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- Adele is in love with a rich Wall Street trader, but he treats her indifferently. With the help of another suitor, she plots to ruin him financially.
- John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and convinces him to jilt her at the altar.
- Pat O'Malley and his wife Bridget are celebrating their golden wedding. The neighbors call in, congratulate the old couple, each one bringing a gift to commemorate the occasion. Among the visitors is Sir Thomas Gifford, a rich land owner. The old couple bid him welcome, offer him a glass of wine, which he drinks to their health, then takes a paper from his pocket, which gives them free use of his house as long as they live. They are profuse in their thanks, and, after shaking hands again, Sir Thomas departs. A young Irish girl among the number takes the paper, reads it to O'Malley, then places it in the cupboard for safekeeping. Black Dinny, a process server, looks through the window, sees where the paper is secreted and, when the coast is clear, enters the room, gets the precious document and goes out. A young lad appears at this time, sees Dinny. And, knowing his character, is sure he is there for no good, so kicks him out. The young girl runs in as McShane, a gentlemanly-looking villain, stands in the doorway and tries to make himself agreeable. His advances are repulsed and McShane is given the same treatment as Dinny, administered by the same Irish lad. Down the lane the two victims meet, compare notes and plan vengeance. Dinny shows McShane the paper which he has stolen: the latter sends him for the bailiffs and decides to evict the old couple. On the lawn in front of the cabin, O'Malley and his wife are watching the young people dance. Everybody is having a good time until Dinnv, McShane and the bailiffs appear. McShane demands rent of O'Malley or threatens to put him out. The young girl steps forward and tells that Sir Thomas has given them free rent as long as they live, goes inside for the paper, returns quickly and tells them it is missing. The bailiffs start removing things from the house, and. While this is going on, the young girl rushes to Sir Thomas' home and tells him what is happening. He starts back with her, and, as they come in sight of the house, Dinny tries to sneak away, but the young lad grabs him, finds the paper and hands it to Sir Thomas. The latter acknowledges it and orders the furniture put back in the house. The crowd grabs Dinny and beats him unmercifully, pelts him with stones as he runs away. Then the dancing is resumed.
- Eve S. takes lunch to her father, who is working at Mr. Young's factory. By chance the young and handsome manufacturer sees her; he falls in love with her, and after a short talk tries to kiss her. Her father happens to see this; he gets very angry, and catching hold of Mr. Young he flings him to the floor. As might be imagined, Mr. Young will not stand this treatment from one of his men and turn him out. Some months later we see S. in his plain but neat-looking home. He is working with an invention, which he believes will give him lots of money, but just now the family is very poor, and to procure the necessary money for food S. has to go to a pawnbroker with his best suit of clothes. Eve is working hard all day with the sewing machine in order to procure a little money for the household. She is interrupted at her work by a boy who brings a letter from Mr. Young asking her to meet him only for a few minutes. She cannot help granting him the request, as the handsome manufacturer has made a stronger impression on the young girl than she likes to confess. A few minutes later the two young people take a walk together, and all scruples are forgotten. He kisses her again and again, and Eve does not make any objections, till at last she finds herself alone with several banknotes in her hand which Mr. Young has given her. Later Mr. Young celebrates his betrothal with a rich and beautiful young lady. The festival is interrupted by S., who appears, using very strong language to Mr. Young, and flings his money right in his face. But the vulgar person is turned out, and the feast is continued. S. soon after gets his invention sold and becomes a rich man. One day the little family learns that Mr. Young's factory is burned down, and the manufacturer totally ruined, through not having had the insurance policy duly renewed. Eve had not been able to forget Mr. Young, and she now persuades her father to go to him and offer him partnership, but although the young man is ruined and left by everybody, even his intended bride, he is too proud to accept the noble offer, so that S. comes back without having accomplished his errand. But now Eve takes the matter in her own hands. She goes once more to the man she loves to propose partnership with her father, and this time Mr. Young has to submit, for Eve offers him not only her father's money, but her own honest heart and her hand as well.
- Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, Tom, who was traveling in India. Hanging the dagger on the wall. Jack goes out. For some time Jack has discerned a coolness in his wife, and his jealous misgivings were verified when he returned and found her in company with a stranger. Seizing the dagger from the wall he chases the recreant lover from the house and then follows the wife to the bathroom, wither she has flown in terror. Mercilessly he plunges the dagger and flies the place. The lover in hiding sees him leave and returns, and calling aid succeeds in reviving the wife, who afterwards with careful treatment recovers and marries her paramour. However, either from the baneful influence of this diabolical dagger, or the woman's capricious nature, just one year later the second husband enacts the same scene, but with fatal results. He leaves the place, and has hardly disappeared when the first husband, who was thought to be dead, is drawn by an irresistible power back to view what to him seems to be the scene he left one year before, for there on the bathroom floor is the woman just as he apparently left her, with the dagger beside her. The sight drives him mad and the dagger is made to perform the final act of its mission.
- An escaped convict takes refuge in the home of a police officer out on duty. He seizes the officer's daughter and pulls her into a window recess, with a pistol to her head. The officer returns and discovers the convict's hat. He suspect his wife is concealing an affair and she must avoid revealing the convict's presence for the sake of their daughter.
- The Countess X. receives during a party a young man, who brings her a message from a friend, whom she believed to be in exile, asking her to come and see him the same evening in order to arrange with him how they can revenge themselves on their mutual enemy, the prince. The conversations is heard by a young diplomat, Baron Lerche, who has been concealed behind a curtain. He hurries away from the company and soon after returns in a different dress. He watches the countess, follows her in the night to a remote house, makes his way in, and overhears a plan to kill the prince. Soon after the prince gives a masked ball. The Countess, in Spanish costume, and the baron, in red domino, are among the guests. As the countess sees that the red domino keeps watching her, she boldly addresses him, takes his arm and leads him towards a group of guests, who are her friends and accomplices. There she writes, with the hands at her back, on her ball-card: "Get the red domino out of the way." The card is at once picked up, read and understood, and the next moment a lady takes, with irresistible amiability, the baron's arm and leads him to a remote smoking room. The baron is very much afraid to leave the dangerous countess out of sight, and is about to leave the room again, but two masked gentlemen throw him to the ground, gag and tie him and leave him alone. The baron, however, does not want to give up the exciting play. Straining every nerve, he succeeds in rolling himself on to a cigar-lighter, by aid of which be destroys his bonds. When he is free, he jumps out of the window and down in the garden summons two policemen, whom he had told to keep near the place, and then be goes back to the ballroom. In the meantime, the countess succeeds in getting the prince away from the party. He is very much captivated with her, and takes her to a cabinet, where he can speak to her alone. They get a bottle of champagne, and now the prince cannot keep back his feelings any longer, but falls down on his knees, declaring to her his love. The countess watches the opportunity; she smiles encouragingly, puts her left arm around his neck, and with the right hand she throws a poisonous powder in his glass. But at this very moment her arm is seized by the baron, who comes out from behind the curtain. The countess jumps to her feet, but when she sees that everything is out she falls back in a swoon. In a few words the baron explains what has happened. He calls the servants, who carry the countess out, and then he enters the ballroom again. With revolver in hand he makes the guests take off their masks, and now he points out the conspirators one by one. The policemen take them away, and the guests gather round the prince and baron with eager questions, but the prince answers smilingly: "My dear guests, don't let this little incident disturb our pleasure; it was only an attempt on my life."
- Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she has dropped, and realizes he loves her.
- Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- It is said that the coat does not make the man, but it must be admitted that it goes a long way toward working out his destiny. So it was that the aforementioned article of wearing apparel brought about justice on the one hand and future happiness on the other for the young courtier upon whose shoulders it hung. This gallant youth, handsome, ambitious and brave, mild in manner, but quick to resent an insult, engages in a duel with another of the court, and is surprised by the King, who has issued a strong edict against dueling. For the offense he is arrested but paroled. Now, the young fellow is deeply enamored of one of the ladies of the court, to meet whom he breaks his parole. He is caught, stripped of his regalia and banished from court. There is among the courtiers a party of conspirators who have plotted to abduct the Queen and hold her hostage for ransom. At the tavern, the leader is given a letter setting forth their plans, which he cautiously reads and thrusts into his coat pocket, and sits down to while away the time gambling. Our hero enters and being despondent wishes to forget his woe by entering the game, but he has only his hat and plume to wager, still this is accepted. The fates are with him: he wins again and again until he has the party cleaned, the conspirator even of his sword and coat. Putting on the coat, he feels the letter in the pocket, and reading it learns "climb to the balcony hall at midnight. We seize the Queen then." He decides at once to save the Queen and hurries to the balcony hall through the window and has barely time to hide in a large clock when three conspirators enter. At this moment the Queen appears on the way to her apartments, and the conspirators creep out to perpetrate their foul design, when our hero leaps to the fore, and taking them so by surprise he manages to hold them at bay until assistance comes, for this deed he is not only released from his parole, but is given the hand of his sweetheart and dubbed Knight. So much for the Winning Coat.
- A busker becomes a prima donna and the crowd saves her from a jealous gambler's knife.
- Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor.
- Four bachelors all want to marry Gladys. To test their fidelity she pretends to be away, and when they come to visit, each in turn is met by her pretty younger sister. One by one they fail the test by flirting with the sister. Gladys renounces them, then is reunited with her real sweetheart, who has been abroad.
- Our story opens with a noted violinist practicing, his young wife sitting nearby, while their little daughter plays about on the floor, a truly happy family. The maid announces a caller, who, upon being ushered in, is presented to the wife. He is at once struck with her beauty, eyes her continually, but unnoticed by the musician or his wife. As the two men leave the room, for the first time the wife catches the expression on the caller's face and is worried. A year later in the same room we find the wife packing her suit case preparing to elope with the villain. Before their departure the wife writes a note telling her husband of her elopement and begs him to forget her. A moment after the pair leave the room the valet enters, observes them from the window, picks up the note, reads it and immediately starts for the theater to inform his master. He rushes upon the stage just as the musician is finishing his number, excitedly tells the tale and gives him the letter. The poor man, horribly shocked, falls in a faint on the stage. Another year passes by and we find the faithless wife dangerously ill. The doctor shakes his head gravely. Just before her death the mother takes a locket from her own neck and places it around that of her little child. The villain stands by looking and acting indifferently as the woman passes away. Fifteen years later we find the musician's daughter and her supposed father in their handsomely appointed home. An aristocratic looking young man enters, asks for the girl's hand in marriage and is accepted. A party of young friends are offering congratulations, and while the merriment is at its height the daughter catches a sound of music from outside the house. She listens, and strangely familiar strains come to her. She rushes to the window to see the old musician (in reality her father) fall exhausted to the pavement. Servants are called and the unfortunate man is brought inside, laid upon the couch, restoratives applied, which soon restore him to consciousness. As he regains his senses the old man stares about in wonderment. The young lady is the exact image of his wife, and while gazing at her the past is brought vividly hack to him. Suddenly he sees the villain, denounces him, tells the story of his perfidy. The daughter is horrified at the story. The villain comes forward and tells her to choose between the handsome home and her lover or her father and his poor surroundings. Unhesitatingly she goes to the old musician; they pass out of the house together and proceed to his ill-furnished room. While they are talking, the young lover enters and asks the old man for his daughter's hand. He has just found his child and to lose her again seems a hard blow, but the young couple insist upon his sharing their home. He cheerfully gives his consent and blessing.
- A man is obsessed by the 'Salome' dance.
- Robert, the judge's son is a vacillating young man. Helen, his father's ward, is devoted to him and he sincerely desires to make her his wife. An old flame, Dorothy Deane, an actress, writes him asking him to call and say good-bye, prior to his nuptials. She is playing with a great success at a city theater and he calls on her in her dressing room, where he meets a merry company and all repair to a roof garden. The judge and Helen happen to attend the performance and drop in at the roof garden for refreshment. Revelry is high when Helen detects her intended in the actress' company. His father, a very stern man, reproaches him for his conduct and soon arriving home drives him from the house. Three years have passed. Robert has married the actress and a child has blessed them. His father's help being gone, the little family suffers terrible privation. One day his wife departs leaving a note saying she will return to the stage. In desperation, seeing his child hungry, he resolves to go to his father and ask his help. When he calls the judge is counting a sum of money and refuses to listen to him. He departs but shortly returns to rob the desk. Helen, by a clever ruse, surprises the son in his work and, broken by shame and remorse, he kneels at her feet. The woman's love cannot be stifled and she resolves to help him. She calls at his squalid home and eventually reconciles the judge to his repentant son.
- Three little girls fall into a sand pit and can't get out. One of them ties a note around her pet pigeon's neck and releases it. The pigeon flies home, alerting the parents to where the girls are trapped.
- John Farley, to his mother's regret, is a ne'er-do-well fellow. One day he takes from a drawer the money as rent to his mother, the caretaker of the premises. He is the cause of suspicion being cast upon his innocent parent and her ultimate ejection from her home and position of trust. The poor woman has to struggle on alone, and manages to eke out a bare existence by very rough work, ending deeper into the mire on the road to ruin. John one night proceeds with a companion to break into a house. Searching around the room, he has failed to discover anything of the slightest value, but is almost struck helpless by the sight of a portrait hanging upon the wall of the meagerly furnished apartment. With a shock he recognizes it as that of his father, and is so overcome that he drives his companion away, determined that he will never again commit such sins. While in an attitude of penitence, he is surprised by the entry of his poor wearied mother, who has returned from her daily toil almost worn out with fatigue. The influence of a good father has been sufficient to recall the better nature of John into activity. He discards his bad associates and becomes the support and comfort of his poor old mother for the remainder of her days.
- Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife who needs help with her drunken husband.
- Director Lubin was first Jewish-American filmmaker. In the film, Moses uses his last pennies to help a friend in need. 25 years later the men meet again. The film is remarkable in its depiction of tradition in the face of oppressive circumstances.
- Short documentary about the Spanish war in Africa.
- Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation.
- Consequences result when a father breaks up his son's engagement.
- African animals, including a lookout monkey, await with trepidation the arrival of big-game hunter Theodore Roosevelt.
- A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war.
- Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a colleague and return the bag and tools.
- Robert is about to abandon his family for a society beauty. His best friend romances the beauty, who then drops Robert and sends him back to his family.
- After the united powers of Europe had been successful in defeating Napoleon's vast armies, the great Emperor himself was taken prisoner and sent into exile to the Island of Elba, on the coast of Corsica. His loyal friends in France, however, would not rest, and were untiring in their efforts to liberate the Emperor from his prison. The first part of this film depicts a meeting of a few of these friends and supporters, who formulate a plan. A letter is written to Napoleon, explaining that a messenger will bring him all particulars and plans of a plot to liberate him. A young officer is elected to make the dangerous journey to Elba, to carry to Napoleon the message from his friends. But these friends did not count on the enemies which every great man has, and did not observe that one of them attended their eventful meeting. The traitor informs the police, whose assistance he obtains, and together they go in pursuit of the messenger. Tired and exhausted, the messenger finds rest for a night at a small inn on the road, but not long after his arrival there his two pursuers arrive also, and over a glass of wine discuss how they can best capture the messenger. The daughter of the innkeeper, a great admirer of Napoleon, overhears the discussion of the two men, and immediately warns the messenger, who has just sufficient time to ride away, hotly pursued by the enemies. Fortunately, he soon reaches a farm house on his way, and induces the farmer to give him other clothes. Hastily changing his dress, and with the assistance of the farmer, who shows the pursuers the wrong way, he manages to get to the frontier. He arrives safely at the coast, from which he is to take the boat to Elba. Before he lands on the coast of the island, his small craft is demolished by the waves, and he is compelled to swim through the foaming sea to his destination. But even here, on this lonely island, he is discovered by a sentry, who uses his rifle effectively, and with a bullet-wound in his shoulder the poor messenger turns back into the water, pretending to be killed. Swimming to a more secluded spot along the coast, he sees the figure of his beloved Emperor standing by the water, looking sadly in the direction of his country. Trembling with excitement, the brave messenger approaches Napoleon and delivers to him the message. Napoleon, deeply moved by the loyalty of his friends, thanks the messenger in kind words, and embraces him, to show his deep and sincere gratitude.