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Show YOUNGEST EUROPEAN CITY. Odessa is one of the youngest ol iEuropean cities. Only 120 years ago, '.Hdjl Bey, a little Turkish settlement, inestled on the cliffs that overlook the harbor and dozed under the sultan across the Black sea, writes Sydney Adamson in Harper's Magazine. The long arm of Russia reached out and took it, and planted there, upon the jlateau overlooking the bay, the be-ginnera be-ginnera of a commercial city that now iholds between 500,000 and 600,000. The (revolution in France soon sent refugees refu-gees scattering over the world, and inoble names came to Odessa, and one .may read them still on street corners Darlbas, Richelieu and Langeron. .T-ater Englishmen came and brought iships to carry away Russian grain, and itfren the Crimean war swept across this friendly relation. But the English istaid when the war had passed, and 'then Germany came, pnd afterward Americans, with reapers and plows jand steam traction engines, to help he Russians to grow more richly the ;grain that the English and the Ger-'man Ger-'man ships carried out to the world. Last of all came the Jews, and they cut the business so fine that the English Eng-lish starved and gave up; so the business busi-ness of exporting today is mainly In jthe hands of the Jews. A few hardy iGermans and English are left |