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CHAPTER VIL One day’s residence at the old Grange proved to Peter Lennox that he had more difficulties in his way than he had dreamed of. He was struck by Beatrix's character. She had strength of will, firmness, reliance; he could hardly imagine that "'eibe was “Prince Charlie’s” daughter. If her father had had but a tithe of her firm®ess he would never have been ruined. The sfhrewd, keen man of business, who had passed his life in accumulating Money, understood the rare character of Beatrix Lennox better than her gentle mother. To her the girl’s proud, stormy, passionate nature, with its keen loves, its keen hates, its great mistakes, its faults springing from a noble source, was all a sealed book. Peter Lennox saw and understood better the qualities of that ■noble nature. He contented himself for a time at Strathnarn by supplying the two Sadies with ail the luxuries of life. He ■decided not to introduce his beautiful niece to society until he had taught her at Ereeldean the Chief lesson of her life. The day of their return to Erceldean was a day never forgotten. It seemed as though heaven itself sympathized with them. The skies had never appeared so bine, the sun had never seemed to shine •o brightly, the world was all fair. Peter Lennox, with bis new and l>eautifully appointed carriage, his magnificent roans, Shis well-trained servants, was at the station to meet them. He looked excited and pleased. So the sweet young daughter, in all ■the proud loveliness of her race, and the gentle mothv t hose heart had saddened by poverty, wc^t back in triumph to their j old home. They drove underneath arches where the word “Welcome” looked down upon them, past crowds of people wiho cried, “Welcome!” and some of them added, “Thank heaven, we see your ladyship’s face again!” amid the music of bells and the cheers of a rejoicing crowd. Even the little children had gathered great handfuls of harebells and flung them before them. It was indeed a royal welcome home. “Beatrix,” said Peter Lennox that evening, “if any one placed a jewel of great price in your hand, and asked you to guard it, you would carefully preserve it, would you not?” “Yes, indeed, I would!” she replied; and ; the firm, earnest, musical voice filled his heart with hope. He took both her hands i in his. He held them open and looked at them. “Beatrix,” he said gently, “I am going to do that very thing. These hand’s of yours, so warm, so soft, so white, must henceforth hold all the honor and credit, all the well-being and responsibility, all the hope and the future of your race. You, Beatrix Lennox, must be heiress of ■Erceldean, and the grand old race of Lennox must revive in you. Will you take the trust?” “I will, uncle,” she replied. “Those who would succeed in any one purpose in those degenerate times must «et to work with almost savage earnestness. You must do the same. No matter what comes, you must always say to yourself, ‘Erceldean first —the Lennoxes first—everything must give way to them.’ ” “It shall,” she replied, with simple earnestness. “I shall love my life better if it has to be spent for others than if it had to be spent entirely for myself.” She did not foresee then to what those ■words committed her. Society welcomed Beatrix Lennox as it Siad welcomed her uncle, with open arms. ■Peter Lennox had spared no expense. He had taken the position in society which became a millionaire. He had purchased * house in Belgravia; it had been furudshed and decorated in a most superb manner. The great world talked of Peter Lenuox, “Prince Charlie’s” brother—the brother whom all had believed to have been drowned —who had made an immense fortune in America. He had returned to England, sought out his niece and made her his heiress. Almost every one had some recollection of “Prince Charlie.” They would not have avowed it had his brother not returned a millionaire. That made a wonderful difference.

Even the Duchess of Emslie—the proud peeress who had officiated as godmother to “Prince Charlie’s” daughter, yet who had declined to answer an appeal made >hy Lady Lennox—came to welcome them. It was a new and pleasant life that 'Peter Lennox, with his sister and niece, fed in London. The Belgravian mansion 'was one of the most spacious in London, and certainly one of the most splendid. They were a very united family. Peter Lennox always breakfasted with the two Sadies. After breakfast he went invariably to Sis library, a large room, all crimson and eak, with richly stained glass windows. There he read and answered l his letters, managed his business affairs, and had inter views with his solicitors; there he spent (She quietest, happiest hours of his life, always studying what he could do for the benefit of his estate, studying what would hest conduce to the glory of the Lennoxes •f E reel dean. “flow you love Erceldean, uncle!” said ’Beatrix one morning, as she followed him «So the library and there saw a map of uhe estate spread out on the writing ta»fe. “Yes,” he replied. “Erceldean is my *hiM, as it were, my study, my own love; add to its greatness is my chief deKght.” “Yet it seems a lonely life for you, un«le,” said the young girl, and her arm ‘aow Stole gently round his neck. “To live let the honor of a name, to plan and think

and study for the benefit of an estate -it seems a cold, hard, lonely life for you, uncle.” She saw a sharp quiver of pain pass over his face—it was gone in a moment—and then he laid his hand upon her head. “I love you, Beatrix—you are my child and my heiress—l love you and your mother.” “But, uncle,” sho continued, “you would not be human if you did not long for ties of your own—a wife to love you, children to love you.” He held up his hand with a warning gesture. His face grew white and his lips trembled. “You have a secret in your life, uncle,” she said—“l know it- I have always thought so—a secret. It is in your face; there are such sad lines round your lips and on your brow—lines such as a secret makes and leaves.” ‘Yes, you are right, Beatrix —I have a secret; but the grave is closed over it. Do trot talk of it, my dear—you would not love me better if you knew it. I was not human when I was young, I was cast iron, granite. I committed no crime, but —there—do not ta’lk of it, Beatrix.” He rose from his chair as he spoke and stood quite still for a few moments She watched him. Presently his manner changed completely. lie turned to the writing table, and took up a large white envelope with a crest upon it. “This is from the Duchess of Elmslie. Beatrix, take it to your mother and see what she says.” Lady Lennox was in the drawing room when Beatrix joined her. She wondered what the duchess had to say. It was soon known. The brief letter ran: “Dearest Lady Lennox—Do not forget my ball on Thursday night. You seemed doubtful about coming. Try to come. Let Beatrix be certain to do so. Dress her in the most bewitching fashion. Some one whom I like very much is anxious to meet her.” “Who can that be?" said Lady Lennox, as she finished reading the note. “Os course you must go, Beatrix, and equally of course I must take you.” “My grandmother is very imperative,” remarked Beatrix, with a smile. It was settled that she was to go; and i Lady Lennox, made slightly anxious by I the little note, was more than usually careful about her daughter's dress. She j chose one of the palest and daintiest of rose siiks embroidered with white flowers; the faint rose hue enhanced the wondrous beauty of the perfect face. With the superb dress Beatrix would have no flowers but white ones—white heath, white roses and white lilies mixed. She would have no jewels but pearls -white, pure and shining. It was late when Lady Lennox and Beatrix reached the ball room. The Duchess of Elmslie greeted them warmly. “I had begun to fear that you would disappoint me,” she said; and then her keen eyes took in every detail of Beatrix’s exquisite toilet. A warm smile of approval lighted her face. “I must not say all that I think,” she said; “but I am proud of my godchild. Beatrix, for the last week the I hike of Heathland has been following me like a shadow. Can you guess why?” “No, I am not clever at guessing,” sho replied. “He wants to be introduced to you,” she said; “and I have promised to oblige him.” “I have never heard of the Duke of Heathland,” remarked Beatrix. To her no designation was so great or so noble as that of Lennox of Erceldean. “Never heard of him!” said her grace. “That seems almost to assume that he does not exist; nevertheless, he is a very great man, Beatrix.” “Is he?” she asked, carelessly. “For his own sake I am very glad to hear it.” Presently a stately head was bowing before her, and a deep, rich voice whispering how pleased and delighted the speaker was to have at last the honor he had longed for; and Beatrix, raising her eyes, found that the duchess had introduced the Duke of Heathland to her. She looked at him steadily, and, as she looked, admired him. He was somewhat like the heroes she had pictured to herself. He

seemed very noble with his stately head. Beatrix was pleased with him. They walked down the ball room together, and as they passed people said what a noble couple they were—the proud young Scotch beauty and the stately Duke of Heathland. The Duchess of Elmslie gazed after them with great self-complacency. “I think that will do,” she said to herself. “I may have neglected ‘Prince Charlie's’ daughter in the years gone by; but, if I help to make her Duchess of Heathland, I shall more than atone for it. I think the duke is about well matched with Beatrix. They will be one of the noblest pairs in England.” The duke was charmed with Beatrix. He was a proud man, this Duke of Heathland; all his life he bad done as he liked — he had been under no control, known no master. His father Hubert, the fourteenth Duke of Heathland, died when his son was cnly three years old, his mother died when he was seven, and during that long minority he was under the charge of a most indulgent guardian. But that his nature was originally noble, he must have been completely spoiled. Beatrix was very partial to him. It pleased her to hear him discuss literature and politics—to hear him discuss music and musicians, art and artists. She enjoyed his society. Whenever she heard that the Duke of Heathland was to be at any ball or soiree she gave it the preference, while the Duchess of Elmslie watched in silent patience.

CHAPTER TITI. “A real prince!” said Beatrix, laugh-’ ingly. “I ought to be ashamed, perhaps, , to own to such a weakness, but a aeal,' 1 prince! I have always longed to see sne. Are yon quite sure, uncle, that he is the! same—Just the same —as other people?” “My dear Beatrix,” remonstrated Lady Lennox, “pray do not say such things; they sound so strangely. Why should a prince differ from other men?” “I do not know, mamma. I like the word; there is something exceptional about it. A prince! One would imagine a prince tall and commanding in figure, with a noble face and a still more noble heart.” "And this is apropos of what, Beatrix?” asked her uncle. “My godmother, the Duchess of Elinslie, uncle, gives a grand dinner on Tuesday, to v. hich we are all invited, and the object of which is to introduce the Prince de Ferros to the great world of London.” "And who,” asked Peter Lennox, “is the Prince de Ferros?” Beatrix looked up, a ripple of laughter on Jier lips. “I know you would ask that question, uncle; though, when I asked it, the duchqss assumed her sagest expression of face. ‘My d(;iir Beatrix,’ she said, ‘when you are ignorant oF what concerns a person so well known as the Prince de Ferros, never ask questions in public, or you wilj betray yourself lamentably.’ And when 1 said I should be pleased to understand the art of asking questions in anm^^y room, she sighed. Now, uncle, done the same thing; you have betriUr most deplorable ignorance as regards^t/ ;e Prince de Ferros.” “Pray tell your uncle who he is, I'7 dear,” said Lady Lennox. "He is a young Italian prince, uncle, biyen yith a mania for everything English. Near Verona he has built a house in the English style: he has English servants; and the duchess does something more than hint that he is here in search of an English wife.” “A very sensible thing, too,” said her uncle. "If the women of one nation have any superiority over those of another, it must be owned English women carry the palm.” “The prince," continued Beatrix, with a close imitation of the Duchess of Elmslie’s good manner, “is a most estimable young man; he has one of the most ancient titles of which Italy can boast; he has immense wealth, great talent, and is in every way a most desirable parti.” Her imitation of the duchess was so perfect that Peter Lennox laughed heartily. He lose from his seat, crossed to his niece, bent over her .and asked about a diamond ring that he had ordered for her. Thon he touched the white brow with his lips and said: "The Prince de Ferros will not do for us. Beatrix, will he? He would not have the glory of Erceldean at heart as we have.” She raised her head proudly- the Duchess of Elmslie always said that Beatrix was one of the proudest girls she knew. “Do for us, um-le? In what, way?” The clear, haughty eyes .seemed to compel him to speak. “I mean be will not do ns a suitor, Beatrix and that is what the duchess is evidently thinking of.” "My dear uncle,” she replied qimdly, “we need not discuss the love affair of gentlemen whom we have never seen.” But Peter Lennox could not all at snce forget the prince, lie walked tinea ;i>up and down the room. Lady Lennox apent away, and Beatrix sat in silence-. 4| s he saw that her uncle was ill at easf?but waited for him to speak. * “A foreign prince or duke would trouble himself very little about Erceldean, Beatrix," he said. “My dear, bo on your guard. Do not fall in love with a foreigner.” She raised her head so haughtily that in after days he remembered it. “My dear uncle," she replied slowly, “I ■ realy do not think you need trouble about such matters. Unless I see some one very different from any one I have seen yet, I shall never fall in love.” Little enough did the handsome young Italian dream of these sentiments. He had come to England in search of a wife. He had a love —a mania his friends called it —for everything English. He had gone one night, to the opera, and there had seen a sweet, proud face, that had driven him out of himself—a face more beautiful than the pictured ones of his native land, more beautiful than anything he had ever dreamed of. He had stood quite silent as he looked at her. and then he had said to himself: “She is as beautiful as a goddess; she has a noble soul, that looks out fearlessly upon a world that is beneath her; and, if I can win her for my wife, I will.” It was easy enough to learn her name; every one knew Miss Lennox, the heiress of Erceldean. Prince de Ferros went at once to her Grace of Elmslie. “I have lost my heart.” he said; “you must help me to find it.” The duchess was ready enough to tell him all about “Prince Charlie’s” daughter. “I am her godmother,” she said, quite forgetting how years before she hade-ig-nored this claim upon her kindness. “She is really very beautiful, and she will be one of the richest, heiresses in England—she is heiress of Erceldean.” “She would be a queen even had^she nothing,” rejoined the prince, enthusiastically. “Your grace is smiling. I sej all happiness in her face. You will intro^ce me?” JXSmk The <luchcss promised, and it waHiher letter that caused Beatrix’s exclamawon. She smiled to herself while Lady Lennox anxiously discussed her toilet. She Iboked unwontedly lovely in a dress of white made after a quaint Grecian fashion, with a band of gold round her dainty waist, and golden fringe on her dress; she wore sweet blue Nile lilies in her hair, and Prince de Ferros, when he bowed before her, laid his life and his love at her feet. (To be continued.) Death Rate in Model Dwellings. The London Chronicle calls attention to the remarkably low death rate in many of the model dwellings in that* <dty. In particular 'here is found in the houses of the Metropolitan Association for Improving Dwellings of the Working Classes, which is now in its lift.y-th.ird year, a death rate of only 9.64 to 1,000. The inmates of these hoti'Ses number 6,430, and are hotjsed in fourteen blocks in different parti of the city. This rate is only half the rate for the whole of Londoai. Nothing is more noble, nothing is more venerable than fidelity, faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

WRITTEN B¥ A WOMAN SHE DESCRIBES THE GREAT KLONDYKE GOLD REGION. A Teacher of the Indians Draws a Discouraging Picture of the New Elderado and Advises the Tenderfoot to Stay Away Till Next Spring. No Dream of Ease. Among those in Klondyke, the newly discovered gold field in Canada, just over the Alaska boundary, who write back warning letters to their friends in civile ization is Miss Anna Fulcomer, a graduate of the University of Chicago, wlu> has been in Alaska a year as a teacher among the Indians under Government auspices. She has been located at Oirele City, Alaska, but went to Klondyke in the first rush, hoping to “strike it rich.” She writes as follows: “Those now leaving the United States for Klondyke are almost as certainly coming to hardship, privation and suffering. They cannot possibly get here before the closing oU the mining season, and they will find every foot of ground known to be rich in gold staked off and held by miners o/ experience. They will find food and lodging so high and scarce that it will take

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a small fortune to survive until an opportunity to return offers itself. There is gold in Klondyke gold in abundance, dirt rich enough on some claims to yield from SIOO to SSOO pet pan; but it is mined with difficulty, mined in a small way. mined slowly, so that for the average experienced digger the protits are swallowed up in the expenses. Men who had been mining in other points in Alaska and the Mi v a v J y z SUMMIT AT (HILKCOT PASS. British Dominion virtually abandoned their own claims, owing to the craze over Klondyke, hurried there and staked off their claims, and are holding or working them. This was early in the movement, ami consequently newcomers have to be content with the leavings of the old men in the work. “There are only four mining months— May, June, July and August—and even then the ground never thaws out more than two or two and one-half inches. The rest of the year the soil is like a solid rock. It is no unusual thing for the mercury to fall 90 or 95 degrees below zero. To go prospecting before May or after August is cut of the question, and in the four months I have named it is a matter of about three,hours a day. The coldest we had it last winter was 95 degrees below zero, but mild as the weather was — for Alaska it was quite cold enough to make one feel the need of good, solid food. Apropos of the living here, it is well enough for them to say that there is no lack of provisions. Actually the natives and miners haven't the necessaries of life, to say nothing of the comforts. It is impossible to get fresh meat. It is simply a matter of canned goods, and these have to be bought from the trading' posts of the Alaska Commercial Company or the American Transportation Company, at the companies’ prices, and they charge what they please. One dollar a pound for Hour, salaratus and potatoes is the usual rate. “Game has been utterly driven from the mountains. Fish are frozen eight months in the year. Once in a while you can got fresh meat at 50 cents a pound. The fresh meat used at our Christmas dinner, however, cost $19.50 a pound. There was gold enough in the taste even to make it lie a dead weight on the stomach. You can readily see that an experienced miner here has had to be successful in order to live. What would become of a ‘tenderfoot’ it is easy to imagine. I can see little in store for the man who gets here after or late in August but hardship and privation. Those stricken with the gold fever keep flocking here and the influx of wouldbe miners will doubtless continue till everything is frozen up so tight that it will be impossible to do anything but hunger, look at the moon and wait till next May. It is to the interest of the transportation companies to encourage this migration of the people north since they get the trans- । portation money - it costs about $l5O to go from Seattle to Klondyke—and besides ; have a corner on supplies. All who go to ;

' .the gold fields will have to buy from them. The transportation companies will thus of necessity reap a rich harvest. : “‘A dog, a dog, my kingdom for a dog,’ ;is the general cry here. Horses have practically proved a failure here as a means of transportation. They have to be housed in tents in which a fire is kept. The dogs, however,, live on next to nothsng and often make-astonishing time. The relative value placed on men and dogs is shown by the fact that I could get an ex.perienced m m for my trip to Klondyke Tor nothing, but had to pay S3O rental for ajlog and had to make a contract to pay $7-> if anything happened to the ardmal.” Miss Fulcomer gives a good report of the manners am) morals of the camps. During her residence of a year at Circle City she knew of no murder being committed and little lawlessness. The miners make a law unto themselves, and all tacitly accept its unwritten mandates. SWITCH PRIED OPEN. The Chicago Express on Big Four Wrecked by Miscreants. The Chicago express oa the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway was wrecked at Thorntown. Ind., Friday morning. Four wore killed outright and several slightly injured. The dead are: Engineer Seth Window of Greensburg, Ind.; Fireman B, Otickmore of Indianapolis, and two unidentified tra'mps.

There was a deliberate plot to wreck the train, as a coupling piu had been driven into the switch so.as to hold it open and throw the fast train off the track as it passed lh.it point. The engine and tender and the mail, express and baggage cars i were thrown from the track and wrecked. The coaches and Wagner sleeping cars j remained on the track anti none of the passengers was seriously hurt, although 1 they had a lively shaking up. A relief train was sent from Indianapolis to Thorntown and as soon as the track was cleared a new train was made up for Cincinnati and the other points. The train was tmusually crowded with passengers. The officials of the railroad have insti- . tuted a thorough investigation as to the , perpetrators of the wreck. No attempt । was made to rob the express or other cars after the wreck, and no understanding j of the piot can be ascw4aiiuui. YACHT RACE OFF CH'CAGO. Most IntcrestinK Contest Ever Seen on Lake Michigan, The Buffalo yacht Enquirer defeated the Pathfinder of Chicago in Thursday’s big race on Lake Michigan. The latter abandoned the contest near Waukegan, and, reversing her engines, steamed back to Chicago. The start was made at 9:30 o'clock in the morning opposite the lighthouse in the outer harbor at Chicago and amid the tooting of whistles, waving of flags and the cheering of crowds on board the miscellaneous craft present, the Enquirer, owned by W. J. Conners of Buffalo, and the Pathiinder, owned by F. M’. Morgan of Chicago, leaped forward and began the most exciting race ever witnessed on Lake Michigan. No yacht race ever excited such interest in Chicago. It is the first race of the kind' ever to take place on Lake Michigan. It had a flavor of sport about it that suggests the contests that made the Mississippi river a famous course in the old days when the Natchez and the Lee filled their fire boxes with bacon and tied down their safety valves. The race was arranged after a long de- ; bate as to course. It was agreed that the ' owner of the losing yacht, was to present i the winner with a 5200 silver cup. Aside (

A . / - : EXCITING RACE BETWEEN THE YACHTS ENQUIRER AND PATHFINDER.

from this, it is estimated that more than $5,000 had been wagered on the result by the admirers of the competing yachts. Both of the yachts were built last year. The Enquirer was constructed in Buffalo and cost $05,000. The Pathfinder was built, in Racine and cost $75,000. Each is 133 feet long. The Pathfinder is IS feet at the beam and the Enquirer one foot less. The Pathfinder has a ram bow on the linos of that of a battb ship, while the Enquirer has a clipper bow and an overhang stern. The new fast train over the Santa Fe has reached Kansas City on its initial trip Wednesday. It carries passengers, mail and express and reduces the time between Chicago and Kansas City from fourteen ami one-half hours to eleven hours and thirty minutes. The train ’ overtakes the regular passenger train for ’ California at Kansas City, am) will work a malerial improvement in mail and express service.

MILLIONS IN SAVINGS. Building and Loan Association League Meets at Detroit. The United States League- of Building Associations held its annual convention in Detroit. I’resident Michael F. Brown read Ills annual address and Secretary H. T. Cellaris ofi Cincinnati reported on the condition of building association interests generally. President Brown alluded the organization of the Hague a yean previous to the World’s Congress- of Sailding and Loan Associations at Chicago in 1893 and recalled the motto then suggested by President Dexter, viz.: “The -Lumriean Home; the Safeguard of American Liberties,” which motto bad been adopted by all the leagues of the United States. The president quoted a statement of William George Jordan that Uncle Sam's people have 11,483,318 dwelJitg houses, which ■ would make a double avenue reaching round the globe President Brown gave a lengthy review of the mere salient features connected xvith the progress of building and loan associations from their inception and of the mutual benefits derived from their operation. He said the past year had not been a home-building one, but rather a mortgage-creating period, in which nearly all the people had had a hard struggle. M age earners of the land had sacrificed during the last few years ?5,000,000,000, or ten tin.es as much as the assets of all the building societies of the United States. The executive committee presented an important table of associations, membership and assets for 1896-97, covertf!S*tfa .»» States whose laws require returns to b© made by building and loan associations: Associa- MemStates. tions. bership. Assets. Pennsylvania.... 1,160 260,000 $105,000,000 Ohio 755 297,650. 96,906,254 Illinois 718 196,732 80.105,574 New Jersey 304 111.575 40.967.624 Indiana 505 157.264 38,096.147 New York 313 94.964 36.452,917 Missouri........ 288 58,024 26.352.954 Massachusetts. . 122 63.105 22,906,692 California 136 19.957 17.972,310 Minnesota 72 10.800 4,836.319 Tennessee 41 7.198 4.405,749 Nebraska 76 12,145 3.771,833 Connecticut 16 10,415 2,707,926 Maine 34 8,226 2.691.446 Other States 302,245 115,215,680 Totals 4,776 1,610,300 $598,388,695 GHASTLY TALES OF DEATH. Starvation Awaits Many Gold Seekers to the Klondyke Region. Serious news has come from Port Townsend relative to the Klondyke excitement and it forecasts a horrible situation that in the near future will confront many gold seekers en route to the arctic El Dorado. As is known Dyea, which is a short distance from Juneau, is the starting point for the overland journey to the Klondyke region, and there, according to the report, is more freight piled up than the available force of Indian carriers can transport over Chilkoot pass in eighteen months. Tn the twenty-seven miles between Dyea and the head of Lake Linder- ' % ■ HI &■ f t TH3 KLONDYKE. man there will probably be n any a tragedy this winter. The Alaska Commercial Company, which has already ten times as much business offered by the Yukon route as its river boats can handle, is doing all in its power to check the rush by the Juneau route. Many persons have already started by land route, lacking experience, sufficient provisions and proper clothing. Even when parties were small and infrequent it was necessary for them to wait days and weeks to get outnumber at Lake Bennett for boats or for violent snow storms to cease. With this sudden influx ; of Klondykers it xvill be utterly impossi- ; ble for a fraction of the travelers to get I dogs, Indians or boats. The delays will exhaust their supplies, ! and they cannot secure provisions of any

kind between Dyea and Dawson City. Unless relief stations are speedily established there will be some ghastly tales to tell of this mad rush, of the calamities of the ! Chilkoot, in blinding blizzards and of miserable death in the h'Xidreds of inhos- ’ pitable miles that lie between the mountain pass and the Yukon. Strewn with Skeletons,. The widow of Lieut. Schwatka, the ! Arctic explorer, being interviewed at Benton Harbor, Mich., concerning the Klon- ! dyke gold, regions, which country she has repeatedly visited with her husband, says the Government should stop the tide of j immigrants pouring into the gold fields in Alaska. Sho says the mountain passes are strewn with the skeletons of unfortunate miners who perished from either cold, 1 heat, malaria or starvation while trying to reach the golden region. A slight earthquake shock was felt at , San Francisco Monday.