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- An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- A chance find of money makes the penniless Sam a good match for the nouveau riche Lindy. But Sam soon loses the money at cards - and with it the favor of the unfaithful Lindy.
- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- It is wartime. Fanny is seen conversing with her mother on a porch when Billy, as the "cullud pussen," comes to give the joyful news that her brother, Herbert, is coming home for a brief rest. Fanny, looking sweet sixteen, gets a field-glass and manages to discern her brother. Herbert arrives and embraces his family. Billy the "cullud pussen," indicates that there are Union troops in the neighborhood and is given Herbert's pistol to signal in case of danger. Billy goes into a field to stand guard, notes the approach of Federal troops, makes a tremulous effort to scare them away and finally manages to fire his pistol. The mounted squad in charge of the dashing cavalry officer is searching for a noted Confederate spy and is led to investigate Herbert's house by Billy's signal. They find his horse and capture it as Herbert escapes with his sister to the barn where her horse, the splendid "Don" is stabled. She fires from concealment while her brother saddles this superior mount, holding the Northern cavalry at bay until he is ready, then opens the door. Herbert dashes out so unexpectedly that he clears the bunch of bluecoats before they recover their senses. Now comes a spirited chase. It leads to a fence which Don leaps without an effort. When the pursuing squad appears their horses balk and they are forced to make a detour. Herbert manages to reach his company, but is sent out on scouting duty astride of Don and instructed to fire a beacon if the enemy is seen in force. The Union squad becomes lost in wild country, the men dismount, and they spread an army map upon a stump to study the situation. While they are so occupied the scout draws near, dismounts and crawls nearer to learn their plans. Those examining the map detect his presence and begin chase so abruptly that they leave the map. Herbert falls wounded, rolls over a hill, crawls into a hole and manages to escape observation until the troopers pass out of the danger zone. Meanwhile Don noses around, discovers the map, picks it up in his teeth and carries it to his wounded master. Herbert crawls painfully upon Don's back and is carried to a point only a short distance below the beacon constructed to signal the presence of the Federals in large numbers. Just below the little mound on which the beacon stands he falls off in a condition so weak that he can proceed no further. What shall he do? The beacon is ready; it is important that it should be fired; there is only Don to aid the scout in this emergency. Don has been trained to bring and carry, but will he carry a light from the wounded Confederate to the beacon and set it aflame? He does. He proceeds with some reluctance; advances to the pile of fagots with caution, and he even betrays timidity after lighting the fire, but this astonishing act is accomplished and Confederate headquarters is warned of impending danger. Matters go hard with the scout as a result. The smoke leads to his capture; the incriminating map is found in his pocket, and he is carried away to the Federal headquarters for examination and trial.
- Prince Walter, whilst out hunting with his adjutant, the Duke of Wolmer, becomes separated from the rest of the field, and the pair encounter Agnes, a prepossessing country maiden who resides with her grandmother, and of her inquire their whereabouts. The adjutant, who is an ardent amateur photographer, observes that the prince is struck by the girl's beauty and secures a snapshot of her. It is a case of love at first sight with the Prince and his fair charmer, and the latter, refusing to be momentarily recompensed for the services she has rendered to His Royal Highness, allows him to present her with a ring. In return, he takes a lock of her hair. The pair part, but the gay cavalier has become a lovesick swain. His thoughts are ever of Agnes, and a game of chess with the adjutant proves tedious. Showing the lock of hair to the adjutant, the latter understands what is troubling his royal master, and consoles him somewhat by presenting him with a present of the snapshot he secured of the girl. To further the plans of the lovers, the adjutant secures a tenancy of the house adjoining that of Agnes, and the love-making proceeds apace. Soon we see the happy pair in fond embrace and the compact is sealed with a kiss. But the prince's august parent has other plans for his son's matrimonial prospects. For political reasons, it is necessary that he shall be betrothed to the Princess of Illyria, and at a council meeting the engagement is decided upon. Prince Walter, whilst enjoying a tete-a-tete with Agnes, is apprised by the adjutant of what has occurred, a copy of a newspaper containing the official announcement being handed to him. In a rage he tramples the paper under foot and goes off with his informer. Agnes chances to discover the journal, and reads the news which for her is fraught with such importance. The prince decides to return home, and writes a letter acquainting Agnes with the fact that circumstances over which he has had no control forces him to break his engagement with her. Arrived at the royal palace, the prince bows to the will of his father and the council. Both His Royal Highness and Agnes are, however, disconsolate. The former has no thoughts except for her to whom his heart is given, whilst the latter declines to be tempted even with the daintiest luxuries. She sends back the emblem of her troth, and the prince writes a letter imploring her to see him once more and let him spend a last happy hour in her company. The adjutant, seeing how matters are, takes affairs into his own hands, and visiting Agnes, prevails upon her to gratify the prince's desire, conveying her to the palace in his own motor car. A touching scene between the lovers in the royal garden ensues, and before parting the prince gives Agnes a white rose as the emblem of his undying love for her. Tender farewells are said, and Agnes returns to her humble abode. Life's dream for her is o'er, but the prince, bowing to destiny, returns to the palace and is wedded to the lady of his father's choice, bestowing upon her his name, but not his love, for that is the sole property of the girl of humble mien, and the picture closes with the newly wedded pair bowing their acknowledgments upon the balcony to the assembled populace below, who little realize that he who will someday rule over them has sacrificed his happiness in the fulfillment of his duty to his king and country.
- When the soldiers attacked the old home of the Von Hirschsprung family, the father buried his family treasure in the garden. In the fight that followed he was killed but his two sons survived. Having no money, and supposing their fortune stolen, the sons sell the old home to the Hellwig family. Cordula, daughter of old Hellwig, falls in love with Joseph, the younger Von Hirschsprung brother. He returns her affection, but her father will not permit the marriage because of Joseph's poverty. One day Cordula, digging in the garden, unearths the Hirschsprung treasure and tells her father, who makes her vow never to tell of the finding of the money chest. Joseph deprived of his sweetheart, dies in poverty. Broken-hearted Cordula removes her things to an upper apartment and vows she will never enjoy any of the ill-gotten wealth. Years later, the only surviving member of the Von Hirschsprungs marries a strolling player. Ten years later she is killed by accident during her act in the circus and her husband, to save his child from a similar fate, puts her in the care of Cordula's brother Nathan. The child, Fay, finds no welcome in her new home until she meets Cordula, now known as Old Mam'selle. She and Old Mam'selle have adjoining attic rooms and spend much time together. Everyone knows that Old Mam'selle has a secret, but no one knows what it is. The years pass. John, son of the Hellwigs, returns from the Medical University to fall in love with Fay. He is expected to marry Hortense, a rich widow with one child. Fay saves this child from an awful death by fire and wins John's admiration as well as his love. His mother refuses to accept Fay as a daughter. In the midst of all this confusion Old Mam'selle is taken ill. Before she dies she tells Fay that her diary contains her secret and it must die with her. Fay promises to destroy the little book. After Old Mam'selle's death, Fay finds the book and is about to destroy it when John enters the room and sees her. He demands that she give him the diary. She refuses at first but finally yields. Then she goes to her room to pack her things. Feeling herself very unwelcome at the Hellwigs she thinks she had better go away. John opens the little book and reads the whole story of the Hellwig wealth and how it all belongs to the Hirschsprung family. He rushes out of the room with the book and finds Fay ready to leave. She has her grip in her hands. He takes it from her and begs her to remain. As he takes the grip he notices the name Meta Von Hirschsprung, with a crest printed across it. He stares at Fay and asks her whose grip it is. She replies it belonged to her mother who took it with her when she ran away to he married. Then John knows that Fay is the sole remaining member of the once famous Von Hirschsprungs and that the money being enjoyed by the Hellwigs belongs to her. He tells her and she realizes that she is rich, feels free to accept his heart offered to her in the days when he did not know she had a single penny to her name.
- Three wise men from the East follow a star to Bethlehem in search of the infant Jesus.
- You see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham Lincoln, axe on shoulder, hearing the news, his volunteer company and what happened and when they reported to General Scott; how Blackhawk, after his peace messengers were shot, decided to fight. Also a glimpse of Mrs. Zachary Taylor and her two daughters, their determination to visit their father at Ft. Crawford, how Blackhawk captured Sarah Taylor and how Jefferson Davis recaptured her and fell in love with her, the famous attack on Ft. Crawford with burning fagots, battering rams, and finally the successful attack with flaming arrows. We see the suffering inside the fort and the marriage of Davis and Sarah, finally the ultimate capture of Blackhawk, after a blood-stirring battle.
- Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age. Jess, the elder, was brilliant and educated; Bess, the younger was beautiful, but frankly admitted that she did not possess the mental attainments of Jess. The two were great friends, and Jess, although the senior by only three years, had almost a motherly affection for her pretty little sister. Croft, finding old age stealing upon him, advertised for a partner, stipulating that he must be a gentleman. Probably it was his secret idea that the right man might come along, and fall in love with his favorite, beautiful Bessie. Captain John Neil, an English army officer, who had found his income insufficient to support him in his profession, heard of the business opportunity and accepted it. Jess, the unimpressionable, speedily fell in love with him, and her womanly intuition told her that she could win him, for he was fascinated by her. The girl was happy for a while, but suddenly learned that her little sister was also in love with the handsome Englishman. The elder sister realized that happiness for her, meant sorrow, probably life-long sorrow, for Bess. Accustomed to making sacrifices for the girl she so tenderly loved, Jess made another. On the pretext of a visit to an old school friend, she absented herself from home, knowing that Neil would be bound to fall in love with Bess, who was beautiful and amiable. The expected happened. At the time Jess departed, Neil liked both girls, but preferred Jess. Thrown into daily companionship with Bess, he soon grew to love her, and made her happy by proposing to her. And little sister wrote to big sister, telling her the glorious news, never even suspecting the truth. Jess received the letter in her place of refuge, and rejoiced that she had been able to ensure the happiness of Bess, while at the same time she wept in secret over the fate that had taken all romance out of her young life. At this time, the rebellion which freed the Transvaal from British rule was brewing. Croft, who at first doubted that any trouble was impending, at last realizes the gravity of the situation, and Neil consents to go to Pretoria and bring Jess home before it is too late. The gallant soldier arrives in the city, but is unable to leave with his charge, because the Boers have besieged the place, and even couriers cannot pierce the lines. A certain Frank Muller, son of a Boer and an Englishwoman, is one of the leaders in the revolt. He had proposed to Bess and been rejected. Learning that his successful rival is in Pretoria, he plans to dispose of him. Pretending great friendliness, he sends Neil a pass for Jess and himself, signed by Oom Paul Kruger. The unsuspecting Englishman falls into the trap, and with the girl, leaves under the charge of a Boer escort, furnished by Muller. These men have been tricked into believing that Kruger has ordered that the couple be killed, and while they are crossing a river, fire upon them and believe they are slain. Jess and Neil, however, have a miraculous escape. Following the crossing of the river under fire, on their way to Pretoria, Jess and Neil become separated, and the girl reaches the farm alone. There she finds that the villain Muller has been ahead of her, and that her uncle is a prisoner, on a charge of treason. Muller, who is military head of the district, tells Bess that Croft will be convicted and hanged unless Bess consents to marry him. The girl, however, refuses, the court-martial is held, and when Jess arrives, her uncle is under sentence to die at dawn, a few hours away. There is no one to whom she can appeal, and Jess, grief-stricken, decides to be her own avenger. Muller is asleep in his tent, waiting for the dawn when the last of the protectors of the girl he covets shall be separated from her by death. He awakes with a start. Bending over him is Jess. He believes it is a visitor from another world, for he could have sworn that he had seen her die a horrible death. Stricken with terror, unable to speak or make a motion, he goes to his death, his last thought being that there is a life beyond the grave, and that evil brings its own punishment. Jess wanders away into the desert and dies. Neil, searching, finds the body. The troubles of the others are finally swept away, and Neil and Bess live happily many years in their English home, never realizing that they owe everything to the self-sacrificing Jess, although they sincerely mourn and miss her.
- Bernard Powers is happy in his home life with his wife. He is visited by several friends and there are many pleasant evenings passed at the card table and around the piano. Powers notices that his eyesight shows signs of weakening. One evening, when his wife, himself and friend, John Trapp, are together, his wife playing at the piano, sudden pains shoot through his eyes. All grows dim. The darkness passes, however, and he can again see. The next day the malady comes again in renewed force and Powers' vision entirely fails. He is entirely blind and experts declare it impossible to restore his lost vision. A year passes. Suddenly his sight returns. He sees his wife sitting at the piano. By her side is the "friend," John Trapp. The "friend's" arms are wound affectionately around Mrs. Powers, who doesn't appear to be otherwise than pleased. He closes his eyes again, while the love making goes on. A day later Powers is alone with his wife. She is sitting at the desk and is writing a letter. He employs a ruse to get her out of the room. He asks her to fetch a book for the blind that he had left in the parlor. He reads her letter; it is to Trapp. "Mine: it cannot be. What opinion would you have of the woman who would desert her blind husband? But should he recover his sight I would come to you. Dora." He says nothing to her during the day. In the evening despite the import of the letter, Trapp call, unconscious that the supposedly blind husband is watching his every move. Then from the chair rises the outraged husband. He says not a word. Powers' arm goes up, his finger pointing to the door. Trapp picks up his hat and walks out. Mrs. Powers falls at her husband's feet. "I have seen all," are the words of the husband, as he lays his hand upon the erring head.
- This story deals with the lives of the Indians who ruled primeval North America for centuries before the white man came. Meene-o-Wa, the fairest maiden of all the tribes of the Utes, was called "The Yellow Rose," because of her beauty. Wathuma, the leopard, loved her, but her heart was not given to him. One day in the forest she came upon a handsome young stranger. They looked into each other's eyes and Meene-O-Wa knew that she loved him. Leaving him there she ran away, but be followed her back to her father's camp. He went to the old chief and asked her band in marriage. But the chief, looking upon his headdress of a single feather, told him that the man who won his daughter must be a chief. Then, considering, he told the stranger that if he could vanquish the famous warrior, Wahtuma, in a wrestling match, he might claim as his reward. "The Yellow Rose." Wahtuma, full of hate for his rival, put forth his best effort in the fight that followed, while Meene-O-Wa stood by, her heart torn with the fear that Waheta, the stranger, might lose. But the straight and supple stranger soon had the master hand, and slowly forced his foe to his knees, amid the plaudits of the tribe. So Meene-O-Wa was given to Waheta, and Wahtuma left them, vowing vengeance. A few days later Meene-O-Wa, while waiting in the woods for her husband, is thrown from the rocks by Wahtuma. And there it is that her husband finds her, dead. The bereaved husband carried his wife's body back to the camp, and, after handing her to the old chief, he begs one boon of the great spirit that he be able to kill Wahtuma. Rushing out into the woods, he comes upon the leopard, and he gives him just one chance to defend himself. Before the fury of the maddened husband the other man's weapons are powerless, and he is overcome and killed. Waheta then returns to the camp to mourn over Meene-O-Wa's body.
- Kaintuck is a big mountaineer. He loves his sweetheart, Sue, with his whole simple, honest heart. One day an artist comes to sketch in their vicinity. He is immediately struck by Sue's beauty and asks permission to use her as his model. Kaintuck is not pleased with the idea, but the girl consents. When the artist secures board in Sue's home, Kaintuck's jealousy knows no bounds. One day he sees the artist posing Sue, and noticing that the man's arms are about the girl, he decides that she loves him. But the artist thinks only of Sue as a model, his heart being given to Dora, her sister. One day the artist stumbles upon an illicit still in the woods and, inspired by its picturesqueness, he takes out his book and starts to sketch it. Some moonshiners who have been watching him, think that he must be a revenue spy who would be better out of the way, so they lead him out to shoot him. The girls see him, and Sue rushes up to plead for his life. Kaintuck, coming along, saves the artist for Sue's sake. Later he comes to the girl telling her that he will give her up to the man she loves. She is surprised, but when Dora comes along with the artist the situation is explained to everyone's satisfaction.
- Bob Ransom is the son of wealthy New York parents. He is in love with Helen Braddon, but at the opening of the story a lovers' quarrel has temporarily marred the celestial horizon. At this time, Ransom, Sr., makes an extensive investment in Hawaiian plantations. At the urgent insistence of Bob, Ransom, Sr., sends him to the Hawaiian Islands to take charge of his interests there. Bob arrives. One day, while strolling along the beach, he chances to catch sight of a native girl. Later he chances into his hut, to find the native girl much interested in his typewriter, etc. The native girl is daughter of the island potentate, but does not reveal her identity to Bob. In the days that follow he teaches her American customs, and their admiration of each other soon grows to love. Meanwhile Bob receives letters from his people, telling him to return home, and that Helen will be glad to see him. Bob, however, believes himself in love with the native girl and replies that he is contented to remain where he is. Trouble arises between the scattered island planters and the potentates. Bob writes his father about the trouble and asks him to come to Hawaii. The native girl is loved by a native high in the councils of the King, however, and that person makes it his business to discover the romance. He informs the King, who promptly becomes furious at his daughter. Meanwhile, Ransom, Sr., with his wife and Helen, arrive. Bob is awakened from his dream and finds that his real love is for Helen. The native girl discovers it also, but too late. With the consent of the King and the disappointed lover a ruse is planned to poison Bob by inviting the American to drink with the King. The wine is poisoned, and as Bob is about to drink she seizes the poisoned wine, drains the bowl and before death claims the victim she heroically places the hand of Helen in Bob's.
- "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death. In the meanwhile Paxton's horse comes back to his general store. When the riderless horse arrives there is naturally considerable excitement. Gray arrives on the scene and he makes things look pretty black for Jim, the man who was last seen with the postmaster. Jim is placed under arrest, but the boys, as well as the postmaster's young daughters, May and Gladys, do not believe Jim to be guilty. May and Gladys ride the trail and finally find their father after he calls to them. Gray stoutly asserts his innocence and manufactures evidence incriminating Jim. May and Gladys, the "two little rangers," however, untangle the evidence and their father's story cinches things. When things begin to look pretty black for Gray he retreats to his shack. The girls, however, are determined to get him and, after seeing their volleys of bullets have no effect, discharge a firebrand from a bow. The firebrand sets the shack on fire and Gray perishes in his own tomb.
- During the raid on an emigrant train the girl and her brother, the only survivors, are attacked by the villain who kidnaps the girl and takes her to the camp of Calamity Anne, who takes a liking to the girl and becomes her guardian angel. The girl's brother is killed and a ranger takes the locket containing the girl's picture from his neck and recognizes the girl in Calamity Anne's camp. Later, Calamity Anne holds the villain and his band at bay and the girl and the ranger make their escape. The girl and the ranger come to the spot where the girl's brother is buried and here she asks the ranger if he is going to leave her there alone. His answer is to take her into his arms.
- Moving Picture World, 5 October 1912 - A melodrama of the Wild West which leaves nothing to be desired for those who enjoy bandits, bandit lore and bandit hunting. They kidnap a girl in this case, a doctor leads a sheriff's posse to her rescue and some interesting and novel adventures follow. The production has an admirable setting in a rough mountain country and the photography is praiseworthy.
- This story centers about Frank Mager, the ranchmen's candidate for sheriff, who promises, if elected, to rid the county of the notorious band of cattle thieves. Frank is elected and starts out to look for the rustlers. His first move is to notify the stock growers of a meeting to be held at the schoolhouse, and he proceeds to tack up notices. Riding over the mountains he meets Amanata, a Mexican girl, who is the sweetheart of Buck Peters, foreman of the Y-6 Ranch, and also captain of the "Cattle R." Her horse becomes lame and he befriends her. Peters is roping horses in the corral and receives a note from the rustlers informing him that they are holding cattle ready to cross the border where he thinks it is safe. We see the cattle bedded down at the rustlers' camp when the messenger rides in with a note informing them to meet the captain at Amanata's cabin the next night. They meet and succeed in delivering the cattle to the Mexicans. Flushed with success the rustlers meet Peters at the cabin and decide to get another bunch of cattle. They send word to the Mexicans to meet them. The Mexicans come to the cabin and call on Peters and his band of rustlers, and discuss the situation. Amanata is told by Peters to go out as he has business to talk over with his men. Amanata leaves the cabin but listens at the door and hears the plot against the sheriff. The sheriff goes to the schoolhouse just as Peters tries to kiss the schoolteacher. Peters is knocked down by the sheriff and the deputy sheriff orders Peters away. Amanata writes a note to the new sheriff and tells him to look out for himself as the rustlers say that they will get him. The sheriff and schoolteacher go to the post office. Peters finds out that Amanata has betrayed him to the sheriff. They quarrel and Amanata is badly hurt. Peters goes off and leaves her, but she manages to stagger to the schoolhouse and notifies the schoolteacher that the rustlers are after the sheriff. As she is telling her story the sheriff's horse comes in without a rider and they then know that the sheriff has been captured by the rustlers. Amanata leads the ranchmen and cowboys to the rustlers' camp, where a fight takes place between the cowboys and rustlers. The rustlers are defeated and the sheriff is saved. Peters is captured.
- The play takes place in New York City during the panic of 1907. Gideon Bloodgood, a prominent banker, is on the eve of absconding, owing to the affairs of his bank being in a precarious condition. At this juncture relief comes in the person of Captain Fairweather, who has sold out his interests in the Mercantile Marine Company, intending to retire from the active duties of his profession. Fairweather comes to Bloodgood's bank; it is after banking hours, but he prevails upon Bloodgood to accept his money, amounting to $100,000, as a special deposit. News come that the captain who was to have taken command of Fairweather' s ship has met with a severe accident and is unable to sail. His old employers prevail upon Fairweather to make this final trip. He is about to go on board when his attention is attracted by the newsboys shouting "Extra." He buys a paper and is horrified to discover that Bloodgood's bank is in a shaky condition. He rushes hack to the bank and demands his money. Bloodgood and his assistant, Badger, who are dividing the money received from the captain, are startled by the entrance of the captain. He demands his money. Bloodgood tells him it is after banking hours, and to come the next day. The intense excitement brings on a fit of apoplexy, and the captain falls dead in the banker's office. They carry the body out on the sidewalk, and circumstances point to the fact that the captain dropped dead in the streets. Bloodgood prevails upon Badger to go out west and the captain's money saved the bank. Several years elapse and Captain Fairweather's widow and children are in destitute circumstances. The boy, Paul, tries to make a living selling newspapers, and his sister. Lucy, selling flowers. Bloodgood discovers that they are living in one of his tenements and he gives orders to his superintendent to dispossess them. Bloodgood is rolling in luxury and the family whose money he has stolen are reduced practically to beggary. In the meantime, Badger meets with hard luck in the west and is broke. While the captain was lying dead in the office Badger managed to secure the receipt that Bloodgood gave him for the money. An idea comes to Badger to return to New York and sell the receipt to Bloodgood. Badger manages with great difficulty to make his way back to New York City, and arrives at Bloodgood's mansion. With the receipt as a weapon, he makes Bloodgood promise to pay him handsomely. At this moment, Paul Fairweather, the son, in answer to an advertisement by Bloodgood for a servant on his estate, appears on the scene. Both Bloodgood and Badger discover that he is the son of the man they have robbed, and Bloodgood orders him from the house. Badger goes to a poor tenement, and in the next room by a strange coincidence, lives the Fairweather family. Bloodgood follows Badger and discovers his abiding place, and being afraid that Badger will blackmail him owing to the possession of the receipt, determines to set fire to the house and thus destroy the evidence of his crime. Mrs. Fairweather becomes despondent over their unhappy situation and determines to end it all by asphyxiation. Her daughter discovers this and they determine to die together. The fire that Bloodgood started is now making rapid headway and Badger in his room is overcome by the fumes. An alarm of fire is turned in and the fire department starts for the scene. Paul sees the flames and dashes into the house, resolving to save his family. With the assistance of a fireman, the women are carried out to safety. Passing Badger's room, Paul discovers there is someone inside. Bursting in the door he rescues Badger, who has managed to secure the receipt. Out of gratitude Badger tells Paul the whole story, and forces Bloodgood to make restitution. Badger is about to call in the police and hand his old partner into custody, when Paul, seeing the banker's great devotion to his only child, and thinking of the disgrace it would bring upon the girl, refuses to prosecute. The story ends happily with the Fairweather family in possession of the fortune their father left them, and Badger becomes a useful member of society.
- Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
- A wounded Yankee soldier takes refuge in the home of his onetime Confederate sweetheart.
- Yielding to the insistent entreaties of his father, mother and a friendly priest, Bob Carroll goes away, much against his natural desires, to become a priest, after promising to marry his sweetheart, Anna Catherwood. Anna, piqued at Bob's adherence to parental wishes, hastily marries a working boy, Jim Whitcomb, and in the six years that follow, becomes addicted to liquor. Jim, himself, a drunkard, comes home one day to find Anna drunk and carousing. In the scene that followed, Anna, laughing derisively, informs Jim that Bob, now a devout priest, is the father of their six-year-old child. After that Anna takes the downward path and Jim finds consolation in saloons. One day, on charity bent, Father Bob goes into the slums. Accidentally he finds the child, and thinking it one of the city's waifs, notifies his mother to call and get it. Entering a dive, Bob is horrified to find Anna--"not as they parted in the years gone by"--but Anna is too drunk to recognize Bob. REEL 2.--Mrs. Carroll called with Bob and took the child to the Society of Cruelty to Children. Anna returning one day, finds Bob's note telling of the child's whereabouts. Mrs. Carroll often met Anna at the Society's office, and finally succeeded in bringing about the reformation of the woman, little knowing her identity. She adopted the child and secured work for Anna as a nurse. Later, Anna, now on her upward path, stepped into a church in search of spiritual consolation. There, face to face, she met Bob, praying at the foot of a cross. There, for the first time, Bob learned that he was the father of Anna's child--a frightful revelation that spelled the day of death for the gentle-hearted priest. One afternoon Mrs. Carroll, Bob, and the child went for an auto ride. They ran down Jim Whitcomb as he staggered from a saloon. At the hospital, there was a moment of recognition and understanding--a moment of horror during which Mrs. Carroll understood that her adapted child was really her grand-child: Anna, that this good woman benefactor was the mother of Bob; Bob, that he had kept in his own home as his mother's ward, his own child--and all of them knew that the end of Jim Whitcomb had come. Falling at his feet, Father Bob whispered, "Forgive me, for I knew not what I did." In his study the next day they found Father Bob, sitting upright in his chair, tightly clutching the big crucifix on his desk, his glassy eyes fastened on the Savior. Bending over him, Mrs. Carrol and Anna heard his stiffened lips mutter: "Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give thee rest."
- Evelyn and Raymond are happy in their reciprocal love in spite of Evelyn's mother's strong objections to her entertaining the thoughts of marriage with a poor man. The mother has ambitions to see her daughter wedded to a husband of wealth. When Mr. Varnier visits the inn conducted by the mother and shows a strong partiality for Evelyn, the designing parent coerces Evelyn into becoming Mrs. Varnier. Raymond, of course, has his heart sadly rent and as the automobile wheels away carrying the bride and bridegroom-elect and the covetous mother, Raymond attempts to stop them but he is pushed aside. The bride takes little satisfaction in her palatial surroundings. She is ever dreaming of her loved and lost sweetheart. A spray of iris given to her adds to her dejection by reminding her of the happy past when the lovers gathered them on the sunlit river. Mr. Varnier is a man of many travels. In the course of one of these journeys he is killed, At the reading of his will it is learned that though he bequeaths all his property to his wife, she will forfeit it if she marries again, it is a hard alternative, but out of the mental struggle comes the resolution to forget all of the luxuries and brave her mother's anger and return to her lover of yesterday. Putting on the rude clothes which she wore the day she left her home to become Mrs. Varnier, she flees from the mansion. By the river she finds the dejected Raymond still mourning the cupidity that had lost him his adored.
- John Adams is a pioneer, living in a log cabin with his wife and baby girl. He digs a bear pit. A big black bear falls crashing into it. An Indian comes upon the captured animal and shoots it and secures the skin. Adams meets him with the bearskin on his arm and attempts to take the hide away. The Indian draws a knife, and a fierce encounter takes place, in which Adams lands a crushing blow on the Indian's jaw. knocking him down. As Adams walks away the Indian regains his feet, and fires at the trapper. As the report rings out and the bullet sings past his head, Adams drops to the ground and feigns death. The Indian runs up and leans over him and is clutched by the throat by Adams, who leaps to his feet. The Indian is badly wounded and Adams departs. The redskin happens to be the chief's son, and when he is found by his tribe their rage is unbounded. A war dance is held, and they decide to retaliate by an attack upon the whites. Mrs. Brown, a neighbor, is taken ill and her husband drives over and gets Mrs. Adams to minister to her. She leaves baby Dot alone. The Indians finally reach the Adams cabin. Dot leaps into the huge bucket at the well and descends to the bottom. The Indians sack the cabin and are about to depart when they spy Adams coming home. Quickly hiding, they await his approach and leaping upon him he is overpowered and carried away. The cabin is set on fire. Dot comes from her hiding place, and with water from the well manages to extinguish the blaze. She then barricades the door, and tremblingly awaits, she knows not what. Coming home in Brown's rig. Mrs. Adams sees the Indians galloping toward her from the vicinity of her home. Brown wheels the horse around, but her mother instinct is aroused to the highest pitch and she refuses to go on. Brown then resolves upon a desperate measure, and secreting Mrs. Adams in the bushes he drives out into the open and plies the whip to his horse, drawing the pursuit of the Indians. Mrs. Adams races home and hammers at the door. Dot, thinking it is the Indians, lifts a heavy gun across the back of a chair and is about to pull the trigger when her heart fails her, and she turns away and hides in the fire-place. Mrs. Adams calls to her, and at the sound of her voice the little girl springs to the door with a glad cry and unlatches it. In the meantime Adams has been securely bound and placed in a tepee to await torture, with a guard in front. Straining at his bonds he finds he cannot undo them, and shaking himself forward he manages to drop a few matches out of his shirt pocket. Working with his hands behind him he gathers up twigs and leaves, and scratching the match with his mouth he sets the mass on fire. He turns over and holds his hands into this fire, burning off the cords, and is free. Hundreds of emigrants and settlers seek the protection of the fort. The gates are scarcely closed behind them when the Indians attack. A sensational and thrilling battle takes place in which the soldiers and emigrants are being defeated when they resolve upon a desperate course. A huge bomb is made of a keg of powder, and as the Indians gather to rush upon the weakened gate it is thrown into their midst, blowing them to atoms. With a wild rush the whites rush from the stockade and attack the bewildered Indians, and the few surviving redskins are killed or driven off. Adams throttles his guard and escapes. He is rent with conflicting emotions, but entertains a forlorn hope that his family may have escaped. Running to the door he calls to his wife, and his heart leaps with joy when she replies, and with Dot rushes into his arms.
- Don Caesar is reduced to naught but his title, to save a poor youth, Lazarillo. Don Caesar fights the captain of the king's guards and kills him. He is condemned to he shot and pending the execution, is confined to jail with Lazarillo. Don Jose, the Prime Minister, suggests to Don Caesar that, although he is to die, he should marry before the day of the execution and thus perpetuate his title. Don Caesar consents with the promise that he may drink with the soldiers before he is shot. While he is doing this, young Lazarillo extracts the bullets from the soldiers' guns. Just previous to the execution Don Jose enters with Maritana, a flower girl, and she is wedded to Don Caesar. He is taken to the yard, the soldiers fire, Don Caesar falls, but when the men leave the court-yard, he escapes; later he appears in disguise at a state ball in search of the bride whose face he has never seen. On revealing himself to Don Jose Don Caesar signs a paper disclaiming forever all title in favor of his supposed wife. An instant later he catches sight of Maritana, whose name, the Countess de Bazan, has been heralded and, tearing the document, starts in pursuit. Maritana, while briefly enjoying the King's protection, has repelled him. After humorous and dramatic episodes, Don Caesar, vaulting through Maritana's window, surprised a visiting noble. Lazarillo, who is in Maritana's employ, apprises Don Caesar that the visitor is the King. Don Caesar demands to know the identity of a stranger in his wife's apartments. The King boldly asserts, "I am Don Caesar de Bazan." Don Caesar forcibly replies, "If you are Don Caesar de Bazan, I am the King of Spain." The King, in his dilemma, summons the guards to arrest Don Caesar, but the timely arrival of Maritana (who has been warned by Lazarillo) brings events to a climax and the union of Don Caesar and the flower girl is sanctioned by the King.
- The rich banker did not realize how differently he and his daughter looked at life until the girl returned from a convent school where she had passed many years. The banker's motto was "Everyone for himself, and me first." The girl believed in aiding the poor, and that wealth carried with it an obligation to be useful. The father admired his beautiful daughter, even though he did not understand her. She loved him and hoped some day to bring him to a realization of his duty toward the helpless and friendless. Before this happened, the clash came. Returning to his home one day, the banker was surprised to hear chatting and laughter in his dining room. Investigating he discovered that his daughter had brought "some of those beggar brats" home. He was enraged that his house should be so polluted, and sternly ordered the girl to throw the guests out immediately. Vainly she pleaded with him, and finally declared that if the others went, she would go too. The man did not believe she meant it, and jeeringly told her to try it. She bowed, and, followed by her humble guests, left the house. The girl went with them to their tenement home, and having no money with her, gave one of the poorest of the party a jeweled bracelet which her father had presented to her. Then, weary of the world, she sought refuge in a convent, found peace, and was soon happy as a teacher in a little parish school in the slums of the city. The father in the meantime believed his daughter was dead, for the bracelet was found on the charred remains of a woman, burned to death in a fire in the slums. Rich, but lonely and heart-sick, the banker took a vow to do good where he had done harm, and soon became better known for his kindliness and charity than he had been for his business ability. He believed his daughter dead, and she, knowing that no search had ever been made for her, supposed that he had closed his heart against her. Among the banker's new proteges was a little girl, who reminded him of his daughter when the latter was a child. At her invitation he accompanied her on one occasion to the parish school she attended, and there to his surprise and joy, met the daughter he thought was dead. There were mutual explanations and mutual forgiveness. The banker thanked Heaven for the happiness that had again entered his life, and to show his gratitude in a practical way, decided to endow a school, for it was a school and a tiny scholar that had brought him back to his daughter. The dedication services were graced by the presence of Cardinal Farley, and the building now stands as a memorial aid constant reminder that a father, who had lost the daughter he loved, regained her after many days, and through the charity he had once sneered at as something that should not exist.
- Old Jim Struthers was a seaman and had a daughter, Mabel. Nobody knew how old Jim and his younger partner Bob made their living, although there was much talk of smuggling. Things moved easily in the little cabin by the sea until Bob began to cast amorous eyes toward pretty Mabel. Then trouble came, for Mabel detested Bob with all her heart. One day a party of cowboys gamboled down to the ocean-side. They spent the day in playing along the shore and compelling their horses to swim through the heavy surf. Mabel watched them. Boss cowboy Ralph Hapwood met her and love sprang up between them instantly and grew apace in the frequent trips that followed. Bob noticed it and resented the handsome stranger's coming deeply. He told Mabel's father that the cowboy was a secret-service man ready to nab them. So old man Struthers prepared to kill Ralph. This he found hard to do for in spite of himself he liked the ranchman's face and clear blue eyes. One day Ralph found the cache in which much contraband goods were stored. He went promptly to Struthers and while talking with him in the doorway, did not see the ready aim of Bob's revolver from behind the corner of the building. Neither did Bob see the cowboy, off at a distance, suddenly drop his cigarette draw his gun and fire. The result was a sudden yell from Bob and much happiness among the occupants of the little cabin by the sea.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- The young couple were happy, and the fact that they had very little money was absolutely no difference to them. Wealth, however, came to the man and wife through the unexpected death of a rich relative. They now bad a beautiful estate, a large circle of friends and plenty of money, but they were far from being happy. The butler scared the husband, and he loathed the evening clothes his valet brought him at six o'clock each night. The wife had her troubles, too, for her maid annoyed her. One morning the husband noted in the paper that the Coney Island Carnival was on. The poor man didn't dare ask his wife, so he left a note explaining that he would lunch at a very tiresome club. He eluded the vigilant valet and the grave butler and "hiked" to Coney Island. The wife also noted that there was to be doings at the seashore. So she, too, left a note telling of a social function and then made a bee-line for the amusement resort. Man and wife met while viewing the parade. There were mutual explanations and mutual laughter. They then telephoned to their servants that they were "dining out," and proved it by eating "hot dogs."
- As a token of his esteem for Captain George Cooper's prospective father-in-law, Lord Peters, the Rajah of Palakotta presents the captain with a casket of precious jewels. Cooper writes to his fiancée, telling her of this gift he will give her on his return. The notorious cracksman, Clement Rocca, robs the mail-train and reads the letter. He determines to steal the casket. He goes to the English hotel where the colonel and his daughter are staying. He meets them. At the same hotel is detective Harry Derwent. His suspicions are stirred by the action of Rocca. A telegram from Captain Cooper tells the time that his father and himself will arrive. The colonel and his daughter accept Rocca's invitation to join him in a shooting trip on an island off the coast. On arriving at the island, the criminal, on a pretext, leaves his guests. He returns to the mainland, knowing when the tide rises the island will be completely submerged. Not all his own way, however, is the criminal going to conduct his nefarious schemes, for Derwent is on the alert. On the previous night he had seen through a hole bored in the floor separating their rooms that Rocca is supplied with disguises. He had also learned of secret meetings with a man in an out-of-the-way cave, which is accessible only by a dangerous footpath. Capt. Cooper and his father duly arrive and the casket is deposited in the hotel safe. Captain Cooper goes for a walk on the cliffs. Half an hour later he is found insensible. The receipt for the casket has been stolen from the captain's pocketbook. It is Rocca's work. An accomplice, disguised as an orderly, goes to the hotel and is handed the casket on the strength of having the receipt. Cooper and the detective, arriving at the hotel, find that the box is gone. The captain gives chase to an automobile disappearing down the road. The detective hastens to keep watch over the cave. He hides behind a projecting piece of rock. In the interior, Rocca's accomplice hands over the casket. Derwent cautiously proceeds to the mouth of the cave, revolver in hand. He encounters Rocca. Before the latter recovers from the surprise Derwent snatches the precious package from him. There is a struggle. The thief loses his hold on the slippery rocks and staggers back over the edge, into the sea, disappearing forever. The colonel and his daughter, marooned on Bird's Island, have to swim for it when the tide rises. They keep afloat until they are picked up by a fishing smack. They don dry clothes loaned them by sailors and are soon back at the hotel. Captain Cooper returns from the unsuccessful pursuit of the casket. A happy reunion takes place when Detective Derwent enters with the jewels.
- Bob Burton, a confirmed woman-hater, meets his chum Harry. On their way from New York Harry asks him to come to his home and introduces him to his sister. She teases the woman-hater, pins a rose in his button-hole and gets him to sit down on a sofa beside her. Harry says joshingly, "You are not such a woman-hater after all." Harry arrives at the club and tells his friends what a joke he has played on Bob. Thinking of a scheme, he makes his friend still more uncomfortable. He writes a newspaper ad saying that Bob wants a wife. Harry inserts the ad in the newspaper and two of his chums go to Bob's house to watch this out to the end. The first arrival in answer to the ad is an old maid. Harry directs her to the house, while he and his friends arrange a board so that they can look into the window and watch the proceedings. Bob Burton is very much surprised when the old maid shows him the ad in the newspaper. She tries to make him marry her but he protests. The old maid goes out and discovers the boys looking In the window, hits one of them with an umbrella, and they all fall over the bench. The second arrival is a tough girl who gets into a wrangle with Bob, and he throws her out of the window, and she falls on top of the boys who are seated on the plank. She has her scraps with them and exits. The third arrival is a very buxom middle-aged lady, who on refusal of Bob to marry her, exits angrily, discovers Harry and chum outside and gives Harry a thrashing. The fourth arrival is a young eccentric girl, who has sworn that she will never marry a man unless she falls in love with him at sight. Bob Burton has read this eccentric remark in the paper, and has seen the picture, so instead of refusing her he proposes and is accepted much to the chagrin of the boys outside. He exits from the house with the young lady and discovers the boys in the act of sneaking away. Finally he turns the tables on them. He sends Harry and Bob a note inviting them to his wedding.
- Part One. In the days long ago when knights were brave and venturesome, lived Lord Huldbrand of Ringstetten. The Duke's daughter, Bertalda, Huldbrand's kinswoman was the most famous beauty in that section, and Lord Huldbrand was one of the cavaliers who vainly sought to win favor in her eyes. Just beyond the Duke's domains was a gloomy stretch of woods, known as the enchanted forest. It was said to be the resort of all kinds of spirits and goblins, and travelers durst not venture there. The haughty Lady Bertalda was struck with the idea that here was a way to prove her power over her admirers. To the one who would dare to make a midnight trip through the enchanted forest she offered a bow of ribbon, fashioned by her own fair hands, which did not seem much of a prize except to the infatuated young men. At that, however, Huldbrand was the only one who dared to tempt fate. Bravely he rode through the forest, pestered and annoyed by spirits, until at last faint and exhausted, he saw the humble cottage of a fisherman, and gladly sought refuge there. The fisherman and his wife, both past middle age, were common peasants, but the girl with them, whom at first he thought was their daughter of entirely different class. She was young, beautiful and refined, and the Knight lost his heart to her at once. The peasants told him that they knew nothing about the girl except that they believed that she had been shipwrecked and seemingly half drowned she had arrived at their humble home. Lord Huldbrand's love became more and more pronounced, and in a very short time he asked her to be his bride. Then she told him her story. "Many a fisherman," she said, "has had a passing glimpse of some fair water nymph rising out of the sea with her song; he would then spread the report, and these wonderful beings became to be called Undines. And you now see before you, my love, an undine." She then went on to explain that undines have no souls, and only by marriage with human beings could they acquire them. Undine determined to be of this number, and made her appearance as an earth maiden. Other spirits had aided her and Lord Huldbrand had practically been driven by them through the enchanted forest to the fisherman's cottage. The Knight's love conquered, and he embraced the beautiful Undine, telling her that she should be his bride and that nothing else mattered. They were married, and returned through the forest together. To the surprise of the Haughty Bertalda, Lord Huldbrand returned to announce that he had fulfilled his quest, but he returned the Lady her token, saying that by his trip to the enchanted forest he had won the fairest of brides. Then the nobleman and Undine proceeded to the castle, where they hoped to live together, forever. Part Two. Many years ago, Lord Huldbrand lived in his castle on the Danube River with his beautiful bride. He knew that before his marriage she had been a water nymph, because she had confessed the fact to him. but her marriage to a man of the earth gave her a soul, and she was so sweet and charming that he tried to forget the fact. From time to time, however, it was brought back to his attention by the unexpected appearance of some of her relatives, notably one Huhlborn, an uncle who in repose was a most charming brook, but ever and anon would resolve himself into a tall, old man, who seemed full of curiosity as to how his niece was faring. It palled upon Huldbrand, and he often wished that his bride had had earthly kinsmen. Matters came to a crisis when Huldbrand's kinswoman, the charming Lady Bertalda. arrived with her father to pay Huldbrand a visit. There had been a time when Bertalda regarded Huldbrand as her chosen knight, but when she sent him into the Enchanted Forest he met Undine and forgot everyone else. So Bertalda hated Undine, although she hid her feelings under a mask of friendship. Huldbrand, again fell under the spell of Bertalda. He neglected his beautiful wife, and her to, were noted by the water nymphs, who determined to avenge her. Their chance came when Huldbrand and the two women were taking a trip on the water. The nobleman had been more than usually attentive to Bertalda and neither of them noticed that in the water surrounding their boat, were scores of hands stretched out to drag them to destruction. Undine saw them, however, and after trying vainly to induce the nymphs to depart, she sacrificed herself to save her husband, leaping overboard and sinking, supposedly to death, under the sea. Huldbrand's mourning was brief, and soon his betrothal to the beautiful Bertalda was announced. The latter was of a vengeful disposition, and remembered that the only time Huldbrand had upheld his wife was once when she wanted a fountain in the courtyard blocked up, and the nobleman permitted it to be done, despite the protests of Bertalda. Now the young woman, in her husband's absence, had the obstructions removed, and laughed as she thought that she had removed the last vestige of her former rival. The unhappy Bertalda did not know that the fountain was the only road by which the sea nymphs could get into the castle. Undine had closed the door to save her husband. Bertalda opened the way again, and through the fountain came a woman in white, weeping bitterly. Spectators drew aside in awe as she entered the banqueting room, and approached the bridegroom. They recognized Undine as she stepped to the side of Huldbrand and enfolded him in an embrace, the embrace of his death, for he fell dead at her feet. At the funeral of the unhappy knight, there was one mourner who followed the others alone, and remained after they left. It was the faithful Undine. She fell on her knees beside the tomb, her arms encircling the body. Then she faded from human sight, and a bright silvery brook appeared, and is there to this day. From that time forth villagers are said to have shown travelers this spring, and they believe it is to he the poor forsaken Undine, who continued this to twine her arms around her beloved Lord.
- Part One: Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out. Forester was made colonel of his regiment, while Maywood became a captain. The men mortgaged their plantations and gave the benefits to the government, which was hard pressed for funds. Colonel Forester was mortally wounded at the battle of Cowpens, but before he passed away, Captain Maywood promised that he would care for Forester's motherless little girl. Maywood's family at the close of the war was so penniless that the government gave them 1,000 acres of land, which at that time was known as the Northwestern Territory, and into this land journeyed the family. As the years went by Albert, one of Maywood's sons, fell in love with Rose Forester. Albert continually cautioned his father against the invasion of the Indians, but the elder man was opinionated and declared that there was no danger. One day when Albert and his friend, Louis Wetzel, returned from a hunting trip they found that Maywood's cabin had been destroyed by fire by the Indians, and apparently all of its occupants, with the exception of Rose, whom Wetzel, by virtue of his woodcraft, determined had been carried off by the Indians. Part Two: Albert Maywood vows that he will avenge the death of his parents and will rescue the abducted Rose. He and Wetzel set out and track the Indians. They rescue Rose, but the trio encounter another band of Indians, who capture Albert and Rose, Wetzel being successful in making his escape. Albert, however, by his cleverness soon effects his escape, and he and Wetzel go in search of Rose. In their wanderings they come upon a small fort upon the banks of the Hockhocking River, the commandant of which is in fear of an attack from the Wyandottes. Albert and Wetzel go on a reconnoitering expedition for the commandant, and from a place called Standing Stone they observe the Indian village far below. As their canteens are nearly empty, Albert takes them to a nearby stream to refill them, and there he meets two women, apparently Indians. Fearing that they will give the alarm, he grapples with them, and in the course of the struggle he discovers that one of them is his "Forest Rose." The real Indian woman escapes, spreads the alarm, and hundreds of Indians surround Standing Stone. While the two men are planning the defense Rose slips away, but returns, aids the white men to pass the sentries and escapes with them. The trio are followed, but after many hardships reach the fort, where Albert and the "Forest Rose" are married.
- Part One. Lucile, the Comtesse de Nevers, was engaged to a nobleman, Lord Alfred Vargrave. Being deeply in love, Lucile did not conceal her affection, and her attentions finally wearied Lord Alfred, and he neglected his fiancée. They quarreled finally, and separated, but not until Alfred had vainly attempted a reconciliation. Lucile told him that she was afraid to trust him but proposed a year's separation. Before the year was over the Comtesse received word of the engagement of Lord Alfred to Miss Darcy, wherein she wrote him asking the return of her letters, which in accordance with his pledge, he was to bring to her personally. Alfred obeyed and started for Lucile's home with the missives. Upon his arrival he was amazed to see how beautiful Lucile was, and how much other men admired her. His old affection returned and he pleaded with her to forgive him. Lucile refused to listen to him. He managed, by watching her, to meet her presumably by accident, and gained her consent to accompany her. On the road they encountered a furious summer storm and took refuge in a cave. Lucile, whose one dread was of lightning, was hysterical from terror, and did not repulse Alfred when he clasped her in his arms. She consented to forgive her recreant lover. Part Two. The Duc de Luvois had long vainly courted Lucile. His jealous eye soon noted that the man who stood in his way was Lord Alfred, and as the latter left the house, the Duc drew a revolver, determined to kill him. The brave Lucile noted the action, throw her arms about him and pinned him fast. Alfred looked around at this moment, just in time to see, as he imagined, his Lucile embracing another man. Deciding she was false, he waited not for explanations, but hurried to the home of Miss Darcy, and they were promptly wedded. The Duc returned sadly to his castle, while Lucile, weary of the world, sought refuge in a nunnery. Twenty-five years later, Lord Alfred, happy in the affection of his devoted wife and child, now grown to manhood, had forgotten the sadness of his youth The Duc had remained unmarried, but into his lonely life one ray of sunshine had penetrated. This was the daughter of his dead sister, a girl of sixteen. With her he visited England, as he felt his life of seclusion would not be a happy one for the young girl. In England, Lord Alfred's son and the Duc's niece met and promptly lost their hearts. When Lord Alfred learned of his son's affections, he placed no obstacle in the path of his only child's happiness. He felt no animosity toward the Duc, simply feeling that, although they had been rival suitors at one time for the hand of Lucile, the past should now he buried and forgotten. But the Duc, feeling that it was he who lost him Lucile's love, never forgave. When he learned his niece wished to marry the son of his ancient enemy he refused absolutely to sanction the union. The Duc, a French General, and Alfred's son, a lieutenant in the English army, were shortly called to the front. Part Three. Lord Alfred's son was wounded, and, being carried to the hospital tent, was nursed tenderly by Lucile. The young soldier had no desire to live, knowing that he could never wed the girl of his choice. Lucile gradually learned from him the cause of his secret sorrow, and going to the Duc entreated him for the memory of the love he once bore her, not to make desolate the life of his young niece as her love had been made desolate. The Duc was finally won over, and the young lovers reunited, while Lucile returned to her convent.
- The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her.
- In a lonely region of the Mojave Mountains lives Anne Carey with her son, Jonothan. One day while Jonothan is going to the city for their weekly supplies, he comes upon the hut of Jane Stevens, just at the noon hour, and seats himself under a tree near her home to eat his lunch. Upon his return to his home that night his mother notices in his actions an attitude of indifference. While in the town, Jonothan had made the purchase of a shawl and some ribbons as a gift to his mother, but in passing the hut of Jane Stevens on his way home she had come out and asked him to give her the ribbon instead of taking it home to his mother. These actions had been carefully watched from ambush by Hal Evers, an admirer of the woman, and he is filled with jealousy. Jonothan goes to see Jane often and becomes more and more infatuated with her. The mother follows him one day to ascertain his destination and when she learns the truth her heart is filled with misgivings for her boy. The mother goes to the woman and pleads for her son, but an obdurate ear is turned to her entreaties. Jane Stevens has a vain nature and desires more gold with which to purchase finery of attire. She devises a scheme with Hal Evers for a daring holdup of the stage coach and plans to use the unsophisticated for a dupe. The woman unfolds her plans to Jonothan and persuades him to commit the deed. At the opportune time and when the "haul" will be sufficient to justify their ends, Jonothan is given the signal by the wicked Jane and he perpetrates the robbery. In his flight he seeks and finds shelter in the hut of the woman. He gives her the booty. The woman espies the posse in the distance and quickly hurries Jonothan out of the hut toward a clump of underbrush. The posse ride up to the door of the hut and the woman points to the brush, thereby betraying the hiding place of the man who had given more than his life to satisfy her sinful vanity. Jonothan turns, and seeing the posse in pursuit, rushes toward his home. The posse follow him to his home and tear him from the arms of his mother. A suddenly awakened realization comes to Anne Carey that the entire wrong going of her son is due to the influence of Jane Stevens and the "animal within" her is fired into action. Taking a rifle from the wall of the cabin she rushes to the hut of the woman. Her arrival at the hut occurs during a violent quarrel between Jane Stevens and Hal Evers, who has come to her for his share of the booty. During the disagreement Jane alms a gun at Hal and shoots him. The mother of the wronged Jonothan now rushes upon Jane making a scathing denouncement of the mischief she has wrought and shoots her upon her own doorstep without a quaver.
- Two Newark policemen go undercover disguised as women. Officer Henderson attracts unwanted attention from an amorous man and suspicion from his wife.
- The scapegrace son of a saloonkeeper becomes infatuated with the daughter of one of his father's alcoholic customers, and frames her sweetheart in a crime.
- Belle Gordon, an orphan, finds an advertisement in the papers for a governess to apply to the Rev. Strong, at Cripple Creek, Col. She writes and has her fare advanced. Upon arriving there she finds the place consists of a crowd of disreputable miners and dance-hall girls. She learns that the advertisement was merely a trap to lure her out into the dance-hall of Martin Mason. She tries to get away but cannot. Dynamite Ann, one of the worst women of the place, remembering the time that she first came to Cripple Creek through the same sort of an advertisement, wishes to help the girl. Joe Mayfield, the United States Deputy Marshal enters, and, seeing Belle's plight, rescues her. He takes her away with him, and also Maggie, Mason's young daughter. He asks Dynamite Ann to go to his cabin to look after the girls. She accepts, grateful for the trust reposed in her. Reginald, a young dude from the east, dances attention on Maggie, while Joe Mayfield loses his heart to Belle. Joe is interested in a mine called the "Last Dollar" which is reputed to be worthless. Mason and his partner, Alvarez, discover gold in the mine and try to bargain with Joe for its possession. Joe refuses to relinquish it, and for revenge the Mexican takes up Joe's adopted child who is walking on the rocks and throws her down. As he goes up again Wahketa swings out on a grape vine and catches the child in midair. The next day Mason and Alvarez go down into the mine. Joe and Belle, coming down later, are surprised by them and tied hand and foot. Wahketa, who is also tied, manages to burn the cords off his hands and releases Belle and Joe. The three make their escape. A short time later, on the wedding day of Joe and Belle and Maggie and Reginald, Mason and Alvarez come and look in at the festivities. The wedding takes place and just as the guests are leaving the room, the Mexican shoots through the window at Joe, but Ann jumps forward and receives the bullet in her own heart. She dies in Joe's arms.
- Uncle Sam has many representatives in various vocations, paid to guard his interests. This Story deals with the intrigue of an official in the customs office. The ingenuity of a secret service man in apprehending the guilty culprit and his confederates is as essential to the story as it amusing. Love also enters and plays an important part in the unraveling of the perplexing mysteries. Just how the chapters indicated dovetail can be better witnessed than explained in the space available.
- John Morton, who loses his eyesight, discovers that his wife loves another man, who returns her affection. Rather than spoil her happiness and realizing that she no longer cares for him, he goes away, that she may get a divorce and he free. Alone, he wanders into the mountains, where he is found by a girl named Jess, who, seeing that he is blind, takes him to her father's cabin. Morton develops an ability to cure the poor simple mountain folk by praying over them. They have faith in him and his prayers and he never falls them. He becomes famous all through the mountains as the Faith Healer. Richard Mason, the man Morton's former wife is now married to, is stricken with paralysis. His wife takes him to a sanitarium in the mountains in the hope of having him cured. It so happened that this place is located very near where Morton is performing his wonderful miracle. Jess, seeing the sick man, suggests to his wife that she send for Morton. Without knowing whom it is, he is called upon to heal. Morton starts for the sanitarium. His former wife recognizes him, but fearing that he will recognize her voice, she keeps quiet. But the Faith Healer soon finds out his patient's identity. He opens his Bible and prays, but the man, who was not a believer, and whose life was not simple and good like the mountain people, dies as he reads the last verse.
- Mrs. Mayfield, sister of Judge Elliot, of Nashville, dispirited over the dissolution of an unfortunate marriage, sits moodily in the Elliot home and broods. Judge Elliot, one-armed and a stern old veteran, finds it impossible to control her. The Judge's son, Tom, intensely fond of his aunt, suggests that they go forth in search of adventure into the Tennessee mountains. Mrs. Mayfield eagerly seizes the chance of escape from fashionable boredom. Straightway they make arrangements, and a few days later arrive in the heart of the hills and in the midst of a civilization so primeval and natural that Mrs. Mayfield's delight knows no bounds. They arrive at the home of Jasper Starbuck, a giant mountaineer, whose strong but simple nature, quaint philosophy and fearless courage charm the city folk and furnish a needed balm for the gentle, wounded nature of Mrs. Mayfield. In the days that follow, Tom and Lou Starbuck, Jasper's daughter, learn to love each other. Jim Starbuck, a country preacher and nephew of Jasper, pays a visit to the Starbucks at this time. Long-legged, awkward and extremely diffident, but possessed of a soul that revels in the beauties of nature, and also possessing a quaint backwoods eloquence and dauntless physical courage, Jim Starbuck appeals strongly to the imagination of Mrs. Mayfield. They are thrown much together, and love comes before either realizes it. Only big Jasper Starbuck, with his keen eye and whimsical humor, discovers the secrets of both couples. Adjoining the Starbuck property is the home of Lije Peters, a bully but not a coward. He is also passionate, unscrupulous and murderous in his likes and dislikes. He loves Lou Starbuck, but the girl spurns him, and his smoldering anger quickens into revengeful hate. Near the Starbuck home, old Jasper has made moonshine whiskey without a government license, just as his father and grandfather had done before him, and just as many of the residents in the neighborhood did. It was no secret, and the United States officers had long ceased to penetrate the deadly hills for offenders. Eager for revenge on the Starbucks, Lije Peters applies for the position of Deputy United States Marshal. In the meantime he makes many trips to the Starbuck home, and threatens old Jasper, demanding the hand of his daughter and loans of money. One day Lije's appointment came. Soon afterward he and two deputy marshals from Nashville wreck the Starbuck still. Jasper Starbuck, who had many notches to his credit on the stock of his Winchester, oils that weapon and goes out after his enemies. Twice he had a bead on them and twice he lowers his rifle, remembering that his daughter Lou is now the wife of Tom Elliot and that his nephew Jim has married Mrs. Mayfield. He hurls the rifle from him and then goes down to meet the officers. He is taken to the jail at Nashville, where he awaits trial with all the fortitude he can summon. Tom Elliot had telegraphed his father acquainting him with his own marriage and that of his aunt, but failed to give the maiden name of his wife. In reply, Judge Elliot writes his son a good-natured letter of congratulation. Incidentally he mentions that he is about to try an old soldier named Starbuck for moonshining, and that the prospect was anything but pleasant. The news brought the honeymoon couples post haste to Nashville. Mrs. Jasper Starbuck, who had become lonesome in her mountain home, also came to the prison to see her husband at this time. Out of respect for Jasper Starbuck, as a veteran, Judge Elliot decides to try the case in his chambers and not before a jury. The old soldier's plea is so eloquent that the Judge pardons him. At this moment Tom and Lou and Mrs. Mayfield and Mrs. Starbuck arrive on the scene. The Judge learns for the first time that Jasper Starbuck is the father of his son's wife, and inquires why the old soldier had not acquainted him with the fact. "Jedge," he replied, "it would have looked like I was a-cringin'. I know how to bleed for my country, but I don't know how to beg for myse'f."
- A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
- Old Captain Blount, having retired from the sea, has taken his abode among the fishermen on the coast to stay near the ocean. He had been a tyrannical captain, and now no longer having a crew to dominate, he tries to direct his two daughters' lives in the same manner. Among the young fishermen, Bob Newcomer has found favor with the old "salt" and when he expresses a desire to marry the captain's older daughter Martha, the father tells her to prepare to wed the fisherman. Upon a cliff ranch, two young cowboys, Jack Woomer and Pete Neville, are employed. They met Martha and Mabel Blount and learned to love them. Bob Newcomer discovers this and notifies the old captain. Together, they interrupt one of the meetings and the father upbraids his daughters. But the cowboys are not resourceless. They go to the village where they secure licenses and await the arrival of the circuit-riding minister, who makes periodical trips in the vicinity. On the day of his arrival they secure his service, call the girls, and are married in the open air. Newcomer has been watching and hurries to the captain to tell him his daughters have gotten married. Pete Neville and his bride start down to procure the irate father's forgiveness; Newcomer raises his gun and kills the young bridegroom. Startled at the sound of firing, Jack Woomer and his new wife hurry down and come upon the tragedy. Newcomer and the captain have called a number of fishermen, who take Martha from her young husband by force and promise him the same fate that Neville received if he ever comes that way again. Woomer returns to the ranch and calls on the cattlemen to return with him and avenge their pal's death. They start for the beach and are soon engaged in conflict. Mabel, crazed with grief over her husband's death, wanders away to the treacherous rocks in the ocean. While the conflict is on, Martha sees her husband on the cliffs and hurries to him, followed by the ever-watchful Newcomer. Woomer and Newcomer fight and Woomer succeeds in throwing his adversary over the cliffs. Reunited, the husband and wife return to her father's home and put an end to the useless warfare, but they are too late. The old captain had fought his last fight and they find him lying in the doorway. Sick at heart they wander towards the beach, seeking Mabel and at an ebb tide they find her where the treacherous ocean had thrown her, for she has gone to join her husband in the land beyond.
- When John became engaged to Grace, a rich young society belle, she stipulated that he give up his fishing trips into the country. He had been in the habit of going off for weeks at a time by himself to fish and enjoy the quiet and solitude of the woods, but to please his capricious fiancée he promised to give up fishing and devote his time to her. The following summer, while they were staying at a large and fashionable country hotel, the lure of the woods became too strong for John to resist. Daily in the morning of the day set aside for his wedding, he left the hotel, equipped for a fishing expedition. On the same day. Gertrude, a little girl from one of the poorer cabins, sets out to catch some fish for breakfast. While fishing she hurts her foot. John, out in midstream, hears her cry and hastens to her aid. He does everything he can for her, and finally carries her home. He is so interested in the little wood nymph that he forgets all about the wedding and Grace, who is waiting for him impatiently. Angered at his non-appearance, Grace tells her parents she will not marry a man who evidently things so little of her, and. tearing off her wedding finery the spoiled beauty leaves the hotel with her parents. John, helping Gertrude's father, makes the girl more comfortable, suddenly remembers Grace. Looking at his watch he is surprised to see how late it is. He dashes out of the cabin and back to the hotel to learn that Grace is gone, leaving him a curt note, breaking the engagement. For a second he feels bad, then remembering the little wood nymph, he retraces his steps in the direction of the cabin.