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- The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- 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.
- Maid Marian is represented in the cast as the daughter of Old Merwyn and it is at his house that the action begins. He introduces a rich gentleman as her prospective husband after displaying jewelry which the formal suitor has sent ahead with his declaration of love. Friar Tuck appears under the pretense of asking for alms and warns Marian that Robin is waiting at their meeting place. She manages to escape during a parley between her father and her future husband, Guy de Gisbourne, and keeps her appointment. She is discovered, however, and her angry father, backed up by the unheroic Guy, protests valiantly against the clandestine love-making, but formidable Robin is only amused. The bold outlaw is so careless about his personal safety that he eventually falls into an ambush prepared by Guy de Gisbourne, is captured and is bound to a tree while they set off in search of the Sheriff of Nottingham to obtain a formal warrant for Robin Hood's arrest. Marian hurries to where Little John is repairing swords at his forge and finds besides the brawny blacksmith Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale. As soon as these members of Robin Hood's band hear of their leader's plight they go to his rescue, free him and organize for revenge. Guy, meanwhile, repairs to the Sheriff of Nottingham's house, where he obtains the warrant he desires. He next visits Marian's father and uses his legal instrument to such advantage that he is promised the hand of the maid as soon as he arrests the outlaw. Guy gets busy. He sets out with a body of armed men expecting to find his prey tied to the tree, but is drawn into an ambush like that he prepared for Robin Hood. Robin and his men fall upon the invaders of their natural domain, drag them from their horses and bind them to the trees in the same manner as their leader had been treated. They then decide to capture the Sheriff. This bold plan fails when it is on the verge of success. The old gentleman wakes just in time to sound an alarm, which summons the guards and the entire band of outlaws is captured. Maid Marian effects a second rescue with greater difficulty, as Robin and his men had been incarcerated in a prison. She and a bunch of her pretty girl friends flirt with the sentinels and lure them away from their posts, while the outlaws scale the wall and descend to the other side by means of a rope secretly furnished for that purpose. The Sheriff now puts a price on Robin's head, while the latter buries himself deeper in the forest and gathers a powerful band of recruits. The second part opens at a wayside tavern near Nottingham. The Sheriff of Nottingham, Guy de Gisbourne, and Old Merwyn are in conspiracy, Friar Tuck watching them closely from another table while pretending to be drunk, and into this plotting comes a new character, a majestic stranger of formidable aspect. The newcomer is none other than Richard Coeur de Leon, the King himself, whose adventures are so entrancingly told by Sir Walter Scott. For some reason or another, not satisfactorily explained, the three gentlemen engaged in conspiring propose to capture the mysterious stranger. Without suspecting their evil devices the mysterious unknown seats himself and calls for refreshment. Friar Tuck draws near and warns the stranger. The latter secretly draws his sword and laughs at the idea of danger. Presently the Sheriff signals soldiers who are awaiting his call and they pour into the tavern. Their attack is directed against the stranger and some lively sword play follows. He backs up to the wall, cuts and thrusts in magnificent style and is materially aided by the monk. They do effective work, accomplishing marvels with their weapons, but are about to be overcome when Tuck draws the stranger away through a secret hiding-place and they seek safety in flight. The belligerent Friar conducts his new friend through the forest to the secret camp of the outlaw and there a great feast is prepared of venison and other game. Robin Hood gives up his own tent to the accommodation of the stranger when the latter retires for the night. Next day Robin and the unknown have a friendly bout with swords in which the famous outlaw is disarmed. He exclaims in amazement, "Only one man in all England could disarm me." "Who may that be?" asked the stranger. "Our Most Gracious King," replied Robin. Then Richard Coeur de Leon drops his long coat and exclaims: "I am the King!" This is Robin's opportunity. He and his band acclaim the monarch, while Richard the Lion-Hearted seems to enter into the spirit of their calling. When they depart on a secret mission, attired as monks, he gives them his sanction and bids them godspeed. They are on their way to abduct the beautiful Marian. Some lively adventures follow, but they get the girl and carry her away to their forest retreat, where she is wedded to her true lover by Friar Tuck. He performs the ceremony beneath the tree on whose trunk has been fashioned a cross made of daisies. All is not over. The persecutors are still busy. The Sheriff and Guy and Merwyn with all their soldiers appear at the wedding of Maid Marian and lay violent hands upon Robin. Now does the King advance and say, "Hold, that lady is Robin's wife!" In vain Merwyn urges that Marian is his daughter and that the King shall be informed of this indignity practiced upon his family. The monarch reveals his identity and orders Robin's men to clear his forest of the intruders, Sheriff and all. They do this with no reluctance and the play is over; virtue triumphs in the person of the noble lawbreaker, while vice, typified then as now by those who make and interpret the laws, is punished as it deserves.
- The Raven photo-poem tells the sad romance of Edgar Allan Poe, his beautiful, dying wife, and their bitter life of struggle for the recognition of genius. The poem is interpreted by the all-seeing eye of the camera and the success of the poet, in his great inspiration, is shown with beautiful scenic effects and a magnificently staged production exceeding our past successes.
- On Decoration Day, the veterans are marching and the band is playing "The Star Spangled Banner." A crowd of girls hear the music and drop their work to see the passing parade. The parade passes by a home where two lovers are buried in thoughts of love, the strain reaches their ears, and they view the parade and pay their hearts' reverence to the passing heroes. It passes the home of a family in the throes of their own enjoyment, the faraway music grows louder, they recognize the air and they, as the rest, step out to see the parade. A schoolteacher tells her children of the truthfulness of George Washington as a boy and most beautifully does there appear a picture of Washington as a little fellow who chopped down his father's cherry tree and then told the truth when asked who did it. And last is seen two fine noble old soldiers at a garden table refreshing themselves with a mint julep. One was of the North in "65" and the other was true to his South, but today they clasp hands ,both true to their own grand old Red, White and Blue.
- 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.
- Here is a mirth-provoking farce of mistaken identities, of the sorrows which overtake a romantic young gentleman in search of a romantic young lady who is to prove her identity by wearing a white rose. It happens that on this particular day, white roses are popular! And thereby hangs the trouble.
- Dora, a pretty milliner, longs to own an Easter bonnet for sale in the shop where she works. Agnes Brown, a haughty heiress, buys it, however, and the milliner makes a duplicate, to wear, while the other is sent to the wrong house. She is accused of theft, and it is in the extrication of the poor girl from her troubles by Jack Barlow, a wealthy young lawyer, engaged to Agnes that the romance develops. It is the story of a rich girl who loses her sweetheart by her disdainfulness and conceit.
- At a Hallow's Eve party at Baron Von Landshort's, the young people are peeling apples. They throw a long peeling over their shoulders, and the initial of the thrower's sweetheart Hilda's peeling forms V.A. Her father, the baron, tells how his daughter was betrothed when a little tot to the son of his old friend Van Altenberg. Naturally Hilda would like to know her betrothed, and at the suggestion of one of the girls consults a witch, who tells her, "When midnight tolls, look in the old mirror and you will see the picture of a young Hessian officer." Highly pleased, she hugs the mirror to her heart. In the meantime, young Van Altenberg, a disbanded Hessian officer, on the way to meet his fiancée of his infant days, Hilda Von Landshort, meets brother officer Herman at the inn. Journeying together they are attacked by "Skinners." Van Altenberg is mortally wounded. Dying, he begs his comrade to announce his death to Hilda. The Baron Von Landshort and family, including Hilda are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the young fiancé (whom they've never seen since childhood), to attend the betrothal feast. Herman arrives to impart the sad news, is mistaken for Von Altenberg, and is not permitted to explain, but is seated at Hilda's side as her long-expected fiancé. As the feast progresses, he finds Hilda very sweet, and falls desperately in love with her, and dares not disclose his real identity. The fact that the guests are so impressed with the baron's ghost story, gives him an idea of how he can withdraw discreetly, so he tells the baron he is awaited at the cathedral. After he leaves, the guests, horror-stricken, think him a spectre. Poor Hilda is heartbroken. A few days later Hilda fails to appear at morning prayers. Her aunt goes to call her and finds that the bird has flown, carried away by the spectre, her relatives think, and a letter to the baron, announcing Van Altenberg's death, two days ago. The baron is then sure he has entertained a spectre, and if his daughter has married him, "My goodness, my grandchildren will be spectres." Obsessed with this idea he even has visions of the spectres dancing around him. In the meantime, the eloping couple have come to their senses, and Herman leaves his wife to be chaperoned by a witch until he can smooth matters. The baron and his sisters are still bewailing the loss of Hilda when the servant announces the return of the elopers. "What, the spectre coming here?" "No," replies the servant, "A flesh and blood man." Hilda craves forgiveness. Her husband, not being a spectre, is forgiven, especially as the old baron feels assured that his grandchildren will not be spectres.
- Old Mother Rigby, the village witch of a quaint New England settlement in colonial days, makes for herself a scarecrow, to protect her garden. She is so pleased with her work that she brings it to life, by making it smoke her magic pipe, telling the newly created man (whom she names "Lord Feathertop"), that as long as he breathes the tobacco smoke he will remain handsome and living. She sends the fine new gentleman to woo the Squire's daughter. At the wedding feast the girl learns the real nature of her suitor, by seeing his reflection in a mirror of truth. Lord Feathertop is really in love and he has seen for himself that he is only a "contraption" of ragged old clothes with sticks for legs and pumpkin for a head. He rushes home to the witch's house and declares that he cannot live without love. Breaking the pipe which has kept him alive, the magic ended, he falls to the floor as a scarecrow. The witch philosophically plants him in her garden, declaring that he will do more work for a scarecrow than most of his living brothers.
- Features a chronological parade of major events and battles of the American Revolution, with a side-plot emphasis on the emotional stress of a patriotic American girl, played by Dorothy Gibson) in love with an English army officer. She remains faithful to the cause of independence, and marries her sweetheart after the war.
- Madam Danfers discovers that her overindulged son, Radford, is in love with a dancer. The girl is really a good girl who is struggling against poverty and temptation and is deeply in love with Radford. Madam Danfers invites Lila, the actress and some society girls to the house in order to show Radford the difference between "ladies and LADIES." At the luncheon Radford introduces Lila as his wife and Madam orders them to leave the house and they set up housekeeping in a tenement. Later a child is born to Lila, but even this does not soften her mother-in-law. Radford takes his son to his mother and the babe is dressed in the baptism robes of Radford. Madam comes to her best and takes Radford, his wife and son into her house.
- The captain of a Spanish vessel enters the house where Giles Corey, his wife, Martha, and his daughter, Priscilla, are enjoying a peaceful day at the fireside. He is selling the merchandise brought over by his ship. The Spaniard did not fall to notice the beauty of Priscilla. Coming back, he finds her alone and shows her what he thinks to be the most interesting to the girl, the box containing the jewels. Among the jewels is a rosary. Priscilla does not know what the use of this is, and smilingly, the captain is about to explain, when armed Puritans break into the room and arrest him. They believe he has been making love to the girl. Priscilla, in vain, tries to free him, but succeeds only in being locked up also. There, enclosed by the gray walls of the prison, the Spanish captain shows the first bead of the rosary and there appears before the enchanted eyes of the Puritan's daughter, the joyful mysteries of the rosary: 1st: The annunciation by the Angel to the Virgin Mary; 2nd: The visitation of Mary to Elizabeth; 3rd: The Nativity, birth of the Savior in the stable, surrounded by the adoring Magi and wondering animals; 4th: The presentation of the infant Jesus to Saint Simeon at the Temple; 5th: The Boy Jesus at the Temple confounding the priests by His wisdom, led forth by anxious parents. The Sorrowful Mysteries. First: The agony of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane; 2nd: The scourging of Christ in the courtyard of Pilate's palace. The soldiers urged on by the angry mob; 3rd: The crowning of Jesus with thorns, much to the joy of the howling populace; 4th: Jesus on the way of Calvary, carrying His Cross, followed by the jeering mob and a few faithful ones not daring to show their sorrow, save one, St. Veronica, who gives Him a cloth to wipe His face, and the miracle of the Agonized Face appears on the cloth; 5th: The Crucifixion, where we depart from the usual view of Christ on the Cross and instead give the rending of the curtain in the Temple, which, as it falls, discloses the old City of Jerusalem, and outside the walls on the fatal mount are seen the three crosses with their victims thereon. An astounded priest views the scene, then turning to Heaven asks which is the true God. The sky darkens, lightning flashes and smoke issues here and there. The Glorious Mysteries. First: Roman soldiers, casting dice for the raiment of Christ, are surprised and horrified by noises; the raising of the lid of the tomb and Christ issuing forth and ascending into the air; 2nd: The Ascension. Mary and Christ's disciples repaired to the spot appointed by the Savior. He suddenly appears in their midst and with final instructions slowly ascends into Heaven; 3rd: The descent of the Holy Ghost upon Mary and the Eleven Apostles; 4th: The assumption of the Blessed Virgin, slowly ascending to Heaven accompanied by Angels; 5th: The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin, Queen of Angels and Saints in Heaven. And now we see the prison again. Believing that Priscilla has been bewitched, the Puritans seize the captain, tie him to a stake and are about to burn him alive, when a man runs in and cries out, "the Indiana are upon us." The women flee in terror and the men rush to meet the advancing foe. Juan begs Giles to release him and let him help fight the Indians. Later we see the return of the Puritan warriors. Abner has a wound in his head. All assembled, they miss the captain, and Abner deliberately lies and says be saw him flee. Priscilla, stung by this monstrous tale, accuses Abner of lying. Giles, in his fury, orders her out of the house. She leaves and we find her, rosary in hand, on the battlefield, seeking the captain, whom she finds dying. She gives him the rosary, and he dies in peace. Priscilla returns home, and at the window, her mother tells her that Giles is relentless. As Martha leans over she reads the passage which Giles has just been reading in the Bible, and beckons Priscilla in. The little maid steals down in front of her father, but he rises in anger and is about to hurl his denunciations upon her, when Martha re-opens his Bible and points to the passages: "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matthew 6: 14, 15. Giles reads, and turning to Martha says, "You are right." He extends his arms and folds his daughter to his bosom.
- Robert and Louise marry and are very happy, but the finding of a Bible in their room at the hotel while on their honeymoon, develops the fact that Robert "does not believe." His wife expresses her regret at this, but it does not lessen her love. Two years later the panic catches Robert and be is suddenly ruined. His brave little wife offers to seek employment, but Robert is manly enough to go ahead as a laborer. Dissolute, careless Helmar is married to a sweet little woman who can abide him no longer. Becoming desperate she writes to a friend asking him to take her away, saying otherwise she will kill herself. Helmar surprises his wife writing this letter. She attempts to conceal the note, but he forces her to show it. Helmar offers his wife a revolver to carry out her threat, but her nerve fails. Picking it up, Helmar leaves the house, intent on suicide. He goes to the river when the thought comes of a better way to drop out of his wife's life. He leaves his coat and hat on the bank and buries himself in the army. Helmar's wife, believing him dead, welcomes the attentions of her friend. Helmar sees her in an automobile with him. Helmar exclaims "I wish to God I were blind, so I might never again see the face of a woman." A few weeks later in battle, Helmar is blinded by the explosion of a shell. This terrible visitation of the wrath of God makes of Helmar a strong believer and he devotes his life to the poor, opening a small mission, to heal the feeble and sickly by prayer. Meanwhile Robert and Louise have been struggling through the years, unable to regain their lost position. Then came sickness to their little Clara. On her way to the drug store to have a prescription filled, Louise slipped quietly into the little meeting house and stood for a moment until the gathering began to disperse, then, when the Faith turned toward her, she recognized Helmar, their former friend. Rushing forward, she made herself known to the blind man and then led him away to their little home, where her child was lying ill. Taking the beautiful little girl by the hand, Helmar prayed fervently and his message was heard. Clara regained her strength. One of Robert's former business competitors died and his will had bequeathed his entire fortune to Robert. Helmar now went to live with Robert and Louise and Clara. One joyous day, the unfortunate man regained his sight. When wealth came again to Robert and Louise they began a search for Helmar's wife. They found her repentant and unhappy. The day Helmar regained his sight, his wife was brought to the home and there was a happy reunion.
- Without doubt the cleverest film of drawings ever made. From one dazzling and mystifying transformation to another these drawings jump. A dog becomes a man. A beautiful flower is evolved from George Washington's portrait. There are many little humorous touches interspersed in this reel and the quick exchanges from the ridiculous to the sublime are bound to keep audiences in a continual roar. Again very many beautiful scenes of New York's waterfront and view of interest throughout the country are flashed, only to resolve themselves into some astonishing shape or form. From the flash of a gun we see a canoe floating peacefully down the water and this disappears to he replaced by a single line, which forms itself into a beautiful prism and then gives way to something equally as startling.
- The troubles of Kittie and "Kid" have not ended with their escape from the "Silk Mask Gang." The rascally nephew of the dead Uncle Bill steals a pearl necklace, and by a clever ruse turns suspicion on Kittie. She is arrested and saved from punishment through the brave detective work of "Kid" the western boy, who turns a neat and surprising trick upon the gangsters and sets things right again.
- When Uncle Bill passed away in the little cabin out west, all his old comrades and friends mourned his death, especially his little pal, "Kid," whom he loved as his own child. Before he died, the old man entrusted to "Kid" the delivery of his will to his niece Kittie in New York. This will disinherits an ungrateful nephew and leaves the old man's wealth to the girl. The nephew, learning of his ill fortune, tries to marry Kittie and when she refuses, carries her off to the rendezvous of the "Silk Mask Band," where she is finally traced by "Kid" and his pal "Kit" who have reached New York with the will. By a clever ruse, the boy hero places a decoy and rescues Kittie, the Silk Mask Band escaping in an auto, which, owing to a disengaged brake, plunges into the Hudson river.
- The Cisco Kid, a young Mexican desperado, reigns supreme among the rough miners and rangers who fear his deadly aim. He is in love with Tonia, the daughter of an old sheep herder. She is a sly coquette and almost maddens Cisco by her changing moods and capricious pranks. Cisco visits the general store, takes what he wants, but pays for nothing. A crowd of rangers pursue him. One of them is shot. Later, Cisco shoots an American who has been too attentive to his girl. The sheriff, with a posse, starts in pursuit. Later, the sheriff is found stretched in the sand with a bullet hole directly in the center of his badge. Baffled and disgusted, the rangers ride away and a week later Captain Duval, Commander of the Army post, is notified that the Cisco Kid's career of crime must cease at once. The order is forwarded to Lieutenant Sundridge, a handsome young officer in command of the nearest post to the Kid's scene of crimes. In the course of his search for Cisco, Sandridge comes upon the house where Tonia lives. He is taken by the bright face and bewitching manner of the little Mexican girl and she, in turn, admires the lieutenant. After a time, she finds that a true love for the young American officer is slowly taking hold of her finer nature. Cisco has been hiding in the mountains. He comes to his sweetheart and suspects that she has ceased to love him for someone else. Then he intercepts a note that the girl is sending to the American. Cisco supplants it with one of his own writing, which reads, "He has come and suspects. To prove I am true I must ride to town in his clothes tomorrow. He will ride in mine. Come at sunrise. Kill this man that I may be thine alone." The lieutenant sets forth to kill the Kid. Nearing the house he perceives a figure emerging. He orders it to halt, and getting no answer, fires. The figure topples forward, and rushing up. Sandridge finds that he has killed his beloved Tonia. Too late, he sees through the trick of Cisco, but he swears to capture the outlaw and not to sleep or eat until he does. Then starts a chase which lasts for days. He brings Cisco back, cowed and submissive, to the sheriff, who waits with a rope. As the outlaw is being led away, Sandridge gently takes a flower Tonia had given him from his pocket and presses it gently to his lips.
- This is the story of a great musician who tries out a popular ragtime classic with such telling effect that he nearly puts the entire neighborhood out of commission. Businessmen, laborers, pretty girls, domestics, tradesmen fall victims to the magic power of the melody with a droll effect which will almost take your audiences off their feet!
- "Silent Jim" was a trapper of the Northwest. Periodically he sought out a trading post, that he might exchange his furs for supplies. He never talked. On one of these visits the men sitting about the post chaffed him on his silence. He had refused liquor. Suddenly the trapper faced the men around the long wooden tables, police, trappers and idlers. "I came here from England to become a man," he told his hearers. "I, too, wore the uniform; they said I disgraced it. They took it away. I lost it because I loved a girl. I love her still." The scene dissolves. Jim is shown as a young man in the garb of the city. He meets Jacqueline and falls in love. There is a rival, a handsome half-breed, with a winning smile and a "way with the women." Baptiste brings to Jacqueline presents of handsome furs. There is no misunderstanding between the men; there is a very definite understanding. Jim receives his appointment to the Mounted and is congratulated by his friends. Scarcely has he received his equipment than he is ordered to bring in a murderer. He has seen two men struggling on a cliff. He finds the body of one at the base. Also he catches a glimpse of a fugitive. It is Baptiste. Jim follows the half-breed, right to the cabin of Jacqueline. The mounted man wastes no words. He takes Jacqueline from in front of a closet door and shoots through it. He pulls back the door. His quarry is not there. Baptiste has escaped as the door was opened. The closet had no wall on one side. Jim goes in pursuit. He is lured to quicksands, in which he sinks to his waist. Baptiste comes back to him and taunts him and invites him to shoot. Jim throws his pistol at him. Baptiste picks up the weapon and leaves Jim to his fate. Night falls. Jacqueline is asleep. The rays of the moon strike through the window and fall on her face. Baptiste has worried over the mounted man caught in the mire and determines to save him. With the aid of a pole he pulls the now unconscious Jim from the water, puts him on his back and starts for the cabin of Jacqueline. In the meantime the troopers have received instructions to bring in Baptiste, dead or alive, the daughter of the half-breed's Indian victim having brought in word of her father's murder. Baptiste takes Jim to the girl's cabin. Jacqueline is aroused and Jim is thrown on the bed under the window. Baptiste hears the approach of the troops and steps out. As he is making his escape he is discovered by the sergeant. The officer follows and is just about to shoot the fugitive, when Jacqueline picks up a gun and rushes to the window. Jim is now conscious and sits up. He sees the girl taking aim at his sergeant. He sees the sergeant aiming at the man who had drawn him from the mire. Jim takes the weapon from the girl. As the sergeant raises his pistol his arm drops. He has been shot in the hand. Other officers rush into the house. The rifle is in Jim's hand. The sergeant enters wounded. Jim is stripped of his equipment. Baptiste escapes. He returns for Jacqueline. Jim finds her ready to depart; he knows with whom she is going. There is a strong scene as the unsuccessful rival takes Jacqueline in his arms and kisses her. The girl is in doubt. She does not resist. It is love for one, pity for the other who saved "the" one, saved him for her. There is a twilight picture on a rocky summit. By the side of a campfire the outlaw stands with the girl he has won. The scene dissolves. "That's my story, boys," says Jim, simply. A gray-mustached trooper goes over to him and shows him a scar on his hand. It is the sergeant. They shake hands. Quietly Jim takes up his gun and departs. The eyes of all follow him. As we bid good-bye to Jim he is kneeling on a hillside. He reaches into his kit and draws out a bit of hair-ribbon, a relic he had found in Jacqueline's deserted cabin which he had preserved for twenty years.
- "Cheer up, old man." "Huh. What for? I've had so much 'cheer' in the last few years that, oh, what's the use?" To a man standing at one side, it sounded like the conversation of a few friends trying to help out one of the great, cruel world's "down and outs," and he turned to his neighbor to inquire what particular business or personal "punch" had put that good-looking but grouchy young chap on the "blue" list. "Who is this lad, who seems so unwilling to join the boys? Is he having a rough time of it?" "Who, that fellow? Well, hardly. That is Charlie Forbes, head of one of our best firms in town. His trouble is he has seen all of what he considers 'life,' and consequently the blasé grouch. But, mark my words, he'll get a shock one of these days. I think a real girl, one with brains and wit, could make him sit up and take notice." The crowd of good fellows who were gathered about young Forbes, here at the club, had little success in "cheering him up," but the men on the side had true enough outlined the wealthy, handsome young man-of- the-world's fate. Soon a new sensation was to come into his life, and when it came, he lost all that indifference, which had marked him among his fellows for months. And it was a girl who brought about this change. Charlie's "I've seen it all" attitude worries his doting mother. Thinking she has hit upon the happy solution, Charlie's mother sends for the daughter of her old school friend, Mrs. Wilton, because she has always loved this young lady, and she thinks the charming Miss Wilton can bring Charles to a realization of all the joy this life really contains. But Charles, when told of Miss Wilton's coming, tells his mother in a tone of disgust, "What? Me marry? Well, not while I have my senses." Well, Miss Wilton overhears that remark, and being a girl of spirit, that means trouble for Mr. Charles. When Charlie's pal suggests a little conspiracy, Miss Wilton agrees with real interest. With the pal's assistance, the charming visitor enters Charles' office as a stenographer, and the boss comes down with a grouch. He is scolding on all sides when his eyes meet those of the green stenographer and immediately something happens. He feels he is "caught," and gets away to avoid those new, strange, wonderful eyes. At the club, the vision of "that new girl" remains with him, but suddenly it is gone and he double quicks to the telephone and asks for news from the office. He is told that the "new stenographer" has departed for Niagara. At Niagara Falls a charming Indian girl seems to have the same eyes that are haunting Charles, and after she has slipped away, he reads on the back of a card she sold him, "You did not recognize her. Meet me at your office in New York." Then the boss receives a phone call that the stenographer while coming to the city in an auto, has been held up by a wild tiger. In the meantime, an itinerant showman with a lamb-like tiger has been engaged to pose the pet animal in front of the auto. Charles dashes to the rescue and carries Miss Wilton, who has "fainted," to the house. Meeting his mother, Charles is informed that Miss Wilton, his mother's friend, and the stenographer in his arms. are one and the same. He is angry at first, but how could he help but relent and be happy?
- O'Roon, who was a favorite with the boys on the ranch, was the first to enlist in the regiment of "Gentle Riders," when war was declared with Spain. In a skirmish with the Spaniards, O'Roon proved his mettle when he rescued, under fire, one of his comrades named Jack Remsen. Just after the war, O'Roon mailed a letter to a charming young lady named Alice, the daughter of the Earl of Ardsley, Scotland, from whose beautiful old castle he was ordered away many months ago, saying that as the war was over, he will sail for New York, where he hopes to secure a nice position. When Alice received the letter, she pleaded so fervently with her father to go to America that he at last consented. By a chance happening of accidentally dropping her glove, Alice came face to face with Remsen, who was sitting at one of the tables at the entrance of a fashionable summer garden. He picked up the glove and returned it to her father. Remsen felt the sting of love enter his heart and he wished that he knew the beautiful young girl. For the next few days, Remsen, as he was riding in his big touring car, passed Alice as she was driving with her father in their carriage, and each time he doffed his hat and wondered how he might secure an introduction. When O'Roon arrived in New York, he visited his comrade, Jack Remsen, through whose influence he was given a position on the mounted police stationed in Central Park. One day as he was on duty he was surprised to be handed an invitation by Remsen to a reunion of the "Gentle Riders." who were in the city at the time. O'Roon attended the reunion, and after spending the night in revelry and imbibing freely, he started to go home, but found that his legs would not perform their duty. Remsen, feeling that he was to blame for his friend's condition, put him to bed and took the position as mounted policeman in the park. He raced after a pair of runaway horses, and when he saw the occupants of the carriage he was greatly surprised to discover that he had saved Alice and her father. For fear of betraying his friend be could not give his name, but gave O'Roon's badge number. The next day when Alice and her father called at the police station and asked to see the man who had saved them, O'Roon came forward. Great was their surprise when Alice and O'Roon ran into each other's arms. The father wanted an explanation, but O'Roon hurried away, intending to bring their real rescuer to them. Into the handsome apartment of Remsen were ushered Alice and her father, and everything ended the way that Remsen wished it to end.
- For twenty years Hiram Tyler has courted Salina Huntingdon but has lacked the courage to propose. Will Huntingdon, Salina's nephew, returns from college for his vacation, bringing with him his chum Geo. Lamon. Will is in love with Hiram's niece Judith Hughes, and George falls in love with her sister Muriel. They are very anxious to bring about a match between Aunt Salina and Uncle Hiram and Will makes up his mind that the only way to do this is to make Hiram Jealous. In his trunk he has two costumes which he and George wore at a college masquerade, so dressing in these they persuade Aunt Salina to go for a walk with them, having arranged with Judith to have Hiram at the crossroads at a certain time. To do this Judith, who is busy with a dressmaker complains of a headache and asks Uncle Hiram to drive Miss Osgood to the dressmaker's home. They arrive at the crossroads just in time to see Aunt Salina in the embrace of the supposed Mexican. Hiram's jealousy is aroused, likewise Salina's when she discovers Miss Osgood riding with Hiram. To add fuel to the flames will describes Aunt Salina's friend to Judith in the presence of Hiram. The next day in order to get Hiram where he can see Salina with another man Judith puts Clara into a canoe and pushes it out into the river and then rushes wildly and tells him of Clara's predicament. Hiram rushes out, dives into the river, rescues Clara and as he is starting for home and dry clothing, sees Salina and a minister friend ride by in an auto. The next day Hiram gets his courage in both hands and proposes to Salina much to her joy and the joy of the young people.
- In this picture the Eclair's new stock member, the Royal Bengal Tiger, "Princess" plays the leading role. The owner of Princess is forced to leave his boarding house owing to non-payment of rent and is forced to leave his trunk behind. Now, in this trunk he has been keeping his pet tiger and when the landlady and maid in search of something of value in place of the money due for board, he permits the tiger to escape and the fun commences. The tiger searches through the entire house for his master frightening the inmates nearly to death and causing no end of an uproar. The owner is finally sent for, and returning removes the tiger from the premises and is well rewarded for so doing.
- As the story goes, Ranse, young ranchman, and Yenna, daughter of a neighboring ranchman, are lovers, though in secret. This, for the fact that their fathers are enemies, nursing the memories in an old feud. Ranse, while in town for supplies one day, saves a much begrimed hobo from abuse at the hands of a gambler. "Curly," as the tramp is called, is made drunk by the cowboys and crawls into Ranse's wagon to sleep, hiding under the straw. On arriving home, Ranse discovers his presence. Ranse has taken a liking to the happy, bright-eyed fellow and though his friends joke him, he gives the tramp food and shelter. The next morning Curly is carried protestingly into the yard, dumped in the trough and made to scrub himself. Then clean clothes and a shave is provided and Curly comes out completely transformed. Later, he becomes a favorite with the boys. Sometime later, Yenna's father discovers her attachment for the son of his enemy, He writes to Ranse's father, threatening to kill him if the two marry. Ranse's father, in time, forces the boy to promise that, as his son. he will never marry into Yenna's family. Yenna is made to take a like oath about Ranse's family by her father. The young people meet for the last time and sadly return gifts and letters. However, Ranse, in going through the bureau for letters, has unearthed an old yellow sheet, signed, "Ransettea Truesdale," and reading as follows: "This day my boy was born; his right hand lacks a finger." The import of this message dawns on Ranse and hunting up an old family servant, he forces her to tell him the following strange story. Thirty years before, while her master was fighting for his lands, his young wife died, leaving a little baby boy. The boy is the father's only comfort after this. One day the boy was kidnapped by drunken sheep herders. To fill the vacant place in his heart, the father adopted a baby boy left on his door steps one day. This boy grew to manhood believing that he was the ranchman's own son and that boy is Ranse. Ranse comforts his foster father with what he has discovered; he determines to leave. But before he leaves his eyes fail on Curley's hand; it lacks one finger. Soon father and son are reunited, while Ranse rides joyously off to meet the girl of his heart, whom he is now free to marry.