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- Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
- Agnes Duane, a young woman of the twentieth century, full of good red blood and with plenty of spirit, returns to her New England home and its prim atmosphere, after completing her course in college. Arriving there, she finds that her considerate parents have chosen for her a husband. The individual whom they have chosen for this honor happens to be an effeminate, insipid, very sanctimonious little minister. Upon meeting him Agnes laughs in his face, much to the humiliation of the minister and the consternation of her strait-laced parents. Thinking to cure her of some of her crudeness, her father sends her to his brother down in Kentucky, where she roams the mountain fastness in untrammeled freedom. One day while wandering about in the hills she becomes lost and is found and taken to her uncle's home by one of a queer duo of mountaineer brothers who harbor an inborn and intense hatred for each other. One of these men is a veritable giant in size and strength while the other, the one who rescued Agnes, is of small build and slight strength, but is possessed of a superior cunning. Soon she becomes acquainted with both these brothers and both fall deeply in love with her. Finally, one night the younger and smaller brother, tries to force himself upon her and he is confronted by the giant. In a dissolve the reason for this hate is revealed. As a result of this encounter the weaker man devises a diabolical scheme to put his brother out of the way. Fortunately for the giant, the scheme fails and he passes the trap unscathed. In the meantime, Agnes has felt herself drawn to the larger man by his sheer animal magnetism. She seems on the point of confessing her love for him when, through a cruel act, his true nature is revealed and she turns from him. Soon after she meets the Rev. Hugh Baxton, a real man at last, and to him she surrenders unconditionally.
- A magic spell has turned a handsome prince into a hideous and repulsive beast, and only the love of a beautiful woman can change him back. ]
- Aratus, a chemist, invents an acid that will petrify living things into inanimate stone. Outside of his laboratory he has a little pond into which he throws the victims of his experimentation, flowers, small animals and plants, in their petrified state. In his interest of science Aratus neglects and forgets everything, even his wife, and gives all his time to his labors, and once, when she and his life-long friend are in his laboratory, he seems disturbed and asks them to go for a walk and leave him to his study. His friend, who adores Aratus's wife, presses his suit and attempts to kiss her on the way, and in the struggle ensuing, she falls into the pond in which the chemical preparation of Aratus's had been poured and she is petrified. Aratus, attracted by the noise, comes out and sees the disaster. He accuses his friend as being responsible for the accident, but the latter swears innocent. Aratus, stunned by his loss, has the pond drained and rescues the body, and placing it upon a pedestal surrounds it with flowers and immediately sets his mind to work to invent a chemical that will bring her back to life, but his endeavors are in vain. Time elapses, and in a mysterious manner, one day, all come back to life, the flowers, the animals and the woman, and Aratus thanks the hidden force that accomplished what he had failed to do.
- During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while he will be staying at her father's inn.
- Gerald leaves England to seek his fortune in America and falls in love with Marja.Claude his older brother marks her for his own and they marry before he goes back to England.So when Gerald proposes she is already married.Since Claude is gone nothing is heard of him and because of this, Marja throws herself from a cliff, a cripple for live.Gerlad receives a letter announcing the death of Claude.Marja finds the letter and realizes how much Gerald did love her.
- Mrs. Browne has three admirers. One is a poor man, one aspires to be a fortune hunter and the third is one of those bogus counts. She causes to be inserted in the newspapers that she has met with an accident that will disfigure her for life, and also that her financial standing is swept away by speculation. Then she writes her three admirers, informing them that they can consider her double misfortune as a release from their attentions. She receives three replies to her communications. The fortune hunter and the bogus count write of their regrets over her misfortune and thank her for her consideration of them. The poor man calls on her with the intention of doing his utmost to diminish her grief, but his mission is at once changed for he finds her hale and hearty with a bankroll as healthy as herself. Of course, the newspaper item at once takes a more romantic shade, that of the engagement notice of Mrs. Browne and the only man who wooed her and got her fortune.
- The story of a two jewel thieves whose lives intersect during the course of their crimes.
- Tom Walsh, his daughter, Pauline, and his son, Pete, live in a tenement known to the police as a nest of crooks. Tom and Pete force Pauline to act as their "lookout" in various small robberies by means of which they make their living. Pauline, however, is good at heart and, although forced to meet crooks and ex-convicts in her father's squalid apartment, has little liking for the life. Tom and Pete plan a new "job" and appoint Pauline to keep watch for patrolmen and passersby. While acting as "lookout," Pauline becomes interested in a band of Salvation Army singers and enters into conversation with the captain of the band. The captain gives her a pamphlet to read, which greatly influences her life. Meanwhile Tom and Pete have been frightened away from the house they planned to rob. They find Pauline gone from the spot where they told her to stay. Angered by her desertion they go home to await her coming. When Pauline arrives she tells her father of her experience with the Salvation Army band and begs her father to lead an honest life. Enraged by her talk, Old Man Walsh starts after her with a large knife, intent on killing her. Pauline rushes from the room, pursued by her father. Walsh stumbles at the head of the stairs in his drunken anger, falls and is killed. Pete returns from the corner saloon and finds his father dead. In his intoxicated condition the sight interests him little. He inquires for Pauline and when he learns that she is gone he leaves the tenement intent upon bringing her back. Pauline obtains a cheap room in a better part of the city and in a few days secures a position as nurse in a wealthy family which is preparing to leave for the west. Her brother finds out where she is working, however, and when she leaves town follows on the brake beams of the same train. Pauline believes that she has left her old life behind, but one day while in the park with her little charge her brother confronts her. She refuses to go with him and asks him to leave her alone in peace. Pete is about to drag her away when Paul Reeves, a rich young mine owner, knocks Pete down. Reeves introduces himself to Pauline and sees her safely home. A strong friendship springs up between the young people. Peter, in an ugly mood after his beating, enters a cheap saloon, where he finds a crowd of loafers bullying an emaciated "dope" fiend. Pete knocks several of them down and thereby gains the deep devotion of the unfortunate. Meanwhile Paul Reeves and Pauline become increasingly fond of each other and after a short courtship are married. Reeves builds a beautiful home for his young wife and does his best to allay her fears of her brother's return. Pete, in the meantime, has become the leader of the gang which he soundly thrashed. After a successful raid he gets drunk. Shaking an unopened beer bottle the neck bursts from the gases within and blinds him for life. The dope fiend whom he has befriended nurses him back to health and waits upon his idol hand and foot. The "dope" reads for hours each day to Pete, who becomes the brains of the gang and engineers their operations. While the "dope" reads the papers for likely "prospects" Pete hears of his sister's wedding and orders the "dope fiend" to take down the address. That evening, led by his companion, Pete arrives at his sister's mansion. Pauline invites her brother in and commiserates with him on his misfortune. Pete, however, pays no attention to her sympathetic expressions, but bides his time to be revenged. Pauline leads him into a room and Pete, who has familiarized himself with the locations of the doors and windows in a hurried survey of the room during his sister's absence, locks the doors on her. He then demands a large amount of money. When Pauline refuses him he attempts to choke her. Pauline eludes him and fights desperately for her life. Finally she reaches the door and escapes down the stairs. Attempting to follow her, Pete falls down the steps and breaks his neck. He is still breathing when Pauline's husband enters. Pauline tells her husband of her narrow escape from death and the photoplay ends with husband and wife locked in each other's arms, the only bar to their happiness effectually removed.
- She was dying. Already beyond was near. Her spirit was approaching the afterwards. With a brave effort, she turned her face to her husband and sweetheart, to whom she was more than all. Feebly her trembling lips whispered, "It is cold." The icy finger of the skeleton with the scythe had already touched the body that was his forfeit. Into the man's eyes came a hard glint, the light of battle. His grief declared war against the invincible antagonist whose very defeat is but transient, whose victories are eternal. Again she turned to him. "It is dark," she murmured. Tenderly he kissed the faded lips and lighted the candle. She was dead. With her had withered all the accumulated hopes and tender plans of youth and love. With her had died all of himself but his body. His being was minus. He tried to forget, but memory was stubborn and cruel. Always he would see her in his tortured mind, with the tender smile of old on her lips and the soft glow in her eyes, and in desperate abandon, he would curse death. Then he met the devil. Bright lights, wanton women, careless kisses, vice embraced in the arms of sin, a carnival of corruption, a feast of folly; he came within a few hours of hell. But stronger than the evil and the devil in him was the memory, casting its halo over the hollow haunts of hell and the memory triumphed. One day, his soul pitying the pathetic burden of his heart, it whispered a message of its immortality, the promise of reunion in the eternal sequel, and, eager and impatient, he went to meet her. He went to the country, and in the lonesome woods his lonely longing sought release. Revolver in hand, he was ready to send that which would remain and live after what had been, he was dead across the oceans of space to the shores of eternity, where she was waiting. Twilight was mantling the earth with its soft veil. A few monks from the nearby monastery were walking through the woods, communing with their Master. They met him. His story was told and heard, and they offered him the peace that bides and abides. He entered the House of God, peace entered his heart, and a song sang in his soul.
- Louis d'Angelo, a wandering minstrel, plays before the windows of an Italian's villa. From her casement above him, Delicia drops the rose worn in her hair. An attachment follows. Soon after we find Louis playing for a select gathering at the Romana salon where he makes his first appearance as Signor Romana's protégé. Love has already interceded in his behalf. A constant admirer of Delicia and aspirant for her hand, Colonel Navarro, takes exception to the attentions of Louis and upon a certain occasion tells Delicia how he feels. She promptly silences him and he insults her. Louis, rushing to her defense, meets with opposition. A duel follows in which Louis comes out the victor, but thinking he has killed his antagonist, he flees the country. Landing in New York, Louis experiences the troubles of a foreigner unable to speak the language. A thief gets his roll. Eventually fortune puts him in the way of assisting in the arrest of the very man who robbed him. By this opportunity a job is found. He writes Delicia of his good luck and straightway buckles in to win his fortune. Fate again intervenes in the person of Navarro, who, finding Louis out of reach, pushes his suit. He purloins Louis' mail from America, thereby causing Delicia to half believe herself forgotten. Meanwhile, Louis pines for some word from her and in the meanwhile rises to a position of trust with his employer. At this time a letter from a N.Y. lawyer reaches Louis' employer asking if one Louis d'Angelo works for him and advising him that there has been a fortune left to Louis by a Bowery recluse whom our hero had at one time befriended. Louis' employer and his daughter scheme to ensnare Louis into marrying. He withholds the news of the legacy meanwhile. Delicia, unable to stand the suspense longer, sails secretly for America. Her parents and Navarro follow on the next boat. They find her in her hotel. Later they dine ensemble in an Italian resort. To this same restaurant comes Louis with his employer and his daughter. Recognitions follow and thereafter not even the fires of Vesuvius could part Delicia and Louis.
- Three cliques of people, each unknown to the other, are making plans at their respective headquarters and their eyes are all turned to a common point. Jack Darrow, operative of a private detective agency, and his aides are planning a crusade against a band of clairvoyant fakirs. The Jeffersons are to give a ball masque, introducing their daughter, Hope, to their social set. It is rumored that she will wear the Pompador diamond necklace recently purchased by her father. In another part of the city Prof. M. Byrd, an alleged clairvoyant, is planning to attend the ball and steal the jewel. Through Crawley, his confederate, Byrd procures an invitation for himself and Lady Mildred, a dupe of his, offers her services in stealing the necklace. Byrd plans to attend the ball disguised as Mephisto. At the proper time Mildred is to bring out the necklace and pass it to a confederate. However, on the evening of the ball there is a second guest disguised as Mephisto, no other than Darrow, the detective. The lights in the ballroom go out. There is a few moments' confusion and when the hall is again illuminated, the diamond necklace is gone. It is soon recovered, however. Darrow is waiting for Byrd in the conservatory and when he arrives he is overpowered and placed under arrest. Mildred's liberation comes swift and completely when she turns back the lapel of her jacket and shows her badge. She is not only Darrow' s assistant but his sweetheart as well.
- Phillips is wrapped up in business and neglects his two motherless boys, except to punish them when they make the slightest slip. George, the leader, determines to run away, leaving an explanatory note for his father. This causes the father to reflect upon his own boyhood, with its many faults. When a policeman returns with his son, he forgives him instead of punishing him, and they resolve to try to understand each other better.
- Polly, maid of all work at Mrs. Jennings', forms a romantic attachment for Will Deming, popular actor, for he is the only one who has bestowed even a kindly look on Polly. In her spare moments she dreams of herself as a great lady loved by Deming. Olive Trent, a young girl seeking a theatrical career, takes lodgings at Mrs. Jennings'. Her attempts to get an engagement meet with failure. Will sees her one day in an agency and is filled with admiration for her fresh young beauty. He sympathizes with her in her distress. She repulses him, mistaking his motive. Will little dreams that they live in the same house. Tod Wilkes, a burlesque performer living at Mrs. Jennings', has seen Olive come and go. At last he manages to meet her and, thinking her a find, offers her an engagement in the burlesque company of which he is a member. It is an offer so far below Olive's aspirations that she refuses. The last of Olive's money goes to satisfy her landlady and she is desperate. She decides to accept Tod's offer, and goes to tell him so. He invites her to his room to run over her part. Tod's rehearsal with Olive is over, but he still detains her. Before she is aware of his intentions he has seized her in his arms and kisses her fervently. Olive fights herself free. Enraged as well as humiliated, she goes to her room, too overcome with the shock of her experience to observe Will and Polly. Will recognizes her and offers her work in his company, a position which fulfills her highest ambitions. They leave the next day for Syracuse with never a good-bye or a glance at poor little Polly, who was the humble instrument in bringing them together. Polly shakes her head sadly and murmurs, "Such is Life."
- Adeline falls in love with Frank, but her brother Theron wants her to marry rich Old Scapin, though she is carrying Frank's baby.
- Mrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question have never seen each other. Mrs. Burne-Smith thinks by making the brilliant match with wealthy Allen Winthrop she will be enabled to pay off some of her pressing debts. Enid Burne-Smith has a mind of her own, and has often had thoughts of a handsome lover who would carry her off despite her protests. Naturally she does not fall in with her mother's plans and it takes quite an argument before she is brought "in line." Allen Winthrop has just returned from abroad and views with amusement the efforts of his mother to try and win him to assent to the matchmakers' plans. He finally agrees to accompany his mother that night to the Burne-Smiths. Allen has received an anonymous letter stating that the agent who is in charge of one of his tenements is a crook. He decides to investigate the matter. Allen and his mother arrive at the Burne-Smiths and are delayed waiting for Enid She has flatly refused to meet Allen, and, after tying the maid up, makes her escape and finally ends up in a tenement house, where she gets rooms. The next day Allen disguises himself and secures rooms in his own tenement. This is the same place where Enid is staying, and she has become acquainted with Mabel and her sweetheart, George. Enid secures work and Mabel helps her. Every evening after work, the girls are met by their lovers and Enid sighs as she thinks she has no one to look after her. Enid notices that the landlord is familiar with Mabel and later finds that the girl has coaxed him to put off collecting the rent. With the rent money she has been buying clothes with which to get married. She and Allen meet several times and are mutually attracted. George has noticed Martin, the landlord, around Mabel, and has told her to "cut him off" her calling list. She tells of her indebtedness to him to Enid, and the latter pawns her last piece of jewelry to secure funds with which to release Mabel from the landlord's clutches. Martin comes to the girl's room and, while they are arguing, George and Allen come to the door demanding entrance. Mabel has refused to let Enid pay her rent and when she hears George at the door, she is frightened and persuades Martin to hide in the closet. George sees the money on the floor and is still suspicious. Martin then comes out of hiding, claims the money, and says that he bought the dresses for the girl. Enid, seeing that the love between George and Mabel is about to be broken up, takes all the blame and says the dresses are hers. George takes Mabel in his arms and tells her that she had better quit going with Enid. Allen is very much disappointed in the girl and leaves her. too. Enid then determines to return home and forget her little adventure. Allen places George in charge of his tenement, discharging Martin. Allen then tries in vain to find some trace of Enid. He and his mother are invited to the Burne-Smiths for dinner and he listlessly goes with her. The two mothers are delighted when Enid and Allen meet. The two stare at each other like long lost friends. The plans of the two matchmakers have been more than fulfilled, and as the story ends, Enid and Allen are planning their honeymoon.
- Tex Davis, a bad man of the northwest, is caught unaware one day by the sheriff. A gun fight ensues, during which the sheriff is hit hard and pitched down the mountainside to land at the feet of a ranchman. Davis, coming down the mountainside, is discovered by the ranchman and before he can reach his horse, he is forced to flee, with the ranchman pursuing him. The rancher runs into a deputy and orders him to take charge of the sheriff. The deputy does so and takes the sheriff to the trading post, where the kindly owner takes him in. Deep in the great Canadian forest, in the center of a clearing, lives the sheriff's wife and their four-year-old baby girl. The little girl, one day while playing in front of the cabin, sees a rabbit run across the clearing. She follows it into the forest. The mother discovers the absence of the child and searches for it tor hours, but returns to the cabin, brokenhearted and in despair, after a fruitless search. In the meantime Davis, pursued by the rancher, takes to the forest. He eludes his pursuer for the time and, weak and exhausted, plunges on into the thicket. Night falls and he builds himself a fire, when suddenly his operations are interrupted by the sound of someone crying. He discovers the sheriff's baby almost dead from exposure and crying bitterly. Davis' heart is touched, and he cares for the babe. Later, Davis, weakened from the long strain, staggers into the clearing in front of the home, the babe in his arms. The door of the cabin is opened and the overjoyed mother rushes out, takes the babe from Davis and leads them both into the house. Thus it happens that Davis takes refuge and finds succor in the house and from the wife of the man whom he thinks he has killed, though he does not know it is his wife. Davis, looking through the window, catches sight of the rancher riding toward the house. In alarm, he turns to the woman and tells her that he has killed a man and for her to hide him. She conceals him and tells the rancher, who does not know her, that she has seen no one pass that way. The rancher thanks her and rides on. The woman returns to the interior of the cabin and is thanked by the grateful Davis. She gives him food and traps, the better to enable him to live while in hiding. Davis leaves and enters the great forest. The sheriff, in the meantime, has recovered slightly and a messenger is dispatched for his wife. The messenger arrives several days later. The wife sends the baby with him to a neighbor, while she rides to town alone. Davis, in the meantime, has taken to the woods and trapping. One day white making the rounds of his traps, he is surprised to see a woman riding in the distance. The horse slips and falls. The woman is thrown heavily to the ground, where she lies inert. Davis finds her there and discovers it to be the woman who befriended him. He bathes her face and brings her to. It is discovered that the woman's ankle is broken and that she must get to town as soon as possible. The horse is a hopeless cripple. The only thing remaining for Davis is to carry her to the town, many miles away. Then he discovers that she is going to her husband, the sheriff, who lies at death's door in the town. Davis determines to tell the woman of the shooting and then his intentions to carry her to town. She pleads with him not to, knowing that it will mean prison to him. But he shakes his head and against her wishes takes her into his arms and starts on the long march to the post. He arrives in town at night and is almost dead as he staggers to the door of the post. The sheriff, who has recovered, is seated with the owner at the fireside when they hear the noise on the stoop. The owner opens the door and admits Davis and the wife. The sheriff is startled, then angered. He seizes a gun and is about to kill Davis, when his wife saves Davis by telling him of Davis' sacrifice and bravery. The sheriff is at first obdurate, but then the better side of him shows itself and he extends the hand of a man to Davis. Davis grips it and vows to turn over a new leaf. Then the sheriff returns his horse to him. Davis takes his leave and the sheriff and his wife from the window of the little trading post see him swing to the crest of the neighboring hill, stand silhouetted against the night sky for a moment and then ride off toward the forest.
- Arthur Vaughn, a rising young artist, steps into a cobbler's shop to "save his sole," and sees there a girl, the daughter of the cobbler. The cobbler is an habitual drunkard, and the artist tells the girl to leave the squalor of her surroundings and offers her work in his studio. The girl accepts. One day, the artist paints her as she stands, in her rags. It is pronounced a master work. Another day the girl dons the satins and silks of the models, and bids him paint her in those raiments. His trained eye notes the distinct contrast, and he paints her in fine feathers. The portraits, with their contrast and realism, are masterpieces, and quickly establish the artist's reputation. At an exhibition of the Art League it attracts the attention of the President, who becomes curious to know the model. He meets her, and exhorts her to leave the life she is leading. The girl ponders his advice, sees the truth of it and the fearful trend of her life and asks the artist to marry her. He tells her he cannot. The girl, resolved to return to a life of honor, returns to her miserable home. In her absence, the artist realizes that he really loves the girl, and goes to seek her. He enters in time to frustrate the maddened cobbler from wreaking his drunken vengeance upon the girl for leaving him, and leads her out into that life which through all the years she bad dreamt of.
- Richard Thornton is so absorbed in literature that he unknowingly neglects his wife. One night LeRoy Madison, a friend of Thornton, meets him on the street and invites him to the theater. Thornton refuses as he has some research work to do on a book which he deems very important. That night at dinner, his wife asks him to take her to the theater, but he refuses on account of the work in question. She presses the point and when he refers to the reading he has to do she reminds him of the promise he made to her before they were married: that he would give up books so as not to neglect her. He tells her she can go if she wants to, but he has reading to do and she goes to her room to ponder over the mistake she has made, while he settles down at the fireside to read. In looking over the books he finds a diary of his younger days and as he reads has visions of his courtship, marriage, his early struggles with his wife at his side, also of their good luck which enabled them to move to the city and live in luxury. He falls asleep and dreams that Madison calls with the tickets, Thornton excuses himself again but tells his wife she can go if she wants to and she does. After the theater Madison takes Thornton's wife to a tango restaurant and while she is Bush with excitement persuades her to run away with him. She steals into the house, goes to her room, packs a few things and leaves a note for her husband on the dining room table. Thornton finds the note. His rage blinds and chokes him and he wakes at the fireplace in a coughing fit. As he wakes he looks around bewildered. He then rushes to his wife's bedroom and is surprised to find her there. He tells her to hurry and get dressed as he is going to take her to the theater. She cannot understand his sudden change of mind. As they are about to leave the house Madison calls with three tickets to take them to the theater. Thornton tells him he has just had an awful nightmare about him and just for that he is going to take his wife to the theater himself and will not take any chances with a third party.
- Harrison Forbes, lawyer, is sent by his doctor to the north for his health. He cares little for life, his sweetheart being dead. Meanwhile, at Dismal Bar. a lonely and isolated trappers' villa, where the sole enjoyment is Grouse's Joint, a combination saloon, faro gallery and dance hall, a strange drama has been unfolding. Marcia, the fiery adventuress, has tor the nineteenth time refused the marriage proposal of Hercules Bennet, card sharper and gunman. "Garrick" is the strongest and most fiendishly cruel gold grubber that ever crossed the Yukon. Marcia is his favorite. Hercules stands looking malevolently at Marcia and her stalwart lover. As the girl sees Hercules her lips curl with just a bit of scorn and she turns Garrick to meet the glance of the other man and says, "That man has threatened me if I don't marry him." Garrick makes one start for Hercules, but the latter draws a pistol and holds him back. Harrison Forbes arrives at Dismal Bar. Marcia, coming down for some cigarettes for Garrick, meets him face to face. Forbes extends his hands with the glad cry, "Nell." Marcia is about to do likewise, when she suddenly remembers, and passes him. Forbes meets Hercules Bennet, who learns that Forbes has come north for his health. Forbes inquires and is informed that the girl is Marcia, keeper of the faro gallery, and Sennet's own sweetheart. Forbes learns that Bennet hates Garrick. Garrick leaves for the gold fields. Forbes strolls casually into the faro gallery, much to Marcia's dismay, and tells her that she might as well recognize him; that he knows her and begs her to think back over the times they once had during his school days at college. Marcia breaks down, thinking of her wasted life. Forbes, taking her in his arms, comforts her. Marcia places her arms about his neck and kisses him. Hercules Bennet plans a double revenge upon Marcia and Garrick. Bennet starting his plan into action, tells Forbes that he heard that the latter had made quite a conquest of Marcia's heart and learns from Forbes that they had known each other many years before. A week passes. Forbes hangs about the faro gallery. Garrick returns, and of course, learns of Marcia's new lover. He plans to kill Forbes, but a better plan enters his mind. He pays marked attention to another of the women. Marcia turns her attentions to Hercules Bennet. Forbes becomes intoxicated. Marcia and he dance. Garrick looks on in mad anger, strides upon the floor and jerks Marcia away from Forbes. The latter closes in upon Garrick. Garrick tosses Forbes aside like a rag. Marcia slaps Garrick in the face and goes to Forbes' assistance. She and Bennet assist him up to the faro gallery. Garrick steals up the stairs where, peering into the dim lit room, sees Forbes and Marica in each other's arms. Garrick returns to the gold fields and lapses into a fever, where he is nursed by his faithful Indian guide, Semole. Hercules Bennet's revenge is only half complete. Marcia's heart is nearly broken, for she cares for Big Garrick. She sends for Forbes and urges him to go back with her to civilization. Forbes has been made suspicious by Bennet's poisoned tongue. Garrick recovers, and with a set and determined purpose, tells Semole that the woman he loves will either leave Dismal Bar with him forever or she will die with him in one gloriously wild night. The two set out for Dismal Bar. Forbes visits Grouse's Joint with the purpose of meeting Marcia and telling her just what he thinks. Garrick enters with Semole. All the men about the bar are amazed. Hercules Bennet fidgets nervously in his chair. When the crowd answers his question, "Where is she?" by pointing above. Garrick strides from the bar to the dance floor. Forbes follows Marcia to the upper floor, where he watches the gaming. A violent quarrel arises between the two and Garrick slowly climbs the stairs and stops to listen. Forbes, partially intoxicated, accuses Marcia of being the plaything of the men of Dismal Bar. Garrick goes to the bar, drains a whiskey and then suddenly draws a gun and covers Bennet. Garrick calmly orders Semole to remove Bennet's shooting irons. Garrick unstraps his pistol belt and lays it on the bar. Garrick intends choking his poisonous tongue from his head. At bay, Bennet is forced to fight, and what follows is a fight to the finish. Forbes finishes his fiery accusations and Marcia turns her back just as Garrick, below, has picked Hercules Bennet from the floor and hurled him over the bar, smashing bottles and glasses. Marcia hurries down the stairs to see her lover, blood streaming from a cut over the eye, standing and awaiting the oncoming rush of Bennet. who holds in his hands a bottle. Semole, seeing his pal in danger, darts in and would knife Bennet. but Garrick screams, "Hold, this blackguard has defiled the purest and squarest woman in the world. He shall answer to me." Marcia screams and Garrick turns to receive the blow from the bottle across his shoulder. The blow staggers him, but he regains his balance and clinches with Bennet. Garrick turns to see what he thinks, apparently, is Marcia holding Forbes in her arms. He hurls the other over his shoulder to the floor, where he lies quite still. Then, calling Semole to his side, orders a drink and pours the whiskey down the throat of his fallen opponent. Then the two go out. Marcia has an idea. Donning her heaviest garments she goes out also. At early morning, Semole, driving the dog sledge, awakens Garrick to tell him that they are being followed by another sledge. Garrick, waiting with guns drawn, finds it to be Marcia, semi-conscious and delirious. Garrick forgets aught else but his great love for her, and taking her tenderly in his arms, starts off over the frozen snow. Forbes returns to his native city, but first he sends a note to the shack in the gold fields where Garrick and Marcia are staying, telling the girl that he is extremely sorry for what he said to her.
- Hazel and Jack are about to be married. At his death, Hazel's uncle, Howard Wild, has bequeathed to them as a wedding present a deed to the old Wild mansion. He leaves to each a key, believing in equal rights for man and woman. The gift recalls to Hazel and Jack the many happy hours they spent with the old man and how often he had acted as peacemaker in their childish quarrels. The wedding day approaches. A gossiping friend imparts to Hazel a bit of scandal, concerning Jack's name with that of another. They quarrel and Hazel, to avoid questions, decides to hide in the old Wild mansion till the scandal of the broken engagement at the eleventh hour blows over. Without Hazel's suspecting, Jack has followed her to Uncle Howard's country estate. Howard Wild, during his life, was not only famous as a collector of antiques, but also for his wine cellar. A couple of crooks seize their last chance to rob the place before the arrival of the bridal couple in a few days. Hazel arrives at the deserted house and makes herself comfortable, forlornly dwelling on her quarrel with Jack, when she is startled by the noise of the robbers. Overcome with fear, she watches them through the curtain helping themselves to her late uncle's treasures. They pause in their operations to see if any wine has been left in the cellar. Hazel takes this opportunity to escape, and as she runs out into the hall she encounters Jack, who has just entered with his latchkey. In the dark hall she mistakes him for another crook and, with a piercing scream, faints away. The burglars, hearing the scream, believe they are in a haunted house and beat a hasty retreat, leaving the booty behind. Jack revives Hazel, learns the reason of her fright and also that she does not intend to forgive him unless he humbles himself before her. Jack refuses to do this, knowing he is innocent. Uncle Howard's spirit comes to them and again acts as the peacemaker and the sweethearts start for home to be married on the morrow.
- A fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.
- Tom Davis has rescued Jeanne from a life of shame and out of gratitude she has married him. But though he had a good heart he succumbs to the desire for liquor. The picture opens with Jeanne brooding over her past life as the drunken Tom comes home. Time goes on and a baby boy arrives at the Davis home. Tom comes home dead drunk and cannot understand the sight he sees before him. He goes out to clear his befuddled brain and Fate leads him toward the docks. It happens that the Nancy Ann is delayed from departing on her trip to parts unknown through a shortage in the crew. In order to make up his crew, the mate resorted to the time-honored system of shanghaing, and was, with an aide, waiting on the dock as Tom Davis wandered out of a saloon. Davis gazed at the water in a dim uncertain way. An officer wandering by and seeing his melancholy attitude and fearful that he would commit or was contemplating suicide ordered him to move on. Davis reluctantly did so, but came back after the officer was gone. The mate and his man, seeing their chance, attacked Davis and in the fight that ensued Davis's coat was torn from his back and his hat cast on the water below. The mate and his companion succeeded in overpowering Davis and casting him unconscious into a waiting dory, pulled for the ship. Soon after the Nancy Ann put out for the open sea. Lestrade, a civil engineer working on the docks, discovered the hat and coat and, suspecting a suicide, called the officer. The officer remembered the incident and so it came to pass that the wife, Jeanne, was informed of her husband's death. Lestrade saw the beauty and the true side of the woman and starts her on the new path of life. He loved her, cared for her, and finally married her, taking the baby boy to live with them. They were happy, so happy, when one night Davis came back. But only Jeanne and the baby were there. She told him the story of his supposed death and he saw their happiness; he brought the baby to him for a moment, then was forced to release it and conceal himself through the returning of Lestrade. He then saw the real happiness of the woman and the future of his boy. Lestrade left the room and Davis came out. He bade the wife good-bye and then after kissing the boy good-bye back, back to "The Valley of Silent Men."
- An American missionary to China goes back home, then returns to China to marry his Chinese sweetheart.
- Eleanor, who earns her living working with her mother as a laundress, is courted by a bad man who will try to induct her into crime. Surprising finale. One of the few Cleo Madison surviving films.
- In the strife of a great city two sisters take different paths, one a humble home with honest hearts, the other, a gilded life of luxury and ease, without the holy name of wife. At the opening of the story the contrast of their lives is shown. Tom and Alice, although poor, find much to be thankful for and are happy with their family of four small children. One night the husband, while in faithful execution of his duties as night watchman, discovers burglars at work upon his employer's safe. He unfortunately reaches the scene the moment the safe explodes and is killed by the heavy door. The next morning his dead body is found and taken to the home of his wife. Helen, while taking her chocolate in bed, reads of the disaster that has befallen the home of her sister. Being deeply touched, she dispatches a message, offering assistance, which is firmly resented by the widow, together with her offering of flowers. Alice, unprovided for by the death of her husband, secures employment. Helen, penitent of her sins, goes to the humble rooms of her sister to ask forgiveness. She finds Alice absent, but her call is made agreeable by the children, who mistake her for the mission worker. While fondling them the mission attendant arrives, and is dismissed by Helen, who decides to assume the care of the children under the guise of a mission worker. This deception is practiced for a long time, much to the pleasure and enjoyment of the children, but to the discomfort and suspicion of Phil, who, upon one occasion, follows her to ascertain the cause of her habitual absence in the afternoons. Helen, in her leave, picks up a half finished letter to the mission workers in which her sister expresses her appreciation and thanks to the angel that has made here household so happy. The thought of giving up the children fills her with pain as she goes away. Instances of the life which had heretofore tempted and pleased her are now repulsive and fail to satisfy and she is deeply moved to shame. Phil, unable to appreciate the awakening of her soul, is silent to her appeal for the right to he called "wife." Unable to forbear any longer, she leaves the home of luxury and seeks refuge in the sanctuary of the mission workers, where she is received kindly and made one of them. Her sister, upon availing herself of her chance to personally thank the mission workers, calls and nearly encounters Helen, Phil, upon learning of Helen's leave, is deeply moved and love finds expression in a note he pens, offering any concession if she will again come back. He decides to leave it with the children, who had occupied so much of her time. Helen, who in the meantime, having resumed her calls, unexpectedly encounters Alice, who orders her from the house. She goes to the mission where she unburdens the bitter truth to an old minister, who, in sympathy, requests that she return with him. Phil, in the meantime having arrived at Alice's home, is told by the children that their angel would come no more. Alice enters, and upon learning Phil's relation with Helen, demands that he leave. They are, however, interrupted by the arrival of the minister with Helen, who quotes from the Bible, "that likewise joy shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." Alice is awakened to a fuller understanding, and the minister is called upon to perform the marriage between the repentant Phil and Helen.
- James Lee is an artist, light and selfish. His wife is that tragic type of woman who loves intensely and feels deeply. In a pretty milkmaid the artist finds a model to his liking. She is fresh, young end appeals to his imagination. In the petit liaison that springs up between them, James Lee forgets his wife, and the milkmaid turns with scorn on her fisherman lover. Hurt to the quick and happy light dies out in the wife's life when she observes James Lee caress the girl. When the artist takes the milkmaid in his arms and she feels the brutal warmth of his kiss, she shrinks away in fear and returns penitent to her fisherman. When James Lee returns to his wife she is gone. He tries to reason it out. He misses her and her thousand little wares. A deep love never felt before now awakens. She goes to a holy hermit who advises her to pray and fast. In a lonesome spot in the rocks where the waves break, James Lee finds his wife praying. In shame he kneels beside her. She looks and the fond light returns to her eyes and she knows that her prayer has been answered.
- Far from the maddened throngs of the city, far from the teeming, seething city streets, in a little fishing town, lives Tess and her half-witted brother, Sam. By clam digging they earn a simple living, but life is sweet in spite of its simplicity. Right near their hut lived a young fisherman, handsome, brave, and bold, who sympathized with the girl because she had to support her semi-demented brother, who took an interest in her, a friendly interest, and no more. But the maid, in the manner of woman misconstrues his attitude and takes his friendly interest and concern for the divine spark. So she learns to love him as a woman can only love once in her life, and he is ignorant of the romantic relations she has assumed this simple friendship to be. Often human hearts suffer, and this time the warm, young heart of Tess is to feel the pang and anguish of a love in vain, for there comes to the fishing bank a city girl, accompanied by her mother and father. They meet the young fisherman and the girl is impressed by his clean-cut form, his robust health, his winning ways. She asks him to take her about the place, which he obligingly consents to do, and as they are laughing, talking and smiling, Tess follows them. Once, to avoid detection, she slipped into the icehouse, leaving the door open, intending to stay there until the two got out of sight. But Jed, seeing the door open, closes it, locking it after him. When Tess realizes her predicament, she shouts, but her calls bring no response. However, her half-witted brother, with the intuition that is a gift of all mentally effected, feels a presentiment of danger to his sister, whom he idolizes, and going to look for her, hears her cries, and going to the icehouse makes a vain effort to unfasten the door. At last he runs to the beach, where some fishermen are talking, and tells them of his sister's dilemma, and they, thinking it merely some of the boy's wild talk, refuses to assist him. Then Jed, coming ashore, hears the story and goes with Sam to see how much truth there is in it. He opens the door, and into his arms falls the unconscious form of Tess, resting at last in the arms of him whom the god of hearts had destined for the task.
- Robert, a mining engineer, is offered the superintendence of a mine in the west on two conditions; first, that he report at once and second bring a wife with him. Bob sets out to find a wife. He first proposes to his old sweetheart. He had proposed to her often before and now, as in the past, she rejects him before the proposal is half uttered. He next proposes to another of his sweethearts and she accepts until she sees that he is wearing the picture of sweetheart No. 1 around his neck. Then she likewise rejects him. In rapid-fire succession he proposes to a third sweetheart and is again rejected. Then he goes into the telegraph office to wire that he cannot accept the offer. In the office he meets Victoria, an old acquaintance. Before their conversation is ended he has proposed and is accepted. In the meantime sweetheart No. 1 finds a telegram which Robert dropped, telling of the offer of $10,000 if he will report at the mine with a wife. The figures look big to the girl and her mother and they go in search of Robert. Sweetheart No. 2 and 3 experience a change of mind and also go in search of the victim. When Robert returns home he finds the three waiting for him. He retreats from the house, followed by his sweethearts. He beats them to the church and is married to his old acquaintance to the chagrin of the three sweethearts.
- Old Ben Morrison and his daughter, Jen, an unsophisticated girl, live on an island not far from the mainland. Jasper Crane, middle-aged sensualist of the rougher type, bargains with Jen's father, in hopes of marrying and gaining possession of the girl. Morrison is willing, and explains that she is like her mother, who deserted her home and baby for a city man. Jen, hearing of her father's plan, makes her escape by swimming to the mainland, where she seeks protection from Mrs. Hilton and her daughter, Dorothy, members of a camping party. James Hilton, Dorothy's brother, falls in love with Jen. Kent, a refined sensualist of the party, covets the girl, but finds his plans checked at each turn by James. Knowledge of James' affection for Jen reaches his mother's ears, and she informs her daughter that things are going too far and the strange girl must go. Jen overhears the conversation between Mrs. Hilton and her daughter, and realizes that she is not wanted. Kent, noticing the girl's discomfiture, gives her a sum of money for expense and advises her to call at his office in the city, should she ever want for anything. Alice, Jen's mother, served for a time as the plaything of John Newton, the man with whom she ran away, but when he tired of her she drifted into a vulgar blasé set. Jen unable to secure work in the city, writes to Kent for aid. Kent is engaged to marry Dorothy Hilton and plans to celebrate the closing days of bachelorhood on board his palatial yacht. John Newton, who is just returning from an extended European trip, is also to be in the party. Kent and his cronies plan a surprise for Newton. Knowing his former relations with Alice Morison, they plan to have her as one of the party. At the party Alice is discovered by Newton and strange emotions surge in the breasts of the pair. At the height of the party Kent receives Jen's letter asking for aid and he plans to add to the zest of the party by showing them an unsophisticated girl. He accordingly sends for Jen. She arrives, and Alice recognizes her daughter, although she cannot reveal her true identity her child. Back in the offices of Kent and Hilton, who are partners, news comes of a financial crisis, and James Hilton leaves hurriedly to communicate with his partner aboard the yacht. When he finally arrives he is shocked to see Jen, plainly embarrassed, in the midst of the mad riot aboard the yacht. He takes her from the place, and Newton, seeing what Alice is undergoing, suffers a change of heart. He asks her for a chance to atone for the past, and begs her to lead a life worthy her of daughter, he to supply the means. Kent drops out of the party suddenly and hurries to the mainland. On the deck of the yacht alone, James and Jen plight their love anew. Alice, the result of her past sin apparent, sinks down overcome, while Newton endeavors to quiet her tumultuous emotions, realizing his own part in the tragedy so narrowly averted.
- Judge Thurman begrudges the small amount necessary to send his niece, Dora Flynn, to college. He is absolutely heartless in his business associations and refuses to help Thos. Hardy, who is president of a bank, and this causes Hardy to kill himself. Attending the same college with Dora is Thos. Hardy's son Alan, and the two have married secretly. Alan is summoned home by his father's death and wires Dora of this. She is unable to keep her secret, and it reaches the ears of the principal, who dismisses her. She is afraid to return to her uncle, and obtains employment in the city. Alan learns of the part the judge played in his father's death and vows to to break the old man. He is successful, as it is a bitter effort for the judge to seek favor from the younger man. Meantime, Dora is unable to win a livelihood for herself and her baby, and places her on her uncle's doorstep. Later she asks him to allow her to return home in the role of servant. The child, Bessie, has secured a place for herself in the judge's heart. Alan comes in to make a proposition to the judge regarding his financial position, and for the first time sees Dora. The judge is astounded at this revelation and pleads with the two to allow the child to remain. Alan is obdurate, and the three leave, but have only gone a short distance when Dora persuades Alan to return.
- ShortThe story opens in the ante-room of the royal bed-chamber. The queen dies. She was the mother of Snow White. A year later the king brings home a wicked queen. Snow White is presented to her stepmother. The queen sees in her magic mirror a message that Snow White will be prettier than she. The king leaves the country for a short period. No sooner is the king gone, than the queen compels a hunter to carry Snow White to the woods and slay her. The hunter weakens and sets Snow White free. He kills a rabbit, and in the blood of the slaughtered animal dips his handkerchief, which he shows to the queen as proof that he has carried out his mission. Snow White sees a cottage in the distance, and goes to it. Finding it apparently vacant, she enters and searches through the rooms, in the fireplace a pot is boiling. The table is spread. The beds are made. She lies on one of the beds and falls asleep. Seven little men are at work in a mine. At the close of the day they stop their labor and march home in military fashion. The leader finds Snow White. He summons his mates and they awaken the sleeper. Snow White agrees to keep house for the little folks. The queen, through her mirror, has learned that the hunter has played her false. The next day she goes in disguise to the hut. She gives Snow White a poisoned comb. Snow White falls unconscious. When the dwarfs return they soon discover the trouble and remove the comb, restoring Snow White. The next day the queen returns. In spite of the warnings of the dwarfs the queen is admitted by Snow White. The queen induces her to eat of a poisoned apple. Snow White falls dead. The dwarfs bemoan the loss of their princess. The queen learns of the death of Snow White. The glass tells her, "Oh, queen, there is none in the land so beautiful as thou." A prince now comes upon the scene. From a hill he sees a strange sight. He dismounts and approaches a casket of glass, surrounded by seven mourning little men. He leans over the casket and kisses the face of the still figure within. Immediately Snow White comes to life. The king and queen are at the head of the court assembling to greet a new prince and his bride. It is the prince and Snow White. The queen is exposed and turned out. The king welcomes his restored daughter and her prince and gives the two his blessing.
- Here is the evidence the police secured against Jack Darcy within half an hour: At a late hour at night he was seen climbing up the fire escape of the Hotel Magnificent, but before the woman who spied him could recover from her terror sufficiently to give the alarm, he had clambered in the open window of room 310. The next moment a pistol shot was heard. Darcy dashed out through the window, but was captured at the foot of the fire escape. He declined to give any explanation regarding his movements. Investigation showed that the occupant of room 310, a wealthy westerner named Henry Grayson, had been shot to death in his bed. His daughter, who was in another room in the same suite, broke down when she was told of the tragedy. The police had no chance to question her. They figured they had enough evidence to hang young Darcy. The Commissioner of Police took a personal interest in the case, for Grayson and his father had been boyhood pals. The elder men had planned that their children should marry and Grayson's trip east had been partly with that end in view. At first the Commissioner believed Darcy guilty, then he began to doubt and finally proved the young man's innocence. His first clue was a card found in Darcy's pocket, an ordinary blank card with the figure 6 scrawled upon it. But when the card was turned the other way, it looked like a 9. His next clue was a severed electric light wire, his third a photograph. Finally he reconstructed the tragedy and proved that the case was not one that the law could take cognizance of. And the starting point was the card. Did it mean "six" or "nine?" When that was established the rest was easy. At least it was a simple problem for the bright young Commissioner of Police.
- Phil Kelley, a well-known detective, makes the acquaintance of Cecil McLean during one of his raids and has been of assistance to the girl. Their acquaintance ripens and the two become very good to each other. The chief of police is very much disturbed at the operations of a gang of crooks known as the "Lumber Yard Gang," and after a particularly daring robbery, assigns Kelley to the case. Kelley examines the room where the robbery took place and finds a fingerprint of one of the crooks. By hard work he locates the crook's record and secures a photograph of him. Kelley takes a detail of police and starts on his mission. The gang hears that Kelley has discovered the identity of one of their members through the mysterious wireless system of crooks, and prepares to give the officers a warm reception. Kelley after placing his men in advantageous positions, goes alone to rout the crooks from cover and is met with a fierce resistance. A free-for-all battle takes place in which the officers join, and the crooks are finally routed. Phil picks out the leader and pursues him. Both pursuer and pursued exchange shots and both are wounded. The leader makes his way to a house and Phil closes with him. As he starts to handcuff his captive, the door opens and Cecil rushes out begging him not to take the man, as he is her brother. Kelley agrees to let the boy go if she will promise to make him leave town, and starts to return to his men. The chief of detectives has witnessed the chase, and when he sees Kelley return empty handed, upbraids him for cowardice and threatens to take his star away from him. Cecil sees them in an argument, and realizes that Kelley will suffer for his kindness to her. Determined to do the right thing she handcuffs her brother and goes out to summon Kelley. He and the chief meet the girl. She silently leads them inside the house and points to the handcuffed figure. The detective bends over the boy but finds that death has claimed him. The chief regrets his hasty words and leaves Kelley to comfort the girl, after telling him that he will hear more from the office for his successful handling of the case.
- The Colonel is a fine type of the English country gentleman. All the formulas and traditions of his race he holds dear and he takes pride in the assertion that his ancestors were men of honor and women of virtue. While visiting a Glasgow inn with a friend, the Colonel learns that his nephew, Lieutenant Pritchard, is mixed up in an unwholesome affair with a woman. Under the threat of cutting him off, the Colonel compels the nephew to give the woman up. Later the nephew leaves for the front in South Africa. The Colonel advertises for a housekeeper. Nina, the adventuress who had known the son, answers the ad and secures the position. The Colonel is ignorant of the girl's past, and in six months we find them married. The nephew returns; he recognizes his uncle's wife with horror. The Colonel is informed, but refuses to believe when his wife denies ever knowing the nephew. Later, the Colonel learns the truth; he writes a note and shoots himself. The adventuress tries to implicate herself, but dies through drinking a glass of poisoned wine discarded by the Colonel. When the note is found it reads, "My ancestors were men of honor and women of virtue. It is the law of my kind. There was no other way."
- A soldier finds strength after being given a rosary at the hospital where he was treated.
- Olga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small salary. In addition she is handicapped by having the sole care of an invalid sister. A capital operation is necessary to save the girl's life. Olga, being entirely without money, appeals to her employer. He offers to furnish the money on terms that the girl, through the urgency of her sister's case, is finally forced to accept. The operation is performed and the girl is removed to the seaside. Three months later Olga learns that her sister is dead. The futility of her sacrifice and her natural antipathy to the life she is forced to lead, lead her to flee from the home of her betrayer. One of the truly good men of this world, the Reverend John Armstrong, finds her wandering disconsolately through the streets, and he, claiming a former acquaintance with her, takes her to the home of his mother. As time goes on, the young people, mutually attracted long ago, become engaged. John receives a call to a country village, and on the eve of his departure for the scene of his future labors, he and Olga are married. A year later the little village is stirred by the exhibition of a moving picture entitled, "Shall We Forgive Her?" Mr. Jellice, one of the deacons of John's church, attempts to prevent the exhibition, and by doing so becomes embroiled in a law suit with the manager of the theater. John sends for legal assistance, the attorney selected being Stephen Leslie. Leslie arrives and in his visit to the parsonage meets the woman he betrayed. He upbraids her for leaving him and proposes that they resume their former relations. When Olga refuses he threatens to expose her. The timely arrival of John and the committee on their way to the theater saves Olga for the time being. The party enter the theater, the committee agreeing to abide by John's verdict on the picture. At the parsonage, Olga determines to give up her fight. She sees no escape for Leslie but in flight. She writes a hurried letter to John and bids good-bye to the home in which she had found true happiness and contentment. On her way to the depot she is attracted to the theater and finally makes up her mind to enter. The picture tells the story of a sacrifice such as her own. The despairing girl watches it with breathless interest. At the culmination of a tense, dramatic scene John, rising in his seat, praises the picture and upholds the moral which it teaches. A vision of the Saviour is shown and the sublime words, "Judge Not Lest You Be Judged," are flashed before the tear-dimmed eyes of the audience. Subsequently Olga and Leslie meet. His entire attitude is changed and the pictured story has worked his reformation. He implores Olga's forgiveness and begs her to return to her husband. John, arriving home, finds the letter of confession. He is stunned for the moment, but seeing his sorrowing wife on her knees, he remembers the sublime words of his Divine Master, "Judge Not Lest You Too Be Judged," and takes the erring but repentant woman to his arms.
- The name of the trouble is Max Wilson, a celebrated tenor. When he arrives at a seaside hotel every other brand of hero sinks into insignificance. However, the boys do not wish to play second fiddle. One rejected suitor goes so far as to spy upon the tenor. He sees him powder his nose and, but to tell would spoil the story. Howbeit he carries the news to other rejected suitors. Between them they plan an intrigue. While the singer is entertaining the girls on the front porch the suitors procure a fish pole and station themselves upon the upper balcony. At an opportune moment a rejected suitor lowers a fishline and allows the hook to catch in the great singer's hair. He then pulls. No, the tenor is not pulled up by the hair; the hair is pulled up by itself. Confusion, chagrin, embarrassment, these are the emotions of the victim and in less time than it takes to tell, the lady-killer is en route to the city while the other brands of heroes stand at a premium.
- For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams. Dawson has an only daughter, June. There lives with him one, Wood Dawson, a nephew. In the rival family there is an only son, Joel. Joel and June were secret lovers. One day a gospel man comes into the territory and convinces the heads of the two families that their feud is ungodly. All their various henchmen are disarmed and peace and harmony is established. That is, until Wood learns that Joel Dawson is his successful rival for the hand of June. Then Wood becomes stiff-necked. He circulates the report that Joel and June have been carrying on improperly. He has words with Joel and in the general fight which follows Joel shoots and kills Wood. Both families reopen hostilities. Hen Dawson forgets his oath and sets out to kill Joel. However, when he finds Joel he finds June with him ready to elope. Tragedy is about to take place, when the gospel man forever puts an end to the long standing war of extermination. He marries Joel and June.
- Lawrence Dallas, man about town, is asleep in his bed. The butler awakens Dallas and gives him a telegram. It is from his wife, who has been out of town, and informing him that she will arrive soon. She arrives as Dallas is dressing and a bawling out is handed to Dallas. He pleads for one chance. Dallas receives an invitation to supper with his friend Daisy. Mrs. Dallas also receives an invitation to go to the Plymouth reception. Both determine to go. The butler, who is in league with a gang of crooks, plots with them to rob the house. Some hours later finds Dallas intoxicated in company with several other gay boys; the butler, robbing the house with the crooks. Dallas and the others happen upon a hack in front of a saloon. The friends bet with him that he is afraid to drive it. Dallas mounts to the cabby's seat. The burglars are discovered by an officer who pursues them. They hail the hack and enter it. But the hack goes too slow. In disgust the butler and his colleagues flee, leaving the silverware in the hack. The officer pursues them. Dallas' spouse comes from the reception and finds the last taxi taken. She hails the hack. The officer returns to find the hack. He sees it and discovers Mrs. Dallas and the silverware in it. He arrests her and her husband. The warden asks Mrs. Dallas who she wants for counsel; she tells them her husband. The husband awakens from his drunken stupor and finds himself in jail. He is brought into court. The deputy, arriving at the home, is met by the butler. The deputy recognizes in the butler a famous thief and nabs him. Dallas has just been freed on a plea of 'First offense' when his wife is dragged into the scene. She runs to her husband's arms and he winks at the judge. He hears his wife's case and agrees to defend her after sternly reprimanding her. The evidence is brought in and they are both astounded at the sight of their own jewelry. The butler is brought in, and, to the consternation of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas, is declared to be a notorious thief.
- Ruth Braddon, the daughter of a wealthy factory owner, who is interested in improving social conditions, receives a letter, advising her to look at the state of affairs at her father's own factory. She visits her father and he refers her to his junior partner, Fred Howard, to whom Ruth is engaged. Accompanied by her fiancé, Ruth goes on a tour of inspection through the factory. In the hallway, she sees a crowd of workers gathered around a girl who has fainted in the poorly-ventilated workroom. As they approach the group, David Hale, a factory hand, asks Howard for better conditions. Howard orders David back. Ruth, admiring David's personality, interferes and tells him she will talk with her father. The next day David visits Bessie and tells her he is expecting a raise of wages soon and they will marry. Bessie's happiness over David's love is interrupted by a visit from Ruth. David takes her through the tenements, showing her poverty in its worst form. She asks him to assist her in lightening the burden of the poor. He consents. The close contact into which David and Ruth are thrown in their work, draws them together. Ruth awakens to the knowledge that she is in love with David. She breaks her engagement with Howard. He goes to her father. The father shows a letter he received from David in which he asked for an increase of wages so that he may marry Bessie Clay. Ruth comes to her father's office for money and her father places the check close to David's letter so Ruth will see it. She learns for the first time of David's engagement. She is overcome and on leaving her father's office meets David. She breaks down and weeps.
- While suffering from an attack of heart trouble, Howard Ellsworth consults a physician and learns that he has but six months to live. How to live so as to get the most out of his allotted time is the question with him now. His thoughts take him back to a time when he acted as escort to his fiancée while on her errands of charity to some drug fiends. Thinking only of satisfying his craving for pleasure, no matter how short lived, he believes cocaine will afford him the most during his last six months on earth. He begins its use. The drug grips him in quick order. He forsakes his friends, everybody that will not cater to his passion for pleasure and goes down, down, down in the scale of society, until the bottom is reached. Then he finds out that the doctor made a mistake and mixed his case with the diagnosis of another man. He goes to see the doctor, bent on murder, but finds the old fellow already a victim of one of his own experiments. Then, the office boy to Ellsworth pulls his manuscript from his machine and rushes in to his employer with this story, the climax.
- The parson of Pine Mountain is a sturdy mountain preacher. Somewhat out of place in the rude and primitive surroundings of the mountain is Lizzie, the gentle daughter of Old Marvin, a hardened mountaineer. For Lizzie the parson entertains a deep and tender feeling and he hopes one day to make her his wife, Lizzie knows this full well and takes a delight in teasing him. It is Steve Boscombe whom she loves and Steve is infatuated with Lizzie. He and Old Marin are interested in a secret whiskey still. One night revenue men come to Pine Mountain and raid the whiskey still and in the battle which ensues one of the moonshiners is wounded. He manages to escape and hides in the woods. There the parson and Marvine administer to him. Lizzie is left in Marvin's cabin alone. Steve, who that day has been drinking heavily, notes Marvin's absence and the evil side of his nature getting the better of him, he swaggers up to the cabin and bursts in. While working over the wounded man the parson asks Marvin for the hand of his daughter. Marvin consents, and, he and the parson stroll to the former's cabin. In the light of the glittering candle, Lizzie is sitting at the table with head bent upon her arms. When the men grasp the truth, Marvin takes his old rifle from its place over the hearth, but the parson wrenches the weapon from his grasp. Then he turns to Lizzie. "Lizzie," he says, "do you love Steve Boscombe?" Lizzie speaks not a word, and the parson knows she cannot deny. His face set, he leaves the cabin. He catches Steve down the trail. Having awakened to the seriousness of his actions, he was running away. The parson stops Steve's horses and leads him back to the cabin. "Lizzie and Steve are aiming to get married, Marvin," said the parson, "and so Steve came and got me to perform the ceremony." Lizzie and Steve are married, and the parson goes out of their lives forever.
- Fearing an epidemic of typhoid among the workmen, the foreman suggests that they be vaccinated. The boss assents, and as the foreman recommends a specialist of his acquaintance the work of putting the affair through is turned over to him. The engineer, Christie, is persuaded by Andrews to have himself vaccinated. He does so and is taken mysteriously ill immediately afterward. A doctor who is called in says there are signs of foul play. Queer is called in to take the case up. Christie, meanwhile, is succumbing to what appears to be sleeping sickness. Queer finds out from Andrews what doctor did the vaccinating. He calls but finds the doctor out. Without waiting for permission, Queer enters the house by the basement and finds in the doctor's laboratory serum for sleeping sickness and anti-toxin for it. Queer takes the anti-toxin and hurries out to administer it to Christie. While Queer is thus engaged Andrews calls to inquire after his boss. Queer becomes suspicious and follows Andrews. He sees him answering a letter in the shack on the works from a rival construction company addressed to Christie in which that concern offers Christie a bribe to delay the work. Andrews offers to accept the bribe in Christie's place. Queer hurries back to the president of the company and takes him the carbon copy of the letter Andrews wrote, which carbon copy Andrews left behind him by mistake. Then they both go out to the laboratory of the doctor where Queer discovered the anti-toxin, after first having telephoned for detectives to meet them there. They steal in on the doctor and arrest him. Queer then pulls off the disguise worn by the doctor and shows him to be none other than Andrews, the foreman.
- On his deathbed, John Tilden, who lost his wife years ago, tells his daughter, Dora, that he is sending her to Howard Potter, who is now living in New York, and who also loved her mother in her girlhood days. After the funeral a tag is pinned onto the child's coat and she is sent by train from San Francisco to New York. When Dora and Potter meet in the station in New York, she, with childish impulsiveness, throws her arms around his neck, and Potter, who has associated with more or less gay women, is particularly pleased with her naive charms. Paul, the younger brother of Potter, arrives home from college and eventually falls in love with Dora, who returns his affection. They plan to tell the older brother on Dora's eighteenth birthday of their intention to get married. Four years have now passed and the doctor, who attended Tilden on his deathbed, mails the two letters which the dying man had given him with instructions that they be sent in time to reach Dora's home on her eighteenth birthday. Dora's birthday arrives and her eyes distend in surprise when she receives a letter written in her father's handwriting. It tells her that when her father won her mother away from Potter that he and Potter agreed that if the union was blessed with a daughter that the latter should marry her. To this agreement Dora's mother also assented. Dora shows the missive to Paul, who is at first rebellious, but when he thinks how his older brother had cared for him he bows his head in submission. The other letter is received by Potter, and it informs him that the wife he asked for is now delivered to him. Potter does not receive the letter in a serious spirit at first, but when he reflects that he is now past forty years old he begins to feel the need of woman's comforting presence and realizes that he loves Dora. The young girl accepts his offer of marriage, and preparations are made for the wedding. The day for the nuptials arrives, and as Potter sits in a retrospective mood before the fireplace, he sees in the flames his past associations with women of rather uncertain honesty and chastity. At the end of his reverie, Potter asks himself, "Am I worthy of the girl I am about to marry?" Just then he hears Dora bidding a last farewell to Paul, and he realizes the situation in an instant. At the church the wedding march is being played. Dora is leaning on the arm of one of Potter's friends who is to give her away. Paul, the best man, is nearby. They march slowly up the aisle. They reach the altar and halt. No bridegroom is yet in sight. A messenger boy appears and hands the minister a note. He speaks to the best man, and to the amazement of the assembled guests, Paul steps to the side of the bride, and they are married. Alone, Potter thinks of the happy future of Paul and Dora, knowing that his sacrifice was the only way to bring it about.
- John Tremain loves Violet Ellis, but she has given her heart to Dick Travers, a boy of twenty-two, who, despite his engagement to her, is throwing his money and his life away on an actress, Nina La Farge. John gets the whole story from Violet. He goes to the woman and offers to buy her off. She laughs at him at first but he offers such a large figure that she finally listens. She is growing tired of the boy anyway. John offers her a check. She sneers. She wants none of his checks to be tripped up on. He goes to the bank. Her real lover, a musician, arrives. Dick comes in on them. A quarrel ensues. Dick strikes the other man and he goes down just as John enters with the money. He takes in the situation at a glance and wonders what he will do. Making the boy realize how worthless the woman is by her eager acceptance of the bills, the man says he will shoulder the crime and let the boy go, for Violet's sake. The man sends him off to freedom. Then he forces the woman to agree to all he says. The police are called. The man is questioned. "I murdered him because I was jealous of him," he tells them. They turn to the woman. She nods, "It is all true." Tremain is arrested and held for trial. The boy returns to Violet. Always he is haunted by a vision of the man behind prison bars. Unable to stand life away from the woman the boy goes to her apartment and begs her to run away with him. She refuses and laughs at him. The man is still in jail. Time for the trial comes. The boy, seeking only a little rest, goes into the hop joints of his city and becomes addicted to the drug. The last day of the man's trial arrives. The boy is found and carried home, almost unconscious. Violet is sent for as his condition is alarming. When Violet comes to his bed he screams and tells her: "John is doing this for you because he loves you." Then he gives himself up and loudly confesses: "I did it. I killed him. He was Nina's lover." Violet gathers enough to realize the truth, goes to court, creates a big scene and saves John at the last moment. Nina is called and, frightful of the consequences, tells all the details. John is vindicated and all go to the boy's home. The detective wants to go in, but they explain he is very ill. Violet stands in the door with John. The boy begs her forgiveness and then dies. The detective is dismissed and Violet falls on her knees at the boy's side and weeps. Silently John steals away. But later, in the spring time, John comes to her, in the country, and she does not send him away.
- City gent Rupert goes to the country for his vacation. He meets Elsie in a field of daisies, he proposes, and they are married. A few years later they drift apart and Ruper becomes enamored of another woman. With unctuous courtesy, each day at the florist's he orders his wife an expensive bouquet. Joe, a poor fellow, comes to the florist's to get his girl a cheap bouquet of daisies. Rupert, a city man, goes to the country for his vacation. There he meets Elsie in a field of daisies. He proposes to her and they are married. A few years later they drift apart. Rupert becomes enamored of a woman. With unctuous courtesy, each day at the florist's he orders his wife an expensive bouquet. Joe, a poor fellow, goes to the florist's to get his girl a cheap bouquet of daisies. By mistake the roses are delivered to the poor girl. The wife, discouraged and about to leave her husband, writes a note to that effect. The daisies arrive; she recalls the old love and dresses in her old dress, pinning the daisies on her breast. Rupert is ruined by a panic in Wall Street. When the woman he fancies calls on him at his office in the afternoon he tells her. She scorned him. Maddened, he goes home and finds the note. He is in despair. His wife enters, finds him with a revolver, and rushes to him. He tells her, then they again enact the scene of their betrothal, with the simple bunch of daisies as the silent witness.
- A modernized fairy tale, it tells of a rich bachelor who decides to study his relatives before making his will. A visit to them leaves him as puzzled as before. He plans a test. They are all invited to visit him on a certain day. In the middle of the road he plants a big stone. One by one the relatives pass it by until the humblest of them all decides that the stone is dangerous to traffic and moves it away. Underneath they find a note giving the finder the old man's fortune.