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Colonel Armistead, accompanied by his faithful servant Amber, travels to Washington, where the colonel has made application for an appointment in the State Department. Arriving in Washington, the colonel sets out for the State Department office. He finds little encouragement there. Time goes on until, with no money to pay rent or for food, the old man is threatened with starvation. His faithful old servant Amber, takes his fiddle to a street corner and plays, thereby collecting enough to pay the landlady. In the meantime, the clerks fake up an official appointment, and send it to the colonel. The colonel is overjoyed and on the way to the office he stops a runaway horse, ignorant of the fact that the frightened young lady in the vehicle is the daughter of the Secretary of State. She thanks him kindly and drives off. He goes on to the office and there learns of the joke played upon him. Soon after, the secretary's daughter calls at her father's office to tell him of her deliverance from certain death. There she discovers the bunch of violets which her father had that morning purchased for her, and which she had in turn, given the old gentleman who had stopped her horse. He had dropped them in the office on learning of the hoax. She coaxes her father to write her deliverer another and legitimate appointment, which the latter does. She arrives with the genuine paper, just too late. The colonel has gone to fill an appointment in the service of his Creator.

Touching though improbable tale of thwarted ambition

This touching short film lasts only 10 minutes, 34 seconds, but is rather engaging. Charles Kent is an old man, who has spent all he owns on influencing a government appointment. His faithful black servant, Amber (Hal Wilson), cares for him as he waits to hear from the Capitol. No one there intends to do anything but make fun of him, even sending a false appointment, to his shame.<br/><br/>He stops a run away horse and the grateful driver, Norma Talmadge as the Secretary of State&#39;s daughter, influences her father to intercede on his behalf.<br/><br/>The ending is poignant and sad. One of those little gems from the early days of film. Worth catching.

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His Official Appointment

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