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- The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Dick Blair, the idle son of millionaire parents being born with a "silver spoon in his mouth" like many another of the "Idle rich," abuses his opportunities and becomes in early manhood, a dissipated man about town. In spite of repeated warnings and also threats of disinheritance, he continues in the "pace that kills" until his father, realizing that unless the boy is thrown upon his own resources and made to feel actual want, he would go to an early grave, finally drives him from the home that had sheltered him since childhood, and orders him to make his own way in the world. His new life begins when he saves from drowning the daughter of a famous banker and modestly disappears after the heroic deed. In answering an application for a private secretary, he finds his employer to be the father of the girl whom he had saved from drowning. The daughter of the banker recognizes Dick as her rescuer and the banker takes a special interest in him. Dick's sterling qualities eventually win him a junior partnership with his employer and also the hand of the girl whom he rescued from a watery grave. Proud of his wife and the position in life he has attained, he calls upon his father and a happy reconciliation follows.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- During a party to watch Haley's comet, a father sees his daughter in the arms of a "strange young man" through the group's telescope. He breaks up the couple, dragging his daughter inside by the hair, but the young man returns to woo the girl from the garden below. He tries to climb to the window, but the father appears again to breakup the romance. The father banishes his daughter to bed and, to be sure she does not escape, confiscates her clothes and takes them to bed with him. Never at a loss, the daughter steals her father's only pair of clothes and sneaks away to elope with her lover. Discovering her departure, the father is forced to don her clothes in order to chase after her. Meanwhile, the young couple go to the home of an inexplicably effeminate priest, who is reluctant to marry the two 'boys' but concedes when one of them removes her cap to reveal she is a girl. The ceremony is performed and the father arrives too late, only to be lectured by the priest about both is rage and his odd dressing habits.
- Knud, a vicar's son, meets Magda, a piano teacher, on a tram. He falls in love with her and introduces her to his parents. She refuses to go with them to the Sunday service and convinces him to go to the circus with her.
- A young artist is a great lover of the beautiful, and has a natural horror of anything repulsive. He fails in love with a girl who satisfies his artistic requirements. The Girl's father, a worldly wise inventor, does not approve of his daughter's choice. He realizes that the young artist has many limitations, and doubts if he will make his daughter happy. The girl, when told of his fears, at first laughs them to scorn. Then she begins to doubt herself. Finally, a chance comes to test the father's theory. There is an explosion in the laboratory, and the girl, in trying to save her father, is badly injured. The artist hurries around to the house, and finds that the girl he loves is disfigured for life. She offers him his freedom and returns him his ring. The young man is not of the stuff of which heroes are made. His love cannot survive the loss of the girl's beauty. He takes the ring and hurries away. And the fears of the father are proven. As time rolls on the artist finds that he cannot forget the girl he once hoped to wed. Gradually he forgets her beauty, and thinks more and more of her character and mental attributes. Humbly he returns to the house, and again pleads his suit. At first the girl repels him, finally she consents to take him back. She is heavily veiled when they meet, but she does not raise the veil, neither does be ask her to. Her physical appearance is of no importance he tells her, and so far as he is concerned, this is the truth. For he is no longer the artist, he is the sincere lover. Still wearing her veil, but her beauty regained, the girl accompanies him to the altar. When they return to his studio, the veil is lifted, and with a radiant smile she goes to his arms.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom. The course of true love runs smoothly for the happy couple with the exception of an attempt on the part of Duncan to force his unwelcome attentions on Polly. He is soundly thrashed by Tom and vows vengeance. The wedding of Tom and Polly occurs and Bert, evidently penitent, congratulates them, assuming a friendship that is feigned. With the marriage of the couple, Bert takes to strong drink and becomes reckless. Polly and her father are about to go on a fishing trip. Rom asks to accompany the girl and the old man assents. They sail away, happy and contented. A furious storm arises and the ocean is lashed into a fury. Night approaches and the fishing smack does not return. The old lighthouse keeper is apprehensive. He starts to the lighthouse to light the beacon. Bert has been drinking heavily and he conceives a devilish scheme to wreak vengeance on his successful rival. He will go to the tower and tamper with the light, hoping Tom and his bride, unable to get their bearings in the storm, will go ashore on the treacherous rocks. He ascends the steps of the base of the light and is confronted with the keeper. He must prevent the old man form ascending the tower and, after resorting to the bottle, he struggles with the aged keeper. There is a violent fight and old Nat, endowed with a strength that is almost superhuman, when he thinks of the peril of his daughter, overpowers the desperate young man and staggers up the stairs and lights the lamp. The fishing boat is shown in the terrible storm. The lights of the tower flash out across the waters, showing the haven of safety. Bert, enraged beyond reason, at his failure, staggers out of the lighthouse and, endeavoring to reach the mainland, falls off the walk and is drowned. His descent down the lighthouse steps is spectacular, falling and rolling down the steps in his mad fury. The storm continues and the ocean is shown with the waves running mountain high. The villagers congregate on the beach, praying for the safe return of the fishing smack. Finally, the waves having subsided, the boat is shown, making a landing with Polly and Tom safe, to the joy of their friends, the old father being conscious that his struggle with the younger man was not in vain.
- One of the first epics on the History of Movies, it tells the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris seduces Helen, queen of Sparta, and takes her to Troy, city state of his father, King Priam. The Greeks declare war against the Trojans, and after ten years of siege finally manage to invade the city with a wooden horse.
- Cretinetti destroys the Christmas tree of his house and is taken angrily by Santa Claus to heaven to be judged by St. Peter. There his behavior is so disastrous that he is sent to hell chased by a thousand demons.
- During the French and Indian war, while America was still under the rule of England, Col. Munro was the commander of Fort William Henry, in New York State. His two daughters arrived from England, and pushed their way into the wilderness determined to join their father. The last stage of their journey was made under the escort of a young army officer. Major Heyward, one of their father's most trusted officers, and who was deeply in love with Alice, the younger girl. Their guide was a treacherous Indian, who had planned to lure them into the wilderness and make them captives. They were saved, however, by a chance meeting with a trapper and his two Indian companions, who were men of reputation throughout that wild region. The trapper, American born, had lived with Indians all his life, and because of his skill with his rifle was known as Hawkeye. The Indians were the last of the tribe of Mohicans, who at one time ruled the country that is now New York City. But they had been driven back by the encroachments of the white men, and made their homes in the then wild region around what is now Lake George. Through the aid of this trio, the little party of whites were led toward the fort, but their treacherous guide escaped, and backed by the Huron Indians, a hostile tribe, followed and attacked them. During the attack the girls were captured, and carried off to the Hurons' village, Heyward and Hawkeye, disguised as a medicine man and his trained bear, by skill and daring, managed to rescue the younger of the two girls, but the elder was still in the power of Magua, their former guide. He was cornered at last with his fair captive, and in an effort to rescue her, Uncas was killed. His death was avenged by the unerring rifle of Hawkeye. The old chief, the last of his tribe, mourned his dead, comforted by Hawkeye, who tells him, "The gifts of our color may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path. I have no kin, and like you, no people. The boy has left us for a time, but, sagamore, you are not alone."
- The startling adventures of Bill whilst endeavoring to reach home safely with a nice new bathtub he has purchased are even more arduous and varied than those of any story book hero. As a laughter maker, this film is entirely without a peer.
- Jim, an expert chauffeur, is discharged from a garage, for insobriety. Penniless and being unable to obtain a new situation, he takes to the road, a common tramp. At one house where he applies for food, he is harshly refused, and is about to turn away and try his luck elsewhere, when little Marie, the daughter of the house, comes to his assistance and orders the butler to at once give him the food he requires. She also picks a rose for him from the garden. Jim strolls into a nearby park and sits on a bench to enjoy his lunch. He is about to take a drink from the ever present flask, which he takes from his pocket, when the sight of the rose, which the sweet-faced little girl gave him, inspires him with a desire to reform. He throws the flask from him, and refreshed by the lunch, he starts out with a new ambition to face the world. Little Marie also visits the park with her parents. While viewing the wonderful zoo it contains she is seen and recognized by Jim. While admiring the little girl and viewing her enjoyment over the wonders of the zoo, Jim notices that two evil looking men are apparently shadowing the little one and her parents. Jim's suspicions are aroused, and he determines to watch closely the actions of the mysterious pair. He finds that they have arranged with a chauffeur to assist in carrying off little Marie and holding her for a ransom. Seizing an opportune moment, Jim forces the plotting chauffeur to turn over his auto, and disguised in the other man's coat, cap and goggles, he calmly awaits the conspirators. When the two wicked men return, after having successfully enticed Marie away from her parents, they give the driver of their auto directions as to where to drive. Jim simply nods assent and drives quickly off, but instead of taking them to the destination they directed, he lands them safe at the police station, where they are quickly taken into custody. Here Marie is united to her parents, whom she easily persuades to offer her rescuer a life position.
- In no period of American history was romance in its most imaginative form outdone as in the days of the Revolution, and of all the heroes of that epoch, the name of none stands out in bolder relief than does that of General Francis Marion. The very mention of his name made the stoutest hearts quake and sent consternation into many a camp and bivouac of the British. In a wonderfully realistic manner, some of his many striking performances are reproduced in this most remarkable story of "Marion's Men." The "Swamp Fox," as the cruel and crafty Tarleton dubbed him, is portrayed with a rare fidelity to historical truth. Some of the incidents of his career, graphically depicted, are here interwoven with his startling feats at the fall of Fort Watson, in April 1781, and the great victory won at Eutaw Springs, which was fought in the same year. The companions of this wonderful genius were akin to him in many respects. Here, for instance, his right bower in his dare-deviltries was a bishop of the church, who on occasion donned the purple robes of office to minister its functions, and then doffed them again for "the belted sword and the cocked hat." Then the woman, the loyal, true-hearted women of that period of trial and suffering, are here shown in all their fortitude.
- Mr. Coward has had the unfortunate experience of a fire in his home, and ever since our poor friend has contracted an exaggerated fear of fire, under any form. In fact, his unwarranted nervousness in this respect approaches the ridiculous, and has become a source of great annoyance to his friends and associates. For instance, Mr. Coward notices a pedestrian lighting a cigar a few rods from the establishment of a petroleum merchant, or he observes that an acquaintance, at his restaurant, has ordered for breakfast an omelet with rum. All these little incidents prey upon the mind of Mr. Coward, who sees in them an element of danger of combustion, and he loses no time in denouncing them, one and all, for their gross carelessness. At last his victims grow weary of his exciting and wholly unnecessary interference, and decide to revenge themselves upon him, and, incidentally, provide a little amusement for themselves. Accordingly, after a little planning, they select a night when they know that old Mr. Coward is comfortably settled for the evening in his cozy sitting room, and having secured a large supply of Bengal lights, they set these off directly under the windows of Mr. Coward's domicile. In an agony of terror, and with the shout of "Fire! Fire!" upon his lips, Mr. Coward rushes for the street. He has scarcely opened the front door, however, when he is treated to a chilly shower of nice, refreshing water, which is delightfully antagonistic to any kind of fire. His former victims, across the street, set up a shout of delight, but to their great amusement, in that instant Mr. Coward has been cured of his abnormal fear, and joins in the laugh heartily.
- Longwind, the poet, falls in love with charming Arabella, and commences to serenade her. His serenade ends disastrously, and an effective and rapid fire for his somewhat noisy declarations is speedily administered by the neighbors.
- When the two little daughters of a young widower are told that he is preparing to bring up to the house to see them, a young lady who is to be their new mamma, they are at once plunged into the depths of despair. They feel that their home will be no longer bearable if they are to have a stepmother, so they run away to go out in the world to earn their own living. Their father is very much worried as well as indignant at their departure. He sets the police at work to locate them, and when they are found, determined to bring them home, and teach them once for all that he is master in his own house. But this is where the prospective stepmother, who is a practical business woman and a diplomat, shows her good sense. She persuades the father to allow her to win the girls over in her own way. This she does by taking a room in the same poor lodging house to which the girls have fled. Here she introduces herself to them as the lodger across the hall, and the girls, in a short time, grow to love her dearly and to rely entirely on her judgment. She arranges with them to become reconciled to their father, and assures them that she knows he would not marry if they did not desire it. The girls go back to their home, thoroughly penitent, but full of lowing accounts of their charming new friend, from whom they exact a promise that she will come to see them often. They finally decide that home would be much happier if she were there all the time, so they sternly command their father to marry "their lady" unless he wishes to incur the everlasting displeasure of his daughters. Father, with seeming reluctance, consents, and all family discord is at an end.
- Robert Downey had married Alice Johnston, the general's daughter. Robert was living peacefully with his wife and child, when hostilities broke out. One day sorrowful tidings came to Robert of his beloved ones. It was a message to repair at once to his home and take their darling child to Richmond and to safety. In the short conflict at Yellow Tavern, Robert fell into the hands of the enemy. The wife of his bosom no more, and his beloved child alone and unprotected, he decided on a desperate course. Pretending illness, the sentry on guard, all unsuspecting, came to his side. In an instant Robert seized him by the throat and bore him to the ground. Then he dashed away. Hotly pursued, he reached the Confederate lines and was brought before Lee, to whom he told his story, showing him the letter from his daughter. The general gave him a passport and started him on his mission. Making his way through the lines of the enemy, Robert had no sooner reached hi house, when the Federals poured in. While the men started their search in one direction, their officer turned in another, to find his passage blocked by the child. Soon her father was discovered, but through the pleadings of his little child, the Union officer told his men that his search had been fruitless, so they were permitted to pursue their way to Richmond.
- After a sojourn in Europe, Pa and Ma Belmont, with their pretty daughter Hazel, return to New York. Among the passengers who disembarked at the dock there appeared a strange-looking East Indian who carried a mysterious bundle. He approached the Belmonts and explained that he was anxious to show his collection of Oriental jewels and novelties to possible American buyers. Pa Belmont extended his card and suggested that the Yogi call at the family residence at an early date. A few days later, mother and daughter were eagerly inspecting a rare and odd collection of Oriental curiosities which the Yogi brought. Among the lot they came upon a pearl-studded casket in which reposed a beautiful necklace having a peculiarly shaped locket attached. This, the Yogi explained, was a lucky charm and would bring good fortune to the wearer. Ma Belmont being slightly superstitious, was ready to purchase the trinket, but Pa objected, first, because the price asked was exorbitant, and again, because he did not believe in hoodooisms. Naturally Ma and daughter were disappointed and angry, and the Yogi likewise evinced his wrath by vowing vengeance as he left the room. After completely wearing herself out by sobs and tears, Ma fell asleep and dreamed the Yogi appeared in a cloud of vapor and produced the wanted necklace, which he mysteriously transferred to her neck, locking it on with a small padlock. Then he disappeared as suddenly as he had come. Smilingly she seated herself in a comfortable chair, when lo! the chair vanished and precipitated her on the floor. Other articles of furniture also disappeared as she touched them. Screaming with fright, she alarms the household, and one by one they rush in, only to vanish mysteriously as Ma touches them. Frantically she dashes from the house and down the street. Everywhere she goes there follows the elimination of people and objects. A streetcar, a train of cars and even a huge sight-seeing auto on Riverside Drive vanish at her touch, leaving astonished passengers in a tumbled heap on the pavement. At intervals, the Yogi appears in a cloud of smoke and beckons her on. At last they reach the same ship on which she arrived home, and just as she is about to follow her spirit-guide into the sea, she awakes in her own room.
- A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
- The dear old grandma has come to Red Riding Hood's home, here with a present for her grandchild which she has made herself. This is a beautiful hood made in granny's cleverest and most loving way. Little Red Riding Hood is charmed by it, and expresses her joy freely. Granny then goes home to her lonely hut in the woods, escorted by her niece. One beautiful autumn afternoon little Red Riding Hood is sent by her mother to take some goodies to Grandma. She tip toes on her way, but grows tired and sits to rest under a tree. She stops and dreams the well-known story: How a wolf in the guise of a friendly dog came and asked her where she was going. She told him, and the said wise wolf sped to granny's cot using shorter route. Arriving there he satisfied his wolfish appetite on poor grandma's aged carcass and donning her night cap, took her place in the bed. Little Red Riding Hood appears and enters the bedroom, gladsomely exhibiting her presents. The wary wolf, after a confidential chat, jumps at her. She screams, her father, the woodsman, and his trusty men rush in, dispatch the wolf and save her. Awakened suddenly by her own screams Red Riding Hood cannot break the spell of that awful dream. So she goes timidly to the cottage, peeks cautiously in at the window, finding granny alive and well.
- Danvers was a "good fellow," in all that term implies, with but one exception: his good-fellowship did not extend to his own home unless he over-reached himself and then his wife was compelled to suffer humiliation through his methods of entertaining friends. On one occasion he was so intoxicated when his friends called, in response to his invitation to dine at the Danvers apartment, they left in disgust after witnessing a disgusting scene between husband and wife in which Danvers upbraided her for not being jovial and entertaining to his guests. Weston, one of the party, happened to be a one-time sweetheart of Mrs. Danvers and he knew too well how keenly she suffered. He naturally longed to leave as quickly as possible to save both she and he the consequences of a further scene. Then the demon in Danvers exhibited itself. He cursed his wife for "being a baby" and sending away his guests and, as a parting shot, told her he was tired of her "whining," and was going to leave her for a while to think it over. The next morning Danvers was as fully repentant as he had been brutal the evening previous. His promises to refrain from drinking were accepted by her with a certain degree of unbelief, for he had made such promises many time before. Nevertheless she prayed in her heart, as only a good woman knows how, that this was the turning point in his life. Then she sent him off to his office with a tender kiss and a cheering smile. Meanwhile Danvers had posted letters of apology to both Weston and Brandon. The latter took occasion to speak lightly of Mrs. Danvers in the former's presence and Weston ordered Brandon from the studio, whereupon he left vowing vengeance. Mrs. Danvers returned from a short drive in the afternoon to find Brandon waiting for her in the drawing-room. Without ceremony he calmly told her to leave "that drunkard-husband" of hers and fly with him, a real man who loved her madly. Astonished and fearful at first, then gaining courage, she denounced him as a coward who would betray a good friend, then called her valet and ordered him shown to the door. But Brandon was not to be so easily repulsed. Already he conceived a plan to bring this proud beauty added misery. He felt certain she would not tell he husband of the proposal he had just mad. He knew Danvers was jealous of Weston, so he dispatched a message to the unsuspecting broker informing him that his wife and the artist were in the latter's studio, preparing to elope, and signed the letter, "From a friend." Then he sent a telegram to the wife saying that her husband was dangerously wounded and lying in Weston's studio, signing this "Danvers." Mrs. Danvers received her message first and rushed frantically to the first available vehicle with instructions to drive with all speed to the Weston address. Arriving there, breathless and pale with fear and anxiety, she fell fainting in the artist's arms, crying for her husband. Danvers entered a moment later and found Weston's arm around his wife's waist and in his other hand a glass of wine, with which he had just succeeded in reviving her. With a cry of rage he cursed them both, refusing in his blind madness to hear a word of explanation from either his astonished wife or Weston. He stormed from the room declaring he would seek a divorce without delay. Meanwhile, the book in which Mrs. Danvers had hurriedly closed up the telegram she received was carelessly tossed on the top shelf of the family book case, where it slipped off and dropped behind, wedged in between book case and wall. There it laid until some time after Danvers had secured his divorce. Mrs. Danvers had gone home to her mother, her heart broken, yet her pride rebelled when she thought of attempting reconciliation with her husband, as he had wronged her deeply, so she did not offer the slightest defense to his charges in court and the judge granted him a decree with a protest from his wife. Weston manfully refrained from intruding on her feelings until some time later. Then he begged her to marry him and she told him to wait until she was vindicated and her name publicly cleared from the shameful charges her husband had brought. Danvers sat one night in the solitude of his library, at his home. Longing for his wife had changed his manner of living. He no longer spent his nights in drinking, in fact his former companions shunned him now and he realized, as never before how much alone in the world he was. Suddenly a picture dropped from the wall and wedged behind the book case. Startled, he rang for the butler and nervously ordered him to replace the portrait. On moving the book case the butler finds a book concealed behind which he picks up and hands to Danvers, previous to adjusting the misplaced picture. From the edge of the book Danvers saw a yellow paper protruding and curiously he drew it out. Then he read the message his wife had received on the day he found her in Weston's studio and he realized that a terrible error had been committed. To rectify the wrong inflicted on an innocent woman was the repentant man's first thought. His former wife received him when he called and listened to his wild pleadings for forgiveness with a smile which he interpreted as being one of gladness that he had come. But she was happy to know she was vindicated, that was all, and she coldly told him he must never attempt to see her again. Later on, when Danvers picked up an evening paper and read of Weston's marriage to the divorced wife of William Danvers, he tried in vain to conjure up one single reason why things should not have turned out as they did. He knew that he alone was to blame.
- A great number of prognosticators often terrify us with visions of what will be when women shall rule the earth, and the time when men shall be subordinates and adjuncts. It is rather a fine question to decide, for chivalrous men, anyway. Today, with the multiplicity of feminine activities and the constant broadening of feminine spheres, it is difficult to predict to what height women will ascend. In the Solax production of "In the Year 2000," the release of Friday, May 17th, a serio-comic prognostication is unreeled on the screen with such magnetic force, charm and rich imaginative detail that one is compelled to accept the theories advanced on their face value. The conditions are reversed. Women in this film are supreme, and man's destiny is presided over by woman. No attempt is made at burlesque, but the very seriousness of the purpose of the theme makes the situations ludicrous.
- Here is the heart-rending narrative of Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, and his strenuous courtship, the quilting bee, the village dance, the bragging of Ichabod and the true love of Katrina and Brown Bones, and finally the merry prank by which Ichabod is pursued by the Headless Horseman with a pumpkin lantern in his hand.
- In the eastern part of New Mexico is locate the little mining town of Gatlach. There, however, we find an active mining camp dependent largely upon the famous Gatlach mine for its existence. Living in the camp we find Florence, who is loved by Jake. Florence, too, loves Jake. A new superintendent arrives to take charge of the mining property. The new arrival meets Florence and the man and girl fall in love. Discontent among the Mexican and half-breed miners develops. They mutiny, coming to the office making demands which the super promptly refuses and orders them from the place. The ruffians withdraw to arm themselves and then plan an attack upon the office and the death of their boss. Jake overhears the plot, and while he has no love for Harry, determines for the sake of Florence to save them. He rushes to the office and warns them just as the mob appears. They are pursued and finally take refuge in a narrow pass. With only one horse, escape for the party is impossible. Jake forces Harry against his will to take the horse and Florence and escape. They depart seeking aid, which is found in the shape of a troop of cavalry out scouting. Thus reinforced, they rush back to Jake's aid, but too late, he has fought his last fight and given up his life for those dear to him.
- Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, is a kindly man, but a student. His fondness for literature gives his enemies a chance to plot against him, and through the machinations of his own brother, Antonio, and the King of Naples, Prospero is dethroned and Antonio assumes his throne. The conspirators are afraid to execute Prospero, who is beloved by the people, so they take him to sea, and set him adrift in an open boat with his little daughter, Miranda, expecting that they would never be heard of again. Fortunately for Prospero and the child, they drift ashore on an island. It is inhabited solely by good fairies and wicked sprites. Prospero wins the favor of the former, and is able to subdue the latter and make them subservient to his will. On this island, father and daughter reside for twelve years. Then Prospero learns by his magic, that his brother, the King of Naples and the latter's son are passengers on a ship that is sailing near the island. By aid of his powers he is able to draw the ship to the island, where it is wrecked, but Prospero so arranges it that no lives are lost. His enemies now being in his power, he proceeds to punish them. Antonio and the King of Naples are forced to wander around the island, while Ariel, a good but mischievous fairy, plays all manners of pranks upon them. Ferdinand is conducted to the presence of Prospero, and set to menial work. He meets Miranda, and falls in love with her, the very thing that Prospero had set himself to bring about. In the end, Prospero forgives the two men who have wronged him on condition that they relinquish their thrones to Miranda and Ferdinand, who have agreed to marry and live happy forever afterward.
- An Easterner wins the girl of his choice in a Western ploughing contest.
- An ensign on a submarine boat has a love affair with the daughter of a lieutenant--his superior officer. The scene is laid in the U.S. Navy and a genuine submarine boat was placed at the disposal of the director in the filming of the picture. The young ensign loves the daughter of the lieutenant and his love is returned. The lieutenant has other aspirations and tells the young man to win his stripes before he will consider his suit. The lover is not crestfallen as he is ambitious and the girl is willing to wait. A French army officer also loves the girl but, while he is favored by the father, the girl despises him. The lieutenant receives a message from naval headquarters commanding him to take charge of the submarine boat on a cruise and to further instruct the ensign in his duties. Prior to his going abroad the ensign kindly shows the Frenchman, his rival, over the boat. The villain, anxious to avenge himself on the young man, steals the valve handle off the mechanism which controls the buoyancy arrangement when the boat is submerged and carries it away. The lieutenant boards the boat and she goes on the educational cruise. There are many scenes of the evolutions of the boat and she finally sinks to the bottom. The officers watch the gauge but find themselves powerless to rise, owing to the tampering with the mechanism. They are suffocating for the want of air and are doomed to die like rats in a trap. Then the young ensign shows his mettle. He proposes that his shipmates shoot him through the torpedo tube and he will swim for assistance. He is shot through the tube, against the wishes of the lieutenant, rises to the surface and swims for it, summoning a submarine boat tender. The boat is anchored over the submerged craft and the emergency expedient is resorted to with success. Air is pumped into the receptacles and the vessel arises and the crew is saved through the heroism of the young officer. The Frenchman is suspected of the trickery and is punished. The ensign makes good and the lieutenant removes all objections to his marriage to his daughter.
- The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming. Hal Benton, an easterner, rides on to ask his way to the hotel, where he is stopping with some friends, among them his fiancée, Veda Mead, and her father. Knowing that the Indian ceremonies will interest his friends, Hal obtains permission to come the next day and bring his friends. The Chief calls Morning Star, an Indian maiden, telling his son that she is to be his squaw. Silver Water is pleased with her. The next day Hal Benton and his friends arrive. While the others inspect the camp, Veda Mead amuses herself with Silver Water and ere long is thoroughly infatuated with him, while the Indian's vanity is touched by the attentions of the society coquette, and he promises to meet her the next day. Their little tete-a-tete is cut short by the entrance of Morning Star. The next day they meet and, after coquetting with Silver Water until he forgets his Indian sweetheart, the eastern girl gives him her calling card, upon which she writes "To my Indian Hero" and asks him to call upon her in the east. Several months pass, and Hal Benton and Veda Mead are preparing to wed, when a letter arrives addressed to Mr. Mead from Silver Water, telling him that as he is in the east, he will do himself the honor to call upon them that evening. To Veda, who had been reading of the Indians' lives and customs after her meeting with Silver Water, the news is very terrifying. Recalling how she played with him, she fears that he may now make trouble. She goes to the veranda and sits down to think over the situation. Suddenly she sees Silver Water in full war-paint and feathers coming up the steps, he sees her and advances. Touching her upon the shoulder, he beckons her to follow. She obeys. As they reach the garden be tells her of his love, reminds her of her promises when they last met and insists upon her fulfilling them now. She cries out, and her cry brings Hal. Silver Water tells Hal why he has come for Veda, and Hal agrees that she must go with him, but Silver Water is not satisfied. He throws down his knife and insists upon Hal fighting with him for the girl. At a given signal, both men start for the knife. The Indian secures it and soon kills Hal, then, throwing his blanket over the terrified Veda, he drags her off to his camp and commands her to fetch and carry and cook his meals. Veda sinks to the ground as Silver Water stalks off, but no sooner has he gone than Morning Star slips out from her tepee and, creeping down upon Veda, raises her knife to strike the girl dead. Just as the knife descends, Veda forces herself to rise, only to find herself in Hal's arms on the veranda, for the young man has been trying to awaken her to tell his sweetheart that their Indian friend, Silver Water, has arrived, and at that moment stands beside them in the most correct evening dress. At the first glance she gives him, Silver Water realizes that it would be impossible to ever win the white girl, so leaving her with Hal, he tears up her card and returns to the blanket and Morning Star, his sweetheart, before he has learned the white man's ways.
- An American in Turkey is mistakenly arrested and thrown in jail. He escapes and is helped by the daughter of the local ruler, called the Pasha.
- "A Revenuer!" The one word that strikes terror to the heart of the moonshiner. So that a stranger who wanders too near the vicinity of the illicit distiller is apt to receive a gentle warning in the form of a bullet that he is on dangerous ground. It was one of these "warnings" that Frank Parmeley had received from the Nelsons, father and son, when Nelson met him and after satisfying herself that he was not a revenue officer took him to their cabin, dressed his wounds and was about to advise him to profit by the lesson when she became aware of a face in the window. It was that of her sweetheart. Jack Geering, although this she did not learn until he came to her aid in preventing her brother Jim from again firing upon the retreating form of the stranger. As a result of his interference, however, Jack was ordered from the place, but this did not keep him from calling whenever he found the coast clear. Nance would not have had him otherwise, still the young mountaineer's masterful manner of wooing led her to believe he might think her too easily won, and as a consequence, when a few days later he attempted to put his arm about her the girl feigned anger and ran into the house. This piece of coquetry, however, came near turning out rather seriously. for at that moment Frank Parmeley appeared with a book and a box of candy for the young lady, but upon meeting the stern glances of Jack hastily remembered a previous engagement, while Nance, humiliated and angry at his cowardice, threw his presents after him. This little incident had consumed so much time that Bob Nelson now returned to find Jack again upon his premises, and, although he was allowed to depart with merely another warning, Nance knew from her father's tone that this would be the last. It was small wonder then that she turned pale with excitement when a couple of days later she beheld her father and brother gazing earnestly through the spy-glass and getting their rifles in readiness. As her father passed into the house she managed to slip the glass from his pocket and as she looked her worst fears were realized! It was Jack, coming up the mountain! When her father had looked a few moments before, it had not been Jack, but Frank Parmeley he had seen. Ignorant of this, Nance grasped the rifle which stood by the porch and with a rock quickly knocked off the hammer, rendering the weapon useless. Then when her brother appeared she distracted his attention while she took the revolved from his holster and tossed it into a clump of bushes. And this was very fortunate for Frank, for scarcely had Nance started down the mountain to warn her sweetheart than the valley man came strutting on, but seeing the Nelsons' intention, although they were powerless to harm him until they could get into the house for other weapons, he took to his heels and only stopped to beg protection of the lovers. Being assured that he was not a revenuer and not wishing to see innocent blood shed, Jack commanded the terror-stricken man to lie down while he fired a shot in the air, and as the father and son came hurrying up declared that they had arrived too late. It so pleased the Nelsons that Jack had sided with them that they at once gave him their hands and all enmity was at an end, while Frank, as soon as they were safely out of sight, lost no time in making good his escape.
- Ole Johnson decides that he ought to marry. Decides to insert an ad. in the paper. He receives an answer from a Swedish girl in a town not far from his home. Ole answers the maiden's letter sending her a photograph of himself and requesting one of her's in return. Steena Iverson, the lady fair, is not the most beautiful lady in existence, and fearing to spoil her chances of marriage, decides not to send one of her photos but one of her mistress instead. Ole receives the photo and decides to pay a visit to Steena. Meanwhile the lady of the house, Mrs. Gaylife has been informed by her husband that he has been called away. Mrs. Gaylife intends not to be lonely during her husband's absence, so sends for another companion. They leave to spend a pleasant evening together. Ole has arrived to pay the promised visit to his unknown lady love. Steena allows him to enter, but Ole cannot see her face, which is covered by a veil. He begs and pleads with her to remove it, but she refuses. Confusion is heard outside announcing the return of Mrs. Gaylife and her vis-a-vis. Steena hides Ole in the closet as Mrs. Gaylife and gentleman enter. They are enjoying a quite tete-a-tete, when the bell rings outside announcing the return of Mr. Gaylife. Mrs. Gaylife tells the gentleman to go into the closet, but instead he hides behind the screen. Mr. Gaylife enters and embraces his wife and turns to place his grip and coat in the closet when she stops him, takes them from him and leaves the room with them. Husband becomes suspicious, turns and sees Ole's hat and cane, thanks he is wise, starts for closet when Mrs.Gaylife stops him. He accuses her and she having seen the friend behind the screen, goes to the door to prove him wrong. She opens the doors and Ole comes out. Husband demands an explanation. Ole tells him he came to marry Mrs. Gaylife, showing the photograph. Mrs. Gaylife tells him she has never seen him before. Steena has overheard the whole transaction and tells them he came to marry her. Ole gets one glance at Steena's face and makes a getaway. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylife embrace most lovingly and while they are paying no attention to him, Mr. Friend makes a getaway unseen by anyone.
- The Civil War is on, and one of the Howard boys, Jack, is an officer in the Union army. He and his younger brother, Harry, who is a West Point cadet, are so much in love with pretty Emily Woods that they have grown to hate each other bitterly. They do not conceal their enmity even when in the presence of Emily, who does all she can to alleviate matters. Suddenly there comes a proclamation from the President that all cadets on furlough are to report for war duty, and Harry's luck is to be enlisted in the same regiment and under his brother Jack. Jack is hard and vindictive, and one of the first things he does to make the lot of his brother a miserable one, is when he orders him to polish his boots. Harry promptly refuses, and when there are no other soldiers around both men engage in a violent quarrel. Words grow more bitter, until Harry, while realizing that his brother had the upper hand as far as rank is concerned, suddenly springs on Jack. They struggle all over the tent, but Harry proves the stronger, and succeeds in binding Jack. Meanwhile, at home, their mother is in bed, dangerously ill. When the doctor finally pronounces her beyond his aid, Emily and her sister, who have been attending her faithfully, write a note to Harry in the vain hope that he might be able to let his mother see her baby boy before death. When the letter reaches camp, however, the cadet has disappeared and Jack gets it. Being an officer he has no difficulty in departing for home at once. But when he arrives and steps into the bedroom, he is astounded to find his brother already there. For a moment the men face each other like two tigers, but Emily and her sister speak softly to them, and they both drop over the feeble form of their mother. With her last strength she takes the hand of each in hers, and counseling brotherly love as her last wish, closes her eyes in the slumber that knows no awakening.
- A good-natured miner, Jim Stafford, harbored in his house a young couple, who had not met with the best of luck. They had a child. Harry Green, the husband, drank somewhat and gambled and lost. Matters came to that point when both he and his wife were penniless. So in Jim's absence they steal his money and by way of payment, they leave their baby. Jim accepts the child. He reared the child until she was of an age to he educated. So when she was rising seven, she was put into a convent. Jim and his associates took leave of her, and the former is left lamenting the loss of his little foster child. Meanwhile, things have gone from bad to worse with Harry Green and his wife. He has become a degenerate and she has to get their bread by washing. Years pass. The child finishes her term in school and is to go home; and home she goes. But the instincts of a mother are strong upon Myrtle Green and she makes her way to Parson Jim's house, and before the girl arrives, confesses to Jim that it was she who left the little baby in his house so many years ago. The struggle is too much for the woman; she dies. When the girl arrives home it is to learn of her mother's death. In company with Parson Jim she visits the grave of the dead woman. The school girl has become a woman and it is obvious that when both learn the truth, lonely Parson Jim finds a future wife in the little waif that years before was entrusted to him.
- Father Hartley Steele, a Catholic priest, is accused of a murder committed by one of his parishioners. The murderer, Jake Smith, a poor laborer, tries to cover up his crime with the priest's cassock. The good Mrs. Smith, who is horrified and appalled at her husband's crime, unable to still her conscience or reconcile herself with her God, goes to the priest to confess. Her confession lightens the weight from her heart and mind. It gives her at last the repose her turbulent mind needs. The priest is soon accused of the crime. His own cassock is the strongest evidence against him. He is tried and convicted. Although he knows who the real murderer is, his lips are sealed. With angelic sweetness and fortitude he endures the jeers and insults of the mob that is only too ready to assail the sincerity of the church. Without rancor he is willing to go to his execution, but Heaven intervenes in his behalf.
- The plucky girl not only saves the life of her father, but wins a handsome cowboy for a husband. Bob is smitten with the charms of this dashing western girl, and takes advantage of the opportunity Fate presents to gain her affection. Excellent scenes are shown of grazing herds, the cowboys at work and play, the rustling of a bunch of cattle and the pursuit by the cowboys. After a running fight in which the rustler is wounded he takes refuge in his cabin, where he is captured. Stoically he goes to meet his fate, and is about to be swung into eternity when the girl gallops up and with a well-directed shot severs the rope. Holding the astonished cowboys at bay with her revolver she covers the retreat of her father, who mounts his horse and is soon lost to sight. The crisis passed the girl faints and is caught by Bob as she falls. Their hearts touched by her devotion to her wayward father, the cowboys permit him to escape.
- A tale of two rivals for the same girl's heart, the loser, a noble fellow who later sacrifices his life in order to save that of his former rival. Both are colliers in the same mine, and pursue their lives, one with the happiness of the girl he loves, the other alone with his aged mother. One day a fire breaks out in the mine, and all but one of the miners make their escape up the elevator ascents to safety. The lone remaining collier is found to be the husband of the young wife. She becomes hysterical and pleads with some of the fortunate miners to rescue her loved one. No one but the former rival and a second volunteer undertake the task. The husband is saved, but the heroic rival forfeits his life. The loss is grievously mourned and all join the common cause of paying homage to the martyr. His aged mother is adopted by the man whom her son saved from a charred grave.
- A Mormon missionary seduces and kidnaps an attractive young woman, forcing her to accompany him to Utah to become one of his wives.
- It's said "There's no true love without jealousy," yet Henry Taber overstepped the mark in this direction, and, although Tess was the most devoted of wives. Henry saw in every man upon which her glance fell a possible rival. Jack Wilson, the amateur photographer, stopped at their cabin for a glass of water, and merely because Tess hid him a pleasant good day, Henry was vexed. Indeed, that evening when Jack again chanced that way and showed the little wife a few prints of her estate. Henry displayed his displeasure in no uncertain manner, and coax as she would, he refused to come in to supper, but instead sank wearily down on a bench. As he lay there, he beheld his wife come to the door, look cautiously about, and steal softly around the house. Instantly he sprang up and crept after her, until she came to the Big Rock, where he beheld her clasped in the arms of Jack Wilson. The unhappy husband raised his gun and fired, but it was Tess who dropped. So grasping the photographer by the throat he slowly but surely forced him over the cliff. Turning, he found that Tess had staggered off and from his position on the rock he could see her notifying the woodsmen below. Perhaps after all, Jack had been only wounded, but as he climbed down, his worst fears were realized, and he had scarcely time to hide behind the rocks when Tess and the woodsmen appeared. Then commenced a chase up the mountain. At last he reached the top and laid down to rest. Suddenly the woodsmen's heads appeared. Stealthily they crept upon him, while he lay as one petrified, unable to move hand or foot, until the sheriff grasped him firmly by the shoulder. But, as Henry started up, he looked into the pleading face of Tess, again imploring him to come to supper, just as Jack Wilson appeared to get the camera he had forgotten. The man looked around. There stood his cabin. It was only a dream. Gratefully he clasped his wife in his arms, grasped the photographer's hand, insisting upon his sharing their humble evening meal.
- John Scott, a prospector, sells his mine for a large sum of money, and guarded by a posse of deputy sheriffs starts across the desert to the railroad. The party is attacked by bandits and all but Scott are killed. He, badly wounded, makes his escape, and the next day, perishing from thirst, falls unconscious. He is found by a band of Indians, who are prevented from destroying him by Young Deer, one of their number whom Scott had befriended, and who revives the white man. Scott offers his rescuer gold, but the Indian refuses to accept anything but a watch. Scott reaches his home safely and is joyously welcomed by his wife and daughter. Some time later Young Deer is sent to the government school and makes rapid progress, He wins the championship for the Carlisle baseball team and is lionized. Scott's daughter falls in love with him and Young Deer returns her affection. Scott is furious when Young Deer asks for his daughter's hand, and offends the sensitive young man, who at that moment recognizes Scott, recalls the saving of his life and produces the watch. Scott is overcome with remorse and finally decides to let the Indian wed his daughter, but he haughtily walks out of the house, goes back to his old life, discards civilized garments and weds a girl of his race.
- Dear old Uncle Francois finds himself in his club with a party of old college mates upon the evening of his arrival from abroad. He had wired his expectant niece that he would appear before them in the course of the evening after an hour's reunion with the old boys. The hour's reunion lengthened sadly, for after much banqueting the boys gather in the card room for a game of college days, Strip Poker. Here are two of the rules of the game: (1) The articles of clothing worn by the participants at the time of sitting in to be the basis of all bets made. (2) No winner may return at the end of the session any article of apparel lost by any participant. Nephew and niece are in despair of the non-coming of Uncle Francois. Nephew is in a terrible financial hole and needs $10,000 to margin his accounts the next morning and while his wife is positive that Uncle will come to the rescue they unhappily wait up the entire night for Uncle's coming. Come he does, in a barrel, shoved through the library window by the rest of the crowd, who flee before the advance of a policeman. Matters are finally straightened out to the satisfaction of all except the condition of Uncle's head.
- Richard Mead was a sheepherder who lived with his daughter in a hut in the mountains. He was hated by the cattlemen and was ordered to quit the range. Returning to his home he tells his daughter what has happened, and prepares to protect himself. The cattleman orders two men to go to his hut and put him out of the way. In the battle that follows the sheepman is wounded and one of the cowboys killed. The surviving one returns to town for assistance and the sheepman secrets himself in the mountains. On the arrival of the posse they find the sheepman gone and force his daughter to leave also. She arrives in town to be scorned by the women and jeered by the men. The new parson hears the insulting remarks and befriends her, offering her a home with his mother. In the meantime a cowboy has discovered the hiding-place of the girl's father and comes to inform the posse and is overheard by the minister, who determines to reach the fugitive first--if he can--and assist him. The daughter pleads to be taken along and the two set out and come upon the sheepman in his refuge in the mountains. Shortly after the posse ride in and demand the immediate surrender of the sheepman. The minister knocks the leader down and, at the point of the gun he has taken from the prostrated cattleman, preaches his first sermon, the first perhaps these men had heard in years. The posse return guiltless of the sheepman's blood and the minister has settled a desperate feud, filled his church, and gained a wife.
- A young woman forced into servitude by her family gets more than she bargained for when her fairy godmother magically permits her to go to the royal ball.
- Three actors, Tom, Dick and Harry, have had a tough season, but the landlady needs the money just the same and comes to their door. Tom and Dick instantly hide, leaving Harry to pacify her as best he can. A little later, when they see the following headlines in a newspaper: "Good actors are in great demand in California for moving pictures. Fourteen companies operating in and about Los Angeles." Tom and Dick conceive the brilliant idea of going out west. Harry objects that they have no money for food on the way, let alone railroad fare, but Tom quietly helps himself to Harry's pin, watch and ring, which he pawns to get their food and declares they will ride in a box car. That night, they put one over on the landlady by slipping out without paying and hurry to the train yards, where they conceal themselves in an empty car and are soon on their way west. Early the next morning, the brakeman appears and tells them unless they "come across" with a little coin, he will put them off. As usual, Harry is the Patsy, handing over all the money he has left. They arrive in the glorious west and the Yardmaster gives them a true western welcome by seeing how near he can shoot without hitting them. As they sit down beside the road to rest, they see a reward sign for the bandit "Black Bill" and, upon studying it more closely, Tom and Dick decide that with a beard they can make Harry a bandit and claim the reward, and this decision is further strengthened by getting a look at the real bandit as he rides past, cleverly eluding the sheriff and his posse. Harry strenuously objects but to no avail, and they instantly start to make him up for the bandit. As they are doing this, "Black Bill" returns unobserved by the boys and, thinking the resemblance good enough, decides to use the idea himself. He chases Tom and Dick away and then marches Harry to his shack, where he quickly shaves off his beard, takes the actor's clothes and hurries Harry to the sheriff's office. Here, Harry takes Bill unawares, snatches the sheriff's revolver, commands the bandit to hold up his hands, and then explains the situation to the sheriff. When the deputy enters, he recognizes Bill as the real bandit and Bill is quickly locked up. Harry receives not only his clothes, but the reward and hurries to the station, where he boards the train for the east. Just as it moves out, Tom and Dick, weary and foot-sore, arrive. They attempt to catch the train upon seeing Harry, but he waves them good-bye and the boys are forced to strike out for home by walking the railroad ties, having had quite enough of the west to last them for a while.
- Two old businessmen quarrel over a deal, and when it is learned that their respective son and daughter are in love, there is strenuous objection on their part.
- While due credit must be given to those women who have, by their wisdom, counsel and support made our domestic conditions what they are to-day, the wonderful prosperity of the United States as a whole is due to the extraordinary resources of the west, and therefore the places of honor in the niches of history rightfully belong to the women who so nobly assisted in settling and populating the great west. Stop and reflect what fortitude those women showed in venturing into the unknown wilderness, what heroism they displayed, surrounded by hostile Indians, and sacrificing their lives to eventually benefit all mankind. History is replete with the many instances of those acts, but mere words can but poorly represent to the mind the details of the exact incidents. To be able to view the actual occurrence cannot but indelibly impress upon the mind what we really owe these women pioneers. To see the simple life of these people, their sports, pleasures and hardships, and how, when the men folk are attending a country election, the red men take advantage of the situation and pillage and burn their homes. But better still to visually observe how these women, reared to danger, bravely protected their lives and property and also the wild rides of some of the women to warn their neighbors and bring the men to their rescue.
- Mr. and Mrs. James Elkins and Mr. and Mrs. Dent were warm friends. The Dents had a little boy named Harry, while the Elkins had a little girl, Maud. These two children were playmates and were always teasing each other. One day while playing, Harry sprang up and pursued Maud, who ran away as fast as her little legs could carry her. She goes a long way and turns into a deserted street. A gypsy happened along, took her by the hand and led her away. Harry followed and arrived just in time to see Maud disappear with the gypsy. Harry then returned home as fast as he could and informs his parents and Mr. and Mrs. Elkins. Careful search was made, but no trace of her could be discovered. Fifteen years elapse. Maud's disappearance is now a mere memory. Harry, grown to manhood, is riding, in his automobile past a gypsy encampment when the chauffeur discovers that the machine requires water. Harry goes to the camp to procure some, and while there, meets a girl, with whom he falls in love. He pays a second visit some days later, and proposes marriage to her, is accepted, and married. The couple do not succeed very well in life, and soon reach the end of their slender resources. Then through worry and exposure Harry is taken sick. It is then that the wife, resuming her gypsy dress, goes forth in an endeavor to obtain aid for her husband. She goes from place to place but always with the same result, nothing. She finally falls exhausted by the roadside, where she is soon afterwards discovered by the Elkins and the Dents, who are passing in their automobile. They get out of the machine, and pick her up, and as soon as they revive her, she tells about her husband, and gives his name. The two families then hurry to Harry's bedside, and subsequently he is removed to his parents' home. Greatly to the joy of all concerned, the wife is found to be the little girl, who had disappeared fifteen years before.