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- Roman emperor Nero is used to getting what he wants. He has grown tired of his wife Octavia, and has become infatuated with Poppea. He succeeds in making Poppea the new empress, but soon he faces opposition from an outraged populace.
- This picture starts by showing several officers examining a counterfeit bill, and also Miss Keene (the Secret Service woman), who is detailed to find the counterfeiters. She shadows Stubbs to a store and later to a large house on the outskirts of the town, to which Stubbs gains admittance. Miss Keene then disguises herself as a country girl and returns to the house, where she is admitted by a woman and instructed as to her duties. Upon her leaving the room, the chief counterfeiter and Stubbs enter and go over matters with the chief's wife. The Secret Service woman behind a screen watches, and sees the man place a quantity of bills in the valise, and hears the directions given to Stubbs. When Stubbs is left alone, Miss Keene is seen dusting and is made love to by Stubbs. He then takes up satchel and leaves, Miss Keene following after. We next see the female detective enter an old building through a cellar chute, where she finds Stubbs drinking. While under this influence he goes to a trunk and in it places the valise and also plates used in making money, and then falls across the table. She then secures the valise and plates and disappears. The chief enters and finding Stubbs asleep shows anger. He looks for bills and plates and not finding them pulls Stubbs to his feet. He does not believe that Stubbs knows nothing of their disappearance, and ties him to a post, leaving him for five minutes to decide to tell where they are. Miss Keene then enters and releases the much Surprised Stubbs, chinning his hat and coat, which completely hides her dress, and telling him to go. Miss Keene pulls the ropes about her as though she were tied. The chief then returns and as she is about to make him prisoner, Stubbs sneaks in and fells her to the ground. They tie her and compel her to disclose where the plates are hidden. The chief secures them and leaves with Stubbs. After struggling to free herself, she makes her escape through the chute. She overhears all their plans and follows them to the dock, where she enters as a newsboy and hides beneath a barrel. While the chief is helping his wife into the launch, he places the valise on the ground. Miss Keene succeeds in hiding it under the barrel with her. He discovers its loss when Stubbs gives warning of police, and they hasten to the launch. They are caught, however, handcuffed and taken prisoners. The next and final scene shows Miss Keene, the Secret Service woman, receiving congratulations for successfully tracking the notorious band of counterfeiters.
- The opening scene of this Bison production shows Silver Bird, an Indian girl, riding on when she is met by Private Jones, who dismounts and attempts to drag her from her horse. Lieut. Barnes and a companion who enter dismount from their horses and go to assist the young girl. They bind and disarm Jones compelling him, at the point of a gun, to mount, and insist upon Silver Bird accompanying them to the fort to make charges against Jones. Major Pond after hearing Lieut. Barnes' report, and the Indian girl's story, orders that Jones be placed under arrest. Later he is marched before the Major and is dismissed from the ranks. After leaving the regiment Jones joins a band of outlaws. Silver Bird, hidden behind a rock, hears of a plan to rob Barnes, the Paymaster, when he goes to the depot for the money. While returning from this quest Barnes is overtaken by the outlaws. Although he succeeds in disabling one, he, wounded, slips from his horse. The outlaws are overcome with astonishment at seeing Silver Bird grab the sack and ride quickly away. Here is seen a remarkable chase between the Indian girl and the outlaws. After reaching the fort, delivering the money to the Major and telling of all that has happened, orders are given to mount in search of the outlaws, Silver Bird leading the soldiers. During the excitement of the soldiers capturing the outlaws. Silver Bird dashes off to aid Barnes, whom she finds lying by the roadside. After making him comfortable, she helps him to mount the horse with her, and they ride away. The soldiers with their prisoners enter the fort. The Indian girl also returns with Barnes, whom the guards help to the ground. The Major thanks Silver Bird for her bravery, and Barnes, with gratitude, extends his hand, which she shyly takes.
- The opening scene of this amusing comedy shows peddling Lexy seated beneath a huge poster of a cowboy. He succumbs to Morpheus, the God of Sleep, and is soon imagining he is the living counterpart of the poster.
- A silhouette film of acrobatic mice.
- A boy's kite drags a PC along the street and into a pond.
- Troubles of a mean father pushing furniture on a barrow.
- A salvationist reforms a suicidal drunkard who is later wrecked while escorting emigrants, and saved from the sea by his ex-wife.
- A Lord escapes from a jealous jailer to wed a Lady's maid.
- A girl sends pigeons to fetch territorials when foreign spies posing as Jewish tailors occupy her strategic house.
- A husband overeats and dreams of girls.
- A landlady mistakes a lodger's dummy for a dismembered corpse.
- A PC wins the cook by hypnotising a burglar.
- A busker becomes a prima donna and the crowd saves her from a jealous gambler's knife.
- Mary Harding and Frank Manley love each other and the old folks agree that they shall marry. A week later a mining expert, accompanied by Devoe, a stockholder, while prospecting, finds a rich vein of silver ore on the Harding farm. Frank witnesses this discovery and follows the two men to the farm house just in time to prevent the Hardings from selling their farm with its hidden treasures for a paltry sum of money. After a fierce fight Frank destroys the bill of sale and the Hardings are the possessors of a fortune. Devoe has been attracted by the beauty of Mary and he determines to win her and the wealth that will be hers. The next day Devoe calls and so turns the mother's head with his attention to herself and Mary that when Frank calls the scheming mother tells him that now they are rich "Mary can marry a better man." Poor Mary surrenders to her scheming mother and becomes betrothed to Devoe. The wedding day finds Mary bedecked in bridal finery, but most unhappy. Meanwhile, Frank has come for an explanation from his sweetheart. The English butler who orders him away is thrown down the stairway and Frank enters to find Devoe, who insolently bids him leave the house. Frenzied by such treatment, Frank knocks Devoe down and the two men have a terrific fight, which is interrupted by the entrance of the father with Mary's note. Frank dashes out to find her. The old man follows. Back in the old home once more. Mary in her old gingham dress needs only one thing to make her perfectly happy, that is Frank, who enters, and then, Old Father enters with the minister, who marries the couple.
- A dog steals a bone and is chased by a butcher, people and other dogs.
- A crooked policeman runs over a girl's father and blames his rival.
- Most men claim that they have enough trouble with their mother-in-law while she is alive, but imagine being haunted by her after she is dead. Such is the experience of the young married man of this film story. The scene opens in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed. A handsome oil painting of the late mother-in-law is seen. Hubby has an engagement and tells wifie a fib about it, but just at that moment, mother-in-law looks down from her frame and shakes a warning finger at him. He rushes out of the house in dismay. He is accosted by a beggar woman, but just as he is about to refuse to give her money an apparition of the mother-in-law appears in the beggar woman's place and makes him be charitable. He attempts to chuck a flower girl under the chin, but the flower girl turns to be an apparition of the mother-in-law. He sits down at a cafe table and begins to flirt with a young woman at the next, but just as he is about to take hold of her hand, secretly, she changes into a vision of mother-in-law. He stops to admire the statue of a woman, but the statue turns into his mother-in-law, and as he is about to beat the statue with his umbrella, an officer appears and orders him off. He returns home, and on his knees he pleads to the painting of mother-in-law for forgiveness, and all ends happily.
- A poor man's dog steals the landlord's bag. The man returns it for a reward and pays his rent.
- A tramp returns a stolen necklace and is jailed, but saved by the magistrate's daughter.
- A man tries various methods of getting rid of a cat.
- Rover fetches a sick shepherd to save his small daughter from the snow.
- A maid steals a divorced father's child and takes it to the mother.
- Couple throw away a high duck, then learn £50 was attached.
- A maid goes to a servants' ball and falls for her employer's son.