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A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.

Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.

Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.

T. Haviland Hicks contracts an intimate friendship with Theophilus. They are freshmen. Hicks is saturated with good humor. Theophilus' main characteristic is timidity and the least excitement makes him faint. The sophomores, indignant at Hick's abuse of the banjo, prepare to haze him. Theophilus overhears their scheme and warns Hicks. Hicks hurls a defy at the sophomores to the effect that they are welcome to haze him, but if they fail to do so, Theophilus and himself are to be secure from hazing for all time. They accept the defy and on the appointed night repair to his room wrapped up in pillow cases. Hicks smashes the drop light against the wall and the room is steeped in darkness. When a light is secured, Hicks is not to be found and the sophomores conclude that he has dived through the window. In fact, he is right among them, wrapped up in a pillow case. The duped sophomores plan to avenge themselves. Hicks gets wind of their scheme and awaits developments with absolute calm. On the fated night the sophomores drag Hicks out of bed and carry him off to their lair. They proclaim him to be the original "missing link" and urge him to do an imitation of a monkey; but he dives through a window into a tennis net held ready for the purpose by a number of freshmen. The pursuing sophomores encounter a superior number of freshmen and are roughly handled. Thereupon the sophomores post a defy, daring Hicks and his class to substitute the freshman colors for the sophomore colors, which will be found floating from the flag pole at a stated hour. Hicks dons a coat of mail, disguises Theophilus as a gorilla and succeeds in routing the sophomores and hoisting the freshman colors. Hicks becomes the most famous man at college. Moving Picture World, September 1, 1917

A scenic taken on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation.

Once in a country called Happyland there lived a good and wise King. To his beautiful daughter, Princess Loree, the King presents a priceless pearl necklace. A mysterious stranger arrives. He meets the Princess and they fall in love at first sight. He reveals to her that he comes from a country where the people are forever in gloom and he is here to learn the secret of happiness. He meets with a number of adventures which teach him some of the principles of happiness, but not its Master Secret. One day a goblin takes the necklace and brings it to his chief, who hides it in the wall of the Goblin's Cave. The Princess and the people are grief-stricken and the stranger decides to find it. He enters the Enchanted Woods and after a series of adventures reaches a secret passage which leads him into the Cave of the Goblins. The chief of the goblins promises to return the necklace if the stranger will brave any perils that may confront him. The latter consents and passes undaunted through them all. He obtains the necklace and returns it to the Princess, whose happiness is restored. The King is willing to give him half his kingdom as a reward, but all the stranger asks is to be allowed to speak to the Princess one hour every day for seven days. At the end of the seventh day he leaves, promising to return shortly. Weeks pass. The King informs the Princess the newly-crowned King of Roseland is coming to pay homage to Happyland and that she better don her finest apparel and help him entertain the illustrious guest. The King of Roseland arrives and the Princess is happy, for in him she recognizes the Stranger. She inquires if he has discovered the Master Secret. He answers in the affirmative, saving true happiness consists in deeds that bring happiness to others, and in the realization of one's ideals, love crowning all.

Newspaper clerk wants to be a detective, uses a missing finger clue to catch a murderer.

Chris, a student, ambitious in his own way but resisting tutors, was always in trouble until, at an auction sale, he purchased an old Oriental lamp because of its odd design, not dreaming that it was possessed of magical powers which he discovered when he began polishing it. A huge slave appeared, told him the lamp was his master and that he was prepared to obey any command that its owner, Chris, might give. As a test Chris bade the slave to transform himself into another Chris. He then sent the double of himself to school, where he was made to take the thrashings intended for Chris and to serve as the butt of many jokes and experiences meant for the real Chris. When the genie finally decides that he does not relish serving as Chris' double, the real trouble and fun begins, involving Chris' father and mother, teachers, family doctor, and farcical mix-ups develop with great rapidity. The doings of "Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" in the days of the Twentieth Century rival the best of Arabian Night tales.

A Native Woman dies, and a town of men take in her orphaned daughter.

Jonah Morpheus liked his bed so well that it was almost impossible to get him up in the morning. The schemes utilized to get him out of bed provide a laugh in every foot of this film. In the finale Jonah is for once landed at his work on time, but in a most unusual unnatural manner.

This subject reviews the life of the marine. At the Culver Naval School the day begins at six o'clock. The morning is spent in such exercises as boxing, racing, scaling fences and playing tennis. This is followed by a Cutter Drill. In the afternoon a race is usually held between cutters. Water sports play an important part in the life of a marine. The film shows the men giving remarkable exhibitions of fancy diving, sliding down the chute, and of the unique "chain dive." It ends with a series of scenes which show that marines are not only sailors, but crack soldiers as well.

A duel in France in which the Chevalier de la Roche kills the Vicomte de Valdeterre, results in an ongoing feud between the two families. Years later, in New Orleans, Valdeterre's son Henri arranges a duel with the son of the Chevalier de la Roche, known as the Little Chevalier. Overwhelmed at the swordsmanship of the Little Chevalier, Henri faints and, upon regaining consciousness, leaves the de la Roche estate. Later, at a ball held at the governor's mansion, Henri meets Diane, the daughter of the late Chevalier and, smitten, begins to court her. This arouses the jealousy of Delaup, who is the governor's secretary and an ardent suitor of Diane's. Delaup discovers a royal proclamation sent to Henri, granting him the power to seize the de la Roche estate, and attempts to use the document to force Diane to marry him. In response, Diane sends for Henri, and when he arrives, he finds the Little Chevalier waiting to duel. Henri's refusal to fight is met with the Little Chevalier removing his cloak to reveal that he is really Diane. The long term feud between the two families is then ended with Diane and Henri's marriage.

At a modern American military school the old "three R's" of "readin, 'ritin and 'rithmetic" have been supplemented by a fourth, riding. This picture shows scenes of young America at the Culver Military Academy. The Culver cavalry troops starts on a two-day hike, and the boys, after getting their horses in shape, set forth. Interesting "shots" of them as they progress on their journey illustrating their orderly conduct, the lessons of self-reliance and courage bring out clearly the great lesson of "preparedness."

This picture shows scenes of the processes used in extracting gold and diamonds from what appears to be ordinary mud. In the Joch Mine, one of the richest in the world, the miners have to descend to a level of three thousand feet below the surface of the earth. Kimberley is the center of the world's largest diamond mines and the offices of the company controlling the diamond mines in the Transvaal look like a Saratoga hotel. Many close views are shown of the famous Premier Mine where the great Cullinan diamond, weighing one and three-quarter pounds, was found. Extracting diamonds from the "blue earth" in which they are embedded, is pictured. This "blue earth" is brought to the surface and allowed to "weather" for a year. It is then dissolved into diamond mud, which is placed in a "pulsator" and the diamonds separated. A single day's output of diamonds is worth $55,000. The mine property is surrounded by an impenetrable barbed wire fence and the natives are confined in a compound during their period of service.

The scenic starts with a panoramic view of Provincetown, taken from the top of the Pilgrims Monument. Situated on the tip end of Cape Cod, Provincetown is the favorite rendezvous for artists and fisher-folk. Crooked, narrow streets, lined with ancient shade trees and quaint old houses, zig-zag through it. Life is almost primitively simple and bears many survivals of olden times. Such symbols of civilization as dashing, crashing motor trucks and brass-buttoned cops are considered as myths. "Ye Olde Towne Crier" is still wandering through the streets, calling out the news of a sale, a death or a scandal. Life is an unceasing round of amusements for kiddies and artists.

A rare sport in countries where steep hills and much snow make this dangerous game possible.

Photographed at a New York aquarium under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society. Fish breathe oxygen from the water. If a fish is placed in a small amount of water he soon exhausts the oxygen and dies of suffocation. The New York Aquarium has solved the question of supplying the oxygen on long journeys even when fish are placed in small jars. The jar is first filled with pure sea water. The fish to be shipped are placed in it and the jar is inverted in a tank full of water. Sufficient oxygen is then admitted to force out one-third of the water. The jar is tightly corked under water and hermetically sealed with waxed linen. The jar is then packed in a barrelful of sawdust or excelsior, addressed and shipped to its destination. The fish will live for more than fourteen days in a jar of small size. It is therefore possible to ship them from New York to any part of the United States and to most parts of Europe.

Almond-eyed Li Chi lived in China, the daughter of the wise Mandarin Ching Ho. Ching Ho wishes his daughter to marry Chung Wang, but the maiden is true to her lover, Chang, and vows that she will marry no other. Whereat the father locks the maiden in her room over the stream. An idea comes to her. She writes a note telling her lover to come to her when the leaves begin to fall from the cherry tree, and placing it in a coconut shell, launches it upon the stream flowing beneath her window. It drifts to the feet of Chang, who, being a man of action, shakes the leaves from the cherry tree. Then he hurries to the prison of his sweetheart, rescues her and flees with her to the gardener's house. The angry father pursues them, but the gardener shelters them and aids them to escape to an island, where they live happily until the father burns the house over their heads. But the gods love the two lovers, and saving them from the fire, transform them into a pair of snowy doves.

Ellen likes the courage of Jimmy, a bankrupt inventor, who fails to get any money for his experiments in making matches from his cousin Charles. First she loses her purse so that Jimmy may find it, next she loans him money in a letter purporting to be from Charles. Jimmy is advised to heat the letter over sulfur after he succeeds in his invention of a safety match. He does so, and the invisible ink turns, disclosing a love note from Ellen.

The beauties and marvels of the chemical world are depicted in the changes which occur during the formation of these little-understood phenomena of nature. Grotesque and fanciful in design, they appear on the screen. Now a regiment of bayonets, now the paved block of a city street, a silver tree branching before one's eyes, a nebula of shooting stars, skyrockets and fantastic flowers come and go, each more wondrous than the last.

These pictures were taken at the Philadelphia Mint by permission of the United States Treasury Department. We see raw material transformed into a fiery liquid, cast into ingots and pressed in rolling mills, where it undergoes twenty-eight different operations. Another machine pounds out the blanks, which are annealed, cleaned and rounded off at the edges, at which stage they are cast into the coining machine that stamps out the finished coin. This is examined for defects, counted and weighed by machine.

This picture shows our future captains at drills and maneuvers at West Point Academy, afoot and on horse. It is surcharged with American spirit, thrilling and inspirational.

1861 Kentucky is divided North v South. Seventeen-year-old Gum and Skinny like Susie. The boys join opposing armies. In the war, Gum takes Skinny to hospital. Skinny escapes to Susie's house; Gum takes him prisoner. Susie makes her choice.

Two cavemen invent the wheel, but when they are frustrated in their attempts to have a dinosaur pull a cart, conclude that the device is useless.