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Show SEPARATED FROM HER CHILD FOURTEEN YEARS Spokane. Wash., July 23 After being be-ing separated from her only child for more than 11 years, seeing him last when he was a babe in arras, Mr3. Harvey L. Harrington of Spokane, Spo-kane, has gone to Dubuque. Iowa, to claim her sou and bring him to her row home at Salmon Meadows. Idaho, Ida-ho, where she taught school last season. sea-son. Mrs. Harrington has been in the Northwest since 1897. teaching school In various parts of Montana, Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Just before boarding & train In Spokane Spo-kane for Burlington, Iowa, Mrs. Harrington Har-rington said, while tears of gladness and anticipation rolled down her cheeks, that her fondest hope of joars was ahout to be realized. Within With-in a few days she will be reunited with her son, who has no remembrance remem-brance of his mother. Mrs. Harrington's story has Its pathetic pa-thetic side. Separated from her child by strife which disrupted her home life in Iowa in 189?, she came to Washington and taught school In this and neighboring stAtes. Her I husband married the second time and died a few months later. The step, mother placed the boy In an orphans' asylum soon afterward, when al Irare of the child was lost to thi mother. "The search was long and tryins at times." Mrs. Harrington said, "bu ' I I never lost faith I knew I would find my child. I admit I was dls- i heartened when I could find no clu to his whereabouts, but something seemed to tel me that my search would be rewarded, so 1 continued to work and hope for fourteen years. "Only a few days ago I was advise, that my son. now IS years of age, 1 5 In Dubuque, and I am goJng there to him as fast as steam can carry me. We are coming back to the wegt to r ake our home among my frlendi I Mho eucouragei end assisted me when I needed their cheering wnrdjf n ost I owe much to the people of the Northwest, and I know, too, that they will rejoice with me In my happiness." |