Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-29
NO. 81.


to part-we will merely state with regard
10 1t, that it was tender and interesting to
themselves, and also to the miller's maiden
sister, who watched the last kiss on the
doorstep, when he tore himself away the
night before he went to Boston. But she
didn't hear what he said,
"Dear Susan," said he, ''keep up q good
heart, and shall return to YOU. don't fear.
and l will prove myself worthy of you, too.
God bless you, and when we meet again we
will love each other all the better. absence
makes the heart grow fonder,' you know.
SO wipe your eyes, Susan, dear, and give
me some word that may remember when
danger is nigh, and it will prove a love
charm that evil and temptation cannot over
come"
He pressed her to his beating heart as he
spoke, and put the imprint of kiss upon
her brow.
"Jabez," said she, smiling through her
tears, ''your affections may be sorely tried
in the great city, and temptation will beset
your path, but my prayers shall be offered
for you, and the word 1 would have YOU re-
member above ali others is FIDELITY. Let
us be faithful to each other. Remember
Fidelity.'"
He kissed the lips that uttered the word
and vowed to remember.
Fidelity! 1t is strong word, and en-
braces in its meaning the whole duty of man.
All Of love, truth, honesty is comprised in
it's Specification. Faithful? Of course he
would be faithful and how could he be other
| wise? In the ardor of his young love, it
seemed the easiest thing in the world.
And now he is in the city, wonder ing
! and admiring stranger; and after consider
able difficulty, a compositor on q morning
paper. Day by day, and night by night,
high up under the caves, is he toiling
breathing the fetid and smoky atmosphere
| Of the printing office. He has become the
''slave of the lamp-he and all the other
slaves" Night, which brings rest to the
world, brings no rest to him. The holy
Sabbath, with its sweet influences, brings
no solace-for him Christ has risen in vain.
| The click of types at midnight, is heard,
like death watch, denoting the flight of
time. Telegraphs, steamboats, and railroads
combine for his discomfort The wicked
and the unhappy are his companions, and
grace struggles in vain to grow in an
atmosphere impregnated with lamp smoke
and sin. 1t is sacrifice of liberty and
health, of body and soul, for money
Jabez has strong hope in him, which
! sustains him. He hears the ribald Jest,
aimed at what he regards most sacred he
sees the irreverence which bad men show
for holy things at first he is shocked, but
the ingram generosity of his associates
leads him to think less unfayorably of their
want of morals, and he laughs at what first
gave him pain.
"FIDELITYi' Was it q voice by his side
that uttered the cabalistic word in his ear,
and that sunk down into his heart? That
word saved him. 1t was a good angel en-
shrined in his memory that came to warn
him of his danger, and exhort him to faith
fulness, and his feelings became again pure
and fresh as when he left their inspiration.
"Come, Jabez," said brother typo, "'tis
Saturday; for this day, at least, we are
free; and now, my boy, what say to having
a good time? Let's go round and see the