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- Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang. The villain escapes from prison and makes his way to the railroad station and boards a train where he is tracked by private detectives. When the train stops at a country station, Fantomas alights with the intention of making good his escape, but he finds that he is being followed by two detectives, whom he recognizes. He goes back to his carriage, which leads the detectives to think he is quite safe, but he crosses the train and leaves by the opposite door, jumping into the baggage wagon of the train on the opposite rail. Just at that moment the train moves and a magistrate who happens to have nearly missed the train also jumps into the baggage wagon. Fantomas was who hiding, attacks the magistrate, and after a severe struggle in which he is victorious assumes the disguise of the magistrate and takes his clothes and papers. He continues the journey as the magistrate, successfully rescues certain criminals, who are brought before him to be tried, and manages to blackmail several members of society, with whom he is brought in contact. While here he is recognized by Fandor, the young and clever journalist who happens to come into the district and who has suspicions as to the authenticity of the magistrate. He decides to keep watch upon him. His suspicions are well founded and he identifies the magistrate as none other than Fantomas. After much trouble, he is able to get papers committing Fantomas to prison, but Fantomas' suspecting his immediate arrest, issues an order to the head warden, and tells him that it is Detective Juve's intention to be arrested disguised as Fantomas. The warden is not to tell a soul of the detective's intentional disguise, but is to let him remain in prison until 12 o'clock midnight, when the head warden is to personally release him. The police, not suspecting anything of this, feel quite safe when Fantomas is put in the cell and securely barred and locked. His scheme works favorably and once more Fantomas is at large.
- Robert Gray, a brilliant young lawyer, who has just been elevated to the bench, is greatly in love with Eloise, daughter of Reverend Morgan Landman, rector of the village church. Though well beloved by his flock, the rector has one failing, an ungovernable temper, which is evidenced when he discharges his coachman for a trivial offense. Unknown to anybody excepting the rector, Abel Harrison has a mortgage on the rector's home. James Harrison, the son is also in love with Eloise. When James proposes to Eloise she refuses him, and he taunts her with loving the judge, who has never asked for her love. The rector, coming on the scene, canes James. James induces his good-for-nothing brother Luke to take a job at the rector's left open by the discharge of the coachman. Emboldened by his successful career, the judge proposes to Eloise and is accepted. They are about to be married when James Harrison comes to the judge and demands the arrest of the rector on a charge of murder. James says that the rector murdered his brother Luke, and produces numerous witnesses with seemingly conclusive proof. Much against his will, the judge is forced to issue the warrant and hear the case. The rector is found guilty of manslaughter and given a long term by the judge. Meanwhile, in order not to hinder his career, Eloise refuses to marry the judge until her father is vindicated. James finds that he holds a mortgage on the Landman home, and turns Eloise and her brother Harold out of the house. Judge Gray tries to raise a loan to help Eloise, but the banker to whom he applies is the father of the girl. Alice Ward, whose advances the Judge had received coldly. She blocks the loan. Five years later, James Harrison, now a church warden, is haunted by memories of the rector. Thinking he sees the rector in his old pulpit he drops the collection plates and falls unconscious to the floor. The ordeal affects his mind and body. Meanwhile Luke, the good-for-nothing brother, is discharged from prison, where he has been serving a term for a minor offense. Luke is in the power of an evil man who demands money. Luke tries to raise money from his brother at whose house he is staying, concealing his identity from everybody, but his brother, James. Refused by James, Luke puts his room in disorder, leaving bloodstains everywhere, thus manufacturing evidence of a probable murder. The old servants take the story to Judge Gray, who orders the arrest of James Harrison, At the trial the jury failed to agree. The old servants came and asked the judge to go to the home where they were haunted by strange noises. The judge finds Luke Harrison there hiding in a closet. "It is Luke Harrison," cries the judge to Harold Landman, "Then your father and James Harrison are innocent men." The appearance of Luke in the flesh automatically brings about the release of the rector. His story causes the conviction of James Harrison. The rector is reinstated in his position in the church and in the hearts of his parishioners. Eloise and Judge Gray are married by the rector a few days later.
- When it comes to showing how things are done "behind the scenes" in business, Gaumont's "Reel Life" is intensely interestingly to all spectators. This number shows the "insides" of three entertaining industries, and as a fourth section entertains with a pretty schoolteacher who holds school on the beach clad in a one-piece bathing suit. "Speeding the Spoken Word" is a romance of the telephone. The pictures show the surveyor as he breaks the trail for the line through the wilderness, the supply wagons that carry the materials for the countless lines, the tests for trouble, repair men at work, underground cables, the intricate switchboards, and what happens when San Francisco calls New York. "The Toothsome Crab" is an article of diet which we take as a matter of course, never pausing to think of the operations necessary before the dainty is ready for the table. It is an interesting sight in this picture to see 2,500 crabs dropped into a steaming vat for cooking. How the meat is canned is shown. There are numbers of pictures of crabs and of the way the eggs adhere to the swimmerets until ready for hatching. "Beating the High Cost of Furs" is nothing more than the counterfeiting of expensive pelts with the skins of the humble rabbit. This is an extensive industry in Southern California. The fur farm has 500 animals kept for breeding. All the processes whereby the skins are made ready for market are shown. "A School on the Beach" shows a class of California "kiddies" in bathing suits. The teacher is a pulchritudinous personage in a one-piece bathing suit.
- Colonel Seldon loved Belle, his adopted daughter, much more than he loved his worldly sister, Mrs. Preston. Belle was the ray of sunshine who was brightening his declining years. Mrs. Preston made much of him, but the old gentleman was far too wise to be unaware that her interest was more in the wealth he would leave than in his own comfort and happiness. He had a genuine affection, however, for his nephew, Montague Preston, and his greatest wish was to see Belle and Montague man and wife. Preston had more ambitious plans for her son. Yet with all his love for Belle, Col. Seldon did not make his will in her favor. It was always something he planned to do the next day. When death found him, Belle had not been protected. Reared in a life of luxury, Belle found herself in a single day swept from her proud position as mistress of Col. Seldon's household, and made to feel the humiliation that only the pride and arrogance of such a woman as Mrs. Preston could heap upon her. Col. Seldon's sister became head of the house. She knew her son's fondness for Belle, and manifested her displeasure. She wished him to marry money. Her own daughter, Anna, she was willing to sacrifice by marrying her to Ashley Callum, a social waster. Social position could be gained thereby, but her daughter loved Phillip Morris. In seeking to thwart her son's love for Belle, Mrs. Preston found an unexpected ally in Belle herself. Both Belle and Montague had been reared in luxury. Belle saw that a union which brought only poverty, since Montague was entirely dependent upon his mother, could bring no happiness. So she decided upon revenge. Learning of Anna's love, Belle aided the girl to elope with Philip Morris. The news of Anna's elopement rendered Mrs. Preston seriously ill. Urged by Callum, Belle agrees to steal the box of stocks and securities Mrs. Preston has locked in her bedroom. Callum has promised to marry her as soon as they are safe from pursuit. He tells the distraught girl that the fortune is really hers by rights, since her foster father had planned to leave his wealth to her. Belle obtains the box, takes it to her room, and prepares to escape with Callum. Wishing to take something as a remembrance of Col. Seldon she goes to the library for a book he had giver her, "The New Adam and Eve," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. While waiting in her room Belle falls asleep. And then begin her experiences as the new Eve. Her astral body deserts its human envelope and wanders through the world with the astral body of Montague. They have loved in the flesh, but the conventions and limitations of civilization have prevented their union. Now as hindered spirits they see the true relations of life. Hand in hand they wander in happy companionship through a deserted city and comment on the uselessness of many things which civilization has taught us are essential. What holds Belle-Eve longest is the statue of a little child. Without knowing what influences her, her awakening maternal instinct makes her exclaim, "I wonder if we are alone in the world. This lovely little form, did it ever breathe? Or is it a shadow of something real?" Not as Eve is Belle destined to know the answer. Her time in spiritland is up. Her lesson has been learned. At dawn the first thing Belle sees is the box of securities. Transformed by her journey into the world where values have their true appraisal, Belle sees the enormity of the offense she has been saved from committing. Quickly she restores the valuable papers to their proper place. Montague also has learned his lesson. In the astral body he has found that happiness does not depend upon wealth, position or power. Waking, he determines that Belle must be his wife, no matter how much she fears poverty. To his great joy he finds her ready to listen to his suit. Yet poverty is not their lot, for Mrs. Preston never recovers from the shock occasioned by Anna's elopement. At her death they receive the fortune Col. Seldon had meant should be theirs.
- When Gaumont releases "Reel Life" No. 66 the public will see on the screen how machine guns are made. A Gaumont cameraman made a trip through one of the largest American factories, securing some highly entertaining pictures. Necessarily there are some processes which cannot be shown, but enough is pictured to give a good general idea of the work required. A second section of the reel shows the manufacture of beads from rose petals. It requires a wheelbarrow load of petals for the making of a single necklace. This is a queer California industry which is now for the first time receiving wide publicity. When the "Bear" went ashore on the Pacific coast, the vessel was regarded as a million dollar loss. But a wrecking firm saw that by cutting the ship in half, the forward part could be saved. While engaged in this work motion pictures were taken, and these are now shown in this issue of "Reel Life." It shows the ingenuity of marine engineers. The boat is to be floated, towed to San Francisco, and a new stern added. "Keeping the Boys at Home" shows how the young, active members of the family are entertained by means of a billiard table, saving them from the street and the saloon. The reel concludes with two animated drawings based upon humorous illustrations in "Life."
- Latest pictures from the seat of war. Formation of the 19th Infantry Regiment at Castillo de Chavez, Portugal. General Pau on his way to Russia, stops at Athens. A sniper in a snow barricade. Recruits digging trenches. The theater of war. Happy in the trenches. Ruins of St. Die. All that is left of Nompalelize. Vincent Astor and his bride, aboard their palatial yacht "Noma," steam through the Golden Gate to visit the Exposition. New York City: A baby camel is christened "Cleopatra." Bob Fitzsimmons and his new bride. The Argentine battleship "Moreno" leaves League Island Navy Yard for home waters. Sub-title: Commander J.F. Galindez. One-half of the U.S. reserve army invades Washington and is entertained by Congressman Gardner of Massachusetts. Second German sea-raider, the "Kronprinz Wilhelm," escapes allies' warships and seeks shelter at Newport News, Va. Sub-title: Capt. Thierfelder of the "Kronprinz Wilhelm." Secretary Daniels sends four expert deep sea naval divers to Honolulu to raise the sunken submarine F-4. New York City: Stage children raise $4,000 for new school through Juvenile presentation of "Daddy Long Legs." Sub-title: Miss Ruth Chatterton, the star, and Miss Jean Webster, the playwright. Former dictator of Mexico, General Victoriano Huerta (on the right), arrives at New York City. Miss Jane Addams heads party of 40 women delegates, who sail on steamship "Nooraam" for Hague peace meeting. Motorbike speeders break world's record in 500 miles grind at Venice, California track. Subtitle: Otto Walker, the winner.
- Men as well as women will be interested in "Dainty Perfumes." These pictures were made on the Riviera by the Gaumont Company. They show in detail how the flowers are gathered and how they are treated to extract their fragrance. The methods of preparing both extracts and essences are pictured, the views having been taken in one of the world's greatest perfume factories. "Teaching Children to Swim" is naturally an important subject. Children are shown at the edge of the pool going through the motions, and then they are put into the water to demonstrate their ability. "Making Bottles at Home" shows how the dairyman may purchase pasteboard blanks which can be shaped into the form of a bottle. There is a saving in express charges because of the lighter weight and non-breakable character of the material, as well as an advance in sanitation since the bottle is used only once. The fourth section of this reel shows "Logging in Louisiana."
- A Port in France: The American army on French soil. Uncle Sam lands thousands of men far from home without loss of a single man. Subtitles: The convoys which repelled the submarine attacks. General Siebert, the first man ashore. "Jackies" from the convoys get shore leave. Paris, France: General Dubail gives a luncheon in honor of General Pershing. Many high military personalities are present. Subtitles: "Papa" Joffre and General Pershing are cronies. "The Man of the Hour." Sornewhere-in-America: Primitive quarters for modern troops. Indian adobe huts furnish barracks for Sammies. San Francisco, Cal: Exposition palace becomes club house. Virginia's building moved 15 miles across bay. New York City: War-detained Dutch sailors contend in unique races. The Hudson resembled the Zuyder Zee. Subtitle: The judges of the race. An American Port: Coast artillery men off for target practice. New York City: Keeping the mercury down. City's firemen give relief to tenement children during sizzling heat wave. Paris, France: Bastille Day celebration. Chicago, Ill: City pays tribute to its National Army boys.
- Paris Automobile Show: French Exposition, greatest ever held. A Cave-In in Missouri: Earth takes big drop near Joplin. Winter in Merrie Englande: Bob sledding at sixty miles an hour. The Garment Makers Strike: 200,000 New York workers demand more pay. The Fashions: The latest correct styles in hats. Tournament of Roses: Pasadena, Calif., scene of magnificent pageant. Wilhelm at a Wedding: German Emperor attends royal ceremony in Germany. Aero-Auto Racing: Exiting contest between land and air craft, San Francisco. What a Fall. Oh, My Countryman: A motion picture cartoon.
- Since in the majority of cases disease germs enter the body through the mouth, the Gaumont Company calls attention to the "safety first" reason for the individual drinking cup. The common drinking cup is pilloried as "sanitation's greatest foe," and even the bubble fountain is blamed for an epidemic of tonsillitis at the University of Wisconsin. Pictures show the individual drinking up in its various processes of manufacture. Just how the cost of the egg increases as it passes from the farmer to the consumer through the various middlemen who take toll for it is shown by highly instructive and interesting charts. They have been animated at the Gaumont Studio, and it is a highly diverting sight to see the egg itself lecture on its rising cost. "Queer Fish with Shells" is a section devoted to the soft, boneless creatures protected by a hard outer covering. Among those which excite interest are the Littorina which conceal themselves by resting on objects of the same color, the Trochus or Top Shell, the Purple fish, the Trumpet Shell, the Aeolis and the Haliotis, used in the manufacture of "mother of pearl." While the names have a scientific, foreboding sound, the pictures are among the best of this kind ever made by Gaumont. The reel concludes with a short exposition of how to hypnotize an alligator.
- Richmond, Va., is undoubtedly one of the best advertised cities in the United States, its name being heralded throughout the land since the Confederacy made it its capital and the Federal battle cry became. "On to Richmond." Hence it is of interest to managers of motion picture theaters to learn that the Gaumont Company will show Richmond in its "Sea America First" series. Among the panorama views are Capitol Square, the Capitol and State Library. Battle Abbey, the spot where the first iron foundry in America was established. The battlefield of Gaines' Mill, the battlefield of Seven Pines, and the Post Office and its environs. Places of ante-bellum interest shown in this release include the home and school of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, the graves of John Tyler and James Monroe, Presidents of the United States; Gamble's Hill, which John Smith marked as the site of Richmond in 1607, and Washington's Headquarters. The Civil War is brought vividly to mind by pictures of tho Confederate Veterans' Home, home of General Robert E. Lee, the Confederate Monument, and monuments to Generals Lee and J.E.B. Stuart, and to Jefferson Davis, the Confederate Museum, and many sites and relics of that period.
- An Indian Princess is decoyed by a New York tourist from a small isle in the South Atlantic to Broadway where she dances in native costume in a café. Castelene becomes the petted favorite of Claud Dixon, Ned Astor, his millionaire chum, and their gay crowd. From this life she is rescued by the old captain of the ship in which she made her flight from her native island. He takes the girl to a quiet sea town in New England, where her romance turns to tragedy. Castelene returns to the isle in the Far South and seeks Lisa, her native lover. She discovers that during her absence Lores, a native girl, has been trying to win Lisa away from her memory. Lores recently has been stricken with leprosy. She believes that this calamity has befallen her as a punishment for trying to steal away the love of another woman. Now she turns about and assists the princess in wreaking revenge upon her betrayer in New York.
- An American adventuress is loved by an Indian rajah and she happily lives at his court. When a young American artist competes for her affection, the rajah is enraged.
- The story deals in humorous fashion with the desires of a man who has lived life to the full to change with various animals which come to mind. Their peculiar antics always cause him to change his mind.
- Kronstadt, that grim and forbidding looking pile of granite that rises out of the Baltic Sea and appears, by its very look, to give the mute but stem warning "Sheer Off" to all would-be intruders. Yes, this fortress was indeed a formidable and apparently impregnable guard to the capital of Russia, and had always defied the wiles of the ever-watchful and eagle-eyed spy. Yet its secrets and fastnesses were at length pierced by a frail girl who unwillingly lent herself to the most despicable of work, but stress of circumstances forced Marian Best to surrender both scruples and principles to the unpalpable task of "spying out the land." Left an orphan with no means of subsistence and her invalid brother to nurse and support, Marian found the burden too heavy, so when a relative offered what appeared to her untold wealth and the means of saving the life of her little brother, she succumbed to the tempting offer thus placed before her. This relative was a member of the International Secret Service, and he found it possible to place in the household of General Stefanovitch, Deputy-Governor of Kronstadt, an English governess. Marian's consent to do the work being obtained, she found herself established in the household of the Deputy-Governor and quickly became an immense favorite with everyone, with the exception of Colonel Bonzo, the general's chief of staff, who looked on everyone, especially foreigners, with suspicion and dislike. This was not the case with Captain Paul Zasaulle, who quickly succumbed to the charms of the English girl. After a few weeks the attachment became mutual. One day Paul proposed to take Marian and her charges on his yacht, the "Esmeralda," to explore Battery No. 3. This and other similar excursions gave Marian the sought-for opportunities. She could not, however, control her love for Paul, and when he proposed she consented, although recognizing her engagement was to a man whose country she was betraying. One day Marian received a secret letter, which to her delight informed her that as soon as she could obtain the plan of Fort St. Peter, she could leave Russia. The same mail brought a letter to General Stefanovitch, informing him that various sketches of the fort had fallen into the hands of the enemy. The suspicions of Colonel Bonzo, ever on the alert regarding Marian were now roused into activity and he determined to trap the spy. Marian had found out that the desired documents were kept in a secret drawer in the General's desk and having secured the key she made plans for obtaining them that night. On finding the key of his study missing, the General explained to Colonel Bonzo that he must have mislaid it. The latter having a duplicate one, was able to secure the door. Marian, who always entertained the Governor and his friends, after her charges had retired, pretended that evening to be ill and left the drawing room early. She had not, however, reckoned with Colonel Bonzo's cunning, who, now thoroughly suspicious wished to find out if Paul was her accomplice, so handing him the key. sent him on some trivial pretext to the study. There Paul discovered the spy was no other than his beloved Marian. In an agony of terror and remorse, she told him the reasons for undertaking her hateful role and implored him to save her. Paul had only time to whisper, "Trust me; there is only one way to save you," when the General, Colonel Bonzo and some soldiers entered the room. Paul, who had concealed the document, entirely disarmed suspicion by recounting how he caught Marian searching the room. He was then commanded to take her on board the "Esmeralda" and conduct her to the dungeon on the Island of St. Paul. On reaching the yacht, the escort was ordered to remain in their boat and allow it to be towed behind the "Esmeralda." Too late, they found they had been duped when the tow rope was severed, and they saw the yacht steaming away at full speed. When Colonel Bonzo found the plans of Fort St. Peter missing, he determined at all hazards to have the two runaways brought back, and he instructed the Russian Secret Service agents to trap them, so that when Marian and Paul arrived in Paris these sleuth-hounds were already on their track, and one night Paul was overpowered and dragged to the offices of the society. Marian called in the services of a clever and well-known detective, Robert Stevens. Meanwhile, Paul, finding himself imprisoned, discovered means of communicating with Marian, who, aided by the detective, concocted a scheme to rescue Paul. Marian wrote a letter stating that unless a free pardon was granted to Paul within an hour, the plans would be in the hands of the enemy. This letter was delivered by Stevens, Marian waiting outside with a number of detectives. Colonel Bonzo, who had arrived in Paris to take charge of the culprits, apparently agreed to Marian's terms and she was summoned to the room. Colonel Bonzo, always prone to treachery, as soon as he got the plans into his possession, gave a signal to his men to seize Marian, but the detective, who had taken precautions against such treachery, was too quick for him. With his whistle to his lips, he pointed out the guard to the Colonel, who, fearing the disclosures that would be entailed by a public fracas, was forced to capitulate and write a document granting a free pardon to Paul Zasaulle.
- Tobias Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London, reacts to seven memorable scenes featuring medieval weapons and armor and rates them based on their historical accuracy.
- The Soldier's Staff of Life: The government has perfected a portable bread-maker for the army with one of which a baker's corps can supply 40,000 soldiers. These bread-makers were recently exhibited in some of the large cities, resulting in many enlistments. The Correct Time: As determined by the U.S. Naval Observatory : One of the branches of scientific research of the U.S. Naval Observatory, at Washington, D.C, is the determining of correct time. This is flashed over the wires of the Western Union every day at exact noon, when millions of timepieces are regulated. Beans and Lady-Bugs: Last year those infinitesimal insects, the aphides, destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of beans. This year, with so many soldiers to be fed, there must be no bean shortage, and so scientists have found an aphicide. They have discovered that these little insects are "pie" for the common ladybug, and now, the ladybugs are placed on the bean vines and left to do their best. The Lamprey: A blood-sucking fish. Unlike the ladybug, the lamprey does its best to destroy the food supply. Many of the inland waters of the Northwest have been almost depleted of fish because of this eel-like suctorian, which lives on the blood of other fish. Making Eyeglasses: Many interesting scenes are shown of the testing of eyesight, and the grinding and mounting of scientific, toric lenses. So Easy: An animated drawing from "Life." The facility with which one can say "Charge it," until the end of the month arrives in the form of a demon with bills, is cleverly illustrated.
- Gaston Beraud is employed as assistant to Mr. Launay, of the firm of Dammond and Co., gramophone manufacturers. He is bribed by a rival firm to steal the formula of an important invention. He is discovered in the act by Mr. Launay, who accuses him of robbing him. The accusation was recorded on a gramophone record, and later proved to be his downfall. Gaston realized that he was irretrievably ruined. Not only had he lost all hope of marrying the girl to whom he was engaged, but his professional career was at an end. Too late he reflected that the curse of gambling had been his ruin, and he passed out of the lives of those who loved him regretting that his fall might easily have been avoided.
- To the millions of people who have read of the almost superhuman work of the pulmotor, the pictures of this machine shown in this number will prove a most welcome explanation of how it works in bringing back to life those who have been suffocated. An experienced operator demonstrates how to fit the apparatus over the mouth of the victim, and also how to furnish "first aid" until the pulmotor arrives. A second section of this reel makes the spectator acquainted with the Indian method of weaving the deservedly famous Navajo blankets. The pictures were taken in Arizona and show the various processes followed by the squaws in completing their work. A number of ceremonial blankets are also pictured. A sight familiar to all New Yorkers is the clock which is the crowning ornament of the Herald Building at Herald Square. It is unique not only because of its interesting composition as a work of art, but also because the two figures on either side the bell strike the hours with their heavy hammers. The picture was taken just as these heroic bronze figures are beating the hours. Swedish gymnastics are so much a part of the athletic life of that nation that their inclusion in this issue will bring to American spectators pictures of physical preparedness that all should seek to emulate. The pictures show some of the work of a class highly developed, although some of the exercises are elemental. The reel concludes with entertaining views of winter sports in Florida, aquaplaning, aeroplaning and motorboating.
- Writing to an old friend, Ralph Ferrard intimated that things were going well. He was engaged to Flossie Kettle, whose father would give them a villa as a wedding gift. F.W. Kettle, a rich collector, was entertaining a party at his house, and among the guests was Jack Roberts, an old sweetheart of Flossie. The presence of this guest made Ferrard uneasy, but he hoped for the best. Ferrard's anxiety to marry a rich wife was made plain when Messrs. Levi, Patten and Co. wrote demanding a first installment of $25,000 in reduction of a debt for which he was indebted to a financial firm. They believed that the date of his wedding was uncertain, and that being so could not wait more than 48 hours for the money demanded. After lunch Mr. Kettle invited his guests into the treasure chamber to inspect the many articles. One of the glass cases contained a casket uncut gems worth a fortune. Ferrard wanted ready money. After the guests had left he vainly endeavored to force the case. It resisted all his efforts and in desperation he smashed the glass top. Alarmed at the noise made by the breaking glass he looked toward the door and saw two eyes peering at him through the keyhole. Nemesis with outstretched hand was pursuing him though he knew it not. Julia had been thinking things over and meeting her brother Jack, half-affrighted, said, "I've seen a robber." She heard a noise in the treasure chamber and taking a footstool peeped through the little trap and saw a man standing over the broken case. If Jack would go with her she would point him out. Having no suspicion that the unsuccessful robber was the accepted husband of his old sweetheart, Jack went with his little sister to the salon where, having told the host what she had seen, pointed Ferrard as being the man. Kettle at first declined to believe the story, but finding that the top of the case had been smashed as Julia had described decided to confront him. The little girl led Ferrard out of the salon and told him what she had seen. Alarmed that he had been recognized he realized that the end was near. The host, his fiancée, and many of the house party surrounded him before he could move from the room. Calling the men servants Kettle ordered them not to leave Ferrard until he was out of the grounds. The story ends with the approaching marriage of Flossie and Jack.
- The tribulations of an artist in capturing an idea suitable for illustrating.
- Little does Rev. Martin Preston know when he falls in love with pretty Helen Claude that he must ask her hand of her uncle, Francis Claude, the candidate for congress. Preston is a foundling, and upon that fact Claude bases his refusal when he visits the village where Helen has been visiting. The whole village is talking of the affair, as it even divides attention with the great murder mystery. Judge Green has been murdered. Joe Trimmer, the miller, has been accused and convicted on circumstantial evidence. Mrs. Royal, keeper of the village inn, is extremely friendly with the young minister, and tells him that she will see that Francis Claude gives his consent. She reveals herself to the politician as Grace Goodman, the girl he had deserted in his youth. Mrs. Royal has a daughter about to marry Tom Carroll, a quick tempered young man of the village. To secure Claude's consent, Mrs. Royal reveals to him that Martin Preston is their child, born after he had left her promising to return and marry her. Claude is overcome by this confession. Not only does he write a note to his niece, who has returned to the city, giving his consent, but he also indicates in it that he wishes Preston to inherit his property. He also secretly gives a sum of money to Tom Carroll, since he is about to marry Mrs. Royal's daughter. That very night Claude is murdered in the same manner that Judge Green met his death, being stabbed by an assailant with his face hidden who reaches through the curtains at the window. Mrs. Royal enters the room at this moment, rushes to the window, and sees the minister on the lawn. Immediately she thinks of him as the murderer, seeking vengeance upon his recreant father. She determines to keep the secret, but the struggle is doubly hard since the man her daughter is to marry is accused. The circumstantial evidence is the money Claude gave him secretly just before his death. Even the new residents in the village are wrought up over the affair. Led by Jerry Drake a pleasing fellow who spends his time at the inn, indignation runs high. Finally suspicion even points toward the minister as a party to the crime. Preston is arrested. His mother watches the detectives who have invaded Preston's home. While doing so she sees a muffled figure visiting a dry well and concealing a package. The man is extremely like her son, whom she thinks guilty of murder. She man accosts him, and the grapples with her. Screaming for help, detectives run from the minister's home upon hearing her cries. They seize the man whom they find is Jerry Drake. Evidence of the several murders is found upon him. He is led off to prison. The innocent men are released, and soon wedding bells ring for the two happy pairs.
- Saunders, Siskiyou's leading Citizen, miner, gentleman and all-around favorite, has Mary Brandon, the daughter of Mathew Brandon, ever since he had come to Siskiyou as a child. And it is not strange that he has, for Mary is a sweet, gentle-mannered girl of nineteen. Together with her younger sister, she keeps house for her father, and furnishes the only spot of light and joy to the hearts of many of the rough, kind-hearted men of the town. Mary knows of Joe's devotion, and loves him too, in her simple, girlish way, until one day Ned Singleton, a young stranger, comes to town. He is a handsome, enthusiastic chap, and he soon wins the love and respect of the entire community. He gains the unbounded admiration of Joe Saunders by catching a Mexican who cheated at cards, and Joe asked him to become his partner. In the meantime, Mary, too, has become interested in the fascinating young stranger. On a prospecting expedition, Joe and Ned find gold, but the younger man falls from a cliff and is carried back to the little mining town unconscious. Due to the tender care of Joe and Mary he recovers his health, but seriously loses his heart to the girl. Mary has grown to care more for Ned than for Joe. On the night of Mary's twentieth birthday, Joe follows her when she leaves the happy party given in her honor, into the woods. He tells her of his great love for her, and asks her to marry him. Mary is forced, for the first time, to confess to Joe her love for his partner. She leaves him, heartbroken and sad, and goes on to keep her tryst with Ned at lover's rock. Joe comes upon them just as Mary pleads with her lover to marry her at once, as he had promised. The big, kind-hearted miner steps in and forces Ned to promise he will marry her at once. In the meantime, Scraggs, the villain, who loved Mary's mother and now loves her, has tried to force his suit. He goes to Ned's cabin, bent upon stirring up trouble, and sees Joe as he rides away after trying to divide up and split partnership with the boy. When Scraggs accuses Mary of being Joe's mistress, Ned jumps at his throat, and in the tussle which follows, he is killed. The villain tears one bloody cuff from his shirt and hides it in the holes of the hearth from which Joe had taken out their strong box before leaving, and runs to the village to say that Ned Singleton has been murdered and that he had seen Joe Saunders leave the cabin. Whrn the men arrive at Ned's shack they find Joe bending over the dead body of his partner. He had returned too late to proffer the hand which he had refused before. At the trial Joe is acquitted. Scraggs is accused, and in the face of everyone Joe marries Mary because he loves her, and to preserve her good name.
- "Bring the rice, girls. Who's got the old shoes?" Here they are at last: demure little Edna in her traveling suit, and resolute young Wilton, with his hair plastered down and a smile that he's trying to swallow. Down the steps they come, followed by Mammy, the jolly old negro maid, who has just earned the easiest five dollars she ever made. Edna has bribed her not to tell that she is a bride. Mammy promised. Through a shower of rice and old shoes, the happy pair escape to their automobile and the honeymoon begins. Mammy's first duty as protector of the secret of "de young miss" is to deny that Edna is a bride when the Pullman porter laughs. The argument with the porter grows hotter and hotter. Mammy not only tells him where he gets off, but she puts him off. In her indignation she gives him a punch and he topples from the swiftly moving train. Mammy thought she had sent the porter to his death, but she had only sent him to a lawyer. As soon as he dusts himself off he gives his case to the first lawyer he meets. This happens to be the husband of a renowned reformer, Mrs. Baggs. On the train with Edna and Wilton it happens that Mrs. Baggs is traveling. She is to deliver a lecture in the very town where the honeymooners make their first stay. Mrs. Baggs is famous for her lectures on the subject of how innocent girls are lured away from home. She stays at the same hotel. She watches the happy bride and groom depart for a view of the city in an automobile, and says to Mammy: "Just married?" "No, indeed, dey ain't married," replies Mammy loyally, "dey's jest good friends." That settles it. Mrs. Baggs has found a flagrant case that will make her lecture more spicy, and give her more newspaper space. There is just one thing for her to do. Soon the police are after Edna and Wilton, but they manage to get back to the hotel. Here Wilton is attacked by Mrs. Baggs and her reformer friends and allies. When Edna faints, Mrs. Baggs sees her wedding ring and is soon persuaded that she has been following a false trail. Wilton is so indignant, however, that he threatens to sue Mrs. Baggs for defamation of character. Wilton goes to the police station to enter his complaint against Mrs. Baggs. In the meanwhile the porter and Mr. Baggs have arrived, and cause Mammy's arrest for assault and battery. Mammy was glad to find she had not murdered the porter, but she didn't enjoy going to jail. While Wilton is at the station, poor Mammy is brought in. Baggs takes charge of the scene, secured damages for the porter and also the release of his wife. Mr. Baggs has been a much henpecked individual, but his success on the present occasion makes his wife recognize that he is the head of the family. The porter and Mammy patch up their feud and go off arm in arm. Mr. Baggs returns home with the lady who had been his better half, but is now his lesser half. Edna and Wilton look on the matter finally as just a laughable episode. So the honeymooners go on mooning.
- Ever on the lookout for amusement, and being of a speculative turn of mind, Simple Simon sees a fine chance in the offer made by Dale's Matrimonial Bureau, which is organizing a weekly matrimonial raffle, wherein it is possible to win a wife with fortune varying from $2.50 to half a million dollars. This is no "con game," and to make it interesting the faces of the ladies are hidden and their ages not revealed. Simon's luck is in, he wins a prize, and he is so elated by his success that he makes a bee-line for the prizes and seizes his bride-to-be. Horrors, his "win" is a lady of uncertain age, decidedly verging on the sere and yellow, Simon cannot foreswear his bargain, and the marriage is almost completed when his heart falls him and he runs away. Being captured, the organizer of the raffle points out that Simon has held his ticket upside-down, making 6 look like 9, and his real prize, No. 6, is a very charming young demoiselle.
- Yellow Feather, the fierce, implacable Indian chieftain of the Ojibway Indians, has just received a wrist wound after an encounter with the government reserve agent over the affairs of his tribe. Although the agent's wife heals the wound, the warrior nourishes a deep-seated grievance. In revenge he sets fire to the prairie surrounding the camp of the cowboys, who hurriedly round up their horses and cattle, pack their prairie schooners with their possessions and resort to the marshes for safety. On their way, they encounter the red fiends and bill them all except Yellow Feather, who in his endeavors to escape becomes encircled with the flames of his own kindling and dies a merited death.
- D.H. Wilson, the directing head of the Independent Rubber Company, refuses to become a member of the Rubber Trust because one of his chemical engineers has discovered the formula for the manufacture of artificial rubber. This important discovery places him in a most commanding situation of the rubber industry, providing the members of the Trust learn nothing of his valuable secret. The bead of the Trust, baffled at his independent attitude, employs a detective to find out why Wilson refuses to join his monopoly, through which unscrupulous means, he learns of the formula worked out by the engineer. He instructs the sleuth to take the engineer captive as soon as the vessel carrying him home touches soil. In the guise of friends sent by Wilson, who in the meantime had grown anxious about the safety of the young genius, the detective and his assistants lure the youth into a taxi, in which they gag and overpower him, bringing him captive to an old deserted castle dungeon. Here the president and directors of the Trust, totally masked so as to prevent recognition, bribingly coerce the secret from its discoverer, who reluctantly pens the chemical symbols of the formula. After receiving the check he is led to a safe spot and granted his liberty. In the meanwhile, the jubilation of the unscrupulous Trust directors is most abruptly cut short, when they realize that the genius wrote the formula with self-erasing ink, that kind which fades and leaves no trace. The cunning Trust had been outwitted!
- A noted lawyer enters his office one morning and, as usual, reads through his mail. Three letters hold his attention, one from the Amalgamated Union of Domestic Servants, which delivers the ultimatum to the effect that unless he contributes generously to their funds, his servants will be called out on strike at 10:30 A.M. on the following day. The second letter, from his brother-in-law, advises that the hitter's daughter, Amelia, arrives in his town to-morrow to commence a private course of studies, and at his request has arranged to take the noonday meal at their (the lawyer's) house. The third letter, from an old friend, imparts the information that Mark Willoughby, a local young jurist, will drop in at their home on the morrow and take the noonday meal with them. The writer of the letter further advises that the lawyer's daughter be on hand at that time. The meaning of these three letters is thoroughly understood by the lawyer, who hurries home to tell the news to his daughter Susie. On the following day 10:30 marks the departure of the servants of the house. They have left on strike. At the same time, Cousin Amelia arrives on the scene. Susie takes her into the kitchen and explains that she will have to pardon her for culinary duties, that the servants had gone on strike and this necessitated her busying herself in the kitchen. Amelia accepts the explanation, but learns from Susie's father that a suitor is expected. She hastens to her room to fix herself up, believing that she might profit by the embarrassing situation in which Susie has been placed by the strike of the servants. In the meantime young Willoughby arrives, and, after finding no one in the house inasmuch as Amelia had not yet finished dressing, invades the kitchen, He is captivated by the charming beauty of the cook and quite forgets her rank and station. Conversation with her only proves to intensify his admiration and before he knows it he has proposed. The cook does not promise to accept him. In the meantime Amelia has arrived. She makes known her presence in the adjoining room and young Willoughby, in the height of embarrassment, proceeds to call on her. The contrast is too marked and he cannot help but feel that he would far prefer the Charming little cook to the homely Amelia. At this point Susie's father enters the room and explains the situation much to the delight of Mark Willoughby, who commends himself the more for his choice and carries out his plans.
- A stolen mummy's ring brings death to all who acquire it until it is returned to its owner.
- "The Margrave's Daughter" reveals the story of a young girl whose love for a nobleman is strenuously opposed by her father, the margrave, a title of nobility corresponding to the French marquis. The two lovers, despite the father's disapproval, attempt to elope from the castle, only to be frustrated at the postern portal. The lover, after a combat with the margrave's knights on the bridge crossing the moat, is finally captured and condemned to decapitation after being adjudged guilty of treason. On the day of the execution the nobleman and his father confessor are slowly led to the platform where the executioners, with their axes and the death block, are awaiting. The margrave, his courtiers and their retinues are in the box overhead prepared to witness the young nobleman's death. A surprise is in store when the priest and the proscribed one reveal their identity, the priest as the young lover, the doomed martyr as the margrave's daughter, she having changed clothes with her lover quite unknown to all. The margrave is baffled as they embracingly kneel side by side and lay their heads on the block together. The stay of execution is ordered and instead the ardent couple is proclaimed man and wife.
- The son of a bank messenger left home because his father interfered too much in his affairs. He rented a room in a flat and overheard two men planning an attack on a bank messenger. Informing the police, his assistance was accepted, and he was given the task of calling upon the two men when he had the money they hoped to get in his wallet. Aware of their plot, he was accompanied by the police, who arrested the two men.
- No doubt every person who has ever drawn on a pair of fine kid gloves has wondered by what manufacturing processes the well-fitting hand covering has been made. The Gaumont Company sent a cameraman through one of the finest French factories, and what his lens caught has been introduced into "Reel Life" No. 37. The gamboling kid in the meadow is first shown, and the last picture is milady as she draws on her elegant sixteen-button gloves preparatory to going out for the evening. In between lies a remarkable revelation in pictures. First is shown the selection of the skins, the scraping, the tinting and the smoothing on revolving stones. Then come the cutting of the patterns, the sewing, the attaching of buttons and the embroidering. Another section shows how pickles are prepared for market in one of America's biggest plants. Everything is shown from the picking of the cucumbers to the labeling of the jars. The picture is a worthy companion to the previous set, "The Great American Dish," pork and beans. Both models and graphic drawings have been employed in the section of this reel showing how to preserve the teeth. There are pictures of the proper way to brush the teeth, as well as cross-sections of a tooth which show how decay makes its insidious attack. The pictures close with a pledge for school children which is calculated to have them cleanse their teeth twice daily. How fish are protected in irrigating ditches is an interesting subject on this reel. Ordinary gates where the water flows out upon the land permit the fish to pass alone, and they die. The new waterwheel gate that cleanses itself and prevents the passage of fish is pictured.
- A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.
- Jones, provision dealer, is in search of a fittingly appetizing name for a new delicacy he is about to put on the market. The Italian word for butterfly, "Farfaletta," appeals to him much more than any other and, with boundless enthusiasm over such a happy name selection Jones invites the members of his club to attend a banquet on "Farfaletta." The wife happens to come upon one of these invitations and she immediately begins to suspect the worst, namely that "Farfaletta" must be the name of some immoral actress with whom her husband has become enamored. After agitating herself and her mother up to the point of frenzy, she learns that Farfaletta is, after all, only a kind of macaroni.