The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-14
THE GAZETTE: Fl. WORTH, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MAY In


! phemous and ignoble had, tudeed. turned the
| scale; but was not themorive. IN aNtbincs
I the maj touch which DESTROYS tEs balance
! l. commonly mistaken for the force winch
| las originally produced q state OF unstable
| equilibrium, whereas there IS very often no
/ connection between the one and the other.
The Aloravian himself believed that the
| sacrifice OF UnCrna, and Of himself after
| wards, was 10 be IN expiatiou ~ the out
| rage Unorna had nut upon his faith III his
| own person. he had merely seized upon
! the first excuse which presented Itself for
| ending ali, because he vas IN reality past
| hope.
| We have, as yet. To absolute test OF
| sanity, as we have of fever in the body.
! and OF many other unnatural conditions Of
! the human organism. The only approNl-
| Iuately accurate judgments in the patient ;
| favor are obtained from examinations into
| the relative conSecutIvsneSS and consistency
| OF thought in the individual examined,
| when the whole tendency Of that thought
! 5 towards an end COuCeivabiy approYAh-e
| ~ q majority OF men \ great many phil
| oSophcrs and thinkers have accordingly
! been pronounced insane at one period OF
! history aud have been held up IS models q
| sanity al another The most Immediately
| destructive consequences OF individual.
| reasoning on Z limited scale, murder ana
! suicide. have been SuccesS!veiY regarded as
|
I Gcp!Or1ble but c&plicah!e actions OF IRE
! sponsible beings in consecutive ages of
! violence, strict law anu hlIIuaRitarIanlSm.
! j. seems TO be believed that the colnblna-
! ton Of murder and suicide is more conf
! monty observed under tine last OF the three
| reigns than IL was under the first: Il vas
undoubtedly least common under the
second. In other words, it appears
| probable that the prgctice OF
| considering certain crimes as the
| result of insanity has tendency
! 10 make those crimes increase IN NUN Der,
/ IS they undoubtedly increase IN barbarltI:
! from year to year. Meanwhile. however,
no definite conclusion has been reached as
! 10 the state OF mind OF a man who murders
| the woman he loves and then ends his owy
| life
! Israel Kafka may. therefore, be regarded
! as mad or sane. IN favor OF the theory OF
| has madness, the total use!essness OF the
! deed he contemplated may be adduced; on
| the other hand the extremely consecutive
and consistent nature of his thoughts and
| actions gives evidence of his sanity.
! When he found himself prisoner IN
| Unorna's conservatory his intention under
Went no change, though his body was
| broken with fatigue, and his nerves with
| the long continued strain OF terrible eX-
| element. His determination was as cool
! and as fixed as ever.
| These somewhat dry reflections seem
! necessary TO the understanding OF what lo--
| lowed
! The KEY turned in the lock and the bolt
/ was slipped back. Instantly Israel kath =
| energy returned. He rose quickly and hid
| himself in the shrubbery in position from
| which he could observe the door. He had
| seen UnOlTa enter before, and had, Of
| course heard her cry before the Waudcrer
| had carried her away, ana lie had believed
| that she had wished to face aim, either
| with the intention of throwing herself upon,
| his mercy or in the hope of dominating bas4
| with her eyes. as she had so oft9AxA pnt41e-
| fore. OF course lie had no 5%cr\ dRT-
| ing that she had already .&$the &1N
| He imagined that the WanN had RE"
| and that Unorna. being fr Rrom p
| Straint, was about 10 enter lie place F1..
| The door opened and the three men ke "a.
! Kafka's first idea. on seeing himse dis9 u
| pointed. was that they had CONG 20 tast
! him into custody, and his first in Mise was
! 10 eludc them.
The WdndCrer entered first, tail, stately,
| indifferent, tho quick glance OF his deep
eNeS alone betr2ying that lie was looking
! for some one. Next came keyork Arabian,
mUtfCd still in his turS, turning his head
! sharply from side to side in the midst of the
sable collar that nalf buried il, and evil
| IDENTIFY nervous Last OF all the Individual,
who had Invested himself Of his outer coat
| and whose powerful proportions did not cS-
cape Israel kdflIa'S observations. II was
clear that if there was a struggle ii could
have bat one issue. kafha would be over
powered. His knowledge of the DISPOSE
| ton of the plants and trees offered him
| hope of escape. The three men had en-
| tered the conservatory, and II lie could
, reach the door before they noticed MIN, he
could lock it upon them, is il had been
| locked upon himself lie could hear their
footsteps Oh the marble pavement very
/ near him, and he caught gliRpscs OF their
moving figures through the thick leayCs.
With cat-like tread he glided along in the
shadows of the foliage until nc could see
the door. From the entrance an open way
was left in d straight line towards the mid
die OF the hall, down which his pursuerS
were still slowly walking. He must cross
an open space in the line of their vision in
order to get out. and nc calculated the dis
lance to be traversed while listening to
their movements. until he felt sure that
| they were So far from the door Is not 10 be
able TO reach him. Then he made his at
tempt. darting across the smooth pave
ment with his knife in his hand. There
was no one in the way.
Then came violent shock. anu he was
held rs in vice. so tightly that he could not
believe himself in the arms of human
being. His captors had anticipated that he
would try to escape, and had posted the
individual in the shadow of 4 tree near the
doorway. The deaf and dumb man had re-
ceived his Instructions by means OF 4 couple