The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-12-13
:. SEBASTIAN AND SANTANDER

is san Sebastian, standing bold
't in BiScay Bay, its rugged cone
rnek surmounted by citadel,
I'VE hundred feet above the ever
l' lass waves. This northern Gibraltar
'nly A few hours ride from Bilboa,
,bout four hundred miles from
., ,.5-il bv the great North of Spain"
oay The city itself, which is also
.,pita of the Basque province of
.,nsroa. is built on long, sandy
;rslla. close to the foot of the rock
.-s.aid known as Monte Orgullo,
-oanded by ramparts and now ruin
Indications. Though its glory as a
-g0 post has long since departed,
IF ate years sprung into even
. Prominence as a fashionable
l- resort. A narrow iSthmus
. .,s and city to the mainland, and
l.-t side of this hyphen Of land
1umea. emptying into the
-.. M.n, Il delightful bathing harbor
-.L all over Europe as La Perla
The Pearl of the Ocean. :"
..r new Summer Palace. in
queen Regent and her chill
H-.1r every year from June to
.. The firm. smooth sand and
l.,
. turing the season. especially
...r- august, from thirty to forty
....-., npasure-s seekers are somehow
uGated in the little city, and in
.n.m.ul ttnt-like huts that swarm
....It.e circuit of the harbor. San
..0..-.ai was the favorite abiding
...t the late Queen Isabella during
T.. mi- days. 1t was no drawback
.+N4 .rOIa pleasure that in taking her
q.ar.7- She was exposed to the curl
u.a- I-r more or less faithful sub
.t. TIL tell the truth, the least of
f...- troubles was 1.-The dazzling
ut mblicity." and she was always
lau ready to exhibit herself. at
uMf- and places. An old Spanish
r.o often saw her here has told me
.t public manner in which the late
.r.-f .uese to take her baths. Every
..'e Il certain hour she rode in
CT
4n,T- assembled to see her. She
-e ge0 eoTpulent, tipping the beam
"A ..4eably more than two hundred,
a r.-l II attendants had squeezed
rna hathing-suit, she looked de-
0af more like a colossal skin-stutfed
slst4s tn the regulation sea-nymph.
T. a7gd 10y her ludicrous appear
.. - ripped as blithely into the
,- Ulplus avoidupols would al
ur Nivsician-Who happened to be
l.y small man-troIting grave
--Ua her. to feel her pulse before
-p. tlt first dip and at frequent
.7 Throughout the performance.
G-r the throng of many thou
N- -.rl respectfully aside, it not
-r l, Stent With Court etiquitte
il g. mo to pollute the same water
HN loyalty was disporting. Isa-
..- good swimmer. and prob
Ill
easily. At any rate. the
t-- was wont to perform for
oW looping about like q
mermaid, would certainly
ri forth hilarious cheers, if
l+ @.I If yotiye vegetables from
= .uNdS that frequent our COney
5uNoud doubt, these exhibit
'.. lied the gentle exhibitor as
. they did the spectators. A
lr lraSt such a queen-must for
l"- 4~ peep-show, i'll the water
III: and Isabella would have
Htu chagrined had she been COM
-e take her daily bath in private.
Afr H. She was only bringing down
H- tu times what was considered
r proper thing only two cen
-e- -n when Louis XIV, at Yer
a faf only ate his breakfast, but
H-us Mlls i'll public, in the presence
amdering, if not always admir-
u pr Poor Isabella. | think it
f III ~ that San Sebastian, in the
Mase lt> cheekered military history,
~' r md of a revolution while the
lg-r- II taking her usual pleasure at
-s gJ resort. Coming out of the
al u' morning, with the dapper
i@Hrau rotting alongside, she was
+- " uessenger from Madrid, who
A.1 e rldings that she must not re-
-'A .H fA4 capital, being no longer the
.0-lla luler of Spain. Even the far
."4 -aItanical Court was scandalized
' ltr IMMORAL life, and justly incensed
BECAUSE she habitually abandoned the
-'is OF government to the worst of
Ns'egS isabella's last night in Spain
va spent III the great house that now
o'- Uty as the principal hotel of san
'SINau, and next morning, weeping
'.-It at the sad fate that had SO
~'@peatediy overtaken her, she was
..t.F escorted down the main streets
jlWay station and shipped, like
' f damaged goods, out of her
''g9om 1t is only two OF three hours