The Irish standard., 1897-08-28
ing to our readers from Sligo we repro

ing to our readers from Sligo we repro
duce it in full:
II see in the column with which you
daily grace the Journal that you make
reference to the father-in-law Of young
Eugene Kelly as 'Senor' Milmo, of Mex
leo. You have put the wrong handle
to the name. 1t is Don Patricio Milmo,
of Mexico, If you please. Once 1T was
plain Paddy Milmo, and it's owner wasn't
ashamed Of it, either. Many is the day
that he has answered to it when he was
shoveling broken stones on the macad-
am reads in the County Sligo. For DO
ing that same work he was paid a shil-
ling day, and mighty glad to get it he
was. But that was long time ago. He
was poor Irish lad, and most likely
never dreamed that dollars would some
time be as many with him as the bits
of stone In the old days. Paddy. as
everybody OF the country side called him
then, and does yet, for that matter. was
of a rowing turn. He longed for more
lucrative calling than the making Of
macadamized roads, and so went away
to Mexico. Things went badly with him
for time, and the letters that he sent
back to the old people in the County
Sligo were not glad reading, although
they were never hopeless, for Paddy Mil
mo ever had heart that was big
with courage. By and by he got into
ha Tr;,I h;
then he won the heart of an Indian prin-
cess, whose tribe was very rich, and
made her his wife. After that it wasn't
long till he had money to burn, and was
known throughout the length and
breadth of the land as the rich and pow
erful Don Patricio Milmo. Did he for
get his people in the County Sligo? Not
bit OF it! He sent money to his old
mother, and had his younger brother,
Danny, come out to Mexico and share
his prosperity. And would you believe
1T? That same brother Danny has
grown to be great man, too, and is
known in Mexico as Don Danello Milmo.
Don Danello is even more devoted to hts
old home than Don Patricio. He visits
the County Sligo every year or two, and
has built great mausoleum there to
the memory and the honor of the Mil
mos. 1t Is the most beautiful mauso-
leum in all the County Sligo. and stands
a monument to the loyalty and affection
of Don Danello. Nor were the Milmos
of the County Sligo unworthy of this
great mark of reverence and respect.
Old Darby Milmo, the father of Don
Patricio and Don Danello, was as fine
an lrlshman as ever pressed the sod. He
was a true Gaelic gentleman, and always
wore the time honored costume of his
race-knee breeches, spike-tailed coat,
st. Patrick's Day hat and black thorn
stick. When Darby Milmo died his
friends gave him such funeral that it's
the talk in County Sligo yet. The
good man gave up the ghost to the grave
in which his bones We're laid to rest was
full seven miles, and it's we'll anthem
ticated fact that the hearse had reached
riage had left the late residence of the
deceased. So fine and so great was the
funeral Of Darby Milmo that it is the
ambition OF every Sligo man to live to
see one like it for himself But remin-
iscence is carrying me beyond and be-
hind my point, which is this: Why do
the Eugene Kellys, who are living so
grandly in London and slurring America
every chance they get, always talk about
the Milmos as Mexioans and not as,
County Sligo people? Why was it when
the younger daughter of Paddy Milmo
married that Russian Prince. Razzledaz-
zle, or whatever his heather name may
be, there was so much said about Mextco
and never word about the County
Sligo people? 1t Is true that the moth
er Of Mrs. Eugene Kelly and of the Prin-
cess Razzledazzle was an Indian Prin-
cess of Mexico, but I'll be bound that
her genealogy was not as imposing as
that Of Darby Milmo, whose pedigree
was longer than his funeral and reached
clear back to the kings of Ireland.
I've nothing to say against the In
dian Princess. but l dislike to see the
Gaelic gentleman ignored, and that's
why I'm writing to you. I am much
afraid that Mrs. Eugene Kelly and her
sister, the Princess, do not cherish in
their hearts that love for the County
Sligo and that respect for the memory
of their honored grandfather, Darby
Milmo. which are so conspicuously evil
dent in the loyal actions of their uncle,
Don Danelo Mimo. who built the
mighty mausoleum ON the spot where
his fathers great funeral came to an
end. If you will kindly give space in
your valuable column, my dear Mr..
knickerbccker, to the information so
poorly conveyed in this imperfect writ
ing, you will do an act of Justice to the
memory Of Darby Milmo and at the
same time delight all your readers that
come from the County Sligo.
The Pope has written to the queen
regent of Spain requesting the release
of Evangelina Cisneros, the Cuban