The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-11-01
SHE KEPT A SECRET.

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SHE KEPT A SECRET.
That a woman can sometimes keep
a secret is evidenced by the case of a
certain Miss Vanbaugh of Trinidad,
Colo, who for the past forty years
has masqueraded as man, so etfec-
lively hiding her sex that it was never
once suspected until a hospital exami-
ton brought the deception to light.
! She adopted the male disguise because
at that time a prejudice existed against
women working.
Incidentally, her case furnishes
another example of how the world
moves. Nowadays there is hardly
field of labor closed to women, and
had Miss Vanbaugh's arrival on the
the scene been postponed a score or so
of years she would not have found
that her sex was a bar to any line of
effort she might elect. Forty years
ago, however, conditions were differ
ent.
THE chap who flung that filth at
! Candidate jim Smith, and was in turn
soundly spanked for his indecency and
misbehavior, is now crying persecu-
ton. That's gall for you; as much of
it and as unadulterated as that dis
played by Tom Watson in trying to
take charge of democratic politics in
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ing continued allegiance to pOpulism.
SENATOR A. O. BACON, after an
absence of several months in Europe,
is again at his home in Macon. Major
Ba cons friends and admirers, which
means nearly all the people of Geor-
gia, are gratifed to know that his
health has been fully restored, and
that he promises to give them many
more years of able and distinguished
service at Washington.
THERE are many excellent weekly
newspapers in Georgia, and among
the foremost of them is the Waynes-
bOro True Citizen. The True Citizen
is always full of fresh live advertise
: ments and bright, crisp news and
comment, and last week it required
twelve big pages to accommodate the
demand for space in its columns.
IN cambridge Saturday afternoon
Sheriff Stegall of Decatur county was
} fatally shot by negro wife slayer he
was trying to arrest, and the negro
!, was in turn lynched. The rascal got
) no more than he deserved, but it would
have been so much better had the peo-
pie of Decatur let the law avenge the
murder of their brave officer.
JUDGE DICK RUSSELL will speak
against a big circus in Atlanta to-
night, stupendous undertaking even
for a candidate for governor. If Hoke
Smith and Clark Howell had not de-
clined invitations to meet him in joint
debate Judge Dick would have cir
Gus of his own. And he would not be
the clown, either.
THE Atlanta Journals project Of
having the people Of the south pay the
duty on Miss Roosevelt's presents, re-
ceived in China, Japan and Korea,
has dried up and blown away. 1t was
a one day sensation, like so many 9th
ers now originating in Atlanta in the
vicinity of the Broad street newspaper
Office.
THE Edison News is spreading it.
self, our neighbor appearing On its
last publication day with four extra
pages. Edison is one of the Invest of
the hustling new towns down here in
Gods country, and Editor Lane is
keeping his paper right on the front
line in the march of progress.
OVER in Sumter county pistol pei
lets were served on the side at null
let supper, with the result that one of
the guests did not survive the feast
and two others are in precarious
condition.
THE Macon show is now in full
blast. If you want to see one of the
best fairs ever held in the state go up
and take 4 peep at it.