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- A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
- A dope fiend, so deep in drugs that he is beyond redemption, finds a boy in a poolroom. He tells the boy to leave the place while there is yet time, but the youth laughs and, like the moth, continues to flitter close to the flame. The boy goes home and robs his own mother, then returns to the dive to gamble. The dope fiend sees in the boy's face what he has done and be again remonstrates and tells him to take the money back. The boy promises to do this and the fiend leaves him. A number of youthful crooks, fresh from a robbery, trailed by the police, enter the room and fearing to carry their loot around with them, unload it on the boy. Before leaving him they give him a revolver. In the next room a gambler has an altercation with a victim. The victim runs into the room where the boy is seated. The gambler shoots through the door and kills his man. In his nervousness the boy discharges the revolver in his hand. The police enter and arrest the boy for the murder. The dope fiend enters and notices the bullet hole in the door. He enters the next room and finds the gambler's revolver. Realizing that his own life is worthless, he takes the blame for the murder to save the boy. However, the discovery of the gambler hiding in a closet reveals the real murderer and both dope fiend and boy are released. The boy and the fiend left alone, the boy promises that he will forever forsake such dives.
- After avoiding a bandit's advances, a woman receives his bet that she will kiss him willingly.
- Felix, an American, is employed as a bookkeeper at a large hacienda in Cuba. Juan, a half-breed overseer of the estate, loves the planter's daughter. He makes brutal advances to her, and the girl is saved from his violence by Felix. Juan is deposed as overseer and Felix is given the position. In a spirit of revenge the peon steals Arabia, the daughter's horse, rides to the headquarters of the Spanish general of the district and reports that the hacienda is recruiting a detachment of insurgents. During Juan's absence the horse effects its own escape. The planter is arrested, taken to the Spanish headquarters and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. An insurgent leader in the vicinity is notified of the proceeding and hurries with his detachment of rebels to aid in the rescue. The trusty horse carried a file to the prisoner and after the bars have been demolished he carries the planter to his friends. The Spanish soldiery gives chase and is caught in an ambuscade and captured. Juan has returned to the hacienda to take the daughter away, but his evil purpose is interrupted by the arrival of a United States soldier with dispatches to Felix. The insurgents arrive with their prisoners and Felix reads a dispatch, which tells that Santiago has fallen and that his services as a military spy are ended. Juan steals away in an attempt to escape, but Arabia chases him back into the patio, where the half-breed lands in a fountain.
- The district attorney and the doctor are good friends. Thus, when the doctor is arrested for speeding, it is the most natural thing in the world that he should go to his friend and attempt to beg off. He tells the district attorney that he was speeding to the aid of a sick man. The attorney refuses to take this for an excuse. Shortly afterward the district attorney has a nervous breakdown and the doctor informs him that he must take a month's vacation. The attorney, weighted down by his strenuous duties, refuses to take a rest and his wife hatches a scheme with the aid of the doctor, the police judge and the police and chauffeur as accomplices, whereby her husband will be compelled to take his vacation. The wife asks the attorney to take her for a drive. He consents. Just prior to entering the machine, the chauffeur is taken ill and the matter of driving the car falls on the district attorney. During the drive the wife affects a stroke of heart trouble and begs that she be hurried off to the doctor. The attorney smashes the speed limits. The motorcycle patrolmen, who are parties to the plot, arrest the speeders. He is taken before the judge and sentenced to thirty days in prison as an example to others. The following morning it is announced in the papers that the district attorney has gone on a month's vacation. The wife's object is attained, and she, with the other accomplices, goes to the jail to tell him of the joke.
- Robespierre and Dumont were sworn friends in their college days. During their early manhood both loved Louise Brissac, but she favored Dumont and refused Robespierre's hand. Her father was the local magistrate and was blamed by the peasantry for the imposition of a severe tax. Robespierre was too wise to blame him, but had already grown to despise authority. Brissac was the representative of the rulers in the province, so Robespierre visited Brissac with a delegation of angered farmers. They were coldly received, and their anger grew until Brissac was saved from mob violence only by the arrival of Dumont, who persuaded the malcontents to withdraw. Time passed and the wedding of Louise and Dumont was postponed. Hearing of the mob disorders in Paris, Robespierre and Dumont leave with the Brissac. Robespierre although young and without influence soon dominates the assembly. Dumont although deploring the massacres is still the friend of Robespierre. The love of Robespierre for Louise grows in fervor as does the hatred for her father. Finally he sends Dumont to arrest them both as aristocrats. The father is arrested, but Dumont aids the girl to escape and is taken prisoner and sentenced to die. The father goes to the guillotine. The girl sees this and also the threatened fate of Dumont. In despair she decides to visit the tyrant and beg for her lover's life. This is granted to her on the condition that she give herself to Robespierre. Her soul revolts from this but the spirit quails when he shows her the carmagnole or devil dance of the revolutionists. She consents on condition that Dumont is freed and she in company with Robespierre's spy goes to the prison where Dumont repudiates the bargain and hurls the spy to the door of the dungeon. In the meantime, Tallien has impeached the committee of public safety of which Robespierre is the head, and a spirited debate ensues in the convention. This results in Robespierre's overthrow as he is brought down by the bullet of Meda, the assassin. Tallien triumphs while Robespierre is dragged away a wounded prisoner. Tallien hurries to the prison and Dumont is released. As he is hurrying through the streets in mad search of Robespierre in order to find Louise, the tyrant's victim, he meets the deposed fiend and he is menaced by a furious mob. He demands the girl, but Robespierre cannot answer. A commotion is heard and he sees the stealthy spy dragging the girl along. He hurls him to the ground and brings her to a place of safety. Later they view the execution of the tyrant and realize that their worst days of terror are over.
- At Burke's death, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, baby Rory, who goes into the keeping of his uncle, Sir Everett, who has a son Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped. Twenty years later show Sir Everett's son grown up to be a cad of dissolute habits, but wealthy as a result of the stolen inheritance. Rory has grown to manhood in the home of a poor widow and her daughter Eileen and is in love with peasant girl Kathleen. Sir Everett's son wrongs Rory's foster sister. She dies and Rory swears vengeance upon the wrongdoer. However, vengeance is taken out of his hands. The kidnapper gets into an altercation with the son and kills him. Rory finds the body, is accused of the murder and is convicted and condemned to die. The conscience-stricken kidnapper confesses to a priest--a good friend of Rory's. The priest cannot dishonor the sanctity of the confessional by making the confession public, so he goes to Rory's cell and changes clothes with the young man. Rory escapes, but is speedily recaptured. The time for his execution arrives. The death-bell tolls out mournfully. It arouses the conscience-stricken kidnapper to action. He rushes to the gallows and arrives an instant before Rory is to be hanged. He confesses that the crime was his. Rory is liberated. The tolling of the death-bell also arouses the conscience of Sir Everett. He confesses the kidnapping and restores Rory to his inheritance.
- Sunbonnet Sue, the moonshiner's pretty daughter, is carrying a basket of cookies to her sweetheart, Dave, a poor but honest moonshiner, when she is followed by a spying revenue officer. She suspects the agent's intentions, however, and lays him low with a well-aimed blow. The brave girl then notifies the moonshiners of their danger. Red Eye Pete, one of the gang, attempts to steal the affections of Sue and is cruelly rebuked. To revenge himself Pete offers to lead the revenuers to the moonshiners if the girl will be delivered into his hands. His treacherous offer is accepted. The revenue men are again outwitted by Sue, however.
- As six priests are in prayer in the Temple of Buddha, a band of marauding coolies sweep down and annihilate them. The last priest to die, perceiving that the coolies are taking the sacred eye of Bnddha, a precious stone, curses the stone and exclaims that the possessor of it shall die. He then passes away. The coolies arrive at the desert, where they begin to quarrel about the emerald. One by one they die and the surviving coolie grasps the stone and runs away with it to the jungle, where fear and excitement make him a madman. Casting the stone into the air, it hangs suspended, and, as the maddened coolie falls dead upon the ground, the stone descends upon his breast, where it is found by a caravan of merchants, one of whom appropriates it. The merchant goes to the bazaar at the English barracks, at Cawnpore, India, where he sells the stone to Sir Hugh Wheeler and his niece. Just as the transferring of the stone has been completed, the merchant is seized with an attack of fever and dies. Several days later, as Sir Hugh and others are admiring the stone, a dispatch comes to him bearing the news that the fanatical Sepoys have thrown down their arms and deserted, having been told by a Buddha priest that they are being defiled with greased bullets and that he had better prepare for immediate defense. Nana Sahib, a treacherous man, offers his assistance to Sir Hugh, which is gladly accepted. Back in the temple the High Priest Djalma sees in a vision Sir Hugh and his niece admiring the stone with the sinister Nana Sahib standing in the background with upraised knife. He makes a passionate vow that he will devote his life to regain the stone. When Cawnpore is invested. Nana, who had promised to take care of the English troopers, the invalids, the women and the children, fails to keep his promise and the troopers are killed, while the women and children are hustled into the old barracks. This also is seen by the High Priest Djalma in a vision as he stands before the idol of Buddha in the temple. The Sepoys, having been defeated by the advancing troopers of General Havelock, avenge themselves by slaughtering the women and children. A Hindu woman with a white baby escapes. In the temple the high priest throws incense on the brazier, and again in a vision he sees the Hindu woman give the baby to a Sepoy coolie who is in a boat, he having escaped after having looted the bodies of the dead and found the emerald. The old priest makes a solemn vow that the baby boy shall grow up and reclaim the stolen eye and that he shall adopt the boy. Twenty-five years later the emerald, after having passed through many hands and each time causing a calamity, finds its way into the possession of Colonel Van Alston, his wife and daughter, Nellie. The High Priest Djalma, now an aged man, realizing that his days are numbered, calls the little boy he adopted years ago, now known as Afga, the White Priest, and makes him swear that he will devote his entire life to the restoring of the eye of Buddha. Afga promises and the old priest passes away. Taking his ball of crystal he concentrates his mind upon it and sees in it Nellie at a reception with the emerald around her neck. That night, as Afga throws incense on the brazier, he sees in the smoke that rises, Nellie, admiring the emerald and gently refusing the proposal of a suitor. She suddenly falls in a trance, in which she sees Afga and the idol of Buddha with the missing eye. Recovering her senses again, Nellie becomes very ill and the doctors advise a change in climate. Just about this time the colonel is ordered to take his regiment to Cawnpore, India. In taking in the sights of that city, they eventually come to the Temple of Buddha, where Nellie meets Afga. Nellie continues to be sick, and one of her attendants, a native coolie, seeing the emerald about her neck, goes to the head of his sect and tells him of the emerald. He is given silken cords with which to hang Nellie. Meanwhile, Afga calls upon the colonel and asks to cure his daughter. He is given permission, and almost simultaneously with the laying of his hand upon her brow, she gets well. That night in the temple, Afga sees in a vision Nellie being maltreated by the coolie thus. He goes at once to her rescue and transforms the leader into a dog. The rest slink away in mortal fear. He takes Nellie home and leaves. The next day Nellie goes to the temple and is taken before the idol of Buddha. Pointing to the eye socket Afga tells her of the story of the emerald. Impulsively she gives him the precious stone, and immediately after it is placed in the socket it flares fire. They then go to the colonel, the history of the young man is told, and he is recognized as Nellie's accepted suitor.
- Gentleman Jack is a general favorite at the summer hotel, until the arrival of Eddie and his new and fickle wife. Each time Eddie looks at his wife and conceives her smiling at another man he immediately sees visions of a tragedy. Affairs go on until one day Eddie sees his wife smile at Gentleman Jack, who occupies the apartment across the hall. He leaves for work and as he goes along he thinks. Then he turns around and hotfoots it to his wife. In the meantime the young wife has locked herself out of her apartment and can't find the janitor. Gentleman Jack obligingly offers her the use of his apartment while he finds the janitor. An old maid sees the young wife enter Jack's room. When Eddie arrives he is met by the old maid. "Your wife, sir," she whispers, "Is in that room." Presto, all his suspicions are verified. Eddie gets his gun and goes after his imaginary rival. Jack does not stop to explain matters. After a half dozen bullets have sung their little song in his ear he concludes to move on down the street. Mutual explanations are exchanged and Eddie goes on beating his wife. even more violently than before.
- 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.
- The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple. The mother recognizes the father, and the young couple are told the horrifying news. Distracted, the girl runs away. After upbraiding his parent, the boy seeks out his father. Together they solve the tragic question which confronts them. Hand in hand they walk into the illimitable ocean until they are covered by the water.
- Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body. After all his friends have left the disconsolate girl seeks the help of Felix. The old musician is touched and all of his flowers, tributes to his success, he carries into the room of death and lends the girl as much financial assistance as she needs. The following day Felix adopts the girl as his ward. Lon, a sculptor, is impressed by her simplicity and beauty, and falls in love with her. Forrest, an artist, a malapert young man, patronizes the girl, and is repulsed in his advances. Felix puts up the money for Lon to go to Europe and study, and Lon, as a means of insuring the girl to himself when he returns, marries her secretly, but with Felix's consent. Forrest overhears when Lon and the girl are discussing their future happiness, and being ignorant of their marriage, he takes a jealous pleasure in the thought that all is not proper. He circulates gossip to the girl's discredit, and finally on the eve of Lon's departure, he convinces Felix's friends that he is right. The old musician is at work on a second symphony, and is utterly oblivious to what is going on; he scarcely notices that he is deserted by his friends. The friends hold a council, and decide to tell Felix the kind of woman he is harboring. Old Felix, after fully grasping what they mean, drives them from his studio. However, he is rendered more feeble by the reaction of his violent emotions and the contemplation of the foul suspicions which have separated him from his old friends. Thus he labors with feverish haste to complete his last symphony. But work and worry and forgotten favors are too much for the old man. His mind begins to wander. He staggers to his bedroom and dies. The girl finds him there, and carries the message of his death to his old friends. They congregate around his bedside, and that his soul may hear and forgive them, they play his last symphony. Lon, the sculptor, has returned from Europe, famous, and while the party of friends are yet beside the death-bed, he enters and greets the girl as his wife. The friends understand the injustice of their treatment of Old Felix, and again gather around his bed.
- 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.
- The story is of twin brothers, Jim, honest and steadfast, and Tom, a n'er-do-well. Both are in love with Sarah, daughter of an old miner. She is "cold" to the suit of the worthy brother, while she loves Tom and promises to become his wife. The brothers own a claim known as the "Twin Brothers' Mine." Believing it to be worthless, they give it to Sarah and her father. As he has lost the girl he loves, Jim leaves. Sarah's father works the mine. During the early part of his married life, Tom goes from bad to worse. Finally he steals a shipment of gold en route to the U.S. Mint. After hiding it in the "Twin Brothers' Mine," he is captured. He refuses to divulge the hiding-place of the stolen gold and is sentenced to fifteen years in state prison. In addition to this trouble, Sarah's baby dies. These multiplied sorrows cause her to lose her reason. She is removed to an insane asylum. At this time there is a great popular interest in the new radium process of a celebrated pathologist, who claims he can cure seventy-five per cent of all insanity cases treated by his method. Jim and Sarah's father visit the insane girl. The father shows her some new samples of ore from the claim. The insane girl is so struck with it that they allow her to retain it. The pathologist tells Jim that her reason can be restored by the radium process, but that the cure will be expensive, Jim then visits Tom, the convict, and explains the situation. Tom cannot direct his brother to the hiding-place of the stolen money, and as a consequence Jim offers to change places with him. The exchange is effected and Tom goes for the money. By a strange trick of fate Sarah's case is chosen for demonstration treatment. The pathologist discovers that the ore left with Sarah by her father is rich in radium. They go to the mine to make further investigation. A blast is set off. Tom is inside looking for the stolen money. He is fatally wounded by the blast, but before he dies he confesses concerning the prison episode. All hurry to the prison to secure Jim 's liberty.
- Jim, a good fellow at heart, is thrown off by his uncle, a banker, and compelled to shift for himself. As nothing else offers, he becomes a member of a life-saving crew at the seaside resort. Here it is we have the first thrilling incident that speaks highly of Mr. Turner's ability as a producer of realism. It is the saving of a girl from drowning. Jim warns a young woman bather against a dangerous undertow. Heedless of his warning, she goes beyond her depth and is carried out into the lashing surf. Jim dashes in and saves her. His deed is the occasion for a pleasant intimacy and they soon learn to love each other. Lucy, the girl, is at the seaside for her health and lives with a widow and her invalid daughter. Lucy has a sister in the city, Jenny, a captain in the Salvation Army. News dispatches arrive daily telling of the massacre of Christians in a Boxer uprising in China. The Salvation Army calls for volunteers to go to the relief of those in danger, and Captain Jenny is offered a command. Jim is notified that his uncle is dying. He leaves his sweetheart, promising to return immediately. Shortly after his departure the invalid girl dies and Lucy returns to the city, where she joins her sister. Having inherited his uncle's fortune, Jim returns. Approaching the house, he asks for Lucy. "The girl was buried four days ago," is the reply. Believing his life wrecked, Jim again goes in for dissipation. One evening he is in a saloon when Captain Jenny enters, selling "The War Cry." One of the men attempts to be familiar and Jim interferes. Subsequently he becomes interested in her and one evening when fire breaks out in the Salvation Army hall, he fights his way through the flames and saves her life. In the meantime Lucy has written to the life-saving station, asking information of Jim. In answer to her inquiry she learns that Jim has left there and that his whereabouts are unknown. Lucy, however, confides the story of her love to Captain Jenny. Captain Jenny is still firm in her determination to respond to the call of mercy and goes to China. However, when Jim asks her to be his wife, she reconsiders and resigns from the army. Preparation for the wedding is made. On his way to his bride, Jim reads placards before a motion picture theater advertising "Life Savers at Work and at Play." He brings Captain Jenny to the theater. Captain Jenny sees the motion picture in which Jim rescues Lucy and she recognizes the girl as her sister. Jim tells her of his love affair with the girl whose life he saved. After Jim leaves her, Captain Jenny dresses herself again as a Captain in the Salvation Army. She packs her things and leaves a note for Jim. It reads: "The girl you thought dead is my sister, Lucy. Crown her with the happiness you offered me. The light of Heaven points my way to China. Pray that peace may soon rest in the heart of Captain Jenny."
- Phyllis, the daughter of Colonel Burton, and Clifford, a young officer, have been deeply in love. The story is laid in India. Owing to the colonel, Phyllis has been forced to marry Major Bainbridge, who is rich. Years pass by. Clifford has been transferred to another part of the country. Bainbridge with his wife and child come to take charge of the station. The old love between Phyllis and Clifford renews itself. Hadji Hassan, chief of the hillmen, attacked by a tiger, takes refuge in a water hole where alligators set upon him. He is saved by Clifford, who happens to be in the neighborhood. He swears his gratitude to his deliverer. Later, with the assistance of the Mad Mullah and his tribe the hillmen attack a caravan. Harold, Phyllis' son, is captured. The chief, remembering the service that Clifford rendered, orders the two released and the chap wanders off on his pony. Clifford has been set upon by a tiger and his horse returns riderless. The army soldiers start out to the rescue. Clifford, who was with Harold prior to the attack, searches for him and saves him from another tiger. Colonel Bainbridge joins the hunt and Phyllis, distracted, determines to look for him herself. There is a terrible battle between the soldiers and the hillmen in which the latter are driven back. In their retreat they meet Clifford and the boy. Clifford is badly wounded. As Colonel Bainbridge looks through his glasses, he sights his son and Clifford on a hill. They are rescued and brought to the colonel. Phyllis arrives, carried by her pet elephant, in time to comfort the gallant Clifford, who dies in her arms, satisfied to have been of service to her.
- Dave Harding, having left a gambling house where he has won a sum of money from a treacherous Mexican, stands talking to his sweetheart. She sees with horror that the Mexican is at the window with drawn revolver. She steps before Dave and the shot meant for him ends her life. Dave swears to his dying sweetheart that he will never gamble again. Ten years later Dave is a successful man. When the rancher dies, Dave promises to care for his daughter Nell. Later she marries a gambler. Her life is spent in poverty and uncertainty. She waits and watches for Jim, while he drinks, gambles, and finally loses all his money. As a last chance Jim mortgages the ranch house, takes the money and goes once more to the gambling house. Dave remembers his promise to his dying sweetheart, but to give Nell a chance for happiness he breaks his oath and offers to play with Jim. He wins all the money. Jim is desperate. Dave says, "You've nothing left but your worthless life, stake that." The crowd is aghast. Jim accepts, and when he loses and Dave holds out a gun to him the dazed man takes it and puts the barrel to his head. Dave takes the gun away from him, says, "Go; make amends to her, and if you ever gamble again I'll collect my debt." Jim swears that he will reform. The last scene shows Dave in his cabin after the mortgage has been paid, and Jim and Nell are happy once more.
- Dr. Frank Rosslyn, known to the world as a prominent physician, is in reality the head of a quack medical concern which dispenses patent medicines and advertises extensively. Rosslyn's son, Wallace, an attorney, is in love with Mary Rohan, a stenographer, who supports her aged parents. Mary's father becomes ill and consults with employees of the quack concern. His illness increases and Dr. Rosslyn is called in. Not aware that the man had been treated by his own concern, Dr. Rosslyn freely admits that he is dying on account of cumulative poisoning from patent medicines. After the old man's death, Mary and Wallace assist the medical authorities in running down the guilty practitioners. The investigation brings to light Dr. Rosslyn's double interests. The son hastens to defend his father while Mary appears against him for the prosecution. Dr. Rosslyn is convicted. Before he enters prison he tells Wallace that the girl did right and that he has already forgiven her. Wallace seeks Mary out and reconciliation follows.
- Pearl receives a letter from her cousin, Dora, to the effect that she and her husband are going to Europe, and are going to send Pearl their machine. Pearl and husband decide to learn how to drive a car. They buy complete auto togs and hire a machine. The machine takes all kinds of funny turns. Ulysses is compelled to get out and get under the car. The car starts at a terrific rate. They are fined $50. At last they decide to wait until they get Fred's machine before they do any more riding. The gift arrives and they nearly collapse when they learn that it is a sewing machine instead of an automobile.
- Two men meet in the desert. One is in search of gold and the other seeks solace and heartsease for an unrequited love. Although they are unknown to each other, each loves the same girl, Ray, the prospector, is the chosen suitor and around his neck he carries the girl's picture. They live together in the wilds and become friends, until one night Tom sees the picture in the locket around Ray's neck. Tom's jealousy prompts him to kill Ray, but gentle thoughts of Ethel restrain his hand. On their way through the desert they suffer from thirst. Ray staggers and falls. Tom takes the locket and chain from him and leaves him. He staggers along. He takes a drink of water, which he has saved for himself, but his conscience smites him and he goes back, gives Ray the life-giving from his canteen, and himself dies. Ray fashions a grave in the burning sands and buries his friend. He is discovered and rescued by outrider. He is reunited to the woman he loved, but even more sublime than their love, is the shadow of the dead man hovering over them, the man who hated deeply, loved intensely and was a gentleman.
- Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning his daughter, Angela's, future. He makes him promise to watch over her. His fortune he places in the hands of his brother, a New York banker, to be held in trust for his daughter until her wedding day; the fact of her being an heiress to be kept secret in order to insure her safety from fortune-hunters. Angela comes east to live with her brother's family. She is treated as a servant, her cousin, Honora, doing all she can to make her life wretched. Graham permits this, not knowing that Blake shares the secret. He has decided to keep the money for himself. Honora has been betrothed to Jack Falkner, son of her father's friend, an arrangement of the parents. They have not met for years. Jack, desiring to study the real character of the girl, secures the position of chauffeur. His eyes are opened to Honora's despicable character. He falls deeply in love with Angela. He asks her to marry him. Graham, anxious to rid himself of the girl, gladly consents. Angela telegraphs to her father's friend, Jim Blake, of her approaching marriage. He comes east. Jack's identity is disclosed at the service to the chagrin of the Graham family. Jim Blake has a private interview with the banker, and forces him to make restitution.
- In an out-of-the-way spot in the mountains refugees from the United States and Canada, who are wanted for various crimes, have gathered. A man wanted for embezzlement arrives with his daughter Pauline. The embezzler is a natural leader and, to James' chagrin, becomes the leading spirit in the colony. Two members of the Northwest Mounted Police, Lon and Mac, are on the embezzler's trail. The embezzler, without James' knowledge, stations his men and instructs them to fire on the police. Mac is wounded. The embezzler's daughter takes him to her cabin. On one occasion the girl leaves the cabin and confers with her father. Lon follows and learns that her father is the man they are seeking. Believing that he has the girl at his mercy, Lon makes advances. Mac interferes because he, also, has fallen in love with Pauline. Lon then tells him of the girl's father. Mac goes to James and demands the surrender of the embezzler. James complies, and Mac arrests Pauline's father. The girl then appeals to Lon, promising him everything if he will save her parent. Lon lifts his revolver to shoot Mac. However, other refugees mistake Lon's intention. Lon is shot, and as they shoot at Mac the embezzler is killed. They are about to finish their work when another one of the mounted police comes up and covers them, while Mac disarms them. The girl looks from her dead father to Mac, whom she has already learned to love.
- An injured telegraph lineman, the father of a large family, finds it difficult to make ends meet. A gentleman thief attempts to aid the family by desperate means.
- Romance develops between a young woman from the Tennessee hills and a man from the city; she saves his life when her brothers threaten to kill him; they part, eventually to be reunited years later.
- Little Nellie is a poor but honest working girl and no match for the unscrupulous Max, who is working for her downfall. In attempting to elude Max, Nellie is knocked down by an automobile, driven by Bob, her lover. Bob takes the girl into his machine. Unseen by Bob, Max climbs into the back seat of the machine and at an opportune moment, knocks Bob over the head and drives away with the defenseless girl. He takes her to a secluded spot, but his evil designs are as naught against her simplicity. With a well-aimed blow she knocks the villain unconscious and escapes. Max recovers, hires two roughs to aid him, and pursues the girl to the place of her employment. He has her discharged and when she leaves the store he again captures her. Bob, the youthful hero, traces Nellie and her abductors to a den of iniquity. There is a terrific fight and Bob is captured and tied to a tree. A dynamite bomb is lighted and placed a few feet from him. With a tremendous effort Bob tears up the tree by the roots and severs his bonds by means of the burning fuse. With the bomb he lights his cigarette and then hurls the explosive at the ruffians. He saves Nellie in the nick of time from the villainous Max. The defenseless girl then drags her savior to the nearest justice of the peace.
- The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.
- Mary, daughter of Tom Ashe, revenue officer, is in love with Bud, the son of Lige Stillwell, a moonshiner. Though Bud does not sanction his father's illegal business, he is condemned by Mary's father, and when he finds them together after repeated warnings, he disowns the girl. The minister tries to bring about a reconciliation, telling the police officer that he should not blame Bud for the sins of his father. Mary and Bud make their way to the cabin of his father, where Mary is received with open arms. Here the minister finds them after a narrow escape from death, when he is mistaken for a revenue officer. Determined to gain conclusive evidence against the moonshiner, Ashe and his men search the hills for the still. Making his way to the cabin, he is about to give the signal to his men waiting below, when he observes his daughter being married to Bud by the minister. Ashe observes the old moonshiner forswear his practice and the destruction of the still. As she comes forward and extends his hand to the old moonshiner, who takes it readily, the deadly enmity of years is quickly turned into a strong friendship. Since the officer's only objection to Ligc was the latter's illegal business, he gives his blessings and departs to carry the news to his men.
- Nellie is a maid employed in the home of Captain Ronaldson. She is loved by John, the butler. She returns his love, but does not show it forcibly. She receives a letter from her sister, informing her that she is in need of money, as the doctor has ordered her to go to a different climate. Nellie yields to temptation and at an opportune moment steals. The theft is discovered almost immediately. Captain Ronaldson sends for a detective and he questions the help. The detective searches everyone who was in the house at the time. In a moment of desperation Nellie slips the money into John's pocket. He feels it. She looks at him beseechingly, and he is placed in the strange predicament of either sacrificing the girl he loves or going to jail himself. He selects the latter course. When the detective finds the money, he confesses to the theft, and is arrested. John is tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years in jail. Nellie resolves to save him. She takes the balance of the money, writes a letter with it, saying that it was she and not John who stole the money and enclosing the other half of what was stolen. This she places on Captain Ronaldson's desk. The captain's dog comes in to the room and takes the envelope in his mouth, a trick the captain had taught him. He secretes it in the outhouse. A year passes. Nellie secures another position. Later, the captain is walking with the dog, when the dog leads him to the outhouse. He reads it astonished, and secures John's release. Later, John meets Nellie by accident. His love still the same, he insists upon her forgetting his deed in going to jail for her and insists upon marrying her.
- Mrs. Van Jessalyn-Smythe and her daughter are annoyed at the prospect unfolded by the receipt of a letter from her married sister, saying that her daughter Jennie has married Bill Simpkins, because they are expecting a distinguished visitor, Lord Brighton, on whom the daughter intends to impose all her feminine charms. However, the boob and his bride arrive. The following evening there is to be a ball in honor of Lord Brighton. The hostess sends a complete set of full evening dress to their apartment. The boob and his bride manage to get into the clothes, but in each case, the shoes are too small. They limp into the ballroom. Mrs. Smythe is disgusted with the boob's awkwardness. When the tight shoes become unbearable, the bride goes into the conservatory, and attempts to take them off. She is seen by Lord Brighton, who immediately runs to her assistance. While he is tugging at her shoe, the boob happens upon the scene. "How dare you make love to my wife," the boob roars, and chases him through the ballroom. He follows the aristocrat until he is well down the driveway, and then returns to relate the joke to his wife. The boob and his wife decide that fine clothes are not for them, and they return back to Spoonville on the first train.
- Reuben and Annie are sweethearts. Annie's Pa does not look upon Reuben with favor. Reuben and Annie are walking along the road. Si, who is also stuck on Annie, runs home and tells Annie's Pa, He comes out looking for them, determined upon giving Reuben a beating. Meanwhile Claude, the traveling salesman, passes them and flirts with Annie. She becomes stuck on him and dismisses Reuben. Pa sees them and mistaking Claude for Reuben, beats him up, before he discovers his mistake. Claude is invited into the house. Si and Reuben call, but Annie's attentions are all for Claude. Pa re-enters and gets rid of the two rubes. Pa insists upon Claude marrying Annie. Claude refuses. Pa holds him up at the point of a gun. He gets Si to hold the gun while he gets a minister. Claude overcomes Si and escapes. Pa returns with the minister, and is astounded that Annie's beautiful prospects of marriage to a city chap are gone. Annie resolves that she loves Reuben anyway.
- John Denton, a wealthy lawyer, has for his private secretary. Robert Blair, an honest fellow who loves the former's daughter, Violet. Philip, her brother, falls into evil ways, contracts a gambling debt for which he is unable to pay without aid from his father. This he is afraid to ask. Muriel, Lawyer Denton's youngest child and a favorite with Robert, watches Robert open the safe one day and induces him to teach her the combination. Failing to manipulate the numbers right the child throws the paper which contains the numbers she had written down upon the floor. This paper falls into the hands of Philip who later rifles the safe to pay his debt. Robert being the only one knowing the safe besides the lawyer, is accused. Because Violet confesses her love for the young man her father does not prosecute but simply dismisses him from his service. Later, the housekeeper finds Philip's discarded cuff. Muriel, in the room at the time, observes the figures and takes it to her older sister. Violet recognizes their meaning and confronts her brother with the evidence. He is made to write a letter to his father exonerating Robert and that he expects to start life anew some distant place. Robert is taken back and is given consent to marry Violet.
- Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. Her brother, a dissolute fellow, is left out of the inheritance, but at his solicitation and promise to reform, she takes him with her. At the mine they meet Wallace, a thoroughly independent American, who dislikes peerage on general principles. He has had entire charge of the mine subsequent to the death of the uncle. The brother and Wallace instinctively dislike each other. The Countess likes Wallace, but resents his independence. Later, Wallace comes upon the brother at the café, and a fight ensues. The brother is beaten and Wallace promises not to tell his sister. Shortly following this incident, Wallace is alone in the office. With revenge foremost in his mind, the brother places a charge of dynamite under the house, lights the fuse, and retires to a safe distance to watch. When it is about time for the dynamite to explode, the Countess enters the office. Wallace and the Countess leave the office by the rear door. The brother is caught in his own trap and killed. The Countess looks to Wallace for comfort, and finds it.
- Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife. There is a mutual friend whom Randall carelessly allows to entertain his wife. As a result, the friend pays more than natural attentions to the woman. The three visit one of Randall's mines. The wife and friend go down the mining shaft in a bucket. While they are yet underground, a quantity of dynamite explodes. The mine is filled with poisonous fumes. Randall has himself lowered into the smoking shaft. He finds his wife and friend almost overcome. There is room in the bucket for two persons only. Randall places the two in the bucket and they are hoisted to the surface. The bucket is again lowered and Randall is brought up. The long period in the poisoned atmosphere has rendered him stone blind. The young wife soon tires of her blind husband. One day Randall overhears their plans for elopement. He goes to the friend and the faithless wife and explains that he has overheard. He then gives the man a revolver and tells him, "Turn out the lights and our chances will be equal." The woman turns off the lights. Both men fire and miss. The friend sneaks to the switch and turns on the lights, intending to change the duel into a murder. But the woman by this time has discovered which of the two is the man. She wrenches the revolver from the friend's hand and tells him to go and never return.
- Eddie leaves on the train for his uncle's place to meet the girl who has been picked out for him to marry, much to his displeasure. Victoria sets out for her aunt's for the same purpose and takes the same train. Neither knows the other and has no idea in what the other looks like. The fat man and his wife and three children board the train. Finding that they have left the baby's nursing bottle behind, the wife gets off to buy another and misses the train. At the next stop the fat man gets off to telegraph to his wife, leaving the children in charge of Eddie, who is his friend. Eddie meets Victoria, and after a short courtship they are married by a minister on board, not knowing they are fulfilling the wishes of their respective aunt and uncle. The porter comes to Eddie's assistance in caring for the children, not without having trouble with everyone aboard. Victoria arrives at her aunt's before Eddie, and they are pleasantly surprised to find they have already been married, which brings the story to a happy conclusion.
- A white man deserts his sweetheart for an Indian girl, with disastrous results for himself and a group of settlers.
- Bob calls on Pearl, his sweetheart, one evening while intoxicated. Pearl orders him from the house and breaks their engagement. Months pass. Bob sinks lower; he becomes a habitué of low dives and saloons. Roger Newton, the successful novelist, is now engaged in writing a novel entitled "The Tramp." He is also paying attentions to Pearl and they are practically engaged. Newton decides to go into the slums to get atmosphere. He finds his way into a saloon where Bob is playing the piano for drinks. Later, Bob saves Newton from assault. Newton, in gratitude, takes Bob home and sets him up as his secretary. Bob meets Pearl and attempts to bring about a reconciliation. Pearl refuses. This is observed by Newton who, failing to understand, grows jealous. Later Newton falls sick and is unable to finish his novel. Bob, returning home, learns of the trouble and takes it upon himself to finish it. A check comes from the publishers for $1,200 with a note saying that the last installment was the best ever. Newton investigates and finds that Bob did the work. Bob refuses the money his friend offers and congratulates both Newton and Pearl on their coming marriage.
- Edwin August presents a psychological study in eight episodes dealing with the gradual development of inherent thieving proclivities in a child until the age of manhood. The parents see the tendency, but are unable to cope with it and finally, believing the son to be a deliberate criminal, the father expels him from the house. The son's decline is rapid and results in a term in jail, from which he emerges a typical jail bird, the consort of pickpockets and yeggmen. At times there are flashes of his better instinct striving to overcome his weakness, but these become fewer and fewer as he passes down the social scale. At the time when things seem darkest he is in his hovel looking out into a heavy electrical storm. A flash of lightning strikes and at the same moment his soul is reincarnated. When he rises he marvels at his condition, but is unable to explain it. Wandering out upon the street, he enters an art gallery. He comes upon a girl copying a painting that vaguely recalls something familiar. The girl is his former sweetheart, but he does not recognize her. He watches her work and finally, impelled by something within him, he takes the brush from her and with a few well directed strokes turns the work into a masterpiece. She asks an explanation and he tells her that he himself painted the original. She explains the original was painted over two hundred years before, but he insists. Struck by his sincerity, she attempts to solve the mystery and later finds the explanation in a treatise on reincarnation. The thief has been conquered by the soul of the artist. They are married and later a reconciliation with his parents is affected.
- Mrs. Smith inquires from an attorney if he has a clerk who is single, to pose as her husband. Eddie is assigned. He accompanies Mrs. Smith to the seaside, only to fall madly in love with Victoria, a pretty young woman who is at the beach with her mother. However, when Victoria discovers that Eddie is married, what she tells him causes him to smile on the wrong side of his face. He denies it, but the hotel register speaks stronger than his protests. At the height of Eddie's misery a new misfortune threatens him. Mr. Smith, the steeped-in-the-blood westerner, arrives at the hotel in search of his wife and intent upon killing a certain young man who is posing as her husband. Eddie gets one good look at Smith and beats it. He is saved through the intercession of Mrs. Smith. Victoria forgives him.
- Eddie, the brave fire laddie, loves Nellie, the pet of the firemen, and the captain's little daughter. Lee, a cowardly villain, has evil designs on the girl. With the help of two bearded cutthroats, the villain abducts the guileless maiden and takes her to his den of crime. Eddie wades through blood and fire and fights his way into the villain's lair. He is overpowered by the cutthroats while the villain snarls: "'Tie the cur up, boys, while I go and marry the girl." The cutthroats drag the girl downstairs; Eddie bursts his bonds, and from the window he throws a rope to the sidewalk and lassos the villain's revolver; the hero shoots six blocks down the street, and each of his five bullets strikes the gong in the fire department and sounds the alarm. In the meantime, the justice of the peace at the point of a revolver is marrying the villain and the innocent girl. The hero escapes from the den and joins the fire department, which is speeding toward the justice's office. The girl is rescued in the nick of time. However, the wicked villain outwits the hero. He jumps into a cab and blows himself up with a dynamite bomb.
- Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hearing of this the previous couple plan to balk the father; their scheming is overheard by the cracksman, who has stealthily entered the house. The son and his wife retire and the cracksman creeps upstairs and enters Marcia's room. Affected by her beauty and innocence as she lays sleeping, he determines to assist her; following the son into the sick man's room he snatches the stolen will from his hand. Impatient at the delay the wife goes to the room and finds her husband stunned. She screams. The father awakens, gropes about and falls dead. In his own apartment the cracksman looks over the document and later he reads in the papers where the question of millions is at stake. Making a dummy he takes them both to the house where the original came from in time to prevent Marcia being bundled out. Holding the dummy up the cracksman extorts money from the son for it and then bums it. But ere the son can take possession the real will is brought forth; he holds the scheming couple at bay while Marcia makes her escape.
- Pearl and Harry ask her father's consent to marry. He refuses. They decide to elope. He learns of it and 'phones the minister and the Justice of the Peace not to marry them. When the young couple call, they are refused. They get an automobile and Pearl kidnaps the Justice of the Peace. Their chauffeur gets drunk while waiting. He goes at a fearful rate of speed, over mountains, through lanes and streets. The Justice, worn out and scared to death, finally gives in and agrees to marry them if they will stop. The chauffeur is induced to desist and the pair are married.
- A gypsy girl is brought to the sheriff by a ranchman with the demand that her people be forced to move off his land. The hot-blooded woman no sooner sees the sheriff when she falls in love with him. She displays her womanly charms and the animal instinct in him is aroused. Ella, the sheriff's sweetheart, is a simple sort of a country girl, yet the gypsy woman hates her and in turn, when the gypsy's name is connected with that of the sheriff by the town people, Ella also hates. She tells the sheriff that she will have nothing to do with him until the gypsy leaves town. Understanding, or believing he does, the sheriff goes to the gypsy girl, tells her that they are of a different race, that their places in life are widely separated and she consents to leave with her folks. After their departure the sheriff is notified that a notorious outlaw is in his territory. He rides into the mountains. The outlaw successfully seeks refuge with the gypsies, though the girl washes her hands of the affair. Later, the girl, though pursued and mortally wounded by the bad man, returns to where the sheriff had been left a captive by the gypsies, and releases him. She receives the knife meant for the sheriff and with the last spark of life, turns and stabs the outlaw to death. The sheriff carries the body of the girl to town. He is seen approaching with the body across his saddle by the sheriff's sweetheart. After disposing of it, he knocks at the door. It is opened, his sweetheart sees him and closes it in his face. The sheriff throws the locket containing her picture to the ground and tramples on it, disgusted with it all. It was the bad "good" woman who ruined the life the good "bad" woman had saved.