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Show H-C0I1G OF WIFEAND BABY Father Gaily Awaits Family, Little Daughter Dies on Street Car. Wild Flowera Gathered For Joyful Meeting Will Be Laid on Grave of Little One. Chicago, May 19. Instead of a home-coming feast at tho house of Esso Borszelgh, South Deering, there is mourning. Flowers' gathered for tho reception of his wife and tho two-year-old daughter tho father had never seen, will be laid on the grave of the baby. Little Emma Boszeigh died in her mother's arms a few minutes before the street car stopped In front of tho home. Two years ago the father came to Chicago, leaving his bride In her Austrian home. Emma was born roon afterwards and every penny tho father could save went to furnish a home and to buy a ticket for the wife and child. They came to the now home, but the life of the little one slipped away as she lay nestling on her mother's breast Tlie street car crew left their post of duty and carried the dead body to the home where the father waited gaily for his family. He had gathered gath-ered wild flowers for the event and there was an old-fashioned Austrian feast., with a company of friends waiting to greet the newcomers. DEALING WITH LOCUST PLAGUE. Methods Employed by the Dwellers in Algeria. Algeria and Tunis have this year suffered from an extraordinary Invasion Inva-sion of locusts. The locusts arrlvo from the direction of the deserts In swarms so thick as to hide the sun. They cover the. ground as with a yellow yel-low carpet, and sometimes render tho railways so slippery that the trains can hardly run. At this stage they are not voracious, being engaged principally In laying their eggs. But 40 days later the young locusts, not yet winged, begin be-gin to, run about devouring every green thing. Including not only leaves, but even the bark and tender shoots of trees. The hordes, advancing in a body, sometimes cover an area of several sev-eral square miles. Barricades of cloth, surrounded with wax strips, erected In the line of march. arreBt the prog-ress prog-ress of the insects, which are unable to crawl up the smooth surface. Passing Pass-ing along tho line of the barricades, they fall Into ditches dug for tho. purpose, pur-pose, whero they are killed with corrosive cor-rosive liquids. Another method is to smooth descending paths, ending in poisoned ditches. The Insects follow the descents, and thus go to their deaths. Youth's Companion. j |