Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1917 — He Settled It. [ARTICLE]

He Settled It.

An amusing story is told at Strat-ford-on-Avon. In the smoking room of a hotel a few years ago an Englishman and a Scotchman engaged In a heated argument. John Bull was declaring William Shakespeare to be the only poet of the world, and Sandy McPherson was standing up for his Bobby Burps. t Words ran high and blows seemed Imminent when a self-confident little commercial traveler determined to throw oil on the troubled waters. “Gentlemen,” he said, stepping between the heated disputants, “let me settle this amicably. ' W’ho Is this Shakespeare-Burns?” Lpndon telegraph.