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Show j Boston Wins a Victory; at List. I - , From one of our valued contemporaries we glean I the information that the favorite and principal food of Gen. Kurokf, the Japanese commander-who has if achieved such notable successes, is beans. I . . Now, let there be joy in Boston and let the vege- I tarian wax arrogant. For all Boston is a peace lov ing community we are sure it will put aside its scruples against war and toss up its hats for the gallant Japanese. For Boston is vindicated. The bean, ridiculed and reviled, has at last been vindicated. vin-dicated. The reputation of the classic Hub is saved. The sacred codfish may swim the currents of the air with a proud swish of its honorable tail, and the golden dome of the Statehouse may gleam with a . radiance that it has not shown for years. Convivial Bostonians may indulge in saturnalias of Emerson j and Browning such as they have not permitted themselves for a decade. George Fred Williams " may form a dozen new .political parties' and from the.Monument to the Back Bay a pean of praise of i the glorified bean may go up.' j The rest of the coun- y' try will not object. Boston has a right to her hour . of triumph and she has a right to celebrate in her Iown peculiar manner. J As we remarked, Boston has not been partial to war. When phantom Spanish fleets were being re-) re-) ' ported from twenty odd places at once, Boston had f a fit. She thought she was going to be bombarded 1 . and she foreswore war there and then. Afterward l she became terribly worried over the Filipinos, and .' ' , war was a word she eliminated from her vocabu lary. But nowjt is bound to be different. Boston is loyal to the bean. ! |