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- The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
- Mr. Norton discovers his wife in the arms of his neighbor, Captain Roberts, a married man. His first maddened impulse is to kill his faithless wife, but on his way for the gun his little child runs to his arms to say good-night. The incident unnerves him and his wild determination is destroyed. He decides upon another course. He goes to Mrs. Roberts and tells her that he intends to ruin the Captain's home as her husband had ruined his, and that unless she consents to elope with him at ten o'clock that night he will shoot her husband on sight. Mrs. Roberts, in grief and despair, premises to elope in order to save her husband's life. That evening, when the Captain returns, she accuses him of his sin, and he makes an earnest and effective plea for forgiveness. Meantime the grim hour for her decision is past, and with the strength of woman's devotion, she determines to sacrifice her life for her husband, rather than stain his name. Donning his military cap and cape, she walks out on the veranda, just as Mr. Norton has accepted her absence to signify her refusal to elope. True to his threat, when he sees the figure on the veranda, he mistakes it for the Captain, and shoots. The Captain realizes the bitter fruits of his sin, but the wound is not fatal, and the courageous wife's nobility and bravery inspire an admiration in her husband's heart that completely resurrects the old love. Mercy is mightiest in the mightiest.
- A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again and tells her they cannot marry until he has enough money to pay off his debt. While the farmer and his wife are asleep, the maid foolishly steals their money. The peddler takes the money and leaves on a train to get out of town. Overcome with guilt, the young maid runs away from the farm. Meanwhile the peddler gets into a fight and is thrown off the train. The maid stumbles upon him by the railroad tracks. She finds the money on the peddler and returns it to the farm couple before they even knew it was missing.
- Preaching religion to young Burton Harris has about the same effect on him as waving a red cloth in front of a bull. Religion to him is a species of hypocrisy and he knows no God. No church for him; he is going fishing. Coming home, he meets his mother walking with a neighbor and the minister, just as they are leaving church. The minister, seeing the fishing tackle in his hand, administers a sharp reproof to Burton, who, in a sudden storm of anger decides to leave for the big city, where he can do as he pleases. Several years speed by, and Burton, now a man about town, is leaving a gambling house where he has just made a "killing," when he drops his watch, the back cover of which flies open, disclosing his mother's face. The picture brings to his memory a letter he received that morning in which his mother requested him to come home before she dies. So Burton decides to return home. But he comes too late, and all the money he has won over the gambling table cannot bring her back to life. Overcome with remorse, he decides to earn an honest living and secures a position at a stone quarry nearby. Promotion comes rapidly, and with it as time passes, a wife and daughter. While at the quarries one day, an explosion which buries several of his men comes simultaneously with a message from his wife telling him their daughter is dying. Tom 'twixt love and duty he knows not what to do. Falling upon his knees he cries to Heaven, "God, save my child, give me strength," and rushes to help his men. When Burton finally arrives home, he finds that his prayer has been answered and that his daughter has returned from the edge of the Valley of the Shadow.
- Professor Oldboy invents an electric device which restores youth. He tries it on his dog and sees the animal become a puppy. The professor objects to Dean, his daughter Anna's sweetheart, and orders him from the house. Oldboy later decides to try his invention upon himself. He orders Anna to turn the current off when he reaches the age of twenty-five. But Anna sees Dean and before she remembers her father's instructions, he has become a three-year-old infant. Struck by an idea. Dean asks the baby for permission to marry Anna. This secured, the machine is turned backward and Oldboy restored to his normal self.
- Prof. Howe knows more about antiques than he does about love affairs and consequently he declares that Dick, his daughter's sweetheart, is a nuisance. Howe purchases an ancient Egyptian mummy and Dick observes the delivery of the huge case. A daring scheme occurs to him. With Arvilla's assistance he takes the place of the mummy and when Howe opens the case he hears a sepulchral voice exclaim: "Let your daughter marry whom she chooses. Rameses demands it." Arvilla says she chooses Dick, and Howe, grasping his daughter by the hand, hastens to Dick's house to satisfy the mummy. Dick has the time of his life in making a wild dash to his home before the arrival of the professor. Then he is induced (?) to listen.
- Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, musicians, etc. Surrounded by these men and women of art and letters, she was at first entertained, but they soon palled and bored. On this evening in particular, she is especially possessed of ennui, until the appearance of Raymond Hartley, a wealthy young bachelor, who is introduced into the circle by a newspaper man. An attachment immediately springs up between the widow and Raymond, and it must he said that the latter is more sincere than the former, for Raymond calls upon her and proposes marriage, which she is only too willing to accept. His friends, however, upon finding out the seriousness of the situation, go and warn him against her, accusing her of being a flirt. He, of course, will not believe until he himself later finds their accusation true. His friend and chum suggests a stay in the country to cure him of this ominous infatuation. Selecting a quiet out of the way place they go, enjoining the valet to keep secret their whereabouts. Almost upon their arrival, he meets Grace, the daughter of the farmer. Her simple, artless manners, with her rustic beauty, fairly captivate him and make him forget the widow entirely. He now experiences a higher and holier love, so he sends word to his valet to send on his trunks as he intends protracting his stay indefinitely, and later proposes to Grace and gains consent. The widow, meanwhile, has waxed uneasy, as she is most anxious to make this rich match, realizing what Raymond's wealth would do for her. At his residence she gets little information from the valet, but espying the trunk tagged, she slyly notes the address. Off she goes in her auto, and funds Raymond on the roadside in a state of elation over his prospects. Feigning illness, she elicits his sympathy, and soon the old infatuation possesses him. Back to the city he goes with the widow, after dispatching a note to Grace of his departure. What a shock this is to the poor girl, and her little sister, while she doesn't quite understand why, feels that the return of Raymond is urgent. The trunks have arrived and the little one finds the return stub still intact. Getting her toy bank, she extracts her savings and finds she has sufficient to pay the fare to the city. Surreptitiously she starts, and when in the city a policeman directs her to Raymond, whose valet states he is at the widow's. Here the child enters into the midst of a Bohemian gathering. The look into the child's sweet face, so much in contrast to the features around him, and but the sound of one word of her pleading, is enough to decide him, so picking up the child in his arms he dashes from the place, hurling aside the widow, who would detain him. Back to the farmhouse he rushes and throws himself appealingly at the feet of the poor heart-crushed Grace.
- Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?
- A Confederate soldier shames his mother and sister by going AWOL during battle. His sister takes his place, with tragic results, leaving him to live out his life in shame, hiding to protect his family name.
- Hard pressed by the Federal troops, Morgan and his men flee across the bridge. Just before the pursuers come in sight one of Morgan's telegraphers taps the telegraph wires suspended underneath the bridge and learns that a quantity of supplies is being sent to Captain Wellington, of the Union forces. The Confederate leader places powder along the length of the bridge. The Federals come into view. Just as they are about to cross, the structure is blown skyward. Baffled, the Union soldiers are compelled to withdraw. Wellington receives the supplies and orders them stored in the cellar of his home. He and his wife are in the drawing room admiring a daguerreotype showing them seated with their four-year-old son, Jack, when a servant announces the approach of the raiders. The Captain hastily gathers together his silverware, which he places in a chest. Obeying an impulse, he throws the daguerreotype into the chest. Turning to two faithful old negro servants, he orders them to conduct Mrs. Wellington, Jack and the chest to safety. Shortly afterward the Captain is slain. A bullet strikes his wife and she shares his fate. Lugging the chest, the two servants hurry down to the river, with Jack tagging behind. The three tumble into a rowboat and head for midstream. Their flight is discovered by the raiders. A bullet kills the old mammy. To lighten the craft, the other servant throws the chest overboard. The next moment he is struck by a bullet and topples into the water. The rowboat drifts downstream, finally grounding near the landing of Stokes, a fisherman. Ward, a banker, is talking to Stokes at the time. They discover the boat and in it Jack, weeping bitterly over the body of his old mammy, Kate, the three-year-old daughter of the banker, places her little arms about the sobbing boy. Years pass. Jack, grown to manhood, becomes a civil engineer and is in charge of the dredging operations on the very river down which he drifted to safety. Although adopted by Stokes and his wife, Jack and Kate have practically grown up together. Their childhood affection has turned into love. Harry Memling, in Ward's employ, is also in love with Kate, but the girl turns a deaf ear to his avowals. Later, Jack asks Ward for his daughter's hand, but the banker gravely tells him that the marriage cannot take place because he fears that the mulatto woman found dead in the rowboat may have been Jack's mother. The following day the dredge brings up an old chest from the river bottom. An examination of its contents brings to light the old daguerreotype. In the picture of the child Jack recognizes himself. Hastening to Ward, he tells of his find. Faced by the prospect of losing Kate, Memling is filled with murderous rage. That same afternoon he knocks Jack unconscious while aboard the dredge and places him in the bucket, which he then lowers into the river. The dastardly act is witnessed, however, and Jack is rescued. Kate and her father learn of the terrible deed and hasten to the vessel. While Jack is revived by his sweetheart, Memling is led away under arrest.
- Dave is sweet on May and she likes him, so while he is sitting with her on the front steps, he all togged out in his glad clothes, his boy pals play a trick on him by sending him a note about a certain Clarice. Of course, Clarice is a myth, but may is too jealous to believe his denial, so sends poor Dave away. The boys, however, are sorry when they see their grief-stricken pal so down in the mouth, and hasten to right the wrong their joke had occasioned. Dave now realizes that the course of true love ne'er did run smooth.
- Don Remero, blind cattle king of Mexico, leaves his home, and dresses in the garb of a peon, determining to seek a mate who does not know of his great wealth. He steals a ride on a train which carries him across the Mexican border into the United States. There he is discovered at a station and upon being taken from the train is arrested. Miss Barnes, who is out riding with her father and mother, see this and gets her father to intercede with the railroad detective, they taking the blind man home. This is done by Mary without any other thought than helping a blind man. Afterwards Mr. Barnes becomes incensed to think that he allowed a tramp to be brought into his home and he puts the blind man out. Mary's heart has gone out to the afflicted one and she seeks a lawyer friend and asks him to help her find her protégé. The blind man wandering into the hills finally falls exhausted. Mary, who is riding a spirited animal, unknowingly follows almost in the blind man's footsteps. Her horse becomes unmanageable and runs away, running into a lake. The blind man hears her cries and goes to her assistance, saving her from being drowned. They return home to find the father and lawyer worried over her absence. The lawyer recognizes the cattle king, but Don Remero stops him from disclosing his identity. Later Don Remero returns to the home of Mary and meets her. She determines to run away with him; they are married and he takes her back to Mexico with him. Arriving upon his own immense lands he tells her they are all hers. Later they come to his magnificent home where he introduces her to his mother and his retainers.
- 'Twas Sunday in the park. "I bet she's worth a million," he murmured to silent exultation, as he slipped on the ring. 'Twas Monday morning. She was a "stingy-grafter" and he a lawyer with a bad case of pawn or starve. Who would a thought it? But it takes a lawyer to start things. He did with the office across the way, where his "stingy-grafter" grafted. He reached rock bottom.
- "Little Wild Cat" was a spirited Indian maiden of the Coahuila tribe, and many braves were in love with her, but she accepted only Fleet Foot, the adopted son of the chief. One day two braves proposed marriage to her and she refused them. He happened that a few hours later they were taken ill and they blamed it to an evil spirit within "Little Wild Cat." The same day, when passing the hut of an old Indian, she saw a bowl of milk, and being thirsty, she lifted it and took a drink, but found that the milk was sour. The old man came from the house in time to see her: he, too, tasted the milk and, finding it sour, vowed she was a witch. In despair she appealed to the chief, and as he was about to pronounce her "Good Squaw," a pall hanging from the roof of his hut fell with a crash. His heart was filled with superstitious fear and he ordered her to leave the village on penalty of death. Fleet Foot decided to join in her flight and sent her forth in the great desert, promising to meet her with food and water. In the darkness she lost her way and they both wandered across the sandy stretch, each in search of the other. The tribe determined to kill the evil one and gave chase. When Fleet Foot discovered "Little Wild Cat." she was almost overcome. Three of the pursuers overtook them and in a fierce encounter Fleet Foot killed two braves; the other took flight. They struggled on and at last reached the Indian agency, where kindly hands administered to them. When "Little Wild Cat" was sufficiently recovered, she and Fleet Foot were married by the minister.
- Dugan, looking for trouble, smashes Pasquale's violin. The violinist follows the loafer, but is pacified by a passing priest. Grant's salary is insufficient for his family's needs. His respect for an increase is denied. That day a large sum of money is placed in his care, consigned to a distant bank. Dugan learns of this money and decides to steal it. Unable to board the train in the yard, he drops to the roof of the express car as it passes under a bridge. Grant is knocked unconscious by Dugan. The thief empties the money bag and jumps off the speeding train into a river. Later, the express messenger is accused by his employer of having stolen the money and is arrested. By chance, Dugan passes Pasquale's house. The Italian follows him and learns that the man intends to leave the city. Dugan discovers the Italian looking through his valise and assaults him. A lamp, upset by accident, sets fire to the house. Dugan escapes. The Italian revives and chops his way out. Knowing his man will leave by train, he hastens to the station. The thief foils Pasquale's attempts to stop him. The Italian thereupon holds up a locomotive crew, and with a pistol compels them to follow the train ahead. The chase ends in Dugan's capture, and the man is brought back to the city. Grant is being subjected to the third degree at police headquarters when he sees Dugan brought in. He recognizes the thief. A search reveals the stolen money in Dugan's valise. Cornered, the thief confesses his guilt and Grant is freed.
- Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George, a slave, takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
- Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were seeking. The girl's determination to recover the money at all costs resulted in a daring rescue on the part of the young foreman, who registered another triumph at the final round-up.
- A daughter makes her father think The Black Hand is threatening him, and tricks him into allowing her to marry her sweetheart.
- James Peyton, a young Internal Revenue Officer of unusual resources, is sent to investigate the operations of a band of daring liquor smugglers and bring about their apprehension. In order that he may not arouse suspicion. Peyton secures employment at a village store, and while engaged in his duties as clerk he gains the friendship of Marcella. the storekeeper's daughter. But in forming the acquaintance, Peyton makes an enemy in Poole, a rough character, who has been endeavoring to win Marcella's hand. Poole is the leader of the smugglers and his association soon becomes known to the vigilant officer. One day, while delivering a basket of groceries, Peyton encounters the smugglers and is made prisoner. He is bound and led to an attic room. Struggling desperately with his bonds, Peyton manages to secure a small mirror from his pocket and flashes a heliograph message to the revenue cutter down the bay. Meanwhile, Marcella, who has been expecting Peyton to call, becomes alarmed at his absence, knowing that he has recently had an altercation with Poole. She warns her cousin, Ben, and by making inquiry, they learn where the officer was seen last. Peyton is discovered in the attic window by Ben, who climbs the porch and assists the officer to escape. Hearing the disturbance the smugglers take to flight and when the cutter comes steaming up the river in response to Peyton's message, the officer, together with Marcella and Ben, is taken aboard. There is an exciting pursuit in which the smugglers in a tugboat cast out a net and entangle the propeller of the cutter, but the lawbreakers are finally captured and Peyton receives two rewards.
- Edward Rollins, the foreman at the sawmill, is called to the bedside of his old friend, Millwarde. Millwarde, dying, entrusts his daughter, Ruth, to the care of Rollins. The father passes away and the daughter leaves to make her home with the foreman. Rollins is a bachelor and finds that he is falling in love with his ward. He steadfastly keeps his secret and the girl soon learns that she is drawn to the foreman by a stronger tie than friendship. One day Rollins' nephew, Harold, comes to the little village for a visit. He and Ruth become warm friends and with no thought of sentiment the young man paints a glowing picture of city life. The girl becomes preoccupied and Rollins concludes that she is in love with Harold. Jenks, the roustabout at the mill, passes the Rollins cabin and sees the foreman counting the money for the payroll. He determines to secure it. Next morning Harold starts for the city and Rollins leaves for the mill. Jenks appears at the cottage and informs Ruth that her guardian has been seriously injured. The girl hastens toward the mill but becomes suspicious and looking back sees Jenks crawling from the window. Ruth secures a revolver and follows in pursuit. When Rollins returns and discovers that both ward and money are missing, he concludes that Harold has induced the girl to accompany him to the city. He rushes to the little railroad station and as the train is late, Harold is waiting on the platform. Rollins makes his accusation. Drawing out his wallet, Harold displays a picture and says, "This is my fiancée." The next moment Ruth appears on the scene, leading Jenks at the point of her revolver and the foreman realizes the error he has made.
- With her uncle she visits the seashore and goes bathing with a party of her brother's friends. Uncle also takes a dip and is annoyed at the perilous performance of the girl. He orders her from the water and locks her in her room, but brother releases her. He finally concludes that home is the best place for her, for there she will run no chance of drowning.
- An Interesting visit is paid to the many famous landmarks of American history in Manhattan and vicinity. We see the spot where Hudson landed In 1609; the Bergen Homestead, built in 1655; St. Paul's Chapel, built in 1664, and attended by Washington; Bowling Green, the scene of the stamp riots in 1765; Washington's Headquarters at the Jumel Mansion; Blockhouse No. 1; Hamilton Grange; Fort Clinton Cannon and the Mount Morris Fire Tower, together with many other interesting and instructive scenes.
- Hogan's was the popular boarding-house. There was a reason, "skirts." So poor old Riley, of the rival house next door, was put back with the street gang by his relentless wife. Two fair, stranded vaudevillians were Riley's inspiration. Decked in their finest, they sat in front of the Riley boarding house. "One month in advance, boys," said Riley, and it was old Hogan next door who took to the shovel.
- That goes without saying, but in this case the man was doubly best. He was the belated bridegroom's rival in love, waiting on the right hand of the lady at the wedding-to-be. No wonder she transferred her life's fortune then and there. The evidence against the delinquent groom was too terrible and incriminating to behold. One could not blame her. She preferred marriage unabridged. So the best man won.
- A party of friends goes to the seashore to enjoy a day's outing. To get rid of the womenfolks, the menfolks induce them to take a plunge in the ocean before luncheon, so that the men can enjoy a quiet little game of cards. But the game does not prove to be very quiet; it terminates in a duel, which the women strategically avert in the nick of time.
- In this film the Biograph comedy players have given their version of the old tale of Cinderella. It must be said it does not strictly follow the old tale, and whether you like the change or not depends on your sense of humor, but it should make you laugh if there is any laugh in you.
- Walter Avery is blessed with a most dutiful and loving wife whose every endeavor and thought is to make him happy, but being a man of the world he finds domestic life dull and his wife's attentions boring, and he eagerly accepts invitations to the different social functions. Accompanied by his wife, he attends a social gathering and meets a young dancing girl, society's favorite entertainer. He is immediately obsessed and infatuated, and his feelings are clearly reciprocated. Mrs. Avery's suspicions are aroused and she accuses him of undue attentions toward the dancer. He, of course, denies her accusations and cajoles her into believing that his thoughts are always only for her. But the time comes when she sees positive proof of his perfidy in a letter to him from the dancer, inviting him to attend a dinner at her home given in his honor, hoping he will not fail to grace the occasion. When he is about to leave for the dancer's home, Mrs. Avery picks up a bottle of poison, threatening to take her life if he goes. Regarding this threat merely a jealous woman's trick to keep him home, he derides it and pours the bottle's contents into a goblet, remarks that taking it that way would be more convenient, and off he goes. When he is gone, the situation's true aspect dawns on her. She realizes for the first time what a despicable wretch he is--not worth the effort to save him--so she dashes the glass with its contents to the floor. However, the strain of the ordeal proves too much for her and she falls to the floor in a swoon. Meanwhile, Avery reaches the dancer's home and his entrance is toasted. By strange coincidence, the glass handed to him is identical to the one he handed his wife and at once becomes conscience-stricken that his wife might have carried out her threat. Rushing back to his home he finds his wife in a swoon and thinks she is dead--and he caused it. Instantly he becomes a veritable maniac and dashes madly out of the house and back into the dancer's home like a fiend. The guests are thrown into a panic as he shrieks, "I killed my wife. I killed my wife!" and falls across the table dead, struck down by the relentless avenger of injured virtue.
- Because they never miss a meal or pay a cent, Bill and Jim consider themselves "star boarders," but the widow thinks otherwise and takes them to task. They see the cordial manner in which she receives Joe, her sweetheart, but when they attempt to win her heart they are spurned. A great scheme occurs to them. Bill tosses a bucket of water over Jim and drags him into the house, announcing that he tried to end his life because of the widow's cruelty. The widow's heart is touched and it looks as if the schemers will carry their point until the infuriated lover steps into the stream and shows that it is scarcely knee-deep.
- Herr Puppenmacher, the old toymaker of Nuremberg, has two ambitions, one being to make a life-size electric doll that will walk and talk, and the other is to marry his pretty daughter Gretel to a nobleman. Both these ambitions are fostered by the elderly Baron Crosswig, who desires a wonderful doll to present to the king's little daughter on her birthday. In consulting the old toymaker about the doll, the Baron has beheld the fair Gretel and has asked her hand in marriage of the toymaker. But this proposal carries with it the proviso that the toymaker must furnish his daughter with a large dowry. The meet the wishes of the Baron in this direction, the old toymaker must raise more money than he has of his own. At this junction it occurs to him that he has in hand in trust for his apprentice a large sum of money due to the apprentice, the son of an old friend. To complicate matters the apprentice, who is in ignorance of the money due him, when he comes of age, is in love with Gretel. The doll is completed, but alas it is beyond the toymaker to endow it with speech and motion. He succumbs to the temptation, however, o fusing Fritz, the apprentice's money as dowry for his daughter's marriage to the Baron. The Carnival is now going on and Fritz and Gretel desire to mask and participate in it. The toymaker forbids this and sends them to their rooms on the night of the Carnival procession. Fritz, however, steals out and hires a Mephistopheles costume and buys a stick of red-fire to carry in the procession. He returns for Gretel who has resolved to don the costume of the life-sized doll, which is boxed ready for the Baron. She has just made the change when her father comes in, angry at the noise and confusion of the Carnival. The old man is calmed at the sight of the life-like doll, which is really Gretel, who has stepped into the upright open box and hidden the disrobed doll figure away. In his rhapsodies over his masterpiece, the old toymaker declares aloud he would sell his soul to the devil if he could make it walk and talk. Fritz, who has peered in, dressed as Mephistopheles, overhears this and stamps his foot. With his hand behind him, Fritz lights the stick of red-fire by dropping it in the fireplace. The room lights up with a crimson glow and while the old man trembles, Fritz orders the doll to walk and talk and they depart together for the Carnival as doll and devil, telling the aghast old man that they will be back for him from the doorway. The old man falls in a chair, tormented by his fears, and, finally falls asleep. In the morning, the doll redressed and back in place and the young folks in their proper habiliments, the old man, conscience-stricken, refuses the Baron's suit and gives his consent to the marriage of Fritz and Gretel, giving his daughter a good dowry and Fritz his patrimony. The Baron is so pleased with the doll, even if it does not walk and talk, that, not getting the dowry he desires, relinquishes his suit and joins in drinking the health of the happy young couple.
- Hans keeps a saloon in a mining district. Things get too warm when the boys, refusing to pay for drinks, shoot up the place. To get even he schemes with a horse trader to buy up all the boys' horses. This done, he starts a gold stroke rumor, feeling sure the boys will bite and want their horses back to get to the place. To get their horses they have to pay about five time what they sold them for. By the time they find out how they have been stung, Hans and the horse trader are far away enjoying the fruits of their little joke.
- Patrick Masters, a poor fisherman, learns that his son, Sam, has run into debt. He writes to Mr. Burrows, a friend of his youth, who has since grown wealthy, asking him for advice. Mr. Burrows pays a visit to Masters and is followed to the fisherman's cottage by Tanala, a Greek, who is in love with Mrs. Burrows. Tanala fires through the window of the cottage mortally wounding Burrows. He is pursued by Patrick Masters, but manages to elude him. Meanwhile, Burrows succeeds in scrawling a few words in a book on the table before him, ere he falls back dead. The book containing the note is put away in a drawer with its precious message unseen, and Patrick Masters is tried and convicted for the murder of Burrows. A year passes by, and poor old Masters has died in prison. Tanala, the Greek, is now engaged to Mrs. Burrows. Her daughter, Fifi, is strongly opposed to the match, and does all in her power to prevent it. Sam Masters, the ne'er-do-well son of the dead fisherman, finds the book containing the message, "I have been shot by Tanala. John Burrows," and determines to blackmail the Greek. Young Masters visits Tanala's home, and his interview with Tanala is overheard by Fifi. Tanala gives Sam a small sum of money, and secretly tears the incriminating page out of the book. Then he returns the book to the fisherman, telling him that he may do what he will with it. Fifi Burrows steals the torn-out page and hides it in the base of a statuette. Later, Sam, discovering that Tanala has outwitted him, throws himself into the sea and is drowned. Sam's dead body is recovered from the sea and the book is also found. On examination, it is discovered that the message written in ink in the book has penetrated through to another page, and the evidence against Tanala remains unaltered. Mrs. Masters is summoned to attend Fifi, who is ill, and the girl produces the leaf she has hidden in the statuette, exposing Tanala's villainy in time to prevent his marriage to her mother.
- After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love.
- Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved the girl as well.
- When the Smith family missed the train, it was the wife's fault, that's what Smith said. But the next day at train time his wife hurried off, leaving him alone. Then there was no one to answer his questions, "Did you see my collar?" "Where's my hat and coat?" Thus it was that Smith learned who really was to blame.
- After reading her brother's dime novel, Betty starts a career of crime by raiding the jam closet. The imprint of her hands on the doors of the house and barn are subsequently mistaken for those of Gory Pete, a bad man who has broken out of jail. Gory Pete steals a pie from the cook, Norah, who summons Murphy, a police officer. He hears blood-curdling cries coming from the barn; in terror, he summons other officers. They break into the barn, where they find Betty brandishing a rusty horse-pistol at her doll. Meanwhile, in another part of the town, Gory Pete is captured by the smallest officer on the force.
- At the end of his resources in an unkind world, it was perhaps natural that he should believe society and even his wife were against him. The story relates how at the crucial moment, he gave up the struggle, but was saved by the presence of his wife, who came, a messenger of kindness.
- John Rogers, a young chemist, is sincerely loved by the eldest of two sisters, but in a state of infatuation prefers the younger girl, fascinated by what he would call vivacity, but which is nothing less than frivolousness. He marries her, and she soon tires of a life of domesticity. He tries to interest her in his chemical experiments but they simply bore her, although they are interesting to the sister, which interest is born of a pure love which she still holds. While he is working in his laboratory, the wife is either entertaining or being entertained by friends. She is in her element at a dinner party, when an explosion takes place in her husband's laboratory, apparently destroying his sight and hearing. It is a sad house she returns to after her evening's pleasure. There is her husband, deaf and sightless. You may imagine her lot is now more repugnant, as his helplessness annoys her, so she eagerly accepts diversion. This comes in the form of an offer from one of her friends, a theater manager, to shine on the comic opera stage. She accepts the offer and on the persuasion of this friend decides to leave her husband and get a divorce, leaving her wedding ring on the table for her sister or father-in-law to find. The sister sees her action, and tries to dissuade her, but in vain. The thought of this second and worse blow to the young man moves the sister to wear the ring, deceiving him until his affliction has passed, for the doctor is sure of restoring his sight and hearing. This deception is easy, as he can neither see nor hear and is ever under hands of the nurse. The operation promises to be successful, so the sister goes to the green room of the theater to bring the wife back. After a heated argument the wife consents to go and see him at least, arriving just as he is placed in a darkened room to have the bandage removed. When the bandage is taken off, the young man sees in the dim light of the room the figures about him. He turns from one to the other until he sees his wife and makes a move towards her, but she with guilty mien recoils and as she does, clutches the portieres nervously. Down they come, letting in a fatal flash of light from the outside, striking the poor fellow's eyes, causing now incurable blindness. Realizing what she has done, she rushes horror-stricken from the house. The young man's hearing unimpaired, he learns the truth and now feels in his heart what he failed to see with his eyes.
- An air of excitement pervades the little town of Squashville. The local baseball team is to cross bats with the determined organization from Stringtown and the game will decide the season's championship. Mamie Wallace, an ardent enthusiast, appears on the field with her father and greets her sweetheart, Montjoy Jones, who, resplendent in his uniform, assures his friends that Squashville will capture the pennant. It is a hotly contested game and as the final inning approaches Squashville has a lead of three runs. The local pitcher wavers momentarily and the visitors fill the bases. Now comes the crucial moment. A high fly is driven toward Montjoy, who makes a terrible muff and loses the game and the championship. Montjoy becomes a stranger in his own town. His friends desert him and no one has a kind word. The love of his sweetheart turns cold and her father forbids, the disgraced player from entering the house. The outcast seeks the solace of sleep and has a wonderful dream. He plays the game again. This time he catches the fly and retires the side. He is acclaimed the hero of the hour. It happens that a scout for the New York Giants witnesses the game and wires to Manager John McGraw, who has his team in training at Marlin, Texas. Acting upon the scout's advice, McGraw sends a contract to Jones, who loses no time in preparing to join the team. Squashville gives its "first citizen" a rousing send-off. At Marlin Montjoy reports to McGraw and meets the famous veterans who have brought two championships to New York. McGraw and Mathewson, the peerless pitcher, take the recruit in hand. He has a severe lesson in sliding and McGraw shows him how to bat. Mathewson's fast curves put the young fellow on his mettle. After the training season the team goes to New York for the first game of the season. Montjoy has shown such skill with the bat that he is sent in a "pinch hitter" and knocks out a home run, which clinches the game for the Giants. Modestly he submits to an interview and news of his fame reaches the home town. Mamie and her father determine to see the famous star in action and make a trip to New York. It is a spirited game that the Wallaces witness. One sensational play follows another and finally the great Mathewson is called up to replace a weakening pitcher. A hit off the famous twirler causes alarm. Mathewson sees an opportunity to work an extraordinary play and confers with Montjoy, who has been sent to the shortstop position. The result is a lightning triple play. Again Montjoy is the hero. As he passes one of the boxes he sees Mamie applauding him. What a pleasure it is to pass by and ignore her. And then he wakes up. The stern reality of his position strikes home as he sees a note thrust under the door. The note is from Mamie, stating that after much persuasion she has prevailed upon her father to permit Montjoy to call, but father has declared that if baseball is mentioned, the player will have to "beat it," Monty throws bat and glove into the street and hastens to his sweetheart's home.
- The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose it would attain. The girl ran away with an actor and the fearful prayer, "If I ever speak to that man again, may God strike my mother blind," was fulfilled, but in the end the woman was saved from herself.
- The lazy and good-for-nothing father of Jessie Malone, depends solely for his subsistence upon the scanty earnings of his daughter as a salesgirl in a department store. She lives in constant dread of him, and her only ray of sunshine is the companionship of Bunk Woods, a gangster, but a fellow with a sympathetic nature. Many a time he has rescued her from the tyrannical outbursts of her father, Handsome Harry, who has been exposed for double dealing by Bunk. He decides to revenge himself and one evening as Jessie is coming home, he accosts her. Bunk happens to witness the assault and goes to the aid of .Jessie. An unfortunate incident causes Harry's death and Bunk is accused, arrested and sentenced to prison. During his incarceration, Con Kelly, one of his pals, has been the sole support of his aged mother, and when his sentence is commuted for good behavior, he returns home to his happy mother and faithful Jessie. Some days later Jessie and one of her girl friends visit an amusement park, where they spend their week's wages. Jessie is afraid to go home and tell her father what she has done with the money, so, acting upon the suggestion of her friend, she throws away her purse and informs a policeman that she lost her purse, containing her week's wage. Bunk finds it and the officer brings him to Malone's home, where Jessie recognizes her property. It is empty, and Jessie, afraid to tell the truth on account of her father's temper, has Bunk arrested, much against her will. Learning of the trouble. Con Kelly, perceiving that Malone is the cause of all the outrages, goes to his home intent upon revenge. He discovers an infernal time clock that the old man was perfecting, and locking the door, so that Jessie and her father cannot escape, he sets the clock and runs away. He encounters Bunk, who managed to escape from his captor, and who, upon hearing of his pal's act, reprimands him severely and goes to the tenement, where he succeeds in throwing the bomb out of the window just in time to prevent a terrible explosion inside the house. This causes the unraveling of the difficulties and as Jessie's father is led away to prison, she places herself in Bunk's care, he having secured a good position.
- The night May's mother is indisposed tramps break into the store. May settles them with dynamite, no explosion, but quite as effective.
- The story from which this picture is taken is in verse. The old blacksmith has been induced to tell his history by a chance remark of a portrait painter who has just sold him what appears in the picture to be an enlargement of his wife's photograph. The story thus drawn from the blacksmith is to the effect that while a young man he married the supposed widow of a soldier, believed to have been killed in battle. With his wife he went to Kansas and established himself in a new home, living very happily. One day a stranger happened along and stopped to have his horse shod. Again a chance remark brought forth the story of the traveler, revealing to the blacksmith that he was the husband who was supposed to have been killed in battle years ago. It is a stunning blow to the blacksmith, but he saw that there is only one way out of the dilemma; so, taking the man into the house he presented him to the wife. There is an immediate recognition and an agonizing parting as the woman proclaims that the man was her husband and she must go with him. The heart-broken blacksmith permits her to depart, taking with her the child, for he realizes, also, that the little one belongs with its mother. So it is that he is alone in his blacksmith shop with the picture of the woman he believed to be his wife.
- It was a hard struggle Mina, the little lace-maker, had with the world, supplying the needs of herself and her crippled little sister. An expensive brace was necessary. There was only one way left. Mina decided to sell her hair. So her romantic young landlord bought it. Of course, being human, we know the end, but Mina didn't.
- After all, the young chemist proves himself quite human. He would have ended his life because he had not the money to spend on his desired research for a cancer cure, had not his uncle prevented. The old man became a thief "for science, not personal gain." The young man, however, fell in love with the very girl who was sent to track him, and thus forgot his original intention.
- It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern swains, however, was more than manifest, when a drunken band of Unionists entered the house, among them her sweetheart. From him was protection needed most. His rival, a Confederate soldier, showed her that character is far above political principle, and true love came into its own.
- His declaration of independence failing, he decided to leave home forever. Little he knew that detectives Sharp and Quick were on his trail. One drink before train time settled it.
- At the head of Casco Bay, Peter Fife, keeper of the lighthouse nearby, lives alone with his beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter. The girl has been blind from birth, and the contact with jovial fishermaiden companions so saddens her that the old father has determined to try to have her sight restored. This he is unable to do for financial reasons, but Harry, a fisherman, the girl's lover, saves all of his scant salary for months until he accumulates enough to pay for an operation. Dick Drayton, a half-witted vagabond, sees Harry give the money to Marie's father, and he determines to steal it. That evening the lighthouse keeper catches Drayton in the act of taking the money, and he ejects him from the house, after administering a severe thrashing. The unsuccessful thief, convulsed with rage, determines, as a revenge, to put out the lamp in the lighthouse. On the night that he has selected for his act. Harry and a crew of sailors are returning in their fishing smack across the bay. Drayton is successful in his attempt to put out the light, and for the first time in the history of the lighthouse, the beacon fails to shine. From the window of his cottage Fife sees that the light is out. He hurries from the house in time to encounter Drayton, who is stealthily escaping past the cottage door. A fistic encounter with Drayton follows, and the old keeper is knocked unconscious by a blow with a large club, Marie hears the sounds of the fight and, groping her way into the darkness of the night, she stumbles across the form of her father's body. The old man tells Marie what has happened and then lapses back into unconsciousness. The bravery of the girl instantly asserts itself. She determines, in spite of her blindness, to re-light the beacon. The path to the lighthouse lies along the edge of a towering precipice. Carefully feeling her way, she starts her ascent to the light. Out in the bay Harry and his companions, helpless without the light, are being washed towards the rocks. Step by step Marie is covering the distance to the lighthouse, with certain death below yawning for her. Almost exhausted, she reaches the wall of the lighthouse. She climbs the narrow spiral stairway inside. Up to the top of the tower she ascends and soon her fingers are groping with the familiar apparatus of the light. She is successful in lighting the lamp, and the broad stream of light flashes across the bay just in time to save the boat in which Harry and his companions are returning, Marie falls to the floor, exhausted, and a few minutes later is found by Harry, who has landed successfully. Meanwhile neighbors have discovered the body of the lighthouse keeper, and he is revived. The brave girl's reward comes in the form of a successful operation for blindness and her engagement to Harry.
- 191114mNot Rated5.1 (654)ShortA Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust. Events continue to turn for the worse when invading Yankee soldiers arrive to loot and torch the widow's home. George saves the officer's daughter and battle sword by braving the flames.
- After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. His partner, however, won the girl's love, and threatened to expose the father if he attempted to break off the match. By a clever ruse the father set the gangsters against their leader. His plan did not prove altogether successful.
- A bronze gate guards the entrance to the grounds surrounding the home of the high-born child. The little beggar maid peering wistfully through the bars, sees him, a hopeless cripple, sitting in his chair. Thus their friendship commences. As time goes on, the high-born child gives the beggar maid many of his toys. But of all his gifts, she prizes most a little white flower. A servant notices the intimacy between the two. She drives the beggar maid away. Because he is deprived of her cheery friendship, the high-born child pines away. The beggar maid learns he is ill. She creeps under the bronze gate and goes toward the house. As she mounts the steps, the doctor comes from the house and tells her the little cripple has just died. The beggar maid is hungry, weary and ill. She wanders toward the riverside and lies down to rest by the side of the stream. Then comes a dream. The high-born child beckons to her; she follows. Late that night, a policeman making his rounds finds a little form, clasping a withered flower, lying by the riverside.