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- Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a city man, comes to town on a visit, falls in love with Carol and wins her away from Frank. Carol is pleased with his attentions and poor Frank is brokenhearted. Calling one day to see Carol, George meets May and falls madly in love with her, and finally runs away with her and they are married. Carol, in despair, turns back to Frank and they are married, and a year later a baby is born. In the meantime, May and George have been living in another town. May is about to become a mother. George brings her to her own home for the interesting event and her child is soon born, but is still born. Crying for her baby, the physicians fear to tell her and are forced to try and find a baby to take its place until the wife is strong enough to bear being told the truth. Carol is approached and at first refuses but finally, for her sister's sake, consents and May is made happy. Carol misses her baby and May refuses to let her bother with "her" child and Carol is frantic but dare not tell the truth. Finally May overhears the truth from the doctor and nurses' conversation and takes the baby back to her real mother, and the sisters are reconciled.
- Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife. Nettie is in love with Colter, a young Easterner, and though it pains her to do so, tells Magoon of the fact. Magoon leaves town to become sheriff of the adjoining county. A murder is committed in the mining camp, and Colter is unjustly accused. Nettie rescues him from jail and sends him to Magoon. The sheriff with admirable self-sacrifice hides his rival, and, when the posse arrives, points out what Nettie has done for the boys of the mining camp. Colter is released, and all the boys escort him back to Nettie.
- The fireman is in love with his engineer's daughter and is accepted by her in his proposal of marriage. While the engineer is absent a tube blows out of the engine and the fireman quits his post and crouches beside the engine while the steam escapes. The engineer, coming up, jumps aboard, shuts off the steam and is painfully burned. For the first time he sees the fireman in his cowardly situation and berates him as a man unworthy a place in the cab. The engineer succeeds in having the fireman discharged for quitting his post. The fireman visits the daughter with his troubles, but on his departure the arriving father explains the circumstances of the fireman's dismissal and advises the daughter to have nothing to do with a coward. Wandering aimlessly down the tracks the fireman comes to an aviator working on an aeroplane, and, making application, secures a job as mechanic. The engineer's daughter and her little sister are playing about the railroad tracks chasing a dog when the former's foot is caught in a frog, and at first unsuspecting of their danger they play at releasing it. Down the line the father is aboard about to start out with a new fireman when the throttle is thrown open, and, jumping off with a spurt, the engine tosses the two into the ditch and races away. Having no success in releasing the foot, the girls have become anxious and discover that a train is soon due. The little one runs to the nearby station and finding no one there makes use of her knowledge of telegraphy to wire for help to the adjoining station. The discharged fireman happens to be passing and catches the message. They tell him the particulars at the station and he races to the aeroplane and flies away toward the rescue. A duel of speed ensues between the aeroplane and the runaway engine bearing down on the girl, who now fully realizes her danger. When the aeroplane finally catches the engine, the ex-fireman slides down a rope and swings into the cab, shuts off the engine and saves the girl. The father arrives later with others and extends his apologies and complete forgiveness of the man he had wrongfully branded a coward.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners.
- Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for 20 years for alleged complicity in the killing of a revenue officer. Uriah Hudson, whom she secretly suspects of having a hand in sending her father to prison, is her persistent suitor. A new schoolteacher comes to the little Kentucky village and Molly, although a grown woman, becomes one of his pupils. Lawson Keene, the school teacher also becomes Molly's suitor, and Uriah, jealous of him, betrays him into the hands of the moonshiners, declaring that Keene is a revenue officer in disguise. Molly saves Lawson from death. It is proven that the teacher is not a revenue officer but a Pinkerton detective sent there to apprehend the murderer of the United States marshal. Keene proves that Hudson committed the murder, and shortly after Molly's father is released from prison and the young couple are married.
- 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.
- 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.
- The dear old grandma has come to Red Riding Hood's home, here with a present for her grandchild which she has made herself. This is a beautiful hood made in granny's cleverest and most loving way. Little Red Riding Hood is charmed by it, and expresses her joy freely. Granny then goes home to her lonely hut in the woods, escorted by her niece. One beautiful autumn afternoon little Red Riding Hood is sent by her mother to take some goodies to Grandma. She tip toes on her way, but grows tired and sits to rest under a tree. She stops and dreams the well-known story: How a wolf in the guise of a friendly dog came and asked her where she was going. She told him, and the said wise wolf sped to granny's cot using shorter route. Arriving there he satisfied his wolfish appetite on poor grandma's aged carcass and donning her night cap, took her place in the bed. Little Red Riding Hood appears and enters the bedroom, gladsomely exhibiting her presents. The wary wolf, after a confidential chat, jumps at her. She screams, her father, the woodsman, and his trusty men rush in, dispatch the wolf and save her. Awakened suddenly by her own screams Red Riding Hood cannot break the spell of that awful dream. So she goes timidly to the cottage, peeks cautiously in at the window, finding granny alive and well.
- 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.
- Sally Smith, a poor girl, hires out to the rich Widow Smith who is no relation of hers. Sally is forced to work very hard while Dora Smith, the widow's daughter, is always having a good time. Dora is invited to a party where Henry, the idol of the village, is to be present. Her mother orders that a beautiful frock which has just arrived in town, be sent to the house, as she intends to buy it for Dora to wear to the party, The package is delivered at the kitchen door. It is directed simply to Miss Smith. Sally receives it, thinking that some unknown fairy godmother has made it possible for her to go to the party. She is overcome with happiness. Because the dress does not arrive, Dora gives up attending the function. But Sally goes in the beautiful gown, and Henry immediately falls in love with her. The widow and daughter discover what has become of the dress. They go to the party to arrest Sally for stealing it. But Mr. Crocker, the storekeeper, tells them that as the frock was not paid for, it is not their property, and that this makes the arrest illegal. He then gives the frock to Sally. Later, Henry marries his Cinderella.
- 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.
- Imar the Servitor rescues an American tourist who has lost his way in the desert and the two men become friends. Before he leaves, the American gives his friend a picture of his fiancée. When the tourist returns home, he discovers that his girlfriend has married a horseman, both of whom have journeyed to the Arabian desert. Imar's master attacks the trader's wife. Her husband then accuses her of infidelity and starts to beat her. Imar recognizes her from the picture given to him by his American friend and rescues her. They both traverse the desert and meet her former fiancé, who has been sent for. Her husband and Imar's master are slain, leaving the three friends free of any retribution.
- Before his niece and ward, Dosia Dale, comes of age, her uncle, who has spent her entire fortune, must think of a way to account for his actions. He proposes marriage, and when Dosia indignantly refuses him, he conspires with his evil friend, Dr. Protheroe, to do away with her. Declaring Dosia insane, the two men lock her up in the doctor's insane asylum, but she manages to drop a note from the window. Her plea for help is found by a reporter named Ford, who feigns insanity in order to gain admittance to the asylum. Dr. Protheroe becomes suspicious of Ford and locks him up with Dosia, whereupon Ford, knowing that his friend Cuthbert will notify the police if he and Dosia do not emerge safely by twelve, barricades the door and waits. In a furious battle with the police and the militia, Dosia's uncle and Dr. Protheroe are killed and the house set ablaze, but Ford and Dosia escape, leaping from the roof into a fire net below. All danger passed, Ford and Dosia become engaged.
- "The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die. But when he recalls a promise he made to the girl's dying father and of his own desire for happiness, he makes the sacrifice and saves the life that means so much to her.
- Surelock Homes is called to detect a burglar. He looks for finger prints and discovers a "tongue mark" made by a dog, although he does not know this. He rushes through the street, examining tongues with various amusing results and finally arrests the dog. Proudly he brings his captive before the fair victim of the burglary, but in the meantime the real culprit has been arrested by a policeman and the valuables discovered. So Surelock Homes gets nothing for all his trouble, not even a kind word.
- Mr. and Mrs. Carthan, a wealthy couple, decide to visit their niece, Mrs. Jones, hoping at the same time to make the acquaintance of her husband, whom they have never met. They telegraph that they will come the following week. A short time after the message leaves, Mr. Carthan finds he will be unable to go the following week, owing to a business engagement, so they decide to leave at once. The Joneses are all worked up over the telegram, and, seeing their house in disorder, start to fix it. When the Carthans arrive they find Mr. Jones busy with an apron tied around him and they at once mistake him for the butler. They order him to take their things and before he can recover from the shock he has done as they told him. The wife, not wishing to tell her relatives that the butler is her husband, and wishing to keep up the deception, insists that Jones play the part of butler while the Carthans remain. She tells her relations that her husband is away on a business trip. Jones quite forgets that he is the butler and sits down with the visitors to enjoy the conversation. He is soon told to leave the room. He decides to throw up the job and put on his good clothes. He is caught in the act of dressing by Mr. Carthan, who calls him to account for trying on his master's clothes. He proves to be a very awkward butler, as he spills the soup on Mr. Carthan's waistcoat. Mr. Carthan demands that he be discharged and Mrs. Jones, unable to do anything else, bids the butler leave the house. He goes to the home of a friend and finally decides he will get his own clothes. He sends a note to his wife bidding her throw a suitcase full of his clothes out of the window. She does this and he gets the suitcase, which he takes to his friend's home, where he dons some of the garments and shaves off his mustache. He then returns home and Mrs. Jones introduces her husband to the Carthans, who although very glad to meet him, cannot help commenting on his likeness to the discharged butler. Although his wife is at first distressed over the shaving of her husband's mustache, when he reminds her of the predicament she put him in, she laughs and embraces him.
- 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.
- Proud old man Hiram Judson lives with his grown daughter Nora and his 12-year-old daughter Ellen. He is possessed of an income from a mine out West and refuses to allow Nora to work, although the small income barely suffices to pay for their rooms and board in the boarding house kept by Mrs. Casey. Nora wants to work so she can have pretty clothes. Her father proudly tells her he is the support of the family and they must content themselves with what he provides. Nora has a beau, Frank Colton, whom her father doesn't look upon with favor. Judson receives word that his small income has been swept away. Still proud, he bravely determines he will earn sufficient to take care of his family and starts forth to find work, forbidding Nora to take any work or to help in any way except about the house. He finds it impossible to raise much money on account of his age. Finally in desperation, at the imminent loss of a roof over their heads, he accepts a job as a porter in an office building. It doesn't pay enough. When her father goes to work, Nora slips out, answers an ad, and gets a job with the firm of lawyers whose letter had announced the cessation of her father's income. This office is in the same building that Judson is now a porter. To save her father's pride and to keep him from the knowledge of her working, she mails her salary to him, writing on a letterhead of the firm, saying a small amount of the income was recoverable, etc. The old man is very proud and happy over it. He is glad that with his little income and his job he will be enabled to support them nicely. The knowledge that he is able to take care of them without assistance makes him feel better over the bum job he has. Things go along all right until Frank sees the old man one day and tries to prevent his working, telling him he will marry Nora and he can live with them. Judson refuses and forbids him to see Nora anymore. He reprimands Nora when she protests, repeating his assertion that he is the provider of the family and she must do as he says. Frank wants to tell the old man it is Nora's wages that support him more than his own, but Nora forbids him. One day Judson finds an error in a letter from the firm in reference to his remittance and calls to see them about it and finds out the truth. His pride wounded, he is angry at first, but finally realizes his daughter's love and care for him, and consents to her marriage, and reconciles himself to letting someone else care for him and his family henceforth.
- In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mountain Girl with her grandfather, a man of hoary age. Few visitors ever come to the cabin, but there is one who is almost a daily visitor, young Ned, a mountain ranger, who loves the Mountain Girl. The old grandfather looks forward each day to Ned's visits almost as eagerly as the girl does, for Ned always proves a good listener, and the old man's one amusement in life is relating anecdotes of his own youth. As a young man he was renowned far and wide for his prodigious strength, particularly in the grip of his hands and he never wearies of relating tales of his early prowess. One day a strange visitor is brought to the cabin by Ned. He is a dashing gambler from the mountain settlement at the head of the valley, who has been forcibly ejected from the settlement because of his too great skill at cards and because of a suspicion on the part of the rough mountaineers that his game was not always too straight. Ned had found him delirious after a terrible night spent alone in the mountains. The girl and the old man care for him until he has partially recovered from his shock and exposure. Devoid of gratitude, the gambler cast covetous eyes upon the Mountain Girl. Taking advantage of Ned's absence on a trip across the mountains, the gambler makes forcible love to the girl. The old man, helpless and paralyzed, is powerless to interfere. The girl fights for her honor in the cabin, while the old man sits helpless outside hearing the sounds of the struggle within. He prays for strength, and in answer to his prayers, strength is given him to drag himself to the door. The gambler, springing to bar his entrance, finds his throat caught in the clutch of the man whose grip was once the most powerful in the countryside. Desperately he tries to break it, but his efforts are of no avail. Slowly it squeezes the life out of him. A few moments later, Ned returning to the cabin, finds the old man dying with his head resting on his granddaughter's lap, and the body of the gambler dead on the cabin floor, support of an old mother. The doctor informs Agnes that if she does not arrange to remove the mother to some cool place she will succumb to the heat. As a desperate resort, Agnes writes a pitiful appeal for aid in getting her mother away from the city to some cool resort. She sows a number of copies of the appeal in the outing shirts at the factory. A wealthy bachelor, who is a philanthropist, buys one of the shirts and departs on a fishing trip in the mountains. Agnes' mother grows weaker and the girl anxiously inquires at the office for mail, hoping to receive some answer from the appeals sewed in the shirts. The only replies are a vulgarly written scrawl, trying to date her up, and a suggestion from a "charitably inclined" person that she place her old mother in a certain well-appointed poor house. In despair, Agnes steals money from the factory cash drawer, but in doing so, drops her handkerchief, which is initialed. The factory manager accompanies the police to her tenement that night, and they find part of the money, the rest having been spent to get things for her mother. Meanwhile the wealthy philanthropist on his fishing trip discovers Agnes' appeal sewed in the shirt. At first he does not give it serious thought, but that night his imagination pictures to him the old woman suffocating in the garret, and he cannot sleep. The next morning he leaves for the city to find the girl and save her mother. At the store they give him Agnes' address, and he arrives at the tenement just as Agnes is pleading with the police not to take her to jail, as she is her mother's sole support. She tells them that she stole the money to save her mother's life, but they do not believe her. The philanthropist stops the police and reimburses the manager. He displays Agnes' letter as a proof of her statement that she stole for her mother's sake. The philanthropist takes Agnes and her mother to the cool mountain resort where he was fishing and the old lady's life is saved. Stimulated by the refreshing out-of-doors, Agnes is transformed from the sullen factory slave to a joyous carefree girl. The bachelor's tender affection toward Agnes is suggested in the concluding scene.
- George Duhamel, a young Frenchman, visits New Orleans and there meets Cora, a Creole, with whom he falls in love. He takes her with him when he returns to Paris, and in spite of the efforts of his mother and friends, refuses to give her up. Cora becomes interested in Mazilier, a wealthy young man, and Duhamel becomes jealous. Cora fans the flame by threatening to leave him, and in a jealous quarrel a pistol is discharged and Cora is wounded in the shoulder. She prefers a charge of attempted murder against Duhamel. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to the galley for five years. At the end of five years, Duhamel has served his sentence and been released, but, in defiance of Article 47 of the Code, which forbids ex-convicts to reside in Paris, resides in that city with his mother under the name of Gerard. He falls in love with and marries Marcelle, a young girl, and they are ideally happy, until he accidentally meets with Cora, who is conducting a gambling house in Paris. Cora threatens to denounce him to the police and compels him to frequent her establishment, which results in Marcelle suspecting her husband of being unfaithful. Marcelle finally follows George to Cora's home, and learns from her husband's own lips the story of his life. Realizing what he has suffered at Cora's hands, Marcelle forgives him and declines to give him up, whereupon Cora writes a letter to the police, denouncing Duhamel as an ex-convict, who has violated the provisions of Article 47 by residing in Paris. The police receive the letter. Duhamel is arrested at his home, and brought to Cora to be identified. She triumphantly declares him to be the man, and Duhamel is about to be taken off to prison when an official arrives with a full pardon and Duhamel is released. Cora, frantic at being baffled of her revenge, goes mad, while Duhamel and Marcelle, forever free from the menace of Article 47, face a happy future.
- Schoolteacher Frances Angel finds herself attracted to wealthy rancher Jim McPherson but finds his rough-hewn ways objectionable, so when he proposes marriage she rejects him. Her father asks her to return to his home in the East, where her former boyfriend Chet Condon now holds the mortgage on the family home and is threatening to foreclose on it unless Frances marries him. When she also learns that her recently-widowed sister Jane is also moving back east with her newborn, Frances is torn between her duty to her family and her love for Jim.
- Granddad and his three grandchildren, Helen, Tom and Lucy, live a happy, simple life in their little cabin in the mountains. But the little circle is broken when a rich lady summering at the mountain hotel sees Helen, and taking a fancy to her, takes her with the reluctant consent of Granddad to her city home. In the excitement of society life with the beautiful clothes provided her by her benefactress, Helen's head is turned and she drops home ties, foolishly ashamed of her humble mountain home. In the course of time, she marries Roger Leonard, a wealthy young man, but does not tell him of her granddad and the children, thinking that he would be ashamed of them. Letters from home are unanswered, and granddad mourns, thus neglecting the other two, though unintentionally. They ponder how to find their sister and thus make him happy once more. One day they gather their little hoard together and start on their mission. A teamster comes along and thus they are taken far away before granddad misses them. Reaching the city, their funds give out and they are forced to sing in the streets. Various adventures befall them and they finally sing outside Helen's home. Alone in the twilight she hears the childish voices singing the same old songs that she had taught her brother and sister at home. Belated remorse overwhelming her, she sends the maid out to bring the singers in, and to her surprise, it is Lucy and Tom. Roger enters and Helen confesses and the whole deception and her cruel neglect. Roger gladly welcomes the children and the whole party immediately go to granddad, where everything is forgiven and happiness is once more supreme.
- The young trapper was an excellent example of the primitive man, tender in his love, fierce in his hate. The girl was pretty and a coquette. She was fully aware of the admiration of the sturdy woodsman, but chose to flirt with him. A young man from the city had come to visit the girl's father. He was handsome and his courtly ways were in marked contrast with the rough manners of the stalwart woodsman. The girl was greatly attracted, and persuaded herself that she loved him. The trapper, angry and revengeful, went into the wilderness to forget. Fate put an instrument into his hands and he did not hesitate to use it. The successful suitor, while on a hunting trip, fell into a bear trap, and lay there a helpless prisoner. The trapper chanced to discover his plight, but did not attempt to release him. Instead, he went to the girl's home, and, telling her that her sweetheart was in danger, brought her to the spot. Half mad with jealousy, he did not realize his cruelty. He refused to release his rival, saying that he would let him die. The girl, knowing that another day in the bear pit would be her fiancé's last, told the trapper that she would marry him as the price of his freedom. The trapper assented, freed the other man and brought him safely back to the little village. Life in the wilderness creates great passions. Hate and jealousy are two of them, but among others are love and compassion. At the time passed the trapper saw how the girl grieved. Love and compassion conquered the two ugly sentiments and he released her from her promise, leaving her free to marry his rival. The wedding day drew nearer, and the idea of marrying her grew more and more distasteful. A few hours before the wedding he disappeared, leaving a note in which he said that he did not care to marry her and was leaving for the east. He did not leave as soon as he expected, for he was intercepted at the railway station by the trapper. The man of the wilderness disliked his rival, but the girl he loved had chosen him as her future mate, and that was sufficient for him. He seized the recreant groom-elect by the collar and hustled him to the girl's home. There the bride was being consoled by the assembled guests. The two men entered and the trapper, eyeing the city man, said that the ceremony would now begin. The groom was quite ready; fear made him so, but the bride was not. She had experienced a change of heart since the true natures of the two men had been revealed to her. Scornfully she ordered the city man from her home. The guests followed him and she was left alone with the man whom she had flouted. Clumsily he tried to comfort her. His manner wasn't at all worthy, but the girl realized the chivalrous spirit that underlay his rough demeanor. Another wedding took place in a very short time. The girl married the roan who had always cared for her, and never regretted having chosen for a husband a man of the wilderness.
- An artist falls for a society girl, only to be shot by her jealous suitor. The artist's sweetheart intervenes and saves his life.
- Little Rex McKnight, the precocious son of snobbish parents, does not like to play with the children of his mama's rich friends. Every chance he gets he runs away to enjoy life with little Mary Ellen Rafferty, whose widowed mother keeps the newsstand and tobacco shop on the corner. Mrs. Rafferty's bills for food, fuel, and rent accumulate faster than the profits of the shop. Her creditors become insistent. Mrs. Rafferty falls ill. At last, Mary Ellen pours their woes into the sympathetic ear of her playmate Rex, who racks his brain to think of some way to earn money for those who are in danger any hour of being thrown out on the street. An old blind woman gives Rex his inspiration. He gets the grocer's boy to paint him a sign reading, "Pity a Blind Widow with Six Children." This he hangs about his neck, and taking a tomato can to catch the bounty, he stations himself in a busy street. Rex garners a few coins but much more laughter until Chief Justice Jones happens along and the small boy tells him the whole story of the Raffertys' distress. Judge Jones visits Mary Ellen's sick mother and arranges to satisfy her creditors and give her a new start in business. Meanwhile, Mrs. McKnight is in hysterics over Rex's disappearance. But Judge Jones makes that all right also.
- Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her family history is a group photograph of her father, mother and herself, in a locket which she always wears. Mabel becomes a stenographer for the rich Samuel Roebuck and marries him, becoming a second mother to his little girl, who has learned to love her when visiting her father at the office. The marriage is a bitter blow to Roebuck's sister Katherine, who has been the mistress of the house since the death of his first wife. Previous to the marriage of Roebuck and Mabel, Roebuck had objected to an intimacy between Katherine and an actor named Francis Carryl. He had forbidden Katherine to have anything more to do with Carryl, and as Katherine was dependent on her brother, she has pretended to obey. After the marriage of Roebuck and Mabel, Katherine seeks in every way to humiliate Mabel on account of her uncultured ways. Mabel learns of Katherine's secret intimacy with Carryl, who desires to marry her on account of her supposed wealth. When Mabel discovers that Carryl is her own father, she realizes what a blow it will be to her husband to have his sister marry such a scoundrel and she interferes, warning Carryl not to carry out his intentions. But Katherine naturally misunderstands the evident recognition of Carryl and Mabel and is filled with jealousy and rage. She repudiates Carryl and telephones for Roebuck for the purpose of exposing his wife's supposed previous relations with Carryl. Roebuck arrives and Carryl is forced, by the group photograph, to acknowledge himself as Mabel's father. Roebuck forgives Mabel. Carryl slinks away and Katherine finding herself whipped humbly bows to the inevitable. Mabel permits her husband to think that it was she who had come to meet Carryl, her father, and that Mabel's only offense had been that she had supposed Mabel was meeting a lover and had sought to expose her. Thus Katherine's intended elopement is kept a secret and she becomes Mabel's friend.
- Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than he does to her and spends more and more time away from home. A handsome young neighbor notices her emotional state and decides to try to take advantage of it. In her confused and lonely condition, Kitty finds herself attracted to the man and begins to think about running away with him.
- Georgie, a rich little boy, and Carmen, his sweetheart, are taken to the golf links by Georgie's mother and father. Tiny Rags, the caddy assigned to the party, is scarcely big enough to drag the golf bag. Georgie's mother invites the urchin to Georgie's birthday party. This delights little Carmen, which makes Georgie jealous. The day of the party finds Rags ashamed to go to the party because of his poor clothes. He decides to force Willie, a mama's darling, to exchange clothes with him; to keep him from informing, he locks him in the coal cellar and goes off to the party. Later, the children are taken to a vaudeville show, where they see a magician break eggs into a hat and take out little chickens. Back in the nursery Georgie attempts to perform the hat-and-egg trick with his father's opera hat, but the eggs won't come out of the hat, and he places the hat back in the clothes press--still containing the broken eggs. Willie's fashionable mother arrives to take him home and goes into hysterics on finding Rags dressed in her boy's clothes. Willie is discovered in the cellar, black with coal dust, and is taken to the bathroom to be scrubbed. The climax comes when Georgie's father dons his opera hat and is drenched with scrambled eggs.
- "Bat" Murray, Boss of the 7th ward, meets Dorothy Randall, a banker's daughter and settlement worker. She urges him to better his condition. He mistakes her interest for something else and determines to make himself worthy of her. His neglect of his sweetheart, Mamie, causes her many heartaches, but she holds aloof to give him his opportunity. "Bat" attends Dorothy's school and is later elected councilman. He moves uptown to be nearer Dorothy. Later he runs for the legislature. His manager tells him the boys of "the 7th" are against him for his highbrow ideas. To regain his prestige "Bat" plans a grand ball and invites Dorothy. A longing to see "Bat" causes Mamie to accept the invitation of "Jimmy the Dip," a questionable character. At the ball "Bat" disapproves of Mamie's escort. She ignores him. A fire starts. "Bat" gets Dorothy out. Mamie loses a borrowed fan in the crush and is abandoned by Jimmy when she returns for it. She is overcome by the smoke and faints. "Bat" learns from Jimmy that Mamie is still in the building. He rescues her, but is badly burned in doing so. In the weary days following, in the hospital, it is Mamie who sits by his bedside. Dorothy sends flowers. The hope expressed by Dorothy in a letter that he will recover in time to attend her wedding is the final thing needed to make "Bat" realize where his love belongs.
- Dottie gets a job in a small show as "sidekick" of a famous knife thrower. The "Angel" is a nice boy who is backing the show, and who is too modest to declare his love to Dottie. She can see no one save the great, handsome "Strong Man." The knife thrower gets drunk, and the Angel forbids Dottie to do her act. The Strong Man, however, locks up the Angel and bids the knife thrower go on with the show. Dottie, terrified but helpless, has risked her life a half dozen times from the carelessly-thrown knives, when the Angel, bursting out of his prison, rushes into the ring and flings himself between her and the weapons. He is seriously injured. At the hospital, Dottie and the Angel pledge their troth.
- Meg was one of the "painted women," who had got to the point where she did not care. Anita, her room-mate, on her death-bed told the cadet who managed them both about her old blind mother in another state who recently had come into a small fortune, and how she had kept hoping to go back home, but now it was too late. After the burial, the cadet told Meg that he had money in sight. She was to go with him and impersonate Anita. When she had won the confidence of the blind old woman, they would make a rich haul, and then go and live straight together. Anita's mother welcomed her long-lost daughter, as she supposed Meg to be, and everything that she had to give she showered upon this hardened woman of the underworld. Every night she would go to her bedside and her tears of joy burned into Meg's calloused heart. Delay on the girl's part angered the cadet. When Meg confessed to him that she could not bring herself to defraud the love-hungry old woman who called her "daughter," he threatened to expose her and give her over to the law. But a burglar, escaping from the police, ran across the cadet's path and the latter stopped the bullet. He was a stranger with an unsavory reputation. Nobody cared. And Meg heard the news with a deeper feeling than mere joy. Her past was dead. And there was the old blind mother to live for and love.
- Sykes, an American engaged to a poor girl, goes to the Philippines as a teacher, and the girl stays behind to await their marriage. Sykes, after some time has passed, has succumbed to the tropic influences, and is living with a native girl, when one day he hears from the girl back home that she is coming to join him and that she will arrive at dawn next day. An aunt has died and left her a lot of money. Caring more for this coin that the girl, Sykes tries to get rid of the native girl, but she makes a row, and he in fear of losing his girl and her cash, poisons the native girl, who dies. He is about to get rid of the body when a young lieutenant of the U.S. Army shows up with his sergeant, inquiring the way to the trail of Indians, and becomes suspicious of Sykes' uneasiness and finds the dead girl. Sykes explains the circumstances and says: "What's another Filipino more or less?" He implies to the lieutenant that when he has been so long there as he has he'll understand better, and says that his United States girl was coming at dawn to marry him, so he had to get rid of his native girl. The officer indicates that he is up to some scheme and tells Sykes to take his sergeant and point out the trail for him, which he indicates starts at a certain large tree. Sykes goes, and, unseen by him the sergeant, at a nod from the lieutenant, takes a lariat from a nail and follows. The girl arrives and the sergeant returns, alone. The girl asks for Sykes and the lieutenant tells her he is dead.
- This beautiful love story of Creole life in Louisiana was made amid the picturesque southern scenery so well suited to the development of this particular theme. Marie finds a starving boy at the shrine of her patron saint and persuades her mother to adopt him. Later an artist for whom the boy has posed, recognizes in him a talent for art and takes him away to the city to educate. The boy does not prove worthy, however, and puts pleasure before work. Disgusted the artist casts him off and he becomes an outcast. One day hearing from a tramp that he is on his way to the village where Marie lives, he gives him a little carved statue of St. Anne and asks that it be delivered to Marie. When the girl gets this she starts for the city. The boy meantime has found honest employment in an art shop. Marie arrives and thoroughly ignorant of the city and its ways, she falls into the clutches of a human hawk. Passing the shop where the boy works she sees a carved St. Anne in the window and falling upon her knees prays for help. The man attempts to drag her away, but the boy who has heard her cry rushes out and rescues her. When he sees it is Marie, his joy knows no bounds. They are married and Marie pleads with the artist who takes the boy back and he is soon on the road to success.
- 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.
- Harry is a wild youth; he drinks a bit and gambles. His father is wealthy and tries to curb the boy, but is unable to. His ward, a girl of fifteen, too young to really love, but who greatly admires Harry. He, being older, is very condescending; she, mutely adoring. One day after a debauch, Harry quarrels with his father, and much to the sorrow of the ward and his father, runs away. Some years pass with no word from Harry. The ward, now grown, loves Harry deeply and repels the advances of a young swain of the neighborhood. The father finally dies, leaving a will in favor of Harry, provided he returns within a certain time. In case he does not appear within that time the money goes to the ward. On the last day of grace Harry turns up from his wanderings, very shabby, very much in love with the memory of the ward, and still swaggering as of old, in spite of his shabby, almost ragged clothes. He learns of the will and its conditions. He sees the ward and is madly in love with the girl, the promise of whose beauty as a child is now more than fulfilled in womanhood. He sees (as he mistakenly thinks) her lover kissing her hand, and is angered. He wants her himself, as well as the fortune. However, he keeps his presence a secret. He is ragged, unkempt, unfit for such a girl. The old swaggering manner sloughs off and he goes away, leaving his father's ward to the fortune she deserves and to the prospects of a worthier marriage.
- Dr. Jim Hilton gets involved with Dave Farley, the reckless son of Sheriff Farley, in a gun fight with Steve Boyle. Steve is shot, and Dr. Jim helps Dave get away with him to the hills. There is much conjecture in the town as to which man shot Boyle. Mary, the sheriff's daughter, helps Dr. Jim, with whom she is in love, to leave the vicinity. Later, her father, following the supposed murderer into the wilderness, uses Mary as a bait to catch Dr. Jim by spreading the report that she is very ill at his camp. The girl worries so for the young doctor's safety that she actually develops a high fever, and her father, frightened for her safety goes out in earnest to hunt a physician. When he returns he finds Dr. Jim caring for Mary. Under the circumstances the sheriff shields the doctor from the vigilance committee. The next day he goes with him to his camp where they find Dave caring for Boyle who is far from being a dead man.
- Mame is a waitress in a cheap eating place. Tom is an electrician's helper. Calling to fix wires, he meets Mame and falls in love with her. She later returns his affection and they plan to marry when he has obtained a raise and becomes a regular electrician himself. A rift comes in their lute, however, by the advent of George, a wealthy broker, whose car breaks down near the restaurant and who comes in to get a cup of coffee. Mame serves him and he becomes enamored of her and she is flattered by his attentions. Gradually her love for Tom wanes and a real affection dawns for the broker. Tom does not believe his attentions are honorable and believes that only his money has attracted Mame and he plans to ruin the broker. Called to the office building of the broker's office to repair wires, while working on the roof he overhears a conversation from the broker's office to his agents and gets wise to the fact that the broker is to give a message to sell at a certain time; if the agent doesn't get a call at that time he is to buy. At the time appointed, the broker phones to sell, and it is apparent that to buy will ruin him, but Tom, getting wise by his wire on the roof, cuts it, so that the broker's agent cannot get the message, and the broker is wiped out. Tom is delighted, thinking that now Mame and the broker cannot marry, but is astounded to discover that it has made no difference with Mame. Tom then realizes that his jealousy has made it hard for the girl and the man, who is an honorable suitor, and resolves to make it up to them somehow. The broker starts life over again, marries Mame and they are happy. Tom remains the true pal of both, and though unhappy and in love with George's wife, protects George in every way from himself. George, to gamble, steals his wife's jewels and loses the money for which he pawned them, but Tom reclaims them and returns them, and George promises not to gamble again, but does. The wife says it is all right so long as he loves her and is true to her. One day George is seriously injured and dies. Tom is forced to break the news to George's wife. He finds a watch on George, and plans to take this little memento to the wife and thus soften the blow. When he opens the watch he finds there the photo of another woman and realizes that George is unworthy of his wife and her love for him. To save her illusion, he takes a watch from his own person, removes the photo of George's wife from it, puts it in George's watch and carries it to Mame, who thereafter always believes that George loved her.
- Anita, a Mexican girl, falls in love with John Gordon, an American mine superintendent hated by her brother Pedro. Pedro plans Gordon's assassination. Anita conceals in her clothing a black bean, and feigning that Gordon has done her wrong, goes to her brother and begs to be allowed to kill the American. As she has expected, Pedro tells her that the assassin will be chosen by lot, and then he passes round a hat full of beans, all of which are white save one, which is black. Anita surreptitiously takes the black bean out of her waist and the duty of planting the bomb which is to destroy her lover is accorded to her. After she disguises herself as a man and rides off, Pedro discovers the black bean left in the hat. Suspicious of Anita, he follows her on horseback. She does her best to evade him, but is caught and forced to plant the bomb, but she has secretly removed the fuse. Meanwhile Gordon finds the unexploded bomb, and looking for its thrower, he sees Anita struggling with Pedro in the distance. Gordon arrives just in time to save the girl's life, and the brother and his horse, falling over the cliff, are killed.
- Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl whose mother and father have domestic difficulties. They go to court and are divorced; when the father is refused his request for his daughter, he kidnaps her and takes her to another state, where he becomes a great political factor. Bill, who is in love with the girl, traces her with his two companions' help. They steal her away, but in the process his hand is burned with a poker, and the father uses that as a means of identification in tracing him. He goes to the house where Bill is hiding and one of Bill's pals, to avoid his arrest, burns his own hand with a poker. Father comes in, cannot identify Bill's pal, and leaves, realizing that he cannot have his daughter.