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Show By orders of the Secretary of the Navy, the Chicago, Atlanta, Yorktown, Dolphin and Boston are now en route to Galyeston, at which point they are expected to arrive by February 5th. They are to maneuver in Galveston roadstead on the 5th, 6th and 7th, and it is understood that a Spanish squadron, squad-ron, now cruising the. West Indies, will also appear there about the same time. On that occasion the Gulf city will have a grand jubilee and mardi-gras mardi-gras festivities. The naval display alone will make an era in the history of the future deep water harber of the Texas coast. The average increase of duties under the McKinley act is33 per cent. While this is true there is not a single authenticated authen-ticated instance of any increase in wages. The law does notprovide that the protected manufactiv shall share t I hls'rn creased pr; j 1 u Viw .fotrmprJ es. . According tothe high-protection organs , such a result, however, was to folW.j 1 But while prices are advancing the ' increased pay of the wage-worker fails to materialize. |