Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1870-04-21

affable man, with little money, but big
will, AMI he plunged at once into mining
and business. He was honest and popu-
lar, and every man. woman and child soon
learned to love him. lie was married
after some years to fac Pacific woman,
one who was a deadshot with pistol, and
had all the virtues that bloom beyond the
Sierra Nevadas, and in course Of time we
had nominated Daniel Clarkson for
Anunyamenta OF Mayor Of the city of San
! Francisco.
While he was waiting one day on Mont
gomery street, man from Pennsylvania
stepped up to him suddenly, and putting
out his hand, said:
Paul, how do you do
ed Daniel Clarkson but -sfter>a pause,
you have mistaken me for some one else
Excuse me, said the man, but I was
sure had found Paul Beales, Of Will
amsport. Pennsylvania.
Daniel CIarkson continued on down the
street, and pretty soon he came to da-
guerreotypa saloon. before the door Of
which conspicuous ina show case. hung
portrait of him self. the most popular man
in San Francisco. Bearded and grown
older, and with that look of phloscphic
thought which wide experience gives, he
made the prompt resolved to buy picture
oe Danie Clarkson, and send it to the
Mayor of Wiliamsport to inquire if he
resembled ill any manner the missing
Paul Beales. This, perhaps, was the
madness which lets out murder; bat, con-
filent and se!f-possessel, the fugitive cash
Ter lid it. The mayor ana his friends
unused over the picture, and saw resem-
biance, bat at last decided to abide by the
decision of The SEidow of Paul Beales She
had been waiting all thosa years, hopeful
khat che ;deeps Of time would give up their
secret some day and when she saw the
picture of Daniel Clarkson she recognized
her husband, and fell faintins to the
Floor. +
At that day wretch subsisted in Cal
lfornia wire earned his ignominious bread
/ ov black mailing the citizens in the COL
umns of a vile print. He began by call
ing Daniel Ciarksou bank robber and
thief. and said he was fac fguer for an
Anunyamenta He filled his paper with
the name Of Paul Beales, and the whole
city looked up astonished to see its most
respectable merchant maligned in this
way. If Clarkson had killed the black
mailer he would have been justified on
every side. Not SO. He protested that
he had always been Daniel Clarksor, and
that he never heard Of Paul Beales, and
SO solemnly dil he aver this that not one
of his friend vaverel in his support
But the printing wretch grew more
circumstantial with every issue, and at
last the friends Of the merchant said:
'Clarkson, you must 90 back to Will
Transport and show yourself You must
face this thing. We believe you, and we
will see you through"
lie said with all che>rfulness that he
would take the first steamer. AMI so be
did, accompanied by many supporters,
and cheerd rs the ship left her dock by
crowd He left behind il San francisco
two hundred thousand dollars worth of
property.
As the ships company was crossing the
/ Isthmus of Panama on mules, Daniel
Clarkson was missing somewhere on the
way, and for three years he disappeared
anew. At last they found him working
in candle factory in Cincinnati dressed
like alaborer, and poor and desperate. =
Th6 California boss put him on his feet
They said:
'Clarkson, there is only one way to do
this thing. Begin at the beginning and
return to Williamsport and your wife"
He said he would do all they asked =
They paid the money he had absoonled
with AMI cost. fhcy persuaded the
wife he had il California to give him up
quietly. Efis ownwife. who had lived
alone al those years, was glad to have
him rback on any terms ; and there he lives
TO this day, near Williamsport-. tolorably
old man and his story is one of the favorite
"reminiscences of our coast Chteage
! Tribune.