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- Carl Winters is a teacher of music, at the New York College of Music. Among his pupils is Alice Winthrop, daughter of Stephen Winthrop, a banker. Carl and Alice are lovers. His employer, Director Bergh, witnesses a love scene between the two in the college. He dismisses Carl and informs the father of Alice of her love affair. The banker warns Alice that she must not see Winters again. The girl assures her father of Carl's honorable intentions and pleads to have him grant Winters an interview. The banker refuses. The girl tells Carl what has happened and that her father will leave the city with her for a long period. Carl asks her to become his wife. She consents and they are married. When Alice tells her father of her marriage, he orders her from his home. Carl and Alice spend their honeymoon in Carl's boarding house. Carl accepts an offer to become musical director in Rio De Janeiro. Alice promises to join him there as soon as he is established. Several months pass. The banker learns that his daughter is to become a mother. Mr. Winthrop goes to her and persuades her to return to his home. Alice, in her correspondence with her husband, has not told him of her secret so as to cause him no worry in his new position. Winthrop in his hatred for Carl intercepts and destroys the letters and cables which the husband and wife send to each other. Carl has met with success in his new position but is distressed at receiving no news from his wife. A daughter is born to Alice, who dies from septic poisoning. Carl, alarmed by his wife's silence, resolves to return and to bring his wife back with him. Before his departure he receives a cable from her father announcing the death of his daughter, Carl's wife. After a long illness, Carl leaves the hospital, friendless and disheartened. He earns a livelihood singing in amusement places, accompanied by a harp player, a faithful fellow, devoted to Carl, his teacher. Years have gone by and Carl's daughter, of whose existence he has been kept ignorant, is now a girl of seventeen years. Her father in South America has become gray and old and is making a living as a street singer. His wish is to visit the grave of his wife and he returns with his harpist to New York. One day his daughter while out riding is attracted by the sounds of music. She speaks to the singer and invites him to come to her home the next day, which is her birthday, to play and sing for her. Carl consents. Carl and the harpist go to the Winthrop home and he sings for the young girl, whose identity is unknown to him, the song he had often sung tor his wife for whom he composed it. The girl goes to dress for dinner, asking Carl to continue the song. He sees a photograph. It is the portrait of his wife. The banker enters and accuses Carl and the harpist of being impostors and thieves. Carl learns from Winthrop that the young girl is the child of Winthrop's daughter, Carl's own child. Winthrop orders Carl from the house when Carl tells him that he is the father of the girl. The banker offers Carl money to conceal his identity. Carl refuses the money, but resolves to go out of his daughter's life to preserve her happiness. After a final meeting with his daughter, he is about to leave the house when the banker, filled with remorse, tells his grandchild, "Alice, this man is your father. You must honor thy father and thy mother, so sayeth the Fifth Commandment." The story ends with father and daughter embracing, the banker asking Carl's forgiveness.
- Temptation to cheat comes in the way of a young couple in reward for which the wife can escape from the bitterness of life on $25 per week in a New York suburb, i.e., Staten Island. There are no "classy," well-dressed people in New York south of Thirty-Fourth Street. Jane Reynolds, the aspirant after Fifth Avenue fine feathers thought this way, when the tempter came along and persuaded her to induce her husband to pass on an inferior quality of cement for a great dam then in course of construction. "Bob" Reynolds fell for the bribe and Jane got her fine feathers. The gambling mania got "Bob" and he was financially ruined in double quick time. The bursting of the dam, due to the bad cement, completed the tragedy of "Fine Feathers." The chief culprit, the tempter, committed suicide, and the young couple resolved to commence life all over again and go straight.
- Tom, the son of John and Mary Landers, an old-fashioned country couple is in love with a pretty country girl, who is also being courted by Walter Terry. Tom surprises the latter making violent love to her and, crazed with jealousy, strikes Walter and in the fight that ensues Tom accidentally pushes Walter over the edge of a cliff. Fearing that he had killed his rival, Tom leaves the farm for the city. Unable to secure a position there, he appeals to his mother, who sends him money. He finally secures a position with Grant and Co., stockbrokers. The Wall Street fever soon gets the better of him and he tries his luck in the stock market. Being successful in his first venture, he plans to make a fortune. He writes his mother informing her that he has an opportunity to go into a good business for himself and begs of her a loan of $1,000. The devoted mother having faith in Tom's promise of a speedy return of the money, takes the money which they had saved to pay off the mortgage on the farm. Tom loses it in speculations and is ashamed to reply to his mother's appeals for the promised return of the money. Meanwhile, Pa Landers is killed by an accidental discharge of his gun while out hunting. The poor widow is now unable to meet the payment of the mortgage and is forced to leave the old home. Miss Elsa Norman, a society girl in the city, is attacked by a thief, but is rescued by Tom and a close friendship is the result of this incident, which later develops into mutual love. Tom's mother arriving in the city visits him in his office. He is ashamed of her appearance and takes her to a boarding house in the suburbs and asks her not to call on him. Terribly hurt at the indifference of her son, she resolves never to annoy him again. Alone in her grief she is forced to move to a poor tenement house. She visits daily the lobby of Tom's office building, where she is seen one day by Elsa Norman, who in deep sympathy for the poor old woman gives her a bunch of violets, not knowing she is the mother of the man she loves. Ma Landers' money gone, she is in actual want and is overcome one day by weakness and faints in front of the building, where she is picked up by Elsa and her chauffeur and carried to her miserable lodging. There she tells her story to Elsa, who is horrified to learn that the old lady is Tom's mother; Elsa 'phones Tom to come at once and he is brought face to face with the terrible result of the neglect of his mother. Elsa touched by the heroic acceptance of the old lady's sad fate, purchases the old farm and presents it to her. Tom returns to the old homestead and in a touching love scene which follows Ma Landers forgives Tom, who wins back Elsa's love.
- June Holly, an orphan, lives in the lumber district of Missouri with her Uncle Jim and her grandmother. She is possessed of a beautiful face and affectionate nature. David Stone, a manly young lumberman, is in love with June, but Uptergraft, another lumberman, devoid of character or principle, also admires June, but she resents his rough embraces by slapping his face, and he becomes her bitter enemy. A new and romantic interest comes into June's life, when she meets Alan Powell, the only son of a wealthy St. Louis lumber merchant, who has sent him to the lumber region to buy lumber. Alan and June fall in love with each other. He is young and thoughtless and she ignorant of life. David surprises the lovers in the woods and attacks Alan, who, thinking to save the girl's reputation, tells David that he was not in love with June, but that there was only a harmless flirtation between them. Shortly after, Alan is called back to St. Louis. In a letter which Alan sends to June, he assures her of his true and devoted love and that he is coming to take her to their own home as soon as he returns from an extended business trip. This letter gets into the hands of David, who destroys it. June is greatly worried by the failure to hear from her lover and decides to leave home during the night to seek Alan. At his office, she learns that he has left on a business trip and is not expected back for several months. Disheartened, she starts for her home. On the way the starving girl sinks exhausted on the doorstep of a farmhouse and the kindhearted farmer's wife takes the destitute girl in and gives her a home. Later June's baby is born, and as soon as able the young mother determines to return to her people. Tramping wearily along the road, carrying her child, she falls and the baby striking its head on a rock, is instantly killed. Shocked with grief and horror, June leaves her dead baby in some bushes on the roadside. She has, however, been seen by two men who had been following her; they find the dead child and inform the sheriff. The distracted mother is arrested, despite the heroic attempt of David Stone to save her. She is accused of child murder and thrown into prison. Martha Green, a friend of June's, a member of the Salvation Army, dispensing comfort amongst the poor, learns of June's terrible plight and writes Alan to hurry to June's rescue. Alan reaches Lumberville as June is being examined in court. He rushes into the court room and explains to the judge and jury that he is the cause of the girl's misfortune and begs their mercy. The jury, however, finds June guilty of murder and she is sentenced to be hanged. Alan goes to the governor of the state to plead for her life, but the governor refuses to interfere with the sentence of the court. On the day set for the execution, June, overwhelmed by the thought of the awful death that awaits her, breaks down utterly and in her agony shrieks and pleads for mercy. When the warden and sheriff come to conduct her to the scaffold and all hope appears to be gone, a telephone message comes from the governor staying the execution. Alan's impassioned second pleading before the governor for his sweetheart's life having won a pardon for her.
- Lena Rivers is the orphaned granddaughter of Granny Nichols. Lena's mother Helena had gone to the city and secretly married Harry Graham, a young Southerner who assumed the name of Rivers as a prank. He was falsely accused of murder and sent to prison. Helena, thinking he deserted her, returns home to give birth and die of a broken heart. Granny rears Lena, but poverty compels them to seek a home with Granny's son John in Kentucky. Lena's cousin Caroline makes her life miserable with her jealousy, contriving to blacken her reputation when Durward Belmont falls in love with Lena instead of Caroline. Durward's mother has married Graham, who realizes upon meeting Lena that she is his daughter, but makes her promise not to tell his secret. Lena's happiness is very nearly wrecked before the truth is revealed, but Graham finally makes known his relationship to her and all ends well.
- Down on the old farm in Broomville, Sue and Belinda Reuben read of the delights of cabaret life and tango dancing in the great city, and forthwith resolve to taste of these delights for themselves. In the dead of night they escape from the farm, and, hiding themselves in a coal-bunker, ultimately arrive in the city. Their appearance in the main street attracts attention, and they are politely mobbed by a crowd of amused onlookers. Escaping, they explore the Great White Way, represented in the picture by some lonely suburban lots, and here they are not long in meeting the fancifully dressed "White Slavers," products of the underworld, who ply their arts so successfully that in a little while, the girls succumb to an invitation to visit the cabaret show. Here the girls fall completely in the power of their assailants, who by means of a wonderful implement, known as the injectograph, reduce them to unconsciousness. This done, they call in the assistance of the taxi-demon, who, in a fearful looking machine drawn by two mules, transports the senseless girls to the "House of Mystery," into which they are hoisted by ropes. Here they are greeted by a varied assortment of young and innocent victims, also prisoners in the house, which is presided over by a ferocious-looking Mexican. News of the disappearance of many girls having reached the ears of the mayor, he urges the Police Dept. to get busy and clean up the city. Forthwith, inspector McGuiness calls together his emergency squad (Jewish), while inspector Levy gathers his heroes (Irishmen). Meanwhile, the head of the White Slave Traffic, I. Beatsall, sits in his office, counting up the gains of his "profession," which are so great that they reach him in apparently unlimited amounts, and are secured by large safes. This man is subsequently run to earth, and hauled off to the police station to meet the punishment he deserves. The squads, having gone on the warpath, some of the guardians of law and order indulge, in the meantime, in a little cabareting on their own account. Being caught in the act, they are arrested and taken to the police station, presided over by the Cheese of Police. Here no reports from the squads having been received. Levy and McGuiness, disguise themselves as widows, for the purpose of obtaining evidence. By their disguises, they succeed in obtaining admission to the House of Mystery. Revealing themselves to the inmates they allay their fears. The house is raided and the inmates taken away in a patrol. Sue and Belinda are restored to their father, and they and McGuiness are duly rewarded for their labors by the present of a ham for one and a turkey for the other.