Young Man of the Greatest Indefatigability Who Goes About in Disguise—Outwits His Pursuers. The Advertiser is in receipt of tbe following, written by Major R. L. Bullard, U. S. A., now stationed at Fort Sara Houston. Major Bullard is well remembered in Alabama ,he having commanded the 3rd Alabama Infantry during the Spanish-Amorican war:

He is a vigorous, indefatigable young man with all the pertinacity that marks tne strongest Tagalo character, with the cunning of a fox and the wildness and watchfulness of the antelope.

Major R. L. Bullard, U. S. A.

Referring te the Filipino insurgent General Malvar, the press of some parts of the country has recently been suggesting the use of "sufficient force" to catch him. Catching the general is not a question of using "sufficient force." A considerable force is undoubtedly still needed In the general’s province to keep down his insurrection, to awe his insurgent followers and friends into quiet and peace for some time to come. The difficulty about capturing General Malvar has been not our failure to use sufficient force, but the fact that the general is a born actor, an adept at disguise and an unwearying traveler who never except among tried friends appear as Malvar, the insurgent, and never sleeps twice in one spot nor then a whole day or all of one night. He is a vigorous, indefatigable young man with all the pertinacity that marks tne strongest Tagalo character, with the cunning of a fox and the wildness and watchfulness of the antelope.

After two weeks of. regular warfare against him in January, 1900, I scattered and disorganized his force. Then followed for us ten months of scouting, lurching, hunting, chasing, watching, for him, a man who changed from a soldier to a citizen in a second, who was s a cock-fighter one day,- a peddler the next and a harmless countryman the next— anything and everything exespt General Miguel Malvar, the incorrigible Insurgent and guerilla. Of these ten months hunt these are some of the things I may tell:

First—I surprised him at an early morning breakfast, got a part of his boiled rice and his horn spoon and fork —nothing else.Second—One day on a scout 1 stopped a simple barefooted countryman v'th a fighting cock under his arm, going, he pleasantly answered me, to the cockfight in the little town where my command was then stationed. He perfectly accounted for himself and I allowed him to pass on. The next day the natives were all laughing at me for letting General Miguel Malvar trick me with a game cock and attend the Sunday co:k fight in my own camp which was his own home and native town! Third—One of my young officers on a scout met on a mountain path a barefooted, stoop-shouldVred Filipino, who stopped, moved aside out of the path and gravely removed his little hard derb hat in respectful salutation as the officer passed. A little further on that officer nearly fainted to learn that this ordinary, innocent-looking fellow with ihe funny little hard hat vas General Malvar. Of course the officer turned back and ran himself out of breath, but h« n«ver got another gllmpee of the general.

With his incorrigible, defiant insurgency, his tenacity, his surpassing conning. skill and wit displayed in his many narrow escapes from our troops, the general has become the romantic hero of his peeple who will help, hide and save him at every chance. Of what use is force (beyond a certain small number) to catch such a man? We need force te overawe his insurrection and to break up and keep down his guerilla bands whenever and as fast as they show themselves, but cunning and luck, not force must be the means by whlch the wiley general must finally be brought to the end of his career as an insurgent.

R. L. Bullard.