. Here and there in New England and Canada . Many volumes (and right interesting ones, too) could be written ofthe past and present citizens of Salem,— of Frederick TownshendWard, admiral-general and high mandarin of China, and the foremostsoldier of the empire; of Jones Very, the inspired recluse poet andmystic, the Western George Herbert; of Col. J. W. Fabeus, the bestof whose poems was that brilliant college-song, The Last Cigar;of Charles H. Foster, the world-renowned Spiritualist, the modernCagliostro; of Mary E. C. Wyeth, the Ethel Gray of poetic litera-ture ; of Goody Spencer, an exile
. Here and there in New England and Canada . Many volumes (and right interesting ones, too) could be written ofthe past and present citizens of Salem,— of Frederick TownshendWard, admiral-general and high mandarin of China, and the foremostsoldier of the empire; of Jones Very, the inspired recluse poet andmystic, the Western George Herbert; of Col. J. W. Fabeus, the bestof whose poems was that brilliant college-song, The Last Cigar;of Charles H. Foster, the world-renowned Spiritualist, the modernCagliostro; of Mary E. C. Wyeth, the Ethel Gray of poetic litera-ture ; of Goody Spencer, an exile from England, who first introducedcandy Gibraltars to American youth; of Charles T. Brooks, poet him-self, and translator of Goethe and Eichter; of Gen. James Miller, thehero of Lundys Lane; of Gen. Israel Putnam, one of Washingtonsbravest officers; of Benjamin Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford, 36 and prime minister of Bavaria; of Jolni Ro<rers, tlie sculptor; of W,H. Prescott, tlie historian of Mexico and Tern; of Gen. F. W. Lander,. 1. South Church, Sjilcm. 2. North Church, Salem. one of the heroes and victims of the Civil War; of Bradstreet andEndicott, Pickering and Cabot, Bowditch and Peirce, Derby and Crown- 37 inshield, and scores of others, proudly conspicuous in the annals ofAmerica and of the world. The aristocratic old families of Salem — the Endicotts, Crownin-shields, Tuckermans, Silsbces, Peabodys, Rautouls, and a few others —have enjoyed the ad^-antages of wealth and ability, singlj- or together,ever since the foundation of Massachusetts, and are reputed to liesingularly exclusive, because satisfied in their own charmed Essex Street is the venerable colonial-looking house of WilliamC. Endicott, Secretary of War of the United States during PresidentClevelands administration. You ma_v ramljle at will down the ((uiet old semi-rural streets, undertheir lines of spreading trees, and study the great mansions of dull red
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