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- A burglary has been committed in the mansion of Mr. Astorbilt. Mr. Fox, a private detective, determines to take the case in hand. Accordingly, he goes to Mr. Astorbilt's house, where he finds the police engaged in a vain search for traces of the culprit. Mr. Fox picks up a cigar butt dropped by the thief, notes the rank odor of it, and by this means succeeds in tracking him to his hiding place, where he cleverly effects his capture.
- Dolby, an English man with a title and empty pockets crosses the happy matrimonial path of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morland. He seeks to win the love of Mrs. Morland from her husband, as she is rich. Henry Morland unexpectedly arrives while his wife and Dolby are enjoying each other's society in Morland's home. The husband demands an explanation, and the wife's mother arriving at this juncture, has her daughter leave Morland. The next day Morland writes his wife that, while he loves her, he will place no obstacles in her way to freedom. Mother, daughter and Dolby are jubilant at these prospects and suggest Cafe Martin as a suitable place to celebrate the victory. But the husband has formulated his plans. Accompanied by a dashing, handsome woman, a female detective, he also goes to the cafe. The divorce cure is then effected and the wife realizes she still loves her husband. Reconciliation takes place. Dolby, when answering a summons, goes to the cafe and receives his just dues.
- Major Davis, his daughter, Evelyn, and the Overseer are the principals in this dramatic production. Evelyn is loved by the Overseer and though she is not indifferent to his attentions, she is turned away from him through a display of brutality of which Uncle Ben, the favorite darky of the place, is victim. The Overseer is severely chided for his brutality and his chagrin prompts him to seek revenge. With the assistance of a negro he carries Evelyn away with the idea of forcing her to marry him, but chance intervenes to expose the plot and justice is meted out to the Overseer.
- Helen Lowell is in love with a teacher of languages, but when she finds that her younger sister, Ruth, also loves the professor, she makes way for her sister and gives up the professor. The younger sister, by impetuous wooing, wins the professor's affection.
- Alderman Krautz was a philanthropist as well as a café owner. He loves children, but has none of his own. Once a year he gives all the kids in his ward a picnic. The great day arrives. Two big four-horse converted express wagons are filled with howling youngsters. At the picnic grounds the fun starts. A game of I-spy is in progress. The alderman is it; he catches a pretty miss of sixteen, his wife catches him but he escapes. The kids banter him for a swing. The occupant, when at a high point, is poised for a convenient lagoon, and Krautz gets an involuntary bath. After dinner the alderman and kids, led by Crogan, plays London bridge is falling down. It does, and the alderman is buried under a shower of kids. Blind Man Bluff comes next. Crogan discovers a hornets nest, and the alderman, too (with Crogan's assistance) and the busy insects put the picnic out of business. Home again, Krautz is swathed in bandages. No more picnics for a year, says the doctor. The alderman falls asleep and has a happy vision of Crogan and the kids.
- Arthur is rejected by the lady upon whom he centers his affections. His lady love is one day attacked by footpads, and Arthur, happening to pass, proves a valiant rescuer. He does not make the progress he desires, however, and arranges with another lady that she shall pose as his adored one. This has the desired effect, and it makes Arthur the happiest of men because of having succeeded in capturing the heart of his adored one.
- Bill's boots are taken by a couple of mischievous youngsters who see in the combination of the boots and a snowbank a chance for some fun. They bury the boots in the snow and an old lady decides that they belong to a victim of the blizzard. So she calls for help and there is much ado until the deception is discovered.
- An old fisherman and his pretty daughter are shown gathering in the nets. When they are gone, a yachtsman arrives in a handsome motor yacht. A tough-looking sailor helps him land. The sailor is allowed to look through a pair of field glasses carried by the yachtsman. Meanwhile the fisherman and his daughter return, and the latter and the yachtsman cast admiring glances. The yachtsman suggests a short trip, and the delighted girl handles the steering wheel. A present of the field glasses is made to the girl by the yachtsman, and when the sailor, who loves the girl, learns this, he reproves her. She orders him away and he leaves, vowing vengeance. The jealous sailor forms his plan, then invites the yachtsman to try his hand in managing his sail boat. While the yachtsman's back is turned, the sailor pushes him into the water. The girl sees this incident through her field glasses, and, rushing to the motor boat, informs the engineer. They go to the yachtsman's rescue and arrive just in time. Now the yachtsman's life belongs to the girl, and he has no trouble in winning his suit.
- Billy Barker is a bachelor occupying a suite on the ground floor of a fashionable apartment house. An invitation causes him to think of his dress suit, and to his dismay he finds that the moths have caused great holes in his clothes. He purchases a box of sulfur candles and returning home, lights half a dozen and goes off down town. The fumes pervade the whole house in a succession of comedy scenes.
- Philip Strong, a millionaire railroad magnate, enwrapped in his business cares, has little time for his little motherless son, who develops traits of disobedience. The boy causes no end of trouble. One evening Strong receives word to attend an important meeting. He is packing his grip, and in doing so removes his revolver. The little boy notes its hiding place. The next day the youngster procures the weapon. It is accidentally discharged and the boy is severely wounded. A telegram is immediately sent to the father, who charters a special train and makes for home in record-breaking time. He arrives just as the doctor is working over the little boy. He is assured the boy will recover, then returns to work. Miss Norton, the nurse, is a very pretty young woman with an affectionate disposition, and wins the love of her charge. One day the boy repulses his father and runs to his nurse. Incensed in his belief that the nurse has estranged his son from him, he discharges the nurse. When the nurse bids goodbye to the little boy, he cries bitterly and denounces his father. Then the father comes on the scene as the boy pleads, and Strong is won over.
- Hubby has a telephone call from the boys at the club but Mrs. Bailey is made to believe that it is an important deal at the office that takes him from his fireside. An hour later the phone again rings and a gentleman's voice inquires if Mr. Bailey is at home. Mrs. Bailey informs the gentleman that her husband is at his office. "But," says the gentleman, "I have just left the office. There is no one there but the janitor." Mrs. Bailey, indignant, calls up the club. She has a heated conversation with her spouse. Bailey returns to the boys and tells his troubles. One of the number suggests that two of them disguise as burglars, frighten Mrs. Bailey and let Bailey do the hero stunt. Capital idea. But in the meantime a real second-story man is on the job. Mrs. Bailey hears him and telephones for the police. The burglar hears the phone ring and beats a hurried retreat. The police arrive just as the deputation from the club arrive through the dining room window. The two "thieves" are captured and turned over to the blue coats. The clubmen appeal to Bailey but he is obdurate, and struggling, they are taken away.
- Mr. Crook extorts money by this ruse. He takes something off the counter in a department store, puts it in the pocket of a respectable old gentleman, claims to be a store detective and says he will have to arrest him for having stolen a certain article. The gentleman protests his innocence, but finding the goods in his pocket, pays. Mr. Crook's second attempt is also successful. His third differently, as his victim sees him and has him promptly arrested.
- Fast living and gambling have caused the cashier of the Riverdale Bank to embezzle a large sum of money. Detection is evaded by manipulation of the books. He receives news that a bank examiner is coming and realizes that this spells ruin, so, with the aid of a friendly newspaper reporter, false impressions are given regarding the bank's financial standing. This causes a run and possible a means to avoid detection. In the meantime, one of the bookkeepers of the bank, in love with the president'ts daughter, and a member of the engineer corps of the National Guard, is ordered to report for practice maneuvers. The following morning the sensational newspaper article appears, and the president and his daughter are surprised to see the crowd in front of the bank. The president's appeal is fruitless. He decides to negotiate a loan of $50,000 from the nearest bank, twenty miles distant. No other means being available, the girl goes by auto. But the cashier, realizing what this means, blows up the bridge after the girl has crossed it. Returning, she finds she can not cross. Summoning the engineer corps and her lover, they build a pontoon bridge and soon the girl is again on her journey with a detachment of guards and her lover. The guilty cashier, returning to the bank, sees the auto coming, and in desperation draws a revolver and opens fire. The soldiers return the volley, and one of the bullets finds the heart of the cashier. Needless to say, the girl arrives in time to save the bank.
- A bachelor, besieged by visions of old loves called up by the reading of love letters in lavender, determines to look up some of those whom he loved best. He undergoes many odd adventures and in the end decides that what is, is better than what might have been.
- Marcel and Barnard are both in love with the pretty Mignon, but she shows a decided preference for the former. Both young fellows work in the same establishment, and under these conditions the jealous spirit of Barnard prompts him to await an opportunity to jeopardize his rival's honor in the eyes of his employer. The opportunity arrives. Barnard places some money belonging to the employer in Marcel's clothes. The latter is discovered and arrested. But the cashier has been witness to the deed, and he accuses Barnard. Marcel is then released so he can return to his faithful Mignon, while Barnard receives fitting punishment.
- The story deals with a certain mining camp in the West, around the time of '49, and the arrival of a young wife from the East with her little boy. The husband, one of the miners in the camp, dies, and the rough men gather to tell her of her loss. She does not survive the news long, and the little child is left alone. How the miners take up a collection for the "kid" contributing personal ornaments, revolvers, knives and even a whisky bottle, is laughable. Finally, the child, in playing near the camp, discovers gold, and this leads to its formal adoption by the camp.
- Percy Prettyboy, one of those effeminate beings disguised in trousers, joins the army. He does not meet with much success for the reasons which are best depicted in this film.
- Muggins, a country lad, joins the army. Suddenly an alarm is given and the soldiers are called to arms. The country lad distinguishes himself by an extraordinary feat of bravery. While the soldiers are being routed, Muggins carries a wounded comrade over his shoulder and at the same time defends himself. Soon help comes to Muggins and the enemy is vanquished. Muggins is rewarded with a medal and also wins the hand of the girl he loves.
- An anti-drink crusader gets on a real, human "jag." Mrs. Henpecker faints in her husband's office because she sees her husband take a drink. While she is unconscious, everybody in the place concludes that whisky ought to revive her, and each one, without the knowledge that the others have administered the same remedy, applies that restorative. The doctor, who has arrived, forces a liberal draught down her throat. The result of it all is that when she revives she is well soused. Then, what the members of her church and temperance society do to her is next shown.
- Jack Parks has trouble with his teeth, and pays a visit to the dentist. The molar is set like the rock of Gibraltar, and the extractor of teeth compels Jack to perform acrobatic feats in his attempt to accomplish the purpose of removing it. Maddened with rage and pain, Jack rushes homeward, when he meets a friend, who suggests the "string and bedpost" method. But on arriving home he finds his mother-in-law a visitor, and that good lady makes things lively to cheer up the victim. In a moment of friskiness she gives him an elephantine smack on the cheek, and, lo, out flies the tooth.
- Numidian queen Afra is sold as a slave to the Patrician, Marcellus. The dusky beauty is compelled to become the nurse of little Lucinia, the daughter of Marcellus. One day a party of Numidian's tribe, happening along, recognize her and carry her off, with little Lucinia. Setting out in a galley, a band of Roman warriors pursue them but fail to capture the fugitives. Lady Marcellus makes an offering at the shrine of the Goddess of the Sea, and in a visitation sees her little child with a slave in a strange place. She sets out with her retinue for the spot indicated, and is rewarded by the assistance of the sea nymphs, who restore Lucinius to her mother.
- In Louisville the election for Mayor is shortly to take place. Col. Wheat is the Democratic candidate and Major Condon the Republican nominee. Silas Brown, editor of the Lousville Herald is desirous that the Democratic nominee be defeated, and sets his paper to that means. Of course, this leads to a heated argument. But Col. Wheat's daughter, Minnie, and the editor's son, Bert, are very much in love with each other. The parents of the young couple absolutely refusing an alliance, the young people decide to get married despite objections. After the ceremony the parson telephones both families of what has transpired. Pandemonium is let loose. The parents of each of the newlyweds arrive at the parsonage. Father berates son on one side, and father berates daughter on the other, but eventually between the combined efforts and pleadings of the minister and newly married couple, the two old political enemies forget their old trouble and clasp hands.
- Frank's financial condition will not permit him to take a trip to the seaside, so he will have the trip at home. After some funny incidents Frank turns on the water faucet, and soon there is about seven feet of water in the room. Retiring behind a screen, he soon reappears in a neat bathing suit and plunges into the 'briny deep' splashing around and enjoying himself immensely.
- Amid all the natural beauties of snow and ice-bound regions of the northern territories, this hunt gives some excellent views. One specimen, as it makes its way through the glistening snow, leaves a huge snake-like track behind it for a tremendous distance, until it falls from the result of a well-directed shot of the hunter. The walrus is seen dragged from its home by muscular arms and laid at last helpless on the ice.
- This film shows how an enterprising lumber company operating in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia has harnessed a small tributary of the Big Sandy River, and has made it the carrier of hundreds of thousands of logs at practically no expense whatever.
- Sam drops into the home of a newly married couple to borrow some little things that might be disposed of advantageously. The pretty little wife is preparing to commit suicide after the first quarrel of married life. Sentimental Sam hunts up the husband and finds him with a revolver in his hand, ready to shoot himself, that his wife may be free. Despite the gun, Sam holds him up and takes him down to where his wife is sitting. An exchange of the farewell notes effects a reconciliation so engrossing that they do not realize that Sam is plying his trade.
- Showing the progress made in China since the Russo-Japanese war. The picture shows a modern Chinese soldier in a Joss house. European Quarter: traffic of all sorts, Jinrickshas, automobiles, cabs and street cars, picture of West and East, Chinese town, picturesque pagodas, youngsters at play, streets in native quarters with their traffic, long strings of jinrickshas awaiting passengers, Chinese industries, an itinerant restaurant serving refreshments, cooking and eating food.
- The film begins with a view of the derrick with busy workmen, each wearing a hopeful and triumphant look as the heavy steel bit plunges down and down until over sixteen hundred feet are registered to its credit. The oil sand is reached, and all is wild excitement, as this is always a sign of nearing a vein or pocket of gas. The drill is quickly hoisted, the casings drawn, and preparations made to shoot the well. The shooter's wagon is soon on the ground, and eighty quarts of nitroglycerin are carefully placed in the cartridge which on being lowered to the bottom of the great hole and a portion of the machinery hurriedly removed from possible destruction, an electric attachment turns loose the demon of destruction and the effect is wonderful, sending off sand and rock a hundred feet or more, enveloping all in flames, closely followed by the deadly black smoke.
- A beggar finds a bank note on the street, and to appease his hunger, hurries to the baker's. He is conscience stricken and goes to the church and places the money in the poor box. The pastor, watching this, follows him. It happens that a young clerk lost the money, and his employer, believing him dishonest, discharges him. The young man goes to the river to drown himself but the beggar happens to be at the river bank and saves him. The latter tells the beggar of losing the money, the employer's accusation and his own despair. The beggar confesses his fault and the pastor, who has been following the beggar, comes forward and explains to the young man how the beggar has endeavored to make up for his momentary weakness. All ends well and the beggar is given a steady job for his honesty.
- The Confession is the story of a brilliant young literary man, who, in self-defense, kills the guardian of his sweetheart. Brandon Sherman, the young man, is a phonograph enthusiast, and into this he breathes his confession that he killed a man in self-defense. His sister, suspicious of his actions, by a ruse obtains the phonograph record, and hears the confession. When he discovers the trick played on him he wildly rushes to the room, seizes the record and dashes it to the floor. Heart broken, he sinks back sobbing as the sweetheart enters, and a moment later, with his two dearest ones at his side, he falls back in his chair, lifeless.
- A young officer from a western regiment falls in love with a lady from San Francisco. He gives her his seal ring and she gives him a locket. Some months later he goes to the Philippines with his regiment. The lady then meets an officer of a regiment from an eastern state, who becomes smitten with her. Acting as a free woman, she brought about a proposal from the second man, and in accepting him, gives him the ring presented to her by the first suitor. The two suitors are later engaged in the same skirmish with some Philippines. The man from the western regiment is mortally wounded and dies in the arms of the man from the East. Before expiring, the easterner noticed the ring on the finger of the man in his arms. Questions brought everything to light. On returning to California the young easterner visited the girl. She advanced to meet him with a glad heart, but her happiness turned to remorse when he told her of having met the man she so basely wronged.
- The coquette is an exceedingly pretty girl, consequently she has admirers a-plenty. Now we see her maid handing her a book, an offering from Percival, who has called and is waiting in the parlor. She admires the book and places Percy's photo before her. Another admirer, a majestic-looking Count, sends her flowers. Percy's picture is soon replaced by that of the Count. Both Percy and the Count are seen sitting opposite each other in the outer room. Next ensues a dapper little business like fellow. His box of sweets is accepted and he takes his seat outside. Then his photo gets the place of honor. Last of all we see a fine young chap enter. He sends the coquette a fine little ring, and well he wins out, while the other three suitors file out serenely.
- Fan Fan is the son of a soldier and the canteen woman of the regiment. The French and Germans are fighting on German soil. The infant is baptized in the chapel of a castle which has been taken by the French. At the age of eight Fan Fan drills like an old soldier before Napoleon. Six years later France is again at war with Germany. Fan Fan and his father are captured, and the latter is led away to be shot. The boy is imprisoned in belfry tower of the castle. He rings the big alarm bell, the French hear it, surround a rout the enemy. Fan Fan is mortally wounded. Napoleon decorates the young hero with the cross of the Legion of Honor and orders him to be buried, wrapped in two flags.
- Marjorie and her mother are evicted from their house. Marjorie, in desperation, decides to beg for food. She receives two pieces of bread. Marjorie gives her share of the bread to the good fairy, who is disguised as a beggar woman. Marjorie receives the magic flower, which will grant any wish. Marjorie's mother revived. Marjorie and her mother, homeless, take refuge in the park. The magic flower is used, and it works wonders. Marjorie and her mother have everything they wish. Now Marjorie wishes for playmates. Ten years later, Marjorie has one more wish granted. Marjorie and the Prince are married and they live happily ever after.
- The story opens in a well-appointed messenger station with the usual gathering of messenger boys, joking and playing tricks on each other. Izzy, the hero of the story, is the ringleader of the lot, and it is he who usually receives the greatest number of messages to deliver, chiefly because the manager wants to keep him out of the office. Izzy is given a number of messages to deliver, but on the way he becomes mixed in all sorts of mischief. Finally a chase is started after him, but he eludes his pursuers and returns to the office. The other boys are joking him because of his big day's work, when they have been comparatively idle. But they are made envious when Izzy exhibits the fruits of his day's work, several dollars in hard cash.
- The new Chief Superintendant of the Municipal Refuges, hearing of many abuses practiced in the system, decides to investigate. He disguises as a tramp. Refuga A is visited and the results are such that the refuge superintendant warns all down the line. In the meantime a real Weary Willie presents himself, and being mistaken for the new chief, is treated in grand style. When the chief enters and discloses his identity the Weary Willie is thrown in the street.
- Matt Malone, a highwayman and night rider who has long baffled the police authorities, loves Nona McMahon, posing with her as a cowboy from up country. The McMahons are in trouble and old McMahon has been forced to mortgage the homestead. The money lender has been lenient up to this time, but, struck by the beauty of Nona McMahon, he endeavors to win her love. But she declines his offer. The lender, named McDermott, threatens foreclosure. In the meantime, Malone has been idle. It is his desire to make one grand coup and quit the game for good. He hears that the mountain stage coach is soon to carry a large amount of gold, and he decides to make a try for the loot. The hold-up occurs, but it's not as profitable as he expected. Also, he fears his identity has been discovered. He returns to his dugout, resolved to see his sweetheart and then quit the country. On his way to the girl's home he sees a notice posted by the sheriff, offering a reward of $5,000 for Malone's capture. He shoots down the sign and rides off to McMahon's. The girl greets him pleasantly. Their conversation drifts to McMahon's financial troubles, and the girl shows Malone a note from McDermott, stating that $5,000 must be paid the day after or they must vacate. Malone decides to tell the girl everything, and insists that she turn him over to the sheriff and gain the reward. He thrusts a revolver in her hands just as the sheriff enters. The manacles are slipped on and Malone and the sheriff go into the jail as the girl drops sobbing on the doorstep.
- The small province of Caserta on the Meditteranean contains the finest artificial park in Italy. Beautiful streams tumble in terraced cascades down the sides of picturesque hills at the base of which they lose themselves in mirror-like lakes, which are surrounded by wonderful groups of statuary. It is difficult to enumerate the wealth of art treasures in this park.
- Algernon Swinburne Higgs is a poor poet. He cannot pay his trifling laundry bill. Instead he reads his new ode to the washer woman, driving her away. He enters an editorial office but he shoots the chute into the street. He encounters an artist, smashing his drawing. He falls into the hands of the police and is sentenced to three months on the rocks. He hides his poem and brings it out when the guard is not looking. The convicts are stunned and the guard knocked senseless. Going into the Warden's office that official pleads for mercy, and accedes to the poet's demand for exchange of striped clothing for his old suit and liberty.
- Bill Mawson, mayor of a small western town, runs things for his own profit. His enemy is a local paper, and he has succeeded in driving the editor out of town. John Marsden, the new editor, arrives, and Mawson attempts to make him his tool. Marsden refuses and denounces and exposes the mayor. He starts a conspiracy to get rid of him. The mayor's niece overhears the plot and warns Marsden. He refuses to fly. A revolver is placed on his desk and he proceeds with his work. He hears footsteps and looking up is covered with guns by masked men. He is overpowered but succeeds in recognizing Bill Mawson, the mayor. To a tree he is dragged. The rope is put around his neck. He refuses to obey the mayor. Everything is ready when Nettie dashes up with the police. Marsden takes Nettie in his arms and graciously intervenes for the release of Mawson, who extends his hand and promises to mend his ways.
- At the time of the civil war in France a republican officer is in command of a marching force who have some prisoners in charge. These Royalist Insurgents are to be shot the next day. One of the prisoners receives a letter from his sweetheart, which impresses the officer and his wife. The latter decides to rescue the prisoner. This she does. A guard captures the woman and brings her before her husband. She is sentenced to be shot, but at that moment the enemy attacks. She seizes a flag and rushes on the enemy. At the first volley she falls, fatally wounded.
- Richard Preston, possessing a little capital, decides to go west and invest it in a gold mine. Here he falls into the hands of two soldiers of fortune. They salt a worthless piece of land with fine grain gold and succeed in selling it to Preston. After an hour's work though, Preston realizes the scheme and finds that he has lost every dollar he had. Sally, a waif of the mining camp, who, some days previous, had been insulted by these two miners, has witnessed the whole operation. She appears and puts Preston wise to the fraud and urges Preston to go after the swindlers. Preston mounts a horse and rides to the shack of the miners just in time to see them go away. When Preston demands the return of his money, one of the pair strikes him with the butt of a heavy revolver and then binds him. Sally, aiding Preston, unbinds him, and together they follow the trail left by the miners. They overtake them among the foot hills and a fierce battle is waged. Of course, Preston and Sally are victorious, and secure the return of the money.
- A recruiting station of the army is visited by a man who has every appearance of being a fine applicant. He is examined and passed. When he puts on his uniform he is so strong he tears it to shreds. When he is seated he breaks the chairs. When he goes to bed the iron cot breaks. Everything he touches is ruined. Finally they attempt to arrest him but with no success. When he is caught he is condemned to be shot, but when the firing squad fires the bullets he is so strong that they stick to his shirt front and after pulling them off and hurling them at his would-be executioners he runs away.
- Three Fingered Jack Doyle, a product of the slums, is by environment, a thief. A companion proposes an enterprise of burglary and Jack consents. But a few moments before he threw away a schooner of beer at the urging of a Salvation Army lassie. The robbery is successful. The following day the Salvation Army girl while on a collection trip visits the office and is accused of the crime through circumstances. He recognizes the imprint of Jack's hand on a blotter. When she is permitted to go she hurries to Jack. She accuses him and he confesses at the same time returning all the money. He has learned to love the woman. She leads him to a church before they go to the home of the victim to make restitution. At her plea the charge of robbery is not pressed and Jack is given a chance to make a man of himself with the aid of the girl.
- Wilkins' family goes to Florida for the winter. Wilkins is delighted, but his joy is turned to alarm when a newspaper headline recalls him to the fact that there is an epidemic of burglaries of the boldest description. He has his house wired by the Burglar Proofing Company so effectively that when Wilkins is locked out he cannot himself get in again. But a burglar got inside and is distressed to find that he cannot make his exit. At last he saws his way through a window and Wilkins enters. The householder is so delighted to be in again that he lets the burglar carry off his plunder and adds some cigars and whisky, asking the intruder to rip out the newfangled device.
- A detachment of hussars are quartered at a mill. The commander falls in love with the miller's daughter. A peasant who also loves the girl attacks the officers. The hussars pursue the fugitive. Upon reaching the banks of the river he jumps in, but his strength fails him, the current carries him away, and his body is mangled in the mill wheel.
- The story opens in the office of the consul, General Lee, who has just received his passport to leave Cuba. His aide, Captain Locke, who has become enamored with Loretta, the secretary of General Weyler, sees plainly the parting of the ways, when his messenger sends the United States government a message that the peace negotiations are off. A hasty getting together of belongings and an affectionate good-bye and godspeed between Loretta and Captain Locke, who takes the field under his flag. General Weyler, desperate in his efforts to stop the cablegram, orders the bridge blown leading to the cable station. Captain Locke, horse and all go down into the river; he is seen making for the shore, followed by Spaniards. He gains the bank and is off as fast as horse-flesh can carry him. Almost exhausted, he lands his message at the station, and, as the last word is clicked off, with the key still open the cable is cut. The many happening within the next few weeks are best told by the waving of the Stars and Stripes over Morro Castle and the honor with which Locke acquitted himself in battle and claimed his senorita at the eleventh hour, just as she was about to be joined in an unholy marriage to her guardian. International military laws permitted General Weyler to retire and return to the mother country, and with his departure all Cuba rejoiced, happy in the knowledge that they were under the Stars and Stripes.
- Evans, a forester, is seated one evening in his comfortable home as his young employer, Count Roberts, rushes in, explaining that he had just been assaulted by a poacher known as Black Jim. The forester has to leave immediately in search of the man, and as soon as he leaves his wife and Count Roberts embrace and kiss. They do not notice that the forester has been watching them. He determines to shoot Roberts and Black Jim agrees to aid him. The forester returns and reports that he can not find Black Jim, so the count decides to go out and look for him. The count's mother and his young wife seek to dissuade him, but are unsuccessful. The forester, feeling for the women, repents his scheme, and changes clothes with the count. A moment later a bullet goes through his brain. He is carried home, where his action if first understood.
- Bill Smith, a cowpuncher, is in love with Nell Parsons, daughter of Jon Parsons, a gruff old rancher. Bill wins Nell as far as she is concerned, but he must first ask father. When Bill broaches the subject to the old man, the father kicks him off the premises. All subsequent meetings are frustrated. Finally Bill decides to enlist the aid of two inseparable comrades, have them mask themselves, waylay the old gentleman on his way to town, and after giving him a good scare, Bill will jump up and rescue him. The scheme works. Dad is won over, and agrees to the marriage, notwithstanding the fact that the two cowpunchers unwittingly lay bare the secret to their success.