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SAUER KRAUT 259 SATJRIA oring to gain the love of the Nymphs. They are usually represented with the feet and legs of goats, short horns on the head, and the body covered with thick hair. SAUER KRAUT, or SOUR KROUT, a favorite German dish, consisting of cab- bage cut fine, pressed into a cask, with alternate layers of salt, and suffered to ferment until it becomes sour. SAUGUS, a town of Massachusetts, in Essex co., on the Saugus river and Massa- chusetts bay and on the Boston and Maine railroad. It includes three villages. Among its industries are the manufacture of bricks, spices, iron, rubber and woolen goods. Water-power is obtained from the river. Pop. (1910) 8,047; (1920) 10,874. SAUL, King of Israel from about 1095 to 1055 B. c; the son of Kish, a Benjam- ite. Selected for this office by Samuel, he obtained, by his personal courage and mil- itary capacity, several successes over the Philistines, Edomites, Moabites, and Am- monites, by means of which he consoli- dated the tribes and confirmed his author- ity. After a long reign the wild nature of the king at length showed itself in a kind of religious frenzy. This frenzy, which is briefly described in the Bible as an "evil spirit of God," led him to the massacre of the priests of Nob and vari- ous similar excesses. Meanwhile the prophet Samuel, estranged by the king's misdeeds, had anointed David as his suc- cessor, and this took effect when Saul was slain on Mount Gilboa. SAULSBURY, WILLARD, an Ameri- can lawyer and legislator. He was born in Georgetown, Del., in 1861, and after receiving his preliminary education, went to the University of Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He then en- gaged in practice in Wilmington, Del., and became a prominent figure in local legal and business circles. Coming from a family prominent in the Democratic pol- itics of Delaware, he soon began to have weight in the Democratic councils of the State, and was delegate-at-large at the Democratic National conventions in 1896, 1904, and 1912. He was United States Senator in 1913-19, but was defeated for re-election. He had a large part in the consolidation of the street and electric railways of Wilmington, and is director of a number of trust companies and banks. SAULT SAINTE MARIE, a city of Canada, the district town of Algoma Dis- trict, Ontario. It is opposite the city of the same name in Michigan, and is on the St. Marys river, the St. Marys Falls ship canal, and on the Canadian Pacific and Hudson Bay railways. It is the center of steel, and pulp and paper industries, and is an inland port of great importance. It has also an extensive trade in timber, ag- ricultural products, and mining products. It has federal and district buildings, a public library, and a technical school. Pop. about 20,000. SAULT SAINTE MARIE, a city of Michigan, the county seat of Chippewa co. It is on the St. Marys river and on the Canadian Pacific, the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic, and the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie railroads. The St. Marys canal here connects Lake Superior and Lake Huron, over which is carried an immense traffic. The Interna- tional Bridge crosses the rapids of the St. Marys river. The rapids near the city generate abundant water power, which is used by several important industries, which include paper mills, lumber mills, carbide factory, tanneries, flour mills, etc. The city has a public library, high school, armory, Federal building, and a park. Pop. (1910) 12,615; (1920) 12,096. SAULT SAINTE MARIE FALLS. See St. Mary's River. SAUMUR, a town of France, in the department of Maine-et-Loire ; on the Loire river, and on an island in it, 38 miles W. by S. of Tours. The most prom- inent buildings are an old castle (now arsenal and powder magazine), the 16th- century town house, some interesting churches, and private houses of good French architecture. There are a town museum and a cavalry school. Rosaries and articles in enamel are manufactured. Saumur was a stronghold of the Protes- tants during the reign of Henry IV. Its prosperity was annihilated by the revoca- tion of the Edict of Nantes, and its pop- ulation reduced to a fourth. From 1598 till 1685 it was the seat of a famous school of Protestant theology, the most conspicuous professors being John Came- ron of Glasgow (1579-1625) and his pu- pils Amyraut (or Amyraldus, 1596-1664) and Cappel (1585-1658). The school was noted for its freedom in Biblical criticism and was denounced by the opposing school of Sedan as heretical. Saumur was bril- liantly captured by Larochejaquelein and the Vendeans in the summer of 1793. The largest dolmen in France is IY2 miles S. of the town; and prehistoric caves line the river. Pop. about 16,500. SAURIA, or SAURIANS, an order of reptiles, including all those which, like the crocodile and lizard, are covered with scales and have four legs. The most gi- gantic and remarkable specimens of sau- rian reptiles are now extinct, but their fossil remains, immense in size and won- derful as they appear, afford incontest-