Moving Picture World (Jul-Sep 1911)

830 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD HIT. As time goes on (lie culprit wins the favor of the girl, but his conscience conjures up accusing visions of the <le:icl man until, mad from fear, lie leaps otT the very cliff from which his rival met his death. ■TINY TOM WINS A LOTTERY PRIZE" (Sept. 13). — A delightful story, aided by Hie tiniest a. -tor In Europe. The winning of a rich prize transforms him Into a clch man, and he starts out to enjoy life. lie has some galla&l advent ures, Including a fierce duel with a jealous husband. SOLAX. HER UNCLE'S WILL (Sept. 13).— Ethel Newcomb, a pretty; Southern girl, is engaged lo Frank Matiow, and they are about to be married. A few days before the wedding she receives news that her uucle, John Waring, has died and left her a large fortune, under the condition, however, that she marry the overseer of her uncle's plantation, Duncan Hale. Should she refuse to marry Hale, she Is to lose the money, but should Hale refuse to marry her, she Is to get the money. She talks the matter over with her sweetheart, and they are very much perplexed as to what is lust to be done. Ethel's young brothet, Bob, however, comes to the rescue by suggesting that he dress himself as a girl with an unattractive wig, etc., and make love to the overseer, Duncan Hale. This plan is successfully carried out, and Bob makes himself such an unattractive female that the overseer abandons the money and escapes in disgust. They ultimately get him to sign a paper, refusing to marry Ethel Newcomb under the conditions of the will, after which they are happily married, and all ends merrily. THE ALTERED MESSAGE (Sept. 15).— Nellie Grant, the popular daughter of the commanding officer at Fort Heno, has singled out Captain West as the successful suitor. She happens in the telegraph room just as the sergeant has received a message commanding her father to put his entire regiment in the field to capture a band of smugglers. The message directs the Colonel to leave Captain Dean in command of the post. Nellie realizes this will take her lover away, and In a spirit of mischief, she alters the message, to leave Captain West at the post, instead of Captain Dean. Later the Colonel receives a telegram asking the name of the officer he left in charge of the post. He realizes a serious mistake has been made, and sends an officer back to the post to place Captain West under arrest and return with him at once. Nellie, horrified at what has occurred, insists upon accompanying the officer and her lover back to the field headquarters. On the way the trio is attacked by Mexican smugglers and Nellie departs post-haste for aid. She makes a thrilling dash for the field camp, and on the way meets her father and Captain Standing. The Colonel directs the Captain to return to his troop and immediately proceed to the rescue of the two Imperiled officers. REX. FAITH (Sept. 14).— The Rev. Barton loses faith in the gospel he preaches, and determines to eon* tinue his hyprocrisy no longer. He resigns from the church, and leaving a note to his wife and child, he goes out into the world, choosing its wide path of thorns and throes, of sneers and tears. He drifts West and once again resumes man's old battle with the earth, not for its life-sustaining fruits and foods, but for the yellow gold which through the ages has made hearts yellow, hands red, souls black. I ia.\s — and human hearts — break; days — and human hopes — wane; five years elapse. The barren battle is won. He finds gold, but it does not bring him the happiness he bartered for it, and he determines to return to civilization and find contentment in the cities. In making the trip across country, he falls from his horse and injures himself, and he is compelled to seek shelter in a miner's hut. The Country round about is famous — or infamous — for the daring desperadoes that infest it, and Barton, suspicious of his host, is on the alert to discover any treachery, or deceit. lie does not partake of the I I Offered him. and when the miner and his family retire, lie prepares to stay awake and watch bis gold. Sitting moodily before the fireplace, he hears the miner's little daughter reciting her prayers. At once his fears vanish, his suspicions disappear. "They are people of God!" he cries. "They are pure!" Then — he asks himself the question that has harassed man since the first of him Saw the dim light, the answer to which we can find nowhere but within ourselves. Why, because they read the Bible, did be lose fear? And the answer eoines to his heart; he hears "the small still voice." the wandering music of the world. lie echo of Infinity, and the realization conies to him when faith comes, fear goes. The next morning he departs, and returns to the scene of his former life. His wife and child had strayed away; he seeks them, ami some Power causes him to find, Kate itself is conquered by Faith, GREAT NORTHERN. THE CONSPIRATORS (Sept. 16).— Mr. Wilson, a solicitor, receives a wire from a client who is a continued invalid, asking him to call upon him and arrange tor the disposal of his stocks and shares. When the wire arrives. Mrs. Wilson is at the office. Bidding adieu to her, her husband accom panies her to the street. His clerk, who Is a mem ber of a noted gang of scoundrels, during his ab aence reads the telegram ami hastily prepares message to the gang, apprising them that there 1 a good haul to be made. His first epistle does not suit him, and he crumples this up and throws It on the lloor. This ultimately brings about his undoing. The clerk leaves the office and joins his confederates, and soon their plans are matured. As Mr. Wilson is hailing a cab preparatory to calling on ills client, the gang overpower him and confine him in a dungeon at old Mother S's. Armed with his employer's bag, the clerk then proceeds to call on the client. At the solicitor's office, however, a trusted servant has picked up the iucriminatiug note which says that Wilson must be robbed. He Informs Mrs. Wilson, and then Sherlock Holmes Is called in. He speedily determines on a course of action, and going to the client, takes that gentleman's place, and is disguised to represent the infirm old man. When the clerk calls, Sherlock Holmes overpowers him, and makes him a prisoner. He then disguises himself as the clerk, and goes to the place where Wilson is detained, and liberates him. The other members of the gang rush in, but are covered by the detective's pistols. Suddenly one of them pulls a cord by the window and Sherlock Holmes disappears into space below. But the police arrive and overpower the ruffians. They are forced to disclose Holmes's whereabouts, and eventually the robbers are consigned to durance vile, and Wilson is restored to his family. THANHOUSER. THE LIE (Sept. 19). — A young artist and a business man be thought his best friend, were both suitors for the same girl, and the artist won. The broker concealed his rage under the mask of friendship, and the happy couple never dreamed that he was secretly planning revenge. The broker had a stenographer, an orphan girl, who was the sole support of her little sister. The stenographer was in financial difficulties and the broker by accident discovered it. So he proposed to the girl that she aid him in a "little joke," promising that If she did so he would give her, what to her was a large sum of money. Her share in the plot was that she be in the artist's room at a certain hour when the artist would be there, he not knowing of her presence. To strengthen his scheme, the broker induced the stenographer to write a fervid love note, presumably meant for the artist. The broker's plot worked to a charm. He managed to secure a wax impression of his rival's doorkey, made a duplicate of it, and gave it to the stenographer. Then he waited his time. While calling at the girl's house, ostensibly to play chess with ber father, he beard the artist tell bis sweetheart that he would have to go home early as he had important work to do. A telephone message enabled the broker to instruct the stenographer to reach the house ahead of the artist, and she concealed herself in an inside room. The note, dropped on the reception room floor was found by the engaged girl, as the broker had planned it, and she hurried off to confront her supposedly recreant lover. The stenographer was found in the room and the explanations of the mystified artist were disbelieved. The girl haughtily broke her engagement and the man who had wrecked two lives was happy over the success of his infamous scheme. But th?re is generally some little thing that a criminal overlooks that spells defeat in the hour of , his apparent triumph. The stenographer and her sister were passengers on a boat, and the artist, broken-hearted and dispirited, was there, too. The little sister fell overboard and the plucky artist, risking his own life, dived over and saved her. The stenographer realized that the man she had wronged had dared death to help a child, and one that was very dear to her. She did not dare to tell him what she had done, but visited the other woman. To her she confessed everything, blaming the broker, who was present, as the author of the plot. The artist sat in his studio, too unhappy to work. Life held but little for him, he thought. But in the hour of his darkest dejection, the woman he loved best in the world entered, confessed that she had misjudged him and promised that if he forgave her, they would go through life together, hand in hand, loving, loyal partners. And the efforts that had been made to part them, in the end, only brought them more firmly together. THE HONEYMOONERS (Sept. 22),— A celebrated man wl o was married five times said on one Occasion, "the most trying thing about getting married is the fool tricks one's fool friends play." And he knew what he was talking about. A young couple, found to their horror that their kind acquaintances, not content with the usual rice and old shoes, had captured their wedding coach, and decorated it so that everyone would be "wise" to the newlyweds. So the young couple decided to foil them. While the groom chatted with the guests, the bride cautiously made her escape by the back door and rolled off to the station in an auto, her husband having agreed to meet her there. And the wedding guests were surprised when the groom rushed out alone, and they saw that the laugh was on them and not on the young couple. But fate sometimes plays unexpected tricks. The bride was on the platform when the train pulled in. but the bridegroom tarried. His taxi broke down and he had to sprint all the way to the station. He arrived In time to motion his bride to get on the train. She did so, but he turned a graceful somersault and when he regained bis feet the train hud pulled out. The bride, carried away, finds her woes increasing. She has no money, no tickets, nothing but sorrow. The conductor listens to her gravely, and then puts her off at the next station. Knowing that her husband will undoubtedly take the next train, the bride tramps over the ties, hoping somehow and in some way to reach the city and join him. In the meantime the unhappy bridegroom finds that the next train will not come along for hours. There is nothing to do except to wait and he does so. Then when the train is a few miles out it is held up by a freight wreck, and the young man decided that a honeymoon is sometimes worse than a nightmare. The wreck was cleared away in time and the train continued along. The husband in the car was telling a sympathetic acquaintance of his unhappy lot. Suddenly he looked out of the window and saw a little woman crouched by the side of the track, tear-stained and miserable. He recognized her as the bride he bad vowed to love and cherish. Under the circumstances there was only one thing that he could do, and he did it. He pulled the bellrope and stopped the train regardless of the indignation and horror of the crew. 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