The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
Special Correspondence.)

Amerongen, Holland, Aug. 27.- is like waiting for a train. There is the same dull monotony, the same ab- sence of diversion, the same ming ling bored strangers.
 Amerongen, the village where noth- ing happens, seems to possess a weird attraction for troubled monarchs. When things were going wrong with his armies in Flanders, Louis XIV, dreamt uneasy dreams in Castle Bentinck; when Napoleon was run ming away from Alexander of Russia in the great retreat from Moscow, he occupied the room now used by the Kaiser, while his cavalry knocked down part of the wall of the old church in order to stable their horses.
 Castle Bentinck is a sixteenth cen tury creation, which in summer re- sembles a damp gaOl, and in winter an ice-bound fortress. Before it pass ed to the present owner it was held by Countess Villiers, an English lady. and English associations are strong in the village.
 There is in the adjacent woods a monument to the Earl of Athlone. who was present at the battle of Wat erIoo and on Sunday afternoons ue Dutch boys, who have more freedom and less manners than any boys in Europe, enjoy themselves by throwing stones at the edifice, not because they are anti-English, but simply because it provides an excellent target.
 He SuIlxs and Saws.
 The present Count Bentinck, the ex- Kaiser's host, recently celebrated his at no castle when the villagers presented him with a lamp for the gates. It was an exciting day for Amerongen. Tall hats brought when Queen WiIhelmina came to the throne were brought out and dusteG, and gowns fashionable in the early eighties were reverently taken from lavender-scented chests, and worn with becoming splendor in the castle grounds.
 Wilhelm of Amerongen is a man with a Vandyke beard and no ambi- tion, unless the saving up of 10000 trees can be called an ambition. In the early days of his internment he occasionally shot in the neighboring fields, but now he just sulks and saws. Under a fire-a oe surrounded by a screen, with his doctor as an assist ant, he saws methodically from ten in the morning till one in the after noon.
 Every hour he has a "breather," " during which he smokes a cigarette, and he generously shares his case with the laborers. He has been known even to unbend so far as to allow a humble wood-cutter to light his cig- arctic at the burning end of the I'm periaI fag" Smoking, by the way, is not popular at Castle BenducE, as the ex-Kaiserin strongly objects to tobacco-smoke, and even Wilhelm, the once most highest, has to go into the garden to smoke.
 Playing at Kings. There is a small and diminishing Court at the castle, and everybody is bored with the ex-Kaiser's nightly pretence of playing at kings. Before | dinner the village barber visits the 1 castle. brushes the Imperial hair, | trains .he Imperial moustache, and 1 trims the Imperial beard. When he | first came to AmerOngen, Wilhelm had i his own barber, but the latter was tempted to talk by an enterprising | Journalist, and he was sent back to Germany. And one of the most rigid . rules of the exPrussian Court is, that 1 if a servant once leaves the Imperial 1 Service, he or she can never re- | turn.
 ! At present the men round the Kat-