The morning call., 1890-08-10


firms In this city or elsewhere.
Questions, answers 10 which are In the nature
of an advertisement, viii not be answered.
Every inquiry must have The true aud full
name OF the sender, as well as the correct resi-
dence. Any inquiry that has not The cor
rect n anne and add ess of the sender will
be treated as if 1t was not signed, and the
writer need not expect an answer.
III! 1ARMA-J. E. j., Los Gatos. Cal.
~ Karma is the Buddhist judgment,
1SAS which determines at death the fu-
ture state of the deceased. 1t is also
their fiat on actions, pronouncing them
to be meritorious or otherwise. The
Two ideas of the utter vanity of all
earthly good. and the inevitable law Of re-
birth, decay and DEATH will lead naturally
to the belief expressed in the Buddhist Mir
vana. If life be an evil, and death itself be
no delivery from life, it is necessary to 60
further back to discover the very origin, the
seed, so to speak, of existence, and by de-
stloying that to put an end at last to
the long train of misery in which
one is compelled to go again and again
through the same weary round of expert
ences, always ending in disappointment
This seed of existence Buddhism finds in
"Karma." the sum OF merit and demerit,
which, as each ones demerlt is the greater
of the two, often comes practically to much
second link in the Buddhist chain of causa-
ton, and arises itself from ignorance.
DESTROY that ignorance, which brings with
it such progeny, cut the links OF TINS chain
of existence, root out karma with the mis-
taken cDeavIng to life, and there will be
delyerance at last-deliverance from all
sorrow and all trouble in the eternal rest of
Nirvana. Anything less than this would
be mockery to hope, for there is no life
outside the domain of transmigratlon, and
by the inevitable law of change that
which causes existence of any kind would
itself be the cause also of decay. and bring
with it after time the whole chain of evils
from which the tired heart of man seeks re-
lief. To reach this end, to destroy Karma,
and thus 10 obtain Nlrvana, there Is only
one way, which is summed up in the Bud
dhist books in eight divisions, right views,
right thoughts, right speech, right actions,
right living, right eXertion, right recollec-
tions and right meditation" BY these
means ignorance will be overcome and Kar-
ma destroyed, and after the organized be-
ing has been dissolved in death, then there
will be nothing lett to bring about the pro-
duction of another life. Birth is not re-
birth, but new birth; transmigration of soul
becomes a transfer Of Karma. Metempsy-
Ghosts gives way to metamorphosls. AS one
generation dies and gives way to another
the heir of the consequences OF all
its vices and all its virtues - the exact
result of pre-existing causes-so each in
diyidual in the long chain of life inherlts
all the good or evil that all its predecessors
have done or been, and takes up the
struggle toward enlightenment precisely
there where they left 1t. There is nothing
eternal but the law of cause and effect and
change; the Cosmos itself is passing away;
even Kama can be destroyed; nothing is,
everything becomes. And so with TINS
organized life; it contains within itself no
eternal germ; it passes away Ike every
thing else; there only remains the aecumu-
lated result Of all its actions. One lamp Is
lighted at another; the second flame differs
from the first to which it owes its exist
ence. a seed grows into tree and pro-
duces a seed, from which arises another
tree different from the first though result
ing from II. In word, the man ceases, but
his virtue lives and works out It's tull elect
That is the meaning karma.
MARRIAGE RELATIoN-J. NJ. E., City.
a The couple having been legally married
and having lived together for twelve years
or any other reasonable period. and insan-
ity developing. itself, unless it existed be-
fore the marriage was contracted and was
KIN own to the one so affected and by him or
her concealed from the other, the simple
fact OF insanity will not sever the relation
ship, nor will the courts grant divorce on
the ground. A case IN point was decided
last week in one of the departments Of the
the in sane mania existed prior to the mar
rage and was known to the one affected
and his or her family, or by them kept con-
cealed, then the marriage was null and VOID
alb initio, because it was contracted through
fraud. The reason for the other rule is OBJ
vious to one who will give it an intelligent
thought. If divorces we're granted for in
sanity developing after marriage, why not
for sickness or Gripping or other cause? Is
it not the husbands or wite'S obligation
a. fnr hn
other in such q case of affection? ~ Where
a couple have been married, the husband un-
der an assumed name, and he presents his
wi fe to his relatives as his legal wife and
they live together and rear children and ac-
cumulate property, they are husband and
W ife under the laws Of this State, and they
should be, for she did not marry the name,
but the man. A nice state OF affairs would
be the result were the contrary to obtain.
GENERAL IN THE ARMY. K, City.
a George Washington was the first to hold
the commission of Lieutenant-General in
the United States for brief time in 1893.
The rank was created for him by Congress
ana with his death lapsed until March, 1864.
when it was conferred upon Grant by Cen
gress. On the 25th of July, 1866. the name
of Lieutenant-General Grant was presented
to the Senate by President Andrew john
son to fill the highest Office ever created for
the American army, that OF General-a
rank made especially again by Congress as
a compliment 10 him. The appointment
was unanimously confirmed. aud the COM
mission was at once issued William L.
Sherman held the rank of General, but it
lapsed on his retirement and the rank OF
aforementioned and General ceased
again with the death of Phil Sheridan, the
Generalship having been conferred on him
while on his death-bed and the commission
issued to and received by him before his
death. ~ General Scott was Lieutenant
General by breyet only. (3) 1t is necessary
for Congress by special acts to confer the
rank of General.
YANKEE DooDLE-J. W., City. The
word yankee is a corruption of eng
lish." 1t came into general use thus: In
1913 one jonathan Hastings, farmer at
Cambridge in New York. used the word as
a putting epithet, meaning genuine, Amer.
ETC., as yankee horse" Yankee Gil
DER" and so on. The students of the col
lege catching up the term, called Hastings
yankee Jonathan" 1t soon spread, and
became the joc0se pet name of the New
Englander. Since then the term has been
extended to any American of the Northern
States. The Indian corruption of the word
Anglais or English is as follows: Yen
gees" "Yenghis," "Yanghis," yankees"
"Yankee Doodle" however, is corruption
of "NaDkee Doodle, term applied to Oliver
Cromwell, who went to Oxford with
single feather fastened in macaroni
knot" whence came the rhyme:
Nankee Doodle came TO town upon his little pony,
Stuck feather In his hat, and called 1t macaroni.
1t is said the Persians call the Americans
"Yanki doon'iah.
Nor A VOTER. II W., Martinez, Cal.
Section 1858 of the Political Code says
that ''eyery male naturalized citizen tharp
of the United States) who shall have be-
come such ninety days prior to any cleo
tion," and otherwise qualified. shall he
qualified elector thereof. If A therefore
was "naturalzed less than ninety days be-
fore an election" and offered to vote, he
should have been challenged under para
graph 8 of Section 1880, and under Section
49, Part |. Title V, of the Penal Code was
guilty of misdemeanor because, coming
under the classification of person not
entitled to vote who fraudulently attempted
to vote"