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- Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
- Royal Macklin, a cadet at WEst Point, is discharged for a misdemeanor, and the father of Beatrice, Macklin's sweetheart, order her to break the engagement. Macklin goes to Honduras, in the midst of a revolution, and joins the Patriot army of General LaGuerre in the fight against Alvarez and his rebels. Macklin proves his valor in battle and saves the life of General Laguerre. But Beatrice and her father, having found that Macklin was innocent of the charge that caused his dismissal, are in Honduras and have been captured by Alvarez.
- Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails. However, the errand is not fraught with failure for the father, coming in at this moment, finds his daughter being made love to by the sweetheart of the young woman, and realizes the road upon which he has traveled. When he confronts his daughter and says, "You, my daughter, what are you doing here?" The daughter answers, "My father, what are you doing here?" The realization is brought home to the father's mind that the law of moral ethics that governs a woman's life necessarily governs that of wan as well. Reformation comes in his character. He takes his daughter away with him and together they go back to their home of happiness and content.
- John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- Seamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds his wife married to another, and though he loves her, he cannot bear to disrupt her current happiness.
- Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In .Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine. The holdup is carried out successfully and the loot hidden under the floor of Milford's cabin. Dorsey later returns and steals it. Then he flees the town. Milford is accused of the theft, but a search of his cabin does not reveal the money and he is freed. Gunhild, confident of his innocence, pledges her love as Milford goes east to live down the past. Two years later, Gunhild, employed as companion by a wealthy woman, arrives to spend the summer at a farm house adjoining the one operated by Milford. They meet by accident and their love is renewed. Dorsey, the strong man of a traveling show, reaches the town and insists upon forcing his attentions on Gunhild. Milford and Dorsey engage in a fistic encounter during which the latter is badly worsted. He leaves town that night. Having saved a large sum of money, Milford, accompanied by Gunhild, goes to the superintendent of the railroad and confesses his share in the holdup. Then he hands him the amount of money he had stolen from the paymaster. The superintendent, struck by Milford's honesty and the struggle he has made to make amends, gives the entire amount to Gunhild, now Milford's wife, as a wedding present. The two happy young persons then leave for parts unknown to begin life all over.
- Helen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful. Manders protests. The family physician also objects because of the result such a match would mean on the children, but Helen's parents laugh at these new-fangled notions. The doctor then appeals to Alving, who laughs him to scorn. Urged on by her parents, ambitious Helen, disregarding all warnings, marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young married woman. She contemplates leaving her husband and seeks her physicians advice, but he declines to give it. She then sees her pastor, who advises her to adhere to convention and her husband. Meanwhile, the young married woman gives birth to a child by Alving, and the physician agrees to bring the father to see it and keep the real parentage secret. Helen also bears a boy named Oswald. When Oswald is nine, Alving dies, a victim of his excesses. Oswald lives a clean life and studies art, but at times his mind seems affected. The mother remembers the doctor's warnings, but rejects them as silly. Knowing the boy has lived a clean life, however, she soon comes to accept the physician's predictions as fact, and schemes to save her son by marrying him to a sweet young girl. She picks out the daughter of her husband's paramour, and, totally unaware of the girl's parentage, draws the two young people together. They fall deeply in love and are to be wed. When the physician receives the wedding invitation, he realizes he must stop the wedding. He feels duty-bound to tell the truth, and does so to Oswald, his mother, his bride-to-be and her father. Realizing that he must protect the girl he loves and embittered by his inheritance, Oswald plunges into mad excesses. He grows to hate his father and then his mother for the past they have embedded in his nature, and his mother slowly realizes the truth of the physician's predictions. Horror stricken, she watches the gradual rotting of her son's brain. The girl, meanwhile, has retired to a convent. Against the oncoming insanity, Oswald fortifies himself with poison, but one day his mother finds him sitting on the floor, paralyzed, playing with the sunbeams, and runs for the pastor. During her absence, he succeeds in reaching the poison and mother and pastor find him dead. As her only hope of consolation, the mother turns to the pastor.
- Nell and her old grandmother are poor and alone in the world and finally leave their old home and wander into the country in search of work. They reach a little country town and apply at a boarding house for work. Nell agreeing to work for nothing but board and lodging for herself and "Granny." This Sears, the proprietor, agrees to, but Nell is worked to death at waiting on table and other chores, and Sears is very unkind to her and "Granny." Graham Wilkes, a wealthy young man from the city, on the outs with his father, comes to the boarding house and becomes interested in little Nell, much to Sears' disgust, the latter redoubling his harsh treatment of Nell. Finally they can stand it no longer and leave. But en route Nell overhears a plan to rob Sears and Wilkes by a couple of tramps, and in spite of her being badly treated by the former, she decides to warn them and prevent the robbery, which she does. Sears now repents of his treatment of her but Wilkes has become interested and Nell turns to him for care and comfort for herself and Granny.
- Hunchbacked Japanese artist Marashida, marries Jewel, the daughter of Yasakuj. Their happy married life is destroyed when the daughter of an American missionary, Alice Carroway, known as Ali-San, persuades Marashida to pose for her sculpture of the deformed god Ni-O. While Marashida's character gradually deforms, Yasakuji recognizes in Ali-San the traits of the legendary Fox Woman, who because she had no soul of her own, stole those of others, sometimes turning warriors into crazy beasts. After Jewel, to please Marashida, indulges Ali-San's demand that she be her "playmate," she suffers further humiliation when Ali-San makes her the servant in her father's mission. Finally, Jewel discards the American clothes she is made to wear and, dressed in her wedding robes, goes to her ancestors' tomb to commit harakiri. When Yasakuji climbs up Ali-San's balcony, and she sees his face in her mirror, she accidentally falls off the balcony to her death. Released from Ali-San's spell, Marashida takes Jewel's dagger from her, and they live happily again.
- Frank Hastings, unjustly convicted of Darrell's crime, the robbing of Jason Ferguson, effects his escape from the penitentiary, and under compulsion, Darrell's escape, too. Without revealing his past, he establishes himself in life and marries, but is driven from town by Darren, who attempts to blackmail him. In New York he patents a time lock and becomes rich. When Darrell locates him again he submits to blackmail, but rebels when Darrell and another burglar call on him to open a safe with his time lock. Finally he goes with them, opens the lock and then, when the thieves are inside the vault, slams the door shut and leaves them there to suffocate. It is Saturday night and they will not be found till Monday morning. His wife, Mary, notices his manner, however, and gets his secret out of him. She forgives him for his past, but insists he shall not be a murderer and persuades him to telephone the police. With the president of the bank and the police, Frank goes to the bank and opens the safe. Meanwhile, in the vault, Darrell has fought with his pal and killed him, and when the door is opened be is shot and killed in an attempt to escape. Dying, he confesses all the wrong he has done Frank.
- A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners.
- John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library. The young man is taken to the penitentiary, but eludes his guards and escapes. His sweetheart engages a noted detective who finds a small Hindu image in the hand of the dead man. Following this clue the detective learns that the image is symbolical of a Hindu secret sect known as "The Black Adepts." He trails two Hindus and finally arrests them. He finds in their possession the other part of the image in which is secreted a valuable ruby. Young Stafford is recaptured, but is saved from execution when news of the arrest of the Hindus is telegraphed to the penitentiary.
- In the attic of her home, an old lady comes upon the high chair of her children. The incidents of her life pass in visions before her. She recalls her home-coming as a bride, the happy years with her husband and growing children. The first great sorrow, the death of her only daughter, is lived over again. Then she sees her favorite son, Jack, leaving home to satisfy his longing for adventure. The call to arms takes husband and elder boy from her, the former never to return. Sam marries Sylvia Lee and goes away to build up a fortune in the city. Recently, she has visited him and his beautiful young wife. Sam has urged her to come and live with them, but the old lady has decided that their household, after all, never can be home to her. So she finds herself back now in her own cottage, peopled with precious memories. As she sits, alone, brooding over the past, she hears steps on the stairs. A tall figure crosses the dusky attic room in two strides, and clasps the old lady in his arms. It is Jack, the adventurer, home from sea. Then, over the old high chair, mother and son exchange laughter, tears and kisses.
- John Sinclair was the son of a sturdy old ranchman who had proved his courage in the Indian fight of the early seventies, but John was destined never to follow his father as a fighting man, for an accident in infancy had doomed him to be a cripple for life. Mary Shirley, a pretty girl who lived on a neighboring ranch, was a great favorite with the Sinclairs, and John worshipped her. A new foreman came to the Sinclair ranch; Mary Shirley met him and liked him; the feeling she had for him was not the friendship that she gave to John, but unselfish and devoted love. They became engaged. The sheriff's posse captured the leader of a band of desperadoes, due entirely to the efforts of the foreman. The outlaw a few weeks later escaped from prison, and determined to wreak vengeance upon his captor. He made his way to the ranch, accompanied by some of his band, and found it deserted, save for the foreman and the crippled son. They ignored John as unworthy of consideration and made their way to the bunkhouse, where the foreman was bound and gagged. The bunkhouse was set afire and the outlaws prepared to leave. John had seen the band approach and knew their object. At first he exulted over the fate which was to befall the man he hated, then he thought of Mary and his feeling changed. Hastily he hobbled to the bunkhouse, but before he could reach it he was seen by the outlaws and fired upon. They rode away, leaving him badly wounded. But despite his growing weakness, buoyed up by the love for a girl who preferred another, he crawled into the burning house and dragged forth the foreman to safety. The Sinclairs, returning from town, saw the flames in the distance, and hastened to their home, accompanied by Mary. There they found the foreman unhurt, and heard from his lips the story of John's heroism. The cripple's life was ebbing away, but it was a happy end, for Mary kissed him and told him with a sob that he was the bravest man she ever knew.
- Mary Bennett was one of those women who always have to have somebody less fortunate than themselves to live and toil for. When John Bennett, her husband, was sentenced unjustly to state prison for a petty crime, she took in her brother Will and supported him in idleness on her earnings. Will did not know what it was to be grateful. He would go off for days at a time with his pals, returning at all hours of the night much the worse for liquor. One evening Mary sat alone and anxious, straining for her brother's footsteps, when someone came hurriedly up the porch and tapped on the window, John's old signal. With a rush of blood to the heart she ran and opened the door. A tall man leaped in out of the darkness, and she was clasped in her husband's arms. When Will stumbled into the cottage next morning, it was deserted. The old wallet with Mary's savings was gone. A year later, a desperate-looking vagrant shambled up to the open door of a cabin in a remote mountainous district. He could see a woman moving about within, and in a whining voice he began to beg food. She came out into the light, a man following. A look of mutual recognition passed between the squatters and the tramp, and a cruel grin overspread the features of the latter. Will had got his sister and her escaped convict husband in a trap. Threatening to notify the authorities and cause Bennett's arrest, he extorted from Mary the little money they had in the house. Then helping himself to the one horse, he rode away. Inside three hours, Will flattered himself, the handsome reward offered for his brother-in-law's capture would be his. He sawed and jerked at the horse's bridle. Unfamiliar with his mount and the precipitous roads, loose with shifting dirt and rock, he rode recklessly. Suddenly, on the steep side of a gully, he felt the earth slipping from beneath him. His beast crouched like a cat, quivering all over. The rumble of a landslide down the mountain above them grew to a deafening roar, filling the ravine with thunder. Mary and John, fleeing the cabin, heard it, and a horrible gladness smote their hearts. In that moment they knew that fate had lifted the burden from them forever.
- Maggie, daughter of Pat Gallagher, a brutal saloonkeeper, to escape being forced into marriage with a bully and protege of her father's, takes refuge in a shop in Chinatown, just around the corner from her father's resort. The Chinese merchant, who has given her shelter, at last persuades her to marry him. Thus she exchanges a miserable existence for another even more repugnant. Years later finds Hop Woo, the merchant, selling his daughter by his white wife into slavery. Ah Woo's brother, overhearing his father bartering with the highbinder, who is a member of the powerful Hip-Yi-Tong society, runs for help to Jack Donovan, an attractive young Irishman, who keeps a gambling hall on the borders of Chinatown. The brother shoots and kills the slave dealer. Hop Woo is suspected of the crime and visited with the blood atonement by the Infuriated Hip-Yi-Tong. Ah Woo is carried away a prisoner. Her brother and Donovan, who loves the beautiful Chinese-American girl, rescues her from the Third Circle, the lowest of the underground passageways in Chinatown and later, Donovan shoots dead the hounding highbinders. Maggie, the mother, meanwhile has committed suicide. The young Irishman sells his establishment and buys a ranch, where he takes his bride, Ah Woo, and her brother.
- May and Annie work in a fashionable millinery store where the buyer, struck by May's beauty, advances her to a position among the models. She gets a little money, but finds that she is obliged to wear better clothes, which she has a hard time getting. When Curtiss, a very gentlemanly individual, appears upon the scene and is attracted to May, she gives the cold shoulder to Joe, the wagon driver who is in love with her, and allows Curtiss to pay her marked attention. Her friend Annie warns her that the newcomer might not be on the square, but in her struggle to make ends meet, wear good clothes, and hold her job, May allows herself to be buoyed up by the dinners and theater evenings Curtiss lavishes upon her; in time she also permits him to buy her an expensive dress. The next day, seized with remorse and fearing Curtiss, May asks permission to return the dress. He directs her to the supposed dressmaker--a procuress in reality--and Joe, following her, discovers her danger. Curtiss arrives on the scene of the trap he has laid for May, he and Joe fight, and the wagon driver rescues May from the clutches of "a gentleman."
- Elmer Kent is a clerk in a large establishment, and earns fifteen dollars a week. He supports his sickly mother, and every cent of his salary is required to make both ends meet. The heaviest expense is the payments on the cottage which his father, before his death, partially paid for. Recently more money than usual has gone for necessities for his mother who has had an ill turn, and the real estate agent sends him word that payments overdue must be remitted the following day or the cottage will be seized. The next day is Saturday and pay day. Elmer hurries with the money to the agent's office only to learn he has gone to the beach. He follows, him but at the summer resort is waylaid by a fellow clerk. Wirt Hadley, who introduces him to two pretty girls. They have a good time, Hadley footing the bills until the girls begin to pass remarks about Elmer's being a "tightwad." Discouraged, irritated by their ridicule, and despairing of finding the agent, he treats everybody to a sumptuous meal at the café. There Carr, the agent, sees Elmer, forms his own opinion of the spendthrift, and when the young man applies on Monday for an extension, sternly refuses. Elmer and his mother are evicted. Meanwhile the girls enjoy life at the beach, where they are summering, all unconscious of the misfortunes their careless twitting of a sensitive youth have caused.
- Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué's loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.
- George Wilton in order to fight the trust has speculated with company money and lost; his factory is about to be closed. He gets a tip from James Roberts, a crooked broker in the employ of Robert Thorpe, the trust magnate, which tip of course goes wrong; he is ruined. Ben Martin, a discharged employee of Thorpe, robs the safe of the Wilton factory, and hides the money in the woods. Wilton and Martin are sent to prison, but each for a different crime, and they both get in the same cell. Martin is led by Wilton to study and improve himself. By reading "Monte Cristo" he is led to emulate the Count by revenging himself and Wilton when he gets out of prison. In the meantime the factory has been closed; the Wilton family is poor and the daughter, Marjorie, is working in the Thorpe factory. Thorpe's son is persecuting her and finally fires her out. The Wiltons are in greater trouble than ever. Martin is soon released and invents a new machine for the factory. He takes the money that he stole, buys machinery, opens the old factory and puts the trust out of business after a hard fight, during which the trust attacks the factory and a battle begins. The money that Wilton stole and is paid back, and everything ends happily. Martin marries Marjorie Wilton.
- In a frontier mining town Gabriel Blair nurses a man who has fallen sick of a strange skin disease. Someone in the community pronounces the disease leprosy and the community expels patient and nurse from the town. Blair provides for the man and goes back to the town, but being now contaminated they won't let him stay. He goes to another mining community looking for a doctor. In this second town lives Meta Gates with her aged father. Meta is courted by Dick Stull, a brutal fellow, who wants to marry her, but she will not have him. He finds her alone and his wooing is becoming rough, when Blair appears and Stull desists. Blair is told that a doctor is hunting in the neighborhood, so he waits for the doctor to return and an affection springs up between Meta and Blair. One day a traveler from the first town arrives and, recognizing Blair, tells the town he is a leper. Blair is at once expelled, but Meta follows him while Stull sets out to bring her back before she can reach her lover. The doctor happens into the first camp and is told of the leper. He goes out to see him and finds that he is not a leper. Crossing the mountain, the doctor meets Blair, Meta and Stull just as the latter is begging Meta to keep away from Blair and go with him. The doctor examines Blair and pronounces him not a leper and tells them that the first man also was not a leper. Stull departs defeated and the doctor passes on, leaving Meta and Blair to return to the camp. But Stull has preceded them and, counting on the fear of the town, organizes them against Blair and Meta, concealing the fact that Blair is not a leper. The mob decides to kill the pair and menace them with guns, but dare not go near. Stull, knowing there is no danger, boldly assails Blair and in a hand-to-hand fight tries to kill him. Blair is getting the better of the combat, when Stull escapes from him and goes back to the mob. But the mob now believes him also contaminated and they kill him. The doctor now returns and dispels all fear, and Blair and Meta are invited back to the camp.
- An author with talent has trouble in disposing of it; another author prostitutes his gifts by writing and selling books that show a wrong, distorted viewpoint of life. The poor author refuses to write such bad books and severely reprimands his daughter, whom he finds just starting to read one. Times become very hard and he is tempted to sacrifice his ideals. He writes such a morbid novel and is ashamed. He falls asleep, exhausted, across his desk. He dreams his book is in covers and that a little girl, tired of poverty and lack of good times, has read it. Out of its pages step the little girl and man, characters of the story, and take the poor girl, May, along with them to show her life (according to the author), as it should be lived. The author sees in his dream. May ruined and disgraced by the man in his book. She is denied refuge by her mother. Passing a photographer's, sees there a photo of the author. She destroys this in a rage and tells the owner that he (the author) has betrayed and ruined her. She then goes to her room and turns on the gas. The dream is over, the author still asleep. His daughter tiptoes in and takes his manuscript from the desk and starts to read. The author wakes, his dream still vivid, and sees his daughter starting to read his manuscript. He snatches it from her, telling her that it was not finished. After she has gone, "That is the best ending," he says as he watches it burn. Then he sits down at his desk again and starts to write a better and sweeter and truer story.
- King rides into a Western saloon and recognizes Burns at the bar. He covers the crowd with his gun, shoots Burns, and makes his getaway. At his rendezvous, King finds himself out of tobacco and sends his companion Eagle Eye back to town to buy some. Eagle Eye discovers a reward for King outside the saloon, and the Indian, leaving to return, brings the sign with him. King at the rendezvous takes the sign from Eagle Eye, destroys it, but Eagle Eye shows he is afraid of being caught with King and leaves, after King warns him not to squeal. Taking a job on a ranch, Eagle Eye meets the daughter through a little accident to a pall she is carrying, which he fixes for her; he is infatuated. King stops at the ranch house for a drink and sees Eagle Eye attack the daughter in another part of the place. King, rushing to her rescue, beats up Eagle Eye and sends him off. For revenge, Eagle Eye turns informer and directs the sheriff to King's position. King sees them near the cliff and the shooting brings down Eagle Eye, who falls over the cliff. A duel follows between the sheriff and King. The sheriff is finally keeled over with a shot and King goes to wet his handkerchief. He leaves his gun behind, and the sheriff, reviving, covers King, and ties his hands with a handkerchief. The westerners decide to take the law in their own hands and coming on the sheriff in his cabin, eating, they take the prisoner away from him, after hog-tying the sheriff. The crowd makes for a tree, but as they arrive and are ready to string up King, the sheriff comes, after freeing himself by rolling into the hayfield and cutting bonds with a hay knife he found. The sheriff covers the crowd with his revolver and makes them remove the rope, and King tells his story. King, Burns, and Mary are making the journey over the range when they come upon an old miner's shack. They answer his cries for help, King and Mary going in. The miner is on his deathbed and before he passes away gives them the bag of gold he has hoarded. The two make Burns a third partner in their good fortune. At camp that night. Burns takes the money from King and with the only water bag in the party, steals away. After a terrible trip across the desert, Mary dies, with King attending her. Hence the swift revenge on Burns in the saloon. Back to the tree, where the westerners commend and sympathize with King, and all leave except the sheriff, who looks at King, grief-stricken.
- Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged grandparents, with whom she lives. Her sweetheart, Bob, is the boy-of-all-work in the same store. To the Emporium comes a flashy drummer from the city to sell the merchant a bill of goods. He meets Dorothy, and she is impressed with his good clothes and city manners. Her sweetheart, Bob, lectures her for allowing the drummer to become familiar, and they quarrel but the quarrel is soon forgotten and difficulties adjusted. In the course of time, the drummer returns on another of his periodical visits. He finds occasion and opportunity to picture to the impressionable girl the allurements of the city. Against her better judgment, she agrees to go with him to the city, where he promised to get her a position in one of the big department stores. She agrees to meet him at the railroad station at train time that night. Evening comes, and she goes to the station, arriving ahead of the drummer. While here waiting for him, she falls asleep and in her dream imagines dire consequences to her grandparents arising out of her support being withdrawn. Her nightmare awakens her and she is about to return home when the drummer arrives. Angered at her change of mind, he attempts to use force, and tries to drag her aboard the then waiting train. Her sweetheart in shadowing the drummer, arrives in the nick of time. A fight ensues in which the drummer is worsted and glad to escape on the moving train.
- Eddie Foy, the famous comedian, has a son, Charlie, who is a second edition of his famous father. In this picture young Foy plays the part of a boy who, to gratify his curiosity, bores holes in various fences, to see what is on the other side. By doing so he becomes involved in a number of adventures. Furthermore, he kills time by giving an imitation of his famous father.