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- The "bad man," Mesquite Mike, crosses the Rio trail into New Mexico with Sawed-Off Sam and Pink-Eye Pete and terrorizes a small town. Mesquite Mike and his pals shoot and wound young rancher George Hewitt, who has ridden in to get the doctor for his wife Lucy, who had been the much-sought-after beauty of the county before her marriage. Mesquite Mike was desperately in love with her then. Now, pursued by Sheriff Claude Britton, Lucy's uncle, and a posse, the outlaw makes for the Hewitt ranch. There he finds Dorothy, George and Lucy's 8-year-old daughter, who leads him to where her mother lies ill. The bandits believe that she has Mexican fever. They leave, terror-stricken, imploring Mesquite to go with them. He lingers, however, for he believes that if he can get the sick woman to the mission, the monks may be able to save her life. Fastening an Indian drag to his horse, he places Lucy upon it. Then, setting the girl upon the horse's back, he leads the way across the desert. On the second day, the water gives out and the horse drops dead. Mesquite hitches himself to the drag, and at night, exhausted, reaches the mission. There it is discovered that Lucy is victim of a disease closely resembling Mexican fever, but not nearly so contagious nor so dangerous. Soon she is on the road to recovery. Hewitt, informed by a Spanish peddler, who has seen the "bad man" at the mission, arrives with the doctor and the sheriff. They rush in to seize and lynch the outlaw. But Hewitt is called aside by Lucy, who whispers to him how his enemy had saved her life. Hewitt tells the sheriff that he has mistaken the man who shot him, that Mesquite Mike is innocent.
- The government agent persuades the Chief to send his little daughter to the Indian school at Carlisle, and when Blue Flower returns six years later, she is scornful of the ways of her own people. A young Indian brave comes to woo her and the old chief favors his suit, but the girl repels him and, meeting Hodges, an American prospector, falls in love with the white man. Hodges, however, is unscrupulous. He finds out that Blue Flower's father has a hidden hoard of gold, and meaning to secure the treasure, he wins the Indian girl's promise to elope with him. Meanwhile, he attempts to steal the gold, intending to make it appear that Blue Flower has brought him the fortune with herself. He is surprised, however, by the Chief, and in the struggle which ensues the latter is killed. The daughter discovers the murder, and when she meets Hodges at the appointed place, she is armed with her father's gun. Terror-stricken, the prospector backs away from her over a high cliff and falls to his death. Then the young Indian brave appears and folds Blue Flower in his blanket.
- Owing to his extreme shyness, the son's attempts to propose to his lady love make him appear ridiculous. He appeals to his chum for assistance, and the latter plays a practical joke which places son in a ludicrous light, and arouses the wrath of the girl, besides nearly involving him in a duel with an irate Frenchman. When the situation has been cleared son discovers that the young lady has eloped with his father.
- This is a story of a wealthy man who, having lost all his money by careless handling, gambling, etc., returns to his home to end it all. His wife, unable to stand the disgrace, secures a divorce and goes to live with her rich father. When he returns to his home, he finds that the rooms are gradually being divested of furniture, and that only one servant, the parlor-maid, has remained. He tells her gruffly to leave him unmolested. However, she's suspicious of his actions and returns to the library, just in time to stop him from killing himself. When he has become sane again, he asks her what right she has to interfere with him. She tells him the story of her life as an object lesson. Her husband, having lost all his first earnings in a mining proposition, committed suicide. Then her baby, which she was obliged to support, died. Feeling helpless and alone, she was about to kill herself when she was called back by a baby's pitiful wail. Investigating, she entered the next room in the boarding house in which she lived, and found that the baby's mother had died of want. She then found something to live for; she took in the baby and worked for it. Not knowing what else to do, she secured the parlor-maid position in his household and earned enough to place the baby in a home. After hearing this tale, the man is ashamed of himself. He asks which mining company her husband lost his money in, and learns that it was the company that belongs to his that there is something to live for, takes the baby, and works for it. Not knowing anything else to do, she secures a position in his household as parlor maid and earned enough money to place the baby in a home to be cared for. The man, after hearing this tale, is ashamed of himself. On asking her which mining company her husband lost his money in, he learns that is is the one that belonged to his father--the one that had supported him in luxury all these years. With a new resolve to make up to her for the perfidy of his father, and for her interest in making a man of him, he resolves to work hard and help to give a future to the baby she intended to raise.
- Count Rene Reviere, a bankrupt Royalist, makes a bargain with the Duc de Mauriere that Raoul, the dissolute son of the latter shall marry Louise, Raciere's daughter, if the Duke will loan him money enough to retrieve his estate. Boceni, a young Italian, an unselfish lover of the girl, promises to help her escape. At a performance of Romeo and Juliet, Louise and Hawksford, the English actor, who plays the enamored Montague, fall in love. Hawksford meets the girl through Boceni, and, learning of her plight, plots to disguise himself and impersonate the Italian at the engagement banquet of Louise and Raoul. During the feast Raoul picks a quarrel with the actor who he supposes is Boceni. In the ensuing duel, Hawksford is wounded. Louise seizes the sword, and before she can be restrained, she has given Raoul a mortal thrust. The lovers escape on horseback, pursued by the vengeful duke. Louise leaps from her horse into the sea. Hawksford follows her, and they swim in safety to Boceni's yacht, where they are married.
- Stock broker Albert Lowden is in danger of losing his business if he can't soon pay his creditors. His wife throws a party for her socialite friends, where a greedy maid steals a guest's necklace and hides it in a tin of soft soap on her mistress's vanity desk.The mistress herself, now aware of the missing jewelry, suspects her husband took it when she finds a letter dunning him.
- Agnes, a garment maker in a factory which manufactures khaki outing suits, is tortured by the oppressive heat in a great eastern metropolis. She toils for a small wage, which goes for the support of an old mother. The doctor informs Agnes that if she does not arrange to remove the mother to some cool place she will succumb to the heat. As a desperate resort, Agnes writes a pitiful appeal for aid in getting her mother away from the city to some cool resort. She sews a number of copies of the appeal in the outing shirts at the factory. A wealthy bachelor who is a philanthropist buys one of the shirts and departs on a fishing trip in the mountains. Agnes' mother grows weaker and the girl anxiously inquires at the office for mail, hoping to receive some answer from the appeals sewed in the shirts. The only replies are a vulgarly-written scrawl trying to date her, and a suggestion from a "charitably inclined" person that she place her old mother in a certain well-appointed poorhouse. In despair, Agnes steals money from the factory cash drawer, but in doing so, drops her handkerchief, which is initialed. The factory manager accompanies the police to her tenement that night, and they find part of the money, the rest having been spent to get things for her mother. Meanwhile the wealthy philanthropist is on his fishing trip when he discovers Agnes' appeal sewed in the shirt. At first he does not give it serious thought, but that night his imagination pictures to him the old woman suffocating in the garret, and he cannot sleep. The next morning he leaves for the city to find the girl and save her mother. At the store they give him Agnes' address, and he arrives at the tenement just as she is pleading with the police not to take her to jail, as she is her mother's sole support. She tells them that she stole the money to save her mother's life, but they do not believe her. The philanthropist stops the police and reimburses the manager. He displays Agnes' letter as a proof of her statement that she stole for her mother's sake. The philanthropist takes Agnes and her mother to the cool mountain resort where he was fishing, and the old lady's life is saved. Stimulated by the refreshing out-of-doors, Agnes is transformed from sullen factory slave to joyous, carefree girl. The bachelor's tender affection toward Agnes is suggested in the concluding scene.
- Hector Gray promises his dying mother that he will always be good to her favorite son, Jim. Jim is inclined to be rather wild, but despite this fact, Hector takes him into business and they become partners. Jim is engaged to Edith. Hector meets her and immediately loses his heart to her. Knowing she is Jim's fiancée, he loyally conceals his feelings. He gives Jim the company's funds bidding him deposit them. On his way to the vaults Jim meets some of his old companions, and loses the entire amount. Returning home he confesses this to Hector, who instead of turning upon the penitent boy, forgives him. He tells Jim that Edith must never know that it was he who lost the money, and Hector shoulders the blame. When Jim sees Edith he breaks down and tells her the whole story. He soon realizes that Edith loves Hector just as Hector loves her. Realizing his own unworthiness he brings them together and insists upon taking all the blame.
- Cooley meets with an accident and is brought to the Fearnley home by the doctor, who finds that removing him will be impossible. Hospitality is extended and he is faithfully attended by Georgia, who finally falls in love with her patient. During Cooley's convalescence, Jane returns from college and, forgetful of his declared love for Georgia (his feeling for her being merely gratitude) his heart passes into the keeping of willing recipient Jane. An elopement is planned and one morning Georgia awakens to find both sister and sweetheart gone. The young couple meet with misfortune and Jane is left a poor widow. Her pride prevents her from returning home and she sews for a living, while her daughter Gladys is employed in a toy shop. Day after day, she is seen worshipping a beautiful doll, which she dreads to see pass beyond her vision. Georgia purchases it for a friend; Gladys delivers it to her mother's old home, and upon entering, she falls. The doll is broken, and while Georgia comforts Gladys, Gladys tells George of her mother. Through this a reconciliation is brought about, and Gladys is soon the proud possessor of a doll as beautiful as her first love.
- Mr. Boyd, a very jealous husband, through a combination of circumstances, finds his wife talking to a good looking bachelor named Perry. He forbids his wife to talk to the man again, but later when she meets with an accident, Mr. Perry goes to her assistance and they are both discovered in each other's company by the irate husband. He will listen to no explanation and orders his wife home. Later, their child, a boy of four years, is taken suddenly ill during the evening while the maid is out. The mother starts to go for remedies and on her way to the drug store, meets Perry, and in her anxiety for her sick boy, asks Perry to go to the drug store for her. He does so and returns with the prescription and helps the wife in her care for the child. Mr. Boyd, who has been working in his office late, returns. Their boy has just gone to sleep and Perry is about to leave the house when they hear Mr. Boyd returning. Perry and wife remember Boyd's insane jealousy. The wife tells Perry to hide behind the curtain or he will kill him before she has a chance to explain. Perry does so. Boyd enters the room, notices Perry's stick which he forgot to take with him. The maid who has been spending the evening out with the policeman on the beat, who is escorting her home, arrives in time to see Perry jump out of the window. He grabs Perry and holds him. Meantime, the husband, who has looked about the room for some explanation of his wife's guilty looks, hears a commotion outside. He takes his gun from the drawer and exits. The policeman tells Mr. Boyd that he caught Perry jumping out of the window. Boyd is sure now that his wife Is untrue to him. He tells the policeman that he will deal with Perry and under cover of gun forces Perry back into the house to confront the guilty wife. When the wife pleads for Perry and tries to explain he threatens to shoot them both. Meantime, the druggist discovers that he has given laudanum in place of some other ingredients while mixing the medicine for the sick child. He starts on a run for the house and arrives there just in time to prevent Boyd killing his wife and Perry and they all turn to revive the child. The husband now willing to listen to explanations, begs Perry's pardon and his wife's forgiveness.
- Bobby, a newsboy, protects a cripple from being tormented by the other boys, and is rewarded with a position in Wil Haverley's racing stables. Bobby is allowed to exercise "Old Ironsides," Haverley's favorite horse, which holds the track record. The young groom sees a handbill announcing $1,000 in prizes for trotting races at the county fair. He determines to take chances on winning enough money to send his sick mother to the country. At the entrance to the fair, Lobby discovers a runaway monkey. He makes the monkey perform for the crowd, and takes in enough cash to pay his admission fee. But just here a constable interferes. The monkey has stolen a watch. Bobby is made responsible for the theft, and both he and the simian are locked up. However, they escape and return to the track. Bobby has entered "Old Ironsides," on whom he has bet all his money. The horse wins. Haverley himself is in the crowd. Furious, because his stable boy has entered his horse without permission, Haverley threatens to discharge Bob. The constable complicates matters by coming to re-arrest Bob and the monkey. The man who lost his watch, however, testifies to the boy's innocence, and Bob, freed, pleads with Haverley to go with him to see his mother. He does so. Touched, yet wishing to teach Bob a lesson, Haverley takes from him all his winnings and sends him back to the stables with the trainer. Then he gives the money to Bob's sick mother. The following day she is sent to the country, and Haverley keeps her there until she is well.
- Rosa secures a position with wealthy people as nurse to their daughter, Dorothy. Her mistress' younger brother falls in love with her and she is discharged. Rosa has a sweetheart, to whom she is loyal, an Italian boy named Garvin. Another Italian, Repetto, Is in love with Rosa and very jealous of Garvin. He meets little Dorothy, who was very fond of her nurse, and is endeavoring to locate Rosa, and takes her to Little Italy and plots with friends to gain a ransom. Rosa overhears the plot and tells Garvin, who spies on the plotters and is captured and bound. Repetto, hearing Rosa coming in the hallway, hides Dorothy and her old woman guard in the closet. Garvin is in the next room, helpless. Repetto forces his love upon Rosa, who hits him with a bottle and knocks him senseless. She rescues Garvin and Dorothy as the old woman escapes and warns the other plotters, who rush the place. In the meantime a note of warning Rosa has sent Dorothy's parents reaches its destination, and the police are not far behind. The Italians break through three doors and the little trio are about to be captured when the police and Dorothy's father rescue them.
- This film is one of the most interesting natural history subjects produced by the Reliance Company. It is a full reel subject and is devoted entirely to the unique and the unusual animal features that are on exhibition in the largest and most talked of zoological gardens in the world. One feature is the Clarence Mackay collection of heads and horns, which is one of the finest collections of the kind that has ever been on exhibition before. One of the moose heads shown has an antler measurement of 76 inches from tip to tip. Among the animals featured are Siberian Tiger, American Bison, American Elk, English Fallow deer. Axis Deer, the Gnu, the Musk Ox herd, which is the only one on exhibition. The Kangaroo, the Zebra, the Giraffe, the Wart Hog. Bears, Asiatic Cranes, Sea Gulls, South American Condors, and the Peacock.
- Young Phillip Gray finds his convalescence at a lonely farmhouse a very dull affair. When he commences to receive little notes and dainty bunches of flowers from an unknown "fairy" things begin to look interesting. He makes inquiries, but can find no one who knows who the unknown girl can be. Often from his window he catches a glimpse of a pretty golden head as the "fairy" steals away. One day, having recovered somewhat, he gives chase, finally catching her. But the exertion proves too much after his recent illness, and he faints. When he wakes he finds himself wrapped in a soft blanket, and he knows it was the "fairy's" kindness that prompted this. He leaves a note for her on the tree, asking her to meet him. She answers and they become good friends. Before long Phillip asks the girl, whose identity he does not know, to become his wife. She consents and the ceremony is performed in Dingle Dell. She insists that Phillip wear a handkerchief over his eyes all during the wedding, and when it is removed he looks about, to see all his old friends surrounding him. Prominent among them is his doctor, the father of the "fairy," who sent her into the country to bring back an interest in life and health to the poor invalid, who later won her heart and hand.
- Tired of the solitude of the forest, and yearning for the city, a woman yields to temptation and elopes with a handsome stranger hunting in the vicinity. Her husband, a grim, stern trapper, takes up their trail, bent on vengeance. The elopers become lost, and having no ammunition, are nearly starved. The man regrets his action, and when the woman is terribly injured by falling over a cliff he deserts her. The husband meets the man, and the latter swears he has not seen the wife, and is given food. The woman drags herself, inch by inch, to the very brink of a mountain stream, her parched an fevered lips longing for the water which she cannot reach, and passes away in a sensational scene.
- Jimmy is a little, motherless boy, whose rich father neglects him. Jimmy pleads with him to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home. Father is called out of town, however, and phones to the governess. At the depot he changes his mind and decides to go home to Jimmy, but the lad has already received the message, and, grief-stricken, runs away. A farmer who had unsuccessfully tried to renew his mortgage with Jimmy's father finds the boy, while the police of the city are looking for him. The father is notified and comes out to the farm as the family is sitting down for its Thanksgiving dinner. The boy and his father meet in an affecting scene, and the man realizes how he has neglected his child. He is asked to dine, and, obsessed by the Thanksgiving spirit, tears up the farmer's mortgage and happily joins the gathering.
- From his private room in an expensive hospital, young John Gilbert, through a pair of opera glasses, sees a little crippled dancer in the window of a theatrical boarding house opposite. He becomes so interested in this girl that he sends his own doctor over to attend her. He learns that she has had an accident and will never be able to dance again. Daily he sends her gifts, flowers, books, etc. She receives them gladly, as they contain no card from the mysterious donor. Gilbert, on the way to recovery, meets a great surgeon from abroad. His first thought is, could he cure that girl across the way? After consulting with the doctor, the surgeon accepts commission from Gilbert to visit the girl. When she learns what he has done for her, she refuses to accept the assistance of a man she does not know, much as she would like to get well. But Gilbert sends her a letter stating that she has brought a new interest into his life and helped him recover and asks that he be allowed to do the same for her. She finally consents. The operation is performed successfully and the girl returns to the stage. Gilbert watches her and later meets her. After a long acquaintance, during which he never betrays the fact that he was the man who had helped her, he asks her to become his wife. She refuses him and tells the story of her unknown friend to whom her heart is given. Then Gilbert tells her the truth, and she, surprised, but very pleased, willingly accepts his ring.
- Jack and his twin sister, Jacqueline, are good pals and the girl is as able a sportsman as her brother. He comes home to spend the holidays and the girl is overjoyed. They plan a hunting expedition. But an invitation arrives from Jim Clark inviting Jack to a house party, and to Jacqueline's dismay he decides to go. At the last moment a wire from his father calls him to town. Jacqueline, left alone, gets an idea. She will impersonate a friend of Jack's and attend the party. She wires ahead informing them that Will Graham, a jolly good fellow, is on his way to join the party. She signs the telegram "Jack." She borrows Jack's clothes and sets off. She takes a room at the hotel and later goes down to the party where the supposed "boy" is received cordially. Lois, to whom Jack is devoted, is a trifle disappointed but finds the stranger good company. Will Graham proves a master hand at tennis and a capital shot. He puts all the other gentlemen of the party to shame. In the meantime Jack and his father arrive home. Jack misses his clothes and realizes what Jacqueline must have done. He tells his father and they start after her. They arrive at the hotel and find her name on the register. Shown into her room they find young Jim Clark holding a boy's wig in his hand. The door to the other room is locked and Jacqueline evidently inside. The case is explained to Jim who is relieved at the explanation. Jacqueline is brought out and after many invitations from Jim, consents to remain at the party with her father and brother. And the Jolly Good Fellow and Jim soon become as inseparable as Jack and Lois.
- Runa, Judge Grey's only child, has every wish gratified except her longing for playmates. At the big gates which shut her in, she watches the children at play outside. Jimmie Jerrold, a street urchin, loiters near, and Runa strikes acquaintance with him through the bars. Every evening at dusk, Runa steals out to exchange confidences with her new friend. Her nurse discovers the meetings, takes the news to Runa's mother, and the friendship is prohibited. Jimmie lingers around in vain, for Runa comes no more. In Judge Grey's court, Dutch Joe is found guilty of grave crimes. Sentence is to be passed in a week. Joe's pals, knowing that he will get the limit, decide to intimidate Judge Grey. Mrs. Grey gives a reception and at dusk the gates are left open to allow of the passage of vehicles. Runa seizes this, her first opportunity to see Jimmie again, but just as she reaches the gate, a strange man jumps out from behind the shrubbery and snatches her up. Runa screams, but Jimmie is the only person within hearing. Tooth and nail he attacks the two men, but he is knocked down. He sees them enter a taxi and catches on behind and is whirled with them cityward. He notes the wretched house in the slums where Runa is taken, and manages to climb the fire escape and locate her, lying on a bundle of rags, on the third floor. It is miles to the Judge's house, but Jimmie tramps it, arriving at midnight. The parents' panic at Runa's disappearance has been increased by the discovery of a notice which says: "You let Dutch Joe go scot-free or your kid is gone forever." Jimmie is about to be turned down by the butler, when Runa's nurse recognizes him. Judge Grey and the Chief of Police, in conference, hear Jimmie's story and the party is soon flying cityward. Jimmie locates the house, the chief summons a squad and the men are taken while preparing to remove Runa. One of them, recognizing Jimmie as the kid who interfered, and to pay him for informing, gives him a cruel blow, before he is handcuffed and led away. Jimmie is carried back to the Judge's house and when he recovers, finds that he is no longer a street urchin, but the ward of a wealthy man, and greatest joy of all, has earned the priceless privilege of playing with Runa every day, unhindered.
- Adele is courted by Algernon, a delicate young man. They attend a boxing exhibition, and Adele becomes enraptured with the manly art. Algernon starts to take lessons and is given some painful maulings at the gymnasium by the instructors, who delight in battering the "Willie-boy." Adele also takes lessons and accidentally receives a left hook on the jaw, which destroys all her interest. She writes a note to Algernon, expressing her dislike for boxing, and as he gazes at his bruised and battered countenance in the mirror and realizes it has been for naught, he presents a laughable appearance.
- The fascinating game of bridge has completely ensnared Mrs. Willis, the pretty young wife of a Wall Street clerk, and money that should have been spent to pay household bills is squandered on cards. Mr. Willis does not approve of the game and frequently remonstrates with his wife for her extravagance. In an effort to discover who is divulging certain information at the brokerage office, both Willis and another clerk come under the surveillance of detectives. A bribe is offered Willis, which he accepts, that he might entrap the man who offers it. Two men know of this intention of Willis. One is a traveling man, the other the suspected clerk at the office. Willis takes the money home and hides it carefully. His wife discovers it and uses a portion to pay her debts, later denying any knowledge of it. The bills are marked. One of these falls into the hands of the detectives and other evidences of Willis' seeming disloyalty are easily obtained. Summoned before the firm, he fully expects his fellow clerk to testify in his behalf. The latter stoutly denies that the conversation ever took place, and when Willis mentions the traveling man, he is confronted with the account of his death. Mrs. Willis tries to come to the rescue, but her story is not credited and Willis is discharged in disgrace. The traveling man, who is only slightly injured, learns of his friend's predicament and comes to the rescue. His reappearance frightens the guilty man into confession and the wife is cured of her love for cards by a bitter lesson.
- While the nurse is coquetting with her sweetheart, Baby Rosanna wanders off and meets the burglar. She plays with him, ruffles his hair, and gives him her cookies, and it is with genuine regret that he parts from her when the frantic nurse finds her. That night the burglar breaks into Rosanna's home through her bedroom window. She awakens and recognizes him in the moonlight. He is quickly gathering up the silverware when Rosanna runs to him and wants to renew the morning's play. She soon falls asleep in his arms, and the soft little burden awakens in him tender memories of his tiny sister of years past. Gently he carries her to her little bed, softly kisses her, and with tears streaming down his face exits without his plunder.
- Mr. Fairley, a rancher, strongly objects when he finds his daughter, May, and young Jack Holt making love. Threatening to shoot Jack, he orders him from the house. May, fearing for Jack's safety, hides her father's gun. Mr. Fairley goes to the bank to draw money to pay for stock. While he is away Jack returns and persuades May to elope with him that night. Mr. Fairley returns from the bank and is busy far into the night. May manages to slip out of the window when the time arrives. She meets Jack and they speed off in a waiting buggy. Two traveling tinkers, who had become aware that there was a lot of money in the house, make use of the ladder, which May used to get out of her window, to effect an entrance. The tinkers surprise Mr. Fairley just as he has replaced the money in the safe. They bind, gag and threaten to torture him unless he tells the combination. Jack and May arrive at the parson's and discover the parson has gone out of town and won't be back till next day. They decide to postpone the ceremony and hurry home. Unaware of what is happening in Mr. Fairley's office, Jack advises May to go quietly up the ladder so that she won't disturb her father. When May gets to her room she hears some strange noise and goes down the stairs to investigate. As she enters the office, she is seized by the tinkers, who try to make her open the safe for them. She refuses until the tinkers threaten to torture her father with hot irons. Jack is about to ride off when he hears May scream. He runs up the ladder and then finds his way downstairs to the office. May is about to open the safe when Jack enters. Jack is no match for the two burly tinkers and they soon overpower him. May looks on with terror, then remembering where she hid her father's gun she gets it and orders the tinkers to hold up their hands. Then giving the gun to Jack, who covers the crooks, she releases her father and gives the alarm. The crooks are given into the custody of some ranch hands. Jack returns the gun to Mr. Fairley, and is about to embrace May, when Mr. Fairley covers him with the gun and reminds Jack that he must first ask his consent. Jack puts his hands up but Mr. Fairley's face softens as he pulls Jack's hand down and places it in that of May.
- Tom, a lumberman, is in love with Jessie, daughter of the foreman of the camp. Her father objects to the match and there is a quarrel between the men. Jackson, another lumberman, seeing Jessie's father leaving the office on pay night with a large roll of bills, follows him and knocks him out. About this time Tom decides to leave the camp, and puts a note under the door of Jessie's home, addressed to her father, telling him that Jess and he alone know the reason for his departure. After his crime, Jackson passes the house, and, seeing the note, reads it. He has an idea whereby he can place the crime on Tom's shoulders. He places the wallet he stole in Tom's cabin. Later Jess finds her father's body and rushes to the men to tell them what has happened. Tom is missing, and this arouses suspicion against him. Led by Jackson, the men search Tom's cabin and find the wallet. The men start after Tom and get him. He is led back to camp. The letter is produced. Jackson makes a pretense of opening it, but Tom, afraid its contents will be misconstrued, and to get it back unopened he takes the blame on his shoulders to save Jess's good name. Tom is condemned to die within the hour. He is led off to be hung. In the meantime Jess and a woman are working over the supposedly dead man. He recovers consciousness and Jess rushes out to bring the men back with Tom. Upon learning that the foreman is not dead. Tom is exonerated and the truth proved. Consent is given to the marriage of Jess and Tom.
- Harry Ogden - ne'er-do-well - is caught by a sheriff's posse and is about to be hung when he is saved by Betty, the daughter of a Kentucky Colonel, who is traveling in the West for his health. Ogden is addicted to a morphine habit and Betty, who is a doctor, hides him in their house and nurses him back to health. Ogden asks Betty to be his wife, and he is returning to his family home to get some money. The Colonel, mistaken for Ogden by Taylor, a rival for Betty's hand, is shot and killed by Taylor, who leaves evidence pointing to Ogden as the killer. Betty plans to turn him over to the law when he returns. Meanwhile, Taylor is killed by Choo, who is secretly in love with Betty, and she learns through Choo that Ogden is innocent of her father's murder.
- James Guthrie, an ex-convict just out of prison with the $5 he was given upon his discharge, helps a wayward boy back to his home in the country. The boy's grateful parents ask Guthrie to stay with them, and their daughter Miriam falls in love with the newcomer. The ex-convict, unwilling to couple his disgraced name with the girl's pure one, leaves her a farewell note and goes away. On the train, the state detective who had officiated at Guthrie's discharge from prison, sees him and recognizes that he is in trouble. He wins from him the whole story. Then, persuading Guthrie to return with him to the farm, the detective tells the family the story of the young man's past, showing them that he was a victim of political grafters. At last Guthrie finds love and a home he can accept.
- When the Civil War was declared, it caused great consternation in the home of John Wilson, as he was of Southern birth, while his wife was a Northern woman, and she favored the Federal cause. Their two sons were asked which side they favored. John, the elder, declared he would fight for the South with his father, while Dick, the younger boy, upheld his mother's cause. Wilson became a Confederate colonel, and John lieutenant under his father's command. Dick left his old home in the uniform of the North. At the Union headquarters there was a call for a spy to enter the Confederate lines. Dick was glad to be given the commission. General Lee, commander of all the Southern forces, was warned of this spy and the leadership of his son and they search the woods for the spy. Dick, in the meantime, had overpowered a Confederate soldier and taken his uniform. The scouting party come upon him and think him one of their soldiers, until John, riding up, recognizes his brother. Then they know he must be the spy they are looking for and he is captured. They bring him back to camp, and Wilson sends his son to the guard house. After a court-martial the spy is sentenced to be shot at sunrise. The father's heart is breaking up, but it is his duty as a man and a soldier. The brother of the condemned boy has one last hope, he will appeal to General Lee for clemency. He rides wildly for hours and finally reaches the headquarters of the Confederates. But upon telling his story, he is refused, Lee will do nothing for a spy, Dick is led out to be shot. In the meantime, however, Lee, thinking the matter over, has experienced a change of heart and he dispatches a courier with a reprieve. It arrives just in time to save the boy's life. John, riding back to camp, cannot believe his eyes when he sees his brother alive. He is told of the reprieve and how his wild ride was not in vain after all.
- Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit faith in Elizabeth. She is a woman of strong mind, a magazine writer of repute, and believes he should guide himself by the same code that governs her. Two of their associates are profligates, Charles, an artist, and Catherine. Oliver trifles with Catherine and this so embitters Elizabeth, that she pretends to receive the attentions of Charles, although it is made clear that she has remained pure. Nevertheless, she purposely permits her husband to believe otherwise. He has considered her like Caesar's wife, but his faith is shattered. A child is born to her and the father doubts its parentage. Worse than this, society also believes her guilty. A divorce separates Oliver from Elizabeth. She is ostracized with her child. In the end the evidence of her purity, which she had purposely concealed, becomes known to Oliver through the dying confession of Charles, and the husband and wife are reconciled and Elizabeth is vindicated, but only after she has seen and regretted the folly of her rebellion against the first law of society. The death of their child plays a large part.
- Marty, a country boy, associates with a gang of young men of about his own age, who have no ambition whatever, except to loiter on the street comers. As they are standing at the usual place, Elsie, the belle of the village, who lives alone with her widowed father, passes. Some of the members of the gang make remarks about her which Marty resents. He goes to Elsie's assistance and escorts her home, explaining that the boys did not mean to insult her. He returns to the gang, who immediately proceed to "beat him up" for what they term his interference. In the fight he receives a black eye. The following day Elsie passes and again meets Marty. She sees his disfigurement and not knowing the cause of it, tells him that she does not approve of fighting. He does not tell her the cause of the fight and that he has determined to make a man of himself for her sake. The railroad company installs poles in the vicinity of Elsie's home. They attempt to plant a pole in the center of a flower bed on the lawn. The father and daughter try to drive them off, but fail. They decide to seek assistance from the courts in the way of an injunction. While the father is away the surveyors continue their work. Elsie thinks of Marty, as a last resort, to help her. She sends for him, and coming, he holds the men off long enough to allow the father time to return with the injunction. His knowledge of fighting has again enabled him to be of assistance to the girl he loves, and an extremely interesting romance is the result.
- Arthur Jones, at a summer resort, goes fishing. His bait giving out he pulls for shore and replenishes his bait box. At the fisherman's hut he meets Helen Brown, a pretty summer girl. Later, as she rows past him, he essays a courtly bow from his boat and tumbles into the water. He is pulled out by the fisherman, and his dripping, bedraggled condition awakens the mirth of the girl and arouses his ire. He is compelled to don the fisherman's clothes while his garments dry, and the ill-fitting garments make him appear ludicrous. Before starting for home he is invited to a house party. So is Helen. When they depart they get each other's suitcases by mistake. On reaching home she opens her suitcase and finds pajamas, socks, etc. He discovers lingerie, stockings, etc. in the case he gets. He immediately goes to her home, exchanges the suitcases and finally wins her hand.
- Widow Morgan lives with her only child, Mary, 18 years old, who works in a store. She has formed the acquaintance of George Shields, a drummer, who visits the store to sell goods. He is infatuated with Mary and visits her at her home. The widow does not like Shields and so informs her daughter. The widow, unable to hold her dislike for Shields, tells him not to come to see Mary any more. The next day Shields meets Mary and, showing her a marriage license, persuades her to marry him. Under the pretense of having the minister come to his rooms at the hotel, Mary goes with him. He registers "George Shields and Wife." The next morning a telegram comes from his wife in St. Louis, telling him she is joining him. Mary reads the telegram and charges Shields with his perfidy. He acknowledges the truth of the telegram and tries to square Mary with money. She returns home and her mother learns the truth. In her anger, the mother grabs a revolver and rushes off to the hotel, where she confronts Shields in his rooms and shoots him. Mary follows her mother to prevent murder. Meantime the real wife has arrived at the hotel. Shields is placed in bed and the doctor sent for while the mother is taken to jail. At the trial the mother refuses to tell why she shot Shields, wishing to protect her daughter's reputation. She is about to be ordered taken back for trial when a confession comes from Shields, telling his guilt. Shields dies. The mother is set free and returns home with Mary.
- Desperately poor, Carter, a mountaineer, falls and is rendered unconscious. He is found by two tough, drunken characters, who think him dead and play cards to see who shall have the widow. A quarrel arises and they step out to fight it out. The woman, desperate with fear, awaits their return with a loaded gun. The Mexican comes back alone and she fires but misses. A thrilling battle takes place between the frenzied woman and the drink-maddened man, interrupted by the husband who has revived. The Mexican turns upon the man and is shot down by the woman. At that moment a thundering knock is heard, and the couple fear it is the Mexican's partner, but it turns out to be the sheriff, who breaks down the door. He is in pursuit of the Mexican, for whose capture a reward of $1,000 has been posted, dead or alive, and the poor mountaineers receive it.
- Jim Smith has been without work for some time, and his efforts to secure a job proved fruitless. He meets thugs Red Leary and Black Pete in a saloon, and the look of desperation on his face prompts them to invite him to join them in a burglary. He indignantly refuses, and on the way home finds a lost handbag containing jewelry and money, which he takes home. His wife persuades him to return the property, the owner's cards giving the address. The butler receives him at the door and takes his name, but gives no reward. Smith is furious and bitterly upbraids himself for a fool, and in this state of mind goes back to the saloon and informs the thugs that he will become a thief. As the three start out, Mrs. Smith follows, entreating her husband to come home with her, and finally he gives in to her. She tries to cheer him up, telling him how thankful they should be that they have their beautiful child, but he is still despondent. The next day he reads in the paper an account of the capture of Red Leary and the fatal wounding of Black Pete in the act of committing a robbery, and realizes what a narrow escape he had. He is further convinced that the path of honesty is the right one when he receives a letter from the purse's owner, enclosing a substantial reward and offering him employment.
- Robert Drew, a young commuter, finding that he will he forced to stay in town overnight, persuades his wife to get her girlfriend, whom he has never seen, to stay the night with her. However, when the time arrives he discovers he is able to catch the last train for home, and rather than leave the two girls alone, he decides to go back. The girls, who have gone to bed, hear the noise below and think a burglar has broken in. Robert fixes some supper in the kitchen and, hearing the dog bark, he goes out to get him. The girls, in the meantime, find a revolver and slowly go downstairs. Finding the dishes they are positive that someone has broken in, and retreat upstairs in terror. Robert comes in with the dog and, finding the tools which the girls have overturned in their fright, he also becomes convinced that there is a thief in the house. He starts upstairs in search of the supposed burglar. His wife has forced her friend to don one of her husband's suits to scare off the thief and Robert coming upstairs sees a man, as he supposes, leave his wife's room. He rushes up, but the girls lock the door. He bangs in vain but they refuse to open it until, finally his wife recognizes his voice. He rushes in to discover the truth and so terminates their night of terror.
- Dr. Watson, on his way east, gets off the train to stretch his legs at a way station, and being called to the aid of a section boss, who has broken his arm, he finds there is no other train east till morning. He gets a room at the Red Horse Hotel and to while away the time joins in a faro game, winning all the money in sight. Bland, the gambler, and his assistants, Jack and Bill, hate to think of the doctor getting away with so much cash, so they conspire with the hotel keeper to drug Watson's drink, intending to rob him later. The doctor, however, only pretends to drink the doped liquor, and when the gambler attacks him in his room he overpowers him with his hypodermic needle and succeeds in escaping from the hotel, pursued by Jack and Bill. Watson finds refuge in the cottage of Granby, the section boss whom he has doctored. Already he has become much interested in his patient's pretty daughter, May. That night, in an attack upon the cottage by Watson's enemies, the gambler's accomplices, May is instrumental in saving the doctor's life. The rest of the story is eloquently implied.
- The frantic efforts of a man to recover a pair of old pants which his wife has sold to an old clothes man, and in the lining of which was secreted a roll of money, form the basis of numerous hilarious situations in this film. The garment is finally run down and forcibly taken from a young man who has ripped the seat of his trousers in climbing a fence while with his sweetheart, and who has bought it from the old clothes man. The youth is compelled to don the young lady's petticoat in order to get home.
- A shoe merchant's children break their doll and he comforts them, arranges the doll's remains in a shoebox, and tells them to bury it. A customer rushes in and quickly buys a pair of shoes' dashing out, he grabs the box with the broken doll. At home he finds a telegram from his fiancée saying she'll meet him at the ferry and the wedding party will go from there directly to the church. On the ferry the man takes off his old shoes and throws them overboard before opening the box--and being unpleasantly surprised to find the broken doll. His shoelessness insults his bride, who refuses to marry him, and her family, who beat him soundly.
- A young music composer is having a hard struggle. Unknown to him, his wife writes stories which she offers to magazine editors. She is followed home by a wealthy man who feigns sympathy and offers her money (accidentally dropping his card), and is ordered out of the house by the indignant woman. The offering of the money was overheard by another occupant of the tenement, and he loses no time in informing the husband, who meanwhile has found the card. The wife sells a story and plans a surprise for her husband by laying in a stock of groceries and buying him a new overcoat. This makes the husband suspicious, and he starts out to find the man who dropped the card, having secured a good description. In the vicinity of the address given he meets the rake and follows him to the publishing office, where he sees his wife waiting, and is overjoyed to hear her bitterly and contemptuously arraign the man for the trouble he has caused. Ashamed and remorseful, he hurries home and finds a check awaiting him for an accepted opera. He, in turn, plans a surprise for his wife and prepares a repast for two. He dons the overcoat which he had refused to wear, and when she enters he begs forgiveness which she readily grants.
- A story dealing with the elemental man of the hunting camps up in the north woods. The story opens during the idle moments of rough play and two friends, Jackson and Thompson, quarrel and part in hatred. Later the two meet at Thompson's cabin, unknown to anyone, and become reconciled. Jackson gets his gun and fishing rod and starts off through the woods for game. Thompson finding his gun disabled also hits the trail, but leaves his gun behind, carrying only his traps. Coming upon Jackson fishing he borrows his gun. While passing through some rocky part of the trail he stumbles and the gun goes off, killing him. Late in the afternoon Jackson finds his friend's body and carries it, with his discharged gun, to the camp. There the men refuse to believe his story, and openly accuse him of murder. The sheriff is notified just in time to save him from being roughly handled and the father, positive that his son is innocent, offers a reward for the real murderer. Cushman, who is up in the woods with his consumptive wife, is dead broke and on the hour that Thompson was killed heard the shot and found the body, but ran away, a prey to his cowardly fears. He finds the reward notice and resolves to pass as the murderer to secure the money for his wife. He goes to the father and pleads guilty. They both repair to the Sheriff, when word comes to the latter that young Thompson has been taken from the jail and across the lakes to be lynched. The three follow at a mad pace over water and mountains just in time to avert a real murder. The men force the real story from Cushman of his attempted sacrifice and come to the belief that Thompson really died by accident. Going to his sick wife they tell her of her husband's heroism and give her more than the reward as a fitting recompense.
- After a hard day's work, O'Brien hopes to spend a quiet evening reading. His wife's callers, his daughter's sweetheart singing, the cook's cop, his son's telephone calls, etc., drive him from room to room, until in despair and anger he rushes from the house.
- Mr. Beacon buys a diamond sunburst for his wife. He is followed home by Sarna, a crook, who looks through the window of the Beacon home and sees the husband giving the jewel to his wife. The Beacons go out motoring, but Mrs. Beacon forgets the pin which she leaves on her dresser. A cop, Hogan, comes to visit Mary, the cook, in her kitchen, and sitting down to enjoy a fine dinner, he removes his hat and coat. Sarna gets into the house and takes the sunburst. He is about ready to get away when the auto returns. He realizes he cannot escape without being caught, and as he is looking about for somewhere to hide, he sees the cop's hat and coat. He puts them on and going out to the front door meets Mr. and Mrs. Beacon on the steps. As they enter the house Sarna jumps into the auto and drives off at top speed. Hogan, as the master and mistress enter, looks about for his things and finds them gone. He is told of the con on the steps and rushes out to see the machine disappearing in the cloud of dust. Hogan feels badly to think that he should have let a thief get away with a robbery almost under his nose. Seeing his motorcycle nearby gives him an idea. He will win back his reputation. Jumping on the cycle he starts in hot pursuit of the car and overpowering Sarna, he jumps into the car and clasps the handcuffs on him. The Beacons, who have followed in a friend's car which they met on the road, congratulate Hogan as he leads the prisoner off, after the sunburst has been restored to its rightful owner.
- Wally and Andreas, Tyrolean lovers, meet at their trysting place on a mountain peak. Andreas procures for Wally a singularly beautiful spray of edelweiss. Some days later, Captain Vollenberg, an Austrian officer, arrives at the cottage of the girl's father and is instantly smitten with Wally's beauty. He forces his attentions upon her, and insists upon climbing a dangerous precipice to get for her some of the much-sought edelweiss. She, however, on comparing the captain's gift with that of Andreas, decides that her lover's token is far finer. At the time, the captain and the Swiss maiden are standing on the mountaintop at the trysting place. He becomes insistent in his love-making, and Wally is frightened. She is rescued by her lover. In the struggle which ensues, the captain falls over the cliff. Andreas, however, saves his life. Later, General Volenberg, father of the captain orders that yearly military conscription be made in the Tyrol. Andreas is sent to headquarters. Receiving a telegraphic message that Wally is in distress, he deserts his post and returns to the trysting place. Here he is dragged from his sweetheart's arms, and sentenced to dig his own grave. Wally goes to intercede with the general for her lover's life. He refuses to hear her. On the young captain entering, however, she tells how Andreas has formerly saved the general's son from death in the Alps. The captain is forced to admit that this is so, and the general issues a pardon for gratitude's sake. Wally rides to the scene of execution. She is barely in time to arrest the firing.
- James Burrell, having served his term, is discharged from prison. On account of his past life, he is unable to secure employment. He is hounded from place to place by detectives, who are trying to get information from him about some crooks, of whom he protests he knows nothing. Mrs. Van Horton, whose husband is too engrossed in business to give her proper attentions, has pity on him, and gives him her card, telling him to go to her husband's office, where he will secure work. He is employed by Mr. Van Horton, but is forced to give up his position, owing to the threats of a detective. As he can get no work, he decides to return to his old life, that of a thief. The first house that he decides to enter is that of the Van Horton's, although he does not know it. He enters the house in time to discover that Mrs. Van Horton is about to elope with a man named Clifford. Burrell, in gratitude for her kindness to him, decides to save her from herself. He steals around to the front door and slams it. Clifford and Mrs. Van Horton, hearing the door shut, both guilty, jump to the same conclusion, that it is Mr. Van Horton. Clifford makes s hasty exit and Mrs. Van Horton, realizing the greatness of the sin she was about to commit, breaks down completely. Van Horton comes home, and finding her in tears, blames himself. Burrell, who is outside of the house, sees the shadow of their embrace on the shade and has the secret satisfaction of knowing that he has accomplished some good in the world.
- Nancy Hall, the village belle, and Jack Fisher, a farm hand, are sweethearts. Ernest Ashe, Jack's employer, a wealthy grower, chances upon them and is taken with Nancy's beauty. Ashe pays court secretly to Nancy, until Jack, stumbling upon them, learns the truth. They quarrel and Jack is discharged, infuriated. Ashe continues his work of collecting rents. Old Tom Moore is in arrears in his rent and trembles at the approach of Ashe. Spying his tenant's horse, Ashe insists upon its surrender for debt. Moore has to submit and tries in vain to subdue his grandson, Teddy, who is heartbroken at the loss. Next day Jack goes to collect his wages from Ashe. Directed by his fellow workers, he meets Ashe coming out on Beauty, Moore's horse. They settle their account. Two bright eyes are watching them, for Teddy is trying to enter the stable. Looking after Jack in vile temper, Ashe returns to the road, where Beauty has wandered to the field to graze. This provokes him to brutality. As Teddy sees him lash his pet he is seized with blind fury, and picking up a rock he hurls it at Ashe, who falls. Horrified at his act, Teddy dashes across the fields and to the railroad crossing, where he crawls inside a freight car, crying himself to sleep. Five minutes after directing Jack to Ashe, the farmhands find Ashe unconscious. Jack is suspected. Meanwhile Jack meets Nancy and is reproaching her, when he is interrupted by the law for the murder of Ashe. Protesting innocence, he is dragged to jail, while Nancy flees to the Ashe borne. Ashe regains consciousness and sees Nancy enter his chamber. Fearing death and believing her the cause, he denounces her. Nancy is turned out of doors. She realizes her folly. Teddy, in the meantime, is carried off in a western-bound train. He is found and cared for by trainmen who finally return him to his home, where he is snatched to his granddad's breast and sobs out his tale. Nancy happens in to console the old man and hears the tale. Grabbing Teddy, she dashes off to the jail, where all may learn of Jack's innocence. Nancy then turns away very sorrowfully, but is followed by Jack and all is forgiven.
- A busy man neglects his wife; even his son's serious illness fails to keep him home and the boy dies in his absence. A friend in love with the woman takes advantage of every opportunity to be with her. A youth driven to desperation breaks into her home and she captures him at gunpoint. He breaks down sobbing and tells her a story of privation which touches her heart, and she gives him some money and a photograph of her dead son as a reminder that the only road to happiness is the straight path. One year later, still neglected, when the friend pleads with her to elope with him, she finally consents. At that moment, the youth comes back to return the money, and when the woman doesn't remember him, he shows her the photograph of her son and it brings back her words that the only road to happiness is the straight road, and she recoils in horror at her contemplated deed. Her husband suffers a breakdown from overwork and finds his wife sobbing on their departed son's little bed; he realizes his fault and begs her forgiveness for his neglect. He casts aside business cares and takes her on a second honeymoon.