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- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- A husband discovers his wife about to elope with a friend, and then forces her to go with him, making her write a note to her child saying that she is going on a long journey. Later the lover reads of a railroad accident, in which many people were killed and telegraphs the husband that his wife was one of the victims. The child mourns for its mother and asks the father to take her where her mother is supposed to be buried. He takes her there and puts up a tombstone. Later the husband falls in love with a widow, which is very objectionable to the child. On one of the child's journeys to her mother's grave, she meets her mother, who has returned, takes her father away from the widow, brings him home and there is a reconciliation.
- 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.
- "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.
- About 1722, Spain, in her command of Texas (named from a confederation of Indians, who called themselves Tejas), established the Franciscan mission of San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo). Around this mission was built the pueblo (village) and presidio (barracks), which formed the nucleus of the present city of San Antonio. In 1824 Texas withdrew from Mexico and formed a separate republic, and the Mexican general Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, was sent to force her back into allegiance. At San Antonio in 1836 Col William B. Travis was in command of the fort. With him was Col. William Bowie, David Crockett, Lieut. Dickenson and a small force. He received word that Santa Anna, at the head of a Mexican army of several thousand, was advancing to take the city. Travis dispatched a message to Gen. Sam Houston for aid, sending Lieut. Dickenson and taking his force of 140 men and women of the city, among whom was Dickenson's wife, Lucy; he retired to the Alamo. On February 23, Santa Anna sent a message to surrender, and upon the brave refusal of Travis, he attacked the place. Travis held the Alamo until March 6, 1836, his little force constantly diminishing. On that day, when all seemed lost, Travis drew a line with his sword down the center of the room and asked all who would die with him to cross to his side. All crossed save one, Rose, who announced his determination to try to escape. He succeeded in leaving the building but was never heard from again. A breach was made in the wall by the cannon of Santa Anna, and the Mexicans entered to find all the men dead except Travis and four companions. These were immediately slaughtered on the spot, and Lucy Dickenson, with two other women and three children, were all to leave the Alamo alive.
- A staged Wild West kidnapping goes awry when the cowboys accidentally capture an actress who uses her acting skills to turn the tables on them.
- Deacon Ezra Gregston has long coveted the property known as "Hillcrest," the old homestead of the wealthy Toombs family. For years the mansion has remained unoccupied. The deacon believed the property a good buy at $50,000 and makes an offer of $30,000. Toombs eagerly accepts the offer, so much so in fact as to raise, in the deacon's mind, the suspicion that Toombs is hard pressed for money. In his library the deacon schemes to bring about a better deal, and finally conceives the idea of installing a "ghost" in the mansion to give the place the reputation of being "haunted." About this time Riley Leigh, the newly installed city editor of the "Tribune," receives a warning from his publisher that the next libel suit brought against the paper will result in his dismissal. Leigh, who has been courting Ruth Gregston assiduously, clandestinely meets the girl in her father's garden and they are discovered by the deacon. He drives Leigh from the premises. A week later Oaklawn is greatly excited over tales of strange doings at the old Toombs house, and finally the story creeps into print in the columns of the "Tribune." The day the item appears Toombs receives a note from Deacon Gregston declaring that he would not give more than $20,000 for a house handicapped with the reputation of being haunted, and refers Toombs to that morning's issue of the "Tribune." Toombs on reading the article rushes off to his lawyer and instructs him to institute a suit for libel against the paper. Sunday morning Leigh, opening all editorial mail, finds the threat of Toombs' lawyer to bring suit for $10,000 damages within ten days if claim is not settled. Leigh and officer Harrigan watch the "haunted" house, and, seeing the grotesque dance of a white robed figure with a death's head before the windows of the second floor, rush to the house, finally reach the "ghost" room and fall upon the "ghost." The disguise is torn away and Deacon Gregston is discovered. The deacon begs for mercy and is finally taken by his captors to his own home for a conference. Here he signs a letter addressed to Toombs, stating that if the suit against the "Tribune" is dropped he will pay the full $30,000 agreed upon. The officer beckons him to "come to the station." The deacon collapses and appeals to Leigh to save him. Leigh and the officer step aside and after an argument the officer is seen to nod and grin. Leigh then tells Deacon Gregston that at present he had no reason to protect him, "But as your son-in-law. I would hide the family disgrace." The deacon bursts into anger, but finally cools down and with very bad grace calls in his daughter, who appears in charming negligee and hands her over to the young city editor.
- In a western town, Smiling Bob, a miner, is in love with Molly, the pretty daughter of another miner. Soon an easterner arrives, whom Bob defends against the attacks of the rough miners, and among other witnesses, introduces him to Molly at a dance. Molly falls in love with Jim. At the mine where Jim secures employment a workman named Pete. Jim has a quarrel with Pete and threatens to take it up later. An accident occurs, in which Pete is seriously hurt, and the miners, having heard the threat, accuse Jim. He is tried and condemned, and locked in a room preparatory to being lynched. All this time Bob has seen the girl of his love won from him, gradually, degree by degree, for indeed she let him down easily. But he took it with a smile and good nature, such as had characterized his every dealing in life, and his true love for her remained steadfast. At this crisis in Jim's life, Molly turns to Smiling Bob for help, and for the love he bears the girl and to make her life happy, though to virtually wreck his own, he accomplishes Jim's release and escape. And until the paper upon which these were written disintegrated, he carried these words near his heart, "Jim and I were married today. We will never forget what you did for us. I am so happy. Molly."
- Sam Bug & Raskus Bug are suitors for Mandy Bug. When Raskus Bug get's the 'cold shoulder', he gets a gang headed up by "Gyp the Bug" to frame Sam Bug with the crime of killing a silkworm. Mandy gets Sherlock Bug, the great detective, who blow's up the gang's den and sends them all to jail, freeing the innocent Sam Bug.
- 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.
- Lola refused to marry Jean, son of the Gypsy king, and sought consolation in the woods each day. On one of these occasions, her tears were interrupted by the sudden moans of Frank Hathaway, a young American, who had fallen from his horse. Lola assisted him to the Gypsy camp, where his wounds were dressed and his horse's faulty shoes mended. It was love at first sight for Lola and Frank and they made a habit of meeting in their sylvan retreat every day. Jean once more pressed his suit, and, upon being refused, cowardly attacked Lola. Frank heard the screams and rushed to the Gypsy girl's assistance. After thrashing Jean, he declared his love for the girl and suggested that they marry in order that she might leave the camp where she was so persecuted. Frank took the girl home to his father, but that proud, haughty gentleman was sadly disappointed in his son's choice and vowed he would disown the boy if he married Lola. Frank let love take its course and soon gained employment on a ranch. Not long after becoming the happy father of a bouncing baby, Frank is taken ill and his father is sent for. The old gentleman, not yet having forgiven his son, still refuses to come. When, however, he hears of the stork's arrival, things take on a new aspect. The express is not fast enough to carry him to his grandson, and the child, all unwittingly, brings reconciliation and happiness once more to the estranged father and son, with the final recognition of '"the Gypsy bride."
- Escaping from her home of coral and the pearl-studded paths in the dominion of Father Neptune, an adventurous young goddess finds herself in the land of mortals, and like ordinary beings, dreams of love begin to take possession of her. In her loneliness, Cupid comes to her assistance, and taking a random shot, he flings from his bow the arrow to which some sensitive youth must fall a prey. Under Cupid's guidance, the goddess is taken to where a comely young shepherd has fallen under the influence of the love-dealing arrow, and forthwith the goddess gains a devoted lover in the person of the shepherd. Leaving his herd of goats, he spends his hours in companionship with this fascinating denizen of the mighty deep, pouring into her thirsting ear praises and flattery with all the fervor of his newly generated passion. Father Neptune assembles his merry band of sea-nymphs to serenade the lovers, and the course of love proceeds with delight to the heart of the goddess. But suddenly the shepherd is rudely awakened to a sense of worldly things and he realizes that his herd is straying away. With the music of the shepherd's pipe ringing, as if it were a warning note through the air, he attempts to break away from the bonds into which the fascination of the goddess has drawn him. The goddess herself will not allow her sturdy lover to depart so easily. The cup of ecstatic pleasure from which she has been allowed to take a sip cannot be rudely taken away. She clings as only a sea nymph should, to the lover who has awakened new emotions in her young heart. With a determined effort, however, the shepherd breaks away from her hold and in so doing falls into the sea, thus ending the dream of love. Weeping over the form of her lover, brought to the shore by Neptune's followers, the goddess is left to mourn her loss, and pour forth the wailings of a broken heart.
- A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.
- Two sweethearts have a misunderstanding over pressed roses and pressed pants.
- Molly, curious to know where her father and his men got so many fine horses, acts as her own sleuth. A noise in the bushes arouses the gang, one of whom goes to investigate only to find that it was the girl he loved. Thus to her astonishment she learns that her father is a horse thief. The sheriff, being notified by the governor that horse thieves are busy in his vicinity, disguises himself as an easterner in order not to draw suspicion. Molly, homeward bound, watches the stranger on horseback, and seeing him fall over the cliff, owing to the saddle girth breaking, rushes to his aid. She brings him home and, while taking off his coat, spies his badge. Her father returns with the men, and an argument in the next room in which her father is shot, tells the whole story to the sheriff who has been in hiding. He telephones to his deputies that he has discovered the thieves. On their arrival they arrest the gang. Molly, grieved over the death of her father, begs to be arrested also, but the sheriff, remembering how she saved his life, refuses to do so and begs her forgiveness in playing the part of a spy.
- Bob Burton, a confirmed woman-hater, meets his chum Harry. On their way from New York Harry asks him to come to his home and introduces him to his sister. She teases the woman-hater, pins a rose in his button-hole and gets him to sit down on a sofa beside her. Harry says joshingly, "You are not such a woman-hater after all." Harry arrives at the club and tells his friends what a joke he has played on Bob. Thinking of a scheme, he makes his friend still more uncomfortable. He writes a newspaper ad saying that Bob wants a wife. Harry inserts the ad in the newspaper and two of his chums go to Bob's house to watch this out to the end. The first arrival in answer to the ad is an old maid. Harry directs her to the house, while he and his friends arrange a board so that they can look into the window and watch the proceedings. Bob Burton is very much surprised when the old maid shows him the ad in the newspaper. She tries to make him marry her but he protests. The old maid goes out and discovers the boys looking In the window, hits one of them with an umbrella, and they all fall over the bench. The second arrival is a tough girl who gets into a wrangle with Bob, and he throws her out of the window, and she falls on top of the boys who are seated on the plank. She has her scraps with them and exits. The third arrival is a very buxom middle-aged lady, who on refusal of Bob to marry her, exits angrily, discovers Harry and chum outside and gives Harry a thrashing. The fourth arrival is a young eccentric girl, who has sworn that she will never marry a man unless she falls in love with him at sight. Bob Burton has read this eccentric remark in the paper, and has seen the picture, so instead of refusing her he proposes and is accepted much to the chagrin of the boys outside. He exits from the house with the young lady and discovers the boys in the act of sneaking away. Finally he turns the tables on them. He sends Harry and Bob a note inviting them to his wedding.
- Far from the maddened throngs of the city, far from the teeming, seething city streets, in a little fishing town, lives Tess and her half-witted brother, Sam. By clam digging they earn a simple living, but life is sweet in spite of its simplicity. Right near their hut lived a young fisherman, handsome, brave, and bold, who sympathized with the girl because she had to support her semi-demented brother, who took an interest in her, a friendly interest, and no more. But the maid, in the manner of woman misconstrues his attitude and takes his friendly interest and concern for the divine spark. So she learns to love him as a woman can only love once in her life, and he is ignorant of the romantic relations she has assumed this simple friendship to be. Often human hearts suffer, and this time the warm, young heart of Tess is to feel the pang and anguish of a love in vain, for there comes to the fishing bank a city girl, accompanied by her mother and father. They meet the young fisherman and the girl is impressed by his clean-cut form, his robust health, his winning ways. She asks him to take her about the place, which he obligingly consents to do, and as they are laughing, talking and smiling, Tess follows them. Once, to avoid detection, she slipped into the icehouse, leaving the door open, intending to stay there until the two got out of sight. But Jed, seeing the door open, closes it, locking it after him. When Tess realizes her predicament, she shouts, but her calls bring no response. However, her half-witted brother, with the intuition that is a gift of all mentally effected, feels a presentiment of danger to his sister, whom he idolizes, and going to look for her, hears her cries, and going to the icehouse makes a vain effort to unfasten the door. At last he runs to the beach, where some fishermen are talking, and tells them of his sister's dilemma, and they, thinking it merely some of the boy's wild talk, refuses to assist him. Then Jed, coming ashore, hears the story and goes with Sam to see how much truth there is in it. He opens the door, and into his arms falls the unconscious form of Tess, resting at last in the arms of him whom the god of hearts had destined for the task.
- Dick, an easterner, comes west to try his luck at mining. No sooner does he arrive than Hartley, the local gambler and all-around villain, commences to make sport at his expense. Dick endeavors to bear it patiently, but a clash is inevitable, until the arrival at the village store of Mary Brown, one whom all held in respect, excepting Hartley. The latter grabs the girl and endeavors to steal a kiss, which she struggles to resent, aided by Dick. In the fight Dick is knocked unconscious. The men become frightened and slink off. Mary is favorably impressed with the stranger and aids him back to consciousness. Dick is also impressed and accompanies her home. Mr. Brown, hearing of Dick's bravery, is only too pleased to give him pointers on mining, and every day they start out together to prospect for the precious metal. A month passes with no results, and Dick is downhearted. Were it not for the encouragement of Mary he would quit. On one of these days he strikes the vein, discovers a great mine, but when he has the dust in his hand, Hartley and his men appear, overpower and bind him and hasten to register the claim for themselves. Meanwhile, Mary at home has discovered a photo in Dick's coat of a woman and two children, with an inscription on the back that leads her to believe Dick is married. With a broken heart she seeks him at his work, only to discover Hartley's dastardly trick. For the love she bore Dick, she herself mounted a horse and rode like mad for the claim office, just in time to foil Hartley. Dick, of course, is pleased, and with the prospect of wealth, expresses his love. Mary produces the picture, which, however, he is able to show is that of his sister, after which all Mary's objections are for naught.
- Falling in love with a young fishing captain, Grace Sherwood disappointed the expectations of her father, who had introduced her to a young nobleman, Robert Hardwicke, desirous of winning her hand. Pursued by the unwelcome persistence of Robert, she escapes to sea in a rowing boat, but is overtaken by his yacht and obliged to be his unwilling guest. Donning a life belt, whilst Robert is in the engine room, slip throws herself overboard in the hope of escape, willing to take her chance in the shark-infested sea, rather than stay longer on board. Captain Heral, out with a clergyman and his wife, on a fishing excursion, is attracted by the splash and, using his spyglasses, he recognizes Grace. Cutting the fishing lines he goes full speed to her rescue. The presence of the clergyman suggests a great opportunity to the quick-witted captain, and he loses no time in winning Grace's consent. Arriving at the pier they announce their marriage to her now furious father, but as he thinks it over he comes to the conclusion that it is a good thing to have as a son-in-law a young fellow who was sharp enough to outwit both his rival and himself, and who later on could shoulder some of the cares of his vast undertakings.
- Rastus Johnson, a happy-go-lucky coon, after eating a large meal, lies down on the dock to take a nap. While he is slumbering three roughs happen along and see him, and knowing a sea captain who is in need of men to fill out his crew, they seize Rastus and shanghai him. He is placed aboard the ship and the voyage started. The vessel is wrecked off the African coast, and poor Rastus is the only survivor. While wandering along the beach he is seen by the Zulus, who immediately give chase. Rastus runs through the jungle, but is compelled to give up. They capture him and take him before their king, who orders him to be cooked. One of the women of the tribe, who happens to be present when Rastus is brought in, knowing the king's daughter is ambitious to be married to some man outside of her own tribe, runs off to tell her of the captive. Rastus is led to the royal kitchen, where the cook pot is prepared. They are just about to thrust him in, when the daughter pleads with her father, for Rastus' life. This he grants on one condition, that Rastus must marry the daughter. This he tells to Rastus, and Rastus, after a good look at the daughter, decides to take to the cook pot. This enrages the king so that he orders Rastus to be seized and given a sound beating. They seize him and throw him on the ground and commence. They beat him so hard that he wakes up to find a policeman tapping him with his club. The blue coat orders Rastus to move on his way, which he does, little the worse for his terrible dream.
- John Miller is cashier of a bank and his son Ray a trusted employee and in love with the bank president's daughter Edith. Miller loses heavily on the horse races; not wishing to mortgage his home, he fails to enter a deposit in the bank records, using the money for a final plunge on the races, hoping to recuperate all his former losses--but he loses again. Ray discovers the shortage and to spare his parents humiliation, leaves a note at the bank saying that he took the money, and goes West. All believe Ray took the money except Edith, whose faith in him proves stronger than expected. Knowing Miller to be a gambler, she suspects him, accuses him, and finally wrings from him a confession of the truth. Miller gives a mortgage on his home to cover the loss, and Edith starts west in search of her noble lover. In the West Ray has turned cowboy. A handsome reward is offered for the capture of a dangerous bandit. Ray gets on his trail and "covers" him, just as the bandit is holding up the stagecoach. On that coach is Edith. Ray gets his reward, then the happy lovers return, pay off the mortgage, and receive the blessings of all.
- Unaware that they are related, children born to the octoroon (1/16th Black) mistress and a white wife of a white man meet and fall in love.
- Cecil Rand has been allowed a monthly remittance by his brother, the Earl of Essex, and sent to Western America to make something of himself. He registers at a rough Western hotel, where he soon has a fight with Buck, a gambler and inebriate, who made sport of his English clothes, and after "licking" Buck, leaves the hotel. Helen Evans, the pretty daughter of a miner, has witnessed the encounter, and rather falls in love with the Englishman. She hurries home and places a card reading "Room to let," on her house. Sure enough, Rand applies for it and is taken in. Helen determines to make a westerner of him, and making him change his English riding costume for a real western outfit, secured for him a position in her father's mine. But Buck has never forgotten his beating, and revenge is his creed. He steals unobserved to the mine, and as miner Evans is being lowered in the shaft, cuts the rope. Great confusion follows, and Helen, in her excitement, promises to marry the man who saves her father. Buck rescues him and in a few days claims his bride, and when she says she loves Rand, he accuses Rand of having cut the rope. When things look worst for Rand and Helen, Ah Ling, the local launder, brings a satisfactory solution of the mystery by identifying the knife found near the rope as that of Buck's, which had maliciously cut off his own queue. Buck is put under arrest, and to complete Rand's happiness, news is received that the Earl's death has made him heir of the title and estate. And he invites Helen to share it with him.
- Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straight and stay out of trouble, but his fellow ex-con has other ideas, and his plans wind up spelling trouble for both of them.
- A sympathetic bandit chief fights for freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
- Senor Don Alma Bendadoso, who has been away from his native home, has sent word to his adherents that he is returning to his castle for the purpose of teaching the true word of God. One of the local newspapers printed a warning to the natives, who are all superstitious to a terrible degree. In his boyhood, the don, while out hunting, met with an enraged mountain lion, which he held with his eye and escaped unharmed, the people then giving him the title of "He of the Evil Eye," and fearing him from that day forward, therefore the unjust title held fast to this quiet man of love. Upon his arrival the people were warned by one Don Immonco Superstisioso and his daughter's sweetheart, Ocloso Ignoranto. The girl, Sobre Superstisioso, wishing to know more about the man with the evil eye, fled the house to the thick of the fray and there met the cursed one, who fascinated her, much to the chagrin and envy of the one who has been selected for her. Later the girl cultivated the acquaintance of Alma, and finds him to be a master, and superior in every way to those with whom she had come in contact, and respect and admiration slowly ripened into love, which was returned by he of the evil eye. Her father demanded that she marry Ocloso Ignoranto, and she finally declared herself by saying that one month hence she will marry him who is most worthy. Senor Don Alma Bendadoso rises clear from the darkness of ignorance to that lightness of reason and understanding, enveloping the girl with the halo from his own soul.
- Boris Kreshnef is a young socialist with strong ideas regarding the equal distribution of wealth. His greatest target is Jonathan Gedney, a millionaire. Gedney's son, Donald, has married Faith, against his father's will, who, in a fit of rage, disowns him, Donald and his wife try to make their own way. They succeed but poorly and finally are forced to take humble lodgings. The room they engage is next to that of Boris, who does not know their identity, but learns that Donald can get no work and that they are without food. He takes his bread, cheese and cheap wine, and leaves it at their door and they cannot guess where it came from. Meanwhile Boris' wrath stores up against Gedney. One day Gedney's butler notices that one of his master's suits needs repairs and as he is about to take the package to the tailor's, he sees a vagrant prowling around the mansion, and dropping the package, gives chase. Boris passes, and not seeing anyone to claim the package, takes it home. On examination he found a wallet of money in the coat pocket. When the young people go out next morning to look for work, Boris steals into their room and leaves the suit with the wallet in the pocket. Gedney has a detective take up the case and gives him a sample of the cloth his suit was made of. Donald and Faith return and find the suit, also the money. He puts on the suit to replace the frayed one he has. He discovers the tailor's mark, with his father's name on the lining of the pocket. He immediately thinks that it is his father's way of suggesting a reconciliation and with the suit on, starts out to see the old man, while Faith takes the wallet and goes marketing. The detective runs across Donald and soon has Donald before his irate father. The old man accuses his son of being the thief. Donald tries to explain, but the men only laugh at such a fairy story. They decide finally to go to Donald's lodging. When they get there Faith has returned. The welcome dies on her lips when the old man pounces on the wallet and reiterates his assertion that Donald is the thief. Then Donald thinks his father has done this as a trick to compel him to give Faith up. He turns on him and accuses the old man of trickery. Boris, in his room, hears the altercation and deems it time for him to get into the game. He enters and explains. Then he learns that Donald is the old man's son. That gives Boris an added argument and he scathingly lays out the old man for his treatment of his sou. The detective steps forward to arrest Boris, but the old man stops him. He dismisses the detective and forgives his son, taking the young wife to his heart. Boris is called back when he would quietly exit, and the old man offers to make him his secretary.
- Philip Armstrong, a young clergyman, was advised to go west for his health. Upon arriving at the Bar X ranch he found a lot of rough-looking fellows seated at cards. One of the players, Daley, the leader of the gang, rose and began to put the young easterner through an invitation. But he went too far when he wrenched a Bible from the young man's hands, and striking the attitude of a preacher, began to read in a sacrilegious manner. Armstrong fought with all his might to recover the Bible, but was overpowered by the bully and fell exhausted to the floor. He was saved from further indignities by the sudden entrance of Doris, the young lady in the town, who commanded everyone's respect. Soon after, Armstrong secured a position as cook. While at the kitchen door, and old Indian stopped and begged a bite to eat. Armstrong gave him plenty, but the poor old redskin did not have a chance to finish, for Daley chanced by and started to beat him up. Now Armstrong by this time had gained strength and when he saw what was taking place, he soon gave Daley his just deserts. From that time on Daley swore vengeance. In gratitude the Indian gave Armstrong a great secret, the location of a hill rich in gold. The minister went at once with the good news to Doris, from whom he received a promise of marriage. As he left for the promising spot with the Indian, Doris noticed Daley slip by her house. He had heard their conversation as to the location of the mine. Armstrong found the rich spot and left the Indian on guard while he hurried to file a claim. Daley came and there ensued a fierce conflict between him and the Indian. The latter was nearly overpowered when Doris came to his aid. The two held the brutal man at bay until Armstrong returned. Then followed another struggle between the men, in which Armstrong nearly fell over the cliff. An idea seized the Indian. He grappled with Daley and pushed him over the cliff, but in the struggle went with him. Armstrong and Doris were horror-stricken, for at the foot of the cliff lay both men, dead. The minister raised both hands to heaven over the dead Indian's body, repeating reverently the words "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend."
- Dick Cartwright, a man of wealth, goes west after being rejected by his fiancée. Upon his arrival he is approached by a stranger, who begs him to go to her house, as a band of horse thieves have invaded her home. Dick being a man of nerve, jumps on a horse, rides to the scene and rescues the mother from the thieves. He falls in love at first sight, and learning that the stranger is the country school ma'am, seeks admission to the night school in order that he may win her affections. Dick pretends to be a stupid country boy; the teacher, being a woman of patience, tries hard to have him learn, but his object was love, not study. One day while riding, the teacher stopped at his residence for a rest, where, much to her surprise, she learns that he is a Harvard graduate, and a man of wealth. She asks for an explanation of his actions. Dick begs forgiveness, explaining that all is fair in love, and finally wins her hand.
- A girl's father tells her boyfriend to make a name for himself. Boy goes west and strikes it rich but almost gets killed.
- Manuel, the sly miner, has seven bars of gold tied to the backs of his donkeys for delivery to the railroad agent. The problem in his mind is how to steal a part of the gold without any likelihood of arrest. At the town drinking place be meets Nell and her mother and confides to the latter his scheme, which is to use Nell. Nell, much against her will, is forced by her mother to become a party to the infamous plot against Joe, the station agent, whom she really loves. Manuel delivers the gold to Joe, carefully counts seven bars and gets Joe's receipt for that number. A scream is heard, Nell's, planned to come at that time to divert Joe's attention. Joe recognizes her voice and rushes out to save her from the faked-up attack. Manuel hastily seizes a bar of gold and shoves it through a little hole in the roof where he can get it later. Joe returns and discovers the loss. Manuel rides for the sheriff. Joe telegraphs the next station for help and the division inspector and his squad hasten on a hand-car. Sheriff and inspector arrive at the same time and an impromptu court is held. The receipt is shown and things look bad for Joe, when a noise is heard on the roof. Nell, repenting of her deed, has located the bar and means to save Joe. She accuses Manuel of the theft and his actions are sufficient proof that he is the real culprit. The sheriff takes Manuel and bids all the others depart, winking significantly at Joe and Nell.
- Jack and Helen were engaged, much against their will, for it was mighty disagreeable to them both. In fact, Jack's displeasure was so ill-concealed that his father decided to send him across the border into Old Mexico to learn common sense. Nothing could suit him better, although, of course, he did not let his happiness be known. At a humble home in Mexico lived Juanita, a pretty guitar player and singer, who was forced by her parents to sing and beg on the streets for their support. Their treatment of her was cruel, and, adding insult to injury, they were using every means to get her to marry Don Jose, a wealthy Mexican, who loved her in his fierce fashion, but whom she thoroughly detested. On this occasion Don came to the house and pleaded for Juanita's hand, but she, defying them all, ran from the house. Don Jose followed her until she came to a lonely spot, when he grasped her tightly and endeavored to force his love upon her. Juanita fought desperately, but her strength soon failed so that she must needs be his unwilling victim, but for the timely arrival of Jack, now a cowboy, who was quick to grasp the situation and free Juanita. Don Jose departed swearing everlasting vengeance on the stranger, while Juanita remained to thank her champion. It was love at first sight for Jack and Juanita, but their course, as usual, did not run smooth. Don Jose was not so easily outdone, and soon plotted against Jack. In a saloon he planned with his underlings, to unload Jack's gun and then waylay him on the road. Juanita, coming into the saloon to play, overheard the plot, and when they had gone, took a loaded gun from the bar and followed them. When the party set upon Jack, Don Jose raised his arm to strike with a knife, when a shot rang from the bushes and struck his wrist. The ruffians fled and Don Jose followed. Juanita's shot had saved her lover. There followed a pretty love scene. When his happiness seemed to have reached its zenith, Jack received word from his father to return and prepare for his marriage with Helen. He returned, and Juanita, heartbroken, wandered across the border into San Antonio, determined never to return home. On the eve of Jack's wedding, word was received that Helen had eloped with the man she really loved. He was glad, yet sad, for he had left Juanita without explaining, lacking courage to tell her that he was at that time engaged. As he sat thinking, dejected, there came the strains from a guitar below. Could it be possible? He rushed to the front of the house, and there stood Juanita. She sang, and he responded to her "Spanish Love Song."
- Many times had the sheriff's son Jim been warned against gambling, but when in spite of these advices, he continues, and when he is discovered teaching the game to his little sister, Leone, he is disowned by a sad but stern parent. Twelve years later finds Jim in the association of men and women of the lower class, a gambler by profession. He is enamored of and more or less under the influence of a Mexican coquette. As he sits with her, Leone, now grown to womanhood and beauty, rides up to the tavern and inquires the whereabouts of a doctor, her father having suffered an injury. Jim, not recognizing his sister, determines to possess this new beauty at any price. He outrides her to the doctor's, who is also the deputy sheriff, and assaulting him, dons his clothes, and when Leone arrives, poses as the doctor. He accompanies her en route for the sick man's home, but does not go far before making his advances. Dismounting and forcing her into his arms, he imprints a kiss on her powerless lips, but is soon repelled by Leone's eyes. It is the first time the gambler has seen the eyes of a good woman since youth. His conscience is awakened. Meanwhile the deputy sheriff and real doctor has regained his senses and with a posse gives chase and captures Jim. They take him to the sheriff's house, where at first the old man is inclined to take the law into his own hands. But when the gambler makes himself known as his own son and begs his sister's forgiveness, the sheriff leads him into the house and explains to the boys that he will decide on proper punishment later. Having gained his father's forgiveness, the wayward son cares not what punishment the boys might exact.
- Dick Dresler is one of the most faithful guardsmen of the Union line; one who hates a Confederate soldier like sin, and who swears to show no mercy on any rebel who crosses the line. Tom Newhouse, a Confederate, gets news of his mother's approaching death and hastens to her side, having to steal his way through the Union line, Dick is on guard and discovers the footsteps, which he trails to Tom's home. He rushes into the house with raised gun and orders everyone to surrender, but is taken suddenly aback at the scene before him, a son's sorrowful farewell to his dying mother. He slowly lowers his gun, realizing the meaning and the sacredness of Tom's visit. Dick himself has a mother, and in a moment of fond memory, disregards the rules of war and allows Tom's freedom. For many a day his conscience asked him the question that he concluded only the Great Judge could answer: did he do Right, or Wrong?
- Grace and her lover, Graham, being caught in the rain while riding, Graham begs her wait beneath a tree while he searches for a place of shelter. When, however, he does not return in due time she becomes alarmed and follows the path he took. Peering in the window of a house she discovers a man dead and her lover embracing a prostrate woman. Her conclusions are that her lover has committed murder, and in a fit of jealousy, she informs the authorities. Graham is captured and about to be lynched when remorse fills the heart of Grace. Perhaps he has some explanation. She pleads with the lynchers and obtains a hearing for her lover. Graham explains that the woman he embraced was his sister; that he had arrived at the hut just after she had been choked to death by her husband, a gambler, who had forced her to marry him to pay a gambling debt of Graham's; that in a conflict that followed between himself and the gambler-husband, the latter was killed. The lynchers are convinced by this story and Grace reconciled.
- Young Elk, an educated Indian, is secretly in love with Sallie, daughter of a prosperous ranchman. But his case is hopeless because Sallie's affections are already bestowed on Tom, one of the cowboys. Tom, in turn, is loved by Wana, daughter of an Indian chief, and when he makes it plain to her that he is going to marry Sallie, the Indian girl plots revenge on Sallie. The Indians demand whiskey and tobacco from Sallie's father, and when he refuses, they declare war on the white men. Elk, fearing for the safety of the one he loves, plans to protect Sallie without betraying his tribe. He overpowers her in the woods and with a knife imprints a mysterious sign on her forehead, the Swastika, meaning in Indian language, "Under the protection of The Great Spirit." The cowboys arrest Elk for the seeming outrage and cast him into prison. Later the Indians, led by Wana, take Sallie captive and threaten her life unless whiskey is furnished, when suddenly the Swastika sign is discovered on her forehead. Instantly she is released and given many presents. She meets the posse, out in search of her, and explains the meaning of the sign upon her forehead. They ride at once to the prison and not only free Elk, but bestow their thanks in fitting manner.
- The story of a man's gratitude to a snake for saving his life: He takes the snake home to live with him and then conceives the idea of having the snake kill the man who stole his sweetheart. He places it in the other man's bed. But when the little daughter of the girl he had once loved creeps into the bed, he has a change of heart.
- 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.
- The blind musician makes a good living by teaching the violin. His life is made bright by the love of his pretty little wife. One day they are both walking in the park when the old gentleman drops his cane. It is picked up by a pretty little child walking with her father. The child learns the old gentleman teaches the violin, and her father seeing in this an opportunity to get better acquainted with the pretty young wife, asks that the musician give his daughter lessons. Discontent enters the heart of the hitherto happy wife, and in her frailty she allows the father of her husband's pupil to make love to her. The blind musician giving lessons in the next room sends the little girl for some music, and while there, the little girl sees what she thinks is a struggle between her father and her teacher's wife. She rushes into the next room and tells the old gentleman; he listens and realizing what it means, takes a revolver and discharges it in the direction from which the noise of the struggle comes. The young wife has been trying to free herself from the now insulting embraces of the man, but she receives the shot in her arm. The police arrive upon the scene, but are told that the revolver was discharged by accident. The little child and her father now thoroughly ashamed of his conduct leave the unhappy musician with his wounded wife, and she, contrite, asks forgiveness, which is freely forgiven.
- Convict Frank Deacon vows that if he ever gets a chance he will lead a straight life. His conduct in prison is so good that his term is shortened and he goes out into the world. He finds that most doors are closed on the ex-convict. When he gets work the prison warden passes, sees him, and shakes his hand. Then the man who engaged Frank steps up and asks if he's an ex-convict. The warden, Burton, reluctantly admits that he is. Frank is once more cast out. He decides to take to the open road, to be a tramp. He passes the doorway of a cottage where a mother still waits at the gate for a long-dead son. When Frank comes along, weary and haggard, she thinks him her son and takes him into her arms. Her daughter Mary comes out and tells him that he must stay; the shock of his leaving will kill her mother. So Frank consents to take the dead brother's place. As time passes he rises and prospers until he has become station agent. Two years later Bill and John, who were pals of Frank's in jail, are released. They throw away the few dollars they have and, wanting to make a big haul, decide to rob the limited. To this end they pile logs upon the tracks. Then they go down to hold up the station master and find he is Frank. They are glad to see him and want to bring him in on their game. But he refuses until, angered, they tie him firmly to the table. In the meantime Mary has been closed into the large vault at the jewelry store where she works by the jeweler's little boy who has been left in her charge, his father being called to the next town. The child, unable to open the safe, rushes out to find Frank. Burton has left the jail and, with a friend, is riding along near the tracks in a motorcar. He sees the piled logs and knows what they mean. He and his friend, with the assistance of some others, commence to unpile them. The child arrives at the station and unties Frank. John and Bill, coming along the tracks, see the crowd and run. Burton and his friend follow. John and Bill see Frank go into the jeweler's and rush in after him. They demand that Frank help them. He cannot get the safe open, then suddenly remembers and pretends to Bill that he will help them, but when he gets close enough he grabs the other man's gun and, holding both up, forces Bill, who is a professional safe opener, to sense the combination of the vault. Burton and his crowd arrive and Frank turns the revolver on them, advising none to move until the safe is opened. When it is and Mary reels out into Frank's arms, Burton understands. He takes John and Bill into custody, looks at Frank, but says nothing. Frank gets his glance and understands that his past will be a closed book, and having proved to himself that he is proof against temptation, he feels justified in declaring his love for Mary.
- Paul Hunt, a degenerate son of a New York detective, is accidentally injured in the mountains, where he has fled for safety following an attempted safe robbery in Chicago. His father, the detective, has had no word from the scapegrace since his departure from home several years before, and does not know he is a crook. In the mountains Hunt is cared for by John Rand, a woodsman, and Rand's daughter, Meg, falls in love with him. Rand objects to Hunt as a husband, wishing Meg to marry Jim Dreer, a young woodsman. Meg eventually elopes with Hunt, who finally drifts to New York; he abuses Meg and leaves her in poverty. Rand, frantic with grief over his daughter's absence, is notified by Meg's landlady in New York of the young girl's plight. There is only one law in the mountains, and Rand, selling his scanty possessions, starts for New York to recover Meg and eke out justice to her betrayer. He is, however, unable to find Meg, who has changed her lodging. As days pass on Rand is arrested for vagrancy, and in the police court comes face to face with Meg, arrested on a similar charge. Their story touches the heart of the judge, who releases them. William Hunt, the detective, not being aware of Rand's identity, gives him some money to help him to get upon his feet again. Rand pledges himself to repay the detective as soon as possible. He soon has the opportunity. There is a reward offered for members of a gang of crooks, of which young Hunt is a member. Paul and his pals effect a safe robbery and in a quarrel following the division of the spoils, Hunt kills one of the gang. He accidentally encounters Rand in his flight, and not recognizing him in the darkness, he accepts Rand's invitation to hide him. Here is the chance of the grim old mountaineer. Rand leaves Hunt locked in his room and telephones the detective that he has the man who has just committed the murder; he wants the detective to come and claim the reward. Thus will he repay the loan due the detective. Rand returns to his room, and after a terrific struggle kills Hunt. The detective, with other officers, hurries up a moment later only to find that his own son has been killed by Rand. Then Rand, for the first time, learns of the detective's identity. It is a plain case of self-defense and Rand is soon released. He returns to the mountains with Meg, and Meg accepts Jim as her husband.
- Frank Donald, a young Englishman, who spent his summers at his western ranch, was fond of taking long rides through the woods on his favorite mare, a beautiful grey. On one of these occasions, he left the grey by the roadside, whilst he made his way through the thickets to the brook to drink. Pedro, a half-breed, was eagerly waiting this opportunity, and when Frank stooped to drink, make away with the mare. Several months elapsed when Dolan, a respected ranch owner, visited a camp of horse dealers and purchased a beautiful grey mare, with which he surprised his daughter, Doris. She tried out the mare, and upon returning, tied it in the front yard, while she sought her father, to express satisfaction, and thank him for the beautiful present. The ever-alert Pedro, now saw his chance to divert suspicion. Knowing that Donald followed close behind, with some cowboys, he slipped a branding iron on the grey's saddle as it stood in Dolan's, and rode hastily away on his own horse. Dolan noted Pedro's strange actions and gave chase. Meanwhile, Donald and the boys discovered the grey and the tell-tale iron at Dolan's. Doris innocently told them in which direction her father had gone, and they immediately followed. Donald, however, remained to claim the mare, much to Doris's surprise. Upon learning the truth from her, he realized with horror that a horse thief's fate was about to befall an innocent man. Directing her to ride the grey, he mounted his own horse, and together they rode madly to stay a hastily-formed sentence. The rope was already about Dolan's neck when Doris and Frank came into sight. The grey stopped short, Doris took steady aim, the rope cracked, and Dolan fell to safety. Pedro, the real culprit, was then sought, while Frank remained to receive the father's thanks and the daughter's admiration.
- Buddy, a boy of eight, helps his folks to the family support by selling newspapers. His folks were very poor and Buddy had a route that was the envy of the other village newsboys. Every morning at five he got up to go to the newspaper office. One morning a little stray dog came up to him, and at the same time a window was opened and a lady told him to please take that dog away as he was a nuisance. Before the route was finished that morning, Buddy and the dog were great friends. His parents he knew would object as they had a hard time to feed the hungry months. He took the dog to the woodshed and goes home. Dinner time he sneaked whatever he could into his pocket for his pet. He gets scolded but the boy refuses to give up the dog. The father lectures him and tells him that it is so hard to give the children enough to eat, but Buddy is willing to eat less and give it to Foxie (the dog). A few days later the father calls Buddy and reads him a clipping in the paper, stating that dogs without licenses will be shot on August 1st. Then follows Buddy's hardships at getting employment. He lacks about seventy-five cents when the day arrives, so writes a letter to the police. The letter is so oddly written that a policeman and lady reporter go to his home with a camera and Buddy, thinking the dog is going to be shot, hugs the dog tightly and is shot by the camera instead. He is also given money to pay for the dog's license which makes him a very happy boy.
- John Henson and his sister Mary are surprised one morning in learning that they have new neighbors in Mr. Gray and his son, Danny. Danny is taught to say the Lord's Prayer every night and to practice its principles in his daily life. In his play one day, Danny is hurt and the father, in distraction, calls upon Mary for aid. She gives the care that only woman can give to a sick person, and the acquaintance commences, so that later, when Mr. Gray is seriously injured at the stone works, she nurses him back to health. It is plain to be seen that Mr. Gray is beginning to evince more than admiration for his pretty neighbor. Mary takes Danny to town on the day that a theatrical troupe arrives and one of the actresses recognizes in the lad her little son. She tells Mary and is taken to Mr. Gray's house, but he will not receive her, because shortly after Danny's birth she left his home and went astray. Danny is soon taught by Mary to love his mother, but the kind neighbor is not equally successful with the father. Finally Danny brings about an unexpected meeting between father and mother, and, on bended knee repeats the prayer his daddy had so often taught him: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive . . ." The father touched by these words from his son, repents his sternness and receives his wife once more unto their home.
- Sweethearts Harry and Mabel have retired to the seclusion of the conservatory, where Harry tries to make love to Mabel. Mabel thinks that Harry is a bit too sure of her, so she starts to tease him and make him jealous. Frank enters and she makes a fool of him by coquetting, taking great glee in Harry's rising jealousy and anger. She goes off with Frank for the dance that Harry wanted and upon her return promises Frank more dances, which annoys Harry. After Frank leaves, a quarrel between Harry and Mabel ensues, and Harry, angered beyond endurance, strides out of the room. Mabel is sorry, but won't go after him. Harry goes to the smoking room and sulks. An elderly friend of Mabel's enters and schemes to win Harry back. He goes to Harry and makes him unburden himself and then asks him to listen to the story of his blighted life. Harry is surprised, but listens and the man tells him an imaginary tale of a quarrel with his sweetheart and how the other man took advantage of the quarrel and eloped with his sweetheart. When he cooled down and went back to her he found them just returned from the minister's--married. As that scene fades back into the smoking-room, Harry shows his great anxiety and nervousness. He is afraid that Frank may be doing the same thing in his absence and cannot get away from the laughing old man quick enough. He enters the conservatory just as Frank is claiming the next dance. Taking no chances, he grabs Mabel and rushes her out onto the dance floor, much to her surprise and Frank's chagrin. She likes Harry's masterful way. He hurries her into the conservatory and tells her she will marry him. It takes her breath away, but she agrees and waves her tanks to the old man as he smiles at them through the doorway.
- With the exception of the Panama Canal, the engineering works in progress at Keokuk, Iowa, are the greatest in the world. The dam across the Mississippi is approaching completion and it has involved the building of the largest monolithic concrete structure in existence. Such an undertaking as this necessitated some great mechanical and constructional devices. The picture includes views of the work as it is being carried out. For example, we see huge concrete mixers with a capacity of 1,500 cubic yards per day, and we see rock being crushed at the rate of 500 car loads. There is a power-house, a third of a mile long. An inclined railway carries material to the concrete mixers; a very large cantilever traveling crane places the concrete in the dam. There is a view of a great new lock in course of construction. It was necessary to saw a channel in the bedrock of the American continent and the work of doing it is shown. Excavators, traveling cranes, concrete dumpers, and other great pieces of machinery are shown at work.
- King, the detective, is sent to try to capture some opium smugglers that are operating in a seaport town. He arrives at the place and disguises himself in rough clothes and mixes with the fishermen. One day while walking along the shore, King sees a little boy and girl fighting. Rushing to separate them he reaches them just as a young lady does; she turns out to be their sister Jane. He accompanies them home and meets Jane's father and the bully who is very much in love with her. The bully is jealous of King on first sight and when King and bully meet at the saloon and dance hall, the bully starts a fight, but they are separated by the crowd. One night King is followed by the bully, who attacks him and knocks him there. The bully goes after his gang with the intention of getting them to help him do away with King; meanwhile the boy sees the bully run home and tells his sister. They run to the shed and unbind King and get him in a rowboat and he starts to row away as the bully and his gang discover that he has been released. The bully's gang deserts him and he goes looking for King alone. He sees him in the rowboat, weak and exhausted, and gets into another rowboat, catches King and chops a hole in his boat. Jane and her brother and sister are afraid to go home after the liberating of King and see the bully as he is on his way to their home. Jane sends the boy to follow him. The boy hears the bully tell the father what he has done to King. The boy rushes to tell his sister, they get a motor boat and rescue King just as his boat is about to sink. The bully and his gang are afterwards arrested as the opium smugglers, and all ends happily with Jane in love with King.
- Pedro takes a fresh shave and Hank shines his boots as they were never polished before, because, as may be supposed, there is a woman in the case. The two old partners are rivals for the affections of Marie, a pretty store keeper, and one is ever trying to steal a march on the other. Pedro steals off to the store and buys a pipe, no less than the fortieth one, some excuse being necessary. Hank enters and buys tobacco, although he has enough to last for years. Each day this continues, and each partner believes he has made wonderful progress toward winning the coveted hand. A chance for one to outdo the other is never let go by, and on one occasion Hank thought he saw the chance of a lifetime. Two "drunks" have passed him, taking the direction of the store, and Hank fears for Marie. He follows their course and when they have entered the store, rushes in. But drunken strength is too much for Hank, and before long they have him powerless on the floor and were it not for the arrival of Pedro, who knows what would have happened? The latter throws them off, and, with Hank's assistance, out of the store. Marie thanks Pedro immensely, and he believes his day has come, but alas! she turns and does the same to Hank. And at that moment, to make the disappointment more complete, a young Easterner arrives, whom Marie receives with open arms; and when he produces the sparkling ring, they know that, as far as they're concerned, love's labor has been lost. So home to the old shanty, where each invites the other to use the shoe leather freely. But anyway, pipes and tobacco offer splendid consolation.