Daily inter mountain., 1900-11-12
MONDAY, NOVEMBER Il, 1900.
MARCUS DAILY.

struggle against an ailment which was
long ago diagnosed as fatal, Montanas S
leading citizen and greatest benefactor
passed into the great beyond. lneN-
pressiibly sad was such an ending to
such a life For thirty-five years he had
struggled and toiled for fame and for
tune; just as he had achieved BOTH the
Grim Messenger summoned him to other
scenes. there to await the rewards of
career remarkable for its v.cissitudes,
Its triumphs and its defeats; there to
await the loved ones 20 whose happiness
his life had been devoted. Marcus DAILY
was called before his life work was fin
ished, before he had begun TO enjoy the
Fruits Of his success, before he had
achieved the full measure of his ambi-
tion, which was finally to retire from
business and devote his remaining years
to rest and reminiscence, to the compan-
ionslip of his wife and children, to
the sweet pleasures of home life. Active
as he had been, absorbed in business
and politics as he always appeared. bur-
dened with responsibility as he was he
always turned when in need of comfort
or enccura cement to his family circle.
There all his hopes We're centered. there
all his happiness abided. there alone was
surcease from toll and worry. Home
was to him sacred spot. To make it
ldeaa ana to protect his loved ones from
future harm was the ultimate object of
ALL his eve1luful and restless career.
Stormy indeed has been the life of
Marcus Daily in the business and polfti-
cal world, butt he will be remembered
only by his good deeds, which far out
weigh the others, as a friend of the
men who TOLL and their dependents, as
man in whose mind vast enterprises
took shape and We're carried out with
but one object in view-success; as a
state builder. who grasped and utilized
for his purposes the resources of an en-
Iire; as a giant among men, whose am
bitlon it always was to control the big
gest and the best, to be prominent in
every enterprise which engaged his
genius. whether lit was the opening Of
the richest mines, the construction OF
uhe greatest smelter or the breeding Of
THE fastest race horse. His conceptions
We're all magnificent and We're magn.Ii-
certify carried forward. He possessed
many Of the qualities of true greatness,
and, had his early training been scho-
lasiaic instead OF practical, he would have
been a great lawyer, politician of ma
Hional prominence, or famous general
OF Gip.onlat. He would have been first
always and everywhere. But he was
edutalad in the school of rough ex-
pelfenca. His mental development came
Eate in life. Opportunity made him
great, but he created opportunity.
He was a keen judge OF human
nature. He possessed that personal
onagllotisrn without which no man has
q f. owing on true friends. He was
fuert talker, and possessed the fac
ulty of making all men satisfied with
themselves while yet subseryient to his
VIII. He impressed al with his original
ity, his force, his tinesse. He was well
informed, NOT through reading, for he
had no time to read; but he seemed to
absorb Information from those he met
He was shrewd and possessed a power
of sal easm and idicule more effective
perhaps than delicate. He was a doel
of great things and took delight in dis
GUESSING them. He loved to talk polite:
and tell of the battles he had fought ant
won. Though outwardly harsh at times
he could be in his way a most winsom
and gracious man. He was full of senti
merit and humanity. None Will eve
know tit'he of his good deeds. He wa
mere generous and charitable than h
was grateful or forgfving. In fact h
was bitter and imp,acable in his dislike:
yet enthusiastic in his friendships; kin
and gentle to the weak, thoughtful t.
wards Those in distress. He was M
without eccenufcities. He reached re
suits sometimes by devious ways H
had faculty of drawing out Of men a
ahey knew and giving them no informe