The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
THE HOME OF NOTED MEN.
Names of Illustrious Soldiers, States Iamen, Inventors and Authors As Al soclated with Stockholm.

When one comes to Stockholm" writes William E. Curtis to The Chicago Rec Tord-Herald. "he first things of the famous fnen and women that are associated in his memory with this city-Gustavus Adolphus. the champion of the Protestant Church after the reformation; Count Ber- nadotte. Napoleons field marshall who was invited to become King of Sweden and founded the present dynasty; Lin naeus. the great botanist, and Scheele, the chemist, who discovered oxygen; Elm manuel Swedenborg, founder of the re- Igious faith that bears his name; Jenny Lin0, the Swedish. nightingale; John Ericsson, who invented the screw pro- peller and built the little monitor that erika Bremen, the great authoress; Vic tor Rydberg, the most famous of Swedish poets and novelists. and others whose names add so much lustre to Sweden and who have contributed so much to the welfare of mankind.
 . Rydberg died in 1895. He was pro and was almost adored by his fellow countrymen. Like other famous men and it seems the rule in Sweden as with ns-he was an orphan in childhood and fought his struggles with life alone. Dur, Ing his last years he lived in beautiful yllla at Dtursholm. suburb of Stock holm, perched like an eagles nest upon the top of rocky hill.
 John Ericsson Is buried at his birth place. the little town of Filipstad, i2 the mlnlng district where his fellow-ciS zens CiCGlcO d monument III ms nOHDE, and the Gotta Canal, upon which he was hrst employed as an engineer, when he was so small that he had to stand on stool to use theodolite, is now one of the PrlhcIPai objects of interest to tourists. MS E$91csson, his brother, was employed with him at the same time, and thein patron ana instructor was Baron Bal gar won Platen, who conceived the idea or unltlng the waters of the North Sea ana the Baltic. . The work was com menced in 1909 and finished in 1852 Com nara6 with he C,,.r Canal or the drainage canal at Chicago. It was small undertaking but in those days money was scarce and engineering feats were not so common as now, and Baron won Platen was made so famous that he told his executors that he did not need an epitaph. Let my monument be fiat stone from the canal, he said. Let nothing be engraved upon it but 'Von Platen The world will know the rest,
 The people of Sweden appreciate Fries son quite as much as We do, although he was practically driven from this country by a lack of faith in the propeller. The Swedish sailors, like the Board of Ad- miralty in England. declined to test his propelled and steered at the same end. There is a poem in the Swedish school books concerning Ericsson:
 He was a seed the wind caught up
 And westward spread;
 Tn fruitful soil 1t struck its root.
 And lifted high his head
 And tfrfs to break the bondman's chain.
 Thou Sweden gave thy might,
 And helped to build beyond the main
 The new worlds home of light.
 Frederika Bremen died ten years ago. but still. lives in an institution to develop the usefulness and activity of women known as "The Frederika Bremen Asso- ciaton." Its headquarters are in Stock holm and it's purpose is to secure for wo- men true emancipation, equal rights and privileges with men. Much progress has already been made in that direction Wo- men have been admitted to the universi- ties and all institutions of learning upon equal standing with men; they receive the same degrees in all the branches of learning; are admitted to the bar and the medical profession; to the pulpit. to the platform and to every department of