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- A sailor tries to get rid of his rival by sending him away on a ship, but instead he captures his father-in-law.
- When Henry Howland, the great philanthropist, feels his health failing, he makes his will and entrusts it to his nephew, Walter, to file away in his private safe. Impelled by curiosity, Walter opens the will and discovers that his uncle has cut him off with a mere pittance, leaving the major portion of his estate to charity. He cleverly forges a new clause to the will, and is in the act of substituting it for the original when surprised by his uncle. After a heated argument, Howland dies of heart failure and Walter, panic-stricken, carries him to his own room and notifies the coroner. Later, Walter accompanies Gladys Brooks, with whom he is in love, to the retreat of a Hindoo mystic, a crystal gazer, who bares Walter's life while in a mesmeric trance. Fearful of arrest, Walter escapes from the room and eludes the detectives put on his tracks by the district attorney, who is a rival suitor for the hand of Gladys. After a time he returns and makes a clean breast of the whole affair. The district attorney seeing that Gladys loves Walter, and that Walter is sincere in his desire to start life anew, calls off his detectives and allows the couple to catch the Montreal express.
- While excavating on the estate of the Count of Noyon, workmen unearth a huge box. The count, his friend Seville, and a Brahmin priest open the box, finding a glass coffin containing the body of a young Indian Princess.
- The story opens in a New York tenement where Miss Leonard is living in hopes of finding the means to support herself and little baby. A month before her husband had been killed in a mine accident and Miss Leonard sought the city, leaving her child m the care of a neighbor. She is aroused by a knock on the door. A youth of the underworld, struck with her beauty, has followed her home. He tells her where she can secure work. When he offers her money to pay for a new dress, she understands, and drives him from the room. Another knock. It is her landlord. She must pay her rent in the morning. Her eye falls on the card left by the "cadet." That night she appears at the dance hall. Once within her soul revolts. A "cadet" endeavors to restrain her, but the proprietor ejects him. At this moment a woman in evening dress arrives on a slumming tour. There is a pistol duel between two gangsters and the woman is injured, but not seriously. She confides in Miss Leonard that she is married to a young Englishman, heir to his father's fortune, and is on her way abroad. She engages Miss Leonard as nurse companion. On board ship the woman proves to be a drunkard. A storm arises. The lifeboats are wrecked. The two women are washed ashore on a desert island and are sheltered by a sailor, himself a victim of a previous shipwreck. The sailor and the Englishman's wife begin a drunken carouse on rum that has washed ashore. Miss Leonard fails to arouse them from their stupor when a sailing vessel comes to take them off. Swiftly she gathers the woman's proofs together, exchanges wedding rings and a month later lands in England and is accepted as the son's wife. After a time the true wife appears but is turned away. In the moment of her triumph she realizes the futility of it all, and leaving a note of confession disappears. A nephew, who has fallen in love with her, follows her to America. Just as she is about to leave with her baby from the city, he finds her and there is a joyful reunion.
- The story opens with Miss Leonard, now a woman past the prime of life, relating the sad, romantic story of her life to her dearest niece, who is engaged to be married. As in a vision, the story shifts back forty years and discloses the interior of an orphan asylum. Three babies are there, two boy babies and one baby girl, awaiting adoption into a good home. Years pass and the orphaned children have grown up in three different homes. Miss Leonard's dearest treasures are a pair of tiny baby shoes and a faded plaid shawl given to her foster parents by the asylum nurse. Of her twin brother she knows nothing, except that he too has a tiny pair of shoes like those in her keeping. She loves and is loved in return by a dashing chap, whose mother had adopted him when a baby. They decide to elope, but are stopped by the groom's mother, who thinks she has discovered that Miss Leonard and her son are brother and sister, at least the baby shoes tend to prove it. In a quiet village Miss Leonard discovers her real brother, a clergyman, whose foster parents had lost his tiny shoes at the time of his adoption. She returns to the city and witnesses the marriage of her beloved to another woman. So ended her romance while all the years she treasured the tiny baby shoes that had brought her face to face, with a great tragedy.
- The young man, Roberts, loses his father to a watery death following business failure owing to the treachery of a banker animated by a stated but unexplained grudge. Roberts drops out of sight entirely for the whole of the second part, as the ship on which he is sailing to South Africa is lost, and as reported with all on board, it is fair to assume he has met death until we recognize him in the group at the Cape. The wife back home reads of the disaster and the shock kills her; the baby is adopted by a neighbor. The beginning of the second reel marks the introduction of new characters by reason of a lapse of twenty years. The Roberts infant is now a grown girl, and employed as a dancer. The son of the unscrupulous banker falls in love with the dancer, but owing to the objection by the older Martin the girl decides to refuse a bribe to leave town; she goes anyway. Singularly enough, she sails for the very part of the world where her father is. On the same steamer is a woman, a sort of adventuress, commissioned by Martin to report on the situation at the new gold fields. There are many adventures before Roberts, who for some reason has changed his name to Treberson, now rehabilitated in fortune, goes back to Europe to get his revenge on the man who ruined him. .As a matter of fact, he does no such thing, as the requited love of his daughter for the son of the banker intervenes and all ends happily.
- A Southern family is divided when the first son joins the Northern army, while the second son stays loyal to the South.
- An early silent, Italian version of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale.
- In Bombay, Count Adolphe elopes with Vasca, although engaged to a lady in Rome. In that city two years later the Roman lady's father hears of Adolphe's wife and child. He sets the Black League to work. As a result, the young wife is met by death. The baby daughter is abandoned. The deed is committed by Michael, a confidential servant of the Roman lady. Adolphe eventually marries the Roman lady and Michael becomes their butler. Twenty years later Adolphe, now the Duke of Torini, for the first time receives news of his daughter. He sends his secretary to Bombay to fetch her. The young couple falls in love. The mind of Michael is unhinged by the sight of the young lady, and in his temporary insanity he tells the Duke where the proofs of his crime are to be found. The Duke finds the papers, sends them to his secretary, Genovo, makes his will in favor of his daughter, Zania, and dies of heart disease. Michael, having no knowledge of what he said or did in his delirium, thinks the proofs have been taken by Zania. The father of the duchess is compromised by the missing papers, so Michael confides in her. They seek the help of the Black League. Zania cannot give up the papers she has not got. She is kidnapped and taken to the Tower of Terror. Then next morning Genovo, her lover, sets out to rescue her. He discovers where she is and has a terrific fight with her jailer. In the struggle a lantern is upset, and the place set on fire, and the jailer meets his death. Genovo reaches his sweetheart, but escape is cut off by the fire. They get free by climbing down a tower over 200 feet high, the most sensational feat ever shown in a film. The Duchess and Michael arrive at the Tower of Terror just as the fire reaches some powder barrels, and the guilty couple are blown to bits.
- A girl marries a wealthy pawnbroker in order to get money for her poor lover, who is an artist. When the pawnbroker dies, his son forces the girl to marry him, but he is killed and she marries the artist. Various problems arise after their marriage, but eventually they are happy together.
- A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- Kitty Cobb had longings for the big city which she had never seen. One day Kitty met a young civil engineer, Bob Caldecott, on his way to the fort near her home with secret plans. He took her riding in his auto and entertained her with stories of the great metropolis. Bob finally left her at her gate and drove away. But Kitty was restless afterwards, and started to wander over the fields towards the fort. Suddenly she stopped. Before her were three suspicious-looking characters with cameras. They seemed to be taking photographs of the fortifications. Creeping closer, she overheard their conversation. They were spies. Kitty started to run home, but the spies discovered her and gave chase. She outdistanced them, however, and had just time to telephone the fort when the men entered her home, jerked her away from the 'phone and bound her father, mother and herself to chairs. Then they fled. Bob and the Colonel came to the rescue. Young Caldecott devoted himself to comforting Kitty. The yearning to live in the city grew upon her as a result of Bob's visit, and she importuned her parents to permit her to go and find work. After long urging they at last reluctantly consented. Her early experiences were not encouraging. She could not get anything to do, and in a short time was down to her last cent. After barely escaping being turned out on the streets of New York for not paying her board, through the efforts of a fellow boarder, a kind-hearted woman, she secured a position as usher in the Globe theater. One night at the theater a young top presumed to force his attentions upon her. A lovely old lady, richly gowned, overheard his remarks and interfered. As she was talking to Kitty, who should come up and address her as mother but Bob. Kitty and Bob recognized each other at once, and the result was that Mrs. Caldecott made Kitty her secretary. One day Count Pulaski, Bob's sister's fiancé, was introduced to Kitty. He was none other than the infamous villain whom she had discovered taking pictures of the fortifications. Quick as a flash Kitty saw through the count's stratagem. He was there not because he loved Bob's sister, but to steal the secret plans. Kitty hastened to the room which Bob had converted into a workshop. She barely concealed the precious drawings when the count also entered the room. Seizing her he wrapped a heavy curtain about her head and lowered her out of a window to his waiting accomplices outside. It was at this time that Ed Randall, Kitty's country swain, came to New York. As he was passing through a side street on his way to see Kitty he saw an auto stop in front of a squalid tenement. Two men sprang from it, and carried a struggling figure tied in a curtain into the house. When Ed reached the Caldecott mansion he found the entire household in dismay over the mysterious fate of Kitty. He related what he had seen. Without a moment's wait he and Bob started for the suspected house. They gained admittance, but were informed that the girl was not there. As they were about to leave in despair, Bob found Kitty's handkerchief. Hearing a muffled cry, Bob and his companion dashed upstairs and entered a room. Here Kitty was being held by the count and his confederates. There was a terrific exchange of blows. The count and his forces went down. So did Ed Randall. Bob seized Kitty and started down the stairs. He was attacked by another of the gang. In the struggle both fell over the balustrade and were rendered unconscious. A woman confederate recaptured Kitty, just as the count and one of his thugs reappeared on the scene. The girl was bound again. Bob was dragged to a small room, where his captors tossed him. still unconscious, on a bed, turned on the gas, and left him to perish. Ed, overcome in the battle upstairs, soon regained his senses and started down the fire escape. He heard Kitty trying to beat down a boarded window on the floor below. He battered it in and rescued her. But Kitty would not go without her Bob. The two returned to the house. After a short search Ed found Bob and carried him into the air. But before they could make their escape the count and his followers returned to the attack. Kitty battled her way to the street and obtained the aid of the police. That was the end of Count Pulaski. There was a great reunion at the Caldecott mansion that evening to celebrate the return of Kitty. And as for Bob, well, Miss Cobb became Mrs. Bob.
- The professor holds captive by hypnotism his daughter, Marjorie, from the time she is a child until she has grown to womanhood. Tarred, feathered and driven out of town, leaving his child to be adopted into the family of Judge White, he returns after many years to reassert his complete mastery over her inner mind. The child obeys him and steals away from the foster parents and they employ a detective to run down the thief. The latter falls in love with the girl. The professor causes his child to become a thief stealing jewels, and finally the two disappear and the detective begins a world-wide search for them. The closing scene occurs In a great New York theater. Marjorie appears on the stage as an Egyptian mystic with a huge snake entwined around her neck. In the midst of the scene the professor drops dead. Her father's death has broken the spell and thus true love and Innocence again secures its just reward.
- Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
- Episode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam has been stolen and for whose return a large reward will be paid. Not content with settling down to a quiet domestic life, he persuades Sari and his good crew to aid him in finding this white elephant. In the Royal Square of the Capitol of Siam, he reviews the troops which are all comprised of women, which is the custom there. The Prime Minister bids Zingo and his men to visit the Royal Harem. Here they are captured by the troops and are about to be tortured to death when Sari, disguised as a colonel in the army, aids them in escaping. They find the province of Chokuff where the white elephant has been secreted, and catching the Prince making love to Sari, they demand the white elephant. He promises, but traps them all in his dungeon. They are all, but Zingo, placed in barrels with their heads protruding. Zingo files away the bars of his cage, and rolls the barrels by the guards, who are in a stupor from opium smoking. He swims down the river, towing his crew in the barrels. After a fierce encounter with the Prince of Chokuff's army, he attacks the Royal barge in the Blud River, and after a bitter struggle in which he disposes of the entire crew by throwing them overboard, he captures the white elephant and recovers his faithful Sari. He returns the sacred elephant to the King of Siam, and after a big reception by royalty and the populace, Zingo is awarded rich treasures for his noble work. Episode 3: "Zingo in Africa" After returning from Asia with his jolly band of tars, laden with gold and precious stones as a reward for his clever work in recovering the Sacred White Elephant of Siam, Zingo thought he would never again feel the call of the sea, and he didn't for several months. But the wanderlust fever soon returned, and taking his wife as his sole companion, he set out for the wilds of Africa in search of fresh adventures. From this point on, let us follow Zingo down the Nile, and record his hairbreadth escapes. Selecting a likely spot, Zingo and Sari, his wife, make camp. Hearing piercing shrieks just back of their tent, they don bear skins and hasten to the spot in time to prevent the execution of two beautiful native girls by a band of savages. The two girls now become members of Zingo's party, happy to serve their gallant protector. The next day Zingo puts on his armored hunting suit to battle with hungry lions, who have been prowling about the camp. After an hour's terrific struggle with a pair of lions, Zingo returns to find his party gone, and many evidences of a struggle. Suspecting that they have been kidnapped by roving gorillas, Zingo sets off through the forest and eventually comes to the bottom of a large tree sheltering the crudely made gorilla nest. Having a smattering of monkey chatter, he quickly gains an entrance to the nest, and there discovers his wife and the girls more frightened than harmed. The good-natured gorillas listen attentively while Zingo explains that they must proceed up the Nile in their power boat, and they bid the party an affectionate farewell. During an inspection of the Pyramids, Zingo and his party encounter some knavish artists, who drug him and make love to Sari and the native girls. Zingo is boxed up and sold to a London professor as a rare specimen, and does not regain his senses until weeks later. After startling the assembled professors out of their wits, he charters an aeroplane and flies back to Egypt overnight in time to punish the cringing artists and save Sari and her servants from further insult. Then with a last fond look down the Nile River, Zingo and his party board the aeroplane and sail back to Paris. Episode 4: "Zingo's War in the Clouds" Zingo, while working and studying over the prospectus of the Eldorado Mine in his library in Paris, is visited by his faithful crew, who are restless from lying in port and beg of him to put to sea in search of new adventures. Zingo agrees to their proposal, and decides to submit a gigantic scheme to the Eldorado Directorate for working their mine. Arriving in Mexico, he finds the mine operators are entertaining a scheme presented to them by one, Fileas Fogg. Zingo exposes Fogg's crookedness and is awarded the contract for working the mine. In order to study the country around the mines, Zingo and his wife, Sari, erect huts in a nearby river to live in. Fogg, enraged at Zingo for exposing him, with the aid of a savage Indian tribe, attacks Zingo in his river home, and after a thrilling encounter, captures Zingo and Sari. They are bound hand and foot and told they are to be executed the next morning. A pretty Indian girl sets Zingo free in the night, and rides off with him. Zingo calls on the Federal army and is honored by being given the rank of commanding officer, After reviewing his troops and submarine guards. Zingo attacks Fogg's troops, who use chloroform bombs and a special pneumatic sucker to repel his army. Zingo's submarine troops attack Fogg's deep water divers and after a severe encounter in the depths, Zingo's men are victorious. Vanquished under the sea, Fogg takes refuge in a huge motor balloon with Sari still in his power. After a most thrilling battle in which a dozen types of balloons are used, Zingo's dirigible manages to catch Fogg, and after transferring Sari, he cuts the ropes suspending the basket from the bag, and Fogg drops into eternity. Zingo sights his yacht directly below him and by lowering a rope and making it fast to the mast, they all descend and are joyously received by the crew. Zingo promises all to return home after settling up his business affairs in Mexico.
- Before Greece became a government it was divided into many principalities. In our story, Althemus is the king of one of these states. Although his wife, Queen Nethele, is beautiful, he loves Melessa, a wicked designing woman, and it is her purpose to put away the queen and take her place. The king has selected a husband for his daughter, Althea, Diomed, a rich young man. Jestyx, an old philosopher, one day tells the court of a wild people that live back in the forest, who are said to be descendants of the god Pan. Frightus, the wickedest of the tribe, we are told, has eaten all his children, except Dusa, his daughter, because of her extreme ugliness. Diomed at once becomes interested in Dusa and sets out for the forest. Strange as it may seem, Diomed becomes enamored of her. Dusa also is charmed in her wild way. Althea, torn with jealousy, follows Diomed and commands him to return to the palace. They are followed by Dusa. The king sends for Polyclotes, a member of the wild tribe, to abduct Dusa, but he refuses to do so. Thereupon, the king dismisses him. Melessa, taken by his beauty, invites Polyclotes to enter her room. Just then the king appears, takes in the situation at a glance and puts Polyclotes in the dungeon. Dusa flees to the forest. She meets Jestyx, the old philosopher. He persuades her to return to the palace and enter into a growing lily, declaring that she will become beautiful. After many days, she arises radiantly beautiful. A multitude of things happen, as though by magic. She obtains the release of Polyclotes and they return to the forest and live happily.
- A gentleman burglar is a detective, which acts as a shield to his more shady pastime.
- A young farmer visiting a gypsy camp to have his fortune told, meets the gypsy princess and falls in love with her. She pretends to return his affections. She warns him of a plot which the men of her tribe have laid to rob him, and he is induced to place in her hands for safe keeping, a large amount of money. He is attacked by the girl's jealous gypsy lover, but overpowers his assailant. When he goes to reclaim his money, with great cleverness, and in a flood of tears, she declares that it has been taken from her, meanwhile patting the knot in her sash where she is concealing the money. The youth touched by her apparent grief forgives her and after rescuing her from violence at the hands of her gypsy-sweetheart, he takes her to his own house to live with his mother. Here she is willful, ungrateful, and disrespectful to the kind old mother of her sweetheart. Her only desire is by fair means or foul to obtain from him every cent she can. He blinded to her faults by his love, marries her. Before the flowers of her bridal roses have faded, she heartlessly forces his mother from her home, to live with friends on a neighboring farm. Ungrateful for the home, love and station that her husband has given her, she turns upon him, bleeding him with fiendish rapacity of his money. In vain he reasons, pleads and makes a costly peace offering to her. She meets her old gypsy lover, and conspires with him to rob her husband of his last dollar and then run away together. The hour of her desertion arrives, the gypsy goes to her house to carry out the robbery. As she is about to leave the only home she has ever known, the faint voice of an awakening conscience whispers to her that perhaps she is not doing right. Her companion insists upon having every dollar she has extorted from her husband. She refuses to deliver it. The man at the pistol point attempts to force it from her, in the struggle he is shot and killed. Her husband hearing the report of the revolver, rushes into the house, sees his wife, whom in spite of her failings he has always trusted, arising in alarm from the dead body of the gypsy. Her head falls in shame, her conscience fully awakened thunders burning reproaches into her ear. With breaking heart she sinks to her knees before him, begging forgiveness. But his faith in her is shattered, his eyes are opened, and he refuses to take her back. Deserted by her husband and her former associates she determines by work and service to win back the home and love she has lost. At last the gray-haired mother whom she has treated so cruelly is touched by her efforts. Forgetting the injuries of the past the noble old lady pleads with her son for the forgiveness of the wife. The pair are reunited. She has learned by bitter experience it is only by a life of love, duty and unselfish devotion that lasting happiness is attained.