at they have little cause for anger, because Oom Paul
rebuked his grandson and suspended him from duty. It is probable that the
young man, whose name is Lieutenant Eloff, will have to leave the army in
consequence.

It is said that the President is extremely annoyed that these remarks
were made, and has ordered Lieutenant Eloff never to mention the Queen's
name in public again.

* * * * *

New York City came very near having to build up a new charter.

After the work was finished by the Committee, it was handed to the Mayor,
who for several days had his office open for people to go in and discuss
the Charter before him.

It was believed that the Mayor approved of the Charter. Just imagine how
surprised people were, when, the hearings in his office being over, he
sent the Charter up to the Assembly in Albany, with the information that
he disapproved of it and would not sign it; or, in other words, that he
vetoed it.

The Assembly has, however, passed the Charter over the Mayor's veto.

A number of New Yorkers who do not approve of the Charter are going to
fight it in the Legislature, and try to get the State Senate to throw it
out. If this fails and the bill passes both Houses, they will try and
influence the Governor to veto it.

There is a good deal of trouble ahead for the Charter.

Some ambitious people want to make a State of Greater New York, and call
it Manhattan. They think that it will be of great benefit to the city to
be a State, and that if this is done the taxes will be much lower and the
city will acquire many valuable rights.

* * * * *

The Tariff Bill has passed the House of Representatives, and is now before
the Senate. The friends of this measure think that it is sure to pass.

But the bill seems to have as many enemies as friends, for the outcries
against it are loud and long from every section of the country.

It is difficult for us to guess whether the bill is going to be useful or
harmful to us.

On one hand, the people who are in favor of it are praising it to the
skies, and speaking of the immense industries that are going to arise as
soon as the bill is made law. The duty on raw sugar, according to these
people, is going to encourage people to try and make the raw sugar over
here, and the American farmers to grow beets to make beet sugar from. They
claim that a wonderful new business is to grow out of this new industry