, 1886-06-16
SILENCE J0RDAN'S FATE.
A FAIRY STORY OF CINCINNATI
LIFE IN THE SPRING OF '49.

How Desperate Terrorized the Worthy
Citizens of Porkopoiis-A lad Party
and No a~Iistake-Thc Little Drummer
from the East-Nemesis.
"Why, bless your heart the colonel
went on to say, 81 have seen thirty stall
wart men engaged in conversation on
matters of public import, and, would you
believe 1t, although the subject under dis
cussion was pursued for eighteen hours,
not a man In the crowd dared utter n word
but Silence Jordonl The way he terror
lied the worthy citizens of this good city
was something marvellous beyond COM
pare. He would enter the most palatial
residence in town, and, after kicking the
elegant and costly chandeliers to pieces,
he would compel the inmates of the house
to prepare him the most elaborate meal
that money and industry could devise.
Then he would kick the top off all the
pianos in the house, and lie down in the d.
lapidated instruments for an after-dinner
nap with his boots on. When he walked
down the street the horse cars had to leave
the tracks and travel on the opposite side
OF the street selected by mir for n prone
made.
ale was a bad party, and no mistake.
But what / started TO tell you was this:
An notwithstanding young fellow EN-
ployed as a travelling salesman for an east
ernshouse reached town one day. He met
Silence Jordan, the riproaring terror Of the
Mississippi valley, and the terror asked
him what his name was. The drummer
replied that it was Willie Phillips. A look
OF ineffable disgust swept over the entire
physiognomical contour OF the bully.
-Whnt are you doing here, sonnyi'
growled the hideous wretch.
"None of your Internal - businessl'
was the astounding reply, and the little
drummer at the same m no1chal-
antly struck an fashioned lucifer
match. The crowd assembled stood para
lyzed with fear as the gigantic rufian
began to gather himself up for "A spring
at his helpless prey. As the flame
spluttered ON the end OF the match
held by the diminutive drummer he
tipped the stick with n of his deli
cate lily-white fingers, and n tiny globule
OF the birthstone shot fairly and squarely
into the left eye of the ponderous
rowdy, who was on the point of sweeping
the Liliputian from the face of the earth.
ANOTHER SPARK OF Terry BIRTHSTONE.
"As the burly hummer clapped both
uhuuS uDOu tut ODllC llldl TtCclNtu II tti
rible shock the little drummer tipped the
match once more, and another spark Of
the fiery birthstone flew with merci'ess
precision slap-dab into the other eye OF the
murderous fiend, who now, instead Of
seeking to devour the puny boy that stood
before him coolly lighting a cigarette, was
rolling on the sidewalk writhing in the
most painful agony yelping with all the
power OF his tremendous lungs the while
he endeavored, but ~futilely, to inlay the
agonizing misery hat wa racking his
very soul and dethroning his reason itself.
| never witnessed n more terrible specta-
Gle in all my varied experience ms n trav-
eler and observer of men and things. His
powerful frame shivered and swayed, and
his ponderous limbs threshed about ike
unto the wild gyrations of the hideous cut
tie fish in mortal combat His
piercing screams resounded afar, and
and o the entire population
gathered to witness the mad rawlings and
violent contortions OF the erstwhile mon
arch OF hell. But there was mont so poor
to do him reverence, II soon it was dis
covered that the proud yulture OF n few
mute before was blind-stone blind.
when the joyous tidings of the awful
fate OF the autocratic enemy of the citizens
vi JUL oe"u.iiui purB Were spieaa arounu
n glad shout of victory rent the air, and
the bonfires were lighted and the bells
pealed in token OF the happy deliverance
from the plague that had blighted the
whole city. For, finding that his vocifer
Gus pleadings for aid and assistance in the
shape OF an eye-wash were unheeded, 81
lence Jordan staggered to his feet, and,
quaking in his frightful agony, remarked
that IL was bridge time with him, and,
striding to the Suspension, flung himself
into the turbulent waters below, never to
rise again. Cincinnati Enquirer.