Iron County Record | 1905-07-07 | Page 7 | Poet as Public Benefactor

Poet as Public Benefactor. A correspondent writes to the London Lon-don Chronicle that he onco came upon Hobert Browning In Piccadilly In lively live-ly dispute with a stranger, who had carted his closed umbrella over his shoulder or under his arm, with tho end sticking out. Browning, walking behind, struck down tho dangerous point with an energetic stick. "I always al-ways do It," said the poet with Just Indignation, and In no measured tonos. Tho man protested aloud, but Browning explained to tho gathering crowd and "Justified himself .'fully. No ono shorncd to know how Illustrious wasitho,brawIer-tyj. t.