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Show SULLEN AND SILENT. Dispatches purporting to shed light on tho manner in which William Hohen-zollern Hohen-zollern is spending" his enforced retreat in Amerongen are so conflicting that it is. difficult to judge the exact effects of his downfall on tho deportment and attitude of tho former master of the lives and fortunes of seventy millions of follow creatures. One correspondent will picture the deposed kaiser as daily indulging . in tho pastime of sawing wood, in a literal sense, rather a trvina physical task for the man whom another an-other equally authentic writer portrays as hobbling about, bent and broken, with the aid of a cane. Still gnother writer reports the former for-mer (kaiser, on the authority of a member mem-ber of his somewhat depleted entourage, as .professing a readiness to accept whatever fate may have iu store, a chastened and contrite man, desiring nothing better than to live in quiet far from politics and intrigue. Another personal 'attendant, on tho other hand, tells how, with flashing eye and vehement vehe-ment tongue, Hcrr Hohenzollern "swears the day soon will come when his enemies ene-mies will rue their work. The cables tell of trunkfuls of golden hoards taken to Holland from bank vaults whero they had been stored by the thrifty kaiser in the heyday of his imperial swashbuckling; swashbuck-ling; next day comes the story of Wil-helm Wil-helm 's appeal to the Weimar national ' assembly to replenish his personal j stock, since he is anxious to pay Count Bentinck for his lodgings and meals. The one-time war lord is variously pictured as chafing under his disgrace and holding secret communication with those who would restore him; as discountenancing dis-countenancing any such step at all and as determined never to meddle again in i the affairs of the continent. Only on j one point are the pen pictures of the refugee of Amerongen agreed that the j former monarch eats three meals a dav ' and does not venture beyond the con-I fines of the Bentinck castle grounds, i Wilhelm, who has been fond of com- j paring his fall with that of Napoleon, ! does not seem inclined to carry the j analogy to the point of trusting himself to the mercy of the British. Napoleon went to St. Helena for his misoiaced confidence after Waterloo made it necessary to go somewhere; Holland is much nearer to Europe and far more desirable as a place of residence, even for an exile. |