Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — ADOPTED SON OF EX-SENATOR PALMER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADOPTED SON OF EX-SENATOR PALMER.

World’* Fair Famo Promised the Baby • Senor. During their sojourn at the court of Spain, Hon. Thomas W. Palmer and his wife fell in love with a baby Castilian, the son of a lieutenant in the Spanish navy. They encountered the child and its parents at the seaside city of San Sebastian, where they were summering. An offer was made to adopt the child. At first both mother and father were averse to parting with the little tot. Mr. Palmer then procured the young lieutenant a six weeks’ furlough, and the latter, with his wife and child, went to Madrid and lived at Mr. Palmer’s residence. They became so charmed with their host and hostess that at the expiration of the six weeks they gave their consent to the adoption of the child. The papers were drawn

up, in which Mr. and Mrs. Palmer agreed to briDg up the child, educate it, and in case of their death, -to restore the child, with an annuity for its support and the completion of its education. They also ggreed to have the child instructed in Spanish. It was just before the Palmers sailed for America that Higinio Pablacion y Carpentero lost his name and his parents. To the ministerial residence one day came Spain’s great orator, democrat and poet, Emilio Oastelar. Then the little Castilian, who was to become an American, was brought into the great hall, and there, with the blessing of the renowned Spaniard, who laid his hands reverently upon the child’s golden head, he wus christened Murillo CastelarPalmer. Then little Murillo sailed away from his Pyrenees to his new home in America, and'is now in the Palmer home, at Detroit, with a Spanish nurse. When one learns that the pay of a lieutenant in the Spanish army is only S3O a month, no wonder is caused at the readiness with which the Spanish parents parted with their pretty child. The future it has before it now has a prettier, brighter, more alluring* vista than it had in Spain. The little senor has a boon companion and playmate in a pretty little girl, the daughter of a Michigan farmer. Excellent portraits of’ the two lovely children are printed herewith. Little Murillo is bright, intelligent, affectionate and responsive. In 1893, when President Palmer is to bring the boy’s parents over from Spain to Chicago and the Fair, the little Spanish boy will press the electric button that shall set the gigantic engine of the great Exposition throbbing. It will be eminently Siting that this young Spaniard shall open the ceremonies which commemorate the great discovery of his famous countryman four hundred years ago. That much of the programme of the opening ceremonies has been announced.

EX-SENATOR PALMER'S PETS.