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- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- Belle Gordon, an orphan, finds an advertisement in the papers for a governess to apply to the Rev. Strong, at Cripple Creek, Col. She writes and has her fare advanced. Upon arriving there she finds the place consists of a crowd of disreputable miners and dance-hall girls. She learns that the advertisement was merely a trap to lure her out into the dance-hall of Martin Mason. She tries to get away but cannot. Dynamite Ann, one of the worst women of the place, remembering the time that she first came to Cripple Creek through the same sort of an advertisement, wishes to help the girl. Joe Mayfield, the United States Deputy Marshal enters, and, seeing Belle's plight, rescues her. He takes her away with him, and also Maggie, Mason's young daughter. He asks Dynamite Ann to go to his cabin to look after the girls. She accepts, grateful for the trust reposed in her. Reginald, a young dude from the east, dances attention on Maggie, while Joe Mayfield loses his heart to Belle. Joe is interested in a mine called the "Last Dollar" which is reputed to be worthless. Mason and his partner, Alvarez, discover gold in the mine and try to bargain with Joe for its possession. Joe refuses to relinquish it, and for revenge the Mexican takes up Joe's adopted child who is walking on the rocks and throws her down. As he goes up again Wahketa swings out on a grape vine and catches the child in midair. The next day Mason and Alvarez go down into the mine. Joe and Belle, coming down later, are surprised by them and tied hand and foot. Wahketa, who is also tied, manages to burn the cords off his hands and releases Belle and Joe. The three make their escape. A short time later, on the wedding day of Joe and Belle and Maggie and Reginald, Mason and Alvarez come and look in at the festivities. The wedding takes place and just as the guests are leaving the room, the Mexican shoots through the window at Joe, but Ann jumps forward and receives the bullet in her own heart. She dies in Joe's arms.
- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- You see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham Lincoln, axe on shoulder, hearing the news, his volunteer company and what happened and when they reported to General Scott; how Blackhawk, after his peace messengers were shot, decided to fight. Also a glimpse of Mrs. Zachary Taylor and her two daughters, their determination to visit their father at Ft. Crawford, how Blackhawk captured Sarah Taylor and how Jefferson Davis recaptured her and fell in love with her, the famous attack on Ft. Crawford with burning fagots, battering rams, and finally the successful attack with flaming arrows. We see the suffering inside the fort and the marriage of Davis and Sarah, finally the ultimate capture of Blackhawk, after a blood-stirring battle.
- A chance find of money makes the penniless Sam a good match for the nouveau riche Lindy. But Sam soon loses the money at cards - and with it the favor of the unfaithful Lindy.
- A sympathetic bandit chief fights for freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
- This is the story of a gardener whose whole lifetime had been spent in the one place. He loved the flowers, petted them, and gave them the detail of the only romance he had ever witnessed. "You see, little pansy," he said, "when I came here, many years ago, Miss May was a little girl. There was a nice little boy who lived right over there, and they were greet chums. They played together, day after day, and were childhood sweethearts. Well, they grew up, and one afternoon I saw them talking earnestly over on the old bench there. She nodded her head, when he kissed her, and taking a ring, put it on her finger. For a time they were happy, then they quarreled. It was a silly dispute, and in my opinion, both were to blame. I hoped they would make up but they didn't. He went to the city, she remained here. Other suitors came, but she would not have them. Her heart was with the man she had loved when they were children. You know, little pansy, how Miss May has thrown her garden open to the poor children. Well, to-day I was standing out under the big sign that says all children are welcome, when an auto came up. 1 looked at the man in it, and recognized the chap Miss May loved. I called a greeting to him; he stopped and we shook hands. It had been many years since the boy had played about here, and I had to be careful. If he had known Miss May was here, I doubt if he would have come in. So I talked about the children, and he stepped in to see them. Then, before he realized it, I had led him to the old bench. It must have called back recollections, for it was there that as a boy he had wooed his tiny sweetheart. It was there that as a man he had won her promise to be his bride. Better than all, she was sitting there now, all alone and forlorn. I just led him up to the bench, and left him. I knew that my work was successful when I saw the glad light in their eyes. It was only stubbornness that had kept them apart all these years. The job was to bring them together and I did it."
- Three wise men from the East follow a star to Bethlehem in search of the infant Jesus.
- A conjurer, by mental suggestion and tricks, known as slight-of-hand, and optical illusion, changes the habits and disposition of an inebriate and a grouchy old father-in-law. Through his efforts, the grouchy old man becomes a gay old blade, and the inebriate son-in-law becomes a teetotaler. This change brings satisfaction to the young man's wife, and the wife of the old grouch. The story starts with a big artistic insert, of a neglected young wife, looking at a clock at 3 a.m., and hubby still at the club. Wifey, the next morning. Immediately goes home to mamma upon whom she inflicts her tale of woe. Papa is an old grouch, and he does not encourage the protestations of his daughter. The mother, however, sympathizes with her child and plans to engage the conjurer, by whose advertisement she has been attracted. The conjurer's services are enlisted and the merry time begins. A remarkable scene takes place in the conjurer's laboratory, in which a skeleton goes through many grotesque and comic stunts.
- An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
- Moving Picture World, 5 October 1912 - A melodrama of the Wild West which leaves nothing to be desired for those who enjoy bandits, bandit lore and bandit hunting. They kidnap a girl in this case, a doctor leads a sheriff's posse to her rescue and some interesting and novel adventures follow. The production has an admirable setting in a rough mountain country and the photography is praiseworthy.
- "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death. In the meanwhile Paxton's horse comes back to his general store. When the riderless horse arrives there is naturally considerable excitement. Gray arrives on the scene and he makes things look pretty black for Jim, the man who was last seen with the postmaster. Jim is placed under arrest, but the boys, as well as the postmaster's young daughters, May and Gladys, do not believe Jim to be guilty. May and Gladys ride the trail and finally find their father after he calls to them. Gray stoutly asserts his innocence and manufactures evidence incriminating Jim. May and Gladys, the "two little rangers," however, untangle the evidence and their father's story cinches things. When things begin to look pretty black for Gray he retreats to his shack. The girls, however, are determined to get him and, after seeing their volleys of bullets have no effect, discharge a firebrand from a bow. The firebrand sets the shack on fire and Gray perishes in his own tomb.
- Prof. Gregg arrived in New York on a liner at a time when news was very light, which explains why the reporters gave big displays to the fact that Gregg was returning with rare antique jewels which he had unearthed abroad. He also had a vast collection of other antiques, and the value of his belongings was set at an enormous figure. The accounts were read with great interest by a number of persons, including a gentleman whose fingerprints and photograph were highly treasured by the police of many cities. It struck him that the professor was far too wealthy, and he determined to see if they could not do business together. So he evolved a neat little plan whereby he hoped to meet the professor and the jewels. The professor received word that a mummy was to be sent to him for inspection, in the hope that he would buy it. It arrived on schedule time, but he did not have much time to inspect it. For the mummy, who was the before-mentioned light-fingered individual, climbed out of his case, swatted the professor, and assisted by the expressman, bound and gagged him, then interred him in the case, and sent him away. The professor spent a few unhappy hours a prisoner in a dirty room, then he managed to free himself, and started back toward his hotel. On the way he met a newsboy, and hearing him crying out, "All about the Smuggler," he bought a paper. It interested him to read that Prof. Gregg had been captured in his hotel room on a charge of bringing in valuables without notifying the customs authorities. His admiration of speedy metropolitan justice was intensified on learning that his substitute had been arrested, tried and convicted within two hours, and was already beginning to enjoy a six-months' sentence. That the prisoner refused to tell the police where the gems were hidden also pleased the professor. The substitute was moodily brooding in his cell; he had been afraid to tell the police he was not the professor, for if he proved it he would convict himself of burglary, which meant a long sentence up the river. Still, although he had saved time for himself, he was far from being cheerful. Then a message arrived from the outer world. It was from Prof. Gregg. He explained that he had sold all his antiques before the substitute arrived, and he thanked the latter warmly for representing him at the roll call of the city prison. The substitute thought of the professor, who had told him he was now on the ocean, headed for a pleasure trip in Europe. The substitute was a strong, coarse man, but he wept. Then he removed his false white whiskers, part of the disguise the police had not penetrated, and cursed.
- A man on his way to marry the daughter of a friend of his uncle instead falls for a woman he meets on the train, despite the efforts of her censorious mother.
- Two girls fall in love with the same man. Out motoring one day they are thrown from the machine and carried to the hospital. Here one of the girls pours poison in the medicine of the other, and later the dreaded white screen is placed about the rival's bed. Here the 'twist' enters, and the story swings into a very pleasant finish.
- Guy Mannering is present at the birth of Harry Bertram, the heir to the Bertram estate. Meg Merriles, queen of the gypsies, living on the Bertram estate, is also present, and by consulting with the stars they cast the young heir's horoscope. This shows he will have much trouble and misfortune during his life, holding forth until he reaches his twenty-first birthday. Several years pass. The older Bertram is made justice of the peace. With this new authority he at once lakes action against the gypsies who have lived for centuries on his estate. Meg Merriles, who has long been a friend of the house of Eliangowan, takes this as a personal insult and calls down the purse of her race upon the home of Bertram. In taking action against the smugglers who infest the coast, Bertram employs inspector Kennedy to rout them. Young Harry, now five years old, and his tutor, are walking about the shore. They pass Kennedy who places the child on his horse. The smugglers in the meantime recognize Kennedy as their enemy. They attack him and throw him over the cliff. The boy being a witness to this is taken away to their cave. Meg, who has seen this, begs for the boy's release, but Lawyer Glossin, a silent friend of the smugglers, prevails upon them to kidnap the boy, for without an heir the house of Bertram, by his clever manipulation, will easily pass into his hands. Sixteen years later, young Bertram, now known as Brown, becomes an officer in Col. Mannering's regiment in India. He is very much in love with Mannering's daughter, Julia, whose mother, fearing the colonel's anger, encourages the young lovers in their secret meetings. This is misinterpreted by the colonel, who thinks that Brown is paying attention to his wife. This situation leads to a duel in which Bertram is shot and supposed by Mannering to be dead. In reality he is taken prisoner by the Sepoys and held captive till he manages to escape. Learning that the colonel has returned to England, he follows, and finds him living in Scotland, a widower, with his daughter, near the Bertram estate. He sees his sweetheart again. Old Meg recognizes him as the heir and the smugglers also recognize him, and inform Glossin, who, upon the death of the young man's father, acquires the estate at very small cost, leaving Miss Bertram, the daughter of his old master, penniless. Glossin at once takes action with the smugglers, who, to protect himself from the charge of the murder of Kennedy, is a willing tool of Glossin, and agrees to get them young man out of the way. This plot fortunately is overheard by one of Meg's trusty men, who immediately informs her. Realizing that she owes many a favor to the house of Ellangowan, she sends word to the colonel that if he would like to see that the heir to the house of Bertram is still alive, to come at once to the smugglers' cave with help. She tells Bertram who he is and bids him be at the smugglers' cave that she may prove what she says. She leads him into the cave. Here she confronts Glossin and Hatterick and promises that her prophecy shall be fulfilled. A struggle ensues, which by the timely arrival of Col. Mannering and his help, terminates in the capture of Glossin and Hatterick. Meg has been shot during the affray, and with her dying breath announces to all that Bertram is the long-lost heir to the house of Ellangowan. The colonel recognizes in young Bertram, Brown. His daughter Julia arrives and the lover-like attitude of the young couple explains to him the error, and he consents to their speedy marriage. Bertram meets for the first time his sister Lucy, in whom Col. Mannering has shown an interest more than brotherly. They all repair to the castle where Bertram is formally proclaimed its master.
- Mrs. Reggie Jellybone has her husband completely under control. She places a reflector on her sewing table in such a position that every movement and expression and manifest desire of her husband become known to her. She is, therefore, able to anticipate his movements and interfere in his plans. He seldom gets a chance to go to the club on the pretense of sitting up with a sick member. One night the boys at the club need a fifth hand very badly, and when they call up Jellybone, Mrs. Jellybone answers the phone, but they are not daunted. Mr. Resourceful is sent to get Jellybone in spite of his wife. A scheme is concocted and Jellybone goes to the club leaving a dummy on his side of the bed. When Mrs. Jellybone comes up to the room to retire, she finds blood-stains on the bed-clothes and grows excited. She shakes the dummy and the head is severed from the body and rolls under the bed. She excitedly concludes that her husband had been murdered, and immediately she calls for Burstup Homes, the renowned private detective. Burstup Homes arrives puffed up with importance, makes a very ceremonious investigation and deduces that the man is really dead. Furthermore, he deduces that a man wearing a ten size shoe is the criminal. In the examination Burstup Homes forgets essentials and takes up his time with details. He follows the blood-stain clue and a foot print clue. The visible stains on the improvised bed-sheet ladder which Jellybone used as a means to effect his escape also attracts the detective's attention and gives him strong evidence of an entrance and an exit from the house through the window. In fact, there are clues galore and Burstup Homes feverishly goes to work. Everyone he meets is a suspect. Deacon Stronghead, whom he meets on the way from the knife grinder where he had a knife sharpened for his wife, offers the strongest causes for suspicion, because he carries a concealed weapon, and the story is more complicated when Mrs. Jellybones plays a trick on her husband. Off she goes to the club, and here comes the big surprise, she does not pounce on her husband, as one would expect, but is so delighted that he is alive that she embraces him most rapturously. Jellybone begins to think that his wife will soon be stricken with an attack from over-indulgence and suffer untold agony. The farce ends up in the police station where Burstup Homes' failure is provocative of much laughter, but he is not at all dismayed and retorts that the police are jealous of him.
- Paris Automobile Show: French Exposition, greatest ever held. A Cave-In in Missouri: Earth takes big drop near Joplin. Winter in Merrie Englande: Bob sledding at sixty miles an hour. The Garment Makers Strike: 200,000 New York workers demand more pay. The Fashions: The latest correct styles in hats. Tournament of Roses: Pasadena, Calif., scene of magnificent pageant. Wilhelm at a Wedding: German Emperor attends royal ceremony in Germany. Aero-Auto Racing: Exiting contest between land and air craft, San Francisco. What a Fall. Oh, My Countryman: A motion picture cartoon.
- The story revolves about the jealous plots of Stephen Swenson, a man with little or no moral sense. He is jealous of young Henry George, who is betrothed to Blanche, the daughter of the paralytic. Swenson hires two thugs to "do up" his rival. The thugs drop George down a well, in the sight of the paralyzed man, who is powerless to interfere. Knowing that the paralytic cannot divulge the crime, Swenson comes back to make love to the paralytic's daughter. What follows is the pantomimic agony of the paralyzed man in his mute attempt to disclose the fact that Swenson is a murderer.
- After having a rather one-sided discussion with his wife Smithkins decides that t'would be better to leave that talkative lady, and go in search of happiness which he will never attain in her company. He therefore locks her in the bedroom and sallies forth. His wife, however, is waiting for him on the balcony above, and he is promptly lassoed and brought back home by the indefatigable dame. Smithkins's next move is to pack his box and go to live at a hotel. His wife, however, gets wise to this scheme and packs herself in her husband's box. When hubby comes to open his box at the new "digs," he finds his wife waiting to open fire upon him as usual. Wifie then determines to put hubby in the box and take him home again. A porter of the hotel enters the room at this moment, and in the confusion he gets put in the box, whilst hubby gets away free, Wifie has a horrible surprise when she gets home.
- Prince Walter, whilst out hunting with his adjutant, the Duke of Wolmer, becomes separated from the rest of the field, and the pair encounter Agnes, a prepossessing country maiden who resides with her grandmother, and of her inquire their whereabouts. The adjutant, who is an ardent amateur photographer, observes that the prince is struck by the girl's beauty and secures a snapshot of her. It is a case of love at first sight with the Prince and his fair charmer, and the latter, refusing to be momentarily recompensed for the services she has rendered to His Royal Highness, allows him to present her with a ring. In return, he takes a lock of her hair. The pair part, but the gay cavalier has become a lovesick swain. His thoughts are ever of Agnes, and a game of chess with the adjutant proves tedious. Showing the lock of hair to the adjutant, the latter understands what is troubling his royal master, and consoles him somewhat by presenting him with a present of the snapshot he secured of the girl. To further the plans of the lovers, the adjutant secures a tenancy of the house adjoining that of Agnes, and the love-making proceeds apace. Soon we see the happy pair in fond embrace and the compact is sealed with a kiss. But the prince's august parent has other plans for his son's matrimonial prospects. For political reasons, it is necessary that he shall be betrothed to the Princess of Illyria, and at a council meeting the engagement is decided upon. Prince Walter, whilst enjoying a tete-a-tete with Agnes, is apprised by the adjutant of what has occurred, a copy of a newspaper containing the official announcement being handed to him. In a rage he tramples the paper under foot and goes off with his informer. Agnes chances to discover the journal, and reads the news which for her is fraught with such importance. The prince decides to return home, and writes a letter acquainting Agnes with the fact that circumstances over which he has had no control forces him to break his engagement with her. Arrived at the royal palace, the prince bows to the will of his father and the council. Both His Royal Highness and Agnes are, however, disconsolate. The former has no thoughts except for her to whom his heart is given, whilst the latter declines to be tempted even with the daintiest luxuries. She sends back the emblem of her troth, and the prince writes a letter imploring her to see him once more and let him spend a last happy hour in her company. The adjutant, seeing how matters are, takes affairs into his own hands, and visiting Agnes, prevails upon her to gratify the prince's desire, conveying her to the palace in his own motor car. A touching scene between the lovers in the royal garden ensues, and before parting the prince gives Agnes a white rose as the emblem of his undying love for her. Tender farewells are said, and Agnes returns to her humble abode. Life's dream for her is o'er, but the prince, bowing to destiny, returns to the palace and is wedded to the lady of his father's choice, bestowing upon her his name, but not his love, for that is the sole property of the girl of humble mien, and the picture closes with the newly wedded pair bowing their acknowledgments upon the balcony to the assembled populace below, who little realize that he who will someday rule over them has sacrificed his happiness in the fulfillment of his duty to his king and country.
- Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too old to be of any assistance to his widowed daughter and grandchildren, who are dependent on him for support. He says he prefers death to a life of poverty and wretchedness. In telling the judge and jury his pathetic story (which is shown on the screen) old Joel betrays a love for his grandchildren and his fellow laborers that is poignant with pathos. He tells how he had been sent by the men to tell the boss that they were dissatisfied. Athough Joel was a favorite with the boss, his representations while listened to with respect were productive of nothing. His employer simply said, that if he raised salaries to meet the present "high cost of living" he would be compelled to close up shop. Whan they receive the answer from the boss, the men vote to strike, much against Joel's advice, and although he liked his boss, Joel is with the majority and walks out with his fellows. A long period of lean days ensue. Joel's grandchildren and widowed daughter are starving. He is too proud to beg. He goes to the headquarters of the strikers and finds them all drinking and carousing. This is too much for Joel. He announces his intention of going back to work. One of the ironworkers calls him a coward. All of the old man's pent-up anger comes to the surface, and before he knows it, he has killed the insulter. The jury weeps at the old man's pathetic story; they cannot find heart to convict him.
- When the soldiers attacked the old home of the Von Hirschsprung family, the father buried his family treasure in the garden. In the fight that followed he was killed but his two sons survived. Having no money, and supposing their fortune stolen, the sons sell the old home to the Hellwig family. Cordula, daughter of old Hellwig, falls in love with Joseph, the younger Von Hirschsprung brother. He returns her affection, but her father will not permit the marriage because of Joseph's poverty. One day Cordula, digging in the garden, unearths the Hirschsprung treasure and tells her father, who makes her vow never to tell of the finding of the money chest. Joseph deprived of his sweetheart, dies in poverty. Broken-hearted Cordula removes her things to an upper apartment and vows she will never enjoy any of the ill-gotten wealth. Years later, the only surviving member of the Von Hirschsprungs marries a strolling player. Ten years later she is killed by accident during her act in the circus and her husband, to save his child from a similar fate, puts her in the care of Cordula's brother Nathan. The child, Fay, finds no welcome in her new home until she meets Cordula, now known as Old Mam'selle. She and Old Mam'selle have adjoining attic rooms and spend much time together. Everyone knows that Old Mam'selle has a secret, but no one knows what it is. The years pass. John, son of the Hellwigs, returns from the Medical University to fall in love with Fay. He is expected to marry Hortense, a rich widow with one child. Fay saves this child from an awful death by fire and wins John's admiration as well as his love. His mother refuses to accept Fay as a daughter. In the midst of all this confusion Old Mam'selle is taken ill. Before she dies she tells Fay that her diary contains her secret and it must die with her. Fay promises to destroy the little book. After Old Mam'selle's death, Fay finds the book and is about to destroy it when John enters the room and sees her. He demands that she give him the diary. She refuses at first but finally yields. Then she goes to her room to pack her things. Feeling herself very unwelcome at the Hellwigs she thinks she had better go away. John opens the little book and reads the whole story of the Hellwig wealth and how it all belongs to the Hirschsprung family. He rushes out of the room with the book and finds Fay ready to leave. She has her grip in her hands. He takes it from her and begs her to remain. As he takes the grip he notices the name Meta Von Hirschsprung, with a crest printed across it. He stares at Fay and asks her whose grip it is. She replies it belonged to her mother who took it with her when she ran away to he married. Then John knows that Fay is the sole remaining member of the once famous Von Hirschsprungs and that the money being enjoyed by the Hellwigs belongs to her. He tells her and she realizes that she is rich, feels free to accept his heart offered to her in the days when he did not know she had a single penny to her name.
- The play opens with the escape of John Forsythe from prison, where he has been sentenced to a term of ten years for counterfeiting. He is seen running through the woods in striped clothing until he emerges on an open road. He there holds up a passing chauffeur and secures a linen coat and cap. These cover the stripes to the knees, and he blacks the remainder from the mud of a swamp until those who sit in front can't tell the difference. In this guise he makes his devious way to the house of his brother Robert, a highly respectable member of good society, who has just been made guardian of person and property for a young lady he has never seen, charming Rosalie Clarke, just fresh from boarding school. John enters the house of Robert and demands protection. Robert offers a small sum of money and tells him to get out. John tears up the money and insists upon a larger amount. The good brother goes to another room, while the wicked one responds to a new criminal impulse. He shoots through the door and kills the man who sought to befriend him. He swaps clothes with the dead man, makes up to resemble him, and rings for the police; the latter is an act of insane cunning. Meanwhile, Dublin Dan hears of the escape of a convict he was instrumental in sending to jail for a long term. He goes to the country home of Robert Forsythe and watches at the railroad station. Who should come down by the next train but charming Rosalie. In gathering together her effects she drops the card of Robert Forsythe, and it falls into the hands of the detective. He promptly makes her acquaintance and assists her to find what is to be her future home. His pleasing appearance and manners, he is a winner, inspire confidence, and Rosalie consents. Thus it happens that they arrive simultaneously and opportunely just as the police John has summoned come on the scene. John claims that he is Robert and asserts that he shot a burglar whom he caught in the act of breaking into his house with the intent of committing a felony. This part of, the plot is replete with dramatic possibilities. Detective and criminal both fall in love with Rosalie, and it is man to man from this moment through exciting situations to the end. Dublin Dan's suspicions are excited by some trivial clue he finds, and he manages to examine this silent testimony while the others are variously engaged. He also objects John to sharp scrutiny when the latter receiver Rosalie. The criminal betrays that he did not know she was coming, and the fact that he has not had time to adjust himself to his new environment is shown in his conduct. Forsythe is savage and brutal, or merely sensuous and lazy as the mood strikes him, but in all cases an instinctive malefactor. Forsythe naturally gravitates to his old haunt, a den of counterfeiters, and there renews relations with confederates who have been operating in a small way. Their laboratory is shown behind a long screen, and John takes up his former occupation with the fanatical enthusiasm of an artist. It is revealed that the adventuress, Jumo, is still infatuated with him, though she has ostensibly given her affections into the keeping of his pal, Bill Steele. Mag Steele is an old hag whose services are those of guard over the safety of the retreat. Forsythe has the temerity to take these people to the house of his slain brother and there make merry to the discomfiture of innocent Rosalie. Rosalie escapes and goes to faithful Dan for advice and help. Dan places her with his mother. Dan goes to the Forsythe house in disguise and informs the merry party he meets there that his motor car is stalled not far away from lack of gasoline. Forsythe offers to send a servant for a new supply. Dan extends a hundred dollar bill, the smallest he has with him, in payment, but this does not attract suspicion. Forsythe takes it and gives counterfeit money in exchange. He is certainly suffering from induration of the occipital. The detective detects, but no matter, just wait. He must locate the den. Forsythe locates him and attempts to abduct Rosalie. She barely escapes the first time by the timely intervention of Dublin Dan in the disguise of a cabman. The second attempt is more successful, and Rosalie is carried away to the den. She is there incarcerated in a prison cell; the den is almost as well equipped as a motion picture studio, to languish while Forsythe resumes his nefarious work in the hidden laboratory. Now comes a closing in of all the elements. Juno is so cruelly jealous that she releases Rosalie from the cell after the others have retired for the night and proceeds to torture her, at least she makes ready, when Rosalie's screams bring the others and the former status is restored. Dublin Dan is not idle. He chances upon Matt, the thug of the counterfeiting gang, in a nearby tavern. In preparation for this encounter the detective has brought along a makeup bag which contains among other wonderful things a live carrier pigeon. Matt the thug has become interested in a drunken sailor who rashly flashes a roll. Dublin Dan interferes and conducts the drunken sailor to a bed-chamber. There the detective has an inspiration. He disguises himself as the drunken sailor, secretes the carrier pigeon in his bosom and contrives to encounter Matt the thug near the counterfeiter's den. Matt takes the drunken sailor into the den to rob him. Dublin Dan not only sees imprisoned Rosalie looking out from behind the prison bars, but is given a full view of the secret laboratory. Feigning sleep while the others play cards, he manages to write a note and attach it to the carrier pigeon's legs. As he sends the dove up the chimney, Matt the thug turns suddenly to help himself to whiskey and catches Dublin Dan in the act. The entire gang assaults the detective in a terrific struggle, with a result that he is overpowered, bound and thrown into a dungeon through a trap door. Is he done for? Ask of the white rats that crawl over his prostrate body and gnaw the ropes that bind him. Dublin Dan rises and rids himself of his bonds. He creeps up an iron ladder, opens the trap and seizes a brace of pistols. Now he has the whole gang at bay. After effecting Rosalie's release, he marches the counterfeiters, one by one, into the prison cell and there he holds them until the police arrive. Best of all, he is so cool about it. When the officers come on the scene he is calmly smoking a cigar.
- Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One Christmas morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway. The butler and housekeeper (in the secret), carry the hamper to the library and present it to Neal. He is greatly puzzled and finding a card attached inscribed "To Major Neal," he opens the hamper, only to slam it hastily shut with a startled and angry expression: The hamper contains a baby girl. The old man orders the child taken from his presence, and advertises for the one who presumed to leave it to take it off. But no one claims the child, whose sweetness and innocent joys soon begin to move the old fellow's heart. The baby constantly makes advances, in spite of rebuffs, until the old man succumbs and worships the child, calling her "Little Sunbeam." Sunbeam is stricken with fever. Now is the mother's chance. She comes (the old family doctor aiding and abetting her), disguised as a nurse, and with a mother's untiring love and care nurses Sunbeam back from the shadowy brink. Old Major Neal and his disowned daughter meet at the bedside of the child, and through their great and mutual love for Sunbeam become forever reconciled.
- The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her.
- Snakey Snodgrass conceives a scheme with which to defraud the crooks of New York. He purchases enough gold to make a brick worth about fifteen thousand dollars. With this he comes to New York City, opens an office as a "Gold Expert" and sends out word to the crooks and swindlers that he has discovered a new metal which will pass as gold. He uses the real gold brick with which to make all the jeweler's tests, with chemicals, etc. Then he has an assistant in a different place gilding bricks and preparing them for sale to the swindlers. The police learn of his activity and they raid his office. He grabs up a brick, which he believes to be the one of pure gold, and is a victim of his trickery, leaving the real one lying on the floor. After Snakey leaves in the custody of the officers, his assistant looks with disgust at the bricks and starts dumping them out of the window. Small boys amuse themselves by throwing the bricks around. Then they decide to put one which happens to be the genuine one under a silk hat, leaving it on a pavement. Various people kick the hat, and hurt their toes, and then laugh when they see the gold brick. At last a broken down, ragged-looking swindler comes out of a saloon door and discovers the gold brick. He takes up a position on a street corner to wait for some greenhorn or rube. Silas Perkins, of Pumpkin Center, who has sold his farm for a thousand dollars comes into town to live with his daughter and her husband, who is a young chemist. Silas is accosted by the swindler, who eventually sells him the real gold brick for a thousand dollars. Silas proceeds to his daughter's house, where he tells them of his purchase. They are heartbroken, and when he learns that he has fallen victim to a simple fraud, the old man is so overcome by the loss of his money that he takes to his bed. His son-in-law calls the doctor, who orders them to tell him that the brick is real gold, in order to cheer him up and bring him back to health. The son-in-law gets some of his chemicals, brings them to the table by the bedside and starts on his tests, planning to "jolly" the old man. His eyes bulge, and he discovers that it is real gold. The old fellow sits up and dons his clothes in a jiffy when he learns that it is true, and the son-in-law, the daughter and the old man hastily call a taxicab and hustle for the office of the U.S. metal assayer. There they sell the brick for its true value, and the last view is that of the old farmer telling the story of its purchase to the official chemist, while the son and daughter join them in merry laughter.
- Randall and Ruth Foster were little tots. The two children lived side by side on one of the fashionable streets in New York City. One day Helen and her parents were starting for the park when the little one suggested that they invite Ruth to go with them. The idea pleased them all, and as for Ruth, she was in an ecstasy of delight. She skipped down the steps into the Randall's automobile, and her father (a widower), watches as the machine whizzed off, realized more than ever the little treasure he possessed. At the park the two children got into a boat unobserved by their elders and drifted into the lake. In total ignorance of their peril they frolicked about the flimsy craft until it suddenly capsized and two little figures were hanging to the gunwale. Randall swam out to the boat. Even his love for his child made him hesitate to take her to the shore first until the little Ruth assured him she was safe, that she would stay on the boat until he returned. But when he returned, and with him her frightened father, the little form that they brought to land was still, the child bad slipped from the boat and drowned while he brought his own child to safety. The loss of his little girl made Foster almost frantic, and he became as vindictive an enemy to Randall as he had been a friend. A power in Wall Street, step by step he smashed the latter back in the merciless warfare of the street, until Randall, innocent of wrong though he was, stood on the brink of ruin. But when all hope was gone, when he had brought himself to looking upon a life of poverty with the resignation born of necessity, his daughter took the matter into her own hands and John Foster, wealthy financier and lonely man, learned the lesson of forgiveness.
- On the death of Mrs. Burgess, her two daughters came home from the East. The ranch foreman paid his respects to the widow, and incidentally lost his heart to pretty Mabel. Claudine, the other sister, found herself beset by Jim Bradley, but little suspected that Jim was the victim of a cunning Mexican's tongue. They planned-Jim and the Mexican- to marry the girls and obtain control of the ranch.
- The suffrage workers are vainly endeavoring to win over Senator Herman to their cause as his vote on a certain bill they favor means its passage. May Fillmore, one of the most ardent of the workers, discovers that the father of a little motherless tenement brood has died of tuberculosis, after having vainly importuned the owner. Senator Herman, to make building alterations that will remedy unsatisfactory conditions. She goes to the Senator's fiancée, Jane Wadsworth, and succeeds in securing her help. Jane accompanies May to the poor bereaved family, and she is shocked at the terrible lack of sanitation. They find three little girls and a baby left to fight the world alone. Elsie, the eldest, is doing embroidery sweat-shop work at home, and minding the baby, while Hester works in a department store. The other tot is a half-time scholar, and in the afternoons assists her sister working on corset covers for another shop. All these fearful conditions are pointed out by May and have their desired effect upon Jane. She is further shocked upon learning that her fiancé is the negligent owner. Jane goes to him and pleads that he do something in the matter. He waves her away and treats her like a child. Angered, she joins the suffragists and assists in bringing both her father and the Senator to terms. Hester is insulted by a floorwalker in her father's shop, which proves another shock to Jane, when her father does nothing in the matter. Later she is stricken with scarlet fever, which she contracted from the embroidery on one of her trousseau gowns, which came from her father's store. The father and Senator, upon learning that they were in part guilty, as the embroidery was made in the Senator's unsanitary tenement, gives in and most enthusiastically joins the suffrage movement. They are seen with the girls at suffrage headquarters, at the Men's League, and finally in the parade.
- A very efficient draughtsman in the employ of the government, quarrels with the head draughtsman in his department. The head draughtsman makes it very unpleasant for his subordinate. Their relations become so strained that it becomes necessary for the government to discharge the younger of the two men. The young draughtsman is very much incensed against the government. He is out of work for a long time, and his family becomes destitute. His wife is forced to take in work she is not accustomed to, and many nights she puts their child to bed with very little to eat. Because of their close proximity to the barracks, the child is very much interested in soldiers and is naturally very patriotic. George Washington is a god to the child, and the country he built represents paradise to him. The father in his wanderings looking for work, meets an agent for a foreign government, who offers him a big sum for duplicates of the plans of certain fortifications on the Pacific coast. The draughtsman tells his wife about it and she advises him to go to the government and try to get a hearing. He is discouraged in his attempts by repeated repulses and temporizing methods of certain authorities. Finally the draughtsman grows desperate and decides to accept the proposition made him by the foreign spy. The patriotic son of the draughtsman saves his father from treason and disgrace by unique and timely interference.
- Pretty Jessie Brown, living alone with her brother in the mountains, knew no luxuries; so when Bob brought a mirror from town, her joy knew no bounds. Nor was her grief the less when it was broken. Bob posted a sign directed against sheepmen that day and was shot. Jessie, in revenge, shot his murderer, not seeing an outlaw in the bushes close by. When the posse came to get her the woods echoed with two shots. The posse captured the outlaw, who, when asked if he killed the catteman, nodded and smiled.
- Lieutenant Parker reports for duty to Major Wilkins, commanding Ft. Sill, where Geronimo is a prisoner. Parker quickly wins the love of Pauline, the major's daughter, and the undying hatred of Captain Gray. The captain plans to release Geronimo in the dead of the night, throwing the blame on Parker. This he successfully does by obtaining, through an accident in the billiard room, possession of a letter from an Eastern friend to Lieutenant Parker. By tearing out a portion of this letter reading, "of course Geronimo's escape would mean an advancement to you," he successfully deceives everyone. But meantime Parker has been hurriedly detailed to find Geronimo; so Gray is sent out with a second detachment to overtake both Geronimo and Parker and make them both prisoners. Through a friendly orderly, Pauline learns of the trick. She hastens after Parker to warn him, but falls into Geronimo's clutches. The lieutenant is himself captured by Geronimo and, with Pauline, makes his escape. Later, he rescues Captain Gray and his command from certain death, and is rewarded by being made prisoner by Captain Gray. But all is explained at the formal court-martial, when Pauline rushes in with the other portion of the letter.
- The story from which this picture is taken is in verse. The old blacksmith has been induced to tell his history by a chance remark of a portrait painter who has just sold him what appears in the picture to be an enlargement of his wife's photograph. The story thus drawn from the blacksmith is to the effect that while a young man he married the supposed widow of a soldier, believed to have been killed in battle. With his wife he went to Kansas and established himself in a new home, living very happily. One day a stranger happened along and stopped to have his horse shod. Again a chance remark brought forth the story of the traveler, revealing to the blacksmith that he was the husband who was supposed to have been killed in battle years ago. It is a stunning blow to the blacksmith, but he saw that there is only one way out of the dilemma; so, taking the man into the house he presented him to the wife. There is an immediate recognition and an agonizing parting as the woman proclaims that the man was her husband and she must go with him. The heart-broken blacksmith permits her to depart, taking with her the child, for he realizes, also, that the little one belongs with its mother. So it is that he is alone in his blacksmith shop with the picture of the woman he believed to be his wife.
- Beck and Lind are two young tourists who happen to be near the country place of Mr. Brenta, when Black Bill and his pal escape from a prison some little distance away. As the tourists are sauntering along the road, Brenta and his daughters, Emma and Mabel pass them in their carriage. It appeared like a double case of love at first sight. In the meantime, Black Bill and his pal have changed their prison garb in the house of a friend and sally forth. They encounter the young tourists and then notify the magistrate through a note that the convicts who escaped are disguised as tourists. Beck and Lind present themselves at the Brenta home, and on account of their gentlemanly demeanor, are permitted to be guests overnight. After the family and guests have retired Black Bill pays a midnight visit to the house and enters the room occupied by the tourists. He steals Lind's note book and his money when he is discovered in the act of escaping. Lind grabs him, but in a spirit of charity and forgiveness, decides not to turn him over to the police. Instead, he allows him to keep the money and pocketbook and advises him to mend his ways. On the following morning Judge Smith arrives at the Brenta home and informs the family that two convicts have been harbored overnight. There is suppressed excitement while the police are being summoned, and when Beck and Lind appear they are openly accused. Just as they are about to be arrested, Black Bill enters and returns the money and pocketbook to Lind. Then all is made clear and Black Bill makes a clean breast of his escape and the deception he had practiced. Before the close of the story it is apparent that Lind and Emma love each other and the same sentiment is manifest between Beck and Mabel.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- Dr. Miller is a mild mannered man and enjoys the companionship of his family consisting of his wife, mother and little girl. His next door neighbor is Mrs. Jones and she makes a pastime of peering into the doctor's dining-room. One evening as she is peeking through the curtains, she sees the doctor chide the butler and maid for placing a gravy-stained napkin upon the table. He is annoyed and shows his annoyance in his demeanor. Mrs. Jones hastens to Mrs. Brown and tells in confidence of the brutal conduct of the doctor toward his family. He is pictured as having shaken his little daughter to the point of strangulation, breaking furniture and otherwise playing the role of a brute, Mrs. Brown cannot resist the temptation for gossip and she hurries over to Mrs. Smith with another elaborated tale of the exciting doings in the Miller household. In this latest narrative Mrs. Miller and the butler are involved and the cause of the doctor's anger is ascribed to this. According to Mrs. Brown's version of the affair the doctor almost committed murder and threw the butler through a window, pointing a revolver at the supposed offender as the latter hung on a ledge far removed from the ground. And so the story spreads and is elaborated upon by each new listener. As may well be imagined, the little village in which the doctor spends his summer is in an uproar and the good townsfolk are all wrought up over the reported occurrence in the home of the mild mannered physician. A crowd of people assemble outside and while the three gossips stand in the foreground and point, while giving a description of what they thought they had seen. Dr. Miller and his family appear at the portal. Father, mother and grandmother are as happy as the flowers that grow in the spring and as they saunter forth for an outing, the three village gossips scamper off amid the jeers of the men and women who had been hoodwinked into believing that Dr. Miller was a fiend in human form.
- A rich man who finds that there is nothing in life worth living for, is worse off than is a poor man in similar circumstances, for the poor man may he stricken with ambition, and in a last effort to attain fame and fortune, redeems himself. But what is a man to do if he has wealth, health, all the fame he desires, and yet looks at life through blue spectacles? A man of this stamp is yawning out an utterly purposeless existence. He is comparatively young. There are no business cares to vex him; he has money enough to insure comfort, and yet he is thoroughly unhappy. He visits a winter resort down South, not for the benefit of his health. He has no chums there; his friends simply endure him, and he is as thoroughly unhappy as he had been in Europe or in the North. Perhaps some kind fairy took pity upon him, and induced him to go out rowing all alone, for he lost his oars and drifted about aimlessly all night, believing that his last hour had come. The good fairy so directed the boat that in the morning, when the rich man was unconscious from thirst, hunger and exhaustion, the tiny craft drifted near a lighthouse. The keeper's daughter saw the boat, swam out and guided it ashore at considerable risk to herself, and with the aid of her father restored the rich man to consciousness. His benefactors did not know that their unfortunate guest was a rich man. They regarded him as one of themselves, and the keeper, regarding him with favor, finally offered him a job as his assistant, which he whimsically accepted. He finds his new life so different from the old one that be positively enjoys living. He forgets his old troubles, and within a short time, decides that there is nothing that could induce him to go back to his former aimless empty existence. The keeper's daughter wins his love and makes him happy by agreeing to marry him, and he finds that each day is happier than the one that preceded it. Years later, his old friend, who has mourned him as dead, happens to visit the lighthouse, accompanied by his wife, and is surprised to recognize in the assistant keeper the former clubman long regarded as dead, and in fact so declared by the courts. The friend urges him to return, telling him that his heirs can be compelled to return his fortune, but he refuses. "I have my fortune here," he says, "my wife and child. Let my heirs keep the money. It is valueless to me." The friend, being a true friend, kept the secret.
- Part One: Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out. Forester was made colonel of his regiment, while Maywood became a captain. The men mortgaged their plantations and gave the benefits to the government, which was hard pressed for funds. Colonel Forester was mortally wounded at the battle of Cowpens, but before he passed away, Captain Maywood promised that he would care for Forester's motherless little girl. Maywood's family at the close of the war was so penniless that the government gave them 1,000 acres of land, which at that time was known as the Northwestern Territory, and into this land journeyed the family. As the years went by Albert, one of Maywood's sons, fell in love with Rose Forester. Albert continually cautioned his father against the invasion of the Indians, but the elder man was opinionated and declared that there was no danger. One day when Albert and his friend, Louis Wetzel, returned from a hunting trip they found that Maywood's cabin had been destroyed by fire by the Indians, and apparently all of its occupants, with the exception of Rose, whom Wetzel, by virtue of his woodcraft, determined had been carried off by the Indians. Part Two: Albert Maywood vows that he will avenge the death of his parents and will rescue the abducted Rose. He and Wetzel set out and track the Indians. They rescue Rose, but the trio encounter another band of Indians, who capture Albert and Rose, Wetzel being successful in making his escape. Albert, however, by his cleverness soon effects his escape, and he and Wetzel go in search of Rose. In their wanderings they come upon a small fort upon the banks of the Hockhocking River, the commandant of which is in fear of an attack from the Wyandottes. Albert and Wetzel go on a reconnoitering expedition for the commandant, and from a place called Standing Stone they observe the Indian village far below. As their canteens are nearly empty, Albert takes them to a nearby stream to refill them, and there he meets two women, apparently Indians. Fearing that they will give the alarm, he grapples with them, and in the course of the struggle he discovers that one of them is his "Forest Rose." The real Indian woman escapes, spreads the alarm, and hundreds of Indians surround Standing Stone. While the two men are planning the defense Rose slips away, but returns, aids the white men to pass the sentries and escapes with them. The trio are followed, but after many hardships reach the fort, where Albert and the "Forest Rose" are married.
- The police are on the lookout for Jim Spike, alias Jim Nail, a dangerous highway robber, who has been working with more or less success without being apprehended. The chief of the detective bureau puts two new detectives on the case and enjoins them to be very careful in their investigations, and not to come back without landing the prisoner. The three detectives soon come upon Edgar Carroll, in whom they immediately see a striking resemblance to Spike, the crook. They shadow Edgar from place to place, and soon his life becomes one long game of hide and seek with the detectives. Finally Edgar consults his friend and they both decide to give the detectives a merry chase. Edgar and his friend dress as women and parade the streets in their ludicrous feminine attire. They flirt with the detectives and entice them away from their duty. They do not discover the real identity of their charming feminine companions until they accidentally come upon them one evening and see them leisurely, and with enjoyment, smoking clear Havana cigars. This shocking and unfeminine spectacle arouses their suspicions, but the boys are too clever for these cousins of Sherlock Holmes and, with the aid of an automobile, give them the slip, but the detectives eventually turn up again and arrest the masqueraders. However, they do not remain long in the police station, for the real Jim Spike turns up soon as the crook who tried to snatch Jane Ellery's purse on the ferryboat. Jane is Edgar Carroll's sweetheart, and she recognizes him. A few more complications arise, however, until Edgar and the crook are seen side by side and their likeness discovered, and the cousins of Sherlock Holmes see they have been misguided in their investigations.
- Fred Meade, an artist, by mistake sends his sweetheart a box containing a pair of his trousers to be repaired, while to a tailoress be sends a beautiful bunch of roses. In the box containing the trousers he puts a note requesting his sweetheart to wear them and meet him at their trysting-place that evening. The tailoress receives the box containing the flowers, meant for the sweetheart, with a note asking her to cut them off about four inches and returns them that evening. The sweetheart is so incensed at his supposed insult, that she throws the trousers out of the window, where a passing tramp finds them, and hurries away with them. The tailoress, a spinster, although nonplussed at the request, cuts off the long stems of the roses four inches, puts them back in the box and returns them. Fred, supposing them to be the trousers, and with only a few minutes to catch a train, never examines the contents, but snatches the box and hurries for his train, leaving a card tacked on the door that he will return in three days. The tramp finding Fred's address in the trousers pocket, goes to return them the following day, and on reading the card on the door, gains an entrance to the house by a cellar window. He then proceeds to enjoy himself by dressing up in Fred's clothes, and ordering by telephone all kinds of good things to eat and drink. After feasting and drinking to excess, he wanders through the streets in an intoxicated condition, but because of his being well dressed, and finding Fred's card in his pocket, a policeman supposing him to be the artist, takes him back to the house and puts him to bed. The morning paper, however, contains an account of the arrest, and meets the eye of the tailoress, who comes to the conclusion that Fred was drunk when he sent her the roses, and immediately takes the paper to the sweetheart's home to show her. She refuses to listen to it at first, but as the fact of her having received the trousers dawns upon her, she begins to believe it, and both start out to investigate. They reach Fred's house, and seeing the remains of the feast, empty bottles and other signs of the debauch, and finally the man in bed, the sweetheart is overcome with grief. Fred returns from his trip, however, and his arrival on the scene soon straightens out the tangle, and everything is explained with a happy ending.
- Dick receives a new revolver from his sweetheart as a birthday gift. Whilst stopping at a roadside spring to refresh himself, he loses it, but rides on quite unconscious of his loss. A tramp comes along, finds the revolver and attacks the mail carrier with it. Shortly afterward, Dick, returning to search for his revolver, finds the prostrate mail carrier, and is discovered by the sheriff. He is accused of murder and condemned to death, his empty holster branding him as the criminal. However, he is saved by the efforts of his charming sweetheart, who arrests the culprit with her own fair hands.
- When Harold Hargreaves wrote the satirical society novel, "Like Lowing Kine," he achieved even more success than he had contemplated. For Harold, despite his name, was a shy, sensitive chap, and could not be a social lion, even had he desired to be. Therefore it made him unhappy to receive invitations galore, flowers and mash notes. Also to find reporters and photographers lurking on his front door step at all hours of the day or night. Under the circumstances he decided to take refuge in flight, and sought seclusion in a seashore hotel, where he modestly registered as "John Jones, of Bayonne, N.J." For a time he found that he was unknown, but then exposure came. A woman, once young, unmasked him, but consented to keep his secret at his earnest request. Under the circumstances he could not refuse to be polite to her, and she was his companion on many trips when he would have preferred to have been alone. On one of these excursions they were unfortunate enough to be on an island and did not notice the rising tide until it was too late to return to the mainland. The woman wept, but really did not mind. Her name was Arabella Snaith and she would have preferred to change it to Mrs. Harold Hargreaves. Consequently when they had returned to safety she informed the unhappy man that she had been put in a false position and that only marriage could set her right in the eyes of the world. Hardly knowing what he was doing, he consented, but later regretted it. She had told him that only death could part them, so he decided to die, but only so far as she was concerned. There was a mock funeral, and the author, in disguise, acted as his own minister. Then, to his horror, he found that the fickle Arabella Snaith had transferred her affections to him in his new reincarnation. He began to fear that Arabella would annex him after all, but being a resourceful man, as all good novelists must be, he decided to hire a substitute. His choice fell upon a friend who was hard up, and ready to do anything for money, as he had frequently boasted. The author gave him a chance to make good, the hardest test he could think of, but the friend "made good." Arabella Snaith changed her name, but she is not Mrs. Hargreaves. She is the wife of his friend, and the friend was happy for a time, as Harold gave him a big sum of money for a wedding present. For the beautiful curved lines on the yellow-backed bills made him forget the lack of curves which were marked in the case of the once maybe perhaps fair Arabella.
- The artist, Andrew Darel, is anxiously awaiting the result of the Hermosa competition; his room is invaded by fellow-artists and others, who crown him with laurels and inform him that he is the lucky winner of the purse of money. Amid a scene of gaiety he takes his departure for Italy, and one day, when admiring the beautiful view from Sorrento, he hears a voice singing among the orange trees. A closer view reveals to him a beautiful girl clad in the picturesque garments of the country gathering oranges. Wishing to make her further acquaintance, he advances to meet her and learns that she is alone in the world, and named Graziella the Gypsy. The painter when engaged in painting the various views of the place is always accompanied by the gypsy, who falls in love with him and engraves with the point of a knife their initials on the bark of a tree. One day the painter, when taking a short sea voyage, happens to meet a young Parisian lady, who captivates the young man with her graceful charm, and subsequently meets him when in the company of the gypsy. Graziella is not slow in recognizing that she has a rival, and implores the painter not to forsake her, but her advances are repulsed, and he departs with his fair charmer. The concluding pictures of this film show the tragic effect of the terrible blow received by the gypsy girl.
- A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
- Yvette, the popular favorite of the Italian Opera Company, is in the opening scene of this picture singing Gluck's "Orpheus" when she is suddenly seized with illness, which causes her to fall prostrate on the floor and the audience is completely grief stricken. Some of the more thoughtful ones, however, rushed to her assistance, among whom were the first violinist and the Marquis of Montreville, both of whom prove to be madly infatuated with the cantatrice. The Marquis, realizing the extent of the singer's illness, offers his country estate at the seaside and, inasmuch as her physicians prescribe absolute rest and change of atmosphere, Yvette gladly accepts. During her absence from the opera the first violinist found life quite intolerable. Desiring to see her, he pays a visit to the country estate of the Marquis, only to be refused admission at the door. As a retort to this insult the musician proposes a duel with the Marquis, who, believing it an opportunity to rid himself of the rivalry of the fellow for the hand of Yvette, gladly takes him up. The duel takes place in the courtyard of the estate and results in the death of the violinist. Shortly before his end, however, the latter picks up his violin and draws out the desolate, mournful strains of the opera "Orpheus." The sickly Yvette from her window recognizes the tune and, seating herself alongside of the casement, looks out only to recognize that her musician admirer has been mortally wounded. Yvette passes away in the arms of the Marquis, who has come to claim her as his bride.