German-American Vines. So unusual is mob violence in Germany that the whole Fatherland was shocked last week, when 5.000 Rhineland peasants sullenly surrounded the District Court House at quaint Germersheim. Shaking gnarled fists, brandishing keen pruning knives, they behaved exactly like U. S. citizens about to lynch.
Inside the Court House cowered no blackamoor. Something else had roused the passions of the mob. A law about an insect: phylloxera vastatrix.
Between 1882 and 1885 this terrible parasite swept the vineyards of France, blighted more than 2,500,000 acres, caused an...
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