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- In honor bound, Stephen Fiske, Jr., son of a supposed millionaire, tells Doris Myhtle, his fiancée, that the death of his father has revealed that he has died penniless and left him a poor man. She is so disappointed she returns her engagement ring to him, which he throws into the fire. He is obliged to go to work as an ordinary laborer. She tells her Aunt Patience, with whom she lives, and the old lady confides the romance of her life to her. She was engaged to Stephen's father. She rejected him and it was the regret of her life, and almost broke her heart when he married another woman. One evening, Aunt Patience, after a day's shopping, entering her home, slips, injuring herself, and Stephen, returning from his day's work, finds her on the area step, and carries her into the house. He calls a doctor, who pronounces her injuries fatal. The old lady recognizes Stephen, of whom she is very fond, and who closely resembles his father. She expresses a hope that he and Doris will be wedded to each other, and again repeats the romance of her life. As she does so, visions of the happy retrospect appear before her and she passes away in thoughts of that past happiness, and a full realization of the joys that await her in the life beyond. Grieving at the loss of their good friend, Doris and Stephen, kneeling at her bedside, touch hands, and looking into each other's eyes, they ask each other if they will fulfill Aunt Patience's hope. The mutual fervor with which they silently embrace each other is their answer.
- Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.
- The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
- A young wife and her little daughter are seated in a drawing room. A friend of the family, a smooth-tongued, cunning scoundrel, enters, and after the little child goes out makes love to the mother. She is at once surprised and indignant and denounces him as a rogue. The daughter returns and, unperceived, sees and hears all. She turns about, runs through the hallway, intercepting her father, to whom she innocently tells what has happened. Together they return to the drawing room, where the false friend is still endeavoring to make love to the wife. The husband, unobserved, listens in the doorway. His wife presently leaves the room indignantly and runs to her husband in the doorway. He draws her silently into the hall, where she tells of the insult. He starts to go into the room, stops and thinks of a better revenge. The wife falls in with the scheme and they enter the room. The wronged husband greets the scoundrel pleasantly, and as he rises to take his departure insists that he remain to dinner. The two men, apparently the closest of friends, start for the dining room. The meal is finished and the butler enters with wine and cigars. The husband orders it brought to the library, where the men are seen drinking and smoking. The wife enters with her little daughter, who kisses papa "good-night," crosses the room toward the betrayer to bid him good-night when the gather interposes and will not let him touch her. The guest looks surprised, and as the host gazes steadily at him, drops his eyelids and shifts uncomfortably in the chair. The mother and child are about to leave the room when the husband stops them, orders the maid to take charge of the child and his wife to remain in the room. As the woman takes a chair her husband locks the doors and from a box on the mantelpiece takes out a revolver. He orders the rogue to draw up to the table, and with his gun ready for quick action, accuses him; tells what he has seen and heard, the wife corroborating the same. The denounced man drops weakly back in his chair, and the husband is tempted to shoot, but hesitates and takes two pills from a box, one of which he says is deadly poison, the other harmless, and commands his victim to select and eat one. The man is paralyzed with fear, begs and pleads with the couple before him without avail. He swallows one of the pills, feels the first symptoms of poison, clutches his heart and falls on the floor writhing in agony. The husband laughs at him scornfully, kicks him, lifts him up and roughly flings him into a chair, then advances and denounces him as a despicable coward, tells him that the pill was not poison, and finally orders him out of the house. The miserable cur starts to go, but before he can escape the husband takes down a riding whip and deals out an unmerciful thrashing.
- An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.
- A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
- A reel of mirth-provoking stunts that will draw the pennies from the children, but which is of much interest to young and old alike. It opens with a crowd of children leaving school and marching through the streets to the "Humpty Dumpty Circus." We see them crowd into the tent and at the end of each act they vociferously applaud the performers These are the little wooden toys that are familiar to all, and which are made to perform all the usual acrobatic stunts of the circus performer in a remarkably realistic manner. Some of the scenes are really comical and it is hard to believe that the elephants and donkeys are not alive.
- On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.
- The Craigs and the Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their children fraternize as if all belonged to one large family. Sidney Craig manages to set loose Smith's chickens, who get into Craig's garden and work havoc among his pet seedlings. Each blames the other's child for the mishap and the war between the two families is on. A spite fence is built between the two gardens, entirely shutting them off from each other, and the children of each family are forbidden to speak to one another. After a while the two families settle down to a sort of armed neutrality--until Jessie Smith returns from school and Jimmy Craig from college. The two young people are in love and take not the least notice of their parents or the spite fence. They spoon just the same, erecting ladders and kissing over the garden wall. Their parents discover them and war is immediately renewed. The last straw is added when a dead cat is exchanged over the wall and a free-for-all fight takes place between the various members of the two families, with the exception of Jessie and Tom. The combat comes to a sudden stop when Tom knocks over Craig's beehives and all are obliged to take refuge in the barn, Tom and Jessie remaining outside and hiding in the cellar until the bees have quieted down. Tom manages to lock the door of the barn and refuses to release anyone until both Smith and Craig shall agree to his marriage to Jessie. A slight incident in the barn having brought about a reconciliation between the two men, their families follow suit and they emerge to bless the engagement of their children.
- 19117mNot Rated7.1 (1.9K)ShortCartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.
- Outside Cleopatra's palace a youth and maiden are observed. They are evidently very much in love with each other. While conversing, the gates open, Cleopatra and Mark Antony come forth, accompanied by soldiers, dancing girls. Etc. He bids farewell to Cleopatra and, accompanied by a bodyguard, starts on his journey. The youth takes no further notice of his sweetheart, but gazes fascinated at Cleopatra, who, after waving farewell to Antony, re-enters the palace. The youth continues to gaze after Cleopatra, pushes his affianced aside, falls to his knees and kisses the step where Cleopatra stood. He then goes into the grounds, underneath her bedchamber, writes on a scroll of his ardent love, wraps the paper around his arrow and shoots it through the window. Inside the chamber Cleopatra and her servants are startled, take the arrow and read the note. Looking outside, nobody can be seen. Shortly afterward Cleopatra goes outside to the bathing pool, poises on the brink, when, looking toward a clump of bushes, she spies the lovesick youth. He is brought out and Cleopatra imperiously demands what his presence means. He is not abashed, but kneels and tells of his love. Cleopatra orders her attendants away, takes the youth and leads him off. When alone he again reiterates his love. Cleopatra orders her servants to bring wine, fruit, perfumes, etc. Dancing girls appear, execute a few manoeuvres, then leave. Cleopatra then rises and dances before the youth. A servant enters, delivers a message to the mistress, then departs. Cleopatra hands a goblet to the young man, who drinks its contents, then falls dead. Cleopatra bows over his body a moment, then springs up and sits on the throne as Mark Antony comes down the steps. He salutes and embraces Cleopatra, observes the corpse and demands an explanation. Cleopatra carelessly replies: "Just another slave l was experimenting on with poison."
- Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
- Peter Blood, a young Irish physician, treats a rebel soldier wounded in battle, and he is arrested, tried for treason and sent into slavery to Barbados. He and his friend Jeremy are bought by the vicious Col. Bishop, who purchases them for his niece Arabella. Blood rallies the other slaves to rebel against their slavery; they escape and take over a Spanish galleon. Blood and his crew become pirates and the scourge of the Caribbean. England, at war with France and losing, offers him a commission in the Royal Navy if he will fight for them. Blood, who has no love for the French but even less for the English, has to decide whether it's better for he and his men to fight with the English or against them.
- Surrounded by the hills and forests of a Adirondacks, Sam Hillyar, a woman hater, lives with his servant in a well-equipped mountain home. Winter has covered everything with a heavy layer of snow, which is still falling. Miss Mary Wright, who has been invited to spend the weekend with her friend, who lives in a neighboring bungalow, misses the train upon which she is expected to arrive. Later, when she reaches the lonely little railroad station, no one is there to meet her; she starts out on foot to reach her friend's home. She struggles through the deep snow in the midst of the blinding storm, until she is almost exhausted. She sees Sam Hillyar's house in the distance, pushes on in the hope of reaching it before darkness sets in and ask for shelter for the night; weak and faint she knocks at the door and her summons is answered by the old servant, who admits her and notifies his master, who reluctantly consents to allow the woman to stay under his roof. Her reception is a cold one and she is of necessity obliged to accept his hospitality. She is shown to a room, and in lieu of women's clothes, she is furnished with a suit of pajamas and a pair of slippers, then she is served with refreshments and retires for the night. The next morning, after a good night's sleep and dry clothing, she feels like her old self; full of indifference and self-possession, she goes downstairs to the dining room, where Sam Hillyar's breakfast is awaiting him; she deliberately sits down at the table and eats his meal, while Sam looks on dumbfounded. The servant is passing through the room with a tray full of breakfast, which he is taking to Mary's room. She tells Sam that he can eat it as she is quite satisfied with the meal of which she is partaking. Her nonchalance rather confuse and interests the master of the house and his manner becomes a little more unconstrained. The man of all work accidentally cuts his finger; Mary sympathetically and deftly dressed the wound and volunteers to assist him in his work. She at once makes herself thoroughly at home by preparing ingredients for the pies and other delicacies. Sam Hillyar looks on in wonderment and pleasure; he finds Mary an ideal woman of the right sort, and he irresistibly compliments her and incidentally tells her he thinks she is all right and apologizes for his indifference and coldness the night before. He invites her to stay to dinner and promises her to see her safely to her friend's house. She consents to stay if he promises to be real good and not hate woman any more. At noon-time San and Mary are seated at the table as if they had known each other all their lives, eating a deliciously prepared meal and getting better acquainted all the time. Hillyar's man announces that the sleigh is ready and Sam does the gallant by helping Mary on with her wraps and putting on his own furs, places her comfortably in the sleigh and seats himself beside her. They reach Mary's friends, as he is already known to them. They invite him to eat Christmas dinner with them. He accepts and on that occasion announces his engagement to Miss Mary Wright. It is needless to say that, in time, they are married.
- Chafing under his dying father's prediction that he is just a fighter without a soul who someday will be beaten by his long-lost brother, brutish Charles Hinges heads west with Jacinta, a dance hall girl, and Augustina, a fortune-teller. They tour frontier towns, with Charles taking on all challengers in no-holds-barred wrestling matches. Charles is undefeated until he engages his brother, David, the town reformer. In his humiliation, Charles feels he has finally found his soul. Fearing that Jacinta admires him only for his strength, he sends her to David. Meanwhile, Jacinta has been the object of the unwelcome attentions of China Jones. Jones is killed, and saloon keeper Phil Beason fastens the blame on David, who is about to be lynched when Charles claims the guilt. Jacinta saves both brothers from the rope with the timely arrival of a posse and Augustina's confession to Jones's murder. Charles reveals himself to David and is reunited with Jacinta.
- Wife plots to cure her husband of his inveterate poker playing.
- A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.
- Chalmers, young space writer on the Beacon, is approached by a seedy man named Tripp from the mechanical department of the paper, who says he has knowledge of a big story that may be obtained, worth $15 in space rates, if he will but spend $4 to get it. Chalmers has just earned $5, but will not risk it until he hears more about the matter. Tripp then confides that the story is about a young runaway girl from the country. He found her on the streets utterly bewildered, and she told him about venturing to New York to find one George Brown. She said she was about to marry a rich young farmer at home, but she couldn't forget George Brown, the lover who had gone to the city four years before, promising to come back. Tripp, therefore, had taken her to a boarding house and put her in hock, so to speak, until he could raise money to send her home, for she had arrived with but 25 cents, all of which she had spent on gumdrops. The chivalry of Chalmers is aroused, and he goes with Tripp to the boarding house, pays the girl's board bill and advances fare back home. The girl shows him a broken silver dime, the keepsake Brown had given her, the other half of which he had put on his watch chain. He urges her strongly to forget about Brown, who is doubtless a worthless fellow, and to marry the rich farmer. All of this good advice Tripp seconds. Chalmers now has his story, but as he turns from the ferry station he sees Tripp's shabby coat fall back and discerns on his cheap silver watch chain the other half of the dime. Tripp is the missing George Brown. The reporter realizes that this is a drama of human souls too sacred to be profaned, and brings into the office the report, "No story."
- A drowsy pipe-smoker attempts to nap, only to be tormented relentlessly by the mischievous Princess Nicotine and her fairy companion.
- Two pairs of newlyweds are riding on a bus when the wives notice the strong resemblance between their husbands. Mrs. McGuire realizes that a police detective's car is following the bus and hatches a plot with Mrs. Williams to switch their husbands' identities long enough for Pinkey to escape from the police.
- A man decides to stage a fake robbery in front of his girlfriend's father (who doesn't like him), hoping it will make the father change his opinion. Unfortunately, real crooks wind up taking the money from the "robbery", and the boyfriend has to get it back.
- In ancient Athens, four young lovers escape into the woods. Meanwhile, tradesmen rehearse a play. All of them suffer from the shenanigans of mischievous fairies.
- Scene 1. The Prophecy: Josephine, while walking in the gardens on the island of Martinique, is told that "she will be more than Queen and yet outlive her dignity." Scene 2. Napoleon Meets Josephine at Madam Talien's Saloon and Falls in Love with Her: Josephine, with other ladies, is seated as Napoleon enters and is introduced. It is a case of love at first sight. As Napoleon makes ardent love to Josephine, the others thoughtfully withdraw. Scene 3. Napoleon's Departure to Take Command of the Army of Italy Three Days After His Marriage to Josephine: Napoleon bids good-bye to Josephine, mounts his horse and rides away, his staff and the troops following. Scene 4. Napoleon Having Been Crowned Emperor of France, Longs for a Son to Perpetuate His Name and Contemplates Divorce From Josephine: Napoleon enters the throne room, walks restlessly up and down and at last calls his valet, whom he directs to summon Josephine. She enters with her attendants. Napoleon dismisses the ladies, tells Josephine that he must have a son. She, having expected this, is resigned and turns away in a swoon. Scene 5. The Public Proclamation of Divorce Between Napoleon and Josephine in the Grand Salon of the Tuileries: The members of Napoleon's family and the Imperial Council of State are assembled as Josephine enters, signs the paper and leaves the room. Scene 6. The Parting of Napoleon and Josephine After the Divorce: In his bed chamber Napoleon is discovered in great grief, his valet endeavoring to calm him. The door opens and Josephine enters. After a pathetic farewell, she staggers from the room. Scene 7. Josephine at Malmaison After the Divorce: Memories of Napoleon. Josephine, seated on a chair, sees a vision of Napoleon. She crosses to the mantel, caresses a bust, sits down and plays the harp. As the vision vanishes, she stretches out her arm in despair and falls to the ground.
- Jean Valjean, a good and decent man who has nevertheless been convicted of a crime, escapes incarceration and lives for years shadowed by the vindictive and merciless man of the law, Javert.
- Peter Stalton, retiring as a bank cashier, is anxious that his nephew Richard Twing should succeed him. The directors, however, appoint Arthur Barnes, engaged to Helen Wilbur, the president's daughter. Being highly superstitious, Helen makes Arthur promise to cross back under a ladder under which he has walked earlier in the day. In doing so, he is accused of robbing a house and is pursued by the police. Passing the bank in which he works, he sees two robbers making a getaway just as the president and Helen arrive. Arthur pursues the bandits in their car, accompanied by Helen. They are arrested and accused of robbing Stalton's house and the bank, but Arthur is cleared by Sam, the Negro janitor, who exposes Richard Twing as the culprit. Arthur is freed and is happily reunited with his fiancée.
- Tupper meets the wealthy Miss Whipple at a baseball game. When she declares that she just adores baseball players, Tupper starts up a team.
- Robert Wainwright, arriving in the Argentine Republic to look after his father's business, finds himself in a hotbed of revolution. Stopping at the home of Don Arana, foreign minister to Rosas, the tyrant, he meets and falls in love with Bonita, Don Arana's niece. Bonita favors the rebels and through Wainwright's love for her, wins him to their cause. He communicates with General Urguiza, the rebel leader, but the messenger is intercepted by Tirzo, Rosas' spy. As Tirzo also aspires to the hand of Bonita, he schemes to get Wainwright out of the way, and insinuatingly suggests that he leave the country at once. Wainwright arranges for passage on the first ship leaving for the north, but contrives to escape, after the vessel leaves port. He returns to Don Arana's home, meets Bonita and acquaints her with his plan to join the rebels. She makes him a present of Mephisto, a wonderful horse, and suggests he change his name to Alvarez. Wainwright, now a rebel under the name of Captain Alvarez, so distinguishes himself that he becomes the scourge of the Federals. He is commissioned by General Urguiza to get in communication with Don Arana, who is secretly in sympathy with the rebels, and arrange for the capture of a convoy of a million in currency dispatched to the Federal forces. Captain Alvarez and Don Arana are arranging for the delivery of the convoy when the house is surrounded by the Federals through the work of Tirzo. Captain Alvarez is captured and led off a prisoner. Tirzo remains and promises Bonita to save Alvarez's life is she will marry him. She is about to consent when word comes that the prisoner has escaped. Alvarez returns to Bonita's home, fearful that harm has befallen her, and promises to return again at midnight to make sure of her further safety. Alvarez returns to his command, and captures the million in currency and is on his way to keep his midnight appointment with his sweetheart, when he hears Tirzo plotting with a band of gypsies to kidnap Bonita. Alvarez arrives at Don Arana's first, waits for Tirzo, who comes alone, and in a fight kills the spy whose body is carried off by the gypsies. A band of Federals intercept them, recognize Tirzo, and rush to Don Arana's house, where they capture Alvarez, and he is to be shot at sunrise. In the meantime the Federals are defeated and Rosas, the tyrant, flees for his life. Alvarez, by a trick, induces the Federals guarding him to flee. The rebel forces arrive opportunely, and all ends happily in a picture emblematic of the birth of a new republic.
- Making his departure from home. Captain Jack of the Confederate army, leaves to rejoin his regiment, but before doing so promises his boy that he will return to celebrate the little fellow's fifth birthday. One month later the Captain gets a leave of absence for three days and goes back to keep faith with his son. The house is watched by Union soldiers, and to enter it without being detected seems impossible. The birthday promise must be kept with little Ned, and after some reconnoitering the father succeeds in getting to his family with a few presents which he has purchased to make the boy happy and keep up the spirit of the occasion. The furlough is ended and the Captain must go back to the ranks. The question of getting safely through the Union lines is a puzzling one and the attempt to do so was arrested by the "Yankees," who make the Captain a prisoner of war. Word must be sent to his wife; it is accomplished through the kindness of a guard, who allows him to write a letter which he sends to the prisoner's family. They are grieved and the wife gives way under the strain and sorrow of it all. Not so with little Ned. He proves himself to be made of sterner stuff and profits by the example of his father. He starts for the Union camp, approaches the General and tells him of his father's home-coming to celebrate his fifth birthday and how he was taken prisoner when he was going back to his regiment. The boy then offers the General his little woolly lamb in exchange for his father's freedom. The General is convinced from the boy's story that the Captain was not acting the part of a spy when captured, and to humor the child accepts the woolly lamb and releases his father. Shortly after his release the war is closed, and the General sends little Ned a fine rocking horse In exchange for the woolly lamb, which he has always kept and cherished in memory of the boy who loves his father.
- Dick Mentor's wife is killed in an auto accident while deserting her husband for another man. Soon after, their child dies, which leaves Dick a confirmed woman hater. Betty, an attractive flirt, learns that Dick is coming to visit and bets Hugh, an admirer, a kiss against a horse that she can win the misogynist's love. By masquerading as a charming twelve-year-old, Betty captivates Dick, but in the process, falls in love with him and is afraid to admit the hoax. When Hugh presents Betty with her horse in Dick's presence, she finally confesses all, and her declaration of love melts Dick's anger.
- A young couple and their new baby are walking down the street when the wife decides to stop in at a store, and the husband agrees to wait outside with the baby in the carriage. He spots a pretty maid sitting on a bench with a baby in the same kind of carriage and goes over to flirt with her. Meanwhile, a black lady pushing a baby also in the same kind of carriage leaves it in front of the store and goes in. Matters are further complicated when one of the carriages is stolen by kidnappers.
- The persecution of the children of Israel by the Egyptians. Now there arose up a new king in Egypt. And he said unto his people. Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we. Let us set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. (Exodus, chapter I.) The first scenes show the Egyptian court and King Pharaoh commanding the slave drivers to beat the Hebrew toilers who show signs of rebellion. Pharaoh notices this and, calling his scribes, orders that a decree be published that every man-child born to the Hebrews be killed. The parchment is prepared and is read in Pharaohs court in the presence of Pharaohs daughter, who hears and pleads in vain for his clemency. Pharaohs Decree: Every male child that is born to the Hebrews shall be cast into the river. The Egyptians ruthlessly proceed to carry out the decree and seize the male children from the arms of the Hebrew mothers. Here we are shown the interior of a Hebrew dwelling. The child Moses is in a cradle and his mother is bending over him, utterly unconscious of the cruel edict of King Pharaoh. The sister of Moses is shown attending to household duties and she takes a pitcher and goes to the well to draw water. There she learns of the slaughter of the innocents and hastens back and tells the mother of the cruel scenes she has witnessed. They decide to hide the child Moses by the river, and the cradle or ark is covered and carried between them to a marsh, where they plaster the outside with soft mud to keep out the water, and placing the child therein, his sister remains nearby to watch what will become of him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the rivers edge; and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept, and she had compassion on him. Pharaohs daughter fondles and pets the crying child and decides that she will keep him for her own. The sister of Moses approaches and suggests that she call a nurse of the Hebrew women and she, of course, called the childs mother. And Pharaohs daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed it. Pharaoh is informed of his daughters caprice and demands to see the child. He orders it away, but his daughter embraces him and pleads so hard for the life of the child that he consents and gives it his protection and blessing. A fitting ending is a picture of the mother and sister of Moses again fondling their own and giving thanks to God for their unexpected good fortune. The first reel of this series ended with the child Moses being adopted by Pharaohs daughter. The Hebrews are still under bondage, and we see them laboring in the brick fields, beaten by the taskmasters, as they build those gigantic specimens of Egyptian architecture, many of which stand to this day. Moses has been reared and educated in the Egyptian court, and is now in the prime of life, but he does not forget that he is of Hebrew blood, and, as he watches his brethren in their slavery, his blood boils at the outrages and he looks toward Heaven and cries, How long, oh Lord, how long? A number of Hebrews are digging clay, which is filled into baskets. The load is too heavy for one of the laborers, and the taskmaster beats him unmercifully. Moses sees this and kills the taskmaster. T The other Hebrew slaves, horrified at the enormity of the act, run away, and Moses, afraid of the consequences, hastily buries the body in the clay pit. Two days after this, Moses seeks to separate two of his brethren who are quarreling, and one of them says: Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian? Moses is terrified when he knows that his crime is known, and decides to flee from the country. He seeks refuge in the home of a Hebrew laborer and bargains for a suit of the laborers garments, with which he disguises himself; he also purchases provisions and a water bottle, and departs. Moses is seen crossing the desert. Tired and dusty, he rests and drinks from his water flask. Still toiling on through the arid desert, he reaches an eminence and looks hack to see if he is being followed, and, seeing no one, he gives thanks for his deliverance. Moses has at last reached the land of Midian. He discovers a well and refreshes and rests himself. While he is resting seven daughters of Jethro, a Midianite, come to the well to draw water for their sheep and cattle. Other herdsmen also come to the well and ungallantly drive away the maidens, but Moses comes to their aid, and draws the water for them. The home of Jethro, the priest of Midian, father of the seven maidens. They enter and tell of the encounter at the well, and how they were aided by a Hebrew traveler. He says the man must be his guest, and hastens to the well and greets Moses and invites him to the shelter of his house, which offer is accepted. Moses enters the home of the priest of Midian, where he is effusively greeted by the whole household, and we see him seated and enjoying a meal with the family. (And Moses was content to dwell with the manand he gave Moses his daughter, Zipporah, to wife.) (Forty years later). Moses is now a shepherd, and, while tending his flocks in the land of Midian. The voice of God speaks to him out of a burning bush and commands him to return to Egypt and deliver his brethren out of the bondage of the Egyptians. Moses bids farewell to Jethro, his father-in-law, and, with his family, journeys to Egypt. On the way he meets Aaron, who had been, commanded by the Lord to meet Moses, and together they arrive at the Egyptian court. The court of Pharaoh, a young man, the elder Pharaoh having died while Moses was in Midian. The officials announce the new arrivals, and Moses and Aaron are ushered in and demand, in the name of the Lord, that the Children of Israel be set free. The Egyptian king refuses, and Moses tells him that if he does not consent the wrath of God will come on all the Egyptians. Moses prays to the Lord for advice, and is commanded to work a miracle before the Egyptian monarch to convince him that it is the Lord, the God of the Israelites, who demands the deliverance of His people. Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh again. Aaron casts his rod upon the ground and it becomes a serpent. Pharaoh is amazed, but he still refuses to free the Children of Israel. Pharaohs continued refusal brings upon Egypt the ten plagues. Moses finds Pharaoh near the rivers edge and again asks that his people be allowed to go free. When Pharaoh denies again. Aaron smites the water of the river with his rod and the waters are turned into blood. Again Moses appears before Pharaoh and again Pharaoh refuses his request. As God had commanded, Moses stretches his hand toward heaven and immediately a great storm of hail and lightning, such as they had never seen, descends on Egypt, killing man and beast and striking terror to the heart of Pharaoh. Pharaohs heart was again hardened and he still refuses to free the Hebrew children. Again Moses stretches his hand toward heaven, and a thick darkness, a darkness that might be felt, covered the land for three days, so that no one was able to rise from his place. The last and most terrible plague visited on Egypt for Pharaohs continued refusal is the death of all the Egyptian first born. The Feast of the Passover is instituted at this time. Moses directing all the Hebrew people to observe the Feast by killing and preparing a lamb. Moses commands the Children of Israel to sprinkle the door posts on both sides and on top with the blood of the lamb and on every house where they are to eat the Feast of the Passover, and to prepare the Feast. The Feast of the Passover is observed, according to the instructions of Moses, by every Jewish family in Egypt, the Feast consisting of roast lamb with unleavened bread and herbs. The same night that the Feast of the Passover is being observed by the Israelites, the Angel of Death passes over the land of Egypt in the last plague, the death of the first born. The Angel of Death enters every Egyptian home where there is no blood on the doorposts, and the first born of every Egyptian family is slain, from the first born in Pharaohs household to the first born of the captive in the dungeons. The Angel of Death, however, passes by every Jewish home, as God had promised to Moses that where He saw the blood on the doorposts He would pass them over and the plague should not be upon them. In Pharaohs palace Pharaoh and his court are feasting, when the Angel of Death enters and Pharaohs own first born is slain. Pharaoh is overcome with grief at this terrible visitation and sends for Moses and Aaron immediately. The death of his first born softens the heart of Pharaoh and when Moses and Aaron now appear before him he commands them to take the Children of Israel and to depart out of the land of Egypt. Moses and Aaron give the command to the Hebrew people, who immediately gather together their possessions and prepare to leave the land of their bondage with reverent and thankful hearts. With Moses and Aaron as leaders, the Israelites begin their exodus from Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, where they had been slaves for so many years.
- A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.
- Oniatare, a young brave of the tribe of the Hurons, and Kowa, a chief of the Mohicans, are in love with Ethona, or "The River Flower," an Indian Princess. The Hurons and the Mohicans are sworn enemies. The young brave and "The River Flower" meet from time to time. Kowa notices this and in plaintive song would lure the fair Ethona to him. But it is of no avail. The Great Medicine Man of the Mohicans prescribes rest and a sleeping potion, which she takes and falls into a deep sleep. Both Oniatare and Kowa meet at her uncovered pyre. They fight a duel unto the death. Oniatare slays the older man, and then plunges the dagger deep into his own breast, dropping lifeless. The falling of his body across hers arouses her from her sleep and she awakens to behold his self-sacrifice, a still stronger evidence of his love for her. Seizing the blood-stained dagger from his breast, she thrusts it into the heart which goes out to his.
- A girl who works in a textile mill suffers unwanted advances from her boss. Her boyfriend, who also works there, sees it and knocks the boss down. In retaliation, the boss hires two thugs to beat up the boyfriend, but he outwits them. Instead, the boss fires him. As the boss is forcing his attentions on the girl again, a fire breaks out in the mill...
- Mouroff's aim is bad; the bomb which he threw at Karatoff, the butcher, explodes harmlessly many feet away. Karatoff's son Paul, puts spurs to his horse, and chases the nihilist. The latter is elusive, but Paul trails him and enters a house after him. Once inside, Valdor, another nihilist, stuns Paul with a blow from his club and carries him to his apartment. Valdor would willingly let him die from loss of blood, but Sophie commands him to heal the wound. This, at first, puzzles Valdor, coming as it does from Sophie Karrinini, leader of the nihilists and one who has ample reasons to hate Karatoff and his kin, but in an undertone, she explains. The sight of Paul Karatoff rouses to her mind vivid recollections of the scene, years before, when Paul's father compelled her to stand helplessly by, while her father was tortured to death, and her mother had died from the effects of the gruesome sight. Now what is the one little life of Paul Karatoff? She can find better ways to strike at the butcher's heart, by allowing him to live. Paul returns to consciousness, and Sophie gives him her most tender care. She listens, apparently horrified, to his tale of the attempt on his father's life. Soon, he is well enough to be moved, and is returned in safety to his father, cherishing in his heart, a love for Sophie. He asks her to be his bride. This being the first step in her plan, she readily consents. Karatoff's son the husband of a nihilist. But then their child is born, and with the boon of motherhood comes the realization that she loves Paul more than the cause. Having heard rumors of his wife's affiliation with the nihilists, Paul confronts her with the evidence and she confesses. He leaves to expose her, but is waylaid and stunned by Valdor, who throws his apparently lifeless form into the ice of the river. Mouroff, on the way to the market, finds the body, and seeing signs of life, takes it home with him. When Paul awakes, his memory is gone and Mouroff brings him up as a nihilist. Valdor returns to Sophie and tells her that the police have killed her husband. Five years later while traveling in England under an assumed name, Sophie meets Sir Richard Stanhope, an English nobleman, and they become interested in each other. Karatoff captures a nihilist messenger from whom he learns of a meeting of the band, and being unknown to the members, he takes the place of the messenger. He meets Richard, to whom he is known, and explains the reason for his assumed name. Mouroff receives the call to the meeting and takes Paul along. At the meeting Mouroff recognizes and denounces Karatoff and the true identities of all are established. While Karatoff is greeting his son, a shot is fired, intended for Karatoff, but it kills Paul. The police rush into the place and arrest all present, including Richard who had just appeared on the scene. Little Jack, Sophie's son, is now a Prince. His pleas for his mother's freedom are finally granted by his grandfather, Karatoff, with whom he returns to Russia to fulfill the duties of his heritage. Sophie now leaves her nihilistic tendencies behind, as she travels, in peace, at last, to England with Richard.
- Jim Blazes falls in love with Amy Van Clayton when he meets her in a lumber camp. In New York, Amy discovers that her brother is in danger of being jailed for stealing from Jim, who is his boss. To protect her brother, Amy marries Jim, but he returns to the lumber camp alone because he feels that Amy does not love him. Amy follows; later, when Jim's life is in danger, she finds that she really does love him.
- Hurriedly making preparations to go in pursuit of the outlaw "Red Rube," who has broken out of jail, Sheriff Sanders is accosted by "Spotted Snake," an Indian from the reservation who enters his shack and abusively demands whiskey. The sheriff promptly kicks him out. The Indian swears vengeance. The sheriff takes leave of his wife and child and starts after Red Rube. After his departure, Spotted Snake returns to the sheriff's shack and orders Sanders' wife to furnish him with liquor; she orders him off at rifle-point. As he leaps upon his horse, he snatches up the sheriff's little girl and rides rapidly away into the desert with her and leaves her there to die. At Silver City, Sheriff Sanders catches up with Red Rube. In the "Silver King's" saloon, Rube shoots the sheriff in the arm and flees, followed by a posse of enraged citizens determined to lynch him. Rube makes his way across the desert and comes upon the sheriff's daughter wandering aimlessly about. He knows that shooting the sheriff means lynching for him if he returns to Silver City. The child's confidence in and dependence on him touches his heart and he decides to square up his career by returning her to her parents and taking his punishment like a man. The sheriff is carried to his home, where his distracted wife tells him of their child's kidnapping. The report is spread and the neighbors gather at Sanders' house to organize a search party. While they are considering what course to pursue, Red Rube rides up and places the child in her mother's arms and surrenders himself to the sheriff. Immediately the neighbors form a Vigilante Committee and propose to lynch Red Rube, and. in spite of the sheriff's protests, they slip a rope over his head. The rescued child lifts her arms to the unfortunate man and he clasps her tenderly to his breast, while she hugs and kisses him, then she lifts the rope from his neck and casts it aside, pleading mercy for her rescuer. Red Rube hangs his head at her simple faith and trust in him. The neighbors silently steal away with tears in their eyes. The sheriff clasps Red Rube's hand in gratitude.
- At the Pleasant Valley Hotel, of which Mrs. Corbin is proprietor, maid-of-all-work Joside is amidst her labors when the local telegraph operator receives a message saying that Josie's aunt has died in Germany and left everything to her. He quickly spreads the news, and three of the town's young swains make desperate love to her before the agent can even deliver the telegram. She thinks they have all gone insane, scoffs at their attentions, and sets them to work churning and feeding the stock. Reginald, the swell city chap, is surrounded by an admiring bevy of girls when he hears the news. With one jump he clears the piazza rail and is off to Josie's side. She is flattered by his attentions and the two go off arm-in-arm. He has almost won her consent to their marriage when Josie is handed the message. With a shriek of joy, she rushes into the house and bursts in upon Mrs. Corbin with the announcement, "I'm an heiress. Loan me $50!" On seeing the telegram, the lady readily gives her the money with best wishes. Josie is soon surrounded by an admiring circle of suitors, but she ignores them all and sends a telegram to her old friend, Hank, to meet her at the railroad station, adding that she is now an heiress. Reginald takes the same train as Josie and tracks her and Hank to the lawyer's, where he arrives in time to find them staring open-mouthed at two sobbing children. Josie weakly asks if that is all that Aunty left, and the lawyer answers, "Absolutely all!" Hank revives the fainting Josie while Reginald makes a quick sneak out the door.
- (Reel One) Amelia Sedley, accompanied by Miss Becky Sharpe, returns from boarding school. Becky is a natural born flirt. Bashful Joseph Sedley falls desperately in love with her. He takes her to Vauxhall Gardens, where he makes an ass of himself, is very much ashamed, and refuses to keep his appointment with Becky the next day, sailing for Scotland to escape her wiles. Amelia, with her gentle sweetness, hands Becky a letter from Sir Pitt Crawley, requesting her to repair to Queen's Crawley at once. The next morning, bright and early, she takes her departure to enter Sir Pitt's household as a governess, where she meets Rawdon Crawley, youngest son of Sir Pitt, who falls captive to her charms, bringing upon himself the displeasure of the whole Pitt family. He, notwithstanding, marries Becky. (Reel Two) After their marriage, Becky Sharpe and Rawdon Crawley take up elegant lodgings at Mayfair. Rawdon, who is a captain in the English Army, is resplendent in his uniform. They are visited by their military friends; Captain Dobbin is there with Amelia Osborne and her husband, Lieutenant Osborne, who is fascinated by Mrs. Crawley. A week later they sail for Brussels. At Brussels they attend a ball given by the Duchess of Richmond, at which Becky meets the Marquis of Steyn and where they receive notice of the Battle of Waterloo. All is excitement and the others are soon on their way to the field of action, where Lieutenant Osborne is killed. A month after the battle, Becky Crawley turns to the ensnaring of Lord Steyne, who with crafty and villainous intent, lays siege to the overthrow of Captain Crawley in order that he may continue his alliance with his wife. Crawley gets heavily in debt at the gaming tables of Lory Steyne, is unable to pay and the unscrupulous Steyne throws him into prison. (Reel Three) Colonel Rawdon Crawley writes a note to his wife to raise money to secure his release. She replies falsely that she is sick but will implore Lord Steyne to show Rawdon leniency, signing herself, "Yours affectionately, Becky." Colonel Crawley, in despair, sends to his brother for assistance. Pitt hastens to his brother's succor. Rawdon immediately goes to big wife's apartments and finds her with Lord Steyne, whom he throttles, and leaves Becky forever. Major William Dobbin marries Amelia Osborne. Amelia and Major Dobbin learn of Becky's downfall. They visit her in her misfortune and find her dissipated but unconquered. She refuses aid from Mr. and Mrs. Dobbin and is left by her friends to her own waywardness.
- Helene Marie, on the run from the Russian police in St. Petersburg, plots to kill the Czar.
- Through the friendship of their family physician, Donald Gray, who lives with his mother in Scotland, is offered an opportunity to go to America to study medicine. He leaves with his mother's blessings. Five years later, Donald is a physician with a successful practice in New York City. One of his patients has grown very fond of him; at the same time the young physician has grown fond of this gentleman's daughter, and is engaged to be married to her. His mother resolves to pay him an unexpected visit and arrives at his home just as he is thinking of her, and the meeting is a touching one. Donald induces his mother to take a small cottage in the country, as he is afraid that his intended will not like his plain mother. After everybody has retired, Mrs. Gray packs her valise and wanders about from place to place; exhausted and sick, she is taken to the hospital. Donald, discovering his mother's absence, telephones everywhere to learn what has become of her, without avail. He receives a message from a Doctor Chase, asking him to consult him on a very trying case. Doctor Tray hastens to assist his friend, and at the hospital discovers his dear old mother lying on the cot next to the one occupied by the young girl. It is not long before she is back in his house again, under his tender loving care. Helen, Donald's fiancée, calls to meet her future mother-in-law, and when the young girl looks at his mother, and she looks at his intended wife, there is an expression of mutual approval, sympathy and love. The sweet and kind old soul of the mother beams with a smile as she lays her hands tenderly on the heads of her children.
- A large sum of money is exchanged between Mr. Doyle and another man, who pays the money to Mr. Doyle. During the transaction Mr. Doyle's son is sitting at the window and his little daughter is playing with her collie dog, "Jean," on the floor. The father sees the man to the front door, leaving his son and daughter in the room where he left the money on the table. The son leaves the room and the little girl, who is now alone in the room, sees the money, and thinking it is only paper, takes it out in the garden and puts it in the little cradle with her calico doll and cuts one or two of the bank notes into dolls. After the child has gone out the father returns to the room and cannot find the money. He calls the wife; she knows nothing about it, and the father accuses the son of stealing it. The son is indignant, and leaves home. He has hardly left the house when the little girl comes in with the money and gives it to her mother and shows her the pretty paper doll she has made out of one of the bills. The dog follows with another bunch of the money which the child has dropped. The mother calls her husband, and the child explains that she thought the money just paper and she is grieved to hear her brother, whom she dearly loves, has been accused of stealing and has left home. She starts out with her calico doll to find her brother, her collie dog following after her. She wanders through the fields and wood, where she falls, trying to reach a flower, down a steep embankment onto some rocks, spraining her ankle and lying unconscious. The faithful dog tries to rouse her, and, finding it impossible, runs home to get the child's parents to understand him in his efforts to report the child's accident. He rushes back to the child, carries her calico doll to the parents and makes them realize that the child is missing and in danger. While worrying over the loss of their son, here is another loss of their daughter. The son is brought back home by his attachment for his little sister and mother, and when he learns of the loss of his sister and sees "Jean" with her calico doll, he follows him to the place of her accident and brings her safely home.
- A welcome guest of the French aristocracy, Monsieur Picard having been awarded the Croix De Guerre, is also a master thief who baffles the Parisian police. One night, while Picard watches an Apache dance, he learns that one of his three adopted children is seriously ill. When his car breaks down, Picard politely forces Helen Deprenay to loan him her auto, and leaves his cross as security. The next day, the police pursue Picard to the Deprenay home where the prefect warns Helen about Picard. Helen writes to the entreating Picard, and refuses to see him until he proves himself of worth to society. Disguised as Scotland Yard agent Armand DuBois, Picard is present at the Deprenay home when a necklace is stolen. After Helen covers for him, Picard catches the thief in an attempt to swindle the entire community in a stock market scheme. He informs the police that Picard no longer exists, and escapes with Helen to a new life.
- Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father's rich friend.
- Mary is sewing outside her cabin door, as the villain in our story enters and makes a proposal of marriage. He meets with a stern refusal and sneaks off, vowing vengeance. Mary enters the cabin and is setting the table as hero No. 1 enters and asks her father for her hand. The old man nods assent, but Mary, upon being consulted, refuses. The old man upbraids her, pleads with her, but she is resolute. A little later another suitor, hero No. 2 we shall call him, comes in and is joyously received by the girl. The father standing by, notices the reception. The truth dawns upon him, and he orders Mary from the house. The last named is evidently not as much infatuated with Mary as she is with him, and realizing that he has tired of her, the girl determines to commit suicide. She starts for the river, and is just about to end it all when hero No. 1 steps from behind a tree, thwarts her plan and asks what has driven her to such a step. Mary refuses to tell, wanders off and, coming to the dancing hall, she sees the second hero through a window dancing and flirting with different girls. She calls him away, pleads with him to marry her. This the young man refuses to do, and he is about to cast her aside when hero No. 1 appears and at the point of his gun forces the other to swear he will marry Mary. Hero No. 2 now returns to his cabin, sits, down in deep thought. The villain enters, taunts him of the girl, and in the fight which ensues the hero is stabbed. The murderer tears off the blood stained part of his sleeve and throws it out of the window, where it is found by a Chinaman who is passing. Then observing the approach of the first hero, the villain sees a chance of fastening the crime on him, slinks through another door, proceeds at once to the camp where he tells of the crime. A crowd at once returns to the cabin, where they pounce upon the hero and take him before a judge. Evidence is overwhelmingly against the accused and a verdict of guilty is speedily reached and all hands start for an immediate execution, when the Chinaman, noticing the torn sleeve of the villain, stops the proceeding, fits the piece he found on the villain's shirt and the tables are turned. Mary steps forward, embraces the exonerated man and they are married by the judge, who but a short time before had sentenced the bridegroom to death.
- Nevada Warren is a poor girl who can neither read nor write and suddenly finds herself surrounded by luxury. Nevada's father dies, and she is sent to live with his wealthy brother in New York. Her cousin, Barbara, soon becomes jealous of the attentions that Gilbert Ross, an artist, is paying her, and when he sends Nevada a note about some flowers, Barbara tells her it is a request for her to come to Gilbert's studio at midnight. Nevada goes, thinking Gilbert is ill. He is surprised to see her, but as he really loves her, and learns of Barbara's deception, proposes an immediate elopement, to which Nevada agrees with alacrity. She confesses to Gilbert that she cannot read or write, but he says that can easily be remedied, and that the note about the flowers proved to be the best letter he ever wrote.
- A one-armed man obtains an artificial limb which he cannot control.