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Her Atonement Synopsis

John De Forrest, owner of a fashionable gambling den, seeks out fortune-possessing persons and through the aid of Lil, a beautiful but heartless blonde, lures them to his gambling den, where he rids them of their fortunes. In this manner, De Forrest lures a young millionaire named Jack Bryce, to his den, where Bryce loses all his fortune. Bryce feels his disgrace deeply and leaves for the west. He arrives in a mining town and is befriended by the minister because he saved his life. De Forrest, meanwhile, makes advances to Phillis, Bryce's sweetheart, and they marry. He gives Lil some money and tells her to go away. She arrives at the same town where Bryce is and engages herself as a singer in Gus Ward's gambling den. She becomes stranded and writes to De Forrest for more money. He refuses. She is very angry and informs against him. The police raid his place, but he kills a policeman and escapes. One night Bryce meets Lil in Gus's den and she tells him of De Forrest's schemes. Bryce returns home and finds the minister dead, who wills Bryce his entire fortune, provided he becomes a minister. Phillis, meanwhile, also arrives in the same town where Bryce and Lil are and is engaged in Lil's place. She meets Lil and they quarrel and are separated by Jack. He recognizes Phillis and shows her a notice of De Forrest's death. Seeing that, she marries him. A year later, De Forrest wanders into the same town, and sees Jack and Phillis with their baby. He is greatly angered and goes to Gus's den, where he meets Lil, who is now a charity worker. He wants her to take a note to Phillis demanding money or he will expose her, but she refuses. A quarrel follows in which De Forrest kills himself accidentally. Lil breathes a sigh of relief when she sees that she saved, by her atonement, the lives of two happy people.

A Trip to the Wonderland of America Synopsis

This fascinating region was set apart as a Government Reservation, to be known as Yellowstone Park, in 1S72. The park proper is about 62 miles long, from north to south, and 54 miles wide. While the tourist may reach the park entrance by rail, it has been decreed by Uncle Sam that beyond the Great Lava Arch Gateway the iron horse shall not trespass. So here leaving the pathway of steel we take our place on one of the six-horse coaches that run from Gardiner up to Mammoth Hot Springs. Coaching, Troops, Morris Basin, Great Fountain, Pack mules, Riverside Geyser, Old Faithful, Deer and Bear, Upper Falls, Canyon, Field Glasses. Standing on a balcony at Artist's Point we take up the field glass to have a tele-photo panorama of these weird walls with their clinging pine trees. We look down the Great Gorge. On either side walls of exquisite color rise with here and there pinnacle-like great church spires. Above our heads fly eagles who build their nests and raise their young on the top of these lofty peaks. The scene is a powerful one and beyond words, but the Great Falls add force and quality of action which tempers and dignities the whole scene. This enormous volume of water that looks like a curtain of lace, tumbles over a cliff of volcanic rock 310 feet. Here the traveler finds himself spellbound, held by the pure beauty of the scene. In turning away he pauses to marvel at the wonders of nature and the beauties of our great national playground.