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- 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.
- A circus comes to a frontier town and pitches its tent, attracting a good audience of cowboys, soldiers from the nearby post and residents of the town. One of the soldiers falls in love with a pretty girl performer, the daughter of the manager, and succeeds in gaining the father's consent, after which he departs for a post farther west, to which his company has been ordered. With the circus is a troupe of acrobats, costumed as red devils. Just as the engagement closes, their manager receives a wire from a Western town offering him an engagement. The acrobats hail the offer with delight, especially pleased is the girl, because it will take her near her soldier lover, so the engagement is accepted. The picture now takes us to the military post where the lover is found with his comrades about the entrance of the stockade. A messenger appears with a letter from the girl, telling him of the coming of the troupe and that her father has agreed that they may be married immediately. This puts the soldier in high spirits and his comrades overwhelm him with congratulations and carry him into the stockade on their shoulders when he tells them the good news. During these events trouble has been brewing between the cowboys and the Indians. The latter have been caught in the act of stealing cattle and, in the fight that follows, one of them, the chief's son, is killed. For this the Indians take the war path. One of the Indians happens to be in town when the stage carrying the troupe of Red Devils, their manager and his daughter, starts on its journey with an escort of cowboys. This spy hastens to the camp of his tribe and the band starts out at once to prepare an ambush for the travelers. Lumbering along over the rough trail comes the old stagecoach, a real relic of pioneer days, with four horses swinging it around the curves with all the dash of the Wild West. Then a wheel breaks and the coach comes to a stop, while the occupants pile out to see what the trouble is. While they are inspecting the damage the Indians come upon them; there is a general scurrying to shelter, except one daring fellow who boldly perches himself upon the top of the coach as if he were inviting the Indians to "pot" him. One of the cowboy escorts manages to get away at the beginning of the scrimmage with a message from the girl to her lover at the fort, which happens to be the nearest point from which succor can be obtained. For some time the Indians continue their fire from ambush, but when all the visible defenders have been disposed of they rush the coach with the purpose of finishing them. Just as they seem about to overwhelm the survivors the troupe of "Red Devils" springs out of the coach and hold the Indians spellbound in open mouthed wonder at their marvelous tumbling. While these events are happening, the messenger arrives at the fort and soon a troop of cavalry is on the way to the rescue. Alternate views of the "Red Devils" holding the Indians in awe and the soldiers racing over the trail carry the interest to a high pitch. Now the acrobats are about exhausted from their efforts and would give up, but the girl and her father rush out and encourage them to keep going. Then one Indian, evidently not to be fooled by the antics of the "Red Devils," springs out and harangues his braves. This breaks the spell and the attack on the travelers is about to be resumed when the soldiers come dashing up and scatter the Indians. The ruse of the "Red Devils" has been successful and the scene closes with the girl clasped in the arms of her soldier lover.
- 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.
- 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.
- Franklin Cross cannot conceive that the introduction of his chum, Charles Hoskins to his fiancée, Bertha Walsh, would result in anything more serious than a slight acquaintanceship. With the dawning of Christmas day, Franklin is frozen with horror to discover his fiancée with Hoskins in what is commonly termed a love embrace. Unseen by anyone, he conveys across his card his wishes for a merry X-mas, and packing his belongings, leaves for the west. Installed at Plentiful Ranch, he meets the charming daughter of Squire Tucker, establishes his position as a favorite, and is well liked all-round. It is now Christmas Day, one year later, which rinds him in the midst of a hilarious dinner with the boys in the bunk-house, but heavy recollections of the past restrain him from entering into the jollity. Already in love with him, the squire's daughter now enters with her father to distribute gifts, and Franklin becomes the recipient of her photo, inscribed "with love." Noting, however, the jewels in his hand, and instinctively feeling that his thoughts are of another, she attempts to regain the photo. Despairing of his absence, his erstwhile fiancée institutes a search and succeeds in locating him at the ranch. Her appearance is simultaneous with Mabel's request for the return of her picture, and whilst Franklin conjectures the situation, both women survey each other, with full knowledge of their future at stake, and then earnestly appeal to the man. He chooses the new and younger love however, and broken-hearted with her loss, the unfortunate one embraces her successful rival.
- Boobie Rank, at one time a traveling player, is anxious to marry. He pays court to Eleanor Stockton and later to Molly Cairns, but is unceremoniously thrust aside by both. Sam Stockton and John Macaullay are rivals for Molly's hand. John is favored for having saved Molly's father from a debtor's cell. The Colonies revolt, and John and Sam go to the front under "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Molly goes as a water carrier and gains the sobriquet of "Molly Pitcher." At the battle of Monmouth, John, who is a gunner, is killed, but his brave wife takes his place and helps to win the battle. Gen. Wayne commends her action and recommends her for honors. Five years later, the war being about over, Molly gives her hand to her other sweetheart, Sam Stockton, who has always been her late husband's friend. General Wayne, at her wedding day, presents her with a commission of Sergeant for her brave services.
- Percival Smith kisses his wife affectionately good-bye and makes his departure. On the outside of his home he flirts with two fair dames and follows in their wake. He catches up with them at the park, and neglecting to proceed to his office he enters a café. He starts to flirt with a waitress and his newly-made lady friends take umbrage and depart in high dudgeon. He continues to pet his fair Priscilla until the manager takes him bodily and flings him into the street. He picks himself up, adjusts his anatomy and betakes himself to pastures new. A pretty chorus girl is leaving the stage door of a theater. The gay deceiver approaches her in a mincing manner. She rebuffs him, he persists, she flaunts away, he follows fast. Around the corner they go and she tells a cop, and into this copper's brawny embrace comes rushing the gay Lothario. But the deceiver sprints away and thus escapes. Next a janitor of buxom form comes under his observation, but when he assays to touch her, she meets him with a bucket of water. The next day at his office we find him feeding chocolates to his stenographer, whispering to her softly and printing luscious kisses on her lips. Suddenly his faithful spouse appears. In a rage she rushes home and engages her house-maid's services. An hour later, her startled husband learns over the phone that his home has been invaded by one of his own species. He rushes home and discovers a personage seated in his wife's lap. He summons a policeman and then he courageously smashes the high hat from the bead of the affinity. The hat flies off and from beneath rolls a mass of hair showing the features of his maid. A feeling of revulsion comes over him and be then swears off.
- Robert G. Fowler is shown leaving San Francisco in his flying machine for his trans-continental flight to the Atlantic seaboard. After witnessing about seventy-five feet of film showing Fowler's start from the Pacific Coast, we behold the beautiful southwestern town of Beaumont, Texas. The picture is markedly educational, and none who witness it can fail to appreciate the danger attached to such an enterprise.
- 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.
- Jack Bartling and his mother are people of wealth and take up summer quarters at their home in the country. One day while looking over their vast estate, Jack meets Mary, the daughter of a farmer whose land adjoins the Bartlings. One day the young people are brought to a realization of their love for each other, when Mary attends to Jack, who has fallen from his horse. Dave, one of Mary's country admirers, had witnessed her kindly attitude towards Jack and scolds her for receiving the attentions of a rich man's son. Mary refuses to listen to Dave and leaves him. Some days later a house party is given at the Bartling home. Among the guests invited is Muriel Van Osten, who, it is rumored, is about to become engaged to Jack, although he has shown very little attention to her. Muriel learns of the love affair between Jack and Mary and shows her the newspaper announcement of her rumored engagement to Jack. Mary decides to have nothing to do with him thereafter, and when he pays her a visit he is treated coldly. Jack, who is greatly annoyed at Mary's indifferent attitude, takes her in his arms and tries to reason with her. Dave, seeing Jack forcibly take Mary to him, and thinking that he is insulting her, intervenes, and a quarrel is averted by Mary who explains and leaves the two men. Jack, not wishing to have any trouble with Dave, leaves, but Dave, whose anger is not so easily appeased, follows. The two men met on a boat landing and a fight ensues. Jack is hit on the head by Dave and he falls unconscious into the river. Dave runs home and tells Mary that he thinks he has killed Jack, who, in the meantime had been rescued by a passing boat. Mary goes immediately to Jack's home and tells his mother of his death, where she comes face to face with the supposed dead man. A short while after, they meet Dave, who is forgiven by Jack and Mary. The young people's parents consent to their marriage and the wedding day is set.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mr. Woods is taken ill. A physician is called, who examines Woods. He leads Mrs. Woods into the hallway and says that a specialist is necessary. While talking, Nell, Mrs. Woods' sister leaves, being called out of town suddenly. She kisses Mrs. Woods goodbye, and Woods, ignorant of Nell's departure, hears the kiss from his bed, and becomes suspicious of his wife and the physician. Woods, poverty stricken, writes a note to Dr. Forrest, the specialist, to aid him. Dr. Forrest has a patient who has been burned, and who advertises for a piece of human skin off the forearm, offering the sum of $500 for it. Mrs. Woods takes her husband's note to the doctor, who refuses aid unless she consents to sell the needed area of skin off her arm. She yields, ordering the doctor not to tell her husband of her sacrifice. The doctor performs the operation upon Mrs. Woods, and also treats Woods, whose suspicions of his wife have by now become a belief. A week later, when the doctor tells Woods his wife has paid everything, the man is dumbfounded. When Mrs. Woods, recuperated, returns home and reluctantly shows her husband her scarred arm and her check, he is overcome with his own meanness. Nell, returning at this moment with good news, reconciles the couple.
- Surcharged with the certainty that Big Bill Jason is a favorable subject for the matrimonial state, the ranch boys, headed by stylish Joe Randall, with the newspaper personal of a marriageable widow, as an exhibit, convince Big Bill that he has a latent talent for the tender stage of life. Whereat, the widow's ad is duly answered by Stylish Joe, Bill himself being unequal to the task. Having accomplished this small feat, their excitement is pitched to the highest key-note of expectancy. Upon receipt of a reply with the news of a quick arrival, a thorough house-cleaning is put in progress in Bill's Bunk House, so much so, that it closely resembles a general store, all this to the quickening heart-beats of poor Bill. Everything being in readiness, not excluding the fact that Bill's excitement is keyed to the proper pitch, our boys now array Joe, the dude, in woman's clothes and foist him upon Bill as the enterprising widow. Poor Bill! No runaway bronco ever tore down a public highway as fast as Bill does in his heroic effort to escape the supposed widow. But they catch him, struggling and resisting, and bring him and the bogus widow back to his ranch. During the procedure of this escapade, the real widow arrives in town, and being a widow of experience and essentially wise, she looks up the parson, and armed with the proposal from Bill, takes him along to tie the knot. Arriving at Bill's home at the time that the boys are executing their farce, and finding it deserted, they enter and await the owner's return. Having brought the couple to the ranch, the boys are in the act of forcing them to embrace, when the real widow suddenly appears on the stoop before them. They certainly are a bunch of surprised cowboys. She has witnessed the apparent usurpment of her position and now demands an explanation. Bill passes off Joe as his sister, and the widow now appeased, embraces him and is about to implant a kiss upon his virtuous lips, when Bill pulls off his wig. The screaming widow disappears within the house at the denouement, followed by Bill, where they are promptly united by the Parson. The din which follows is promptly throttled by an order given by Bill to the saloon proprietor allowing them a free celebration at his expense.
- Harriet Clyde was beloved by Jordon Primrose and Walter Maynard. Both gentlemen were brave and chivalrous. Jordon's advanced had been pleasing to Harriet, therefore she accepted his offer of marriage. Jordon was indeed dear to her, but she discovers that Walter was the idol of her soul. Then came the war. Jordon drew his sword for his native Virginia. Though southern born, Harriet was loyal to the Union and Jordon's decision to fight against it caused her to brood and fret as her wedding day drew nigh. Heroically stifling his deep grief, Walter was present as a guest at the day of the ceremony. At the height of it, however, Harriet, throwing aside all restraint, renounced her allegiance to Jordon and flung herself into the arms of the man she truly loved, Walter Maynard. With a bitterness of soul, which only strong natures like his could feel, Jordon dashed away and Walter and Harriet were wed. The second day's battle of Seven Pines was being fought, and Longstreet, with his monstrous beard, burled his forces again and again on the Union lines. In one of the lulls of that awful strife, some Union prisoners were brought into Jordon's camp, and he came face to face with the man who robbed him of his prize. A letter from Harriet, found on Walter, told of the birth of her child, and this, Jordon read with a bitter heart. But that night a vision came to him of Harriet with her babe, her sweet face pleading for Walter, and this vision purified the soul of Jordon, who contrived Walter's escape. Jordon exchanged coats with Walter, and so that he could escape from the Confederate lines, he with the Union blue on, was himself chased and shot by his own soldiers.
- This picture of motor craft is so wonderfully and thrillingly shown, that one is struck with amazement at the daring of those who must have faced the greatest of peril in order to have accomplished the herculean task of such startling depiction. The famous Disturber 2nd and Hoosier Boy and a host of others, go dashing by. Now flashing by comes the Hydroplane, well named indeed, for it skims along the waves seeming to leap from crest to crest in its terrific flight. But there are hundreds and hundreds of others and that great twenty-mile course is dotted with them. Among the many renowned men of the aquatic world gathered at this regatta, is Commodore Pugh of Chicago, owner and chief pilot of the Disturber 2nd. As the celebration was classed as a Water Carnival, and the town of Dubuque was dressed in holiday attire, very fine pictures were obtained in the making of the whole event.
- 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.
- Rather unenviable is Peter Foster's existence at the bunkhouse because of the turbulent and aggressive disposition of his elder son, Bob. The possession of an equally meek and obedient son as Charles, might tend to alleviate conditions, but Bob is unbearable, and thus old Peter rejoices in the opportunity to present his two sons to Widow Walker. Strangely enough, the same situation prevails in the household of Widow Walker. The elder of the two daughters is the mistress of a terrible temper which is quite a troublesome factor in the maintenance of a peaceful home, and the presentation of Peter Foster's sons is a Godsend towards the riddance of the girls. It is generally conceded that opposite natures are more likely to meet. Therefore this is upheld when Blossom, the elder and shrew, permits her affections to be gained by Charles, and Bob selects Sally, the younger and compliant sister as a mate. The unions are effected shortly at one and the same time, following which they install themselves at the Foster's, the household having been partitioned in twain. Being now free from cares and quarrels, Peter concludes that the widow is a welcome prize. He pops the question, is delightedly accepted, and his happiness is attained. Three happy couples, but, well, after a year's acquaintance, one isn't extra careful of one's choice of language or line of action in the conjugal state; and the ferocity of a risible temperament cannot be composed by the possessor of a meek or a retiring nature. Bob and Blossom lord it over and predominate in the government of home affairs, and in their endeavors to direct others, ultimately dig their own pitfall. Blossom exhorts Sally to throw off the yoke and assume home control as she, Blossom, does, and her advice is to commence at once. Bob counsels Charley in the same tenor, and the uprising results, in a cyclonic outbreak between husband and wife. Astounded by the surprise and suddenness of the upheaval, the erstwhile aggressive lords of home become humble supplicants for mercy. Forgiveness is extended readily.
- 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 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.
- Alice and Jack are sweethearts. The action opens in a park or wooded lot. Jack discovers a hollow in an old elm tree. They conceive the romantic idea of using the hollow as a "post office," and they leave notes there for each other. They are surprised in their lovemaking by Jimmie, who is promptly humbled, and he vows to get even for the affront. At a party Jack becomes jealous of Alice and the result is a quarrel. Each repairs to the old tree, expecting the other to write and make peace overtures, but is disappointed. Finally Jack, believing himself at fault, writes a contrite note and places it in the hollow of the tree. Alice, in making her daily call to the tree, notices Jack in that vicinity. She is seen by him and both are happy. Jimmie sees Jack place the note in the hollow and stealthily abstracts it. Alice looks in the hollow and finds no letter, and is disappointed. After she is gone Jimmie is stricken with remorse, and replaces the letter in the hollow of the elm. A few days elapse and Jack, getting no response from the letter, leaves the village for a city. Alice sees him through the window of her home bidding good-bye to his companion, and believes he has not forgiven her. The action is carried forward twenty years. Jack has flourished and become a prominent and influential broker, but has remained a bachelor. Alice has remained unmarried and has devoted her life to caring for her aged mother. In his bachelor apartments, surrounded by luxury, Jack is obsessed by an idea to revisit the scenes of his boyhood. He returns to his native village, visits the park, and draws near the old tree. It awakens memories of long ago. He is taking pictures of the old tree. Drawing nearer he notices the scars of the initials he cut and is visibly affected. Absent-mindedly he reaches into the hollow and pulls out the letter he wrote many years ago. It is yellowed with age, but he recognizes it and marvels. Taking the letter to the home of Alice unopened he hands it to her in silence. With trembling fingers she opens it, looks into his eyes, and discovers the old love light.
- The duck hunting expedition on the marshes surrounding the Great Salt Lake of Utah, is one of the most remarkable picture presentations that may be well imagined. The picture is educational in the sense that it depicts in detail the methods employed in this sporting industry. We see the cutting and arranging of the material used in making the fluid. The making of the fluid is itself a most interesting proceeding, but to the sportsman there's a feature which this picture portrays that is peculiarly fascinating, and that is the remarkable bagging that comes to the party working in this expedition. One of these gentlemen is Mr. Vincent Davis, a world's expert, who holds the much envied record. A world-beater of 142 birds for a half hour's shooting.
- Divorced! Separated by the Court's verdict, the mother is allowed the girl and the father is given the boy, both children too young to realize the bitterness of the moment, but each clinging to the allotted parent with childish faith. As tokens of remembrances little Lee is presented with his mother's locket which is hung around his neck, the same being done with the father's ring to Harriet. Shortly after the separation the mother is compelled to entrust the care of her daughter to a neighbor about to join her husband in the west. Towards the arrival at their destination however, the train is wrecked, the sole survivor of the crash being little Harriet. Guided by Providence, she is adopted by a western couple who rename her Mary, to replace their child now dead. Returning to the once happy home we find little Lee, deserted and forlorn amidst bare conditions, his father having sunk to the depths beyond reclamation. Lee purposes to get away from his abode and meeting a bunch of cowpunchers in the street, who are bound westward, following a sight-seeing trip in the eastern city, he prevails on their sympathy for adoption to their crowd and shortly afterward is renamed Jim. Grown big in size and years, Jim is accepted by Jane, the ranchman's daughter, who writes to her school chum, Mary, to spend Christmas week with her and Jim. Thus brother and sister after all these lengthy years, meet and unconsciously a spark of love is flashed between them, which familiarity grows with the passing days, all this being apparent to poor Jane. The outcome is revealed on Christmas day, when Jane returns her engagement ring to Jim, who has embraced Mary. Jim draws his mother's locket from his breast upon Mary's refusal to accept the engagement ring and in a flash the truth that their love was of brother and sister is revealed to them. Of course, the engagement of Jim and Jane is renewed.
- 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.
- Dan Blake is a cowboy with many good qualities, but he has an ungovernable temper. Beating his horse one day, he was surprised by the ranch owner's daughter, who berated him and caused his discharge. A little later, while he was sitting by the side of the road, the girl came along. She was on horseback, but in an instant he had dragged her from the saddle. But as the girl prayed to him in her distress, he thought of his sister, and his mother, and he drew from his pocket a letter from the former, in which she admonished him to deal with others as he would have her dealt with. His true manhood asserted itself. Then he led the sorrow-stricken girl back on her way to her friends, and she, seeing the triumph of his better nature, loved him for it. It was the start toward a greater love. The absence of the girl brought the cowpunchers, led by her father, to the trail. They had found her hat and revolver where the struggle first occurred, and so they suddenly came upon them in a rocky glen as they made their way, and the enraged father shot the kidnapper of his child before she could explain. It then fell to the girl's lot to nurse the now thoroughly repentant cowboy back to life and health. She then crowned him with the mantle of happiness, for she gave herself to him in wedlock.
- Because her Uncle Peter never embarked in the matrimonial sea, is no argument why she should not do so, opines Mary. So she holds a clandestine meeting with John, a dashing young cowboy, to whom entrance to the house was forbidden. On coming home unexpectedly, Peter surprises the young couple together, and after dismissing John and forewarning him against repeating the offense on pain of being shot, he tries to please and pacify his willful niece, whom he really loves, by giving her an agreement, upon her taunt, that if he only had the chance he'd marry too, that should Mary ever catch him in a love affair, he would grant his consent to her marriage. Soon the minds of the two young folks set to work planning with the following results. John, who resides in an adjoining town, has a maiden aunt, of whom he is very fond, and when he pathetically appeals to her to lend her assistance toward gaining the girl of his heart, the old maid acquiesces. Upon his dictation, she pens a love note to old Peter whom she has never seen, asking him to meet her at a designated hotel, to which John is to take her. Peter receives the note, and becomes all a-flutter in his frantic efforts to dress appropriately and makes off with all speed to the rendezvous. Soon after his arrival, Peter is badly smitten and falls for the Maid's ardent symptoms of love attack. The affair is capped when she manages to get his ring before he leaves, which is in accordance with the lovers' plans. When John espies the ring, he becomes assured of success and he has his aunt taken to Peter's home. Poor Peter is in a dreadful state when the old maid calls and he attempts a denial of having ever seen her before, but she displays the ring he gave her, which she still wears and the proof is conclusive. Therefore, in fulfillment of his agreement, he must five his consent to her engagement to John. This he is finally prevailed on to give, and peace is sovereign once more. The spinster reluctantly returns Peter's ring, but Peter is alive to the occasion and replaces it on her finger with a prayer that she keep it there and become his wife. The youngsters strongly urge her and she accepts. With the full knowledge that a double wedding is en route at the home of one time single blessedness, we now bid them adieu.
- The scenes presented in this picture are instructive and interesting. There are three market places shown, the like of which could not be seen in any other portion of the globe. The Jewish market place gives us an insight into the thriftiness of this remarkable race in the environs of New York. The bartering, the criers, the itinerant peddlers, all are seen here in their glory. Next comes the Italian market. Here again we see the teeming multitudes, jostling one another and bustling to and fro like so many human bees in a monstrously large hive. We gaze on the scene with wonder. But next and last comes the great market place of the world, "The Rich Man's Market," as it has been aptly called. What a contrast there is between this Wall Street environ and the places we have just left behind us! What an object lesson these three market places should be for us, the market places of the poor and that of the rich!
- In a Western town, a cowboy dashes up at break-neck speed heralding the arrival of the new school ma'am. A large crowd gathers. Her coming with the buckboard loaded with grips and trunks is hailed with delight. Every male of age in the village falls head over heels in love with her; but in a few months only two remain at her heels. Of the two, one was a mean fellow who could brook no interference. It happened when Rose, the teacher, slipped on the rocks and was slightly injured, that Hank Peters, one of the rivals, chanced along. He immediately dispatched his man, who was riding with him, for a doctor. Then came along Ned Lester, the girl's favorite. "Quick," he cried to Hank, "Ride for a doctor; my horse went lame." But Hank sneered at him and would not even tell him that a doctor had been sent for. Then Ned rushed for Hank's horse, but Hank pulled his gun and prevented him. Ned dashed away for a nearby barn, which chanced to be Hank's, seized a horse and rode off. Rose recovered sufficiently to go her way without replying to Hank. The latter soon discovered the loss of the horse, and that Ned had stolen it. Of course he knew for what purpose Ned used it, but it didn't matter to him. Hank wanted to get even. And so Ned was rounded up in short order by the cowboys, charged with horse stealing, and the offense meant a rope and a telegraph pole. It looked real bad for the moment. Rose was clever. She simply placed Ned's horse in Hank's barn, then going to Ned's place of confinement, slipped him a note informing him of what she did, and for him to say that he had merely swapped horses with Hank. Hank of course denied this, and stated that Ned's horse had never seen the inside of his barn. Several cowpunchers went to investigate, and sure enough there was Ned's horse. Hank saw he had been outwitted and at last took his medicine like a man. And when Ned and Rose became "one" he gallantly presented her with the horse that had been "traded on him."
- 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.
- One of the brightest examples of true patriotism was exhibited by a woman in a most remarkable manner during the Civil War. The heroine was Barbara Frietchie. It occurred in the town of Frederick, Md., where every household was divided in its sympathies. George Mason, whose mother was a Frietchie, was an ardent Unionist, but his brother William was strong for secession. Virginia Iredale loved George, but her sentiments were opposed to his. This gave William a footing with her which he strove to improve by every means in his power. It was about the time of General Lee's prospective invasion of the North. In accordance with that idea. General Stonewall Jackson had turned the faces of his men northward. Everywhere in Maryland he was acclaimed with joy, though not so vociferously as further south. Jackson met with no hostile demonstrations, though thousands were so inclined. In the big town of Frederick, there was not one protest against the Confederate invasion, but stay! there was one, a dear old lady of eighty years, whose great big loyal heart led her to do an act of heroism that was sublime! Jackson, at the head of his hosts, entering Frederick that balmy September day, beholds the starry flag floating from a modest brick dwelling. Others have seen it, too. A score of muskets belch forth as one shot and the Stars and Stripes hang by a cord from the shattered flagpole. In a flash the window is raised, framing therein an aged but sweet face. A pair of feeble hands grasp the broken pole and once more the Stars and Stripes defiantly flutter. Then are uttered those well-remembered words: "Shoot if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country's flag." The butts of a hundred muskets leap to the shoulders of the Gray Coats, but the next instant the stentorian tones of brave General Jackson ring out: "Attention! Who touches a hair of yon gray head dies the death of a dog!" Then with a salute, he and his men marched on. Barbara Frietchie belonged to history. This glorious act decided Virginia Iredale as to her course in love and politics. Virginia thought she loved her Southland more than the Union, but when she saw the old flag waving in Aunt Barbara's hand, she knew at once where her real sympathies were, and as a result of this decision, her fair head found a resting place on the broad and manly bosom of George Mason.
- Si Haskins, a farmer, receives word that a case he is interested in is up for trial. Si sets off for the Metropolis. He goes to Central Park. He falls asleep on a bench and a park bum, passing by, steals his bag. Si wakes up and gives him chase, but fails to catch him. The bum had been reading in an old newspaper an account of the sending of a bomb to Judge Rosalsky. In the bag the bum found the address of Si's attorney and to him he showed the bag and intimated a deadly bomb was contained therein. The lawyer put money into the bum's hand and pushed him out of his office. The attorney then saw that the bum had left the "bomb" behind him. The lawyer phoned to the police and pretty soon a policeman was on hand and carried away the "bomb." At the station, the captain called around him his force and they went to McGowan's Point in Central Park. Here they were about to explode the "bomb" by flinging their clubs at it when along came Si, spied his bag, and in spite of the yells of the cops, picked it up and flew. Back at the lawyer's office the latter was congratulating himself on his safe delivery from the fate impending over Judge Rosalsky when who walked in but Si and his bag. The lawyer yelled and mounted his desk. Si went away, believing his case had been settled out of court though his attorney had an odd way of winding it up. Si made his way to Central Park again and suddenly came to the bum counting over his spoils. Si quickly seized him and carried him triumphantly to the station. In walked the farmer gripping the bum by the collar and the "bomb" by the grip. The officers hurled themselves through the windows. The bum escaped. Si, however, overtook the bum and gave him a sound drubbing.
- A new school teacher was to make her home at Rancher Smith's house, so all the cowboys gathered about the veranda to greet her. She arrived in due time, but gave them a cold look of appreciation and passed into the house. Then the boys turned away with the exception of Thornby, who fell in love with her at first sight. He did several favors for her and even saved her from her unmanageable horse. This so enthralled him that he proposed to her. But he was frigidly "turned down," as she wanted a man with brains. Thornby then left the ranch and soon found a position in a lawyer's office. He studied so hard that he was soon made a member of the firm and incidentally marrying his associate's daughter. Thornby was successful in winning the suit for the Smiths, and when he called one day to discuss matters, he met the frigid school teacher, who, after being apprehended of Thornby's uprise, made all endeavors to win him as her husband. But he soon introduced his wife to her, whereupon the Smiths drank to the "Man with Brains."
- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gordon are prepared to have a great time up the canyon where they are going for a two weeks' camp. But, alas! for the plans laid by men, just as they are about to start off, Wiry Lee brings in a special delivery letter. It is from Jack's mother, apprising him of a visit from his uncle, aunt, cousin and sister. In fact, they would reach the ranch on the heels of the letter. The disappointment and chagrin is too overwhelming for Mrs. Jack and she packs up and goes home to her mother, leaving him to receive and entertain the folks as best he may. Happening in for a friendly call, Ned Lillis, a cowboy chum, finds poor Jack in the depths of despair. Jack tells him of the predicament; his relatives about to call to meet his wife, and she has gone to her mother, and he a prospective heir at that. Was ever anyone in such cussed luck? Ned, not being equal to the task of leading him out of the difficulty, is about to depart, when, like a flash a great inspiration dawns on the perplexed husband. Ned will have to dress up in Maud's clothes and impersonate his wife. Of course, Ned is horrified at the bare idea, but is soon won over to the scheme after Jack has illustrated the amount of fun to be gained from it. They hurry up to his wife's dressing room, and their efforts to get Ned into woman's clothes is screamingly funny, in the midst of the toilet the visitors arrive and Jack leaves Ned to complete his makeup alone. While interrogating him regarding his wife, whom they had never seen before, she (Ned) bounces into their midst arrayed in a most gorgeous ball dress. Her introduction to the family and her acknowledgments constitute a masterpiece of farcical art, as does her behavior at the dinner table, where the jollity runs riot. After dinner, the supposed wife is discovered by her uncle in the smoking room, with her feet perched upon the table and a long black cigar between her teeth, smoking with keen enjoyment. The tide of merriment rolls on under the impetus furnished by the ludicrous old uncle and his inane son, who both, in turn, make love to their relative's wife. The crucial moment is turned when the real wife returns and finds Jack in the arms of another woman. Then begins a merry time tor poor Jack, whom they harass, demanding an explanation, until the cause of the trouble rushes amongst them. This is just what all desire and each makes a wild and determined grab at the offending lady's hair. Lo, and behold! Each draws back with a string of vari-colored puffs. The head of the culprit is that of a man. The older folks take umbrage at the deception and leave the ranch in a huff. However, Jack's sister, who enjoys the joke and besides thinks that Ned is a dandy old boy, decides to stay a while longer, whereupon all four pack up and take the trip up the canyon together.
- Mr. George Fattie proposes to his secretary and she accepts, but he makes one condition: there should be no mother-in-law in his house. This is a heart blow to the girl, but her mother tells her to never fear, for she'll concoct a plan whereby he'll receive her with open arms. Gladly and with joy, after the Fatties' honeymoon, the mother and daughter hatch a plot. An artist's studio is visited and an order given to that gentleman for a dozen caricatures of the lady. The artist fulfills the order and the result is a dozen highly-amusing and ridiculous caricatures. In a weak moment, Mr. Fattie consents to permit the portrait of his wife's mother to be admitted to his home. Then suddenly he beholds from point of vantage, a face looking down on him, and such a face. Then one day he meets the original and the original was nothing like "that face," so he did not recognize her. Later on, the original insisted on coming into his home. This he didn't want, because he had met her as a sweet thing, and didn't want his wife to get on to his flirtatious conduct. But the sweet thing insisted and he had to make the best of it, and introduced the sweet thing as his sister. Then the wife slipped forward and said, "This is my mother," and then Mr. Fattie collapsed.
- 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.
- Bert Morris, Jr., a young man of excellent family, while sowing his wild oats, offends his father and is disinherited. Bert decides to go west. He first calls on his fiancée, Alice Norton, to ask her to wait for him till he can make his fortune. She, however, is not pleased with the prospect and refuses to wait until he acquires wealth. The girl returns the engagement ring to him and turns her back on him. Bert is broken-hearted and leaves for the west. He joins hands with two other young men in prospecting. They strike pay ore and promote a mining company. During their prospecting work, Bert meets Winona, a beautiful Indian girl, who lives on a nearby government reservation and who has attended the government school. A deep attachment springs up between these two. While his partners are away Bert is taken ill and Winona nurses him. When he becomes convalescent Bert and Winona are married. A new company is to be formed to take over the mining claims of the boys. Bert's father goes west in the interest of foreign capital, taking Alice with him, who has been married and left a widow. Learning of Bert's lucky strike she determines to win him again. Alice arrives and Winona witnesses the meeting between Bert and Alice. The Indian girl sadly concludes that they are enamored of each other, and, gathering her child in her arms, she silently steals away. It does not take Bert very long to discover Alice's deception and instead of returning with his father's party he makes his get-away and goes in search of Winona. He finds her not long after sorrowful and grief-stricken, but with his return, she is quickly made happy and the little family is joyfully reunited.
- Charles receives a letter from Robert stating he will stop off for a fortnight on his way east from Montana. Robert soon arrives and is in the thick of a joyous visit, when unhappily Charles gets a letter from the buyer of his cattle to reach New York at once in order to affect a large cattle deal. Charles in introduced to his host's wife and daughter. As he has neglected to mention that he is a married man, the young daughter falls in love with the young westerner. Charles returns home. Shortly after, he again receives a letter from Mr. Coigne wherein he regrets his inability to call in person, and is therefore sending a worthy representative to the ranch. Great is Charles' horror to discover in that worthy representative, Mr. Coigne's daughter, and equally great is the lady's rage and anguish to find the man she loved married. Just when a wordy combat is inevitable between the two, and which is viewed by Robert, the young wife enters. Realizing the importance of quick means to suppressing a scandal, Robert follows Charles to the smoking room right in time to prevent his brother from committing suicide. Learning the sad truth, Robert consoles him and offers to marry the girl rather than besmirch the family name. The girl, at first reluctant, finally consents to become his wife, and together they entrain for his Montana ranch.
- Bill Edwards, the foreman of F. Carson Ranch, loves Martha Orme, but to him she says nay. Then comes along Bob Longford. He proposes and is accepted. But Bob drinks, and it soon comes to pass that he loses his finer feelings. He finally loses his position. He goes to the gin-mill to trade off his spurs for drink. Then when he had squandered his last cent, and his boon companions had turned their backs on him, he drew his gun and fired. The next minute a fearful struggle ensued, and he went down to death by his own weapon. His wife can be kind at times as she was in this instance to Bill Edwards. He came with the boys and broke the news to his old sweetheart. Martha had long since realized the great mistake she had made in turning Bill aside for a man who put that into his mouth, which robbed him of his soul. She turned to Bill now for consolation, and Bill was not averse, for he still loved her, and a joyous time came to them both a year after Bob had been put away.
- 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.
- A fleeting glimpse of some of its wondrous beauty and rare charm, caught by the camera, that may be justly designated "most remarkable." Its scenic investiture Is of surpassing loveliness and divinely gorgeous in atmosphere. Even the depths of the ocean are made to give up its wonders and we have brought up to our vision the finny hosts of this region in a remarkable exhibition of deep sea photography.
- Virginia Wilson, just before the opening days of "61" was sought after by William Hastings and Frederick Foster, both southern gentlemen. The storm of war broke out. Sumter had been fired upon. It was then that Virginia discovered into whose keeping she would give her hand. While her whole soul was with her native south, she gave her love to Frederick Foster, whose sympathies were with the Union. William Hastings, the rejected suitor, threw his lot with the Confederate Bars. Each day the tide of battle ebbed and flowed; now the Blues on the crest of the wave, and again the Gray. And, one day a party of Federal soldiers, sorely pressed, sought refuge in a house on the hill. The house was the home of Frederick Foster and his wife, Virginia. In a moment the Johnny Rebs surrounded the premises and carnage reigned supreme. However, superiority of numbers won out, and the barricades gave way before the fierce onslaught of the Grays. Young Foster was captured and taken away. 'Mid the hail of steel and bullets, for the battle of Frazier's Farm was raging in all its fury, somewhere in the midst of that torrent of iron and lead, the brave Gen. Meade was directing his gallant Pennsylvania boys. Braving death from exposure to the shrieking messengers of death flying over the field of battle, Virginia reached the General's tent, and as she desperately pleaded, she mentally reminded him of his own mother, awaiting his probably return home, and his big, stern heart yielded to her womanly appeal. A detachment of Blues was quickly assigned to the task of rescuing the civilian Unionist and arriving on the scene, they rapidly dispersed the Grays. Clasped in a deep embrace, the reunited pair vow to ever cherish the name of that stalwart leader, Gen. Meade.