Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-23

is an agglomeration of village rather than an expressive whole. It does not assirnilate the people who come to dwell in it. but each tribe and race lives in d section apart, speaking Its own languages, wearing it's native tracts, and adhereing strongly to its native customs. How the stranger will live in Constantinople is depend ent upon the circumstances of his ma
 tionality. All visitors, however. must share somewhat in it's eastern atnlos- phere. In this connection. MT. Dwight
 explains:
 of the city is done by outsiders
 by men from certain country So
 it is that the men who sell ice-cFeam
 in the streets are Albanians, from the
 region of Usl1up; that the layers Of
 pavements are Mohammedan Alban- ians of theh south that the railroad navvies are Christian Albanians from
 the same region: that bath men are Turks from SivaS; that street porters
 are KurdS or Asia. Minor Furlzs, ac- eording to the kind of load they carry; that most boatmen are from the Black Sea Coast, and 50 indef1n- itely.'
 There is plenty of time in the Otto man capitals in fact, prodtgality of thIs element of iife-for the city re- IigiousIy, regardlessly follows four
 
 rency there: it has no relationship at all, according to Mir. Dwight, to the material world. the world of daily bread and economic endeavor. The Turks of ConstantinopIe prefer to regard T. o'clock as falling at sunset. ! Seissons-"Ever since the beginning 1 Of history in western Europe, SoissonS storm center of the most bitter fight 1 ing of recent weeks in the ResteTr l SoI- I chtonicled part. Before the Roman 1 tide, directed by Julius Caesar, flowed over Gaul, SoisSops, then g netropiii 1 in a nation of twelve cities, was thf ] capital of the Warlille Suessiones, ene l Of the most powerful peoples in Gaul | pivitiacus, one Of their kings. hac even managed to extend his authority ! beyond the sea. among the Eritons." ! Scissors is 3 small town pictures 1 qrely situated among l-forestec 1 hills, on the left bank of the Aisne. Il l lies 65 miles northeast of Paris, anc l constitutes one of the links in ths ! chain of French second-line defen5es 1 The region all about Soissous is agFi- 1 cultural, and the city's trade is mostly l in grains, vegetables, live stock, leath- l e and forest products. ManutactureS G :! of the place are not Of great import aEce; they consist of leather, foundry ! products, flannel and cotton cloth anc farm implements. There are exten. siVe lumber yards in the city.
 i The one-tirae importance of Sois- 1 sous has long been waning. The siege barnbardment. sack and brand of WAL 1 have been repeated often in the exper- l fences of the city, and seem at laSl to have sapped its will for further l growth. One ot the oldest cities 1T 1 France, there are very few cities IT ! the republic which have seen more 1 rugged battle service.
 Tt was known as NoTiodunum tC i tho coRqueriug Romans. Under, Ro' man rule, it became a stra tegic point l in the Empires northern defense. I | was here that Clovis obtained, in 436 1 his famous victory over the Roman 1 general Syagrius, which expelled ] Rome from tiaul and brought in ,tia' 1 Germans Soissons became capital O the Franhish kingdom. but soon re | sumed it's position as borderland be I tween the LstiniZed German of tn, F'ranl1ish kingdom and the Germans O beyond the Rhine.
 ] There are q number of famous old abbeys in Sotssons, and private build ing of centuries ago. The royal ab bcy of Notre Dame, now a baTrack l Was founded in 660: that of St. Med 1 ard, of which little now remains, wa! 1 founded about 560 by Clotaire I. 4 one time this abbey was among tn most powerful in France. Its abbot; ] than 200 villages. One or two rneagri fragments are all that is left from ii ancient splsDdOT.
 ''SoiEsons has taken part in ali tn ! wars of France. It stood with tn Gauls against the Romans until Kim tSalba submitted to Caesar, when tn | German onslaught south began an on with more CT less lengthy periods o | respites, for nearly 2,0A0 years.''