Sabadilla
CEBADILLA, or CE- VADILLA, the name given in commerce to the pulverized seeds of two plants, the Asagræa officinalis of Lindley, and the Veratrum Sabadilla, both belonging to the natural order Melanthaceæ.
SABÆANS, the name of the ancient inhabitants of Yemen in southern Arabia. They are the people called Sheba in Gen. x. 28, xxv. 3; 3; Job vi. 19; and other passages in the prophets; and it was Publishers' Photo Service A RUBBER TREE, TAPPED FOR GATHERING RUBBER, ISLAND OF TRINIDAD Enc. Vol. 8-p. 64 Publishers' Photo Service A
RUBBER TREE IN CEYLON, SHOWING THE SPIRAL CUT USED IN TAPPING Underwood & Underwood WRAPPING AND VULCANIZING RUBBER TIRES Press Illustrating Service A VIEW IN THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS, RUMANIA Keystone View Company THE GREAT BELL MARKET AT THE NIZHNI NOVGOROD FAIR, RUSSIA Press Iliustrating Service TRINITY CHURCH IN THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW, RUSSIA POSTAL TELEGRAPH ST. LOUIS, Mo., LOOKING UP OLIVE STREET. THE FIRST INTERSECTING STREET IS BROADWAY Ewing Galloway Keystone View Company AIR VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO, WITH THE CITY HALL IN THE FOREGROUND SABATIER probably the sovereign of this people who paid the celebrated visit to Solomon. The Sabæans were a powerful and wealthy people, who from long before the days of Solomon down to the beginning of the the sea and caravan traffic in gold, sweet spices, ivory, ebony, and valuable tissues that came from India and Africa and were dis- . To protect and watch over this trade they had stations or colonies in northern Arabia and in The capital of their country was Mariaba ( Marib), the ruins of which, including vast dams, lie N. E. of Sanaa. included the worship of the sun and moon, and a number of other deities. Their language is intermediate between Arabic and Ethiopian, but nearer akin to the former.