Correspondence (incoming): Se - Shaw, 1893-1903

DEPOT HOTEL. Redding, Cal.

against you in this matter would have availed nothing, yet I have expressed myself & hoped for your ultimate victory.

I know & have said said [sic], and truly believe that Senator Stanford was a better friend to more men than any man I ever heard of, and it would be unfortunate to say the least were you not permitted to apply the fruits of his success and he desired and as you were left to judge, without the interference of a selfish & otherwise defiled lot of demagoguery interfering. Trusting that God will permit & extend the term of your earthly existence to satisfy your own wishes. I am

Your friend

Mr. E Sexton

Redding Cala

DEPOT HOTEL. Redding, Cal.

two honest men might disagree as to the Justice of almost any thing & yet each be right according to his own convictions of honor yet I am constrained to say that I think a large lot of demagogues have put you to a vast amount of trouble & the worry that such action would cause is readily conceived of by those who know your purpose, & those who knew the Senators desires.

Judge McKissick who was for many years befriended by the late Senator is the most conspicious [sic] figure of the ungrateful and if his own conscience

HIGHER EDUCATION.

Address of Rt. Rev. Bishop Keane, Rector of the Catholic University, at the Catholic Congress.

The following highly-interesting and important address was delivered at the Catholic Congress by Rt. Rev. Bishop Keane September 6th.

DEFINES THE HIGHER EDUCATION

Bishop Keane, who was received with the greatest enthusiasm, returned thanks for the cordiality of his reception, and delivered the following address:

For the right understanding of the subject which I have been requested to treat it is necessary, in the first place, to form a clear idea of what is meant by higher education as compared with elementary and secondary education.

Elementary education is the education of the child up to the age of 12 or 14. It consists of a knowledge of "the three r's," which are the first instruments of all learning, and it ought to impart through these instrumentalities an elementary acquaintance with the three great books which lie ever open before human eyes - the book of nature, the book of man, and the book of God. Elementary education is ordinarily imparted, all the world over, in schools.

Secondary education is the education of youth, from the age of twelve or fourteen up to seventeen or nineteen. It consists in acquiring the use of other instrumentalities of learning; namely, languages ancient and modern, and of arriving through these at a more thorough acquaintance with nature or science, with the thoughts and achievements of men in literature and history, and with divine things in themselves and in their influence on the life of mankind. In different countries different names are given to the institutions in which secondary education is imparted. In Germany they are called Gymnasia; in France, Lycees; in England and America, high schools or colleges.

Higher education is the education of the man, of one who has passed through the elementary and the secondary, and who presses on in the paths of learning, usually from the age of seventeen or eighteen up to twenty-four or twenty-five. And here let me remark, once for all, that in speaking of the education of the man I have no intention of excluding woman. On the contrary, I firmly believe in giving her every educational advantage which she desires and which she finds profitable to her. Waiving for the present as not now concerning us the practical question this involves, I wish it understood that I use the word man in the generic sense, including both sexes, as far as the subject concerns them both.

YOUTH LOOKING AHEAD

The youth leaving college at eighteen must know that he is not a learned man. If he thinks he is then he had better close his books, for further study will be apt to do him but little good. But if he has in him the stuff to make a learned man, then he knows that he has only seen what learning is and what the way to it is.

He knows that he cannot hope to obtain it in the busy struggle of life; he craves more time for deeper and wiser and more philosophical study study that he will carry on with the seriousness of a man, of a disciplined mind. His aim may be a learned profession, law or medicine, giving posi

The Late H. A. Risley

BY A. J. FAUST, PH.D.

To those who have known Washington society from the date of Mr. Lincoln's inauguration the familiar name and presence of Mr. H. A. Risley, who died at West Newton, Mass., on the 23d of August, will call up the memory of a refined gentleman, whose residence was once the center of an attractive and genial coterie during his official life at the National Capital. Mr. Risley came to Washington as the intimate friend of the late William H. Seward, then Secretary of State, and for a period of eight years was connected with the Treasury Department, first as special agent, and afterwards as assistant solicitor. He was an active participant in the stirring events which brought all sorts of people to Washington during the war, and held intimate social and official relations with the men who were the central figures in those historic times.

A lawyer by profession, Mr. Risley's tastes were decidedly literary, and in the course of a busy life he had gathered a well-selected library, specially valuable for its good editions of English classics. Among the friends of his early life who doubtless had much to do with the direction of his reading was the Rev. Dr. Tyler, rector of the Episcopal parish of Batavia, N.Y. Dr. Tyler was an enthusiastic student of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who, with Wordsworth and Southey, was the precursor of the Tractarian Movement in England. Mr. Risley shared in mature years this high appreciation of Coleridge as a thinker rather than as a poet, and its influence dominated his point of view in literature as in religion. He was a Churchman of the school of Bishop Hobart, of New York, and it can be said in his praise that Mr. Risley was free from the narrowness of all schools of sectarian opinions. Among his friends he numbered many Catholics, who admired the old time courtesy so benignant and so gracious, revealing the warmth of a guileless heart kept undefiled to the end. As a gentleman, Mr. Risley was fashioned in the mould of "the good chevalier sans peur et sans reproche." He had the well-bred manners of the cultured man at ease in any society, because his kindly heart was thoroughly en rapport with goodness and sincerity wherever found. Some little time after the death of his first wife, which occurred during the administration of Andrew Johnson, Mr. Risley relinquished Washington as a permanent residence. Much of his time was spent at Colorado Springs in professional pursuits. Here he remarried, and until within a few years, when the infirmities of age began to show themselves, he was actively engaged as the legal solicitor of important railway corporations. Two daughters by his first wife, Mrs. Alfred Rodman, of Dedham, Mass., and Miss Olive Risley Seward, of Washington, are the living representatives who made his home here a notable place, especially at the close of the war. It will be remembered that they made the journey round the world with William H. Seward, after his retirement from the Secretaryship of State. At a later period Miss Olive Risley Seward, who has lived much abroad, was received into the Catholic Church in Rome.

Mr. Risley's society was greatly sought during his life in Washington, for as host or guest he was an admirable type of the genial raconteur of the olden days when conversation was more of a fine art than now. His associations with Marcy, Webster, Greeley, Weed, Seward, and Chase supplied the themes for many a delightful season to these who shared the hospitality of his home.

Peace to a pure and unselfish memory around which one gathers

"That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love!"

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