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COMEDY.
sympathetic and melodramatic sides. In this production we have a little of everything. The synopsis of the picture is as follows:
Opening1 scene shows a young man with his sweetheart in a love quarrel, terminating in the parting of the two, she giving him back his engagement ring, telling him everything is off between them. The young man, who is deadly in love with the girl, parts with suicidal intent. You next see him at a lonely spot determined on killing himself. After writing a note to his lady love, he fires the shot that puts him into the other world. Policemen come upon the scene, and, after driving the mob back, carry him away.
The next part of the picture shows a masher getting the worst of it. A young lady is seen leaving the grocery store, where she has purchased a bag of flour, and starts on her way home. A young, flippant youth, thinking he can make a hit, starts in to annoy her and offers to escort her. As the young lady does not want any of him, she tells him to run along and sell his papers, but our friend will not take no for an answer, and insists on talking
to her. Finally the young lady's ire is aroused, and she gives Mr. Masher the contents of the bag of flour over his handsome personage, and he is certainly a sight when he passes the front of the camera.
The next scene shows the sneak thief plying his trade. An old maid is seen coming down the street carrying her hand purse, but she has not walked far when a suspicious-looking character starts in closely following her. After following her until he gets to a convenient spot, he makes one dive for the pocketbook. He gets it and he gets something else, as the old maid was not as easy as he thought. She pursues and finally gets him, and her scream attracts a passing policeman, and what they both do to him is a caution.
We next turn our attention to a usual happening between newspaper merchants. One youngster you see standing on the corner 'tending to his newspaper business and selling his papers to pedestrians. Another boy in the same business rushes in ahead of boy No. 1 and makes a sale. This causes the fight, and the two newspaper merchants start in a good fisticuff fight, which we have all experienced in our youth. Mr. Peacemaker steps in, and for his kindly interest in trying to separate the two boys he gets the worst of it, as they usually do. One newsboy gets on his hands and knees behind him, while the other violently throws him over. Then they chase away and become friends once more.
We next picturize a holdup, which nightly occurs in every great city. In this picture the two highwaymen hide behind the stone steps and hold up a passing business man; but their victim is not as timid as they expected, and the point of a gun in his face does not take away his nerve, for with one band be knocks the gun down and with the other lands a blow on the ruffian who is riding his pocket. A battle then ensues between the two ruffians and the
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