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- The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- Maid Marian is represented in the cast as the daughter of Old Merwyn and it is at his house that the action begins. He introduces a rich gentleman as her prospective husband after displaying jewelry which the formal suitor has sent ahead with his declaration of love. Friar Tuck appears under the pretense of asking for alms and warns Marian that Robin is waiting at their meeting place. She manages to escape during a parley between her father and her future husband, Guy de Gisbourne, and keeps her appointment. She is discovered, however, and her angry father, backed up by the unheroic Guy, protests valiantly against the clandestine love-making, but formidable Robin is only amused. The bold outlaw is so careless about his personal safety that he eventually falls into an ambush prepared by Guy de Gisbourne, is captured and is bound to a tree while they set off in search of the Sheriff of Nottingham to obtain a formal warrant for Robin Hood's arrest. Marian hurries to where Little John is repairing swords at his forge and finds besides the brawny blacksmith Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale. As soon as these members of Robin Hood's band hear of their leader's plight they go to his rescue, free him and organize for revenge. Guy, meanwhile, repairs to the Sheriff of Nottingham's house, where he obtains the warrant he desires. He next visits Marian's father and uses his legal instrument to such advantage that he is promised the hand of the maid as soon as he arrests the outlaw. Guy gets busy. He sets out with a body of armed men expecting to find his prey tied to the tree, but is drawn into an ambush like that he prepared for Robin Hood. Robin and his men fall upon the invaders of their natural domain, drag them from their horses and bind them to the trees in the same manner as their leader had been treated. They then decide to capture the Sheriff. This bold plan fails when it is on the verge of success. The old gentleman wakes just in time to sound an alarm, which summons the guards and the entire band of outlaws is captured. Maid Marian effects a second rescue with greater difficulty, as Robin and his men had been incarcerated in a prison. She and a bunch of her pretty girl friends flirt with the sentinels and lure them away from their posts, while the outlaws scale the wall and descend to the other side by means of a rope secretly furnished for that purpose. The Sheriff now puts a price on Robin's head, while the latter buries himself deeper in the forest and gathers a powerful band of recruits. The second part opens at a wayside tavern near Nottingham. The Sheriff of Nottingham, Guy de Gisbourne, and Old Merwyn are in conspiracy, Friar Tuck watching them closely from another table while pretending to be drunk, and into this plotting comes a new character, a majestic stranger of formidable aspect. The newcomer is none other than Richard Coeur de Leon, the King himself, whose adventures are so entrancingly told by Sir Walter Scott. For some reason or another, not satisfactorily explained, the three gentlemen engaged in conspiring propose to capture the mysterious stranger. Without suspecting their evil devices the mysterious unknown seats himself and calls for refreshment. Friar Tuck draws near and warns the stranger. The latter secretly draws his sword and laughs at the idea of danger. Presently the Sheriff signals soldiers who are awaiting his call and they pour into the tavern. Their attack is directed against the stranger and some lively sword play follows. He backs up to the wall, cuts and thrusts in magnificent style and is materially aided by the monk. They do effective work, accomplishing marvels with their weapons, but are about to be overcome when Tuck draws the stranger away through a secret hiding-place and they seek safety in flight. The belligerent Friar conducts his new friend through the forest to the secret camp of the outlaw and there a great feast is prepared of venison and other game. Robin Hood gives up his own tent to the accommodation of the stranger when the latter retires for the night. Next day Robin and the unknown have a friendly bout with swords in which the famous outlaw is disarmed. He exclaims in amazement, "Only one man in all England could disarm me." "Who may that be?" asked the stranger. "Our Most Gracious King," replied Robin. Then Richard Coeur de Leon drops his long coat and exclaims: "I am the King!" This is Robin's opportunity. He and his band acclaim the monarch, while Richard the Lion-Hearted seems to enter into the spirit of their calling. When they depart on a secret mission, attired as monks, he gives them his sanction and bids them godspeed. They are on their way to abduct the beautiful Marian. Some lively adventures follow, but they get the girl and carry her away to their forest retreat, where she is wedded to her true lover by Friar Tuck. He performs the ceremony beneath the tree on whose trunk has been fashioned a cross made of daisies. All is not over. The persecutors are still busy. The Sheriff and Guy and Merwyn with all their soldiers appear at the wedding of Maid Marian and lay violent hands upon Robin. Now does the King advance and say, "Hold, that lady is Robin's wife!" In vain Merwyn urges that Marian is his daughter and that the King shall be informed of this indignity practiced upon his family. The monarch reveals his identity and orders Robin's men to clear his forest of the intruders, Sheriff and all. They do this with no reluctance and the play is over; virtue triumphs in the person of the noble lawbreaker, while vice, typified then as now by those who make and interpret the laws, is punished as it deserves.
- Here is a mirth-provoking farce of mistaken identities, of the sorrows which overtake a romantic young gentleman in search of a romantic young lady who is to prove her identity by wearing a white rose. It happens that on this particular day, white roses are popular! And thereby hangs the trouble.
- Johnson, a druggist, plies an illicit trade in cocaine and morphine, which he sells slyly over his drug counter to a selected clientele. In his richly furnished office the head of the Kurson Chemical Company counts the receipts from the Kurson Consumption Cure, a patent medicine which contains a large amount of morphine. He also sells morphine to Johnson and various other traffickers of the "dope" throughout the city. One of Johnson's patrons is an old woman who has spent her last cent for the drug and who is almost insane from the craving. Lucile, the beautiful daughter of Kurson, is greatly loved by James Young, a manly fellow who little suspects the source of his prospective father-in-law's income. Lucile is a patient sufferer of terrible headaches and while Young is calling on her they decide to visit the drug store for a remedy. While there the son of the drug victim enters and Young detects the passing of morphine. Denouncing the druggist, he and Lucile follow the boy to the wretched hovel, where they find the mother straggling in agony on the floor. Lucile picks up a bottle of the Kurson Consumption Cure and idly sniffing it gets her first smell of the intoxicating and fascinating drug. Young visits the police captain. The police are sent to arrest Johnson. Meanwhile the old woman, unable to obtain the morphine, dies. Young and Lucile, filled with pity for the boy, take him home. Meanwhile Johnson, deprived of his business, strikes upon a plan to conceal his morphine powders in an innocent-looking book, the leaves of which are cut out. Lucile has fallen in her temptation and becomes a confirmed drug victim. She takes it regularly, and her sister at length discovers the terrible truth. One night, unable to withstand her craving for morphine, she arises, and sneaking out makes for John's home to obtain the drug. The little fellow hears her and awaking slips out after his foster sister. He sees her enter the house and secure the drug. Returning home he tells the father what has happened. Young is summoned and securing a policeman, Johnson, the drug peddler, is arrested and brought to the police station. Meanwhile Lucile overcome by the insidious drug, falls in the street, where she is found by a policeman and brought to the same police station. Young snatches her as she falls to the bench and lifting back .her veil is heartbroken when he finds it is his sweetheart. A minute later she dies and Young after the first outbreak of grief swears to kill the man at whose door he can lay the crime. Johnson points dramatically to Mr. Kurson, who is entering the door, having been summoned by Young, and tells him, "There is your man." The revolver falls from the bereaved man's nervous hand and he falls across the body of Lucile as they lead the druggist to a cell.
- So then we shall have a portrait of boo'ful Snookums. Muvver says he's like dada. Dada says he's like muvver. Both agree he's the prettiest baby ever and should have a portrait painted. A famous painter is engaged. He is happy to paint their darling, but "Come, kitty, kitty, kitty." Snookums doesn't want a picture; he wants to pull its 'ittle tail. Snookums cries. They are distracted. A wild hunt for the elusive kitten takes place. The famous painter scrambles around under beds and bureaus and finally gets Snookums the kitten, but Snookums gets his goat. A battle royal between the most wonderful baby and its latest prize, and again a kitten hunt is in order. Another moment and the doting parents find themselves and their Snookums politely dismissed. Next moment the painter collapses in the arms of sympathetic friends and relates the indignities Snookums would heap on his exalted head.
- Mr. and Mrs. Consumer find that they have no food in the house. It is salary day, so they depart for the market which is a monopoly and presided over by a syndicate representing the goods they controlled. Their motto is "Our prices, all we can get." This syndicate is composed of kings, thus divided: Milk, butter and eggs, coal, bread, sugar, meat, clothing and tobacco. At this market there is a great gathering which finally thins out to the few who have enough money to satisfy the grasping kings. The various types of consumers buy or try to buy their necessities at exorbitant prices. The kings are greedy and cruel. Finally unable to bear these impositions, the people become impatient and resolve to do something to repair their wrongs. The kings have a reunion and make a mound of their bags of gold, which they worship. It is transformed into the God of Greed, around which they group and command the people to cease their complaints. A meeting of the discontented people is in progress when the painting of Justice comes to life and joining them, asks them to tell their complaints, and she, thoroughly aroused, issues an indictment for trial against the wicked Trust Kings. Uncle Sam executes the warrant much to the joy of the consumers. He repairs to the market where the Kings are having a Jubilee, arraigns them, calls upon the people to carry out the orders of Justice points to a sign which has changed to "Justice Triumphs at Last." The mob seizes the kings and hustles them off to the bar of Justice. The kings, handcuffed, are now arraigned before Justice Uncle Sam enters as the people's lawyer, and in a short time (with the overwhelming evidence of their rapacity), has the jury pronounce them guilty and sentenced to hard labor for life. The people destroy the God of Greed and now that prosperity returns a few weeks later give a jollification feast at Mr. Consumer's house. In the meantime, the guards lead the kings, in convict garb, to their labors which they do very lightly. They overcome their guards and escape. While the feast is at its height the kings repair to Consumer's house and like a lot of vultures attack Justice, drag her from the house and make her a prisoner. The noise disturbs the merry-makers; they go out to ascertain the cause, are horrified to find Justice gone. In the meantime the statue of the God of Greed has been reconstructed. The kings drag Justice before it and completely suffocate and obliterate her under bags of gold. The kings return to their thrones. The angry people rush on to see the old order of things re-established and can only show their sorrow and misery. Justice is seen behind the bars, handcuffed, awaiting deliverance. Mr. and Mrs. Consumer are at their table again hungry, all food gone. Uncle Sam appears they appeal to him, he leads them forth and pointing up, shows them the promise of the future. Old glory is seen waving and then Uncle Sam indicates that they may remedy matters by choosing from one of the presidential candidates of the different parties whose pictures are thrown upon the screen.
- Jack Martin leaves college to spend the holiday season with his mother and sister and at the same time to appoint the wedding day with his betrothed, Nellie Garland. Before reaching the house, he is induced by his college chums to enter a saloon, but his friend, Will Lansing, objects strongly to the proceedings and finally manages to get Jack away from them, by reminding them of the telegram from Nell. The drinks affect Jack's head, and Will sees him home and tries to smooth over matters, by offering an excuse to the astonished ladies for Jack's befuddled condition. The latter, instead of partaking of supper which his mother prepared, drops his head on the table and falls asleep. We next find Jack again in the saloon surrounded by his chums and in such a noisy state of intoxication that he is ejected from the place. From there, he and his companions enter one of the so-called lobster palaces, where he finds his sweetheart Nell, seated at a table, smoking a cigarette and drinking with his friend Will. Nell laughingly taunts him by blowing smoke in his face and throwing her arms lovingly around Will's neck. This so enrages him, that he draws a long hat pin from Nell's hat and is about to attack Will, when the latter steps aside and the thrust is received by the girl who falls stabbed to the heart. Jack is imprisoned, tried by a jury and sentenced to death. The next and final scene is the living-room again in Jack's home. He wakes with a start, lifts his head from the table and finds his dear Nell and his friend Will together with his mother and sister at his side, realizes it was all horrible dream and promises never to use liquor again.
- Jim Brock, a reckless, self-indulgent, but kind-hearted youth, through the jealous machinations of his younger brother, is driven from home by his father. The seriousness of the breach with his parents, to whom he is really devoted, brings the young prodigal to his senses. His years of exile turn out to be his making. In the meantime, the younger brother, now absolute master of the situation at home, has thrown off all disguises and appears in his true character of the successful and undutiful son who is ashamed of his aged parents. At his hands, and at those of his equally domineering wife, the old folks learn how sharper than a serpent's tooth is the ingratitude of a thankless child. Matters have approached their crisis when the Black Sheep returns unexpectedly. He has amassed immense wealth and with this potent weapon, he resolves to fight his upstart brother and strike him where the blow may prove most effective. The two brothers meet on the floor of the Stock Exchange. It is a death grapple. The ingrate, Henry, emerges from it crushed and ruined. The very home where he has lorded it so insolently passes into the hands of the avenger. Jim loses no time in putting the house in order.
- Here is the heart-rending narrative of Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, and his strenuous courtship, the quilting bee, the village dance, the bragging of Ichabod and the true love of Katrina and Brown Bones, and finally the merry prank by which Ichabod is pursued by the Headless Horseman with a pumpkin lantern in his hand.
- The Raven photo-poem tells the sad romance of Edgar Allan Poe, his beautiful, dying wife, and their bitter life of struggle for the recognition of genius. The poem is interpreted by the all-seeing eye of the camera and the success of the poet, in his great inspiration, is shown with beautiful scenic effects and a magnificently staged production exceeding our past successes.
- Pompous Mr. Bailey was a type known the whole world over. Plenty would he spend downtown, but not a cent would he leave at home. Mrs. Bailey wants a dress. Mr. Bailey says "no." Many are the schemes women can concoct when they want a dress. She makes Bailey believe she has gone to her mother after engaging an old colored mammy to care for the home. But the colored mammy is none other than Mrs. Bailey herself. With the aid of a cousin who is an actress she blackens up and pretends to be both deaf and dumb. Bailey plans great sport now that she's away. He has a poker party. The colored mammy beckons him aside and writes him a note which says, "I'll tell your wife." Bailey slips a bill in her hand. So follow many little blackmails of a comical turn until he comes home with a troop of actors and actresses. Jealousy gets the better of her and, with a broom and duster, she routes them all, and makes known to Bailey her mistaken whereabouts. The tables now are turned, for her bribes have amounted to the cost of an entire wardrobe. Bailey is reformed.
- What could afford a better foundation for a delightfully humorous picture tale than a lovable, vigorous specimen of budding girlhood, out for a lark, bundled up in male attire and chaperoned by a doting uncle with boyish tendencies? Her experiences at a fashionable club, on the golf links and other places rarely frequented by women, offer many laughable situations. Naturally there's a love plot attached in which the girl figures triumphantly. Exquisite photographic value is apparent in every scene, while the production, as a whole, is a delightful remedy for brain-fagged, over-worked mortals who tire of the grind and long for an excuse for laughter to brighten their weary souls.
- Dora, a pretty milliner, longs to own an Easter bonnet for sale in the shop where she works. Agnes Brown, a haughty heiress, buys it, however, and the milliner makes a duplicate, to wear, while the other is sent to the wrong house. She is accused of theft, and it is in the extrication of the poor girl from her troubles by Jack Barlow, a wealthy young lawyer, engaged to Agnes that the romance develops. It is the story of a rich girl who loses her sweetheart by her disdainfulness and conceit.
- Old Mother Rigby, the village witch of a quaint New England settlement in colonial days, makes for herself a scarecrow, to protect her garden. She is so pleased with her work that she brings it to life, by making it smoke her magic pipe, telling the newly created man (whom she names "Lord Feathertop"), that as long as he breathes the tobacco smoke he will remain handsome and living. She sends the fine new gentleman to woo the Squire's daughter. At the wedding feast the girl learns the real nature of her suitor, by seeing his reflection in a mirror of truth. Lord Feathertop is really in love and he has seen for himself that he is only a "contraption" of ragged old clothes with sticks for legs and pumpkin for a head. He rushes home to the witch's house and declares that he cannot live without love. Breaking the pipe which has kept him alive, the magic ended, he falls to the floor as a scarecrow. The witch philosophically plants him in her garden, declaring that he will do more work for a scarecrow than most of his living brothers.
- Edward Curzon labors under the false impression that his wife has a strong affection for other men. One night Eleanor, the wife, receives a letter from her dissolute brother telling her that if he does not receive money from her that evening he will expose himself to her husband. Fearing nothing she goes into the garden, the suggested meeting place, and gives him the money. He is so pleased that he kisses her. This is seen by the husband. When he asks her for an explanation, she sternly refuses. The husband perceives a plan of revenge when he catches Al Bender, a burglar, in the library. For a large sum of money he has the burglar take away his little boy, Joe. When the wife observes the loss of Joe, she falls into a faint and the husband tells her that she will never see him again. Bender begins to gamble with the money he received from Curzon and when the poolroom is raided Bender escapes, but his runner, Frank Morton, is captured. Morton is later released and is trailed to the rendezvous of Bender, who is captured by the police. Before Bender is taken away he manages to give Morton a stunning blow on the head, knocking him unconscious. Coming to his senses he finds little Joe; he decides to adopt him and act as his father. Years later we find Joe a blossoming young schoolboy and his "father" a worthy quarryman. The father is badly injured by an untimely explosion and taken to a hospital. In order to support himself Joe sells newspapers. Back in the home of Edward Curzon, a young baby girl clung to her mother's skirts as she looked at the photograph of her long lost son. A telegram to his wife announcing the death of her brother revealed to Curzon the true state of affairs and he tried hard to make restitution. Shortly afterward Curzon, acting upon the confession made by Bender to a clergyman that his son could be found with a man named Morton, inserted an advertisement to the effect that information was wanted concerning Frank Morton. The ad caught the eye of Joe who, upon calling at the house given, found himself in the loving embraces of his real mother and father. When his other "daddy" was well again, he was taken into the Curzon household, and the little boy then had two fathers. Which was the better?
- Jeff Bransford, a wild and daring but manly cowboy, falls violently in love with Eleanor Hoffman, a pretty city girl who is visiting the Lakes. Young Herbert Lake, president of a local bank and an unscrupulous fellow, is also in love with the girl. To complicate matters, Johnny Dines, the good pal and firm friend of Jeff Bransford, has lost his heart to Eleanor also. A masquerade ball is given and on a dare from Eleanor, Jeff attends uninvited in a football costume. That same night Lake steals back to his bank from the masquerade party and steals a large sum of money which had been left in his care. To avoid suspicion and implicate Jeff, he places the football nose-guard, which the cowboy had worn, outside the safe. Making his exit, he encounters a watchman whom he shoots and mortally injures. Soon after the crime is discovered, the nose-guard is found. Jeff is accused and brought to trial. In court his friends pave the way for an escape. He flees to the mountains. Johnny Dines and his friends set themselves to the task of clearing Bransford. Adventures follow. Jeff experiences many narrow escapes, but finally reaches the border disguised as an old miner. He is accompanied on this trip and aided by a strange young fellow who has proven to be a staunch friend. On separating with him at the border, Bransford gives him a miniature horse which Eleanor had given him some time before. Meanwhile Johnny and his pals have traced the crime to Lake. Dines brings the news to Jeff. To test Eleanor's love, Jeff returns disguised by a beard which he has grown. At a party given by Eleanor, he is to take part in the entertainment and shaves off his beard, substituting a false one. He appears in the football costume worn at the masquerade and Eleanor, thinking Jeff has returned, dresses in the clothes she wore when accompanying him to the border, for it was she who had disguised herself as a man in order to be with Bransford. Jeff is overjoyed at seeing the young fellow who had saved him; revelations come thick and fast and Jeff Bransford, his name cleared and possessed of a fortune which he has struck in the mines, claims the pretty city girl as his own.
- Mr. and Mrs. Brown leave for a reception and Willie is tucked in bed by his nurse, who tiptoes softly out, after extinguishing the lights. The little fellow, who has everything riches can buy, craves for human love and companionship, and after the nurse has gone he climbs from bed and sprawls himself in a rocker before the open grate, and proceeds to read his favorite book, meanwhile munching away at an apple. He is engaged thus when the bells ring, and tiptoeing downstairs, he opens the door to admit a poorly clad and shivering little girl, who is begging. Bringing her to his room the little fellow gets her some cake and milk, and then cuddles up by the chair in the fireplace, and proceeds to show her a picture which hangs on the wall, which is of his grandfather. He then tells her the story of the picture. He tells her that when his grandfather was a young man, back in the Colonial days, he was ordered by his general to go to Arrowhead Inn and steal the plans of the redcoats, who are there. His sweetheart, who is waiting on the officers, overhears them talking, and after letting him into the cellar, repeats the conversation. While they are talking he slips, and the officers, hearing a noise, rush down and capture him. They search the young soldier and tie him to a post, after which they return upstairs. Meanwhile his sweetheart returns, and after telling him her plans, dons his uniform and rides to the fort to tell them of the Britishers' plans. Arriving at the fort, she is held up by the sentry, but she refuses to tell her identity and is willing to be sentenced by them as a spy. At this moment her sweetheart, who has escaped, rides up and tells them the story of his being captured, and who the girl is. They are hailed as hero and heroine, and after the plans have been communicated to the general, they are given a wonderful dinner. At this point, the little fellow looks at the poor little girl and finds she has fallen asleep. He is just waking her when his parents come home from the reception, and he tells them about his little visitor. He asks them to please place her in his bed. and while he curls up in a big chair, the little girl goes peacefully off to sleep on the softest bed she has has ever known.
- Mr. Bodkens reads an account in the paper of different people receiving black-hand letters and warnings. To him it is a joke until one of his fellow clerks impresses on him the fact that they are really dangerous and mentions that even he, Bodkens, is liable to receive one. Bodkens is a trifle nervous when he arrives home. Finding an imprint of a black hand on his door does not help matters and added to this, when he and his wife and four friends sit down to dinner, the hand once more appears, this time on the tablecloth. The search for the owner of the hand and the finding of him, are amusingly shown and must be seen to be enjoyed.
- McDonald is incapacitated by a serious illness, and his little family is obliged to resort to the interest of a small deposit which they have in the bank. The invalid, with his wife Clara and their baby, was being entertained one day by a friend who, to the accompaniment of his bagpipe, was singing some native ballads. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan, while touring through Scotland in their automobile, are attracted by the plaintive Scotch airs and stop to listen. Clara draws the attention of the tourists who see in her a probable nurse for their child. They propose that she come with them to America, but the little woman does not wish to leave her husband and baby. The following day the McDonalds learn that the bank in which their savings were deposited has failed and that they are left destitute. At the same time, the tourists write to Clara and again propose that she go with them, offering the inducement of $300.00 a year if she consents. In their dire need Clara feels it her duty to accept and tearfully she parts from her husband and little one. Clara is in her new home and proves a conscientious nurse. One day the neighbor's children place a phonograph near the garden hedge, turn it on, and Clara, started, recognizes the familiar strains of "The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond." The children leave the phonograph for a while, and, Clara, leaning over the hedge, takes the instrument to her side of the garden. The children, returning, miss the phonograph and see Clara disappearing with it. They rush in and tell the story to their grandmother. Enraged, she immediately notifies the police and then hastens to inform Mr. and Mrs. Sloan that Clara is a thief. The police arrive in the meantime, and they all depart to the garden in search of the culprit. There the poor homesick little woman is listening to the strains of the old Scotch ballad. As the police make a move forward. Mrs. Sloan, recognizing the air, restrains them; her husband, too, understands, and they explain, That same evening Clara found in her room a beautiful, new phonograph, ready at all times to play for her the old song.
- The son of wealthy, aristocratic parents falls in love with the daughter of a self-made man. The girl pricks her face with a thorn from some roses and the youth puts a tiny piece of court plaster on the spot, which has the effect of a fascinating beauty spot. The youth proposes, asks the father for the girl's hand, and is informed that she can only marry a man who works. The youth answers several advertisements for help, but is not taken seriously. He has a fantastic dream of his sweetheart and myriads of beauty spots and conceives the notion of making beauty spots fashionable and going into business. He gets into all kinds of scrapes promoting the fashion, but finally succeeds and is taken into partnership with Dr. Grump's Toilet Specialties. With his partnership papers explanations are made to his sweetheart and her father, and he is forgiven and accepted. In the finale the colored maid appears, also in fashion, with a white beauty spot on her black face.
- A witch, upset with a man who yelled at her, places a curse on his box of matches that turns him into a skeleton.
- At a Hallow's Eve party at Baron Von Landshort's, the young people are peeling apples. They throw a long peeling over their shoulders, and the initial of the thrower's sweetheart Hilda's peeling forms V.A. Her father, the baron, tells how his daughter was betrothed when a little tot to the son of his old friend Van Altenberg. Naturally Hilda would like to know her betrothed, and at the suggestion of one of the girls consults a witch, who tells her, "When midnight tolls, look in the old mirror and you will see the picture of a young Hessian officer." Highly pleased, she hugs the mirror to her heart. In the meantime, young Van Altenberg, a disbanded Hessian officer, on the way to meet his fiancée of his infant days, Hilda Von Landshort, meets brother officer Herman at the inn. Journeying together they are attacked by "Skinners." Van Altenberg is mortally wounded. Dying, he begs his comrade to announce his death to Hilda. The Baron Von Landshort and family, including Hilda are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the young fiancé (whom they've never seen since childhood), to attend the betrothal feast. Herman arrives to impart the sad news, is mistaken for Von Altenberg, and is not permitted to explain, but is seated at Hilda's side as her long-expected fiancé. As the feast progresses, he finds Hilda very sweet, and falls desperately in love with her, and dares not disclose his real identity. The fact that the guests are so impressed with the baron's ghost story, gives him an idea of how he can withdraw discreetly, so he tells the baron he is awaited at the cathedral. After he leaves, the guests, horror-stricken, think him a spectre. Poor Hilda is heartbroken. A few days later Hilda fails to appear at morning prayers. Her aunt goes to call her and finds that the bird has flown, carried away by the spectre, her relatives think, and a letter to the baron, announcing Van Altenberg's death, two days ago. The baron is then sure he has entertained a spectre, and if his daughter has married him, "My goodness, my grandchildren will be spectres." Obsessed with this idea he even has visions of the spectres dancing around him. In the meantime, the eloping couple have come to their senses, and Herman leaves his wife to be chaperoned by a witch until he can smooth matters. The baron and his sisters are still bewailing the loss of Hilda when the servant announces the return of the elopers. "What, the spectre coming here?" "No," replies the servant, "A flesh and blood man." Hilda craves forgiveness. Her husband, not being a spectre, is forgiven, especially as the old baron feels assured that his grandchildren will not be spectres.
- A professor of psychology succeeds in photographing members of the spirit world with a special apparatus he has invented.
- The theme of this remarkable picture was taken from the Sermon on the Mount as found in the twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew. The parable of the Ten Virgins as told to the disciples by Our Lord forms the main story, while the allegorical interpretation of The Lord's Prayer forms a masterful closing. While Jesus and the twelve disciples were journeying from Jerusalem they became fatigued and seated themselves by the road side. In answer to the request of Andrew to tell them of His Kingdom, The Master related the parable of the Ten Virgins. These ten maidens were invited to a wedding feast. Five of them were wise, and took with them oil for their lamps so that they might light the bridegroom on his way. Five of them were foolish and did not want to be disturbed and bothered in their play by having the oil for their lamps, so therefore, took none with them. The five wise virgins waited patiently for the coming of the bridegroom, but the foolish ones indulged in childish and silly pleasures. When, at midnight, the bridegroom came, the five wise ones trimmed their lamps and went out to meet him. Then the foolish virgins realized that they had no oil for their lamps and endeavored to borrow some from the other maidens. These would not loan it to them, and told them to go to those who sold and buy for themselves. While the foolish ones were gone for their oil the bridegroom came and the five wise virgins went in with him to the wedding feast and the door was closed. When the others came out and asked to be let in the bridegroom sent back word that he knew them not. After this parable was finished Andrew asked The Master what must be done to win The Kingdom of Heaven. The Redeemer answered that we must have faith and pray. Then he related The Lord's Prayer, which is shown in the film by a series of beautiful tableaux as follows: Our Father Which Art In Heaven: On the Highway of Life the Human Family is on the march towards the Goal of Eternal Life and The Kingdom of Heaven. When burdens weigh heavily on their shoulders and they are almost overcome by their struggles they clasp their hands in prayer and with eyes raised to The Almighty, they gain comfort and strength from The Father. Hallowed Be Thy Name: "Go ye into all lands and preach My Gospel," was the command of the Saviour to the Twelve Disciples. No matter how hard or difficult was the road that they had to travel, no matter what tortures and martyrdom they endured the Faithful obeyed the commands of The Master and taught the' teachings of Jesus Christ to all peoples. Thy Kingdom Come: The tortures and the persecutions of Rome could not deter the early Christians from their teaching of The Word. Dying in the arena, burning at the stake or being crucified by their enemies, they bore their sufferings patiently, and never for a moment forgot the example of The Lord, who said on The Cross, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Thy Will Be Done On Earth As It Is In Heaven: What more supreme sorrow could a mother have than to see her first born taken from her by the hand of Death? Still, she murmurs, "Thy will be done." Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: How much lighter is our toll and our labors when we know that Our Father is watching over his people all the time. The hard working tiller of the fields raises his hands to Heaven in thanksgiving at his great bounties and whispers. "I thank Thee," And Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us: When the poor rebel at their hard lot and demand their rights from the rich, the oppressors can turn the hatred of the downtrodden into great love and devotion, if they will but remember "The greatest grace of God is Charity." Lead Us Not Into Temptation: The strongest men are like unto little children when temptation is placed in their way. It is so easy to fall that we need the strong arm of The Father and The Son to guide us over the rough places or else, what does our worldly and physical power gain us? And after Jesus had finished these words to the disciples he then added, "This is the prayer ye must teach unto men, if ye wish them to know the Kingdom of My Father." -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- George Howard, secretary to one of America's officials responsible for the treaty between Great Britain and the United States, was a handsome fellow, well-liked by his colleagues, but George Howard did not possess the most sturdy character in the world and when the opportunity presented itself to clean up a fortune by betraying the contents of this new treaty Howard took advantage of it. Shortly after the disappearance of George Howard, it is discovered that the treaty already spoken of had been copied. Feeling that improper eyes might fall upon it, both governments concerned were highly agitated. John Steel, one of the cleverest of the United States secret service agents, was immediately placed on the case. Meanwhile Donna Inex, a spy in the diplomatic service of Mexico, has read of the theft of the important papers and realized that it would be a feather in her cap if she could obtain possession of same. Later she managed to make the acquaintance of our weak-willed young Secretary Howard. It is little trouble for her to learn where the treasured paper is hidden. She disguises herself as a scrubwoman to search it out. However, Howard surprises her in the act. Donna ostensibly joins with him. She pretends love for the fugitive and further entraps him in a note asking him to meet her in Tucson, Arizona, with the treaty. Meanwhile Steel, the secret service agent of the United States, has closely followed the trail of Howard and the Mexican woman. Yet he has failed to locate the paper which is his real mission. The girl. Donna, joins her lover, Pedro, and as one of the members of a wagon train going to Tucson, she is able to avert suspicion. Howard wires her that he will join her on Wednesday with the treaty. Steel learns of the plan and at the proper moment makes his identity known and saves the young secretary from a lasting disgrace. The contempt of Donna stings young Howard into a realization as to the extent of his disloyalty. He determines to return to the United States to stand trial for his crime. The secret treaty is returned to the United States government with the assurance that no eyes but Steel's and Howard's has ever read its lines.
- Unfortunate circumstances compel mother and daughter to give up their home and take lodgings in the poorer quarters. In order to keep them from absolute penury, Helen answers an advertisement for a maid, inserted by Mrs. Gray and secures a position. Her beauty and refinement attracts Fred, who falls desperately in love. Helen returns the affection and they succeed in keeping their secret from Fred's parents for a short time. They are discovered, however, and Helen is discharged, while another advertisement proclaims the need of a new maid, this time it specifies that a "middle-aged woman" is wanted. Fred finds a way to arrange matters and finally persuades Helen to assist him in his novel plan. Just how well they succeed is too good to tell here.
- Marius Capistrol had always expected a big legacy when his aunt died but was greatly disappointed when he received nothing but an old clock. In order to raise enough money to pay the interest on the mortgage of his little farm, Marius offers to sell some of his furniture to a wealthy neighbor farmer, named Mathias. But Mathias did not want any of the furniture except the old clock, which Marius was loathe to give away, having become much attached to it. One day Marius receives a letter from a notary in a distant town saying that a relative in Java had died and left him his entire fortune. He shows the letter to Mathias and asks him to advance him enough money to go to the city and back. Mathias gives him the money with the stipulation that should he fail to pay him back within twenty-four hours, the old clock would revert to him. In the city Marius finds that he must wait two hours for the notary. During that time he goes out and buys many valuable things, all of which is to be paid for at 5 o'clock at the Golden Hen Hotel. When he meets the notary he is informed that there was a mistake in reading the legatee's name, and Marius has to return all the purchases he has made. He arrives home just as Mathias is taking the clock from the wall. He attacks the old farmer and in the struggle the clock falls to the ground, disclosing a large number of bank bills and gold. Marius pays the old farmer what he owes him, and he and his wife settle down to a long life of happiness.
- And now our funny little friend, Snookums, has started real trouble for his poor Dada. A few of the neighbors and Dada were having a nice quiet little game when the door-bell rang and when Snookums' beautiful mother went to the door, she found the minister. Well, the "gang" made a hurried attempt to hide things, and the chips, cards, etc., were stuffed under the couch, before the Reverend Sir was admitted. Dada and his friends then tried to keep the minister's attention concentrated on other things, and planned to get rid of him before he suspected anything. But poor little Snookums was rather inquisitive about this hurried hiding of those nice little chips and so he secured the minister's hat and proceeded to dig out the chips from under the couch and fill the hat with them. When the minister finally decided to go, to the great relief of everyone, the big scandal came out. When he lifted his high hat to place it on his head, there was a shower of little white, blue and red "chips" that told their own story.
- Tim Clancy was a politician. He was a contractor incidentally. He wanted and secured, by breaking down a good man's moral code, the contract to build the new city water system. Specifications called for the best. He put in the cheapest. The impairing of the city's health was the result. But Tim Clancy pays for this piece of crookedness, pays dearly. Also the poor victim suffered. And it is all worked into a story of heart interest, action and a forceful climax. To the end of securing the contract for the city's new filtering plant and water works, Tim Clancy instructs his confederate, Warren, to offer a bribe to George Austen, an upright young office holder who handles the bids. Austen, who is married and has a child, throws Warren out at the mere suggestion of a bribe. Clancy searches around for other means to reach Austen. He learns that Austen's wife is a "climber," ambitious and longs for an automobile. Through him a local automobile company visits Mrs. Austen and interests her in one of their machines. In time she prevails upon her husband to buy the car. In order to meet the payment Austen accepts the bribe and awards the contract to Clancy. Time passes. Through the cheap work and grafting done in the erection of the filtering plant, an epidemic of typhoid fever seizes the city. Orders are issued to drink only bottled waters. The poor suffer as a result of this. Austen is panic-stricken and his cup of bitterness is added to when his child drinks the city water and is stricken. Meanwhile Clancy's automobile has run down a child and his daughter, who has fainted, drinks some of the polluted water. Austen's child recovers, but is left blind to the vain mother and weak-willed father as their punishment. Clancy's daughter dies and the grafter realizes, only too late, that his dishonest methods have brought the hand of punishment heavily upon his head.
- The children of Joshua Hamilton, a man of sixty, are afraid of his marrying again. They keep a close watch on him, but be escapes on several occasions, and gets in the company of ladies. Always sure to arrive on the scene, however, he is tormented by their surveillance. He gets a letter from a sister in the West, a woman the children have never seen. She tells him she is coming home for a visit. To get the best of his children, he proposes to meet her, and bring her home as his new wife. The plan works out all right and the children are filled with consternation. None of them, of course, will make up to the supposed new wife, and Mary, the daughter who lives with Joshua, leaves home. Joshua and his sister make love on the front porch, in daylight, and farther shock his children. But the worst comes when Joshua's sister receives a wire from her grown-up son, saying he will visit her. Joshua meets the man at the station, and proposes that he act the part of lover. The young man agrees, proceeds to the porch, makes love to his mother, is seen by Joshua's children, who are tickled to report the facts to their father. He appears to be very angry; rushes home, and accosts the couple on the porch. The sister and her son appear greatly frightened, and the children of Joshua enjoy the situation. Then the three conspirators explain the affair; the children are ashamed; and family equilibrium is at length restored.
- Webb Yeager was what the boys called "some" cowpuncher. He was McAllister's favorite foreman and the boys liked him as well as did the ranch owner. McAllister liked the way Webb gave orders and he also liked the way the boys obeyed his foreman. There was another admirer of Webb on the ranch and this McAllister did not like. When he learned that his daughter, Santa, was receiving attentions from Webb, he promptly told the foreman that he could either agree to stay away from the house, at least five miles out on the ranch, or quit the job. Following this, Webb and Santa arranged a code of signals by which the foreman could come to the house in McAllister's absence. Whenever Webb saw a heart with a cross inside, marked on anything from the ranch, he knew it to be a signal to meet Santa. One day Santa's father died suddenly and soon after Webb and Santa were married. But the new Mrs. Yeager had been in charge of the McAllister household so long that she couldn't get over being "boss," One day Webb ordered some cattle sold and Santa countermanded the order. Webb packed up and left. Months passed by until one day Webb, who was working as foreman on a neighboring ranch, sent to Santa to buy some steers. Before sending them, she marked a heart and cross on several. When the aggressive hubby saw that sign he thought it meant that Santa had given in and had decided to let him be boss. Webb galloped to the old home just as fast as his broncho would carry him. Leaping from his horse he ran up to Santa, who was in front of the house and asked if she was ready to admit that he was "boss." He received a real shock when Santa shook her head, "No." But then the little beauty took bold of the mystified Webb's arm and pulled him into the house. Here he found the new "boss" of the ranch. Can you guess who the new boss was?
- Two old businessmen quarrel over a deal, and when it is learned that their respective son and daughter are in love, there is strenuous objection on their part.
- Features a chronological parade of major events and battles of the American Revolution, with a side-plot emphasis on the emotional stress of a patriotic American girl, played by Dorothy Gibson) in love with an English army officer. She remains faithful to the cause of independence, and marries her sweetheart after the war.
- Mrs. Burt, a wealthy widow living in Philadelphia, still in mourning for her dead daughter, receives a letter from her brother Charles, who suggests that she visit her nieces who have never seen her, and see whether one of them will not come and live with her and take her daughter's place. Mrs. Burt makes the visit, but, in order to test her nieces, she conceals the fact that she is wealthy, and goes as a poor woman who must work for her living. The nieces having discharged their cook, decide that the poor aunt must take her place. On the arrival she is escorted to the kitchen and put to work. All the nieces, save one, treat their aunt with coldness and rudeness. The youngest niece is kind, thoughtful and affectionate, and takes the aunt's part on all occasions. After Mrs. Burt has learned all that is necessary, she disappears. Soon after the nieces receive a letter from Uncle Charles inviting them to accompany him to Philadelphia on a trip of pleasure and education, and to meet a dear friend of his. They arrive in the beautiful home of Mrs. Burt who, surrounded by her servants and dressed in elegant attire, greets them much to the mortification of the sisters who had treated her cruelly. Mrs. Burt invites Mabel, the youngest niece, to remain with her and take the place in her heart and home, made vacant by the death of her daughter. The others return to New York, sadder but wiser girls.
- "Old Man" Morgan is dead. The children are too late to say a last good-bye. Janie, who works in a store in New York; Jim, a taxi driver in Chicago; and Budd, a telegraph operator in Pittsburgh, arrive at the ranch. At first they find the place "dead slow" and the old woman, their mother, who speaks of simple things as they sit over the fire at night rather tiresome. They gradually begin to enjoy the healthy pleasures of the open free life of the west and compare it with their former lives in the city. Janie has had an apartment on Riverside Drive; Jim is marker in a billiard saloon, while Budd lives by taking any odd job that comes along. The boys go out shooting and return to a hearty meal cooked by mother, who has been teaching Janie how to cook. Janie finds that making a cake can be mighty interesting. They return at last to their respective cities, but the lure of the west and its freedom is on them. Janie starts to bake a cake but the man enters her apartment and laughs at her. She packs her bag and returns to the west for good. The gang plan a burglary. Budd is in on it. There is a fight. Budd enters the house alone and is surprised by a master crook whom he thinks is the owner. After a short fight between the two Budd leaves the man for dead and makes for the west. At the saloon in Chicago, the dive where Jim is employed, gets on his nerves and he tells his boss he intends to quit. Once again mother's children are all back again with her. Budd tells her of the affair in shooting. But a local paper copies a story of the shooting, and they learn that Budd's victim is not dead but under arrest for a series of the most daring robberies in the police records. Around the ranch fire reunited wanderers realize that "Home Sweet Home" is best place of all.
- "Silent Jim" was a trapper of the Northwest. Periodically he sought out a trading post, that he might exchange his furs for supplies. He never talked. On one of these visits the men sitting about the post chaffed him on his silence. He had refused liquor. Suddenly the trapper faced the men around the long wooden tables, police, trappers and idlers. "I came here from England to become a man," he told his hearers. "I, too, wore the uniform; they said I disgraced it. They took it away. I lost it because I loved a girl. I love her still." The scene dissolves. Jim is shown as a young man in the garb of the city. He meets Jacqueline and falls in love. There is a rival, a handsome half-breed, with a winning smile and a "way with the women." Baptiste brings to Jacqueline presents of handsome furs. There is no misunderstanding between the men; there is a very definite understanding. Jim receives his appointment to the Mounted and is congratulated by his friends. Scarcely has he received his equipment than he is ordered to bring in a murderer. He has seen two men struggling on a cliff. He finds the body of one at the base. Also he catches a glimpse of a fugitive. It is Baptiste. Jim follows the half-breed, right to the cabin of Jacqueline. The mounted man wastes no words. He takes Jacqueline from in front of a closet door and shoots through it. He pulls back the door. His quarry is not there. Baptiste has escaped as the door was opened. The closet had no wall on one side. Jim goes in pursuit. He is lured to quicksands, in which he sinks to his waist. Baptiste comes back to him and taunts him and invites him to shoot. Jim throws his pistol at him. Baptiste picks up the weapon and leaves Jim to his fate. Night falls. Jacqueline is asleep. The rays of the moon strike through the window and fall on her face. Baptiste has worried over the mounted man caught in the mire and determines to save him. With the aid of a pole he pulls the now unconscious Jim from the water, puts him on his back and starts for the cabin of Jacqueline. In the meantime the troopers have received instructions to bring in Baptiste, dead or alive, the daughter of the half-breed's Indian victim having brought in word of her father's murder. Baptiste takes Jim to the girl's cabin. Jacqueline is aroused and Jim is thrown on the bed under the window. Baptiste hears the approach of the troops and steps out. As he is making his escape he is discovered by the sergeant. The officer follows and is just about to shoot the fugitive, when Jacqueline picks up a gun and rushes to the window. Jim is now conscious and sits up. He sees the girl taking aim at his sergeant. He sees the sergeant aiming at the man who had drawn him from the mire. Jim takes the weapon from the girl. As the sergeant raises his pistol his arm drops. He has been shot in the hand. Other officers rush into the house. The rifle is in Jim's hand. The sergeant enters wounded. Jim is stripped of his equipment. Baptiste escapes. He returns for Jacqueline. Jim finds her ready to depart; he knows with whom she is going. There is a strong scene as the unsuccessful rival takes Jacqueline in his arms and kisses her. The girl is in doubt. She does not resist. It is love for one, pity for the other who saved "the" one, saved him for her. There is a twilight picture on a rocky summit. By the side of a campfire the outlaw stands with the girl he has won. The scene dissolves. "That's my story, boys," says Jim, simply. A gray-mustached trooper goes over to him and shows him a scar on his hand. It is the sergeant. They shake hands. Quietly Jim takes up his gun and departs. The eyes of all follow him. As we bid good-bye to Jim he is kneeling on a hillside. He reaches into his kit and draws out a bit of hair-ribbon, a relic he had found in Jacqueline's deserted cabin which he had preserved for twenty years.
- Father desires to smoke his pipe, but his daughters object, as they are expecting their sweethearts and don't wish to have the odor of the pipe in the room. Father makes room for his daughters' young men, but when the cook's sweetheart objects to his being in the kitchen that is the last straw and father goes on the warpath and at the end is comfortably seated in the parlor, very contentedly smoking his pipe.
- Little Clara Horton, "the Eclair Kid," is shown in the rainy-day pastime of cutting up paper into bits. Tiring of this, Clara throws a handful into the air. The pieces automatically gather toward a common center, and marshal themselves about into a toy aeroplane, which takes flights as easily as though controlled at the helm. As this fades, more bits thrown up by the child form into a box of colors which weave themselves into many pretty designs that culminate in the words, "You're welcome." It is still raining, so another handful transposes itself into a Japanese doll, which grows under your eyes limb by limb. Mme. Butterfly, as Clara calls the doll, grows smaller and smaller, until she disappears to a dot which suddenly assumes the form of a paper square. As you look, a gorgeous butterfly appears on this and flutters its wings gracefully. The scene fades back into the first picture of Little Clara, but she is now surrounded by the very toys you have seen, instead of the paper bits. She daintily throws "a million of kisses" to you in farewell.
- While a broken-down, gray-haired old fellow is silently sweeping snow in front of a prominent club, one of the club members decided to take him in to enliven the evening with a story of his life. After taking a drink the old man is induced to tell his life's story. The club scene fades out and the spectator is carried into the wilds of the Great Northwest when snow is on the ground and in the air. It was thirty years ago. While prospecting in a blinding snowstorm the man lost his way and with the map of a valuable strike clasped tightly in his hand he was buried in the snow. The man has a sweetheart who loves him much and fears for his safety. This girl is loved by Arcon, another miner. On the promise that she will marry him, Arcon starts out with his hunchback to find the missing man. They return with him more dead than alive, but not before stealing the map. The hunchback demands his share while the two men are in an adjoining room. Arcon binds and casts him into a closet and then forces the prospector's sweetheart to go away with him. She leaves a note saying that she loves another. When the miner recovers, he is told the story by the hunchback and in a frenzy of unbelief, he kills the cripple. Broken in spirit and with his life wrecked, he is sentenced to life imprisonment. After ten years of hard labor, a pardon comes. He makes his way from camp to camp, playing the piano and singing for a living, always with the purpose in his mind of killing the man who had wrecked his happiness. As the old man comes to this part of his story, one of the club members who had been most prominent in poking fun at him, starts violently. Turning around, the miner of former days sees standing before him, Arcon, now a prosperous and respected citizen. The shock of the meeting and his fright causes Arcon to be stricken with heart failure, but before he dies he places the hand of his daughter in that of the man whom he had wronged and tells her that the old and dying tramp is the only man her mother ever loved.
- Sancho presumes to love the ranch boss's daughter, Alice. He is fiercely jealous of her accepted lover, Jack, foreman of the ranch, and upbraids her for accepting Jack's attentions. Jack gives him an irrefutable argument with his fist and later in the day discharges the troublesome Greaser. Jack, on his way from town with the monthly payroll, is held up by the Greaser and a friend, who relieve him of the money and leave him tied helplessly to the back of his horse. Alice, who has been watching through a telescope, sees this and gives the alarm. A thrilling rescue follows. Sancho is pursued and shot, rolling from his horse down a precipice to his death in the river. Wedding bells are inevitable.
- The powerful story of a wife's innocent mistake and its bitter punishment, the rancor of a jealous, misguided husband and the ultimate righting of a great wrong to his son. It will bring tears and teach a beautiful lesson to every beholder.
- When Uncle Bill passed away in the little cabin out west, all his old comrades and friends mourned his death, especially his little pal, "Kid," whom he loved as his own child. Before he died, the old man entrusted to "Kid" the delivery of his will to his niece Kittie in New York. This will disinherits an ungrateful nephew and leaves the old man's wealth to the girl. The nephew, learning of his ill fortune, tries to marry Kittie and when she refuses, carries her off to the rendezvous of the "Silk Mask Band," where she is finally traced by "Kid" and his pal "Kit" who have reached New York with the will. By a clever ruse, the boy hero places a decoy and rescues Kittie, the Silk Mask Band escaping in an auto, which, owing to a disengaged brake, plunges into the Hudson river.
- Lon Anderson's wife was his beast of burden. Yet in his rough way he loved her. But life had dealt hardly with them both. When the easy-mannered McCann, the settlement loafer, offered to assist her in chopping the firewood, Anderson's wife was so completely amazed at the unwonted gallantry that she accepted. This innocent circumstances was the beginning of the husband's jealousy. One Saturday night he picked a quarrel with McCann at a saloon. He was carried home with a fractured leg. When the fever set in Anderson grew morose. His distorted imagination was prone to magnify the affair of McCann. To have a disabled man thrown upon her hands, which were already fully occupied with the care of a sick child, did not improve the wife's good temper. She reproached him. An angry word flashed from the fevered man's lips. "You can go to your friend McCann." Her brain awhirl with indignation, Lon Anderson's wife stumbled along the road towards the disreputable dance-hall where McCann "hung out." She would avenge the insult. She found McCann and almost threw herself into his arms with the cry, "I'm your gal, McCann, if you'll take me." Just then an abandoned wretch came from the dance-hall and sat down on the bench with her baby crying. As she ministered to the little one's needs the sodden face seemed transformed to a semblance of loveliness. Anderson's wife, seeing the age-old miracle, thought of her own sick child at home, and none but a disabled man to tend it. She broke from McCann and fled. When she reached the cabin, her arm hanging limp from the shot which the frustrated beast had fired, she found her man joining the little one's hands in prayer.
- Faith and her little sister were products of a large city. Their father was doing time and their mother was a victim of drink. Faith sold papers at the corner of the street so sometimes they ate. One day she came home tired and used to hearing her mother's shrill voice cursing, she wondered at the silence. She found her little sister crying in a tumbled heap on the floor while her mother lay dead. The children were alone. Faith led her little sister by the hand and together they stood at the corner selling papers. To the alley one day came the charity worker and to the children's room she came on her rounds. The charity worker moved by the case, intended reporting it to the authorities. Faith got some water and a bit of rag and after well scrubbing the face of her little sister scrubbed her own till it was sore, for the charity worker told them they must be clean to have God love them. Mr. Marbury's little girl was looking forward to her birthday. She was to be ten and preparations for her birthday were in progress. Out with her nurse, she insisted on running across the street. A great truck bore down on her and a moment later they pick her up, a twisted and mangled bit of humanity. To her father they took her and as he looked down on her the heart of him was heavy. Faith and her sister, their papers under their arms, determined to find God. Entering a large house, they see a crowd of well-satisfied men and women entering for a ball. Farther on they went and when they became tired sat down on the stoop of a mansion. Sleep overcome the tired little things, and Faith dreamed of a table spread with good things. Her mother was there but not a bit like she had been before, but very clean and quiet. Marbury was standing over the bed of his little girl. The child was dead. Marbury went downstairs and looked at the birthday party all ready for the little soul that had gone. Putting on his great coat he left the house. He came upon the two children huddled together asleep on the steps. He took Faith by the hand. She looked at him sleepily. He led them both into the room where the party is spread. Rubbing her eyes with her two hands. Faith looked at him long and said, "You'se God and them's the eats you give." He put them up to the table and watched them eat. From Faith he got their story, and calling his housekeeper, he bade her make a room ready for his two new little girls. Later the two children were tucked up in a warm bed.
- When Governor Beacroft lies at the point of death the doctors tell his daughter that the only hope is a blood transfusion. The daughter offers herself. The doctors refuse on account of the nervous condition she is in. She tells her fiancé that state of affairs, but he pleads a weak heart. During this time, a burglar is stealthily trying one of the rear windows. He is surprised by the police and takes refuge under the lattice-work of the porch. After a fruitless search the police leave. The burglar, emerging from his hiding place, opens a window and walks directly into the governor's daughter. At first she is terrified and then regaining her composure, moves toward the table to ring for one of the servants. The intruder pleads with her not to summon help, telling her that he has not done anything and that he will give her his life if she will but let him go. She hesitates and then struck by the worn and destitute appearance of the house breaker, accedes to his request. Meanwhile the police have struck the trail again and have entered the house. She pushes the burglar into the sick room and when the detectives enter, tells them that he is to be used in a blood transfusion to save the governor's life. The operation is performed. After the transfusion the intruder is placed in bed and when the doctor leaves him for a minute, he arises and secures a picture of the girl. Meanwhile, the girl's fiancé has called. The girl asks the doctor to examine him. The specialist tells her that her sweetheart is a perfect specimen of health. Hurt at his lack of courage, she bids him go. She asks the thief what his reward will be. He slowly shakes his head and asks nothing but to depart unmolested. He leaves the house with the picture tightly clasped under his coat, while the girl stands watching him from the window until he disappears from sight.