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The Agonies of Agnes Synopsis

Aggie is a tiny tot, weighing some two hundred, with a fondness for mixed ale. Her father is a baker, who hands out plaster of Paris bread to the poor and her mother is constantly in tears over the agonies of Agnes. Cuthbert Caramel, Aggie's wooer, comes to call with a bouquet for her. Aggie is overjoyed, makes love to Cuthbert and floors him with her tempestuous embrace. On that fatal visit, Aggie discovers the one weakness of the otherwise perfect Cuthbert - he takes snuff. She at once has another agony, her young heart is about to break. She sends him from her, crying, "Must this love depart from my life?" Then she "ags" considerably till her distracted father and mother give her mixed ale and she is herself again, though a bit woozy. The villain is the Itching Mitt, served by a gang of 12 desperate followers who pass their idle time knitting. The Itching Mitt resolves to become the husband of Aggie's money, summons his gang to his for be-draped den and reveals his dark plot to "get" Aggie by putting Beevo into her ale. So on the fatal evening when Cuthbert is calling on Aggie and they chew a stick candy from the box he has brought her, the Mitt calls as a representative of the Food Commission. Aggie is taken with the handsome stranger and Cuthbert departs in a huff. The Mitt offers Aggie ale, slyly drops Beevo into her glass and she succumbs. He summons the waiting gang, who leap in at the window and make off with the limp Aggie, down over the front porch via two large and conspicuous ladders. They toss her into a wagon and rush her to the den of the Mitt. There Aggie comes to, "ags" considerably, to the amusement of the gang, who "agg" her on till the Mitt sets about subduing her proud spirit. She wallops the Mitt and all the gang, till they bind her and give her the ale torture - setting the ale in sight, without allowing her to drink, till the maddened woman promises to marry Mitt and he lets her drink. Meantime the father and mother find the note left by Mitt in their parlor, call the great detective and break the news to Cuthbert who is overcome. The great detective reaches the den of the Mitt armed with powerful Limburger cheese, whose virtues he has been investigating for long time. With the cheese in his hand and a clothes pin on nose, the detective bursts into the Mitt's den, followed closely by the trembling Cathbert. Just as the Mitt proclaims in triumph, while Aggie swills ale, "She's mine - Cheese Mine!" the cheese overcomes the Mitt and his gang and Aggie falls into the arms of her Cathbert.

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.