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- John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
- Stock broker Albert Lowden is in danger of losing his business if he can't soon pay his creditors. His wife throws a party for her socialite friends, where a greedy maid steals a guest's necklace and hides it in a tin of soft soap on her mistress's vanity desk.The mistress herself, now aware of the missing jewelry, suspects her husband took it when she finds a letter dunning him.
- Judge Harris refuses to decide a case in favor of a certain powerful trust. The head of this trust vows he will "break" the judge and immediately sets about for some way to do it. Not long afterward, at the instigation of the trust magnate, the judge is impeached. His wife and daughter are heartbroken, but believe firmly in him. He goes to the magnate and pleads with him to no avail. His daughter, Rose, decides to see the tyrant herself. She does so but is only laughed at. She goes to the courtroom and there meets a young reporter, who listens to her trouble. He has seen a package of letters pass from the secretary of the trust to the president, and knows they are relative to her father's case. The thing is to get these letters. He wants a story for his paper, and also wants to help the pretty girl, so be starts off with her. They drive to the president's house. The reporter enters, revolver in hand. Seeing the letters on the table, he grabs them, keeping the president at bay with his revolver. The president's lawyer entering, tries to overpower the reporter, but in the struggle he gets away and dashes out of the house and into the waiting car. The president orders his car and follows them, but is unable to catch the smaller car. The reporter and the girl get to the Senate Chamber in time to produce the letters and change the verdict to a vote of unanimous acquittal. She hurries home to tell her father and great joy is the result. The reporter in his office, finishes a stirring article on the methods of a certain well-known trust.
- Ruth Maynard lives happily with her father up in the snowbound woods near the Canadian border. Her father and Steve Phillips are fur smugglers, and have always managed to evade the watchful eyes of the customs officers. Walter Leggett, a young customs officer, vows to discover the smugglers, and through his sweetheart, the school teacher in Maynard's vicinity, decides to get on the trail of Maynard. He plans a ruse whereby he will be taken into Maynard's cabin supposedly very ill. The ruse works far better than he expected, for he manages to win the love of Ruth during his supposedly convalescent period. Steve resents Leggett's intrusion and suspects him. He gives Ruth his revolver for protection and she has no occasion to use it until Leggett leaves, making an appointment to meet her down by the river. Steve sees Leggett with the school teacher and later meets Ruth patiently waiting at the tryst. She won't believe Steve at first, then Leggett not coming, she runs home, where she discovers Leggett searching and finding the hidden furs. Securing the gun she waits for him. He discovers her purpose and wrenches the gun from her, then runs down the trail. The school teacher coming along, sees the whole affair. Leggett stumbles and in falling, shoots himself. When Steve is taxed with the killing through the fact that it was his gun that was used, he realizes that Ruth alone must be the responsible one and so shoulders the blame himself. Ruth and the teacher arrive in time to clear Steve and later she slips from her father's comforting arms to seek those of Steve, and is forgiven.
- The story of "Curfew" tells of a soldier who deserted his post during wartime to keep a tryst with his sweetheart. Having left his post of duty, he was considered to be a deserter and was court martialed forthwith. The soldier was condemned to die. His sweetheart endeavored to intercede for him with the commanding officer, but the commander was firm and austere. To set the soldier free would have been, a bad example; therefore, he was condemned to die at the ringing of the curfew bell. Having exhausted all means of securing a pardon for her lover, the maiden resorted to a last desperate chance, which, though seemingly futile, was a chance. She climbed to the belfry of the tower where the curfew bell hung, and there by hanging upon its huge clapper prevented it from sounding when the old deaf bell-ringer came to ring the parting day. The bell-ringer bad officially rung the bell and yet it had not sounded. Therefore the young soldier waiting to be shot was legally dead, although he still lived, when the old sexton had finished his work.
- The suffrage workers are vainly endeavoring to win over Senator Herman to their cause as his vote on a certain bill they favor means its passage. May Fillmore, one of the most ardent of the workers, discovers that the father of a little motherless tenement brood has died of tuberculosis, after having vainly importuned the owner. Senator Herman, to make building alterations that will remedy unsatisfactory conditions. She goes to the Senator's fiancée, Jane Wadsworth, and succeeds in securing her help. Jane accompanies May to the poor bereaved family, and she is shocked at the terrible lack of sanitation. They find three little girls and a baby left to fight the world alone. Elsie, the eldest, is doing embroidery sweat-shop work at home, and minding the baby, while Hester works in a department store. The other tot is a half-time scholar, and in the afternoons assists her sister working on corset covers for another shop. All these fearful conditions are pointed out by May and have their desired effect upon Jane. She is further shocked upon learning that her fiancé is the negligent owner. Jane goes to him and pleads that he do something in the matter. He waves her away and treats her like a child. Angered, she joins the suffragists and assists in bringing both her father and the Senator to terms. Hester is insulted by a floorwalker in her father's shop, which proves another shock to Jane, when her father does nothing in the matter. Later she is stricken with scarlet fever, which she contracted from the embroidery on one of her trousseau gowns, which came from her father's store. The father and Senator, upon learning that they were in part guilty, as the embroidery was made in the Senator's unsanitary tenement, gives in and most enthusiastically joins the suffrage movement. They are seen with the girls at suffrage headquarters, at the Men's League, and finally in the parade.
- Walter Earl and Elmer Hay are two young farmers who are suitors for Dot Maynard's hand. Her father favors Walter while she herself favors Elmer. Walter is a clean cut young chap, but is inclined to be rather wayward and it is just those shortcomings that cause Dot to think that her sympathy and pity for him amount to real love. The rivalry comes to a climax shortly before the party at Dot's house. Elmer finds Walter trying to kiss Dot as she is returning from school after having a show fight with him. Taking Elmer's proffered arm she leaves Walter laughing at her and goes home with Elmer. The night of the country dance and candy pull when all the country side is on hand the two young men almost come to blows. In fact after Elmer has been cautioned by Dot's father not to show her too much attention he finds the hard cider much to his liking and when the two are about to come to an ugly fight it is only averted by the father's anger and the breaking up of the party. Maynard has Walter wait and tells Dot that it is his wish that she marry him and his command that she have nothing further to do with Elmer. Elmer has waited outside for Walter to leave and then throws a snowball to Dot's bedroom window. She sees him and comes down to meet him by stealth. They arrange to elope the next day. On the way to meet her the next day, Elmer somewhat under the influence of drink, curses and beats his horse unmercifully when the sleigh overturns. Dot, coming along with her bundle of clothing, oversees his brutality and her seeming love at once turns to hate. Walter happens by when Elmer tries to force her into the sleigh and takes her home with him. She tells her father everything and he leaves her with Walter. She asks Walter's forgiveness and discovers that she has really loved him all along.
- 'Our Mutual Girl' was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel, and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from January 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, the Mutual Girl outwitted villains, saw the sights of New York, met with theatrical and political celebrities (who frequently helped her out of trouble), and tried on fashionable outfits in chic stores. The fashions were an early example of product placement--although, apparently, not paid placement.
- Billy, not quite four years old, is innocently playing in his own back yard at the seashore with his dog Teddy, his puppy Rover, and his baby sister Mary, when a ball drops over from the next yard and hits him on the head. Peeved, he sallies forth to find the offender and meets Jack (the heavy) the six-year-old owner of the ball. A scrimmage ensues and Billy gets the worst of it. He retires to summon reinforcements, sending Teddy to avenge him. Teddy does so to such effect that Jack begs him to call him off, and then vows vengeance. Jack's chance comes unexpectedly that very afternoon. On the beach is Olive, Jack's four-year-old sweetheart. Further down the beach is Billy, with his inseparable companions: Teddy, Rover, and the baby. Gallant Jack leaves Olive while he goes to buy ice cream. Quite innocently Billy comes up to Olive and makes such a hit that she strolls off with him, with Teddy, Rover, and the baby bringing up the rear. When Jack hunts them up, she sends him away. "I like Billy better," Jack scowls with anger, "That fellow is always making trouble for me." What will put Billy in wrong at home? Why, losing the baby, of course. Baby Mary, crawling around the rock that moment, offers a not-to-be resisted opportunity. Aided by the tempting ice cream, he entices baby toward him, then carries her off with faithful little Rover, to a big box further down the beach, and it becomes tightly locked. He intends to keep the baby there only a minute. Just then Mother calls him to go on an errand to buy a loaf of bread. Meanwhile, Billy and Olive, ready to return home, have noticed that baby is gone. The tide has risen and the box is gently floated off the rocks out to sea. When Jack gets to the beach, he sees the box floating on the water, beyond reach. While the policeman hunts for baby, followed by Billy and Olive, who trot along behind him as fast as they can, Jack is hiding among the rocks, crying in terror and remorse. The search brings them to Jack, whose tears rouse the policeman's curiosity. The latter makes him confess. Billy hears the confession. It is all simple now. "Go get the box, Teddy," and in Teddy plunges and swims out while the startled policeman runs for a boat, paying no attention to the children. By the time the boat is ready to be launched, Teddy has already reached the box and started for shore. In the excitement of the final rescue and reunion of the children, Jack is forgotten.
- Helen, a writer, tries to secure a position on a newspaper to earn necessary luxuries for her invalid mother. Refused a job unless she brings in a real news story, Helen dejectedly trudges off on a hunt for opium smugglers who are operating successfully on the Mexican border. Sikes, the Revenue Officer, has been unable to get evidence of anyone. Helen befriends a denizen of Chinatown and through him learns that the smuggling is being done through the means of an irrigation canal running across the border just outside the city. The smugglers fasten tins of opium to logs and float them down the canal and past the line, after which they are picked up by a Chinese confederate posing as a seller of driftwood kindling and delivered at the back door of Chinese restaurants, where the gang hangs out. One of the logs gets caught in a chunk of wood and Helen finds it. With Sikes she lies in wait, captures the wood seller and drives the load of wood and opium to the restaurant, with Sikes hidden under the load of kindling. One of the smugglers has escaped and warns the restaurant by phone of the arrest of his pal, and a fight commences when Helen starts to unload the wood, but with the help of Sikes and a load of cops, the smugglers are captured with all the evidence. Helen gets an exclusive story for the paper and is handed a job as news reporter.
- James Douglas, a rising young lawyer of reputation, is elected to the office of District Attorney. At his election he also announces his engagement to Phyllis Hathaway. His first big case as a married man is that of a man arrested for murder. He sees a great opportunity to make a name for himself, and throws his whole soul into sending the man to the electric chair. His wife begs him not to convict on circumstantial evidence, but he laughs at her fears. The end of the trial draws near and his wife attends the summing up. While the jurors are out she discovers the prisoner's little boy and acts as his protector; realizing the verdict will be "guilty" she takes him out of the room. When Douglas comes home flushed with his triumph she again pleads with him against conviction on circumstantial evidence. Her pleas and the boy's presence in his home shake his confidence but he passes it off and agrees to allow her to adopt the boy. Later, when his enthusiasm grows cold, he begins to doubt the man's guilt. He reads of the convict's death in the chair, still maintaining his innocence and his fear grows. Douglas sobs out his mental anguish to the prisoner's attorney who half-heartedly tries to console him with the statement that he personally is positive of the prisoner's guilt. Going home he finds his wife and the boy. The former almost shrinks from him, certain that he has sent an innocent man to his death. In desperation he sends for the prisoners counsel and tells him of his doubt, willingness to resign office, and make all possible restitution. The lawyer pulls from his pocket the prisoner's last confession: that he was guilty of the crime.
- John Ward, a young workman, loves Mary Durland, daughter of a rich politician, who installs prison contract labor in the prisons of his city. The other knitting mills in the town cannot compete with cheap prison labor and are forced to close down. John and his brother, Joe, are thrown out of work and with others of the men, go to see Durland, who refuses to listen to them. John and Joe vainly look for work. Their mother is ill and needs nourishing food and medicine, and they have no money. Joe, an impulsive, warm-hearted lad, decides that as Durland took their living away, he shall pay, and he goes to his office intending to rob it of enough to carry his mother through her illness. Durland returns for some papers and the boy is caught. He is sent to prison and works on the knitting machines. He breaks down under the strain, is brutally treated by the guards and is later transferred to the road making gang. Unaccustomed to this he faints continually, but never meets the slightest kindness or consideration. Mary Durland returns home from boarding school and meets John, who is now a mechanic. She sees the difference in him and asks what is wrong. He does not tell her the truth, not wishing her to know her father is the cause of his trouble. John becomes a labor leader and makes up his mind to fight the prison contract labor system. Mary, who has become interested in sociological work, discovers the truth about the prisons when she finds Joe, physically and almost mentally a wreck. To convince herself further she goes through the prisons as well as the hospitals. She goes up North and studies prison conditions there. She finds men learning trades and working for the state, not in competition with labor. Returning home she calls on John to come and see her, and to him she tells what she saw while away, announcing her intention of fighting the prison contract system. John, then tells her she will be fighting her own father, but nothing daunted, she goes right ahead. Mary and John appear before the legislature just as a bill is about to be refused prohibiting prison labor. They have Joe with them, helpless and almost a cripple, and Mary makes an impassioned speech recommending the bill. She so interests the men that they rise and one and all vote for the bill. Durland, feeling himself beaten, consents to his daughter's marriage with John.
- Bud Tilden, a mountaineer, is in love with Jeannette. Hank Holliday, his rival, tries to win the girl away from Bud. Finding this useless, he resorts to mean methods. He places an improper book in Bud's pocket and then, before all the men, he takes it out and shows them the sort of literature Bud reads. He decides that Jeannette must know of it, so wrapping up the book, he addresses it to Jeannette and drops it in the mall. Determined that his sweetheart shall not see the volume, Bud holds up the carrier and secures the book. He is apprehended and arrested. But at his trial, when the judge hears the whole story, Bud is freed and Hank is taken into custody.
- Dr. Watson, on his way east, gets off the train to stretch his legs at a way station, and being called to the aid of a section boss, who has broken his arm, he finds there is no other train east till morning. He gets a room at the Red Horse Hotel and to while away the time joins in a faro game, winning all the money in sight. Bland, the gambler, and his assistants, Jack and Bill, hate to think of the doctor getting away with so much cash, so they conspire with the hotel keeper to drug Watson's drink, intending to rob him later. The doctor, however, only pretends to drink the doped liquor, and when the gambler attacks him in his room he overpowers him with his hypodermic needle and succeeds in escaping from the hotel, pursued by Jack and Bill. Watson finds refuge in the cottage of Granby, the section boss whom he has doctored. Already he has become much interested in his patient's pretty daughter, May. That night, in an attack upon the cottage by Watson's enemies, the gambler's accomplices, May is instrumental in saving the doctor's life. The rest of the story is eloquently implied.
- Elaine, a well-known lecturer, hates men. John, who has written a book called, "Women, the Silly Sex," cannot bear the sight of a woman, and to avoid them all in general, he arranges for the purchase of a deserted island where he will be able to write in peace. Elaine goes to the home of a friend in the country, near John's island. One day, out on the lake, she starts to rehearse her speech with such feeling that she falls overboard. She swims ashore and there finds John's clothes, he having gone in for a swim. She hurriedly changes her dripping riding habit for his things. Seeing him coming out of the water, she runs up the path. He finds the wet suit and thinks some boy took his clothes. He races after Elaine, and catching up with her grabs her by the collar and announces his intention of thrashing "the boy." But luckily her cap comes off and he sees that it is a woman who has invaded his island. She calls him a brute and tells him she wants to get back to the mainland. He suggests she wait in his cabin until a boat passes. An hour goes by and Elaine commences to feel hungry. She summons John and tells him that she is hungry. He points to the icebox and bids her cook what she wishes. She is furious at the idea, but later hunger gets the better of her pride and she manages to prepare lunch. Five o'clock arrives. She tells John that he will have to swim to the mainland for a boat. He cannot swim well and is not anxious to take a chance. She insists. He finally goes, and as she sees him dive into the sea she gets frightened and begs him to come back. But he does not listen. He encounters a rowboat with Elaine's friend and a couple of fishermen looking for the missing girl. He takes them to the island and Elaine is taken aboard, but not before she has shaken hands cordially with the woman hater, who finds himself wishing that he might see her again. In the pocket of her riding suit he later finds her card and calls upon her. They become great friends and a double conversion is affected when he persuades her to burn her lecture with a copy of his book.
- Macennas, the son of Tiberius, a Roman lord, is being entertained in a manner typical of the times, surrounded by beautiful women, dancing girls, etc., etc. In an altercation with his companions, his sword is broken and is repaired by Vulcan, the armorer. The latter's beautiful daughter, Narania, repulses Macennas' attentions, which, later, turned into an honorable direction, win her heart, and the two are secretly wed, the union being blessed a year later by the advent of a child. The Eden of the lovers is darkened by the command of Tiberius that his son marry the daughter of a neighboring lord, and Macennas confesses his marriage to Narania. Persuasion and threats fall to move him from his refusal to renounce his wife. Macennas is imprisoned and Narania and her child are ordered sold as slaves by the furious Tiberius. Macennas overcomes his guard, and disguising himself as a peasant, makes his way to the slave market, offers himself for sale, and is purchased by the Barbarians who have bought Narania, and the two, with their baby, are driven under the lash of the whip to foreign lands.
- When the soldiers attacked the old home of the Von Hirschsprung family, the father buried his family treasure in the garden. In the fight that followed he was killed but his two sons survived. Having no money, and supposing their fortune stolen, the sons sell the old home to the Hellwig family. Cordula, daughter of old Hellwig, falls in love with Joseph, the younger Von Hirschsprung brother. He returns her affection, but her father will not permit the marriage because of Joseph's poverty. One day Cordula, digging in the garden, unearths the Hirschsprung treasure and tells her father, who makes her vow never to tell of the finding of the money chest. Joseph deprived of his sweetheart, dies in poverty. Broken-hearted Cordula removes her things to an upper apartment and vows she will never enjoy any of the ill-gotten wealth. Years later, the only surviving member of the Von Hirschsprungs marries a strolling player. Ten years later she is killed by accident during her act in the circus and her husband, to save his child from a similar fate, puts her in the care of Cordula's brother Nathan. The child, Fay, finds no welcome in her new home until she meets Cordula, now known as Old Mam'selle. She and Old Mam'selle have adjoining attic rooms and spend much time together. Everyone knows that Old Mam'selle has a secret, but no one knows what it is. The years pass. John, son of the Hellwigs, returns from the Medical University to fall in love with Fay. He is expected to marry Hortense, a rich widow with one child. Fay saves this child from an awful death by fire and wins John's admiration as well as his love. His mother refuses to accept Fay as a daughter. In the midst of all this confusion Old Mam'selle is taken ill. Before she dies she tells Fay that her diary contains her secret and it must die with her. Fay promises to destroy the little book. After Old Mam'selle's death, Fay finds the book and is about to destroy it when John enters the room and sees her. He demands that she give him the diary. She refuses at first but finally yields. Then she goes to her room to pack her things. Feeling herself very unwelcome at the Hellwigs she thinks she had better go away. John opens the little book and reads the whole story of the Hellwig wealth and how it all belongs to the Hirschsprung family. He rushes out of the room with the book and finds Fay ready to leave. She has her grip in her hands. He takes it from her and begs her to remain. As he takes the grip he notices the name Meta Von Hirschsprung, with a crest printed across it. He stares at Fay and asks her whose grip it is. She replies it belonged to her mother who took it with her when she ran away to he married. Then John knows that Fay is the sole remaining member of the once famous Von Hirschsprungs and that the money being enjoyed by the Hellwigs belongs to her. He tells her and she realizes that she is rich, feels free to accept his heart offered to her in the days when he did not know she had a single penny to her name.
- Before they reach their journey's end, homeseeker Bob West and his little daughter Ida are attacked by Indians who kill West, take Ida captive, and keep a letter West had written to his sister in the East--which incidentally bears the imprint of a smudgy little finger. Ida is rescued from the Indians by Morgan, a slave trader who takes her and the letter home to his plantation, where he substitutes the little white girl for a mulatto slave child who has recently died. Ida is put in charge of Sally, a yellow girl, and brutally treated. Some time later Mr. and Mrs. Marks pity Ida and buy her from Morgan. She lives happily with them for 12 years. Fred Gilbert, the Marks' nephew, pays them a visit and falls in love with Ida. His uncle and aunt are horrified, believing that the girl has Negro blood, and the young people are about to part forever when Sally, who has become inflamed by jealousy against Morgan, produces the letter written by West just before his death. By a fingerprint test Ida's identity is confirmed, and her white blood proved. The young people marry. Morgan is hunted down by a posse and is shot dead.
- Jim, a miner in a frontier town, gets mixed up in a saloon brawl while drunk and wounds a man. He makes his escape and, after a long chase, manages to evade the sheriff and his posse. He travels some distance on foot and finally, tired and hungry, comes to a little shack. He knocks on the door and an uncouth frontier girl answers. The girl, Jenny, hospitably invites him in and gives him coffee and food. Then, while she sits across the table from him and watches him eat, the two strike up a pleasant, easy-going friendship, as people do in frontier communities. Jim has completely forgotten his troubles when the sound of approaching horses brings him in terror to his feet. He looks out of the window and sees the sheriff at hand. The girl, dazed and frightened, does not know what to make of his actions and stands stupidly by while Jim hides himself behind an old curtain that is hanging on the wall. The sheriff enters, greets Jenny, whom he knows, and asks her if she has seen the fugitive. Jenny, still dazed, answers, "No." As she is a good and trustworthy girl, the sheriff delays no longer. He and the posse ride off. Jim, rather crestfallen, comes forth from his hiding place. He starts for the door, then turns and shamefacedly offers Jenny his hand. Jenny turns away and says, "I'm not used to shaking hands with fugitives from the law." Jim goes out the door, but on the outside he stops. He has decided that it is very important that he stand right with the girl in the shack. He hesitates but a moment and then, putting both hands to his mouth, he calls aloud after the departing sheriff. The posse wheels their horses about and come back. Jenny, who has watched them from the doorway, goes up to Jim and offers him her hand. He holds it solemnly for a moment, and then goes away with the sheriff. It is some time later. Jim, who only wounded his man, is turned out of jail after a moderate sentence. He rides back to the shack and finds Jenny sitting in the doorway. He asks her if she has waited for him and she says, "Yes."
- Foster is a young artist with great ambitions to be taken up by society. Wealthy society widow Mrs. Hardrocks makes a protégé of him, with the result that he falls madly in love with her, at least so he thinks. In the same house with Foster's Studio is little Betty Wilson, the landlady's daughter. She has formed her little existence to live in the light of Foster's comings and goings. He is her great ideal. One day in order to complete a picture for the wealthy widow he gets Betty to pose for him. She almost faints with delight and the opportunity to be near him and wear some of his lovely property wardrobe. When the ordeal is over she manages to slip out with the finery held behind her and goes to her bare, cheerless room to further pose as a grand lady, which ends in a burst of long pent up sobs. Foster gets word that he has inherited money and becomes obsessed of the idea that now he can propose to the widow. He calls in Betty and tells her all about it and she doesn't know whether to be glad or cry. She tells him he must make his studio presentable, and they set about fixing it up, with the result that he discovers a more than great liking for little Betty. However, that is not to be considered with the opportunity arising from his marriage to the widow. He gives Betty a great armful of fine clothes to put on and tells her that when they come back from being married she must receive them. Fate cheats him, for when the widow arrives to look at the picture she has her fiancé with her. Hearing them live, Betty thinks the coast is clear and bounds into the room arrayed like a young woman of fashion. There she finds Foster with his head in his hands, thinking his heart broken beyond repair. She goes to him and timidly offers her sympathy. When he raises his head and sees the vision before him he forgets that there ever was a widow, society, or art and realizes that his heart was in Betty's keeping all the time. On his knees he begs her forgiveness and love, and she gets down on her knees and snuggles into his arms.
- During the illness of her father, Toni Carter, Milly takes his place as station agent. She is loved by both Dave Snowden, a freight engineer, and Bill Mailey. an overland express messenger, who distrusts and dislikes Dave. The former, seeing that both the girl and her father favor his rival, determines to disgrace the station agent and his daughter. A package containing $10,000 is brought by Bill to be forwarded to Pocoima. Milly signs for it, but it cannot be sent on till next morning. Bill and a pal of his break into the station and tie up Milly and her father, whom they force to tell the combination of the safe. The girl, however, is able to phone the sheriff, who arrives in time to take the crooks into custody. All this time the money has been hidden under the cushion of the chair in which Milly is tied.
- Lonely bachelor Mr. Carter is told by his doctor that he has heart disease, and that if he wants to live, he must quit smoking. But Carter, thinking he hasn't much joy in life, sticks to his old companion, the pipe. In an obscure part of town, Barry, a drunkard, lives with his 5-year-old daughter Ida. Barry comes home one night with not only a load but a bottle. Ida is old enough to know that that is the stuff that inebriates, but does not cheer, so she hides the bottle in the closet. When Barry wakes up next morning, he can't find his bottle, so he goes to the saloon for a bracer. He takes not one, but many of them, and staggers from the saloon into trouble. He is sent to the hospital. As time passes and her father does not return, Ida starts out to look for him. She wanders about until she is lost. Carter, who is visiting some friends, discovers Ida and comforts her. She wins his heart. He decides to adopt her, and now that he has something worthwhile to live for, he takes the doctor's advice and quits smoking. In a few days Barry is able to leave the hospital. He discovers the whereabouts of his child and claims her. Carter, who is now very much attached to Ida, is very disappointed and returns to his pipe for consolation. Barry, who is only weak, not bad, vows that he will quit drinking and bring up his child properly. But that night Barry finds the bottle that Ida hid in the closet. He struggles hard, but the desire is too strong. Then, realizing how helpless he is, he takes Ida back to the man he knows will care for her and wanders off into the night.