, and asks if 1 was de same
boy dat waited on him when he was
here de last time.
DE same" says l. dat got you free
when de cops raided de place where
dere was a private fight, when you was
studying sociology at the ring side"
''Ah, indeed" he says, and den he
says, "Ah. indeed?" and 1 didn't say
noting, so he says, "Ah, indeedI"
again; and den he watches me fix up
his evening tings like dey was part of
his studies, and just as I chases out
for de rye and water, he says, "Ah, in
deed!"
never was to Boston, and I don't
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The manager of a big detective agen-
cy down town took an hour off for a
chat the other day.
II suppose" suggested his visitor,
that, while the Central Office mans
chief risk is being recognized, a pri-
vate sleuth's danger is in not being un-
wrongly suspected"
The remark was suggested by the
fact that it was this same agency that
employed the detective who was beat
en- to death by misinformed citizens in
West F'iftyf1fth street ten days ago.
That's just where you're wrong"
the manager answered, according to the
New York Sun. THE murder you're
thinking of is a case all by itself Yer
due was sent up town to watch a GER
tain person, and the neighbors thought
he was trying to get too familiar with
the children in the neighborhood. Now
professional detective would never
have got himself into such a snarl.
1.-The prevalent idea that a private
detective is liable to get into all sorts
of trouble is a mistake. He's not paid
for that In fact, if we find a man has
ever so small a tendency to butt in we
can't get rid of him too quick.
"A private detective is a mere pas
sive spectator. He watches, end turns
in report on what he sees. He carries
neither pistol nor club, in many cases
not even a badge.
Strike work, of course, is an excep-
ton. Our men down in Pennsylvania
year ago were fully armed But not
one of these carried a gun until he was
first sworn in, either as a deputy sher-
If or as a special officer, and outside of
strikes there's no class Of private de-
tective work that is sufficiently dan
gerous to require weapons.
The major part of the work that
comes into this office, for example, is
what we call commercial A corpora
ton has either engaged a new man for
a responsible position or promoted an
old employee. They want to know who
the promoted mans friends are and
how he amuses himself at night.
"One of our men goes into the officv
on pretended errand. pipes the party
off, points him out as he leaves the Of
flee to side partner and lets the lat
ter follow the suspect about all night
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you had right not to go and tell
her noting" 1 says.
"Of a soitainty," says dat saucy hus-
sy, L had right not to, but 1 had
for to do it, also"
Say, what can a man do when he
has wife like dat? didn't dare to
put de swells wise, for dat would be
giving away Willy Wildly, so 1 just
hangs around to see dat no bad break
was made, but wasn't needed. Wildly
was at de table wit de leaders and de
sWells, and she was coming EN- like
dey was come-ons, and she was a
steerer for a green goods layout
She was as good as a actress out on
top of de stage, for you wouldn't know
her voice in a tousand years if YOU
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use private cars never do. Neither
Mr.. Morgan nor John Jacob Aston
owns a private car.
The handsomest private cars in the
world are owned by Adolphus Busch
and Charles M. Sehwab. Busch re-
ceived his as a present from friends.
Mr.. Schwab's is new, built at a cost of
$4,000, and is one of the most luxuri-
Gus things on wheels. 1t is seventy
feet long, including an observation
compartment of twenty feet. The cell
ing is hand-painted. The furniture,
Which, hike the general appearance of
the car, is in Louis XIV. period, is all
Handmade. Each of the brass bed
=steads in the two staterooms cost
$1,000.
ITO hire a private car costs from $S5
to 500 day, not including food or
transportation charges. A private-car
trip from Chicago to New York means
an expenditure of nearly $1,000, yet a
large number of men make it every
month. Private cars, or even special
trains, are SO common now that the
other travellers at the stations scarcely
notice them.
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of her toes, and 1 sees dat Maggie had
to woik if she was to keep de record
When we balances to corners 1 let's out
"a link and plays up to de dame, hut
p'chee she was all dere, and little to
de good, at dat Dere was war In
Maggie's eye when she seen what me
corner coulds do; and, de odder sets
broke up, de way we do when dere is a
challenge on;s land if de dame son me
corner wasn't giving Maggie a chal-
lenge she didn't know de rules of de
game. It was up to- me to be ace; to
two queens, for nobody else in de set
could make it interesting for does two
coils; Maggie and de unknown.
Dey had IA Jring around US by dat
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watched man, wrathfully. "a man who
says he's detective from your office has
Just been in here3 He told me that he'd
been sent up here to- watch me mad that
I'd better not Fry any funny work with
him. Now, I'd like to know what. the
devil" etc.
The managers of private detective
agency should never be at loss. This
one rose to the situation
You're the victim either of a crazy
man or blackmailer," this manager ans
swered. IF he comes back again I'd
suggest that you have him locked up
The sleuth. never did come back again
Neither did young Irishman who passed
muster because the manager was short of
men and needed some one to help him
keep watch on a pier from which bales sof
goods were nightly disappearing.
AS employees on the pier were suspected
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the watchers secreted themselves on a
neighboring pier. After several hours of
staring through the darkness, the Irish
mans eyes grew tired and he got rest
less.
Its searchlight we ought to have, -
he finally answered.
Sure" whispered back the manager,
thinking it was a joke.
i've mind for everything" chuckled
the would-be thief stalker, pulling out a
bulPs-eye and striking a match.
That promptly ended his career as a
sleuth.
1t doesn't take long to find out whether
a young man is fitted fer private detec-
tive work. In fact, all that is expected
is earnestness, sobriety and ordinary
common sense.
Il could teach the business to any one
but born fool in six months" said an
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comes to bridge; for de check Whiskers
gives Sporty was de price of trip
from Boston, wit few gailyg aily ex-
trays trun in on de side. I'm not just
dead to rights what dose 'fntellectuals"
Whiskers was telling of, is to be took
for, but dey amt no woise when it
comes to sizing up de wort of a hand
at bridge.
De next night was de opening ball of
de Roseleafs Social outing and Life
Saving club, so 1 says to Boston, when
1 takes him his coffee in bed in de
morning, dat if he was looking for a
study in sociology dat was de real
ting 1 could fetch him down dere dat
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er hand, are generally men who have
been with the firm as office boys, tele-
phone boys and copiers of reports since
the age of seventeen or eighteen. They
are generally the sons of clerks and
artisans. They are emphatically, not
dime novel readers. The latter supply
class of applicants who are a peren-
NAL source of trouble to agency man
ayers.
One managed recently to conceal his
taste in literature sufficiently to get a
trial. He was assigned to watch a bust
ness house in West Thirty-eighth street,
the proprietor of which was suspected of
being about to make away with some
goods whose ownership was in dispute.
About half an hour after the embryo
sleuth went out the managers telephone
bell rang violently. t,~s-.
I'm --," sQueaked the voice Of the
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of de leaders gang, what had come to
look on, and get de wort of de Doodle
wed touched de leaders for. wish I'd
looked hard at EN-. I'd known
So 1 says, An right; if dey is out for
de wort OF DER price, let's give it to
EN-. Take partners for de Roseleaf
quadrille!" ye1ls and me and Maggie,
what is two of de highest kickers. we
takes de dg-of de foist set, and de
band began to play. At me side was
dame of de party I'd seen come in, and
she was doing fancy tings wit de end
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know DER langwudge, but when thinks
over what Sporty Boy says, COPIED
all right dat l wouldn't have to ask
where to take 'em when him and
Whiskers was out for de evening-so
long as 1 didn't take 'em too far from
de Bowery. s'@<
De foist night Sporty sat in at bridge
wit Whiskers, Mr.. Paul and Miss Fan
ME; and me being on duty 1 was fuss
ing around de wood fire and de bottles
and glasses enough to learn dat Bos-
ton is no farming country when it