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- The station agent is a girl about nineteen years of age. Joe Allen and Albert Hill, two freight men, are particularly smitten with her charms. She smiles at the one and bows to the other with equal womanly grace. Joe Allen is far in the lead as regards her affections. This fact is also revealed to Albert Hill. He is in a particularly dangerous frame of mind when, while setting the brakes of the box cars while going down a steep grade, he meets Joe on top of the train. The little station agent immediately becomes the subject of a conversation which waxes into a bitter argument, hot words pass and a blow is struck. The cars go dashing on, the two men reeling and swaying in a terrific struggle. A blow with a lantern knocks the favored one, Joe, unconscious. Albert thinks he has killed him and, realizing the punishment that will follow if he is found out he determines to destroy the evidence of the crime by cutting the cars loose and letting them run wild, that they may be dashed to pieces and Joe with them. This will enable him to hide his guilt. The cars are cut loose and go tearing down the mountain grade, but Joe soon awakes to consciousness to find himself on a mad runaway freight. He strains every nerve and cord in his body tugging at the brakes, but to no avail. A glimmer of hope arrives as he dashes by a way-station. The station master hears his cry, and rushing into his office sends a wire to the little station agent. A moment and the news stuns her, but it means Joe's life. It means more than that; it means the safety of the Overland Limited! Ten minutes have hardly passed before we see the track superintendent, the little station agent and an engineer dashing out of the round house on a high-speed emergency track automobile and away to head off the oncoming freight. Now we are shown the train dashing around dangerous curves and now the track automobile running for life, love and humanity's sake. At last the siding switch is reached, a moment only and the runaway freight is sidetracked and safe. In the next instant the Overland Limited comes tearing down the track and off in the distance. No one ever knew who had saved their lives, or how near to death they nearly were. Joe knew to whom he owed his life, however, and the next day when Albert Hill was arrested the little station agent slipped her hand into Joe's; and somehow we are made to feel that it is just these little tragic moments of life that bring two souls together.
- We are first introduced to an old-fashioned New England kitchen and dining-room combined, where a few simple country folks have gathered to give their thanks to God for all the blessings that have been bestowed upon them. Our interest is centered mostly around the mother of the household and her son, who are plain, simple New England folks. The son soon longs for a broader field for his ambition than the country village can give, and so, one day, starts for the city. Eight years glide by and the simple farm boy has grown to manhood, and success has reached him from every side, while away back in New England we see that the little mother is just the same, a little older, a little grayer. A feverish anxiety is in her movements as she takes a big, old-fashioned pie from the oven. It is for her boy. He is coming home to spend Thanksgiving with her for the first time in ten years. A knock is heard at the door and the rural postmaster hands the dear old lady a letter. It is from her son. She tears open the letter. The smile fades from her lips. A check drops from the letter unheeded, for in that letter is a heartache; her boy is not coming home on Thanksgiving Day. As she takes his picture from the worn old album and looks at it sadly part of the room fades, and we see the boy and the other woman, who loves him too. A moment of suspense, eyes that look into eyes, a catch of the breath, and as he clasps his sweetheart in his arms and presses the first long kiss of love upon her lips, we see the dear old mother sadly kissing the picture of her boy. New England is a long way from the great city where her boy lives, but she decides to go to him on Thanksgiving Day and surprise him. As she enters his house she does not know that a Thanksgiving dinner party is to be held, that her boy's sweetheart will be there in all her grandeur, that each guest will be dressed in the height of fashion. She does not realize that her old, worn-out clothes of the country will be out of place in these surroundings. She only knows that she is going to see her boy; but the sad awakening comes when she finds herself upstairs in a neatly furnished room and the butler placing a tray of food before her. Her boy is ashamed of her, and she is to eat her Thanksgiving dinner alone. What would his sweetheart, a lady of fashion, think of her, his mother, if she saw her in this old-fashioned attire? What? Wait and you shall see. A knock at the door. A fair young girl enters, a rustle of silk and satins. "Ah, I beg your pardon, but I thought this is where the butler said I was to remove my cloak." She sees a huge, old-fashioned pie on the dresser, a note beside it, and the words "my boy" and "your mother" catch her eye. There is a cry of joy, and the dear old lady is locked close in soft young arms. That's what she thinks of his mother. She is his mother; that's all she cares to know. Amid sobs and smiles the girl learns the truth, and one can imagine the shame upon the boy's face when he enters the room a few moments later and finds mother and sweetheart gaily eating their Thanksgiving dinner together. Soon all is forgiven and forgotten, and this sweet, simple story closes with the dear old lady saying thanksgiving at the head of her son's table.
- A mysterious metal box is bequeathed to Leo, a young Englishman, to be opened on his twenty-fifth birthday. It is opened in the presence of his guardian, and his servant. They find an Egyptian tablet 2,000 years old. The guardian, a linguist, interprets it. It tells how, 2,000 years before, an Egyptian princess and her husband, traveling in Africa, meet a mysterious woman, a queen, called "She," with power over Life and Death. "She" falls in love with the prince, and, in jealous fury, kills him. "She" sends the princess out of the country. "She" has the body entombed to await his reincarnation. The princess leaves an account of her adventure on a tablet; bequeaths it to her descendants, that one may some day find "She," wrest the secret from her, and avenge the ancient wrong. Leo determines to seek "She." The three reach Africa, where they are met by men from "She," who has seen their arrival, in a vision. While awaiting the chief's return, Leo is kissed by Ustane, a beautiful maiden, and she thereby becomes his wife. The Englishmen are set upon by the natives and only saved by the chief's arrival. He conducts them to "She," who finds in Leo the reincarnation of the prince. Leo is overcome by the wondrous beauty of "She." "She" prevails on Leo to bathe in the "Pillar of Life." a mysterious fire, but he hesitates and "She" to encourage him enters the flame, becomes young and radiant, but gradually grows old before his eyes until her form is entirely consumed.
- There is a maker of lay-figures, a gay old party who half falls in love with his own creations of pretty women and gay soubrettes. He has a son who follows in his father's footsteps. There is a young apprentice with ambitions for the stage, who is very much in love with an orphan ward of his employer. The ward is unwillingly betrothed to the good-for-nothing son. The old man has built a wonderful soubrette figure which it is his ambition to imbue with life. Then comes a fancy dress ball, which all the town people attend. The old man and his son dress themselves up and join the revelry. The little ward has nothing to wear and cannot go, until the apprentice suddenly conceives the brilliant idea of borrowing the clothes from the beautiful soubrette figure and dressing his sweetheart in them. When the old toy-maker sees her at the ball, accompanied by the young man dressed as Mephistopheles, he is convinced that he sees his own creation and the Devil. Rushing frantically from the ball, he hastens home to see if it can be true. The young people, preceding him, have no time to resume their own clothes or restore the doll to its position, so the girl takes the doll's place while the young man hides himself up the chimney. The old man and his son come in and try to induce the doll to again assume life and motion. They perform all sorts of tricks with her and the girl plays the part of the doll well enough to fool them utterly. Disgusted with their failure, they build a fire and decide to warm up a hot toddy to soothe their discouraged feelings. The young man above, smoked out by the fire, impersonates the Devil, and makes the doll live and dance for the old man on condition that he consent to the marriage of his ward to his apprentice. The old man and his son quarrel over this agreement, and after the girl has put the clothes back upon the doll the son returns and smashes it to atoms to get square with his father. In the evening the old man is called upon by his apprentice, who demands the hand of his ward in marriage. When the old man refuses the document, signed by himself, is flashed before him, and then the young man confesses the trick that he had played. He tells the old man that he impersonated the Devil and (not knowing that the son is listening behind him) tells him that the girl, the ward, impersonated the doll. The son is horrified at the thought of having killed the girl he once loved, but the apprentice, understanding the situation more thoroughly, calls the girl from her own room and the young man apparently sees a miracle, the doll-girl, which he had smashed, restored to life! In his joy at his escape from murder he gladly relinquishes all claim to the hand of the ward, and insists upon his father making good his written word.
- The Boy Scouts movement was started in England by Lieut. General Sir Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, K.C.B., where it met with immediate response and is being developed in this country through the study of woodcraft, as preached by Ernest Thompson Seton. The organization, founded on the broadest lines, is open to any boy of twelve or over. It need not necessarily be a separate organization. Any club of boys can add the Scouts' Organization to their present one by the application of the proper forms and methods. It is graded from the Chief Scout down through a number of officers to the lowest degree, which is called "tenderfoot" and which comprises the newest boys before they have learned enough to pass the first test and become Second Class Scouts. The main ideas are to encourage nature study, to be always honorable and as the Scout Law has it, "To be prepared, which means you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty." From the above it will be seen what as a nation we may expect if our growing boys go through such experiences. The movement is democratic in the largest sense. In our film, which was taken at Lake George and shows scenes of unusual beauty, we see the camp of boys going through their occupations and recreations of the day, rising, taking their morning dip, saluting the flag, the morning council and various sports and feats of woodcraft. We are shown at the end of the film the two gentlemen who are responsible for the movement in America. Ernest Thompson Seton and Dan Beard. In taking the picture we operated directly with the main organization in New York City and are showing it with their full approval.
- The first view shows the death of an Old Brahmin priest and his presentation to his favorite pupil, a young American artist, of the sacred robe of Krishna, together with a copy of the Divine Book of Mysteries, with an injunction to search for the Key of Life, which is hidden in the book and with which the robe itself is somehow concerned. Then we see the young man in his studio in New York surrounded with symbols of his studies and evidences of his life in other countries. He is reading the Book of Mysteries, while his little sister is studying the laws of love in company with a young man who is evidently her tutor. The girl plays with a little kitten and when the love scene passes and the betrothal is announced to the brother, the kitten is left upon the hitter's desk while he continues his studies alone. Suddenly he comes upon a paragraph which he has read, without understanding, before, when it is flashed upon the screen it tells us that Reincarnation is the Key of Life, and that if wrapped in the robe of Krishna, the ninth invocation he spoken before the shrine of Brahma, a reincarnation will take place. Getting the robe of Krishna, he opens its wrappings and unfolds it to view. Then he looks about him for an object which shall pass through the stages from animal life to humanity. He lights upon the kitten, which he places in a bowl, draping over it the robe of Krishna, while he repeats the invocation before the shrine of Brahma. A light vapor rises from the bowl, which with the kitten suddenly disappears and a sort of human kitten stands upon the pedestal. She is rather a charming young woman with cat-like qualities, which become more evident as he becomes better acquainted with her. He helps her down from the pedestal and admires her beauty, playing with her as he would with a kitten. She alternately rubs against him and scratches his hand. Then, suddenly, just when he feels that he has begun to teach her the human feeling of love, she darts after the bird in the cage and he catches her only in time to protect it. A little later she makes the discovery of the cream in the pitcher which she wants to lap up. He shows her how to drink properly, but it is evidently not the natural way for her. With kitten-like curiosity she plays with a dagger until she scratches her finger. Then he shows her how dangerous a thing it is to tamper with. Finally, after much patience and coaxing, he succeeds in making her understand a little of love, and is just about to seal the understanding with a kiss when he hears a sound at the door; his sister returning, Lest his position and that of the kitten-woman be misunderstood, he secretes her behind the curtain and admits his sister, who announces a shopping expedition, kisses him and leaves him alone again. But that kiss has been enough to rouse the cat-like jealousy of the reincarnated one, and she flies into a rage. Seizing the dagger she makes a vicious lunge at him, which just grazes his shoulder. He takes it away from her and drops to his seat, his head upon his hands in despair. Then slowly the reincarnated one begins to understand that she is neither cat nor human, and despair fills her because of the attack upon the man who would have loved her. She seizes the dagger and is about to end her own human existence, when suddenly a vision of Brahma in the clouds appears and stays her hand. Ascending the steps of the shrine, she turns and faces the now-awakened artist and tells him that she understands his situation, and goes back to her million lives on the way from cat-hood to woman-hood again, in regular order. As he steps forward her face changes more to that of the cat, and suddenly she is gone entirely. Turning around, he discovers the bowl, the robe of Krishna and the kitten exactly the same in location and appearance as when the incarnation first began.
- We start upon our trip over the C.P.R. at Calgary, a beautiful city which stands sentinel on the watch line between mountain and prairie. Soon we find ourselves fairly among the mountains, with all their grandeur, tunnels, torrents and towering peaks. A few moments' stop at Laggan: a glimpse at Lake Louise, the beauty spot of America, then down Eraser Canyon and the Selkirk Mountains. A visit to the National Park, containing the largest herd of buffaloes in the world, and so on until we have passed the two great steamers, the Princess Charlotte and the Princess Victoria, off Otto Point on their way to Victoria. Here, at the capital of British Colombia, we pause to view the harbor, the parliamentary building and the city itself. Four hundred and forty feet of beauty, and every picture is a gem in itself.
- Foreword: An Incident of the American Revolution, where a British force was repulsed, on the Connecticut shore, by the two Fordlyhan sisters. The British commander was wounded, and made prisoner, He was nursed by one of the girls, and became an officer in the Continental Army. Chips of the Old Block: The war fever burns hotly. Old lighthouse keeper teaches the girls to play fife and drum, and to shoot straight and true. Little dream their knowledge will be put to use. Five Years Later: Americans use lighthouse as a rendezvous. Conceal arms and ammunition. Commander of minute men in love with youngest sister. He nurses a wounded arm. Sighting the Enemy: Lovers walking on the cliffs, sight an English war vessel. Lighthouse defenseless. Lover rides to warn minute men. Girls prepare for action. Blood Will Tell: Girls watch landing party. Take arms and small cannon to edge of cliff. Prepare for defense. Plant the "Stars and Stripes." Landing party disconcerted. They hear the "Long Roll" sounded. "The Army of Two:" British attempt to scale the cliff; are met by a brisk fire, retire in confusion, hear "Yankee Doodle" on fife and drum. Rallied by young officer, who charges, flag in hand. Again repulsed, take to the boats. A Unique Victory: British officer gains top of cliff. Wounded, made prisoner. Lover and minute men arrive. Prisoner taken to lighthouse, nursed by oldest sister, convalescent. Becomes a prisoner of Cupid. Declares his love. Accepted on condition that he swears allegiance. Kisses the flag and "fair one." Caught in the act by youngest sister and her lover, but all are happy.
- The story of a French lieutenant who resents an insult to the beautiful Helene, of whom he is enamored and to whom he is affianced, given by Capt. Miquelin, his superior officer. A challenge and a short fight in a dark alley result. Lieut. Boin leaving his captain apparently mortally wounded, and rushes to tell his sweetheart what he has done and on her advice flees from France. The next morning we see the detectives busy endeavoring to find the one who has assaulted the Captain. The clues lead them to seek for Lieut. Boin, who has disappeared. Mlle. Helene is questions in her boudoir, but is so clever in acting an enforced role that she throws the detectives off the track. Boin has proceeded to America, to the far west, and is mining in California when we see him receive a letter from the beautiful Helene (in answer to one which he has written) agreeing to go to California and become his wife. Time goes on and Gen. LeFarge, who has command of the division in which Lieut. Boin was an officer, calls to him the trusty captains three: Dunois, Villalon and LePard. News has been received that Boin is in California and that, while Capt. Miquelin has recovered, discipline requires that Boin be apprehended and be brought back to France. This task is assigned by Gen. LeFarge to Dunois and his two comrades. They proceed on their journey, arrive at California and at the home of Boin (a rough log cabin) to which they are brought by the burly sheriff of El Dorado County. Here they are met, much to their surprise, by none other than the lady they knew as Mlle. Helene, the rage of Paris. As they stop into the room Boin reaches for a rifle, but the sheriff is quick with his gun, tells him not to attempt anything of that sort, and the scene proceeds between the men. Boin introduced his wife and all bow graciously to the lady. He then tells them what he did and the cause of the encounter between himself and his captain, and proceeds to give himself up to the sheriff. The chivalrous western spirit of the rugged officer makes him turn toward the Frenchman with an air of questioning, and holding the warrant in his hand, he tells them that "if it were he, he would tear this thing up." Capt. Dunois is in a quandary. His sympathies of course are with Boin. He consults the other captains and they agree that the proper thing to do is leave Boin and his wife where they found them. Dunois starts to tear up the warrant when Lieut. Boin stops him and refuses to permit the Captain to make such a sacrifice. The young officer and his wife accompany the Captains Three to France, where the final scene of this interesting story is enacted. Gen. LeFarge receives the Captains and their captive and at first is very stern, but he shows a letter which he has received from Capt. Maquelin, written on his deathbed, requesting that Lieut. Boin be exonerated and stating that it was he and he alone who was to blame for the whole trouble. Boin is reinstated to his position in the army of France, and a pretty ending to the picture and story result.
- The "Cowpuncher's Glove" is only another chapter in his life that is well worth reading. We are first introduced to the western home of a father and daughter. The cowpuncher enters, and we can easily see that his heart is set upon winning the girl's affection in any way that is possible; but the girl evidently has other views upon the subject, as she does not seem particularly overjoyed at his behavior, although her father practically promises her hand in marriage upon the cowpuncher's return from the roundup. Here we are shown a glimpse of the roundup, and in the next scene we are acquainted with the fact that Jim, the cowpuncher, has not been entirely honest in his dealings and now stands in a fair way of having his neck stretched from the branch of a cedar tree by a lynching gang before morning. This information is communicated to another cowboy by his finding of a glove outside of the county jail window, in which glove is a note from the prisoner imploring the finder, in the name of mercy, to give him a chance to start life over again and be honest. The stranger does not know the culprit, nor has he an opportunity of seeing him, but moved by the appeal for help he takes the chance, and succeeds in securing the keys of the jail and throwing them in through the barred window to Jim without either man seeing the other. The only reward he has for his service is the pair of gloves, which are initialed, in which he found the note. Slipping them into his pocket he passes on into the night while Jim, a few moments later, makes his escape without knowing whom or what his benefactor was like. The cowboy who assisted in Jim's escape afterwards meets the girl of the first scene and wins her love. He does not know that her father has promised her in marriage to Jim until he sees a letter from the latter in which he threatens to come and take her away for his wife that very night. The young lover decides to head off his plan, and the two men meet on a swinging bridge over a dangerous chasm. Here ensues another Edison thriller in the way of a desperate fight, which only terminates when Jim discovers his glove in the possession of his antagonist and the truth is revealed to him that this is the man who saved his life from the lynching gang. The lovers are united, and the audience will be found laughing at the quaint situation at the close.
- Away up in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, at Lake Louise, Laggan, the beauty spot of North America, which is justly celebrated for the magnificence of its scenery, this motion picture plot is laid amidst the snow-capped peaks and eternal glaciers of that region where nature has done her finest work for mankind to feast its eyes upon. The story deals' with human love and passion, weakness and infidelity, all centered around a romantic-looking Swiss guide and his pretty wife, who are located at Lake Louise (a summer resort) for the purpose of guiding tourists over the dangerous passes and deep crevasses of the glaciers which lie surrounded by huge mountains at the foot of this God's Mirror. One of the guests of the Chalet Hotel is a young and beautiful girl. The rough mountain guide soon falls under the spell of her beauty, and she, all unknowingly, is playing havoc with his heart. He dogs her footsteps constantly, worshiping her from afar with all the mute but intense passion of his nature. His young wife learns of his infatuation but remains silent, like the heroine of one of Richard LeGallienne's short stories. She, in her way, feels that his soul is only sick and that time will bring him back again to his own. But the heart when once filled with love cannot long remain silent. At last, while away up in the mountains alone with the girl, the guide can restrain himself no longer and reveals to her his infatuation. Shocked and stunned by his boldness, she awakens him from his dreams by a ringing blow on the cheek and without further word leaves him, to find her dangerous way back over the crevasses alone. While passing over a perilous path she slips and falls, spraining her ankle. She is rendered helpless by the accident, and, unable to attract attention by her cries, is on the point of giving up in despair, but the guide's faithful dog finds her and carries the news of her plight back to the guide's wife. Here the nobility of the woman is shown as without a moment's hesitation and forgetting self and all, she follows the dog, finds her helpless rival and carries her safely back to her friends. The only reward she will accept is a pair of gloves, the gift of her husband to the girl. It is hardly necessary to say that the guide after his rude awakening soon realizes the nobility of the woman by his side, and once again husband and wife are united.
- In presenting "The Riders of the Plains" to the public the Edison Company takes considerable pride because the participants are not make-believe actors. Although the greater part of this film is a story picture, nevertheless the actors are the real things. The Indians are real Indians and the cowboys are real cowboys. The story was suggested by one of the commanding officers of this body of men and carried out under his instructions, as showing what has occurred time and time again in the annals of their life. The entire story deals with horse stealing by the Indians. The Mounted Police are shown on post duty discovering the facts, reporting at Calgary Headquarters, and then a detachment goes out to bring back the guilty redmen, and we may be sure at this point that they will do so, for the Royal Northwest Mounted Police are not allowed to return empty handed. They will follow their prey for hundreds of miles if necessary. Eventually the picture winds up with the capture of the redmen and their being brought to the prison at the Northwest Mounted Police Station at Calgary.
- The story itself is laid in the provincial district of France, and reveals that stern law which gives the French parent command and control over the life and will of his child. The heart of a little French peasant girl has gone out to a young barrister, whom she worships and who worships her with all the holy loyalty of a noble love, but centuries of custom force their cruel way between them, and the girl is compelled to bow down to her father's will. Al the signing of the marriage contract we are shown her heart in all its sufferings. Time passes, and twenty years later we sec the result of a father's law. Annette, the daughter, has married her father's choice, a coarse, cruel brute; her life is crushed. The only gleam of joy that lights up her face is when her eyes rest upon her son, her boy. She worships him, but ere the day closes the awful truth is revealed to her that her boy is a thief! Mlle. Morin at this point reaches the supreme climax of the art of "Silent Drama." A moment after the discovery and the gendarmes arc in the room searching for the thief, and then the dumb terror seizes her. She sees her boy a prisoner. She sees him behind the iron bars, sees him suffering. Then the greater love comes forth and she takes the guilt upon herself. "I am the thief," she protests, but the law of a lie rarely finds a home in happiness and relief. It always reacts upon the offender, which is clearly shown in this picture when she is brought before the justice, who proves to be her former sweetheart. Here, before the man she loves, she condemns herself with a lie as a common thief, and he is forced to sentence her to one year at hard labor. We then catch a glimpse of her prison life and finally her release. We next see her wandering back to her native tillage, penniless, heartbroken and alone. Through the window of a village inn she beholds her boy, gambling and drinking, she sends word to him, but he turns from her. Can human being suffer more? At last she is found by the judge and taken to his home, and through his love and care we realize that her life in future will be sweeter and that her boy will learn to bow down before that greater love which has given so much for him.
- Mrs. Knox loves her husband. James Knox, and Clara Jones dearly loves her husband, Henry Jones, and it might be well to add that both husbands loved their dear little wives. But the "Charmer," ah! there's where the trouble lies! Who is the "Charmer"? Mrs. Knox discovers a strange hair upon Mr. Knox's coat, where it had conveniently been placed by a practical joker, also a telegram to the effect that her husband is to sail with the "Charmer" at ten, and that he need not meet her husband, Jones. The green-eyed monster at once proceeds to grow larger and larger, and she rushes down to the boat, but it is far out to sea. She immediately proceeds to inform Mr. Jones that his wife has eloped with her husband. This sets Jones in a whirl and he at once hires a tug, and with Mrs. Knox sails away to capture the villain Knox and his supposed unfaithful wife, Mrs. Jones. But ere this has all transpired, Mrs. Jones, who has all the time been safely on shore, discovers her husband, Jones, running away on a tug with Mrs. Knox. She at once sends Mr. Knox a wireless to the effect that Mr. Jones has run away with his wife, Mrs. Knox, and mistakes pile upon mistakes until the four curious people arrive at the ship's husband's office, where the mystery is all cleared up. "The Charmer" is the name of the boat that Knox sailed away on, and the "husband" is none other than Mr. Jones, himself.
- "Love Laughs at locksmiths." Were it not so, the great business of love might receive a set-back at times. How true this is we show in our production, where two lovers overcome all obstacles to win out. Madge meets with an accident while riding in her carriage. Ralph, passing on his bicycle, offers assistance, which is gratefully accepted. He receives an invitation to call; does so at an early date. Her father objects to Ralph, and orders him not to call again. The girl is equal to the emergency and arranges a code of signals flashed from the clothesline, that has "Wireless" beaten by a mile. Pa's pants displayed means "Danger! Keep away!" A shirt-waist, "Am alone; coast clear," etc. The code is worked overtime, and develops the most unexpected and amusing complications, due to an unforeseen mix-up of signals by the servant girl. "Pa" and "Ma" and a "Weary Willie" whose wardrobe needs replenishing. The girl's little brother proves a staunch ally; comes to the rescue and enables the harassed young couple, finally, to outwit the stern father and to marry. Then "Pa" sees the joke, signals his forgiveness, and Madge and Ralph return for his blessing.
- A beautiful young queen, having arrived at a marriageable age, her councilors decide that she must marry. Proclamation is made, and suitors are invited to contest for her hand. The queen's jester an ugly dwarf with a heavenly voice, is passionately in love with her. He pours forth his love, in a melodious strain, under her balcony window. The queen, entranced, begs him to reveal himself, but he refuses; whereupon she drops her scarf to him as a token, and retires to dream of a mysterious prince who will come to claim her. The "prince" not forthcoming, courtiers are sent, far and near, to hasten the errant one's arrival, and announcement made that no one but he who can produce the scarf may claim her. On the day that the courtiers are to report, the court is assembled in grand array. The queen is disappointed at their failure, and about to dismiss them, when the dwarf produces the scarf and avows his love. He is cast into prison for his effrontery, and pines away, until the gods, pitying his plight, transform him into a beautiful youth, and set him free, in resplendent attire. Wandering, disconsolate at the queen's behavior, he sings a farewell song under her window, is captured by the guards and brought before the queen, who acknowledges her love, and they are united amid universal rejoicing.
- This subject tells of the theft of a jewel case from one of the guests of a wealthy New York businessman. A famous detective is called in upon the case, and suspicion points strongly toward the niece of the host, and the strangest part of it all is that the uncle seems particularly anxious to fasten the guilt upon the young lady. Subsequently a maid discovers a secret cabinet in an old clock, and when her mistress inspects it she finds a supposedly lost will which reveals the fact that her father's wealth and property will revert to his brother unless the young lady in question marries the man of her choice in the state of California on or before a certain date. She then realizes why her uncle was so anxious to involve her in this theft, in order to keep her in New York until after the designated time in the will. Realizing his criminal intent, she and her maid leave the house secretly, after revealing her plans to her lover and arranging a meeting to take place in Denver. Then the two girls start out on the chase across the continent against time and the shrewdness of a detective who, believing her flight to be evidence of guilt, follows by train fifteen minutes later. Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake and San Francisco are included in the race, and even at the very close one is led to believe that the chase has been all in vain, as she is arrested at the church door on her wedding day, when news arrives of her uncle's perfidy, bringing about a happy ending.
- The scene takes place in a garden back of a summer house, The lass herself is not up when the story begins, and the first to appear are two children, who scamper off in search of suitable gifts for her, looking up and laughing at the closed blinds which show that she is still asleep on her natal day. And then comes a poor but attractive young man who, having nothing in his pockets wherewith to purchase presents, has gotten up betimes and picked violets for his lady; which offering he leaves upon a table just outside the little summer house. Of course he writes a little note upon a piece of wood and leaves it with them. He has hardly gone when a poetic youth, a very poetic fellow, appears. He is evidently fond of himself as well as of the girl, for he brings her a portrait, probably painted by his own hand, and verses, to his mistress's eyebrows probably. He looks scornfully at the violets and puts his portrait in front of them on the table with his scroll of verses by it. Then, deciding to watch the reception of his gift, he hides beside the porch. She receives many other gifts from young men in various walks of life; but all are rejected with the exception of the bouquet of violets. The rejection of the presents are witnessed by the suitors with anger and disappointment, for each one thought that his would be the favored gift. Then, the poor young man comes back in time to see the reception of his gift, and, as he and she come together in love's embrace, the fat boy slips from his perch and dangles helplessly from the summer house, while a little girl of six holds up her apron to catch him should he fall.
- The picture opens with a demolition squadron in heavy marching order, equipped in full field service, which includes "Limbre," or dynamited wagon, shelter tents, poles, punches, blankets and rifles. Camp is pitched and the squadron is seen next laying three land mines. Every operation from the planting of explosives to electrical connection and the final terrific upheaval of the tons of earth and rocks is shown. Next stumps and trees are blown up and cut down by the use of this explosive, showing the torn and shattered remains. A feature of this picture is the construction, planting and explosion of a submarine mine. There are numerous other interesting and instructive points, such as the testing of the explosives by smashing with a bullet at close range and burning a stick held in a man's hand.
- The story deals with the love of a young doctor and the daughter of an old Professor of Mineralogy. A certain unclaimed mine has been left to the young man by his uncle. A false friend succeeds in securing the plans and location of the mine, and persuades the old Professor to enter his scheme to cheat the rightful owner out of his claim. The facts are kept safely from the daughter, who is in love with the real owner of the mine, until some months after she has been forced to marry the false friend. The truth is then revealed to her, when her former sweetheart meets her father and the "friend" in their new western abode, and accuses them of deliberately stealing his claim. But Justice takes care of its own when an explosion occurs in the mine and the father is killed and the husband is badly injured. Medical aid is required at once. The girl in a wild ride reaches the nearest village twenty miles away, and seeing the sign of a doctor on the door, she nervously knocks. It is opened; she finds herself face to face with the man whom she loves and whom her husband has so cruelly wronged. She has come to ask him to save the life of his worst enemy. Here the nobility of the man is revealed. She has asked for medical aid; he is the doctor, if the man dies he may again regain the woman of his heart, but duty before everything, and he goes with her, and again, face to face, the two men meet. With the calm, quiet precision of his profession he forces his enemy to do his bidding. He saves his life and then turns to the wife. Silently the two, this man and this woman, look into each other's eyes long and earnestly, and part. She sinks into her chair with a sob, a moan, realizing what she has missed in life. For days she watches beside the bed of the man who has deprived her of happiness. Weary with watching, one night she falls asleep. He is delirious. He rises from his couch and wanders back up to the deserted mine. A moment he pauses on the edge of the dizzy height, a cry from the woman startles him, a shriek, and he is dashed to pieces one thousand five hundred feet below. A pale, quiet little woman dressed in black stops at the doctor's door one day and leaves a note asking for forgiveness and a mining claim upon the doctor's table, then sadly turns to leave; but a strong hand touches her shoulder, and she looks into the eyes of the man she loves, and as she stretches her arms to a great cluster of flowers on the table and holds them to her breast, we realize that something new and sweet and true has come into both their lives.
- A Romeo and Juliet story of the rivalry between two miners, one rich and one poor, whose son and daughter overcome their respective fathers' opposition. Source Moving Picture World 1910 Pg. 1366
- Mrs. Cushing, a widow, and her two children, a beautiful daughter and a son whose inclinations are wayward, are residing in the mountains of California, where Mrs. Cushing's late husband had some mining claims. The story opens when Mrs. Cushing receives by registered mail a package containing some two thousand dollars in currency, being the total sum realized on the sale of her husband's estate in Iowa. The son has just asked his mother for a loan of money. She at first refuses him, but finally gives gold pieces, and he leaves the home, informing his mother that he is about to invest the money in such a way as to increase its amount. Without telling her son anything about it, in fact hiding the circumstances from him, Mrs. Cushing dispatches her daughter with the money, which has just been received by registered mail, to deposit same where she can pay some assessments for work on the mining property. The girl starts with a satchel containing the currency and takes the stage at Dutch Flat. Meanwhile her brother has gone with the gold given him to a gambling house, where he loses every cent of it. A suspicions character is interested in his losses and watches him keenly. At the critical moment he calls him aside and is talking to him very earnestly when Hank Young, the big stage driver of Dutch Flat, steps up and informs young Cushing that he had better beware of the stranger, for he doesn't like the cut of his jib. Cushing resents any interference and Hank moves away rebuffed. We now watch the events which transpire in front of the post-office at Dutch Flat. The stage comes in with a load of passengers, who dismount, and among those who start out on the next lap of the journey is Miss Cushing, holding the bag with the money. There is some talk between the driver, Hank Young, and the postmaster about a messenger on the box, and the latter tells Hank that he will find the messenger at the next stop. The coach pulls out of Dutch Flat, and no sooner has it gone than we see young Cushing and the suspicious character trailing through the mountains over a shortcut to head off the stage. When the stage arrives at the way station where the messenger was supposed to mount the box, Hank is informed by the stableman that no one is there to go with him. He tries to induce some cow-punchers to ride on the coach but they refuse, saying they have business elsewhere. Miss Cushing, who is now the sole passenger in the stage, is somewhat afraid of being alone, and the driver invites her to ride with him on the seat. We now reach a corner of the road at a wooded spot in the mountains. Young Cushing and his friend are seen masking themselves and going to ambush in order to hold up the stage. This they do, and all seems to be going their way when Hank Young, the stage driver, recalls the fact that the little woman beside him has confided to him that there are two thousand dollars of her mother's money in the bag at her seat. He suddenly rouses himself to action, and it will be necessary to see the film to realize the way in which he put the "bad man" to flight and placed a quietus on the stage robbing aspirations of young Cushing. The thrilling moment of the picture is when Miss Cushing discovers that one of the robbers is her brother. She tells this to Hank, and he relieves the tension of the situation in a most clever manner. Young Cushing has been badly wounded, and Hank rushes his horses back to Dutch Flat, where the sheriff attempts to arrest the man in the coach. Here Hank shows his quickness of wit by telling the sheriff that the wounded man was a passenger in the coach. For this he receives a look of tenderness and gratitude from Cushing's sister. Hank in his rough way has saved the family honor, and the last scene of the picture shows him giving young Cushing the lecture of his life and its effect upon the boy. Hank leaves with the gratitude of mother and sister and a promise from the wayward son to live in the future a wiser and a better life.
- A crusty old uncle, whose niece refuses to marry the man he selects, leaves a clause in his will requiring that she marry on a certain day, or be disinherited. Confronted with the loss of a fortune, or immediate marriage, reluctant to forego her freedom, being as yet "heart-whole" and "fancy-free," she decides on a plan that allows a loophole. A homeless man, drifting, discouraged, is induced to become her husband, and paid a large amount on condition that he absent himself for a legal period, and then submit to a divorce. After the marriage he decides on a fitting celebration. Comfortably seated in a saloon, he muses o'er the strange adventure. In a reverie he sees again the woman he has wed. Amused at first, the "man within" awakes, and he resolves to meet Fate's jest with one to match, to earn a name and fortune, return and win the love of the woman he has wed. In the West, seeking gold, he prevents a stagecoach hold-up: among the passengers is an Eastern banker, from whom he receives an invitation to visit when in New York. Striking it rich, he returns East at the time appointed, meets his wife at the banker's under an assumed name. It is a case of love at first sight, but her happiness is shadowed by the memory of her hasty marriage. Her lawyer advises that her husband will be on hand at the time agreed. Timidly facing her ordeal, she hears the visitor announced, rises, in dread, and meets the man she loves!