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- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
- Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.
- Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.
- An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
- It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- Silas Kendall, a prospector, and his daughter Nell, so the story goes, are prospecting in the mountains, a few miles above Canyon City, a little western town, and the basis of supplies for the hundreds of more or less successful gold prospectors. Kendall has built him a cabin and he and his daughter, a robust little woman, have managed to eke out a living, always hopeful some day of making the "big strike." Kendall is old and not thoroughly responsible at times. In fact, his simplicity and childish trust in all strangers has earned him the uncomplimentary title of half-wit. Twice before our story opens he has lost two valuable claims because of his too freely proclaiming his finds with the consequence that his claims have been staked by other prospectors. The story opens showing Kendall and his daughter leaving the cabin for the hills. The girl works with him until close to the noon hour when she lays aside her pick and shovel to return to the cabin and prepare dinner. While she is thus engaged, there is a knock at the door and a young miner, Hal Martin, steps in. Martin has accidentally wounded himself in the arm while cleaning his gun and applies to the girl for help. She assists him to bind the wound and thanking her he leaves, after bashfully asking to be permitted to call again. Kendall, at work in the hills, is about to give up in despair, when he turns up two small nuggets and other fine pay dirt. With a glad cry he springs to his feet and hurries back to the cabin. Showing the specimens to Nell, he tells her he is going down to Canyon City and have them assayed. Nell, however, pleads with him not to do so, having in mind the other two valuable claims which he had unwittingly lost. He finally gives in and during the old man's absence from the room Nell hides the specimens in a coffee pot. Kendall returns and while Nell is busy outside, finds the specimens and skips out of the room. At the town store the old miner shows the specimens to a number of miners and despite the entreaties of the old store-keeper they entice Kendall to tell them the location of the mine. Nell returns to the cabin shortly after her father has left, finds the coffee pot on the floor and the specimens gone. She is about to give up in despair when there is a knock at the door and Hal Martin enters. The frantic girl explains her troubles and pleads with Martin to help her save the claim. At the store the old man has boastfully told of the rich vein and minutely described it to the other miners, who, when satisfied they will have no trouble in finding the location, run out of the store, mount and ride away. Back at the cabin Martin has listened to the story and tells the girl they must race back to the claim and beat the others to it. The girl quickly saddles a horse. Martin mounts his own and the race to stake the claim begins. The scenes alternate between the miners and the girl and Martin. However. Martin and the girl arrive just in time, and while Martin holds the others off with his gun, the girl stakes the claim. The others, realizing they are beaten, turn away, leaving Nell and Hal alone.
- Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- William Young and his daughter, Mildred, settle in the west, with the intention of investing their money in a mine. True Boardman, a mine shark, knowing that Young will be easy money, salts the mine and sells it to them. Some time later Broncho Billy meets Mildred and the two become infatuated with each other. Broncho discovers that Young's mine has been salted, so after telling him so, they plan to give the mine shark some of his own medicine, and consequently sell the re-salted mine to Boardman, realizing three thousand dollars more than he had paid for it. Broncho Billy wins the heart and hand of the pretty Mildred.
- Broncho Billy, a doctor and minister in the far west, is overwhelmed with grief one evening when he returns to his home to find a note from his wife stating that she could not bear the loneliness any longer and had gone to town with the man she loved. A few years later she is forced to her bed where she finally dies of a broken heart. Broncho had been told of her condition and hastens to her in time to kiss and forgive her. The negligent husband returns and Broncho Billy forgetting himself, is about to slay the man, when he suddenly remembers the note his wife had left for him, with these words, "Never forget your duty to your God."
- Broncho Billy, an express messenger, saved the life of Geraldine Burke, a school teacher. They learned to love each other and later married. One day, the village gossip informed some of the cowpunchers about town that Geraldine was entertaining a gentleman in her home. Broncho Billy was soon given the news and determined to settle with the critter immediately, but on second thought decided that if she loved him better than her husband, she could have him. That afternoon the messenger is shot in a gambling den. He refuses to allow the doctor to give him medical attention, but when the news is brought to him that the man Geraldine was entertaining is her brother, he decided that he wants to live, and the doctor pulls him through.
- Tom Allen visits his sister at boarding school where he meets Jane McArthur, and falls desperately in love with her charming beauty and personality. He spends a very pleasant week, taking the girls to the theater, skating, and making himself congenial generally. Some time later, Jane returns home to the country to spend the holidays with her mother. Jane discovers by reading the paper that the grand opera season has commenced in New York. Mrs. McArthur writes to her sister asking if Jane may visit for a few days. Mr. Lawrence, the uncle, Is very enthusiastic about it, while his wife and daughter, are displeased, Mr. Lawrence finally gets the consent of his wife to write Jane asking her to come on, Jane astounds her city relatives by appearing as a country yokel. That night at the party, Jane meets Tom Allen. To the surprise of everybody the young couple are married on the spot. The clever situations leading up to the climax are unique.
- Walter Jordan, with his invalid wife, new born babe, and daughter of three years, try to cross the valley of death to reach God's country. In the course of their travel they run out of water. Jordan, determined to get some, starts out on foot. Having been gone several hours, his wife, now in a serious condition, instructs the older child to find her father. During Jordan's absence a mail-carrier, taking a package of money across the valley, is held up and robbed. The outlaws find the child wandering far from the now destitute camp, the mother having died. They take the child back to camp where the infant, clasped in the arms of its lifeless mother, is huddled. They then hitch up the horses and are about to drive away when a posse arrives and places the two men under arrest. Jordan returns to the camp and finds his wagon gone. A deputy is sent back to get Jordan. Jordan is then taken to the town where the two men have been put in jail. The children are returned to their father. Jordan sobs out his grief at the loss of his wife, but happy in the return of his motherless babies.
- After an automobile accident in the country, a young man from the city finds himself being treated for his injuries by the farmer's daughter, with whom he falls in love.
- A reward is offered for the capture of Broncho Billy and David Kirkland and freedom is promised to either one who will turn state's evidence. Broncho and Dave are pals, but they fall out over a pretty Indian girl and Dave, who is jealous of Broncho Billy's success in winning the favor of the girl, tells the sheriff where to find Billy, and the latter is captured. Dave then writes a letter to the Indian girl under Billy's name and tells her that he is going away and cannot marry her. Fifteen years later Billy is released from prison and finds White Feather, the once pretty Indian girl, a gray-haired, worn-out squaw. She tells him that she became the wife of Dave and that he had deserted her. Billy sets out to get Dave, who has become a roving gambler. In the little town of Sennet, Dave has succeeded in getting the postmaster and storekeeper in his power and won his consent to let Dave marry his daughter Grace. The girl is engaged to a young ranchman, but agrees to marry Dave to save her father from disgrace. Just as the wedding is about to be performed, Billy comes on the scene with White Feather and several Indians of her tribe. Kirkland is exposed and is taken away by the Indians. Ned is sent for and marries Grace and Broncho Billy is happy.
- When a young man's fiancee is killed in a train accident, he loses his sanity. The two lovers are eventually united in death.
- Jason Watkins, a real estate and loan agent, enters his office in the little Arizona town of Navajo, to find that during the night robbers have visited the place and broken into his safe, taking with them a large sum of money and other valuables. Watkins immediately notifies the sheriff, a posse is hurriedly organized and a search made for the culprits. However, their search is unfruitful, and Sheriff Watkins dismisses the posse and rides on to a neighboring town. In the meantime Big Bill Hastings, the robber, who has hidden in the hills until satisfied the posse has given up the chase, has examined his loot and stowed it away in his shirt bosom. For the first time in twenty-four hours he has thought of food, and now finding his inner man crying to be fed, he mounts his horse and cautiously rides down the trail. A few hours later he enters a gambling house in the town to which the sheriff has also ridden, eats and drinks, and after turning the roulette wheel a few times just to test his luck, saunters out, and into the arms of Sheriff Wells. The sheriff recognizes him and draws his gun before Big Bill has recognized his pursuer. Bill submits to the arrest good naturedly, and goes back with the sheriff to the hotel, where they must wait for a morning train hack to Navajo. The evening drags slowly and the sheriff suggests that they visit the gambling house just to pass the time away. At the table the sheriff sits down just for a friendly game or two, though he is warned by Bill that he is likely to get cleaned. The sheriff plays and loses, and unmindful of Bill's advice, lays out more chips on the table. Bill yawns and stalks to the door, and turning to the sheriff says, "I am going to bed, sheriff; I will be there when you come." In the west in the early days a man's word was as good as his bond, and despite the fact that Big Bill would probably serve a long sentence if found guilty, the sheriff knew the bad man would keep his word. Later Sheriff Wells, stripped of his money, and of Jason Watkins' money, which he had taken off his prisoner, enters his room at the hotel. Bill is there, steeping peacefully, but awakens when the door closes. The sheriff confesses his loss of the money. Bill listens silently and finally tells the sheriff to go to bed. Shortly after, when the sheriff has dropped off to a restless sleep, Bill slips a weapon from the sheriff's belt and slips out of the room. The next scene shows him stealthily entering the gambling house, where the proprietor, alone, is counting up the day's receipts. He is masked and the proprietor is unable to recognize him though his intentions are easily apprehended. In the end Big Bill leaves with the stolen money, gambled away by the sheriff, and returns it to him. The sheriff, glad to get the money back, allows his prisoner to go after exacting a promise of reformation from him.
- Jeff Bandera, outlaw, has been capture by the sheriff, who is taking him by rail to the nearest lockup. Jeff is desperate and when the train slows down to a curve he makes a leap through the window and, despite his handcuffs, escapes serious injury. Before the sheriff can leave the train and pursue him Jeff has taken refuge in the gulches of the rough country and the officer's only hope of recapture is to notify the sheriff of the next county, who makes a fruitless attempt to get the outlaw. Up in the hills, Jeff breaks the handcuffs over a a stone, and so is free, but hungry and unarmed. His opportunity of securing a weapon comes when he sees Cal Evans, a cowpuncher, dismount to tighten a cinch. Stealing up behind the unsuspecting cowpuncher, Jeff jerks the revolver from the man's belt, and at the point of a gun forces him to give op his horse. He is now mounted and armed and is sure be will be able to get a good start before the cowboy can give the alarm. Soon he comes to the lonely ranch house of the Lazy K outfit, where Gladys, the ranchman's daughter, is alone except for Prairie Flower, a deaf and dumb Indian girl. Gladys has taught the squaw the white man's finger talk, and the girl repays her benefactor with a strong devotion peculiar to her race. We see Gladys dispatch the squaw on an errand to the spring. Instructing her in the sign language, and the squaw takes the bucket and goes out. Scarcely has she gone when Jeff enters the house, and threatening Gladys with the revolver, orders her to prepare a meal for him. She has no fear of him so long as she complies with his demand and sets food before Jeff, who eats ravenously. His appetite satisfied, the ungrateful outlaw makes advances to Gladys, who now realizes that she is in a dangerous position. However, she is a resourceful girl, and in seeking for some way out of her predicament she remembers Prairie Flower. Concealing her resentment of Jeff's love-making, she so maneuvers as to place herself between him and the window, and glancing out sees the Indian girl returning from the spring. She gives no sign of this to Jeff, who is unaware there is another human being within miles of the ranch house. Carrying out her pretense of a flirtation with the outlaw, she seats herself coquettishly on the window sill, and while talking and joking with him she slips one hand out of the window and attracts the attention of the squaw. In sign talk she tells the girl of her plight, and that she will hold the man there until the Indian girl can bring the boys or the sheriff to effect the capture. The Indian girl obeys the silent order and after a wild ride finds and notifies the sheriff, who gathers a posse and follows her back to the ranch house. Here matters are reaching a crisis. The girl's mild responses to Jeff's attentions no longer satisfy him, and in desperation she makes an attempt to get the revolver from him. She tries to escape into the open, but he blocks the door, and then believing her entirely cornered and at his mercy, he again attempts to take her in his arms. But in his pursuit of the girl he has grown careless, and does not hear the approaching horses outside. The door is flung open, and before the surprised outlaw can make a move in his defense, he is in the hands of the posse, whom the deaf squaw has brought to the rescue of her mistress.
- A shot during a struggle, and Frank Morrison is branded with the mark of Cain, but by his own efforts the real murderer is discovered.
- Both "Alkali" and "Mustang" Pete loved Betty Brown, and the lady had her hands full in keeping the lovers from shooting each other. One day "Alkali" called on Betty with a pair of handsome saddle horses and asked her to go riding with him. She agreed, but the resourceful "Mustang," driving up with a handsome horse and carriage, carried off the lady. "Alkali" goes to the village inn, inclined to drink himself to death, but finally trades for an old junk automobile his two horses, and clambering in the seat, starts in pursuit of his rival and the lady. Overtaking them, he has no difficulty in persuading Betty to ride with him. But the auto breaks down and "Alkali," endeavoring to fix it, turns on the juice and the rattle-trap car starts down the trail at lightning speed, leaving "Alkali" behind. After a thrilling and exciting ride the car is ditched and poor Betty is thrown headlong into the road.
- Thomas Terpin, James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring housebreaker, whom the police are powerless to capture. Jack makes a wager with Terpin that he can rob and get away with it. Terpin takes him up and agrees to pay a forfeit of $100 if Jack returns to the club within three hours with something valuable he has stolen. The adventures he has are screamingly funny and the climax comes with most amazing and amusing results.
- Broncho Billy, half crazed with liquor, enters a saloon and demands a bottle of whiskey. This he absorbs about half, which places his physical and mental condition in a state of sub-consciousness. Completely intoxicated, Broncho Billy is placed on his horse and led away. Having ridden a few miles in this condition, he falls off his mount unconscious. Mabel Clark, a squatter's daughter, discovers him by the roadside, washes off his aching brow, and brings him to. Appreciative of her kind act he later saves her and her father from being cast out of their humble home into the wilds of the country, by a disappointed suitor.
- Broncho Billy loses his job and is forced to go west in search of employment. He lands in a small western town, where he takes up gold mining. Stockdale, a westerner, also meeting with bad luck, consults Broncho Billy, and the two determine to hold up the stagecoach that day. Broncho's wife goes in search of him and is met by Stockdale, who informs her that her husband is in the next town and that the stage is leaving in a very few moments. Stockdale tells Broncho Billy that his wife is on the stage and not to hold it up. Broncho Billy meets his wife at the hotel and there is a happy reunion. He determines to start life anew.
- After holding up a stage-coach, Broncho Billy disappears into the woods on horseback. The driver of the coach unhitches one of the horses and rides to the nearest town, notifies the sheriff, who goes in pursuit with the posse. Broncho abandons his horse and takes to the underbrush. The sheriff and his men, finding the horse riderless, dismount and take up the trail. Broncho is finally seen by the sheriff, who shoots at him. Broncho, returning fire, kills him. Years later the sheriff's widow is in destitute circumstances through the loss of her husband. The baby, now a boy of about eight years, discovers Broncho Billy in the woods, suffering from loss of blood and lack of food. He gives Broncho a piece of bread and returns to the shack for more. During this brief period Broncho faints, and is found unconscious by the returning boy, who runs and tells his mother. She carries Broncho into her home, where, on reviving he recognizes a picture on the wall as that of the former sheriff. Taking a reward notice out of his pocket that offers $5,000 for his capture, dead or alive, he writes on the bottom of it: "Sheriff, I'm a goner. This woman is entitled to the reward. Please see that she gets it." After his death the widow notifies the sheriff. He has the body removed, then OK's the note left by the dead outlaw and assures the widow she will receive the reward. With her boy clasped in her arms she watches the posse disappear down the rugged trail.
- Mary, a farmer's daughter, is noted for the delicious beans she takes. When her father engages a cook, Mary is terribly hurt and leaves her home for the city, where she finds employment as a cook in a restaurant. The old saying, "The best way to a man's heart is through his stomach," proves true, and she soon has a host of admirers. Many funny incidents occur through these admirers trying to make love to the pretty country cook. Her father and sweetheart go to the city in search of her. They find her in a restaurant cooking beans for the patrons. They induce her to return home, where her sweetheart tells her that she can cook beans for him the rest of her life.
- This is a pleasing story of a young married couple, who are the victims of a boarding house. They decide to move, to keep house for themselves, and a week later we find them in a cozy flat in the suburbs. Mrs. Hunter has an irresistible desire to purchase everything for the apartment at a "bargain," and many humorous incidents occur on this account. The climax comes when she finally purchases an oil stove, which not only smokes up the whole apartment, but finally explodes. They decide that although boarding costs more, it is cheaper in the end, especially when the home is run by an inexperienced housekeeper.
- An interesting educational picture, featuring one of the largest duck farms in the country, and showing the various ages of the fluffy little creatures from the time they are hatched.
- Vincent Calvert, an author of fame, is engaged to marry Alice Montague. In spite of his greatness, he is not a MAN, instead he is weak and shallow. Like a coward he placed a note in her room, telling her he could not marry her, that he was wedded to his work. She suffered and her mother consoled her through the dark days that followed. Calvert finally marries his private secretary, and her position is filled by a man. While the husband worked, the secretary and Calvert's wife became very friendly, so friendly in fact, that Calvert's former sweetheart overheard them planning to elope. The girl was undecided what to do; should she tell the former sweetheart of his wife's faithlessness? Well, she fought it all out with herself. Then she decided to save his happiness and show the light of right to the young wife. And it was a sacrifice too.
- John Gould, a gold miner, out of food and in desperate circumstances, sends his young daughter, Kathleen, to the general store, thinking, perhaps, that the store keeper will give the child some food. Kathleen is refused, Dan Jordan, a gambler, seeing the child in tears, offers her assistance. Gould thanks the gambler from the bottom of his heart, and tells the latter that if he will grubstake him, Gould will give him half interest in the mine. The gambler stakes him. A year later the gambler returns to the town broke. Gould refuses to come to his assistance. An explosion occurs in the mine and Gould is seriously injured. He dies, leaving Kathleen and the mine to the gambler.
- Tom Carr, touring the country in his new machine, has a puncture. While the chauffeur is repairing it, Tom takes a stroll and meets Sylvia Scott, whose father runs a sanitarium for nervous disorders. Tom thinks Sylvia is an inmate and by a clever ruse enters the sanitarium as a patient. What they do to Tom in the way of severe treatments for nervousness is a caution. Just see how he gets out of it.
- Willie Nutt, an aspirant to athletic honors, thinks he sees some easy money when he reads Professor Brawn's notice in the lobby of a theater offering $100 to anyone who will put him on his back. Willie resolves to make a try, and passing a book store observes in the window a volume labeled, "How to Wrestle." No sooner seen than bought, and Willie immediately goes into training. Willie reads the book as he walks home, and becomes interested in the passage, "grab your opponent by the calf of the left leg and force him on his knee." Willie wants to experiment, and a passing Chinaman, with a bundle of wash on his back, is the victim. The two are soon struggling together, and a lively match ensues until the Chinaman breaks away and runs down the street yelling "murder" and "police." Willie's next victim is an automobilist, stretched out under his machine, hammering at a loose bolt. Willie drags the chauffeur from under the machine, throws down a blanket for a mat and proceeds to lay about the surprised fellow for all he is worth. The autoist resents the attack, however, and Willie is somewhat the worse for the encounter when he is kicked on his way. Willie's other victims are a chap scrubbing a walk, a woman beating a carpet and a young fellow washing windows. Willie gets off comparatively easy with the two former, but when the window washer gets him he hurls him through the window onto a dining table, demolishing an excellent repast. He does not linger long, however, but is hurled out the window again, bruised and sore. After other adventures Willie feels he has had sufficient training and goes to the theater to meet the champion. When the usual invitation is extended the audience, Willie is on his feet and with his valuable book in his hand goes to meet the champion. The following scene is one of the funniest ever. Willie constantly consults his book, and is an easy mark for the big wrestler. The latter finally takes him by the neck, hurls him around his head several times and deposits him on the mat, flat on his back. After some time Willie is able to arise and then and there makes the solemn resolve: "Never again!"
- After the death of his wife at the birth of a daughter, Richard Buckley, a man of wealth, leaves the surroundings, which being unbearable to him, have temporarily crazed him. Entrusting to the care of his old nurse, Fanchette, the bringing up of his little baby girl, Nita. Sight of him is lost for a number of years. At last his heart's wounds are partially healed and a longing comes over him for a sight of the child he has never seen since a baby. But fate wills otherwise, and on the eve of his departure for his home town, he is mortally stricken by a stroke of paralysis. Knowing that he is in a precarious condition, he summons a lawyer to take charge of his affairs. But here enters fate again. The lawyer, to Buckley's dismay, reveals his identity as that of Burton, a once-upon-a-time rival for the hand of the girl whom Buckley married. The vengeful spirit never left this man, and he, seeing Buckley unable to defend himself, tells his intentions of using the papers and money to his own advantage. The shock of this man's villainous intentions brings on a complete paralysis, and Burton, after gathering up all the clues to Buckley's identity, leaves. Later, Buckley, without means of telling who he is, and without funds, is sent to the State Institute for the Helpless, which happens to be in his home town. Part two opens fifteen years later with Burton, who, having spent the money, has successfully palmed himself off as Buckley. Fanchette, the old nurse, feels that something is wrong, but now nearly totally blind, she is unable to prove what she fears. The girl, Nita, also feels a natural aversion to him, because the love which he bears toward her is unnatural. This she confides to Oliver, a young doctor and her sweetheart, who is in charge of the State Institute. Later, Buckley meets the girl, whom he is sure is his own daughter, and also sees the relations existing between his daughter and Burton. His mind is certain, but being a total paralytic, he is helpless to interfere. Again, at a later time, father, daughter and villain are brought together. The two men have a scene in which the villain, Burton, recognizes Buckley, and fearful lest something should happen, resolves that Buckley must be gotten rid of for good. He nearly succeeds in his attempt, but is overcome. Buckley, face to face with death, breaks the chains of bondage, and Burton, realizing the game is up, is seen no more. Buckley presents himself as the father, and on proof furnished by himself and Fanchette, the nurse, is taken to the arms of his loving daughter. The story ends with a pretty tableau, in which they are united.
- It seems a pity that some people are allowed the care of children. Broncho Billy hears a child scream and rushes on the scene in time to prevent Jim Haley, a big brute of a man, from beating his little daughter, Josie, with a horse whip. Later, Haley and Pedro, a half-breed, are caught rustling cattle and are given the customary treatment, but not before Haley writes a note to Josie, stating that the boys will take care of her. The boys send Josie east to school and ten years later, when she returns a young lady, they all fall in love with her. Broncho Billy tells Josie how much be cares for her, but she tells him she loves him only as a daughter would love her father, and that her heart is given to Jack Patton. Broncho Billy is heartbroken. Patton, who has led a rather wild life, promises Broncho Billy he will reform to make himself worthy of Josie.
- Slippery Slim and Mustang Pete are rivals to marry the widow Sophie Clutts.
- Mr. Lighthead rises from the breakfast table one morning, hustles into his overcoat and hat, kisses his wife good-bye and hurries out to catch the next downtown car. Mrs. Lighthead waves him good-bye and then returns to the baby. The little one has been in a bad mood ever since it has waked up and Mrs. Lighthead, after having tried all means to soothe it, is in a quandary what to do. Suddenly she makes the important discovery that baby is cutting her first tooth! The little woman is elated and hurriedly runs to the 'phone to tell her husband about it. Mr. Lighthead is in his office going through his morning's mail when the telephone jangles violently. He hurries to answer it and recognizes his wife's voice. "Come home quick! Hurry, please hurry! Baby-" but the connection is suddenly broken and the excited Lighthead jumps for his hat conjuring up all sorts of terrible accidents which may have happened to his wife and baby. A vivid picture of his house in flames spurs him to greater speed as he runs down the street in the direction of his home. A man in a sleigh volunteers to drive him home, but in rounding a corner the sleigh is overturned and Lighthead is ducked into a snowdrift. He runs for a passing car, which is already crowded to more than its capacity and in an effort to scramble aboard is pushed off into a mud puddle. He hails a passing taxicab, but immediately he seats himself within it the engine breaks down and later, in endeavoring to fix it, the engine explodes and tears his clothes to remnants. After other adventures Lighthead resolves to finish his journey afoot. But two policemen stop him and he is released only when he is identified by the family physician. Lighthead explains and, followed by the policemen and the surgeon, he finishes the disastrous journey when he runs panting up his front steps. Mrs. Lighthead greets her husband, smiling delightedly. "O, dear," she exclaims, "I'm so glad you came. Baby is cutting her first tooth, poor thing!" And Lighthead falls fainting into the arms of the law.
- Tom Morgan, a factory hand, is tempted by drink, falls, is summoned before Williams, president of the concern, who discharges him. Morgan reels out swearing to be revenged on Williams. Returning to his home he broods over his discharge, finally secures his revolver and rushes out to kill Williams in spite of the frantic pleading of his wife and daughter. Gaining admittance to Williams' mansion, Morgan confronts him in the library in a towering rage, but is restrained from violence by Williams, who cautions him to think of his family. With the promise of work if he swears off drinking, Morgan leaves. A moment later, Williams seriously wounds himself with a revolver he is cleaning. He is found unconscious, the revolver beside him, and Morgan is instantly suspected of the shooting. Morgan is arrested at his home, brought to Williams' bedside, where matters are finally straightened out through Morgan's own revolver which is produced and shown to have not been discharged, and Williams' statement of how he accidentally shot himself. A few months later, Tom signs the pledge and is reinstated in a good position by Williams.
- Bill Jones is in arrears with Mrs. Swatt, his landlady, and she tells him to produce the money or leave. He borrows ten dollars from his next door neighbor, Tom. Bill sees the landlady enter with a stunning-looking girl and in order to make a hit helps himself to Tom's new suit of clothes. He manages to meet the young lady as she is leaving the house and invites her to luncheon. When he comes to pay for it, he discovers that he left the money in his own pockets. In the meantime, Mrs. Swatt, in a rage at not receiving her rent, throws Bill's clothes out the window and they are picked up by a tramp. Bill comes back for the money, finds his clothes gone and the landlady hales him to the police station. The girl is also taken to the station and a general mix-up ensues, which is settled by the appearance on the scene of the tramp with Bill's clothes and the ten-dollar bill.
- John Binks, a post-office clerk, falls desperately in love with Mrs. Wilson, a society lady, who purchases a money order from the former. Binks reads the name signed on the money order, and that evening sends the lady a beautiful bouquet. The following day, Binks sends her a locket and chain. After having spent a few of his hard-earned dollars Binks discovers that he had sent the luxuries to Mrs. Wilson's colored maid, whose name Mrs. Wilson had used on the money order, having sent the money to the maid's mother. Binks collapses.