The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-27
William The WOOdCutter
 Chummy With LabOrers
HAS 10000 TREES TO CUT DOWN ON GROUNDS OF CASTLE BENTINCK, THE
 HAUNT OF DISTRESSED KINGS.

ser consist of Excellent won Goutard,
 Marshal of the Court; Court Council Tor Knauf; Captain von Ilsemann, pri-
 vate secretary; pr. Karl Foerster.
 body physician; and Excellent pr. J.
 Kriege, financial adviser; while Countess Keller, a white-haired old
 aristocrat, is the lady-in-waiting.
 Salaries are by no means princely.
 Won Gontard receives 5000 marks a
 year, and Knauf 5000 marks. As the
 mark is now worth about IT cents
 an American woodchopper would turn
 up his nose at the pay. The Kaiser
 himself is taxed locally on an annual
 income of s50O,0OO and he is the
 highest taxpayer in the village, not
 excluding Count Bentinck. who is
 considered a wealthy man.
 Young Count Carlos Rentinck a
 Dutch diplomatist, and eldest son of
 the Count, has been placed by the Dutch Government in charge of the
 Kaiser. He is a charming man.
 During the war Amerongen was strongly pro-German, but now the ! market-gardeners and tobacco-plant- CTS who constitute the population are i not so sure that Deutschland uber l alles" is much of a tune after all The golden days of smuggling have SOhOs anu lilc NdlSeI IS d poor GX- change for unlimited guilders War Brought Wealth. A prominent resident showed me a | secret opening in the floor of his drawing-room, where vast stores of cheese, butter and oil hal lain con- cealed ready for smuggling across | the frontier in the glorious days of IS and '16. He was fined 5000 gull ders on one day, and took double the | amount in profit on the following
 night.
 The Kaiser is not exactly a vel l come guest in Holland but the Dutch | Government will not give him up un- 1 less and until economic pressure is | brought to bear by the Powers And | that is just what the Dutch Govern | ment wants. A mere request refused | would put them in a corner, but if they were compelled to submit to l threats, they would obey with a good
 grace, thereby saving their national pockets. Personally, knowing some
 thing of Amerongen, I should say | that if the ex-Kaiser is compelled to | end his days there it serves him just
 right
 | Visitors-chiefly American officers come to the village, and walk | around the walls of the castle taking | snapshots of the stolid Dutch police | guards, and buying souvenirs al one | or other of the half dozen shops in | the village. A mile from the village | the Rhine flows swift through flat | meadowland, and in the dense woods | the birds sing amid the shadows, but ] as disgruntled American newspaper | correspondent put it, he couldn't see
 what they had to sing about. | \ Suitable Penalty. | There are two daily eXcitements in 1 Amerongen; one is watching the 1 steam train come in, and the other
 is seeing it go out! When the daugh- | ter of the village pastor married a l Chinaman the other week, the un- 1 wonted strain caused an epidemic of l sleeping-sickness
 Amerongen has one Kaiser, one
 woman Socialist, and one Bolshevfst | and the village is obsessed by this ] trinity of trouble. As the oldest in habitant. pathetically observes: 'The 1 village is not what it used to be | Times do be changing, and so much 1 excitement cannot be good for young | folks. Why" he exclaimed indignant | ly. they will e having one of them | picture palaces next!'
 | Again, I say, if the powers really 1 wish to punish the eX-kaiser, they | should compel him to remain al l Amerongen. (From the International News Bureau, Inc.)