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- Lieutenant Yancey's southern sweetheart, Rose, is jealous of Elinor, a northern girl, who is visiting her aunt Mary de Lane. This jealousy is excited by an invitation which Yancey receives from Mary to call and meet her niece. Yancey visits the de Lane home, and while walking along the river with Elinor, he shows her where the Confederate Ironclad is being constructed. Elinor, having strong Union sympathies, reveals the location of the Ironclad to the commander of the Federal gunboats. An attack is made on the Ironclad and Yancey rides to give warning. The Confederates are temporarily helpless as their power is exhausted. Yancey, knowing that a supply of ammunition is loaded on a train in another location, prepares to bring the needed powder to his compatriots. As the train is about to leave, a Federal scouting party rides up and opens fire. Rose and Yancey jump on the engine and make a wild dash to escape with the powder. Elinor, from a distance, sees the fight and sets fire to the bridge over which the train must pass. While riding over the bridge the last car catches fire. Yancey, who has been wounded, is left in the engine cab while Rose crawls over the loaded train and succeeds in cutting off the end car just in time to escape the explosion. The powder is delivered to the Ironclad in the nick of time, and a fierce battle wages between the Confederate vessel and the Union gunboats.
- The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
- This production, which comprises two reels, was made in the old Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico, where the incidents of the story were supposed to have occurred. The costume plates, shields, weapons and accessories were kindly loaned by the Museum of Indian Antiques at Albuquerque, N.M. The opening scene occurs on a feast-day in early times before the coming of the Spanish to that country. During the spring dance of the green boughs, the sun priest tells the story of the turquoise stone that fell from the sky centuries before and was embedded in the earth, the recovery of which would mean light, and prosperity to the people of Isleta. The great brother, the exemplar of the tribe, is chosen as the one most worthy to be sent on the holy mission. The dangers and hardships which he endures during his long quest go to make a most beautiful portrayal of early Indian symbolism.
- The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
- Nora, a wild girl who lives with her alcoholic father, is forced to attend school. The untamed girl, who does not know how to socialize, is soon taunted by the other children. She warms towards the kind schoolteacher, as he befriends and encourages her, until she is told to wear the dunce cap at a spelling bee. She then angrily leaves the school and encounters a slick huckster. He convinces her they will run away and be married. Meanwhile, the schoolteacher, concerned over the waif's absence, goes looking for her. He encounters her at a crossroad, being spirited away by the cad. He calls the man's bluff by telling them he will get the minister to marry them at once. The huckster high-tails it out of town, leaving a rejected Nora. The caring schoolteacher, lovingly escorts her back to school.
- Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats, from whose clutches and abuse she is rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, for she regards him as something different from the white people she has seen. Jack's sweetheart and her father are parties of a wagon-train headed for this place, and as luck has been against him, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. He is amused at this and says "Will you?" "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies the little Indian. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people, who are embittered against all whites.
- Laddie, the little son of a widower, worships his father. The father is in love with a good and beautiful woman and asks her to be his wife. He tells Laddie that he is to have a new mother and is surprised when the boy is grief-stricken. After the marriage, the new mother tries to win Laddie's love, but her efforts are a failure. A baby sister comes to Laddie's home after a while and out of love and pride for it, Laddie unbends a little towards the mother who owns it. But the little sister dies, and the mother, ill and delirious, stretches out her arms and calls unceasingly for her baby. Laddie sees and hears her and his heart is so touched that he determines to get another one for her. He starts out to find one and in the park, seeing the mother of many children, is surprised when she refuses to spare one, even when he offers his watch in payment. But Laddie finds a baby in a carriage outside of a house and wheels it off. He takes it to his mother and when her empty arms are filled, she quiets down and peace comes to her. Laddie leads his father to the house where he got the baby and the distracted parents are assured that they will get their baby back. They see that their baby is safe and leave it where it is. Laddie's mother later gives up the baby and once more has empty arms, until Laddie creeps into them and is cuddled to her heart where he finds happiness.
- Nursery rhyme enacted by toys.
- Toy cats play a football match.
- As the husband leaves for the lumber regions, his wife gives him a memory message to be opened after his arrival. Attracted by a maid, cherished by the love of two old brothers, he forgets it until sometime later. The message serves its purpose, however, for through it, after a thrilling experience, the maid learns the true value of the man's love, while he in his turn, goes back to his waiting wife and finds there, along with his shame and regeneration, his heart's desire.
- Side-showman Jim Burke is attracted by the pretty face of Mary, a country girl who has come to the county fair, and he sends her a note proposing a meeting. The inexperienced country girl, flattered by the showman's attention, joins him and they arrange to elope. Burke's sweetheart Lazelle overhears the conversation and tells Mary's suitor John of the proposed elopement. John goes to warn Mary's parents but finds they have gone to the fair. Running down the road, John meets Mary's father and mother on the way back from the fair. He tells them of Mary's proposed elopement and states that a strange buggy has just driven down the road toward the depot. A wild ride toward the railroad station takes place and Mary's parents arrive just as the young girl is about to board the train. The error she is about to make is impressed upon Mary and she agrees to return home. Just as the train is pulling out, Burke arrives, sees that his plans have been frustrated, and boards the last car. Realizing her fortunate escape, Mary concludes that John is a safer companion than a traveling showman.
- Dr. Halliday, an eminent eye specialist, is well-to-do and he, his wife Rose, and their little daughter May should be happy, but the spark of love is wanting. The parents are indifferent to their daughter, who gets perfunctory kisses instead of the warm embraces of affection she craves. The doctor and his wife are also cold to each other and lack endearment. Finally, with no apparent reason, they separate. Halliday leaves the home and takes apartments; the wife and daughter stay in the house. A few months pass and each are contented until sickness enters the house: little May contracts measles. A doctor is called in and attends the child, giving the necessary instructions to the mother and nurse, one important point being that no light may be permitted to enter the room, or it will affect the eyes. One day a lady friend calls on Mrs. Halliday and induces her to go to a matinee. The mother gives the nurse due instructions for the care of the sick child. Being left alone and restless, little May gets out of bed, goes to the window and opens it wide. The light hurts her eyes and she closes it and gets back into the bed. The malady having passed, May is again playing upon the street when she suddenly becomes blind. Shrieking she gropes back to her mother. Rose can only think of one man to whom she can appeal for help: her husband. She phones for Halliday, who quickly responds. He places the child under treatment and binds the eyes. The day comes to remove the bandage. Halliday is there. The light is let into May's eyes and she is effectually cured.
- A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a visit. The Englishman turns out to be a stuffy and humorless, and is the butt of several pranks. The drama group dresses as Indians and threatens him, but he turns the tables, pulls out a gun and chases them away.
- A visitor to Mexico meets a lovely senorita living with an abusive uncle. After his gambling winnings attract the attention of robbers, she sees a way out of her lousy situation.
- Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
- Ellen pays a Sunday visit to her brother Tom, who is serving a term in prison for a crime committed by another. A few days later her employer, John Cally, asks her to marry him and she consents. After the marriage Ellen desires to tell her husband of her convict brother's unfortunate situation, but is afraid. Sometime later Tom escapes from prison and seeks refuge in Ellen's unoccupied summer home. He telephones Ellen, who hastens to his assistance and supplies him with money and some of her husband's clothes. Believing that he will be temporarily safe, she advises Tom to stay in the house until all danger has passed. The next morning a newspaper article giving an account of Tom's escape affects Ellen and when Cally asks what disturbs her, she feigns illness. Cally returns home unexpectedly and discovers Ellen at the telephone, talking to her brother. With suspicions fully aroused he demands to know the name of the party at the other end of the line but she refuses to enlighten him. Cally then locks Ellen in her room and obtains the number from the telephone operator downstairs. He calls Tom, decoying him to the house with a statement that Ellen has been taken ill and wishes to see him. Tom rushes to the house and Ellen's cry, "He is my brother," stays the hand of the husband, who is about to shoot the unfortunate man.
- Henry Fitch, a young American, arrives in Spanish California in the year 1820, but hardly arrived when it was his good fortune to rescue two young ladies from a band of ruffians. Refusing to pose as a hero he goes on his way and presents a letter of introduction to Joaquin Carrillo, and much to his surprise again meets the young ladies he had so recently protected. He is much impressed with the younger one, Donna Josefa, and as time goes on presses his suit, which is encouraged by the Spanish Don. That the young American is not to have a free field in his love adventure is soon demonstrated. Junipperro Serra, a Spaniard of means, is also enamored of the fair Josefa. Serra learning that Donna Josefa is about to marry the American, attempts to prevent the ceremony by underhand methods. His schemes are frustrated and the sweethearts elope and are married. A year later Fitch and Josefa return to Josefa's home, where upon Serra's instigation, Fitch is arrested and tried for violation of the laws of the church and territory, and condemned to imprisonment and banishment, unless he will produce penance and reparation that can be noticed through the whole of the Pueblo. Good father Vincente suggests to Josefa that Fitch secure a bell to place in the empty tower of the church as the original one had been stolen many years before. A month later Fitch stands before the three judges. A sudden commotion goes through the whole court; everyone is listening to an unexpected sound. The bell that was silent now rings again. Young Fitch, addressing the court, says: "This is my penance and reparation, which I offer to the church. Its voice can be heard and noticed throughout the Pueblo, and will, in time to come, proclaim the wisdom and clemency of this court.
- Elmore, a hunter, accidentally kills Red Fox, loved by the chief's daughter, Red Wing. The Indian girl enlists the aid of her father to avenge the death of Red Fox. A raid is made against the white settlement and Elmore is taken back to the Indian village, a prisoner. Elmore's wife, Ann, follows to the camp and begs Red Wing to intercede with the chief for her husband's life. Red Wing, turning to the white woman, says, "He has killed my lover. I will kill thine." Ann returns to the wreck of her home, where she meets Elmore's father and a number of settlers who have gathered. Horrified at Ann's story, the father and his companions become furious and decide to secure Elmore at once by force. They mount their horses and ride to the Indian camp, where a fierce fight takes place and Elmore, who has been tied to a stake by the Indians and is about to be tortured, is liberated. Red Wing, realizing that the Indians are no match for the hardy settlers and that she has been robbed of her revenge, escapes while the fight is in progress. She visits the spot where Elmore killed her lover, Red Fox, and takes her own life that she may join him in the happy hunting grounds.
- Through her ill temper the mother makes home life very unpleasant. She is always contrary and stubborn when her husband suggests anything that doesn't exactly coincide with her views. As you may imagine, these little tiffs are not very healthful for their children, a girl and a boy, the little girl especially being influenced by the condition. During a little outing with other children, the girl shows her ill temper and a quarrel ensues between her and another little girl, which results in the ostracism of the ill-tempered child from the festivities. A leaky motor boat has been drawn up to the dock by a couple of vacationists, and, in the course of their play, a party of the children go out in it. The quarrelsome child knows of the danger, but in spite won't warn them. Far out to sea the children go, and would have perished had not the girl's conscience awakened, causing her to spread the news of their danger. The children are rescued after a terrifying experience.
- A clumsy maid redeems herself by catching burglars.
- The Duke, in an effort to 'save' his daughter from marriage to a poor lad of noble birth, hatches a plot which nearly costs the life of that very daughter.
- "It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreciating this, pulls a victory that is amazing. The western camp folks had suffered the loss of a number of horses at the hands of a gang of horse thieves led by Black Pete, who up to date eluded the United States Marshal and his deputies. Their deeds becoming more brazen, a notice is posted offering a reward of $500 for the apprehension of Pete, and while this reward is rather tempting, former efforts have proven so fruitless that the boys of the camp are slow to more. The marshal has a pretty daughter, on whom every boy has set his heart. They vie good naturedly with each other in engaging her attentions, but she treats them all with the same consideration, liking them all, but no one in particular. It remains for one of them to do something extraordinary. Ah! An idea, "Say, boys, I like you all immensely, but I will give my hand for keeps to the captor of Pete." With a cheer the boys rush to get into saddle, all eager for the expedition. At this moment, all eager for the expedition. At this moment, a handsome young minister arrives at the Inn, and upon learning the cause of the excitement, wishes, after meeting the girl, that he was eligible for the contest. The more he thinks of the matter the more he longs to play the hero. The cowboys are already on their way and have taken all the available horses, and the only beast of burden at hand is a donkey. However, on this he starts, alone and unarmed. The girl, though feeling kindly towards him, considers his efforts a joke. Meanwhile, the cowboys have been surprised by the horse thieves, who disarm them, take their horses and order them back to camp. Well, never was there such a gang of shamefaced cowboys as this when they meet the minister on their return trip. They try to convince the young tenderfoot that his endeavor will prove futile, but he is determined to take the chance. He resolves that his movements must be subtle and cunning, and so he schemes. Talking out his prayer book, he saunters along the ridge above the thieves' lair, and seemingly tumbles over into their very arms. For a moment his chances of life are slim, but they accept his explanation that he was reading and not looking where he was going. His manner and speech throws them off their guard, and watching his chance, he grabs up two revolvers and orders "Hands up." Well, "it's in the surprise." There are four in the gang, so he makes one bind up the three while he keeps the guns leveled at them like a string of fish he brings Pete and his gang into camp, where he claims and gets the $500 reward together with the special inducement, the heart of the girl, which she most cheerfully gives.
- The romantic attachment which the humbly born William Shakespeare had for the beautiful and gentle Charlotte Clopton, of Clopton Hall, is authenticated by the letters of many people of the period, and as it is one of the most potent factors in the development of the genius of Shakespeare, it is very appropriate that the film should open with the first meeting of the future playwright and the beautiful young girl. This acquaintance always remained a romantic one, on the part of young Shakespeare, but Charlotte felt the attraction more seriously. Meanwhile, Sir Hugh Clopton, Charlotte's father, who is an ardent Catholic, shelters in his house a man named Carry, who is a traitor to the Queen; he does this at the command of Pope Gregory XIII, not knowing the character of the man he is harboring. Shakespeare, pursuing the apparently gay and thoughtless tenor of his career, but in reality training the great qualities of mind which were afterwards to make him famous, displeases a lawyer in whose employ he has been, and while he is trying to explain this to his mother, a tragic scene takes place, in the assassination of the traitor Parry. Too late. Sir Hugh Clopton learns of Parry's treachery, through Shakespeare's lawyer employer, who informs Sir Thomas Lucy of the plot, and also accuses Sir Hugh of being in it. Sir Hugh's celebration of his daughter's birthday is rudely interrupted by the arrival of soldiers, who are come to arrest him for complicity in the treasonous design. The Queen pardons Sir Hugh, but his lovely daughter falls ill of a mysterious malady, which is wrongly diagnosed as The Plague, but which is a fatal one, nevertheless despite the great danger of infection. Shakespeare bids her a passionate farewell before she dies. Some months later Shakespeare, now beginning to be the great man of his village, champions pretty, shy Anne Hathaway at the Twelfth Night Revels. Their acquaintance ripens, and their courtship is played out in the beautiful environs of Stratford and about the Anne Hathaway cottage. In sharp contrast to the idyllic Anne Hathaway of the courtship, the wedded wife of Shakespeare is undoubtedly the shrew, whose sharp tongue drives her husband to the distraction of the "Lucy Arms." This condition of things, added to the fact that Shakespeare has incurred the displeasure of Sir Thomas Lucy by his poaching exploits, drives the young man to leave home. He decides to try his fortunes in London, so takes leave of Anne and his child and starts away. In London, Shakespeare views the great crowds of richly dressed people with astonishment, but he soon wins friends. The theater, of course, draws him, and outside the historic old Globe Theater he looks upon the scene of his future triumphs. The genius of the young dramatist is soon discovered by the great Lord Southampton, who becomes his generous patron and introduces him to the court of Queen Elizabeth, where he meets Raleigh, Drake, the Earl of Essex, and all the famous political and social figures of the time. The command performance of "Romeo and Juliet" in the Blackfriars Theater which is attended by the Queen and all the Court, marks the beginning of that triumph which was, through the following year, to be the great crescendo of English literature. The final stages of the film show Shakespeare in the glow of middle age. He is dreaming of his past successes, scenes from his great plays visioning themselves before him. The film closes with the fading in and fading out of the bust of Shakespeare, which is in the Parish Church of Stratford-on-Avon.
- The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.
- When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated. The tribe has just departed for their village when a mountain outlaw appears and succeeds in stealing the blanket, having given the sentinel doctored whiskey. When the Indians discover this they exile the unfaithful sentinel until he can recover the blanket. About this time there comes to the mountains a little family, which is forced into the location on account of the ill health of the old father. They meet the outlaw, who is stricken ill, and dying, he presents the sacred blanket to the wife. Later on, the blanket is seen in her possession by the exiled Indian and he vows to recover it. In his attempt he yields his life, but the blanket is retained to the tribe through his sacrifice.
- Young author Roy Norris proposes to pretty little Mary Ford and is accepted. This is the golden dawn of their life, while the first year or more of their married life is the sweet noontime, made all the sweeter by the arrival of their firstborn. The little trio--father, mother, and baby--are bound together by the ties of that most holy love, until unreasonable jealousy possesses the young couple. While at work in his studio, the young author is visited by his wife just as he is complimenting his stenographer on her valuable aid, and from this the wife sees grounds tor suspicion. On the other hand, the young husband, seeing his wife talking to a stranger, is a bit suspicious, although the stranger is simply returning a bottle of smelling-salts his wife had borrowed, Later on, the young wife thinks she has further grounds for her suspicion and so when the author returns home he finds the house deserted and a letter addressed to him from his wife. It simply reads: "I have left here forever with the one I love." Both are innocent of any wrong, but a tragedy is narrowly averted.
- A poor young man is seriously ill, but his rich employer won't help him, instead spending a fortune on a pearl necklace for his wife. The poor man recovers with help from his kind neighbors while the rich man's wife becomes ill and dies, with the useless necklace by her side.
- Dr. Ralph Jones settled in Silver Basin, and built up a practice. Everything went well until his practice fell off badly. One day Royce, the sheriff, called Jones to attend his child. That same day to guard the payroll of gold for the Bonnie Claire Mining Co. Royce goes to attend to his duty and Jones returns to his office. He finds himself short of cash. Thinking of the large shipment of gold, he is seized with the desire to steal it, and yields to the temptation. He steals in through the bank window, and tries to open the door of the room where the gold is stored, only to find his hand seized from the other side. Not knowing who was in the other room, he endeavors to pull his hand out of the hole in the door, but in vain, as the sheriff has it tied to the door latch. While tying the hand the sheriff receives a phone call from his wife, telling him to hurry with the doctor as the baby is very ill again. With a supreme effort, Jones manages to release his hand, but not in time to escape a shot fired by the sheriff. Jones escapes and the sheriff endeavors to follow the robber, but finds that the outer crossbar has been securely fastened. He finally manages to release it, but too late to see or catch his man. A posse is organized and start on the hunt. Royce rushes to the doctor's house. Jones is tempted to run away, but decides to brave it out. Quickly covering his wounded hand with a glove, he opens the door. The sheriff rushes in and Jones is summoned to attend the child. The men go together and soon reached the house. The child passes the critical point. The physician has done his work and in an effort to thank him, the wife grasps the wounded hand. The sheriff hears the cry of pain and learns that a guilty man stands before him. The doctor admits his guilt, but the wife pleads with her husband not to arrest him. Considering that be saved the life of the child be permits the doctor to go.
- Caleb Harris has not been able to keep pace with the times and loses his business. His wife tries to help him, and writes to their son, John, of the old man's trouble. John and his wife. Ethel, are both willing and anxious to help, and offer the old folks a home, but Caleb's pride will not permit him to accept. John conceives a plan and arranges with a commission house to employ his father, assuming the salary himself. The old man, believing that they want his experience, accepts, and all goes well for six months, when Caleb's health begins to fail. John and Ethel again visit the old couple and insist on consulting a physician, who tells them that Caleb must stop work at once and have rest and quiet. John, at a loss what to do, happens to find the deed of fifty acres of Texas land which Caleb had bought many years before and which John knows to be worthless. He shows the deed to Ethel, who conceives the idea of making the old couple believe that it is valuable, and through the aid of John's lawyer, Caleb receives a letter making an offer of $1,000 a year as rental for the property. Believing themselves self-supporting, the old couple agree to go and live with John and Ethel. The last scene shows them seated by the fireside, where they see a vision of fertile farm land, which they believe is yielding them an income, and which is the result of a wise investment made years before.
- A butler dons his rival's police uniform and causes him trouble.
- Betty is the telegraph operator at the railway station in the small town of Oreland. She realizes that the new guest at the local boarding house is "Smoke Up Smith, a notorious car thief". Betty and the other guests devise a plan to capture Smith, but while Betty is telegraphing news of Smith's whereabouts to the proper authorities, Smith manages to slip out of his handcuffs and flee the town. Betty re-captures Smith following a locomotive chase, and turns him over to a detective who is also Betty's boyfriend.
- A widower and his son move next door to a widow and her daughter. A ghostly scare brings them together, the older and younger couples becoming engaged the same night--which means Harry and Ethel are engaged to their step-siblings.
- Sisters Edith and Daisy are in love with Dick, a young chap devoted to automobiling. He prefers Edith, and they become secretly engaged, as she doesn't want to tell her father yet. One morning Dick takes Daisy for a ride; there is an accident and Daisy is hurt but Dick is unhurt and carries her home. Her father sees him bringing her in and a servant goes for a doctor. Dick blames himself, but Edith consoles him. The doctor says Daisy will never walk again. The father turns to Dick and denounces him. Dick goes away while Edith consoles her father. Later, while Edith is amusing her lame sister, Daisy confesses her love for Dick. Edith is horrified at first, then realizes that she and Dick must sacrifice their love for Daisy because he was the cause of the accident. She tells Dick this and their happy love affair is turned into a tragedy. The lame girl is wheeled out and Dick asks her to marry him. She consents. When Daisy is once more in her room, Dick sees Edith coming from the house. She had waited to bid him a last goodbye. This time she breaks down. He tells her he loves her. The lame girl upstairs hears them, and she throws down a rose with a note pinned to it telling them that she wants only her sister's happiness. It falls at their feet. They rush in to her, but her mind is made up. They are free to marry. She gets her father to forget all his resentment against Dick and consent to the marriage. The lovers go out happy, while Daisy breaks down in her father's arms.
- In a little village there lived two families who were almost lifetime neighbors and friends. In the one family there was a boy, in the other, a girl. These two had been sweethearts from childhood and each found happiness in the other's company. All was sunshine for Dave, the boy, until the day of the church lawn party, when the nephew of the minister arrived from college. His easy manners and good clothes make an impression on the unsophisticated girl, and it is with slight persuasion she consents to elope with him that evening. The result is the inevitable, for the man proves to be a scapegrace. Meanwhile, the girl, through pride, pretends in her letters home to be doing well. Dave, however, has his misgivings and decides to pay them a visit. The result of this visit is a startling revelation. Later the girl is made to realize faithful Dave's true worth.
- The mother teaches the hymn to her sons, George and Tom, who are adopted by Judge Reynolds after the good woman's death. George proves a tractable and studious boy, but Tom is given to bad associates. One afternoon the judge finds him gambling with a number of boys of his own age, in a vacant lot. He takes the young boy home, talks to him and tries to influence him to keep away from evil companions. That night Tom runs away from home. Twenty-five years roll by. George has never heard from Tom and is now a criminal court judge. Tom, on the downward path, is arrested for forgery and is held for trial before his brother. George, not knowing the forger is his brother, sentences him to prison. Tom, after serving his time, swears vengeance against the judge. He learns of his home address and at night goes to the house with the intention of squaring his debt. Crawling through a window in search of his brother, he suddenly hears the tones of the hymn which he learned in his childhood. An inadvertent movement on the part of Tom draws the attention of George, who is seated at the piano. The judge takes a revolver from a nearby desk and starts after the intruder. Tom tells him who he is and the purpose of his visit. He explains that Providence has prevented him from becoming a murderer by permitting him to hear the hymn. The judge's three-year-old child, who has been a witness of the entire scene, leads the outcast to a chair. The judge places his hand on his shoulder and calls him brother.
- Wild roses are the joy of Ethel Borsdon's life. She had two suitors, Harry Myers and Charley Gunner. She is a capricious miss, teases them and laughs at both. One day, Ethel, in her daily search, discovers a bush bearing two roses on the top of a steep precipice that rises from the sea. On the same day Harry and Charley sit beside her, Ethel points out the cliff and declares that she will favor the one who secures for her one of the white roses at the top. The men take her seriously. Gunner reaches the top ahead of Harry. Just as his arm is stretched forth to grasp the rose, Harry's hand extends over the edge of the cliff, and a moment later he is facing his rival on the brink. They quarrel and a desperate struggle is precipitated. Myers loses his foot-hold and plunges over the cliff, his hand grasps one of the roses, and he takes it down with him. Gunner, panic stricken at the accident, yields to a cowardly instinct, leaves Harry to his fate and returns to Ethel. He presents the rose to her and claims her love. But there is something in his look that strikes Ethel strangely. She asks where Harry is. Gunner says he does not know. Then she catches sight of a splotch of blood staining the white petals of the flower. Her suspicions are aroused. Gunner averts his gaze. Ethel forces the truth from him, and rushes wildly toward the village to find men to go to the rescue. She reaches a number of fishermen at work, and they hasten to Harry's rescue. They find him stunned, bleeding, lying on a ledge half way up the face of the precipice. One of the sturdy fishermen ascends the cliff, ties a rope under Harry's shoulders and lowers him into the eager hands below. Left alone by Ethel, Gunner, in a frenzy of fear, determines to kill himself. He pulls a revolver from his pocket, places it to his temple. At that moment he sees the party returning and rushes to Harry's home, where he learns that he is not fatally hurt. Harry extends his hand in forgiveness. Later, when Harry is convalescent, he carries the white rose, now faded, to Ethel. He claims her as his wife and this time the little maid accepts him.
- Rivera, the messenger, performs a kind act for Meta's boy, and later on this act proves a good investment. Rivera, the messenger, sends word to Ermina, daughter of the Viceroy, of his return. Desiring more colonists for the little Pueblo at Los Angeles, the Viceroy sends Rivera to Sonora with orders to secure additional settlers. Blanko, a spy for the bandit Palomare, informs his chief of Rivera's expedition, and the amount of gold he carries. A few miles from Los Angeles the brigands trap Rivera and his followers. They are made prisoners and taken to the bandits' headquarters. As the prisoners are brought in Meta, the bandit's wife, recognizes Rivera, and remembering his kindness to her boy, determines to save him. She cautiously communicates with Rivera, who gives her his ring and tells her to take it to the Viceroy's daughter, Ermina. The latter quickly organizes a posse, and through the aid of Meta, secures the freedom of Rivera, who proceeds on his journey to Sonora. Two months later Capt. Rivera returns with the settlers and for a reward the Viceroy consents to his marriage with Ermina.
- A Lord's daughter elopes with a man who is arrested when he dons a dying highwayman's coat.
- Willie Doodresson marries the belle of his home town. They are both considered the fashion plates of the village, and hence the pair are well matched. But six months later, after the honeymoon is past, what a difference. No one would believe them to be the same persons, he slovenly in appearance, and she a positive slattern. Is it any wonder that they lose interest in each other? This little comedy is an object lesson, showing why many marriages are failures.
- Battery B makes its headquarters at the Colwell Mansion. During their stay of a month, Major Pitt and Bugler Harkness lose their hearts to the two Colwell girls. Major Pitt, summoned to the front, leaves Bugler Harkness alone in charge of headquarters. During the battle that follows, Battery B bears the brunt of the fight and does not surrender until almost the last man is killed. A cavalry charge carries the day for the Federal troops and the triumphant northerners, advancing upon the town, receive an unexpected check at the Colwell Mansion. A cannon that has been left at headquarters owing to an accident to one of its wheels, is operated by Bugler Harkness and the girls to such good effect that the Federals are compelled to retreat. A visit from Stonewall Jackson, who has been a distant witness of the brave boy's work, transforms the bugler to a lieutenant.
- An outlawed Earl forms a robber band and saves a girl from a knight.
- A pedlar saves a girl from a cliff mishap.
- Jim Houston, a young revenue officer, is sent into the hills to locate a band of moonshiners. He meets with little success as he can find no definite clue but he establishes a warm friendship with Dot Hillman, little knowing that her father and brother are the leaders of the "wildcatters." Houston has an hereditary fear of fire which he is unable to overcome. The woods adjoining the Hillman home take fire one afternoon and the entire family leaves to battle with the flames. Houston is stricken with terror when Dot begs him to join them. He declares that he will overcome his weakness and reluctantly follows. But the sight of the forest in flames completely unnerves the young man and he flees in fright, knocking Dot's brother, Tom, into a mass of burning embers. When the flames are extinguished and the safety of their home assured, the Hillmans return and are highly indignant because of Houston's cowardice. Determined to taunt him, they secure a white feather from the cook who is plucking a chicken and send it to the revenue officer with their compliments. Smarting under the disgrace Houston declares that he will redeem himself by capturing the moonshiners. He renews his vigilance and surprises a party of the "wildcatters" at work. They succeed in escaping but one of them loses the heel of his boot. The next morning Houston visits the country store where a number of mountaineers are assembled and discovers that one of Tom Hillman's boots is minus a heel. Houston wavers for an instant. He has hoped to regain Dot's love by demonstrating his strategy but now he realizes that he will implicate her brother and lose her forever. His sense of duty wins out and after a desperate struggle he succeeds in making a prisoner of young Hillman and bringing about the extermination of the moonshine operations.
- Record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition in 1921.
- The ranch hands read in the paper that six handsome young women are on their way west from Boston, escorted by a chaperon. The paper makes the comment that inasmuch as women are scarce in the vicinity of Red Butte, no doubt the lonely ranchmen will extend a cordial welcome. Foremost in making preparations is Jim, who feels that the most sedate of the eastern ladies cannot resist him. Fearing that Jim will "cut them out," the boys bend their energies toward frustrating him and the result is that they lose out entirely. The ladies depart in disgust, all save the chaperon, who decides to cast her lot with Jim.
- John Rand, the sheriff of Dupree, has been notified to look for a cattle rustler and gambler calling himself Bill Burton. Believing that Burton might be camping in Red Hog, he sends a description of the man to the sheriff there, who immediately gets on the trail of Burton and finds the man (whom he believes is the one wanted), gambling in the saloon and making himself generally disagreeable by drawing his gun at the slightest provocation. As the description of this "bad man" is exact, with one exception that he has no beard, the sheriff of Red Dog sends word back to the sheriff of Dupree, telling him to come down and look him over. This is enough for the energetic Rand, but fearing that Burton might recognize him he borrows a suit from the resident minister. He "dresses up" and goes to Red Dog, where he meets Mrs. Page, the mother, and George, the brother of the sweetest girl he ever saw. He falls in love with Helen, but never forgets his mission. "Bad Bill" has been scorned by this girl and in a spirit of bravado, he decides to force the new minister to marry him to Helen. Going to her home, he calls out the minister, who is occupying the spare room, and at the point of a pistol demands that the ceremony be performed. This is the sheriff's first opportunity to capture the rustler, and, getting him off his guard, he gets "the drop" on him. After explaining to the sheriff of Red Dog, and proving by the scar over his eye that Burton is the man wanted by him in Dupree, the surprised mob take him to jail. The sheriff returns to Helen, asks her mother's consent to make the girl his "prisoner" for life. He receives her consent and they are married.
- A seasick traveller dreams of pirates and is thrown in the sea.
- One by one, at night, family shortens father's long kilt.