THE SEMI WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRA8KA. FORCED TO WORK IN KRUPP PLANT X- Ocportcd Men and Prisoners Are Driven Into Slavery by Ger man Authorities. MAKE STARTLING DISCLOSURE Hollander Tells How Deported Bel Clans and French Prisoners of War Are Compelled to Work In Munitions Factory In Essen. By W. J. L. KIEHL. (Correspondent of tho Chicago News.) Tlio Ilngue, Holland. A Netherland er who until four days ngo was em ployed at Krupp's munition works in Essen, Germany, makes the startling enclosure that some 4,000 Hollanders ro working ut Essen In the munition end war material factories. Most of these men get there through tho machi nations of what this "escaped" Hol lander calls "Seelencrkaufer" Cohen tt Ossendcgncr of Rotterdam, who eeem to act us agents for supplying Germany with greutly needed lubor. Eighty or ninety men n day generally find their way across tho border by means of their agents, lured by the prospect of very high wages and good food. What they And In reality and how next to impossible It is made for them to return to their own country Is thus told In the Hollander's words: No Return Pass Given. "When this firm of agents secured my services they did not mention war work," ho said. "I was given to under stand that Held labor and trade work was required. Also I was promised that I could return any Saturday to Holland to stay through Sunday. The promised wages were high and food wns said to be plentiful. I accepted, my pass wus ready In u few moments, but I did not know that the signatures and vises required for my return to Holland had been omitted, as they al ways are In thqjpasses given by these agents, no doubt because they know perfectly well that after a week In Germany no slnglo Hollander would over think of returning thero uftcr his week-end In Holland. "Soon after my entrance upon Ger man soil nt Elten, where I found sev eral compatriots like myself, wo wero met by an agent from an 'arbclts bu reau,' who secured our services for shcllmnklng nt Krupp's by telling us that food was good thero and wages very high. Ho said that In other branches of labor food wus but indif ferent and tho wages nothing like Krupp's, so wo men went to Essen. How good the food wns there you can judge of by tho fact that my weight CREWS CRAZED U-Boat Victims Lick Boats for Moisture and Seek Death in Sea. TELLSTALESQF PLUCKY DEEDS Herolo Acts of Officers and Men Be longing to All Branches of Sea Services, Naval and Mercantile. London. Much lias been written about tho hardships endured by tho crows of vessels sunk by German sub marines. Hero aro somo particulars dealing with tho plucky deeds per formed by olllcers and men belonging to all branches of tho sea services, naval and mercantile. Tho. first case Is Unit of a passenger steamer which had been torpedoed on a Mondny, without wurntng, as usual, In tho Atlantic, !(20 miles from Innd. Tho chief olllccr took charge of No. 2 lifeboat, which had on board 111 per sons, Including two women and a baby four mouths old. Bad wenther prevailed all that day nud throughout the night, Increasing the plight of tho miserable people. Pro visions, too, were scarco, but what ex istcd was taken charge of by the chief HOLD LIBERTY BONDS People Urged to Retain Them as Permanent Investment. Government Discourages Practice of Merchants In Accepting Them in Exchange for Merchandise. United Stutcs treasury officials are Becking to discourage the practice fol lowed by many merchants throughout the country of offering to accept Lib erty bonds of the first and second is sues at pur, and In soma cases at a premium, In exchnngo for merchandise. They hold that such practlco defeats the primary object of tho snlo of the bonds, discouraging the general thrift movement and Increasing expenditures, thus depriving tho government of la bor and mnterlal needed for war pur poses. "While I have no doubt that nier- hunts uru actuated by patroltlc rao l titf.' wild Secretary of the Treusury was reduced by 24 pounds whllo there. "For breakfast wo received two slices of bread without any butter or fat whatever. .For dinner potato soup that left us hungry an hour nfter eating. Then In the evening again two slices of bread llko at breakfast. If the Hollander felt too ill or feeble to work the Germans simply took away his bed from under him to make him get up. Oh, yes, there Is u doctor, but ho always diagnoses the untile. 'You enn work if you don't work you won't eat' 'nicht urbcltcu nlcth esseu,' as wo used to put it "The laborers arc housed by the 000 together In barracks, which are but lnsuitlclently wnrined and imperfectly GETTING MAIL IN French soldiers In the trenches made ones nt home. f cleaned. Typhus claims mnny victims. In the barracks whero I was housed I found four men lying dend of typhus beside my crib one morning. After n few days of this sort of thing It Is not to bo woudered nt that many Holland ers try In every way to get back to their country, although tho vises on their passes aro lacking. "If they are captured they, aro thrown Into prison for a fortnight on brend and water. If thoy survlvo thoy nro then drafted back to Krupp's, and set to work again. Production Is pushed to the utmost. Numbers of sol- BY SUFFERING olllccr, who doled out half a dipper (half-pint) of water to each person night and morning. They had been bnrely twenty-four hours In tho boat when the horrors of tho situation wero added to by mad ness. On the Tuesday the cook lost Ills reason, nud on the Wednesday he died. That night witnessed the Insnn lty of tho storekeeper, who hnd to be lashed down. On Thursday he too died. On Friday an A. H. expired. Water Begins to Get Low. Tho water was now beginning to give out and tho boat's company suf fered from Intense thirst. A lire-man was found dead In the bottom of tho boat on Saturday morn ing, and tho third-clnss pantry boy died durlng'the day. On Sunday the cnttlcmun tried to Jump overboard three times, and suc ceeded ut the fourth attempt. Tho sur vivors wero In too feeble a state to savo him, although they turned the bont round and searched for him. Tho water gave out on Sunday. There wero occasional showers of rain, but everything was saturated with salt, and the little water they got was uudrlnkablc. They licked the woodwork, hoping to gather up the raindrops Then thoy broke up tho wuter keg, and licked tho inside, which they found saturated with moisture, and delicious. At 3 p. m. on Monday laud was sighted, McAdoo, In a statement given out through tho federal reserve banks, "I am sure that they have fulled to con sider tho effect which tho acceptance nf their offers havu upon tho situation. Wo aro making tho strongest effort to have theso government bonds pur chased for permanent Investment by the people nt large, to bo paid for out of the past and future savings of thoso who buy them. Purchases thus made not only result In providing funds for tho uses of tho government, but they also effect n conservation of labor nnd material. "When the bonds aro exchanged for merchandise, the primary object of their sulo Is defeated, discouraging thrift and Increasing expenditure. In addition to this, such bonds, when tak en In exchange for merchandise, must in most cases be Immediately sold In tho open market. This naturally tends to depress tho market prlco of tho Is sue and makes It less easy to sell fu ture Issues at tho same rate." Secretary McAdoo believes that the merchants of the country, upon a more careful consideration of the subject, win discontinue meir eiioris to cii dlers are employed us a change from the front, niwl them' men are so afrahj at bolne airaln pent to the front thac they would rather work themselves Iti death at Krupp's. Where Deported Belgians Work. "Deported Belgians and French prlsj oners of war also work at KruppV; Discipline Is strictly enforced, and anV utterances of anti-German views nri ut once punished. "I got the Impression that German. flung Itself llko mad Into munltloil work ns Its lost cord. But row mui terlol Is getting scarce, especially copj ncr. In Essen nil copper faucets um the like hud nlrcudy been rcplnced b Iron and tin. The general Idea In Gerj many Is that the wnr con bo prolongeij nt the utmost for another half yenr.so; they are employing their last forceH for n supreme effort. "Every evening nt Krupp's nlnrms M made 'Flleger Gemcldct' airplanes1 reported. All lights are then cxtlm gulshed. This Is dono so that w THE TRENCHES happy by letters from the loved should not know when flyers renllj came to bomburd the fuctorles. No one Is allowed to talk of the damage donuj by allied bombs, and the newspaper! i i i i , ..n .... . . i uru I'lijuuiL'u iu hi-i-ii miuucu uu UIUS matters. Still, I can say that sum damage has been done, although I can-) not say how much nor exuetly where' On the other hand," stories likely tq stimulate tho energy of the people arej eagerly promulgated, such as those oil enormous submarines of drendnaughtj type, of guns that can shoot 1)0 klloJ meters mat aro soon to oo useu against; tne allien armies." but It was n long way off, and by thd tlrao thoy drew near durkness and i henvy northerly swell made a lundlnu Impossible. They lny to, und durlnd a squall their mast carried uway at th heel, but that did not matter much, tot It acted as a sea anchor. At daylight on Tuesday they wer sighted by u couple of fishing boats! which towed them into port. The babj lived for somo time after being lundcdj Tho linen keeper died ns ho was belnjj lifted from the boat. Two of the crow refused to leave tho boat, having gon mad. A trimmer died from gangrene two weeks later. The chief oillcer remarked : "I would like to testify to the excellent bchnvlot of the boat's crow throughout our pei rlod of eight days' hardship and e.'t posure." o UlVbS HU5BANU AND x o x o t o x o t o Ct o I o t o t o t o Cx o B o 3 SONS FOR COUNTRY Ltnglc, Wyo. A husband and three sons for Uncle Sam's lib erty forces Is tho contribution of Mrs. John M. Bennett, of this town. With all the male members of her family preparing In vnrlous training camps for the fight for democracy and humanity, Mrs. Ilennett and her two young daughters spend a great deal of their leisure doing Red Cross work. 3 o. 3 o i o 3 ooooio9oioJ?ooio.poojoy nierchnndlso and take Liberty bonds hi paymont for It. FIND GUINEA EGGS IN SNAKE Setting Hen Finishes the Job Hatching Out' Seven Little Guineas. by. Mrmlfrln. Ci all christened "Jonah," because thov spent pnrt of their prenatal period tiu tho stomach of a rcptllo without harm i....n,,i...... .i... i. . . i III llll-iuavii:n Ul ihu M1UKC, Until t( latter was unhappily cut open, are thrt proud possession of L. D. Alford of! . ... . i uoiquill county. Whllo picking cotton early this fall.1 Mr. Alford noticed n snnko lying In it cotton row In a torpid state with Its body considerably swollen. Kllllnu tne hiuiku ami ciuuiik u open, Alford f mi nd Kcvcn irulncn eccs Insliln ni u which hnd recently been stolen from the nest of n setting hen. Placing tho eggs under n sotting nen it) his nearby ham, Mr. Alford was overjoyed n few dnvs later to find seven Httlo culnei imtchcd out und happy. i 1 3 i he KITCHEN CABINET True bravery Is shown by perform ing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world. La Kochefocauld. SOMETHING TO EAT. Tho following Is a new recipe which many mothers will enjoy making for the kiddles. Clover Leaves. Take seven tn blespoonfuls of butterlne, or any fat, a cupful of sugar, n half teu spoonful of salt, two beaten egg yolks, one beaten ,whlte, u half teaspoon fill of lemon Juice and the grated peel, two cupfuls of (lour and two tablespoonfuls of bak ing powder. Knead lightly, roll out innd cut with a club cutter. After ihe jcookles ure placed In the pun, brush 'over the other egg white benten Bllght !ly sprinkle with chopped almonds nnd sugar. Farina Date Pudding. While eook- ,Ing fnrlnn or any of the fine cerenls, sweeten and ndd a cupful of chopped dates. Finish cooking, stir In a tea- spoonful of lemon Juice nnd pour Into n fancy mold to harden. Let stand until firm und serve with cream and sugar. Clam Pie. Mix two tablespoonfuls of shortening Into a quart of flour un- till It Is like meat, adding two table spoonfuls of baking powder, n pinch of salt and Ice wuter to the consistency of pie crust. Roll out nnd bake like in snortcalte. Split butter while not 'n It I til n mrA 1ir uu tirtst n ti il tin 111 Q ltllS j iuu i ft till v Mimui :Scald tho clnms in their own liquor, strain them out and reserve them. To (the broth add a tnblespoonful of flour mixed with two of fat, salt and pepper 'to taste. Return the clams to the sauce, boll up and pour over the short cake. Oysters may be used In n simi tar fashion. Baked Savory Eggs. Cook In the Shells ns mnny eggs us there ure peo ple to serve. Prepnre rounds of toast, gutter slightly and put on the plntter $o be used for serving. Cut the eggs n hnlves lengthwise, and take out tho folks. Put two halves on each piece )f toast. Have ready some bits of tongue finely minced nnd cream It Kvlth the egg yolks, season with snlt, pepper and butter and refill each egg white, making It round up In n small jnnund. Huve a cupful of white snuce. thickened nnd seasoned with tomato ptsup. Turn this hot over the toast around tne eggs, serve not nt once. Many a man gets a reputation for dignity when lie really Is suffering -from a ntln neck. GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE. Two or three bunches of green onions, cooked stems and all. and served on toast with a rich white sauce, makes a most tnsty dish. Ar range as asparagus is served. Sour Cream Omelet. Separate the yolks and whites of six eggs, add a teaspoonful of salt laud u llttlo pepper, bent thoroughly, idd three-fourths of n cupful of sour (cream and bent again. Whip the whites stiff, fold Into tho yolk mix- tture und pour Into the omelet pnn with h tnblespoonful of hot fat. Cook (gently until browned on the bottom, jthen set In the oven to cook on top. Fold nnd servo on n hot platter. Chicken en Ramekins. Take a cup ful of diced chicken, add two chopped plmcntocs, and n cupful nnd n hnlf of rich white sauce. Fill buttered j-ameklns nnd cover with buttered crumbs, plnco a whole almond In the .center of each dish and brown In. n hot oven. Mary Plckfcrd's Fried Chicken Dress nnd quarter two chickens. Rent two eggs, adding two tenspoonfuls of snlt nnd a few dashes of pepper. Dip .the chlckenfirst In this, then in flour. Melt a half cupful of sweet fat In a hot pan nnd when sizzling hot ndd the chicken, brown well. Slice one onion innd sprlnklo over the chicken, then cover tight nnd simmer for one hour. 'Rcmovo the chicken nnd add four tn iblespoonfuls of flour, a pint each of heavy cream nnd milk. Let It boll up !once nnd season well. Pour over the ,'chlcken and servo or servo tho gravy In n separate dish. Bean Scallop. Soak a generous cup ful of dried Lima beans over night. Drain off this wnter In the morning, cover with fresh water with a tea spoonful of salt and simmer well cov ered four hours, then add three ontnns icut in slices and cook another hour. (Drain off most of tho liquor, put Into ;n baking dish, turn In a can of tomn (toes, cover tho top with buttered 'crumbs nnd bake In a moderate oven 'until the top Is well browned. Pot Cheese With Chives Wash and cut the chives as tine ns possible, then mix with cottage cheese, adding cream from tlnio to time as needed. Make .Into bulls and turn over them n little Bweet, thick crenm. Krult Salad. Cut u half-pound of mr.rahmallows Into small pieces. Cut up a few slices of pineapple, two or thro bananas and an apple, ull mixed with sweetened nnd flavored whipped cream. Garnish with cherries. Only wlmt we have brought Into our character during II fd can we take away with us. Humboldt. Light la the tank when many share the toll. Homer. A PLATE OF PANCAKES. There are many delectable pancakes with unexpected bits of finely chopped apple or a variety ofi spices und finvorlng to offer u choice to the most exnctlng palate. French or Jelly Pan cakes. Beat the yolks and whites of three eggs, separately. To the yolk.1 add one tenspoonful of sugar and n half tenspoonful of salt) and a half cupful of milk. Stir In a half cupful of sifted flour, nuothec half cupful of milk, one tnblespoonfuj of melted fat und lnstly the stimy benten whites of the eggs. One less, egg und one-hnlf n tenspoonful of bnk Ing powder mny be used. Bnkc on a, hot griddle, making the cukes slightly: lnrger than usual. Spread each cakq with Jelly and roll while hot. Place onj a platter and sprinkle with sugar, with; a red-hot wire toaster scorch lines onj the sugared cakes. This gives an atj tructlve nppearancc and n slight flavor) of burnt sugar. Potato Pancakes. Peel, wash and grate the potatoes, drain and to overy; two cupfuls nllow one beaten egg. two tablespoonfuls of Hour and sufllclent milk to make a stiff batter. Season, with salt, pepper and onion juice. Cook In n frying pnn In hot fat until well browned on both sides. Serve with meat and gravy. Corn Pancakes With Tomato Sauce, To each eupfjil of canned corn, allow one beaten egg, a teaspoonful of melt ed butter, salt, pepper and sufilelen flour nnd milk to make n batter. Th quantities differ, varying as" to thq moisture of the corn. Fry on a hot griddle nnd serve with hnmburg steak and tomnto sauce. Place u round ofj the hnmburg on each cake cover with tomato snuce and serve. iaycr r'ancaKes. uix two wein beaten eggs with two cupfuls of milk nnd add gradually sufllclent flour nnd milk to mnke a bntter. Add a half tea- spoonful ench of snlt nnd baking pow der Just before starting to bake tho i cukes. Make the cakes the size of a dessert plate and spread with butter and maple sugar. Keep hot until five are rendy. Arrange like a layer cake and cut In wedge-shaped pieces when serving. With ten or cocon this mnkes a nice luncheon dish. A true diplomat can say something pleasant to u collector, even though i he hopes never to see him again. ECONOMICAL DISHES. The following dishes will be found, mnny of them rnther unusunl, but y worthy a place among the good. things. Potato Nut Cro. quettes. Mix to gether In one dish two cupfuls ofi sweet potatoes cooked nnd mnsh- ed with hnlf n cupful of fresh chopped cocouut. In another dish mix n cupful of mashed white potatoes with three tablespoon fuls of finely chopped blanched nl monds. Sepnrato the yolks and whites of two eggs, bent the yolks slightly, Form the white potato mixture Into; smnll balls using the whites of the, eggs, dust with white pepper. Roll the1 sweet potato mixture moistened with) egg yolks around the white bnlls, form Ing them with tho hands; dust with pn;irlka and roll In finely minced par sley. Fry In deep fat. Drain nnd pn per and serve hot. East India Meat Balls. Chop n pound of raw beef, two stalks of eel ery. one smnll onion, a tnblespoonful of finely chopped parsley, a teaspoon ful of curry powder, two eggs, n half, cupful of boiled lice, salt and cayenne pepper to tnste. Mnke Into balls and cook In deep fat. Serve with a border of cooked rice and pour over all highly seasoned tomnto sauce. Piquant Cheese Sandwiches. Beat three eggs, and n cupful of sweet or sour erenm. a tnuiespoonnil of sweet fat, a tablespoonful of sugnr, a llttlt nayenne and a teaspoonful of mus tnrd. Cook over boiling wnter until thick. Heat three tablespoonfuls of mild vinegar and ndd It to tho cream mixture, Cook n minute then ndd n pound nnd u half of rich cheese and four tnblespoonfuls of finely chopped green or red peppers with u tenspoon ful of snlt. Just let the cheese melt. This mnkes dressing enough to sprnd several dozen sandwiches. Pottage. Chop four small onions nnd cook In two tnblespoonfuls of fat until soft nnd yellow. Add n enn of red kidney beans, u enn of tomatoes, simmer until soft enough to force through a sieve nnd when ready to servo add a pinch of soda und thin with hot milk. Senson well with snlt and pepper. Rnunnas browned in n little hot fnt, or cooked until well hinted, then serveil as a vegetable with steak, mnkes n most tjtsty dish, H WESTERN CANADA'S CEREAL CROP One of the Best Ever Harvested". The cereal crop of Western Canada for 1017 was the most valuable ont ever hnrvcBtcd; tho returns from flH classes of live stock have been equally satisfactory. The wool" clip wns aot only greater than In any previous year, but the price obtained was double tbat of 1010, which In turn was almost double that of the year before.. As was tho case in 1015 and 1016, many farmers were able to pay tor their land outright with the proceeds of their first year's crop. Further evi dence of the prosperity of Western Canada Is shown by tbo fact tbat on In every twenty of the population t now the owner of an automobile. If the farming community alone Is taken, It will be found that the proportion of automobile owners Is still greater. The bank clearings of the leading cities .of Western Canada were consistently higher than they were In the corre sponding periods of 1010, and then they were higher than tho year preceding. In Winnipeg $500,000,000 more wa cl"ued In the 11 months ending No vember SO than in the same months a year ago. The entry of the United States into- the wnr has strengthened tho bonds between that ccuntry and Canndn. We are now working together for the- same ends. TJ ose wuo are not fighting are promoting n grcnter production of foodstuffs. In this connection Western Cnnada offers n wonderful opportu nity. Not only can larger quantities of staple foodstuffs be produced, but the cost of production is lower and th remuneration grenter thun where Innd Is more expensive. Notwithstanding the fact that the price of fnrm prod ucts has doubled during the past three years, there are millions of acres of arnble land In Western Cnnada which. can still be bought at a low price. Western Canada has un enormous- acreage prepared for seeding to wheat in 1018. It Is larger than in 1017, and' will probably surpass the record area put into crop in the year 1015, when tile largest crop ever known in the West was harvested. The year 101& should also sec a further increase la live stock activity. Farmers hnvo been investing consid erable sums in cnttle; tho high prlcet secured for wool nnd mutton hnvr opened the eyes of Western farmers tc the possibilities of sheep, and such wni the demund for breeding animals last fall that It was impossible to meet It adequately; the campaign for greater hog production is expected to yield ns Increase of between 25 and 50 per cent In 1018. Those who are contemplating coming to Western Cnnada cannot do better than come early lu tho spring when they can put In n crop and harvest it In the fall. In this way they will be uble to achieve something thnt wll) not only be of great benefit to them selves, but nlso to the great cause for which the Allies, Including the United States, are now fighting. Advertise ment An Apt Student. A young woman who went to Colum bia to take her degree of doctor of philosophy married her professor Id tho middle of her second year. When she announced her engagement one of her friends said : "But, Edith, I thought you enme up here to get your Ph-D." "So I did," replied Edith ; "but I had no Idea I would get him so soon." To keep clean nnd healthy take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu late liver, bowels and stomach. Adv. Enough to Know. "Docs he know anything about poker?" "Everything he never plays." Buffalo Express. For Pimply Faces. To remove pimples nnd blockheads smear them with Cutlcura OintmeuL Wash off In five minutes with Cutlcura Soap and hot wnter. For free samples, address "Cutlcura, Dept. X, Boston." At druggists and by mall. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and CO. Adv. The Narrow Mind. A narrow mind will not ndmlre, neither will n conceited one. Madame Qasparln. Don't be ashamed to wear your old clothes until you cun afford to pay for new ones. ITappy is the home where Red Cros Hall Blue is used. Sure to pleaie. AD crocers, Adv. Proving It. "Juhho Is a man of great promise." "Um I So, he's been borrowing from you, too." Coated tongue, vertigo and consti pation nro relieved by Garfield Tea. Adv. 2 Hot Water. "Bllggltis Is always getting Into hot wuter." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "He is so cold-blooui'd 1 suppose It Is a. kind of relief." f?J!..i2 Murlns Is for Tired Eyes. I fclGVieS Red Eye Sora Eye I g annotated Hyelldt. Utnu S Uefretbea lienor t. Murine U Fat orlta 3. Treatment for Hjei that () dry and smart. 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