Show A CALAMITY IN FRANCE I Another illusion has gone from froni the French mind Heretofore I comet year eal has alwa always s 's been thought to mark a n good wine year But this ye yc year r while the United States has suffered greatly from want of rain the best wine districts in France Prance have been ff flooded oded and amid the expectation now is that there will vill be no burgundy no claret and no DO cham cham- p for 1910 IDIO altogether the time most discouraging ing r year ear on record for a wine growing country The Theother Theother other crops have suffered ver very much too grain fodder potatoes and and other grains and and vegetables But France i. i is a resourceful country Wine Vine is advancing advancing ad ad- rapidly in value and she expects that that from froni Algiers there will be a supply sufficient to tp meet a part of the time demand And pretty good substitutes substitutes substitutes sub sub- will be supplied for everything except cHampagne That threatens now to be a total fa failure fail fail- l- l tare ure for this year cal and we in this country hardly realize what this is to France because there is many a farmer who vimo depends on the grape crop from three acres of land for the years year's necessities and when the grapes are arc destroyed it comes prett pret- pret t ly nearly bein being an actual calamity It is to a community com corn what the exhaustion of ore in a mine is to the miner |