The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-04-02

kaiser for few days while they
turned about and considered what
should be done with him.
Explains Domestic Crisis.
Count GODDARD replied that it was
impossible for him to receive the
kaiser, and explained his domestic
crisis. The governor brushed the in
fluenza aside as thing not worthy
10 be mentioned in such a situation.
Count GODDARD weakened, and said he
would consult his children. The chill
dren thought the matter might be ar
ranged. The end of it was tat the
next day the kaiser and his suite
were received into Amerongen castle
and Count GODDARD provided dinner
for forty-five persons.
The two days have now heightened
into twice as many months, and the
problem of the ex-kaisers domicile is
still unsettled. 1t is thought by n
number of people that Count GODDARD
offered the kaiser hospitality OF his
house and that he is an old and in
innate friend of The former emperor
This is not true. Count GODDARD had
seen the former emperor but once,
and this in the days when the kaiser
was Prince William, not even Crown
Prince.
Didn't Know His JaiIer
The emperor, on hearing that he
was to be received at Amerongen
Castle, looked up Count GODDARD in the
Almanach de Gotha to discover his
relation with the house of Bentinck.
The two men, host and guest, met as
absolute strangers on Nov. II. l in
yte you to think Of the ludicrous ele-
ment in this historic event-the great
and powerful German emperor held
up by sergeant and a private soldier
OF the Dutch army, looking up Count
GODDARD Bentinck in the Almanach de
Gotha to discover the quality of his
jailer.
Count GODDARD tells me he was actu-
ated by two motives in receiving the
kaiser. AS a good citizen, he felt he
ought to obey the Dutch government.
and as one who humbly endeavors to
be faithful Christian he felt he ought
not to turn his back on a homeless
stranger. Let me say | believe him
and honor him. The ex.kaiser had
been a week at Amerongen when the
empress arrived from Germany, and
Count GODDARD Bentinck found himself
called upon to provide dinner for SIX
ty.two persons. 1t was necessary for
him to commander two hotels in the
village.
Not Broken, Old Man
Since those November days the
glory of the fallen emperor has di-
minished almost to the point of van
ishmert. His staff consists of three
gentlemen, general, an adjutant, and
a doctor: the suite of the delicate en-
press Is reduced to one lady. There
are other changes. In those early days
of his Quasi internment the ex-kaiser
walked freely about the little piece Of
wooded land on which the castle -
built, paid visits to the village, and
made excursions to different points
OF the surrounding country. Today
he seldom goes out Of doors. and when
he does leave the house it is only
for a brief walk around the inner
rnoat but it is quite untrue that he is
81 bowed and broken old man.
You may see him on one OF his oc-
casional after-breakfast walks round
the moat dressed in plain clothes with
n cloak thrown over his shoulders,
striding forward, his head up. his
arms swinging. the whole body or the
man stilI electric with that nervous
energy which made him something OF
n whirlwind in former days. His eye
keeps its fire, Ills lips their f1rmness'
his voice It's ring, but there are
changes. His hair is white. the point
ed beard which he has grown adds