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- Batman is manipulated by Lex Luthor to fear Superman. Superman´s existence is meanwhile dividing the world and he is framed for murder during an international crisis. The heroes clash and force the neutral Wonder Woman to reemerge.
- When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help.
- Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
- One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.
- Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
- U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder.
- Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.
- A couple's break-up proceeds to get uglier and nastier by the moment as each tries to keep their luxurious condo from the other.
- A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside house begins to exchange love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
- A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
- Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.
- A man discovers that his best friend's wife is having an affair.
- A college student is caught between the world of the living and the dead.
- Peter Brackett and Sabrina Peterson are two competing Chicago newspaper reporters who join forces to unravel the mystery behind a train derailment.
- A female PI babysitting for a boyfriend gets stuck with his daughter and the case of her murdered father.
- Writer Jay and womanizing sportscaster Max have been friends since birth. Jay introduces his editor Samantha to Max and they hit it off. Max wants Jay to try to seduce Sam to test her before their wedding.
- The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
- After the recent death of his father, Jackson Snorek decides he needs to spend more time with his friends, as people's lives can be very short. He runs into an old friend and decides to get the gang together to go camping at an old campsite that Jackson's old friend, Zach, and him attended when they were little. After being shut down, no one knew anything was going on there, until the 4 friends stumble upon Ingen's most recent creation: Operation Rebirth.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- An ambitious auditor results to drastic measures to clear her name after being framed by a vicious slumlord and his organization.
- A concert of the industrial band Ministry, filmed during the famous "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" tour with guest artists like Ogre (of Skinny Puppy) and Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys).
- The miser Scrooge passes down a London street the morning before Christmas, on his way to his counting house. So much is he detested that no one speaks to him until a beggar approaches, asks for alms, and is angrily stricken to the ground. A spirit appears and tells the miser that the beggar will again appear that night. Scrooge approaches his counting house, and as he is entering, the beggar again appears before him. He places his hands before his eyes to shut out the apparition, and when he looks again the figure has vanished. The interior of the counting house where Bob Cratchett, the clerk, and Fred, the nephew of Scrooge, are attending to their duties. Fred announces that he has just been married. His bride, together with the crippled boy, Tiny Tim, enter the office. Looking out the window, they discover the approach of Scrooge, and at the advice of Fred the ladies conceal themselves. Scrooge enters and is told of Fred's marriage. He kisses the bride, but immediately regretting his action, orders them out of the office. They plead for a Christmas holiday, to which Scrooge eventually consents. The spirit appears and leads Scrooge from the office. A merry throng on a London street, with a stranger scattering money to the children who gather about him. The spirit leads Scrooge to the throng, who shun him as he endeavors to speak to them at the command of the spirit. The cripple at the lodgings of Scrooge, and the latter entering, still led by the spirit. The beggar warms himself by the fireplace, while Scrooge in anger attempts to strike him, when he is transformed into the image of the dead partner of the miser. Horror-stricken, Scrooge sinks into a chair, and looking into the fireplace seeks a vision of his boyhood days. With a cry he sinks to the floor. The spirit again compels him to look into the fireplace, where he sees a vision of his forsaken sweetheart, as well as that of himself as a young business man. Thoroughly overcome, he falls to the floor exhausted, but the spirit again raises him with a command to follow him from the office. The meager home of the Cratchetts, where, at the command of the spirit, he showers money upon the ill-paid clerk and his happy family and is again led away. The Christmas festivities at the home of Fred, the nephew of Scrooge, Fred toasts his uncle, but the company refuse to drink to the toast. Scrooge, concealed in the recess of the window, notices this, and coming forward, showers them with money, promising that hereafter he will lead a different life. The spirit and Scrooge in the lodgings of the latter, where Scrooge falls upon his knees in prayer. Christmas Day, Scrooge gives a banquet to all his house can hold, including Fred, the Cratchetts and his friends, where he promises that in the future he will live to achieve the happiness of others.
- Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
- Live performance footage from Ministry SphincTour recorded in 1996.
- Sergeant Mulcahy, a rotund, pompous policeman, reports to the desk sergeant in the station house one morning and receives a note from the chief, ordering him to keep a sharp lookout for a number of mischievous boys, who are annoying the citizens and householders of his part of the precinct. Mulcahy says he will get them and, starting out with his men, warns them to watch out for the boys. Sergeant Mulcahy, an hour later, comes across an old gentleman, who is being annoyed by two boys, who have made a target of his silk hat. Mulcahy dashes off after the boys, up an alley, across lots and into private gardens, and thinks he has them captured, when they come to a high-board fence. The larger boy adroitly leaps over the fence and the smaller chap crawls through a hole just as the policeman's brawny hand is thrust after him. He catches the youth by the coat tail and in an effort to get a tighter hold of his prisoner, wriggles head first through the hole, but is unable to get further. The boy with a sudden jerk breaks away and runs after the other chap. Mulcahy sees he is beaten and attempts to squirm out, when he finds that he is stuck tight and the more be wriggles the tighter he sticks. The boys see the policeman's predicament and return cautiously, grinning broadly. The fat policeman mutters a few incoherences and calls down a curse on the kids. They laugh over the situation and after tormenting the poor cop for a while move away, heedless of his entreaties for them to help him out of the hole. Eventually Mulcahy is missed at the station. They have had no report from him for two or three hours and fear is expresses by the desk sergeant that Mulcahy may have met with some accident. We return again to Mulcahy, who has been struggling in the fence for an hour. Suddenly he espies his two former tormentors and a large crowd of other young vagabonds maneuvering threateningly toward him. The boys gather around him and lose no time in getting even with their old enemy. The scene finally ends with two or three of the boys pulling the copper's trousers off and making away with them. This is too much for Mulcahy, who exerts a supreme effort in making his escape. He finds an ash barrel, knocks the end in and crawling into it he makes his way cautiously up the alley. Another hour has passed and Mulcahy has not reported. Finally the sergeant, in desperation, sends a squad of policemen to search for him and after a search come upon the poor copper, making a back alley sneak for the police station. Arrived at the station Sergeant Mulcahy makes a tearful explanation of his terrifying adventures and mourns the loss of his trousers. At this instant a lady, bearing the policeman's trousers, comes in, making inquiries for the owner. Mulcahy identifies them, and the woman, blushing violently, runs out. Mulcahy makes for an anteroom amidst the laughter of his brother cops, but, or course, he is unable to appreciate the humor of the situation.
- Daniel Roberts is the father of two youngsters of about the same age, yet vastly different in their moral make-up. Frank is the model "good child" of the village, loved by his father and mother for his good behavior, while John is just the opposite, being unruly to his elders, always into mischief, and bringing mortification to his despairing parents. Ten years elapse, and we find John sowing his wild oats, while Frank obtains employment in a broker's office. While he stays late at the office nights, John entertains chorus girls at midnight suppers. John's conduct finally exasperates his father, and one night when he comes home intoxicated he is ordered from the house and told never to return until he has proven himself a man. During the twenty years that follow, Frank accumulates a vast fortune, but his extreme selfishness and miserliness causes him to neglect his parents, who are now growing old. Unable to pay the mortgage on their little home, the father and mother call at their son's Wall Street office with the hope of securing aid from him. They find the broker very busy, at first declining to give them audience and finally insulting the old gentleman by sarcastically handing him a small coin when the father tells him of their need. Cursing his son for his base ingratitude, the father takes the mother away. Nothing is left for them but the poorhouse. They are taken there and given shelter, while their son, who had been such a model youth, lives in luxury, laughing at the scoring the newspapers give him for the ill treatment of his aged parents. But away out West, John Roberts, now a millionaire mine owner, reads the news of his parents' plight; his big heart melts and he makes all haste to return East. Going to the poorhouse, he makes himself known to his father and mother and takes them away, promising them a home with him. When he hears the story of his brother's conduct he resolves to punish him. Knowing the man's greed for money and power, at an opportune moment he steps into the wheat pit and arrays himself against the erstwhile Wheat King. This scene, "Brother Against Brother." is one of intense interest and excitement. Surrounded by money-mad brokers and speculators, the two brothers fight it out, John staking his rich mine against the vast wealth of his brother. At the stroke of the closing gong, Frank Roberts is no longer the King of Wall Street, but a. penniless beggar. The happy reunion of father, mother and their long-lost son makes a pretty sequel to this most interesting picture.
- The Marines are sent to rescue an American engineer in Nicaragua.
- It is the typical working day for Marcy at Runway Divas, the most elite modeling agency in Chicago, where everyone can be a model. A furious stage mom is raising Hell about the high costs of her daughter's modeling career while Cupcake, Marcy's glamorous co-worker, is dressing an overweight construction worker in a glittery thong for his first photo shoot. Vince, the president, is struggling to explain the "one time" modeling fee of $549 to a non-English speaking middle-aged plumber, while Victoria, his emotionally unstable girlfriend, is registering a seventy year old woman for the agency's next lingerie show. It is the typical day until, Miriam, an overly ambitious, mentally challenged woman with a profound talent for playing the accordion, walks through the door. When Vince assigns Marcy the job of turning Miriam into a star, taking the $549 modeling fee becomes more difficult than usual. As he organizes a fashion show designed to drive away the models that paid their fees, protecting Miriam from his evil scheme becomes not only a challenge but a life-altering event.
- A young man who has always obtained money from his doting uncle, with which to satisfy his debtors, finds his debts accumulating so rapidly that, in order to gain the desired amounts, he writes his uncle, first that he is married; next that he has a child, and finally that he must have more money for clothes for them both. The uncle, becoming suspicious, writes his nephew that he will call and visit him and his family. The nephew, on receipt of this letter, becomes frantic, knowing that he must produce a wife and child, or his uncle will cut him off because of his deceit. He rushes into the street and asks the first woman he meets to be his wife for a day, and promptly has his face slapped. He tries this several times with the same result, until he meets a slavey scrubbing a stoop. She consents, and after buying her a handsome gown and decking her out, he gets her to his quarters after many mishaps, just in time for the uncle's arrival. The uncle, surprised at her antics at dinner, demands to see the child. The nephew rushes to the janitor and giving him some money tells him to get him a baby immediately and he will give him more money. The janitor rushes out, and after trying unsuccessfully to steal two babies, he at last spies a baby alone in a carriage, grabs the child and rushes to the nephew with it. As he bursts into the rooms with the baby, which has a heavy veil over its face, the nephew grabs the child and proudly hands it to his uncle. The denouement is reached when the uncle, lifting the veil, discovers a negro baby. The mother of the child, a big negress, enters in a rage, seizes the child and puts all to flight.
- A young dude insists upon mashing a girl who is passing and minding her own affairs. She turns him down coldly, but he still continues to shower his attentions upon her. Finally she breaks away from him and rushes to her home. Her brother and some of his friends are playing cards. She tells them of her episode, and they immediately devise a plan whereby they can give the flirt a lesson. One of the boys dresses in the girl's clothes, and the rest of the boys each take seltzer bottles, and go to do damage to the young man's appearance. He is still waiting when they come out, and the masher thinks the boy dressed up is the girl. He immediately pounces upon her and endeavors to force his attentions upon her. The boys with seltzer bottles now rush upon the scene while the man in feminine attire belabors the would-be masher with a parasol. The masher gets all that is coming to him, and the boys return homeward, much elated over the severe lesson they have administered to the impudent young man.
- The opening scene of this comedy shows the arrival of a typical Rube and his daughter from the rural districts. Leaving the depot of a well-known railroad in a large metropolis, they are spotted by two bunco men on the outlook for victims, and cautiously trailed. The sharpers, laying their plans en route, take a short cut and secure material for their game. They happen upon a magnificent team of horses attached to a carriage standing alone in front of a residence, and after placing a sign upon carriage "For Sale $25.00." they await the coming of their victims. The Rubes, much taken with the splendid turnout, immediately purchase the outfit and drive off in state. The sharpers again head off the Rubes and place a large sign in a conspicuous place upon a swell mansion. The sign reads "This property in exchange for a team and carriage and so much cash to boot." One of the sharpers disguises himself, makes the exchange, secures the cash, and they both drive off in the vehicle. The Rube and his daughter are thrown out of the house by a footman and hurry away in search of the team. The sharpers drive the team back to its original stand and hurriedly disappear just as the owner and his coachman come out of the house. As the owner is about to step into the carriage, the Rube and his daughter rush upon the scene demanding the return of the rig. After a considerable struggle, the Rubes are ejected and the team drives away. A sudden revelation comes to the victims that they have been buncoed.
- In this picture a man with a cold, an advising friend and two mustard plasters are the principal actors. Of course the star of the comedy are the mustard plasters. A man suffering from a severe cold is advised by a well-meaning friend to place mustard plasters on his chest and back, which will, his friend tells him, quickly relieve him of his cold. The mustard plasters are purchased, and the man proceeds to do as the directions state, but he did not bargain for the hot time he was going to have. As luck would have it he picked out a very hot one and it immediately begins to have its effect. He throws himself in front of the fire hose; he tries to cool off on the back of a sprinkling wagon. Nothing relieves him until finally he spots a cold storage warehouse, rushes in and goes into one of the refrigerators, and while he is freezing to death, two workmen rush in and relieve him of the mustard plasters. He then swears that he would much rather have a cold than mustard plasters on his back and chest.
- Mr. Marc and his wife are at breakfast when the butler announces an early caller and tenders his master a card bearing the name of Mr. Bunco. When Marc hurries into the reception room he is greeted by a gentleman of prepossessing appearance, who, after a warm handshake, introduces himself as the agent of the Silver Sucker mine. He has heard that Mr. Marc is seeking a profitable investment and was advised by a friend of Mr. Marc's to see this latter. The gentleman offers other credentials, but the mention of the friend's name is enough for the unwary Marc, and he refuses to put the gentleman to such an inconvenience. At length it is arranged, and Marc informs the gentleman that if he will call at his office at 2 o'clock they will close the deal. Mr. Marc wears a beard, and on his way downtown he suddenly resolves to shave. And a half hour later when he bumps into an old acquaintance on the street this latter refuses to recognize him, much to Marc's amusement. At his office when he enters his stenographer looks at him strangely and tells him abruptly that Mr. Marc has not arrived. And it is some time before the young lady can be persuaded that this clean-shaven chap is her employer. At 2 o'clock the agent for the Silver Sucker is on hand and the deal is closed, Mr. Bunco leaving the office exultantly with a large-sized cheek, while Mr. Marc is the possessor of some extravagant-looking stock certificates which could not possibly be worth less than 5 cents each. At the bank Mr. Bunco is refused payment on the check and is advised to bring Mr. Marc over to identify him. Shortly after the two gentlemen enter the bank, but the cashier, a personal friend of Mr. Marc's, stares at the little man peculiarly and suspiciously and desires to know what sort of a sucker he is thought to be. Mr. Marc is in a rage when, after he has visited Smith, a real estate man of his acquaintance, he is told to get out. He meets even sorrier treatment when he calls on Brown at this latter's office. Here the janitor is called in and Marc is thrown out the window into a rain barrel. In a rage Marc goes home to change his clothes and to tell his troubles to his wife, who, at first, is also skeptical about his identity. Finally, however, she volunteers to accompany her husband to the bank and identify him. A strange thing happens when they are about to enter the bank. Mr. Bunco is being ejected by the watchman and is seized by two policemen who "identify" him as "Con" Coe, alias George Stick, wanted for bogus mining deals. The picture ends in Mr. Marc receiving his check and congratulations from the cashier of the bank.
- An undersized man, gifted with much ignorance, but who has a pull with a local politician, secures a position as a policeman. He is given a book of rules and told to enforce the law on his beat, and his efforts in trying to arrest innocent people are extremely ludicrous. A man is trying to get into his own home and the "New Cop" thinking he is a burglar pounces upon him. A man carrying a bundle of laundry is intercepted. A painter going up a ladder is pulled down. The "New Cop" goes on doing these ridiculous things until he meets a bull dog on the sidewalk. This proves his Waterloo. The policeman tells the lady the dog must be muzzled. She becomes very indignant at his intrusion and lets the dog loose. The cop immediately beats it. The dog follows. The cop, with the dog hanging on to him, runs into the police station asking aid from the sergeant. The sergeant takes the star from him and forcibly ejects them all from the place.
- A pair of garters creates havoc in various homes through innocent adventures. A young man presents them first to his sweetheart as a present, and her father finding them immediately gets very angry and scores the young man for his insolence, throws the garters out of the window and the boy out of the house. A young girl passing along finds the garters, and on going to a dance with her beau, loses one of them on the ball room floor. An old gentleman finds it and asks a very dignified old maid if she lost it. She immediately goes for him for daring to ask her such an insolent question. The old man then puts the garters in his pocket and leaves for home with his wife. The final scene is then enacted when the wife finds the garters in her husband's pocket. She asks no explanation, but vents her anger and jealousy upon the innocent fellow.
- Pretty Molly is afflicted with a peculiar nervous disease and after having tried many doctors is finally referred to a certain great specialist, who has had success with cases similar to her own. To briefly describe Molly's ailment would be in stating that the muscles of her throat and neck were uncontrollable, causing her to throw back her head in a way resembling a person beckoning to another. Molly goes to see the doctor, who expresses himself able to cure the case and prescribes certain medicine. But as Molly turns to go the unruly head is thrown back and the old M.D. is almost convinced the young lady is flirting with him. As Molly passes through the reception room where one or two young gentlemen are waiting to see the doctor, the peculiar nod is again repeated and the young fellows, each believing the nod to be an invitation, rise and precipitately follow her out. On the street Molly causes more excitement when she appears to solicit the company of a dignified lawyer, who, nevertheless, likes her looks and starts off after her until he is summarily dismissed with the threat of arrest for annoying a perfectly respectable young lady. An innocent mail man is the next victim, and he is similarly dispensed with. An old chap in the company of his wife is also beguiled by the unfortunate girl's peculiar nod and receives a sound berating not only from her but from his watchful spouse. Even Hans, the little bass drummer of the German band, is bewitched by the involuntary Circe and gets his drum smashed for his trouble. The climax comes when Officer O'Rourke falls a victim to the young lady's nod and is told that his services as a protector are certainly not needed. During the argument the captain, O'Rourke's superior, comes on the scene and orders the patrolman on his way. The girl has reached home and she thanks the captain for his protection. But as she opens the door those unruly muscles work again and the captain accepts the invitation. This is the last hope, and the poor girl slams the door in the captain's face.
- The man, a poor vagrant, is about to cast himself into the river when he is stopped and started upon the right road by the poor girl. He discovers his father is advertising to learn his whereabouts, returns home, is forgiven and finds a fortune at his command. Some time later he is engaged to the rich girl and a slumming party is made up one night. They visit Chinatown and pass the well-known bread line, at which the rich girl sneers and laughs. Realizing how little of real life she knows, the man, disgusted with the social whirl of her class, dons his old attire and wanders down by the river for a breath of fresh air. Here it is that the poor girl, more wretched and ragged than ever, comes to cast herself into the black waters. As she had saved him once, so now does he prevent her from carrying out her design, recognizes her and leads her tenderly to his beautiful home as his wife for all time.
- Chicago is a worldwide icon in the story of American jazz, from the earliest days of the musical genre up to to the present. "In Chicago - A Jazz Documentary" gives a quick, symbiotic overview of the city's immutable ties to jazz through imagery and in-person narration.
- A burglar has entered the top story of a flat by means of the lire escape, and has the misfortune to arouse the occupants. They give chase, forcing the burglar to return to the fire-escape for an exit. Being closely pursued, the thief is compelled to enter the next window below, arousing the tenant in his hasty endeavor to get away. The pursuers are joined by the person disturbed, and the culprit is again forced to make the fire-escape. In and out the windows, on and off the fire-escape, the unfortunate burglar is pursued by the ever-increasing mob, through the hallways, knocking everyone down that comes between him and his freedom. At last his Nemesis appears in the shape of a bulldog, who follows him with a persistency that brings about his capture. A German policeman figures prominently in the picture, also a gentleman about to take a bath. The following crowd is dressed in a variety of costumes that adds greatly to the comical events. All the action takes place either in the interiors or upon the fire-escape in mid-air.
- Trixie Sweet, a pretty society miss, receives a letter and a parcel from an old-time chum in gay Paree. The parcel contains a new style of garter, "the bell garter," and the letter states that in Paris, as we have expressed above, it is "all the noise." Trixie tries them on. Then to the tinkling of the many little bells, she dances about the room. Unmindful of the consequences, Trixie resolves to wear the garters on a little trip down the street. She has not gone far before she has quite a following of curious masculines and is finally forced to seek shelter and hiding in a doorway until the mob has passed by. A trifle frightened, Trixie hurries back home and is joined shortly by her chum. They have great fun with the garters and finally the chum suggests that they give a little party, and, in inducing the lady guests to wear the new garters, thus popularize them. The day of the party arrives and the lady guests are induced to slip on the garters. Finally all flock to the ballroom, find their partners, and glide into a dreamy waltz. The tinkling of the bells immediately arouses the curiosity of the men, who finally locate the mysterious tinkling. The girls are enjoying the fun immensely, and the boys get together and discuss ways and means of getting glimpses of the new garters. One of them gets an idea and hurries out of the room, after instructing the rest to keep the girls busy. The girls are seated in a semi-circle playing that exciting game for "Simon-Says-Thumbs-Up," when the other fellow returns with a mouse-trap, containing two or three live mice, which are shaken out of the trap at the girls' feet. Screams of silence! The ladies all scramble upon the chairs and pull their skirts up and tight around them, exposing of course those wonderful "bell garters."
- Frank Wentworth becomes engaged to a rich society girl, the engagement made possible by his sudden wealth after the death of his uncle. This latter left a sealed letter bearing the inscription, "To be opened by my nephew six months after I am dead," and when Frank opens the letter shortly after he has slipped the engagement ring on pretty Helen's finger he learns to his great dismay that his uncle had come by his money unfairly, in truth, had stolen a valuable invention from a Pole, one Max Huskl. And now he asked his nephew to return every penny of the stolen fortune to this Max Huskl, who would be found residing somewhere in New York City. Frank sorrowfully breaks the engagement, despite the girl's pleadings, and sets out to find Max Huskl, wishing to wash his hands of the matter as soon as possible. He advertises in the evening paper and lo! The following morning fully a score of Huskls, each claiming to be the only real, genuine Huskl, call upon him at his hotel and insist upon the fortune being returned to the rightful owner. Also his morning's mail is overflowing with letters from Huskl, et al, insisting, demanding, begging for the money. Frank meets the vagabonds in the corridor of the hotel. He is set upon by violent hands and escapes death miraculously when he dashes through the mob, out of the hotel and into a taxi. He meets Helen in the part but they are hardly seated on a bench when two or three more Huskls, as faithful as shadows, come whining about him. Frank starts to wipe the pavement with them when a policeman interferes and hustles the two knaves out of view. Helen is rushed into a taxi and sent home while Frank hurries away, another crowd of Huskls at his heels. He makes his way back to the hotel in a taxi by dodging up side streets and through alleys. In his room he finds two more Huskls. They have been fighting and have partially demolished the young man's suite, but after an effort he rids himself of the pests and settles himself quietly to think it over. There is a knock at the door and Helen and Mrs. Holcombe enter, escaping injury from Frank's stout cane by his timely perception that they are not Huskls. Both Helen and Mrs. Holcombe are all sympathy and more, they urge Frank to return the engagement ring to Helen, who really loves him and who cares little whether her fiancé is wealthy or poor. He is "sealing the compact with a kiss" when a bellboy enters ushering in a gentleman, who proffers a card on which is written: "Max Huskl." The gentleman explains that he is the late Thomas Wentworth's partner, that no Max Huskl exists and the Frank has been the butt of a joke perpetrated upon him by his eccentric uncle, who desired only to see what sort of stuff his nephew was made of. The fortune, Mr. Wharton explains, is his for keeps. It is a happy trio who turn to leave, following Mr. Wharton, the uncle's partner, when from under the bed in Frank's other apartment is heard a still, small voice whining persistently, "O Meester Ventvort, I am Max Huskl and I can proof it." The Yiddisher enters the room and offers his proofs, but the "Meester Ventvort" and his party have left without paying any attention to him.
- A wanted cattle thief risks imprisonment when he tries to help a sick rancher and his daughter. He takes the man into town to see a doctor, and he is recognized and arrested.
- Rupert Montgomery Featherstone, a retired actor, so the story goes, while picking his way tediously along the sunbaked cedar ties of the Great Eastern Railroad, observed at the side of the track a silk hat, a Prince Albert coat and a leather purse, the property, no doubt, of some careless passenger on the flying limited, which had just passed him. Opening the purse he found a railroad pass, issued to that honorable dignitary, the president of the Great Eastern, on whose property he was then trespassing. Rupert Montgomery Featherstone thought for a moment. He recalled that at one time he had found a purse containing $7,000.00, the property of one Hiram Rich, a Wall Street millionaire. Rupert had returned the purse to its owner, expecting to be nobly rewarded for his honesty, but on the contrary had received merely a glazed smile and an icy "thank you" from the magnate, who indicated the door of the outer reception room and returned to his stock reports. Since that time Rupert had been averse to returning such properties as he found in public places, and as be now slipped into the snugly fitting "Prince Albert" and donned the silk hat, he resolved also to avail himself of the railroad magnate's pass. He hastened to the nearest station and waited for a train. The train arrived and he boarded it. A suspicious conductor called for his ticket, examined the pass, stiffened perceptibly, forced a smile on his countenance and rang for two porters. There followed a brief whispered consultation between the conductor and the porters and the conductor again approached Rupert. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said, "but your stateroom is in the rear. I shall have it made ready for you, and in the meantime, if you desire, you may have dinner." Rupert rose hastily. "This way," said the conductor. During the repast that followed, Rupert occasionally pinched himself to make sure he was not dreaming. Two stalwart blacks fanned him and served him champagne. After he had lighted a perfect Havana perfecto, he asked to be conducted to his stateroom. Arrived there he expressed a desire to have a shave, manicure and shoe shine, apologizing for his appearance, explaining that he had been spending a few days in his summer camp. After his toilet was made and he had settled himself for another comfortable half hour in Havana, a messenger begged admittance and handed to Rupert a large parcel, containing some bulky packages of greenbacks. Let us leave Rupert for a moment and step aboard the "Flying Limited," where our friend the bona fide president of the Great Eastern, seated in an uncomfortable day coach, on a little private inspection of his road, reads his paper, unmindful of having lost his coat and hat out the window. The conductor approached him and asked for his ticket, not recognizing him as the "almighty boss." Discovering the loss of his coat, the president tries to explain. The conductor smiled blandly and rang for a porter. The train was stopped and the president of the Great Eastern was unceremoniously ejected from the train, 14 miles from the nearest station. By this time Rupert, the adventurous, had arrived at a large city, the terminal of the Great Eastern, where were located its main offices. Rupert longed for more gay life and stepped into a swell café, next door to the station. He ordered champagne for the house and as he raised the glass to his lips a Salvation Army lass approached him and extended her tambourine. Rupert nonchalantly placed a few hundred dollars on the goat skin and became engaged in conversation with the winsome little lass. She finally won him over and he confessed the finding of the money. She urged him to return it to the president and Rupert resolved to do so. The next morning Rupert called on the president of the road. The president fumed for a moment, then laughed as he noted beneath the rough exterior of the man before him honest, hungering ambition, so he called up his superintendent and told him to find a place in his office for R.M. Featherstone, which the superintendent did. It is needless to say that our hero in due time wedded the little Salvation lass who had saved him and who helped him to the position of superintendent of the Great Eastern Railroad and that they are living and will live happily ever afterward.