skill, but unworthy of record
in the annals of military glory.

The War of Independence, which lasted until the next year, was a
triumph of science over personal valour about equally balanced. It
was a necessary sacrifice of the few for the good of the many. No
permanent peace could have been ever hoped for so long as the Islanders
entertained the belief that they could any day eject the invaders
by force.

The American citizens naturally rejoiced over the bare fact, briefly
cabled without ghastly details, that the Philippine generalissimo had
fallen prisoner, because it portended the peace which all desired. In
deference to public opinion, the President promoted Colonel Funston
of the volunteers to the rank of Brig.-General in the regular army.

Emilio Aguinaldo was first taken before General McArthur and then
escorted to prison in _Calle de Anda_, in the walled city. On April 1,
1901, he took the oath of allegiance in the following form, viz.:--

I, Emilio Aguinaldo, hereby renounce all allegiance to any and
all so-called revolutionary governments in the Philippine Islands
and recognize and accept the supreme authority of the United
States of America therein; I do solemnly swear that I will bear
true faith and allegiance to that Government; that I will at all
times conduct myself as a faithful and law-abiding citizen of
the said Islands, and will not, either directly or indirectly,
hold correspondence with or give intelligence to an enemy of the
United States, nor will I abet, harbour or protect such enemy;
that I impose upon myself these voluntary obligations without
any mental reservations or purpose of evasion, so help me God.

After signing this declaration he was a free man. For a while he
resided at Malacanan, on the north bank of the Pasig River, where one
night a pirogue full of assassins came to seek the life of the man who
had failed. But his lucky star followed him, and he removed to Paco and
again to Ermita (suburbs of Manila) and finally to his native town of
Cauit (Cavite), where I was his guest. He was living there in modest
retirement with his mother and his two good-looking young nieces, who
served us at table. The house is large and comparatively imposing as
a provincial residence, being formed of two good substantial houses
connected by a bridge-passage. The whole is enclosed by a low brick
wall, topped by iron railings painted flaming red. In fr