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- Grandfather gets a pair of magic spectacles, which he claims to possess the miraculous power of showing the tastes and inclinations of the person who puts them on. There are present at the time a large family gathering, father, mother, sons and daughters, and grandchildren, and each member of the party in turn puts on the spectacles. Then we see on the curtain all that is passing in the mind of the wearer clearly portrayed in each eye, just as if we were looking through opera glasses.
- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.
- A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
- In this hand-colored short, a magician and his assistant do a series of magic tricks, including making potted plants appear, among others. Melies played the magician, and the actor Manuel played his assistant.
- Outside Cleopatra's palace a youth and maiden are observed. They are evidently very much in love with each other. While conversing, the gates open, Cleopatra and Mark Antony come forth, accompanied by soldiers, dancing girls. Etc. He bids farewell to Cleopatra and, accompanied by a bodyguard, starts on his journey. The youth takes no further notice of his sweetheart, but gazes fascinated at Cleopatra, who, after waving farewell to Antony, re-enters the palace. The youth continues to gaze after Cleopatra, pushes his affianced aside, falls to his knees and kisses the step where Cleopatra stood. He then goes into the grounds, underneath her bedchamber, writes on a scroll of his ardent love, wraps the paper around his arrow and shoots it through the window. Inside the chamber Cleopatra and her servants are startled, take the arrow and read the note. Looking outside, nobody can be seen. Shortly afterward Cleopatra goes outside to the bathing pool, poises on the brink, when, looking toward a clump of bushes, she spies the lovesick youth. He is brought out and Cleopatra imperiously demands what his presence means. He is not abashed, but kneels and tells of his love. Cleopatra orders her attendants away, takes the youth and leads him off. When alone he again reiterates his love. Cleopatra orders her servants to bring wine, fruit, perfumes, etc. Dancing girls appear, execute a few manoeuvres, then leave. Cleopatra then rises and dances before the youth. A servant enters, delivers a message to the mistress, then departs. Cleopatra hands a goblet to the young man, who drinks its contents, then falls dead. Cleopatra bows over his body a moment, then springs up and sits on the throne as Mark Antony comes down the steps. He salutes and embraces Cleopatra, observes the corpse and demands an explanation. Cleopatra carelessly replies: "Just another slave l was experimenting on with poison."
- On a fine winter morning, an aristocratic couple of city dwellers decide to have a picnic in the great outdoors, however, everything seems to go wrong, all at once.
- Set in an early cinema house, this comic short illustrates the problems with the gals' hats obscuring the movie patron's line of vision.
- A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits induces violent illness, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill. When she shows up at the office, they all go after her.
- The persecution of the children of Israel by the Egyptians. Now there arose up a new king in Egypt. And he said unto his people. Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Let us set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. (Exodus, chapter I.) The first scenes show the Egyptian court and King Pharaoh commanding the slave drivers to beat the Hebrew toilers who show signs of rebellion. Pharaoh notices this and, calling his scribes, orders that a decree be published that every man-child born to the Hebrews be killed. The parchment is prepared and is read in Pharaohs court in the presence of Pharaohs daughter, who hears and pleads in vain for his clemency. Pharaohs Decree: Every male child that is born to the Hebrews shall be cast into the river. The Egyptians ruthlessly proceed to carry out the decree and seize the male children from the arms of the Hebrew mothers. Here we are shown the interior of a Hebrew dwelling. The child Moses is in a cradle and his mother is bending over him, utterly unconscious of the cruel edict of King Pharaoh. The sister of Moses is shown attending to household duties and she takes a pitcher and goes to the well to draw water. There she learns of the slaughter of the innocents and hastens back and tells the mother of the cruel scenes she has witnessed. They decide to hide the child Moses by the river, and the cradle or ark is covered and carried between them to a marsh, where they plaster the outside with soft mud to keep out the water, and placing the child therein, his sister remains nearby to watch what will become of him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the rivers edge; and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept, and she had compassion on him. Pharaohs daughter fondles and pets the crying child and decides that she will keep him for her own. The sister of Moses approaches and suggests that she call a nurse of the Hebrew women and she, of course, called the childs mother. And Pharaohs daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it. Pharaoh is informed of his daughters caprice and demands to see the child. He orders it away, but his daughter embraces him and pleads so hard for the life of the child that he consents and gives it his protection and blessing. A fitting ending is a picture of the mother and sister of Moses again fondling their own and giving thanks to God for their unexpected good fortune. The first reel of this series ended with the child Moses being adopted by Pharaohs daughter. The Hebrews are still under bondage, and we see them laboring in the brick fields, beaten by the taskmasters, as they build those gigantic specimens of Egyptian architecture, many of which stand to this day. Moses has been reared and educated in the Egyptian court, and is now in the prime of life, but he does not forget that he is of Hebrew blood, and, as he watches his brethren in their slavery, his blood boils at the outrages and he looks toward Heaven and cries, How long, oh Lord, how long? A number of Hebrews are digging clay, which is filled into baskets. The load is too heavy for one of the laborers, and the taskmaster beats him unmercifully. Moses sees this and kills the taskmaster. T The other Hebrew slaves, horrified at the enormity of the act, run away, and Moses, afraid of the consequences, hastily buries the body in the clay pit. Two days after this, Moses seeks to separate two of his brethren who are quarreling, and one of them says: Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian? Moses is terrified when he knows that his crime is known, and decides to flee from the country. He seeks refuge in the home of a Hebrew laborer and bargains for a suit of the laborers garments, with which he disguises himself; he also purchases provisions and a water bottle, and departs. Moses is seen crossing the desert. Tired and dusty, he rests and drinks from his water flask. Still toiling on through the arid desert, he reaches an eminence and looks hack to see if he is being followed, and, seeing no one, he gives thanks for his deliverance. Moses has at last reached the land of Midian. He discovers a well and refreshes and rests himself. While he is resting seven daughters of Jethro, a Midianite, come to the well to draw water for their sheep and cattle. Other herdsmen also come to the well and ungallantly drive away the maidens, but Moses comes to their aid, and draws the water for them. The home of Jethro, the priest of Midian, father of the seven maidens. They enter and tell of the encounter at the well, and how they were aided by a Hebrew traveler. He says the man must be his guest, and hastens to the well and greets Moses and invites him to the shelter of his house, which offer is accepted. Moses enters the home of the priest of Midian, where he is effusively greeted by the whole household, and we see him seated and enjoying a meal with the family. (And Moses was content to dwell with the manand he gave Moses his daughter, Zipporah, to wife.) (Forty years later). Moses is now a shepherd, and, while tending his flocks in the land of Midian. The voice of God speaks to him out of a burning bush and commands him to return to Egypt and deliver his brethren out of the bondage of the Egyptians. Moses bids farewell to Jethro, his father-in-law, and, with his family, journeys to Egypt. On the way he meets Aaron, who had been, commanded by the Lord to meet Moses, and together they arrive at the Egyptian court. The court of Pharaoh, a young man, the elder Pharaoh having died while Moses was in Midian. The officials announce the new arrivals, and Moses and Aaron are ushered in and demand, in the name of the Lord, that the Children of Israel be set free. The Egyptian king refuses, and Moses tells him that if he does not consent the wrath of God will come on all the Egyptians. Moses prays to the Lord for advice, and is commanded to work a miracle before the Egyptian monarch to convince him that it is the Lord, the God of the Israelites, who demands the deliverance of His people. Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh again. Aaron casts his rod upon the ground and it becomes a serpent. Pharaoh is amazed, but he still refuses to free the Children of Israel. Pharaohs continued refusal brings upon Egypt the ten plagues. Moses finds Pharaoh near the rivers edge and again asks that his people be allowed to go free. When Pharaoh denies again. Aaron smites the water of the river with his rod and the waters are turned into blood. Again Moses appears before Pharaoh and again Pharaoh refuses his request. As God had commanded, Moses stretches his hand toward heaven and immediately a great storm of hail and lightning, such as they had never seen, descends on Egypt, killing man and beast and striking terror to the heart of Pharaoh. Pharaohs heart was again hardened and he still refuses to free the Hebrew children. Again Moses stretches his hand toward heaven, and a thick darkness, a darkness that might be felt, covered the land for three days, so that no one was able to rise from his place. The last and most terrible plague visited on Egypt for Pharaohs continued refusal is the death of all the Egyptian first born. The Feast of the Passover is instituted at this time. Moses directing all the Hebrew people to observe the Feast by killing and preparing a lamb. Moses commands the Children of Israel to sprinkle the door posts on both sides and on top with the blood of the lamb and on every house where they are to eat the Feast of the Passover, and to prepare the Feast. The Feast of the Passover is observed, according to the instructions of Moses, by every Jewish family in Egypt, the Feast consisting of roast lamb with unleavened bread and herbs. The same night that the Feast of the Passover is being observed by the Israelites, the Angel of Death passes over the land of Egypt in the last plague, the death of the first born. The Angel of Death enters every Egyptian home where there is no blood on the doorposts, and the first born of every Egyptian family is slain, from the first born in Pharaohs household to the first born of the captive in the dungeons. The Angel of Death, however, passes by every Jewish home, as God had promised to Moses that where He saw the blood on the doorposts He would pass them over and the plague should not be upon them. In Pharaohs palace Pharaoh and his court are feasting, when the Angel of Death enters and Pharaohs own first born is slain. Pharaoh is overcome with grief at this terrible visitation and sends for Moses and Aaron immediately. The death of his first born softens the heart of Pharaoh and when Moses and Aaron now appear before him he commands them to take the Children of Israel and to depart out of the land of Egypt. Moses and Aaron give the command to the Hebrew people, who immediately gather together their possessions and prepare to leave the land of their bondage with reverent and thankful hearts. With Moses and Aaron as leaders, the Israelites begin their exodus from Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, where they had been slaves for so many years.
- An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
- In a medieval palace, an astronomer with a telescope shows the king.
- Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
- A drowsy pipe-smoker attempts to nap, only to be tormented relentlessly by the mischievous Princess Nicotine and her fairy companion.
- A man buys the novel The Invisible Man by "G.H. Wells" at a bookshop, and in it finds the recipe for Wells' invisibility potion. Then the opportunity makes the thief.
- Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.
- Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
- An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead.
- Scene 1. The Prophecy: Josephine, while walking in the gardens on the island of Martinique, is told that "she will be more than Queen and yet outlive her dignity." Scene 2. Napoleon Meets Josephine at Madam Talien's Saloon and Falls in Love with Her: Josephine, with other ladies, is seated as Napoleon enters and is introduced. It is a case of love at first sight. As Napoleon makes ardent love to Josephine, the others thoughtfully withdraw. Scene 3. Napoleon's Departure to Take Command of the Army of Italy Three Days After His Marriage to Josephine: Napoleon bids good-bye to Josephine, mounts his horse and rides away, his staff and the troops following. Scene 4. Napoleon Having Been Crowned Emperor of France, Longs for a Son to Perpetuate His Name and Contemplates Divorce From Josephine: Napoleon enters the throne room, walks restlessly up and down and at last calls his valet, whom he directs to summon Josephine. She enters with her attendants. Napoleon dismisses the ladies, tells Josephine that he must have a son. She, having expected this, is resigned and turns away in a swoon. Scene 5. The Public Proclamation of Divorce Between Napoleon and Josephine in the Grand Salon of the Tuileries: The members of Napoleon's family and the Imperial Council of State are assembled as Josephine enters, signs the paper and leaves the room. Scene 6. The Parting of Napoleon and Josephine After the Divorce: In his bed chamber Napoleon is discovered in great grief, his valet endeavoring to calm him. The door opens and Josephine enters. After a pathetic farewell, she staggers from the room. Scene 7. Josephine at Malmaison After the Divorce: Memories of Napoleon. Josephine, seated on a chair, sees a vision of Napoleon. She crosses to the mantel, caresses a bust, sits down and plays the harp. As the vision vanishes, she stretches out her arm in despair and falls to the ground.
- Mrs. Jones is a member of the Ladies' Temperance League, and has invited the sisters of the League to a luncheon at the Jones domicile. She receives a note to the effect that they will accept the invitation upon condition that Mr. Jones is not in evidence, as his views on temperance and theirs do not concur. This intelligence is most felicitous to Jones and he prepares to "beat it." Another note, however, arrives and this is from the caterer, who informs Mrs. Jones that owing to a strike of the Waiters' Union, he is unable to furnish service. Here is trouble. "What is to be done? Ah, I have it. Hubby dear, shall act." And so Mrs. Jones broaches the subject to him. He is indignant. "What, I, the Hon. Edward Everett Jones, play the waiter." But Mrs. Jones cooingly persuades and Jones at last weakens, or rather appears to, for he has suddenly conceived sport in the situation. The maid is dispatched to the costumer's for the waiter's outfit, and Jones, when rigged out, looks the typical garcon. Mrs. Jones is delighted. The door-bell rings and the Amazonian annihilators of Demon Rum arrive. They are ladies with curdled dispositions and complexions of chow-chow. They take their places at the table and set in to have a perfectly lovely time by feeling as miserable as possible. They eat as if it were a duty, not a pleasure. The luncheon is served until it comes to the coffee, when Jones works his dire design. In all the cups, excepting that of his wife, he pours a generous dose of Rum. This the old girls drink with keen relish and ask for more. This time Jones serves them pure unadulterated Rum - in other words, Rum Straight. Those giddy old ladies thaw out and Mrs. Jones is amazed, she, of course, ignorant of the cause of their unseemly conduct. Jones and the maid are in high glee. One old lady so far forgets herself as to try to kiss Jones. This arouses the ire of Mrs. J. who ejects the bunch, and then falls weeping into the arms of Mr. Jones.
- A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest.
- The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before she inherited her fortune, plans to burglarize that very house, unaware of the occupants or the trap.
- A bored rich woman goes slumming as a domestic at a boarding house, where she falls in love with a sensitive young musician.
- Sugawara no Michizane was a poet/politician of the Heian period, who fell from grace and died in exile. It was said that his vengeful ghost was the cause of subsequent plagues, natural disasters, and deaths.
- A boss kidnaps the foreman's daughter. A dog leads the strikers to her and they thrash the boss.
- Cretinetti is sent to throw a lot of Christmas cards and creates chaos wherever he goes.
- The most satisfying and pleasurable sensation experienced is "getting even," especially where one has been held up to ridicule before a jeering mob. Such was the reguerdon of Bud, the Kid of the Mining Camp, after suffering gross humiliation at the hands of the other cowboys and miners. Miss Lucy, the belle of the camp, is introduced to the Kid, and makes an impression; the Kid becomes quite seriously inclined towards her. The boys, more in the spirit of jest than chagrin, poke fun at him; call him the baby, and end with Jim Blake spanking him. Needless to say the Kid is mortified and swears to get square. A masque ball is to be held that night, so Bud plans his revenge. All tog out in grotesque costumes, a high old time is imminent, for it is fair to assume that the society folk of the camp will be well represented. Bud, however, feigns a toothache and will not go. Dressed up in carnival duds, the gang leaves the shack for the pavilion. All gone. Bud jumps from his bunk, and dresses up in swell female attire, the effect being marvelous. He presents such a striking appearance that he is the belle of the ball. Jim Blake becomes deeply smitten, and after leading him on Bud soon has Jim on his knees, pouring out his soul's devotion, regardless of the snickerings of the motley mob around them. There Jim kneels, declaring his undying love for the fair charmer, as only a lion-hearted cowboy can, when Bud removes his hat and wig. "Holy "Smoke!" Well it is safe to say that Mr. James Blake will not attend any more spanking bees where the Kid is a victim.
- Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace.
- Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.
- The awakening to a broader understanding of one's life partner in marriage, after the primrose path of the honeymoon is left behind, and the more commonplace things in life are to be dealt with, is often a tragedy which harvests bitter tears and many vain regrets. The story of Mr. and Mrs. John Seymour is the old, old story of love lost after marriage. In the closer intimacy which marriage offers. Mrs. Seymour finds in her husband anything but ideal characteristics which she imagined he possessed, and consequently ceases to love him. On the other hand, her husband, blind in his devotion, overlooks his wife's shortcomings. As is often the case in such a woeful one-sided love. Mrs. Seymour finds the company of other men more pleasant than that of her husband, and becomes infatuated with handsome John Hazleton, who, in turn, loves her passionately. Unbeknownst to her husband, Mrs. Seymour meets secretly with Hazleton, and in the end the misguided woman is persuaded to elope with Hazleton. Seymour has lately been suspicious of his wife's unfaithfulness to him, and upon the day Mrs. Seymour and Hazleton have chosen to leave the city together, he enters the house. Hazleton. who is in Mrs. Seymour's apartments, assisting her in her packing," and finding escape from the room cut off. hides himself in the woman's trunk just as Seymour enters the room. The woman offers no explanation of her excitement and flurry and accounts for the trunk and the litter of clothing about it in a feeble excuse that she had decided, to spend a few days at the seaside. Seymour's suspicions are verified when he observes on the table a lighted cigar. A movement from within the trunk satisfies him of the whereabouts of the intruder in love and home. Seymour plans revenge and adopts a unique and novel one. From a drawer in the writing table he draws a revolver, picks up a sheet of paper, and tearing a hole in the middle for a bull's-eye, requests his wife to place it on the trunk, that he is going to show her some expert marksmanship. The woman, horrified, refuses to do so. He forces the paper into her hand and compels her to place it upon the trunk. Calmly he raises the revolver and fires. A moment later a railroad ticket agent, accompanied by two baggage men, enters the room, in answer to Mrs. Seymour's summons. The trunk and its contents are carried out of the room and Mrs. Seymour given her ticket, while her husband expresses the hope that she "may have a pleasant stay at the seaside." The woman, dazed by the sudden and awful tragedy, stumbles room out of the room and Seymour drops into a chair, his face in his hands.
- A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.
- A king exacts vengeance upon his faithless mistress and her lover.
- Music lovers will enjoy seeing this beautiful picture showing the great master "in his habit as he lived," and following his footsteps on the night when, moved by pity, he was inspired to compose, for a poor blind girl, his immortal "Moonlight Sonata." Wandering one evening, alone, through the streets, his attention was attracted by the notes of one of his own compositions, rendered in a masterly manner, and, upon inquiry, he found that the player was a poor blind girl. Entering the humble home, he found the beautiful musician, the devoted sister of a loving brother, he a mender of shoes, she a pianist, both well-bred, refined and of lofty ideals. Without revealing himself, Beethoven, learning from the fair musician's lips that she was an ardent admirer of his music, moved by the environment and charm of the evening, sat down at the piano and improvised. The beauty of the night, the moonlight, the breathless attention of his hearers, his sympathy, all combined to inspire a masterpiece which thousands have enjoyed since that fateful evening when an accidental turn brought to life the "Moonlight Sonata."
- Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction. Not content with this he follows Galora and would have killed him were it not for the timely arrival of a policeman, who arrests him. Here he boasts of what he did at the home, and Galora makes a mad race to save his child, who is still dangling five stories from the ground; several times Mrs. Galora has approached the window to hang out clothes, etc., but was always called away by some fortuitous happening, until Galora bursts in followed by two policemen, who have given chase, thinking him crazy. They are now in a quandary as to how to rescue the child, for to raise the window meant certain death. At last Galora suggests they let down the top sash and he is held by the feet as head down he lifts the baby from its perilous position into the room. While the subject is intensely thrilling, it is totally devoid of gruesomeness.
- Some shadows in a street wall turned into a bunch of eight crackpots, each of them playing a different musical instrument. Then they changed into several objects like a drum or umbrellas and, finally, they completely disappeared.
- Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim.
- A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, shoots him.
- Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar. "One year later" Bud tires of society. We see Bud and his new wife entertaining and our cowboy shows plainly that he is desperately weary of the effete East, then Bud goes to the club and the men he meets there and their conversation is getting on his nerves. "After the theater" a return home and Bud longs for the fresh air of the vast West. As he sinks wearily into a chair a Remington painting catches his eye. It is one he had recently purchased, a broncho buster and his locoed horse. The artist had caught the wild spirit of his subject, and as Bud's mind returns to scenes of a similar nature, a happy inspiration comes. "By Jove, I'll do it." He seizes a telegraph blank, rings for his butler, and sends the following message: "Col. Dalton, Foreman Circle 'D' Ranch, "This high-brow life is killing me. Am sending you special train. Bring the whole outfit, band, horses and all. This town needs excitement. Come and help wake it up. BUD." A few days later we see the boys at a swell suburban depot: Bud and his wife in their auto, and the punchers in chaps and sombreros soon create a world of excitement on the city streets. Then Bud takes the boys yachting; next to see a melodrama, where the Colonel takes exceptions to the villain's heartless treatment of "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl." "Bud, either send those horrid creatures back where they came from or I get a divorce," declares Mrs. Bud. So the boys are next seen in a palatial café car homeward bound. The Colonel gets into an argument with the colored cook and that worthy dives through an open car window to escape the cowboy's wrath. Our closing scene is in the cozy home of the millionaire. He and his wife are enjoying a quiet tete-a-tete when the butler bands in a telegram. It reads; "On root. Everybody enjoyin' theirselves. The Colonel sure some happy, he just shot a coon. Will send the bill to you. THE BOYS." Bud laughs heartily. The wife joins and as she nestles up to her big manly husband, says: "You won't ever want to be a cowboy again, will you, Bud?" Bud turns slowly; looks at the Remington painting which has been the innocent cause of their recent quarrel, and walking over, he turns the picture to the wall, holds out his arms to his wife, and as her head nestles against his shoulder, we plainly catch his words, "Never Again."
- During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring the first child they meet. Whichever soldier she gives the 'death disc' to shall die. Cromwell is charmed by the girl and gives her his signet ring. By chance the child is the daughter of one of the soldiers and gives the death disc to her father, because she thinks it's pretty. The child is returned home to her mother, who learns of her husband's pending execution and of the power of the ring. She rushes to the place of execution and saves her husband by producing the ring.
- In the form of an elegantly dressed gentleman, Mephistopheles appears with the intention of working havoc in the heart of a woman, whose devotion to her little daughter embodies all that true affection which only a mother can express for her first-born. Although endeavoring to resist the temptations of the persuasive lover, the woman becomes aware of her weakness against this designing person, who tells her that if she will not give him her love voluntarily, he will steal her heart by force. Then the man's form is mysteriously replaced with that of the Devil, who abstracts the heart of his victim and departs. The little daughter, returning from school, greets her mother with much show of affection, but her parent gives back but a cold response. The Devil has transformed her into a different person. Her affections have been stolen. All the warmth of her soul, all motherly instinct and love have departed. The child is much distressed at the sudden change in her mother, and after many tears, prays to the Holy Virgin for help. Her pleadings are answered by the appearance of a fairy, who comforts the child and explains how she can help to restore the lost bond of love. "Your mother's heart has been stolen," she says, "and this veil I give to you will help you to overcome all obstacles in your search for the person who has taken possession of your mother's love. Go to the Devil's Castle, and there you will regain your mother's heart." Little Elsie sets out upon her mission, and her progress being stopped by a river, the magic veil is brought into use, with the result that a bridge is immediately brought into existence for the help of the little wayfarer. Next threatened by two ill-looking witches, she again employs the fairy's veil, and raises up a barrier of fire and smoke to the defeat of her pursuers. Eventually reaching the Devil's Castle, she wields her wonderful power in overcoming the castle guards, and gains entrance to the sanctum of his satanic majesty. But here she is rudely treated and cast into a dungeon. One of the devil's minions, however, taking compassion upon her, guides her to the Devil's throne, where the great tempter and heart robber is slumbering. Now is the moment of her triumph. Never was a heart sought with greater fervor and desire than little Elsie evinces in her anxiety to regain this lost love of her mother. With a supreme effort she casts the veil over the sleeping demon, and in an instant be is secured in bonds of cord from which he cannot escape. Courageously approaching the Devil, the little girl, by a mysterious power, is able to gain possession of the stolen heart, and in ecstasies of delight returns home with her priceless treasure. With her former affections reinstated, the mother is able to respond with nature's promptings to the caresses and love of her child. The bond of unity being once again firmly established, the machinations of the Devil are defeated.
- A young girl is being urged by her father to marry a Duke. She refuses and leaves the room, closely followed by the Duke who remains unseen. She enters the garden, where she meets her lover. The couple plight their troth. The young man gives his sweetheart a ring in token, then hastily departs. The girl, turning, meets the Duke face to face. He follows her to the house, tells her father of the scene he has witnessed. The old man angrily orders his daughter from the room, then with the Duke concocts a plan to cure the girl's love. They dispatch a note, signing the lover's name, making an appointment for that evening. She unsuspectingly goes to the spot designated, waits anxiously for her lover, and when he does not appear, returns home, convinced that he is false. Another forged note but adds to her grief, and when the Duke again presses his suit the girl reluctantly consents. In due time the wedding takes place and as the bride signs the marriage contract, her former lover enters and demands an explanation. The girl tells of the letters. He angrily asks for the betrothal ring, throws it to the ground, grinds it beneath his feet, bitterly curses her and her family, then leaves. The young girl realizing the deception practiced upon her, shows signs of madness. Her father, entering with the Duke, becomes alarmed at her condition. The latter is frightened at her wild appearance, and as he approaches she stabs him before her father can intercede. She kisses the picture of her lover, walks among the guests still carrying the dagger. During this time the lover in his room is bemoaning his fate, when the fearful news is brought to him. He hastens to the castle and pleads with his sweetheart, trying to bring back her wandering senses. She gazes at him wildly at first, then gradually her memory returns. The forged letters arc again brought out and when the lover denies having written them, the knowledge that he still loves her and the fact that she has been cruelly deceived, drives her again to madness and she dies in her lover's arms.
- Mary Wilson, a neglected child of the slums, falls in with Bob Walton, a tough denizen of the lower east side, and loves him with a pure, honest affection that his low nature cannot appreciate. He forces her to enter a saloon where she is insulted by Harry Brown, which is resented by Bob. They quarrel, come to blows, and Brown draws a gun as Bob closes in on him, forcing the muzzle against Brown's breast as it explodes, thereby causing him to shoot himself, dying almost instantly. But Walton is arrested and sentenced to one year in Sing Sing. The morning papers appear with an account of the affair and as Mary's name is put into prominence in the account she is grievously hounded by misfortune, evicted from her boarding place and also discharged from the factory where she works, she falls into the hands of a professional woman shoplifter, who is anxious to enlist her services as an accomplice. The girl soon discovers the character of her would-be benefactor, and rushes from the place, running into the arms of the Salvation Army, which offers her peace and rest. Taking her to the barracks she is enrolled a soldier, and one soul is lifted from the darkness into the light. With the Army, Mary has won the affection of all for her humility and goodness. Working as she does, in the slums a year later she comes face to face with Bob, who has just been released from prison, having served his time. He is on the point of becoming a party to a burglary, but she prevents, even with almost fatal results for herself. But she will not give him up, and after a series of touching episodes finally moves him to appreciate the strength of that holy invitation "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give thee rest." so in the final scene we see Bob kneel in devout humility to receive God's healing grace from His ministers, A strong point in this subject is that it depicts real life and real people.
- Canta, known as "the ugly girl," is hooted at by the children, shunned by all men and made a laughing stock of by the women. Sad indeed is her lot and despair is written on her unattractive countenance as she draws her shawl more closely around her and hurries away to some solitary spot where she can rest in peace. The scene is distinctly an Oriental one. Wherever one turns the richest of coloring greets one's eyes. The tiny dark native children in picturesque costumes play in the streets. Everybody seems happy and contented except poor Canta, who passes out of the town into the country where she can be alone with Nature, who kinder than her fellow beings smiles on her and whispers beautiful things to her such as she never heard from human lips. Reaching a cool quiet stream Canta stops to quench her thirst. In the distance she hears someone approaching, and looking around she sees a splendid looking youth coming along with faltering steps in her direction. She crouches as if to hide, as she does not wish him to see her ugly face. As he draws nearer she sees he is handsomer and more splendid than he appeared at first, but she also sees that he is blind and guides himself with a staff. No longer fearful, now that she knows the stranger cannot see, the girl stands erect and when he asks her for a drink hastens to give it to him. He gently kisses her hand in gratitude for her kindness and Canta begs him to allow her to be his guide. These two afflicted mortals therefore start out together each glad of the companionship of the other. One day the blind man, Ivah by name, meets a dervish, who presents him with a lotion which he says will restore his sight. When Canta hears it she becomes alarmed because she is fearful that should Ivah see how hideous his guide is he will flee from her as do the rest of her fellow creatures. But her love conquers her pride and she decides to induce Ivah to use the cure no matter what the consequences might be to herself. Her unselfishness is rewarded and shortly after Ivah has used the liquid they both stand at the feet of one of their gods, he not only regains his sight, but the generous girl, as a reward for the sacrifice she was willing to make, becomes the most beautiful of maidens, and when Ivah looks upon her he makes up his mind that she and no one else will be his bride.
- A corrupt politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in wooing her.
- A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can't get his wife's face out of his thoughts.
- Free adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel. The subject opens with the return home of Prince Dimitri, who meets the maid Katusha, a little peasant girl, and is instantly charmed with her beauty. Young, artless and innocent, as pretty as a rose, she unwittingly fascinates the prince. His noble bearing likewise impresses her, and his little attentions flatter her, until at length she is unable to resist his advances. The poor girl is meted the usual fate. An alliance is out of the question. The disparity of their ranks even forbids it, and soon the prince must cast her aside. Five years later we find that the girl, who is now a loathsome sight, has learned the bitter lesson of the eternal truth, "The wages of sin is death." It is death to the soul at all events. She has gone down to the lowest depths and is arrested in a low Russian tavern. As she is carried to the tribunal she passes Prince Dimitri, who now sees the terrible result of his sins. He grows repentant and attempts to plead her cause before the jury, but they are a callous lot and pay no attention to the arguments for nor against, and by force of habit vote to send her to Siberia. She is dragged out to the pen of detention and herded with a lot of poor unfortunates, who scarcely bear any resemblance to human beings. The repentant prince determines to give up his life to right the wrong he has done, and visits her here with a view of turning her now vicious nature, handing her a copy of the Bible. She does not recognize him at first, but when she does she flies into fury, beating his body and face with her fists and the book. He leaves her and she sits moodily on the bench with the book on her lap. Shortly she turns its pages and lo, the Resurrection! Her eyes fall on the passage (John xi, 25), "And Jesus said unto her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall he live." In an instant her whole being changes. There is hope for her salvation, and she reads on. The guards arrive and we next see her with the poor unfortunates trudging over the snow-clad steppes toward the goal from whence few return. She becomes the ministering angel, sharing her comforts with them. The prince, meanwhile, has secured her pardon and hastens after her. Giving her the welcome notice, he begs her to return with him as his wife: but no, she prefers to work out her salvation helping those poor souls to whom a kindness is an indescribable blessing, and bidding him farewell, she renounces the world for the path of duty, so we leave her kneeling on the snow at the foot of the Holy Cross.
- In the little Italian city of Cremona there dwelt Taddeo Ferrari, a violin maker and student of Andrea Amati, the most famous of the craft. Ferrari's pretty daughter, Giannina, was beloved by one of his apprentices, Sandro. Filippo, a crippled youth and the best violin maker in Cremona, also loved the girl with a pure, holy affection that is more spiritual than material, but realizing his unattractiveness through his deformity, suffers his hopelessness with resignation. Yearly there is a prize of a precious chain of gold awarded to the maker of the best violin, and all the apprentices strive to win it. On this occasion, however, the hand of Giannina is to be bestowed upon the most proficient craftsman, and this induces the young men to make extra efforts to win. Sandro fully appreciates the rare talent of Filippo and feels sure his wonderful skill will win his sweetheart from him. Crushed and despairing he seeks out Giannina and tells her his fears, she tearfully acknowledging the strength of his reasoning. While thus occupied they are overheard by Filippo, who sees what woe his success would mean for her, and thinking only of her happiness, through his great love for her he makes a great sacrifice. Going to his room he takes his instrument and goes and places it in Sandro's box, taking Sandro's violin and putting it in his own. Sandro, however, thwarts the good intention of Filippo by exchanging the instruments, not knowing what Filippo had done, thereby upsetting the planned munificence of the cripple. When the instruments are placed in competition, and the prizes are about to be awarded, Sandro's conscience pricks him, and calling the cripple aside, confesses his deed. Filippo bursts into taunting laughter, telling him what he, himself, had done, and now he spoiled it all. Judgment is passed and Filippo is, of course, the victor. The chain is placed about his neck, and the hand of Giannina placed in his. But also, he feels she recoils, and thinking only of her happiness he crashes his violin over his knee, thereby putting himself out of the contest and making Sandro the winner. He then places the chain about Sandro's neck, and handing the girl over to him he rushes from the hall. We finally leave him alone in his room, crushed and dejected, yet contented in the thought that he had made her happy.