Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — What He Took. [ARTICLE]

What He Took.

Hilary K. Adair, the western detective, was praising at a banquet in Dubuque the generous warmth accorded by John D. Rockefeller to sheriffs, bailiff* and other myrmidons of the law. “They don’t get treated at John D.’s," said Mr. Adair, "as old Cluss once treated me. “Cluss runs, you know, a saloon. I was waiting In his place one cold December night to nab a bigamist when Cluss came out from an Inner room wrapped in a heavy ulster. “*Why, hello, Adair!’ he said, shaking me warmly by the hand. Tm glad to see you. What’ll you take?’ “ ’Well,’ said L T don’t know—l’m not particular—’ "Cluss, who had been watching me anxiously, now butted in with the words: “‘Good! Slip on your overcoat, then, and. we’ll take a walk. I was starting out’” —Exchange.