The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

service in war and over thirty years in
peace. But to have a lot of young fell
lows who fought a month, Ioafed in
camp a few months and then came
home, call themselves veterans,
ought to make a yellow dog laugh.
There is no such thing in heaven above
or on the earth beneath, as an "Old
Vet" or odd veteran" II a Savannah
editor should refer to the veteran MEM
bers of the S. V. G., as "old veteran
members he would be laughed at.
would just as soon think of putting
Judge Barrow alongside of Judge Han
sell and saving, see my two old judicial
friends, trey are "old veteran judges, "a
or veteran judges The term "veter-
an" means old or experienced, and can
not, in any way, be so divorced from
this meaning as to allow of the use of
the prefix old
Now, it Is proper, when writing of the
G. A. r. or U. c. ". soldiers to use the
simple term veteran" without the
word soldier This is admissible by
common consentand speaking of black
smiths, or lawyers, or printers, we may
say, Jones is a veteran is old
and experienced in his business. But
the reckless use of "old Vets" and old
veterans is surprising. We don't say
this of other people-not ''old veteran
printer" etc; we simply say, he was
a veteran typo" I know that some
smart editors and some odd veterans
don't agree with me, but if am wrong
then 1 don't know anything about the
use of the English language. 1t is just
as easy to say veteran soldiers, as old
veterans, and therefore there is no
good reason for this constant and con-
tinued use of an incorrect term as ap-
piled to our old soldiers. And let us
drop this new term of Spanish-Ameri-
can veterans as we would drop hot
horseshoe.
am glad that the glitter of gold
nuggets up in Lurnpkin county did not
blind Col EstilPs eyes to the other
richer mines that Col. w. P. Price, my
dear old friend has been working for
years and years under every variety
of discoura gen1ents. Shut in from the
outside world, up in the mountains, this
cultured gentleman and patriotic citi-
zen and gallant soldier has given his
life to the uplifting of his people
through thorough literary, scientific,
mechanical, agricultural and military
education. I can bear witness that
able to compete with the Dahlonega
College in military training and real
character building. The purest and
richest gold in Lumpkin county has
been ''mind'' in the splendid college
that Col Price has so long and so
faithfully upheld. It's graduates have
been, as q rule, noble young men and
women who have gone out into the
world to do good service for the state
or nation or community. One of Col.
Prices sons went into the United
States arny-First Lieutenant S. L.
Price of the Fourteenth Infantry-who
has made a splendid record in the SER
vice.
For many years I knew Col. Price,
after his retirement from Congress, and
we became the best of friends. for I
found him true, cultured gentleman,
with a heart as pure as the gold mug
gets from the Lumpkin mines. Imagine
nay surprise. then, when I accidentally
discovered that he commanded the
battery or company that shot nv horse
from under me at Bull Run and nearly
killed me. We were riding on the rail-
read train one day when our CONVEX
sstion drifted to that first great battTs
OF the civil War, and it resulted in
the discovery that have referred 10
above. L had ordered Gen. Keves ~
move his brigade under cover If IN.
top OF the hill around the rear of fine
georgia troops, and as soon as I hal
attended to some other matters. I fol-
lowed. While crossing the stream, lust
before reached the Confederate side