The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-28

WI the drawing room some fifteen minutes after her guests had come down to dinner.
 "Oh, yes, 1 know I'm late!'' she said plaintively. You needn't tell me I'm late, And in ones own house, it's not civil. is it? But I'm always late, you know. Carol will have explained that to you" She kissed Beatrice Cromwell on both cheeks and gave Cromwell a hand.
 T can't help feeling,' she said, that I've got you out here into the country the-what is 1t Carol calls it?-the tall grass under false pretenses. Fancy ask ing you here to meet the Evershams and then not producing a single Ever sham. You see, Lady Eversham caught a silly cold, or something, and it threat ems to become something even sillier, so they had to stop in town. Of course we've still the lion. Where is he, by the way? Not down yet?''
 The lion?" asked Mrs. Cromwell "l didn't know you had a lion. How nice Who is it?"
 "Oh, it's the great Wareham, said Alice Cartwright. 'Wareham, the paint CT man, you know, Larrabee Wareham- Larry Wareham. Did you happen ever to meet him when you were living in Paris?" And then, after her custom of not waiting for an answer, she went on: Hes such a very satisfactory lion, my dear! Always does quite the right thing, and every woman adores him. I adore him frantically myself Men like him aw fully, too, don't they Carol?" she de- manded, turning to her nuspand
 One of Carol Cartwright's eyebrows went up the slightest fraction of an inch, and he waited a barely perceptible in stant.
 "Oh, yes yesl Quite SOL he said. "Yes, l fancy they do! Of course, I don't know him very well myself Oh, he's coming, l think"
 Wareham came into the room in as nearly breathless a state as one could conceive to be possible in so very inn maculate young man.
 Pm a pariah and an outcast." he said to his hostess-"quite beyond the pale of forgiveness, but it truly isn't my fault There were no waistcoat buttons. My man is a very estimable and kind hearted person, but he VIII forget waist coat buttons. Peters had to hunt me out some of MT. Cartwright's."
 He looked toward the other two guests, and Mrs Cartwright said:
 "Oh, yes you don't know the others, do you? Mrs Cromwell, let me present MT. Wareham." And to Wareham, ''The gentleman standing proudly one pace to the rear Is MT. Cromwell" But in the middle of the last sentence her voice fal- tered and nearly stopped dead, and a
 
 for she could not help noticing that Beat rice Cromwell had gone unnaturally white and that she would not meet Ware hams gaze when she murmured the con ventional words of greeting. Even Crom- well, Mrs. Cartwright noted. looked ill at ease and did not offer the other man his hand-merely bowed and said, How do you do?'
 Newspapers and Wars.
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 William T. Stead, a Britsher, who in- vented yellow journalism as an insttu- tion on the other side of the Atlantic before it had been seen in the United States has crossed the ocean to tell us that newspapers are one of the prime causes of wars Eighteen years ago the Ger man ambassador in Russia told me the peace of the world could be secured by hanging twelve editors" So says Stead. That date must have been about 1888. No great war was in sight in any part of the globe at that time. The world s peace was maintained without the hang ing of the twelve editors.
 At the peace congress In New York Stead is one of the participants He says that church has very little in- fluence in preserving international ann 1ty. These are the sort of contributions which Stead brings to the movement In favor of the promotion of arbitration be- tween nations which has attracted the foremost friends of peace rom all over the world to the gathering at New York. As d yellow writer and talker Stead has gained some notorety. But he Is in no sense a representative of the British government in his present mission to the United States. No civilized government could afford to stand sponsor for man who, like Stead, classes the newspa- pers and the church as enemies of world peace.
 One of the New York yellow papers claimed to have been the author of the war of 1898 with Spain. The very small part of the country which took any nos The aim of reputable newspapers all over the world is to tell the truth, and in the United States and in every other civ ilized country ninety-nine out of every hundred papers are of this order. The newspapers reflect public sentiment with a good deal of fidelity, and public senti- ment is always against war except where honor or supreme national interest is in- volved. Stead, who is not a parsonage of much consequence, Is an ardent friend of the czar, and preached confidence in the man who permitted the massa- cres of the Jews and the other atrocities which aroused the worlds hostility. A man who calls the press and the church enemies of international peace carries no message which the world cares to hear.
 During dinner she watched very eager