Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-04-06
FANG CHONG COMES FORTH
Is THERE A HE'LL ?

Tsin Choo, Chinese Interpreter, and
general business agent at this place, says
there is, and that Kearney and the tax
men will " find him out, by'm- by.n He
tells us that the Chinese believe both in a
Heaven and He'll and that furthermore
the latter is very hot pace-"too
muehee hot, you bet - The Chinese in
stitutions seem to be situated in about the
same relative positions as are those of
their more enlightened and civilized
neighbors. Good Chinaman, after death,
go alolt and in time their spirits return to
the earth and live again in the persons of
infants, while the bad ones are consigned
to the nameless region with the torrid
temperature and after season Of crema-
ton appear again in the bodies of the
lower animals. While Tsin Choo has no
recollection of over having visited either
place, he expresses an abiding faith in
their existence, and hopes by living an
upright pious life, in accordance with the
teachings of Confucius, to steer clear of
the lower regions, although he has no
hope of ever becoming an angel with
wings and engaging in the delightful pas
time Of sitting on damp cloud and pick
ing harp by moonlight. In fact he ut
terly scouts the idea of wings, and says
that dead man alice same chickee, no
good !" We assumed, for the sake of ar
gument, the position of Col. Bob Inger-
soil and expressed the belief that places of
future abode were sort of hun bug and
that when man died it was the last of
him. Tsin Choo, however, wouldn't
stand in with us, but stoutly maintained
that the spirits would live again, and also
expressed his firm and unfaltering belief
not only in modern spiritualsm but in
ghosts. He says that the return Of the
dead, many weeks after death, is All admit
ted and established fact among the Chi,
nese and cites us to an instance right at
home. Our readers will remember that
about four years ago leading Chinaman,
named Fang Chong, well known to the
whites, was found dead with knife wound
in his heart. Tsin Choo firmly believes,
and told us with evident sincerely, that
Fang Chong had returned several times
since his burial and had met and CON
versed with old friends on four or five oc
casions, from ten to fifteen minutes at q
time. Once he was met on the road be
tween here and the Chinese buryins
ground on the point below the mouth o
East Weaver creek again at the Chin,
| Church, in front of the brewery and Il
the China Mason House. Only two year
ago, Tsin Choo relates that one of his ow
friends came running into his office, yer
pale and evidently badly frightened :
When interrogated as to the cause of hi
alarm he tremblingly replied that he ha
just met Fang Chong and that the gho,
for he had been dead two years -ha
spoken to him. Tsin Choo stepped to th
door but the phantom had vanished elk
the baseless fabric of vision" a
Fang Chong was one Of our old acquaint
ances, we have requested our informar
that should he ever meet the dear depart
ed on one of his rambling tours he shoul
send him to our office. When no come:
he will be duly interviewed and the mum
erous readers of the journal fully ir
formed as to any new facts relative to tn
"undscovered country" with which h
may kindly furnish us.