The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-31
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
From an Occasional Correspondent =.
- New YoRK, January 81.

For fear l may forget the story
promised you in my last letter, ] vii
relate i the first thing this morning.
have siifriend. who hasby honest in.
dustry and the use Of his inventive fac.
ulties, made himself rich. l may say
quite rich. Like many others who
have toiled through the years Of early
life amid the din and confusion of the
city, he longed Tor the quiet and rest Of
the country, 80 when he retired from
business, he purchased a lovely place in
New Jersey, within two or three
hours ride of New York city. When
the first snow fell this winter nephew
OF my friend thought he would 60 out
to his uncle's "place" and hunt rabbits,
Acting upon this thought he purchased
bran new shooting out. fit, game bag
and all, aud sure enoughthe 6rst morn.
ing he was out, he returned to the
house with fine large rabbit, as proof
of his skill. After the rabbit had been
duly admired by his aunt and adoring
cousins, and he had eaten heartily oil
the lunch prepared for him, he again
started out to shoot more game. As
soon as he was out OF sight his uncle
took the rabbit that the young man had
shot in the morning and going round
by a short cut to the foot of small
hill, bent and twisted the poor dead
rabbit until he got it to appear quite
Timber, then set it up by little clump
OF bushes and sent bis son across the
hill to intercept his nephew and tell
him that there are rabbits at the foot
OF the hill. The plan succeeds; the
Young hunter is led gradually to the
right spot, catches sight OF the rabbit
takes aim, fires and overtumbles the rab
bit. He rushes up and claps him into
his game bag. As he finds no more rsb
bits to shoot be soon tires of the sport
of wading around through the snow
and carrying heavy gun, and he re,
turned to The house, where he is admired
and praised by his cousins for his skill
in bagging rabbits. He puts on all the
airs imagi pable. and really thinks him
self "first class shot" One OF hit
cousins said, "Why, l thought when
YOU shot a rabbit it always jumped
You say this one fell right over. stone
dead p "Oh, when you hit them IN
the right spot, as l did this one. the.
don't jump, can tell you!" And the
Young gent smiled aud wagged bis head
in such manner that his uncle could
not contain himself any longer, bu
burst out into such an uncomfortable
fit Of laughing as to make the ladies
think he had taken leave OF his senses
At last he explained the joke and
his poor nephew was almost tormented
to death BY the teasing which followed,
He then confessed that he had moi
killed the rabbit in the first place, but
had bought it from some boys. How
ever, he was not to be out done alto
gether by his uncle, for returning to the
CITY he related the joke correctly In
every particular, except changing places
with his matchmaking it appear thai
his uncle was the one who shot the
dead rabbit. So when the uncle came
to the city and began to tell the joke
he noticed that his friends would look
slvlv at each other and smile blsndly
but that was all. Now some of the
friends think the uncle played the joke
upon the nephew, others think the
nephew got the best OF the bargain.
EMILY FAITHFUL.
The reception given to Miss Faith u
at Steinway Hall on SATURDAY. night
was a very pleasant affair. She Ger
tsinly deserves recognition at the hands
of her. sisters, for her untiring efforts tc
open employment to women where they
can earn equal wages with men. There
were present women who bear cele'
bra,ed names in art, literature and the
drama, singers, speakers sni teachers
The Tribune says:
ain short the assembly seemed te
compose q gracious female democracy
of labor. from whom we have q righ'
to expect the largest influence OF self
respecting culture and intelligence. Al
last we have seen in this pleasure
loving city a congregation of many hun
dred women to whom brains seemed
more interesting than the bonnet'
which covered them, and the conduct o
life a more serious business than 1T
clothes"
So much is written. said and printed
about the wrongs Of women in the 60
called women q rights paper, that cas-
nal observer would think that womer
we're the most oppressed race OF crea
tures thst ever existed. Is 1t not tim'
to act ourselves seriously to conside
what obstacles these earnest wome'
needlessly encounter As to the or!
of soual pau, we must acknowledge tina
that question is ALWAYS regulated o!
supply and demand. In this city, 81
far as my individual experience goes
IN some Of the nice handicrsfts, womer
are as we'll paid as men, because th'
demand for brains is in excess OF tn
supply; but IL ten shop girls are sdver'
,ised for, three hundred rush for 1T !
too seamstresses are wanted, five vii
offer; and when you finally select you
two seamstresses, ten to one they know
little or nothing about their business
They will make both the sleeves OF
garment for one arm, or will pu
N one sleeve up side down ant
49,. ether one with the elbow
TUNED the wrong way; or they vii
nut the trimming on sskew many az
not know how to sew on buttons even
I often think of what Webster told
Young friend when Intercepted IN re-, Iels
i;on to the chances tor promohon