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- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.
- A chance find of money makes the penniless Sam a good match for the nouveau riche Lindy. But Sam soon loses the money at cards - and with it the favor of the unfaithful Lindy.
- Father Hartley Steele, a Catholic priest, is accused of a murder committed by one of his parishioners. The murderer, Jake Smith, a poor laborer, tries to cover up his crime with the priest's cassock. The good Mrs. Smith, who is horrified and appalled at her husband's crime, unable to still her conscience or reconcile herself with her God, goes to the priest to confess. Her confession lightens the weight from her heart and mind. It gives her at last the repose her turbulent mind needs. The priest is soon accused of the crime. His own cassock is the strongest evidence against him. He is tried and convicted. Although he knows who the real murderer is, his lips are sealed. With angelic sweetness and fortitude he endures the jeers and insults of the mob that is only too ready to assail the sincerity of the church. Without rancor he is willing to go to his execution, but Heaven intervenes in his behalf.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
- A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead.
- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- A married couple decide to "live separately together."
- A young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. He leaves his country home to see his fortune in London.
- A sympathetic bandit chief fights for freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- The first story begins with a young and pretty girl named Isabelle sitting upon a hill. It is then that she is attacked by Pedro. And following the common thematic trajectory of the time, Isabelle is then rescued by the kind and brave medical student who spends his time as a minister for the poor, Alonzo. Pedro is insistent on revenge and applies to the local monastery where Alonzo works in order to frame him. He hopes to frame him for the mysterious and sudden disappearance of the church's jewels. The frame ends immediately after Pedro plants the jewels in Alonzo's home and the monks are quick to punish Alonzo and Isabelle.
- A woman sold as a bride to the local Rajah is saved by her lover and his loyal tiger.
- Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him. The daughter of his employer is the innocent cause of the activity of his powerful enemy, who is an influential banker and the rival of the secretary for the hand of the girl. One of the secretary's cufflinks found near the looted safe suggests to the banker the possibility of fixing the crime upon him. The butler accepts a large sum of money from the banker in return for bearing witness, but is suspected of dishonesty by the maid because of his sudden show of wealth. Detectives are put upon his track, but he learns of his danger and succeeds in effecting his escape, thus making it appear that he himself is guilty of the theft. As a hunted criminal with the police instructed to arrest him on sight he becomes a desperate character and selects the banker as a likely subject for a successful scheme to obtain money. By a clever ruse be obtains an audience with the banker, leaving him bound and gagged several thousand dollars poorer. But his bold move leads to his discovery by the police, who follow him successfully in spite of a spectacular flight in which Broadway, the Bowery, the Brooklyn Bridge and Flushing, Long Island play an important part. The opening of a large cantilever bridge at the psychological moment places the butler in the clutches of the law, but the banker is afraid to identify him as his assailant and there is no direct proof of his connection with the million dollar robbery. Experts find only the safe owner's fingerprints upon the combination of the safe, and a famous detective becomes interested in the peculiar case. He looks up the life history of the victim of the robbery and finds that the old capitalist suffers from a common but little understood affliction. By substituting a hypnotist for the old gentleman's barber he succeeds in obtaining a statement which proves that the capitalist removed the money box from the safe with his own hands and hid it in a fireplace while walking in his sleep. The butler is immediately accused of perjury, but fights desperately against arrest and when finally cornered leaps from the top of a high building to his death. The capitalist carefully follows the instructions given by himself while hypnotized and finding his lost wealth intact, begs the forgiveness of his falsely accused secretary and welcomes him as the husband of his daughter.
- Editha Brawnson, a successful magazine writer, receives a letter from the Managing Editor requesting her to secure a story depicting the life of the Underworld. Miss Brawnson determines to get the necessary data for her article by disguising herself as a habitué of the underworld and mingling with the people whose lives her facile pen will portray. She begins by entering a cheap saloon on the lower East Side. While there she discloses a large sum of money, which attracts the attention of old Mother Gessop, a habitué of the place. Mother Gessop persuades Editha to go with her, and introduces the daring young woman to the leader of a gang of notorious robbers. The chief of the gang of robbers, becoming suspicious of Editha, determines to put her to the test. He forces her to accompany him to a house, and awaits outside while Editha enters the place. As she is about to rifle the safe she is interrupted by Bert King, the owner. Surprised to find a woman engaged in such an occupation, King, nevertheless, thinks it his duty to give her up to the police. As he turns in an alarm Editha faints. Bert makes a careful scrutiny of his prisoner and discovers the letter from the Managing Editor, which disclosed to him Editha's identity. He sidetracks the police and allows Editha to depart. Bert subsequently sees Editha in her home; they marry and live happily ever after, and the burglars are arrested and thrown into prison.
- "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death. In the meanwhile Paxton's horse comes back to his general store. When the riderless horse arrives there is naturally considerable excitement. Gray arrives on the scene and he makes things look pretty black for Jim, the man who was last seen with the postmaster. Jim is placed under arrest, but the boys, as well as the postmaster's young daughters, May and Gladys, do not believe Jim to be guilty. May and Gladys ride the trail and finally find their father after he calls to them. Gray stoutly asserts his innocence and manufactures evidence incriminating Jim. May and Gladys, the "two little rangers," however, untangle the evidence and their father's story cinches things. When things begin to look pretty black for Gray he retreats to his shack. The girls, however, are determined to get him and, after seeing their volleys of bullets have no effect, discharge a firebrand from a bow. The firebrand sets the shack on fire and Gray perishes in his own tomb.
- During a party to watch Haley's comet, a father sees his daughter in the arms of a "strange young man" through the group's telescope. He breaks up the couple, dragging his daughter inside by the hair, but the young man returns to woo the girl from the garden below. He tries to climb to the window, but the father appears again to breakup the romance. The father banishes his daughter to bed and, to be sure she does not escape, confiscates her clothes and takes them to bed with him. Never at a loss, the daughter steals her father's only pair of clothes and sneaks away to elope with her lover. Discovering her departure, the father is forced to don her clothes in order to chase after her. Meanwhile, the young couple go to the home of an inexplicably effeminate priest, who is reluctant to marry the two 'boys' but concedes when one of them removes her cap to reveal she is a girl. The ceremony is performed and the father arrives too late, only to be lectured by the priest about both is rage and his odd dressing habits.
- A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
- Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the celebrated detective Bob Macauley whose sweetheart Sylvia is a struggling salesgirl and the sole support of her ailing mother. When she is turned down for promotion by her boss, Sylvia applies for a position with a kindly woman who has offered her help. To her horror, Sylvia soon discovers that the woman is a madame and has lured her to the same house of ill repute in which Charlotte is being held captive. Meanwhile, searching for Charlotte, Bob visits the brothel disguised as a gasman and discovers that Sylvia is a resident. Thinking that she is there willingly, Bob upbraids her, but upon discovering the truth he rescues her as well as Charlotte and delivers Paul to the authorities.
- A New York detective solves the kidnapping of a rich banker by a gang of criminals, and clears the daughter's fiancé from being involved.
- A priceless diamond stolen by a British attaché from a statue of Buddha brings bad luck to all who possess it.
- In the eastern part of New Mexico is locate the little mining town of Gatlach. There, however, we find an active mining camp dependent largely upon the famous Gatlach mine for its existence. Living in the camp we find Florence, who is loved by Jake. Florence, too, loves Jake. A new superintendent arrives to take charge of the mining property. The new arrival meets Florence and the man and girl fall in love. Discontent among the Mexican and half-breed miners develops. They mutiny, coming to the office making demands which the super promptly refuses and orders them from the place. The ruffians withdraw to arm themselves and then plan an attack upon the office and the death of their boss. Jake overhears the plot, and while he has no love for Harry, determines for the sake of Florence to save them. He rushes to the office and warns them just as the mob appears. They are pursued and finally take refuge in a narrow pass. With only one horse, escape for the party is impossible. Jake forces Harry against his will to take the horse and Florence and escape. They depart seeking aid, which is found in the shape of a troop of cavalry out scouting. Thus reinforced, they rush back to Jake's aid, but too late, he has fought his last fight and given up his life for those dear to him.
- Two Newark policemen go undercover disguised as women. Officer Henderson attracts unwanted attention from an amorous man and suspicion from his wife.
- A hardy old frontiersman, sitting in front of his cabin roasting a leg of lamb, dozes off and dreams of his struggles on the prairies. He lives over again the time when his father's pioneer wagon was attacked by Indians, of the time when nearly all of his relations were massacred and of his escape and rescue. His whole career looms up before him and passes on in review. His boyhood on the plains, the struggles of an early manhood, his tender love affair, his marriage, his growing family and their gradual demise and finally the mists of this nightmare begin to fade away and then we see the hardy old frontiersman "get a hustle on" and prepare a meal for his lonely self and big, faithful dog.
- Lydie Martin has trouble with her ailing child. Dr. Mann, a friend of the East Side poor, does all he can to help Lydie and her sick child. Lydie plans to take her child and her husband to the country, a place in California where a neighbor has relations. But there is no prospect of going; they would need $300 and her husband is out of work. One day Dr. Mann, while making his rounds of the tenement, stops in to see the Martins. When Mrs. Martin's eyes light on the wealthy doctor's coat, a sudden impulse impels her to go through the doctor's pockets. She finds his wallet, from which she removes just enough that would take her and hers to California. Just as she takes the money, a jealous, evil-minded neighbor sees the act and immediately goes off to report to the police. In the meanwhile, Lydie Martin makes hasty preparations for a departure to California, explaining to her husband that the doctor loaned her the money. Just as she is leaving, the police break in and she is accused of theft. The doctor is brought in and he tells the police that he loaned the money to Mrs. Martin. She thanks him with grateful eyes and the little family starts for fresh air and happiness.
- The four-masted schooner "Caroline," a valuable seagoing vessel engaged in a peaceful legitimate trade along the rough coast of New England, is the central point around which this interesting drama revolves. Her owner has been forced by misfortune to borrow money from a wealthy merchant who is the secret head of a band of smugglers engaged in bringing Chinamen into the United States by landing them secretly upon a dangerous stretch of the seacoast. The merchant wants the "Caroline" for his illegal traffic, and has also made up his mind to obtain her captain-owner's daughter for his bride. The girl, however, is in love with a stalwart coast guard and is seconded in her dislike for the merchant by her brother who, besides being the first mate of the "Caroline," has rigged a wireless apparatus upon the vessel and upon the roof of their home, and has taught his sister how to communicate with him while he is at sea. The merchant succeeds in secreting a number of his desperate band in the hold of the "Caroline" when she sails upon one of her cruises, and thus gains possession of the vessel and places her crew in irons. She is immediately forced into the "yellow traffic" and used to pick up a cargo of Chinamen who are packed in barrels and loaded upon her deck. Meanwhile the activities of the merchant, the girl and the coast guard upon the land combined with the government's efforts to stop the operations of the smugglers add double interest to the story which reaches a splendid climax when the brother succeeds in communicating with his sister by wireless, is made to walk the plank, swims 140 feet under water, finally clinging to a rudder chain and reaching shore in time to lead a large force against the smugglers on land. He pursues the "Caroline" out to sea and leads an attack upon her ruffian crew, which ends in a hand-to-hand conflict and a triumph for the guardians of the law.
- A Mexican officer is desirous of obtaining the intentions of the American troops. He converses with Decastro, who suggests that they send Juanita, a Spanish girl, into the American line. Juanita succeeds in getting acquainted with Lieutenant Harvey, of the American troops. Harvey teaches her telegraphy. Juanita, so far, has not been successful in securing any information that would be of use to the Mexican government, so she plans to admit Decastro into the telegraph office, when on one is there but the lieutenant. Decastro, after a struggle, subdues the lieutenant, and carries him to the Mexican general. Juanita, who is in love with the lieutenant, takes good care that no harm is done to her lover, and plans his rescue. The Mexican general orders that he give him all the information he can. He promptly refuses. Juanita interrupts and asks to be left alone with Harvey. Her request is granted. Now she plans his rescue. She dashes away to a telegraph pole, climbs, taps the wires, connects them with her instrument and is successful in conveying the news to the American troops. Enraged at the apparent treachery of Juanita and the persistent refusal of Harvey, the Mexican officer determines that the lieutenant be shot at sunrise. The execution is interrupted by the arrival of the American troops and Lieutenant Harvey is restored to his freedom and the loving arms of his sweetheart.
- Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes. Nelson, a detective, is called upon to solve the mystery. On the box he finds a peculiar trademark, which he seizes as a clue. At his home he finds the same odd mark on an ashtray bought by his mother in a Hindu curio shop, and he learns that the box containing the snakes was purchased by a Hindu woman. Calling upon the woman, he is surprised to find himself in the home of a Priestess of Buddhism. The Priestess tries to fascinate him with her beauty and, not succeeding, drops a powder into an incense burner, the fumes of which begin to throw him into a stupor. He fights his way to a window, blows a police whistle, and is attacked by three giant Hindu attendants. But the police arrive in time to save his life, and the Priestess is arrested and thrown into prison. The dancer, Norma, is attracted to Nelson by his bravery, and they become friends. Meanwhile, the Priestess succeeds in working a psychic miracle in which she goes into a trance and, while her earthly form remains in prison, her soul is freed and appears before the horrified detective in his study. His nature is changed immediately by the Priestess's mystic influence, and his face becomes the face of a hardened criminal. Changing his clothes for one of the rough suits used in his detective work, he visits a den of crooks and aids them to rob a bank, the plans of which he has been entrusted with in his professional capacity. Later he is called to the bank to investigate the robbery and, not knowing of his dual personality, makes every effort to find the man who had committed the crime. He finds his own scarf among the scattered papers taken from the safe. A threatening letter, which he receives from the followers of the Priestess, is seen by Norma, who is so greatly concerned for his safety that when he asks her to marry him, she quickly consents to an engagement, so that she can do all in her power to protect him. His old mother is puzzled by seeing him leave his own house through the window, when he is again visited by the spirit of the Priestess and influenced to aid the same band of crooks in the robbery of his own home. When his real personality returns, he finds himself in his own office, where he has been discovered by his mother, sleeping in a chair, dressed in his old clothes. Upon discovery that his house has been robbed, he calls the chief of police and is seen by the companions of his criminal personality, who thinks that he is acting as an agent of the authorities merely to place them in the hands of the law. When he is again transformed toy the spirit of the Priestess and returns to the thieves' den, they regard him as a spy and plan to do away with him, leaving him bound and gagged in the care of an old hag, while they celebrate his capture. But Norma, who, with his mother has been watching him, follows him to the den of thieves and, overpowering the old woman, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, the followers of the Priestess succeed in rescuing her from her prison cell and are speeding away in an automobile when Nelson, who still retains his criminal personality, asks them to assist him to escape from the crooks, who are closely upon his trail. Thus, he unwittingly places himself and his fiancée in the power of the Priestess, who makes them prisoners in a temple of Buddha. Norma faints, and when Nelson's real personality returns, he finds himself bound hand and foot in the temple. Norma quickly explains the situation to him and, by burning the ropes that bind his wrists with the fire in the incense burner, he frees his companion and makes his way to the roof by the aid of a heavy chain from which a large oriental lamp is swung from the ceiling. He succeeds in helping Norma to the roof by the same method and they reach the ground with the aid of a large tree. The chief of police, who has been summoned by Nelson's mother, overtakes the crooks and arrests them after a desperate struggle. But the Priestess cheats the majesty of the law by the aid of a poisoned ring with which she does away with herself during one of her wild fanatical dances. Her death marks the end of her influence over Nelson, and he at last feels free to marry Norma.
- The story revolves about a young woman who is forced to enter the Russian Secret Service on the threat that if she did not do so her father, an active Nihilist, would be put to death. Before her own eyes he is tortured in the prison and to stop these inhuman tortures, she falls in with the plan to rout out the Nihilist organization. In the furtherance of their designs, the Secret Service authorities introduce her into the home of Prince Cyril, who is suspected of being in sympathy with the Revolutionists. She unwillingly does her task, which is made very easy by Prince Cyril's admiration for her personally and his sympathy with her father's plight. He introduces her into his circle of radicals, but before very long a dramatic scene develops that places her under suspicion. During a meeting of the radicals, she disappears in the secret recesses of their subterranean meeting-place and the most vigorous search for her proves of no avail. After the meeting breaks up and the conspirators leave in a spirit of unrest, she emerges from her hiding-place in a well and guided by an image of her father suffering in his prison, she purloins evidence for the Government. In the meantime, Prince Cyril, guided by traces she had left, follows her to her home and persuades her to return the incriminating papers. However, when Government officials arrive and are told that she had been unsuccessful in her attempt to aid them, her servant, who is spying on her, betrays Prince Cyril's visit. They bind her and leave her in charge of two soldiers, while the others in haste gallop off after the Prince. In the meantime, one of the soldiers, who is secretly in league with the Revolutionists, aids her in making escape. Prince Cyril, after a very sensational chase, is captured and imprisoned. With the aid of this soldier she is able later on to meet the Government General, who, completely disarmed by her innocent charms, falls a victim to her scheme to liberate her father and the Prince. However, before she succeeds in this plan, she undergoes considerable suffering and agonizing suspense. The Cossacks trace her and those whom she had liberated from prison to their subterranean hiding-place, but by vigilance and careful planning they make their escape to America after blowing up their former abode with bombs planted by the Russian soldiers.
- Lieutenant Fielding, a young officer of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, returns with his regiment to Alvero, Ariz., and finds himself in command with other officers of the regiment, warmly welcomed by the ladies of the post who have been awaiting their return. Among these are Mrs. Gary, wife of the colonel, and her sweet little sister Grace, for whom Fielding has a very tender spot in his heart. A new commandant has been recently appointed to the command of troop "C" and having joined while the regiment was in the field, the return of the regiment to its post affords the ladies the first opportunity to meet the new arrival. Mrs. Gary recognizes in him an old admirer of whom she had been very fond prior to her marriage with the colonel, who is several years her senior. The unexpected meeting results in a revival of the old friendship and an elopement is planned, which is frustrated by the efforts of Lieutenant Fielding, but whose interference results, however, in placing him in a compromising position which he cannot explain without implicating the colonel's wife. This he will not do and maintain silence though he is placed under arrest and ordered before court martial. The captain, his plans interrupted by the interference of Lieutenant Fielding realizing that sooner or later the truth must be known and he will be dismissed from the service, determines upon flight. Fielding's little sweetheart, Grace, realizes that with the captain gone and with her sister's lips sealed by the necessity of preserving her good name her lover's chances for exoneration are slim. Accordingly she starts in pursuit of the captain, heads him off with the aid of a trusty six-shooter, extorts from him a confession of what actually transpired and returns to the post bursting in upon the court martial with the confession, which vindicates her lover and all ends happily.
- Jim Fuller is employed in a broker's office at a small salary, and one Saturday night after he gets his pay envelope, he expresses his dissatisfaction with the way his employer is treating him. He expresses some anarchistic beliefs and asserts that, "every man should have a million dollars, and that the wealth of the world should be distributed equally." He goes home brooding over the way the world is treating him, and the more he thinks of the idea, distribution of wealth, the more he becomes in favor of it. At home this theory is uppermost in his mind, and before long, he sits back in his chair and dreams that the wealth of the world has been re-distributed and that every man is a millionaire. He sees himself and his wife in fine clothes, living at a fashionable hotel, but, he soon finds difficulty in getting service. The elevator boy at the hotel refuses to take him up and down because he is satisfied with his fortune. The cook and the maids, the stewards and the clerks, all refuse to work because they are satisfied with their living. He tries to engage a taxicab, and the taxi-cab driver refuses to run his car because he is satisfied with his fortune. He tries to use a street car and the conductor and motorman are too busy counting their money to run the line. In disgust, he walks many miles, looking for a restaurant, but every restaurant that he comes to has a sign to the effect that the proprietor has retired from business owing to the fact that he has all the money he needs. Hungry and fatigued, he comes home, his wife almost starving and sick from privation. He tries to call a doctor, and the doctor refuses to come out to see the patient because he is too busy counting his "million." After many other disquieting experiences, Fuller wakes up with a start and realizes that he is in his own home, and the idea dawns on him that this world would be very uncomfortable to live in if all persons were millionaires. The object lesson is complete and he is quite satisfied that it is up to him to make his way and not wait until the "millennium" comes and the wealth of the world equally distributed.
- Nina Auvray's childhood and youth have been lonely, spent with an eccentric and miserly old uncle. The house they occupy is an old-time dilapidated mansion. Old Auvray dies suddenly. No will can be found. Nina is compelled to advertise the old home. A fine fellow buys the place, while Nina engages board in the village. Nina pines for the old house. At times she creeps up the hill and tearfully gazes at the closed windows and doors. Once, looking wearily about, she enters the house and goes through the rooms. Finally, overcome, she throws herself on the sofa and has a cry. It is here the new tenant finds her. Thus their acquaintance starts. Young Grey immediately sets about the repair of the old home and grounds. Two or three hands about the place he retains. One fellow, surly, and a hard drinker, Grey learns to distrust. After repeated and kind warnings regarding drunkenness, Lem Casey is discharged. He leaves cursing Grey. Nina one day is roaming through the woods, when she overhears Casey and a pal cursing and talking. Casey has planned to shoot Grey that night, and is gloating over the fact that Grey always sits by his desk, writing, within direct range of the south window. Nina, terrified, runs straight to her old home, waits for Grey to return, and in an ecstasy of terror and tears tells him all she has heard. Grey telephones for a couple of officers. Together they fix up a dummy at Grey's desk. Grey and the men hide in the thicket. Darkness falls. Lem Casey approaches. He shoots. Casey turns to flee, but is knocked down by the man he supposed he had murdered. The next day, in locating the bullet, a secret panel is discovered, containing the lost will. Nina is a rich woman, and all ends happily.
- "Sport," the dog, was uneasy that morning. Before Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins left the house to go to the factory, he looked at them with entreaty, as if asking them to stay at home that day. But Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins were poor folks and it was up to them to provide for their three children. So they left the house regardless of the entreaties of their intelligent dog. Tom, the eldest of the three children, was the "big brother" and he watched over the younger children with great care. That particular morning, however, after playing in front of the house, he grew impatient of little Gertie's slowness in the game and left her alone, while he and his sister went into the house to play. While romping about with "Sport," Gertie was attracted by the strains of a violin and a fine voice. She soon found that the violin and beautiful voice belonged to a wandering Italian couple. While she listened with admiration to these tuneful Italians, a purposeful glance was exchanged between the couple. They asked Gertie to follow them and promised to teach her how to play. "Sport" soon finding that Gertie had disappeared, ran into the house and stirred Tom and his sister with his loud barking and pulling. Tom follows the dog and thus discovers the disappearance of Gertie. Tom with the aid of the dog, gets on the scent of the abductors. He hits upon a plan. He decides to disguise as a tramp boy and accompanied by "Sport" he enters the Italian's shack and asks for water and food. In return he promises to give them an exhibition of the trick work of his dog. The Italians are pleased with the dog's work and ask Tom to remain with them. The dog and boy remain with the Italians and the remainder of the story deals with the clever plotting of Tom and the sensational feats accomplished by the dog, until the four friends are finally reunited.
- Mr. Newlywed will not allow his wife to have a dog. Her uncle, taking pity on her, goes out to buy one. Meanwhile, Wilkens and his wife, butler and maid to the Newlyweds are informed they must retrieve their "secret" child from friends who were watching her. Uncle comes home with the dog, a cute puppy, and shows his niece. He hides it in the sideboard. Mr. Newlywed shows the uncle an article in the paper about a mad dog running wild in Passaic (Solax Film Co. was located in Ft. Lee, NJ). Quickly, Uncle sneaks the puppy out in his coat. The Wilkens' bring their baby in and hide him/her in the same sideboard! Mrs. Newlywed feels guilty and writes Mr. a note telling him to look in the sideboard and not to be to angry for she will never deceive him again. He looks and, seeing the baby, screams, bring everyone into the room, including Uncle with the puppy. Soon, all is straightened out and all ends happily.
- Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his daughter that she has no cause for fear. He immediately forgets the incident, as important military developments occupy his time. But soon Vinnie has a more serious complaint, and the Colonel is forced to act. While on a short canter through the woods, Vinnie was again insulted by the forced attentions of Sterling. Fortunately, Sergeant Karr was nearby and he saved Vinnie from a disagreeable situation. The Colonel orders Sterling's arrest and later this untrustworthy officer is dismissed from service. Captain Sterling is now out for revenge. Not being satisfied with having broken his oath to Uncle Sam, "not to commit any act that is unbecoming of a gentleman and a soldier," he plans to immerse himself further in crime. In line with his plans for revenge, he engages a number of drunken Mexicans to aid him in kidnapping Vinnie and also to help him teach Sergeant Karr a lesson for interfering with the actions of a "superior officer." The degenerate soldier is temporarily successful in his plans, but Karr is fearless and, with indomitable courage, protects the girl he has begun to love.
- Henry Vetter, proprietor of the Subrosa Hotel, is at his wits' end. The business is going to the dogs and the guests leaving every day. In the midst of his lamentations he receives a letter from Count Koe-Kel, engaging a suite of rooms. Much elated at the prospect of having a real, live count for a guest, and being aware of the excellent advertisement it will be for his hotel, he spreads the glad tidings broadcast, and as a result, he has his hotel full of expectant guests in no time at all. The time for the count's arrival draws near, but no count shows up. The guests begin to grow impatient, and ominous whispering is heard on all sides. Becoming desperate, Vetter decides to get his French chef to impersonate the count and thus save the day. Accordingly we next see the chef attired in what, to his mind, is the correct apparel of a count, languidly conversing with the admiring guests, the while they admire and even approve of his faulty manners and speech, as it is the correct characteristic eccentricity that they expected in one of his station. All goes well for a time and mine good host makes it hand over fist, but alas, all good things must come to an end. The announcement of the count's arrival is made. Bewilderment and chaos. One can imagine the confusion and complications that then take place. If you want to see a comedy that is a comedy, go and see this release of the Solax.
- A great number of prognosticators often terrify us with visions of what will be when women shall rule the earth, and the time when men shall be subordinates and adjuncts. It is rather a fine question to decide, for chivalrous men, anyway. Today, with the multiplicity of feminine activities and the constant broadening of feminine spheres, it is difficult to predict to what height women will ascend. In the Solax production of "In the Year 2000," the release of Friday, May 17th, a serio-comic prognostication is unreeled on the screen with such magnetic force, charm and rich imaginative detail that one is compelled to accept the theories advanced on their face value. The conditions are reversed. Women in this film are supreme, and man's destiny is presided over by woman. No attempt is made at burlesque, but the very seriousness of the purpose of the theme makes the situations ludicrous.
- A parson arrives in the midst of a bunch of wild cowboys. Expecting a male parson, the boys set out in full force to receive him, but on the road when they suddenly run into the one-horse shay of a female parson, they keel over in surprise. Right after her arrival the boys begin to lay plans to get in right, while the parson loses no time in starting a campaign for the defeat of Satan. She begins by posting a sign near the town horse trough to the effect that "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Of course the boys see the sign and immediately there is a sudden disposition among them to make use of soap, water and brush. One cowboy in particular is very much in love with the parson. He shows his affection only too plainly, and so the boys decide to play a trick on him. Their practical joke unintentionally is not only the means of frustrating a plot against the parson, but it brings the parson and her lover together.
- Two apprentice violin makers are in love with the same girl, who happens to be the daughter of their mentor. A violin competition is scheduled, with the winner being the one who will marry the girl.
- Mr. Amzi Wilson, a man of moderate circumstances, had become a harmless lunatic, and he thought he was a millionaire. He overheard his servants, Susan and Jenkins, making fun of him, and deciding to discharge them, he gave each a cheek for a large amount and told them to get out. Wilson then takes a moonlight stroll, and thinking he has too much money for one man, he takes his checkbook along to see what he can do in the way of helping humanity. He goes to the pond in the park and fishes with bank checks for bait. He sees Pete, a gentleman of destiny, reclining on one of the park benches, and thinks him a good subject for his charity, so he gives Pete a check for a million dollars, telling him to be a good boy. Pete collapses, but soon recovers, and thinking the check looks good he decides to use it. He visits a restaurant and orders a whole turkey, is about to eat when the proprietor derides it would be best to collect in advance. Pete hands him the check for a million, and of course, gets thrown out. Next he tries a saloon, hut fares the same fate. In the meantime the lunatic is still distributing his imaginary wealth. His absence from home is discovered and a reward of one hundred dollars is offered for his return. The police get on the trail and soon have Pete in custody, thinking he is the lunatic. He escapes, however in time to capture the real lunatic and get the reward.
- Parents are often to blame for their boys and girls going wrong, because, through carelessness or ignorance, they do not make their home life meet the needs of growing children. This was the case with the Crawley family. Mr. Crawley smoked and read his paper in the evening. His wife read or embroidered. They did not like to be disturbed. Tom Crawley, forbidden to go out evenings, went up to bed, and crawled out of the window. When Jessie's friends came to see her, no one had a good time. Affairs were in this condition, when Aunt Lucy arrived. Aunt Lucy was a woman of rare insight, and sympathy with young people. She won Jessie's heart from the first, and between them, they turned the house into a gay and lively place. Even father and mother were stirred out of their accustomed habits, felt quite young again. But Tom was harder to win. He continued to sneak away nights, until through Aunt Lucy, father saw how near he had come to losing his boy, and Tom was saved from disgrace.
- Clara, a pretty little school teacher, is courted by two young mountaineers. She favors Jim Mason, who is the postmaster of the village, and Harry Barford, his rival, determines to get Jim out of the way, so that he can win her. Jim and Clara decide to marry as soon as Jim has enough money. Harry sees his chance and offers Jim $500 to manage an illicit whiskey still during his absence. Clara's scruples are overcome by the thought of an early marriage and Jim reluctantly consents. Harry immediately informs the sheriff and a posse is sent to arrest Jim. But Billy, the village idiot, who has fallen asleep while playing his little tin flute, overhears the conversation between Harry and the sheriff and informs Clara of Jim's danger. Jim hides in the woods upon the approach of the posse and, meeting Clara, they flee, both riding on the same horse. A long chase through the snow-covered mountains in which they are closely pressed by the sheriff's posse, forces them to a spot among the jagged cliffs, where their only means of escaping their pursuers is a fifty-eight foot plunge into a raging torrent full of broken ice. They urge their horse over the edge of the cliff and plunge to the depths below miraculously escaping with their lives and safely reaching the shore. They take refuge in an Indian village and the chief, a giant Indian over seven feet tall, appoints himself a committee of one to compel the little fat parson to marry them. Clara returns to the village and Jim goes to New York to prepare a home for her. Barford is appointed postmaster and succeeds in intercepting Jim's mail, meanwhile forcing his attentions upon Jim's wife. Not hearing from Clara, Jim decides to take a desperate chance and return to the village by a dangerous route, which will enable him to elude the guardians of the law. In order to do this he is forced to walk hand over hand across a cable 250 feet long, placed by a lumber company over a deep ravine. Arriving at Clara's house he finds her in the arms of Barford, not knowing he has forcibly placed his arms around her. Jim leaves broken-hearted and is seen by Barford, who follows him at a distance. As Jim is re-crossing the 250 feet of cable, Barford shoots him in the arm, in spite of which he succeeds in escaping and returns to New York. A baby is born to Clara, and she determines to find Jim at all costs and tell him that he is a proud father. She goes to New York, and being in need of money, accepts the offer of a motion picture company to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge for $10,000. Jim, who is desperate and out of work, accepts the offer of the same company to also make the leap, and is horror-struck by recognizing his wife, just as she throws herself from the giant structure into the icy waters below. He leaps after her and succeeds in aiding her to reach a tug-boat, where she rests happily in her lost husband's arms. They make a new attempt to get possession of their baby, but are caught in their cabin by Barford and the posse, where a fierce fight is interrupted by a misdirected blow, which fells the poor village fool, Billy. He is revived and it is discovered that the blow has restored his sanity. He tells of Harford's villainy and produces evidence that brands him as the real criminal and leaves Jim and Clara free to enjoy each other's love.
- Snakey Snodgrass conceives a scheme with which to defraud the crooks of New York. He purchases enough gold to make a brick worth about fifteen thousand dollars. With this he comes to New York City, opens an office as a "Gold Expert" and sends out word to the crooks and swindlers that he has discovered a new metal which will pass as gold. He uses the real gold brick with which to make all the jeweler's tests, with chemicals, etc. Then he has an assistant in a different place gilding bricks and preparing them for sale to the swindlers. The police learn of his activity and they raid his office. He grabs up a brick, which he believes to be the one of pure gold, and is a victim of his trickery, leaving the real one lying on the floor. After Snakey leaves in the custody of the officers, his assistant looks with disgust at the bricks and starts dumping them out of the window. Small boys amuse themselves by throwing the bricks around. Then they decide to put one which happens to be the genuine one under a silk hat, leaving it on a pavement. Various people kick the hat, and hurt their toes, and then laugh when they see the gold brick. At last a broken down, ragged-looking swindler comes out of a saloon door and discovers the gold brick. He takes up a position on a street corner to wait for some greenhorn or rube. Silas Perkins, of Pumpkin Center, who has sold his farm for a thousand dollars comes into town to live with his daughter and her husband, who is a young chemist. Silas is accosted by the swindler, who eventually sells him the real gold brick for a thousand dollars. Silas proceeds to his daughter's house, where he tells them of his purchase. They are heartbroken, and when he learns that he has fallen victim to a simple fraud, the old man is so overcome by the loss of his money that he takes to his bed. His son-in-law calls the doctor, who orders them to tell him that the brick is real gold, in order to cheer him up and bring him back to health. The son-in-law gets some of his chemicals, brings them to the table by the bedside and starts on his tests, planning to "jolly" the old man. His eyes bulge, and he discovers that it is real gold. The old fellow sits up and dons his clothes in a jiffy when he learns that it is true, and the son-in-law, the daughter and the old man hastily call a taxicab and hustle for the office of the U.S. metal assayer. There they sell the brick for its true value, and the last view is that of the old farmer telling the story of its purchase to the official chemist, while the son and daughter join them in merry laughter.
- The police are on the lookout for Jim Spike, alias Jim Nail, a dangerous highway robber, who has been working with more or less success without being apprehended. The chief of the detective bureau puts two new detectives on the case and enjoins them to be very careful in their investigations, and not to come back without landing the prisoner. The three detectives soon come upon Edgar Carroll, in whom they immediately see a striking resemblance to Spike, the crook. They shadow Edgar from place to place, and soon his life becomes one long game of hide and seek with the detectives. Finally Edgar consults his friend and they both decide to give the detectives a merry chase. Edgar and his friend dress as women and parade the streets in their ludicrous feminine attire. They flirt with the detectives and entice them away from their duty. They do not discover the real identity of their charming feminine companions until they accidentally come upon them one evening and see them leisurely, and with enjoyment, smoking clear Havana cigars. This shocking and unfeminine spectacle arouses their suspicions, but the boys are too clever for these cousins of Sherlock Holmes and, with the aid of an automobile, give them the slip, but the detectives eventually turn up again and arrest the masqueraders. However, they do not remain long in the police station, for the real Jim Spike turns up soon as the crook who tried to snatch Jane Ellery's purse on the ferryboat. Jane is Edgar Carroll's sweetheart, and she recognizes him. A few more complications arise, however, until Edgar and the crook are seen side by side and their likeness discovered, and the cousins of Sherlock Holmes see they have been misguided in their investigations.
- Mrs. Reggie Jellybone has her husband completely under control. She places a reflector on her sewing table in such a position that every movement and expression and manifest desire of her husband become known to her. She is, therefore, able to anticipate his movements and interfere in his plans. He seldom gets a chance to go to the club on the pretense of sitting up with a sick member. One night the boys at the club need a fifth hand very badly, and when they call up Jellybone, Mrs. Jellybone answers the phone, but they are not daunted. Mr. Resourceful is sent to get Jellybone in spite of his wife. A scheme is concocted and Jellybone goes to the club leaving a dummy on his side of the bed. When Mrs. Jellybone comes up to the room to retire, she finds blood-stains on the bed-clothes and grows excited. She shakes the dummy and the head is severed from the body and rolls under the bed. She excitedly concludes that her husband had been murdered, and immediately she calls for Burstup Homes, the renowned private detective. Burstup Homes arrives puffed up with importance, makes a very ceremonious investigation and deduces that the man is really dead. Furthermore, he deduces that a man wearing a ten size shoe is the criminal. In the examination Burstup Homes forgets essentials and takes up his time with details. He follows the blood-stain clue and a foot print clue. The visible stains on the improvised bed-sheet ladder which Jellybone used as a means to effect his escape also attracts the detective's attention and gives him strong evidence of an entrance and an exit from the house through the window. In fact, there are clues galore and Burstup Homes feverishly goes to work. Everyone he meets is a suspect. Deacon Stronghead, whom he meets on the way from the knife grinder where he had a knife sharpened for his wife, offers the strongest causes for suspicion, because he carries a concealed weapon, and the story is more complicated when Mrs. Jellybones plays a trick on her husband. Off she goes to the club, and here comes the big surprise, she does not pounce on her husband, as one would expect, but is so delighted that he is alive that she embraces him most rapturously. Jellybone begins to think that his wife will soon be stricken with an attack from over-indulgence and suffer untold agony. The farce ends up in the police station where Burstup Homes' failure is provocative of much laughter, but he is not at all dismayed and retorts that the police are jealous of him.
- Mr. August Jones writes his wife that he is bringing home Prince Seika, a Hindu hypnotist. At the entrance of the Jones' household the Prince becomes infatuated with Mrs. Jones. It falls to the hypnotist's lot to put Mrs. Jones under the influence of hypnotism, and plans to poison her husband. After the husband becomes insane the Prince advises Mrs. Jones that he be placed in an asylum. He arranges with a clergyman to marry them, the ceremony is about to be performed, but is interrupted by the return of the husband who has been cured after remaining in the sanitarium for several months. Upon entering the room Mr. Jones discovers that his wife is in a strange mood, and realizing that the Prince has her under the hypnotic influence, he commands the Prince to release her from the terrible spell. The Prince refuses. Struggle ensues. Mr. Jones chokes the Prince into submission and compels him to bring Mrs. Jones out of it, which he does.
- Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too old to be of any assistance to his widowed daughter and grandchildren, who are dependent on him for support. He says he prefers death to a life of poverty and wretchedness. In telling the judge and jury his pathetic story (which is shown on the screen) old Joel betrays a love for his grandchildren and his fellow laborers that is poignant with pathos. He tells how he had been sent by the men to tell the boss that they were dissatisfied. Athough Joel was a favorite with the boss, his representations while listened to with respect were productive of nothing. His employer simply said, that if he raised salaries to meet the present "high cost of living" he would be compelled to close up shop. Whan they receive the answer from the boss, the men vote to strike, much against Joel's advice, and although he liked his boss, Joel is with the majority and walks out with his fellows. A long period of lean days ensue. Joel's grandchildren and widowed daughter are starving. He is too proud to beg. He goes to the headquarters of the strikers and finds them all drinking and carousing. This is too much for Joel. He announces his intention of going back to work. One of the ironworkers calls him a coward. All of the old man's pent-up anger comes to the surface, and before he knows it, he has killed the insulter. The jury weeps at the old man's pathetic story; they cannot find heart to convict him.