1924. From the Publisher's Foreword: Ideals in Verse marks another milestone in the eventful career of California's Grand Old Man-Senator Cornelius Cole. He finished this remarkable work and handed the manuscript to the publishers on his 102nd birthday. In it is condensed a philosophy of life and human conduct that bespeaks the keen observation of a man who has seen much along the highway of life; of a man who has emerged from the strife and turmoil of more than five score years with a kindly interest in mankind; not a passive interest, but a vibrant, keen desire to help his fellow men along the road that he himself knows so well-hence this little book, Ideals in Verse.