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- The scene is laid in one of the trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company and the young factor, Malcolm Young, loves Utoka, the pretty daughter of the chief of a nearby tribe. Jules Laprese also loves the girl and the half-breed hates Malcolm as much as he loves the pretty Indian maiden. Only Utoka's watchfulness saves the young factor's life on several occasions and this loving care is relaxed only when Jules brings her a letter and photograph which he has stolen from the factor. The picture is that of a beautiful young white girl and the loving message that accompanies it leaves small room for question of the factor's lack of good faith. Utoka is prostrated by grief and Jules leads her father to believe that a more serious wrong has been wrought by the head of the trading post. With his braves the old chief captures the factor and drags him, a prisoner, to the camp where Malcolm is put to torture before the fire is to mercilessly end his sufferings. Meanwhile Utoka, who cannot believe her lover guilty, seeks the post and discovers what has taken place. With the good father, the missionary who keeps pace with the advance of the Hudson Bay posts, Utoka returns to the camp and saves the life of the factor. He proves that the letter was from his sister and not from some sweetheart in Montreal and the half-breed is made to suffer punishment for the affront he has put upon the tribe.
- During a rehearsal of his new play, Peter Richards recognizes in Mary Walters a well-known leading lady of 20 years before. She has met with reverses and is now employed as wardrobe woman in the company which is producing his play. On opening night, the play is a failure, and the manager who financed it decides to take it off immediately. Mary Walters is the only one in the theater who has feeling enough to show sympathy for the author in his misfortune. An extra girl's chance remark gives Peter an idea for another play, which he writes and calls "Granny," and he has enough confidence in Mary Walters' ability to offer her the leading part, which she gratefully accepts. Confident of its success, Peter's ambition is to produce "Granny" at the same theater where his former play met with such complete failure, but the manager refuses to produce it and Peter is forced to sell his home in order to secure enough money to put on the play. During his days of trouble Peter sees Mary's worth and as he walks with her to the theater on the opening night, they pass a quaint little church and Peter asks her to share the future with him, no matter what the night may bring them. Mary consents and they enter the rectory and are quietly married, after which they go to the theater for the opening performance. Peter's judgment is vindicated and the play is a hit.
- Rosa is looked upon as an outcast, and is always in the shadow of her spoiled younger sister Rita.
- A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.
- This story is of three suburban families: Mr. and Mrs. and Buster White, Mr. and Mrs. and Brooks Black, and Mr. and Mrs. and Henrietta Brown. The male parents return from the city and meet their families on the lawn. White has a cowboy's suit for Buster. Black has an Indian suit for Brooks. They dress the boys in the suits. Meanwhile, Henrietta has put on one of her mother's dresses and goes out of the house and shows it. Buster is proudly showing his cowboy suit, when Brooks bounds into view, with an Indian suit on. An altercation ensues between the boys; Brooks fells Buster and drags the weeping Henrietta away as Buster is being carried into the house. Buster is put to bed and dreams that Brooks takes Henrietta to the Indian camp, he and his trusty band of cowboys follow, and as Henrietta is about to be burned at the stake Buster rushes in, kills the Indians, saves Henrietta, only to awaken and find his mother and father and Henrietta bending over him. The children are left alone, and once more the villain fails and virtue is triumphant.
- Willie Tait appears one day at the club room, dressed in a new hunting suit. The boys enjoy a good laugh over his costume. While in the club, some of the boys extract the shot from his shells and then hurry off to a costumer's and rent a bear suit. One of the boys dresses up like a bear and, followed by the other members of the club, hurries to the woods to overtake Willie. Willie is frightened to death at the sight of the bear, drops his hunting bag and gun. He is chased some distance by the supposed bear, and when he finds the bear close upon his heels, he climbs a tree, only to be pulled down by the bear. He is finally allowed to escape, and the boys hurry back to the club house to hear Willie's story, Willie tells the boys of his terrible battle. The boys give him the ha! ha! and produce the bear.
- John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the daughter of the proprietor. It is a case of mutual attraction, causing many a heartache to Si, the clerk, who adores Flo. Cummins manages to have sundry excuses for visiting the little general store, and finally realizes he is head over heels in love with the girl. Cummins, while purchasing cigarettes from Flo, so arouses the anger of Si, who is carrying a bag of potatoes, that he deliberately drops the bag upon Cummins' foot, and that worthy gentleman proceeds to make capital of the injury to remain with the Pages for a week, nursed tenderly by Flo. Si, finding an envelope dropped by Cummins, calls at his (Cummins') club, and asks if he lives there, that he has stolen his sweetheart. Cummins' friends accompany Si back to the village and find Cummins sweeping out the store, having usurped the clerk's position. Cummins is unmercifully "kidded" by his fashionable friends, and Flo and her father, imagining that Cummins has been deceiving them, become very indignant, and he is ordered out, but eventually succeeds in proving that he is genuinely in love with Flo, who reciprocates.
- Two members of the Never-Drop Aero Club claim that they can reach the moon by the aeroplane. They get an astronomer to get his telescope out and see how the conditions are on the moon. He comes on with a big telescope and looks through it, finds everything in fine condition from earth to moon, so the party start out. As they rise and turn upside down then right side up, they start on their journey to the moon. They pass over a busy city, knocking down buildings and chimneys. After passing over the city they come in contact with the planet Saturn. Bump it, encircle it, and then on their way to the moon they ride through the air and see an old man coming out of the planet Mars. The anchor on the aeroplane accidentally catches the old man by the neck and carries him off. The old man tries to get away, and he sees Halley's comet coming along and he grabs hold of the tail of the comet and goes away. One of the men in the aeroplane sees him and takes out a lasso. With a couple of swings he catches the old man around the neck and drags him behind. At last the moon is reached. The man in the moon opens his mouth and they all go in. The party drop from top of the moon all in a heap. They get up, look around and a large bird comes in and lays an egg larger than itself and flies off. The travelers put the egg on a fire, which is burning nearby. The egg cracks and a lot of little birds are hatched. Suddenly a strange animal comes on the scene and eats the little birds one by one. The animal fills up and bursts. Another enormous crazy-looking animal comes out of the cave and chases the men off the moon into the sea.
- Tom Renson is a chicken fancier. He sends for some prize winners. He has won the enmity of Ben Hoggs because Ben thinks he is trying to steal his girl from him, though this is the last thing Tom would think of. Ben writes an anonymous letter to Tess, Tom's wife, and accuses Tom of being a "chicken stealer," telling the sort of "chickens" he means, and Tom has to do some tall explaining. Tom gets word that the chickens will be in on the afternoon train and goes to get them. He drops the letter and Tess gets it. She goes to the train, too. As luck would have it, there is a burlesque show, "all girls" on the train, and Tess thinks those are the expected chickens. Even after Tom fully explains she still has her suspicions.
- Laura Jackson, left an orphan, comes to the city to obtain employment, but finds employers unsympathetic, and discovers that it is almost impossible for a woman to make a living wage. Her funds are getting low when a contrast between the two bulletins in front of an employment agency impresses her. A male stenographer is offered fifteen dollars and a girl but three. With her small savings she purchases a complete outfit, and as her own brother, sets forth to obtain employment. Her trim appearance is in her favor, and she not only quickly obtains employment, but she wins the love of the girl stenographer, and is forced to disclose her secret to the girl. The bookkeeper is jealous of the stenographer's love for the new clerk, and seeks to obtain his dismissal by concealing some bills in the boy's pocket and reporting his loss. But the stenographer has overseen the action and sets matters straight. Desperate at discovery the bookkeeper aims a blow at his rival that fells Laura to the floor, and in her excitement the stenographer discloses the secret of her sex. Laura is sent to the hospital with concussion of the brain, but makes rapid recovery and returns to her position, now in the proper garments of her sex, to become a member of the firm through marriage with its head.
- Mrs. Van Webber is giving a dinner and reception in honor of her daughter's return from college. Things are going along smoothly, when a telegram arrives which calls all servants out on strike. Leaving Mrs. Van Webber in a quandary as to who will prepare the dinner, Gwendoline suggests that Otto, their hired man, be allowed to take charge of the dinner. When the striking servants learn that Otto has taken their jobs, they station their gang around the house and whenever Otto appears they threaten him until he gets nervous and wants to throw up the job. But Mrs. Van Webber gives him more money and Otto starts in anew. The strikers now thoroughly aroused at Otto, chase him through the house and stone him. They finally knock him out and leave him in a heap on the floor, where the guests find him, carry him upstairs and put him to bed. When he wakes and sees the guests, he says: "I didn't know America was in de Vor." Then he falls back in a faint.
- Bob and Lena want to get married, but first they have to get around the objections of Lena's father.
- Gus falls in love with Rosy, the cashier at the cafe. Rosy plans to play a trick on him, and tells him he must prove himself to her by joining her band of anarchists, who are really her coworkers in disguise. At the anarchists' hideout Gus learns he must commit a murder. Before he can act a group of fake cops raid the building.
- Andrews, a former shipping clerk, has amassed a fortune in cocaine and therefore discourages his daughter May's romance with Joe, a policeman. Andrews prefers socialite Roger Hastings, whom May marries but soon discovers is a drug addict. While May is recovering from a nervous breakdown precipitated by the knowledge of Roger's addiction, he slips cocaine into her medication. Soon she also is addicted, a fact which Roger delightedly reports to Andrews. Andrews then commits May to a sanitarium and Roger becomes a procurer for a gang of white slavers. When the gang abducts his sister Julia and takes her to Roger's brothel, he turns against them. Julia is released, and after many complications, Roger returns to Andrews' house and, during a struggle, sets the house on fire, killing them both. Finally, Joe rescues a newly cured May and the two are reunited.
- Silent film about Robert Emmet's exploits on the side of the United Irishmen in their fight against the British occupational forces in Ireland. Events take place around the turn of the 19th century.
- Boma and Orga arc sons of the King. The King dies and the brothers are summoned to his side. While Boma wails beside his father, Orga, the younger brother, with Mayma, his mate, usurps the throne. Boma makes an appeal but Mayma flirts with the witch doctor, and the decision goes to Orga. Boma is driven from the village with Kata, his consort. Orga does not make a popular ruler, but Mayma jollies the people and they tolerate her. After a storm, Boma and Kata discover a trunk washed ashore, the property of a soubrette. They take it to their hut, and Kata finds that the costumes fit her. They start for the village and on the way fall in with a body of Zulus who have been banished. They think Kata is a goddess until Boma explains. With their support, Boma and Kata take the throne and Orga and his spouse are led off to execution.
- Little Mrs. Chalmers is afraid of nothing. When the men push past the line of waiting women at the railroad station she throws them back into their proper place and holds them there until the women have been waited upon. A masher follows her through the park and persists in annoying her with his attention. She makes quick work of him, throwing him into the river. She foils an attempted holdup and captures a Black Hand abductor with scarcely an effort but she is only a woman after all and when she sees a tiny mouse running around on the floor, she climbs onto a chair and screams for help as loudly as if she had never accomplished great feats of bravery. Her feelings may well be imagined when it is found that the mouse is only a mechanical toy operated by her son Johnny in revenge for her refusal to let him go out and play. To cry over a real mouse would have been humiliating, but a clockwork affair-. Johnny is very very sorry that he did it, but it is too late to mourn. The illusion has been shattered.
- In this rambunctious comedy, desperately job-needy Billie becomes "Bridget" to answer a "female wanted" ad for a housekeeper. Unfortunately, s/he is all thumbs, wreaking household havoc in no time. Popular British comedian Billie Reeves rose to fame in the company of music hall impresario Fred Karno (which was also the training ground for Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel). Director Arthur Hotaling was an American vaudevillian-turned-highly-prolific-director of short films in the 1910s, mostly for Florida-based Lubin Manufacturing Company. Unfortunately, the year MAID was produced would prove to be the company's last. A disastrous fire and other woes forced it into bankruptcy. - Dennis Harvey
- On New Year's Eve, outcast John Merrill finds himself outside a gay café. He goes to his garret room and declares that he would give his soul for youth and gold. Then appears His Majesty, the Prince of the Nether Regions, who agrees to grant his desires if, in return, Merrill delivers to him one soul each year. Merrill consents, and the bargain is on. Merrill meets banker's daughter Ruth Ashton and falls in love with her. Ruth's brother Archie is weak-willed, but good at heart. A year goes by. Merrill receives a communication from His Majesty, demanding Archie's life. He is in a quandary, but decides to obey. Through Merrill, Archie is found cheating at cards and feels disgraced before the club members. Merrill takes the boy into the next room, but there his manner changes and he advises suicide as the only way out. The boy takes the revolver and His Majesty claims his first victim. Ruth, grieved at her brother's death, postpones the wedding, and Merrill becomes troubled by visions of Archie. The end of the second year comes and His Majesty demands Ashton as the next victim. Ashton's bank is weathering a panic by the assistance of Merrill's promise not to withdraw his funds. But Merrill forgets his promise, and soon there is a run on the bank. Ashton tries in vain to reach Merrill, and finally chooses the same death as his son. His Majesty has claimed the second victim. The memory of the part he played in the death of the two men soon preys on Merrill's mind. He begins to drink. Ruth, although poor now, will not think of marriage. As the end of the third year approaches, he is in a state of collapse. The dreaded letter again falls into his lap. He opens it. On it is the name of Ruth Ashton. Merrill looks up and sees the leering face of His Majesty. He defies him, but His Majesty merely mocks him. Finally Merrill sinks into a chair and now he changes to the old man again in the garret room, where he dies, while His Majesty laughingly claims the soul of his latest plaything.
- Papa Foy is in love with Mrs. Grant, a charming widow, who doesn't need to be held from jumping into matrimony, but Nell and her brother, Jim, his two children, think he needs to be held, and when they conceive that he is going to marry the widow they don't know want to do to save him. Dick Hardy, Nell's sweetheart, sees father and Mrs. Grant on the beach, sitting under an umbrella. They run to get some shells to throw at them, but when they return, father and Mrs. Grant leave and two colored lovers are sitting in the shade of the umbrella. Nell and Dick throw the shells; they see Rastus and Mandy and beat it. In the afternoon, when father and Mrs. Grant are bathing, Jim, Dick and Nell conceive the brilliant idea of stealing father's clothes and leaving him in the bath house until he will capitulate and promise never to marry. He will not promise, and they leave him without even his bathing suit, telling him they will be back in one hour. Father's cries are beard by Mrs. Grant. She comes to the rescue. She buys him a pair of overalls and jumper. In this father and Mrs. Grant go right off and get married.
- The station agent in a small town is the sole support of her mother. Tom Lenox, the young sheriff, is an admirer. One of Laura's possessions is Black Beauty, a horse. The doctor tells Laura that her mother will die unless she is taken to the seashore. Tom again offers himself, but is refused, A few days later, Laura receives a telegram notifying her that a certain train must not he stopped because it is carrying a shipment of gold. Mexican Pete, an outlaw, sees the message and decides to hold up the train. He takes Laura by surprise, binds her to a post and sets the semaphore to stop the train. He overlooks a whistle which Laura wears around her neck, and with it she summons Black Beauty, who breaks out of the stable and to the assistance of her mistress. At Laura's direction Black Beauty changes the semaphore just in the nick of time and the train rushes past without stopping. Black Beauty then unties Laura's bonds and carries her to safety.
- The wild man is not wild, at least when he starts out to be. Nothing could be less suggestive of wildness than the fun-loving college boy who is induced by his chums to turn professional freak. There is a circus in town and when the boys find a masquerade suit dropped by some guest at a ball just closing about sunrise they conceive the idea of getting one of their number up in the wild man suit and selling him to the circus proprietor as a side show attraction. Jim Hanley is something of an athlete and shines in college theatricals, so he is appointed the wild man while another chap assumes the role as manager and starts off for the circus to negotiate with the proprietor. The man who owns the side show is quite willing to buy a wild man or anything else that will add to the daily receipts and expresses a desire to see the freak. The boys go back for Jim and presently make their appearance on the lot towing the wild man along on a chain. He is pretty convincing looking wild man to an outsider but the old showman knows a lot about the manufacture of Egyptian mummies, three legged boys and things like that and it takes him just about 1/27th part of a second to determine that the boys are trying to have some fun with him. A wild man with burnt corked hands and a white face isn't regarded in show circles as a strictly high grade wild man suitable for a forty-car show, and the manager decides that since the boys are looking for fun he will see to it that they have all they want. Taking Jim into the tent he sends back word that he will try out the freak at the matinee and make the purchase if the audience finds the new attraction to its liking. The others go off in gleeful anticipation of the fun they are going to have at the afternoon show guying Jim, but they are denied this little amusement for as soon as Jim is inside he is thrust into an empty cage and is given a gorilla for company. This is rather more than he bargained for and so Jim goes away from there with some difficulty and in a great hurry. The gorilla is about three feet behind him as he makes the start but he gets a better lead once he is in the open and heads for the dormitory. Terror lends wings to his feet and he makes all sorts of short cuts, through windows, over pedestrians, street stands and whatnot until he distances the gorilla and panting and worn out arrives at the college. Not until he reaches the room does he feel safe and recites the story of his perils to his chums. But the gorilla is not through with him yet, for a hairy face appears at the window, as uncouth form tumbles through the sash and as the boys are about to give themselves up to a painful death the gorilla removes his mask and with the proprietor's compliments explains that the wild man's wildness is not of the proper sort to make him acceptable to a circus management. It's about as good a laugh as you've had lately and we've been generous with laughs at that.
- The last guardian of the wealth of the aristocratic Gresham family dies, leaving no one but his granddaughter Ruth and faithful family servant Wicks to remain in the isolated old mansion. The family's immense wealth lies concealed in a secret treasure room, reached by a hidden stairway. Gresham's will appoints John and Henry Collins, brothers of a law firm, to be the trustees and guardians of Ruth, who is to inherit the fortune when she comes of age. When the brothers have secured a glimpse of the treasure, its fascination overpowers them. They secretly plot to obtain possession of it. In their avarice, they neglect their business, which goes to ruin. Both move to the mansion to be near the wealth. Ruth, neglected and mistreated, is cared for only by the kind old butler, who has always looked upon the brothers with suspicion. Finally the brothers begin to suspect each other of appropriating the treasure. Mutual distrust soon breeds enmity. There is a quarrel and Henry leaves the mansion. He leaves behind a note on the mansion gate reading: "Beware, I shall return." This is found by John, who henceforth lives in constant terror lest the brother appear and kill him. Years later John a crabbed, miserly wretch; he refuses to allow either Ruth or Wicks near the treasure chamber. Ruth has blossomed into young womanhood, but through the stern decree of her irascible guardian seldom ventures beyond the confines of the estate. Finally John is stricken with heart trouble. Philip D'Arcy, a young physician, is called. Much against John's will, Philip decides to stay in the mansion until his patient has passed the danger mark. Gradually Philip begins to love Ruth. At the same time he is trying to solve the mystery surrounding the hidden wealth. Henry, the other brother, now a ragged wanderer, puts in an appearance. During Ruth and Philip's absence, Henry gains entrance into the mansion after struggling with Wicks and knocking him unconscious. A moment later John, in bed, sees Henry bending over him. Henry secures the keys to the treasure room and creeps down the stairway. John follows. A fierce fight between the gold-crazed brothers takes place. John presses a concealed button and precipitates Henry into a dungeon. Then John discovers the mansion has been set afire by a lantern which Henry had hurled at him. Philip, Ruth, and the villagers have now discovered the fire. Philip enters the mansion to try to rescue John. Ruth follows. Meanwhile John, groping in the smoke-filled treasure room, has fallen into the dungeon and lies dead, with Henry at the bottom of it. Philip is unable to find John and fights his way back through the flames to find that both Ruth and himself are trapped. After a struggle he carries Ruth to safety just as the mansion walls collapse. Wicks, the butler, is been resuscitated by villagers. Ruth, now convinced of Philip's bravery and love, consents to be his wife.
- Tillie inherits her aunt's fortune.