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LEFT FALLS 95 FAMILY fishments employing 40,000 persons and over $40,000,000 capital. Other impor- tant manufactures are machines and machinery, food preparations, clothing, woolen goods, metals and metallic goods, drugs and medicines, paints and dyes, cordage and twine, and clocks, watches, and jewelry, boots and shoes, brass prod- ucts, rubber, sash, etc. In 1919 there were 4 National banks. The exchanges at the United States clearing-house dur- ing the year ending Sept. 30, 1919, aggregated $108,228,000. Histot'y. — The city was originally a part of Freetown, but was incorporated separately in 1803. Later it was called Troy, but its first name was restored in 1834. The city charter was granted in 1854 and in 1862 Fall River in Newport CO., R. I., was annexed. Pop. (1910) 119,295; (1920) 120,485. FALLS, DE WITT CLINTON, an American artist, soldier and writer, born in New York City in 1864. He was educated in private schools. He served during the Spanish-American War and on the Mexican border. In 1917 he was appointed colonel of the 7th Infantry of the New York Guard. In the following year he became major in the United States Army and was assigned inspector of the General Staff. He was promoted to be colonel and was honorably dis- charged in 1919. Prior to his discharge from the American Army he acted as observer in the Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War. During the World War he engaged in special duty at the American Embassy in London. He was a member of many patriotic societies. He wrote "A. B. C. of Golf" (1897); "The Journey Book" (1910); "Mobilization of the Armies of Belgium and England" (1914) ; "Army and Navy Information Book" (1917). He was the illustrator of a number of books. FALMOUTH, a town in Barnstable CO., Mass.; on Buzzards Bay, Vineyard Sound, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, at the extreme W. end of Cape Cod; 50 miles S. E. of Boston. It is the center of an agricultural and cranberry region. It is best known as containing the Woods Hole (g. v.) Station of the United States Fish Commission. FALMOUTH, a seaport town of Eng- land, Cornwall county, at the mouth of the Fal river, 11 miles from Truro. It has a good harbor, and a fine and spacious roadstead. There are two castles on the coast, one of which, Pen- dennis, commands the entrance of the harbor; and the other, on the opposite side, is St. Mawes Castle. The town is chiefly important as a station of the boats carrying foreign mails. The scenery of the Fal, from Truro to Fal- mouth, is of great beauty. Pop. about 12,000. FALSE DEMETRIUS, THE. See Demetrius. FALSTER, one of the Danish islands in the Baltic, separated by narrow straits from Zealand on the N., Moen on the N. E., and Laaland on the W.; length, N. to S., 27 miles; breadth, vary- ing from 3 to 14 miles; area, 194 square miles; surface, almost entirely flat. Fal- ster is the pleasantest of all the Danish islands, is well watered, richly wooded, and so prolific in fruit that it has been called the "orchard of Denmark." Pro- ducts, corn, hemp, hops, cattle, honey, wax, etc. Some shipbuilding is carried on. Capital, Nykjobing. Pop. about 40,000. FAMAGUSTA (fa-ma-goos'ta), a sea- port town of the island of Cyprus, 40 miles E. of Nicosia. Famagusta is built on the ruins of the ancient Arsinoe, and during the Venetian regime it was one of the richest and most populous towns in the Levant. It is now almost in ruins, with its once fine harbor almost choked up with sand, having declined since its conquest by the Turks in 1571. About 5 miles N. E. are the ruins of Constan- tia, occupying the site of the ancient Salamis, now called Eski, or Old Fama- gusta. Guy de Lusignan was here crowned King of Cyprus in 1191. FAMILY, a household, including parents, children, and servants; the col- lective body of persons who reside under one roof, and under one head, or manager; those who descend from one common ancestor; a tribe or race; kindred; as, the human family; lineage; line of ancestors. Among the Romans, familia was applied to all persons in the power of a ixtterfamilias — as his sons, daughters, grandchildren and slaves; but it was also used in a wider sense, including all objects of property, even inanimate. The family is the corner- stone of the social edifice. Hence, it has been taken as a model for forming other associations — political, civil, or religi- ous. Among the early Hebrews, and in Eastern countries, the patriarchal form of government is only an extension of the family relationship. The Greeks re- garded the family as a type of the state; and among the Romans the natural power of a father was taken as the basis of the whole social and political organization of the people. The family life is based upon the wants and necessi-