The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-16
MOTHER FINDS HER SON AFTER
 MANY YEARS

New York. Nov 15-There's over in Brooklyn today. She is Mrs. Etta Morris, of 1880 Eastern Pari.- way, and she is happy because her ''lost boy" Harry Morris, had re- turned to her after an absence of 9 years. He left home when a boy of eight years, and although country wide search had been made for him for years, it was not until a few weeks ago that trace of him was found. To the little town of Bea- trice, Neb., went the telegraph mess- age which told Harry Morrison" as he was known, that his right name brother were living in Brooklyn and that he was of good percentage and Dor ca good and respected name.
 Foilowing the exchange of tele- grams Harry Morris boarded a train for Brooklyn and he has been re- united with his mother and brother and the home is now a scene of ge.:- eral rejoicings.
 The long separation was due to a mixup in names. And because of the error Harry Morris, growing un as Harry Morrison drifted around the world un.il he grew to manhood and was able to shift for himself. He always supposed that he was or phan and never knew who his parents were or where they lived.
 Was Sent West.
 Harry Morris was placed in the care of the Childrens Aid Society by his parents when he was eight years old. The family was poor, there were three children and it became necessary to do something to make ends meet. So Harry was placed III the care of the society for a few years, at the end of which time the family hoped to be able to take hi:Il back again.
 The boy. with twenty-four other children, was shipped to Nebraska There, in a country Nebraskan town. the children were lined up against the side of store building and farmers came to town and picked out whichever boy they chose, to take / back with them on the farm for work in exchange for board and keep.
 Harry Morris was selected by farmer and a few weeks later was doing the chores around Nebraska farm. He says the next few years was life of hardship. A city boy. unused to farm work, he was worked hard from daybreak until nightfal, and says that once he was lashed with a blacksnake whip until he could not stand. He secured but lit tie schooling. It was a case of nev- erending work, farm labor of the kind to break the back of a growing boy, and Morris, meanwhile, was. told that he was an orphan waif and ''nc account" so many times that he final ly grew to believe it. From farm 10 farm he was "bound out" and they were nearly all the same-farmers who were chiefly concerned in seeing that they eXacted a good measure of the boys labor in exchange for board and keep.
 But the spark of life was strong in Harry Morris. He grew into a husky youth under the rigorous treat ment and finally was big enough to go his own way into the world. He drifted into Lincoln, Neb., when he was not qui.e seventeen years old, and from there to Kansas City.
 There he entered the United States Navy and served five and a half years rising to the rank of quartermaster first class and receiving an honorable discharge at San Francisco in 1914. up farming, later securing employ ment in Hastings, Neb, where ht was married and then moving to eBatrice where he has been a held agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. He has been married four yea.'s and has two children.
 A few years after he had left his parents the family, in more comfort able circums ances, sought to locate him to have him returned to them again. But due to the error of name' the boy could not be located. The family and the society did every thing possible to loca c him but with out success. In March, 1919, the father died, but the mother kept ul the search. A few months ago a sis ter died. just when trace of him was gained. but the mother and broth CT, George Morris, who has devoted all his spare time to the search were finally rewarded They locat- ed Harry Morris in eBatrice, Neb., and he's now back nome" again, where his Ii tie mother is the hap pieSt woman in the world.