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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lon is engaged to Jane, a social butterfly whose financial desires are impossible for him to fulfill.
- Wealthy little girl befriends son of washerwoman.
- There is an old saying which tells us that we cannot know people fully well until we have lived under the same roof with them. If the wife in this story had known it, she might never have entertained the friend who came to visit her, for it is this same friend, the chum of her girlhood days, who opens the first chapter of an intrigue which wrecks the happy home. But there is a Providence which presides over such matters and which in this case, sends a representative to earth, so to speak. This envoy is a little daughter of the couple through whom fate pulls her strings in such a way that before the picture is finished, her little arms are drawing her separated parents together into loving embrace.
- The experiences of a tramp who is the sole survivor of a wreck, and is accepted as king of the natives on the island on which he is stranded.
- Nearly all merchandise in China is carried by water, as there are few other highways. The interior commercial capital of the province of Sechuan, called Chungking, is set upon high ground overlooking two rivers. This province has eighty million inhabitants, and adjoins Tibet, at the head of the Yangtze River. We see the gates of the city, and then the public laundries, where the Chinese use the primitive method of beating the clothes against the rocks. We see a public lamentation over a death. The Chinese not only mourn their dead but worship their spirits. White is the mourning color. We see the ancient "Feast of All Souls" being celebrated in the city of Chungking. The Chinese believe that everything in nature, whether animate or inanimate, possesses a soul. Therefore they burn quantities of paper money on that day, so that the souls of the dead may be supplied with the soul of the money. The American Consulate strikes a modern note. We see a rich man being carried in a sedan chair through the streets.
- Bright Eyes, an Indian Maid, marries a white trapper. He leaves her alone with an infant. Not knowing what to do, she returns to her tribe, leaving her babe on the bank of the river. She is received back in the tribe and when the squaws are sent for water the babe is found. She, keeping the secret, asks to be allowed to raise the babe, which is granted. After twenty years, Stalwart Brave, the papoose, contests for the chieftainship in the lariat duel on horseback. He defeats the champion and becomes the White Chief. He falls in love with the old chief's daughter, but is denied her. The brave he defeated, for revenge on the old chief, lashes him. Panther leaves her in a rage, vowing revenge, is rescued by the White Chief and wins the girl.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pretty Kitty O'Toole has two paths open to her; one leading to wealth and apparent happiness, as the wife of the young lord, while the other leads her along the same way she has always traveled, the life of the simple Irish peasant, as the helpmeet of plain Terence O'Fallon. Influenced by a terrible and prophetic vision and advised by the good old priest, Father Aroon, she is led to choose the humbler path and remain within her own proper sphere.
- David Armstrong, a young officer in the United States Army, is engaged to a young girl. According to the ideas of his mother, his ambitions will be crushed and his life ruined if he marries this middle class girl. Mrs. Armstrong does all in her power to persuade her son to propose to a fascinating widow, Mrs. Greeley-Hamilton. David gets a month's leave of absence. Mrs. Armstrong meets him with Mrs. Greeley-Hamilton. The widow bestows upon him her choicest fascinations, but both are much disgusted when he insists upon calling on Cecile. That evening the mother tells her son that he will break her heart if he does not marry as she wishes. She works upon his feelings so far that he promises to obey her and he writes a note to Cecile trying to explain things to her. Back in the home of Mrs. Greeley-Hamilton, she is telling her accepted admirer, Charles Fellowes, that her marriage will make no difference to them, Fellowes accepts the state of affairs. The wedding takes place and Cecile attends and almost creates a scandal by breaking down. During the dance that follows the marriage, Fellowes sends a note by a servant to the new Mrs. Armstrong, and she steals out to him. Their meeting is an impassioned one and he crushes her to his bosom, and in so doing the violets she wears leave an impression on his shirt front. David, having followed his bride, sees the embrace, but does not detect the man. He speaks with his wife and notes that the violets have been crushed. He walks among his guests and in the card room sees Fellowes. He gives him an imperative order to follow him, and Fellowes goes upstairs with him. A lady, who has watched the happening, tells the wife and she follows them upstairs. She looks through the door and sees David with a revolver, threatening to kill Fellowes. She screams and the guests arrive in time to prevent a tragedy, but the woman that David married swoons by the stairs, and falling down their length, is mortally injured. A month later David returns to his regiment, where he introduces the forgiving Cecile as his beloved wife.
- 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.
- John Royce, a Pinkerton detective, is sent west to capture a bank burglar named Rogers. Disguised as an expressman, the detective locates his man's home. Rogers, who is a consumptive, recognizes the detective in the woods and sends a note to his wife telling her that he is about to commit suicide. The detective, accompanied by the distracted wife, find Rogers' coat and hat on the bank of a river and accept it as evidence of his death. The Pinkerton man, who has fallen in love with the wife, leaves for the east. Rogers returns to his home. Six months later, the detective goes west to ask Mrs. Rogers to become his wife. Hidden under the table in the room Rogers is about to shoot down the detective but death stays his hand and the Pinkerton man, leaving the widow with her dead, goes back east.
- Silk moth are shown laying their eggs; the eggs are shown in the process of hatching; silkworms are seen feeding with their scissors-like jaws; the gleaming yellow cocoon of the worm is shown with the worm inside, a mummy-like object; then is depicted the emergence of the moth, her passage up the branch of a shrub to unfurl her wings; and the chrysalis she leaves behind. Male and female Hercules beetles are next shown, followed by a view of the rhinoceros beetle of Africa, the gigantic roach of Trinidad and the scorpion in the act of killing its prey.
- Edwin August presents a psychological study in eight episodes dealing with the gradual development of inherent thieving proclivities in a child until the age of manhood. The parents see the tendency, but are unable to cope with it and finally, believing the son to be a deliberate criminal, the father expels him from the house. The son's decline is rapid and results in a term in jail, from which he emerges a typical jail bird, the consort of pickpockets and yeggmen. At times there are flashes of his better instinct striving to overcome his weakness, but these become fewer and fewer as he passes down the social scale. At the time when things seem darkest he is in his hovel looking out into a heavy electrical storm. A flash of lightning strikes and at the same moment his soul is reincarnated. When he rises he marvels at his condition, but is unable to explain it. Wandering out upon the street, he enters an art gallery. He comes upon a girl copying a painting that vaguely recalls something familiar. The girl is his former sweetheart, but he does not recognize her. He watches her work and finally, impelled by something within him, he takes the brush from her and with a few well directed strokes turns the work into a masterpiece. She asks an explanation and he tells her that he himself painted the original. She explains the original was painted over two hundred years before, but he insists. Struck by his sincerity, she attempts to solve the mystery and later finds the explanation in a treatise on reincarnation. The thief has been conquered by the soul of the artist. They are married and later a reconciliation with his parents is affected.
- This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On the refusal of the Governor to sign a bill in favor of the liquor interest, the political boss tries to force the executive to his will. The Governor, after a series of thrilling experiences, thwarts the efforts of the politicians. The latter calls on Lady Baffles, who impersonates the Governor's wife and secures the executive's signature to the bill. Detective Duck, however, captures the politicians in a clever manner and beats Lady Baffles at her own game.
- Henry Desmond is a self-constituted guardian of his younger brother, Alfred. Alfred goes to the city to carry on his legal studies. He is put under the care of a wealthy old bachelor, Spencer. Enid returns from a convent and is surprised to observe the occupation of her father, that of a gambler. Old Spencer, seeing the boy remain out late, follows him and sees he is a gambler. He misses him in the gambling rooms and searches for him. Then he hears his voice, and pulling the curtain of an ante-room aside, he sees Alfred speaking fondly to a young woman. He sees she is Enid, the daughter of the proprietor. Old Spencer thinks Enid is a handsome siren who is bent on leading the boy to his ruin. He tears the curtain aside and denounces her. She indignantly denies his charge. The girl's pride is aroused and she refuses to see Alfred again. He is a great deal shaken by his losses, the girl's announcement that she will never see him again and the cutting off of his money, for old Spencer refuses to give him another penny, and the foolish boy disappears. He is found dead and on him a letter saying he has ended all because the gambler's daughter refused to marry him. This is read in the paper by the elder brother and the bachelor and they go to the gambling house to upbraid the girl. Also the elder brother, Henry, has determined to punish the girl's father. But they fled the city and the house is for sale. She goes to the country and changes her name. She refuses to touch a cent of the gambler's money. She has never loved Alfred and has never encouraged him. Henry, the elder brother, hates this girl with a dumb unreasoning hatred and hires a clever detective to trail her. In the country where he goes for a fishing and hunting trip and to forget the death of the foolish young brother whom he loved he meets her under her assumed name. She does not connect him with the dead youth for the latter also used an assumed name. They love and become engaged. The old bachelor, brimming over with love for Henry and cheerfulness at the thought of his wedding, arrives and is horrified to see that his fiancée is the gambler's daughter. He reproaches her, but is won over by her mental prostration and appeal and finally believes that she was not guilty, but begs her to tell Henry all. She refuses because she fears the consequences. The old man is won by her and keeps the secret. They are married and as soon as the ceremony is over the hired detective appears and tells Henry that his wife is the vampire woman they have been seeking. Enraged at what he considers either the man's lie or stupidity, Henry casts him aside, but soon learns the truth and is about to seek her out and denounce her when she appears and denounces herself. Henry is heart-broken and would drive her from him, but he is won by her emotional appeal and takes her to his heart.