News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-13

Haven't you heard, then, of the
engagement, and the great row it
made in our mission? Why, Brog-
giles and Miss Bruce were married
this morning. We have just been
taking them aboard the Niigata
Maru. They're off to Hakodate on
their wedding-trip."
gave a long whistle; for words
were wholly inadequate to express
my surprise DR.. Haslowe contin-
ued:
Yes, it has been a shameful affair.
That Bruce is bad one. She was
not here a month, when everybody
in our mission was sick and tired of
her. She was utterly useless, and as
ugly as sin to get along with. Brog-
giles began coming to see her, and be-
fore the end of March, they were en-
gagged. We all tried to prevent it;
it was no use; she would listen to
nothing we said
And Chiyo and Ruka and Ezra,
nGsetes4y-.slaeee-e.lse.a ~ i asked
My heart bled for the poor, helpless,
deserted wife and her two children.
DR.. HaslOwe's face was very grave,
1S lie answered
"Ah, that's the pity of it'll Poor
Ezra it quite crushed her proud
spirit. She resigned her position in
the seminary, and went down to
Nagasaki. l hear she is nurse in the
government hospital there. Jonson
you know JOnson, the silk mer-
chant, don't you?-he sent Ruka to
America to study. Jonson has a
Japanese wife himself, but he SAYS
that it is beastly, the way Broggles
treated Chiyo. The whole town is
talking about him. Chiyo is living
now with ber sister in Kanagawa."
Broggles and Miss Bruce were mar
ried early in May. About the mid
die of June they returned to Yoko-
hama. They were not rendered an
enthusiastic reception. The men
gave Broggles the cold shoulder; the
foreign ladies did not call on his wife.
The Missionary Society that had
sent out Miss Bruce demanded that
the money which they had expended
for her outfit and travelling expenses
be refunded. The bill amounted to
about twelve hundred dollars. Broo-
giles paid it. His second wife cost
him more than his first.
In July, Mrs. Broggles went to
Nikko to spend the summer. Yoko-
hama, she thought, was too hot for
her. Broggles would gladly have ac-
companied her, for he, also, was
sweltering in an uncomfortable at
mOsphere. But his business forbade
his absence.
This was that terrible summer
when the cholera swept through Jap
an. Beginning in June at Nagasaki,
it gradually crept northward, until,
by the first of August, scores were
dying in Yokohama and Tokyo.
Foreigners generally were untouch-
ed, but Broggles was not among the
lucky ones. He was seized one Sun
day evening about sunset. They at
once telegraphed to Nikko, but the
news threw Mrs. Broggles into a hy-
sterical prostration, and she could
not travel. One of the servants ran
over to Kanagawa and told Chiyo
She FASTENED to Broggles' bedside,
and remained with him until the end
The servants, fearing contagion, fed
from the house, and left her alone.
But Chiyo was not afraid Perhaps
she prayed that she, too, might be
taken If she did, her prayer was
answered. Broggles died at noon
Tuesday, but Chiyo lived until Thurs
day morning.
OF course, all of Broggles' property
went to his widow.
Ruka is this year a senior in one of
the New England colleges
Ezra is still hospital nurse in Ma
gasaki.
Mrs. Broggles is now living in Bal
timore.- New York Ledger