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- A moneylender kidnaps the young son of an rich widow as part of a plot to cheat her of her fortune. The boy is sent away on a fishing boat with the intention of drowning him, but a kindly old fisherman intervenes.
- Lola refused to marry Jean, son of the Gypsy king, and sought consolation in the woods each day. On one of these occasions, her tears were interrupted by the sudden moans of Frank Hathaway, a young American, who had fallen from his horse. Lola assisted him to the Gypsy camp, where his wounds were dressed and his horse's faulty shoes mended. It was love at first sight for Lola and Frank and they made a habit of meeting in their sylvan retreat every day. Jean once more pressed his suit, and, upon being refused, cowardly attacked Lola. Frank heard the screams and rushed to the Gypsy girl's assistance. After thrashing Jean, he declared his love for the girl and suggested that they marry in order that she might leave the camp where she was so persecuted. Frank took the girl home to his father, but that proud, haughty gentleman was sadly disappointed in his son's choice and vowed he would disown the boy if he married Lola. Frank let love take its course and soon gained employment on a ranch. Not long after becoming the happy father of a bouncing baby, Frank is taken ill and his father is sent for. The old gentleman, not yet having forgiven his son, still refuses to come. When, however, he hears of the stork's arrival, things take on a new aspect. The express is not fast enough to carry him to his grandson, and the child, all unwittingly, brings reconciliation and happiness once more to the estranged father and son, with the final recognition of '"the Gypsy bride."
- The only way Onésime could think of to get his inheritance quicker was to set the clocks forward. Surprise: the whole world starts speeding up wildly.
- Batty Bill plans to make his honeymoon the one big event of his life, and it is. He hires a most unique postilion-led carriage with which to begin the journey, but his wife is oh, so heavy, and pretty (?) coin a word. Perhaps the horses are frightened, but certainly there is a good reason for the carriage not holding together. And so with every conveyance they select, chaise, cart and motor, all fall, and it is not to be wondered that the bride's dress-basket is the last resort of the harassed couple. It at least brings ultimate happiness, and in a way least imaginable.
- Hinemoa was a Maori maiden of high rank and rare beauty, the daughter of a chief. She dwelt on the borders of Lake Rotorua in all the splendor of her father's camp. On the island of Mokoia, in the center of the lake, dwelt chief Whakaue. his three sons, and Tutanekai, son of the chief's wife by another father. Thus Tutanekai, bearing the ban of illegitimacy, was scorned by his stepbrothers, but treated as a son by the noble old chief. The three brothers sought the hand of Hinemoa in marriage, but she bestowed her love on Tutanekai, much to the brothers' dismay and to that of Hinemoa's parents, who forbade her to marry Tutanekai because of the blight in his birth. She refused to choose another, so a great running match was decided upon to determine who should win her. Tutanekai was the victor. In spite of which, Hinemoa's people still refused to permit them to marry. And to prevent any possibility of the lovers joining, Tutanekai was sent back to the island of Mokoia and all boats were removed from the lake. Every evening at dusk, Tutanekai, from his island three miles distant serenaded Hinemoa with his flute, and she, in her camp, was thrilled and encouraged by his notes of love, until at length she could bear the separation no longer. Shrouded by the night, she plunged into the frigid waters of the lake, and, guided by his flute, swam three miles to the island of Mokoia. Exhausted, she rested and hid in a natural warm bath and resorted to strategy to bring forth her lover, for to be found by any other man and taken into his sleeping hut, would have meant to become his wife, according to Maori law and custom. By a clever scheme she attracts Tutanekai to the bath and together they secretly entered Tutanekai's hut. The three step-brothers were enraged, but the old chief protected and honored Tutanekai.
- Doris is up a tree as to which of two suitors to accept. Tom is very companionable and Fred is very noble, each equally lovable. She is in the throes of despair, when an idea comes to her to test which is the better man. To the postmistress, her friend, Doris gives two letters, one of which each of the lovers is to call for the next day at noon. Meanwhile, she instructs her faithful old servant Pedro, in the part he is to play in determining the better man. Both letters contain the same: "To prove who is the better man, deliver this letter to me as soon as possible," and upon reading, the rivals mount their steeds and race for Doris' house. It is a desperate ride in which Tom shows no pity for his horse. He is far ahead of Fred when he comes upon old Pedro, who is lying on the road, apparently hurt. But Tom determines to win, so rushes on. When Fred sees the old servant in distress, he is touched, and even at the risk of losing Doris, helps the old man home. Doris and her folks have observed the whole thing through a pair of field glasses. When Tom arrives, he rushes to claim his bride, but is met with an indifference hitherto unknown. His horse drops from exhaustion. Fred arrives with Pedro, fully expecting he has lost the prize. Pedro gets suddenly strong and laughs, which makes Fred all the more mad at himself for having stopped, but when Doris explains her little plot. It does not take either long to understand which has proven "the better man."
- A senorita. With whom two young matadors, Jose and Pepe, are in love, tries in keep both on the string. She lends each to believe that he is the chosen one, creating a strong jealousy between them. Pepe calls to see the girl and she receives him with a show of great affection and preferment. While they are courting, a caballero, friendly to the other lover, Jose, tells him of the girl's duplicity. In a rage he goes to his inamorata and, demanding an explanation, accuses her of harboring his rival in the house. She cajoles him, and playfully stealing his dagger from him without his knowing it, endeavors to hold his attention by caresses as Pepe tries to make his escape. Unfortunately he is seen and pursued by the enraged Jose, who, coming up with him as he seeks the protection of a priest busy pruning trees in the grounds of the monastery, engages in a terrible struggle in which the priest Is powerless to interfere. The rival breaks away, and the lover, discovering the loss of his dagger, seizes the pruning knife of the priest and again goes off in pursuit, the priest following as quickly as he can. Unfortunately he is too late, the rival is dead, and Jose, now sobered and full of despair at what he has done, begs the priest to give him absolution. The crime is discovered and the priest arrested, as his knife was found near the body of the murdered man. Being bound by his office as priest not to reveal the secrets of the confession, he cannot excuse himself nor give the name of the real murderer. The guilty man goes to the home of the senorita and gloatingly tells her of his revenge. Knowing that the priest has been accused, the girl hurries out of the house and, hastening to inform the authorities, she reaches the Magistrado's office just as the priest is brought in by the soldiers. She informs them of the murderer's whereabouts, and the soldiers at the command of the Magistrado release the priest and start in pursuit of the guilty man. The soldiers enter the girl's home, and the hunted matador, jumping from the window, mounts his horse and flees, pursued by the soldiers, who are hidden in a wild and unfrequented ravine, where he shows fight and is shot dead by the troops. When the senorita realizes the results of her intrigues and duplicity, she is conscience-stricken. She goes to the old village priest and confesses her misdeeds. He receives her with fatherly tenderness, admonishes and advises her to make amends by seeking the seclusion of the convent. Acting upon this suggestion, she is received by the nuns as a novice of the convent and prepares herself to take the vow of the church and devote the rest of her life to good deeds.
- Padre Dominguis, the village priest of a quiet little spot in old Mexico, has been on a visit to the daughter of his dead sister and is about to return to his charges. He is much surprised and more than a little pleased to find that his niece is in love with John Brown, a progressive American, who has settled among them, for the Padre is a broad-minded man and knows that Mexico needs the influx of American energy to make her a great country. A different feeling possesses some of the Mexicans, however, and Brown is particularly hated by Baptiste Matteo, a "caballero," who is infatuated with Anita, the Padre's niece. Finding that Brown is favored and fearing to have a personal altercation with him. Baptiste lays a trap to injure his rival. He seeks an isolated spot, where he knows Brown will pass, and ties a rope between two trees, just high enough to "garrote" a man on horseback. Brown returns from a visit to his sweetheart and is riding fast to reach his home. The trap is successful and the hated American is caught by the rope and thrown to the ground. He is stunned by the fall and Baptiste, who has watched from a clump of "mesquite," is satisfied that his "gringo" rival is dead. He writes a letter to Anita, to which he signs Brown's name, saying that he is leaving the country as he is convinced that Anita has been flirting with Baptiste and making sport of Brown. Anita receives this forged letter and as she is not familiar with Brown's handwriting and the latter fails to appear, she believes the letter to be genuine and yields to the ardor of Baptiste's persuasion that she shall be his wife. In the meantime, Brown has been found on the road by a fellow countryman, who takes the injured man to his plantation and nurses him back to health. Baptiste, while he has been successful in his intentions, is sorely troubled in mind and sees frequent apparitions of the man he thinks he has killed. Under stress of conscience, he journeys to the distant village of Padre Dominguis and, not knowing that the reverend Padre is Anita's uncle, he confesses the murder of Brown and asks for absolution. His mind is relieved by his confession, and he returns to his own village and makes preparations for his marriage to Anita. The latter writes a letter to the Padre, asking him to officiate at her wedding and the priest immediately departs for her home. Here he is introduced to the prospective bridegroom, and he is horrified to recognize the man who has so recently confessed to him a murder. He is torn with conflicting emotions. On the one hand is his duty to his dead sister's child, to guide and guard her, and on the other are his vows to the church he serves, to preserve the secret of the confessional. He dare not betray the fact that Baptiste is a murderer, but resolves to let the marriage take its course, hoping that he may eventually succeed in converting Baptiste to a life of righteousness that will atone for his crime. Brown, after a hard siege with death, in which he has conquered, thanks his benefactor and rides leisurely into the village of his sweetheart. He is shocked to learn, at her home, that she is on her way to be married. He puts spurs to his horse and dashes into the mission church just in time to interrupt the ceremony. Anita is overjoyed to see him again and he quickly explains the forged letter. Baptiste attempts to escape, but is stopped by the men of the wedding party, and the Padre continues the service with a change of grooms, while he gives thanks to God that his niece is spared from becoming the wife of a criminal.
- In happy mood, a rollicking, good-natured party of "Jack Tars" on shore leave are out for a good time, and get themselves well under way in song and general good cheer by visiting the only place of merchandise and refreshment which the little seacoast town affords. Under full sail they are steering their way through the streets of the village, running foul of trees and posts, bowing in humble apology for their seeming rudeness and disturbance. They have apparently lost their "sea legs" and are a little bit unsteady in the joints, but merrily they roll along until they come to a swinging bridge crossing the river. Here is where they strike rough weather. The bridge begins to sway and they grasp the guard rails as the "old bark" begins to toss and the seas run high. The jovial crew are convulsed with laughter as the danger of being thrown into the water below increases. She's heaving mountains high now, and threatens to turn turtle, when, "scuttle me timbers," one after the other the whole mess is landed into the gurgling stream, at last they have to take water. This ducking is part of their sport and adds to the fun of it. Our mirth joins with theirs at every surge of the bridge, and does not stop until we find ourselves laughing in chorus with the festive salts as they look smilingly at us from the screen.
- John Stuart, a young business man of the east, comes to San Antonio to locate for the good of his health. While walking about the city he sees an old padre, or priest, fall from sunstroke. Young Stuart runs to his assistance. At the same time, Marion, a young heiress, is passing in her automobile and stops to lend aid to the stricken man. They lift him into the auto and young Stuart is invited to ride with them to the Mission, where the priest lives. Thus an acquaintance is formed which ripens into an engagement between Marion and John Stuart. Marion's aunt strenuously objects to this alliance but through the interposition and kindly offices of the old padre, who has become a close friend of the young couple, they are soon married. A child is born to them, but does not live a great while. The husband is very much depressed by the loss of his little one, leaves his sorrowing wife and goes out in the hills to shoot game and divert his mind. The wife does not enjoy being left alone and feels neglected; she determines to follow her husband. While making his way through the woods, the young husband meets a bewitching Spanish girl who is attracted by him, and. to secure his attention, pretends to sprain her ankle. He assists her, and, as she is unable to walk, he lifts her in his arms and carries her across the stream. His wife appears, immediately concludes that he is unfaithful, and refuses to have anything more to do with him. Their home is broken up and the young couple separate. Again the old padre is appealed to by the young man, and, although he is sick and dying, the old man tries to bring them together by writing a letter to the wife informing her that her husband cannot live without her and hopes she will return to him. Marion receives the letter, is greatly distressed and goes to her child's grave in the garden of the Mission and comes across the newly made grave of the old padre, who has died and been buried near the grave of the child. She thinks it is her husband's and kneels weeping over the little mounds of earth. The young husband visits the graves of his child and his old friend and there sees his wife, whom he lovingly approaches and tenderly touches on the shoulder. She looks up at him as if he were an apparition. He holds out his arms and she draws closer and closer to him until folded in his arms they are happily reunited in wedlock's fond embrace under the shadows of the old Mission.
- Bill Sanders, sheriff of Alkali County, gets a warrant for Red Rube, the tough. He gives it to his deputies to serve, but Rube gets busy with the strong arm and makes them look like monkeys. When several installments of deputies have failed, Bill Sanders gets on the job himself. Bill not only knows how to juggle the 44 Colts, but he keeps gray matter in his skull. In going after Red Rube, he decides to rely on his brains instead of his hardware. He disguises himself as a tenderfoot, arms himself with a camera, and gets on Rube's trail. Things are warm and lively thereafter, but Sanders gets his man, and the honor of Alkali County is preserved.
- Ranch hand Jim is a friend to a boy named Billy at the corral he works for. When a Mexican gets fresh with a lady, he socks him, but the fight is broken up. Later, on the trail, Jim sends Billy to the store where he overhears the Mexican and his gang plot revenge.Jim's kidnapped and tied in the path of a large rock they plan to roll over him, but Billy rouses the other hands to ride to a rescue.
- From force of habit, some might call him a "Greaser," true, he is a Mexicano; he is no more, a man of noble instinct and chivalrous nature. He falls in love with the American ranchman's daughter, and while she appreciates his sincerity, she does not return his affection for her. Tony not only loves, he respects her, and will not inflict his attentions upon her, and will not inflict his attentions upon her, neither seeking recognition nor reward. He overhears a conspiracy among a gang of dissolute Mexicans to attack the American ranch, and when they insult the stars and stripes he defends the flag, makes away with it, and a bold dash for the ranch to warn Helen of the approaching danger. She jumps upon his horse and makes a daring ride at break-neck speed to reach her father and his cowboys, who hasten to defend the home. Tony, who has made a brave fight against the black-hearted devils, is captured and shot as he presses to his lips a handkerchief that once belonged to the idol of his undying love. The ranchman, his daughter and his men arrive in time to save the home and rout the desperadoes. Helen finds the lifeless form of poor Tony, clasping the evidence that shows his last thought was of her.
- Lee, after winning Dorothy's affections, breaks his engagement and marries Jessie. Heartbroken, she arrives too late at the church to induce him to right the wrong, or to catch more than a parting glimpse of Lee and his bride as they drive away to the wedding supper. Going to the pier, she takes a long, last look at Lee as the steamer taking them on their honeymoon recedes from view. Discouraged, she would end it all, and is about to jump off the cliff into the sea, when she is persuaded by the gardener of the convent not to sacrifice her life, but to devote it to good works. She thus becomes a sister of mercy, but Lee cannot forget the look of anguish on her face as he gazed upon her from the receding boat. Wherever he goes he is obsessed by her presence and haunted by his conscience. It at last so preys upon his mind that, seeing her spirit once more, he cast himself into the sea. A sailor rescues him and he is taken home, where the doctor, seeing his dangerous condition, sends to the convent for a nurse. Dorothy, not knowing who it is, answers the call. Lee is stricken with fresh fear at seeing her, but is at last persuaded that she is no spirit, and Dorothy's generous forgiveness effects his cure.
- Cynthia Moore, daughter of Colonel Moore, who is the commander of a cavalry post near the Mexican frontier, is much beloved by two junior officers in her father's command. They are Lieutenant Robert Bright and Lieutenant Arthur Hartley, both graduates of West Point, where they had been rivals during their Academy Days. This rivalry, which had been friendly at West Point, became very bitter when they were both assigned to Col. Moore's post and met his attractive daughter, and the true nature of the two men began to assert itself. Under the influence of Cynthia's smiles, Hartley worked with a will, mastered the intricacies of frontier strategy, proved himself in several tight places, and won the respect and esteem of the Colonel. Bright, on the other hand, became surly and morose, drunk a great deal, and placed himself daily farther and farther away from Cynthia and the hope of winning her. Hartley took up the study of wireless telegraphy, so necessary to maneuvers in latter-day warfare, and perfected himself in it. He also taught it to Cynthia, and when they were bending over the sender, with the blue spark hissing and biting as it leaped through the air, with their heads in proximity and their hearts beating time to the mysterious dots and dashes of the Morse code, it was all that Hartley could do to keep from blurting out his deep love. The agony that Bob Bright would undergo, when he would see them thus together, can only be understood by one who has suffered from the pangs inflicted by the green-eyed monster, Jealousy. Hartley has invented portable wireless equipment which may be carried in one's pocket, and he repairs to a spot away from the fort to test the success of his invention. Cynthia is at the sender in the wireless room at the post, and receives his call. Distinctly there comes to her the query, "Cynthia, are you there?" and she flashes back the reply, "Yes." Overjoyed at the success of his invention, Hartley is emboldened and flashes through the message, "Cynthia, I love you." Cynthia receives the message O.K. but the ardent lover is surprised and chagrined when his receiver spells: "Your instrument must be out of order." Hartley feels that he is successful in his love affairs, however, and Bright, with the eyes of jealousy, knows that he is. In this extremity, when he can stand it no longer, he resolves to destroy Hartley and conspires with a band of smugglers and desperadoes, who infest the frontier, to waylay Hartley, with the intention of killing him. This is done, but the revengeful Lieutenant cannot forbear a sight of his rival, and so accompanies the party who abduct Hartley. The latter realizes his fate, particularly as he is kicked and cuffed by Bright, but instead of being killed at once, he is allowed to suffer until sunrise of the following day. He is placed in the courtyard of an old ruin, from which it is impossible for him to escape, as his captors guard the entrances. By cutting the ropes on a jagged stone, he succeeds in freeing his hands, and taking the wireless instrument, which has been unmolested by the ignorant bandits, he sends Cynthia the well-known distress signal, "C.Q.D." She receives a call but cannot locate it, but soon through the air come the words from Hartley, telling of his plight and the place of his incarceration. Bright is present, endeavoring to press his suit, and is annoyed by the call from the wireless machine, which he does not understand. Cynthia, as soon as she can get rid of her undesirable visitor, excuses herself and rushes to her father with the news. The latter immediately dispatches a troop of cavalry to the spot, and in a pitched battle the bandits are defeated and Hartley is rescued. Bright is not aware of the miscarriage of his plans, and has sought out Cynthia with the intention of again declaring his love. Cynthia is overcome with horror of the man, and will not listen to his protestations. Maddened by her actions, Bright takes her in his arms just as Hartley enters the wireless room. Bright is astounded to find his rival unharmed, and when Col. Moore tears off his shoulder straps in indignation, he leaves the post and the service.
- Scotty's only daughter, Ethel, was becoming gradually blind. Doctors made an examination, and concluded that an operation was necessary to save the girl's sight, the cost of which would be two hundred dollars. Scotty had not the required sum and to make things worse, lost his job at the factory. At this state of affairs, Scotty, determined to save Ethel from a bitter life, set out into the world to find work. His wanderings led him to an oil well, where a goodly foreman pressed him into service. It was not long before Scotty was sent out on a special job near the wells. Meanwhile, the foreman's little girl had started from her mother's side and wandered to dangerous ground near a cliff. Scotty saw the little one and risked his own life to rescue her. He climbed the treacherous precipice and carried the child safely to the wells. His heroic act was witnessed by the frantic mother through a surveying instrument. At the wells Scotty fell, exhausted, and was carried to the foreman's house. On regaining consciousness he told of his own little girl back home becoming more and more blind every day, and to save whom he was struggling. His tale struck deep into the hearts of the men, all of whom had witnessed his valiant deed. It was voted to lake a collection, and, with the foreman as the largest contributor, Scotty was enabled to save his daughter from a calamity shortly worse death.
- This photoplay was produced in Tahiti, one of the South Sea Islands, and is the reconstruction of an ancient ballad sung by the "Kanakas," natives of the island, since the year 1650. Of all the great chiefs of Tahiti in the year 1650, Tavi was the most generous, and, therefore, the most powerful. Sharing his high position was his consort, the beautiful Taurua, whom Tavi cherished and honored more than was the custom. So that when the neighboring chief Tuiterai dispatches envoys of peace imploring the loan of his wife for seven days, Tavi must needs comply, though it break his heart, for Tavi was generous. The seven days up, Taurua is not returned and Tavi declares war. It is a long, fierce barbaric struggle. Taurua is regained and Tuiterai taken prisoner to the camp of Tavi, for none but a chief can kill a chief. But "Why?" says Tavi, "did you bring him here. My home now makes him a sacred guest." Alas for Tavi. He cannot punish Tuiterai, and to cap the climax, Taurua has fallen in love. But Tavi is generous, and surprising the lovers in tender embrace, he nobly blesses them, and gives Taurua to Tuiterai "for all time."
- Teria the daughter of Hoato-aru, one of the most influential chiefs of Tahiti, falls desperately in love with Jacques, a young midshipman of a French vessel which has dropped anchor off the island. She pleads with her father to secure Jacques as her husband. The French officers laugh in derision at the idea. So far does Teria's love go that the chief orders Jacques taken prisoner. He is brought before Teria, and through force and seduction accepts her proposal. Jacques comes to love Teria, but loyalty to his country demands that he return. At every attempt at escape he is outwitted by Hoato-aru's warriors, until at length the captain of the vessel sends out an expedition for him. At the very height of his love he is torn away from Teria, with only her last gift, a flower, with which to remember the sweetest experience of his existence.
- Oscar drags up to help his beloved Kiki by delivering hats for the shop where she works.
- A young lady under an assumed name advertises for a husband and the ad is answered by her brother. A meeting is arranged but the latter is unable to keep the appointment and sends a friend of his. It is a case of love at first sight and when the brother learns that the lady is his sister he sees the humor of the situation and blesses the lovers.
- Two young men love the same young girl. One of them, learning that war has been declared, enlists and goes to the front. Passing with his regiment before the home of his beloved, he leaves the ranks to say farewell. He asks her hand in marriage and she acquiesces. He then slips the betrothal ring on her finger and she, in turn, unclasps a locket she wears around her neck and gives it to him. He swears he will never part with it, and they exchange a last kiss. As he goes away, she bursts into tears. The other young man is called on the field of operations as war correspondent of an important newspaper. He calls on the young girl and also tells of his love for her. He meets with a repulse, he insists, she shows him her engagement ring. She is no more free, her word has been given to another. Furious, the war correspondent leaves, but vows inwardly that he will have his revenge, cost what it may, on the man who is the cause of his disappointment and whom he now hates with all his might. The young soldier, who has distinguished himself in the army, is seen promoted a sergeant, and is charged with carrying, on horseback, an important message to the staff office at the first wireless station. At full speed, he reaches the station, where he meets the war correspondent, who seeks information to impart to the enemy. Out of vengeance, he steals the sergeant's message and denounces the brave soldier as a traitor. He lies in wait for him in the middle of a wood and has him arrested just as he is returning to the camp after having fulfilled his mission. During the night the sergeant escapes. After a struggle with the sentinel, whom he strikes senseless, he hastens to the camp and informs them that the message has been stolen and that the enemy may attack them at any moment during the night. They sound the charge and the soldiers rush to the battlefield. The war correspondent arrives at the camp and tries to deceive the officer in charge, but a sharpshooter who was watching his movements shoots him dead at the feet of the commanding officer. Justice is done, and the traitor is carried away by order of the officer. A battle takes place during the night in which the enemy is pursued into the woods. The sergeant is wounded, but albeit courageous efforts to take part in the combat, he falls senseless and is carried away to the hospital. The young girl who is betrothed to the young soldier, devoting herself to her country, offers her services as nurse in the military ambulances and is unsparing in her care for the wounded. Among the latter she recognizes her affianced husband, who is lying unconscious on a litter. She fears that he is dead, but the surgeon reassures her that although he is grievously wounded he will soon recover, provided he has good care. She bends over and kisses him. This caress revives the young man, who, recognizing his fiancée, raises himself, and, happy to see her once more, he covers her with kisses. The hostilities are over. As soon as the young man is better, he and the young girl will be united, happy to be home and together.
- Making an exceptionally good haul early in the morning, Jim and John, partners in a fishing smack, declare a holiday. Jim's wife, Annie, prepares luncheon and, leaving the children in care of the obliging John, goes for a long promised row to sea with Jim. Returning that night the boat springs a leak, then sinks, and husband and wife are thrown into the water far from shore. Jim places the oars under his wife's arms for support and swims for help. Ann is washed ashore safe, though exhausted, and is revived by John, who, worried by their long absence, was at the shore searching for them with a sea glass. Jim is picked up by a smuggler's boat, and when well, is forced to become one of them. He attempts to escape when in port by instigating a mutiny, but is overpowered and threatened with death should he try it again. He is put under close surveillance. Five years have passed and Ann is still waiting and watching for Jim. Not once but many times, John, as Jim's best friend asks her hand in marriage, but she refuses. When the smugglers' vessel nears Jim's own port the temptation is too strong for him. He risks his life to jump overboard. On the shore are little Mary and Jim, Jr., his children, but they do not know him. They rescue him as he reaches shore exhausted and then call their mother. Ann recognizes him at once and the happy family are reunited once more after years of love and belief.
- The local organization of Suffragettes is in session. Its motto is "Equality with Men." It passes a resolution to demand from the mayor a job in one of the city departments. "Just in time," says the mayor, "the fireman have gone on stroke. I give your organization charge of the fire department." The Suffragettes are elated, but the firemen can only construe this latest order of the mayor as a huge joke, so if a joke is to be played, they're going to be in it, too. They set fire to some brush and send in an alarm. Now, it is well known that Suffragettes are used to many hardships, but handling a hose is not known to be exactly in their line. Consequently, great is the confusion when they arrive with the engine at the scene of the fire. As one of them later said, "We did our darnedest, but there is no getting away from the fact that water is wet, and we girls feel those things terribly." The fireman's joke worked. The Suffragettes, soaked to a woman, in their endeavor to put out the fire, were cured of the desire to have charge of a city department, and resolved to be just natural women thereafter.
- The waiters in Mr. Schmalz's restaurant go on a strike and the latter is forced to send to an agency for help. He gets it in the shape of a remodeled tramp. As a waiter, however, the tramp turns out to be a joke and after breaking dishes and ruining the place, he is thrown out. He is last seen, sitting with a couple of his kind and enjoying some of the delicacies that he had stolen from the restaurant.
- Their customs and manners. Baptizing an infant chief. The Te Hongi, rubbing of noses, the native Maori greeting. A native betrothal. Washing clothes in natural hot springs. Maori canoes. Their food. Cooking by natural hot water and steam. A Maori oven. Peeling potatoes with shells The store houses for food. Their Arts and Crafts. Wood carving. Specimens of Maori Sculpture. Tattooing, Weaving cloaks, baskets and sleeping mats. Making fire. Their Amusements. Boys diving for pennies in a hot water pool. Making grimaces, a favorite diversion The "poi" game. Playing the game of "Ti-to-tora." The "Komik-Komik." The canoe dance.
- Part one of this reel is of the beautiful city of Auckland and its environs. Panoramic views of Auckland: a characteristic New Zealand ferryboat bringing business people from the suburb of Takapuna to Auckland; striking Waterside workers on parade: picturesque Albert park; Grafton Bridge, the longest single concrete arch in the world: and the Kauri log industry. Part two is of a New Zealand ostrich farm. A baby ostrich: hooding the ostriches to pluck their feathers, a method employed because the ostrich, ordinarily a wild, nervous bird, becomes as tame as a house cat when its sight is obstructed. Part three is of a present day Maori village, Paranuul. A typical dwelling, showing the crude native inventions supposed to aid comfort and health: a homemade water hoist. Part four is of Wellington, the great seaport of New Zealand, where the great products of the country are transferred for shipment to all parts of the world. Methods of loading and unloading flax and tallow into and from the holds of great steamships by the use of hydraulic cranes are shown in actual operation.
- Several old maids apply at the Blind Marriage Agency for husbands. Skinny Pete, in search of a wife, does likewise. While he waits in the office, the women pike him off from an adjoining room. He goes to the highest bidder and is led, blindfolded, to the magistrate and married. When he discovers that his wife is no beauty, he faints and is taken to her apartments. There she mixes him a potion of Ambition, Imagination and Love and after downing that, All Is Well Along the Potomac.
- A peasant is passionately fond of his pet cat and almost worships the animal. So fond is he that he invokes Providence on the cat's behalf and Tabby is transformed into a beautiful girl. The peasant is wild with delight, and the nuptials soon take place. Alas, a nobleman comes along and covets the beautiful girl. But her feline nature asserts itself and she runs from her new wooer. Eventually a reverse transformation takes place and the peasant's wife is given back her original form of a cat. The underlying moral is, of course, that we should be satisfied with what we have and not seek the impossible.
- A staged Wild West kidnapping goes awry when the cowboys accidentally capture an actress who uses her acting skills to turn the tables on them.
- Braggs, the young western settler, comes into view leading his broncho while he leads his little child on the horse's back. Placing the child on the ground and watering the pony, he takes his knife from his pocket to make an extra hole in the saddle strap. The knife slips and penetrates his wrist, severing an artery. His wife comes to his assistance, makes a tourniquet with strips of her apron, jumps on the broncho's back, bids her husband to care for the child and keep up courage while she rides to town for the doctor. Urging her horse to its top speed, she flies like the wind while she rides against the possibility of her husband's bleeding to death before she can bring him aid. The young rancher struggles against the loss of blood and is fast approaching unconsciousness while his mind is racked with fear lest his child, playing dangerously near the cistern, should fall into it. The wife reaches the small settlement where she encounters a crowd of drunks, cowboys and lounger who tantalizingly detain her, asking her the purpose of her errand. She tries to explain and then pushes her way through their midst to the doctor's house. In response to her entreaties and the urgency of the case, the doctor mounts his horse and with the wife starts on a terrible race against death to the home of the young rancher, making Paul Revere's ride a mere joy-ride compared with the lightning-like speed and thrilling horsemanship displayed by the doctor and the wife, who reach the wounded man just in time to save his life and rescue the child from falling into the cistern.
- Dick Ford, a young easterner, just arriving in the west, is introduced by Dawson to the latter's daughter, Triss, in whose eyes he meets with great favor. But he has a treacherous rival in Jose, a cowboy, whose suit, however, is not at all favored by Triss. Matters come to a stage where action is necessary, so Dick writes Jose, giving him warning that if he comes between him and Triss, "one of us will be killed." Jose cunningly communicates the threat to Mr. Dawson, but the shock, instead of having the desired effect, causes apoplexy and proves fatal. Jose flees, leaving the torn note behind. The sheriff arrives to find part of the note, containing the words, ''one of us will be killed," and signed "Dick Ford," and circumstances would seem to be very strong against Triss' lover. He is jailed. Not satisfied with even this revenge, Jose and his friends storm the jail and drag Dick to be lynched. Meantime, however, Triss finds the other half of the note, addressed to Jose, and the real story is divulged. In a race against death, she and the sheriff come upon the lynching party in time to save Dick and mete out justice to the worst of villains.
- "Business is on the Fritz," nothing to do but complain and everything seems to be going to the "demnition bow-wows." "If things get much worse I'll close up," says the restaurateur to his waiter. "And I'll give up me job," says the waiter, "if I can't get any money out of the place." What's that? It's a "joy wagon" with a crowd of tourists: they're headed for the restaurant. Immediately the proprietor and the waiter hurriedly get a move on and hustle our to receive the guests who are soon conducted into the dining-room, served, dined and wined with alacrity that is almost magical. The host and his waiter are all smiles and are astonished as well as pleased at the liberal way in which their customers order everything and anything. Not only do they feed well, but they invite the proprietor and his assistant to partake of their wine: and soon everybody is in a jovial mood. The proprietor presents the bill to his customers and it is suggested that they blindfold the manager of the restaurant and the waiter, and the first one of the diners who is caught by them will have to pay the bill. The two men are much pleased with the idea and, after the handkerchiefs are tied over their eyes and while they are groping about the room, the customers all escape and make off in their automobile just as the proprietor and his assistant make a lively dash after the departing guests. Gloom surrounds the refectory, and while the men of victuals are kicking themselves and denouncing each other, a messenger comes in with a note from the waggish patrons enclosing a check in payment for the dinner and a forty-dollar tip for the waiter. Joy takes the place of gloom and the two happy men fall in fond and ecstatic embrace in each other's arms.
- In this film the Tango is presented as danced in New York, London and Paris. Don't miss the Parisian version.
- Mr. Gamber, though fond of his wife, was one of those men who do not believe in showing affection. He was willing to do anything for her and to make any sacrifice, but he would not make those protestations of love that, to some women, are almost more dear than love itself. He trusted her so implicitly that he could not imagine any wrong in her, and so he unintentionally threw her in the way of Jack Sands. She allowed Jack to pay her attention and soon began to traverse the downward path that ends in shame. One day the news came that Jack had been killed by a motor car. Jennie Gamber was in despair. She had written letters to Jack which, if discovered, would mean her ruin. The letters were found by Jack's widow, who, though heartbroken at her husband's deception, generously forgave Mrs. Gamber and handed her back the letters. It, however, was a lesson which Jennie never forgot.
- Beautiful views, inside and outside, of some of Japan's most picturesque temples, erected, some in modem times, some in ancient, as monuments to the Buddhist and Shinto religions. Included are: the Cho-in temple, Kyoto; Higashi-Hongwanji temple, Kyoto; the Nanenji temple nestling in the woods of Kyoto; Kitano-Tenji shrine, Kyoto; the great temple of Kiyo-Mizu, Toyko; the Kasuga shrine, Nara; and the January, February and March temples, Nara.
- Three swells stopping at the same hotel, one a bicyclist, the other a horseman and the third a motorist, are ardently in love with the same widow, living in a villa some distance in the country. Each one, eager to woo her, makes an equally strong plea with apparently the same impression, although she seems slightly to favor the horseman. After listening to their declarations of love, she dismisses them with an evasive answer. With no decided preference she is in a quandary. She does not want to lose an opportunity, but how to make a choice is a difficult problem. She has an idea. She writes them a letter and sends it to the hotel: "The first one reaching my home and me can claim me as his bride." They all get on the job, one on his bicycle, the other on horseback and the third in "auto." They're off and the race begins, the bicyclist in the lead followed by the horseman who is closely pressed by the motorist down hill, through wood and across country. The motorist has had the forethought to take a clergyman with him so as to lose no time in clinching her promise to marry him when he triumphantly reaches her first. Alas, on the way, something goes wrong with the works and the chauffeur and owner make every effort to locate the fault, and while inspecting the mechanism underneath the machine they are overtaken by the cyclist, who, seeing the parson, persuades him to get on the wheel, and is off before the motorist realizes his loss in time to prevent the deed. The bicycle with its double burden gathers speed as it comes down the hilly road and you would say for sure that the cyclist will win her. One must not count one's chickens before they are hatched. The wheel strikes a rut in the road and over they go sprawling in the dust and dirt, and while the cyclist is endeavoring to straighten his bent wheel the horseman coming up seizes the parson, and getting him on his horse, gallops away to win his bride. The horse with its double burden has been jogging along and they are nearing the widow's home. The motorist and cyclist have repaired their machines and are putting on extra speed to make up for lost time and the pace becomes fast and furious. The cyclist is overtaken after making a splendid effort to keep ahead. It is now a question as to whether the motorist can catch up with the horse. The rider, hearing the approaching motor car, urges on his horse, and the gallant animal responding, takes its owner to victory. The parson binds the bargain by making the two one. The belated bicyclist and motorist arrives upon the scene only to learn that they have lost the prize. Disappointedly but gracefully they accept their defeat and congratulate their victorious rival and his bride.
- Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is striking.
- Dick, the son of a wealthy merchant, has fallen in love with Nancy, the innkeeper's daughter. His father, not knowing of the engagement and hearing that his son is seen too often at the inn, has him married without delay to a girl in his own set. Not wishing to incur his father's displeasure, he breaks the news to Nancy and asks for the return of the engagement ring. Not being in love with his wife, Dick soon neglects her, and five years later we see him frequenting the saloon again. Nancy, who has always loved him, blames the wife for the wreck of Dick's life, and hoping to win him back, she writes a letter in Dick's name, though without his knowledge, to say that he has gone off with his first love and bids her goodbye forever. Nancy takes this letter to Dick's home to give it to his wife, but looking in at the window she sees her delirious with fever and calling incessantly for her husband. Filled with remorse, she destroys the letter and hunting up Dick, compels him to return home to his faithful wife.
- A manufacturer has his hand injured. In order to resume his work, the doctor grafts new flesh and muscle upon it. He learns afterward that the flesh had been taken from the arm of a murderer who died on the scaffold for strangling a woman. This thought preys upon his mind and he goes insane. He spends the rest of his life in an asylum.
- Two maiden sisters make a bargain with a truckman to move them from one room to another. They do not tell him that their room is on the second and the other room is on the sixteenth floor. The elevator refuses to let the truckman take the furniture up in the car, so he tells the sisters unless they double the price he will move the stuff back again to the second floor which he had brought up to the sixteenth. In the meantime a new tenant has moved some of his furniture into the second floor room. The truckman having received his increase in pay and not noticing the new furniture starts taking it to the sixteenth floor. The new tenant, believing he is being robbed, calls in the police, who make the truckman cart the pieces back to the second floor and also make him pay $10 to have the piano tuned as they feel his rough handling is responsible for its peculiar tone. The truckman is so disgusted he returns to his cart, putting up a sign, "For Sale, Cheap."
- Mr. Hepburn's home is a house divided against itself. On the one side he and his son, David, the only child by his first wife; on the other, his present wife and their son, Phil. David receives all the harsh treatment of a step-child, in spite of which, he is the better young man of the two. He courts and wins the consent of the pretty Doris to become his wife. Mr. Hepburn dies and David opens the letter his father had given him several days before: "My son David; Your mother, my first wife, and myself were divorced. Before she died she left you in my care, her estate which she had acquired in a way not approved by society. The will is in my desk. Your Father." David rushes to the desk, takes the will, and to protect his dead mother's honor, burns it, in doing which he is seen by his stepmother who accuses him of trying to defraud his step-brother. Rather than reveal the truth, he surrenders his rights and when confronted by his sweetheart even lets her think him dishonest. David leaves the house of his boyhood forever, and obtains work in a neighboring fishing town, but the worry and longing soon break down his health. He suffers a sun stroke and, feeling his end near, sends for Doris in order to bid her farewell. She comes, only to see the last spark of life fade from his body. In his hand is the crumpled note from his father. Doris reads, and then burns it, the only one to have learned the truth. She is heartbroken at her recent unbelief.
- Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house. Detective Onésime is called in to help, and is soon tangling with some criminals after the treasure too.
- A most complete study of the greatest crop growing industry of the island of Java. The immense rice fields are of two kinds; the "tegal," or dry field, and the "sawash," or wet field, laid out in terraces of different levels for irrigation purposes. After plowing and sowing the terraces are flooded for a period of eight or ten days. At the end of a month or six weeks the rice spikes, having grown crowded, are taken from the limited space in which they are confined and replanted in the "sawash" further apart to allow tall, strong growth. At the end of five or six months the terraces are in fall growth, and the whole village turns out to gather the harvest. The rice spikes tied in bundles are then packed and shipped by wagon to the mills, where the primitive method of treading by huge buffaloes is still in vogue. The rice is husked by means of a mortar and hammer, operated by boys. Then it is winnowed; allowed to fall a distance in the air, during which the husks are blown from the rice and pure rice is obtained. This rice is packed and shipped to Chelon to be stored, as very little rice is ever exported from Java. The island yields tons of rice a year, consumed entirely by the natives. Making rice liquor, an intoxicant, is another interesting feature of the picture.
- A highly interesting and educational full reel of the geysers, mud volcanoes and boiling springs of New Zealand. The steaming valley of Tikitere and close views of the boiling mud and its various ways of eruption. The great Wairakei geyser, whose plays of boiling sulfurous water occur at intervals of about nine minutes to a height of from 10 to 40 feet, lasting two minutes. The Dragon's Mouth; the Prince of Wales' Feathers; the Black Geyser, whose water is made black by the presence of manganese; the red Coral Geyser and the "Nga Mahanga" (the Twins), all beautiful spurting springs wonderful to behold. Geysers at Whakawarewa include "Pohutu" (the Splasher), "Papakura" (the Giant's Cauldron), and "Keru" (the Pigeon) in whose waters lime, ever present, has, after years, created a wonderful apron-like formation. And others.
- In the farewell beams of evening the pioneer with his wife and child stop the prairie-schooner and strike stakes for the night. Sounds of the Indian war cry disturb the quiet calm, and seen approaching in the distance is a band of savage red men. Terror-stricken, the settler seizes his gun and stands ready to defend his family. At the first volley from the Indians' rifles he falls dead. The brave wife makes a desperate resistance to protect her child. The poor woman is quickly slain by the hostile savages, leaving the helpless babe to their mercy. The band directs its attention to the settler's outfit, rifling and helping themselves to its contents. While this is going on one of the young bucks rushes for what he supposes a bundle of valuables, but which upon opening he finds to be the baby. Disappointed, he lifts his tomahawk to kill it. The big chief of the tribe sees and arrests the descent of the weapon, lifts the child in his arms, mounts his pony and lakes it back to his squaw and tells her they will adopt it secretly as their own. The child grows up a beautiful girl and she is named "White Fawn, the Paleface Princess." "Dashing Water," a young brave, loves the girl "a heap much'' and wants her for his wife, therefore his anger and jealousy are aroused when Captain Keen, a handsome young officer of a nearby military post, meets her and tails in love with her at first sight. The young fellow's sister, who is with him when he meets the princess, objects to his attentions to the Indian girl and tries to separate them, to no purpose, however. The brother manages to meet the girl, and he passes many pleasant hours with her, teaching her to master her books and solve the spell of love. "Dashing Water," seeing them in each other's arms, demands the white man's intentions. Captain Keen tells him to mind his own business and immediately the Indian throws sand in the air as a challenge and defiance. Captain Keen's sister has seen "Dashing Water" challenge her brother and observes his threatening glances. She implores the Indian not to kill her brother and then induces him to part with his knife, which she purchases and throws away. "White Fawn," with Captain Keen and his sister, seek the chief, and the Captain asks for the Princess' hand in marriage. The chief tells the young man the story of "White Fawn's" life, and then he gives "White Fawn" a locket containing her mother's portrait, which he tells her she wore about her neck when he found her a baby on the prairie. The chief joins "White Fawn's" and the Captain's hands and blesses them in peculiar Indian fashion. "Dashing Water" approaches in angry mood with hand on his knife. The chief beckons him away. The Captain's sister clasps "White Fawn" in her arms and Keen grasps the hand of the chief.
- Joe and Dave, who room together, are both madly in love with Marion, the daughter of a wealthy gentleman. She leads them both on, thereby having a glorious time. Before calling on Marion one evening, Joe falls asleep. Dave, thinking to kill Joe's chances, blackens his face with shoe polish. Having finished the job Dave takes a nap, and Joe decided to do the same to Dave, not knowing it has been done to himself. They both call on Marion at different hours that evening and get anything but a cordial welcome, being kicked out and landing in a heap on the front steps. Upon returning to their rooms, each discovers the cause of their treatment, also the announcement of Marion's engagement to Sir George Rawlins, her father's choice.