The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-20

thcr my mother nor her first empoye, to whom
also addressed myself, felt themselves called
upon TO give any signs of life | wrote letters
SUI more pressing; the same silence. Friends
relatives wrote on my behalf None of them
received answers. | thought that / should have
lost my reason. This silence lasted four months
my mother finished by sending me back my
letters unread. My letters, written from the
heart, would have moved rock. My mother
remained Indifferent to them
During these four months OF mortal silence il
was perhaps hoped that would die of hunger
or that would have flung myself into the Seine
in despair. was exposed to everything by this
obstinate mutism-to suicide to dishonor to
theft means of sustaining life
remained months sustained merely by pota-
toes or haricot beans, which / cooked myself.
In eating watered them with more tears than
! thought | could have shed during my whole
life. Finding, at the end of four months, to the
great regret of my mother, that still lived, that
l had committed no crime which would authO-
riZe her TO disembarrass herself OF the support
OF daughter whom she detested by casting her
into prison of some kind, she made me an
offer which could not accept namely, that she
would restoreme the miserable monthly pension
which che had formerly allowed me If would
sell at that price the fortune which had been
left INC by the will of my poor, adored father-in-
law.
was forced seeing that no gentle means was
likely to lead TO an acceptable result, to address
myself to the tribunals. The following was my
demand:--
That my mother should pay me the ten months
arrears, in order that / might acquit my
obligations towards the friends who had lent me
the means to live.
should be fixed from that time by the law, in
proportion to the fortune of my mother and the
number of her children. We are but two, my
brother and myself. The income Of my mother
the net income-is 100000 forms
In short, | desire, after having assured my
present, to secure my future, | wish to con-
vince myself if my half share the life use
OF which my mother enjoys, is much en-
barrassed or at all endangered. l must do
this during the life of my mother for after her
death there would beno means of remedying the
mischief done.
/ claim only my right. and the law will accord
it to me. Noble and devoted friends, init
mately acquainted with the uniustifable' con-
duct of my mother, promise me their sup
port in everything to the end Of this revolving
struggle.
ON arriving here my first duty was to repair
to Lanschiter to the tomb of my poor father.
The state in which | found this tomb made me
comprehend everything. This souvenir had not
| been respected The tomb was in ruins. The
| letters of the inscription on the white marble
cross are In great measure effaced: the lime of
the walls of the chapel is falling in on every side
and the bricks are following it, The grave even
has withered appearance. Two or three rose
| trees planted twenty years ago, regard each
other in the distance, and to weep over their
abandonment And over this desolated grave
whom he had cherished as If | had been his own
child knelt sobbing with my heart torn and
without bread. While at Bakersan my mother
is living in great style, she has not money sufli-
! cient to keep in order the grave of him to whom
she owes everything, or n copper to fling to me.
| But on this grave have taken an oath to aNenge
! that sacred memory, outraged in my person
| the dearest object that the departed one che
| rished on earth.
Not content with doing me all the evil she
| could, my mother has never thought of cflacng
| in tie eyes of the world, my past faults, by
| dwelling with the maternal pride which ought
| to be instructive on my life of reparation. On
| the contrary, the more she, her intmates, and
| her employees have been able to blacken me in
the eyes of the world, the more they have done it
This letter has no other object than that O.
| clearing my honor, which is the honor of my
children. Since my mother has not undertaken
| to do it, must do it myself, for / ask of every
loyal heart if there can be more poignant grie
| than that of having always been honest anC
| being treated criminal.
/ recognize in but one person the right O
never pardoning me my faults, for he only ha
been wounded by them. God, my mother. ant
society have justly punished me for them Afte
many years of repentance God has pardoned me
| My mother is more severe than God.
Before the Court my mothers lawyer told m
| that my mother owed me no allowance, tina
being of age ought to earn my own bread, an
| the Judge did not contradict him. ! endeavore
to refute this assertion, but the Judge told m
curtly to hold my tongue. l suppose becaus
my defense should have been offered by m
lawyer, but the latter found it convenient
allow this incident to pass unobserved. Thi
law does not exist for us children of aristocratl
We have not been reared to earn our breaC
In what manner, then, does my mothers laWye
mean that l should gain livelihood?
Let the world utter a shout of blame and in
dignation at such an nfamy.
CoMTEssE JULIE BATHYANY APRAxIN.
p. S.--Let my mother thank her defender, &C
yocate, and counsellor for the censure whic
this letter will justly cause to be cast on he
The world must not imagine that | have en-
ployed in these pages all my arms. have hel
in reserve the most venomous and will only us
them in the event of my being forced to III
them.