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- The scene is laid in one of the trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company and the young factor, Malcolm Young, loves Utoka, the pretty daughter of the chief of a nearby tribe. Jules Laprese also loves the girl and the half-breed hates Malcolm as much as he loves the pretty Indian maiden. Only Utoka's watchfulness saves the young factor's life on several occasions and this loving care is relaxed only when Jules brings her a letter and photograph which he has stolen from the factor. The picture is that of a beautiful young white girl and the loving message that accompanies it leaves small room for question of the factor's lack of good faith. Utoka is prostrated by grief and Jules leads her father to believe that a more serious wrong has been wrought by the head of the trading post. With his braves the old chief captures the factor and drags him, a prisoner, to the camp where Malcolm is put to torture before the fire is to mercilessly end his sufferings. Meanwhile Utoka, who cannot believe her lover guilty, seeks the post and discovers what has taken place. With the good father, the missionary who keeps pace with the advance of the Hudson Bay posts, Utoka returns to the camp and saves the life of the factor. He proves that the letter was from his sister and not from some sweetheart in Montreal and the half-breed is made to suffer punishment for the affront he has put upon the tribe.
- During a rehearsal of his new play, Peter Richards recognizes in Mary Walters a well-known leading lady of 20 years before. She has met with reverses and is now employed as wardrobe woman in the company which is producing his play. On opening night, the play is a failure, and the manager who financed it decides to take it off immediately. Mary Walters is the only one in the theater who has feeling enough to show sympathy for the author in his misfortune. An extra girl's chance remark gives Peter an idea for another play, which he writes and calls "Granny," and he has enough confidence in Mary Walters' ability to offer her the leading part, which she gratefully accepts. Confident of its success, Peter's ambition is to produce "Granny" at the same theater where his former play met with such complete failure, but the manager refuses to produce it and Peter is forced to sell his home in order to secure enough money to put on the play. During his days of trouble Peter sees Mary's worth and as he walks with her to the theater on the opening night, they pass a quaint little church and Peter asks her to share the future with him, no matter what the night may bring them. Mary consents and they enter the rectory and are quietly married, after which they go to the theater for the opening performance. Peter's judgment is vindicated and the play is a hit.
- Tillie inherits her aunt's fortune.
- Harold and Jack Manning were rivals for the hand of Mrs. Dorothy Loveland, a handsome widow. John Manning, their father, was an elderly widower who hadn't smiled on a woman for many years. One day, Jack received a letter from his firm telling him to report at the office immediately, prepared for a business trip which would take him from home for at least a month. When Harold heard of these orders, he was naturally elated, because Jack's absence would give him a good opportunity to make the final plea for the widow's hand. But his rejoicing didn't last very long, as he soon received a message from the firm ordering him to accompany his brother. Fearing that someone else might win the widow while they were gone, they drew up a contract appointing their father guardian over the widow during their absence. The father was unaware of his trust until he learned it through a letter which he received after his sons had gone. There was nothing he could do but go to see the widow. He looked good to that charming lady and, when father was leaving, she pinned a rose on him. At the same time, the long-absent smile appeared on the widower's face. He called again the next evening, but in the meantime he had visited a tailor and looked at least twenty years younger. Things moved pretty rapidly after that and by the time Harold and Jack returned from their business trip, they found the fair widow was their stepmother.
- The story of a man's gratitude to a snake for saving his life: He takes the snake home to live with him and then conceives the idea of having the snake kill the man who stole his sweetheart. He places it in the other man's bed. But when the little daughter of the girl he had once loved creeps into the bed, he has a change of heart.
- Two members of the Never-Drop Aero Club claim that they can reach the moon by the aeroplane. They get an astronomer to get his telescope out and see how the conditions are on the moon. He comes on with a big telescope and looks through it, finds everything in fine condition from earth to moon, so the party start out. As they rise and turn upside down then right side up, they start on their journey to the moon. They pass over a busy city, knocking down buildings and chimneys. After passing over the city they come in contact with the planet Saturn. Bump it, encircle it, and then on their way to the moon they ride through the air and see an old man coming out of the planet Mars. The anchor on the aeroplane accidentally catches the old man by the neck and carries him off. The old man tries to get away, and he sees Halley's comet coming along and he grabs hold of the tail of the comet and goes away. One of the men in the aeroplane sees him and takes out a lasso. With a couple of swings he catches the old man around the neck and drags him behind. At last the moon is reached. The man in the moon opens his mouth and they all go in. The party drop from top of the moon all in a heap. They get up, look around and a large bird comes in and lays an egg larger than itself and flies off. The travelers put the egg on a fire, which is burning nearby. The egg cracks and a lot of little birds are hatched. Suddenly a strange animal comes on the scene and eats the little birds one by one. The animal fills up and bursts. Another enormous crazy-looking animal comes out of the cave and chases the men off the moon into the sea.
- Michael Duggan, an ordinary laborer, receives word from a firm of lawyers that an uncle in South Africa has died without any near relatives, and that he has inherited his entire estate, valued at a million. His wife and daughters immediately want to enter society, but Duggan doesn't care for style. The newspapers bear of Duggan's fortune and interview Mrs. Duggan and daughters. When it appears in the papers a real estate man immediately offers them a furnished mansion one month rent free, while they are besieged with invitations and offers of credit. They take the new house and Mrs. Duggan tries to teach Duggan manners much to his disgust. They go to a swell reception. Duggan introduces his daughters to the supposed noblemen, and the daughters invite them to dinner. The guests, fearing they may not behave just so, decide to watch Duggan and imitate him. Mrs. Duggan tells Duggan to watch the Lord and Duke and imitate them. At the dinner there is a general mix-up, at the end of which the butler brings in a note saying that the fortune will have to go to Mr. Daniel Duggan's son, who was supposed to have been drowned at sea, but who has returned. The creditors make a fuss without avail. Wife and daughter are overcome with grief. Duggan is happy to get away from it all, and back to his overalls and corned beef and cabbage.
- Jean and Pierre are Canadian trappers, but also in league with moonshiners in the north woods, and carry illicit whiskey concealed in their loads of furs. In Jean's cabin there is a hiding place for the jugs until the regular weekly trip to the trading post with furs, when they are transferred to a secluded hut, a step further on to the settlements. Pierre is in love with Marie Dupree, the daughter of his partner, Jean. Marie is a capricious coquette, really in love with Paul Marr, a member of the mounted police, though she torments him without mercy. She has only contempt for the trapper, Pierre. When Marie meets Hugo Sinclaire, a recruit in the police, she forgets the more quiet Paul, and imagines herself deeply in love with the newly-met officer. Her father discovers her secret meetings with Hugo, and forbids her to see him. Hugo has only been amusing himself with Marie, and openly boasts of his conquest in the guard room of the post. Paul comes to the girl's defense, and only the interference of others prevents serious trouble. When Marie fails to meet Hugo as usual he goes to her father's cabin and surprises Jean in the act of concealing the jugs of illicit whiskey. He attempts to capture Jean, and in the struggle the trapper is injured, and as he is falling to the floor he fires at Hugo. From the inner room where she has been made a prisoner by her father Marie hears the shot and tries frantically to release herself. Hugo goes to her assistance, but as he reaches the door he is shot and killed by Pierre, who has crept to the window and has taken the opportunity to rid himself of his rival. When Jean regains consciousness he finds the body of Hugo and imagines himself to be the murderer. In terror he drags the body to the road, and then returns to sink before the shrine of the Virgin in prayer. Hugo's body is found by the police, who, remembering Paul's quarrel with the dead man, accuse him and cause his arrest. Marie learns of Paul's peril and hurries to Father John, a priest, for advice. Under his urging, Jean confesses the crime, and Paul is liberated. Pierre, returning alone with a cargo of skins and whiskey, is set upon by a party of half-breed renegades and badly wounded. He is brought into the post by the police, just as Jean is being led away. Dying. Pierre confesses to Father John that it was he who killed Hugo and that Jean is innocent. That evening Jean kneels before the shrine with the priest, promising to give up his connection with the moonshiners. In the moonlit woods. Paul takes Marie in his arms.
- Howard West, a young dental graduate, settles in a Western town. Being a camera enthusiast he soon makes the acquaintance of Nina Sanford, daughter of a rich rancher, and her chum, Dolores Mendez. Whose brother is employed on Sanford's ranch. Both girls arc active picture makers and the trio make many trips into the surrounding country for the purpose of making snap-shots. West falls in love with Nina, who reciprocates his affection, and Dolores, as well, has given her heart to the good-looking dentist though she conceals her passion, knowing West's love for Nina. Mendez also loves Nina and is discharged from Sanford's employ for kissing her as he lifts her from her horse. West gets a new camera with an extension exposure tube that permits him to become one of the members of the group he is taking. He takes the camera out to the ranch to show the girls. Mendez poisons Stanford's mind against West and the ranchman bursts upon the group as West is about to expose a plate. Ordering the girls to the house, he charges West with betraying Nina's affections. West denies the charge with heat and in his anger leaves the ranch forgetting his camera and his riding whip. The charge is so monstrous that he cannot face Nina in explanation but rides off without speaking. Meantime Mendez secures a double revenge by striking down the ranchman with West's loaded quirt. As the blow is struck he steps upon the exposure bulb of the camera and unwittingly records his crime. For the moment fate seems to be in his favor for the quirt, in connection with the facts of West's departure, seems sufficient evidence and West is apprehended and lodged in jail. Dolores has rescue the camera and is curious to see what the plate shows. She goes into her dark room and presently the damning evidence of her brother's crime flashes upon the surface of the plate. Should she shield her brother, the man she loves must die for his crime, but she cannot denounce her own flesh and blood. She compromises with her conscience by first warning her brother and then riding to the District Attorney to submit her evidence. The legal forms are quickly complied with and West is free to marry Nina, and Dolores in her unselfish love finds comfort in the thought that she has saved her hero even while she knew that he would wed another.
- Ellis, an English barrister, goes to a hotel, in answer to a note of appeal, to rescue a woman he had formerly loved from the influence of her husband, a crook, who mistreats her. He takes her safely away, but shoots and wounds Gray, her husband. They flee, followed by threats of vengeance from Gray. Parr, an adventurer, occupying the room adjoining, has, unseen, witnessed the shooting affray. Ellis flees with Gray's wife for America. On the first day out she dies in childbirth and pleads with him to adopt her babe. Ellis agrees. Parr, who happens to be on the same ship, knows of the death of the mother and the adoption of the child. Ellis is ignorant of Parr's identity. Years later Ellis, happy with his ward, Betty, is in a secluded old mansion in America. He has never learned for certain whether or not Gray died and he is continually haunted by the thought that Gray might return. Parr, now an unscrupulous land dealer, visits Ellis's estate in an effort to purchase acreage which he knows to be rich in ore. He is astounded to recognize in Ellis the man whom he had seen shoot Gray 18 years before. Ellis flatly refuses to sell. Parr, angered, leaves, ready to employ a scheme to make Ellis leave the estate or sell it. Soon after, Betty is plunged into a state of constant fear by the growing terror of her old guardian. Betty sees and hears of a mysterious, ghostlike figure at nights and becomes convinced that her guardian is the victim of a frightful apparition, or fiend in human flesh. Nervous to the point of hysterics, she writes her guardian's young attorney, Briggs, to come to the mansion at Lone Willows. Briggs arrives, hears the strange story of the secret of the mansion, and resolves to stay until he has exposed the mysterious agent. He is not only unsuccessful, but in time becomes a haunted wreck, in as pitiable a plight as Ellis. Both men barricade the doors of the mansion. Betty, unable to gain access into the locked rooms, hurries to the city, notifies the police and goes to the home of her school chum, Claire Parr, to spend the night. During the night she is astounded to see Claire's father leave the house with a crook, Hart, both with masks. Hurriedly she seeks aid from the police and follows the men. The police arrive at Lone Willows to find the mansion a mass of flames. Inside the house a desperate battle is in progress between Ellis and Briggs and Parr and Hart. The two haunted men, having discovered Hart and Parr entering the mansion through a secret passage, believe they at last have the opportunity to kill their mysterious enemies. The police force their way into the house. Ellis and Briggs are rescued but the two crooks perish in the fire. Later Ellis learns the truth, that Parr had employed Hart, a crook, to "haunt" the mansion so that Ellis would believe Gray was carrying out his threat to kill him and reveal himself as Betty's real father. In this way he hoped to force Ellis to vacate the estate. In reality Gray died after being shot by Ellis years before. The entire affair is kept secret from Betty, and Ellis, now free for the first time from his hallucination, prepares to celebrate the wedding of Briggs and Betty.
- At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jealous husband, forcing dad to buy his way out of trouble.
- The sole survivor of an Indian massacre, a baby called Jack Trail, is raised in the shadow of an overhanging eagle's nest by the Silsbees, two immigrants. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Milford, the partner of Jack's deceased father, forges his signature to use money from his property. Years later, Milford's partner, Robert Blasedon, desiring to marry Milford's daughter Rose, who rejected him, seeks to recover the papers and force the marriage. After Jack saves the Milfords and Blasedon from a runaway coach, Mrs. Silsbee, while trying to protect Rose from Blasedon, is killed in a scuffle. Accused of the murder, Jack, who now loves Rose, saves her from Blasedon, but Rose marries Blasedon when he threatens to kill Jack. After Blasedon steals the forged papers, Jack pursues him through the mountains until their struggle ends in Blasedon's fall into a ravine. When Milford learns of Jack's origin, he offers the papers, which Jack declines, saying that Rose is all the wealth he wants.
- The Russian Czar sends his trusted confidant, Michael Strogoff, to warn his brother the Grand Duke of a Tartar rebellion that will be led by Feofar Khan and Ivan Ogareff. Calling himself Nicholas Korpanoff, Strogoff poses as a trader to journey to warn the Grand Duke. On his way he meets Nadia Fedorova, a young girl trying to join her father Wassili, a political activist who has been exiled to Siberia. Strogoff is captured by the Tartars, who don't believe he is a trader and threaten to torture Strogoff's mother Marfa unless he reveals his true identity.
- The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at the station of Milford Corners, Mass., and depart for the west, to work over some unredeemed desert land, which was left to the Jordans by their dead father. Arriving in the west, they take up their work, but it proves anything but a success. On the brink of the Great Divide lives Stephen Ghent, an untamed and untrained man of the west, and on account of his manner is respected by the habitués of Miller's saloon and dance hall in the town, which he and two of his acquaintances in the persons of Pedro, a half-breed Mexican, and Dutch, a brutal type of the west, frequent. Polly tires of western life and jumps at the chance to take a trip to Frisco. Philip drives her down to the station that night. On an adjoining ranch a cowpuncher is seriously hurt and a boy is dispatched for Dr. Newbury. After cautioning Ruth to retire early, the doctor takes his leave. Stephen Ghent, Pedro, and Dutch are down in the town drinking. They afterward depart and start up the Coldwater Trail, which runs alongside of the Jordan home. As they pass the dimly lighted cabin, they see a woman standing in the doorway. Cautiously approaching the door, they enter the cabin and Ruth is overpowered. Dutch and Ghent fight a duel for her in which Dutch is killed. Pedro is bought off by Ghent with a string of nuggets, and Ruth belongs to him. In the man of the woods, Ruth recognizes the ideal man she desires for a helpmate. Ruth agrees to marry Ghent and live as his wife in name only until he has changed his character. Ghent agrees and they are married. Ghent then brings her to his cabin. As day by day goes by, Ruth begins to see other qualities in her husband and also to believe in him. One night, however, Ghent filled with a desire for her and goaded on by the whiskey that is in him breaks his promise. Ruth denounces him for his actions and tells him that not until he has purged himself through suffering will she ever believe in him again. She also tells him that she is going to earn enough money to buy back the string of nuggets from Pedro, with which he managed to get her into his power. Some time later Ruth departs for town to sell her last blanket. She has been weaving Navajo blankets in order to raise the necessary amount to buy back the nuggets. In the meantime the Jordans become disgusted and prepare to go back east. While waiting at the station they find Ruth, who has just completed the sale of her blanket. They see her start up the trail and follow her on foot. Ruth buys back the string of nuggets from Pedro, but she has not time to turn it over to Ghent upon her arrival at the cabin before she is overtaken by the others. It is her desire to have them believe she is happy and refuses to go back east with them. She introduces Ghent to them just as they are ready to catch the train. Ghent, unable to understand her changed attitude, starts to thank her. She tells him that circumstances forced her to act as she did, but that she is now able to buy back her freedom from him. Ghent is stunned, and at first refuses to let her go, but when she tells him of the life that is to come and that it is their duty to protect its happiness through a mother's love, he finally releases her from her promise, and Ruth, with the sense of newfound freedom, starts down the trail to overtake the others before it is too late. Ghent's attention as he looks after her is suddenly attracted to a bit of trembling earth on the mountainside. He realizes the great danger that Ruth is in and starts down the trail to rescue her. He is just in time and has thrown her to one side when the landslide comes upon him and carries him into the valley below. The rumbling sound has caused the others to look back. A reunion takes place over the injured Ghent. He is brought to the cabin, where he recovers under the care and attention of Dr. Newbury and Ruth. Ruth tells him that he has purged himself through his suffering and once more the couple start out in life upon a happier basis.
- A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.
- Dick McKnight, a deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Ariz., receives a telephone message from Sheriff Wheeler, of the adjoining county, to the effect that Pedro Aquilla and his band of cattle rustlers and outlaws are in San Luis Canyon. His brother, Bill McKnight, the sheriff, being away, the young deputy determines to go out alone and corral some of the gang. He leaves a note to that effect for his brother and starts upon his mission. After getting into the mountains he runs across a note fastened to a tree, which reads: "Go Back or You Die With the Sun." Dick is not an impressionable young man, but the words make him think and he gives it more weight than is usually given to anonymous communications. He continues on his journey, but cannot get the note out of his mind. As he goes forward the words burn into his brain and every little noise in the mountains startles him until fear grabs him in its deadly grasp and drives him, a frightened thing, into an old abandoned adobe hut, where his nerve is worn to a raw edge by the fear which the words signified to him. He places his pistol to his head, the revolver explodes and we leave him in darkness. His brother Bill, the sheriff of Santa Cruz County, coming home after a hard ride finds the note that the youngster has left for him and knowing the difficult task that Dick has taken upon himself, he determines to follow his brother. He trails him to the cabin and entering same finds all that is left of a once brave, light-hearted boy. He takes the cursed note from his brother's clenched hand and receives the same fatal suggestion of fear that his brother had felt and when his innocent horse inadvertently rubs his head, against the door of the adobe, he is more startled than he has ever been before. He clutches his revolver, running from what seems to him to be a haunted place. He mounts his horse and rides from that which he had loved most, his brother. Continuing madly along divers trails not knowing just what to do, the insidious note causing that destroying thought, fear ever augmenting and increasing until from a brave man. Known throughout the territory for his loyalty and bravery, he becomes a cringing, incapable child trying to hide from that thing which is seizing him in its grasp. He attempts to hide in an old abandoned monastery, going back further into the depths of the broken walls until he eventually sinks into a deep crevice, almost an imbecile, firing his revolver at unseen things. The last cartridge of his revolver loosens the old clay and they tumble down upon him, burying him in the tomb. The sun breaks through as we see his hand twitching as he smothers, paying the penalty of the suggestion offered by the piece of paper clenched in his hand even unto the end in the agony of fear. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- When a rich stranger drives his automobile into a backward mountain village, he sweeps a young girl off her feet with his attentions. This infuriates the local schoolteacher, who's been in love with her for some time. Eventually the stranger lures the girl into running away with him, and the teacher must act quickly to make sure it doesn't happen.
- Romanzo Fernandez, a vaquero noted for his bravery, courage and honesty, is appointed Chief of Scouts on the Mexican border, which is infested by Rock and his rustlers. Rock visits Mary Burke's ranch, with a view of stealing her cattle, and incidentally makes love to her. Fernandez appears. Mary has never met him and being attracted by his picturesque costume, asks for an introduction which Rock grudgingly gives, Fernandez being his old enemy. Mary and Fernandez are mutually attracted, much to the disgust of Rock, who later has his rustlers steal a bunch of her cattle, and while she is out riding she accidentally stumbles across one of Rock's camps. She realizes then for the first time he is a cattle rustler. Rock insults her but she gets away from him. He gives chase with some of his men. Fernandez having been warned of the cattle stealing by one of his scouts comes upon the chase, gets the girl under cover in the rocks and requests her to go for help while he holds the rustlers off. The girl secures aid from some prospectors who return and overpower the rustlers. Fernandez, who has been shot requests that he be permitted to smoke a cigarette. With a puff and a smile he sinks into Mary's arms, dying as he lived, "a man."
- At the beginning of hostilities, Tom Winston, despite the pleadings of his sister Ellen, an ardent Confederate, goes North and acquires a commission in the Federal Army. Frank Carey has entered the Confederate service, though his sister Ethel, furiously denounces him as a traitor, and asserts her intention of herself serving the Union. Both girls become identified with the secret service department of the South and North, respectively. Tom is with Grant, Frank with Johnston, and the armies' movements bring them into the neighborhood of their homes. Tom has with him Don, a dog that had been used in the old days to carry messages between his master and Ethel. Union headquarters are established in the Winston home, affording Ellen an opportunity to acquire many valuable secrets which she communicates to Frank, and it is the belief that some officer is proving a traitor. Tom watches his sister closely, and one night observes that as she sits merrily chatting with the Union officers, she is using her fan in such a manner as to make the dots and dashes of the Morse code to Frank, who is concealed in the shrubbery, making notes of the information. Tom discovers Frank, overpowers him, and succeeds in taking from him the memoranda, but allows him to escape. Tom places the memoranda in his pocket. The Battle of Shiloh has begun and Tom is given an important dispatch, ordering up supporting brigades. He proceeds on his mission, but is pursued and badly wounded. Unable to go on, Tom gives the dispatch to Don, telling him to carry it to Ethel. Don does his part, and Ethel undertakes to deliver the order. She is hotly pursued by Confederate cavalry, and only escapes by jumping her horse from a cliff into the river, a deed which none of her pursuers will attempt. They do not fire upon her, but wave their hats and cheer as her horse swims the stream and climbs the other bank. The dispatch is delivered, and the reinforcements begin a forced march to the assistance of the Federals. Meanwhile, Tom has been picked up by a Federal party, unconscious, but not dangerously wounded. The memoranda taken from Frank is found in his pocket, and it is concluded that he is the supposed traitor. A drum-head court-martial condemns him to he shot. The battle is now raging fiercely, the victorious Confederates pressing steadily forward. The Federal position is carried. Tom is captured and sent to the Confederate rear, where he succeeds in eluding his guards. Despite the sentence hanging over him, he determines to rejoin his troops. Johnston is killed, the triumphant advance of the Confederates falters. Tom reaches the Union lines, he rallies a breaking regiment and leads a fierce charge. The tide of battle is turned; Frank is captured. The battle lulls, the Confederates sullenly withdraw from the field. Tom is immediately arrested and placed under guard. Frank learns of the fate in store for Tom, and to save him, confesses himself to be the spy, Tom is released. Frank is held as a spy, but cleverly effects his escape. Frank goes to his home to attempt to induce his sister to go South with him, as he must accompany the southern army further into the Confederacy. Tom has gone to see his sister, to endeavor to induce her to give up her dangerous work as a Confederate spy, and has been captured by a squad of Confederates while at his home. He sends a note to Ethel informing her of his situation. Ethel secures several Federal troopers and makes her brother a prisoner. Under a white flag, Ethel and her squad approach the Winston home, and Ethel proposes an exchange of prisoners. This is agreed to, as well as a temporary truce; then Tom and Ethel turn to the North, while Frank and Ellen ride away into the Confederacy.
- Silent film about Robert Emmet's exploits on the side of the United Irishmen in their fight against the British occupational forces in Ireland. Events take place around the turn of the 19th century.
- A young sheep herder, whom his associates had dubbed "The Cringer," because of his physical fear, was one day attending to a sick kid out of his flock, when some cowboys, who are a sheep herder's natural enemy, come upon him. They make sport of him and rough him up a bit, leaving him cringing on the ground. They then ride into town and have a blow-out. Muck Peters, the owner of the sheep, a renowned character for stinginess and brutality, happens to see the cringer nursing the goat and in his anger strikes the cringer to the ground. The cringer drags himself away from him back to his sheep, where he tells Joe, a stoic herder, of his mishaps and is again knocked to the ground by his fellow herder. His thoughts are not so much of himself as for the poor little kid. When he thinks of the suffering of the little goat his whole nature transforms itself. He determines to show them that he fears nothing. He steals one of his employer's horses, rides into a mountain city, sets fire to a barn, so that the citizens may be drawn thereto by the conflagration, enters a hank and holds it up, the cashier being alone as the remainder of the clerks have gone to the fire. He falls an easy prey to the cringer, but presses a button to the Protective Service Office, thereby giving the alarm that the bank is in danger. The cringer gets away with a sack of money, but through a daughter of the captain of the Protective Service, who runs to the fire and warns the cowpunchers that the bank has been robbed, the cringer is soon compelled to take to cover in an old abandoned log hut, where he makes his last stand, and he compels the posse to shoot him, dying with the words on his lips, "I wasn't afraid."
- Although an advertisement for this film appears in Moving Picture World on 17 January 1914, no film bearing this title was ever distributed at this time. The film was condemned by the National Board of Censorship as "inflammable" because of the battle scenes and the subversive tone of Capitol versus Labor. In June 1914 the negative and all release prints were destroyed in a catastrophic explosion and fire in the film vaults at the Lubin plant in Philadelphia.
- Dave Ryland, an old prospector with a grub stake leaves his wife and grandson to seek his fortune. After a month in the hills his grub runs low, during which time he has not been able to strike anything or communicate with his wife. She, in the meantime, has been dispossessed by the landlord. Two drunken cowboys see old Dave asleep and, being fall of whiskey, determine to play a joke on him by locating a claim beside him while he is asleep. They build a monument and write out a location notice. Old Dave wakes up and finds that his hand falls upon one of the richest pieces of ore he has ever seen. Robert Adair, meanwhile, has found old Dave's wife and grandson and taken them into his home. Dave rushes into town, but has not sufficient money to record his claim. Robert, who happens to be in the vicinity, assists him, taking him to his home, where the old people are re-united. Robert assists old Dave in developing his claim, which turns out to be one of the wealthiest mines the country has ever known. Ten years later we see old Dave and Bob giving a little banquet celebrating the tenth anniversary of the discovery of "the sleeper."
- "Every dog has his day," says a proverb. It is also true in this instance when the workingman stands before the question of saving his employer or letting him perish in the flames. His better self prevails and he saves his foe.
- Rattlesnake Bill is a daring outlaw who has for a long time successfully evaded capture. Sheriff Granger has sworn to get Bill, who, hearing this, rides into town, holds up the sheriff himself, and makes good his escape. The sheriff's little girl, left motherless, is being sent to him from the east, and is the only passenger on the stagecoach. Dan, the stage driver, is half drunk, and when he stops to make some repairs to his harness he does not observe that the child gets out of the coach and drives off without her. Bill finds the child almost dead from thirst and exhaustion. He takes her to his cabin. He realizes that the child is dangerously ill, and determines to secure a doctor. He goes to the town and induces a physician to return with him. In his haste, Bill neglect his usual precautions and is seen by the sheriff. The physician does all that is possible for the child and leaves her in Bill's care, telling him that the child only needs sleep, but that she must sleep until she awakens naturally and that a violent awakening will prove fatal. The doctor on his way to town meets the sheriff, but the doctor refuses to give any information. When the sheriff reaches the hidden cabin, he fails to take Bill by surprise, and Bill gets the drop on the officer, but, thinking of the child, does not shoot. The sheriff refuses to be driven off, gamely declaring he will risk Bill's missing one shot, and prepares to give battle. Bill quietly surrenders. The sheriff discovers that it is his own child that Bill has saved, and though filled with gratitude, does not dream of not doing his official duty nor does Bill expect him to fail therein. The two men sit for long hours waiting for the child to wake, which she at length does. By Indian smoke signals the sheriff has called his deputies, who, in due course, arrive and take Bill away.
- With the winter, Stonewall Jackson comes back to Virginia, his purpose being to hold inoperative the Federal army encamped in the Valley, until Lee can make certain movements. Jackson goes into camp a few miles from the Federal forces. With Jackson are Colonel Bradley and Captains Robert Randolph and Roderick Hilton, father and suitors to Louise Bradley. Louise clearly shows that Robert has her heart, and Roderick is filled with jealousy. His sense of honor stifled, Roderick resorts to a miserable trick which causes Louise, almost broken-hearted, to turn from Robert in disgust. For some time the Valley has been almost at the mercy of a savage guerrilla band, headed by one Quetrell. This ruffian, attempted to steal Louise's pet horse, encounters the girl, who is saved from his brutal advances by her father, who is at home on leave. For the thrashing which Colonel Bradley causes to be administered, Quetrell swears vengeance, not satisfied with having seriously wounded the Colonel. That night the Bradley home is attacked by the guerrillas. Colonel Bradley is mortally wounded, the house is left in flames, and Louise carried off to the guerrilla camp. Bill, a faithful servant, saves his master and mistress from the flames, and then traces the guerrillas to their hiding place. Next he hurries to the Confederate camp with the news of the outrage and of Louise's peril. Both Robert and Roderick beg to be allowed to go to her rescue, but Jackson, facing an enemy of overwhelming numbers who may attack at any moment, and knowing how disastrous to the Southern cause would be his defeat at this time, will not permit any detachment to be withdrawn. Robert though tortured by his inactivity, sees no course open to him. Roderick, however, resolves on a daring expedient, and steals away from the camp, dressed in the uniform of a Union colonel, and carrying a forged order to the Union commander, which procures for him the command of a troop of Union cavalry. With this force Roderick attacks the guerrilla camp, wipes out the band, and rescues Louise, whom he causes to be returned to the cabin in which her mother has found shelter. Roderick succeeds in separating himself from the Union troops without being recognized by Louise, but in attempting to re-enter the Confederate camp he is captured. He is placed under arrest and soon tried by court-martial for disobedience of orders and being absent from his command, in the face of the enemy. He is found guilty, and the sentence is formal reduction to the ranks. The Federal army breaks camp, makes a short march, and bivouacs about the cabin where Louise and her mother have found shelter. Louise learns that the plan is to attack Jackson at dawn the next day, and carries the news to the Confederate camp. Jackson at once abandons his camp and marches away into the mountains from whence he came, and scouts bring to the Union commander the news that Jackson has not dared accept battle, but is in full flight, that none of the enemy remain in the Valley of Virginia. The Union army lies down to sleep with a feeling of perfect security. Meanwhile the terrible forced march of Jackson's army through the mountains continues; the men are half starved and frozen, the horses are exhausted, the men struggle desperately to drag their artillery through the mud and snow, up the mountain roads. Many fall by the wayside, but the column staggers on without pause. Roderick falls exhausted, and is found by Robert, who himself almost at last gasp, is struggling on after the army. Robert's first impulse is to leave his rival to die in the snow, but he conquers this and assists him to his feet. An hour before dawn, there is a sudden wild alarm in the Union camp. From out of the blackness come wild yells and the flash of rifles and cannon; the only light is from the flaming guns. Jackson, marching in a complete circle, has crossed and recrossed the mountains, coming back unseen into the valley, and delivered a furious attack. The Federal rally desperately, but the surprise and assault from the rear has been perfect; the battle in the dark rages for awhile, then the firing dies away. In the height of the battle, a shell has entered the cabin in the center of the field, and the faithful Bill has given his life to protect Louise and her mother. Dawn closes with the Confederates in possession of the bloody field. Robert and Roderick, both wounded, are lying side by side, and both are taken into the cabin, which has been turned into a small hospital. Louise, doing what she can for the wounded, comes upon her two lovers, and Roderick sees that it is still Robert who has her heart. Dying, Roderick confesses his miserable trick, and in her happiness, Louise forgives him.
- An outlaw is in love with a Mexican planter's daughter. Young Deer. the Chief of an Indian tribe is also in love with her. While going to the stream for water the girl is followed by the outlaw. The Indian fills her pail. On her way home she is accosted by the outlaw. Her scream brings the Indian to the spat. He fights the outlaw and the latter swears revenge. Determined to marry the girl, he kidnaps her and brings her to a lonely hut. She crawls to the roof, and sends a message wound around an arrow into the camp, and the Indian comes at once to liberate her. He attacks the outlaw, and a fierce fight ensues, out of which the Indian comes victorious. He places the girl upon a fast horse and brings her safely home to her parents. The happy father offers money to the Indian which he proudly refuses, and asks for the girl's hand. Moved by the pleadings of his daughter the planter gives his consent to the marriage.
- A mother unknowingly commits bigamy when her first husband, who was supposed to be dead, unexpectedly returns. She makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to preserve her innocent child's legitimacy.
- When the Rev. John Asher and his pretty daughter, Ruth, arrived at Silver Gulch mining camp they were not greeted very cordially by the miners. However, the minister and Ruth were not discouraged. In the course of a few days a tent-church had been set up, but this didn't cause any falling off in attendance at the First Chance saloon. As the congregation didn't come to him, the minister decided to go to the congregation and began holding meetings outside of the saloon. Bill, one of the miners, finally enlisted in the cause, attracted probably by Ruth. It was determined to build a church. A "tag day" was set aside when all the inhabitants would be solicited to subscribe, each subscriber being decorated with a tag after making his contribution. Hearing of this, the miners painted a sign: "Notice: We ain't goin' to have no church. Buy a tag and git plugged." The Silver Gulchers weren't very swift to contribute because wearing a tag meant about the same as wearing a sign, "Please shoot me." Bill saw Ruth disappointed and downcast. So he bought the first tag, tied it on, pulled out his "shooting irons," walked into the midst of the miners and, before they knew it, had the ringleaders covered with his revolvers. But the minister appeared and put a stop to Bill's plan. Then he took off his coat and proceeded to give Hank, the ringleader, the licking of his life. After this little ceremony Hank showed that he was a true sport. He and Bill sold the tags like hot cages. If any man felt doubtful whether he needed a tag he was quickly "persuaded" that he just couldn't live without one. Of course, Bill became the minister's son-in-law.
- This Ogre was not he of the fairy tales, but a kindly wealthy man of forbidding face to whom those who did not know him gave the name. Tiring of loneliness he decided to marry, and wooed the Girl who lived at the foot of the hill. On account of his great wealth the Girl's parents encouraged his suit, but she shrank from him and sought the solitude of her beloved glens and brooksides. Here she encountered her ideal lover in the person of a young surveyor and to these two came love at first sight. Their wooing, however, was soon interrupted by one long discarded, who had come back from afar again to press his suit. A fight ensued between the two young men, in which the surveyor was seriously injured and the Girl had him taken to her home. A forest fire is started by the carelessly thrown matches of the Discarded One and the flames soon spread to the Girl's home. The Girl attempts to carry her lover to safety but fails. The Discarded One saves the Girl, but leaves his helpless rival to die, apparently. The lover is saved, but the Ogre discovers that it is his rival. He decides to destroy that life, and mixes in a glass all of the powders of a dangerous sleeping draught instead of one. The Girl, entering the room to resume her vigil at the bedside, the Ogre instructs her how to administer the draught. Just as she lifted the glass the Ogre repented and brushed the glass aside. When the lover recovered, he learned that the Girl was already preparing to fulfill her promise to wed the Ogre. The wedding day came and the guests were assembled in the great drawing room to witness the ceremony, when from the garden outside there came the discordant pandemonium of a mob, led by the Discarded One, who had organized a "shivaree." Stung to the soul by this untimely insult, the Ogre delayed the ceremony, rushed out into the garden, fired into the crowd and wounded the Discarded One. Then, when he submitted to arrest, returning to the drawing room, he placed the hand of the Girl in that of her lover and passed out into the night a prisoner. There was no ceremony that night, but two days later the Lover and the Girl were man and wife and the Ogre deeded to them his beautiful Castle as a wedding gift.
- Young minister Paul Shields is in love with pretty schoolteacher Mary Holmes, who doesn't encourage him. Calling for her at the close of school, she is pleased to accompany him to a prayer meeting on board a ship. The minister preaches to the men as Mary and first mate Jack Ames walk off on a tour of the ship. A week later, Jack and Mary's friendship has ripened into love. A party is given the minister and Mary enters with Amos, presenting a bunch of flowers. They leave the parsonage and Ames proposes. Mary agrees and they return to the minister. The request she makes is like a death blow. Stopping all merriment, he performs the ceremony. As everybody leaves he reels in his chair. A year later, Ames, having grown tired of life on land, secures a position as mate on a turpentine carrier. He tells his wife of his plans: she hesitates at first on account of their baby, but after a little persuasion by Ames, she agrees, as he has had little success on land. Shortly after an explosion occurs on board and the ship is enveloped in flames. Mrs. Ames, who has become uneasy at home, is at the water's edge looking out to sea. She sees the ship afire. A second terrific explosion happens, killing all on board. The following day the minister calls upon Mrs. Ames and gently tells her of her husband's death. The following morning she begins to realize her lonely position in life, and looking through the "Want Ads," reads of a position as companion to a wealthy woman to travel abroad. Lost as to what to do with her baby, she thinks of her friend, the minister. Writing a note that her baby is in the way to her livelihood, and for him to take care of it, she pins the note to the baby's dress and carries it to the door of the minister's home. His spinster sister discovers the baby and takes it into her brother's study. Seeing the note they read it. The minister decides to keep the baby. Mrs. Ames, who has witnessed this action from a window outside, leaves with a light heart. Applying for the position she is engaged and leaves for Europe. Five years have elapsed and Mrs. Ames, changed in her stylish attire, calls at the parsonage. The minister's sister fails to recognize her, but goes to her brother and tells him of the woman waiting him. Entering, he is surprised to meet no other than Mary, who immediately asks about her child. The minister realizes he is about to lose his companion, and refuses to give her up. Turning upon him in rage, she demands her baby, at which the minister retorts. She may have her child if she can identify her in the Sunday School. Scanning each baby face in the class of children, Mrs. Ames fails to recognize her child and returning to the parsonage, leaves heartbroken. The minister returns to his class and dismisses the children. Mrs. Ames, who is seated on a bench near the church sobbing, is noticed by two of the Sunday School children, who, in sympathy, come to her. Mary asks one her name and the child is quickly clasped in her mother's embrace. The scene is witnessed by the minister, who comes to them, and, blessing both, goes to his study, where he kneels in prayer of thanks.
- When George Estey dies just after completing an important invention, his friend, John Miller, steals the plans and makes a fortune selling them. Then, stricken by a guilty conscience, he adopts Jane, George's orphaned child and the rightful owner of the invention. Years later, after having raised Jane as his own daughter, John dies. In his will, he discloses his theft of the plans and reveals Jane's true identity. He then leaves all of his money to Kent, his worthless son, provided that he marry his "sister." Jane, however, wants to marry Gordon, her other "brother," who is determined that Jane get all of the money from George's invention. Furious, Kent tries to murder both Jane and Gordon, but he fails, and the police quickly arrest him. Jane is then awarded the rights to George's invention, after which she and Gordon plan their life together.
- This stirring poem by F. De H. Janvier, tells the story of a brave and overworked young soldier who slept at his post during a critical period in an engagement and was court-martialed and sentenced to death. The picture begins with a scene showing the unfortunate soldier on his pallet of straw on the eve of his projected execution. Before him appears the visions of his New England home, his enlistment amid the cheers of his townsmen, and the farewell with his devoted mother. Then comes the news that his mother is making efforts toward securing his pardon, and failing with the military authorities, she decides upon making a personal appeal to President Lincoln, who was never known to deny audience to anyone with a just cause to plead. Then follows the interview with the great martyr president, who is so deeply moved by the plea of the little mother that he at once orders his carriage and proceeds with her to the scene of execution. Now we are on the parade ground with the regiment ready to witness the awful penalty of a soldier sleeping at his post. The firing party files into line, the prisoner is placed before it, and the commanding officer is about to give the fatal word to fire, when a far off call to "halt" is heard. Turning in the direction of the voice, the onlookers are surprised to see a carriage with horses lashed into a foam, and the commanding form of Lincoln, with outstretched hand demanding, to be heard. He has come just in time, for he orders the release of the prisoner, who rushes into his mother's arms. Then comes the order for an attack, the prisoner takes his place in his company, and bravely atones for his first and only fault, by gallantry of the field, but, in the words of the poem: "The first to fall in the unequal strife, Was he, whom mercy sped to save, When 'justice claimed his life."
- When Jules Beaubien's father died, the young man found himself heir to the stout old mansion in Montreal and the big fortune the family had made in the lumber of the great Canadian forests. But on his deathbed his father made a confession: 20 years ago he met a squaw of the Ojibway tribe and a girl child was born to them; she was now up in Nipissing country with a French-Canadian family who adopted her by arrangement with the father. Old Beaubien's last words to his son exacted a promise that the boy would find his half-sister, educate and care for her, and give her a liberal share of the estate. As soon as affairs were settled Jules started on his quest to find Annette. Arriving in the Nipissing country, he found that the family had moved from the valley, but he was informed that a woodsman, Baptiste Le Grande, could tell him all about her as he had been her sweetheart. He loved the girl with all the strength of his rough manhood, but a city man came along and betrayed her. Baptiste tried to tell the story, but his rage would not permit him to be coherent and Father Paul continued. He told Jules that the seducer had abandoned the girl and gone back to America. Annette, knowing she was disgraced, ran away from her foster parents and wandered to the camps where the women of the trappers tried to care for her. She became delirious, but she never mentioned the man's name. When her child was born she wandered out into the storm with her babe in her arms, lay down in the snow, and died, and the wolves ate her and the child. The rage of Jules and Baptiste was terrible. They swore to find the man and kill him. Baptiste took a crucifix from his bosom, both men kissed the symbol, and for two years the quest of vengeance continued. In the Indian summer Jules heard that frequently parties of engineers would quarter at Andrew McTavish's house in the forest. Here Jules and Baptiste resolved to put up for a while. Two other men arrived, civil engineer Mr. McDonald and his assistant Mr. Huntley, who were surveying for a Canadian railroad. McDonald was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, about 40 years old and very entertaining. His ability at his profession made him rich and with all he was a man of courage and likable. McTavish's daughter Hilda, a fascinating girl, did the cooking and housekeeping, and it was not surprising that McDonald and Jules soon noticed that each were contesting for the smiles of the Scotsman's daughter. Hilda was not adverse to the pleasantries of the good-looking boarders, for her life was far from happy; her mother, not being able to stand the irascible McTavish, had run away when Hilda was a child, and the father vented his revenge and hatred upon the daughter. Soon the rivalry between Jules and MacDonald became an open book. Jules loved Hilda, while the other man was simply playing for a dishonorable advantage. One day the men admitted their rivalry face to face. Jules was willing to play the game fair. The rogue laughed in the other man's face, admitted that he had a wife in America, but boasted of his power over women. In his bravado he told of an affair some years ago with a little girl up in the Nipissing country. It was the story of Annette. Jules would have killed him on the spot, but he was a man of honor; he could not assassinate, he must fight this fiend. Then he must tell also Baptiste, who would also want to kill him, and commit this deed he would if Jules fell in the fight. McDonald, feeling he was losing ground with Hilda, planned to work her ruin through the father. He told McTavish that he had a good mother in America that would care for and educate Hilda and that then he would marry her. The old Scotsman was only too willing to get rid of the girl and demanded of her that he would go with McDonald. Jules had told Hilda of the good love and the bad love and she learned to love Jules. When McTavish ordered her to go with McDonald she resisted. The old man in his rage would have seized her by the throat and strangled her, but Jules bore him to the floor of the cabin, while Baptiste from outside the window covered MacDonald with his Winchester. The fight was desperate and long, but Jules seized Hilda and, with Baptiste and Huntley, who discovered his master's villainy, the four hastened to the creek and in a canoe which had been furnished with supplies for the trip, made towards the Canadian railway for Montreal. McDonald followed and Jules left the party at a landing to meet him. A desperate duel was fought, in which McDonald was killed, and after burying the body, Jules and his party hastened to home and happiness.
- Bracey, an engineer and widower, succeeds in reinstating Bob Glore, who had been discharged for drinking. Bob behaves well until one day he was enticed into a resort by Reina Loeb, a reckless girl. Mary, Bob's sister, and Curtis rescued him and worked a lasting reformation. Reina Loeb's father, who was a drunkard, fell and broke his neck, and the girl was taken into the Curtis' home. When Mary, Bob's sister, later gave her hand to Bracey, it made a very happy home.
- William Baker, a retired banker, was a man of great positiveness of ideas. Engaged in a controversy with a friend over a murder trial in which circumstantial evidence decided the fate of the accused, he proved the danger of inference at the sacrifice of his own life. Planning carefully to throw every suspicion upon a body servant, he commits suicide. The servant is arrested, tried and convicted on circumstantial evidence, but upon his conviction Baker's ante-mortem statement is handed the judge and the faithful servant is freed, with the Baker fortune to pay him for the mental torture he endured.
- A kindhearted criminal saves the life of the sheriff's daughter and is allowed to make it across the state line in order to avoid jail.
- Bill decides to takes a stroll through the park. He encounters an unwelcome person in the form of a policeman whom he decides to follow, and after seeing the attention that is lavished upon the policeman, it becomes Bill's one ambition to become an officer. After making his rounds, the policeman decides to take a nap. This is Bill's chance. He hurriedly secures the policeman's hat and coat and sets out to get some of the attentions that have been bestowed upon the policeman. But in this Bill does not meet with any great success. In the course of his rounds he meets Nora, the cook, who invites him in the house to have a bottle of beer. While sitting and talking to the cook they hear a strange noise. The lady of the house enters and tells Bill to come quick, as there is a burglar in the parlor. Bill tells them to remain where they are, that he will soon capture the burglar. As Bill enters the hall he sees the portieres moving in a strange manner. Thinking it the burglar, Bill hits the portieres with his club. Imagine Bill's surprise when he finds that he has hit the owner of the house. Not desiring to make any explanation, Bill beats a hasty retreat. He wanders into the park, where he meets a Frenchman and his sweetheart. Right away Bill starts a flirtation with the girl, which is resented by the Frenchman chasing Bill. In the course of the chase Bill knocks several men down, who get up and pursue Bill along with the Frenchman. After a long chase, and being close pressed, Bill leads his pursuers to the creek. Bill drops on the bank and the men stumble over him, falling into the creek. Bill wanders off.
- Walter Trask, a young college man, receives news of his father's death and the loss of his fortune. He resolves to go to work and try to retrieve his loss. With the aid of the family lawyer, he secures a position as bookkeeper with a large lumber firm in the South, and, bidding his fiancée farewell, departs. On his arrival he finds favor in the eyes of the superintendent, who takes him to his boarding house and introduces him to his landlady and her daughter, a pretty, frivolous, village coquette. The young lady immediately begins a conquest of the new boarder's heart and plays off one young man against the other. Trask and the superintendent finally become piqued and begin to quarrel. One day after a slight discussion in which Balk, the superintendent is the victor, Trask moodily walks away, and in strolling along by an old oyster bed, accidentally unearths a wonderful pearl. Balk and Myrtle follow him, a new quarrel ensues in which Trask drops the pearl. Balk picks it up and Myrtle greedily demands it. Trask comes up and asks for the pearl. Balk and he have words and Myrtle slyly runs away with the pearl. She jumps into a buggy and drives to the village jewelers. Balk and Trask discover her absence and follow her. They find her trying to sell the pearl. Balk insists she return the pearl to Trask. He, much disgusted with her, refuses to receive it and tells Balk to keep it. Balk refuses also and Myrtle retains the gem. On Trask's return to the boarding house he receives a telegram from his betrothed telling him to return at once, as much of his fortune has been discovered. He determines to do so, and, reconciled to Balk, leaves tor the North. Some weeks later Myrtle, anxious to regain her influence with Balk, makes overtures of peace, but he gently repulses her, having discovered her unworthiness. She accepts Balk's rebuff calmly and goes to her room to gloat over her great pearl. While admiring it, it suddenly explodes, thus exemplifying, "All is vanity and shall crumble to dust."
- The disowned son of a wealthy family is tried for the murder of a college friend who killed himself after his failure as an artist.
- John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the daughter of the proprietor. It is a case of mutual attraction, causing many a heartache to Si, the clerk, who adores Flo. Cummins manages to have sundry excuses for visiting the little general store, and finally realizes he is head over heels in love with the girl. Cummins, while purchasing cigarettes from Flo, so arouses the anger of Si, who is carrying a bag of potatoes, that he deliberately drops the bag upon Cummins' foot, and that worthy gentleman proceeds to make capital of the injury to remain with the Pages for a week, nursed tenderly by Flo. Si, finding an envelope dropped by Cummins, calls at his (Cummins') club, and asks if he lives there, that he has stolen his sweetheart. Cummins' friends accompany Si back to the village and find Cummins sweeping out the store, having usurped the clerk's position. Cummins is unmercifully "kidded" by his fashionable friends, and Flo and her father, imagining that Cummins has been deceiving them, become very indignant, and he is ordered out, but eventually succeeds in proving that he is genuinely in love with Flo, who reciprocates.
- In Chapter 8, "A Partner To Providence", His lordship rides a train that is mistakenly rerouted into a headlong collision into another engine, with the well-worn Lubin train crash footage ensuing. He's pulled out of the wreck and recuperates with a rural family. He recuperates enough to win a fight with a crook at the end.
- Bessie and Ned, sweethearts, are boarding at the same house. One day at the dinner table they have a quarrel which should amount to nothing, but Ned tells the landlady and she, in a spirit of mischief, suggests that he shall pay her a little attention and make Bessie jealous. The star boarder sees it and makes a similar suggestion to Bessie. Then the landlady gets jealous, the game on both sides works too well and everything is on edge until all parties see their folly and the real lovers kiss and make up.
- A photoplay is wanted quick. The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl. To make an impression he gives her his photo, which she throws with contempt on the table. He then tries to embrace her. She calls for help, when her sweetheart (the head clerk) comes to her rescue. At this juncture, the heavy man is not strong enough in the part and the director stops the play and shows him what to do. The play is resumed, the "heavy" throws the head clerk into a vault and locks him in, then embraces the girl, who repulses him and runs. The clerk by his superior strength batters down the steel vault door and escapes. The "heavy" pursues the unfortunate girl up the fire-escape to the roof, then to the water tower, where she defends her honor by beating him over the head with an iron rod. Fearing she has killed him she makes her retreat, only to be pursued by the villain. Rushing to the edge of the roof, she sees her lover, and calls him. He tells her to jump. She does so and alights safely in his arms. Undaunted, the villain, saying she shall not escape me, leaps six stories to the ground. Landing uninjured, he starts in pursuit. Here is where the detective takes up the trail, and after a long chase catches the villain. The stage hands, in setting the stage, allow a piece of scenery to fall upon the director, which awakens him from his dream.
- John Burkett Ryder is a master of finance with a boundless desire for wealth. No mean avarice, but a love of the power to be gained through riches, a domineering will and an unscrupulous soul. Previous to the opening of the story Ryder has compassed the financial ruin and professional disgrace of Judge Rossmore, of the Supreme Court, to avenge himself for certain adverse decisions which the judge has rendered against the corporation. Shirley Rossmore, the judge's daughter, and young Jefferson Ryder returning from Europe on the same boat, have met and register a pretty story interest in each other, being at the time entirely ignorant of the friction now existing between their respected fathers. Shirley has written a novel, and from Jefferson's description of his father has made the star character of the story a fair prototype of the master of finance. Ryder, without consulting his son's wishes, has already announced an engagement between Jefferson and the daughter of Senator Roberts. Shirley Rossmore's book which is written under the pseudonym of Sarah Green gets into Ryder's house and makes such an impression that the great financier employs a detective to find the author. Sarah Green is found and Ryder employs her to compile his biography, not dreaming that she is the daughter of the judge he has ruined. Now comes the battle between the Lion and the Mouse. The Mouse wins the Lion's admiration by the outspoken audacity of her opinion of his life and moral code. Kate Roberts, whom Ryder had selected to be his son's fiancée, elopes with his aristocratic private secretary, "Fourth groom of the bed chamber to the second Prince of England." Ryder, to pacify his son and to offset his attachment for Shirley Rossmore, suggests that he marry Sarah Green, "who has proved herself far more brilliant than the judge's girl." It is then Shirley's turn; she declares her identity and admits that she has secured certain letters from Ryder's desk that will prove her father's innocence. Ryder orders her from the house, then he sits up all night, consumes innumerable black cigars and finally conquers his own vanity. Next day Jefferson Ryder proposes, but Shirley declares that she will never marry a man that has such a father. With bitter words, Jefferson denounces his father; he tells him that the girl he loves objects to the family. But John Burkett Ryder eats a big slice of humble pie; he announces that he will prevent the impeachment of Judge Rossmore and implores Shirley to accept his son. The Mouse has conquered the Lion.
- A girl chooses between two boys by testing how each one would help the poor.
- Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.
- Elk, the son of the medicine man of the tribe of Indians, had gone through Carlisle College; had become civilized and lost all love for the manners and customs of his people. Still he was not a white man and he didn't make any close friends among his white brethren. After graduating he returned to his people, but they seeing his stylish apparel were disgusted and ignored him. All except Dove Eye, daughter of the chief. She loved Elk and after the manner of savage woman she was not ashamed to show it. Their fathers warned them to marry, but Elk refused. Shortly after this it became necessary for Elk to secure a feather from a live eagle in order to prove himself a "brave." He resumed the Indian dress and set forth of his quest. As he was approaching the aerie of an eagle high up on a cliff he lost his footing and fell. Though not seriously injured his accident caused him to be laughed at by all the "braves" of the tribe. So Elk went sadly away. He secured work on a ranch. The ranch owner's daughter Beulah was pretty and very charming, and Elk quickly learned to love her, but he loved her in secret, never allowing his passion to be known by the slightest word or look. One day Beulah rode away over the plains on her favorite horse. She didn't return by evening and her father and a posse started out to search for her. Elk also went but he went alone. He was torn with agony at the thought of what the girl might be suffering. He wandered for a long time with the wonderful physical endurance which he had inherited from his savage ancestors, and his toll and devotion had their reward, for the found Beulah. Her horse had stepped into a prairie dog hole and had broken his leg, so that she had been compelled to shoot him. Then, being alone in a vast alkali desert she had wandered until she felt exhausted. Elk poured the water from his canteen down her parched throat, unmindful of the fact that thirst was torturing him. Then with his last strength he succeeded in guiding the other searchers to the spot where the girl lay. Beulah was saved, but the noble-hearted Elk died, having shown that greatest love of all, the love which causes a man to give up his life for a friend. The body of Elk was buried with the greatest honor and in death he received the homage, love and honor which he had pined for in life.
- Mrs. Morson, a woman of fashion visiting the country with her cavalier servants, is attracted by the beauty of Nora Burton, and as a whim carries Nora off to the city with her. She dolls her up and takes pride in her protégée until she discovers that her admirer, Morgan Hendricks, is taking more interest in Nora than in her. She drives Nora from the house and the girl walks back home. Jim Brooks wants her, but she contrasts her rural suitor with the trim elegance of the city swain. Hendricks comes to win back Nora. She is delighted until she demands a ring and he explains that he didn't exactly mean to marry her. She retreats. Hendricks seizes her. Jim hears her cries and comes to the rescue. She decides that an honorable man is more to be desired than a fashionable libertine.