The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-12-10


Luther nailed on the doors his ninety
five theses the 3lst day of October
l5l7. The Schlasskirche contains tn
tombs of Luther, Melangthon and man
Others. The wooden doors were burne
by the Austrians in 1850, but replace,
by Others of bronze in 1858 with tn
subjects of the original text engrave,
over them at a cost of $4,000 marks.
The next city l stopped at was Leip
zig in Saxony. / had already learne,
how to do when going on the stree
cars to get reliable information from
the conductor, only gave him ten pf
and he stood at my service. Therefor,
| rode on a street car to the White
Swan hotel. At Leipzig the great bat
ties between Napoleon and the allied
sovereigns of Europe were fought, which
ended in Napoleon's defeat. 1 could
not refrain from thinking of the 18th
day of October, 1913, when my great
grandfather was in the battle of Bret
tenfeld and of the 10Th of October
when he with the victorious army
marched through the streets of Leip-
zig. All the stories he had told, to-
gether with what being read from history
came wildly before me as 1 walked
along seeing the monuments and stat
ues erected in honor of some of the
heroes who fell on that battle field.
Also monument of Gellert, the poet.
nd tat Of Ioh
coverer of homeopathy, was noticed.
One day and evening was spent at
the great market or fair, which was the
greatest affair of it's kind that | have
ever seen. Merchants from near and
far were there with their goods-dress
goods, clothing, gloves, leather, books,
statuary, crockery, toys, ETC., together
with all kinds of amusements. The
Germans are not far behind the Amer
leans in the art of advertising. Many
people from the country 90 to these
fairs to enjoy themselves, and they
know how to do it.
/ took side trip to Lutzen and in
company with the Burgermeister Lenze
VI luIZeil SAW CHe I1uHIcTS OdSJle,
the courthouse, with the many old
curios it contains. | visited the bat
tlefield where the Swedish king Gus
tavus Adolphus II fell, the 9th day
erected for a sum of 10000 marks by
the late Consul Eckman of Sweden
dedicated 1907 in memory of that king
The painting in front of the chapel
has three rows of angels and five an
gels in each row in the center, with
Gustavus Adolphus on the one side and
DR.. Martin Luther ON the other. The
painting cost 10000 marks. The old
memorial stone, with the tower over it,
stands in front of the new chapel.
From Lutzen / went to Halle and
from there to Eisleben. There l visit
ed the house where Luther was born
and also the house where he died. The
houses being only a few blocks apart.
Many old things were to be seen.
Leaving from there by way of Mag
deburg, Wittenberge and Hamburg,
came to Flensburg in good health,
where | met my family and we started
back to Copenhagen by another route
over Fyen. While in Copenhagen one
should not fail to visit the church of
the Virgin, the Thorwoldsens' museum
and the Tivoli.
Back to Sweden again. A great sur
prise-think of it-what shall we say.
The Temperance hotel, a first class
hotel, at Malmo, Sweden, where tips
are not accepted. O, what relief.
At the automatic restaurants no tips
are required.
While in Skane, the southern pro-
vince of Sweden, we visited the uni
versity and dome cathedral at the
city of Lund, and at Linderod, Anus
and Rnkaby relatives that we had
never seen before. At Anus we entered
the old parsonage where the King Carl
XI was hid in the chimney, standing
on the damper, when the Danish spies
sought him. The building is kept in
times passed by.
Skane, like the most land of Den
mark and northern Germany, is a level,
rich alluvial plane and wealthy farm
ers own the soil.
From Anus, on the Baltic sea, we
crossed over the southern part of
Sweden, visiting several small towns
on the way to Holmstad on the North
sea.
At Halmstad we called on the par
ents of Miss Ellen Nilsson.
Leaving Holstad we went northeast
to the city of Boras. Boras is a
manufacturing center of wooden and
cotton goods. All the mills were in
operation in spite of the strike, but
the soldiers had to guard the factories
and escort the working men to and
from their work. During the strike all
the public buildings in the larger cities
railroad stations and train were guard
ed by soldiers. No freight trains were
running, and many of the passenger
trains on various roads were at a
standstill Street cars and drays were
not in operation, yea, even the under
takers refused to bury the dead, and
the relatives of the deceased had to
dig the graves.
Although the working men did not