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- Two old veterans, one who fought under Grant, the other under Lee, are together on a family picnic. Becoming reminiscent of the days of '61, they quarrel. This quarrel leads them to separate their respective children, who are sweethearts. But the children quietly rebel against this mandate, and traitorously meet in love's fond embraces. In the meantime, the two old codgers have fallen asleep, and sleeping they dream of the days when souls were tried in the fiery vortex of internecine strife. Now we see the old fellows as youthful heroes. With martial tread and bearing we see them in the van of battle. Charge and counter charge is made, and these two leaders meet and clash. Then each from the lips of Lee and Grant, receive words of praise for their valor. Then fades away the havoc of war. The two old veterans awake once more to life's present realities, and their sleeveless coats. Then comes Memorial Day and the G.A.R. Veterans are marching to the cemeteries. Each one betakes himself to a grave with flowers and flags. The Confederate's son died at Gettysburg, the Yank's father at Antietam. By these two graves they meet in silent commune. Then they hear the familiar "taps," and as they turn to, they stand face to face. Once more appears a vision to them of their old leaders and comrades. Then the old fellows salute and they clasp hands with fervor. And in the background comes the sweethearts in warm embrace. And as we gaze on the vision which the old veterans have conjured up, and behold the grand union of hearts and hands, we rejoice while dropping a silent tear for the Heroes of the Blue and the Gray.
- You have undoubtedly heard of the Abernathy boys, Louis, nine, and Temple, six years of age, respectively. There is not a newspaper in the country which did not give accounts of their daring ride on horseback from Oklahoma City, Okla., and their arrival in New York in time to take part in the great reception in honor of the homecoming of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. They traveled no less than 2,500 miles on horseback; a feat which older men have not been able to excel. They have taken leading parts in a story of the real wild and woolly western type which will arouse your enthusiasm, which will bubble with excitement and interest. It will undoubtedly be considered the greatest sensation of the year and the best tonic for box-office receipts. The opening scene shows Frank's ranch house, where many cowboys are "killing time," indulging in their sports. Soon one of the boys arrives from the post office with a letter for Frank from his sweetheart, Grace, informing him that he should meet her at the station, as she is coming to spend her vacation at the ranch. Frank leaves the ranch and arrives at the station in time to see his sweetheart insulted by a Mexican. The western blood boils within him. He has a fight with the Mexican, but finally leaves with his fiancée in a buggy for the ranch, tying his own horse to the back of the vehicle. The Mexican swears vengeance. He secures the co-operation of another Mexican and both pursue Frank and his sweetheart. They shoot Frank in the arm, and snatching the girl from the buggy, they escape with her. Poor Frank would have bled to death had not the Abernathy kids made their timely appearance. He is unconscious when he is found, but he is revived sufficiently to tell his story. Immediately little Temple starts to the ranch for aid, while Louis vows to pursue and capture the Mexicans. Quickly does Temple find his way to the Three Forks post office, where more than a dozen cowboys are lounging around. He utters only a few words and they take in the situation in a moment. They mount their bucking bronchos and with Temple in the lead they are off in pursuit of the culprits. The scene now changes. The girl is trying to gain her freedom from her captors. It is like a thunderbolt from heaven when the Mexican hears, "Throw up your hands." The desperate Mexican is about to draw his gun and shoot at Louis, but the kid is too quick for him, and shoots the gun out of the Mexican's hand. Singe-handed does the young lad overcome the burly and contemptible Mexicans. Suddenly, at a distance, during this commotion, little Temple in the lead, is seen approaching at daring speed with the cowboys. They lasso both Mexicans and drag them from the scene. Grace is soon restored to her lover, and the cheers and congratulations showered upon the two young lads will make your heart feel good. You are so much enthused that you would like to go over to the boys and, slapping them on the shoulder, say, "Congratulate you, boys, for your heroism." This picture finishes by showing Louis and Temple with their mammoth Teddy bear, which was presented to them by Col. Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders at their reception.
- A pretty Hawaiian girl is wooed by a sea captain who afterwards persuades her to marry him.
- Franklin Cross cannot conceive that the introduction of his chum, Charles Hoskins to his fiancée, Bertha Walsh, would result in anything more serious than a slight acquaintanceship. With the dawning of Christmas day, Franklin is frozen with horror to discover his fiancée with Hoskins in what is commonly termed a love embrace. Unseen by anyone, he conveys across his card his wishes for a merry X-mas, and packing his belongings, leaves for the west. Installed at Plentiful Ranch, he meets the charming daughter of Squire Tucker, establishes his position as a favorite, and is well liked all-round. It is now Christmas Day, one year later, which rinds him in the midst of a hilarious dinner with the boys in the bunk-house, but heavy recollections of the past restrain him from entering into the jollity. Already in love with him, the squire's daughter now enters with her father to distribute gifts, and Franklin becomes the recipient of her photo, inscribed "with love." Noting, however, the jewels in his hand, and instinctively feeling that his thoughts are of another, she attempts to regain the photo. Despairing of his absence, his erstwhile fiancée institutes a search and succeeds in locating him at the ranch. Her appearance is simultaneous with Mabel's request for the return of her picture, and whilst Franklin conjectures the situation, both women survey each other, with full knowledge of their future at stake, and then earnestly appeal to the man. He chooses the new and younger love however, and broken-hearted with her loss, the unfortunate one embraces her successful rival.
- Harry Mason, the petted son of a social leader, while out walking with his sister, comes upon the camp of some gypsies. The sister wants her fortune told and Harry goes with her. While there, he meets the daughter of the Gypsy Queen. Love at first sight and many meetings follow. Harry's mother interrupts one of these meetings while passing by in her car, and Harry is ordered to get in and return home. He refuses, but when he does come home, his irate mother demands that he cease his flirtations with the gypsy. Harry assures her it is more serious. Sometime later, realizing that his mother's consent cannot be gained, Harry marries the girl without it. They are first married according to the custom of her people, a regular Gypsy wedding with the quaint and curious rites of her people, after which they are united by the Church and the State. Being still unable to gain his mother's forgiveness. Harry settles down in a cottage. A year later, a child comes to bless their union. On learning of the arrival of a grand-daughter, the proud old mother hastens to Harry's little cottage to clasp the little one to her breast. Years go by and all is happiness till one day the wife is out on her way to make some purchases. She is surprised to meet her Gypsy mother at the gate. The tribe was again in camp near the home. The mother is invited to see her grandchild, a girl of six. The presence of the Gypsy woman angers the over-sensitive husband, who has just come in. Then follows the first quarrel between man and wife. The wife begins to regretfully look back over the years of free life spent with her people, and she takes out the costumes she had worn at their first meeting. He enters, prepared to ask forgiveness, but indulgently retires rather than disturb her. Seated in the little parlor with his daughter on his knee, the young husband falls asleep. The wife returns, pensively takes her violin and softly plays a favorite melody of his. Then he dreams, the quarrel is re-enacted, his young wife returns to her people. He sees her take the child and he follows, arriving in time to separate her from his old rival, whom he engaged in mortal combat. They fight furiously and the rival suffers death. At this juncture the husband awakens, and finds his faithful little wife standing by, playing to him in dreamy attitude.
- Dave Bailey's wife dying, gives her child to the keeping of Sue Barksdale. A year later Sue is in love with Dave, the widower. He is about to declare his love for her when Virginia Dale, a young authoress, comes on the scene and he is at once smitten by her beauty. She, in turn, falls in love with him, and before long declares his love for her in Sue's presence. The child, in wandering through the woods, is just about to pet a huge snake, when she is rescued by Virginia, who is bitten by the snake. Her screams are heard by Sue, who, in running to aid her, falls and cuts her lip. She sucks the snake bite, thus inoculating herself through the bleeding lip with the poison. Dave comes with a jug of whiskey. Virginia is saved and Sue dies a martyr to the love of Dave.
- A circus comes to a frontier town and pitches its tent, attracting a good audience of cowboys, soldiers from the nearby post and residents of the town. One of the soldiers falls in love with a pretty girl performer, the daughter of the manager, and succeeds in gaining the father's consent, after which he departs for a post farther west, to which his company has been ordered. With the circus is a troupe of acrobats, costumed as red devils. Just as the engagement closes, their manager receives a wire from a Western town offering him an engagement. The acrobats hail the offer with delight, especially pleased is the girl, because it will take her near her soldier lover, so the engagement is accepted. The picture now takes us to the military post where the lover is found with his comrades about the entrance of the stockade. A messenger appears with a letter from the girl, telling him of the coming of the troupe and that her father has agreed that they may be married immediately. This puts the soldier in high spirits and his comrades overwhelm him with congratulations and carry him into the stockade on their shoulders when he tells them the good news. During these events trouble has been brewing between the cowboys and the Indians. The latter have been caught in the act of stealing cattle and, in the fight that follows, one of them, the chief's son, is killed. For this the Indians take the war path. One of the Indians happens to be in town when the stage carrying the troupe of Red Devils, their manager and his daughter, starts on its journey with an escort of cowboys. This spy hastens to the camp of his tribe and the band starts out at once to prepare an ambush for the travelers. Lumbering along over the rough trail comes the old stagecoach, a real relic of pioneer days, with four horses swinging it around the curves with all the dash of the Wild West. Then a wheel breaks and the coach comes to a stop, while the occupants pile out to see what the trouble is. While they are inspecting the damage the Indians come upon them; there is a general scurrying to shelter, except one daring fellow who boldly perches himself upon the top of the coach as if he were inviting the Indians to "pot" him. One of the cowboy escorts manages to get away at the beginning of the scrimmage with a message from the girl to her lover at the fort, which happens to be the nearest point from which succor can be obtained. For some time the Indians continue their fire from ambush, but when all the visible defenders have been disposed of they rush the coach with the purpose of finishing them. Just as they seem about to overwhelm the survivors the troupe of "Red Devils" springs out of the coach and hold the Indians spellbound in open mouthed wonder at their marvelous tumbling. While these events are happening, the messenger arrives at the fort and soon a troop of cavalry is on the way to the rescue. Alternate views of the "Red Devils" holding the Indians in awe and the soldiers racing over the trail carry the interest to a high pitch. Now the acrobats are about exhausted from their efforts and would give up, but the girl and her father rush out and encourage them to keep going. Then one Indian, evidently not to be fooled by the antics of the "Red Devils," springs out and harangues his braves. This breaks the spell and the attack on the travelers is about to be resumed when the soldiers come dashing up and scatter the Indians. The ruse of the "Red Devils" has been successful and the scene closes with the girl clasped in the arms of her soldier lover.
- In her father's tailor shop, a young girl shares the meager morsels of bread with her little brothers and sisters, while their old father toils on the bench, striving to earn a scanty subsistence. The constable serves notice on him to pay his rent or get out on the morrow. Outside the shop the poor man's daughter is sweeping when an automobile happens to pass by, carrying the owner of the house. The daughter of the rich man is so impressed with the beauty of the poor girl that she tells her father she would like to employ the girl as her maid. By his daughter working for the rich man the rent is paid. While working at the rich man's house, the poor girl falls victim to the wiles of the son of the millionaire, and in making appeals to her mistress to have justice done her for the heinous crime, she is driven out at a reception by the rich man's son. The job is finished and the tailor expires. Another tailor, accompanied by the rich youth, appears at the squalid tailoring shop for the suit. The young scion is startled by the girl he has ruined and offers her money. She refuses and he betakes himself to the grand reception, leaving misery behind him.
- Alice and Jack are sweethearts. The action opens in a park or wooded lot. Jack discovers a hollow in an old elm tree. They conceive the romantic idea of using the hollow as a "post office," and they leave notes there for each other. They are surprised in their lovemaking by Jimmie, who is promptly humbled, and he vows to get even for the affront. At a party Jack becomes jealous of Alice and the result is a quarrel. Each repairs to the old tree, expecting the other to write and make peace overtures, but is disappointed. Finally Jack, believing himself at fault, writes a contrite note and places it in the hollow of the tree. Alice, in making her daily call to the tree, notices Jack in that vicinity. She is seen by him and both are happy. Jimmie sees Jack place the note in the hollow and stealthily abstracts it. Alice looks in the hollow and finds no letter, and is disappointed. After she is gone Jimmie is stricken with remorse, and replaces the letter in the hollow of the elm. A few days elapse and Jack, getting no response from the letter, leaves the village for a city. Alice sees him through the window of her home bidding good-bye to his companion, and believes he has not forgiven her. The action is carried forward twenty years. Jack has flourished and become a prominent and influential broker, but has remained a bachelor. Alice has remained unmarried and has devoted her life to caring for her aged mother. In his bachelor apartments, surrounded by luxury, Jack is obsessed by an idea to revisit the scenes of his boyhood. He returns to his native village, visits the park, and draws near the old tree. It awakens memories of long ago. He is taking pictures of the old tree. Drawing nearer he notices the scars of the initials he cut and is visibly affected. Absent-mindedly he reaches into the hollow and pulls out the letter he wrote many years ago. It is yellowed with age, but he recognizes it and marvels. Taking the letter to the home of Alice unopened he hands it to her in silence. With trembling fingers she opens it, looks into his eyes, and discovers the old love light.
- Jack Bartling and his mother are people of wealth and take up summer quarters at their home in the country. One day while looking over their vast estate, Jack meets Mary, the daughter of a farmer whose land adjoins the Bartlings. One day the young people are brought to a realization of their love for each other, when Mary attends to Jack, who has fallen from his horse. Dave, one of Mary's country admirers, had witnessed her kindly attitude towards Jack and scolds her for receiving the attentions of a rich man's son. Mary refuses to listen to Dave and leaves him. Some days later a house party is given at the Bartling home. Among the guests invited is Muriel Van Osten, who, it is rumored, is about to become engaged to Jack, although he has shown very little attention to her. Muriel learns of the love affair between Jack and Mary and shows her the newspaper announcement of her rumored engagement to Jack. Mary decides to have nothing to do with him thereafter, and when he pays her a visit he is treated coldly. Jack, who is greatly annoyed at Mary's indifferent attitude, takes her in his arms and tries to reason with her. Dave, seeing Jack forcibly take Mary to him, and thinking that he is insulting her, intervenes, and a quarrel is averted by Mary who explains and leaves the two men. Jack, not wishing to have any trouble with Dave, leaves, but Dave, whose anger is not so easily appeased, follows. The two men met on a boat landing and a fight ensues. Jack is hit on the head by Dave and he falls unconscious into the river. Dave runs home and tells Mary that he thinks he has killed Jack, who, in the meantime had been rescued by a passing boat. Mary goes immediately to Jack's home and tells his mother of his death, where she comes face to face with the supposed dead man. A short while after, they meet Dave, who is forgiven by Jack and Mary. The young people's parents consent to their marriage and the wedding day is set.
- Percival Smith kisses his wife affectionately good-bye and makes his departure. On the outside of his home he flirts with two fair dames and follows in their wake. He catches up with them at the park, and neglecting to proceed to his office he enters a café. He starts to flirt with a waitress and his newly-made lady friends take umbrage and depart in high dudgeon. He continues to pet his fair Priscilla until the manager takes him bodily and flings him into the street. He picks himself up, adjusts his anatomy and betakes himself to pastures new. A pretty chorus girl is leaving the stage door of a theater. The gay deceiver approaches her in a mincing manner. She rebuffs him, he persists, she flaunts away, he follows fast. Around the corner they go and she tells a cop, and into this copper's brawny embrace comes rushing the gay Lothario. But the deceiver sprints away and thus escapes. Next a janitor of buxom form comes under his observation, but when he assays to touch her, she meets him with a bucket of water. The next day at his office we find him feeding chocolates to his stenographer, whispering to her softly and printing luscious kisses on her lips. Suddenly his faithful spouse appears. In a rage she rushes home and engages her house-maid's services. An hour later, her startled husband learns over the phone that his home has been invaded by one of his own species. He rushes home and discovers a personage seated in his wife's lap. He summons a policeman and then he courageously smashes the high hat from the bead of the affinity. The hat flies off and from beneath rolls a mass of hair showing the features of his maid. A feeling of revulsion comes over him and be then swears off.
- George Wharton leaves his Southern home to fight for the North. While in camp be chastises a fellow officer for insulting a lady and thereby gains his enmity. George's sister has a sweetheart, who is a Confederate officer, Robert E. Lee. He was now a prisoner in the Union camp, and therefore when Martha wrote a letter to her brother George, she enclosed a note to Robert E. Lee, a namesake of the famous General Lee. George gets his mail, but unfortunately drops the letter to Lee, which falls into the hands of his enemy. The latter opens it, only to find a harmless missive. Notwithstanding, he forges an incriminating letter, supposedly for Gen. Robert E. Lee, and places it in the original envelope, laying it where George will find it. With this accomplished, George is arrested through his enemy's connivance, tried and condemned. The lad now sends a note to his sweetheart, the girl he had saved from insult, and she informs his sister. His sweetheart attempts an audience with Grant, but with no avail. Before this took place, the Confederate officer had escaped. Meanwhile, George's sister also arrives and is also refused the pardon by Gen. Grant. She snatches a revolver from the belt of his servant and forces the general, at its point, to grant her request. The girl now dashes off to tell her story to Lincoln. Just then the Confederate officer, who had been re-captured, is brought in and he verifies her story. The pardon is granted. While George's sweetheart is holding up the villainous officer at the point where the condemned youth is to die. His sister rides up with Lincoln's pardon. A double union takes place, and four young people reap their reward.
- The locale of the story is in France and the characters of the nobility as well as those of the half world who live by their wits. Camille is a woman who belongs to the latter class and her associates are of the Bohemian sort, actors, painters and literary folk, and her male friends are an old Duke, who showers money on her, and a Count who is her escort to places of amusement. Camille is beautiful, accomplished, and at the period of the opening of the story, is satiated with pleasure and her better nature asserts itself. She longs for something genuine, a love that is good and pure. Armand du Val is the son of a nobleman and theirs is an old and honored family. He sees Camille and falls in love with her, worshiping her at a distance. He calls at her house in company of a friend and the visit is most opportune. Camille has returned from the opera with the Count and he bores her with his coarse and unwelcome attentions. Armand is introduced and his frank, manly avowal of love comes like a revelation and is sweet music to her ears. For the first time in her eventful life she loves and is deliriously happy. There is a season of bliss for the young couple. Camille removes to the country and Armand is in constant attention until their dream is shattered. A sister of Armand is betrothed to a young nobleman and the father of the groom learns of Armand's infatuation for Camille, and breaks the news to his father. Camille is induced to break with Armand so that the young couple may marry and be happy and no scandal shall mar their bliss. Armand does not understand and Camille will not explain. Armand denounces her for a flirt. He creates a scene in a gambling house, hurling Camille from him brutally and throwing his winnings in her face. There is a duel with the Count, her former love, and Armand is exiled in disgrace. The dread disease, consumption, lays hold of Camille and she is in the throes of death with her beauty gone. Armand is summoned by his father and goes to Camille, but, alas! too late! She sees him, imprints one long loving kiss on his lips and expires in his arms.
- This story deals with a westerner, who comes into a fortune left by his uncle in the east. One clause of the will provides, however, that the legatee must live in the ancestral house in the east, otherwise the fortune is lost. Bill Smith accepts the conditions and goes east, he is soon settled in his new house, surrounded by every luxury money can buy. But these things do not appeal to Bill. He longs for the free life of the prairie. Naturally he is much sought after, owing to his wealth and new position. He gains the clubs, attends balls and receptions, where the idle rich are wont to congregate. Still he is far from happy. One day at his club, Bill protects Edith Mason, a little flower girl from the insults of a half-drunken loafer. In the scrimmage the girl receives a blow. Bill takes her to her home in his auto. They soon become fast friends. Edith's mother is a consumptive. She receives a letter from her brother in the west telling her of his coming to New York to take her west with him, where it is hoped the climate would benefit her. Bill calls on Edith and is shown the letter. Much to his surprise he finds that the uncle is Pete Curley, his former friend and fellow cowpuncher. Bill shows Pete the sights. As the time for the departure of his friends draws nearer, Bill's longing for the west grows stronger. He realizes that his new acquaintances tolerate him because of his wealth. This he proves by a clever ruse. After bidding good-bye to Pete and Edith, in whom he becomes very much interested, he returns to his home of luxury. He is very unhappy. The call of the west is too strong for him to resist. He writes a note to his lawyers, relinquishing all claims to the estate and rushes madly to the station, just in time to gain the little party, as they board the train for the west.
- The Count De Mel has saved the life of the Count De Braggart. The latter, though a splendid looking fellow, has shown himself to be an errant coward. De Mel takes a strong liking to him and invites him to his home. De Mel's wife falls in love with Count De Braggart. Madam Jessica, an actress, who was with De Braggart when De Mel rescued him from the hands of the assassins, discovers the love affair that has grown up between these two, and instantly informs De Mel (the latter having just started on a journey), who returns and surprises his wife in De Braggart's arms. The guilty pair are startled by De Mel's reappearance, but the latter pretends not to have seen what occurred. The countess decides to poison her husband, and De Braggart agrees. The Count De Mel now decides on a peculiar revenge. His faithful old body servant, having been discharged by the countess, and his friends being denied entrance to his room, he secures the services of a doctor and nurse. These become his faithful attendants, though the countess and her paramour seem to be gaining the desired goal in spite of the physician and nursing sister. De Mel is on his last legs, the deadly drug doing its work to their heart's content, when lo! De Mel suddenly denounces them as "poisoners!" The pair are horrified by the accusation, and De Braggart shows himself in his true colors, a cowardly poltroon, putting all the blame on the countess for the dastardly deed. Then the sister throws off her robes and stands revealed as the actress, Jessica, and tells the true story of De Braggart's "heroism." The countess now comes to regard De Braggart with the utmost scorn, and turns conscience stricken to her husband, but too late! He forces her to sign a document that she will wed De Braggart when he has divorced her, or failing to do so, she will be denounced to the authorities. She finally agrees to do this, though death would almost seem preferable to living now with De Braggart. De Mel now throws off the role he was enacting under the tutoring of his nurse, the actress, and stands forth hale and hearty. All along he had been pretending to take the poison. The physician, who was really his old servant, "made over" by the actress, and that worthy lady herself, aiding him in his undertaking. As a result of the devotion of Madam Jessica he takes her in his arms and offers her his future.
- Jack is a debonair young fellow, living with his mother, who is a wealthy widow. Jack is a fastidious fellow; the mother, an aristocrat, has definite ideas as to Jack's future. Jack calls upon a manicurist. It was a case of love at first sight, with the fullest reciprocal feeling between them. The manicurist receives a 'phone call from a lady, and it happens that the lady is Jack's mother. Jack is very much surprised to be called into his mother's room and there finds the girl of his heart working over her fingers. His surprise is so manifest that the mother perceives the shape of things and immediately takes him to task. He has been smoking and in the excitement of the occasion has flung his lighted cigarette from his lips. It proves his salvation, for, just as the mother reaches a high state of indignation after the girl has gone out in a fit of deep dejection, a burst of flame shoots forth from the lace curtains where the cigarette had fallen. At this juncture the mother faints with the excitement of the occasion, but the manicurist had not yet departed, comes upon the scene, and her timely coming is instrumental in saving old lady's life. There is no need to add the gratitude of the mother found expression in giving over her opposition, and thus came happiness to Jack.
- Henry Marshall and Bob Stanley are business rivals. Stanley and Marshall's daughter, Helen, are in love, but Mr. Marshall won't tolerate the match, because Stanley has practically ruined him by his business competition. However, Mr. Marshall has great faith in his superintendent, who is unsuccessful in his suit for Helen's hand. Helen is sent away to an expensive boarding school, but her father (unknown to her) is forced to mortgage his factory to meet the expense. At her departure, her father becomes totally blind, but he keeps the ill news from his daughter. Things go from bad to worse with Mr. Marshall until he is practically on the verge of bankruptcy. Finally it comes to the stage where he can't pay his workmen. Helen meanwhile has written Stanley that she is coming home on a vacation, but is keeping it secret from her father to surprise him. Upon her arrival she finds her father blind and the workmen on strike. To avoid serious trouble she (unknown to her father) hunts up Stanley and tells him conditions. For love of her, Stanley draws enough money to tide over Marshall's embarrassment. Helen suspects that Hardy, the superintendent, is not as honest as her father thinks him, so that night she and Stanley gain access to the office. They go over the books and find that Hardy has falsified accounts to the extent of $30,000. They confront Hardy and Mr. Marshall with the evidence. Hardy is arrested and a partnership is formed between the two business rivals, much to the delight of the lovers.
- Sherlocko and Watso, the world-famous detectives, are quietly ensconced in their office when suddenly there bursts in on their cogitations a railroad official. He is evidently in great distress, and we soon discover its cause. He has met with a loss, a daring robbery has occurred at his station. It is no less than the loss of his lantern. Giving every assurance to the agitated owner of the stolen lantern, the keen-minded sleuths set forth on the trail. An investigation is made at the station with the aid of the magnifying glass in the minutest detail, when finally his most ingenious methods unfold the clue. Seated at a table is a man quietly reading by the light of a lantern. This man is Pecko, and he it is who has caused the terrific upset in the station agent's affair. But why? His answer to Sherlocko is, he wanted to read by a borrowed light. The sleights, however, recover the "glim" from him, leaving him his bit of candle with the fair warning never again to tamper with his neighbor's goods.
- George Marston leaves his home to go to his work. He is a clerk in the office of Wm. Hall, a broker. On his way to the office, Marston meets two friends, who insist on treating him. He accompanies them into the saloon, and calls for a temperance drink. They ridicule him for this and insist on his taking a glass of liquor. He succumbs to their ridicule and tastes of the liquor, and that one glass proves fatal to him. When he arrives at his desk in the broker's office he is very late and slightly intoxicated, for which two reasons the broker very promptly discharges him. In his befuddled condition he threatens the broker, and he is ejected from the office. Shortly after this a blackmailer turns up at the broker's office. Confronted by a "ghost of the past," the broker is driven to desperation. The "blackmailer" gives the broker 15 minutes to decide on making an impossible payment; to make the payment he must rob the firm, and it is disgrace or death, and he chooses the latter. In the meantime, the clerk, Marston, has returned home, bringing sorrow to his wife and babe. The tears of the wife arouse in him his latent goodness and manhood, and he solemnly vows he will never again taste the fatal glass. With this resolution made, he starts back to the office to make a plea for reinstatement. He arrives just as the broker has committed self-destruction, and Marston is accused of the crime. He is convicted and receives a life sentence, and we see him working out the weary years on a stone pile. In the meantime, his wife goes back to the home of her childhood, taking her little boy along. Years pass, and the boy grows to manhood. He marries, and brings his wife to live with his mother, and a beautiful little girl blesses the union. In after years the blackmailer gets into the tolls, being caught red-handed in a burglary. He is convicted, and makes an attempt to escape from prison and is shot and mortally wounded. Having recognized in prison the man who was wrongly accused of the crime of murder, he tells all that he knows concerning the matter, and Marston is liberated and starts for the place where he won his sweetheart. He arrives in the village and is begging for food, when a child takes pity on him. The child proves to be his granddaughter, and the meeting leads to a visit to his wife, and the reunion is graphic and intense, a reward for years of suffering.
- Mr. Howard, a planter receives a letter from his son Ralph, who has journeyed to New Orleans on a business trip. The letter states that his son is about to return home. The father informs his neighbors, Mr. Blair and his daughter Dorothy, of his son's intended return. They welcome the news, especially Dorothy, who is in love with Ralph. Ralph takes the Mississippi River Steamer and while aboard he makes the acquaintance of a professional gambler, James Ballard who has all the appearance of a gentleman and soon persuades Ralph to join in a game of cards. Ralph is unlucky and loses all his money and is forced to give Ballard an I.O.U. for the money borrowed from him. Ralph arrives home and is given a hearty welcome. He is so much taken up with his love affair with Dorothy that he forgets the time is drawing near when he must make good the payment of the I.O.U. given to Ballard. He receives a letter from Ballard, stating that he will pay Ralph a visit and at the same time collect the money due him. Ralph is at a loss as to what to do, he realizes that he dare not ask his father for the money. Ballard arrives and Ralph is forced to be civil to him. Ballard gives him a little more time to get the money. Ballard is introduced to Dorothy and taken by her good looks proceeds at once to make a conquest. Of this Ralph disapproves which causes a quarrel. Ballard threatens Ralph, and declares that he will wait till evening for the money. If he don't get it he will inform Ralph's father and try to collect it from him. Ralph who has seen his father get some money from a planter decides to take some of it and pay Ballard. That evening the announcement of the engagement between Dorothy and Ralph is about to take place. While the guests are in the reception room, Ralph goes to his father's desk and secures some of the money. He is seen by Remus, an old servant who realizes that Ralph is committing an act of theft. Ralph goes to his room, nervous and agitate; the old servant goes there to summon Ralph, at his father's wish, sees the money in the drawer of Ralph's bureau where Ralph has hastily placed it. After Ralph leaves the room the old servant, in order to save Ralph, takes the money with the intention of returning it to the library desk. Remus goes to the library and as he is about to place the money in the desk Mr. Howard enters the library. Remus surprised puts the money in his own pocket, intending to place it in the desk as soon as the opportunity prevails. Mr. Howard discovers the absence of the money and as suspicion points to Remus, he is questioned and fearing that his young master will be found out, takes the blame on himself, confesses in order to save Ralph, hands over the money to Mr. Howard who, shocked at his old servant's action is lenient with him, but tells Remus he will have to leave the house at once. Ralph learns of Remus' confession of guilt and fools remorseful. He confesses to his father who, learning of his son's motive for his act, forgives him. Mr. Howard pays his son's I.O.U. and Ballard is informed that his presence is not desired in the house. Both father and son appreciate Remus' generous act. The announcement of the engagement takes place.
- Bess Allen does not know whether she loves Ben Crosby or Joe Darnton, and when they call and propose to her at the same time, she laughingly refuses both of them. The rest of the cowboys, led by Bess's father, give the boys the laugh, and to conceal their mortification, Joe asks Ben and the crowd to adjourn to the bar and wash down their disappointment. Ben returns when he deems it opportune and renewing his offer of proposal to Bess follows it up with impetuous zeal. He will not take no for an answer, but seizes her and kisses her passionately. The girl struggles ineffectually and indignantly strikes him across the mouth. Regaining the mastery of his feelings he humbly accepts his dismissal and takes his leave, unconsciously clasping in his hand a strand of ribbon which he has torn from her throat in the embrace. Returning to the saloon he is charged by Joe of having taken undue advantage by sneaking off to renew his suit. A word test ensues which results in a fistic brawl. Thinking he had killed Joe, Ben decamps to the wigwam of friendly Indians, where he remains in hiding. Bess's father, incensed over the fight about his daughter, informs her of it. Having become aware of the reality that with the blow she had struck Ben, she had actually loved him, Bess now repairs to the saloon filled with alarm. Instead of finding Joe dead, she is confronted with fresh accusations from all the cowboys including Joe, and with disgust, and outraged pride she returns home. In a spirit of revenge Joe entices her to a shack with a decoy note purporting to come from Ben and then compels her to fight for her honor, which she indeed does as only honest, hardy women of the west can. However, she is no match for the man, and at the crucial moment smashes the window with a keg and leaps from the second story into the arms of Ben Crosby, the man she loves. Ben has been warned of the machinations against her by his Indian friend who scented mischief brewing and brought him to the rescue. Fearing the result of his deed and having truly repented, Joe comes out of the shack to give himself up expecting to find Bess dead from the fall, but when he is apprised of the true situation, he humbly begs pardon of both her and Ben which is granted by them, for these big-hearted folk of the west do not harbor a grudge no matter how severe the provocation. Bess's father and the cowboys arrive also and escort the young pair home amid the cheers and firing of guns, and poor, repentant Joe joins them with tears of happiness because of being forgiven by all.
- Nell Collings loved Newton Barry, who was a Northern boy. When war broke out Barry bade his sweetheart good-bye and went away to don the Union blue. Nell's brother fought for the South. The fortunes of war had brought a battle right to the doors of Nell, and two of the participants in that battle were Newton Barry and Tom Collings, the brother. Newton, wounded and separated from his comrades, took refuge in the home of his sweetheart. The Confederates tracked him there, led by Tom. Nell hid Newton in a secret closet, but was discovered by Tom. Seizing a musket from one of the troops, she held it at her brother's breast and there kept it until Newton was far away on his journey. When the war ended Tom was first to join in the glad welcome extended to Newton on his return to wed his sister.