Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-28
YOUNG sYLrER.s LEGACY.
The BeQuest Had . Condition 10 II whi<
Worked His Ruin.

From the Chicsxo Herald.
There are more ways Of losing your money
than dropping it in the lake.-Emly Chicago
Prouerb.
Sylvester Sylter was rising young business
man in the gents" furnishing line. His reg
ular hour for risingwa $50 a.m--but that's
another story, something about savages. Syl-
vester Sylter. besides being a rising young
man-his business requiring twas. which his
business did not require. . susceptible, easy
smitten-with-a-pretty-fac young man. And that
has something TO do with this story. This young
man in the gents" furnishing line had been
smltten and unsmitten full many q time. but
ne had never progressed SO far with his smit -
TO become entangled, like q coil Of picture wire,
IN an engagement with matrimonial tendencies.
Not, that is to say, until he met
the charming, If slightly freckled in
the summer time, Miss horine Flan-
like the witness on the stand. il is better to tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth-had been christened Mary ]. Flanders,
but society and alliterative influences had pre-
vailed. Mary j., by a slight twist Of the pen,
had been changed to Florine. Besides, Forine
Flanders was q nice name to write to the papers
with.
Where Mr.. Sylter and Miss Flanders first met
l do not know, but the short and long Of it
was-Mr. Sylter being about four inches less in
stature than the object of his afection-that
they became engaged. The details of the final
lovemaking do not know, except so far as they
were furnished by presumably veracious and
certainly vorncious and inquisitive younger
brother Of Miss Flanders.
According to that young sprig Of the Fan
ders tree, the final wooing was contaminated In
the following words.
"Florine, my love. my dearest life, love
thee! Whilst thou be mine?"
Il wilt" replied Florine q tender light in
her violet eyes. with unusual brevity and brisk
ness OF speech. There always was something
business like about her style of conversation
that bodied i'll for trifers.
Sylvester am always misspelling II Slyves-
ter-was slightly shocked by this machine
of closing the contract. But he loved her
dearly, and he had done a land-ofice business
In dove-colored spring ties that day.
lyon have made me the most intensliest
happy man in the gents furnishing line in
Chicago" exclaimed our hero. and really he
did not mean to hedge when he added: But,
OF course, you know, collar button Of my heart,
that we cannot marry just yet. Ny fnancia.
resources at present are quite indigenous"
sylvester was not quite sure of the meaning
OF the last word, but it went with Florine.
Never mind, Sylly dear Gt was the first
time that she had abbreviated his name and it
made his heart go pitty-pat against his bal
briggan undervest), Eve can wait a reasonable
iengtn OF time, say ninety days.
There was counting-room serenity about
Miss Flanders that awed Mr.. Sylter consider
ably.
CHAPTER II.
The engagement progressed apace. When
Mr.. Sylters GRAND boy was not busy deliver
ing collars and cuffs and shirts and black sus-
penders with yellow roses embroidered on
them, to customers he was taking very loving
notes on the business letter heads inclosed in
the busines envelopes of Sylvester, Syiter d
Co., to Miss Flanders The notes invariably
commenced thus:
p. -, My ownest soon to be Wifey.
And ended thus:
Your own wants to be Hubby,
SYLVESTER SYLrER.
Eighty of the ninety days had elapsed and
Sylvester could not spare from his business the
expenses attending every well-regulated we'd
But 10! JOY! One day he received a letter
which threw him into happiest transports.
The letter read:
tDIcTATED.l BLACKSTONE BUILDING
Room 23l5 23l9.
OFFICE OF JACKsrRAw. WILLIS 4 kLLEYKuLY,
ATTORNEYS AND CoUNsELoR3 AT Law,
SYLVESTER SYLrER. ESQ.,,
CHICAGO,
DEAR SIR:
We have to inform you that BY the death of
your late uncle, Bundle Sylvester, ESQ.,, at Mata-
moras, Mexico, you are BY his will made lepa-
tee to the amount of SIS, 900.
Be kind enough to call on us at your earliest
convenience.
- JAcKsrRAw, Willis & KnLEYxnLY.
After reading the letter Sylvester closed mp
hts store 9nd wrote a seven-page letter TO Flo
rine, telling her Of his good fortune and that
the last obstacle to their marriage was re-
moved.
He even gave his GRAND boy dollar and q
window Autograph tick to a theater.
Sylvester Sylter was, indeed. happy man in
the gents " furnishing goods line.
CHAPTER III.
The Office Of Jackstraw. Willets d Killeykilly
had hardly been busted the next morning afte-
Mr.. Sylter received the news Of his newly ac-
quired fortune ere that gentleman called II
was indeef ef-lvesters earliest convenience"
He waiS vas srly an hour before one Of the
firm apr caihand that one was Mr.. Willets,
departp %tllon. rha: one was Mr.. Killeykilly.
But leoiue illets was glad to see Mr..
Sylter eAt SO was Mr.. Jackstraw. who
canned ru,a Aour later. 1t was nearly 2
o'clonade.s the afternoon when Mr.. Killey-
killy, iu'S' d, That legal luminary received
Sylv s:dially in his private lurking place
and i-ugs0 copy of the last will and state
ment ons, late Bumblo Sylvester. 1t was q
vast piecl rof lego-litersry work, bu: not par
ticularly interesting to Sylvester, except that
portion Of the will which read:
Sixth. give and devils. the sum o. fifteen
thousand dollars (Sl5, 00O) to my much beloved
nephew, Sylvester Sylter of Chicago, to have
and to hold the same, his heir and assigns. for
ever, the only proyisO being that the same, my
much beloved nephew, shall remain. and in
writing agree to remain. in the blessed state of
bachelorhood during his natural life. Other
wise the above bequest shall revert to the Mata-
moras Home for Imbecile Embezzlers
When Mr.. Sylvester recovered from his faint
he was sent to his gents" furnishing en-
porium in q cab with a round front.
The first thing that Mr.. Sylvester did after
he arrived at his store was to write a cold bust
ness-like letter to Miss Flanders. 1t read thus:
Miss FLoRINE FLANDERS:
DEAR MIss--It grieves me to state that cir
cumstances over which have no control rem
der it necessary for to state that in the future
can only be brother to you. Kindly return
by bearer any correspondence Of mine that YOU
may now have in stock. You may keep my
presents. l remain, ever your friend and well
wisher. SYLVESTER SYLrER.
Miss Flanders did not return the correspond
ence as per request. She did, however. imme-
diately go to Sylvester's store in person and
then aud there proceed to chase Mr.. Sylvester
around the block. She had in her hand an
umbrella with a loaded handle. She did not
catch Sylvester. He escaped corporal punish
ment.
CHAPTER v.