Show VINEYARDS IN PORTUGAL grape growers in bad way over inability to dispose of stored up crops the distress among the agricultural laborers Is taxing in many parts ol 01 portugal the resources of the loca a especially in the wine als trots of the north where the crisli beems to be most acute so keen ap pears to be the distress that the sub eject has been laid before ane carlla mant according to the local press in the districts whose products in prosperous roul limes are a chief source of the oun ti wealth many of he vineyard viney art owners have in their ce lars the har acts of two years grapo crowth are to sell except at hi ge sacrifice and not being able tc obtain the cash on which they count ea for help from banke a and othen to tide over bad times they have re solved this year to discontinue ir vineyards vine yarda the hoen g and othel indispensable labor this has led to non employment of some thousand of hands who otherwise have counted upon employment employ men hinger and misery t Is said an seen everywhere and lap poor stara ing wretches are spreading themselves vel over the country to the detriment others of the working cla s whose lo 10 1 1 little better and resorting t pilfering and begging to satisfy thel needs instances are said by the to have occurred where some men wh were considered well to do 1 ave solved for themselves the ques ion of financial difficult PS by resort ing to suicide some few years ago a regular fevel of vineyard making spread over the northern halt of the coun ry and over production has been the result which wiser portuguese heads foresaw and avoided but their warnings wre noi tf bed |