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- Charles Wilson, on his way back to the ranch with the payroll for the boys, is suddenly stopped by highwaymen. The cowboys of Circle C Ranch, returning from a spree, dash down upon the surprised outlaws. Headed by Wilson, they chase the outwitted bandits into their very home. The wife of the leader of the gang is mortally wounded by a shot fired from Wilson's gun. Feeling that he is indirectly responsible for the death of the mother. Wilson promises to adopt and take care of her baby girl. Wilson's wife also swears to be a mother to the child. Sixteen years later Kate, the adopted girl, starting out for a canter through the woods, is kidnapped. Upon the failure of Kate's return home at her accustomed hour. Wilson goes in search of her. Discovering her horse riderless, he follows the trail that soon leads him to the kidnapper's cabin. Stealing into the place, he is horrified in discovering that the man is Kate's own father. He makes known the truth to both of them, and gives the girl her privilege of choice between himself who has taken care of her, and the man who had deserted her. Without a second's hesitation, the girl leaves the cabin under the protection of Wilson.
- Dave Bailey's wife dying, gives her child to the keeping of Sue Barksdale. A year later Sue is in love with Dave, the widower. He is about to declare his love for her when Virginia Dale, a young authoress, comes on the scene and he is at once smitten by her beauty. She, in turn, falls in love with him, and before long declares his love for her in Sue's presence. The child, in wandering through the woods, is just about to pet a huge snake, when she is rescued by Virginia, who is bitten by the snake. Her screams are heard by Sue, who, in running to aid her, falls and cuts her lip. She sucks the snake bite, thus inoculating herself through the bleeding lip with the poison. Dave comes with a jug of whiskey. Virginia is saved and Sue dies a martyr to the love of Dave.
- Abie Wedertzky arrives in America and is an object of ridicule by the hangers-on around the Battery New York. He is surrounded by a gang of toughs, who treat him roughly until Pat Riley, a champion pugilist, comes to his aid. Pat gives Abie his card and invites him to his home. Abie joins a gymnasium and becomes a boxer, visits the Battery and gets revenge on his tormentors. Later there is a boxing entertainment at the Manhattan Athletic Club, the wind-up to be a 5-round go between Riley and another for championship honors. Tom Sharkey is the referee and master of ceremonies and it is the first appearance of the celebrated pugilist in moving pictures. Abie goes on in a preliminary and is bested in a ludicrous scene. Pat is whipped at the end of four rounds and his friends all desert him, save Abie. The years go by and Pat is reduced to poverty, while Abie prospers as a real estate dealer, having slightly changed his name. Pat is ill in bed and his family in reduced circumstances, and to make matters worse the wife is served with a writ of ejectment, the rent being in arrears. She is desperate and takes the paper to the real estate dealer and is recognized by Abie as his friend's wife. Abie accompanies her home and proves to be a ministering angel. He awakens Pat and they clasp hands in a happy reunion.
- Bad companions! Alas! They are the ruin of many a fine fellow and incidentally they are the ruin of John Stanley. John is the only son of Sheriff Stanley, and he is worshiped by his old Dad, his doting mother, and is the especial favorite of his sister Bess. It is with many misgivings and those peculiar little tightenings of the heart strings that always sound the alarm, when those we love are in danger, that Bess and he mother notice the hard-looking cowboys who call at the ranch at most unusual hours. Whispered conversations, nervous starts on the young fellow's part, his hasty endeavors to stop his companions and turn the trend of conversation on the approach of any of the family, all these serve to cause deep distress to both mother and sister. Only the father is oblivious to it all. His faith and trust in his only son does not permit him to question his son's actions for even a moment. Bess's sweetheart, Martin Winston, mentioned on several occasions that John is not keeping in the straight road as he has already noticed it. The truth is, that the boy has fallen among horse thieves and led on by them has already been guilty of stealing many horses. He has a violent quarrel over stolen horses with one of them, and worsting his opponent, that wretch, in revenge, hurries to the sheriff's home. Finding only Bess in the house he tells her that her brother is a horse-thief. Her father and the posse are at that moment scouring the vicinity for the daring horse thieves. It takes the girl but a moment to decide that no matter what the cost may be, she must save her brother in the attempt to preserve the honor of the family. Getting into a suit of her brother's clothes she hurries with her informant to where her brother is in hiding. She implores him to save himself by following a circuitous route to join the posse. The boy is terror stricken and jumping on his sister's horse escapes just as the father and the cowboys dash upon the rendezvous. A bitter fight ensues between the cowboys and the horse thieves and in the melee Bess has been struck down and mortally wounded. Whose bullet struck her none can tell. Whether horse thief or cowboy none knew until her father sees her lying face downward, turns her over in order to discover who it is. With a cry of horror he seizes her in his arms, and with her dying breath she tells him why she was there, and implores him to bury her as his son, and to never divulge the truth, for the sake of the family's honor. The broken-hearted father promises and telling the boys that his son had fallen by a horse thief's bullet, he carries the child home and buries her as his son. He had another duty to perform. Drawing the blinds of his ranch so that light could no more enter, he keeps his cowardly and renegade son confined to a room. To those who call, and to Bess's sweetheart, the mother tells that grief for her brother's death had driven Bess insane. Thus is unfolded a tale of a stanch attitude toward family honor at the same time bearing with it a mortal sacrifice. Thus do western folk as well as easterners, for that matter, too, hold life secondary to honor.
- George Wentworth, a Tennessean, lived with his parents near the home of his sweetheart, Marion Caldwell, in Murfreesboro. War had broken out between North and South and George's father had obtained a commission for him in the Southern Army and summoned him home from West Point. But the joy of the old patriot was turned to grief, for his son refused to don the gray. He appealed to the youth, but George was firm in the belief that the Stars and Stripes meant an indissoluble Union. At his outraged father's command, he leaves his boyhood's home to give his life if need be to the cause he upheld. And the swirling and churning of the fiery vortex of war brings these two, father and son, again together, the father a prisoner in the camp of his son. Then a missive arrived from the wife and mother. Ill unto death, each word depicting her agony and crying out for her boy and his father. George hastens to his father with the news. The boy thrusts his revolver into his parent's hand, who, half dazed, rushes forth to the side of his wife. The news of the escape reaches General Sheridan, and George is immediately court-martialed and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. His father, as in a vision, at his wife's bedside, sees his boy led to his execution. With aching heart, he springs to his feet, crosses the river and on entering the Federal lines, sees the firing squad with guns raised to shoot his son. With a mad cry, he lunges forward, bearing his son to the ground and sheltering him with his own body, as the death volley rings out over their heads. They are saved! Carried wounded before Sheridan, the old soldier tells the truth. George is restored, with unstained honor, to his former rank and his father freed on parole.
- "Rush the Indian Land Grab Bill through at once if you want to save them." Thus writes the agent of Arthur Smighting, the lobbyist. The Indians are sending a young chief with companion to Washington as representative before the President and cabinet, to secure justice and proper redress for the fraudulent barter of their lands, to which outrages they have been subjected, owing to their helplessness to prevent it. Smighting is very much perturbed at this possible hindrance which threatens to upset his apparently successful land fraud, and he immediately convenes a caucus at the capitol of those legislators of his brand who can be "approached" for the ultimate motive of securing the passage of the bill. To doubly ensure the accomplishment of his desire, he enlists the services of his family, in that he instructs his daughter to exert her charm over the young Indian so as to possibly keep him away from the object of his visit. Their efforts are successful and the young Indian is installed as a guest at the palatial home of the lobbyist. The young chief becomes enthralled at the beauty and charm of the girl and it is no difficult matter to make him dance attendance on her constantly. His task is an important one, however, and he manages to fulfill his mission in presenting his people's grievances at the capitol, and he so forcibly asserts the injustice of the enactment of this bill that the weaker element of the opposing forces are compelled to pause. They, therefore, arrange a conclusive meeting for the following day at one o'clock. The meeting is actually held at 1 a.m., and not at 1 p.m., as the Indian had naturally supposed. By this trick they lost what probably might have been averted had they been present at the essential moment. To clinch the situation, the lobbyist's daughter held a ball at their home in honor of the guests. In the midst of the dancing, however, an attaché at the capitol appears and apprises the Indian of the deception. Spurning the girl who tries to detain him he reaches the rendezvous only to find that the bill has been passed. He argues and denounces, entreats and implores his adversaries, but of no avail. Despondent and humiliated, he returns to his people. It had required this sudden change of affairs to bring as a shock the realization to the girl that she intensely loves the red man. Determined to undo the wrong perpetrated in the part she played, with earnest entreaties for the righting of wrong, she prevails upon them for a signed statement that will leave the Indians their land. Hurrying westward she arrives in time to prevent the summary death sentence being inflicted on the young chief by those whose cause he lost, through her machinations. Leaving the parchment with the tribe, she follows the young red man into the woods, and at his request to return to her people, she refuses. Finally he is overcome by her witchery and womanly love and her promise to become his squaw among his people.
- In her father's tailor shop, a young girl shares the meager morsels of bread with her little brothers and sisters, while their old father toils on the bench, striving to earn a scanty subsistence. The constable serves notice on him to pay his rent or get out on the morrow. Outside the shop the poor man's daughter is sweeping when an automobile happens to pass by, carrying the owner of the house. The daughter of the rich man is so impressed with the beauty of the poor girl that she tells her father she would like to employ the girl as her maid. By his daughter working for the rich man the rent is paid. While working at the rich man's house, the poor girl falls victim to the wiles of the son of the millionaire, and in making appeals to her mistress to have justice done her for the heinous crime, she is driven out at a reception by the rich man's son. The job is finished and the tailor expires. Another tailor, accompanied by the rich youth, appears at the squalid tailoring shop for the suit. The young scion is startled by the girl he has ruined and offers her money. She refuses and he betakes himself to the grand reception, leaving misery behind him.
- You have undoubtedly heard of the Abernathy boys, Louis, nine, and Temple, six years of age, respectively. There is not a newspaper in the country which did not give accounts of their daring ride on horseback from Oklahoma City, Okla., and their arrival in New York in time to take part in the great reception in honor of the homecoming of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. They traveled no less than 2,500 miles on horseback; a feat which older men have not been able to excel. They have taken leading parts in a story of the real wild and woolly western type which will arouse your enthusiasm, which will bubble with excitement and interest. It will undoubtedly be considered the greatest sensation of the year and the best tonic for box-office receipts. The opening scene shows Frank's ranch house, where many cowboys are "killing time," indulging in their sports. Soon one of the boys arrives from the post office with a letter for Frank from his sweetheart, Grace, informing him that he should meet her at the station, as she is coming to spend her vacation at the ranch. Frank leaves the ranch and arrives at the station in time to see his sweetheart insulted by a Mexican. The western blood boils within him. He has a fight with the Mexican, but finally leaves with his fiancée in a buggy for the ranch, tying his own horse to the back of the vehicle. The Mexican swears vengeance. He secures the co-operation of another Mexican and both pursue Frank and his sweetheart. They shoot Frank in the arm, and snatching the girl from the buggy, they escape with her. Poor Frank would have bled to death had not the Abernathy kids made their timely appearance. He is unconscious when he is found, but he is revived sufficiently to tell his story. Immediately little Temple starts to the ranch for aid, while Louis vows to pursue and capture the Mexicans. Quickly does Temple find his way to the Three Forks post office, where more than a dozen cowboys are lounging around. He utters only a few words and they take in the situation in a moment. They mount their bucking bronchos and with Temple in the lead they are off in pursuit of the culprits. The scene now changes. The girl is trying to gain her freedom from her captors. It is like a thunderbolt from heaven when the Mexican hears, "Throw up your hands." The desperate Mexican is about to draw his gun and shoot at Louis, but the kid is too quick for him, and shoots the gun out of the Mexican's hand. Singe-handed does the young lad overcome the burly and contemptible Mexicans. Suddenly, at a distance, during this commotion, little Temple in the lead, is seen approaching at daring speed with the cowboys. They lasso both Mexicans and drag them from the scene. Grace is soon restored to her lover, and the cheers and congratulations showered upon the two young lads will make your heart feel good. You are so much enthused that you would like to go over to the boys and, slapping them on the shoulder, say, "Congratulate you, boys, for your heroism." This picture finishes by showing Louis and Temple with their mammoth Teddy bear, which was presented to them by Col. Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders at their reception.
- Two girlfriends accompany a young woman home from the theater, enter the residence and are surprised to find no one at home. The daughter of the house discovers a note informing her that her parents have gone away to spend the night. They retire, but before they do so, they whiten their faces to give them an uncanny appearance. Two burly colored burglars enter the house and collect loot. While they are thus engaged the trio comes down stairs for a pitcher of water and steal in on the burglars. The nocturnal visitors give one look and flee. The girls telephone three male friends to come to their rescue. The young men respond to the call but are thoroughly frightened to see what appears to be three ghostly forms looking out of an upper window. They go for a policeman and the quartet breaks into the house to find the girls unconsciously masquerading as ghosts. The matter is explained.
- Harry Mason, the petted son of a social leader, while out walking with his sister, comes upon the camp of some gypsies. The sister wants her fortune told and Harry goes with her. While there, he meets the daughter of the Gypsy Queen. Love at first sight and many meetings follow. Harry's mother interrupts one of these meetings while passing by in her car, and Harry is ordered to get in and return home. He refuses, but when he does come home, his irate mother demands that he cease his flirtations with the gypsy. Harry assures her it is more serious. Sometime later, realizing that his mother's consent cannot be gained, Harry marries the girl without it. They are first married according to the custom of her people, a regular Gypsy wedding with the quaint and curious rites of her people, after which they are united by the Church and the State. Being still unable to gain his mother's forgiveness. Harry settles down in a cottage. A year later, a child comes to bless their union. On learning of the arrival of a grand-daughter, the proud old mother hastens to Harry's little cottage to clasp the little one to her breast. Years go by and all is happiness till one day the wife is out on her way to make some purchases. She is surprised to meet her Gypsy mother at the gate. The tribe was again in camp near the home. The mother is invited to see her grandchild, a girl of six. The presence of the Gypsy woman angers the over-sensitive husband, who has just come in. Then follows the first quarrel between man and wife. The wife begins to regretfully look back over the years of free life spent with her people, and she takes out the costumes she had worn at their first meeting. He enters, prepared to ask forgiveness, but indulgently retires rather than disturb her. Seated in the little parlor with his daughter on his knee, the young husband falls asleep. The wife returns, pensively takes her violin and softly plays a favorite melody of his. Then he dreams, the quarrel is re-enacted, his young wife returns to her people. He sees her take the child and he follows, arriving in time to separate her from his old rival, whom he engaged in mortal combat. They fight furiously and the rival suffers death. At this juncture the husband awakens, and finds his faithful little wife standing by, playing to him in dreamy attitude.
- A story of pre-missionary Hawaii, woven around the ancient superstition of the Hawaiians concerning the shark god and its power over the lives of the people, and the love affair of a chief's daughter.
- The "old man" never had much to say excepting to Jim, and Jim was the wildest boy he had. The old man knew and so did everybody in the town, including the lady's own husband, that Jim loved his neighbor's wife. But Jim didn't care, and the old man was so completely wrapped up in him that he closed his eyes to the wildness of the lad. Nine sons, and Jim was the wildest of them all. Then came news of the war that was soon to break forth between North and South. And the inevitable happened. The lady's husband saw Jim attempt to kiss his wife, and she permitted him to try. A row that resulted in a disgraceful fight was precipitated, and while the husband lay stunned and bleeding upon the floor, the news was thrown like a bomb upon the excited crowd in the room. "The war has broken out." The war, that terrible, but necessary slaughter of brave men, was begun, and Jim was the first to go. Some wagging tongues suggested that he had to go to escape the result of his terrible deed. However, "Cap." Bigler soon wrote back that Jim was the bravest man in the whole regiment, white or black. That his fighting is as good as his farming was bad, and he's carried the old flag through the bloodiest fight that ever was. The old man worded a letter to Jim and Jim read it to the boys. It said, "Good-bye, Jim, take care o' yourself." Then came the battle of Petersburg, General Grant commanding. The boys in grey lay behind their entrenchment and literally mowed down the lads in blue. Then the spark leapt into Jim's soul. For he dashed with his own men right up to the enemy's cannon, took them, pointed them the other way, and socked it home to the boys in grey, as they hurried for timber, on, and on, Jim, a lieutenant, with one arm gone. No battle in these terrible times was fiercer. None had deadlier results. Upon a heap of piled up corpses, grey and blue, brothers, dead, as once in life, wounded unto death, with the dear beloved flag held tightly in his hand, lay our hero, Jim. While his life-blood ebbed away, then appeared to him a vision of the first great father of liberty, George Washington, and by his side stood the father of emancipation, Abraham Lincoln, for whom Jim lay there dying, and between those two great fighters for freedom stands Liberty herself, resplendent in her robes of freedom. Blessing the stricken boy, the vision fades, and Jim with an effort rises to his feet, climbs to the top of the dead and, waving the beloved flag he calls to them to awaken and come on to battle. Furiously waving the tattered flag, he falls back into the arms of General Grant, and some of his aides. Think of a private like Jim, who has climbed up to the shoulder straps. Think of him with the war all through and a glorious old red, white and blue, covering him.
- Bess Allen does not know whether she loves Ben Crosby or Joe Darnton, and when they call and propose to her at the same time, she laughingly refuses both of them. The rest of the cowboys, led by Bess's father, give the boys the laugh, and to conceal their mortification, Joe asks Ben and the crowd to adjourn to the bar and wash down their disappointment. Ben returns when he deems it opportune and renewing his offer of proposal to Bess follows it up with impetuous zeal. He will not take no for an answer, but seizes her and kisses her passionately. The girl struggles ineffectually and indignantly strikes him across the mouth. Regaining the mastery of his feelings he humbly accepts his dismissal and takes his leave, unconsciously clasping in his hand a strand of ribbon which he has torn from her throat in the embrace. Returning to the saloon he is charged by Joe of having taken undue advantage by sneaking off to renew his suit. A word test ensues which results in a fistic brawl. Thinking he had killed Joe, Ben decamps to the wigwam of friendly Indians, where he remains in hiding. Bess's father, incensed over the fight about his daughter, informs her of it. Having become aware of the reality that with the blow she had struck Ben, she had actually loved him, Bess now repairs to the saloon filled with alarm. Instead of finding Joe dead, she is confronted with fresh accusations from all the cowboys including Joe, and with disgust, and outraged pride she returns home. In a spirit of revenge Joe entices her to a shack with a decoy note purporting to come from Ben and then compels her to fight for her honor, which she indeed does as only honest, hardy women of the west can. However, she is no match for the man, and at the crucial moment smashes the window with a keg and leaps from the second story into the arms of Ben Crosby, the man she loves. Ben has been warned of the machinations against her by his Indian friend who scented mischief brewing and brought him to the rescue. Fearing the result of his deed and having truly repented, Joe comes out of the shack to give himself up expecting to find Bess dead from the fall, but when he is apprised of the true situation, he humbly begs pardon of both her and Ben which is granted by them, for these big-hearted folk of the west do not harbor a grudge no matter how severe the provocation. Bess's father and the cowboys arrive also and escort the young pair home amid the cheers and firing of guns, and poor, repentant Joe joins them with tears of happiness because of being forgiven by all.
- In no period of American history was romance in its most imaginative form outdone as in the days of the Revolution, and of all the heroes of that epoch, the name of none stands out in bolder relief than does that of General Francis Marion. The very mention of his name made the stoutest hearts quake and sent consternation into many a camp and bivouac of the British. In a wonderfully realistic manner, some of his many striking performances are reproduced in this most remarkable story of "Marion's Men." The "Swamp Fox," as the cruel and crafty Tarleton dubbed him, is portrayed with a rare fidelity to historical truth. Some of the incidents of his career, graphically depicted, are here interwoven with his startling feats at the fall of Fort Watson, in April 1781, and the great victory won at Eutaw Springs, which was fought in the same year. The companions of this wonderful genius were akin to him in many respects. Here, for instance, his right bower in his dare-deviltries was a bishop of the church, who on occasion donned the purple robes of office to minister its functions, and then doffed them again for "the belted sword and the cocked hat." Then the woman, the loyal, true-hearted women of that period of trial and suffering, are here shown in all their fortitude.
- This story deals with a westerner, who comes into a fortune left by his uncle in the east. One clause of the will provides, however, that the legatee must live in the ancestral house in the east, otherwise the fortune is lost. Bill Smith accepts the conditions and goes east, he is soon settled in his new house, surrounded by every luxury money can buy. But these things do not appeal to Bill. He longs for the free life of the prairie. Naturally he is much sought after, owing to his wealth and new position. He gains the clubs, attends balls and receptions, where the idle rich are wont to congregate. Still he is far from happy. One day at his club, Bill protects Edith Mason, a little flower girl from the insults of a half-drunken loafer. In the scrimmage the girl receives a blow. Bill takes her to her home in his auto. They soon become fast friends. Edith's mother is a consumptive. She receives a letter from her brother in the west telling her of his coming to New York to take her west with him, where it is hoped the climate would benefit her. Bill calls on Edith and is shown the letter. Much to his surprise he finds that the uncle is Pete Curley, his former friend and fellow cowpuncher. Bill shows Pete the sights. As the time for the departure of his friends draws nearer, Bill's longing for the west grows stronger. He realizes that his new acquaintances tolerate him because of his wealth. This he proves by a clever ruse. After bidding good-bye to Pete and Edith, in whom he becomes very much interested, he returns to his home of luxury. He is very unhappy. The call of the west is too strong for him to resist. He writes a note to his lawyers, relinquishing all claims to the estate and rushes madly to the station, just in time to gain the little party, as they board the train for the west.
- In the beginning we have an elopement of a rich man's son and an Indian girl. With the consequent train of events leading up and subsequent thereto, they are as follows: First in due season, a little papoose. Then the august presence of the noble Chief Dark Cloud, the wife's father, coming upon the scene spells misery for the couple. The boy, shamed and wretched by the appearance of the old chief in his incongruous garb, half savage, half civilized, quarrels and flees, deserting his squaw. The scene now shifts to the west. After a lapse of years, the maiden and her child are back in the tribe of their ancestors. Here, too, comes the recalcitrant lover, husband and father. Driven from the east through misconduct, a fight in a western barroom almost costs him his life. Escaping on horseback by a hairbreadth, he is subsequently found by his own child and later nursed back to life by his Indian wife. Then comes his return eastward. But the manner of his return is most surprising and unexpected. The cowboy chase, the fight on horseback, the fall from the back of a wildly dashing horse. All these are startling bits of realism, clever expositions of daring and deviltry. The story is most remarkable.
- A young couple who are childless, growing weary of one another, decide to separate through the medium of the divorce mill. Through the good offices of a lawyer and doctor, a plan is set on foot to bring about a happy reconciliation. The plan was original, striking, and remarkably successful. The unhappy wife is induced to adopt a friendless orphan child. This little innocent creeps into the heart of the woman and her husband. A new and greater love springs up between them, with the result that God blesses their union and sends them a little cherub of their own.
- At Culver, Indiana is to be found an institution of learning and military training, that is unsurpassed in this country as regards private schools of this character. To see this troop of horsemen in their daring riding feats is to set one's blood on fire with admiration for their pluck, skill and brains which they bring into their work. It is almost unbelievable what these youths can perform on horseback, either in the saddle or bareback. Vaulting on and off the horses going at full speed; forming pyramids three feet high while the chargers madly gallop; making intricate evolutions in spiral, circular and oblique movements.
- Jean Pichaud and Peter Brent, a boatman, are rivals for the hand of Rose, daughter of Ferrault, a fisherman. Jean wins her love. Jean, being a gambler, cajoles Rose into giving him a few coins from Ferrault's. Having found out where Ferrault keeps his savings, he returns in Rose's absence to steal the "stocking." He is caught at it by Brent, who, hearing Rose coming home, hides Jean in a cupboard, to save the girl from knowing her lover is a thief. Rose, seeing the torn plank on the floor, suspects Brent of the theft. Ferrault comes in and calls for rum from the cupboard. Rose, about to fetch it, is stopped by Brent. Truth dawns on her and Ferrault, impatient, throws open the cupboard himself. Jean is revealed. He points to Brent and accuses him of taking the stocking. The stocking, being found in Brent's bosom, where he had hastily thrust it, suspicion falls on him. Brent walks under a ban. Rose transfers her love to him. Brent, unknowingly, fearing lest the scorn of the community goad him to a true confession, decides to leave the island. Meanwhile, urged by Jean, Ferrault insists that Rose shall marry Jean at once. At bay, she determines to flee with Brent. She hides in his boat on the night of his departure. Brent in midsea is confronted by Rose, who confesses her love for him.
- Learning the gambler's art as a boy, Kid Canfield practiced it on his younger brother and sister. This aroused his father to a righteous indignation, the culmination of which was the driving of the boy out into the world. He started his career in a western town, using his art with such adeptness as to make his reputation as a card shark and monte-man, notorious throughout that section. Ten years later, he bloomed forth as the keeper of one of the most widely known gambling dens in the country. The paraphernalia in evidence in this haunt of vice exerted its fascination on the youth and the adult alike, drawing them to the consuming flame of their own destruction. Into this mad vortex of the human passions came a youth. He was clever, and luck was with him; then the Kid marked him as a victim. We behold the hellish apparatus secretly prepared, and we see the fiendish operations carried out to their horrible conclusion. Black despair overtakes the miserable youth, and self-destruction is the penalty he pays for his folly. Clutched in the hand of the lifeless victim was a photograph. Canfield loosened the fingers of the dead youth, but his eyes falling on the picture bulged without horror. The face was that of his mother! The boy, cold and stiff, whose young life was blasted out so cruelly, was big own brother! Recovering from the terrible realization that he was, indeed, a fratricide, the notorious Canfield registered a solemn oath before high heaven to forsake his evil ways and devote his entire life to the reclamation of the youth of the land he had corrupted. Thus comes the grand finale to this o'er true tale. Here we behold, in the second reel, the exposition and correct manner of manipulation of the various devices used by the gambling profession. This is a most fascinating part of the subject, morally, educational and instructive, in the sense of telling us and warning us of the pitfalls and slimy traps of the gilded dens of vice which abound around us.
- "Rock-a-bye baby on the tree-top" and lo! There is the tree and high in its branches is the cradle and the baby, gently swaying in the wind. And there, too, do we see Mother Goose herself, and not only she, but her big, fat goose also. And there she sits smiling at us benignly, the author of all our delight, "When the bough breaks the cradle will fall," and sure enough, the bough breaks and down comes cradle, baby and all. We are introduced to a modern scene, everything cozy and comfortable. There sits the old grandfather in his easy chair. There reclines the younger married folk by the brightly burning hearth-fire. In tumble the youngsters, and the parents and the old grandfather are soon smothered in their childish embraces. Now the crossed legs of papa and granddad are brought into play as horses. The gray-whiskered and gray-haired old grandfather is once more a child. His face lights up with childish enthusiasm and his joyous enthusiasm becomes infectious as he dashes the little one up and down on his "horse-leg." Soon all the other grown-ups are beating time, and not one in all that room but "as a child" once more. In the background is the sweet countenance of Mother Goose. There she sits, with her fat goose under her arm. She waves her wand, and from our view dissolves the material world of those who a moment ago we had been observing, and before our delighted vision, troop forth splendidly caparisoned steeds, ridden by bold looking knights, and there in front of them, bedecked and beribboned, is the white horse and a beautiful young maiden on its back.
- Nell Collings loved Newton Barry, who was a Northern boy. When war broke out Barry bade his sweetheart good-bye and went away to don the Union blue. Nell's brother fought for the South. The fortunes of war had brought a battle right to the doors of Nell, and two of the participants in that battle were Newton Barry and Tom Collings, the brother. Newton, wounded and separated from his comrades, took refuge in the home of his sweetheart. The Confederates tracked him there, led by Tom. Nell hid Newton in a secret closet, but was discovered by Tom. Seizing a musket from one of the troops, she held it at her brother's breast and there kept it until Newton was far away on his journey. When the war ended Tom was first to join in the glad welcome extended to Newton on his return to wed his sister.
- Gerald wasn't a bad sort, by any means. He was a big, handsome fellow and liked by everyone. There wasn't a cowpuncher for miles around who would not go through fire and water for him: but whenever Gerald had any fire-water in him, he would do as he pleased, and allow no one to help him. At such a time, he was gambling with a couple of greasers, and they were raking in pot after pot, and Gerald's load of "peaches" was getting heavier and heavier. Nor would he stop at the behest of friends and the game went on. An old Indian Chief had become an interested spectator of the game as it progressed. His eyes glistened instinctively with the gambler's spirit. With ever increasing fascination he bent over Gerald's chair, watching the cards as they were played or dealt. In no pleasant mood, Gerald roughly pushed him aside. The chief took no umbrage at this, but on the contrary appealed to the man, thus delivering himself: "Me big chief, learn how play, you teach me?" But he only met with a rebuff and a blow, and when be unconsciously drew back in an attitude which bespoke resentment, a dozen guns were leveled at him and his companion. But Gerald interfered at this, and the bartender ejected the big chief. The latter laid his savage plans. Shortly after, Gerald was cleaned out of all his cash: all the others in the saloon had departed, leaving him "alone in his glory," and so it came about that he flung himself on a couch near the window and was soon snoring in a profound slumber. Back came the Indians, the chief with several others, and Gerald was kidnapped. The discovery was soon made, and the cowboys being informed, dashed madly away in pursuit. The trail led them to the Indian camp and one of the boys climbed a tree. He saw them wildly dancing about their victim with fiendish gesticulations But, what's this? The line of redskins opens, and there sits Gerald, on a blanket with the big chief, teaching him bow to play cards.
- First and foremost, John Carrol betakes himself to the western wilds for the sake of his wife's health. Carrol is a miner, and we do not see that he has a cinch of the good things of life. But yet he is happy with his wife and little one, and who could not be happy with that youngster about. One day something went wrong and Carrol was killed by an explosion. His wife soon succumbed to the shock and the little girl was left an orphan. Robert Page, a young miner, found the little one in her dilemma of grief. Robert adopted the girl and struck rich dirt in "Roaring Camp." He saw to it that the girl was placed where she would get a good education. It is needless to say that in future years "The Kid of Roaring Camp" was made his life partner.
- In this story of western life on the border, Peggy Wilson, a ranch widow comely and winsome, has become infatuated with Juan Gonzales, a Mexican gambler. To be sure, she doesn't know that Juan is really the character he is, although her cowboys try to open her eyes to the fact, especially her foreman, Bill Shank, who has a tender streak himself in her direction. The Mexican, pretending great devotion for the widow, manages to extract various sums of money from her willing coffers, which he gambles away. For a side diversion, Juan has a beautiful senorita as a string to his bow, and she proves his undoing with the widow. Treating the senorita, as was his wont in a hasty way, her mother urges her to betray his double dealing in hearts and cards to the widow. This she does. The widow, aroused by the information received, verifies its truth in person and casts her infatuation and its cause to the dogs. The spurned Mexican lover vows vengeance and proceeds to carry it out. He plots dire deeds against the widow. In the meantime, Dark Cloud, a Chippewa brave, whom the widow had done a good turn earlier in the game, sees a chance to befriend his benefactress. The fateful moment which the villain has set for the dark purpose, is the ringing of the Angelus. This moment arrives and the widow is there, lured to her doom. But so also is Dark Cloud, and the vile Mexican meets his Waterloo. The Indian lifted him into the air and hurled him over the brow of the cliffs.
- A band of marauding Indians ransack a ranch, when cowboys suddenly dash upon the scene. Mounted on a jackass, Tony is complacently jogging along, when the Indians fall upon him. He leaps off and climbs a tall tree, while the redskins build a fire below. The smoke compels Tony to descend, and he is dragged to their camp. The chief's daughter falls in love with Tony. Aided by her, they flee the camp. The pair dash away. Tony clinging to the neck of the horse. They dash into the midst of the cowboys. The cowboys decide to hold the Indian maiden as a hostage until the Indians return the things they have stolen. The Indians come to carry out the arrangements, where Tony is guarding the chief's daughter. Tony has gotten hold of some wine, and he sees that it goes around freely, pretending to imbibe himself of the juice which inebriates. The old chief pleads with Tony to be allowed to see his daughter. Tony grants permission to all the Indians to do likewise. The moment they have all entered where the Indian girl is held the doors are barred hard and fast. That is how Tony became a hero.
- During the Civil War there were a great many Northerners whose sympathies were with the South. They believed that the war was an unjust aggression maneuvered by Northern politicians, and aided unthinkingly by hotheads in the South. These men possessed more than ordinary moral courage, as they were sneered at by their neighbors and derisively termed "Copperheads." Old Stewart Witman was one of these. He lived in Michigan in those troublous days. But he had a son who was ardently espousing the cause of the old flag. The boy was only sixteen, but he enlisted in its ranks. Then Witman rose in his might and such a burst of anger that little household had seldom witnessed. Despite tears and protests from wife and daughter, Witman scratched the name of his first born from the family records, for the heart of the old "Copperhead" was adamant. We now see the boy drilling the awkward squad, a truly laughable scene, but withal a heartrending exhibition of wonderful devotion. Later on we witness how these boys fight for the old flag, with that youngster gallantly leading them through the thick of strife. Thus does he serve his country honorably until the close of the war, though the heart of his parent is untouched. He has no son. The boy carves a name for himself in civil life. The war is over. He enters college and then educates himself for the law. But dark days have come upon the old man, the father. He is about to be ejected from the old homestead, and this news comes to the ears of the boy, who is now on the fair road to prosperity. So one day he comes back. But his parents recognize him not. He makes himself known and is clasped in his dear mother's arms. The father turns from him, though his old heart wells up with tears. The boy stretches forth his hand and suddenly all barriers are thrust aside: father and son unite in one loving embrace.
- This story has to do with an Indian seeress; that is to say, the large part she played in the life of a young western cowpuncher. Sam Houston was the young fellow in question, and a better puncher of cattle could not be found. But Sam had his failings. He loved cards and drink, though not excessive for the latter. On one occasion, Sam had won a little pile. The loser, a fellow named Bud, was a vicious-minded brute, who swore quietly to regain his losings by foul means, knowing naught of fairness. At this juncture the Indian woman came into the gambling saloon with a basket containing trinkets which she was peddling. Her face was engaging. You could see at once she was above the average of her people. She only met with rebuffs from the saloon loungers until Sam's table was reached. His big heart ever kept his purse strings open and he tossed her a large coin. In return for his friendly words the woman offered to foretell his fortune. She then warned him of a grave danger which would beset him upon a contemplated journey of his. Sam admitted the contemplated journey but did not mind the danger as he trusted to his gun to forefend him against harm. But Bud was plotting hard against him. He interviewed the Indian guide, who was chosen to lead Sam over the mountains, and bribed him into arranging for the betrayal and ambush of Sam, before he could reach his destination. Traversing his silent way, and trusting his guide implicitly, Sam was surprised to see a form leap from behind a boulder, and recognized the Indian seeress. His guide, divining the woman's object, and knowing it would be his undoing, threw himself suddenly upon her, and thrust his knife home. It was all done in a moment; then he was off, but, speedy as he was, a bullet from Sam's gun brought him down. He paid the penalty. The Indian woman then informed him of Bud's plot, and of his danger, and though wounded, led him from the fatal trail, and thus foiled the dastard plot of Bud. Her noble task accomplished, the seeress gave up her spirit to the great Manitou, dying with the consciousness of having saved the life of her friend. This great sacrifice lodged deep within Sam's breast, inscribing a heartfelt inscription on paper, and pinning it with a little pectoral cross on the Indian fortune teller's breast, he interred her in the sod.
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith live in Harlem. Their six months' old baby boy is a joy to their lives. One morning the fond mother after rocking him to sleep orders the maid to put him in his crib for his morning nap. The maid hears the call of a baker's boy, with whom she is in love. She places the baby in a half-filled clothes basket and runs out to meet her sweetheart. A gust of wind from the open window blows the table cloth over the basket hiding the sleeping child. The colored woman who does the washing for them, calls in the meantime for the week's wash. Bedelia, the cook, seeing the partially filled basket, places the balance of the clothes on top of the sleeping child. The washer-woman takes the basket and departs. The maid returns, misses the basket and informs the parents, and then begins a chase for the recovery of baby. The baker's wagon is brought into service. The washer-woman takes a streetcar. The distracted father and the maid reach the ferry just too late to catch it. The washer-woman lives in Jersey so the chase continues. After a series of adventures the father arrives just in time to prevent the washer-woman from dumping the contents of the basket into a huge pot of boiling water. Happy in the possession of his child the proud father starts back to Harlem and his distracted wife. While plodding wearily back to the streetcar he meets an acquaintance who offers him the use of his baby's buggy. On their way they pass near the Palisades. Curiosity leads them to the edge and while they stand admiring the beautiful sight, a strong wind sets the buggy agoing, and before the party turn around it is too late. The carriage with the baby has descended a sheer drop of two hundred feet. Again the baby is lucky. A friendly tree breaks the fall, leaving the baby uninjured. A long rope is secured. A man volunteers to descend and he is lowered down over the cliff to the final rescue of this adventurous baby.
- The scene takes place in the Canadian Northwest. The company, through its Factor, objects to free traders in general and to Fairfax in particular. Fairfax is fearless, and he defies the company, and continues to operate his free trading store. His wife, Marie, is alarmed and would have him go, but Fairfax stands his ground. Ungan, an Indian, owes the company money, and when he applies for more goods, he is refused. He goes to the Fairfax store and states his case, and Fairfax is willing to trade with him. The company's assistant watches them, and he, in turn, is watched by Marie. The assistant sends an Indian for the Factor, and some men, and they arrive as Ungan is leaving the store. The Factor again orders Fairfax to cease trading their guns, and giving them each a knife, sends Fairfax and Ungan down the long trail without food or drink. He orders them shot if they return. The faithful Marie returns stealthily to the store, and ties a number of provisions in a shawl. She also secures a rifle and provisions, and hits the trail after the two men. Fairfax and Ungan wander on until their strength gives out. They sink to the ground, and while in an almost comatose condition, they hear a squirrel cracking a nut. Fairfax throws his knife and kills the squirrel, and Ungan and he struggle for its possession, the Indian's savage nature claiming all of it. Fairfax weakens first, and as the Indian is about to knife him, Marie appears and calls, and the tragedy is averted. Ungan craves forgiveness, and with the food at hand, they have enough to travel to the next trading station.
- A cowboy dance at Roaring Canyon was always a gala occasion. Also, it was never free from a row and in this instance Red-Eyed Bob shot the hat off Gambler Joe's head, because the latter tried to force Bob's sweetheart to dance with him. Shortly after the dance, the escaping smoke from the stove so distressed Bob's eyes, that in his rage he kicked it over. Soon the place was in flames and Bob was ejected with the dire threat of being shot should he ever return to Roaring Canyon. While crossing the country, he mounted and gave it the rein. Without being discovered, he found his way to his sweetheart's home and made known his condition. Before the frightened girl could act, her mother entered and ordered both from the home. Gambler Joe was about to call on the widow's daughter when he saw Bob coming out. He is about to fulfill his oath to shoot Bob on sight, when he notes the man's uncertain steps. Leading the lad to the hotel, he leaves him in the office to fetch a visiting doctor. While gone a bunch of cowboys enter, and not knowing his plight, they pitch in and commence to forcibly settle their grudge, until interrupted by Nell, who enlightens them as to his condition. The doctor examined Bob's eyes and announced that five months' rest and treatment under his care with a thousand rest and treatment under his care with a thousand dollar fee would restore his sight. Gambler Joe passes his hat and it is quickly jammed with notes and coins, all prompted by the common feeling for an afflicted fellow-man. Touched by the unadorned generosity of these big-hearted westerners, the doctor returns their offering and given his service free to Bob, who after the allotted time, returns to his little sweetheart, hale and sound, uplifted out of the dark.
- Three young men plan to play a joke on their girlfriends. The boys and girls were in the midst of a quiet evening, and the latter, unsuspecting. Suddenly a wild scream was emitted from a girl's lips, and she bounded on the back of an arm chair. Instantly, the cause of her dire apprehension had become known, and the other two girls followed her example. The cause of all was a very wee mouse, which was a mechanical toy, pulled across the floor by one of the boys. The next day, each young man received a challenge, daring him to go to a certain haunted house. The girls, meanwhile had preceded them, and gathered together some ancient ghost paraphernalia. Soon the three boys came along, armed to the teeth. Just as they are settled down to a nice game of "seven-up," "bang," one of them gets it on the side of the head. He leaped to his feet with drawn gun, but nowhere can he see where the blow came from, for the door behind him was locked. This got the brave fellow's nerve, and when huge chairs rattled, and tree stumps thumped about, they vigorously attacked their bottle of "courage." The climax was reached when white robed figures appeared. With wild yells they clung to each other; fired their guns, and performed every stunt that brave men are not supposed to, and they finally collapsed with exhaustion. In the next room, the girls were hysterical with laughter.
- Two young men, friendly rivals for the hand of a sweet-faced western girl, start forth to make, each, his respective fortune. In five years, one becomes a bank cashier, the other a ranch foreman. We see the cashier mingling in the swell clubs of the upper ten, living beyond his means to keep up to the style of his associates. Again, we see him "caught short" in his accounts. The foreman and the ranch owner start cityward to make a deposit of gold nuggets in the bank. The ranch owner meets the cashier and invites him to his swell club. The cashier fleeces the ranchman at cards out of a pile of greenbacks. The next night, the ranchman is ready for another fleecing, but is persuaded not to go by his foreman. He gives the latter his roll and sends him home. He attends the club but has nothing to lose. The cashier is disappointed, but shows by his manner he would run a big risk to get the ranch owner's wad. In the meantime the foreman had started for home. If the money in his possession were only his, it would mean the possibility of his getting the woman he loves. The night is rainy, so he dons his raincoat and cap. At the club the cashier decides to leave after the ranch owner's departure and he, too, dons a raincoat and cap; later these men pass the same lonely spot. We see them, but can't tell which is the other. Shortly after the ranch owner falls a victim to the bullet of one of them, and the spectator is in ignorance as to who really committed the deed. But the foreman is arrested as the perpetrator of the crime. Then comes the court procedure, which is carried out in all its interesting formula to the minutest detail. The cashier is one of the jurymen and out of the twelve men all except him stand out for conviction. He finally confesses his crime. The foreman's name is freed from stigma, and this he shares with his sweet-faced western girl.
- Ethel Hanna resides in the east. Her Uncle William is a wealthy ranchman living in Arizona. One day a lawyer comes to Ethel and gives her word of her uncle's demise, and the further information that she is his sole legatee. With beating heart she calls her maid and packs her belongings and sets forth on a long journey to the west to claim her inheritance. Her uncle had dies in a wild paroxysm of rage, brought about through the conduct of his foreman, Steve King, and some of the disorderly cowpunchers of the place. Steve, who is an unscrupulous fellow, is quick to take advantage of his employer's sudden death, so he immediately sets about confiscating some valuable documents, including the last will and testament of the old ranchman. The assistant foreman, however, one Harry Newton, a young cowpuncher of sterling worth, frustrates the evil designs of the foreman, and rescues his late employer's property from the hands of the villain. Ethel arrives at the ranch in time to witness a quarrel between Steve and Harry. She interferes. Steve, unaware of her identity, brutally challenges her right to interfere. He does this to his sorrow, for the next minute he is discharged, and driven from the place by the cowpunchers under orders of their new mistress. Harry is now made foreman, having won favor in the eyes of the girl from the east. He, in turn, appoints Jack Wilson his assistant, and Jack straightway falls in love with Hanna, Ethel's maid, who has accompanied her on her trip to the west. In the meantime, the villainous ex-foreman plans to circumvent the new mistress and get her in his power. By a subterfuge he succeeds in getting her away with him on horseback. Then comes a wild ride, with Harry Newton and the rest of the boys in a fierce chase. Subsequently a fight to the death occurs between King and Newton, in which the latter is victor. It is not to be wondered, then, that the fair Ethel bestows her hand and fortune on the dashing Harry.
- What more fitting portrayal could be advanced than the stately grandeur of our Navy? The monster procession of battleships on the Hudson, the greatest assemblage of Uncle Sam's fighting men ever gotten together at one time, are shown in imposing defile. These huge dogs of war, whose bark and bite are dreaded and respected by the Foreign Powers, are seen passing by before our view in grim war color. As we gaze upon the scene, we are made to realize the greatness of our Uncle Samuel. High upon the Hudson Palisades stands Uncle Sam, himself, looking down with benign countenance, his hands extended in deferential pose.
- The Grim Reaper goes after the soul of a drunkard.
- William Johnson son is a wealthy widower with an only daughter, Alice. He has also a housekeeper in the person of Mrs. Commons, a lady of former position, now in reduced circumstances. Mrs. Commons has a boy. Arthur, a splendid fellow, who is in love with the daughter of his mother's employer. A party is given in honor of the eighteenth birthday of Miss Johnson, and Arthur attends the affair with his little sister. Many costly presents ate tendered Miss Johnson, among these is a beautiful pearl necklace. When the party is over and the guests are gone it is discovered that the necklace has disappeared. It is then distinctly remembered that Arthur Commons was the last to handle the necklace. The upshot of it is that Arthur is accused of being the thief. It is a terrible accusation, and as we witness it, we feel that it couldn't he true. And yet we know that he is innocent because he carried home his little sister. That the sister had placed the necklace around the neck of a doll, so you see he was innocent. The clarifying of the situation comes about through the young girl, Alice, who innocently discovers the missing necklace adorning the neck of the little girl's doll. The humiliation of the old man over the discovery of the injured doll of the younger one is well worth witnessing and the happiness that comes to all makes a splendid climax.
- This subject deals first with a woman who has lost her husband. Her two boys are now her mainstay and support. These boys are aged respectively 6 and 8. They sell papers and give their earnings to their mother. The elder of the boys is inclined to be wild and one day be is arrested for craps playing and is sent to a reformatory. He escapes from the institution and returns to find his mother is dead and his brother gone, the younger brother having been taken in charge by a Catholic priest. Thirty years now go by and we witness several stirring scenes of contrast in the lives of the brothers. The elder is dissolute and follows the career of a burglar; the younger has been raised by the good priest who closed his mother's eyes, and, following the trend of his bring up, has become himself a priest of God. One day, the burglar is hotly chased and we see him dash into the church wherein his brother, the priest, officiates. The latter answers his appeal for protection and goes out, locking the door, shutting it against the minions of the law. Later, the wounded man discovers, through a large picture of the mother on the priest's wall, that his savior is his own brother. He is dying now, and, exhorted by the priest, asks forgiveness of God for his sins. The priest gives him absolution and the repentant sinner passes to the throne of God. The mother appears in a vision blessing her two sons. The one just departed for realms of bliss and the other, a holy minister, who still lives to fight for righteousness.
- Dan Moore, the sheriff's son, interferes in vain when his father orders his lazy uncle out of the house. They glare at each other, these two brothers, the one, stern with rage, and the other, scowling with hate. The next day the sheriff is informed by a couple of neighboring cowboys, of a horse-thief in the vicinity. He at once prepares to catch him and issues orders for the assembling of a posse. His daughter tells him he'll find Dan over at the widow's, and with a wink and a smile goes over himself to get his son and warn the widow to keep her eyes open. He finds Dan with an arm about Kate, the widow's daughter. It takes him but a second to interrupt their billing and cooing, although he does it with a smile and good-natured banter, for he approves of his son's choice; but there is business to attend to and he takes the young fellow away. When they return they find the posse ready and waiting, and they are about to start when Dan sees the vindictive face of his uncle peering in at them. He scents mischief and refuses to join the posse, to the disappointment and rage of his father. He still refuses, but will give no reason even when his dad calls him a coward. He turns his back and walks away. His one desire is to save his father the disgrace he feels his uncle will bring upon him. With a shout of derision at the son who failed him, the old sheriff heads the posse as they dash off in search of the horse thief. Dan catches up with his uncle just as he reenters the widow's farm after a second horse, the first being hitched up just inside the door. Before he can interfere, however, a shot is fired. The uncle falls, then rises to his feet and staggers away. Dan, to save his uncle, hurries into the barn, just as the widow and her daughter Kate dash up, close and bar the door, the widow still holding a smoking gun in her hand. The mother stands guard while Kate mounts the horse and hurries for the sheriff. The widow learns the identity of the prisoner, and when she is rejoined by Kate they determine that he must not be arrested, guilty or not. Kate forces the man she loves to bind both herself and her mother to the stall-posts, mount a horse and escape. Meanwhile the sheriff's daughter has gone after the father, and all returning, find the women bound and the prisoner gone. The wounded brother manages to drag himself as far as the widow's kitchen, falling unconscious across the sill, where the women find him. When revived, he confesses his guilt and his nephew's innocence. The women then bind his wound and fasten him to a saddle. Then begins another chase after the sheriff and the posse who are again hunting the escaped horse thief. They meet the returning band with Dan bound in their midst. Explanations are offered, and the old sheriff, before them all, asks forgiveness of his son, while the tears roll down his cheeks.
- The story begins with the life story of a boy found in his dead mother's arms in the slums of New York. He is adopted from an orphanage by rich people and grows up as their son. The parental discipline of his foster father isn't quite enough to keep the kid straight. His foster father is unable to rein him in and he runs a pretty fast pace. There is a girl in the story, the daughter of the banker who is a warm friend of the foster father and who tries to train the lad to be a businessman, but fails. The girl knows that there is much good in him and she remains his true friend, even after he has been discharged for drunkenness by his employer and cast adrift by his foster father in the hope that he will wake up and make a man of himself. There isn't much hope of it: he goes from bad to worse and his course downward is steady. He is now down and out and finds the upper part of the city "healthier" than the Chatham Square purlieus. The young man is shown leaning on a railing at Riverside Drive watching the armada of fighting ships. The girl, passing in an automobile, recognizes him, gets out and advises him to join the navy. This he does. The second reel occupies itself mostly with his experience in the navy. It shows us ships and life on shipboard. In the end he comes up smiling as a genuine hero and wins the girl who has been true to him all these years.
- Julia, the daughter of Hiram Blackmore, a farmer, is in love with Bob Moore, a salesman. Mr. and Mrs. Blackmore oppose the match, as they desire Sam Mercer, a country lad, to become their son-in-law. The next time when Bob calls he is put out of the house, whereupon he and Julia decide to elope. They repair to an orchard, where they lay out their plans, but in doing so, are overheard by a friendly tramp, who tells them of a scheme to get into the good graces of Mr. Blackmore. In the execution of the plot, the tramp takes Bob to a ramshackle country house, where he binds Bob hand and foot. This is witnessed by Mr. Blackmore, who hurries for the sheriff and his posse. In due time they arrive and rescue Bob. Mr. Blackmore's heart is touched by the apparent weakened condition of Bob, and he takes him to his home, where he recuperates, still following out the tramp scheme. Bob tells Julia that it would not be fair to the old man if he and Julia were to elope. This conversation is overheard by Mr. Blackmore, who immediately withdraws his objection. Bob and Julia are married by Parson Jamison, who happens to be passing the house. In the meantime the sheriff and his men arrive with the tramp. When Bob tells his father-in-law that he was only following out a scheme of the tramp's in order to get into the family, the old man's anger knows no bounds, but the humor of the situation appeals to him, and he gives the young people his blessings.
- The young doctor, who is run down in his health through his devotion to his profession, gains our sympathy, not only because he is really one of those likable sort of fellows, but more especially on account of the girl who has given him her whole heart. There can be no mistaking the profundity of her passion for the young medical man, and when she realizes that the parting must come her grief is pitiable to behold. In the west the young doctor is soon on the high road to recovery. Out in the wilds he does a service to a young rustler who has been injured, and, like the Good Samaritan, he asks no questions of his patient, but simply ministered to the ailment, thus winning the gratitude of the band. They constrained him to stay among them for a while, which he did, not knowing their true status. But one fine day they were attacked by cowboys, and the doctor, of course, had to pitch in and do his share of the gun work. With two others he was captured, and then he saw that he had been among horse thieves. It wasn't long before he and his comrades were threatened with hanging, when their captors decorated them with a hempen tie. It seemed to be "all up" with the doctor. But that faithful little girl back east had been watching daily for his return. Her fidelity is rewarded. A morning paper described the capture of the rustlers, giving their photos, and one of which bore the likeness of her heart's desire, the young doctor. She got her father on the 'phone immediately; he was a senator, and soon he made his influence felt at Washington, getting an order from the Secretary of War to put the town where the arrest was made under martial law; and thus, in the very nick of time, when the doctor and his two companions were about to swing, they were saved by the Government troops. The senator and his daughter at once made for the town, and upon their arrival the eastern lassie became the recipient of one of the biggest bear hugs she had ever experienced, for the young doctor had become a veritable Hercules, his strength being fully restored.