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- Workers in a pottery factory labor in unhealthy, unventilated and dangerous conditions, but the plant's wealthy owner doesn't see any need to change things. It's not long before one of his workers falls ill to tuberculosis, and soon the owner learns the meaning of the old adage, "What goes around comes around".
- A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
- Among New York's many municipal activities there is one whose importance is seldom realized by the average citizen, namely the United States Life-saver's work. Even the bootblacks at the Battery form a trained division and are ready to respond at a moment's notice to a call for their services. A typical rescue of this division is shown in the film. During the progress of the picture we also see how young girls are taught to swim in the Municipal Baths, and how they are trained to do rescue work. We are shown the work of the Life Guards at Coney Island and can well believe that, through their vigilance, many a bather is saved from the fatal effects of carelessness or over-confidence. In this connection views are shown at close range of different methods of rescue, showing how the drowning man is prevented from dragging his rescuer under water. The close of the picture shows the rescue work among the tide rips of Hell Gate.
- D'Artagan leaves home to seek his fortune. Armed with his father's sword and a letter to the Captain of the King's Musketeers, he rides forth boldly to face the world. At a wayside inn he arrives just in time to rescue a young woman from the clutches of several of the Cardinal's spies. He arrives in Paris shortly after and presents his letter to Captain de Treville of the Musketeers. Here he catches his first glimpse of the famous Three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and decides to fight his way into the Musketeers. In leaving, he runs into Athos, who berates him for his stupidity. This is more than he can bear, even from a Musketeer, and a duel is arranged for one o'clock at the rear of the convent. Hastily turning from Athos he comes into violent contact with Porthos, tearing his cloak from his shoulder and disclosing his ragged jerkin beneath. D'Artagnan bursts into violent laughter at this unexpected disclosure and is challenged to a duel at two o'clock at the convent grounds. Upon reaching the street he spies Aramis chatting with two musketeers and decides to join them, when he discovers that Aramis' foot is resting upon a beautiful lace handkerchief. Wishing to ingratiate himself in the good will of Aramis, he calls his attention to the handkerchief. Aramis denies ownership, but D'Artagnan insists that he saw him drop it and, picking it up, hands it to him. D'Artagnan is again soundly berated for his stupidity; the result is another challenge at three o'clock at the convent. D'Artagnan has lost so much time quarreling that he finds it now time for his first duel. He hurries to the convent only to find all three musketeers waiting. Hardly has he crossed swords with Athos, however, when a company of the Cardinal's guards appear and attempt to take them into custody for dueling. D'Artagnan volunteers to fight on their side and is gladly welcomed. The fight proves a glorious victory for the musketeers, who gather up the swords of their fallen enemies and march triumphantly from the field, arm in arm with D'Artagnan, their sworn friend. They are all brought before the king, but when he hears of the odds against them he not only rewards them, but promises to make D'Artagnan a Musketeer.
- Retelling of the famous incident in the 1854 Crimean War when a British cavalry unit, because of a mix-up in orders, charged an almost impregnable Russian artillery position and was decimated.
- We show Lord Nelson leaving the admiralty room where he makes his famous speech and then introduce him with his captains giving the details of that wonderful plan of attack which was carried out to the letter at Trafalgar, the inspirations of the captains and their enthusiastic toast. We are then carried along to the day before the battle when the men are writing their last letters home. Here a beautiful scenic and photographic effect is introduced as the vision of the sweetheart of one of the lieutenants fades into view. This gives an opportunity to introduce that famous episode of the letter in which Lord Nelson called back the mail ship for a single message and which is endeared to the hearts of all those who sail the sea. We are then carried along to the morning of October twenty-first, Eighteen Hundred and Five, when the fleet of the enemy is sighted. The decks are cleared for action and the hoisting of the colors is portrayed with all the solemnity of the occasion before entering the battle. The correct incident of the hoisting of the famous signal "England expects every man to do his duty" is splendidly portrayed and carried out in every detail, and we note the pathetic touch in Nelson's life in bidding farewell to his captains having at the time a presentiment of his own death. We now get to the little human touch in his life and learn the true character of the man, for, in his last entry in his diary before the battle, he makes peace with his maker. And now we come to that wonderful spectacular picture of the real battle of Trafalgar. We see the ships in action, the firing of the guns, the ships caught on fire and then the camera switches to a close view of the deck of the Victory where human life is sacrificed by the hundreds, the fighting top of the Redoubtable, the fatal shot and Nelson's fall. We then see that wonderful character in his death, the solemnity, the beauty and the pathos of it all being carried out by the Edison players in all its grandeur; his farewell to Captain Hardy, the last kiss, the news of the victory and finally his death.
- Jack tells two people, privately, on a blind date that each of them is hard of hearing and wacky hijinks ensue.
- Ralph Valentine and his father are musicians of proud and aristocratic ways and are so wrapped up in their art as to be oblivious of their poverty. Their faithful servant, Joseph, has been wont to withhold the threats of debtors from them, but there comes a time, shortly after the father's death, that Ralph must be told the truth. Joseph tells everything and suggests that Ralph accept money that he has saved and go to Paris, where he may show the world his art. Ralph does so and goes to live with the Gardins. His uncle Victor Valentine, wealthy and fond of gay life, invites him to live at his home provided he will leave behind his foolish dreams and fancies. Ralph refuses, preferring to remain where he is. He wins the love of Pauline Gardin and is quite content. Through his Bohemian acquaintances he meets Mme. Flora Margot. This tired, blasé young woman makes a pet of him and enraptured by her dazzling beauty he longs to satisfy her every desire. Attempting to do so, he becomes indebted to impatient creditors, who demand immediate payment or his arrest. Pauline, ignorant of his infatuation with Flora, assists him out of his present difficulties with her own savings. Realizing Flora's fast waning affection, he resolves to regain it by buying a certain antique necklace which he knows she covets. The antique dealer demands an exorbitant price which he is unable to pay. He is further disheartened when one day he finds her in the arms of his uncle, and he rushes forth intent upon suicide. About to throw himself into the river, a vision of Flora appears before him and he resolves to secure the necklace at any cost. The dealer of the antique shop is busy when he enters and Ralph wanders into a room where there are curios upon the walls and tables. Curiously examining the various articles, his hand suddenly touches a secret panel which springs back, revealing a marvelous painting of the Christ. A spiritual influence comes over him, so profound is its impression upon his mind. While awaiting the attendance of the dealer, he becomes greatly interested in a peculiar skin which has writing upon it in Sanskrit. Sitting down he becomes drowsy and falls asleep. The writing changes into English, which reads that the possessor of the skin has only to wish and his wish will be granted, but that with each desire the skin shall grow smaller and the days of the possessor grow less until death is the penalty at the last wish. The dealer approaches and Ralph is amazed to behold him now in the form of a devil. The devil asks if he desires the skin and Ralph, fearfully undecided, suddenly thinks of Flora and agrees to take it. What are his desires and his terrible anguish as the talisman grows smaller have been woven into a story of weird and mystic situations.
- A man is arrested while posing as a woman and is saved by suffragettes.
- D'Artagnan having discovered that the girl he has rescued on his way to Paris is none other than the Queen's confidante, Constance, loses little time in becoming better acquainted. The Queen has a secret love affair with the Duke of Buckingham and as a token of her love, she gives him a set of twelve diamond studs. Richelieu's spy, Milady, discovers this and at once reports it to the Cardinal. He sends Milady to steal the studs and persuades the King to give a state ball and ask the Queen to wear the diamond studs, which he does. As soon as she hears this request she writes a note to Buckingham, but finds she has no messenger whom she can trust. Here Constance comes to her aid. The Queen gives her the note and also her handkerchief as a token and she leaves to find D'Artagnan. He is not far away, so she tells him his mission, gives him the note and handkerchief and bids him God-speed. Richelieu's spy has overheard their plans and hurries to report the matter to the Cardinal. He sends the spy out on the road ahead of D'Artagnan with instructions to prevent his reaching Buckingham. D'Artagnan in the meantime has confided to his comrades that he is on a dangerous mission and all three decide to accompany him. The spy manages to leave D'Artagnan's three friends disabled, but our hero arrives safely at Calais, where he finds the port has been closed. Buckingham's boat is about to lift anchor. He forces the Captain of the port to have him rowed out to the ship, where he meets Buckingham and finds that Milady is also on board. Milady manages to cut off two of the diamond studs and hurrying out of the cabin jumps into D'Artagnan's boat, and is rowed ashore, realizing that Milady has taken them they hastily call for a boat to go ashore, but Milady has taken the last one, so there is no way but to swim. Taking two valuable studs from Buckingham to replace the stolen ones, D'Artagnan leaps through the port and swims ashore. He wins the race to Paris, arriving in time to have the two studs set and delivers the twelve intact to the Queen, who generously rewards him by giving him a valuable ring and also his heart's desire, Constance.
- Kimura, a drunk and a gambler, has no affection for his daughter Kiku-San, who falls in love with Dick Tower, an American college friend of her brother Okuma. After Suzuki, a geisha house proprietor, meets Kiku-San, he runs up Kimura's bill to such an exorbitant amount, that Kimura readily agrees to give him Kiku-San as payment. Seeing her peril, Tower and his friend Thompson rescue Kiku-San after fighting Suzuki and his patrons. Tower takes her to his home, and because this compromises her, they marry. Kiku-San and Tower are happy until his friends at the American Club snub them. Even Thompson encourages Tower to divorce her. After Tower meets Margaret, a wealthy American widow, he tires of being ostracized, and becomes cold to Kiku-San. Her sadness, conveyed to Okuma, causes him to threaten to kill Tower unless she refuses to go with him to America for Christmas. She does refuse, and Tower sails with Margaret, happy with the belief that Kiku-San wanted the separation, while Kiku-San sits in sorrow among cherry blossom trees.
- A young clerk, a small salary, a wife and child, the child long ill then the doctor's bill and other bills and debts accumulate; the advertisement in the news about borrowing money on your furniture at six per cent. Ah. That's the solution. I'll try it. Yes, he tried it and as the picture unfolds itself we see the clerk careworn and desperate borrowing twenty-five dollars from a loan shark, who compels him to return five of it for drawing up papers. At this the clerk remonstrates and shows the loan shark his own advertisement at six per cent. The shark snarls and snatches back the money, but the child is ill, what can he do but submit and take what he gets and sign that fatal card, which reads that he must pay forty-five dollars for tho loan of twenty-five. He signs it; he has to. Now comes with sickening regularity the dreaded monthly payments. He cannot always meet them, what then? Slowly they go, his watch, her brooch and last, the baby's ring. And next comes the "bawlerout." The clerk at his desk in a large office is told that a woman wishes to see him. She demands a payment, he can't comply, she raises her voice, threatens, heaps imprecations on him, she will not be silenced. The clerk is humiliated before the whole office and the manager discharges him. He plods home and breaks the news to his wife, who comforts him and bids him try again. The clerk succeeds in getting n new position and a kindly, sympathetic employer in whom he confides, when the "bawlerout" next appears. His employer takes him to a loan association, where anyone who is employed and in distress may borrow money at the legal rate of interest. Again, through his employer, the clerk meets the district attorney and tells him of the loan shark who is squeezing money from him, although he has already more than paid the debt. The district attorney investigates and intervenes just in time to prevent the ruffian from taking the very bed from under the clerk's sick child. He also compels him to give back all the usury interest he has received above six per cent.
- We have all seen the quaint, blue plates of Nankin ware, with their queer, formal decoration, known as "The Willow Pattern." Not so many of us are familiar with the beautiful old legend which explains the various figures in the pattern. Here it is: Li Chi of the almond eyes, Lived in China long ago. Daughter was she of the wise, Mandarin, Ching Ho. Spake the mandarin one day, "Chung Wang shall your husband be." Answered Li Chi, bravely, "Nay, None but Chang shall marry me." In her room above the stream, Ching Ho locked the poor Li Chi, Left her there to sit and dream, Till her love for Chang should die. But Li Chi refused to sit still and dream. She wrote a note, put it in a coconut shell and opened her window, "O kind river flowing there, Neath my casement," Li Chi sang, "Of thy mercy, deign to bear, This to mine own lover, Chang." The river granted Li Chi's prayer and carried the coconut to Chang's feet. He opened it and read the letter. "Heart's beloved, hear my call; Watch the graceful cherry tree; When its leaves begin to fall. Come, and I will fly with thee." Chang was a man of action. He shook the cherry tree and made its leaves fall. Then he hurried to Li Chi and saved her from her prison by means of a ladder. The lovers fled to the gardener's house. The angry Ching Ho pursued them, hut the kindly gardener saved them from him and sheltered them until they could sail to an island far out in the sea. On this island, Li Chi and Chang were very happy. But Ching Ho soon followed after to their island in the sea. Mirthless rose his cackling laughter. "Certain gifts I bring with me." "Certain gifts for this whose loving, Runs against Ching Ho's desire. I will cure them of their roving, With the soothing touch of fire." Then the cruel father set fire to their house. The lovers must have perished in the flames had not the gods loved them. But because the gods are always kind to lovers, they saved them from the fire and transformed them into a pair of snowy doves.
- In a succession of splendidly enacted scenes, we are led, step by step from the beginning of the dissatisfaction of the Indian troops at Lucknow. Finally the outbreak occurs and we are shown the night of May 12th, 1857, and just what occurred on that memorable evening at Lucknow. At the beginning of the mutiny we are shown the burning of the officers' houses, the news of the outbreak received by Sir Henry Lawrence and also the manner of Sir Henry Lawrence's death, his burial at night, midst shot and shell and, like Sir Thomas Moore. No useless coffin enclosed his breast. Nor sheet nor shroud rebound him, but he lay like a warrior taking his rest with his military cloak around him. Hospital scones are shown giving one an idea of the work that befell the women during the siege. General Havelock is also introduced and he is shown starting for the relief of Lucknow from Cawnpore. This all eventually leads up to that never-to-be-forgotten moment at Lucknow when hopes had deserted them and each moment they thought would be the last. Then comes the shrill notes of the bagpipes. And in the closing events we are shown the fight in the streets of Lucknow when General Havelock forced his way through those narrow lanes to the relief of those heroic men and women.
- Mary Wilson, an orphan, has inherited all of her father's money; when her unscrupulous lawyer, Samuel Kingman, tells her that all her investments have turned out badly and that she is ruined, she immediately suspects Kingman of dishonest dealings. She consults another lawyer and is told that she really has no redress. Mary is compelled to sell all her possessions and goes to a boarding-house. Then she starts out to look for employment. Unsuccessful and embittered, she is finally compelled to take a cheap room "with meals" in an East Side house. This house is the home of many noted underworld characters, and here Mary meets Dan Reedy. a crook, and Lilly, an all-around thief. One of the gang has, stolen jewelry and brings it to Dan, who is at the gambling den. The place is raided by the police. They help their leader to make his get-away. Hastening to the boarding house, Dan rushes into Mary's room and begs her to take the jewels out and pawn them for him. She objects, but finally agrees to help him. She passes the police at the door, pawns the jewels and returns just after the police have left. She eventually becomes one of the gang. Meanwhile Samuel Kingman's son Ralph, has been given a position of cashier. Although handling large sums of money each day, he draws only a moderate salary. One night Ralph meets Mary and Lilly, and Mary prevents Lilly from picking Ralph's pockets while in a semi-intoxicated state. This leads to further conversation, during which Mary discovers that the young man is the son of a man who has cheated her out of her fortune. She obtains her revenge upon Ralph's father by getting the son infatuated with her, and by having him steal a lot of money. Mary agrees to go with Ralph to South America when the shortage is discovered, but before boarding the boat, she tells him that she has forgotten something at home and leaves. Mary does not return to the ship and Ralph goes in search of her. He finds her in her apartment, and upbraids her. Mary then makes it known to Ralph that, with the aid of her lawyer, she will make good his shortage, and shows him papers to this effect. Being in love with Mary, Ralph proposes. Mary does not love him, and tells him so. She is later confronted by Dan, who pleads his love for her. Having been impressed by his manliness, she consents, and together they seek "the way back" to upright living.
- The small son of wealthy young parents is left to the care of a governess while the father and mother enjoy themselves. One day in the park, a little mischief entices the boy away from his governess and after a long walk they arrive at the foot of the Palisades, and take off their shoes and stockings to go in wading. On the top of the cliff above them, workmen are engaged in some blasting, and while the children are playing they are suddenly startled by a cry from above. Looking up they see a huge boulder dislodged and rolling down the declivity toward them. Not being used to action, the boy hesitates, but only for a second; then the real spirit of the man within him awakens and he dashes forward, pulling the little girl aside just in time to save her from the huge boulder, which dashes over the spot where she had stood a half-second before. The boy delivers her safely to her father and starts to leave, but she tells her father what happened during their walk. The man takes the boy home to his parents. The little girl's father tells what the boy really did, and for the first time the parents realize that here is a son worth having.
- The eighteenth day of April, 1775, still lives in the hearts of all loyal Americans, as the birthday of our country. It was the day the first shots were fired against the British at Lexington. Throughout the years of privation and suffering which followed, that same spirit of the "minute men" endured up to the very last, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army on the nineteenth day of October, 1781, American independence was assured. Of all the characters of our Revolutionary period, none is more endeared to all than that of Paul Revere, whose exploit has been immortalized by Longfellow so effectively that the lines of the poem and the incidents portrayed are graven more deeply, perhaps, upon the average American mind than any other character or exploit of our American history. When Revere learned of the British commander's intention of attacking the patriot's base of supplies in Concord, and told his friend to, "Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the North Church tower as a signal light." He little realized that the tiny light would serve as a beacon of liberty for future generations but so it has proven and we follow him today as he clattered along the country-side rousing the men to fight for their life and our liberty and our pulses beat with each stride of the mount.
- When old Bill Mason left his home to join the Continental Army, he left his daughter, Margaret, in the care of Mrs. Lane, a neighbor. Mrs. Lane was something of a shrew, and poor Margaret, who missed her father terribly, soon found her life unbearable. After she had home Mrs. Lane's tyranny as long as she could, she decided to run away and find her father. With the aid of her playmate, Jack, Margaret procured a suit of boy's clothes and a drum. One afternoon, she put on the clothes, took the drum, and stole silently away. After a long, weary tramp, she at length arrived at a camp of Revolutionary soldiers, and enlisted as a drummer boy. The rough soldiers, disgusted with the effeminate characteristics of their comrade, christened the supposed boy "Molly." But Molly had a chance to prove her mettle a few weeks after her arrival in camp when Washington, hard pressed by the pursuing British, called for volunteers to remain behind and keep the fires burning while the army stole away. Molly stayed with the men, and beat her drum to give the British the impression that the army was still in camp. Washington's army escaped, and the British, occupying the camp in the early morning, found only dying camp fires. Molly, escaping through the British lines, came across her father on sentry duty. Mason, a weakling and a drunkard, had deserted to the British army. Captain Morley, of the English army, making the rounds, found Mason in conversation with Molly. Fearing treachery, he fired. Mason was killed, but Molly, wounded in the arm, escaped. The next morning, when she was again attempting to escape through the lines, after a night in the woods, she met Morley a second time. He drew his pistol, but this time Molly was a little quicker, and Morley dropped with a bullet through his heart. After many vicissitudes, Molly at last arrived in the American camp, where she fell into the care of kindly surgeon Bell. Discovering that his patient was a girl, he had her removed to his mother's home, but not until Molly, wearing her uniform for the last time, had received an honorable discharge and the public thanks of her great chief, Washington. When Molly was perfectly well, the good doctor took her hack to her old home, and brought Jack, her old friend, back to live with them.
- A monk tells a tale about a woman who can only surrender her heart to a man who can offer her jewels. A poor man falls in love with her and steals jewels off a statue of the Madonna to give to her.
- All I Need Is You is the sixth song on Rob Cantor's album Not a Trampoline. The music video was directed by Randall Maxwell, and features cameos from Ross Federman and Bora Karaca.
- Winsome Winnie is besought by the Particular Young Man to go motoring with him and declining the invitation in order to help in the Charity Bazaar at the Armory. He goes with her, and the other girls decorate the booth. The other girls discover Winnie talking to a prepossessing looking man and they are highly incensed that while they work she flirts. But, when we look closely and see what Winnie is saying to the gentleman, we find that her smile has conquered the individual and he suddenly appears before the booth and makes the announcement that although he is the busiest man in the room, he intends to do all of the decoration for them because Winnie has smiled upon him. When the sale opens her smile makes the customers flock around the booth so that they are soon sold out and still there is money offered. Winnie offers to auction off a kiss. The bidding is fast and furious from everybody. Old Colonel Dare finally makes the highest bid and wins the kiss, but not until the "busiest man in the hall" has tried to put in his bid, offering his last ten dollar bill for it. The Colonel takes the kiss, pays one hundred dollars for it and then Winnie finds that her own particular young man does not approve of this proceeding and is more than put out. We see her conquering him as she has conquered everybody else by the winsome smile.
- When Rosita McMullen, of Silver Plume, Colorado, married Madison Lane, the Frio Kid attended the wedding celebration on Christmas Day, shot three men, and rode away after expressing the pleasant hope that on some future Christmas he might return, and present Madison with a neat little present in the shape of a few ounces of lead. Thereafter the Frio Kid embarked on a fervid career. Accompanied by the notorious Mexican Frank, he dynamited trains, shot bank messengers, and did other things incompatible with good citizenship. Throughout it all, he never forgot Madison Lane. One Christmas Day, three years later, the Frio Kid, riding up to a crossroads store at dusk, heard a man talking about a party to be held that night at Madison Lane's house. The reason the man was talking was because he had been chosen to appear as Santa Claus. The Kid rode back to his camp thoughtfully and confided an amiable little plan to Mexican Frank. The plan consisted simply in shooting the would-be Santa Claus, attiring himself in his garb, and then killing Madison Lane at a favorable opportunity. Now, some years before, Rosita had done Mexican Frank a great kindness, and the outlaw had never forgotten it. The party at the house was in full swing when Santa Claus arrived. After the presents had been distributed to the delighted children, Santa withdrew to an adjoining room with Lane. In a few moments he returned. "Mrs. Lane," he said, "I've left your Christmas present in the next room." Madison Lane was in the next room with arms and head sprawled on the table; no, not dead, asleep. When he awoke and kissed his wife, Mexican Frank appeared at the window, and blessed them silently. Meanwhile, the Frio Kid was lying out under the stars with a bullet through his heart.
- Becky, a child, is left an orphan by the death of her father and is consigned to the tender mercies of the Misses Pinkertons, who conduct a fashionable school for girls. Becky feels keenly the semi-charitable nature of her life, and, when kindly-hearted Amelia Sedley invites her home, she eagerly accepts. It is then that Becky, the child, becomes Becky, the adventuress, cold, calculating and selfish. With the entrance of Becky into the peaceful Sedley home comes misfortune. Sedley goes bankrupt. Old man Osborne promptly breaks the engagement between Amelia and his son, George. Becky lays her traps for Joseph Sedley, Amelia's brother, and nearly succeeds in her designs on that self-satisfied young man. Urged by his faithful friend, Captain Dobbin, George marries Amelia. This change throws Becky into new surroundings. She goes to Queen's Crawley and enters the most active sphere of her existence. Her adventures with old Pit Crawley, her marriage to Rawdon Crawley, their poverty Becky's flirtation with Lord Steyne and her subsequent separation from Rawdon, the Battle of Waterloo and the death of George Osborne are all faithfully portrayed incidents of Thackeray's novel.
- A halfwit sees a foreman kill the owner of a copper mine.
- George Steele had made all the money he possessed by his own efforts, and was proud of it. He was a plain man, and the son of plain people. The idea that anyone should be ashamed of him or any of his family had never for a moment occurred to him. When, by a stroke of luck, one of George's inventions began to pay him tremendous royalties, he was enabled to fulfill his dearest wish by marrying Marion Ashmead. When Marion discovered that George's mother smoked a pipe, she was greatly disgusted. Accustomed as she was to surroundings of delicacy and refinement, the plain, substantial crudities of the Steele home came to her as a distinct shock. So distasteful did it all seem that she began at once to beg George to buy a house more fitted to their new position in life. George readily complied with her wish. A couple of months later, they were safely installed in the new house. Old Mrs. Steele did not care for the change. The associations of the old home meant more to her than George could possibly have realized. Marion would not let her smoke her pipe in the new house, and in addition the young wife continually made the poor old woman feel that she was distinctly unwelcome. At last old Mrs. Steele crept quietly away one night, and went back to the old home. George's discovery of his mother's action led to a dramatic scene with Marion, which ended in George leaving his wife alone in the new house, and going home to his mother. After George left, Frank Reynolds, a life-long friend of Marion's, became very attractive to her. Under his influence, Marion gradually drifted back into the careless gay life of society. One night, during supper at a large dance, she lighted a cigarette. As she did so, a sudden remembrance flashed upon her of the cruel words with which she had reproached George's mother for smoking her pipe. After the dance, Reynolds kissed her. Filled with remorse, Marion returned home. As she reviewed her conduct of the past few weeks, a wave of homesickness and regret swept over her. Putting on her things, she hurried over to the old house. George was reading to his mother beside the fire. Sobbing, Marion flung herself into the kind old arms. "Mother," she cried, "I have come home."
- The first thing a bride and groom in the rural districts does after the ceremony is performed and the opportunity presents itself, is to have their photographs taken. Here we find Zeb and Cynthia going into a photograph gallery to engage the services of the artist. They are an exceedingly eccentric pair, both lacking all the elements that would make them attractive. In fact, they are just exactly the opposite and the moment the bride looks into the mirror to fix her hair it cracks into a dozen pieces. Her husband's attention is attracted by her to the catastrophe. Both are surprised and when their attention is attracted to the camera it runs around the room and finally exits precipitously. The photographer returns after a short absence, and to his dismay sees the damage that has been wrought by the couple's ugliness. He tries to run them out, but the bridegroom, being well supplied with money, readily offers to pay for the damage and all is well. The camera is again brought in, but refuses to stay, out it runs. The photographer brings it in again and nails it to the floor. This proves too much for the camera and it explodes. The enraged photographer insists on their leaving. His assistant then announces another customer to the dismayed photographer. In comes a very attractive young woman whose beauty is such that when she looks into the mirror it is immediately made whole, the camera becomes whole again, and the photographer is happy once more.
- In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with its noble lord, who chanced to pass by one fair day and there noble eyes met peasant meekness and love found work a-plenty to do. But maiden thought naught of my lord o' the manor, nor so much as gave him cause to hope that all his castles and lands could win her heart from the true peasant lad who had gone forth in the world to win humble living for his bride to be. It was then that Dame Poverty came knocking at the peasant's door and upon her heels crept a fever which held the young sister close within her breast only waiting for death to knock gently at the humble cot. And still no word from the loved one in a foreign land! Had he deserted his fond-hearted lassie? Weeks passed by and still no word nor sign of the one held most dear, and then my lord of Glenwood Keep came suing for her hand. On one side poverty, silence and perhaps death to her beloved sister, on the other riches, honor and life for her who needed it so much. If he would only write, her peasant lad. Little she knew that he lay ill raving with fever in a foreign hospital. And so the battle of poverty and riches was fought and her heart grew sick. In a few weeks Glenwood Keep had a new mistress in the maid of the peasant cot. Months later, worn and weary, a peasant boy wandered back to his own land to find the idol of his heart close within the gray walls of a rich man's mansion. Silently at night he stole into her chamber and there learned from her lips the sad story of her love and struggle. Ere they could part forever, the lord of the manor returned and the peasant boy gave up his life for the honor of the woman he loved. But ere the sun went down we find the lad and maid clasped at last in each other's arms, the kiss of death upon their brow.
- Jennie, a coquettish housemaid, flirts with the grocer's delivery boy and thereby incites the jealousy of her sweetheart, Frank, the butler. Frank goes to his station in the hall and, in his anger, tells the marble statue that is a part of the furnishings of the handsome home, that his sweetheart is as cold as the stone of which it is made. He quiets down, and as he is not very busy, soon becomes drowsy, and dreams that the statue comes to life and goes with him to a ball. While they are walking along the street, a policeman meets them and questions Frank. He gets frightened, they run and as they rush back into the hall, the statue falls and breaks into a thousand pieces. His sweetheart comes down the steps and wakes him up and tells him to answer the bell. Frank's surprise at seeing the statue whole is plainly shown and his delight that is has all been a dream causes him to make up with his sweetheart.
- Jimmy Carter, a millionaire, leading an idle, indulgent life, gets an urgent message from his friend, Reginald Travers. Travers, who is dying, has been ruined in the stock market by Mortimer Reynolds, and penniless, he leaves his little daughter in care of Carter, who promises faithfully to look after her. After the death of Travers, Carter takes Ruth to his luxurious home and gives her to the motherly care of Mrs. Jenkins, his housekeeper, Mortimer Reynolds, anxious to add Ruth to his list of unfortunates, instructs his mistress, Edna Morris, to make her acquaintance and to gain her confidence. Carter and Reynolds become bitter enemies because of Reynold's sarcastic reflections on the relationship between Carter and Ruth. As time passes, Ruth, by her winsomeness and innocence gradually changes Carter's mode of life. He no longer feels an interest in the gay life of former days, and even loses his taste for the morning nip. Unconsciously, Ruth is transforming his sympathetic dutiful interest in her to love. In a moment of ecstasy he crushes her in his arms. At the Charity Ball, where Ruth is taking part in a tableau, she meets Edna Morris. Fearful of Reynold's wrath should she fail, the unhappy girl works her way into the graces of Ruth. Carter sees this and immediately takes Ruth home, refusing to explain his conduct to her. Meeting Ruth in the park the following day, Edna denounces Carter for his action of the previous evening, "Why should he object to me, pray? Everybody knows that your father didn't leave you a penny, and that you are living on the, shall I say, generosity, of Mr. Carter." Stunned by the revelation that she is looked upon as Carter's mistress, the impetuous little girl rushes to the house, and in a burst of fury, screams her hatred of Carter. In the still of the night, she makes her way out of the house to Edna's apartment. It is here that Reynolds finds her. Impelled by a fiendish lust, he forces her to partake of his wines, and slowly they begin to work their effect. Carter, who, in desperation, has been searching for her, finds her in the apartment, stupefied and disheveled. Disgusted and heartsore, he looks upon her contemptuously and leaves, feeling that she has gone the way of Edna. Mrs. Morris, Edna's mother, prompted by a subconscious feeling that all is not well with her child, comes to the house from her little cottage in the country. She takes both penitents back home with her, hoping that they may forget and begin life anew. Meanwhile, Reynolds, whose financial affairs have taken a turn for the worse, and who is being sought by the police for forgery, attempts to make his escape. He is caught by the police and so made to pay for the misery and misfortune which he has brought upon others. Miserable and despairing because Carter has mistaken her, Ruth can find no peace. But Edna, she who has dragged her to darkness and degradation, succeeds in lifting her once more to the light of hope. The once impetuous Ruth is again folded in the arms of Carter, knowing that there only will she find eternal happiness and peace of soul.
- Characters from various nursery rhymes sing together.
- Young lord of Whitehall Manor, Sir Anthony Elliott, becomes secretly engaged to Elinore Vane, but she marries his brother Paul. Resentful Anthony, decides to go to America, Nina Desmond, whom he earlier rescued from a fall, asks to go with him, but he refuses. Nina overhears him also refuse Elinore, whom Paul mistreats. After Nina sees Elinore stab herself, she threatens to accuse Anthony of murder unless he takes her, but still he refuses. The morning after Anthony is sentenced to hang, he is found dead in his cell. Five years later, Paul, living with Nina in Monte Carlo, hopes to get money from the manor's new tenants, Mrs. Edgerton, a wealthy American, and her daughter Dolores. After Dolores sees a mysterious gondola, she discovers Anthony living in a secret room. He explains that while in jail his mother gave him a potion which made him appear dead. After Dolores tricks Nina into writing a confession, Anthony professes his love for Dolores.
- Lieutenant Adams, U.S.A., on special duty in Cuba in the fall of 1897 fell deeply in love with Alva Bellins, daughter of General Bellins of the Spanish army. Shortly after the war broke out in 1888, General Bellins was killed in action. Jose, his son, Alva's twin brother, was at his father's aide when he fell. Just before his death the general gave Jose important dispatches to be delivered to another division of the Spanish army. The death of his father paralyzed Jose with terror. A wild impulse for flight seized him and flinging to the winds all thoughts of the honor which had always been attached to the Bellins name, he fled from the field, crept to his home, divested himself of the uniform and put on civilian's clothes. Alva knocked on his door as he finished dressing. Ashamed to face her, Jose escaped by the window and Alva entering found the uniform and the dispatches General Bellins had given to Jose realizing the situation. Alva decided to return the honor her brother had forfeited. Accordingly she dressed herself in his uniform, placed the dispatches in an inside pocket and set out for the distant Spanish camp. On the way she was intercepted by American soldiers, fired at and seriously wounded. In a fainting condition she was taken before their commanding officer, Lieutenant Adams, who after continued questioning at length discovered her identity. Alva, feeling that her brother's honor was hopelessly lost, now that she had failed in her mission, fainted away. A moment later shots were heard outside and some time afterward the body of a Spaniard was brought into the tent. It was Jose. He had discovered his sister's sacrifice, and had taken the only means in his power to relieve her of her responsibility. With his arm about the weeping girl, Adams promised her that Jose should have a soldier's funeral and that the blot upon their name should be forgotten.
- We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with him for the cow and finally Jack consents to part with the animal for the wonderful beans which will grow up overnight until they reach the sky. He takes them to his mother, and, of course, she is heart-broken and throws the beans out of the window. The next morning the vine not only covers the window, but reaches far above the top of the house out of sight in the clouds, and we see Jack start to climb upward. Upon arriving at the giant's castle Jack meets the ogre's wife, who towers majestically above him, and after some parley is invited in, on his plea of hunger. Before he can be served the giant is heard and Jack is hidden in the kettle. The giant comes on and then follows the familiar scenes in which the ogre calls for his bags of gold, his magic harp and the wonderful hen that lays the golden eggs. While the giant dozes Jack takes first one of his treasures and then another and carries them to the top of the vine, where he throws them down toward the earth. But when he steals the harp the giant awakens, follows him and would probably catch him but for the good fairy, who, standing at the top of the vine, trips the giant and makes him lose his footing. Jack arrives safely at the bottom of the vine, shows his mother the treasures and then above them they hear the coming of the giant. Seizing an ax, Jack chops the vine and when it falls to the ground the giant tumbles after it, his immense head nearly filling the stage.
- Mr. Waters, the owner of a large woolen mill, is careless about having the fire exits kept clear. The factory inspector listens to Mr. Waters' promise to right matters and does not report the case. Tom Watts, an employee in the mill, breaks the rule which prohibits smoking. Thus the three are to blame. Tom Watts and Hilda Fox. another employee of the mill, are lovers with the wedding only one day off Tom carelessly throws the lighted match, with which he had lit his cigarette, into a pile of rubbish in the basement of the mill. The fire started gains headway so rapidly that Tom is barely able to make his escape up the now blazing stairway. Meanwhile the smoke has penetrated to all parts of the mill; the hundreds of employees are panic stricken and rush wildly for the fire exits, only to find them locked or cluttered with heavy boxes and bales which make them impractical for use. Tom comes upon a crowd of them at one of these doors, and hastily grabbing a fire axe, cuts a way for them through a partition. Upon escaping to the street he finds that Hilda is still in the mill which is now blazing from every window. In a series of thrilling episodes Tom finds the unconscious Hilda and carries her to the street, where he acknowledges his blame in setting the mill afire. The employees nearly mob him and he is driven out of the town. His name is heralded among other mill owners and he is unable to secure work. This, added to the fact that Hilda was badly crippled in the fire, drives him to contemplating suicide from which he is prevented by the timely arrival of Hilda with a letter from Waters in which he acknowledges his own blame as well as Tom's and invites Tom to return to the new factory, both having learned a needed lesson.
- Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Dr. Gilderbrand has a large and remunerative practice in the East Side. He is very soon to be married. The doctor is to give up his East Side practice and buy one in the country, where his fiancée lives. Sybil is impatiently waiting for the day when the doctor will go to her father's house for a short visit. There are, of course, frequent letters exchanged by the lovers. A day or so before the doctor proposes to leave the city for his visit his office is invaded by Bill Smart, a burglar, who asks, begs and implores the doctor to go and see his dying child. The doctor is impressed by the man's excitement and leaves his patients in charge of an assistant while he goes to Bill's home. There Bill and his wife are in despair over the child's condition. The doctor, with his calm, business-like manner, soon reassures them and sits by the child's bedside all night. In the morning the crisis has passed and the doctor prepares to leave. Bill offers him a fee, which he refuses, and he leaves them surprised and happy. The doctor, dismissing everything else from his mind, prepares for his visit to his sweetheart's home, taking with him his latest photograph as a present, Sybil meets him at the station and together they drive to her father's home. They have naturally much to talk about, and sit up quite late in Sybil's sitting room. The photograph is greatly admired and given a place of honor. It so happens that Bill Smart has selected Sybil's home for his next "haul," and soon after Sybil has retired and the doctor has made himself comfortable in the smoking room we see Bill lurking in the shadows of the house. He effects an entrance through the window of Sybil's sitting room, and after selecting a few valuable gold ornaments he sees the doctor's photograph. He at once remembers the face, and in his agitation he drops the photo. The noise brings Sybil to see what has happened, and at the sight of Bill she screams. The doctor hurries to her assistance and decides to call the police and have Bill arrested, but Sybil is so full of happiness that she cannot bear to see another suffer, so Bill is released. He is so impressed with the goodness of these two people that he decides to reform, and as a reward is taken into the doctor's house.
- "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all," has yet to be disputed with sincerity. No matter how calloused the criminal, at some time or other he has felt the vise-like grip of compunction and wished that he had followed in the path of rectitude. Probably after a few minutes or hours, or even days of unhappy recollection, he may fall back into his old ways again, but nevertheless he has experienced the feeling he has heard the dictate of that indescribable something inside and unconsciously he finds himself admitting his guilt. We are all casuists unknowingly at one time or other, and in this story the woman is suddenly brought to a realization of her wrongdoing while she awaits the arrival of her paramour so they can elope. Dr. Yorke, a famous surgeon, because of his medical obligations, is unable to spend much time in his wife's company. By force of circumstances he is obliged to refrain from attending the many social functions to which they are invited. His wife resents this and when Jack Cravin, Dr. Yorke's cousin, arrives at the Yorke home for a brief visit she soon becomes infatuated with him and they plan to elope. As they are in close embrace. Dr. Yorke appears at the doorway and overhears their plans. He withdraws and goes to the hospital in answer to an emergency call. At the hospital he reflects and pictures their happy wedding and the indications of a happy companionship. His meditations are interrupted by the entrance of an orderly, who tells him that everything is ready in the operating room. In the meantime, Helen leaves the house with her handbag and is seen waiting patiently at a small station for Cravin. Dr. Yorke happens to pass Cravin on the road in his automobile, and stopping him, orders him to go through with the scheme. The doctor lurks in the background as Cravin meets Helen. She has had a change of heart while waiting there and Dr. Yorke hears her tell Cravin to take her back to her husband. The doctor leaves quickly and is home when Helen arrives in all her humiliation. As if wholly unconscious of what had taken place, he listens to her story and then accepts her back into the fold.
- Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost everyone, and the young Katerina is whipped to death. Before escaping to England, her sister Darya swears to avenge her sister's death. Years later--now one of the world's most famous prima ballerinas--she returns to Russia. Turov falls in love with her and manages to secure a meeting. She coyly asks him to take her to see a prison first. As it turns out, what he has planned for her is nothing compared to what she has planned for him.
- The forerunner of all serials, "What Happened to Mary" was a series of 12 monthly one-reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action. Episode Titles (q.v.): #1: "The Escape from Bondage"; #2: "Alone in New York"; #3: "Mary in Stage Land"; #4: "The Affair at Raynor's"; #5: "A Letter to the Princess"; #6: "A Clue to Her Parentage"; #7: "False to Their Trust"; #8: "A Will and a Way"; #9: "A Way to the Underworld"; #10: "The High Tide of Misfortune"; #11: "A Race to New York"; #12: "Fortune Smiles."
- When Wood B. Wedd, almost at his wit's end to find a suitable wife, met Fanny Merrick, he fondly imagined that he had at last found the desired paragon of excellence to grace his hearth and home. What made it better was that Fanny listened with favorable ears to Wood B.'s suit. Her only condition seemed ridiculously easy. He must prove that he was capable of doing a good hard day's work on the farm. To make assurance doubly sure, Wood B. enlisted the aid of Darby Jenks in the fulfillment of his inamorata's desire. He did not let Fanny know anything about Darby. He merely brought that obliging young man out to the farm secretly, and allowed him to help him with the work. Neither Darby nor Wood B. were particularly well versed in farm affairs and consequently their path was not entirely one of roses. In one short day they discovered more about horses, cows, and bees than some people ever learn in a lifetime. Yet, in spite of the terrible experiences incident to his attempts to milking, gathering eggs, haying chasing pigs and the like, Wood B. felt very hopeful toward the end of the day. Darby was almost exhausted, but then, of course, Darby didn't count. The last task Fanny assigned to Wood B. was the chopping of a large pile of wood. Wood B. drove the tired Darby to the task, smiling to think of the effect his tremendous day's work would have on Fanny. Just as they were finishing up their job, however, Fanny came out and saw Darby. After she had finished telling Wood B. under just what further conditions she would accept him, there was nothing left for that unfortunate man but to call his faithful helper and slink home.
- Episode 1: "The Black Mask" John Perriton was unmistakably a good fellow. He was never one to spoil a party with a long face and an absence of joviality, nor was he at all likely to break up any sort of festivity by leaving early. A few people shook their heads gravely, and said that he was hitting the pace entirely too hard and that he would certainly kill himself if he didn't cut down on his liquor, but most of the world accepted him cordially on his own estimation as a man's man. Perriton loved Mary Wales almost as much as he loved himself, which is to say that he was not ready to settle down yet for her sake. Mary's brother Nelson, was a weak, helpless individual who was always in hot water. On the night of the masked ball, he came to Perriton, and asked him for help in one or two matters. He needed money very badly. To make matters worse, he had forged his sister's name to a check. The long and the short of the whole business was that Nelson must have $75,000 by the next morning. Perriton wrote an order on his bankers for $50,000, the entire extent of his depleted fortune, and drove Nelson to the station. But Nelson was not satisfied. He had to have the other $25,000. So he slipped off the train, came home by a short cut, put on his dancing mask and attempted to take his sister's jewels from her safe. He was surprised by the butler, and in the desperation of fear, killed the man. Immediately afterwards, Perriton arrived. Nelson, almost frenzied, begged him to put on the mask, and to pretend to be the criminal. No one would know who he was, and he would see that he got safely away. Perriton assented. His identity was discovered by Mary who, agonized at her discovery of the apparent character of the man she loved, forbade him even to think of her again, and allowed him to escape. Despite everything, Perriton kept silent, and allowing the woman he loved to think him the meanest type of criminal, went off into the night. Episode 2: "The Hunted Animal" In the first story of the series, John Perriton assumed the blame of a murder to save the brother of the girl he loved. We left him crossing Long Island Sound in a boat. He had but little headway. The police were on his trail. Before reaching the middle of the Sound, a detective put out from the opposite shore to intercept him. Perriton bent all efforts to escape. The detective fired and broke the wooden oarlock. Perriton pretended to be hit, fell overboard and swam beneath the surface, but McWade, the detective, was after him like a flash, and soon had him handcuffed. When they landed, McWade forced Perriton to walk in front up a steep slope. Perriton purposely slipped, fell on the detective, and both rolled to the bottom. Perriton escaped into the woods. After hours of wandering, he came to a railroad track. As Perriton watched, a man emerged from the bushes across the track, looked cautiously about, stuck a white flag in the ground, and disappeared. Shortly afterward a train passed. A young girl on the rear platform threw a bundle into the bushes near the flag. With desperate agility, Perriton seized the bundle and fled. Opening it, he discovered a suit of clothes and a note, which said the clothes were intended for an escaped convict. Full directions for the man's further guidance were clearly written out. Since the handcuffs prevented Perriton from putting on the clothes, he resolved on a desperate expedient. Hearing the approach of a train he laid the chain on the track, averted his face and waited. The train roared by and the links were crushed. Perriton put on the clothes, and for lack of a better plan, followed out the directions of the note. A bribed farmer cut off the handcuffs and carried him in a trunk to a tenement house, where a Chinaman received him. And here we leave Perriton until the next story. Episode 3: "The Double Cross" It will be remembered that John Perriton, after taking the blame of a murder to save the brother of the girl he loved, escaped to Long Island, and after a series of exciting adventures managed to evade the relentless pursuit on the part of the detective. By cleverly assuming the identity of another man, he managed to utilize preparations which had been made for the other's escape. The Chinese opium joint to which Perriton was finally brought proved to have disadvantages in addition to its obvious advantage as a haven of refuge. Before he had been there a week, Perriton was forced to join a band of criminals to avoid instant betrayal to the police. A foxy-eyed little lawyer named Lipmann, and a burly "strong-arm" man named "Biceps" were the chief agents in the present scheme of Perriton's new associates. The scheme was gorgeously simple. An advertisement was inserted in the newspapers to the effect that an heiress desired to meet a wealthy young farmer with matrimonial inclinations. The wealthy young farmer had already been found. It remained to arrange the details of taking his money away from him. According to the plan, Perriton was to act as the girl's brother. It was arranged that a letter should be sent to the man, directing him to come to the supposed home of his intended bride with a certified check as a proof of his wealth. The plan worked out beautifully. The young man called at the beautiful apartment which the gang had arranged, and was agreeably surprised by the appearance of the girl. Curiously enough, two things happened for which the gang had made no provision. For one thing, the girl fell in love with the man she was supposed to cheat. For another, Perriton had firmly resolved from the beginning that he would in some way upset the scheme. Owing largely to his endeavors, the girl confessed her duplicity to the young man, and was forgiven by him. To escape from "Biceps," who was waiting outside the door, the pair left the room by the fire escape. When "Biceps" rushed in and started shooting at the escaping couple, Perriton crept up behind him and knocked him unconscious. Then Perriton escaped by way of the dumb waiter. When the astounded police broke in they found nothing but the body of the "Biceps." Episode 4: "The Light on the Wall" When "John Pottle," fugitive from justice, helped Jennie and Harry Horn to escape from the band of criminals which was planning to get Harry's money by using Jennie as a lure, he did so in the fond hope that he would be able to severe his connection with the aforesaid criminals for good. But fate ruled otherwise. Jennie, discovering that Biceps, one of the leading spirits of the hand, had tracked her husband and herself to their refuge, implored John for help. John, trusting that Biceps had not yet found out who had been responsible for the knock-down blow which resulted in the escape of the pair, went directly to Lipmann, the lawyer who was the brains of the criminal organization, and told him that the reason for his absence from the meetings of the gang was on account of being obliged to hide from the vigilant police. Somewhat to John's surprise, Lipmann accepted his flimsy excuses without question. He told John that the gang had decided that Jennie must be punished for her double-dealing, and directed him to be present at a meeting to be held that night aboard a barge in the river. John, hoping to be of some service to Jennie, attended the meeting. His hopes were not realized to any large extent. He discovered that Lipmann had not been fooled at all by his excuses, and escaped from the barge only by besting Biceps in a terrible fight. The next day John found a notice in the personal column of a newspaper, signed with his name, directing Jennie to call at a certain address. Realizing that the notice was a trap for the girl, John hastened to the address mentioned. He arrived too late to save Jennie, and was captured himself in an attempt to rescue her. The two were securely bound and placed in a room on the top floor of the house. Here, they were suavely informed by Lipmann that they would be thrown into the river shortly after dark. By almost superhuman exertions, John succeeded in getting Jennie's handbag in his bound hands, and flashing sunlight into the eyes of a tailor across the street by means of the mirror on the bag. Rescued by the tailor, John and the girl hastened away to find some haven where they would be safe from their powerful enemies. Episode 5: "With His Hands" Through the help of Jennie, the girl he had saved from the hands of the gangsters, John Perriton was enabled to get a position as a riveter's helper in the construction company in which Jennie herself was employed. So Perriton, still under his alias of "John Pottle" entered upon new duties, which were as strenuous as they were unfamiliar. Shortly after Perriton's arrival at the works, a good deal of trouble was caused by the unwarrantable discharge of several of the employees. Recognizing John's intellectual superiority, the men chose him as a spokesman to express their grievances to their employers. Carter, the head of the works, was a hard unjust man with no regard whatever for the rights of the men working under him. When John courteously told him of the men's grievances, he cursed him roundly, and ordered him back to work. Realizing the power a man of John's type would gain among the men, Carter called a private detective, named Brownson, and ordered him to discover some pretext on which John might be discharged. He dared not discharge the man without any reason, because he knew that it would take very little in the existing state of discontent to precipitate a general strike. Brownson's scheme to ruin John Pottle was very simple. He took a piece of dynamite and put it in John's lunch basket. Then he complained to the police inspector that he suspected John of a plot to blow up part of the works. But Jennie, owing to her position in the company's office, had learned of the plot and managed to extract the stick of dynamite from the lunch basket. When John was seized and searched, no incriminating evidence of any sort was found upon him. Jennie told him of the plot, and John set out post-haste to interview Brownson. He found him on the top girder of the great building the company was constructing. Brownson attacked him with a hammer, and a fierce hand-to-hand conflict followed. Brownson was the stronger man, and gradually forced John over the edge. At last John lost his last finger-hold and fell. Brownson lost his balance and fell after him. Luckily enough, John was saved from Brownson' s fate by striking another girder. After he had been taken to the hospital, Jennie sent for Mary Wales, the girl for whose sake John had given up everything in life. But when Mary came to the hospital and saw Jennie bending tenderly above John, she did not understand, and went away without a word. Episode 6: "The Gap" While Perriton, alias "John Pottle'' was recovering from the injuries he had received in his life and death struggle with Brownson, the detective, Earle, the superintendent of the construction company, called to inquire after his injuries. While talking to Jennie, the girl Perriton had saved from the gang of criminals, Earle admitted that he could stand Carter, the president of the company, no longer. He went on to tell her that if he could find a partner with money, he would undertake the important contract on the Warrington Courthouse, himself. After Earle had left, Jennie discussed the situation with Henry Horn, her husband, and Perriton. Horn decided that he would be willing to advance the money for the courthouse proposition, so Jennie started out for the offices of the construction company to find Earle. In the company offices, she learned that President Carter had discharged Earle that morning. From a letter on Carter's desk, she gained absolute proof that the construction company was planning to get the courthouse contract by bribery. Incidentally, she learned that Earle was leaving for the west on the 12:45 train. After a rather unpleasant encounter with Carter, Jennie hurried back to Perriton and her husband. They decided that their only course was to stop Earle. Stopping Earle seemed, on the face of it, an utter impossibility, since they could not possibly reach the station by 12:45. But John Perriton was nothing, if not resourceful. He realized that the train would have to go over a near-by draw-bridge. If the draw-bridge were open, the train would, of course, be held up. So jumping into a taxicab, they rushed off to the drawbridge. It was closed. The train was almost due. The drawbridge tender suavely informed Perriton that the bridge could on no account be opened unless a boat wished to pass through. With his heart in his mouth, Perriton rushed to a tug which was moored close by, and offered the captain twenty-five dollars to take him to the other side of the bridge. The captain naturally thought John was crazy, but accepted his offer just the same. Putting out into the stream, he whistled for the crew. The bridge slowly opened, and the 12:45 train which had just reached it, was stopped. Jennie found Earle and explained everything to him. Then the four partners hurried back to the city to begin their battle with Carter. Episode 7: "Face to Face" In the weeks following Perriton's dashing and successful attempt to stop Earle's train, the four partners, Perriton, Jenny, Henry Horn and Earle, despite the determined opposition of President Carter, managed to land the court house contract which meant so much to them. A newspaper paragraph, seen by chance, changed their comfortable feeling of assurance to vivid alarm. The paragraph was to the effect that, owing to the determined efforts of President Carter, a bill was on the verge of passing the legislature, restricting all state contracts to residents of the state. Since none of the four was a resident of the state in which the court house was to be built, the bill. If passed, would be certain to ruin them. Knowing Carter's methods, Perriton decided that the best means of blocking the passage of the bill was to bring forward proof that Carter had been guilty of bribery. In order to keep a close watch over their enemy, an office was hired in the building next to the construction company, with windows directly opposite those of Carter's office. By means of a high-powered telescope, the partners obtained ample optical proof that Carter had bought the services of several members of the legislature. They discovered also that an actual transfer of money was to take place that very night in Carter's country house. Unknown to Perriton, Carter had a hold over Mary Wales, the girl Perriton loved. A document forged by Nelson, her scapegrace of a brother, had fallen into Carter's possession. Fearing to take the money to the corrupt legislators himself, he decided to use the girl and her brother as cats paws. So, using the forged mortgage as an incentive, he directed Mary and her brother to take the money and deliver it to the proper parties at his country house. So it happened that when Perriton burst into the house ahead of Earle and the detectives, he was confronted face to face by the girl for whose sake he had given up position and reputation. There was no time for love. Turning, he slammed the door in the faces of his friends, and then lowered Mary to the ground through the window. He had the proofs of bribery, and it was absolutely impossible that the detectives should find Mary in any such situation. Episode 8: "A Matter of Minutes" It will be remembered that Nelson Wales had put his sister into considerable danger and difficulty on account of the fact that the amiable young man had forged her name to a mortgage. John Perriton, the man who disappeared for Mary's sake, saved her from an unpleasant situation. The next day he came to the Wales' house to call Nelson to account. Confronted by his sister and the angry Perriton, Nelson, at first, attempted to bluster his way out of the situation. When that failed to produce the desired impression, he locked Perriton and Mary into a room, and telephoned to the police that he had captured John Perriton, the murderer. While they were locked in the room, John told Mary the truth about the murder, that Nelson had killed the butler, and that he, Perriton, had shouldered the responsibility for her sake. Mary, filled with horror, nonetheless believed Perriton's story. The police arrived at the front door, and John escaped through the window, directing Mary to meet him at a certain station on the railway line. John climbed to the roof by means of a rain spout, and after a desperate race with the detectives, succeeded in completely eluding them. At Nelson's suggestion, the detectives, foiled in their pursuit of Perriton, turned their attention to his sister. They followed her aboard the express train which she took to keep her appointment with Perriton. Mary, discovering that she was followed, sent a telegram to the train she knew Perriton had taken, telling him that she would elude the detectives, and would meet him at Vernontown, a junction point, where they could catch a north-bound express. Mary succeeded in eluding the detectives, by the clever ruse of leaving the train, and quickly slipping back aboard just as it was starting. Meanwhile Perriton's train had broken down. Realizing that everything depended on making the connection Mary had planned, he was at his wits' end. The accident to the train would certainly make him miss the connection. An aeroplane meet in the vicinity of the accident solved the difficulty. Perriton hired an aeroplane just as the express came into sight. Mounting into the air, the great birdlike machine raced for miles against the speeding train, and reached Vernontown in time. Episode 9: "The Living Dead" When John Perriton and Mary Wales fled to Albany to escape her brother, Nelson, and the detective, that amiable young man had set on their track, their first plan was to take the express for Montreal. The fact that Mary recognized her brother and the detective on the train made them realize the futility of attempting to escape across the border. After some thought, they decided that their wisest plan was to return to New York. Accordingly they took one of the steamboats running down the Hudson. Nelson Wales and the detective, after going through Albany with a fine-tooth comb, decided that there was no use in looking further. Accordingly, they came aboard the same boat Mary and John had taken. That night at dinner. Nelson looked across the tables, and saw Perriton and Mary. Filled with triumph, he ordered the detective to arrest the supposed murderer. Perriton, realizing the uselessness of resistance, quietly submitted to being locked up in his stateroom. Mary, whose stateroom was next, racked her brains to think of a way to rescue him. The detective, eager to make assurance doubly sure, stationed himself at John's door, and the situation seemed hopeless. At last, she examined the wall of the stateroom and discovering that the panels were fastened in place with screws. Inspired by a gleam of hope, she unscrewed one of the panels. John crawled through the gap. Affairs were improved, but still almost hopeless. But Mary's quick brain met the difficulty. Under her directions, John waited until she had left the stateroom, and then cautiously followed. Just as she came opposite to the detective and her brother, Mary pretended to faint. They naturally rushed to her assistance, and in the moment they did so, John shot past them, and rushing to the stern of the boat, jumped overboard. After a long, hard swim, he reached shore in an exhausted condition. Mary, on the boat, had been unable to see whether or not he reached the bank. She feared the worst, however, and her joy may be imagined, when John Perriton, safe and sound, came to her in New York. Episode 10: "By the Aid of a Film" John Perriton gave up his place in society and disappeared for the sake of Mary Wales. Her brother, Nelson, had been surprised by the butler in an attempt to steal Mary's jewels. In the fight which ensued, Nelson killed the butler. Perriton happened to enter at this moment, and with the chivalrous motive of saving the name of the girl he loved from disgrace, assumed the responsibility for Nelson's deed, and fled. After a series of thrilling adventures, Perriton was at last arrested as a result of the malevolence of Nelson Wales, the man he saved. Mary, now firmly convinced of her lover's innocence, and her brother's guilt, added her brains to Perriton's in the attempt to find some way of proving his innocence. The attempt seemed hopeless. Nelson was the only witness. Perriton had just as strong a motive for stealing the jewels, and Perriton was the one who had fled from justice. Perriton decided to steal a page from "Hamlet" and see if the play might not be the thing to catch the guilty conscience of Nelson Wales. Under his direction, Mary hired a motion picture company and took it to the Wales' estate. Here she caused three of the actors to make up exactly like the principals of the tragedy, and had the entire scene acted in accordance with Perriton's directions. When the film was completed, Nelson was put in a darkened room, and the picture was flashed on the screen before him. The exact reproduction of his crime was too much for his weakened nerves. Mad with fear, he attacked the phantom figures with a chair, and was promptly arrested by the concealed police. He made a full confession of his crime, and died of heart failure. John Perriton's vagabond life was finally at an end. He was enabled to take again the position he had forfeited. Three months after Nelson's death he married Mary. END
- A Dutch romance. Hulda and Heintz are bashful, giggling lovers, hut their spooning opportunities are few, as well as being forbidden. One day they get a chance to spoon, but the village gossip sees them and hastens to Hulda's mother, exaggerating what she saw. Hulda gets a curtain lecture, but pleads for Heintz. Heintz is then allowed to call. The lovers become engaged. As the wedding day approaches Hulda dons her wedding dress and goes to show it to her lame grandmother, who cannot be present at the ceremony. The village gossip's husband is a dike-tender. A great storm is raging while he lies drunk. The land is in danger of flood. Hulda disappears and the village gossip starts another scandal about her eloping with a minister. When the wedding hour arrives Hulda is missing. After a search she is found, bedraggled and covered with mud. While the dike-tender lay drunk she had been stopping a hole in the dike with her hare hands and thereby saves the country.
- Jane Doone has promised to marry Lieutenant John Blake and a reception is held by the girl's relatives to announce it. In the midst of the merrymaking Blake is ordered to the front, so a hasty wedding is performed and Blake departs for the war. In his first engagement, Blake behaves like a hero and saves the colors from his enemy. He is left for dead on the battlefield. When he regains consciousness he gives his coat to one of his comrades and picks up a canteen on which the name of John Stokes is printed. He then drags himself to a sentry outpost. After a six weeks' struggle between life and death in the hospital, he at length emerges sound in body, but with his memory blank. The name of John Stokes seems to him to be the most plausible clue to his own identity and he re-enlists under that name. Blake has been reported missing. To Jane, the first sorrow of her love is gradually softened by time. Two years, later the war is over. Crane who was at Blake's wedding is an ardent suitor for her hand. She at last consents and journeys out to the army post of which Crane is in command. Blake is also there hearing the name of John Stokes and Crane sees and recognizes him, and succeeds in clearing Blake's muddled brain by bringing up old recollections. Thus the long separated husband and wife are reunited.
- Senator Burton's crippled daughter Sylvia, unable to romp and play like other children, spends much time reading fairy books and becomes a great believer in the characters. One day she meets Tim, a lame newsboy who can't sell as many papers as his competitors. She purchases a paper, then offers him her storybook, but Tim doesn't believe in fairies and doesn't accept the book. Sylvia is so overjoyed by the news that her parents have engaged a great European specialist to cure her that she falls asleep and dreams that her fairy godmother gives her three wishes. Wishing to see Tim, the little girl finds herself transported to the little newsboy's wretched home. She then wishes that Tim would be cured of his lameness and immediately the little newsboy throws away his crutches. The godmother then tells her that she has one more wish to make and that she should wish for her deformity to disappear, but being touched by Tim's parents' poverty, she wishes that they be given a lot of money. She then awakens and tells her parents of her dream. The film's end proves that fairies must be real: every one of the dreams comes true--and Sylvia is cured.
- This cheese mine is situated in Schweiserkase country between Neufchatel and Bris. More cheese is mined here annually than in any other cheese mine in the world. The difficulties encountered in making the picture will be realized from the fact that owing to the peculiar properties of the cheese no ordinary person can approach within three miles of the mine without fatal results. Charmingly natural pictures of the everyday life of the cheese miners have been made. Despite the desperate hardships of their lives they remain carefree and joyous. It is said that one reason for their happiness is owing to the fact that no animal life is able to exist in the mine. Particularly interesting is old Gasper, the windlass turner. While Gasper is hoisting a miner up the thousand feet from the perilous depths below, he occasionally grows tired, or becomes interested in something or other, and drops the handle. Old Gasper takes a natural pride in his record, and puts a chalk mark on the door for each new victim. Leaving this gentle old soul, we plunge into the mine proper. Here the miners are equipped with the famous invention of Herr Von Buffengrunts, a clothespin clamped securely upon the nose, which by completely cutting off breath, guards the olfactory nerves from contact with the deadly fumes. After preliminary borings have been made, the cheese is blasted from its place by means of small charges of high-proof talcum powder. These large blocks of cheese are removed to the trimming yard, where they are reduced by means of chisel, saw and axe, to the proper market size. One of the most interesting features of the entire industry is the punching room, where artistic holes are made in the popular brands of Swiss cheese.
- A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men.
- Uncle Sam's heavy target practice of a nearby fort jars little seven year old Marion's doll from the table in the nursery, shattering it on the floor. The Child is heartbroken at her dolly's fate and at a loss to understand the cause of it until the nurse, to pacify her, explains that the firing of Uncle Sam's guns at the fort jarred the dolly off the table. Upon learning this little Marion becomes indignant and decides to write a letter to Uncle Sam complaining about the damage. To humor her the nurse good naturedly aids her in carrying out her desire and the letter is mailed. At Washington. D.C., Marion's letter to Uncle Sam is opened in the postmaster general's office and turned over to the War Department where it receives immediate attention. Orders are issued to the commanding officer at the fort to investigate the damage and make such compensation and apologies as may be deemed proper. A committee of two young officers is appointed at the fort and they proceed with due ceremony to investigate the damage claim. At Marion's home they are surprised to find the claimant to be a pretty little child. They consider the matter gravely and while there are presented to Marion's sisters, two most attractive young women. The young officers lose their hearts to the girls and report progress to their commanding officer. Secretly they each buy a huge doll and repair to Marion's home to present it to her. Again they meet the young ladies who receive them most graciously. Little Marion is quite happy with her two unexpected new dollies, while her older sisters seem equally happy with their unexpected sweethearts; the result of a jar.
- You haven't seen the real west until you have visited Bingham, Utah, where the largest copper mine in the world is. Never been to the city of Bingham which has the proud distinction of being six miles long and sixty feet wide? Then just keep your eyes on the motion picture screen and see how they tear down the mountain and also tear it up, digging and blasting it and carrying it away in cars. Next to the Panama Canal this is the largest engineering operation in the world. Witness twenty-two railroad tracks, one above the other, view the aerial tram carrying hundreds of buckets of gold, silver and copper up over your heads. Blast after blast rock the mountain at high noon. Men hurry for shelter when the shrill whistles send forth their warning from mountain peak to rocky pit. Huge steam shovels grasp gold and copper besprinkled Mother Earth within their iron jaws and lift her roughly into little cars which rush and rock around the mountain sides and then lay their precious burden down at the smoke dimmed, roaring furnace month. Night and day this gigantic toil goes on.
- Spanish soldiers arrive in Cuba and raid the farm of Dolores' father. Father and brother, attempting to protect their home, are arrested and held for court-martial. Captain Hernandez listens to Dolores' plea for their release and taken by her beauty, promises to set them free. His advances to her are interrupted by the sound of a rifle volley. Through the open window, Dolores sees her father fall before the firing squad. For this she kills Hernandez. Running to his home in the mountain fastnesses, she tells Garcia, Cuba's savior, of her act. Political unrest finds the Maine anchored in the Harbor of Havana. Jose, Dolores' brother, hiding from the troops who have killed his father, seeks revenge. Prowling about, he enters a subterranean vault where he sees an officer exhibiting to some visitors, the switch which controls the mines laid in the harbor. The officer and his friends depart, and Jose throws the switch which sends the Maine and its crew to the bottom. Garcia's whereabouts are unknown and President McKinley seeks a man who can deliver a message addressed: General Garcia, Somewhere in Cuba. Of the many who are called, Lieutenant Rowan alone is chosen. Mme. Gonzalles, a spy in America, employed by the Spanish government, is instructed to ascertain the attitude of the United States government, after the sinking of the Maine. She discovers that Rowan is sailing for Cuba with a message for Garcia. Determining that the message must not reach its destination she follows Rowan on his trip across, arranging by wire for his arrest upon his arrival in Havana. A soldier, stopping at a well near Dolores' home, drops a message addressed to Captain Gonzalles, Mme. Gonzalles' brother, informing him that she has arranged for the American's capture. Dolores rushes to Garcia with the news. On board ship, Mme. Gonzalles makes several efforts to get the message, but each time is foiled by Rowan. He learns of the fate that awaits him and when the boat docks, escapes the pursuing soldiers by jumping overboard. Rowan swims ashore and eludes the pursuing Spaniards. Meeting one of the soldiers single-handed, Rowan overpowers him. exchanging his own wet clothes for the man's uniform. Thus, clad as a soldier of Spain, Rowan sets out to roam the wilderness for Garcia. He meets Dolores who, at first frightened because of the uniform he wears, shows her relief and joy when she learns that he is "Americano." He manages to make her understand that he is seeking Garcia. "Butcher" Weyler, Governor-General of Cuba, upbraids Mme. Gonzalles for her failure in effecting Rowan's arrest. Fearful lest Weyler wreak his wrath upon her, Captain Gonzalles, her brother, offers to assume personal responsibility for the immediate capture of Rowan. From the brow of a hill, Rowan and Dolores sight the pursuing party. Capture is imminent and Rowan entrusts his message to Dolores. They part ways and soon Rowan is made a prisoner. Dolores, however, manages to set him free. Again, they start on their journey, but the pursuers soon take up the trail and before long they find themselves ambushed. All hope seems lost. Dolores parts the bushes and reveals in the distance, the house of Garcia. She returns the message to Rowan and bids him hasten on, while she remains behind with his rifle, holding off the attacking troops. Rowan delivers the message, but on his return he finds the bullet-riddled body of Dolores, mute witness to her great heroism. As a sacred memory of the one who made the delivery of the message possible, he takes back home with him Dolores' lace scarf. Back in the barracks the boys are rejoicing at Rowan's success. He is greeted amid wild shouts and cheers, and when the lace scarf comes to view his friend turn to him with an all-knowing smile. But the story of Dolores' sacrifice soon makes them understand and when the call to arms is sounded they march away cherishing the name of the unknown "little Cuban."