The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-10

ers. brought In by Nubinn porter al
daYbreak; a breakfast In the dining.
evening.
aS Kept sas.t the Ro.e, Of one ,unssd
SQUADS, vegetable oysters, lamb chops
and fried potatoes. q salad preserved
81 Turkish coffee. The dinner besas
lowed BY 4 saint 81 pigeon. soms spi.
and and cof.se. The BREAKFAST as'1 cost nfty
cents. the lunch 1920, the dinner Si,st
bin was not presented until the end u
my ealing cost me eighty ave piastrea
road also IRE. dear. Dol .,g Ordinary
seasons the frst-class passage costy
$35. for the FIVE hund:ad ard odd miles
when the tourist season begins the
charges are raised to $50 one way OF
over nine cents per ~iiie.
att WINS Baldwin,
In riding over tho rdan rr.,itar.
where the Black Stle from, Abysairia
flows into the main st;enm and whers
cans upon orders sivei. by General.
The contract was hrst offered to 70 tbs =.
English but they y sns tine mo! epis
and the Americans took the Job and
finished It. Atbara Is now, one OF the
railroad division points, and u y wness
the road across the desert to the f tsa
station our engine struck me as being
! familiar, / walked to the 'front.' o.
/ the train and examined IT. sure
enough; II was BALDWIN, ana Win ~. 'n 4,
the full blaze Of the Nubian sun! =.
| few moments later. as I was crossing
the Black Nile over the steel briggs
which our builders put up. felt ina,
was being hauled by an American en-
CINE over an American bridge, and
| that in the heart OF the Nubian Desert
more than 1000 miles UP the Nile. THIS
tcan mechanics and OF American enter
prise.
Where the Queen of sheba Lived.
About 100 miles south Of Atbnra We
stopped ut Shendt where the Queen
4 OF Shcba is said to have lived. This II
I a station on the east bank OF the Nile
about five hours or more from Khar,
Itum. 1t Is considerable town, WITT
railroad shops. about which are great
piles Of steel ties, such as are used II
! They are merely shells OF steel. SO madt
that they can be half buried in the SAINT
| and still hold the rails The telegraph
poles are also OF steel, the white anti
OF this region making 1t Impossible t.
use wood for such purposes.
The Shendt OF to-day consists OF az
old and new town The latter has beer
laid out by the English, and II has a
/ park in the centre. watered by the Nile,
In ancient times there was great
city here. It was the capital Of this
country and the residence Of the Queen
i of Sheba. 1t Is said that the queen
went from here down the Nile and
1 crossed to Palestine, where she had her
Irritation with King Solomon. The
Abyssinians gay that che went back
| by the Red Sea and stopped in their
country on the way. While she was
there she bore son. whose father was
ISolomon. and who is the head of the
line OF kings which rule Abyssinia to-
i day The Mohammedans, on the other
4 hand. say that the Queen of Sheba did
not live here at all. They claim that
her residence was in Yemen, Arabia.
4 and that Solomon went there to visit
her. The queens name was Bilkis. She
was as witty as she was beautiful and
!. she gave the wise Solomon many a
riddle which he was puzzled to answer
1 FRANK G. CARPENTER.
.E(Copyrtght, 1907. by Frank G. Carpen-
~ terry