The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-07-28
CHIVALRY IN SPAIN.
Two American Girls Say That
it Still Exists.
,opy MEET COURTEOUS USAGE,
women at San Sebastian Look AnX-
,ousIy ont to Sea Watching for
Watson. Fleet.

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The feeling seems to exist in the
r,i,ed States that any American
..uoht alive in Spain would be torn
,,mh from limb. It is not so. The
.bivalry Of the Spanish, which has
baen their boasts for generations, is
a. alive now as ever it was.
One other American girl and I
have been travelling through north
arm Spain this week quite without
protection and have received not the
.lichtest discourtesy or inconven-
lance; nor was it necessary to con-
.asl our nationality. Every one
tnsw we were Americans and all
we're quite willing to talk about the
var. In fact the Spaniards intro
duced the subject in every instance.
All Spaniards believe that the
United States is in the war for what
shs can make out of it. The idea
Of philanthropic motive is incredi-
bic to them. They have forgotten
their boast Of four months ago: "We
will teach the Yankee hogs a lesson
and wipe them off the earth" Now
they ask pitifulIy: "Why does your
rich, powerful nation want to bully
us!"
The women look apprehensively
across the sapphire bay and ask:
"Will the American fleet lombard
San Sebastian"
We assure them that we do not
believe it will, but they are still
restless and say:
ave are only women her,. They
will gain nothing but the boarding
house keepers signs"
San Sebastian, usually so full of
gay Spanish life, gathered around
the court of the little King at this
season of the year, is quite empty.
The chop keepers are discouraged,
and exchange is go high that buyers
come over from the frontier French
towns and carry away 80 much from
the market that there is actually not
enough for the poor Spaniards.
Some of the better class of people
realizing that the end of the present
regime is close at hand and look de-
spondingly into the future expecting
to be ruled by the "Carlists or re-
publicans or devils" But most Of
the people cherish their indomitable
faith in the yalor and prowess of the
Spanish arms.
The day after SchleY's victory at
Santiago, the newspapers here, un-
aware of any battle, gleefully an
nouuced that Admiral Cervera had
escaped with his entire feet from
the ''hole where the Americans had
so cleverly supposed they had bot
tied u.s." The considerate Spaniards
courteously grasped our hands and
expressed sympathy for our defeat.
Not for three days was credence
given to the report of the utter rout
and destruction of the Spanish fleet.
The people could talk of nothing
but how skillfally their valient Ad
miral had outwitted the Yankee
Sampson
Alas! The castles in Spain" that
the Spaniards build around them are
doomed to q tremendous fall.
On the Fourth Of July the follow
ing editorial appeared in the San Sc
bastisn papers;
us the situation in the Philip
pines hopeless? No, because Camara's
squadron will arrive in time. Per
haps we may lose Manila, or al
most the Island OF Luzon, but the
whole colony-no! From the Phil
ippines came the first bad news
From the Philippines also viii come
the 6Est good news. We say the
Htst, because in Cuba Ee will always
be On the defensive, and IN ths
halSan archipelago we must now bt
the ones to attack.