Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-03-29
By Advice of a Lawyer.

The circus and menagerie of Jones q; Jones was coming that way. The greater part of its menaScric consisted of the elephant Abdul. and Abdul had become old and irritable and no longer saw things with ,hc friskneSs of other days He was being most carefully watched when the show arrived ut Clementsville.
 The season had not hccn a profitable one for ,'oncs & Jones. They had had 60 offer go cents on the dollar to thcit creditors at the last three sands. and when the exhibition at Clemcntsvilla was over they could not pay certain farmers for oats. hay and straw, OEc of the farmers. and the largest creC' itor. refused to take N nO;e of hand, His claim was for $40, and he rushed to see u lawyer about it. Mr, Taylor was the lawyer The two or three o.A- CTS in town happened to he on, of theiy offices. The great opportunity had come at last. The fourteen years of waiting was to he repaid
 Your claim is good, and all we have to do is to attach something" was the lawyers announcement As the ele- phant is the biggest and most valuable thing they have. we will attach him The circus must have him. It wont f move on without him. Your case wifi be settled within an hour after we at tach him."
 The elephant was attached. Thert was q lank and dsconsolate looking cassowary with the show, but he was passed by There was lonely and de jected droEedary, with its lonely and deiectcd humps, but that attachment was not for him. Abdul was the vie tim and was duly attached.
 The constable saw the farmer cred itor. and arrangements were made tc take Abdul out to tie farm. He lS ured that he was going to get sos' thing. and, much to the astonishment of the circus folk. be went along in a contented manner and finally brought up in the farmers barn. Then the real history of the case began. Jones X ! Jones left town with smiles on theii faces. That meant that the suit would have Co be adjourned when called ! That meant that it would be ultimately [ decided in the farmers fayoc and tha, he would find himself with an elephant on his hands. He found'that out cveu within tho first hour.
 Ab,.Ni vys23ed from three to five pair | rels of water to wet his throat. 4 took an hour to bring it from ,he house. Then he wanted q quarter oi 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 the country. Night had moi ! yet come when he took q fancy to q | certain beam in the barn and wrapped | his trunk around it and pulled it from | it's place and used 1t for d baseball | bat. Then he tore out the manager and used the slivers for toothpicks and | went to bed happy. The farmer con suited the lawyer again, and the law yer was primed with information. ES had been making elephants a str-. for the last four hours.
 "Yes, all the cost of Abdu's keep ard all the damage he did while in tho | hands of the law would be assessed or Jones. S Jones when the case was de cided against them, as it surely mus be. Just go right back home and give that elephant whatever he wanted aEt | it would be all right"
 1 Abdul had been chained on the oIel | floor of the barn. On the second day ! of his stay he broke his chains ant | pulled a ton of hay from the nov aGf walked over it until it was hardly ii to bed the hogs with.
 | He wanted a small drink. and wh2l 1 the farmer cut him oiT with five bar rels of water he trunpeted until h. scared farmers for two miles arount and then broke up the flaming mill the corn shcllcr and some stray board: and beams. 'rhc lawyer vas notified | and he came riding out to the farm or | n bike 10 say;
 Very irregular and improper on th, | part of Abdul. but of course Jones X 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 o hay and most of the pumpkins grow ing on the farm and then broke dowr the doors and piled the fragments in [ neat heap and set out on a voy age of discovery. He discovered th' smokehouSe and chicken coop and ca ry-hOuse aod upset, them. He discover ed the family well and yanlSed tht pump out by the roots and threw l over the house. He discovered tb' house itself and smashed all tine win dows and doors Then he passed int, | the orchard and pulled ub twenty-on'
 big apple trees to show that he Wal no bluffer He had leveled forty rod
 of fence and torn down q wagon shee and tossed q 'reaper and mower six! ' high when he ..deeided to seek th' ,. shade of the cool forest, on his wa, there he entered q big mudhole to talk "a bath ond met his fate by drowning
 The lawyer came out and said tha IsAbduls proceedings couill be legal! criticised. but that there was no ques tion as to how the suit would go There wasn't. Jones X Jones cam
 back and won it and made the count.
 pay them sT.00o for the loss of thci