The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-10-21

side at any moment. On Saturday
morning he had relapse and it was ap-
parent that recovery was impossible.
Several times, however, he rallied, but
toward night began to sink. During
the night there were feeble rallies, but
they did not last long. Sunday morning
it was seen that the end was but few
hours off, and his attendants remained
almost constantly at his bedside. The
end came quietly.
Charles Anderson Dana was born August
10, 1S1s He came Of an old New England
family, which has supplied as many STU
dents to Harvard and as many well-known
names to lttelature as any in the east.
Among its members are numbered Fran
CHS Dana, the revolutionary patriot: Rich
ard Henry Dana. the poet; the other Rich
ard Henry, whozwrote 1.-TWO Years Before
the: Mast, = and James D. Dana, the geol-
ogist. He followed the ancestral track at
Harvard, when weakness of the eyes inter-
rupted his studies and obliged him to leave
the university without taking degree, in
spite of his high scholastic achievements.
College life over, he Joined with Theodore
Parker, Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George
William Curtis, Hawthorne, Charming and
others in their attempt to found the Brook
Farm community. This was an endeavor to
ity and perfect fraternity. The plan was
not success. and the members Of Brook
Farm were soon scattered. Young Dana
abandoned his visionary hopes and turned
his face to a life Of toll. He at once en-
tered the newspaper profession and was
first employed by Elizur Wright, who was
then publishing paper called the Chrome
type In Boston. He earned five dollars g.
week. From this point his rise was rapid.
In 1S47 he went to New York, having been
engaged as city editor on Horace Greeley's
rising paper, the Tribune, at ten dollars q
week. The following year he was sent as
special correspondent to Europe. His work
there soon gained him renown as corre-
spondent. and on his return to New York
he became Greeley's principal assistant.
His salary gradually was increased from
81. 900 to s., 800 year, this being the highest
salary paid at that time by any newspaper.
Mr.. Dana's leisure hours were spent in lit
erary work. He published volume of
poems. and in 1866 he began, in association
with George Riley. to- edit the New Ameri-
can Cyclopedia."
June 16, 1862 he was appointed to the
war department commission to investigate
claims at Cairo, ILL.,; on March IT, 1862 as
special commissioner Of the department
to report on the condition Of the pay serv-
ice In the western army. June l. 1863, In or
der that he might be subject to military ex-
change II captured when visiting the front
of the army, he was appointed major and
assistant adjutant general, and on De-
cember 81, 1853, was nominated to the SEN
ate for that office, but he never formally
accepted it, and the nomination, at his re-
guest. after he had returned from Vicks-
burg. was Withdrawn on February "a, 1864
January 20, 1854, he was nominated for as
sistant secretary of war for one year; from
January, 49,. 1864; confirmed January 20
and took the office on January %; renom-
mated January %, 1865, and confirmed on
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part of his service for the war department
under the above commissions and as assist
ant secretary by visiting the army head
quarters of Rosecranz, Sheridan, Sherman
and Grant, advising contidentially with the
commanding officers and corresponding
freely with President Lincoln and Secre-
tary Stanton, resigning as assistant Sec
rotary July l, 1865.
When the war was over, in 1867, he went
to Chicago, and for year acted as editor
of the Republican. Then he returned to the
metropolis and organized the company
which now publishes the New York Sun.
The Sun was already an old-established
journal, having first appeared in 1888.
Dana's conduct of this journal was so fear
less that in 1873 his criticism Of the Grant
administration led to an attempt on the
part of the heads Of the government to
hale him to Washington for trial in po-
lice court on a charge of libel. Justice
Blatchford, then Of the United States dis
trict court in New York, declared the at
tempt an invasion of constitutional rights
and refused to grant the necessary warrant
of removal. For nearly SC years Mr.. Dana
made the Sun an independent democratic
journal. In its issue of October IA. 1897.
in the heart of the Greater New York
municipal campaign, Mr.. Dana repudiated
democracy of every stripe and declared for
the principles and policy of the republican
party. This was on the ground that the
democracy of William ]. Bryan represented
principles, tendencies and purposes which
racy was impractical and without definite
purpose or significance.
III. In private ae, iife Mr. pana was a connois-
and orchids, q lover of chess and athletics
and enamored of all things Of refinement.
Inquiry Must Be Held.
Washington, Oct. 18.-Orders were