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- Intense pathos in the bereavement of a wife and daughter upon the death of the husband. Scene I: Living room of bereaved family after the funeral. Friends saying farewell. Husband's picture draped in black. Scene II: Six months later, same room. Gentleman visitor offers advances to widow. Child repulses, doll gift discarded. Scene III: The same gentleman accompanies widow and child to amusement garden. Child cold and distant. Dine together, wine served, man becomes bold, girl endeavors to run away. Scene IV: Dining room. New home, widow having married her suitor. Trouble at table. Scene V: Night, six months later. Husband takes valuables away to realize on them for liquor. Scene VI: Husband demands money for liquor, attempts to strike wife. Child pleads with stepfather. Breaks her bank to secure contents for him. Husband attempts to take picture of the girl's father. Girl implores and finally threatens before the man desists.
- Possessed of means, a bachelor concludes to leave his home in charge of his butler and make an extended tour of the continent. Bags and baggage all prepared, the start is made, and the butler is in glee in anticipation of the good time coming. The master gone, the butler proceeds to don the former's wearing apparel. Thus attired, he displays a placard announcing that the premises are for rent. A family of foreigners rent the place and the butler is off to enjoy his holiday. Unexpectedly, however, the master returns and finds the new tenants disporting themselves to their heart's content, causing wreck and ruin of the place. The police are summoned and the entire party is taken into custody. The butler, thoroughly soused, is also brought in: the mystery clears itself and the new tenants are ejected; the butler incarcerated, while his master returns to his domicile sadder but wiser for his experience. The many very ridiculous situations depicted make this subject a comedy of merit.
- Ships were lured on to the rocks by means of false lights worked with a gentle motion. The method most commonly adapted was to fasten a lighted lantern on to the head of a cow, and the mariner, under the impression that the light was carried by another vessel, would conclude that his own was safe until sailing unconscious of danger, his ship would dash upon the rocks and become a total wreck. On the principal that "dead men tell no tales," survivors from a wreck met with scant mercy at the hands of the wreckers, who often secured valuable hauls of merchandise and liquor on the breakup of the vessel they had lured to its destruction. The custom is fully and thrillingly illustrated in the present series which forms a most interesting and enthralling picture story without words. Perfectly photographed, the rock-bound coast of Brittany forms a most picturesque setting for this cleverly enacted sensational drama, depleting one phase of marine life in a past generation.
- A stirring story of ruin, poverty after affluence, honest toil, temptation, remorse and repentance charmingly told in animated picture sequence. Order of pictures: Ruined. Beautiful home scene. Husband, wife and daughter amid luxurious surroundings. A writ is served. Claim cannot be met. The home is broken up and its despairing owner is penniless. Grief of the family. Country and roadside. The former prosperous man is now a stone breaker. By no means reconciled to his lot, he raises his hand and curses his more fortunate fellows as they motor or drive past. His wife brings refreshment and attempts consolation, but he is embittered and repels her. A passing horseman drops his pocketbook, which is seized upon by the stone-breaker, who hurries home with his find. The horseman pays a visit. Dismounting, he is about to enter the house of his friend, when a girl offers flowers for sale. He selects some, but in searching for money to pay, discovers his loss. He remounts and retraces his steps, but his search is unavailing. The stone-breaker's home; clean, but meagerly furnished. Husband arrives in good humor and displays his find to his wife and daughter. The daughter is the flower-girl from whom the horseman was buying. She knew, therefore, to whom the pocketbook belonged. The wife implores her husband to restore the money, upon which he becomes angry and threatens violence. He leaves the house and goes to hide the wallet in the forest. A lovely woodland scene, beautifully toned. His daughter follows, and, hidden behind a boulder, witnesses the proceeding. The father buries the money and departs, after which his daughter unearths it and flies into the town. Return of the horseman, who is announcing his want of success, when the flower girl restores the wallet to its owner She declines to accept any reward and departs The horseman, however, follows. Forest scene. The stone-breaker, returning for his buried treasure, discovers his loss. He is frantic. Home again. The flower girl is preparing her basket for the next day's work. The father is despondent. The daughter confesses her share in the matter. The stone-breaker, mad with rage, is about to assault the girl, but the mother intervenes. Arrival of the horseman. The stone-breaker is embarrassed. He is liberally rewarded for finding the treasure. Remorse and shame of the stone-breaker, who implores his daughter's pardon. Reconciliation.
- Great floods occurring in certain districts of Russia on the breakup of the winter frosts, furnished a unique opportunity to our Moscow operators for securing a most unusual, original and thrilling picture. Tremendous volumes of water flowing in constant and rapid streams through the streets of the city converted them for the time being into swiftly flowing rivers, hemmed in on either bank by shops, houses and public offices. Traffic moved with difficulty and danger, and a novel spectacle is presented of vehicles of every description, hub-deep, being drawn by horses, knee-deep, through the rushing flood. Boats, punts and trolleys, conveyed soldiers and police to their duties and thrilling life saving scenes are witnessed as occasional reckless pedestrians are swept into the flood and rescued with great difficulty. Life buoys and lines are in constant request, the operations being directed by officers of horseback stationed in commanding positions.