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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 toppod a well knit body. His oyo was marvoloiisly clear, and his voice, in conversation, was low and mellow. His feet woro small and his bauds, despite tho hardships ot his early life, wero dellcato and shapely as n woman's, writes, C. P. Connolly, In McCltiro'B. Ho had had no early advantages. Ho was born in Ireland and left that, country when he was not yet 15. Ho sold newspapers in New York nnd later obtained employment ns niessonger In a mercantile or banking house In that city, where he t,aed enough money to tnko him by water to California. From there ho drifted up to the Comstock. In Novada, and then went to Montana. He would have forced himself up through poverty and obscurity had lib never discovered tho llutto hill No man was shrewder in his everyday intercourse with men. Fow know tho real workings of his mind ho seemed to dlvlno the mc nl processes of others. Ho did not belong to thnt race of poverty stricken nnd superior men who, as Balzac said, can do everything every-thing for tho fortunes of others, but nothing for their own. " |