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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Carrol Morten, a young society man, disappointed in love, becomes a woman-hater. To get away from women he visits the ranch of an old friend, "Pop" Lamed. Enter "Pop's" pretty niece also for an unexpected visit. Morten snubs the girl, who has fallen in love with him. While out riding Morten is captured by some bad Indians and in the struggle to save his life Morten kills one of the Indians. The band carry Morten off to torture him by fire. The girl sees the Indians capture Morten and after a thrilling ride pursued by an Indian, the girl reaches the ranch house and tells of Morten's plight. The brave girl leads eight white men to where Morten, bound to a tree, is about to be burned to death. The white men arrive just in time and with a few well-directed shots, drive off the Indians and rescue Morten. In the last scene the woman hater realizes that all girls are not alike, and he breaks his vow.
- Mercy Merrick, a beautiful young English woman, is the victim of a heartless man. When she learns that he is married she is about to commit suicide and is prevented from doing so by Julian Gray, a young curate. Determined to redeem herself, Mercy enlists as a Red Cross nurse in the Franco-Prussian war. Grace Roseberry is on her way to England to be adopted by her relative Lady Janet Roy, and in passing through the lines she is struck by a piece of shell and left for dead. Mercy Merrick exchanges clothes with Miss Roseberry and takes her letter of introduction, goes to England and is adopted as Grace Roseberry and saves her life. Julian Gray, who is Lady Roy's nephew falls in love with Mercy Merrick, not recognizing her as the woman he had saved from suicide. They are engaged to be married. The real Grace Roseberry is about to be taken away as a lunatic when Mercy Merrick's best nature asserts itself and she declares herself to be an impostor and saves the other woman. In a touching scene, Mercy Merrick goes to bid farewell to Julian Gray and to give him his ring, but the noble young minister tells her that she has suffered enough, and as his wife, the repentant Mercy finds a true shelter.
- A District Attorney has a pretty daughter with two suitors, Arthur and Jack, both of whom have invited her to a ball. She agrees to accept as escort the one who writes the best rhymed invitation. Her father is to decide. The District Attorney, seated in his library, is visited by an Italian carrying a satchel and a note which informs him that unless he writes an order for the release of an Italian criminal, a dynamite machine in the satchel will explode within fifteen minutes and kill him. The District Attorney is in a terrible situation and dare not call for help. Meanwhile the two boys have finished their verses and Arthur brings them in to get a decision. The old gentleman yells, "Dynamite," and Arthur proves a coward and scoots out. Jack comes in and he heroically seizes the bag and throws it out of the window, where it explodes. The Italian is captured, Arthur is kicked out and Jack wins the girl.
- An Italian girl living in the heart of the East Side, supporting her guardian by peddling plaster casts made by a cripple who lives in the same cheaply furnished apartment with them. The girl is abused and starved. All the while the cripple looks on with sorrowing eyes, afraid to raise his hand in protest. The cripple loves the girl and attempts to tell her so. She repulses him. The padrone, the girl's guardian, is the leader of a gang of thieves and blackmailers. He rules with an iron hand. The cripple, against his inclination, is a member of this gang, and is forced to do the padrone's bidding. The little Italian girl, sick through abuse and lack of food, sinks fainting to the street while making her daily rounds. An Italian-American banker, passing in his automobile, observes her. Taking her into his machine he drives to her home. The money he leaves for her care is appropriated by the padrone. The banker calls often. The girl soon recovers. This banker has been a victim of the Black Hand Society. He refuses to respond to the threatening letters and seeks the aid of the protective association. Plain clothes men are put on the case. The blackmailers determine his death. In drawing cuts, the cripple picks the unlucky number, which appoints him as the one to commit the murder. He attempts to carry the bidding out, but fails at the last moment. His love triumphs. He warns the girl of her sweetheart's danger. The girl seeks to warn the banker. The banker escapes death. The blackmailers are captured and sent to prison.
- Tom Harris wants to go to a poker party given by his friend Billings, but Mrs. Harris objects to his going out. Tom works the old gag, 'phoning Billings to write a note and say that he is sick and asking Harris to visit him. Wifey consents to let Hubby go but as midnight arrives she gets suspicious and goes after Tom. Warned of her approach, Tom goes through the window and away by means of the fire escape. Wifey enters and raises Cain with Billings and then starts back home in an automobile. The auto breaks down and Mrs. Harris has to walk home. Meanwhile Tom has reached home, gets into bed and awaits his wife who enters an hour later. Tom pretends to be terribly mad at his wife's being out so late at night alone but he relents when Wifey promises never again to interfere with his plans.
- A Spanish-Mexican girl, known as the Tarantula, is coolly polishing the blade of a stiletto with which she has just killed a lover she was tired of, her new lover being a young Mexican boy whose beauty and innocence appeals to her. An American engineer rides into the camp and reports the finding of the body of a man who has been stabbed. An old man in the camp warns the American of the evil this woman does and tells him she is guilty of the murder, and points out the young Mexican boy as the latest victim. The American makes up his mind to resist her, while she, noticing him, tries to catch his eye. He refuses to look. He makes his way into the bar, where he meets the Mexican boy. They both take a great fancy to each other and the American, who is on his way East, promises to take the boy with him. In the meantime, the small encampment have a long journey to make across the desert. The boy tells of his love for the Tarantula, and taking the American outside, introduces him, hut the American refuses to meet her eye. She laughs at him, and picking a flower offers it to him, but he refuses it. In a tent in the desert the Tarantula is preparing the evening meal and the American walks in. He has made up his mind to meet her eyes and defy her. He does so, but she cannot meet his. She laughs and rushes out of the tent. She is now tired of the Mexican boy, Jose, and begins to hate him and thinks if he is out of the way she can win the American engineer. That night she goes out on the desert to look for a tarantula, she having decided to kill him by hiding one of these deadly insects in his bed. She finds one and returns to the encampment, and placing it in his pillow, creeps, to her own bed. Jose has been in the habit of tending to her comfort, and that night, as it is cold, he takes the thick blanket off his bed and tenderly puts it on hers. Finding that his pillow is a little softer than hers he changes it, quite innocent of the fact that she has placed a tarantula there, whose bite is instant death. They retire for the night when the camp is awakened by a scream and Tarantula appears with a wound on her breast where she has been bitten by the tarantula that she intended should kill Jose. She goes to speak, but falls dead between Jose and the American. Jose throws himself on the ground and drawing a stiletto, attempts to kill himself, but the American prevents him. The American packs up his kit, telling Jose to come with him and start life afresh in the East.
- Harry Cutup goes to a masquerade ball dressed up as the Devil. At 4 A.M. he comes out loaded and happy. Imagine what happens when the driver of an automobile wakes up to find the Devil seated in his car. He's off. A policeman turns the corner, sees the Devil. He is off like a streak of lightning. Two robbers have placed a ladder against the house and are about to rob it. Harry comes along just as they are descending with their plunder. One look at him and they are off. Harry climbs the ladder to restore the stolen property. He enters the room of a German and his wife. The wife takes one look at him and falls into a faint. The husband, awakes to find himself embraced by the Devil. He dives through the window. Harry puts on the German's clothes and goes home. The husband returns and the wife awakening from the faint thinks that her husband has played a joke on her and she lands into him.
- 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.
- 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.
- Helen Walters has expensive tastes which the narrow means of her father cannot satisfy. To obtain money she forges his name to a check. The imposition is discovered. In her extremity, the girl confesses her crime to her brother. Moved, he takes the blame for the forgery upon himself. The father, a man of old-fashioned Ideas, allows his son to be sent to prison. A few years later the girl is married to the district attorney. Her brother escapes and seeks out his sister. It is night and as he enters the house the attorney beholds a stranger embracing his wife. He breaks into the room, but the escaped felon has had time to hide. The wife denies the accusation of her husband. In a fit of jealous rage he chokes her to death. The brother returns to the room and tells the district attorney that the dead woman is his sister. Then a strange thing happens. The attorney becomes pursued with the horror of his crime; he cannot control the muscles of his fingers; they repeat and repeat the action of strangling his innocent wife, until he dies, a victim of his imagination.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jenkins, a henpecked husband, visits a moving picture theater and in a film witnesses the successful termination of a plan by means of which another henpecked husband reduces his wife to submission. Jenkins goes home and proceeds to put the same plan into operation with his wife, but unfortunately Mrs. Jenkins falls to submit to the treatment like the wife in the picture did, and after a strenuous séance, poor Jenkins finds himself once more reduced to a pulp.
- This is a cartoon that represents the relations between the United States and Mexico. The two countries are represented by two men and they are dressed to look like cartoon figures. The picture is quite a novelty as it is really a living cartoon.
- Views of India taken from the expedition of Doctor Dorsey. Street life and buildings of historical interest make up the reel.
- The first dance performed is the Dance of the Serpents, to the music of Boccalari's "Dance of the Serpents," through which little Miss Baskette performs evolutions which would do credit to a dancer of three times her years and ten times her experience. Next comes an Egyptian dance to the music of Auber's "Crown Diamond Overture," followed by a Polka Coquette to the Dance of the Honey Bees, by Richmond. A ballet follows, to Theadore Bendix's "Crickets Serenade."
- 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.
- 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.
- Mr. O.U. Grouch sits with Mrs. Grouch on their houseboat, he intent on his fishing. Buster Grouch, a small boy, manages to get a shoe on his father's line, which makes him very mad. It is at this inauspicious moment that William U.R. Fresh, urged by Lotta Grouch, proposes to Grouch for his daughter's hand. Grouch roars, "NO," and tells William to get. He does and Buster gets what is coming to him. Lotta tells William to get her father out fishing and not to come back until he has obtained his consent. This is not difficult, for Grouch loves fishing. William holds him in a motorboat until he is so sick that he promises anything if William will take him ashore. William does. In the meantime I.B. Stout has arrived and has proposed to and been turned down by Lotta. When Grouch gets on terra-firma and sees Stout, the man he wants his girl to marry, he goes back on his promise to William and kicks him out again. Grouch tells Lotta she will marry Stout and locks her in her room. Buster, having been severely spanked by Stout for playing tricks upon him, awaits his chance and tells Lotta that Grouch and her mother have gone to get a license. Lotta slips a note to Buster under the door and Buster delivers it to William, who runs to the sheriff's and gets a license while the others are hunting for the minister. William gets back and kicks the door in, and as Grouch and his wife return. Buster cuts the houseboat adrift. The houseboat travels along and Mr. Grouch and Stout take someone else's boat and go after them. Stout gets into all sorts of trouble, for he knows nothing of the management of a motorboat. The minister is out boating. William runs him down and saves him from the water and makes him marry them. The owner of the motorboat swims out to his craft and properly punishes the occupants, as the young married couple make their way back for the parental blessing.
- Mr. Phool Phan wakes after a rough night. He snatches the bowl of goldfish for a drink, and swallows a fish. His wife comes in, and sends for a doctor. To avoid the doctor he jumps into the dumbwaiter and goes to the cellar. Then he goes into the street where the cop is flirting with the maid. The officer resents the interruption, and starts to beat Mr. Phan. The fish flies out of his mouth and into the mouth of the cop. Mr. Phan hurries back into the cellar. A delivery boy comes with a case of beer. Mr. Phan sticks him into the dumbwaiter and keeps the beer.
- 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.
- Nell Farron is a dancing girl in a Colorado dance hall. She heartlessly throws over two lovers, one of whom commits suicide and then marries the third. Tiring of married life she goes back to the dance hall and meets a rich sport and runs away with him. She drifts into New York, where she meets one of her old dance hall chums, Lily, who introduces her to an artist, Howard Manley. Manley engages Nell to pose for him and he falls in love with her. For the first time in her life love is awakened in Nell's heart for the young artist. Lily, who loves Manley, finds him declaring his love to Nell and for revenge she writes a letter to Nell's husband, telling him of his wife's whereabouts. The artist has just asked his beautiful model to become his wife. The girl is truly happy, when her husband enters and tells the artist of the fearful past of the woman who is his wife. The girl admits the truth and pleads with Manley to let her remain with him. Her punishment comes when the only man she really loved casts her off and as she goes out with her husband the artist destroys the portrait he had painted of her.
- Lloyd Meredith, an actor and dramatist, is at the height of prosperity one season while the next he is at his best extremely. When the story opens he has just finished and had accepted a drama in which he is to play the title role. At the opening performance, Alice Warren, the daughter of well-to-do people who hold actors in disdain, becomes madly infatuated with Meredith. Her parents labor with her, but she is of an independent spirit and writes the actor, declaring her love and expressing her determination to see him often. At her solicitation he admits her to his dressing room. He asks her if she does not realize the folly of writing sentimental notes to actors. The girl breaks down and leaves. Meredith takes an interest in the girl and their acquaintanceship ripens into love. Against the wishes of the girl's parents they are married. Meredith sinks all of his money into a beautiful home, but neglects to have it insured. One night their house burns to the ground and Meredith has a hard time in saving his wife from the flames. While he is fighting for her life he is wounded in the eye; his face is disfigured. Meredith is again poor and begins to write another play. The young wife does not enjoy life with the wolf at the door and she begins to lose interest in her disfigured husband. Despite his objections she goes to work as a stenographer for the manager of a mill and finally she decides to leave her husband for her employer. The playwright is so poor that he can't even pay the gas bill of 89 cents. However, he sells his play and returns home to tell his wife. He finds her note, saying that she has left him for another. This is more than he can bear. He stops up a crevice which might admit air, turns on the gas and throws himself upon the bed to await the end. In the meantime two other things are taking place. The wife has decided that she loves her husband and is returning to him. The gas company has decided that Meredith's bill cannot run longer and a man is dispatched to turn it off. As the gas man turns off the gas in the basement, the wife is trying to get in her apartment upstairs. The landlady unlocks the door; Meredith comes to and the gas man enters with the announcement, that, "You'll have to pay that 89 cents before you get enough gas to commit suicide."
- Sammie Johnsin is reading a book about dogs. He goes to sleep and dreams that he is one. Many adventures happen to him, ending with a fight with a cat in which the feline has the best of it. Sammie wakes and decides that he does not care about being a dog after all.
- Professor Schmalz, a professor of physiology, is about to demonstrate to the world his power of mesmerism. He calls on Jack Dalton, who is in love with his daughter, to assist him. Jack consents, providing the professor consents to the marriage of himself and May. The professor agrees to this arrangement. The great day is at hand and before the faculty of the college the professor states he will now mesmerize Jack and then himself, claiming that after the bodies are in a cataleptic condition the spirits leave the body and commune together and after a time nature will resume her sway and the spirits will return to their respective bodies, but strange and unforeseen complications arise and the spirits, instead of returning to their respective bodies, get mixed. Jack's spirit enters the body of the professor and the professor's enters the body of Jack. Hence the boisterous manner of the professor and the dignified manner of the young student, Jack. The unforeseen circumstances happening create a tremendous howl. At last the professor finally gets Jack and rights the wrong by again mesmerizing Jack and himself and the natural spirits return to their respective bodies.
- The Cameron and McBride families have been at peace with each other for some time, though for years there was a feud between the respective families. Margot Cameron and Jack McBride are sweethearts. Bad Joe Cameron, a cousin of Margot's, is also in love with her and resents the girl's preference tor Jack, in order to break up the match, Joe conceives the idea of telling the revenue officers where the Cameron still is, and then blaming Jack McBride as the informer. In this way he hopes to re-establish the feud between the Cameron and McBride families. Joe succeeds in his scheme. The Camerons are furious over the raid on their still, and go out to get Jack McBride. An estrangement is brought about between Jack and Margot. and when the latter's mother is killed in one of the battles, she goes out with a gun against Jack, believing he did it. Following these developments there is a series of terrific three-cornered battles between the Camerons, the McBrides and the revenue men. Jack refusing to fight the girl, turns her loose. When the smoke of battle subsides, when the rain of bullets ceases, there are only two left of the Cameron and McBride families, Margot and Jack. And these two, standing together amid the carnage and bloodshed, realize the futility, the crime of it all. But having been spared, they join hands, determined to make over their lives and try to find happiness somewhere, somehow.
- Irma is the sweetheart of both Frank and Gordon, who are rivals for her favors. One day they decide to play war, Gordon to be a captain of one side and Frank of the other. Irma stays out of the game to play with her dog. The boys chose sides, and finding a ditch, turn it into a trench. They need ammunition, and just then the farmer's car comes along, with plenty of vegetables, which make fine missiles. The boys hide and wait for the enemy to come along Then they fly at them. The others are taken by surprise, but they must have something to throw, so they make off with a case of eggs from outside a store nearby. Then there is a hot fire from both sides. The eggs are storage eggs, and Captain Frank is forced to surrender to their superior strength. He is made prisoner and put in the barn, tied fast to a ladder. Gordon places one boy, Ernest, on guard. Irma comes up. She is sorry for Frank, and determines to help him. She goes around the corner, and puts her dog under the barn. Then she comes back and says to Ernest that she can't get the dog out. He goes to get it, and Irma sets Frank free. The boys return, and finding Frank gone, they accuse Ernest of being a traitor, and say that they will shoot him. He is blindfolded and placed against the wall. Then they throw an egg into his face. The boys go off laughing, but Ernest vows revenge. The robbed farmer and grocer have met each other, and Ernest sees them together. He tells them where their property went. They drive to the home of Frank and Gordon and tell their mother of the robbery. When Frank and Gordon return there is a heavy reckoning for them to pay, but Irma intercedes for them and saves them a whipping.
- Every exercise which has raised hundreds of men from weaklings to strong, sturdy specimens of manhood will be revealed before the lens. The great feature of this system of exercise is that it requires no apparatus to follow it, and it is free and within the reach of every person who cares to take advantage of the opportunity presented them to regain vitality and to glow with health. The body is a machine much more delicate than the works of your watch, which you take care of because you know that if the works get out of order that your watch will not run. This fascinating and instructive picture will show you how you can take care of your body and keep it in the same running condition that you keep your watch in. As a film feature this has never been surpassed, and it is the first time that the screen has been used to show health building exercises before the public. Every movement is slowly and carefully shown so that any person in the audience will be able to go home and perform the same exercise without a mistake. Bernarr McFadden, who will be featured in this series of calisthenic pictures, shows in the picture how he built up his magnificent physique and promises that if you follow his instructions that you can acquire the same type of development.
- John Packer, who has made his money in pork, wishes to invade society. He meets Mrs. De Knickerbocker, who has a son, Tom. Mrs. De Knickerbocker is aristocratic but poor. Needing money, she conceives the idea of marrying Tom to Nellie, the packer's daughter. Packer is delighted. Tom and Nellie write notes to their respective parents refusing absolutely to be tied up and suggesting that the parents marry. The suggestion is taken up, for Mrs. De Knickerbocker is sadly in need of funds and Packer is determined to get into society. Meanwhile Tom and Nellie accidentally arrive at the same beach resort and each registers under a fictitious name. The afternoon of his arrival Tom helps some kids on the beach build a tall sand man. That night Nellie goes for a walk in the moonlight, followed by Tom. Black Joe and Nifty Kid see the glitter of gems on Nellie's hands and follow her. The thugs are attacking her when Tom comes up. He sends The Kid to the sand with a sharp blow and tackles Joe. The girl is freed. Horrified, she sees The Kid recover and draw a gun to shoot Tom. Nellie topples the sand man over on the Kid and the villains are captured. Nellie and Tom are now acquainted, and fearing a mere summer flirtation, each decides to test the other. Nellie announces to Tom that she is not rich, but merely a cloak model taking her vacation as a swell. He then tells her that he is a plumber and poor. Then Mr. and Mrs. John Packer arrive. Recognition, consternation, forgiveness and then delight ensue. The old folks needn't have married after all, but the double deal in pork has been put through nevertheless.
- Two children follow an old veteran, and ask him how he won his medal. He tells them that back in '61, when he was a young private on sentry duty, the enemy attacked them in an aeroplane. He managed to overcome them, and then discovered a huge bologna sausage, which was the enemy's entire food supply. He reported his find to headquarters, saying that he was sending the food supply by wireless. It duly arrived at the tent of Gen. Delivery, from Private House. He was presented with the medal for this achievement. The boys say that he deserves ten, and give him one with "Liar" on it. He is disgusted, and tells them they don't know a real liar when they see one.
- Motor Mat is a new creation and he will not last very long at the speedy rate that he is traveling. He buys a flivver from a mail order concern and after it arrives by parcel post his troubles begin. He starts the thing and then cannot stop it. He rides past the policeman and does a million things that he should not do, and at last the motor gives out. But this does not discourage him, and he gets a little squirrel to be his engine. In order to make the creature go he hangs a little nut in front of it. To reverse, he merely changes the side on which the nut is hanging. The picture ends, however, when he tumbles from a cliff, and that is the end of his tale.