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- Two men wearing boxing gloves prepare to spar in the Edison Company studio.
- "A glove contest between trained cats. A very comical and amusing subject, and is sure to create a great laugh." (by Edison Films)
- Two Mexican men duel with knives.
- Champion Lasso Thrower Vicente Oropeza (aka. Vincente Ore Passo/Bisento Orapeso/Vincenti Orapazza) shows his skills.
- The first brunette is outdoors, sweeping the street or a patio in front of a white wall, well lighted by the sunshine coming from the top left of the fixed camera; we may assume she is the Servant. A second brunette enters from the right, crosses to the left looking sideways at the Servant, and retraces her steps back - stepping over the dust and dead leaves collected by the work of the Servant; by the hat with a floral arrangement that tops her elaborate hairdo, the second woman is possibly the Lady. Both women are tall and well bodied, and are wearing white embroidered shirts and long dark round skirts that come to their ankles covered in black socks and dark leather shoes. The first Brunette menaces the second with the sweeping end of her broom but the second woman waves it aside with a large gesture of her left arm. The Servant throws away her tool, and they come to blows, slapping arms and forcing against each other by grabbing each other's shoulders and arms. Immediately, the fancy hat flies to the left of the camera, where it will remain for the rest of the action. The women quickly attempt to grab and pull hair. The Servant succeeds, and surprisingly wrenches off the wig the Lady was wearing, leaving her head partially bald. They keep churning against each other, until a Man enters from the right; he has a mustache and is wearing a gray round hat, black shoes, gray trousers and dark coat, approaches them, and forces the women apart with his arms. His clothes seem of bourgeois quality, so he may be the Lady's husband. His success in separating the battling women is at the cost of losing his own hat. The Servant goes after the Man, as the other brunette seems to understand her humiliating situation - and covers the top of her bald head with both hands clasped above. However, seeing how the Servant and the Man are now fighting, she seems amused, and laughs. The Lady comes forward and helps the Servant to shove the Man away. Without respite, the two women re-start battling again, and one grasps the sharp contrast between the «bald» Lady and the Servant's waved, waist long, massive mane of disheveled hair. The battle goes on, with the women waving their arms at each other (and laughing out of character). The Man gives up his good scout action, bends to pick up his hat, dusts it off, and replaces it on his head. As the Man leaves through the right, the two women let their arms fall by their sides, and stop the battle.
- "A reproduction in motion of the famous picture of this name. A duel with rapiers between two women who are rivals in love. The contestants with their seconds are seen going to the meeting place, where they partially disrobe for the fray. The duel ensues, and one of the combatants falls mortally wounded, much to the consternation and regret of her antagonist."
- "This picture is very notable from the fact that at the end of the scene, after the run-by of various engines and hose wagons, an engine was forced out of its course into the Biograph camera, smashing it to bits. The negative was saved out of the wreck and presents a remarkable photographic illusion, inasmuch as one who looks at it gets the effect at the end of the picture, of a fire engine at full tilt dashing directly toward him."
- A scene taken from the war play "Winchester," about to be placed upon the stage, in which the heroine is carrying a pardon to her lover, who is condemned to be shot. As she comes into view, mounted on a fleet horse, a soldier suddenly appears at the bend in the road and starts in pursuit of the girl. He overtakes her after they have galloped about half a mile, and as he endeavors to lift her from her horse she thrusts a revolver in his face and fires, when he falls heavily to the ground from his running horse, and the heroine, accompanied by the rider-less horse of the spy, passes out of the foreground of the picture. Both life-size. Very realistic, and sure to become very popular.
- The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
- Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet. Another resident appears upstairs. He jumps.
- The scene is a theatre stage with a painted panorama of French garden, with a central alley between lawns, with a couple of marble steps and balcony in front, and a line of trees in the background. Two young women step in front of this scenario, one in black, and the other in white knee-length skirts and sleeveless shirts. Both are curly blondes, keeping their hair in place by means of ribbons. They have 8-ounce boxing gloves (228 grams) well tied to their wrists. They box each other in fast, intuitive action, with not much protection. Most punches end on the opponent's leather clad fists, but several reach their bare arms, and they exchange at least 20 punches to head and chest, at close quarter and with considerable power, showing that both sisters had reasonable training in boxing, and were not afraid of taking punches themselves. The girl in black seems to dominate most of the 1m30s round, though near the end the girl in white does a courageous comeback # not enough to win, if points were awarded. The fight, or the film copy from which the tape was extracted, ends suddenly, after a solid head punch by the black skirted girl # but it's not enough to down her similarly strong opponent.
- A hungry vagabond snatches a wrapped leg of lamb and jumps into a large wooden barrel to hide. Will he get away scot-free?
- A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- Two rival blacksmiths fight over a woman, using sledgehammers.
- A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
- A fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.
- Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters. Two cops appear and so do dogs as the chase continues. Will the poachers escape, or will they, like the game they were after, be trapped?
- The "Patrol" is seen chasing a row-boat containing river pirates. The pirates are pulling at the oars with all their strength, but a few shots from the Police Boat weaken their nerves and they give up. When the "Patrol" comes up near them, it lowers a dory and a number of policemen make the capture. As the pirates are landed on the Police Boat a fierce fight takes place between them and the police, but the latter overcome the offenders and land them safely on the boat.
- Showing the daring explorer in a balloon endeavoring to find the North Pole. The Aurora Borealis is seen in all its beauty. Polar bears are seen walking to and fro on the ice and the frigid zone is truthfully and majestically depicted. Very fine.
- The trappers following shortly after discovering the clue and press on in pursuit, encouraged by the knowledge that the girl is probably still living.
- A number of boys and girls are trespassing, and on being discovered, they fly in all directions. This picture shows them coming full speed down a steep hill and jumping over an embankment. Some fall and scramble to their feet in a mad effort to escape. Last of all comes the farmer, who finally catches one of the boys and gives him a good drubbing. The action in this film is fine.
- The scene is a bedroom with classic flower patterned wallpaper, half a dozen small frames and a single bed to the left and a fireplace with a porcelain clock to the right. To the far right of the scene there is a chair and (not seen in the video transcript, probably) a table. The floor is covered by a large Persian rug and, in the middle of the room, conspicuously suspended from the ceiling, is a large punching ball and a couple of wire pulleys. A brunette is sleeping on the bed, wakes and stands up, dressed in a past the knee skirt and a sleeveless shirt. The girl should be a Physical Culture maniac, as without caring for her long hair, she starts the morning exercises. First, the Girl makes a biceps pose, then punches the ball in a fast, powerful frenzy, until the ball is caught up (off camera, either pulled by its string or accidentally caught on the pulleys' wires). Then, she picks up two clubs (the sort used in circus by hand dexterity artists) and plays with them in arm extension movements, whirling the clubs about. After putting the clubs down, she pulls at the springy wires, only to stop that and do a couple of flexing poses, arms and legs, and bending at the waist, first facing the camera, than with her back to it. The morning exercises end with a couple of push-ups on the right arm, facing the camera, followed by a couple of leg extensions.
- Here we see in the midst of a primeval forest, a little clearing and the rude log-house erected by the sturdy frontiersman. A little girl leaves the cabin, and tripping daintily along the forest path in her bare feet, goes to a neighboring spring for water. What she sees lurking in the shadowy thickets causes her to fly back to the cabin for her life. She has no sooner passed the threshold, slamming the door behind her, when a half dozen painted Indians burst into view in close pursuit. Immediately the long rifle-barrel of the pioneer protrudes from a loophole in the cabin wall. It speaks, and a savage leaps into the air and falls clutching the sod. The other Indians slink back, only to reappear an instant later crawling through the grass like snakes and pushing bundles of dry limbs and grass before them. The settler's rifle speaks again and again, but the savages succeed in pushing the combustible material against the house, and in an instant it is fiercely blazing.
- Track men on a hand trolley escape from an express train.
- The Indians come to their evening camp by the side of a forest stream. After a drink of clear water, they tie the little girl to a tree and prepare for their night's rest. The trappers are close upon them however, and with a wild yell the white men hurl themselves upon the Indians. A terrific hand-to-hand combat ensues, and the Indians are slain remorselessly. The little girl is quickly released from her bonds and, as the picture ends, she is in the arms of one of the brave trappers who have rescued her.
- Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
- A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one Russian vessel and sinking another.
- A staged crash between two outmoded locomotives given to the Edison Co. by the Pennsylvania Railroad for the express purpose of destroying them.
- This beautiful subject, so dear to the life of every American man, woman and child, will create enthusiasm unbounded and an encore will positively result from the exhibition thereof. The picture is made in 10 scenes, showing the Fireman's dream, the view of sleeping quarters of the brave fire laddies, the interior of the engine house, the apparatus leaving the house, the fire run and the arrival at the fire and the rescue of woman and innocent children, etc., etc. No more touching scene could be enacted than this, and none is more ready to do homage to the Firemen than the American who justly places the value of life above riches. Unlike any other position in the City Government's service, the firemen are considered in a class wholly by themselves. Great latitude is allowed them, and where one is seen, especially in a crowded building, no matter where, one feels that he is protected and that the danger has been reduced to a minimum. Note the fireman dozing in his armchair in the fire house, and one sees the dream depicted on the wall over his head. He dreams that his wife and child are probably in danger, and in fancy he sees his wife placing the child in its crib for the night. Disturbed by the dream, he awakens and paces the floor nervously until an alarm is sounded and the scene changes to the sleeping quarters of the men. They jump out of their cots, hastily don some of their clothing and slide down the pole erected in the centre of the room and which leads to the main floor below. Meanwhile the horses bound out of their stalls, place themselves in front of the apparatus and are secured thereto by the men who have reached the ground. The doors are opened and out they dash at breakneck speed, threatening danger to whoever may place himself in their way. Then note the fire run, the greatest ever yet produced. One after another they dash by with almost lightning rapidity, until the very earth trembles with vibration from the iron hoofs of the grand horses, who appear to know that they are on an errand of mercy. They arrive at the fire, and immediately is seen the hook and ladder being placed in position, the firemen mounting the ladder, carrying the hose with which they finally extinguish the blaze, but not before they rescue several inmates of the burning dwelling, including a number of children. No more realistic picture could be imagined or offered to the public, who, without exception, praise the heroic efforts of the fire fighters, and applaud again and again. No picture show is complete without one of these marvelous life motion headliners.
- This picture is truly what its name implies. A large apartment house interior on the ground floor is seen in the opening, when the porter is seen to receive the mail for the tenants from the postman. He ascends the stairs, meanwhile dusting the walls and balustrade, and in vain endeavors to read some of the letters through the envelopes, but while he cannot discern the exact contents of the letters, he peeps in the keyhole of every room and discovers many interesting things that appear to occupy his mind and afford him much merriment. He finally reaches the top floor, but on looking through the keyhole of the room on that floor, he discovers the tenant thereof enveloped in flames in his mad endeavor to extinguish a fire. The porter rushes down stairs to give the alarm, but meanwhile the man on fire bursts from the room and falls in a faint. By this time the firemen have arrived and they proceed to carry the hose through the house directly to the fire on the top floor. One fireman hero seizes the burning man while several others rescue women and children from the different rooms now filled with smoke and about to burst into flame. The firemen haul their apparatus right into the large hallway, where they finally extinguish the fire. Very exciting.
- In this parody of 1903's _Great Train Robbery, The (1903)_, also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police officers.
- A romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman's daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the tracks to be run over. The engineer perches on the engine's cow catcher and rescues the girl.
- Moonshiners and revenuers confront each other in a shootout. The head mountaineer is killed, but his wife retaliates by shooting the deputy.
- Originally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.
- Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. The butcher is afraid and upset, but he is unable to meet their demands. The gang then kidnaps his daughter, leading to a series of tense and dangerous confrontations.
- Scene 1: Father and Son Leaving for Business: The president and his son go to the office. Scene 2: Betraying His Father's Confidence: While the father is busy, the boy steals to gamble. Scene 3: Lost Again: With the ill gotten money he goes to a race track. He bets and loses again. Scene 4: Planning the Robbery: Fearing exposure and not knowing how to replace the stolen money, he decides to hold up the pay-train. Scene 5: Delivering the Money to the Paymaster: When the money is delivered to the Paymaster the son follows him with companions to whom he entrusted his scheme. Scene 6: Disguised as Workmen: The four Gentlemen Robbers disguise themselves as workmen. They walk the trail until they come to the place which they have selected for the pay-train robbery. Scene 7: Preparing the Tram Robbery: The robbers cut the rails, lay a wood plank across the rails, and thus bring the train to wreckage. Scene 8: Wiring the Disaster: Train-Master is seen wiring the disaster to the station. Scene 9: Rover Flags the Superintendent's Train: The telegraph line being cut the flagman sends his dog to flag the train. Scene 10: Captured: Luckily nobody has been hurt. The robbers are captured, and brought before the president of the railroad. The old man is nearly overcome with grief when he finds one of the robbers to be his son.
- It is time of war. The canons are tendering incessantly from the man-of-wars besieging the town, and the forts on shore are answering back. The admiral is having a war council with some of the officers in the great cabin. The point is to get hold of some important papers, which are in the foe's possession on shore. Two young officers at once volunteer to undertake this perilous expedition. They disguise themselves as fishermen and go on shore in a rowboat. They get luckily through the outposts and reach safely the cottage where the general has taken up his quarters. While the officers are discussing, both the spies are listening, upstairs. An ordinance is bringing a report, which causes all the officers to leave the cottage. At once the two desperadoes set to work, sawing a hole into the ceiling, through which one of them jumps down into the room and gets hold of the important paper. He has just handed this to his friend, as the officers return. He has not time enough to get away, but hides himself beneath the sofa. The theft is discovered at once, the spy is found, and for a moment it looks bad enough for the daring man. But then shooting is heard from the spy upstairs, a moment's confusion arises, and he succeeds in escaping. Outside the house a fighting detains him, so that he cannot get away, but he has a firm hand and is also this time successful. Now it goes through the streets at a rattling pace, but not fast enough for our hero. A motorcar is rushing by, he jumps into it, and is in this way carried some long distance. He gets on board and delivers the document, but he cannot wait for the admiral to thank him; he must be off again to save his friend, who has been imprisoned. Outside the prison walls he jumps into a common sewer, goes through all the stinking passages, all the time knocking at the stones, until a soft knocking is answering him back. When he has assured himself that his friend is inside he at once sets to work to rock out a big stone. After having worked awhile he has made a hole big enough for the officer to creep through. For a moment the two desperadoes are embracing one another, and then they set out for the admiral's ship. The two heroes are now again standing in the great cabin, this time to get their reward. In front of the jubilant crew the admiral is decorating the young officers with the medal for bravery.
- A complete performance of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO filmed as a stage play with curtains between the five acts: Act I. "The Sailor's Return," Act II. "Twenty Years Later," Act III. "Dantes Starts on His Mission of Vengeance," Act IV. "Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo," Act V. "Dantes Accuses His Enemies," and "finis" at the end. This is the oldest known film of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Also, it depicts the oldest known film of the San Diego coast.
- On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing. A gypsy basket peddler happens along, and is angered when the mother refuses to buy his wares. He attacks mother and daughter but is driven off by the father. Later the gypsy sneaks back and kidnaps the girl. A rescue party is organized but the gypsy conceals the child in a 30 gallon barrel which he precariously places on the tail of the wagon. He and his gypsy-wife make their getaway by fording the river with the wagon. The barrel, with Dollie still inside, breaks free, tumbling into into the river; it starts floating toward the peril of a nearby waterfall . . .
- A laundry man parks his horse-drawn cart to make a delivery. While he is inside, his horse sees a bag of oats and starts to eat them. By the time the man comes back outside, the horse has eaten a whole bag of oats, and has so much energy that he begins to race out of control.
- A family is terrified when an eagle carries off its young child.
- Alongside of a beautiful mountain stream in the foothills of Colorado there camped a Sioux Indian, who besides being a magnificent type of the aboriginal American, is a most noble creature, as kind-hearted as a woman and as brave as a lion. He eked his existence by fishing, hunting and mining, having a small claim which he clandestinely worked, hiding his gains in the trunk of an old tree. It is needless to say that he was beloved by those few who knew him, among whom was a little boy, who was his almost constant companion. One day he took the little fellow to his deposit vault, the tree trunk, and showed him the yellow nuggets he had dug from the earth, presenting him with a couple of them. In the camp there were a couple of low-down human coyotes, who would rather steal than work. They had long been anxious to find the hiding place of the Indian's wealth, so capture the boy, and by beating and torture compel him to disclose its whereabouts. In the meantime there has come to the place a couple of surveyors who enlist the services of the Indian to guide them to the hilltop. Here they arrive, set up their telescope and start calculations. An idea strikes them to allow the Indian to look through the 'scope. He is amazed at the view, so close does it bring the surrounding country to him. While his eye is at the glass one of the surveyors slowly turns it on the revolving head until the Indian starts back with an expression of horror, then looks again, and with a cry of anguish dashes madly away down the mountain side, for the view was enough to freeze the blood in his veins. Arriving at the old tree trunk, his view through the telescope is verified, for there is the result he improvised bank rifled, and the old grandfather of the little boy, who had followed the miscreants murdered. Picking the old man up he carries his lifeless form back to the camp, reaching there just after the murderers, with the boy, had decamped in a canoe. Laying the body on the sands and covering it tenderly with his shawl he stands over it and solemnly vows to be avenged. What a magnificent picture he strikes as he stands there, his tawny skin silhouetted against the sky, with muscles turgid and jaws set in grim determination. It is but for a moment he stands thus, yet the pose speaks volumes. Turning quickly, he leaps into a canoe at the bank and paddles swiftly after the fugitives. On, on goes the chase, the Indian gaining steadily on them, until at last abandoning hope, they leave their canoe and try to wade to shore as the Indian comes up. Leaping from his boat he makes for the pair, seizing one as the other swims to the opposite shore. Clutching him by the throat the Indian forces his head beneath the surface of the water and holds it there until life is extinct, after which he dashes in pursuit of the other. This proves to be a most exciting swimming race for a life. They reach the other shore almost simultaneously, and a ferocious conflict takes place on the sands terminating in the Indian forcing his adversary to slay himself with his own dagger. Having now fulfilled his vow he leaps into the water and swims back to the canoe in which sits the terrified boy, and as night falls he paddles slowly back to camp.
- George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her. You may be sure he is indignantly repulsed by Gladys and ordered from the house for his presumption by her father. With pique he leaves, and we next find him in his own room, crushed and disappointed, for he realizes the truth: "Good enough as a hero, but not as a husband." What was the use of his struggle? As he reasons, his long suppressed nature asserts itself and he hears the call of the wild: "Out there is your sphere, on the boundless plains, careless and free, among your kind and kin, where all is truth." Here he sits; this nostalgic fever growing more intense every second, until in a fury he tears off the conventional clothes he wears, donning in their stead his suit of leather, with blanket and feathered headgear. Thus garbed, and with a bottle of whiskey, he makes his way back to his former associates in the wilds. He plans vengeance and the opportunity presents itself, when he surprises Gladys out horseback riding. He captures her after a spirited chase and intended holding her captive, but she appeals to him, calling to his mind the presence of the All Powerful Master above, who knows and sees all things, and who is even now calling to him to do right. He listens to the call of this Higher Voice, and helping her to her saddle, sadly watches her ride off homeward.
- Kate Nelson, a girl miner who has been working a claim in the mountains, runs into the office of the frontier hotel with the tidings that she has at last struck paydirt, showing a bag of valuable nuggets to admiring friends. Having just returned from the appraiser's office, and it being late, she puts up at the hotel for the night. In the office at Kate's arrival there is a Mexican woman who has just lost her money at Faro. At sight of Kate's gold she becomes desperate and at once plans to secure it. Kate is shown to a room, and is soon asleep with the bag of yellow nuggets reposing under her pillow. Suddenly the face of the Mexican woman is seen at the window, and she has little trouble in forcing it open. Her intrusion awakens Kate, but she overpowers her and gains the gold in the struggle. Kate manages to fire her revolver, with a view to bring aid, but all too late, for the thief makes good her escape, leaving behind on the door an incriminating mantilla, which discovers the identity of the culprit. A chase is made after the fugitive, the hotel clerk, friend of Kate's, leading the way. This poor fellow, however, is dropped in his tracks by a bullet from the woman's gun in ambush. Distancing her pursuers, the Mexican woman comes upon an Indian girl, who, with her half-breed husband, are camped alongside the river. The Red Girl bides the Mexican woman and throws the searching posse on the wrong trail. In return for the kindly act on the part of the Red Girl, the Mexican woman plies her wiles on the half-breed husband, not only taking him away, but inducing him to kill his wife. To this end they plan a torture. Binding her hands and feet, they take her to a large trunk of a dead tree, which overhangs the river, and here they hang her, like Tantalus, suspended between water and sky. With her teeth she manages to free one of her hands and with an ornament on her necklace contrives to saw the rope and drop into the water. Swimming to the shore she again meets Kate and her friends, and volunteers to become their guide in running down the miscreants, who have embarked in a canoe and are rapidly paddling down the river. Into another canoe the pursuers leap and are soon shortening the distance between themselves and the scoundrels, until at length they come up with them, and a hand-to-hand conflict ensues, during which both canoes are capsized, and a terrific struggle in the water ends with the overpowering of the pair and arrest of the Mexican Jezebel. The dip in the river has evidently chilled the half-breed's ardor for the Mexican woman, for he tries to return to the Red Girl, but she repulses him, and we leave her and Kate standing on the cliff, enfolded in each other's arms, bathed in the golden rays of a setting sun. Indeed a most beautiful scene.
- The Zulu chief of the Amatabele tribe has an only daughter who dies of fever at age 4; in the opening scene of this Biograph story he is burying her. Scarcely has the poor bereft father laid the little one in the ground, when the war cry is heard resounding in the hills. There is an uprising and the chief is summoned to action. Tearing himself from the grave of his little girl, he arms himself with his assegai and oxhide shield and is soon at the head of his band of savages, with sinister designs on the Boers. The Boers themselves have become active, and scouts have been sent out to warn those nomadic South Africans who might be on the road. One family, comprising a Boer, his wife and a four-year-old girl, is trapped, and despite extreme measures to elude the merciless black brutes, soon overtaken. Finding escape hopeless, the Boer leaps from his wagon, and sending his wife and child into the woods, seizes his rifle, in the vain hope of holding the savages at bay while the woman and child seek a place of safety. There is a shower of assegais, one of which pierces the poor fellow, dropping him into the road. Up rush the prancing, jibbing, gibbering barbarians. Finding the man dead, they rush on to find the others. The distracted woman hides the girl in a niche in the rooks, while she goes to find some avenue of escape, but she is at once apprehended and taken by the band to their camp, their chief remaining behind. The baby now comes forward to appeal to the Zulu, who is so reminded by her of his own lost treasure that his cruel nature at once softens as the little one offers her dollie as ransom for her mother. The chief is so moved that he vows to save the mother's life, if it costs him his own. Placing the little one in a crevice in the rocks, where she soon falls asleep, he goes to find the mother. Arriving at the camp, he demands the release of the woman, which his followers grant with protests. Back he goes to get the child, but the wily devils have anticipated him and carried her off. He soon overtakes them, however, and after slaying three in a terrific conflict, delivers the child to its mother, and then sees them safely to their destination. The subject is a beautiful story of parental affection, portrayed in a most novel manner, besides being intensely thrilling.
- Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coast. The waters of the sea have been infested with a band of gold-thirsty pirates, who pillaged every ship that came their way. Having successfully perpetuated one of their nefarious exploits, they are struck by a storm and forced to put out from their floundering vessel in a small yawl, in which they place a chest of valuables, for the shore. Thrown up on the coast by the voluminous waves, they disembark; there are three of them, the chief and two underlings. Taking the chest to a place of safety, they proceed to divide the spoils. A contention arises, and the two turn on their chief, who strikes down one of them at once, but is stabbed in the back by the other, whom he afterwards strangles. Gathering up the treasure, he struggles along, his life's blood oozing from the wound inflicted by the mutinous pirate, until he comes to the cottage of Wilkinson. A terrific storm is still raging and the poor old mother is trying to shut out the force of the gale when the chief staggers in. He begs her to hide the gold, which she does by dislodging several bricks in the fireplace and placing the treasure behind them. This is hardly done when the pirate chief drops dead from the loss of blood and the poor woman is felled by lightning. Hence, the hiding place is seemingly an eternal secret. What a sad home-coming it is for the son, after his success abroad. A year later, however, we find him a happy bridegroom and the sun again shines on the household. But eight years later he is stricken ill, with nothing in store for his wife and little one. The process server has seized the effects, and despondingly he goes to the kitchen to put an end to his unendurable existence. The good wife, suspicious, follows and just as he puts a pistol to his head she strikes his arm, causing the bullet to crash into the fireplace, splintering the bricks and disinterring the hidden treasure.