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- Manoah and his wife mourn deeply because both have passed the middle-age mark and remain childless. As they become older, their sorrow increases until one day the old wife calls upon the Lord and prays that they may have a child to gladden their declining years. An angel appears in answer to her prayer and prophecies that she shall have a son but that his hair must never be cut. The angel also declares that the son shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines. In due time Manoah's wife has a son and names him Samson. As he grows to manhood, his extraordinary strength is the marvel of his parents and the community. When he has attained a man's estate he goes to Timmath, where he meets and learns to love Zorah, a Philistine's beautiful daughter. Samson overcomes his father's objections to his marrying a Philistine maiden, and he conducts his parents to Timmath that they may see his bride. While they are nearing the Vineyard of Timmath a young lion roars at Samson. He becomes imbued with the spirit of the Lord, and after struggling with the beast he breaks its jaws. Arrived at Timmath with his parents the nuptial feast is arranged for and the betrothal is announced. During the interim before his marriage, Samson returns to the spot where he slew the lion and finds that bees have gathered there and have deposited honey in the carcass, Thus at his wedding feast he proposes to his guests the riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness," and he offers to give to him who solves the riddle 30 sheets and 30 changes of garments. Unable to answer the riddle, the Philistines go to Zorah, and threaten her with death unless she draws Samson out and obtains for them the answer. She fights against their threats and persuasions but she finally weakens and after obtaining the answer from Samson she tells the Philistines. When the final day arrives and they answer the riddle Samson is deeply wrought up against his wife because he realizes her deceit. In his anger he renounces her and leaves her with her father. However, when his anger cools he returns and wishes to become reconciled. But in the meantime Zorah's father has given her to another. Samson's anger knows no bounds and he goes into the cornfields of the Philistines' and applies the fire brand. Driven to despair, the Philistines blame Zorah's father as the author of their misfortunes and they burn his house consuming Zorah and her father. Weary of the world, Samson seeks a cave on the top of the rock of Etan and dwells there. But the Philistines cannot rest in their hatred for Samson. They gather an army together and go to take their revenge on their enemy and upon the field of Ramath-Lehi, Samson meets the army of the Philistines and single-handed, with the jawbone of an ass he gives them battle, slaying a thousand soldiers in putting the remainder to flight. Samson then goes to the city of Gaze and strikes terror into the hearts of the people by his feats of strength. Sihon, the ruler of the Philistines, plots to take Samson prisoner, and he has the gates of the city locked against him. But when Samson is ready to leave, he wrenches the huge gates from their hinges and carries them away. Samson now meets the beautiful Delilah and is fascinated by her charms. Neither is she blind to the beauty or his strength and she receives him with favor. Making capital of their love Sihon entices Delilah to ascertain from Samson wherein his great strength lies. She refuses but Sihon convinces her that it is a matter of loyalty to her religion and people and she consents. She leads him to her home and employs her charms to fascinate him and she soothes and coaxes him as only a woman can until he is overcome and tells her: "There hath not come a razor upon mine head. If I be shaven then my strength will go from me." Then a prey to her seductions, he falls asleep and she cuts off his locks and summons Sihon and the soldiers. Then Samson is bound and thrown into prison where his eyes are put out with hot irons. He is then made to grind in the prison house and he is whipped as he works like an animal. When Samson's strength is gone he is for the moment forgotten and as the time passes his hair begins to grow out again. And when Samson's hair is again grown out the Philistines gather in the Temple and make merry and call for Samson that he may make sport for them. Samson is taken from the prison and led into the temple by a small boy. He is jeered and hooted at by the Philistines and is made to bow and do homage to Dagon the fishguard. Then Samson whispers to his boy guide to lead him to the sustaining pillars of the temple that he may lean upon them. Samson now calls upon the Lord for strength that he may be avenged for the loss of his eyes. The populace are wild with insane joy as they behold the once mighty man now their clown. As they rail and jeer him he places his mighty shoulders to the huge pillars. The frenzied mocking is frozen upon their lips and there is an awful silence. Then the massive pillars totter and crumble before his touch, the magnificent temple curves, collapses and tumbles upon the multitude. In that hour of death, the old, blind, dying Samson totters and crawls over the ruins until he finds a certain form, Delilah, and he falls upon the body of the faithless one he loved.
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a quarrel. She tries to make him sign the "demands" of the Wives' Club to which she belongs, and leaves him when he refuses. He telephones to the Strike-Breaking Bureau, and the manager gets a girl from the burlesque troupe to act as strike-breaker till Wifie gives in. Dolly Dimples fits wonderfully well into the Carter household, and all goes merrily till Wifie telephones to ask Hubby if he is ready to accede to her demands. Dolly's voice over the phone and the reply of Carter that her place is satisfactorily filled by the strike- breaker makes her furious and she sets out in hot haste for the house. Hubby has telephoned that he needs police protection, and when the cop appears he gives Carter a whistle, saying that he is to blow it if help is needed. When Wifie sees the blonde beauty she rushes at her to scratch out her eyes. Hubby calls the cop and threatens to have her arrested. She succumbs, and he makes her tear up the "demands" before his eyes. She consents, so that she may have the pleasure of dismissing the blonde strike-breaker.
- An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is shipping her share of the inheritance in a box. When the box arrives, the old maid discovers it contains a full-sized orangoutang, which escapes from the box and causes her no end of trouble when she tries to inveigle him to re-enter his prison. In the apartment next to that of the old maid is a musician who persists in torturing a trombone, to the exasperation of the old maid, who vainly tries to persuade him to cease his efforts. He, however, only slams the door in her face. When she returns to her apartment, she finds that the monk has again made his escape from the box and is roaming around the room, doing what damage he can. It is then that her attention is again called to the musician, who resumes his practice upon the trombone. The orang makes his escape from the apartment via a window and makes his way unmolested down the street, until he arrives at a circus tent, in which a performance is at that time going on. He enters the menagerie tent and proceeds to release all the animals of the menagerie. The elephants and camels are stampeded, and the lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, and other animals, proceed to make for freedom. Many exciting scenes follow, in which the animals terrorize the neighborhood. They are finally all captured by the keepers from the circus. The old maid and the musician make up their differences, and going after the truant monkey, find him engaged in eating fruit at a fruit stand. He is vengefully borne homeward and confined with no chance of escape, while the romance of the old maid and the musician ripens into love.
- The father is busy with his business. The little child is neglected as the mother is occupied in romantic speculations. And then enters the "friend," who sees his opportunity. One evening when the father is detained on business the wife accepts the "friend's" invitation to the theatre. The father returns and finds his wife gone. When the child tells where the mother is, he realizes that her love has flown, and the next morning he arranges for a separation. A year passes and the mother and child are living together, lonely. The "friend" sends her roses and says he is coming that night to claim his love. While dressing, the mother accidentally finds a white rose that her husband gave her a year before on their wedding anniversary. Memories come back to her, but she disregards them and rushes into the garden to meet her friend. The child, alone and frightened, goes to find its mother in the garden. The child picks a white rose and approaches with it. This brings the mother to her senses and she rushes back to the house with her baby. The baby then takes sick from exposure. The father is sent for, but before he arrives the baby dies. The mother and father are reconciled by their common grief. In the garden the mother sees a vision of her child, which she follows to the house. Here they find that the child is still alive, so the family is happily reunited.
- The Rev. Jones and his wife awaited the arrival of their son from college with delight. Rev. Jones had a friend of his boyhood days by the name of Smythe who was a business man. Smythe was a man who loved society as did his wife. They had one daughter, Gladys who went to boarding school. She too was expected home. Gladys arrived with two friends whom the friendly Mrs. Smythe soon made comfortable. Soon after, Tom, the minister's son arrived; his friends began to drop in and when Mr. and Mrs. Jones went out to a meeting Tom and his friends indulged in a friendly game of cards and enjoyed themselves thoroughly. How horrified were the parents when they found Tom liked "worldly things!" The Rev. Jones immediately decided that he should not enter the ministry and sent him with a letter of introduction to the house of his friend Smythe, asking him to place him in business. The Smythes were just enjoying themselves and while in the midst of the fun the butler announced that "the minister's son" had arrived. Not knowing the circumstances under which he had been sent to their home and thinking him a pious, good "little fellow," a deep gloom set over them as well as their faces. He was received in a solemn manner. He being full of fun and finding them so quiet, thought they were shy and home-loving people and immediately adopted the pious air. One day Tom met a couple of old friends in a tavern near the Smythe home and decided that at his first opportunity he would invite them over for a good time. This opportunity soon occurred when one night the Smythes, who were going to a dance, came down stairs in full evening dress and walked into the room where Tom was laughingly admiring a picture of a dancing girl. In an instant he put it in his pocket but not before it had been seen by Bess, one of the friends of Gladys. He immediately concocted a story which moved him to tears as well as his consolers. It was the picture of a dead school friend and he felt sad. Of course then he would not feel like attending "the Biblical lecture" No, he felt too bad. This made the Smythes and their friends happy and they hurried off to the dance. As soon as the door had slammed, up jumped Tom, telephoned to his friend to come over and have a good time. It was while they were in the midst of their game when the Smythes came home from the party to find the butler had retired, after being pressed to do so by Tom, by means of a good tip. Upon hearing the noise in the library they opened the door and found the boys smoking and playing cards. Then the game was up. Each found that they had been "acting" and decided they would all have a good time together hereafter.
- An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight.
- Father and Mother Lennox are a contented old couple, until daughter Jane comes home from college imbued with a passion for hygiene and an unswerving sense of duty toward them. With a book, "Old People and Their Care" as her guide, she puts them through a course of exercising "sprouts," orders hygienic meals, throws wide the windows to cold winds, and upsets their well-ordered comfort. After a period of submission they run away. Jane is almost distracted. Hoping for their return, she restores the house to its former old-fashioned comfort. Meanwhile, her parents rent a bungalow on the border of a large estate. Billy Harrison, the owner, drops in to see if he can be of service. In his rough outing clothes he is taken for the hired man by the old couple, who give him a dollar and set him doing the chores. He good naturedly lets them lord it over him and becomes a great favorite. Jane, learning of their whereabouts, arrives at the bungalow just as father Lennox returning from a hunting trip with Billy, shows his bagging of game. He and Mother Lennox are very happy over the event, but Jane's appearance dampens their spirits. Billy conspires with them to punish Jane by a siege of snubbing. With a maternal heartache, Mother Lennox is persuaded to ignore Jane, and both refuse to return home. Billy is resentful of Jane's treatment of her parents, and Jane is jealous of the hired man's influence over them. Later his ire changes to pity when he sees that their snubbing has made her cry. Thoughts of her begin to fill his own lonely life. Anxious to atone and longing for her parent's love again, Jane resolves to buy the little bungalow with her small inheritance. To this end she seeks the owner, and is amazed to find that Billy is host at the ranch house, and not merely a hired man. He listens to her plan, but refuses to sell the bungalow unless Jane will take the job of bossing him. Thinking him sarcastic, she leaves angrily. He follows and pleads his cause. Through binoculars Billy's guests on the terrace see Jane's antagonism to kissing vanish with her surrender.
- Henry, an artist, finds Flossie in the arms of another and rushes out to look for some violent form of sudden decease. He tries hanging himself to his chandelier, but the flimsy contraption pulls out, and he lands upon the floor. He goes to the lake and is preparing to drown himself when a peddler offers to buy his body. Henry signs up with him for $20, and delivery at 5:15 p. m., and goes to Flossie's apartment to tell her of the misery she had caused, followed by the peddler. "But Henry, dear, I was just rehearsing my new play," she explains. Henry makes a break for the window, and Flossie holds up the peddler. A telegram arrives, and Flossie open it. "Uncle dead. Leaves you a million." The peddler snatches the wire and volunteers to break the news to Henry and collect his twenty. Henry thinks the man is after him and doubles back to Flossie, and from her he learns the truth. As soon as the dealer arrives, Henry concludes a little arrangement with him.
- Vera Ronceval has been brought up in seclusion by her father, Amos Ronceval, a recluse. One day she meets Orthen Owen, an artist, and they fall in love. When Amos learns of this, he forbids Arthen to see his daughter, and in his rage suffers an attack of heart disease. Dying, he commits Vera to the care of her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, a lawyer. Mr. Ronceval takes Vera away with him to his city home. Arthen, unable to find further trace of Vera, falls upon evil ways, neglecting his art and finding forgetfulness in dissipation. Reduced to poverty, he makes a contract with Lee Varick, famous as an artist, whereby Arthen is to paint pictures, signing Varick's name to them. Varick has acquired his reputation by this traffic in the work of others. In the meantime, Vera has been living with her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, who is a friend of Varick's, and who greatly desires a match between Varick and Vera, Although Vera has never forgotten Arthen, she has, to please her cousin, conditionally consented to an engagement with Varick. One day Vera meets Arthen in his fallen condition, and learning the story of his fall, she tells him that she still loves him, and that she will break off her engagement with Varick. At the same time Arthen, obtaining a new lease upon his manhood, seeks Varick out to return the check just given him for the sale of his name and work to Varick. Vera calls upon Varick, tells him that she knows of his mode of obtaining fame and that she will not marry him. Varick, believing that he has her in his power, attempts to commit an assault upon her. Just then, Arthen, on his way to return Varick's check, hears Vera's cries for help and breaks into Varick's studio. He knocks Varick down and rescues Vera. He then takes her to her cousin, who, upon learning the whole story, gives his consent to the marriage of Vera and Arthen.
- A Boston girl, Clairbel Sudds, laments that she has no talents and goes to Dr. Daws, something of a wizard, for help. He gives her five magic bon bons, each a different flavor for a different talent. They are accidentally sold to a 12 year old girl named Bessie Bostwick, whose family eats them with bizarre results. By L Frank Baum
- "I don't know this woman and I don't want to know her, but I do know you will have to give her up. Your mother has had her investigated and has found out several things, either one of which is sufficient to cause me to speak as I do. In the first place she is thirty-six while you are but twenty. In the second she is not in your class socially. She lives in what is known as 'Across the line.' Therefore should you marry her you could not expect to raise her to your level; you must lower yourself to hers." Horton Manners, man of the world, a power in business, a man who had lived and was living, rested his case. Horton, Jr., just out of school, and to whom the above remarks were addressed, looked at his father, then at his mother, and for once his mother failed him. She, a leader in society, had no intention of jeopardizing her position by allowing her son to marry beneath him. The boy pleaded, his father softened and yielded one point. Take a trip around the world, boy, stay away a year, then if at the end of that time you still love this woman, I have nothing further to say. The boy, however was firm and told his parents that he would rather dig ditches than give up Mildred. He leaves to tell his sweetheart what has happened. The woman in the case, Mildred Fontaine, has lived and yet is just beginning to live and consoles herself with the thought that, although she has passed the age before which a woman is supposed to marry, she has found a man she loves and who loves her even though he is but a boy. Horton, Jr., goes to her and tells her his father's ultimatum and the answer he gave to it. She, worldly wise and knowing that love cannot exist without the proper food, advises him to take the trip. The boy leaves for Paris. Mildred decides that she cannot live without him and plans to bring him back to her. She secures a position as social secretary in the Manners home. She plays upon Manners, Sr., whose weakness is women. She places him in a compromising position with herself and with the aid of Casey, a friendly chauffeur, secures a photograph of it. She shows the father the photograph and he offers her money for it. She refuses and demands the return of the son. He writes a cablegram as dictated, but before sending it he tells her why he objected to the marriage, compares their ages and shows Mildred that in ten years she will be comparatively an old woman while the boy will be just in the prime of life. He pictures to her how unhappy they both would be in a few years' time. In the end, Mildred, loving the boy as she does, agrees and returns "across the line." In the meantime the boy has verified all his father's arguments by falling in love with a girl in Paris.
- A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.
- Little Flo is the daughter of a blind musician and the pair live by means of the few pennies tossed to them on the street, the father playing the violin and Flo dancing and singing to his accompaniment. Death overtakes the old man in front of the country residence of an eccentric novelist named Roland. Roland and his sister take Flo into their home and, becoming much attached to her, they virtually adopt her. Three years later Flo has grown into a talented society girl and is received everywhere as a member of the Roland household. Roland himself has learned to love the little waif with all the pent-up passion of a hitherto loveless existence but is afraid of frightening her by a declaration, indeed he is of too timid a nature to do so. It happens that Norris, a well-known vaudeville manager, goes to spend a brief vacation in the neighborhood of the Roland house. In one of her rambles, Flo one day dances and sings on a cliff near her home and one of her shoes flies off and in falling, strikes Norris on the head, that gentleman happening to be strolling aimlessly at the base of the cliff. He climbs the rocks, the shoe in his pocket, and the two have a very romantic and rather humorous meeting. This meeting leads to a better acquaintance and Norris is received as a regular visitor at the Roland house. Norris also falls desperately in love with Flo and as he is a younger and better looking man, he apparently has every chance of winning her affections. Roland notices the growing intimacy between the young people and gives Norris every encouragement, although it neatly breaks his heart to do so. Then Norris proposes that Flo go on the stage. Flo is wild with delight over the prospect and leaves with Roland's sister to begin her career. After a triumphant debut, she goes on the road and is acknowledged as a successful vaudeville star. Going home on a vacation, accompanied by Roland's sister and Norris, they find Roland lonely and dejected, utterly unable to work. He tries to appear cheerful, but at an awful cost to himself. Then Norris asks him for Flo's hand in marriage, Flo watching the interview. Roland gives his entire consent, but in doing so he reveals to Flo for the first time, the depth of his love for her. In a flash it comes to her that she has always loved him and him only and when Norris addresses her, she gently sends him away. Then running to Roland she leads him into confessing his love and stealing into his arms she gives herself to him, resigning her brilliant future in the outside world.
- Colonel Gruff sends for Lord Helpus to come to his country place and take Bess away from Billy Dare, a young man he does not like. The sheriff reads that a dangerous lunatic, whose mania is proposing to women, is at large, and when he sees Lord Helpus proposing to Bess, who does not enjoy it, he takes him for the madman. Billy chases Helpus away from Bess, and when the rubes arrive they chase Billy as a lunatic. The sheriff returns and pursues Helpus with a shotgun. Bess tells her father, who phones the next town that the woods are full of lunatics. The sheriff sees the colonel trying to restrain Bess from going after Billy. He arrests the colonel as the lunatic. Both Billy and Helpus have been caught by the rubes. Billy is released, but Helpus is thrown into the shed with the colonel. Bess and Billy elope, leaving a note which says that Helpus is to blame. The colonel beats up the lord, and is too late to catch the lovers.
- Madeline Albright left the city to take up her life on the plains as the wife of cattleman Jeff Albright. The time came when the loneliness of the vast plains palled upon Madeline; she could not resist longing to return to the life and amusements and action, and when she left she took her baby boy Jack with her. Jack grew up and went West, and finally went to work as a cowboy on his father's cattle ranch; neither realized their relationship. Here he met and fell in love with Anita Carew, the foreman's daughter. One day he received a letter from his mother: she was sick and needed to undergo a major operation. A good position as a sheepherder offered itself and, throwing aside his pride, he took it. He became hated and shunned by all but Anita, who still believed in him. But Jack rebelled at the cattlemen's taunts and soundly thrashed one of them. With this Jeff Albright, his father, decided to drive him from the range. In the meantime Jack's mother arrived at his cabin, and was there when Jeff and his men rode up and delivered the ultimatum. She heard a familiar voice and stepped out. Jeff recognized the woman he had yearned for so many years and cattle feuds were forgotten. And there was the boy, his own son, whom he had come to "clean out." And from there on, well, another story commences there, but it is left to the imagination of the spectator.
- Inez Alvarado is studying under Prof. Raymond Alvarado, a celebrated student of psychology and hypnotism. She is engaged to Bob Duncan, a young engineer. Her sister, Dolores, is betrayed by Page Ulrich, a wealthy young idler. He deserts her and she hides her shame in the sea. Inez has no clue to the identity of her sister's betrayer except a kodak picture, snapped by Carlos in a spirit of mischief. Later she meets and recognizes him, and finding that she can control him hypnotically, lays her plans to punish him. She breaks her engagement with Bob, but cannot give him the reason. She says, "Long ago when a girl came to the altar as a maiden, she let her hair down. Trust me, dear, no matter what happens. Someday I will return to you that way." He is greatly disappointed, but promises. Inez lures Page on and finally leads him to the altar. Then as he ardently approaches to embrace her, she gains hypnotic control, and to his horrified eyes, she is the dead Dolores. Every time he attempts to approach her she repeats this action. He becomes frantic and tries to kill her, but even while he holds her by the throat, she changes to Dolores, and he flees from the house in terror. Bob reads of Inez's marriage and is greatly upset, but finally decides to await her explanation before condemning her. A few quiet weeks at the club having restored his courage. Page again seeks to prey upon innocence. His intended victim is Betty, a pretty telephone operator. Inez learns of it and determines to save her. She arrives at the ferry just after the boat has left, so hurries to Bushy Point, near which the boat must pass. There, unseen, she secures control and as he turns he is horrified to see Dolores beside him. He starts back and falls overboard and disappears. Inez is shocked, but feels that it is no more than he deserved. Bob goes to see her and as he turns and sees her approaching with her hair falling over her shoulders, he understands and his heart is filled with a great joy.
- When a fireman rescues his long-lost sister-in-law he mistakes her for his wife when she dies, and contemplates suicide until he learns the truth.
- In a little house lives old Miser Tight and his wife. They are at breakfast. Miser Tight stows some money in an old boot, when his wife is from the room, and hangs it back upon the wall. Then he sets out to collect more rent from his tenants. Near the house Weary Blink, a tramp, is reposing upon an ash heap. He awakens and sets out in search for food. He calls at Miser Tight's house, but the wife refuses to aid him, and after repeated attempts to secure food, she becomes exasperated and flings out the old shoe at the tramp. He finds the money in the shoe and sets out for the town to spend it. He tries repeatedly at the different stores, but the merchants, alarmed at the sight of the roll of bills, think that he has stolen it, and they send for the detectives, who follow Weary Blink. Miser Tight arrives at the home of a poor laborer and demands his rent. The wife tells him that her husband works on the building opposite the little house, and Miser Tight sets out to get his money. Weary Blink leads the detectives and the police a merry chase, and in the officers' scramble for the money he gets away. It happens that he drops a bill directly beneath the scaffold on which the poor laborer is at work, and in the scramble for the money the scaffold falls and the man is injured. In the commotion the tramp is forgotten, and the hurt man carried into his little home. Miser Tight, not at all touched by the pathos of the scene, follows the crowd there and demands the money. When the crowd has left, Weary Blink, who has sneaked into the rear of the house for protection, hears the brutal miser hounding the injured man. Blink enters the room, pays the landlord off and deposits him on the street below. Then, realizing that he has caused the accident to befall the man, he showers the remainder of the money on the bed and goes on his way, leaving the little family rejoicing. In the lumber yards, where he sits down to rest, he looks at the boot which contained so much, and yet so little for him, and falls asleep.
- Dave and Phillip Hull, twins, are totally different in character. Dave is steady, slow to hate and true in love. Phillip, the gay and popular gambler, is perhaps more lovable on the surface, but shifty and flare-tempered underneath. Dave loves little Meg, daughter of Hardy, a cattle rustler. Dave does not know that the father is a cattle rustler, however. Phillip shoots a gambler in a quarrel and makes his escape to his brother's ranch. Here, he meets Meg and immediately begins courting her. She yields to him and he promises to marry her. Meanwhile the gambler dies and the sheriff and posse search for Phillip. Dave has learned of his brother's refusal to marry Meg. Determined that right shall be done, Dave goes for the minister. The father too has learned of the case, but thinks Dave the man. He decides to kill him and starts for the ranch. Dave returns to his home, only to find the posse on his brother's trail. He offers to exchange clothes with Phillip and submit to arrest in his brother's place, providing the guilty man will marry the girl. Phillip agrees. Dave, dressed as his brother, slips from the window to draw pursuit. Meg's father approaches and shoots to kill through the open window at Phillip, whom he supposes is Dave. Dave is brought back and the tangle is straightened out with the sad wedding of Meg and the true-hearted Dave.
- Mother and Father take the children to see the minstrel show. All the usual stunts are performed, much to the disgust of the parents and to the delight of the children. That night they dream of darkies and end-men. The next day the children decide to have a minstrel of their own. So all the kids in the neighborhood are summoned and told to forage for material. When all the junk is collected they decide that the garage is the logical place for the stage. The care is their only obstacle, so they start it to get it out. But no one knows how to stop it and the auto goes sailing down the street. The blackening of the faces is at first a puzzle, but shoe blacking and stoveblack solve the problem. Then a baby is needed for a part in the play. So little brother is stolen from the cradle and his face blacked. In the meanwhile Father has been phoned that his car was found meandering through the streets, and when he gets to the police station to see about it Mother phones that baby has been stolen. He rushes home with the whole police force and the thieves are found in the garage, having the time of their young lives. The picture ends with a view of little Frankie in the tub getting the world's most thorough scrubbing.
- Mr. Cherub is believed to be a model husband and ideal citizen. But his behavior in private does not correspond with his public image.
- The Curate of the boarding school is in love with the madcap, much to the principal's displeasure. While the girls are out playing ball, Harry, the madcap's real lover, climbs over the wall and whistles to Rose, who makes a dive for the wall. The ball which is being thrown to her strikes the principal, knocking her to the ground. She is furious and throws the ball out of the picture, striking the curate who happens to be reading nearby. He picks up the ball, throws it, and strikes Harry, who falls off the wall. Meanwhile, the principal has seen Harry on the wall and Rose beneath it and goes after her, sending her back to the classroom. The girls all rush into the room. Rose tells them to close the door and hold it while she draws the teacher's picture. The principal takes her out and locks her in the cellar. The girls that night try to free Rose. She writes a note and throws it out the window. The iceman finds it, but not knowing how to read he gives it to the Curate, who immediately sees that the note is for Harry. The Curate decides to save Rose and marry her himself. The girls play numerous pranks on the teacher and finally secure her and drag her to the room where she has locked Rose in; they leave the teacher bound and gagged while they continue with the party. When they hear the usual whistle, Rose rushes out of the room. She and Harry see the Curate climbing up the ladder to the room where Rose is supposed to be. They get the girls, who are all in pajamas, into an automobile and drive off for the wedding. Meanwhile the Curate has taken the bride, whom hie thinks is Rose, to the sheriff's office. There he discovers it is the principal, and is about to be married when Rose, Harry, and all the pajama-clad girls enter, and a double wedding takes place.
- A crook fools a married couple by posing as a hypnotist.
- Nameless and homeless and just a bit of human driftwood, the boy comes to a western town. He meets with curses and rebuffs when he attempts to get work, but is finally engaged as porter at the principal saloon in town. The brute and a few choice companions are the bullies of the section. They have the general populace cowed, as well as the sheriff, and ever engage in daring bits of outlawry, without fear of capture. One day they are in the saloon where the boy is acting as porter and the brute, who is an expert gunman, exhibits his prowess to the men assembled. He gruffly orders the boy to hold a card while he shoots at it. The boy is afraid and runs away. He seeks refuge with an old lady, the mother of a girl who sings at the saloon dance hall. She protects him from the men who are pursuing him and makes him comfortable. It is through her that he has the first taste of what he has never known, mother love. Later the brute attacks the old lady's daughter and forces his unwilling attentions upon her. Arriving home, exhausted, the girl tells her story. A great change comes over the boy and the smouldering fires of manhood are fanned into flame. A new courage possesses him and, going to the saloon he tackles the bully bare-handed and by sheer grit is soon choking the life out of the brute, who at heart is a coward. The sheriff and others attempt to make him release the brute and the brute's men come to his assistance. The boy grabs his gun, however, and cleans the place. The men recognize the courage they themselves have lacked. They congratulate the boy and the sheriff, feeling himself unequal to this newcomer, unfastens his star and pins it upon the boy's breast. The boy has been born again, according to the principle that a man may always be what he might have been. For the nameless lad the old life is past and a new future opens.
- William Jones, raised by his Uncle Frank in the city, was a rounder, while his twin brother, Alberforce, raised in the country by his grandmother and two aunts, was just the opposite. Grandma had picked out Mattie, the little daughter of a neighbor, for Alberforce's wife, so that she could have him always under her eye. But Alberforce had longings for the Great White Way. When a letter arrived from Frank, saying that legal business required his signature, Alberforce was delighted. The three women decided to let him go. He arrived in the city and was met by his uncle. Their father's will decreed that if either of the boys gambled, drank, played with chorus girls, or compromised himself in any shady affair, his share of the money was to go to charity. The lawyer had already satisfied himself as to Alberforce, but he insisted upon seeing William for himself. It was the birthday of the twins, and William, in spite of the coming visit of the lawyer, was determined to have the party he had planned. They were all assembled and making a great noise when Uncle Frank arrived with Alberforce. The two brothers met, and William lent the other a dress suit and told him to comb back his neatly parted hair in city style. Then, when Alberforce appeared in the dining room, they all took him for his brother. This was fortunate, as the lawyer had arrived and was at that moment with Uncle Frank, who had done all he could to make the party keep quiet. The lawyer insisted upon seeing William, and Frank brought in Alberforce by mistake. Of course he answered all the lawyer's searching questions about chorus girls and cocktails in the negative, and the lawyer was satisfied. Marianne De Voe, an actress who thought herself engaged to William, now appeared, and also mistook Alberforce for his brother. She declared that if he refused to marry her she would sue him. In the meantime, Grandma and the aunts repented of their rashness in letting Alberforce to go the city alone, and followed him. They arrived and met William, who was much taken with Mattie. His party was sent home, and he sat on the sofa with the four country women. Uncle Frank entered and found them. William begged Grandma to take him back to the country, and as Alberforce was only too delighted to stay with Uncle Frank, the arrangement was made. William rejuvenates the three women, and we see them, at the end, on their way to a card party.
- An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.
- When a minister tries to clean up Riverton, he finds an unexpected ally in the barkeeper's daughter.
- Two old sweethearts, Henry Jones and Mrs. Mary Owen, he a widower and she a widow, meet at a summer resort and, renewing their old love, get married. On their way back to the city they send telegrams home, he to his only daughter, Florence, and she to her only son, Tom. The children receive the telegrams and are filled with disappointment. The old folks arrive and go first to his home where he proudly introduces Florence to her new "mamma." Florence refuses to acknowledge the introduction and runs away from home, and becomes a governess. The newly mated couple then visit Mrs. Jones' home and Tom is introduced to his new "papa." Tom, under the influence of alcoholic beverages, proceeds to disown his new relation most strenuously, and rushes out of the house in his evening clothes and without a cent. Climbing on a moving freight train, he lies down in a box car, and goes to sleep. He awakens and finds the car side-tracked at a little country station and sets out in search of food. It happens that Florence is living in this same community, and is out giving an airing to her charges, a girl and a boy. The children run away from her, and in searching for them she climbs a fence and finds herself face to face with the fact that the cow is peacefully grazing does not appeal to her, and she turns to fly only to pass the weird apparition in a dress suit. Tom, however, solves the difficulty by politely removing his high hat and shoving the cow to one side, at the same time "handing" her a hearty laugh, which naturally piques her vanity. She goes home hating him. Tom, in his search for refreshments, invades the property where Florence lives, and, meeting the footman, asks for food. Then seeing a woodpile he rushes for it and shows his willingness to earn his meal by sawing wood. The footman, greatly amused, tells Florence of the occurrence and she visits Tom and superintends his labors. Then when sandwiches are brought, she compels him to do a little more work before she allows him to eat. He finally finishes and refusing pecuniary assistance from her, he takes his departure in a most gallant manner. She, however, has grown to like him and induces the family to employ him as a gardener. In a short time an intimacy springs up between them, which soon ripens into love. Finally Tom, endeavoring to discipline the children Florence has charge of, calls down upon him the wrath of their mother and he is summarily discharged. The young couple then decide to marry at once and leave together, each believing the other to be poor. Making arrangements for their wedding, they each, unknown to each other, send telegrams to their respective parents, announcing the hour and place of their nuptials, Florence stating that she is going to marry a gardener and Tom a governess. The parents who have quarreled and parted on account of their children's actions, receive the telegrams and start off post-haste in their automobiles to prevent the ceremony at any cost. They arrive together, he coming from one direction and she from another, and tear into the humble parsonage, only to find the marriage just completed.
- Because Fritz has eaten the best of the lunch, Bill, his business partner and also a bachelor, goes to "Hash House Kate's" for a square meal. Lizz waits upon him and is smitten with Bill's appearance. Bill reads an article in the newspaper warning the bachelors of New York that a heavy bachelor tax has been levied. Determined not to pay any such tax, Bill begins to regard Lizz with great interest. They later are married. Fritz receives a letter informing him and Bill that their uncle has just died, and not wishing to have his money squandered, the uncle willed the entire fortune to either nephew who had the most money at the time of the reading of the will. Fritz hides the letter and determines not to tell Bill about it. But, when he learns Bill is married, he figures that they have the most money. Fritz burns the money just as the tax collector arrives and levies a big fine because he is a bachelor.
- The story deals with a "bull movement" engineered by C.P. Allison, a prominent New York operator, whose daughter, May, is visiting at a mountain resort, where the Lathrop family, father, mother and son, are staying for the summer. Miss Allison is pressed into service by her father to obtain information from Billy Lathrop, whose father is supposed to control the stock of an Eastern railroad, and to gain that end she attempts to win him from his sweetheart, Patsy. While the stock movement is progressing the elder Lathrop receives a telegram from his New York office conveying the information that Allison is about to carry out a coup, that the railroad deal is tied up, and that "personal means" are necessary to save him from bankruptcy. Lathrop shows the telegram to his son. The son asks what is to be done and is told the only chance is for him to marry Miss Allison. Jim Kirkley has connived to make the acquaintance of Patsy, who, piqued because of Billy's attention to May, accepts Jim's invitation to take a stroll, and afterwards rides with him through a pass in the mountains. They dismount at the roadside, where, while Patsy is picking Bowers, Jim starts the animals back to the resort. Billy is on the point of asking May to become his wife, when two horses, which he recognizes as those used by Patsy and Jim, return riderless. Billy mounts one of the animals and rides off, while guests at the resort quickly organize a searching party. Billy, riding through the forests, hears a woman's screams. He follows the sound to an abandoned cabin in the mountains, where Patsy is struggling with Jim to save her honor. Billy attacks Jim. Billy gains the advantage and is about to close on Jim's throat when Jim draws his revolver. Patsy jolts Jim's gun arm, but the cartridge is discharged, the bullet lodging in Billy's left leg. Thinking he has inflicted a mortal wound, Jim rushes from the cabin and mounts the horse upon which Billy came on the scene, and on reaching the resort, escapes in a high-powered racing car. Meanwhile, Billy has been ministered to by Patsy. Patsy helps Billy into the cabin, where they pass the night. Patsy acting as physician and nurse. The searching party has not been successful in finding Billy and Patsy and its members return to the resort. Early the following morning Patsy is successful in inducing a passing rancher to drive her and Billy to town, where a marriage license is procured. The rancher drives Billy and Patsy to the home of a minister and the young people are married. They start home and Billy is taken to his parents' suite where he is made comfortable. While the Lathrops and Patsy are gathered about the couch, Mrs. Jones, Patsy's guardian and chaperone, calls to Patsy, requesting her to leave the room. But when Patsy tells her that they are now married, consternation reigns. At this point a messenger arrives with a telegram, which advises Lathrop that Allison is merely a figurehead in the railroad deal, and that Patsy's father, C.P. McGrath, is really the power behind the big deal. When the unique situation dawns upon Lathrop he joins his wife in congratulating Billy and Patsy.
- A matchmaking wife brings suspicion upon herself when she tries to reunite a young couple.
- Jack Brandon, a wealthy rancher, lives happily with his wife on their big estate. A neighbor of theirs, Jud Martin, is in straitened circumstances on account of his inability to secure employment. To make matters worse, Jud's wife is ill. Jack gives them aid and also gets a job for Jud. Mrs. Brandon, a city-bred woman, suddenly becomes tired of country life, and her desire to go to the city is intensified by the receipt of a letter from one of her friends, telling of the joyful times they are having in the city. Mrs. Brandon, while having no desire to be disloyal to her husband, welcomes the presence of Akron, a cattle buyer, to her home because of his citified manners. Akron learns from Jack that it will be several days before the cattle can be rounded up, and is permitted to stay at the house. He sees in the actions of Agnes (Mrs. Brandon) that she is dissatisfied with her way of living, and divining this as a vehicle to ingratiate himself into her good will, he starts to make love to her, but she repulses him. A few mornings later Jack and Akron start away to look over the stock and on the way back to the ranch Jack stops at Jud's cabin to see how the sick woman is getting along. Cynthia, the daughter, expresses her gratitude to Jack by kissing him, and Akron sees a method of worming himself into Jack's wife confidence by using this as a wedge. When he hears Jack tell the girl to meet him at a certain place that evening to get some medicine he conceives a plot to win the wife from her husband. Akron again tries to get Agnes to go with him, but is again repulsed. He then takes her to the place where her husband is to meet Cynthia, and when she sees him give the girl money, she concludes that he does not care for her. She decides to leave him, and after writing a note to him, goes with Akron, who has promised to escort her to the city. Cynthia's mother is stricken and Jack, following an examination, decides that she needs strychnine. He goes to his home to get it and finds the note left by his wife. Wild with rage, he sets out to overtake his wife and Akron, when he suddenly remembers his mission and makes for the sick woman's cabin. Meanwhile, Agnes experiences a change of heart, and starts back to the cabin. Akron is wild and attempts to prevent her, but he is intercepted by Jud, who is on his way home and who was the cause of Agnes changing her mind, he having met the couple at the railroad station where he thanked Agnes for her husband's kindness. Agnes reaches home, and chinking that Jack has not seen the note, destroys it. Jack arrives later, and, through the explanation of Jud, the situation is cleared, and husband and wife are reconciled.
- A girl of the slums has the bandit-craze, but when she goes out with the intent to rob, she ends up responsible for rounding up a group of real crooks.
- At Burke's death, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, baby Rory, who goes into the keeping of his uncle, Sir Everett, who has a son Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped. Twenty years later show Sir Everett's son grown up to be a cad of dissolute habits, but wealthy as a result of the stolen inheritance. Rory has grown to manhood in the home of a poor widow and her daughter Eileen and is in love with peasant girl Kathleen. Sir Everett's son wrongs Rory's foster sister. She dies and Rory swears vengeance upon the wrongdoer. However, vengeance is taken out of his hands. The kidnapper gets into an altercation with the son and kills him. Rory finds the body, is accused of the murder and is convicted and condemned to die. The conscience-stricken kidnapper confesses to a priest--a good friend of Rory's. The priest cannot dishonor the sanctity of the confessional by making the confession public, so he goes to Rory's cell and changes clothes with the young man. Rory escapes, but is speedily recaptured. The time for his execution arrives. The death-bell tolls out mournfully. It arouses the conscience-stricken kidnapper to action. He rushes to the gallows and arrives an instant before Rory is to be hanged. He confesses that the crime was his. Rory is liberated. The tolling of the death-bell also arouses the conscience of Sir Everett. He confesses the kidnapping and restores Rory to his inheritance.
- James Cuthbert, a. rising young Wall street broker, is so busy trying to make money for his extravagant young wife, that he has forgotten that a woman needs love and companionship as well as clothes and jewels. His wife, not finding the attention she requires at home seeks it elsewhere, and Jack Mason, a supposed friend of Cuthbert with more money than principle, supplies the necessary requisites. The wife, while thoughtless, is not bad, and keeps Mason at arm's length. This only makes the game more interesting for him, and, to gain his point, he promises her that if she ever needs anything to come to him for it. Cuthbert, in a moment of money stringency, borrows from Mason on a promissory note, payable in a certain length of time. The note falls due, and Cuthbert is unable to pay. Mason sees his opportunity and refuses to extend the time limit. The wife, seeing her husband in trouble, suddenly discovers that she loves him, and recalls to Mason his promise to help her. Seeing his chance, he agrees on condition that she meet him that night at his office. That same night one of the little shadows of the underworld decides that the office may perhaps yield six months' board and lodging, and enters by the most convenient way, by the fire escape and window. He no sooner gets to work than Mason comes to keep his appointment with the wife, and the shadow takes refuge in the closet. The wife arrives, and discovers that Mason's promises are worthless. In the meantime, Cuthbert receives a telegram from his business partner, saying that if he can stall Mason off for another day, all will be well. Cuthbert goes to Mason's home and learns from his servant that he is at his office. He gets to the office just in time to hear his supposed friend making violent love to his wife. Forgetting money, promissory notes, and all, he breaks open the door and denounces both of them. The shadow in the closet then decides to take a hand himself. He opens the door and tells them all what he thinks of them, especially Mason. Then, just to show that he controls the situation, he burns the promissory notes and makes a graceful exit. The result is a reconciliation, between wife and husband, and the discomfiture of Mason.
- Buck Carson receives his pay along with the other cowboys. He is held up and robbed of all he has. Next morning Carson comes upon a sign offering $500 reward for the apprehension of one Bat Collins, outlaw. A description follows and Carson realizes that he had been held up by Bat Collins the night before. An old drifter and his daughter are wandering overland in their camp wagon. Buck Carson makes their acquaintance, just after the girl's old father has broken his leg. An idea strikes him. He decides to pass himself off for the outlaw and turn himself over to the sheriff, with instructions that the reward money be paid to the old man and his daughter. Buck is incarcerated. The men of the country around make up their mind to lynch the notorious outlaw. Meanwhile the real Bat Collins endeavors to hold up a ranchman who rides to inform the sheriff. He arrives just as they are about to string up Buck Carson. The story of the old man and his daughter is made public and the old ranchman passes around his hat. As the story closes, Buck Carson receives his reward in the love of the maiden for whose sake he has offered to make the sacrifice.
- O'Rourke, soldier of fortune and hero of many wars, finds himself in Paris without funds. In a spirit of recklessness, he pawns a valuable watch given him by a grateful republic for services rendered. With the proceeds he enters a prominent Parisian restaurant to dine. There he attracts the attention of the Princess de Grandlieu, her husband, the Prince, and her legal advisor, M. Adolph Chambret. While there an incident occurs which earns the hatred of her advisor, who is in love with her. Later O'Rourke repairs to a gambling house, adjacent to the restaurant. The Princess and party go to a ball at the Hotel Ritz. As usual, the young adventurer attempts to increase his fortune and, as usual, he loses all. Meantime, the Princess receives a note, by messenger, from her brother, telling her that he is in danger of being killed in the desert of Sahara, where he is attempting to establish an Empire against the Princess' wishes. The note also informs her that the Prince, her husband, is at the bottom of it all, as his fortune will revert to her at his death and thus the Prince will gain control of more money. Out of loyalty to her brother, the Princess plans a rescue party which she hopes to have O'Rourke lead. Her adviser is ordered to search him out and bring him to her. Chambret finds O'Rourke in the gambling house, broke. He insults him by referring to a rose received from the Princess. O'Rourke, not waiting for explanations, knocks Chambret down and speeds away. The Princess, on her way home, is insulted by the Prince, who endeavors to learn the contents of the note she has received. Rourke hears her scream for help; he pursues in a taxicab, effects a rescue and takes the Princess home. There he is told of the mission which she wants him to undertake. Of course the adventurer agrees to her wish much to the discomfiture of the Prince and Chambret.
- A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.
- The Pirate Chief (Pat Rooney) and his Flunky (Kewpie Morgan) are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen (Mary Haines) and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.
- The Spaniard's affections refused by the girl, he swears to get rid of his successful rival, but the sight of the child and a few smaller incidents work on him to turn the hatred in his heard into love. -Motion Picture News 1915.
- Ever since Son o' the Stars was an infant, Wapita has been his guardian. Now he is a young man twenty-five years old, and because of the color of his skin, which has been browned by his outdoor occupations, and the shape of his eyes, he is taken for a half-breed. Wapita, who is a dumb Indian, has taught the young man the Indian sign language, and the two have lived happily all these years. One day Son returns after a protracted visit at the trading post presided over by Brent, and he tells Wapita that while there he met Madeline, the daughter of the trader, and that in order to be in her presence he made a lot of purchases. He continued to make purchases until he saw Madeline bestow her affection upon Poleron Dore, when he made his departure. Son is always at the post thereafter. This provoked Dore, and he asks Brent if he would permit the affectionate advances made by Son, whom he characterizes as a half-breed, towards Madeline lo be continued. Brent voices his objections, and with Dore goes home to look for his daughter. She is not there, however, for Son had been there, proposed, was accepted and then took her to Wapita. Brent and Dore trace them to Wapita's cabin, where Brent tells Son that if he is ever caught with his daughter again that he will be killed. Heartbroken, and after heaping curses upon his race, Son falls asleep. Son's extreme sorrow and his denunciation of the Indian race brings memories of the past to Wapita. In the visualization we are shown how Son came to be the charge of the Indian. Marie Lacouvrer is loved by two men. Jack Reid, an artist, and Robert Reynolds, a millionaire. Marie marries the rich man, an incident which breaks the heart of Jack. Time passes and Jack becomes a famous artist. He meets Marie while on a mountain trip and learns that she is greatly disappointed in her husband, who has become brutal. Then Marie receives news that her husband is drowned, and several months later Jack and she are married. Their union is blessed with a baby boy. Suddenly one night Reynolds returns and demands his wife. In the duel that is fought, Reynolds fires before the count, wounding Jack. He, his wife and baby manage to escape to the tent of Wapita. They are trailed by Reynolds, but before he can kill Jack, the latter fires and instantly kills the intruder. The next day the soldiers arrive and take the body away. Fearing that he will break down at the trial and reveal who committed the murder, thereby breaking his promise to Jack not to tell, as he could see the justice of the act. Wapita cuts out his tongue. He is thereby unable to make any statement and Jack is set free. Not long after this incident, Marie dies. Jack, leaving his baby son in the care of Wapita, goes to the hilltop where his wife is buried to give vent to his grief. There he is attacked by Waena, the sweetheart of Wapita. who blames him for the sacrifice her sweetheart made. She thrusts her knife into his breast and he dies. The visualization fades out upon Wapita gazing at the sleeping young man who has been condemned because he is thought to be an Indian. Wapita knows that Waena can prove his parentage, and he goes to get her. While he is gone, Son decides to go out of the life of Madeline forever, but before leaving he determines to see her once more. Preparations at the post are in progress for the wedding of his beloved and Dore. He locates her in her room and claims her, and together they flee down the river. Meanwhile Wapita has found Waena. The lovers are pursued by Brent and Dore. They all meet at the cabin of Wapita, where Waena produces evidence that Son is a white man. Madeline and Son are later married.
- Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman, being friends of both, persuade them to submit to the marriage. This they do. Eileen standing on one side of a curtain and Brandon on the other. The next day Eileen and Brandon are house guests of the Hardman's. When Eileen has finished dressing for dinner she locks her bedroom door, and turning quickly collides with Brandon, whose room is adjoining hers. The two have seen each other on different occasions and there has been mutual admiration. Eileen threatens to tell her husband if Brandon doesn't immediately leave this room, so near to hers. Hardman and his wife, listening at the keyhole, shout to Brandon not to be afraid, for Eileen is his own wife, whereupon Eileen faints in her husband's arms.
- Mary Elton, a wire-walker, marries John Hammond, a lawyer and politician. After her marriage she bids farewell to the circus. After the honeymoon, Mary finds that she is a detriment to her husband s political career, and after coming upon a letter addressed to him in which he is informed that his marriage to a circus girl makes it impossible for him to receive a congressional nomination at the hands of Michael Haggerty, a prominent politician, she writes a letter to her husband informing him of her discovery. Mary returns to her old life in the circus, and receives a cordial welcome from Marsac, the head clown, and her former associates. John Hammond pursues his political ambitions and makes no effort to find his wife, not knowing that a daughter has been born to them. Mary dies in childbirth, having previously extracted a promise from the clown that he will look after her baby. Little Mary grows to womanhood and becomes the joy and pride of the circus. She makes the acquaintance of Hugh Graham, the district attorney. The district attorney and John Hammond, who has been elected governor, view the circus parade. Mary is seen coming down the street on horseback followed by the clown. After the parade the various outside attractions of a typical circus are pictorially reproduced. We see Pedro and a crowd of men gambling while Mary visits the snake-charmer and plays with the snakes. The manager objects to Pedro's gambling and threatens to notify the police, whereupon Pedro and the other gamblers assault the manager. Instantly there arises a cry of "Hey, Rube," and a fight ensues between the gamblers and the circus employees. Pedro pulls out a revolver and kills one of the tent men. The police arrive and the district attorney is summoned to investigate the murder. Mary tells the district attorney that she had seen Pedro fire the shot, and the murdered man is taken away in the patrol wagon, Mary and the other employees following in an auto. Pedro and his followers attack the auto, gag Mary and the district attorney, and take them to a den. Left alone, Mary and the district attorney manage to rid themselves of the ropes that bind them. Mary, being an expert wire-walker, goes to the window, and with the aid of an open umbrella, walks across the telegraph wires and climbs down a telegraph pole. After her escape from the den, Mary telephones to the police station and the captain sends policemen in an auto to the address she gives over the telephone. While the gamblers are carousing in their den, they are notified that policemen are arriving. They try to escape by running to the top of the house. The district attorney has barred the attic door with furniture to prevent the gamblers from entering. The gamblers break in the attic door and while they try to get the best of the district attorney, who is vigorously defending himself, Mary and the police arrive. Pedro manages to escape by swinging along a telegraph pole to the ground, but the other gamblers are captured. Mary takes an umbrella and goes through her remarkable wire walking act, being closely watched by the governor from a private box. Next we see Pedro entering at the back of the box. He has a knife in his hand and Mary, catching a glimpse of him from her elevated post on the wire, shouts a warning. The detective seizes Pedro and the governor is saved. Mary loses her balance in the excitement and is seriously injured by her fall. The governor sees a remarkable resemblance in her to the wife who deserted him years before, investigates, and discovers she is his daughter. Later Mary marries the district attorney.
- A shot is fired in the darkness of the cabin on an ocean liner; a man falls prostrate across the table while a frightened woman throws a revolver from her and rushing out on deck she flings herself over the rail into the waves. The man was not badly hurt. The woman was washed ashore next morning on the beach of a fishing village. The man traces the girl to be revenged upon her. Meantime in the hut of some fishing folk, Mary, the girl, is happy. Two fishermen love her, one, big and stalwart, the other, weak of mind and weak of body. The big fellow, John, proposes to Mary and she accepts him. Ralph, the other boy, sees the progress of this love affair and smiles upon it, although it breaks his heart. The man of the boat arrives at the fishing village and one day as Mary is dancing over the sands to meet John she comes face to face with this visitor from her past. He asks her to go away with him back to the old life. Mary protests and tells him she has a chance for happiness and begs him to go away and leave her free. He laughs at her; he taunts and goads her into a rage. Ralph comes to the girl who sits sadly on the sand and asks her the trouble. "That man makes you unhappy?" asks the boy. She nods. "Then 1 will take him where he can never make you unhappy again." That night Mary determines to confess all to John. Ralph steals out and finding the stranger, suggests that he row him to the mainland. The stranger jumps into the little craft that sets out on its last voyage. Mary confesses to John, telling him of the past of the days when she was the accomplice of the man on the boat, and how, finally unable to stand the life, she pleaded for a chance to go away and be free and when the beast laughed in her face, she shot him. John soothes her and when he learns that the man has come to disgrace her he vows to kill him. But the dawn breaks on two bodies washed in by the tide, Ralph and the stranger side by side.
- By the flickering light of a candle an old peddler hides a bundle of bills in the chimney of his wretched hovel. In a house nearby Mary, a factory girl, lives with her invalid sister. Mary comes to the rescue of the old peddler when some boys in the neighborhood throw stones at him, an incident which earns the gratitude of the miser. Mary is saving her earnings to take her sister to a climate where she will recover from her malady. Mary goes to the bank to open an account and gets acquainted with Charles, the cashier. Charles is afflicted with a secret greed for money and as he handles the funds of the bank he suffers a great desire to take them. Mary's savings at the bank have grown to an amount sufficient to take her sister away, when the bank fails and it is announced that Charles, the cashier, has absconded. The old peddler sees Mary pounding on the doors of the bank. He hurries to his hovel, and gets the packages of bills from their hiding place and prepares to leave. Upon opening the door he is confronted by Mary, who is on her way home. Thinking he sees another vision, he staggers hack. Mary, thinking him ill, enters the hut and tries to assist him. The old man shows signs of insanity, and, throwing the bills on the table, tells her he has robbed the bank. He clutches at his hair and beard, and, tearing them off, reveals himself, Charles, the cashier. Mary is horror-stricken and pleads with him to restore the money to the poor. In delirium he gives her the money and tells her to take it to the bank. She leaves with it. Charles, in a frenzy, starts to pursue her to recover the money when an accusing vision of her appears near the door. He staggers back and over a chair, which he hurls through the vision. Hiding his face in his hands, he staggers to the wall, where he sinks to the floor and dies.
- John Marvin becomes engaged to Helen Cartwright. One evening, as he is calling upon her, her brother, Frank, who has just returned from abroad, enters the room. Helen introduces her brother to Marvin, but Marvin refuses to acknowledge the introduction, as Frank Cartwright is the man who once desired his, John Marvin's, widowed mother. In his library that night John Marvin ponders over the course he shall pursue. He recalls the death of his mother and his own vow to kill at first sight the man responsible for her degradation. He realizes what it will mean to him to perform this criminal act, but nevertheless, takes his revolver and going to the Cartwright home, asks for his victim. The two men come face to face. John Marvin is about to kill Cartwright when a sudden flash of lightning from the storm outside, strikes and kills the villain. Thus is Marvin saved from committing a murder.
- Bill finds a note in a bottle from an old maid saying she will marry the finder. As she is rich, he consents. Bill sees Roger's girl, and stealing the old maid's purse, goes off with the girl. Roger thinks the dude is at fault, and buries him in the sand. Bill goes to a café with the girl, and the dude tells Roger where they are. The old maid discovers the loss of her purse and goes after Bill. Roger is also after him. They all end up in the water, where a cop arrests both Roger and Bill, while the dude rescues both the women, gets the old maid's money and the girl's heart.
- "Say, goils, pipe the roses," shouted a stage hand. "Patsy at last has fallen for a 'Johnny'." Patsy McQuade, the heartless one of the chorus had fallen for Vincent Castleman, one of the idle rich, who, in spite of her doubts, had convinced her that he was on the square. Mickey Donlin, electrician, her old sweetheart, was brokenhearted. Came there a day when, as the girls called for Patsy on their way to the nightly grind, she broke the news: no more show for her; she was to be married that very night, and after congratulating her the girls hurried away to tell Mickey. Later that evening Castleman called for her and told of the dandy apartment he had just furnished for her. But at Patsy's question, "When are we to be married?" Castleman showed his true colors by answering, "Who said anything about marriage?" Then Patsy drove him from the room. Mickey, brooding over it all, is discharged for carelessness, and on coming home hears, between sobs, Patsy's story. Mickey then takes matters into his own hands, and with the help of Molly, secures a marriage license and justice of the peace and forces Castleman to come with them to Patsy's apartments. Arriving there, he tells Patsy that Castleman has changed his mind and wants to marry her and has made all the arrangements. Patsy then declares that she, too, had changed her mind and that she wouldn't marry him on a bet. After the stage manager heard the story he gave Mickey his old job back, but Patsy is busily engaged taking care of a little flat on Avenue A.
- John Smith's daughter has many admirers, but Harry is the favored one, most likely because he is not in favor with father. He is ordered from the house, but before he can make his departure two other admirers call. He hides upstairs, awaiting their departure, and he is in a quandary when Smith comes in. Smith is having troubles of his own; his housekeeper would share his name and fortune, but he is not to be so easily ensnared. He dismisses her and is on the lookout for another. His daughter and Harry are aware of this slate of affairs and start "framing" up the old man. Harry, impersonating a sweet and charming young girl, applies for the position and is accepted. Ere long Smith is in love and wants the housemaid for his wife. A note is dispatched to the former housekeeper and she, heavily veiled, repairs to the minister, where she is made the wife of Smith, much to his chagrin when he discovers what really has happened. Harry has now married the daughter, and with a feeling of elation they start out on their honeymoon.