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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.