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- 191114mNot Rated5.1 (652)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.
- The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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 criminal is turned into a honest man through a surgical operation.
- A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
- 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.
- 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.
- The next time Jenks purchases a new hat he will have it screwed to his pate so that he and the lid will be absolutely inseparable, for his most recently procured Kelly cost him both money and trouble in abundance. On his way to his office one morning, he decides to get a new straw hat. With his bead topped with this new crown he looks quite debonair. Lunch-time arriving, he goes to appease the cravings of his pneumo-gastric nerve, and here his trouble begins when an exchange of hats is made, someone taking his new sky piece leaving in its stead a woolly creation of masculine millinery, with a surface like a bath mat. Towering with rage, he returns to his office, where he receives a telegram calling him out of town in a hurry on business. Dispatching word to his wife he hustles off. Meanwhile, the purloiner of his lid, while walking along the seashore loses it overboard, and it is carried out to sea to be driven back on the shore by the returning tide, where it is picked up by a neighbor of Jenks, who finding the name and address on the band, takes it to whom he now assumes to be Widow Jenks, a most natural conclusion. Instanter the mourning of the dear departed (?) is precipitated. Fancy his surprise and their amazement when he returns. It is with difficulty he persuades all hands that he is material and not ethereal. The undertaker, however, is insistent and Jenks pays for a funeral he hadn't the chance of enjoying.
- 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.
- 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.
- In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.
- 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.
- In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however, was against him. The detective's clever unwinding of threads saved both his own and his sweetheart's happiness.
- Two men love the same girl, but, of course, as is usual in a case of this sort, one was the victor. The successful suitor on the eve of his wedding, fixes up the gilded cage in which his bird is to reside. On the way to the wedding, he meets the rejected one and with extreme braggadocio determines to further humiliate him, but this decision works like a boomerang.
- Rooly, Pooly, and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the management. A brilliant idea; one would play the wild man in the village square, a real live show of their own. Rooly and Pooly then basked in the society of fair country belles, but Dooly at length was rescued by Miss Smart, looking for excitement. She was not disappointed.
- The fact that the building of the dam at Fenwood would be unconstitutional and would rob the citizens of the town of their homes, mattered nothing to George Marvin, of the Marvin Water Corporation. And he orders his attorney, Jason Williams, to draw up a bill for the legislature authorizing the construction of the project. But Williams, who loves Alice, Marvin's daughter, refuses to be a party to the scheme and informs his employer that he does not propose to aid him in breaking the laws of the State. Furious, Marvin discharges him, and when Alice declares her determination to help her sweetheart, she is ordered from the house. The bill is rushed through the legislature by Marvin's tools, and signed by a corrupt governor. The passage of this bill causes a tremendous sensation and the people of Fenwood appeal to Williams to act as their attorney and save their homes. Rushing to the capital. Williams secures an injunction from the Supreme Court halting Marvin's men just as they are in the act of evicting the Fenwood citizens from their homes. When the injunction is made permanent, the people are wild with joy, and in their gratitude announce their determination to make Williams their next member of Congress. Balked at every turn, Marvin finally acknowledges his defeat and becomes reconciled to Williams and Alice, giving them his blessing.
- Carrie's papa strenuously objects to Ben as a son-in-law, and so the young people decide to elope, Ben to give her the signal of two whistles when he arrives that night at the house. Just before his arrival, two bungling burglars attempt to burglarize the house, one remaining outside to watch. While on the watch, the would-be burglar whistles to his companion inside for a match to light his pipe. This indiscretion was their undoing, but it worked fortunately for the young lover, who got an opportunity to play hero.
- Steele and Blunt, wanted by the police for a big jewel robbery, are arrested in a city railroad station. Before his apprehension, Blunt has just time to check a small black grip, containing the jewels, and hides the check under the molding of the counter with a piece of chewing gum. The grip remains in the check room unclaimed and is ultimately auctioned off at a sale of uncalled-for baggage. It is bought by Harry Graham, who opens it in the seclusion of his room and is amazed at the contents. His gift of a necklace to his sweetheart, Helen Grey, leads to big arrest, as Helen's mother recognizes the jewels, which have been stolen from her. Feeling confident that Harry is guilty, the authorities release Steele and Blunt. The thieves recover the hidden check and trace the grip to the auction room, where the purchaser's name and address is given them. Helen secures the aid of detective Brinton to prove Harry's innocence. Brinton lays a trap for the thieves, into which they are carried. Their guilt is clearly established and Harry is exonerated.
- Harry returns from the club in a somewhat jagged condition and is surprised by finding a burglar in his room, who is quick-witted enough to take advantage of the situation, finally handing Harry over to the policeman as the burglar.
- The Robert Hudson Pruit Company receives word from the Mayport distributors that the former's recent shipments have not reached their destinations. The Mayport people are inclined to believe that a gang of river pirates is located along the route. In the employ of Judson is a rough individual by the name of Caesar who is really a secret agent of the pirates and who informs his chief of the dates of the shipments. Caesar becomes alarmed and returns to the gang, where his attentions to the chief's niece, Zelma, are repulsed. Robert Judson, Jr., decides to locate the gang and sets forth alone. He meets Zelma, who is greatly impressed by the stranger, but while Robert endeavors to secure the information which will enable him to bring about the capture of the pirates, he is made a prisoner. Zelma's attempts to liberate Robert are frustrated and Caesar, infuriated at the girl's intercession in behalf of the prisoner, is about to deal severely with the young man when a pirate signals from a tree top that a heavily loaded steamboat is coming down the river. Immediate preparations are made to seize the cargo and Robert is left in the cabin securely bound. Alarmed at his son's absence, Judson, Sr., has sent his shipment ahead under the guard of several armed men. The pirates meet with unexpected resistance and flee to the camp in panic. Caesar determines to make an end of his rival, but his desperate attempt is thwarted by Zelma and the outlaws are captured.
- 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.
- Tom Whitney, connected with the American embassy at Trendary, meets the Princess Alexa and promptly loses his heart. Sometime later the Princess goes shooting and accidentally wounds the young American who is passing through the woods. The injury is a slight one and the young people establish a bond of friendship which soon ripens into love. Tom is called back to America. He writes to Alexa, asking if she is willing to come to the United States and become his wife. The Princess decides to sign away her title and when she informs her father, the infuriated king locks her in her room, under guard. Alexa, however, escapes with the assistance of her maid and flees to America. At New York, Alexa is met by Tom, who drives her to a little church where a quiet ceremony is performed. The girl has had no time to secure suitable wardrobe and a visit is paid to the famous Lucile establishment, where many beautiful gowns are purchased. In Washington Tom lavishes presents upon Alexa and is soon in dire financial straits. He is approached by an international spy who induces him to copy certain secret plans. Tom is about to fall from grace when Alexa discovers the situation. By selling her jewels and paying Tom's creditors she thwarts the scheme of the spy and informs her husband, "I am no longer a Princess, just your plain American wife."
- Moving Picture World magazine (Oct - Dec 1913) described this film as "a farce of suffragettes and comic cops."
- Driven to desperation by his wife's nagging, Mr. Nag, who ordinarily is as meek as any lamb, rebels, and is ordered to leave the house. He does, and when offered the opportunity to follow the burglar's trade, jumps at it. Habit forces him to pick up a squalling baby in the first house he enters and this brings about the arrest of himself and confederate. The latter pry the bars of their cell apart, crawl out, and then do the same for Nag. He crawls out of the cell, stretches himself, and crawls back again. Curling himself on his cot he shakes his head gleefully, "No, Boys," says he, "Home was never like this. I stay here."
- Robert Neville, a naval office, returns form a two years' cruise to find that Agnes, his mother's ward, whom he loves has given her heart to Dudley, his younger brother. Dudley, his mother's favorite, scarcely more than a spoiled boy, has fallen under the influence of Cecelia Dean, a beautiful and notorious vampire. Not only is the boy on the verge of moral and financial ruin, but declares his intention of marrying Cecelia. He determines to save his brother. He vainly attempts to bribe Cecelia. In his desperation he is upon the point of striking her, but her physical courage causes him to hesitate. He forms a new plan, and plays upon her inordinate vanity by pretending to have been swerved from his course by her charms, and becomes, apparently a passionate lover. Cecelia really falls in love with Robert, and indifferently throws Dudley aside. Dudley takes comfort in the love of Agnes, but not unnaturally conceives a bitter hatred for Robert, and forces a quarrel upon him. The mother and Agnes blindly champion Dudley, and there is a complete break between Robert and the family. Robert continues to play the part of Cecelia's lover until Dudley and Agnes are married, when he tells Cecelia that he has cared for her no more than she has for the men she has duped and ruined. Robert goes away to patiently take up his duties, none thanking him for having taken up their burden.
- 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.
- 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.
- The stakes were to go to the one who outlived the other two. In a quarrel one ended the chance of another. In the mountain the two survivors of the bet came together again, one now an outlaw but through a woman's subterfuge the money fell to the less likely of them all, Reed, declared to be "on his last legs."
- The heartless woman with her partner answered the ranchero's call for a wife. Then the adventuress soon discovered she was not as heartless as she at first imagined. She learned to love and when the other man appeared to perpetrate the infamous design, true woman nature came into the struggle, saving both herself and the ranchero. That was his revenge,
- The story concerns Reverend John Barlow, minister in a small New England village, who acquires the reputation for timidity because he believes that a man of peace should not become aggressive at any time. This attitude is particularly distressing to Marian Wells, a girl of the congregation, with whom the minister is in love and who, in response to his proposal, replies that she can only marry a brave man. Barlow joins a regiment of volunteers in which Marian's father is a Captain and as Chaplain he inspires the soldiers to deeds of daring by his stirring sermons. In a terrific combat with the enemy the Captain is wounded and the hospital corps is put to flight by a shower of bullets. Unmindful of the shot and shell the Chaplain carries Wells to a place of refuge. Later Marian arrives on the scene to nurse her father and a large band of guerrillas attacks the camp when most of the troops have left to reconnoiter. The Chaplain directs the construction of a crude barricade and when he sees that the defenders cannot cope with the marauders, he plunges into the midst of the guerrillas and makes his way to the stable tent, where he secures a horse and dashes after the troops. After a desperate ride he overtakes the soldiers, who return to camp in time to prevent the annihilation of the small party which has valiantly resisted the assault of the besiegers.
- An eccentric Frenchman passing along the avenue, hears the sound of a beautiful voice and forthwith falls in love with the unseen singer, assuming that she must be as charming as her voice. He bestows upon her several presents before he has the courage to introduce himself. When he does present himself, he finds the beautiful voice pouring from the horn of a phonograph and the recipient of his offerings an antiquated piece of effusive femininity.
- 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.
- He was not afraid to kill the mouse; his heart was just too big. It looked bad for the wife who called on him with her lady friends to protect them from Red Ned, the desperado at large, whom it took three policemen to manage. The ladies decided hubby was a "scared cat," until he played Red Ned himself. He was having the time of his life, alternating between himself and Red Ned, with whom he seemed to mop the kitchen floor, when the real Red Ned appeared.
- 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.
- Realizing his neglect the husband sought to be more kind, externalized in a gift of a scarf. It found its way to the rival, thus widening the breach. Two fugitives crept forth into the forest wilderness with the dark, vengeful form of the husband behind. Then came the man chase, but fate intervened, placing the case beyond all law of man.
- A daughter makes her father think The Black Hand is threatening him, and tricks him into allowing her to marry her sweetheart.
- It is the evening of a reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Stamford in honor of their daughter's birthday. The house is beautifully decorated and one of the features is the antique room. In this room stands a figure in a suit of armor of value. During a skylarking between the butler and maid this figure is knocked over and broken. In terror the butler, fearful of the consequences, rushes out to get someone to stand in the suit instead. Happy Jack, the rover, passing by at the time, takes the job on the promise of a good feed. There have been a couple of sneak thieves operating in society circles, and they, learning of the affair, plan to attend. In evening suits, they present themselves and while the butler is engaged with one of them, the other pilfers two invitation cards, which gain them admittance. The daughter is presented by her father with a beautiful diamond and pearl necklace. During the evening the crooks nip it, and going to the antique room to examine their spoil, espy an open safe. This is easy, and they at once begin to help themselves. This is done under the eye of Jack, whom they think a stand of armor. When their work at the safe is about complete. Jack discloses himself, holds them up and hands them into custody. You may imagine his reward now amounts to something more than a feed.
- '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.
- Peace, after many years of warfare, is declared between Cheyenne and Ogallala. Capt. Blackburn, surgeon of the Army Post, loves Ellen, the Commandant's daughter. While treating the sick daughter of Crazy Horse, the Cheyenne chief, he incurs the enmity of the Medicine Man. Upon his return to the post, Blackburn is called to attend a settler. While on this mission, the daughter of Chief Crazy Horse dies. The Medicine Man seizes this opportunity to wipe out his score against Blackburn and urges the Cheyennes to wipe out the post. Hawk, a Cheyenne trader, who has been befriended by Ellen, hastens to warn the Post. But the soldiers, outnumbered and overwhelmed, are massacred after a terrific battle. Ellen, aided by Hawk, makes her escape. The battle over, Helen and her rescuer return to the post. Ellen is overcome, but tearing a piece off her apron, and writing a message on it, with a bullet telling Blackburn that she has been taken to the Cheyenne camp by Hawk, who will protect her. The note is fastened to a charred post by Hawk's tomahawk. Blackburn returns to the ruined post and finds Ellen's message. He despairs of rescuing his sweetheart until the sight of Hawk's tomahawk gives him a daring idea. Going to the Ogallala camp he slays a scout and lays the tomahawk near the body, where it is found shortly after. Believing the Cheyennes to have violated the peace pact, the Ogallalas vow vengeance and leave for battle. Blackburn, attempting to approach the Cheyenne camp, is captured by the Indians, who proceed to torture him at the stake. Just as the torture commences, the Ogallalas fall upon the camp and a furious battle ensues. While the combat rages, Ellen. Blackburn and Hawk make their escape.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Johnson, the owner of fertile Western acres, secures exclusive control of the water supply by constructing a large dam and refuses to allow his neighbors irrigation privileges. The owners of adjoining lands make vehement protest, but to no avail, and Johnson becomes known as "the Water Hog." Grace Lewis purchases the ranch next to Johnson's land, and arriving on the scene, she finds that the arid tract is practically valueless because of the Water Hog's high-handed control. She, too, makes a protest, but can accomplish nothing. The spirited girl determines to show Johnson that he has gone too far. Under the cover of darkness, she directs a party of men who destroy the dam. They hide on a hill nearby, and, heavily armed, prepare to thwart the efforts of Johnson's men to reconstruct the dam, which has caused all of the trouble. But Johnson is not to be dealt with so easily. He declares he will fight to a finish, and, securing arms for his men, he endeavors to drive Grace's party from the hill. When things are going against Grace, Ralph, Johnson's son, who has recently returned from college, climbs up the hill to overpower his father's enemy. To his amazement he finds a girl with whom he has already fallen in love, and he hears Grace's side of the story. As a result, he prepares a paper for his father to sign, which forces Johnson to discontinue his interference with the neighbors. Johnson is not inclined to give up the fight, but Ralph's statement that he will tell the whole ranch how one girl held off the Johnson party, enables the young man to carry his point.
- The publisher wrote Ferdinand to change his story and kill the old man on his arrival. Then father came to town. He read the note. In the kitchen Ferdinand was preparing a chicken dinner, where a live chicken refused to be cooked. Father believed the worst and summoned the police, which enabled the chief to test his new method of putting speed into cops.
- 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.
- A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that mad all he left of the furniture was kindling. When he learned his act had made him liable to the law he fled with his family, but came back after a lost baby, now in the hands of the enemy.