The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-27

will have to face the opposition of the suffragettes as well as of the proper tied classes. Mrs. Henry F'awcett is president of the Union.
 The canal terminals at Balboa and Christobal. Panama, have now become regular ports of call for several steam ship lines. Interruption of the Te- huantepec railway route across south ern Mexico drove considerable ship ping to these ports. but even now. with the Tehuantepec service re-estab lished there are many boats which continue to call at Balboa or Cr1stobal for transfer of cargo across the isthrnus. The American Hawaiian Steamship Company has gone back to the Mexi- can ports, but only until the canal is ready for regular use The Elder & F'yfe company. however, which has hitherto had only an occasiona1 ser vice between Liverpool and Cristobal has now increased it's service and is running regular steamships, and a Norwegian line of tramp steamers call regularly, while on the west coast the Salvad brian railway steamship line has been diverted from Mexican ports to Balboa.
 It is5understood also that steamers of new Japanese line will begin ser vice to Balboa soon.
 Prof Henry Pettier of the Panama apartment of Agriculture, has discov- cred a new species belonging to the natural order of leguminosae, or the bean family, on which he has confer red the name Gothalsia Isthmica, to perpetuate the name of the canal builder in botany.
 Col. Goethals has had a number of children named after him. but this is his first honor of the botanic order. The leguminosae family. incidently, knows no limit. Before Prof. Pettier's Identification of this new member it already had upwards of 1000 species
 Although the Panama rainy season has been on for more than a month. the saturatfon of the earth has not increased the Cucaracha. slide which the dredges have been racing to over come. It is estimated that the dirt is now being removed twice as fast as it slides in thes channel, and that level rest for the slide may soon be reach ed. The depth of the channel is now over 3 8 feet and with a width of more than 200 feet 1t was more than suffi- cfent to accommodate the Panama Railroad Steamship AIliancas of 1000 E tons, which was the first ocean liner to pass through the canal, without rnishap. Even a 1O.-000-ton ship would have no difficulty, but the ca nal is not yet ready for the bigger warships.
 That films presenting the person of Jesus are calculated to shock the sen sIbilities of religious people and may not be presented in Prussia is the fin al decision of the Prussian supreme court upho1ding 8 police prohibition of the pictures. The film story was taken from Klopstock,s Messiah. It is 2, pretentious example of cinenato- graphic art. The court. ruling against 1t, bases its decision on a former de- cisfon, holding the Christian religion to be a part < of the public order, against whose disturbance the police are empowered to act It considers the film in iteelf likely to offend, and declares a further possibility of ofrense Is the fact that 1t might be presented in connection with comic scenes.
 The Minister of Commerce has nam ed a commission of fifteen members to study the details of Bulgarian partici- patton in the San Francisco Fair. A request will soon be made on ParIia- ment by the government for a grant of $6O.00o with which to pay the ex- pense of representation.