Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-07-13
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OF A CARTE DE VISITE.

DEAR ME. EDITOR, Knowing you to be
trnIrr-hcartcd, ready to sympathize with
j u. afflicted and to comfort the sorrowing,
4 - you to act as my amanuensis, that |
ty leave to the world a record of my
evaattul life. Being faded and worn, you
will have 10 bear with me patiently, and
catch my story as am able to gasp it out
II may teach some of the careless a lesson
. and show them that although our number
Great and our name legion, the process
u our creation is neither uninteresting nor
without trouble, and that we should not be
de>piscd, trod upon, and maltreated as we
are
We have heard that you human beings
are created from dust You seem to be
satisfied with this, and neither trouble your
>r.t about the Kind of dust, and the matter
from which it is made therefore shall go
further into the detail of my creation
than to say that | first saw light in the
1 ..utful and extensive mandatory of
# Herr NJ. 4. Stcinbach, Fabricant de Pa
4 lcr, Malmedy, Prussia, as piece of beau
,tDl white papers ! need not tell you
bow was pressed between hot rollers,
sized, trimmed, and then laid with four
hundred and seventy-nine other sheets
4 Ma.,roatcd in the same way nor how we
Il We're nailed into a box with nails harder to
draw cut than the truth from some of the
witnesses III the conspiracy case at Wash
Fl "-'aA; nor Of the long and tedious voy-
d age across the tempcstuous ocean, and the
4 harrow escape we had from being thrown
q yrrboard in a Storm--for all this YOU can
e. no ,tv,ll T Il L.,
Il inst saw light in this country in your most
u fashionable .SaHe Photoprqphiqpe. After
u ,"y box ! rested III was opened, was taken
II f7n the company Of the other four hun
II area amt scycnty-nine sheets, pinched
q shaken, held up to the light 50 the cruel
j artist could see Steinbach on my bor-
d .rF and then whirlcd up a winding-stair
8 uTough rooms light and dark, and, terri.
n "'" anu alone, laid down Presently | OBJ
served a huge white pan, filled with some
q ."t'US substance neither sweet nor beau
q ~''L heard the artist say it was aibu-
.'N' ahd that hundreds of diminutive chick
q tbs We're spared the trouble Of coming to
.1r. as many matronly hens deprived of
4 .' care "i an extensive brood, and myriads
worms and flies spared chase across
q VIE AeIdS IN the mouth of some courageous
n ..N with dozen rivals after it full tilt,
q -.'' THIS aIbumen might be made on which
was about to let me float as did our
N'rdy snip upon the sea. trembled at
4 ,'ola fate but presently he seized me by
~' corners, and with a dextrous move laid
"' lat upon the disgusting surface, which
~'Nced me that the eggs of which it
vas made must have been very near
"yAeHS before coming into present hands
'' content with this, he took rounded
,' anu gently pressed me down in every
..nee Pace to give me a thorough dose He
"'5"eu me to remain about five minutes,
-..' >cIzng me again threw me corner.
'.>t over round bar, where, sick and
.'."Ing, | was allowed to collect my scat
,'gd thoughts, while the superfuous al,
"Lcn scattered down my sides and slip
oH my corners into a trough below
'sSently my four hundred and seventy
w.. n."e sisters were brought in, treated like
'>y' and when we were all dry and stih
,. o'e again PLACED together, put in huge
H., and squeezed in a manner so violent
,. "I any vlrtuous female would blush al
~. .'" y treatment, but there was no help fol
rs, heng rather obstreperous and indig
~r, r'', ! succeeded in getting one corner
,rI' winch the artist did not discover unit
y,, 'H ABOUT to leave the room, and then ht
'Aeuly remarked that for my pains