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- The first Universal motion picture released: dying Will Barton has to go to the mountains in search of health and is distracted thinking about leaving his beloved daughter, Netta, behind.
- "A Revenuer!" The one word that strikes terror to the heart of the moonshiner. So that a stranger who wanders too near the vicinity of the illicit distiller is apt to receive a gentle warning in the form of a bullet that he is on dangerous ground. It was one of these "warnings" that Frank Parmeley had received from the Nelsons, father and son, when Nelson met him and after satisfying herself that he was not a revenue officer took him to their cabin, dressed his wounds and was about to advise him to profit by the lesson when she became aware of a face in the window. It was that of her sweetheart. Jack Geering, although this she did not learn until he came to her aid in preventing her brother Jim from again firing upon the retreating form of the stranger. As a result of his interference, however, Jack was ordered from the place, but this did not keep him from calling whenever he found the coast clear. Nance would not have had him otherwise, still the young mountaineer's masterful manner of wooing led her to believe he might think her too easily won, and as a consequence, when a few days later he attempted to put his arm about her the girl feigned anger and ran into the house. This piece of coquetry, however, came near turning out rather seriously. for at that moment Frank Parmeley appeared with a book and a box of candy for the young lady, but upon meeting the stern glances of Jack hastily remembered a previous engagement, while Nance, humiliated and angry at his cowardice, threw his presents after him. This little incident had consumed so much time that Bob Nelson now returned to find Jack again upon his premises, and, although he was allowed to depart with merely another warning, Nance knew from her father's tone that this would be the last. It was small wonder then that she turned pale with excitement when a couple of days later she beheld her father and brother gazing earnestly through the spy-glass and getting their rifles in readiness. As her father passed into the house she managed to slip the glass from his pocket and as she looked her worst fears were realized! It was Jack, coming up the mountain! When her father had looked a few moments before, it had not been Jack, but Frank Parmeley he had seen. Ignorant of this, Nance grasped the rifle which stood by the porch and with a rock quickly knocked off the hammer, rendering the weapon useless. Then when her brother appeared she distracted his attention while she took the revolved from his holster and tossed it into a clump of bushes. And this was very fortunate for Frank, for scarcely had Nance started down the mountain to warn her sweetheart than the valley man came strutting on, but seeing the Nelsons' intention, although they were powerless to harm him until they could get into the house for other weapons, he took to his heels and only stopped to beg protection of the lovers. Being assured that he was not a revenuer and not wishing to see innocent blood shed, Jack commanded the terror-stricken man to lie down while he fired a shot in the air, and as the father and son came hurrying up declared that they had arrived too late. It so pleased the Nelsons that Jack had sided with them that they at once gave him their hands and all enmity was at an end, while Frank, as soon as they were safely out of sight, lost no time in making good his escape.
- This time Mutt and Jeff are not over-prosperous (a financial state of affairs to which they are no strangers) and, as is their usual wont, they get busy devising ways and means to make an easy living, the easier the better. Traveling organists have no difficulty in getting money; and as Mutt always was musically inclined, he undoubtedly could grind out the same quality and the same quantity of music that energetic Italian mountaineers regale us with. But what is organ music without a monkey? How to get a monkey, that's the question. Mutt's think-box gets in motion. It takes more than a little persuasion on his part to get little Jeff to impersonate the much-needed monkey. Organist Mutt and collector-monk Jeff soon begin making noise and incidentally some money. Business, however, does not meet with Mutt's most sanguine expectations, and, of course, he takes it out of the monkey. The dog-catchers, a tender-hearted bunch, free Jeff from Mutt's brutal clutches and take him away with a motley assortment of stray dogs. What does Mutt do without his monkey? What does Jeff do in the dog den? What do the dog-catchers do? They cut up such a lot of uproariously funny monkeyshines as to keep both young and old doing the continuous laughing performance till the climax is reached.
- Being thrown upon her own resources without a practical education, Nina had gladly accepted Mrs. Allen's offer to assist her in her duties as housekeeper for Carter Sheldon and his son Jack. She felt sorry for the motherless girl, and knew that under her care she would at least be safe and sound. Jack also pitied the orphan, and pity ripened into love, but here, Carter Sheldon interfered. Waiting until his son had gone away on a business trip, he discharged the girl, and then, although Jack pleases for his sweetheart upon his return, the father remained firm. Jack must choose between them, and Jack chose Nina! Five years had passed since her marriage when Nina was stricken with yellow fever, and fearful lest little Clarice should catch it, the mother sent her child to Nance Olden, a friend of the nurse. But the whole town was placed under quarantine, and long ere Nina had recovered or Jack returned to care for the little one, Nance had jumped quarantine; and though they searched diligently for two years, no trace of either had been found. Nance had not prospered during these two years, and her temper, never of the best, had grown gradually sharper. Had she not still cherished a faint hop that Clarice's parent would turn up to reward her, she would have thrust the child out on the street, but as it was she contented herself with blows, or sending the "hateful brat" supperless to bed. Clarice, however, had made friends with an old gentleman who passed their steps on his way to business, and finding the child so unhappy, and himself so lonely, he paid Nance handsomely, then adopted the little one as his own. But scarcely had Clarice become accustomed to her new home than a fresh joy awaited her. Jack had at last gotten trace of Nance, and from her learned that his child had been adopted by Carter Sheldon. Impatiently he hurries to his father's house, where, this time he did not ask in vain for his wife. This time, little Clarice was there to plead for her mama, and all was well.
- Charlie Chaplin, in animated cartoon form, visits the beach, has some fun at the expense of a female bather and gets into trouble with Mike the candy cane-loving cop.
- While hunting, Dick Lee meets James Gordon, an old rancher who invites him to his cabin. Here he meets the rancher's daughter Mary. They soon become friends, and her heart is almost broken when, at the end of his holidays, he is to return to the city. Mary makes Dick promise to write. Back in the city, Dick tries to forget the country girl, and as he is engaged to Lillian West, life is very gay indeed. Somehow, he cannot forget the little girl back on the ranch. The promised letter, however, is never written. Mary looks every day for the letter that does not come, and her father is very sad to see her pine away. At last he cannot stand it longer, and makes up his mind to go to the city and hunt up Dick. In the meantime Dick has grown tired of the gay life, and thinks more and more of Mary. One night in a café, he and Lillian have words; they leave the gay party, return home, quarrel, and part. The next day Dick receives a letter from her with their engagement ring enclosed; he is filled with joy, realizing that he is free to return to the girl he had left behind. He hurries home, dresses, and leaves the city. The old rancher arrives at his home soon after, and learns that Dick has left town. Slowly the old man turns and makes his way back to the station. Arriving home, he is about to enter the house, when hearing laughter, he turns and walking over to the window he looks in and is overjoyed to see Dick placing an engagement ring on Mary's hand.
- Dave had a multiple cylinder, air heated, garlic driven, explosive system which waited only for a spark to start a cyclone. Gladys, a beautiful young girl, turned on the switch when she gave him a poison flower. That opened Dave's throttle wide and released a series of sneezes which would have made that little White Sox-Giant affair look like a ping-pong knitting party. You see, Dave was only a flirt, whereas Dad thought he was a capitalist with much goods. All he had was the hay fever. Everything went before that sneeze; Gladys, Gladys' skirt, Gladys' young man, Gladys' father, the pins on the alley, and finally it explodes a bomb and blows Dave himself up.
- Only two years in the Land of the Almighty Dollar, and Mariangelo Pinozzi and his good wife, Francesca, are the happy owners of a busy fruit stand, which unfortunately comes under the notice of the Black Hand Society. Unless Mariangelo contributes the large sum of money thrice asked by the dreaded bomb throwers, he and Francesca will journey forth to that undiscovered country whence no traveler ever returns. As time is nearly up, poor Pinozzi grows frantic with fear. Mutt and Jeff approach. They have a whole dime to spend, they also have a well-developed case of "appetitis." The bananas look very inviting, and they are very filling. With a "lead us to them" rush, the hungry twain swoop upon the gesticulating Sicilian. As the bananas do the disappearing act, Mariangelo gets an inspiration. Will Muitt and Jeff take charge of the fruit stand for one week, or two, or longer, eat all the fruit they want and take all the receipts? Will they, huh? So, while Mr. and Mrs. Pinozzi scamper to safely, Mutt and Jeff take possession of the business. The Black Hand cannot be trifled with; Mariangelo has not "come across" and the kidnappers get to work. Mutt and Jeff are soon captured and taken before the Presiding Bunch of Crooks, who fail to find any resemblance between Mutt and Jeff and the Pinozzi couple. Peeved over this measly trick, they force "the long and the short of it" to join the "ranks." This is done, with the aid of numerous stilettos acting as accelerators. The police have been over-active of late; why not blow up Headquarters? Lots are drawn and the fatal slip of paper goes to Mutt. Luckily for him the Chief of Police has heard of this Black Hand meeting and sends out a number of his best men to corral the entire outfit. After a nice mix-up, Mutt, Jeff and the Black Handers are taken to Headquarters. Jeff is recognized as an old time friend of the Chief, who treats him to a good cigar, while poor Mutt goes to a dark dungeon because the tell-tale slip of paper is found on him. Alas. Poor Mutt.
- Chester Smelt was taking his daughter to Mocha-and-Java. Smelt had an unfailing eye for beauty, and Senorita Friola was a beautiful woman and was taking the same trip. His advances to her and the efforts of his daughter's rejected fiancé to elope with her caused poor Chester all manner of difficulty and threatened his life innumerable times. His last escapade landed him in Friola's stateroom and in Friola's bed and nothing but his ready tongue saved Chester Smelt from becoming Friola's sardine. He produced a letter which he had just written, stating: "Bearer is Secret Service man for those United States, looking for a woman spy." This statement satisfied every one and the Great Sea Scandal was over.
- So studious and retiring in disposition was Dave Randal, that no one, not even Annie Rodney, dreamed of his love. They had grown up together, and now that he worked for his father, she as frankly accepted his books and candy as of yore. Then, like a bolt from the clear sky, came the announcement of her engagement to the sailor, Robert Summers. Quietly Dave packed up his few belongings, then, leaving a letter of congratulation for Robert, in which he also acknowledged his love for the girl, the young man bade the Rodney family a hasty adieu, and departed for the city. The sailor and his bride had been married but two short years, when old man Rodney, much against the more experienced seaman's better judgment, induced his son-in-law to accompany him across the bay. Scarcely were they half way across, however, than a violent storm arose, and although Annie with baby Rosie in her arms, watched and waited on the shore that night, and all the next day, the tide but brought her back two hats, their overturned boat, and a broken oar. Five years passed, four of which Annie and little Rosie spent in the city, and although at Mrs. Watkins', where they had recently moved, their two rooms were but small and scantily furnished, the child seemed happier than ever before. This, Annie learned from the landlady, was due to Rosie's new friend, the rising young contractor on the floor below. So, when tired of watching her mother sew, the tiny girl would slip downstairs to "help" her admirer, usually by cuddling in his arms and falling fast asleep. One day, however, the child failed to appear. He called Mrs. Watkins, who told him the little one was sick and pointed out the room. But at the door the contractor was stopped by the doctor; in a couple of days he might come. Sorrowfully the young man returned to his room, but when next he called, it was Rosie's voice that bade him enter. Hearing voices, Annie hurried from the back room, and what was her surprise in discovering that the young contractor was none other than Dave Randal. Rosie was delighted. Clasping a chubby arm about the neck of each, she stoutly declared that Dave was to be her new papa, a prophecy which, happily, later on came true.
- Swift Wind, a young chief, loves Dancing Fawn. In their ramblings they, too, see white wolves, which is an object of fear and veneration among the Indians, and return to the village. The two are betrothed by the old chief, but old Red Nose, the medicine man, demands her hand for himself. The chief, fearing his magic powers, considers. Dancing Fawn runs away to her lover. Swift Wind is taught a secret by an old trapper, "If a trap is baited with an animal's own hair the iron jaws will never fail to catch it." The Indian decides how he will overthrow his rival. At his instruction Dancing Fawn cuts off a lock of hair from the sleeping medicine man. With it Swift Wind baits the trap. The next day a wolf is caught and as the Indians approach the trap the beast turns into the medicine man. The hand of the great father has proven his love again and Swift Wind and his sweetheart are united.
- Dave makes a number of funny attempts to evade military service, but the examining board and its assistants are too much for him.
- Lee catches a gambler cheating at cards. There is a fight. Lee shoots the gambler and makes his escape. The sheriff concluded that the gambler was shot in cold blood, and with a posse, take after the fugitive. When about to be captured, Lee stumbles across an emigrant, his wife and daughter who are traveling west in a prairie schooner. He tells them his story. They pity his youth and hide him in the wagon. The sheriff and posse are sent in the wrong direction by the emigrant. Lee shows a growing fondness for the daughter of the emigrant and she for him. He is seen by the searching party, and the chase is renewed. He and the girl climb into the wagon and force the horses into a dead run. The cumbersome schooner is overtaken. When the sheriff returns to the town with Lee, the gambler has recovered and confesses that he was cheating. The sheriff returns to the emigrants with Lee and exonerates him. The picture fades out as Lee and the girl climb into the rear of the schooner and the vehicle goes on its way.
- "You're under arrest. Stop!" "But this is a physician," Ryde explains. "Wife's ill." The cop becomes suspicious. He demands to see friend wife. Syx has to carry the bluff through and Ryde gets into the wife's bed. The cop sees the form in bed (and something else), which be believes is a baby. The cop demands that he be allowed to get the wife's signature. Ryde has resumed his own clothes and hurries to borrow "a wife." He secures his fiancée, who happens to be passing, gets her upstairs and into the bed. The cop is satisfied. BUT - when he has gone, the real wife returns, and the girl is still in the house. After considerable excitement and sundry narrow escapes she meets the girl and finds her to be an old friend, the fiancée of her hubby's friend. All, thenceforth, is well with the Syx's and affairs are amicably settled.
- Bill Ding was the proprietor of the Peek-a- Boo Inn, and a handy man was he, but all for the ladies. Baron Island and his young bride arrived at the inn to view the gushing geyser, which Bill Ding had advertised extensively and which he had improvised in the back yard of his hotelerinn. Now, Bill Ding was smitten with the young bride as soon as he laid eyes on her, and decided to go into the fortune-telling business. So while Baron Island was entertaining his booze-em friend in the grill, Bill Ding launched his new venture. "I see a terrible misfortune has befallen you - sad - very - you've just married," he said, when suddenly and without a word of warning he heard the voice of the titled gentleman: "I am thinking very seriously of killing you," but Bill Ding very quickly informed him that it was against the rules of the hotel. Baron Island promised to spare his life if Bill Ding showed him the gushing geyser at once. There was no such animal, so Bill Ding thought it a good plan to rid himself of the titled pest and gently, but firmly, threw him over the cliff, the rope catching Bill Ding's foot, thus saving Baron Island's life from an oncoming train. Even this didn't shake the Baron's determination to see the gushing geyser, so a few minutes later from out the depths of a buried hose rushed the beautiful geyser and Baron Island departed, satisfied and victorious. But Bill Ding, despite his efforts to corner the love market, met with no success, and decided to depart for regions unexplored. Moving Picture World, January 5, 1918
- Margy spent the evening packing her trunk, while Vincent arranged for the elopement and father visited with his choice, Nervy Gus, who stayed so late that he actually got a glimpse of the ladder. Then he carries out a fell design. He hires two dagos. "He'll be on the ladder and I want you guys to beat him," he tells them. Later Gus climbed up the ladder. The dagos threw a blanket over his head, when he broke loose and confronted them. In the meantime, Vincent and Margy had eloped, and Vincent went hunting for a minister. Gus enlisted the assistance of father. Vincent had registered at the hotel, but as there was another honeymoon couple in the hotel, and Gus asked for "the honeymooners," they were shown to the wrong room. Then Gus caught sight of Margy's trunk. "Get inside," suggested the father. So Gus was dragged into their room. Vincent returned with the Reverend O. N. Quick, and the ceremony was about to be performed when Gus raised the lid. Vincent seized Margy's hand, and they beat it. Gus chased them assisted by father. The elopers jumped on the fire-escape, pulling the minister after them. Gus seized the end of it and hung on, but the Reverend Quick was equal to the occasion, and he read the two into matrimony as calmly as if he were in his own church, while Gus dangled precariously from the end of the ladder.
- Mayor Engenbritzen had a decided leaning toward women. Anyone could see by looking at his wife that his taste was excellent, but for all that he yearned to be Mayor of Turkey. One morning when he caressed his wife's hand, thinking it belonged to the maid, he was In a lonesome frame of mind as he walked past a row of munition factories. His quick eye was taken by an attractive girl in trousers. She enters one of the factories. So does the mayor. In a short time he comes out all black and blue and bleeding. To account for his appearance he tells his wife how he had been injured in saving a baby, but that night at the moving picture theatre at which he and his wife are invited guests a picture is shown which had the mayor as the principal actor, and for its plot, what really happened in the munition factory. It was scandalous.
- Robert Lee is deeply in love with Margaret Ellison. Both are undemonstrative, and Robert, not feeling quite sure that he possesses Margaret's heart, delays his proposal. He is called imperatively to New York and writes a letters to Margaret asking her to be his wife and this he places in his pocket to mail. But his valet points out that he has his wrong coat on. He changes it hastily and starts for the railroad station. Arriving in New York, he awaits patiently for the answer which never comes. Robert is terribly grieved and decides that Margaret did not love him sufficiently to marry him. He instructs his valet, Parker to close the house, to remove everything to New York and to offer the place for sale. Margaret wonders why she has neither seen nor heard from the man to whom she is so deeply attached and is shocked when she sees the empty house and the "For Sale" sign, as she drives up to inquire the cause of his absence. The years pass and Margaret accepts a rich suitor, who later dies She still cherishes the memory of Robert, who also is constantly thinking of days gone by and of her. One day he decides to rummage through old trunks, and finds the letter be wrote to Margaret thirty years ago. He decides to call upon her and in her own home to at least explain. The years have not stolen any of Margaret's charm. She is surprised and pleased to see him. He explains the missing letter. They decide to remain inseparate forevermore.
- After separating Lee and his bride, and stirring up discord among the Indians, prospector Wade receives his just deserts.
- In order to get a job as a cook on a ranch, a young girl disguises herself as a boy. Problems arise when several of the young women at the ranch fall in love with "him".
- The professor believes that he has found the elixir of life and that with it he can bring back to life even an Egyptian mummy. He buys a mummy from a curio shop. After he leaves, emissaries of the Pasha discover the mummy awaiting delivery and find that it is what they had been looking for, the remains of the Royal Rambastus, 2000 B.C. They are told that the professor has bought the mummy. They offer the professor a big sum for it but he refuses to part with it. Victoria, the professor's daughter, is in love with Eddie. Eddie asks to marry her but is told by the professor that he can have Victoria only in the event that he is able to revive the mummy with his elixir of life. Eddie calls in his chum, Lee. Together they plan to have Lee pose as the mummy. Lee does so, and the experiment proves a success. The Pasha and his men surround the house and await the opportunity to steal the mummy. When Lee is left alone they pick him up and run off with him, pursued by the professor. Realizing that he had got more than he had bargained for, Lee runs away. He seeks refuge in the professor's house, where Eddie takes the real mummy, stabs it and throws it out of the window. The Pasha finally gets the mummy and Eddie gets the girl. The professor is satisfied that his elixir works, and Lee is satisfied that he has proved an able medium for the success of his friend's love affair.
- Big Bob and Dick were friends and both were anxious to find favor in Jessie's eyes. However, when Bob learned that she preferred his friend, he agreed to give him all help possible in securing the consent of her father. The old man had firmly made up his mind that Jessie was to marry Frank Bardly, so Dick was an unwelcome visitor. Jessie refused to have anything to do with Frank, and wrote Dick a note, which she took to their little post office in the old tree, telling him she would elope with him, while her father and Frank followed to read the note, and upon learning its contents, decided to lock Jessie in her room and come themselves to the trysting place and give Dick a sound thrashing. Dick overheard their plans, however, and promptly secured Big Bob to take his place, and as a result, it was father and Prank who received the thrashing and made to run for dear life in the bargain. In the meanwhile Dick had broken the lock on Jessie's door, and the young people were being made one by the very minister that father had brought to marry Jessie and Frank.
- Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune. It is a case of starvation or the "easiest way." She chooses the "easiest way." After eighteen years she again shows up, a social outcast and a tool for David's black profession. David has his eye upon a mere slip of a girl who works in a department store. He attempts to lure her to his resort, but fails. He then turns the case over to Lillian. Dorothy needs money for clothes. Lillian offers her the position and she accompanies the older woman to David's resort. Wallace, Dorothy's sweetheart, waits for her outside the house. Once inside the resort Dorothy is beautifully gowned. While changing her dress she takes a locket from her neck and lays it aside. Lillian finds it. Dorothy is her daughter. All the mother instinct and realization of her actions awaken in Lillian. She saves her daughter from David and her own fate and turns her over to Wallace. David is sent to prison. Lillian dies, despised and shunned, and Dorothy never knows that the woman who delivered her to evil and then saved her was her mother.
- Maggie's dad works at the Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds and Maggie takes his lunch to him every day. Eddie's sweetheart, is a carpenter, also in the Exposition employ. The dirty foreman loves the girl and there is decided trouble between him and the carpenter, Eddie. Dad objects to the foreman and the foreman retaliates. At last the villain sees that his only chance is to take the girl by force. With Eddie and the girl scampering hand in hand through the grounds below, the foreman plots with two workmen on the roof of a nearby building to attack Eddie. The girl is captured and, amid piles of lumber in the Foreign Arts Building, the foreman ties her up and sends for a minister. Eddie takes the minister's place and rescues the girl. Dad and mother come to the rescue and a burly policeman arrests the foreman and his accomplices.
- Jack Parsons obtains a job with rancher Cole. He tumbles across Betty one day when she is being annoyed by a mean Mexican. He punishes the man and takes Betty home. Later Jack is out hunting for "strays" when he stumbles upon Mexican Pete. He springs at the astonished Jack, who wrests the Mexican's gun from him, but is not quick enough to avoid an ugly wound from a dagger. Pete escapes. Jack picks up the jeweled-handle dagger which Pete has dropped, hurries to the nearest habitation, which is the farmhouse owned by Betty's father. Betty is taking in the washing, but waits for the handsome, tired-looking boy with a smile on his face. He asks for water and she notices the bloody handkerchief on his arm, makes him dismount and assists him to a bench. She ministers to him and binds his arm, and despite her mother's and her own protests, he insists upon going. Betty walks with him to his horse and admires the pretty dagger. Jack begs her to accept it and she does so. Not wanting her mother to think she is forward she secretes it in her room. The following day her father brings in a proclamation offering a reward for the capture of the hold-up and mentioning the fact that the bandit had a jeweled dagger stuck in his belt. Betty feels the world slipping away from her feet and steals upstairs to her room. She can hardly believe the handsome cowboy can be such a bad character, but how about the jeweled dagger? The worthy farmer, with two assistants, rides out intent upon earning the reward. They are successful and come across the exhausted Mexican, whom they secure after a short struggle. The farmer takes his prize to the farm in triumph, sending one of his men for the sheriff. Betty cannot find Jack at the ranch and is returning disconsolate and in tears, when Jack overtakes her. She begs him to fly, but he cannot see why he should. She thinks he is hardened and ungrateful, and rides away; but he follows her to the farm, where she is mystified upon seeing the sheriff, the Mexican and the dagger. Jack clears up the mystery and persuades Betty to show him the farmyard, when he contrives to tell her something interesting.