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LEFT SAMYDACE,ffi 225 SAN ANTONIO Imperial Order, and included in its hier- archical significance: the commander-in- chief, or "shogun"; the landed nobility owing fealty to the Emperor and holding land under military tenure, or the "dai- myos"; and the "samurai," the military retainers of the feudal class, the privi- leged two-sword men, the fighting men, the caste of gentlemen, and the scholars of the nation. When, in 1868, the "sho- gunate" was abolished, followed in 1871 by the restoration of all feudal lands to the Emperor by the "daimyos," the "samurai" ceased to have any existence beyond a tradition in the national life of Japan. In 1878 the name "samurai" was abandoned and its significance has been largely lost in modern Japanese life ex- cept in so far as it has survived as an in- spirational code of chivalric conduct and bravery. SAMYDACE^ffi, a small order of plarrts, alliance Violales, consisting of trees and shrubs exclusively tropical and principally South American. Leaves al- ternate simple, evergreen, stipulate, usu- ally with round or linear transparent markings. Flowers perfect, calyx infe- rior, 4-5 partite. Stamens perigynous, two, three, or four times as many as the segments of the calyx. Fruit superior, capsular, leathery, one-celled. Seeds numerous, arillate, with oily or fleshy al- bumen and large embryo. The plants are of little economic value. SANAA, the former capital of the Imams of Yemen; 200 miles N. by W. of Aden, in a broad grassy valley, shel- tered by hills 1,200 and 1,500 feet high; is itself 7,250 feet above the sea. The city and its suburbs are surrounded by walls, and overlooked by a couple of ruined fortresses. Few of the buildings are older than the 16th century, though the city has been in existence from the remotest ages. It was long the capital of the independent Imams of Yemen, and during that period was noted for its hand- some buildings and gardens, its palaces, mosques, baths, etc. In 1872 it submitted to Turkish rule and has since then de- clined in commercial importance and been allowed to fall into decay. Pop. about 25,000. SAN ANGELO, a city of Texas in Tom Green co. It is on the Concho river, and on the Gulf, Colorado, and Sante Fe and the Kansas City, Mexico, and Orient rail- roads. The city is an important shipping center for cattle and is the center of an extensive farming region. The chief industries are* connected with cattle rais- ing and agriculture. Pop. (1910) 10,321: (1920) 10,050. SAN ANTONIO, a city and county- seat of Bexar co., Tex. ; on the San Pedro and San Antonio rivers, and on the Southern Pacific, the International and Great Northern, the San Antonio and Gulf Shore, and the San Antonio and Aransas Pass, and other railroads; 80 miles S. W. of Austin. Here are the headquarters of the United States Mili- tary Department of Texas, a United States Military Reservation covering 200 acres, St. Louis College (R. C), St. Mary's College (R. C), San Antonio Academy, Ursuline Academy, West Texas Military Academy, a collegiate institute, high school, street railroad and electric light plants, court house, United States Government building, a number of Na- tional and State banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. In many lines, especially in manufacturing, San Antonio is the distributing point for the entire State. San Antonio has 34 beautiful parks and plazas scattered about the city, comprising 423 acres and valued at more than $2,000,000. Notable among these is Brackenridge Park with an area of about 200 acres, fifteen minutes from the center of the city; and San Pedro with an area of about 40 acres, ten minutes from the center of the city. San Antonio is the seat of Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops. There were in 1919, 37 public and 25 private schools, with 24,491 enrolled in the public schools. It has an extensive trade in peanuts, live- stock, hides, lumber, cotton, and wool, and manufactories of flour, ice, cars, brick and tile, shoes, etc., and an assessed property valuation of over $388,000,000. San Antonio had in 1919, 28 banks — Na- tional, State and private. Their com- bined capital was more than $8,000,000; their deposits average about $50,000,000 and their loans over $36,000,000. In 1714 the Spanish constructed Fort San Fer- nando on the right bank of the San Pedro, and four years later the Alamo mission was founded, but afterward both were removed to the site of San Antonio. Dur- ing the Spanish and Mexican regimes San Antonio was the capital of Texas. In 1836 the massacre of the Alamo oc- curred here, and in 1861 the Union forces under General Twiggs were forced to capitulate. In 1873 San Antonio received a city charter. Pop. (1910) 96,614; (1920) 161,379. SAN ANTONIO, the name of several capes: (1) A cape at the S. entrance to the Rio de la Plata, in the Argentine Re- public. _ (2) a cape in Spain, on the E. coast, in the province of Alicante, and extending into the Mediterranean Sea. (3) A headland in Brazil, at the entrance to the Bay of Bahia, and on which is a