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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Well-known professor Doctor Tilton orders a skeleton so that he can better demonstrate to his students the various parts of the human anatomy. When the express company delivers it, his two children, Matty and Early, are with him when he unpacks it, and again the youngsters' scheming minds devise new plans to further test their elders' patience. The incidents leading to the final downfall of both the skeleton and the children cause many a hearty laugh, as this time the children suffer more than the patience of the grown-ups.
- Happy-go-lucky clubman Carson refuses the invitation of his friends to dine at the club, and goes home in anticipation of a "real dinner." When he arrives home he finds his wife in the kitchen bemoaning the fact that the cook has left. Together they prepare the meal. The blunders he makes, the dishes he breaks, and the swearing he does all throw the household into a state of limbus. A messenger enters with a telegram telling that his mother-in-law is coming to spend a week. Carson leaves his wife weeping and goes to his club for sympathy. Later that night, tipsy Carson is assisted home by a friend; through the keyhole he sees his mother-in-law waiting for him, and he thinks he would rather enter through the dining-room window. A police officer mistakes him for a burglar--and he's rescued by his mother-in-law, who pulls him in by the ear and lays down the law to him. This is the beginning of a line of complications which result in victory for the clubman. The last cook accepts a bribe and frightens and annoys the mother-in-law until she flees in terror and disgust.
- The figures that he draws become rebellious and refuse to act as he wants them to, so he has a terrible time to make them do his bidding. They answer back and say that he has no right to make slaves of them even if he is their creator.
- "Warriors of the Air" is a series of pictures of the aircraft of the Allies. We are shown several varieties of machines, monoplanes and biplanes and the new type which carries several passengers. Very remarkable views taken from a machine in flight are seen. We look down from our own craft upon smaller machines executing all sorts of maneuvers below us. From this great height the earth looks like a patchwork quilt, and the roads like white scratches on the negative. We fly through actual clouds, and mount above them. They look like films of mist, but thicken until they nearly obscure the ground below.
- A bird has been sitting on some eggs in the stump of a tree for six months, without result. It decides to strike, and flies away. A bear comes along and eats some of the eggs, but one escapes him and rolls away. Then the six-months-old egg has a series of adventures, which take it all over the place. A snake eats it, but decides to return it again to the light of day, and does so. Then it rolls into a cheese factory and beats the cheeses at their own game, The cheese maker sniffs the delightful aroma, and says that if he can locate it he will make the strongest cheese known to civilization. He does so and puts the precious object in the safe. Rats sniff it from afar and are trying to nibble their way into the safe when the whole thing explodes.
- A group of boys are fishing by a pond. One of them was more thoughtful than the others in providing himself with a large wedge of pie. In the laws of Boyland possession is 99 points of the law. A piece of pie in the stomach is worth two in the hand. The pie is stolen by Tommy and his chums, who establish their right to it by running faster than the loser of the pie. The pie did not set well on the stomachs of the youngsters who fell asleep at the foot of a tree, weary after their long run. The pie causes Tommy to dream, and a wondrous dream it is. Being somewhat of a robber, he dreams that he robs a bird's nest. He quarrels with his chum over a division of the eggs and they part company. Walking through the field Tommy is confronted by a sparrow his own size, who accuses him of robbery and calls a bird policeman who arrests the frightened lad and locks him up in a large bird cage. The trial of Tommy is a very solemn affair. The birds of the forest have assembled in the courtroom of the feathery kingdom and the culprit faces old Judge Eagle, stern and forbidding. The bird jury brings in a verdict of guilty and Tommy is sentenced to die. The solemn procession to the block begins, where the lad is to be beheaded. Slowly the Dove minister leads the death march followed by a committee of wise owls. The Rock, the Linnet, the Stork, the Robin and the Wren and the Bluebird, all are there for this serious case. Behind Tommy walks Mr. Crow, the executioner. They arrive at the block, and just as the axe is about to descend, Tommy wakes up. His chum wakes, too, and proposes that they rob a bird's nest, but Tommy has seen things from a bird's point of view and never again will be so heartless as to rob a bird's nest.
- Frank Calvert and Marion Harlon are lovers. Calvert's decision to stand by the Union results in him losing his sweetheart. Three years later Marion saves the life of Lieut. Peyton, a wounded Confederate officer and falls in love with him. Later, Peyton Chased by Union troops, takes refuge in the Harlan home. He is hidden in the cellar. A brutal sergeant threatens to shoot the girl unless she betrays the hiding place of her lover. Old Mrs. Harlan springs in front of her daughter and the sergeant is about to fire on both women when Calvert, now a Union captain, enters and saves the women. Peyton escapes. After the war the two lovers, each having lost an arm, meet, and Calvert learns that his old sweetheart has accepted the Confederate lieutenant. The two soldiers clasp hands and Calvert withdraws.
- In this number of the Dorsey pictures the old capitals of Japan, Nara, and Kyoto, are visited. There are scenes of the streets in Kyoto with the Japanese conveyances shown as well as any of the typical residents. The merchants and harvesting and gardens are all portrayed, and then the spectator is taken for a visit inside of a typical house of a well-to-do merchant. Then the famous Geisha girls are shown. These girls are very accomplished entertainers, and can dance and sing as well as the best of them. They are shown in all the phases of their private and public life.
- It is springtime, and the flowers are in bloom and the woods and fields look inviting. Willie and Margery find the schoolroom hot and stuffy, and they do not wish to pursue their studies. Their parents intervene and they start to school with clean faces, but in rebellious spirits. On the way they stumble over a can of black paint. Margery has an inspiration and they act on it. They will feign illness in order to avoid going to school. The little girl proposes that they decorate their faces to indicate they are afflicted with measles. To think is to act, and they are soon tattooed in a manner to strike consternation to anyone beholding them. They wander into the school-room, take their seats, and soon attract the attention of the fussy old pedagogue. He examines their faces by the aid of a magnifying glass and is frightened. He hastily dismisses school, admonishing the other children to flee for their lives. He rushes to the huddle and seeks the services of a doctor. The parents of the children are notified, and a general hunt for Willie and Margery is instituted. The children wander away to a cool and sequestered spot and are enjoying themselves, eating a sumptuous lunch, when the party descends upon them, timid and apprehensive of being afflicted with the contagious disease. The parents are grief-stricken, but boldly approach and take the schemers in their arms. The paint rubs off by contact with their clothing and the ruse is discovered. Willie and Margery are soundly spanked and the procession of villagers wind their way homewards, filled with resentment.
- A series of eleven one reel comedies, each episode complete in itself, in which Detective Duck, an inventor as well as a detective, manages to outwit Lady Baffles, a lovable crook; the titles of each episode are: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in... 1) The Great Egg Robbery; 2) The Sign of the Sacred Safety Pin; 3) The Eighteen Carrot Mystery; 4) Baffles Aids Cupid; 5) The Signal of the Three Socks; 6) Saved by a Scent; 7) The Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage; 8) The Ore Mystery; 9) When the Wets Went Dry; 10) The Lost Roll; 11) Kidnapping the King's Kids.
- After waiting all night for her husband's return, a young wife reads in the morning paper that he has been arrested in a roadhouse raid. Angry and ashamed, she leaves him. Café singer Rose LeRue sees the leering faces and clutching hands of men before her wherever she turns. One night, outside the café window, Rose sees the pale, hungry-looking face of a young girl. Two men are on each side of her clutching her arms. Rose leaves the café and takes the little stranger to her dressing room. Later, in the café, two of Rose's admirers quarrel over who shall see her home. Fearing a scene, Rose hurries to her dressing room and finds the young girl in the café manager's clutches.. Rose takes her home in a taxi. The two men follow it to her apartment, obtain admittance, and demand to see the man they think has taken Rose home. Drawing aside a curtain, Rose bids them. One of the men, recognizing the girl as his own wife, drops his head in shame. Rose tells him how she found his wife and brings about a reconciliation. Tired of the clutching hands and luring faces, Rose returns to her mountain home and her girlhood sweetheart.
- 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.
- Edwin Gordon, an artist, loves Alice Eggleston, his model, but he is poor and loves her in silence. She is a beautiful young woman, but is unaware of the passion of her employer and is much sought after by other admirers. The dream of Edwin is shattered when she leaves him for Ralph Gray, a debonair man of the world, who sees in Alice only her beauty and charm. They marry and a child is born to them. Edwin, unable to remain in a locality that has been the scene of his one great sorrow, leaves and pursues his art in a distant city. He prospers and becomes prominent. He is given a commission to decorate a fashionable church and paints beautiful pictures on the windows. While at work an inspiration comes to him and he paints a picture of the Madonna and her child. He remembers, and in his sorrow uses his brushes deftly and the result is a strikingly faithful likeness of his lost sweetheart, Alice, holding in her arms a child. In the meantime Alice has been deserted by Gray and wanders away from her native city. She is in destitute circumstances and seeks refuge in the church and there finds her portrait painted on the window. She intuitively knows that there is but one man in the world who could paint the picture and she seeks him out with the result that they find happiness at last.
- A peep behind the Great Wall of China with Dr. Dorsey, reveals countless fascinating and intimate glimpses of Peking, her citizens, her streets, her fairs, her customs and her people, at work and at play.
- Two old men stand talking before a cottage. In the background two younger men bid their wives good-bye and start for work. Up the block, before a bank, a crowd stands gazing at a large map of the war zone, each discussing the situation according to his own views. Later, in front of a factory, the two young men join other workers. Here an argument is going on, and the two young men take sides and enter the discussion. High words follow, which quickly lead to blows. The fight attracts the attention of a worker within the factory, who leaves his hot iron and gazes from the window at the fight below. Seeing his faction in trouble, the worker hurries to join the belligerents. The neglected hot iron sears its way into the garment beneath it, the result being a fire which soon gains headway. The fighting men below surge from the factory alley into the street. A policeman, finding himself unable to cope with the mob, sends in a riot call. The reserves respond, and many in the mob are injured. Innocent spectators suffer and are injured. The fire department responds to an alarm sent from the burning factory, but its efforts are in vain and the factory is consumed. The finale of the picture fades into a vision, in which the two old men. the innocent agitators, see the wives of the two young men as they stand by their husbands bemoaning the fact that a trifling argument resulted in such a catastrophe.