The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-22

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Fourth Party, composed Of four men abb
solutcly Independent in politics, the two
most prominent members OF which We're
the late Lord Randolph Churchill and
Mr.. Arthur j. Balfour, now Prlme MIL MIN
lister of England. 5
Now the son of Lord Randolph Churc-
hill, Mr.. Winston Churchill. a dashlng
young officer, journalist politician and
orator, has duly constituted q new
Fourth Party.
1t is n curious instance Of the revenge
of history that this party should be-
called into existence for the express pur-
pose Of dealing With MIR. Balfour as
Mr.. Balrour dcalth with Lord Salisbury,
his uncle. 49, WA.
y As Tie Premier sees his young foe ad
vnncing he may be reminded Of what
Simon Of Nrontfort exclaimed at the bat
tic Of 11vershlw: Twas who taught
him to fight"
il wonder If the new Fourth Party
hns ordered n portrait Of Mr.. Balfour
for its headquarters!
ID In tho old days the Fourth Party sat
In front OF portrait Of Lord Salisbury,
hung in Lord Randolph Church, s house
and there it was that they rehearsed
their votes of censure and their scath-
ing attacks olllthe government.
Il havo always liked good stirring
old melodrama, and when properly acted
n French "drame passonnel"5 appeals
to Inc. We have had one this week and
with Il vengeance. Everybody connected
with 1t has died. like in Hamlet, - and
to make tho thing more lively each one
has died differently from the othnrs.
In 1893 M. George Lavielle got mar
rled. He and his wife were In comfort
able circumstances and had known each
other from childhood.
-tI.'H be i'm Inn ,yn of Tho ho kind
and the year afterwards the husband
made n bequest Of all his property to his
wife.
In1S96, Monsieur Raniot. an englneor,
came to live in tho neighborhood. Ills
son had married Madame Lavelle's sis
clandestne Intimacy 9sprihg. up between
him and the wife of NJ Lavielle.
This was interrupted, hy another love
intrigue with4a young medical student
named Merclel. 1h9 ~
In his jealousy md rage NJ, Raniot
threatened NJ. Mcrclel with exposure and
| the latter committed suicide,
| a terrible scandal ensued, the father
! of the young man, III order to revenge
| himself against the woman who was the
! cause of his sons death, wrote. inf form
! ing Monsieur Laviele, who was ignorant
| Of al that had passed trat his son had
/ been the betrayed lover Of his wife md
also OF thesrelations between her and the
| old engineer. iEip1li
rho gref,stricken husband turned his
| wife out and began divorce 5Droce ,dings
| but before these We're completed no oec
| suddenly of hea TT disease
What could tho old engineer d. but
die, too
Ie understood tho situation and sho
| himself dead Nobody was murdered. bu
everybody died except the lady. who Is
now engaged in n lawsuit against hel
husbands brother. who now claims to be
tho heir.
TO my mind, the villain Of the play Is
! The elderly engineer, WIN ought to have
Z. known better
/ Will not mention the lady, feeling al
ways ready 10 be in,lulgent for the fall
sex.
IL tho old gentleman had had parti
Gle OF common sense, of humor or Of
philosophy, he would have borne in mind
FIRST that love does not last forever
secondly. that when II woman deceives q
good husband for an old gentleman, Il
a.; ,,,,t q, ~ ,ot,,ro ar hinge that sh,