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- A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.
- Susan Perkins runs the best and only restaurant in Gould Valley, Montana. She has money but pines for a lover. At last he comes in the person of Tompkins, a prospector. After this Susan neglects her boarders for Tompkins. Thereupon the enraged boarders give Tompkins the choice between being hung or leaving town. He leaves in a hurry but their plot is foiled. Susan declares she will not cook another meal until they bring back her sweetheart. A funny chase for Tompkins follows. He is captured and brought back to his yearning Susan. For reward Susan elopes with Tompkins, leaving a note in which she tells the miners they can cook their own meals hereafter.
- The cat is rocking in a chair, and his tail is through a knothole in the fence. A chicken grabs it in its beak and pulls it out till it snaps. The cat goes through the fence to settle with the chicken. They fight and the cat leaves the chicken for dead. But he wakes up, comes through the fence, and pulls the cat's tail right out. The cat cries. Along comes a dog and laughs at the cat. Then a boy ties a tin can to the dog's tail, and the cat is consoled, for it sees that tails are no good, after all.
- Peking, like Paris, abounds in out-of-door restaurants, which make unusually attractive the first part of Dr. Dorsey's "Wonders of the Orient." There is introduced, too, genuine Pekinese pugs and primitive building methods, showing street vocations, with primitive Chinese labor. Women burden bearers are introduced, as is the method of drilling a well, practically all of Peking's water supply coming from surface wells. The pottery and willow shops, with their workers, are intimately introduced, while there is to be seen a public well, an enjoyable game of dominoes and, in the distance, a Christian Mission church.
- Nellie Thomas and Frank Howard are in love with each other. Phyllis Black, a school chum of Nellie's, pays her a visit, falls in love with Frank and, at a picnic party in the woods, she throws her arms about him and tells him so. Nellie's father sees this and, thinking that Frank is trifling with his daughter's affections, orders him to leave the place and never see his daughter Nellie again. Frank is a western boy who does not give in quickly. He writes a note to Nellie, "Sweetheart: I love only you. Will you meet me at the crossroads and marry me now?" The stupid messenger delivers the note to the other girl, who, thinking that she is meant, rides off to meet Frank. But she drops the note on the ground and Nellie finds it. Here follows a novel and most interesting race between two women to meet the man they both love. Nellie passes her rival on the road, meets Frank and they are married. Phyllis comes up just in time to see them receive the minister's blessing.
- As the result of a game of filopena, Fred wins beautiful Mabel, whose Pa is willing they should marry until he finds Fred being dragged into a gin mill by two friends who are "soused to the gills." Pa brakes the engagement and locks Mabel in her room, but love laughs at Papas. With the aid of a ladder Mabel escapes. A passing policeman chases the couple but they escape in an automobile, are married and then captured by the policeman, who thinks they are robbers. Meanwhile, two real burglars have ascended the ladder to Mabel's room and are helping themselves to her jewels. Pa enters with Mabel's supper, is captured by the burglars and tied up. Enter Mabel, Pa is untied and there is nothing left for him to do but give the young couple his blessings.
- A dope fiend, so deep in drugs that he is beyond redemption, finds a boy in a poolroom. He tells the boy to leave the place while there is yet time, but the youth laughs and, like the moth, continues to flitter close to the flame. The boy goes home and robs his own mother, then returns to the dive to gamble. The dope fiend sees in the boy's face what he has done and be again remonstrates and tells him to take the money back. The boy promises to do this and the fiend leaves him. A number of youthful crooks, fresh from a robbery, trailed by the police, enter the room and fearing to carry their loot around with them, unload it on the boy. Before leaving him they give him a revolver. In the next room a gambler has an altercation with a victim. The victim runs into the room where the boy is seated. The gambler shoots through the door and kills his man. In his nervousness the boy discharges the revolver in his hand. The police enter and arrest the boy for the murder. The dope fiend enters and notices the bullet hole in the door. He enters the next room and finds the gambler's revolver. Realizing that his own life is worthless, he takes the blame for the murder to save the boy. However, the discovery of the gambler hiding in a closet reveals the real murderer and both dope fiend and boy are released. The boy and the fiend left alone, the boy promises that he will forever forsake such dives.
- Little Mr. Cupid, the operator, sometimes falls asleep on his job, and then there's real trouble. You'd never expect that there should be any trouble when the parties concerned are two bachelor boys and two sweet young darlings who have sworn never to marry; those kind are supposed not to have any heart wires at all. But it so turns out that Jack and Fred each get sweet on a honey girl, unknown to each other, ditto the girls. Complications arise from which you'd naturally judge that Operator Cupid's switchboard is the most cantankerous piece of mechanism you ever saw, because the poor bachelor boys almost fall victim to the wiles of each other's girls, and they're both as innocent of any intent as babes. As for that matter, the girls are willing parties, but in their case, too, ignorance is the blister. One of those heart-smashing, breath-grabbing situations is imminent, when the switchboard rights itself again, and there are two bachelor harps and two bachelor girls less in the world; nothing tragic, bless you, just married.
- The district attorney and the doctor are good friends. Thus, when the doctor is arrested for speeding, it is the most natural thing in the world that he should go to his friend and attempt to beg off. He tells the district attorney that he was speeding to the aid of a sick man. The attorney refuses to take this for an excuse. Shortly afterward the district attorney has a nervous breakdown and the doctor informs him that he must take a month's vacation. The attorney, weighted down by his strenuous duties, refuses to take a rest and his wife hatches a scheme with the aid of the doctor, the police judge and the police and chauffeur as accomplices, whereby her husband will be compelled to take his vacation. The wife asks the attorney to take her for a drive. He consents. Just prior to entering the machine, the chauffeur is taken ill and the matter of driving the car falls on the district attorney. During the drive the wife affects a stroke of heart trouble and begs that she be hurried off to the doctor. The attorney smashes the speed limits. The motorcycle patrolmen, who are parties to the plot, arrest the speeders. He is taken before the judge and sentenced to thirty days in prison as an example to others. The following morning it is announced in the papers that the district attorney has gone on a month's vacation. The wife's object is attained, and she, with the other accomplices, goes to the jail to tell him of the joke.
- This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politicians in a clever manner and beats Lady Baffles at her own game.
- The temperamental moving picture director is at his wit's end. He must have a scenario dealing with the war situation. While in a frenzy he is interrupted by Hippocrates MacGuinness, who blithely hands him a few bushels of scenarios with such sensational themes as "Gathering the Myrtle with Mary" and "La Petite Avoirdupois," or "Truck. Horse Soubrette." The director's first impulse is to hurl the palpitating Hippocrates from the highest battlements, but he restrains his ardor and pleasantly jostles him down the staircase. Acting upon this helpful though gentle hint, the pleasant-mannered poet tries to write a war story; He goes into a sweet slumber. His pensive brain becomes delirious and he sees forts fall, castles crumble, Zeppelins more plentiful than pigeons, while the blowing up of a man-of-war and the crumbling of trains into smoke are subjects scarce worth the recording. He thinks of a man of dire destiny who invents a portable machine that thinks no more of the enemy's fleet than a matinee girl would of one pound of chocolates. The sky is aflame with burning aeroplanes. Midnight becomes as bright as day as the air monsters explode and fall to the ground a mass of molten steel, while the oceans bubble like cauldrons and the sky shines like a burnished mirror. Then he awakens as the studio scenery falls on him. He is too excited by the nightmare to heed this, and feverishly writes the story.
- The story opens in England two hundred years ago. The lands of Sir Henry Marston are forfeited to his neighbor, Sir John Wickham, for debt. Nadine, Marston's daughter, loves Arthur, her cousin. Wickham has tired of Netta, his mistress, and he offers to cancel the debt if Nadine will be given to him in marriage. Nadine sacrifices herself and marries Sir John Wickham. Netta, intensely jealous of her new mistress, wins back Sir John's affections, although Nadine has already home him a daughter. To further her interests, Netta writes Arthur to come at once. To this letter she signs Nadine's name. Arthur rushes, as he imagines, to Nadine's aid. He encounters Sir John. There is a duel and both men are killed. Four generations later, the drama is again taken up. Among the ancestors of the actors in the ancient tragedy are, Nadine Wickham, her father, Sir John Wickham, Arthur, the betrothed of Nadine, and Sir Henry Marston. Netta, a coquette, is suing for the favor of Arthur, whom she loves. On this occasion the lands of Wickham are forfeited to Marston for debt. Marston offers to cancel the debt if Nadine will consent to be his wife. She flatly rejects this proposition even at the risk of ruining her father. However, Netta is at work with her evil intrigues. Knowing that Nadine has an appointment with Arthur, she precedes her to the rendezvous and pretending a sprained ankle, allows Arthur's arms to encircle her. Nadine sees and misinterprets the situation. Stunned, she returns home and accepts the marriage proposal of Marston. It is an old family tradition that the ghosts of Wickham Hall appear only to the daughter of the house on her wedding eve. Nadine is left alone at midnight in the ancient hall. She sees again the tragedy of Wickham Hall. In the meantime Arthur imagines that he hears Nadine calling him. He rushes to Wickham Hall. He finds Nadine prostrated and determines that she will not marry Marston. Wickham dismisses Sir John Marston and Arthur enfolds Nadine in his arms.
- Mary Crosby is the daughter of a well-to-do villager who dislikes her sweetheart, John Howard and refuses his consent to their marriage. The couple elope and Mary's father swears that he will never forgive her. John loses his position and becomes seriously ill. Mary goes to her father to plead for help for her husband who the doctor says cannot recover unless he is taken to a warmer climate. The old man refuses and drives her out. Later the distressed girl wife re-enters her own home and takes from her father's desk a sum of money needed to help her husband. Her father enters and in the midst of cursing her he falls dead of apoplexy. Horror-stricken the girl puts back the money just as her mother enters. Imagine the poor girl's remorse when she returns to her home and finds that her mother has left money to help them. John recovers and when the father's will is read it is found that he has left a handsome sum of money to the daughter he has disowned.
- Lindy, the lone African American, is ostracized by her classmates except for one little girl. When Lindy is a heroine during a school fire attitudes change.
- Sammy Johnsin finds some love potion. He sees a washer woman about to wake her lazy sleeping husband with a mallet. He squirts some of the potion over her and she kisses her husband instead. Then he comes to a man proposing to a spinster. She is about to refuse him but some of the potion makes her accept him. There is a "Keep off the Grass" sign and a nurse with a baby on the forbidden grass. A policeman is about to arrest her, but the potion makes him love her instead. At least, just as he thinks that he had reformed the world, Sammie wakes up and finds it a dream.
- Did you ever sit in a street car and see the man opposite you yawn? Then what did you do? You yawned too, didn't you? Not that you wanted to yawn, but nevertheless you did, just because the other fellow did. Now, when the man opposite you saw your oral cavern expand he yawned too. And before you knew it somebody else down the aisle saw one of you yawn, and yawned too. He immediately became the temptation for somebody else, who yawned, with the same effect on whoever saw him. That's contagion, see?
- The story opens with Edmund Dantes landing from his ship. Then follow his greeting of his father, his love scene with Mercedes in which Fernand's jealous hatred is aroused, the conspiracy of Danglars and Fernand and the betrothal in the arbor at which Dantes is torn from his sweetheart's side by the soldiers who arrest him. We see Dantes in prison breaking through the wall, his meeting with the Abbe Faria, then the death of the Abbe who gives to Dantes the secret of the treasure buried on the Isle of Monte Cristo. Dantes escapes in the bag which contains the Abbe's dead body, his discovering the treasure at Monte Cristo in a grotto. In a magnificent ballroom scene Dantes meets Fernand and Mercedes, now his wife, who recognizes her first lover. The duel with Albert who is saved by his mother, Mercedes, the arrest of Fernand through Monte Cristo's effort and Fernand's death in prison. Danglars as the Abbe of Busoni, after making Danglars bankrupt, tortures him by starvation until he gives up a million for food and goes out a broken man.
- Animated cartoon showing the adventures of Sammie Johnsin, an indolent colored boy. Sammie's big mammy orders him to do some chores, but he is engrossed in reading a lurid periodical in which the capture of wild animals is the main theme. Sammie dozes off and dreams that he, too, is a mighty hunter. His dream takes him to the wilds of Africa, where he has many humorous encounters with lions, tigers, boa constrictors and untamed elephants. Sammie during bis hunting expedition comes upon an ostrich with its head buried in the sand and mistakes it for a cocoanut tree. He arouses the wily bird and meets with several harrowing experiences trying to capture it. Sammie gets from one difficulty to another with rapidity. Just as he is about to be devoured by a ferocious beast he is awakened from his adventurous dream by the well-directed stream from a hose played by his angry mammy.
- Kipling's world-famous lines on the faithfulness of the Indian regimental water carrier, is the inspiration for a picture portrayal that will prove immensely interesting.
- The City Council and Mayor, much against the will of the citizens, have decided to pave certain streets, the names of which they are keeping secret. The Journal, anxious to get the list of streets, sends Eddie Ball, a young reporter fresh from college, to interview the Mayor. Eddie, wishing to impress the Mayor with his own importance, writes his name and "Reporter for the Journal" on a card which he sends in. To his chagrin the Mayor returns his card with the information that he will not see any reporters. When Eddie informs the editor of his failure, the editor is furious and yet amused over Eddie's "greenness." Knowing that a list of the streets would be a scoop for the Journal, he sends Gail, the star reporter. While trying to plan some way to accomplish this, Gail goes to have her nails manicured. At the crowded beauty shop, Gail answers the telephone for one of the manicurists and learns that the fastidious Mayor desires a manicurist to come to his office. Gail, realizing her opportunity, seizes it and, by trickery, succeeds and gets the scoop for her paper. When the Mayor reads in the extra the entire list of streets he declares that he will thrash the man who turned traitor and gave out the information. Repairing to the office of the Journal he meets "the manicurist" of a few hours before and realizes what he himself has done. He finds out, however, that the manicurist has other accomplishments than "filing nails."
- Banker Shultz has not had a vacation for over thirty years. His doctor advises a rest or a breakdown will soon result. But it is impossible for Shultz to leave the affairs of the bank a moment. At last he hits on a great scheme. That of getting his friend, Detective Duck, to impersonate him. His old friend, the famous sleuth, Detective Duck! But before Shultz takes leave he acquaints Duck with the fact that Tom, one of his poor clerks, is persistently asking for the hand of his daughter, Lillian. He admonishes Duck to keep this pair apart under all circumstances. Then Shultz departs, and no one penetrates the disguise of the pseudo banker. Detective Duck's troubles soon start when Tom appeals to him for his daughter's hand in marriage. The Mysterious Lady Baffles, in search of loot, with her mystic manner, enters the private office of the bank. Even she does not recognize her old enemy, the famous detective. But she witnesses the mean way he kicks the ardent Tom out and orders him about his business. Baffles is touched with womanly sympathy by Lillian's sobs. She takes exception to the supposed crabbed old Shultz's manners to the loving couple and determines to use all means within her power to make this old fossil accept Tom as a son-in-law. That night the bank is entered by Lady Baffles. With her secret preparation, Steelburnite, Lady Baffles gains entrance to the great vaults and robs them clean. Imagine Detective Duck's chagrin when the faithful watchman calls him up in the dead of the night with the awful news. The newspapers get wind of it and the next morning there is a wild-rush on the bank. Detective Duck finds a mysterious note, which reads: "When youse get ready ter hitch up yer Lill with dat guy Tom, just hang a sock in yer window. (Signed) Lady Baffles." Detective Duck locks Lillian up and fires Tom off the job. The howling bunch of frenzied creditors piling into the bank make him sincerely wish he had never meddled with Shultz's job. This sincerity is intensified when the real Shultz, after reading the awful news, arrives. The stampede of creditors becomes terrifying. Baffles is grimly waiting from a lofty roof cornice taking it all in with a telescope. She patiently waits for the sock signal she knows is sure to come. And sure enough it does come. Banker Shultz, thoroughly disgusted with Duck, overrules the latter's objections and hangs out the sock. Immediately he receives the message: "Marry the parties at once." At this Shultz balks. Then he hears the howling mob outside. That settled it. A minister is soon secured from the frenzied line and the joyous young couple are married. Immediately comes another message to Shultz: "Take a glimpse in the waste-paper basket." And sure enough! The big basket is filled to the brim with the bank's funds. The day is saved.
- Dora and Dave are sweethearts. Dora is loved by Tom, who proposes marriage to Dora only to be met by a refusal. He sees a love scene between Dora and Dave and is embittered against his old friend. A messenger gives Captain Hawkins a sum of money to pay off his crew and he places it in a pocket of his coat. He goes to pay the men and finds he has not the coat, and sends Dave to his house to get it. He has previously forbidden Dora to receive the attention of Dave and he singles him out of the party in order to humiliate him in the eyes of his other fishermen. Dave goes to the house, secures the coat, and on the way to the dock he shifts the coat about, and the bag containing the money falls out of the pocket. It is found by a simple-minded Gabe, a fool of the village, who hurries away. Dave gives the coat to the captain, who searches in the pockets for the wallet. He cannot find it and he accuses Dave of having stolen the money. Dave protests his innocence. Tom, who is standing near, suggests he submit to the search. Dave refuses to be searched, but knowing the violent temper of the captain, and that appearances are against him, he submits. The captain and Tom search him but do not find the money. They decide that he has hidden it and let him go and follow him to find the hiding place. The captain, on his way, is met by Dora, who sees that his actions are strange and she connects Dave with his angry mood. She meets two sailors after leaving the captain and is told that Dave has left the village in his dory and has been accused of stealing her father's money. Almost crazed with grief and anxiety she runs down to the beach just after the boat of Dave has been capsized and she finds the waves buffeting it into the shore. The captain, in the meantime, going to relieve the anxiety of the men discovers the simple Gabe playing with the wallet. Rushing to him he takes it from him in a rage and realizes that he has accused an innocent man of theft. In the distance sees Dora helping Dave along the rocks, and roughly hauling Gabe with him, he goes to Dave and humbly asks forgiveness, showing the recovered wallet. Big-hearted Dave is only too anxious to forgive, and seeing his chance, loses no time in asking for the hand of Dora. With the captain's consent comes a happy homecoming and ending to the unfortunate interim, and Dave and his sweetheart can now look the whole world in the face.
- Captain Silas Tugg, of the schooner Helen, is a hater of women and all their doings. He has forbidden his mate, Tom Burns, to marry. Tom tells his sweetheart of his captain's crustiness. Tugg won't listen to a word of their marriage, nor allow sweethearting on the vessel. The second mate, Jim Fing, a married man with three young children, is not afraid of Captain Tugg. He brings his wife and family aboard on Sunday. Mrs. King, in her matronly way, promptly places the children in the most sacred place in the cabin, gives her baby the most sacred thing of all, the Sextant, to play with, and proceeds to clean up the cabin. Captain Tugg comes in roaring wildly, tries to get rid of Mrs. Fing, but is himself captured by the baby. Finally he calls the cook, and astonishes him by ordering to prepare all sorts of sweetmeats for the children. The cook is horrified at the change in his master, and attempts, with dire results, to take the baby away from the captain. "Mind the pots; babies are not in your line," says the captain. His mate, Burns, sees this and calls his sweetheart. "What a pity the skipper hasn't a child of his own," says the mate. Influenced by this, Captain Tugg secretly goes to a foundling establishment, and, after ramming his way through, left with a fourteen-months' old baby. Knowing nothing of babies, the captain gives the new caller his own room, and orders the cook to do his level best to provide dainties. The baby absolutely refuses to do anything but squall. A council of war on the part of Captain Tugg and the cook results in nothing but the cook finally losing his temper. Captain Tugg then consults his second officer, the married man, who promptly provides first aid for a hungry baby, in the shape of a warm bottle, which is performed in the admiring presence of the captain, the mate, the cook and three sailors through the skylight above. The baby, once asleep. Captain Tugg goes into the cabin, still marked from the visit of Mrs. Fing and her babies, picks up the Sextant, the most cherished emblem, and gives to baby in token of complete surrender. He then proceeds to an employment office and engages a middle-aged woman as nurse. The nurse promptly takes possession of the ship. At this point, Edith Wild, the mate's sweetheart, makes it a point to come to the captain and put it up to him that she will not allow Burns, the mate, to sail on a ship so strangely inhabited. This maneuvering worked, and the captain finally consults the cook, whose idea is: "Get rid of babies and the woman; old times are best." The nurse overhears this and protests for her protege, and the only way that the captain sees out of it is to marry the nurse, which he promptly does. The cook, to get revenge, then takes the part of the mate and his sweetheart, and when the minister comes aboard to marry the captain and the nurse, with the baby in the nurse's arms. Wild and Edith also step in as bold as brass.
- Magua, a worthless, treacherous chief, is expelled from his tribe and becomes a guide in the army. His drunkenness causes him to be lashed and drummed from the fort. He endures the punishment with Indian-like stolidity and bides his time to be revenged upon Major Monroe, who ordered him flogged. Soon after Magua is hired at another fort. Judge of his delight when he finds his first mission is to guide his enemy's two beautiful daughters to their father. He arranges a trap from which they are rescued through the heroism of Hawkeye. Chingachgook and Uncas, the last of the Mohicans. Magua is wounded, but escapes and, rallying a large war party of Iroquois braves, he leads them close upon the track. They capture the two girls, David, their singing teacher and Duncan Heyward, a gallant officer. Magua tells Cora Munroe that her father had him flogged and that she must become his squaw. He promises if she will do so, he will free Heyward, David and Alice, her younger sister. Cora agrees to the sacrifice, but the sister will not listen. Heyward is goaded to frenzy by Magua's infamous proposition, and so insult him that the infuriated Indian gives orders for a massacre. As the tomahawks are suspended over the brave prisoners, shots are heard and a detachment of troops, headed by the Scout Hawkeye and Major Munroe, fall upon the savages and conquer them. Uncas, the brave Mohican warrior, has a hand to hand fight with Magua. Uncas receives his death wound and perishes, the last of the Mohicans. The girls are restored to their father, but the general happiness is clouded with sorrow, for all have grown to respect the brave boy who perished for them.
- A real wild and woolly west with desperate riding, bucking bronchos, unexcelled lariat work by Art Boden, the champion lasso king of Wyoming, and rough riding by the famed Otto Kline, the champion broncho buster of the west. Among other features a vicious outlaw bucking horse is mastered. The famous headliner of Percy Williams Orpheum attraction is reproduced. A miniature Wild West Show is seen and the general prairie atmosphere is rigidly adhered to.
- Little Dorothy's sister has two beaux, Mr. Fresh whom she dislikes and Mr. Backward, a bashful fellow, whom she decides is the man for her sister. The pranks the little girl plays on Mr. Fresh bring his courtship to a quick finish. The fun increases when the little girl tries to get the bashful beau to propose to her sister. Finally she hits on a scheme and writes to Mr. Backward that her sister loves him something awful and talks about him in her sleep. Backward encouraged by the letter visits his sweetheart but little Dorothy has to bring the two together through a very funny trick.
- Billings and Meeker are two brow-beaten husbands who are dominated by their wives. The women are leaders in a "Rights for Women" club, and they neglect their household duties to show the way to their sisters in the cause. On the day of an important meeting of the club, Billings and Meeker are forced to listen to harsh words from their wives and are in rebellious spirits and ripe for mutiny. The occasion presents itself for an attractive looking young woman calls on Billings soliciting funds for a charitable institution. Billings is favorably impressed and besides his wife has just given him a curtain lecture. The girl is susceptible to flattery, and before she leaves, the henpecked husband has arranged a little supper, at which Meeker and her chum are to be guests. Telephones are brought into requisition and the affair is arranged to the joy of the two husbands. They repair to the restaurant appointed and have an uneasy half hour waiting for their fair guests. In the meantime their wives are spellbinding the members of the club at a stormy session. The young women arrive at the café and the dinner proceeds. Meeker succumbs to the influence of the wine and becomes tipsy. Just about this time a young man calls and takes the solicitor and her chum away. Billings pays the check out of Meeker's wallet and lugs him to his home, lying him on a couch. Mrs. Billings returns and Billings eludes her. She sees Meeker just as his wife calls. Billings bursts in and accuses his wife of an affair with his friend. The women indulge in a hair-pulling match whereat the men wax jubilant, and the scene closes with the husbands getting good and even with their wives.
- James Madison has lost heavily in the stock market. His friend Wesley visits him and leaves in his care a wallet containing five thousand dollars. The wallet is placed in Madison's safe, and in the morning Madison hands the wallet to Wesley but the money is gone. Wesley charges Madison with having stolen his money. A detective is called in, and humorous situations arise from his suspicions of everybody in the household. The mystery is solved when the three men lying in wait see Madison's wife enter in her nightrobe, open the safe and place the missing money inside. Then they realize that Mrs. Madison is a somnambulist and has taken and replaced the money in her sleep.
- Richard Stanley, a young millionaire seeking a new experience, dresses himself up as a tramp to go slumming in earnest. He rescues Arthur Harvey, a society swell, from two drunken sailors who were assaulting him. Harvey takes Stanley to his home. He introduces the supposed "bum" as young Stanley, the missing millionaire, to Ethel Lane, a beautiful young girl, who had rejected Harvey's proposal of marriage. Stanley enters into the game, and he and the girl fall in love with each other. At a dinner party Mr. Lane announces the engagement of his daughter to Stanley. A letter comes from Harvey, stating that Stanley is really a tramp whom he picked up in the street, but Harvey's nasty scheme is exploded, and he is dumbfounded when the young man proves that he is really Stanley, the millionaire.
- Edith St. Clair, a beautiful orphan girl, heiress to a large estate is informed by her lawyer that Robert Uptown, the young man whom her deceased parents wish her to marry has returned from Europe and will call on her. The girl wishing to make sure that the man she is to marry loves her for herself and not for her money pretends to be a maid and has her maid pretend to be the mistress. A similar idea occurs to Uptown and he and his valet change places. Dramatic and humorous situations arise when the two women fall in love with the supposed valet and the butler who is in love with the real maid takes a hand in the game.
- Silver Tail, an Indian brave, and Panther, members of the Seminole tribe, are both in love with Falling Water. Panther confesses his love for Falling Water, but much to his surprise, Falling Water spurns him. Panther leaves her in a rage, vowing vengeance. Falling Water is sent by the chief of the tribe to a ranch to exchange skins. Panther, who overhears the chief give her instructions, sees his chance for revenge, and plots with a Mexican to capture her, which they do. They lash her to the back of her horse and send it galloping through the woods. Silver Tail observes the look of satisfaction which overspreads Panther's face, and feeling mischief is on foot, follows them. He arrives on the scene in time to see the squaw's horse dashing madly through the woods, gives chase and captures it in time to save Falling Water from death.
- Moved by anger and a keen sense of having been wronged, a cowpuncher sets out to kill his enemy. In his anger he justifies his act. As a result of a coincidence, he kills his own brother. He becomes a fratricide, a thing to loathe, and he realizes what it is to kill. On a cattle ranch in the far west, two brothers, Pete and Ned Cullen, work for Thomas Bender, the ranch owner. Ned is the ranch foreman. He is faithful to his trust. Pete was born an enemy to the world. All his passionate longings and feverish objections to the work turns inward and lay waste his rebel soul. Pete has trouble with Bender and is discharged. He drinks and nurses the venomous sentiments until he decides to kill Thomas Bender. The ranch owner rides a white horse. While riding home from town. Bender's horse goes lame and the owner exchanges mounts with Ned. As the dusk gathers, the two brothers draw near to each other on a lonely stretch of road . Pete, believing that the rider of the white horse is Bender, shoots. He runs up to the mortally injured man to find that he has killed Ned, his younger brother, the one man he had to live for in the world. Ned made no resistance when the cowboys rode up and took him; he just stumbles along toward the end which awaits such men.
- Bright Eyes, an Indian Maid, marries a white trapper. He leaves her alone with an infant. Not knowing what to do, she returns to her tribe, leaving her babe on the bank of the river. She is received back in the tribe and when the squaws are sent for water the babe is found. She, keeping the secret, asks to be allowed to raise the babe, which is granted. After twenty years, Stalwart Brave, the papoose, contests for the chieftainship in the lariat duel on horseback. He defeats the champion and becomes the White Chief. He falls in love with the old chief's daughter, but is denied her. The brave he defeated, for revenge on the old chief, lashes him. Panther leaves her in a rage, vowing revenge, is rescued by the White Chief and wins the girl.
- Flo, a village milliner, goes to the city and mingles with a vicious set. She is living with Dick in luxurious apartments. She writes her parents that she has a position in a millinery store at a small salary. They write that they are coming to visit her and she is alarmed. She rents a cheap room and introduces them to it as her home. They leave and she accompanies them to the station and then returns to the humble apartments and thinks of her deception, the shame of it all and the life she is leading, and she is obsessed by a desire to reform. That night she meets her gay companions at a café and tells them that she has decided to forsake the immoral life and return home. They greet her decision with jeers, but she leaves. She is followed by Dick to their apartments, but she repulses him and returns to her native village. There she meets Anson, who loves her. She loves him in return, but cannot bring herself to mate with the good man. She meets Dick on the street and he forces her to meet him, saying he must have money and she must assist him to get it. The building committee of the village church meets and the money is entrusted to Anson. He passes the isolated spot where Flo meets Dick. Dick secretes himself and Anson shows Flo the money. Dick being a witness unbeknown to the minister. The preacher goes and Dick rejoins Flo and tells her he is going to rob the pastor. Flo forestalls him by gaining entrance to the study of the pastor through a window, armed with a revolver. Anson is seated in an adjoining room. Dick enters through the door and is covered by Flo with a gun. She demands him to go and not rob the church, but in her fright she weakens and Dick knocks the gun from her hand, the noise of which arouses the minister and he grapples with Dick, overpowering him. Dick thinks he has the solution and orders Anson to release him or he will tell the world the shame of Flo. She tells the preacher to hold him and then Dick tells of Flo's past life. When Dick has finished, the minister points to the door, bids Dick go, and takes the trembling girl in his arms. He will forgive and forget her past life.
- Two spirited teen girls place a bet on who will become the first to kiss their handsome teacher.
- First the beautiful sea approaches to Japan are shown. Then scenes are shown in the cities, showing the wonderful changes brought about in the last few decades. They now have electric light, streetcars and all modern conveniences, beautiful parks and temples. The markets are not so modern and one can still see ancient conveyances. The opera house is a magnificent structure built in classic style. Native workmen are shown hauling stone. Here labor is so cheap that it is less expensive than horses or steam.
- Percy Pray is in love with Laura May, but her rich father says him nay. Percy finds a book on mental science on the secret of wealth, love, etc., by the exercise of will-power. Percy exercises his will-power on the girl, who rejects a rich suitor in his favor. Then he makes the old man take him into his business. Percy employs mental science to help their pretty housemaid to win back her lover. The girl expresses her gratitude by hugging him. Enter wifey, who sees this. Explosion. Back to ma for wifey. Wifey is just telling her mother that she will never, never see Percy again. Biff! Percy's mental science has been at work, and wifey runs back home to Percy's loving embrace.
- Illustrates the activities of the Bureau of Child Hygiene, the measures adopted by the Bureau of Infectious Diseases, the Quarantine officials, the City and State health departments and the United States Public Health Service which is striving to prevent the spread of the disease to all parts of the country. Pictures of monkeys and the experiments made upon them to solve the problem of who and what are the most dangerous "carriers" of infantile paralysis, a map of New York City showing the plague spots and a larger map showing how the disease is spreading all over the country also are included in the film. Children were also shown leaving the city for the country by boat and rail. In the picture, the affected territories were shown with scenes of uncovered garbage-cans, near which children and cats play; fruit covered with fly-specks and touched by many hands before being finally eaten; dirty and crowded narrow streets lined with unsanitary push-carts, and how the street department takes care of the garbage and flushes the streets. The sub-titles of the film which hammer home precautionary "don'ts" to mothers, instructs them how to discover and to treat the first symptoms of the disease in their children.
- After searching unsuccessfully all morning, George Tremaine, an actor out of employment, falls asleep on a park bench. He is rescued from the clutches of a policeman by Mrs. Durand, a wealthy society woman, who moved by his destitute appearance gives him money. Ten years later Tremaine has become highly successful in his art and is a matinee idol and a courted pet of society. Helen Durand, a beautiful stage struck amateur actress, becomes madly infatuated with him and writes him a letter, begging him to make an appointment. She also encloses her photograph. Tremaine, struck by the beauty of her face, invites her to call, promising that if she shows talent to give her a chance. Helen arrives and in a very amusing scene attempts to act. Tremaine's valet announces some gentlemen callers and Tremaine, not wishing the girl to meet any men while in his place, tells her to hide behind a screen until the men leave. Among the callers is Walter Hawley, the fiancé of Helen. The men have several drinks when one discovers the girl behind the screen. Before Tremaine can interfere the screen is pulled aside, but luckily Helen turns her hack and Hawley does not recognize her. Tremaine denounces the men for their impertinence and requests them to leave the room and they do so. Helen comes out frightened and ashamed and is about to leave when Hawley returns to apologize for the actions of his friends. He sees Helen and is about to fight when she explains that it is her fault alone. Hawley takes Helen home and tells her parents of her folly. Mr. Durand grabs his cane and prepares to go to give Tremaine a thrashing. His wife follows and enters Tremaine's room in time to prevent a fight between her husband and the actor. Tremaine recognizes in Mrs. Durand the kind lady who years previous had saved him from hunger and arrest. He expresses his regret and promises that he will cure the girl of her infatuation for him. The next evening Mrs. Durand gives a dinner to which Tremaine is invited. After dinner he pretends to be very drunk and acts in a disgraceful manner, until Helen, thoroughly disgusted, orders him to leave the house. Tremaine goes home and we see him in his room tearing the portrait of the only girl he really loved.
- The flirt, a comely young lady monkey, tries to make monkeys of all the other animals in the jungle. The elephant, the leopard and all of them fall for her, but she loves another monkey. They are broken-hearted when she marries him, but their revenge is complete when they see him out walking with a whole row of little monkeys, and the cost of living going up all the time.
- Pygmalion, who has carved out the beautiful figure of Galatea. He gets several offers for its purchase, but is so in love with the work that he refuses to part with it. One day as he sits in his saddle he hears a voice calling him by name. He knows that there is nobody in the room, and is bewildered. Finally he draws aside the portieres that hide the figure of Galatea and is stupefied to find her alive. He leads her down from the pedestal and discloses to her that she is now in the world, answering her inquiries. He finds the incarnation as beautiful as his marble work, but as he falls in love with her, there enters an element of jealousy on the part of those who do not understand the situation. This causes Galatea to grieve, and ere Pygmalion can come out of his trance she stepped back on the pedestal and the transformation takes place, by which the beautiful Galatea is again turned to the stone from which the sculptor's mallet had shaped her.
- The large lakes of Italy are alone in their glory. They possess an atmosphere that is not to be found about any other of the world's famous lakes. Lake Maggiore is the pride of all Italians, and is here shown in all its beauty. Some excellent views are had of the Borromees Islands and numerous character studies of native boatmen in their queer craft.
- An injured telegraph lineman, the father of a large family, finds it difficult to make ends meet. A gentleman thief attempts to aid the family by desperate means.
- John Dobbs, an aged farmer, comes to the village with his family, and while there makes the sale of a cow for a good sum. The farm wagon drives away filled with pleased country folk, who have been to the hamlet to do some shopping. The payment of the money is witnessed by two tramps, who follow Farmer Dobbs home. He is set upon and robbed and the tramps make their escape, running in view of little Margaret, a granddaughter of the old farmer. Another child discovers the plight of the robbed man, who is bound, and neighbors set him free. There is a search for the highwaymen and the irate farmers are aided by Margaret in a most ingenious manner to capture the tramps by reason of their leaving tell-tale evidence. The story is interpreted in a most charming manner. Baby Earley plays the role of the child detective in a most astute way, and is rewarded for her vigilance.
- The story opens in the home of a poor family, composed of a father, mother, small boy, and old grandfather. The boy and the grandfather are pals. The boy would rather play with the old man than go out with other boys. An increase of family is expected. The parents, frightened at prospects of additional expense, send the grandfather to an old folks' home. This breaks the boy's heart; he cannot understand, but the grandfather explains to him: "I'm old, have no teeth, no hair, can't walk much, and your pa and ma can't afford to keep me." The new baby arrives. It is red and fuzzy. It hasn't any teeth or hair, and it can't walk or talk. The boy is disgusted to think his parents would send grandfather away to make room for this new, useless arrival. He concluded, "It ain't any good and I'll trade it for grandpa." He takes the baby to the old folks' home, and tries to exchange it for his grandfather. The grandfather takes the boy and the baby home, and the parents are so deeply touched, that they refuse to allow the grandfather to return to the institution.