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Rh have passed, and of which Pulitzer and Watterson are the sole survivors. His mind was a huge storehouse in which knowledge of men, events, literature, philosophy, theology, ethics and history was piled up and labeled for ready use. His powers of expressing thought in written language have been rarely equaled. To him, words and sentences were the keen-edged tools with which the expert works and fashions with unerring directness. They were the leaden missiles with which the skilled rifleman cleaves the target. They were the thunderbolt or the lightning flash with which electricity proves its resistless powers. Splendid in their strength, overwhelming in their incisiveness and captivating in their grace, his phrasings in conveying the thought that surged in his dominant mind were the essence and means that brought him high place in his great profession."—Oregon Journal, August 1910.