The daily Alaskan., 1908-03-20
By Advice of a Lawyer.

The circus and meuagerle of Jonc8 & Jones was coming that way. The greater part of It's menagerIe consisted of the elephant Abdul, and Abdul had become old and Irritable and no longer saw things with the frlskiness of other days He was being most carefully watched when the show arrived at C!ementsvllle.
 The season had not been q profitable one for Ioucs & Jones. They had had to offer 90 cents on the dollar to their creditors at the last three stands, and when the exhibition at Clementsville was over they could not pay certain farmers for cats, hay and straw. One of the farmers. and the largest cred itor refused to take q note of hand. His claim was for $40, and he rushed to see d lay. yep about it. MT. Taylor was the lay CT. The two or three oth- CTS in town happened to be out of their offices. Tha great opportunity had come at laa The fourteen years of waiting was to be repaid.
 Your cn.a is good, and all we have to do is to r Nch something" was the lawyers aa ,uncement AS the ele, phant is th, biggest and most valuable thing they have we will attach him The circus must have him. It won't move on wi hout him. Your case will be settled within an hour after we at, tach him."
 The elephant was attached. There was lank and dlsconsolate looking cassowary with the show, but he was passed by. There was lonely and de jected dromodary, with its lonely and dejected humps, but that attachment was not for him. Abdul was the vic tim and was duly attached.
 The constable saw the farmer cred itor. and arrangements were made to take Abdul out to the farm. He fig urcd that he was going to get a soft thing, and, much to the astonishment of the circus folk, he went along in a contented manner and finally brought up in the farmers barn. Then the real history of the case began. Jones & Joncs left town with smiles on their faces. That meant that the suit would have to be adjourned when called That meant that it would be ultimately decided in the farmers favor and that he would find himself with an elephant on his hands. He found that out even within the first hour.
 Abdul wanted from three to five par rels of water to wet his throat 4 took an hour to bring it from the house. Then he wanted a quarter of a ton of the best hay to eat and the , same amount to toy with as he stood up to meditate and feel sorry for those elephants that were still knocking around .he country. Night had not vet come when he took fancy to d certain beam in the barn and wrapped his trunk around it and pulled 1t from its place and used 1t for a baseball bat. Then he tore out the manager and used the sliyers for toothpicks and went to bed happy. The farmer con suited the lawyer again, and the law yer was primed with Information. r, had been making elephants a stGly for the last four hours.
 "Yes, all the cost of Abdul's keep ard all the damage he did while in the hands of the law would be assessed on Jones .& Jones when the case was de clded against them, as 1t surely mus be. Just go right back home and give that elephant whatever he wanted "nt 1t would be all right
 Abdul had been chained on the oper floor of the barn. On the second day of his stay he broke his chains and pulled a ton of hay from the now and walked over it until it was hardly it to bed the hogs with.
 He wanted a small drink, and when the farmer cut him ofr with five bar rels of water he trumpeted until he scared farmers for two miles around and then broke up the flaming mill the corn sheller and some stray boards and beams. The lawyer was notified and ne came riding out to the farm or a bike to say:
 "Very irregular and improper on tht part of Abdul. but of course Jones & Jones will settle. They must settle They must have him with their show
 On the third day Abdul demanded seven barrels of water, half ton oi hay and most of the pumpkins grow ing on the farm and then broke dowI the doors and piled the fragments in neat heap and set out on voy age of discovery. He discovered the smoIehOuse and chicken coop and Ga, " house and upset them He discover ed the family well and yanked tho pump out by the roots and threw Il over the house. He discovered the house itself and smashed all the win dows and doors. Then he passed into the orchard and pulled up twenty-onl big apple trees to show that he was no IlrfTor TTa bod Invelal forty rods