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On the Fighting Line Synopsis

Joe Britt, a poor Georgia farmer is caught in the draft net, and reports for service under General Lee. His motherless daughter, Jane , does a man's work in the fields a life of drudgery under the strong arm of her foster mother who is a Yankee and is not in sympathy with the Confederate spirit of patriotism. Unable to endure this life, Jane disguises herself as a boy and sets out for the front to find her father's regiment. On the way she encounters a Northern spy who shares his food with her. Arriving at the front, Jane enlists and is detailed for night picket duty. She is caught sleeping at her post and is sentenced to be shot, but escapes and again meets the Northern spy who entrusts her with an important message to the Northern general. She captured by the Northerners, and later escapes, making her way to the Confederate camp. With the information which she brings, the Confederates turn the table on the Yankees and win a decisive victory. Jane discards her male attire and remains in the Confederate camp as a field nurse. Gregg, the Yankee spy, is seriously wounded and made a prisoner of war. Jane nurses him back to health and promises to wed him after the war is over.

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.