The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-09
"REMINISCENCES
OF THE LATE ISAAC II. BROM-
 LEY.
Called Forth By the Third Anni-
 yersary of His Death.

Called Forth By the Third Anni-
 versary of His Death.
 The Boston Herald of August con- tained a cut of the grave of Isaac H. Bromley in Yantic cemetery, and DOT trait of the dead Norwich journalist, in connection with the following remin- iscences of his life from the pen of E. A. Tanning:
 A plain but handsome monument erected over the grave in Yantic ceme- tery Norwich of Isaac Hill Bromley a memorial set by his widow and hls only son, Major Isaac Bromley of the Consolidated road, recalls the fact that Sunday, August ii, will be the anni- versary of this brilliant mans death. He passed away in 1898, in NorWlch the town of his birth, and his place IS yet thrilled, although there are editor ial writers and humorists innumerable His brother, George T. Bromley, dean of the far-famed Bohemian club of san Francisco, former United States con- sul in China, approaches him in pun gent and ready wit, and at S2 is Won- der as storyteller, historian, and ever young and companionable clubman; bue even he is witty only after his brothers style--and a long way after, as he himself would most readily ad- init.
 The old files of the Norwich Bull letin, upon .which Isaac H. Bromley did his first telling work, made reading of permanent interest because of his aboundng humor and genial good fel- lowship, in that far-back time his edi- torials were the Bulletin, which beyond three pages of the advertisement and a little miscellany and sparse local news was given over to- Bromley to fill. Its single reading page was thor oughly studied, for no subscriber wish ed to risk losing single scintillation of editorial wit, which, with catholic irnpartiality, deal now with the most minute parish interests, now with the doubts and agonies which were rend- ing mems souls.
 This pervasive personality is as vital today in studying the pages of the pa pers yellowed with age as it was, &C., cording to lacol tradition, when Brom- leys pungent wit, trenchant sar- casm and good natured raillery set the staid old Puritapical town into uncon- trollable laughter and discomfited his critics with weapons as 1nV1nclole as they were inimitable.
 Bromley began his editorial work in 1858; but the most engaging phase Of his character is mirrored in his paper during the year before the war when he felt deeply and wrote incisely upon those subjects nearest his and the na- tions heart His utterances were no' always Sunday school talk, but even the most Puritanical of his readers recognized their weight and their sin cerity, and his influence in moulding public opin on was tremendous. When he fayed an opponent it was done SC completely to. the accompaniment ol such droll nloralizing and suggestive commentary that the victim himself must have felt sort of Vlcarious en- joyment in the process.
 A case in point: The Rev. John r Gulliver of Andover fame was, in lS6o pastor of the Broadway Congregations church in Norwich where he preached a sermon, entitled "The Lioness anc Her Whelps," an emphatic denuncia' tion of slavery. This sermon was printed in the Bulletin of January 5 1S60 and was commended ed1torlaliS by Bromley Later the Bulletin com pany published the sermon in pamphle form.
 Dr. Gullivers utterances were ridl c,1led by the local democratic paper the Aurora and in an editorial of Jan uary IS, Bromley sympathizes with tht editor of the opposition paper, who, h' declares. is haunted by the spectre O the sermon, and for whom he pre- scribes the following sedative-to b. taken fasting:
 "1-A light emetic, enough to eject say a half column of personal abuse This will clear the stomach of the pa tient, and perhaps, induce @ gentl sweat.
 "2-Ten minutes study of the mean ing of the word prophet in Webster dictionary; especially the third def1ni tion, which is, an interpreter; one tha explains of communicates sentiments This will tend to relieve his imagina tion of the phantasy which now alarm him. and will assure him that a prophe is not necessarily a. being armed wit supernatural sight and power, sen from the spirit world to punish demo cratic editors before their time