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Show PEN PORTRAIT OF MARCUS DALY. Possessed Qualities Bound to Force Him to the Front. Daly was a man of medium height and stocky figure. A splendid, full rounded head topped a well knit body. His oyo was marvelously clear, and his voice, In conversation, was low and mellow. His feet wero small and hU hands, dpsplto tho hardships of his early life, wero delicate and shapely ns a woman's, writes C. P. Connolly, In McCluro's. He had had no early advantages. Ho was horn In Ireland nnd left that country when ho was not yet 1G. Ho sold newspapers In New York nnd later obtained employment ns messenger In a mercantile or banking house In that city, where ho saved enough money to tako him by water to California. From (hero ho drifted up to tho Comstock, In Novnda, nnd then went to Montnnn. Ho would havo forced himself up through poverty and obscurity had ho never dlscovor&l tho llutto hill. No man was shrewder In his everyday IntercoursH with men. Fow know tho real workings of his mind ho seemed to dlvlno tho menial pioccsses of others. Ho did not belong to that raco of poverty strlckon and superior men who, as Balzac said, can do everything every-thing for tho fortunes of others, but nothing for their own. |