- A girl dies saving her blind father's life and her spirit emerges from a gramophone horn.
- Led up and down the thoroughfares, an old and feeble blind man plays a violin and the escort, his little daughter, sings to the sweet strains emanating from his instrument. Now and then a pedestrian, moved to compassion, gives alms, which is thankfully received. A prosperous looking gentleman accosts the girl and requests her to visit his establishment for the purpose of making a talking machine record. The request is granted, and soon father and daughter are on the way to the appointed place. The record is perfected, the two unfortunates are liberally rewarded, and continue their vocation. Soon after we see them playing near a saloon, from which an inebriate has just been evicted. As the girl passes along with outstretched hand, she is struck over the head with a bottle by the infuriated drunkard and falls to the ground in a heap. Someone gathers her up and carries her away, while others chase the guilty scoundrel, leaving the old man to grope his way until a sympathetic little lad leads him in the direction taken by the one bearing away the unconscious form of his daughter. He is soon obliged to grope his way home alone, aided only by a hickory stick. The grief-stricken parent seeks out the hospital daily and spends as much time with his daughter as possible; but to add to his dire distress the girl succumbs to the complications arising from the disaster befallen her and after the deathbed scene the heart-broken father is tenderly led away. He visits the talking machine establishment and is accorded every sympathy. Left alone in the room, he listens to the reproduction of his daughter's voice, even plays a few strains on his violin to accompany her as he was wont to do, but his grief and the added burden of life weigh upon him heavily; he collapses under the strain and with visions of his transfigured daughter floating before him he expires. The apparition of the daughter emanating from the talking machine is clearly shown, and the angelic countenance beams with compassion as it tenderly guides the soul of the old man to the haven of rest where there are to be no tears and sorrows. Well dramatized and of good photographic detail.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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