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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Things go too far for a group of bullies, when Raymond, a 12-year old boy with a troubled life, who they make fun of and tease for their amusement is hit by a car.
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Old Dan Burns, a poor but clever violinist, has a hard time to make both ends meet. He is compelled to repair musical instruments for his daily bread, while his wife and daughter take in sewing. At last, he is reduced to the extremity of pawning his old friend and comrade, his violin. Robert Hart and his wife have a little girl, Ella, of whom they are anxious to make a violinist and they have employed as her teacher, a noted instructor, Professor Dupre. Dupre is too high-strung and particular to teach children and accusing Ella of being dull and careless, Hart pays him off and discontinues the lessons. It so happens that Dan Burns' wife and daughter are doing some sewing for Mrs. Hart and old Dan goes to deliver some of it and is paid for it. After he returns with the money, his wife insists upon his getting his violin out of pawn and he goes to the shop to regain it. The pawnbroker tells him he has not allowed for the interest and has not enough money and consequently cannot let him have his instrument. Dan is grievously disappointed and begs permission to play upon it one last time before he loses it forever. The pawnbroker gruffly consents and Dan begins playing, putting his whole soul into the music. As the strains of music float out upon the air, passersby on the street stop and listen to them, a tramp and a newsboy becoming especially affected. One of the most interested is Robert Hart, who stands outside the pawnshop enchanted by the melody. The influence of the music even steals over the pawnbroker, who stops his work to listen. When Dan finally ceases playing and returns the violin, the pawnbroker hands it back to him and even refuses to accept the money and the old man goes out happy. Outside, he is met by Hart, who has been struck by the idea that Dan will make a capital teacher for little Ella and he takes him home with him. Dan and Ella become close friends at once and Dan's patience and goodness of heart soon make of her a most promising scholar, much to the delight of Mr. and Mrs. Hart.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- A woman innocently stealing roses catches the attention of the owner of the garden, who falls in love with her.
- A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- Tom Owen and Mae Darcy have a very quiet wedding, wishing to avoid all notoriety for the present and intending to surprise their friends by the announcement later on. But their friends "got wise" somehow and when the young couple finally arrive at the railroad station, they find a crowd there ahead of them and they are duly dealt with according to the latest rules laid down for the accelerated departure of bride and groom. A year slips by and we find Tom wrapped up in business pursuits and careless of manner towards Mae. And Mae quietly grieves over his neglect. Then a former sweetheart of Tom's, Belle Stuart, sends them an invitation to a ball, where Belle proceeds to monopolize Tom to the utter disregard of poor Mae. Left all alone she sits and broods over her misfortune, and then she meets the famous poet, Claude Jones, who entertains her most pleasantly with his talk and his ability as a dancer. Tom finally thinks of his wife and goes to where he left her, but she has gone. He at last discovers her in the conservatory in conversation with the poet. It is his turn to feel jealous and he does so and going rudely over to the couple he informs Mae that they must go home at once. Before they go, however, she invites Claude to call upon them. Soon Claude accepts her invitation and calls, finding her alone. In the midst of their tete-a-tete, Tom arrives at home and orders Claude to vacate the premises at once. Tom and Mae have their first quarrel, and it is a good one. Tom then decides to keep close watch upon her and rigs up a bell so that it will ring in his den every time the door opens. Well, it works all right, only he is kept busy rushing into the room merely to meet the maid or the postman or somebody other than Claude. He then gives up and after another interview with his wife, he secretly writes Claude a letter, informing him that as he loves Mae and Mae loves him, that he, Tom, will surrender all further claim upon her. When Claude arrives he is received most cordially by Tom, who proceeds to pour out his blessings upon the pair and leaves the room. Mae is completely mystified, until Claude shows her the letter and proceeds to press his suit. She, taken entirely unawares, begs for time to think it all over and he goes out to purchase her some flowers. Tom, seeing him leave, telephones Belle Stuart and makes an appointment with her. Mae overhears him at the 'phone and breaks down completely, weeping as if her heart would break. Then Tom leaves the house. Claude, shortly after this returns and attempts to present Mae with the flowers, but she has had enough of him already, and, ordering him from the house, throws his bouquet after him. Tom's conscience will not permit him to keep his appointment with Belle and after wandering aimlessly about his club, he returns home to find his little wife curled up in his den, hugging his dressing gown, trying to forget her troubles in slumber, Tom's heart is touched, his old love is reawakened and taking her in his arms, she opens her eyes and twining her arms about him, they forget all their former doubts and troubles in their present happiness.
- Arthur Ames and Cora Rogers are sweethearts, but her family will not allow any of her young men friends to enter their house. Cora is told that she is expected to marry the son of old friends of her parents, the Rev. Harold Goodleigh. He arrives and is at once shown up to his room by the butler. Realizing that his clothes need pressing he sends the man out with them, arraying himself in a blanket taken from his bed. The butler, passing the disconsolate young couple on their way to the street, Arthur spies the clothes and is seized by a sudden idea, which he hastens to explain to the butler. The butler escorts him to another room in the house, where Arthur sacrifices his lovely mustache and clothes himself in the clerical garments of his rival and coming downstairs, surprises Cora by the daring nature of his ruse. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have never met either Arthur or the Rev. Goodleigh and so, when Arthur is introduced by Cora as the reverend suitor for her hand, they suspect nothing and Arthur goes in with the family to dinner, which he gets through with very nicely. In the meantime, the Rev. Goodleigh, attired in his blanket, is having a mournful wait. Then a new element is injected into the plot. "Mad Harry," a lunatic from a neighboring asylum makes his escape. Now, Harry imagines he is an Indian chief and proceeds to decorate himself with feathers from the tail of a turkey hanging outside of a butcher shop, and with a horse blanket and hatchet, which he takes from a hardware store. Running swiftly down the street, he comes to the Rogers' home and climbing up he pries open the window of the room which contains the Rev. Goodleigh and springing in upon the terrified clergyman, he compels him to join in a war dance. The Reverend gentleman finally breaks away and rushes out of the room into the street closely pursued by Harry. Harry, getting sidetracked, runs into the midst of the Rogers family and soon has them all busily dancing in a circle, he dashing everywhere, fiercely brandishing his bright, new hatchet. The Rev. Goodleigh, clad in his primitive garments, breathlessly meets the keeper, who is seeking Harry, and leads him to the house. But before the keeper can overtake him the clergyman, who arrives at the height of the war dance, is compelled to join in it. The keeper arrives, Harry peacefully surrenders to him and quiet is restored. Then explanations follow as to who is who and Arthur is duly unmasked as a bogus minister. But nothing daunted, he puts in his claim for Cora's hand and after strenuous begging on the part of the young lovers he is finally accepted as the son-in-law, that is, to be. And the Rev. Goodleigh's sad but exciting courtship is over.
- Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- Dr. Dick Ainsworth, has been made a member of a hospital staff. He meets and falls in love with Fannie Jones, one of the nurses. Dick proposes to her, is accepted and decides to marry her at once. But, as he has been largely dependent for his support upon his father, he concludes he had better obtain the paternal blessing upon his matrimonial alliance, so, escorts his intended to his father's office and after introducing her, he introduces the subject of his marriage. When Mr. Ainsworth learns the nature of his son's intentions he puts his foot down good and hard. The couple take their departure in a very unhappy frame of mind. But after their return to the hospital, the spirit of rebellion rises in Dr. Dick's bosom and he telephones his father that he is going to marry Miss Jones anyway. His parent, of course, receives this message in no very gentle frame of mind and starts for the hospital at high speed. In the meantime, a terrible railroad accident has occurred and all of the medical staff, with the exception of Dr. Dick, are hurriedly summoned to the scene of the disaster. Mr. Ainsworth, in rushing up to the entrance of the hospital, slips, falls and breaks his leg. He is carried inside, unconscious from pain and is duly operated upon by his son, assisted by Miss Jones and other attendants. Mr. Ainsworth, having recovered consciousness, and hearing their commendations upon the surgical work on his case, asks to see the surgeon who performed the operation. They send for Dr. Dick, who immediately spears and when he is introduced as the clever young man who did the work, the old man's heart is filled with thanksgiving at having such a gifted son who is, evidently, so well equipped with money-getting ability. Dick, of course is rewarded by receiving the long-sought paternal blessing.
- The young American lieutenant is deeply in love with the handsome Spanish-Filipino girl, and one day, as he is visiting her in the little bamboo cottage, their love-making is interrupted by the appearance of a corporal who bears a note that tells the young officer to report at headquarters at once, and that the next transport is to take him home. The girl cannot read but sees that his expression has changed, and asks him why. He cannot tell her, but caressing her fondly, leaves her. To headquarters he goes, and the commanding officer hands him a letter in which his father says that he has provided for his future at Washington; that he should come home at once and marry the girl to whom he is engaged. The realization of the great bearing this has on his love for the Filipino girl overwhelms him, and he sinks into a chair, dropping the letter to the floor. In this be has not been unobserved, for the girl has been peering in through the lattice, and now, stealthily, she picks up the letter. Meanwhile, the lieutenant, pacing the room, is suffering untold tortures. Thrice he resolves to leave and thrice be resolves to stay. Finally, as the time for departure draws near, he follows the call of his love and cables home that he will come, but with another bride! Handing the cable to the corporal, be sets out to tell the dusky beauty the news. And none too soon does he arrive, for, her heart strings torn asunder by the prospects of the bitter disappointment, she is about to end it all with one thrust from the keen blade she holds in her hand. And the rose is saved for both of them.
- Navy officer Owen Moore is sent to Cuba. This saddens girlfriend Mary Pickford, until her uncle invites her to a party in Havana. After a grand time, when Moore's ship is docking, she confuses him by pretending to be a Cuban girl.
- John King and his wife, Dora, with their little girl, Ida, live plainly but contentedly upon his small salary. Little Ida has few playthings, her father not being able to purchase more, but to her mind they are the finest ever seen, her favorite being a Teddy bear, with one bind leg missing. In order to make the animal as interesting as possible, her father makes a tiny crutch for it, which fills her childish heart with joy. One morning, as King is on his way to the office where he is employed, he sees a man suddenly taken ill and assists him to return to his residence. This man, William Daly, a wealthy old bachelor, is very grateful for the service, but sees no way of returning the favor at the time. In consequence of this delay, King is quite late to his work and his employer, an irascible old skinflint, gives him a terrific scolding and in spite of King's explanations, discharges him from his service. King returns home greatly cast down and not knowing which way to turn, he tries to find other employment but without avail and they finally find themselves without sufficient food to keep them alive. King then decides to pawn his best suit of clothes and taking little Ida with him, goes to the pawnshop and gets some money. But the lack of decent clothing makes it still harder for him to obtain employment and he grows more and more discouraged. His wife realizing how handicapped King is without his best suit, slips out of the house with her little girl and going to the pawnshop, exchanges her engagement ring for the clothing and returns with it to King, who is deeply grateful for the sacrifice. Things still go badly with the family and they are at the end of their resources again. Then little Ida has an inspiration, she will pawn her teddy bear. So wrapping it up, she steals softly from the house. On her way to the pawn shop, she meets Mr. Daly, the innocent cause of her father's discharge. Her bright face attracts the gentleman and he stops and speaks to her and as she leaves him, he watches her, not knowing, of course, whose child she is. Ida enters the pawnshop and tries to pawn her treasure, which, while it amuses the pawnbroker, he does not know what to say to her. Mr. Daly then enters the shop and comprehending the situation, takes the child away and inquiring her address takes her home, where he meets King with much pleasure and is introduced to his wife. As Daly is about to leave he asks for the Teddy bear, which Ida gladly gives him. He then, having learned their circumstances, offers King money, but King refuses it. Stooping to kiss Ida "good-bye," Daly forces a bill of a large denomination into her hand and goes away. Daly places the Teddy bear on his desk at his office and thinks often of the child who gave it to him. The day before Christmas. Daly, who is lonely, is blessed with a beautiful thought; he will give the little girl a Christmas tree at his own home and invite her parents. Buying nearly the entire contents of a toy-shop, he has his servants deck out a tree and. when his guests arrive, he gives them a royal welcome. And one of the most precious gifts taken from the tree is a letter for John King, offering him a splendid position as confidential man with Mr. Daly.
- A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
- Luther Clews, a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, finds himself in financial difficulties. His son Howard, owns Queen Bee, whom father and son expect to retrieve the family fortune, as she is entered in the famous Latonia Derby. Young Howard has lost heavily on a previous race, and without his father's knowledge has given his note for $5,000 to Doc Martin, an unscrupulous poolroom owner doing business in Lexington, Kentucky. Martin, knowing Queen Bee's great value and thinking that if she were scratched, his own, Eagle, would win the Derby, induces young Howard to give him a mortgage on Queen Bee to secure the note. The day Howard is to ship his horse to Latonia, Martin forecloses. At this juncture. Howard's fiancée buys all interest in Queen Bee. Martin secures the assistance of a friend who endeavors to poison the animal in order to prevent her entry in the race. The plot is foiled by Howard, who is secretly watching his pet. The race is run. Queen Bee is victorious, and fortune again smiles on the Clews family.
- Bill, having decided on a day's fishing, casts his line into the river. A nibble on the line causes him to draw in his line quickly, and, to his surprise, a boot is caught on the end of his line. Violet and a number of girls are off for a picnic, and are scouting around for a desirable spot to spread their luncheon. Bill falls asleep and rolls into the water. He undresses himself and hangs his wet clothes on the bushes nearby. Then he jumps into the water to await the drying of his clothes. A goat from a nearby farm wends its way to the bushes and eats Bill's clothes. Violet and the girls find the desirable location where the goat has just finished eating unfortunate Bill's clothes. The girls are about to enjoy their luncheon when a snake scares the girls away. Bill, seeing his opportunity, wraps the tablecloth about his body and starts to go home. Twilight having set in, a negro, who has just stolen a number of chickens in a bag, sees Bill dressed in the white tablecloth, thinks he is a ghost, and runs for dear life, dropping the bag of chickens. Bill picks up the chickens and again starts for home. A farmer, discovering his loss, starts on a hunt for the culprit, and sees Bill carrying the bag of chickens. He takes Bill to the sheriff, who, after listening to Bill's plea, starts for the scene of Bill's misfortune. They see the evidence of Bill's plight and release him. Left alone, Bill picks up the boot that he had fished out of the water and discovers a bottle inside containing a note requesting the finder to communicate with the writer a£ a certain address. Violet, who wrote the note, is duly advised of Bill's intended visit. She confides in a number of her girlfriends, who decide that she must dress herself up as an old maid. She follows out the suggestion. Bill calls on Violet. When he sees Violet in her old maid make-up he takes to his heels, followed by Violet. The chase leads through a field where a bull, angered by the color of Violet's dress, dashes madly after her. She is rescued from the maddened bull by Bill. During the chase Violet has lost part of her old maid's costume. She looks at Bill, who loses no time in capturing his prize.
- Bank teller Fred Harnett is addicted to gambling. One night he loses heavily, and upon the insistence of the boss gambler, gives a check dated two days ahead. The next day he learns that certain funds on which he had counted for meeting the check will not be available. Fearing that if his check is dishonored his gambling will be brought to the attention of the bank officials and cause his discharge, he takes bank funds and covers it by altering the books. That night he goes to the gambling house and takes up the check. He is persuaded to play and wins heavily at roulette. He plans to make restitution of what he has stolen, but on arriving at the bank in the morning, finds that a bank examiner has appeared and is to start work at his post. In a panic of fear, he flees and makes good his escape. The story now moves forward some ten years. Fred, under the name of Harrington, has become a prosperous farmer with a wife and a son. He decides to pay the bank and send the money in currency in a mail package. The bank detective, remembering the reward offered, takes the postmark as a clue and starts after him. Fred and his wife have insistently impressed upon their child the necessity of absolute truthfulness. While Fred is away one day, the detective, who is fishing near their home, is rescued from peril by the wife and taken to their home. While drying his clothes, the wife learns the detective's identity and errand. Meanwhile, from an album, the detective has identified Fred. Fred returns and hides. In a dramatic scene the detective learns his hiding place from the boy. Out of sympathy, however, the detective leaves them in peace.
- A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, and her elderly husband. In the duel, the husband is mortally wounded and his now repentant wife chooses to join him in death.
- Smith was of a sporting turn of mind, but his wife kept him thoroughly under control. Still when a man decides to deceive his better half for the purpose of getting a night off with the boys, he is generally equal to the emergency. So when he received a message and note from the friend he was shaving that a good time awaited him at the Cozy Corner Club, he arranged with the said friend to send him, Smith, a bogus telegram calling him out of town. So Smith's wife dutifully saw hubby off to the depot and loyally returned to take Smith's place in the barber shop while he was absent. A customer came in to be shaved. Mrs. Smith donned her husband's working jacket and before she had completed her task, accidentally placed her hand in the pocket of the jacket, and discovered, not the telegram, which called her husband away, but a note signed "Jessie," inviting Smith to take a friend to the Cozy Corner Club that night. Mrs. Smith resolved to see things through. She disguised herself as a man, went to the Cozy Corner Club, picked a quarrel with her husband, fought a duel with him, and when the hubbub was at its height, she threw off her disguise and revealed herself. Thus Mrs. Smith cured her husband of his disagreeable habit of "lying in order to make himself a holiday."
- An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together. Though it is sad that these times are now gone, she is comforted by her memories and by the hope of sharing in the lives of her child and grandchildren.
- Gerald Kinney is a roué and travels with a fast set, having plenty of money to indulge his tastes and going the pace that kills. He is somewhat satiated with the life he is leading and his better nature asserts itself at times. He leaves his club, where the wine is flowing and the tables are strewn with poker chips, and motors out into the country. In a pretty wooded dell, by the side of a quaint old well, he meets Myrtle Edgar, a simple country maiden, pretty, pure and demure. It is a revelation to him. The girl is a new type, unlike any woman he has ever seen. She shyly gives him a drink of the cool water. Endeavoring to take liberties with her, he is repulsed, kindly but firmly, and that is a new experience for the debonair clubman. It is a welcome innovation and he sees in her only the pure and holy. Roses grow in profusion in the pretty spot and she plucks one and fastens it on his lapel. The rose acts as a talisman. Whenever he is tempted to do wrong, he regards the flower. His friends rail at him and wish to learn his secret, but he guards it jealously; gradually dropping his old acquaintances and leading a more quiet life. The memory of the sweet country girl is always before him. At a swell society function, he suddenly thinks of her and is distrait. He leaves his handsomely gowned partner and walks out into the night, the memory of Myrtle haunting him. He seeks her out and makes an honest declaration of his love, but she intuitively divines there is a disparity in their station. He tells her of his past life and she puts him on probation. They are married and after a few years of wedded life a child comes to gladden their hearts. One night the wife is conning a book and finds between the leaves a pressed rose. She questions him and he tells her it is the rose she gave him at the old well, the flower that made a man of him and brought him a true and trusting wife, making his life brighter.
- Robespierre and Dumont were sworn friends in their college days. During their early manhood both loved Louise Brissac, but she favored Dumont and refused Robespierre's hand. Her father was the local magistrate and was blamed by the peasantry for the imposition of a severe tax. Robespierre was too wise to blame him, but had already grown to despise authority. Brissac was the representative of the rulers in the province, so Robespierre visited Brissac with a delegation of angered farmers. They were coldly received, and their anger grew until Brissac was saved from mob violence only by the arrival of Dumont, who persuaded the malcontents to withdraw. Time passed and the wedding of Louise and Dumont was postponed. Hearing of the mob disorders in Paris, Robespierre and Dumont leave with the Brissac. Robespierre although young and without influence soon dominates the assembly. Dumont although deploring the massacres is still the friend of Robespierre. The love of Robespierre for Louise grows in fervor as does the hatred for her father. Finally he sends Dumont to arrest them both as aristocrats. The father is arrested, but Dumont aids the girl to escape and is taken prisoner and sentenced to die. The father goes to the guillotine. The girl sees this and also the threatened fate of Dumont. In despair she decides to visit the tyrant and beg for her lover's life. This is granted to her on the condition that she give herself to Robespierre. Her soul revolts from this but the spirit quails when he shows her the carmagnole or devil dance of the revolutionists. She consents on condition that Dumont is freed and she in company with Robespierre's spy goes to the prison where Dumont repudiates the bargain and hurls the spy to the door of the dungeon. In the meantime, Tallien has impeached the committee of public safety of which Robespierre is the head, and a spirited debate ensues in the convention. This results in Robespierre's overthrow as he is brought down by the bullet of Meda, the assassin. Tallien triumphs while Robespierre is dragged away a wounded prisoner. Tallien hurries to the prison and Dumont is released. As he is hurrying through the streets in mad search of Robespierre in order to find Louise, the tyrant's victim, he meets the deposed fiend and he is menaced by a furious mob. He demands the girl, but Robespierre cannot answer. A commotion is heard and he sees the stealthy spy dragging the girl along. He hurls him to the ground and brings her to a place of safety. Later they view the execution of the tyrant and realize that their worst days of terror are over.
- While a priest sits in his room he hears his doorbell ring. He can discover no one, but finally admits a girl who seemed to be drenched to the skin. He goes with her to administer the sacraments to a dying man. She leads him to the tenement district, where the priest finds that the police are searching for a murderer, but knowing the priest, they let him pass, not seeming to notice the girl. She stops at a house, but the landlord declares that no one occupies his rooms, but the girl leads the priest up the stairs to a small bedroom where a man is found to be mortally wounded. He is surprised to see the priest, who wishes to call a physician, but the dying man only asks that he administer the sacraments. The office done, the priest asks the dying man what he wants to do about his daughter, but the dying man says that his daughter died years ago, and since then he has been drinking heavily. On the table is a picture of the girl who led the priest to the house, and the dying man declares that she has been acting as a daughter to him for some time. When the police enter the room the priest gently tells them that they have no need for the man as he is dead.
- Jimmie Keene is an ardent devotee of the manly art of self-defense and never misses a boxing match when he can help it. Jimmie's father, however, being a deacon in the church naturally frowns upon such affairs, regarding them as brutal and demoralizing. Jimmie buys a ticket for an exhibition of this nature, but in rushing out of the house to attend it, he drops his ticket and leaves without it. The ticket is picked up by the maid, who hands it to Deacon Keene, who regards it with horror. Jimmie returns in search of the lost pasteboard and finds that his father has it. The deacon starts to reprove Jimmie, but the latter turns defeat into victory, by persuading his father to accompany him and judge with his own eyes whether or not boxing exhibitions are a pernicious form of amusement. At the height of the "star bout," when everyone is yelling at the top of his lungs, even including Deacon Keene, who is thoroughly enjoying himself, the place is raided by the police. Jimmie and his father make a tolerable "getaway" down the fire escape, but are closely pursued by a persistent officer, who would certainly have "landed" the deacon had not Jimmie displayed some of his science and "handed" him and uppercut, which sent the policeman "to the mat," where he "took the count." Father and son arrive at their own garden wall and are just clearing it, when the officer overtakes them and making a grab at Jimmie, tears off a piece of his coat. When the policeman tries to follow them, he is stopped by the large and healthy family watchdog, and remains to argue the matter with him. When the fugitive arrives in the house, Elsie, Jimmie's sister, who is "wise" to the whole thing, assists Jimmie in disguising himself in the maid's clothes. The policeman, having pacified "Hector," enters and demands the surrender of the individual who has resisted arrest by knocking him down. Deacon Keene, who is found busily reading a deeply religious book and nursing a black eye, is surprised at the intrusion and denies knowledge of anything. The officer searches the house and finds the torn coat, which matches the piece of goods he still holds and insists upon an explanation. Then Jimmie appears as the maid, and by his coquettish arts wins the attention of the representative of the law to such an extent that he completely forgets his mission and being escorted to the kitchen, divides his time between drinking a bottle of beer and making love to the attractive domestic. He finally leaves, escorted to the back gate by Jimmie. When Jimmie returns to the library, he falls into his father's arms, who embraces him warmly. Jimmie's mother then appears, and is horrified at seeing her staid old husband in such a familiar attitude with a strange maid-servant. But the deacon laughs and says, as his son removes his false hair and cap, "Why, it's only Jimmie, having a little fun."
- Death reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.
- Stephen Wright lives happily with his wife and baby daughter in New York. Partly in self-defense he kills a man. It is late at night when he returns home after committing the crime; his wife sleeps. His thoughts, however, are centered on his child. He steals into the bedroom, kisses his wife goodbye while she sleeps, and taking the baby in his arms, becomes a fugitive from justice. He is next seen in the mountains, his mind weakened after the mental and physical strain and seeking refuge in a cave. Fifteen years later, he has become old and gray. His daughter Peg has grown to beautiful young-maidenhood ignorant of society's ways, knowing nothing of men save her father, or women's dress. The wife lives alone in the East. About this time two detectives, Frank Noble and George Dean, come to the mountains, commissioned to corner a band of moonshiners. Noble, searching the woods one day, sees what he believes is a wild animal; he raises his rifle to shoot when there arises from the grass a girl, dressed in a single skin. She disappears. Later he meets the girl again. Noble has purchased some store clothes and she puts them on. A light comedy love scene is interrupted by the old father who resents the appearance of a stranger. He tears the clothes from his daughter's back and sends her to the cave. Noble has kept his romance from his coworker, Dean, but the latter learns of the affair. He is attracted by the girl and attempts to become unduly familiar with her. Noble interferes. Dean, suspecting that the girl and her father are moonshiners, enters the old man's cave. Through an old scrap of paper he manages by referring to his date book to identify the old man as Wright, wanted for murder. He telegraphs the mother to come to the mountains to make certain his identification. The hermit finds that he is suspected; he retreats into the forest. Peg has learned of her father's danger and she asks Noble to assist her in protecting him. Dean is determined to run the old man down. However, after a long search the old man is found dying. He lives only long enough to recognize his wife of years gone by. The mother is joyous at finding the child, and we have the rest of the story taken up with the happy marriage of Noble and Peg and the making of Peg into a "real" lady.
- Sloane, a retired multimillionaire, disputed the contentions of Van Dyke that clothes and money makes the man, and upheld his views that any man with ordinary intelligence can be made a man of culture and education. To prove his argument, he takes a man from one of the mills of his friends. Larry O'Neill, tall and powerful and young, swung his heavy sledge with powerful blows. Sloane guessed he would do. And so, after a little parley, Larry sat on the edge of a chair in Sloane's mansion that evening while Sloane explained the proposition. And so it came about that Larry was dressed in the latest cut of clothes of the best materials and became Mr. Lawrence O'Neill, with iron and steel interests. He made a hit at the club at the start. Larry made a greater hit at Mildred Harmon's reception, putting Van Dyke and one or two others of the club to rout in the race for Mildred's favors. But he kept his head, and conducted himself altogether in such a way that old man Sloane was proud of him and bore him away to the regret of everybody but Van Dyke. But Larry had started something. It grew and ripened until it was an everyday sight to see Mildred and Mr. O'Neill in the park on their horses. One day while aeroplaning, Larry had a chance to protect Mildred, and under these romantic circumstances before he thought, grabbed and kissed her. Panic-stricken at the enormity of his offense, Larry fled as fast as possible, but Mildred didn't seem to think it was such a terrible thing and from the way she smiled, the coward might have had another, if he hadn't run away. Larry sat in his room thinking hard and lecturing himself. "A conscience is a terrible thing to have to live with sometimes," he said, "I am a blackguard and a four-flusher. It was fun while it lasted, but the masquerade has gone far enough. I will go and tell her who I am and then go back to the anvil." Larry went back to the rolling mills, but one o'clock in the morning used to find him poring over a book on the manufacture of iron, though at times Mildred's face would appear on the page and blot out the words. And one o'clock often found old man Sloane thinking of Larry as he sat in his big, dim library, just as it found Mildred curled up in her big armchair in the firelight, looking with wide eyes into the dying embers. But on her face there was a smile. The hard study began to tell. Pretty soon Larry was telling the foreman how to do some things, and then he invented a process that made the grayheads in the carpeted office sit up and take notice. Within a year it was "Supt. O'Neill." Then followed a note from Mildred. And Larry made a bold stroke for an interest in the firm, and got it. With it all he got the girl of his heart by proving himself a gentleman.
- The sailor-men patronize the saloon kept by Portuguese Joe and his pretty wife and they put it over the simple dago in a peculiarly sailor-like fashion. They get their drinks and are not willing to pay. One day one of them carried the scheme so far as to get a drink on the nod and then to swallow the contents of the glass, into which he had poured a white powder that he carried with him. Feigning death, he was dragged out of the hotel by Joe, who was alarmed lest the police should appear and a dead drunk be found on the premises. So Joe put the man on the street. Several of the sailor-men habitues seeing the powder, tasted it and finding it only sugar, pointed out how Joe had been stung. Joe's little wife, like himself, conceived a suspicion of sailor-men in future and Joe thereafter was more careful of his naval guests.
- Unsophisticated, romantic young daydreamer Violet feels nothing for the young men of her village who are adored by the rustic girls. She declares that her husband must be a man of affairs, one of might, a man that she can look up to. Such a man comes into her life and loves and rides away. She tries for a long time to find him but in vain. After his departure a child is born to her and she is thrust into the world by her parents. She fights life's hard battle as best she can. Time passes. Violet loves her little boy and sings to him. She plays old time melodies upon her violin while he coos and kicks his tiny feet. Meanwhile the man prospers. Violet ceases to think of the past, or of the future. She feasts and sings and makes merry where souls are bought, so she may support her growing child. The man seeks her out and tries to buy the boy. She thrusts him away with her garishly decked fingers. That night while she treads the streets and feasts with a breaking heart, the man steals back and takes away the nestling. She returns in the gray of dawn and finds him gone. Like Rachael, she weeps and will not be comforted. The wheel of time turns and the son, now a young man, looks upon his father as a demigod. The poor wistful little mother is thought to be dead, but the son often thinks of her. He tries to fashion the old time melodies that she played for him. Sometimes he asks for her, but is told that she is no more. He wonders what happiness might have been his if the quiet little mother had lived. The purse-proud father is elected to the governorship of the state. His son glories in his father's greatness, while the mother wears her heart out in longing for her boy. Father and son leave the political club room while thousands crowd the pavement to see him and cheer him upon his victory. A wretched little huddle of what was once a woman comes nearer. She plays some maudlin memory of a melody upon a cracked violin. She recognizes the man. The son looks at her and instinctively is drawn to his mother. He is about to embrace her when the father curses her with a vile name. The son's soul leaps to his mouth. Without thinking he casts the father to the curb. The fall fractures the governor-elect's skull. The son is arrested. At the trial the mother sits with her withered hand clasped in her son's. The jury returns a verdict of "not guilty." The son looks at his mother. She seems to have renewed her girlhood. Her face is placid. Something in her stillness alarms the boy. He embraces her and finds that she is dead.
- Mrs. Swell visits the studio of a young sculptor and purchases a life-size statue of Gladiator tableau. The young artist, fearing that his customer may change her mind, hurriedly engages the services of Mike and Jake, two expressmen of unusual eccentricities, to convey the costly statue to the home of his customer. After carefully instructing the expressman in the handling of the statue, the inexperienced handlers of art fall over the tableau and hopelessly destroy it. The artist, pressed for the need of money, goes into a frenzy and is only pacified by the possible chance of replacing the tableau by the two expressmen in statue pose. Mike and Jake, in sympathy, offer their services and are immediately posed for the final inspection by Mr. Swell, who is forced to question his state of mind by the various positions assumed by the Gladiators at different intervals of his inspection. However, he complies with his wife's desire, and gives orders for its immediate delivery. Mike and Jake are crated in statue form and suffer to endure rough usage en route to the Swells' residence. Upon arrival they are met by the artist, who uncrates and poses the expressmen in the well-kept grounds of his purchaser. A lawn party is given in celebration of the magnificent unshrouding of the statue and wine and food are plentifully spread before the half-famished statues. At last the temptation becomes unbearable, and to the surprise of the entire party, the bold Gladiators invade the feast and take their fill, bringing about the exposure of the young sculptor, whose art they had so greatly appraised. At the police station their voices are raised in protest, but to no avail, and another scene shows these three serving a like number of years in the rock pile.
- Mary Grey, a young working girl, is in love with Chip Malone, a young fellow, who, while not bad at heart, has, through evil associates, learned to shirk work and spend in drink what money he is able to obtain. Discouraged by her failure to reform him and hopeless when Mary loses her position, she can see no way out of her troubles but suicide. An item in a newspaper to the effect that a man has swallowed bichloride of mercury, and is awaiting the slow death which that poison brings, suggests to her the means to carry out her plan. She goes to a drug store, asks for the same poison and takes the box to her room, where she swallows the contents. Meanwhile in the room next to Mary's another tragedy is about to be enacted. Rorie Graves is the son of the district attorney of the city, a boy weak in the face of temptation, who has sunk lower and lower until he has become the member of a gang of thugs, which is being prosecuted by his own father. When the gang decide to do away with the district attorney and the lot falls to Rorie to carry out the crime he realizes the error of his ways and shrinks from the gang, who proceed to deal with the traitor. Mary hears the struggle, and, only conscious of the fact that someone is in danger, hurries into the presence of the gang and denounces them. Rorie grasps the opportunity to escape and when Mary returns to her room she finds him hiding there. He tells his story to Mary and she decides to save him. Together they hasten out to go to Rorie's father. On the way there they learn that Rorie's father has been shot by a member of the gang. This upsets Rorie so that he enters a saloon with Mary to brace himself with a drink. There a moment later detectives, who recognize Rorie as a member of the gang, arrest them, but as they lead their prisoners out Chip, who happened to witness the arrest, stands them off with his gun and Mary and Rorie escape to Mary's room. There Chip, who has also made a getaway, joins them. Leaving Rorie in her room, Mary hastens to the district attorney's residence and fetches Rorie's mother, who is overjoyed to clasp her wayward boy in her arms again. Meanwhile, the detectives have located the building where Rorie is hiding, but Mary, by a clever ruse, decoys them to the gang's room instead, and the thugs, as well as Mary, are handcuffed and led off to the police station. There Mary awaits the approach of death. When Chip arrives with the doctor, who has examined the box which Mary believed would be her death, he brings the news that the contents of the box was harmless and that the wrong label was used. Surrounded by the laughing policemen, Chip, who has also learned his lesson, pledges his love for Mary anew.
- Bill Going is the star pitcher for his local Choctaw baseball team. Gamblers from Jimtown try to persuade him to throw the game and he shoots and kills them. He is given a reprieve to pitch the last game of the year.
- John Warren, a traveling salesman, arrives home unexpectedly. Upon entering his wife's bedroom he finds a beautiful evening dress which he has never seen before. Presently Mrs. Warren returns in a taxi. She is surprised, as she did not expect him for a week. She tells him that she will be economical in order to keep the maid whom she has just hired. The phone rings and Mrs. Warren answers it. In answer to his question Mrs. Warren tells John that it was her mother. In reality it was Dr. Carl. Warren's suspicions aroused, he sets a trap for his wife. A week later he announces that he is compelled to start on a business trip unexpectedly, and that he will be away two weeks at least. Immediately after her husband's departure, Mrs. Warren calls up Dr. Carl, who tells her over the phone that he will get ready at once to take her for their usual drive. Instead of leaving town, Warren rents a room commanding a view of his house from across the street. Dr. Carl enters his house, and soon afterward Warren sees his wife, handsomely gowned, drive off with him in an automobile. Warren is now convinced that Dr. Carl is his wife's lover. That night, Warren observes the doctor and his wife return and enter the house. The maid, who has been asleep on the couch in the dining-room, peeps through the keyhole and sees them enter the reception room, where Mrs. Warren removes her wraps. The maid shrugs her shoulders significantly, and lies down again on the couch. Soon afterwards, the doctor takes leave of Mrs. Warren. Warren makes up as the doctor, and after stealing the doctor's hat, coat and gloves from his office, goes to his own home. His wife, who is in her night dress, believes him to be the physician, and embraces him. Suddenly Warren removes his false mustache and his wife recognizes him. Her screams are heard by the maid in the dining-room. We see Warren with his fingers at his wife's throat. The maid looks through the keyhole or the dining-room door, and sees Warren come out of the bedroom and leave the house. The maid finds Mrs. Warren dead on the floor and telephones to the police station. Warren again returns to the doctor's house and, after replacing the coat and cap, he leaves. Meanwhile, a detective accompanied by policemen, arrive at Warren's house. The detective picks up the doctor's gloves that Warren has purposely left behind him, and the maid declares that they belong to Dr. Carl, being positive that it was he who killed her mistress. Dr. Carl is tried for the murder of Mrs. Warren and is pronounced "guilty" on the maid's testimony. The picture now fades into the next scene where we see King Baggot seated with a manuscript in his hand. Seated alongside of him is his director, Henry Otto, also holding a manuscript. Mr. Baggot tells his director that he thinks the story he has just read from the manuscript will make a wonderful photoplay, and the company seated about them, are equally enthusiastic.
- Henry Jenkins, who has served his time in state's prison, is released. He now seeks his former confederate in crime, Basil King, who is living in affluence. King is not overjoyed to see his former pal, but Jenkins comes just in time as King's butler has left and he is about to entertain lavishly. Jenkins dons the habiliments of the butler and enters upon his new duties. King loves Elsie Graham, who gives her heart to Ralph Webster. Miss Graham and Mr. Webster are guests at the reception. Ralph takes advantage of an opportunity and asks Elsie to marry him and she consents. He has forgotten the ring and announces he will leave the party to get it. One of the guests wears an expensive necklace, which is admired by all. King cannot resist the temptation to steal it and the act is noted by Jenkins. The loss is discovered and suspicion is cast upon Ralph, who left the party for a short time. The woman who loses the necklace employs the services of a clairvoyant and invites all the guests to be present at the test the following day. King is the last to arrive. The woman lapses into a state of coma and then announces that the thief who stole the necklace is in the room, being smoothly shaven. Ralph and King are the only men present devoid of hirsute appendage and King makes off unobserved. Suspicion falls on Ralph, of course, and he is driven from the house of his fiancée by her irate father, who believes him a thief. In his grief Ralph calls on King and tells him of the false accusation in a heart-broken manner. King, who has been refused by Elsie, is penitent and his better nature asserts itself. He bids Ralph be of good cheer and telephones Elsie to come to his rooms. She does so and King assures the pair that he will clear up the mystery, producing the missing necklace. They are happy and King is overcome with disappointment and is inconsolable to his grief at the happiness of his successful rival. Ralph and Elsie leave much elated. King summons Jenkins, gives him the necklace and a letter to take to the woman from whom the jewels were stolen. In the letter he confesses to having taken the necklace. Jenkins goes out. In the park he stops and reads the letter. He tears it in half and writes that he, Jenkins, is the thief, and that he can be found at the home of King. He delivers the necklace and letter and returns to find King dead in his chair. Jenkins, overcome with emotion, burns the letter written by King and calmly awaits the coming of the officer, which is inevitable. The story ends with Jenkins once more at the office of the warden of the penitentiary, coming voluntarily, to serve time for a crime he did not commit.
- Dave is a struggling young artist who has a great penchant for heathen idols. He and Letty, who is an illustrator, are engaged. Dave finishes a painting and takes it to the art dealer's, who that day has had returned to him a hideous-looking idol. Paul Steward had purchased it, but his wife insisted upon its return. While it was in the possession of the Stewards, their small daughter amused herself with stuffing its gaping mouth with everything she could discover, including her mother's valuable string of pearls. The art dealer offers to exchange the idol for the painting, and Dave takes it home. Letty is angered and breaks their engagement. Dave, disconsolate, falls asleep and has a dream in which he thinks some strange man is trying to take Letty from him. In his excitement he knocks over the idol and the string of pearls falls from the open mouth. Letty, her room below, hears the thud and hurries upstairs. When the lovers become so much engrossed with each other that they forget all about the idol. Meantime the loss of the pearls is discovered and Steward chauffeur is arrested for the theft. Detectives trace his movements and find that Steward sent him with the idol to the art dealers. The detectives deduce that the art dealer is the fence. He disclaims having the jewels. They visit Dave's apartments and there discover the jewels hanging out of the mouth of the idol. They remember that the little girl found enjoyment in feeding the idol and the mystery is solved. Happiness comes to the lovers, for Paul gives Dave an order for several paintings.
- Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom. The course of true love runs smoothly for the happy couple with the exception of an attempt on the part of Duncan to force his unwelcome attentions on Polly. He is soundly thrashed by Tom and vows vengeance. The wedding of Tom and Polly occurs and Bert, evidently penitent, congratulates them, assuming a friendship that is feigned. With the marriage of the couple, Bert takes to strong drink and becomes reckless. Polly and her father are about to go on a fishing trip. Rom asks to accompany the girl and the old man assents. They sail away, happy and contented. A furious storm arises and the ocean is lashed into a fury. Night approaches and the fishing smack does not return. The old lighthouse keeper is apprehensive. He starts to the lighthouse to light the beacon. Bert has been drinking heavily and he conceives a devilish scheme to wreak vengeance on his successful rival. He will go to the tower and tamper with the light, hoping Tom and his bride, unable to get their bearings in the storm, will go ashore on the treacherous rocks. He ascends the steps of the base of the light and is confronted with the keeper. He must prevent the old man form ascending the tower and, after resorting to the bottle, he struggles with the aged keeper. There is a violent fight and old Nat, endowed with a strength that is almost superhuman, when he thinks of the peril of his daughter, overpowers the desperate young man and staggers up the stairs and lights the lamp. The fishing boat is shown in the terrible storm. The lights of the tower flash out across the waters, showing the haven of safety. Bert, enraged beyond reason, at his failure, staggers out of the lighthouse and, endeavoring to reach the mainland, falls off the walk and is drowned. His descent down the lighthouse steps is spectacular, falling and rolling down the steps in his mad fury. The storm continues and the ocean is shown with the waves running mountain high. The villagers congregate on the beach, praying for the safe return of the fishing smack. Finally, the waves having subsided, the boat is shown, making a landing with Polly and Tom safe, to the joy of their friends, the old father being conscious that his struggle with the younger man was not in vain.
- Miner Hank Denby has a loving little wife, but he is a brute and abuses her. She bears it patiently until one day when forbearance ceases to be a virtue. He goes out to his work after an unusually violent scene, in which his wife is in tears as a consequence. She is all alone on the mountain, but resolves to desert her husband, to go anywhere to rid herself of the obnoxious presence of the husband. She packs a few of her belongings, writes a note to Denby, and is about to go out into the world when Philip Baldwin, a much-older prospector, comes into the cabin in search of food and drink. He is welcomed by the woman as he is kind. He looks about the cabin and notes her preparation for flight in surprise. On being questioned, the girl-wife tells him of the ill treatment she has been subjected to and her decision to leave it all. He mildly tries to dissuade her, to no avail. She is determined to leave and asks to be allowed to travel in his company. The big rough fellow sees no impropriety in that and the woman is guiltless of any wrong-doing. They leave the cabin, arrive at the tent of Baldwin and in attempting to secure water for her, he falls over a cliff. She runs around the eminence and finds him in the meantime, the husband has returned home, read the note, takes the trail and follows the pair with the insane idea that some man has stolen the affections of his wife. He comes upon them just as his wife is trying to extricate Baldwin from his perilous position. He is about to kill him when the wife interferes. Denby takes Baldwin on his back and carries him, unconscious to his cabin, where he nurses him back to health. On being convalescent, Baldwin leaves, but is followed by Denby to a rocky peak. Slapping Baldwin's face, he challenges him to a revolver duel. Baldwin is loath to fight, but is provoked, and back to back they start to walk apart. At the signal they turn and fire. Denby falls dead. His wife comes out and falls prostrate across his body. Baldwin gazes at the woman for a time and then, not understanding, walks away, down the slope, leaving Mrs. Denby alone with her dead husband whom she had not loved in life.
- Don Enrique Carrillo, a Spanish ranchero, is living with his wife and daughter, Dona Rosa and Senora Rosa, in the stately style peculiar to that time. The Mission Church, presided over by Padre de la Pena, still exists, and the family is attended by Pedro, the Mission Indian servant. Soon there comes a young U.S. government official from Washington, D.C. Rosa and the government official, George MacCurdy, fall in love. Despite the protests of her mother and father they hold clandestine meetings and, subsequently, are married by the good old Padre. No sooner is the marriage ceremony performed than the wrathful Don Enrique appears and attempts to stab the bridegroom. During the conflict, Rosa hastens off to the priest and persuades him to intervene between the combatants. His priestly authority is sufficient to deter Don Enrique from his murderous act. Meanwhile, George hurries away with his bride.
- A gang threatens to poison the city's water supply if the governor refuses to pardon one of their group.
- Down in the sunny South recently the youngsters had a pushmobile race. The little machines were assigned numbers and names and the contest was entered on with the greatest possible spiritedness. The race took place amidst delightfully umbrageous surroundings and some fine effects of sunlight playing across the view are secured in the picture, which appeals to the junior members of the audience.