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- A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.
- Frank Perry, a lover of pretty Lettie Blair, leaves his home town to take a good position in New York. He becomes acquainted with Alice Neilson, a beautiful singer, whose lover has deserted her for another woman. Broken-hearted, the poor girl attempts to commit suicide by inhaling gas. Frank rescues the girl and she falls in love with him. Poor Lettie, neglected by her sweetheart and believing him ill, comes to New York in search of him, accompanied by Rubian Fax, a friend, who discovers Frank's infatuation for the singer. In a powerful scene the country girl pleads with the singer to give her back her sweetheart. The other girl, remembering the anguish she suffered when she was deserted, nobly sacrificing her own love, makes Frank believe that she has deserted him and she goes away. Brought back to his better self, Frank returns to his first love.
- Aria is the daughter of a gifted but poor musician. A baron, while riding past Aria's home, is thrown from his horse and injured. The nobleman is cared for by Aria and her mother. The first person to meet the baron's gaze when he returns to consciousness is Aria, and it is love at first sight between them. In the governor's suite is his secretary, who is in love with Aria. He is rejected by Aria and he leaves the house. The baron, longing to again see the musician's daughter, becomes her father's pupil. The king writes the governor, informing him that his son, the baron, must marry at once a duchess. The secretary tells the governor that the baron will not consent to forming such an alliance. The governor hastens to Aria's home and there finds the baron and hands him the king's letter. The baron tears it up. The governor then gives the secretary carte blanche to plot against Aria. The first step of the secretary is to obtain the aid of a gay young count who also admires Aria's beauty and would give anything to have her in his power. Then the father and mother of Aria are arrested and placed in the public pillory and Aria is told that the only way she can have them set free will be for her to write and sign a certain letter. She is summoned to appear at a court ball. It is intended by the plotters that Aria shall show great fondness for the count and ignore the baron. She is then to be given drugged wine and carried away by the count. However, the duchess's maid and the baron's orderly are sweethearts and through the maid the orderly discovers the nature of the plot and warns Aria not to drink the wine. During the ball, the letter which Aria wrote is dropped, picked up and shown to the baron, who is thus led to believe Aria false and he upbraids her before the whole court. Aria is unable to defend herself. Later, the baron, driven to desperation, visits Aria for one last interview before taking his life by means of poison. While he is talking with her, the orderly enters and substitutes for the poison the narcotic formerly intended for Aria. The baron drinks the supposed poison. Aria drinks it also. Then believing herself to be dying, she tells the baron the truth respecting the letter and he begs to be forgiven for his unjust suspicions, the two then become unconscious and are discovered shortly afterwards by the governor and his suite who come in search of the baron. Aria's father and mother who have been set free, arrive at the same time. Everyone believes the young couple to be dead. The orderly explains to the governor and Aria's parents how he substituted a narcotic for the poison and the lovers are finally resuscitated.
- Carrol Morten, a young society man, disappointed in love, becomes a woman-hater. To get away from women he visits the ranch of an old friend, "Pop" Lamed. Enter "Pop's" pretty niece also for an unexpected visit. Morten snubs the girl, who has fallen in love with him. While out riding Morten is captured by some bad Indians and in the struggle to save his life Morten kills one of the Indians. The band carry Morten off to torture him by fire. The girl sees the Indians capture Morten and after a thrilling ride pursued by an Indian, the girl reaches the ranch house and tells of Morten's plight. The brave girl leads eight white men to where Morten, bound to a tree, is about to be burned to death. The white men arrive just in time and with a few well-directed shots, drive off the Indians and rescue Morten. In the last scene the woman hater realizes that all girls are not alike, and he breaks his vow.
- Thompson picks up an artificial curl dropped by his wife's French maid. Thinking it is his wife's curl he kisses it and is discovered in the act by Mrs. Thompson, who is very pretty and very jealous. She thinks that he is in love with some other woman and she arranges a meeting with Madame Clairo, a fortune teller, with the hope of learning who the other woman is. Thompson finds this out, and he bribes Madame Clairo to let him wear her robe and take her place at the séance. "Wifie" enters and Thompson gives her the time of her life. After several screamingly funny scenes Thompson says he will show his wife a spirit picture of the man who loves her best. He removes the mask, puts his own face through a picture frame and his wife is convinced. Meanwhile, in another room we see Madam Clairo receiving a message warning her to flee, as the police are about to raid the place. Clairo goes out and the police enter and arrest Thompson's wife, who faints. Thompson comes out. The police arrest him and are about to take him away, when he pulls off the mask and the laugh is on the cops. The wife goes away without seeing her husband, and the last scene, where Thompson's wife begs him on her knees to forgive her for her jealous suspicions, is a farcical gem.
- Gordon and Billy are rivals for Betty's favors, and vie with each other in bestowing attentions upon her. During the school hour, Gordon sees Billy give Betty some candy, and not possessing any material sweets, he sends her a note of the "roses are red, violets blue," etc. Gordon does not toss the note far enough, and unfortunately it falls upon the floor. The teacher, attracted by the mirth of the children, finds the note, and as a punishment for the misdemeanor, Gordon is kept after school. He sees the fickle Betty walk away with his rival, enjoying the sweetmeats he gave her. The teacher lectures Gordon and sends him home. Upon coming out of school, he immediately looks for Betty but cannot find her. He is sore and jealous and walks along kicking his toe on the ground. He kicks up a nickel, and realizes with the nickel he has a chance to win Betty back. He rushes up to the school children, asking for Betty, but they merely laugh at him. He foregoes the longing to spend the nickel for sweets, and decides to postpone his conquest until the next day. He is pat to bed that night and goes to sleep still holding the nickel. Gordon dreams that his nickel is a lot of money, and that he is going to spend it all on Betty. He buys a pony and cart and goes to her home. He takes Betty for a drive, telling her of his good fortune. They come to where the children are playing soldiers, Billy being the captain. Gordon tells the children of his good fortune and invites them all to ride with him and have a good time. The children take the sword away from Billy and give it to Gordon, signifying that he is now their captain. They all march off behind Gordon, leaving Billy alone, sulking. They arrive at a push cart with fruit. Gordon orders a charge and they do, upsetting the fellow and the fruit all over. They scramble for the fruit while the man calls a policeman. When the policeman arrives, Gordon bribes him. The policeman lets the children escape, and arrests the fruit vendor. They next make a raid on a bakery store. The children swoop down upon a tray of fresh tarts and pies, while Gordon pays the damages. Billy trails behind and steals a pie from one of the little girls. Gordon takes them to a toy shop, where he orders them all fitted up as Indians and cowboys, purchases tepees, wooden horses, and a camp outfit, Gordon pays and they leave. One youngster, straggling along alone, is caught by Billy, who takes the horse away the child is riding, and follows the rest, having purchased an outfit with a bill Gordon dropped outside of the toy shop. They start their Indian village, and during Gordon's absence, Billy rides in, scatters the tribe and struggles to carry Betty away. Gordon hears her screams and rescues her. At this point he wakes up, realizes it was only a dream, but finds his nickel still tightly clutched in his hand, and goes back to sleep. The next morning Gordon encounters Betty and Billy together, and as he bows low to her, they laugh and start away. Gordon shows Betty the nickel, and the fickle little miss immediately deserts Billy for his rival. The two repair to the nearest soda fountain where they order "one vanilla with two straws," while the angry Billy watches them through the window.
- Edwin August presents a psychological study in eight episodes dealing with the gradual development of inherent thieving proclivities in a child until the age of manhood. The parents see the tendency, but are unable to cope with it and finally, believing the son to be a deliberate criminal, the father expels him from the house. The son's decline is rapid and results in a term in jail, from which he emerges a typical jail bird, the consort of pickpockets and yeggmen. At times there are flashes of his better instinct striving to overcome his weakness, but these become fewer and fewer as he passes down the social scale. At the time when things seem darkest he is in his hovel looking out into a heavy electrical storm. A flash of lightning strikes and at the same moment his soul is reincarnated. When he rises he marvels at his condition, but is unable to explain it. Wandering out upon the street, he enters an art gallery. He comes upon a girl copying a painting that vaguely recalls something familiar. The girl is his former sweetheart, but he does not recognize her. He watches her work and finally, impelled by something within him, he takes the brush from her and with a few well directed strokes turns the work into a masterpiece. She asks an explanation and he tells her that he himself painted the original. She explains the original was painted over two hundred years before, but he insists. Struck by his sincerity, she attempts to solve the mystery and later finds the explanation in a treatise on reincarnation. The thief has been conquered by the soul of the artist. They are married and later a reconciliation with his parents is affected.
- Bright Eyes, an Indian Maid, marries a white trapper. He leaves her alone with an infant. Not knowing what to do, she returns to her tribe, leaving her babe on the bank of the river. She is received back in the tribe and when the squaws are sent for water the babe is found. She, keeping the secret, asks to be allowed to raise the babe, which is granted. After twenty years, Stalwart Brave, the papoose, contests for the chieftainship in the lariat duel on horseback. He defeats the champion and becomes the White Chief. He falls in love with the old chief's daughter, but is denied her. The brave he defeated, for revenge on the old chief, lashes him. Panther leaves her in a rage, vowing revenge, is rescued by the White Chief and wins the girl.
- Peking, like Paris, abounds in out-of-door restaurants, which make unusually attractive the first part of Dr. Dorsey's "Wonders of the Orient." There is introduced, too, genuine Pekinese pugs and primitive building methods, showing street vocations, with primitive Chinese labor. Women burden bearers are introduced, as is the method of drilling a well, practically all of Peking's water supply coming from surface wells. The pottery and willow shops, with their workers, are intimately introduced, while there is to be seen a public well, an enjoyable game of dominoes and, in the distance, a Christian Mission church.
- The experiences of a tramp who is the sole survivor of a wreck, and is accepted as king of the natives on the island on which he is stranded.
- Dora and Dave are sweethearts. Dora is loved by Tom, who proposes marriage to Dora only to be met by a refusal. He sees a love scene between Dora and Dave and is embittered against his old friend. A messenger gives Captain Hawkins a sum of money to pay off his crew and he places it in a pocket of his coat. He goes to pay the men and finds he has not the coat, and sends Dave to his house to get it. He has previously forbidden Dora to receive the attention of Dave and he singles him out of the party in order to humiliate him in the eyes of his other fishermen. Dave goes to the house, secures the coat, and on the way to the dock he shifts the coat about, and the bag containing the money falls out of the pocket. It is found by a simple-minded Gabe, a fool of the village, who hurries away. Dave gives the coat to the captain, who searches in the pockets for the wallet. He cannot find it and he accuses Dave of having stolen the money. Dave protests his innocence. Tom, who is standing near, suggests he submit to the search. Dave refuses to be searched, but knowing the violent temper of the captain, and that appearances are against him, he submits. The captain and Tom search him but do not find the money. They decide that he has hidden it and let him go and follow him to find the hiding place. The captain, on his way, is met by Dora, who sees that his actions are strange and she connects Dave with his angry mood. She meets two sailors after leaving the captain and is told that Dave has left the village in his dory and has been accused of stealing her father's money. Almost crazed with grief and anxiety she runs down to the beach just after the boat of Dave has been capsized and she finds the waves buffeting it into the shore. The captain, in the meantime, going to relieve the anxiety of the men discovers the simple Gabe playing with the wallet. Rushing to him he takes it from him in a rage and realizes that he has accused an innocent man of theft. In the distance sees Dora helping Dave along the rocks, and roughly hauling Gabe with him, he goes to Dave and humbly asks forgiveness, showing the recovered wallet. Big-hearted Dave is only too anxious to forgive, and seeing his chance, loses no time in asking for the hand of Dora. With the captain's consent comes a happy homecoming and ending to the unfortunate interim, and Dave and his sweetheart can now look the whole world in the face.
- With Dr. Dorsey, another trip to China is taken, showing the caravan from Mongolia, the Chinese at work, their street vocations, an outdoor barber and a boy shoemaker. Other interesting views showing the shoeing of a mule, the making of willow chairs, the making of joss-sticks, rope-making, peddling coal, baking sweet potatoes and a real candy cart make the film of unusual interest.
- Ames is ill, apparently, and his physician advises him to take outdoor exercise. He retires to his country home, and, giving his gardener a holiday, he proceeds to do the man's work. Next door, a new family have moved in, a husband and wife, little girl, and the husband's charming sister. Bessie, the sister, mistakes Ames for a hired man and Ames humors her along, and thus plays a joke upon her. To get even with him, Bessie leads him to think that she is her brother's wife and the mother of the little girl. This leads to the most romantic complications, especially when the child succeeds in locking Ames and Bessie in the library on the second floor of Ames' house, and sends the only key to the door up into the air tied to a bunch of toy balloons. Poor Ames tries to make a martyr of himself, but is not permitted, and to his joy, suddenly finds himself possessed of a blushing, but rather mischievous little bride-to-be.
- A young doctor makes a superficial study of hypnotic suggestion and discovers that he has powers in that direction. He practices upon his sweetheart and her friends. One day a traveling hypnotist comes to town and the girl, Ethel, decides to see what he can do. She and her acquaintances attend the séance and Ethel offers herself as a subject. She proves an amenable medium and her beauty appeals to the hypnotist, who neglects to release her from his influence and forces her to go away with him. On hearing of the disappearance, the distracted doctor hurries to the girl's home and gets a clue from a newspaper clipping. He follows several clues, and finally traces them to a town where he sees her in a store window in a trance. He endeavors to get through the crowd, but the hypnotist influences the police and he is ordered away. He appeals to headquarters and that night attends the performance with detectives. He creates a scene when he invades the platform, but the girl, under the spell, says she does not know him and he is turned away as an impostor. Baffled and heartbroken, but determined still, the doctor pulls himself together and calming down thinks the extraordinary situation out. He keeps in touch with the faker's movements, and remembering his own hypnotic powers, determines to put them to the test. With a friend he studies and practices and finds he has a wonderful will power. He travels to where the girl is on exhibition and taking a position in the audience, concentrates his mind upon the one thing. Gradually he finds the girl uneasy at some foreign influence, turning her eyes toward him. Their eyes meet and when she withdraws her own with a gasp, she knows something is wrong. The professor is unable to get her will bent to his own and gets more and more uneasy as she fails in simple tests. The audience commences to murmur and for once the man's self-possession fails him. He looks around for opposing influence and in time encounters the doctor's penetrating gaze. He falters and is lost, for he faces a will power stronger than his own. Hysterically the man points to the doctor, telling the audience that he is the man who is ruining the performance and the people hold their breath as the doctor goes slowly to the platform and makes the wretch confess upon his knees. The police take charge of affairs, while the doctor gathers the rapidly-recovering girl in his arms.
- The City Council and Mayor, much against the will of the citizens, have decided to pave certain streets, the names of which they are keeping secret. The Journal, anxious to get the list of streets, sends Eddie Ball, a young reporter fresh from college, to interview the Mayor. Eddie, wishing to impress the Mayor with his own importance, writes his name and "Reporter for the Journal" on a card which he sends in. To his chagrin the Mayor returns his card with the information that he will not see any reporters. When Eddie informs the editor of his failure, the editor is furious and yet amused over Eddie's "greenness." Knowing that a list of the streets would be a scoop for the Journal, he sends Gail, the star reporter. While trying to plan some way to accomplish this, Gail goes to have her nails manicured. At the crowded beauty shop, Gail answers the telephone for one of the manicurists and learns that the fastidious Mayor desires a manicurist to come to his office. Gail, realizing her opportunity, seizes it and, by trickery, succeeds and gets the scoop for her paper. When the Mayor reads in the extra the entire list of streets he declares that he will thrash the man who turned traitor and gave out the information. Repairing to the office of the Journal he meets "the manicurist" of a few hours before and realizes what he himself has done. He finds out, however, that the manicurist has other accomplishments than "filing nails."
- Old man, do you remember the day you first met the little girl who has now gone through half a century by your side? Just as if it was yesterday, you went out to steal some apples, and that stingy old farmer chased you with the rest of the boys; you ran for dear life, over the orchard wall, across the meadow, pell-mell down the bill, and across the old stubble ground. Then you got a nail in your foot; the rest of the boys out-distanced you, but you limped along, with the apples banging and jangling in your blouse. And just as it seemed that the old skin-flint was going to get you, you took that sharp turn in the road, and came upon little, blue-eyed her, standing by the dog-kennel; how quick she was to help you stuff yourself into that kennel, and when your pursuer came along she told him innocently that you had just run by, up that way. That act earned her the biggest, reddest and juiciest apple of all you stole and, say, old man, just dry that tear, now; fifty years have passed since then!
- Mercy Merrick, a beautiful young English woman, is the victim of a heartless man. When she learns that he is married she is about to commit suicide and is prevented from doing so by Julian Gray, a young curate. Determined to redeem herself, Mercy enlists as a Red Cross nurse in the Franco-Prussian war. Grace Roseberry is on her way to England to be adopted by her relative Lady Janet Roy, and in passing through the lines she is struck by a piece of shell and left for dead. Mercy Merrick exchanges clothes with Miss Roseberry and takes her letter of introduction, goes to England and is adopted as Grace Roseberry and saves her life. Julian Gray, who is Lady Roy's nephew falls in love with Mercy Merrick, not recognizing her as the woman he had saved from suicide. They are engaged to be married. The real Grace Roseberry is about to be taken away as a lunatic when Mercy Merrick's best nature asserts itself and she declares herself to be an impostor and saves the other woman. In a touching scene, Mercy Merrick goes to bid farewell to Julian Gray and to give him his ring, but the noble young minister tells her that she has suffered enough, and as his wife, the repentant Mercy finds a true shelter.
- We see the gorilla and the orang outang. Then the chimpanzee of Africa, who seems to speak to us. He has a cage chum, a Malayan orang outang. The orang has small ears, because he lives in trees and has few enemies. The saki of Brazil is an extremely rare monkey, clad like an Eskimo. The tiny Brazilian marmoset has a savage countenance. Some of the monkeys register expression as well as any screen favorite. We see a baby Peruvian crying for its mother. Then a Cacaquc chewing tobacco, and an African baboon, a large and savage type. Only the Old World monkeys have cheek-pouches for storing food. A little pig-tailed monkey is seen packing them full.
- Nellie Thomas and Frank Howard are in love with each other. Phyllis Black, a school chum of Nellie's, pays her a visit, falls in love with Frank and, at a picnic party in the woods, she throws her arms about him and tells him so. Nellie's father sees this and, thinking that Frank is trifling with his daughter's affections, orders him to leave the place and never see his daughter Nellie again. Frank is a western boy who does not give in quickly. He writes a note to Nellie, "Sweetheart: I love only you. Will you meet me at the crossroads and marry me now?" The stupid messenger delivers the note to the other girl, who, thinking that she is meant, rides off to meet Frank. But she drops the note on the ground and Nellie finds it. Here follows a novel and most interesting race between two women to meet the man they both love. Nellie passes her rival on the road, meets Frank and they are married. Phyllis comes up just in time to see them receive the minister's blessing.
- The temperamental moving picture director is at his wit's end. He must have a scenario dealing with the war situation. While in a frenzy he is interrupted by Hippocrates MacGuinness, who blithely hands him a few bushels of scenarios with such sensational themes as "Gathering the Myrtle with Mary" and "La Petite Avoirdupois," or "Truck. Horse Soubrette." The director's first impulse is to hurl the palpitating Hippocrates from the highest battlements, but he restrains his ardor and pleasantly jostles him down the staircase. Acting upon this helpful though gentle hint, the pleasant-mannered poet tries to write a war story; He goes into a sweet slumber. His pensive brain becomes delirious and he sees forts fall, castles crumble, Zeppelins more plentiful than pigeons, while the blowing up of a man-of-war and the crumbling of trains into smoke are subjects scarce worth the recording. He thinks of a man of dire destiny who invents a portable machine that thinks no more of the enemy's fleet than a matinee girl would of one pound of chocolates. The sky is aflame with burning aeroplanes. Midnight becomes as bright as day as the air monsters explode and fall to the ground a mass of molten steel, while the oceans bubble like cauldrons and the sky shines like a burnished mirror. Then he awakens as the studio scenery falls on him. He is too excited by the nightmare to heed this, and feverishly writes the story.
- This is a combination of Hy Mayer cartoons and travel pictures which go to make up a travel comedy. Architecture typical of China is shown, a pagoda, a street scene, with soldiers marching through an arch. Cartoons show how Europe taught China to hold the gun, and how China learned to drive the white man out of his country with the European gun. Cartoons caricaturing the fashions follow. The jinrikisha is contrasted with the auto. The children are shown with their living toys, birds, fish, etc. A cartoon shows that a very good boy may someday have a rhinoceros. Market scenes and restaurants in the open air follow. Trades, the shoemaker and barber, are illustrated, with comic comments in the form of cartoons. Chinese theater scenes come next. The interiors of the theaters are shown and the strange antics of the country traveling troupes. The music reminds Mayer of his janitor turning on the steam. The first Chinese skyscraper is shown. When the Chinese cut off their queues they freed themselves from backwardness and bigotry. A smiling Chinese face closes the picture.
- Roberts is in love with Clarice Moulton. George Stamford meets Clarice and wins her love. When Roberts learns of their engagement he decides to avenge himself, and he does so in a dastardly manner. It is the day of the wedding of Clarice and Stamford. The bride is ready, and the guests are assembled, but the bridegroom does not appear. We see Roberts and his valet enter Stamford's room, chloroform him and take him out. They take him to Robert's roomy old mansion in the suburbs and chain him up to the wall in the cellar. The bridal party are worried over the failure of the bridegroom to appear and the girl's father goes to his room to look for him, but he can learn nothing of Stamford's whereabouts. The next day Stamford unmasks his captor, who has come to gloat over his misery. Months pass. The girl, believing that Stamford has willfully deserted her, accepts her first lover, Roberts. Meanwhile we see the wretched lover making heroic efforts to escape from the vile dungeon where he is confined. Gradually he wears away a link in the chain. It breaks and releases him. After a terrific fight with his jailer, the valet, Stamford escapes and goes back to the city. Ragged and dirty, he rushes to the home of his sweetheart, where he learns that she has gone to the church to be married to Roberts. He dashes into the church followed by a policeman. The minister is about to pronounce the words that make Roberts the husband of Clarice, when Stamford dashes in and protests against the marriage. He denounces Roberts: but all think that the dirty, ragged man is a madman until he tells his story. Roberts is taken away by the policeman and Clarice takes Stamford in her arms.
- Moved by anger and a keen sense of having been wronged, a cowpuncher sets out to kill his enemy. In his anger he justifies his act. As a result of a coincidence, he kills his own brother. He becomes a fratricide, a thing to loathe, and he realizes what it is to kill. On a cattle ranch in the far west, two brothers, Pete and Ned Cullen, work for Thomas Bender, the ranch owner. Ned is the ranch foreman. He is faithful to his trust. Pete was born an enemy to the world. All his passionate longings and feverish objections to the work turns inward and lay waste his rebel soul. Pete has trouble with Bender and is discharged. He drinks and nurses the venomous sentiments until he decides to kill Thomas Bender. The ranch owner rides a white horse. While riding home from town. Bender's horse goes lame and the owner exchanges mounts with Ned. As the dusk gathers, the two brothers draw near to each other on a lonely stretch of road . Pete, believing that the rider of the white horse is Bender, shoots. He runs up to the mortally injured man to find that he has killed Ned, his younger brother, the one man he had to live for in the world. Ned made no resistance when the cowboys rode up and took him; he just stumbles along toward the end which awaits such men.
- James Madison has lost heavily in the stock market. His friend Wesley visits him and leaves in his care a wallet containing five thousand dollars. The wallet is placed in Madison's safe, and in the morning Madison hands the wallet to Wesley but the money is gone. Wesley charges Madison with having stolen his money. A detective is called in, and humorous situations arise from his suspicions of everybody in the household. The mystery is solved when the three men lying in wait see Madison's wife enter in her nightrobe, open the safe and place the missing money inside. Then they realize that Mrs. Madison is a somnambulist and has taken and replaced the money in her sleep.
- The story opens with Edmund Dantes landing from his ship. Then follow his greeting of his father, his love scene with Mercedes in which Fernand's jealous hatred is aroused, the conspiracy of Danglars and Fernand and the betrothal in the arbor at which Dantes is torn from his sweetheart's side by the soldiers who arrest him. We see Dantes in prison breaking through the wall, his meeting with the Abbe Faria, then the death of the Abbe who gives to Dantes the secret of the treasure buried on the Isle of Monte Cristo. Dantes escapes in the bag which contains the Abbe's dead body, his discovering the treasure at Monte Cristo in a grotto. In a magnificent ballroom scene Dantes meets Fernand and Mercedes, now his wife, who recognizes her first lover. The duel with Albert who is saved by his mother, Mercedes, the arrest of Fernand through Monte Cristo's effort and Fernand's death in prison. Danglars as the Abbe of Busoni, after making Danglars bankrupt, tortures him by starvation until he gives up a million for food and goes out a broken man.
- Jack and Edna, young lovers, are spending the summer at a fashionable resort. Edna receives a letter from her brother Paul, stating that he was coming on for a visit. Jack overhears their meeting and not knowing that Paul is Edna's brother, becomes extremely jealous. At this juncture, Jack receives a letter from his sister Clara, stating that she would arrive the next day, and Edna discovers their greeting. The result, more jealousy. Edna is about to drown herself in two inches of water when Jack explains to her the truth, stating that Paul had come to see Clara, his sweetheart. The many complications that arise in this affair, are extremely funny and all ends with the couples becoming engaged.
- Irma is waiting for her escort to take her to a party when she falls asleep and has the most terrible dream. She dreams that she is a poor little girl in the country and has to do all the chores. She gets into all kinds of trouble helping the other children and finally falls in the brook. But just as she is bewailing her fate her mother wakes her and says that Bennie has come to take her to the party. The dream is over and Irma is glad that it was only a dream.
- Pygmalion, who has carved out the beautiful figure of Galatea. He gets several offers for its purchase, but is so in love with the work that he refuses to part with it. One day as he sits in his saddle he hears a voice calling him by name. He knows that there is nobody in the room, and is bewildered. Finally he draws aside the portieres that hide the figure of Galatea and is stupefied to find her alive. He leads her down from the pedestal and discloses to her that she is now in the world, answering her inquiries. He finds the incarnation as beautiful as his marble work, but as he falls in love with her, there enters an element of jealousy on the part of those who do not understand the situation. This causes Galatea to grieve, and ere Pygmalion can come out of his trance she stepped back on the pedestal and the transformation takes place, by which the beautiful Galatea is again turned to the stone from which the sculptor's mallet had shaped her.
- Carter Gordon, a young Virginian, is in love with Alice Warren, the daughter of a Northern army officer. The young lovers have just received the consent of the girl's parents to their marriage, when the Civil War breaks out and General Warren is called back to Washington to resume his military duty. When Gordon announces that he will stand by his native State, Virginia, the General denounces him as a reb; the engagement is broken off, and Gordon goes away in the Confederate Army. Three years later, Gordon's regiment is near the Warren plantation, and Gordon risks his life in several thrilling scenes to visit his sweetheart. The girl at first treats him coldly, hut love triumphs, and the lovers are happy in their reunion. Union troops camp near the Warren plantation, and Union officers make the Warren mansion their headquarters. The girl conceals her lover and later helps him to escape. The Union officers go into the dining room to dinner. Little Grace, the nine-year-old sister of Alice, enters the drawing room with a paper doll and a pair of scissors. She wants a piece of paper to make a dress for the doll and she takes one of the sheets left on the table by the Union officers. Later the officers discover the loss of the paper, and Alice is led to believe that her lover has stolen it. She tells the officers about Gordon's visit, and after a thrilling chase and fight Gordon is captured and brought back into the presence of the girl, who tells of his visit and denounces him as a cowardly spy. The soldiers leave, taking Gordon with them. He is tried and condemned to be hanged as a spy. Meanwhile little Grace enters and shows her mother and sister the paper doll and dress that she has cut out of the missing map. Alice declares she will save her lover. Taking the paper doll, she dashes away on her horse, and we show the most thrilling ride that has ever been done by a woman in motion picture work. The soldiers have put a rope around Gordon's neck and he is about to be hanged, when the girl dashes up. She shows the missing paper and the officer orders the soldiers to untie Gordon.
- Tony and Pedro work on the railroad. They are two rollicking comrades, living together in happy harmony until Papinta and her mamma come to live nearby. Both men lose their heads immediately over the beautiful Papinta. Their comradeship receives a decided strain. Both undertake to woo Papinta. She shows preference for Tony, but mamma is avaricious, "The one who pays me the most money may woo my daughter." Pedro has always been treasurer for Tony and himself. The proceeds of their labors were saved in one sock. Pedro carried the sock. Jealous of Tony, Pedro now hands over the money of their partnership. Mamma orders heart-broken Tony about his business. Pedro's gift makes him stand in right with mamma, but not with Papinta, who makes this fact known to him mighty emphatically. She also makes known her preference for Tony. Pedro seeks revenge on his late comrade. His chance comes. The gang are busy constructing a railroad. A 90-pound rail falls on poor Tony's foot. He is carried home and the doctor is obliged to fasten the bandaged foot suspended by a rope from a rafter "to keep the blood down." Pedro takes advantages of Tony's dilemma to continue his wooing of Pepinta. Tony rages and only makes his position the more uncomfortable. While Tony is lying flat on his back, "Railroad Bill," a notorious freight car thief, comes sneaking in. Bill does not hesitate to toot to his heart's content. But he reckons unwisely and comes within reach of Tony who promptly clutches him, and yells for the police. The police hear and come. Papinta, mamma and Pedro also hear and come. Bill is captured. A handsome reward has been posted for Bill's capture. This reward is turned over to the delighted Tony, who loses no time flashing it before mamma. It certainly puts him in right. Pedro is disconsolate, and is about to do something rash when mamma stops him. He gets an idea and proposes to mamma, who accepts. So they make it a family affair. Tony and Papinta are dancing for joy, when Tony suddenly discovers that his hurt foot is perfectly healed.
- The cat is rocking in a chair, and his tail is through a knothole in the fence. A chicken grabs it in its beak and pulls it out till it snaps. The cat goes through the fence to settle with the chicken. They fight and the cat leaves the chicken for dead. But he wakes up, comes through the fence, and pulls the cat's tail right out. The cat cries. Along comes a dog and laughs at the cat. Then a boy ties a tin can to the dog's tail, and the cat is consoled, for it sees that tails are no good, after all.
- Bob Clark, out of work, secures a position as salesman of mining stock in the office of James Matthews. Bob is not aware of the fact that the stock is bogus and sells $500 worth to Mother Allen, his landlady. The money is the savings of a life-time and she buys the stock, because she trusts Bob. Lang, a businessman and the star boarder, advises her against the purchase, but without success. Officers raid the office and Matthews escapes, but falls under a train and is killed. Bob makes his escape from the officers, and goes west, where he secures work in the oil fields. Here he meets Irma Grant, a school teacher, and they fall in love with each other. Bob is saving every cent to go back and pay Mother Allen the $500. Finally, school is over, and Irma is ready to return home. A love scene takes place between her and Bob, but he does not ask her to marry him because he has but $500 and is determined to sacrifice his love to convince Mother Allen of his honesty. He returns east and goes to the boarding house. Lang sees him enter and hurriedly summons a policeman to arrest him. They enter to find that Bob has just repaid the money and has been forgiven. Instead of asking Bob's arrest, Lang offers him a position in his office. Bob accepts. Vacation time comes and memories draw him back to the little oil town. Here he meets Irma who has returned to commence the new term of school. This time he tells her of his love and they become engaged.
- Sworn friends Jack Allan and Ned Austin both love the same girl. Ned proposes and Jack, allowing his friendship for Ned to govern the inclinations of his heart, remains silent. Ned marries and Jack in an effort to forget his sorrow applies himself to business with such fervor that he is soon a wealthy man, but his financial success does not cause him to forget the girl he loved, and although many desirable girls try to win him, he is indifferent to all and is known as a confirmed bachelor. Ned does not appreciate his wife, and deserts her and their little girl. The abandoned wife soon dies and the child is taken to an orphanage. Jack is alone with memories of the past linked to the present by a photograph of his lost love. He is very lonely and asks to adopt a child. A little girl is sent to him from the orphanage and she soon becomes the baby ruler over her adopted father and always asserts her sweet tyranny. One night, while tidying his desk, the treasured photograph is found and she cries, "This is my mama!" Jack is surprised, for he adopted the little girl under her asylum name. A few questions and he sees he has the child of his lost sweetheart in his arms. Jack site before the fire in meditation, then gazes with reverence upon the sleeping child and muses upon the unsuspected benefits of Providence.
- This is a vaudeville act taken in the studio before the camera, and shows trained animals. First we see a performing pony with the three dogs which are its partners. Then we have a monkey act, and finally stunts by a kicking mule.
- The Severed Hand, a society of Italian criminals and blackmailers, swear to kill Danny Dawson, who has turned traitor. Dawson has a daughter, Nan, whom he mistreats. One day while he is beating her, he is overtaken by the rector and his nephew, Dick Ralston. Ralston punishes Dawson. Nan is taken in as a member of the rector's household. At intervals, every time Dawson catches his daughter alone, he beats her until Nan makes the threat that if he returns again she will kill him. One night while Dawson is looking for his daughter he is followed by Guinio and Pietro, members of the Severed Hand Society. From a distance Nan sees the Italians kill him. The murderers escape. She runs to her dead parent. A moment afterwards Dick Ralston and the rector arrive on the scene. In view of her recent oath, they believe she is guilty. Although Ralston loves her, she cannot convince him of her innocence. To save herself from suffering for a crime, her innocence of which she cannot prove. Nan escapes with Guinio and Pietro. After a lapse of ten years, Nan is known as the Countess Messina. She is a secret agent in the employ of the Severed Hand Society. She maintains herself in splendor and has cultivated the bad habits of a certain class of European aristocracy. Dick Ralston is now chief of a division of the secret service assigned to round up the members of the Severed Hand Society. There is to be a ball at a foreign embassy. Nan attends for the purpose of stealing certain valuable documents from Captain Korsloff of the Russian embassy. Ralston's men are already on the trail. Nan lures Korsloff to her apartments and there drugs him and steals the papers. For additional security she then goes in hiding in a foreign quarter of the city. Ralston and his men come to the apartments to arrest her and find her gone. A woman whom, however, can render the most cleverly laid plans useless. Cooped up with Guinio and Pietro, she runs out of cigarettes. The ordinary brands of cigarettes do not suit her taste and she sends her maid to her apartment for a stock of her own material, Ralston and his men follow the maid back. The secret service men force their way into the hiding place. As a last resort, Guinio releases a cask of deadly fumes in the room. Ralston and Nan recognize each other simultaneously. All are being overcome by the fumes when Nan drags Ralston to the open window and compels him to inhale the fresh air. Guino is overcome, but his last effort is an attempt to shoot Ralston. Nan anticipates his move and kills him at a single shot. In return for saving Ralston's life Nan goes free and her old life is wiped out and forgotten when she marries Ralston.
- Wealthy little girl befriends son of washerwoman.
- Madge and Willie are children of parents who shine in society circles, and are quite precocious. Their parents give a recherché dinner to which their select friends are invited. The children are taken by their nurse to dine in their playroom, and are given a cereal to start, a very frugal meal. Madge resents the slight and steals down stairs and gets a glimpse of the dining table, fairly groaning under its weight of delicacies. Returning to the nursery, the children talk it over and decide to go out and dine at a restaurant. They have no well-defined plan, but resolve to submit to chance. To think is to act and, while Madge arrays herself in her mother's finery, Willie goes stealthily downstairs and appropriates a costume from the hall rack. Thus arrayed they go out unnoticed and hail a taxicab, give directions to the driver through the tube, and are whirled away to a swell café. Their entry causes some surprise, but the obsequious waiters are all attention and the children order liberally. In the meantime, the nurse and butler have abstracted a bottle of wine and some pastry, and are having a surreptitious feast. The children are missed, and a search is instituted. A trip through the house reveals the disorder in the room of the mother and there is general consternation. That the children have been kidnapped by the robbers there is no doubt, and an officer is summoned. When the waiter presents his check, Madge gives him one of her mother's visiting cards and the waiter telephones to the house. The agonized parents and their guests rush to the café, accompanied by the officers and find the missing children just finishing their dinner. The mystery is explained, a happy culmination to the pranks of the children.
- Edwin, the husband, is weary of social life, tired of those people whose only gospel is that of dress. He has come to realize that his only happiness will come through a congenial home life. As it is, Eva, his wife, is consumed with but two things, her dog and her gowns. He pleads with her to assume the obligations of a mother, but she is cold to his entreaties and bestows her charms upon another man. They are divorced. Eva goes with the other man and after a lapse of two years she gives birth to a child. Edwin, in the interim, has also married a woman of his own ideas. He has children and he is exquisitely happy in the fulfillment of his dreams. Eva soon becomes a deserted mother. In the sordid life she leads she has long forgotten her gowns and vain fineries. In the greatest extremity, Eva bethinks herself of Edwin. She recalls his love for children and she concludes that now she is a mother he may forgive her and take her back. She goes to the home of her former social triumphs, an outcast. Crawling to a window she looks in and sees Edwin playing with his own children. She shrinks away and is gathered in by the darkness and despair.
- The manager sent his company to the park to make some exterior scenes, and they did not notice that the children had tied their wagon on behind the auto. The manager was rather jealous of the attentions of his leading man to his wife, who played the feminine leads. The company rehearsed the scene of an elopement, watched intently by the children. As the boss was not present, the director and his staff decided to take time off for a "little game." The leading man urged the leading lady to come and rest with him under a neighboring tree. The children got hold of the camera and decided to make a picture on their own account. They acted a burlesque of the scene they had just seen, and then fate inspired them to experiment with the panorama handle. The next day the company was invited into the projection room to see yesterday's results. The kids managed to sneak in, too. Then was revealed how the actors wasted their time, and the pressing attentions of the leading man to the Manager's wife gave that gentleman a painful shock. Everybody was tired, but the children were rewarded with slices of pie by their loving mother for having kept their clothes so clean!
- A cooling, refreshing glimpse of some grand Italian peasant landscape, from a railroad that wends its perilous way up the precipitous incline. Occasionally we stop for a view of a quaint old prayer house, and occasionally, just as if we begged the engineer to stop so that we may longer admire some particular view, we get a sweeping view of the majestic mountain land. Up hills, around gorges, and through dark tunnels we go, until the signs of village life tell us that the finest part of the trip is over.
- Hattie Brown is a poor sewing girl, who sews shirtwaists for a "sweat shop." Leaving her invalid mother, the girl goes to deliver her work at the office of the "sweat shop." Simpson has called to sell some goods to Smith, the proprietor, and he has brought with him his pet dog. Smith leaves his wallet full of money on the desk, and he and Simpson go into the shipping room. The girl enters with her bundle of work, which is received by the clerk who exits and returns with a bundle of unfinished work for Hattie, who takes it and leaves. When the room is empty the dog enters, sniffs around, sees the wallet, grasps it with his teeth and goes out. We see the dog take the wallet to Simpson's house and lay it behind the steps. Smith enters, discovers his loss and calls a detective. As the girl was the only person in the room with the wallet, she is suspected. The detective goes to her home and tries to arrest her, but Mrs. McGuire, a neighbor, takes a hand, knocks the detective over and helps the girl escape. An exciting chase follows. The girl risks her freedom to visit her sick mother. The detective comes in and arrests her. He takes her to the office of Smith, who accuses her and agrees to make a complaint against her. Meanwhile, we have seen Simpson sitting on the front steps of his house when the dog comes up carrying the missing wallet in his mouth. Simpson dashes off to Smith's office and arrives just in time to save poor Hattie from arrest. Then Smith squares himself with the sewing girl.
- The story opens in the home of a poor family, composed of a father, mother, small boy, and old grandfather. The boy and the grandfather are pals. The boy would rather play with the old man than go out with other boys. An increase of family is expected. The parents, frightened at prospects of additional expense, send the grandfather to an old folks' home. This breaks the boy's heart; he cannot understand, but the grandfather explains to him: "I'm old, have no teeth, no hair, can't walk much, and your pa and ma can't afford to keep me." The new baby arrives. It is red and fuzzy. It hasn't any teeth or hair, and it can't walk or talk. The boy is disgusted to think his parents would send grandfather away to make room for this new, useless arrival. He concluded, "It ain't any good and I'll trade it for grandpa." He takes the baby to the old folks' home, and tries to exchange it for his grandfather. The grandfather takes the boy and the baby home, and the parents are so deeply touched, that they refuse to allow the grandfather to return to the institution.
- In a saloon brawl an outlaw kills a man, whereupon he is placed under arrest by the sheriff. At a railroad station close by, a girl misses her train and while walking near the tracks is bitten by a rattlesnake. The sheriff coming along with his prisoner sees her and both help the girl into a freight car. Realizing that she must have medical aid at once, the sheriff rides for the doctor, leaving the bandit to care for the injured girl. The outlaw obtains a jug of whiskey which he gives to the girl as a medicine, and from its effects the girl falls into a stupor. The bandit is sorely tempted to escape, but controls himself. And when the girl returns to consciousness and calls for water, he leaves her to get it. The sheriff returns with the doctor and finding the bandit gone thinks he has escaped. But the bandit returns with water for the girl and gives himself up to the sheriff.
- A sparkling travesty in which is depicted the trials and disappointments of a father with a large flock of young children who sets out to lease a flat. He arrives with his wife, travel stained and weary, buoyed up with hope. He applies to several landlords and janitors, who show him scant courtesy, as they take mental stock of his nine children and inform him that "No children are allowed" in their apartments. The family wanders from one apartment house to the other only to be refused. Night is approaching and they seek refuge in a park, and the comforts of a bench, where they sleep until morning. As they are arousing from their slumbers a friendly policeman appears on the scene and takes in the situation. On being questioned the head of the family unbosoms himself and pours his tale of injustice into the ears of the officer. The copper meditates and then has an idea which he imparts to the troubled father. Acting on the suggestion, the husband leaves his little flock in seclusion and boldly applies for apartments in an imposing looking house. He is questioned and answers that his family consists of himself and wife. The landlord is eager to have him for a tenant and arrangements are made on the spot. The family moves in. The father and mother pass inspection, but are worried. Barrels, boxes, hampers and, last of all a refrigerator are brought in by the truckmen. The door is hastily closed and from every receptacle a head pops out. The children emerge and are cautioned to be quiet. Noses are counted and after a search the baby is found in the icebox. The mother of the landlord is an invalid and is confined to a wheel chair. She is left in a room and the curtains catch fire. The children smell the smoke and effect a heroic rescue. The landlord discovers the children and is about to evict the family when he learns of the act of the volunteer fire company and decides to allow them to remain.
- Sammie Johnsin is reading a book about dogs. He goes to sleep and dreams that he is one. Many adventures happen to him, ending with a fight with a cat in which the feline has the best of it. Sammie wakes and decides that he does not care about being a dog after all.