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- A hungry mosquito spots and follows a man on his way home. The mosquito slips into the room where the man is sleeping, and gets ready for a meal. His first attempts startle the man and wake him up, but the mosquito is very persistent.
- Little Dorothy's sister has two beaux, Mr. Fresh whom she dislikes and Mr. Backward, a bashful fellow, whom she decides is the man for her sister. The pranks the little girl plays on Mr. Fresh bring his courtship to a quick finish. The fun increases when the little girl tries to get the bashful beau to propose to her sister. Finally she hits on a scheme and writes to Mr. Backward that her sister loves him something awful and talks about him in her sleep. Backward encouraged by the letter visits his sweetheart but little Dorothy has to bring the two together through a very funny trick.
- Percy Pray is in love with Laura May, but her rich father says him nay. Percy finds a book on mental science on the secret of wealth, love, etc., by the exercise of will-power. Percy exercises his will-power on the girl, who rejects a rich suitor in his favor. Then he makes the old man take him into his business. Percy employs mental science to help their pretty housemaid to win back her lover. The girl expresses her gratitude by hugging him. Enter wifey, who sees this. Explosion. Back to ma for wifey. Wifey is just telling her mother that she will never, never see Percy again. Biff! Percy's mental science has been at work, and wifey runs back home to Percy's loving embrace.
- Mary Crosby is the daughter of a well-to-do villager who dislikes her sweetheart, John Howard and refuses his consent to their marriage. The couple elope and Mary's father swears that he will never forgive her. John loses his position and becomes seriously ill. Mary goes to her father to plead for help for her husband who the doctor says cannot recover unless he is taken to a warmer climate. The old man refuses and drives her out. Later the distressed girl wife re-enters her own home and takes from her father's desk a sum of money needed to help her husband. Her father enters and in the midst of cursing her he falls dead of apoplexy. Horror-stricken the girl puts back the money just as her mother enters. Imagine the poor girl's remorse when she returns to her home and finds that her mother has left money to help them. John recovers and when the father's will is read it is found that he has left a handsome sum of money to the daughter he has disowned.
- Richard Stanley, a young millionaire seeking a new experience, dresses himself up as a tramp to go slumming in earnest. He rescues Arthur Harvey, a society swell, from two drunken sailors who were assaulting him. Harvey takes Stanley to his home. He introduces the supposed "bum" as young Stanley, the missing millionaire, to Ethel Lane, a beautiful young girl, who had rejected Harvey's proposal of marriage. Stanley enters into the game, and he and the girl fall in love with each other. At a dinner party Mr. Lane announces the engagement of his daughter to Stanley. A letter comes from Harvey, stating that Stanley is really a tramp whom he picked up in the street, but Harvey's nasty scheme is exploded, and he is dumbfounded when the young man proves that he is really Stanley, the millionaire.
- Edith St. Clair, a beautiful orphan girl, heiress to a large estate is informed by her lawyer that Robert Uptown, the young man whom her deceased parents wish her to marry has returned from Europe and will call on her. The girl wishing to make sure that the man she is to marry loves her for herself and not for her money pretends to be a maid and has her maid pretend to be the mistress. A similar idea occurs to Uptown and he and his valet change places. Dramatic and humorous situations arise when the two women fall in love with the supposed valet and the butler who is in love with the real maid takes a hand in the game.
- Peking, like Paris, abounds in out-of-door restaurants, which make unusually attractive the first part of Dr. Dorsey's "Wonders of the Orient." There is introduced, too, genuine Pekinese pugs and primitive building methods, showing street vocations, with primitive Chinese labor. Women burden bearers are introduced, as is the method of drilling a well, practically all of Peking's water supply coming from surface wells. The pottery and willow shops, with their workers, are intimately introduced, while there is to be seen a public well, an enjoyable game of dominoes and, in the distance, a Christian Mission church.
- Carrol Morten, a young society man, disappointed in love, becomes a woman-hater. To get away from women he visits the ranch of an old friend, "Pop" Lamed. Enter "Pop's" pretty niece also for an unexpected visit. Morten snubs the girl, who has fallen in love with him. While out riding Morten is captured by some bad Indians and in the struggle to save his life Morten kills one of the Indians. The band carry Morten off to torture him by fire. The girl sees the Indians capture Morten and after a thrilling ride pursued by an Indian, the girl reaches the ranch house and tells of Morten's plight. The brave girl leads eight white men to where Morten, bound to a tree, is about to be burned to death. The white men arrive just in time and with a few well-directed shots, drive off the Indians and rescue Morten. In the last scene the woman hater realizes that all girls are not alike, and he breaks his vow.
- Barnacle Bill, a hunchback fisherman, rescues a child from the sea. He brings her up in the hope of making her his wife, but she eventually falls in love with a young man her own age.
- Billings and Meeker are two brow-beaten husbands who are dominated by their wives. The women are leaders in a "Rights for Women" club, and they neglect their household duties to show the way to their sisters in the cause. On the day of an important meeting of the club, Billings and Meeker are forced to listen to harsh words from their wives and are in rebellious spirits and ripe for mutiny. The occasion presents itself for an attractive looking young woman calls on Billings soliciting funds for a charitable institution. Billings is favorably impressed and besides his wife has just given him a curtain lecture. The girl is susceptible to flattery, and before she leaves, the henpecked husband has arranged a little supper, at which Meeker and her chum are to be guests. Telephones are brought into requisition and the affair is arranged to the joy of the two husbands. They repair to the restaurant appointed and have an uneasy half hour waiting for their fair guests. In the meantime their wives are spellbinding the members of the club at a stormy session. The young women arrive at the café and the dinner proceeds. Meeker succumbs to the influence of the wine and becomes tipsy. Just about this time a young man calls and takes the solicitor and her chum away. Billings pays the check out of Meeker's wallet and lugs him to his home, lying him on a couch. Mrs. Billings returns and Billings eludes her. She sees Meeker just as his wife calls. Billings bursts in and accuses his wife of an affair with his friend. The women indulge in a hair-pulling match whereat the men wax jubilant, and the scene closes with the husbands getting good and even with their wives.
- A group of boys are fishing by a pond. One of them was more thoughtful than the others in providing himself with a large wedge of pie. In the laws of Boyland possession is 99 points of the law. A piece of pie in the stomach is worth two in the hand. The pie is stolen by Tommy and his chums, who establish their right to it by running faster than the loser of the pie. The pie did not set well on the stomachs of the youngsters who fell asleep at the foot of a tree, weary after their long run. The pie causes Tommy to dream, and a wondrous dream it is. Being somewhat of a robber, he dreams that he robs a bird's nest. He quarrels with his chum over a division of the eggs and they part company. Walking through the field Tommy is confronted by a sparrow his own size, who accuses him of robbery and calls a bird policeman who arrests the frightened lad and locks him up in a large bird cage. The trial of Tommy is a very solemn affair. The birds of the forest have assembled in the courtroom of the feathery kingdom and the culprit faces old Judge Eagle, stern and forbidding. The bird jury brings in a verdict of guilty and Tommy is sentenced to die. The solemn procession to the block begins, where the lad is to be beheaded. Slowly the Dove minister leads the death march followed by a committee of wise owls. The Rock, the Linnet, the Stork, the Robin and the Wren and the Bluebird, all are there for this serious case. Behind Tommy walks Mr. Crow, the executioner. They arrive at the block, and just as the axe is about to descend, Tommy wakes up. His chum wakes, too, and proposes that they rob a bird's nest, but Tommy has seen things from a bird's point of view and never again will be so heartless as to rob a bird's nest.
- Helen Walters has expensive tastes which the narrow means of her father cannot satisfy. To obtain money she forges his name to a check. The imposition is discovered. In her extremity, the girl confesses her crime to her brother. Moved, he takes the blame for the forgery upon himself. The father, a man of old-fashioned Ideas, allows his son to be sent to prison. A few years later the girl is married to the district attorney. Her brother escapes and seeks out his sister. It is night and as he enters the house the attorney beholds a stranger embracing his wife. He breaks into the room, but the escaped felon has had time to hide. The wife denies the accusation of her husband. In a fit of jealous rage he chokes her to death. The brother returns to the room and tells the district attorney that the dead woman is his sister. Then a strange thing happens. The attorney becomes pursued with the horror of his crime; he cannot control the muscles of his fingers; they repeat and repeat the action of strangling his innocent wife, until he dies, a victim of his imagination.
- Ames is ill, apparently, and his physician advises him to take outdoor exercise. He retires to his country home, and, giving his gardener a holiday, he proceeds to do the man's work. Next door, a new family have moved in, a husband and wife, little girl, and the husband's charming sister. Bessie, the sister, mistakes Ames for a hired man and Ames humors her along, and thus plays a joke upon her. To get even with him, Bessie leads him to think that she is her brother's wife and the mother of the little girl. This leads to the most romantic complications, especially when the child succeeds in locking Ames and Bessie in the library on the second floor of Ames' house, and sends the only key to the door up into the air tied to a bunch of toy balloons. Poor Ames tries to make a martyr of himself, but is not permitted, and to his joy, suddenly finds himself possessed of a blushing, but rather mischievous little bride-to-be.
- Jim and Bill are chums and partners in a mine. Both are in love with pretty Nora Martin, who accepts Bill. An explosion of powder in the mine destroys Bill's eyesight. Jim falls in love with Nora's friend Kate. Poor Bill in despair over his blindness is about to commit suicide, but Jim prevents him from doing so. Then Jim persuades Nora to go with a minister to Bill's cabin to marry Bill and save him from despair. Bill, thinking that Jim intends to marry the girl, knocks him senseless, and believes he has killed him. Then Bill learns the truth from the girl. Bill is happy when he finds that he has not killed his chum, who presides at the wedding. Later Bill brings about Jim's marriage to Kate.
- Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hearing of this the previous couple plan to balk the father; their scheming is overheard by the cracksman, who has stealthily entered the house. The son and his wife retire and the cracksman creeps upstairs and enters Marcia's room. Affected by her beauty and innocence as she lays sleeping, he determines to assist her; following the son into the sick man's room he snatches the stolen will from his hand. Impatient at the delay the wife goes to the room and finds her husband stunned. She screams. The father awakens, gropes about and falls dead. In his own apartment the cracksman looks over the document and later he reads in the papers where the question of millions is at stake. Making a dummy he takes them both to the house where the original came from in time to prevent Marcia being bundled out. Holding the dummy up the cracksman extorts money from the son for it and then bums it. But ere the son can take possession the real will is brought forth; he holds the scheming couple at bay while Marcia makes her escape.
- John Dobbs, an aged farmer, comes to the village with his family, and while there makes the sale of a cow for a good sum. The farm wagon drives away filled with pleased country folk, who have been to the hamlet to do some shopping. The payment of the money is witnessed by two tramps, who follow Farmer Dobbs home. He is set upon and robbed and the tramps make their escape, running in view of little Margaret, a granddaughter of the old farmer. Another child discovers the plight of the robbed man, who is bound, and neighbors set him free. There is a search for the highwaymen and the irate farmers are aided by Margaret in a most ingenious manner to capture the tramps by reason of their leaving tell-tale evidence. The story is interpreted in a most charming manner. Baby Earley plays the role of the child detective in a most astute way, and is rewarded for her vigilance.
- John Packer, who has made his money in pork, wishes to invade society. He meets Mrs. De Knickerbocker, who has a son, Tom. Mrs. De Knickerbocker is aristocratic but poor. Needing money, she conceives the idea of marrying Tom to Nellie, the packer's daughter. Packer is delighted. Tom and Nellie write notes to their respective parents refusing absolutely to be tied up and suggesting that the parents marry. The suggestion is taken up, for Mrs. De Knickerbocker is sadly in need of funds and Packer is determined to get into society. Meanwhile Tom and Nellie accidentally arrive at the same beach resort and each registers under a fictitious name. The afternoon of his arrival Tom helps some kids on the beach build a tall sand man. That night Nellie goes for a walk in the moonlight, followed by Tom. Black Joe and Nifty Kid see the glitter of gems on Nellie's hands and follow her. The thugs are attacking her when Tom comes up. He sends The Kid to the sand with a sharp blow and tackles Joe. The girl is freed. Horrified, she sees The Kid recover and draw a gun to shoot Tom. Nellie topples the sand man over on the Kid and the villains are captured. Nellie and Tom are now acquainted, and fearing a mere summer flirtation, each decides to test the other. Nellie announces to Tom that she is not rich, but merely a cloak model taking her vacation as a swell. He then tells her that he is a plumber and poor. Then Mr. and Mrs. John Packer arrive. Recognition, consternation, forgiveness and then delight ensue. The old folks needn't have married after all, but the double deal in pork has been put through nevertheless.
- There is an old saying which tells us that we cannot know people fully well until we have lived under the same roof with them. If the wife in this story had known it, she might never have entertained the friend who came to visit her, for it is this same friend, the chum of her girlhood days, who opens the first chapter of an intrigue which wrecks the happy home. But there is a Providence which presides over such matters and which in this case, sends a representative to earth, so to speak. This envoy is a little daughter of the couple through whom fate pulls her strings in such a way that before the picture is finished, her little arms are drawing her separated parents together into loving embrace.
- Carter Gordon, a young Virginian, is in love with Alice Warren, the daughter of a Northern army officer. The young lovers have just received the consent of the girl's parents to their marriage, when the Civil War breaks out and General Warren is called back to Washington to resume his military duty. When Gordon announces that he will stand by his native State, Virginia, the General denounces him as a reb; the engagement is broken off, and Gordon goes away in the Confederate Army. Three years later, Gordon's regiment is near the Warren plantation, and Gordon risks his life in several thrilling scenes to visit his sweetheart. The girl at first treats him coldly, hut love triumphs, and the lovers are happy in their reunion. Union troops camp near the Warren plantation, and Union officers make the Warren mansion their headquarters. The girl conceals her lover and later helps him to escape. The Union officers go into the dining room to dinner. Little Grace, the nine-year-old sister of Alice, enters the drawing room with a paper doll and a pair of scissors. She wants a piece of paper to make a dress for the doll and she takes one of the sheets left on the table by the Union officers. Later the officers discover the loss of the paper, and Alice is led to believe that her lover has stolen it. She tells the officers about Gordon's visit, and after a thrilling chase and fight Gordon is captured and brought back into the presence of the girl, who tells of his visit and denounces him as a cowardly spy. The soldiers leave, taking Gordon with them. He is tried and condemned to be hanged as a spy. Meanwhile little Grace enters and shows her mother and sister the paper doll and dress that she has cut out of the missing map. Alice declares she will save her lover. Taking the paper doll, she dashes away on her horse, and we show the most thrilling ride that has ever been done by a woman in motion picture work. The soldiers have put a rope around Gordon's neck and he is about to be hanged, when the girl dashes up. She shows the missing paper and the officer orders the soldiers to untie Gordon.
- A series of eleven one reel comedies, each episode complete in itself, in which Detective Duck, an inventor as well as a detective, manages to outwit Lady Baffles, a lovable crook; the titles of each episode are: Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in... 1) The Great Egg Robbery; 2) The Sign of the Sacred Safety Pin; 3) The Eighteen Carrot Mystery; 4) Baffles Aids Cupid; 5) The Signal of the Three Socks; 6) Saved by a Scent; 7) The Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage; 8) The Ore Mystery; 9) When the Wets Went Dry; 10) The Lost Roll; 11) Kidnapping the King's Kids.
- The large lakes of Italy are alone in their glory. They possess an atmosphere that is not to be found about any other of the world's famous lakes. Lake Maggiore is the pride of all Italians, and is here shown in all its beauty. Some excellent views are had of the Borromees Islands and numerous character studies of native boatmen in their queer craft.
- Two friends, Tad and Jack, are conversing with each other at the Club, when Dr. Matthews, the wealthiest man in town, enters. In contemplating the rich man, the two young men speculate as to whether or not, with all his wealth, he is happy. The argument leads them to a wager. Tad bets $1,000 that there is something in the physician's life he would hate to have known, and that as a consequence he is unhappy. Jack accepts the bet. A short time afterward Jack is called away from home on business for an indefinite period. He leaves his wife behind. After a few months; during which Tad had been watching the physician's movements carefully, he follows the physician to Jack's home. It is as he thought. He will win the bet at the expense of his friend's wife. While he stands upon the porch sadly contemplating this, Jack returns. He sees that something is wrong. He suspects Tad. Tad tries to protect the wife, but Jack is dazed with the blow. They hurry into the house. Jack finds that his wife has just brought him a handsome baby. Tad makes his check for $1,000, and gives it to the new arrival.
- Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows. Cleo's father writes to Wally's father, reminding him of an agreement between them, whereby their daughter and son, respectively, were destined for each other as soon as Wally reached the age of twenty-one. Cleo is shown the precious missive by her father and flatly refuses to marry a man she has never seen. Wally is also informed of the agreement and is quite as emphatic. Cleo tries to run away and is locked in her room. Wally keeps clear of his father and works his automobile double time. The fathers meet and talk the matter over, and determine to be obeyed. Cleo in the meantime escapes. She sees Wally in his auto, hails him and in a cozy tea garden tells him her troubles. Cleo's father discovers her absence, and with Wally's father goes after the young couple, having learned where they are from the returning chauffeur. Seated at another table is the minister. When the irate fathers arrive the pair retreats. The unfortunate clergyman is taken along in the chase, which ensues. The youngsters are caught and are brought face to face with their doom, and to their mutual surprise the parents have no further objections to make.
- Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids the father good-bye just as the latter receives a telegram, telling him that he is a large sum short on margins. The broker reads and tells the father he will help him if he is allowed to marry the daughter. The father agrees against his will. The girl agrees to the self-sacrifice to save her father's honor. Money triumphs, and the broker and the girl marry, but as time goes on, he ill-treats her shamefully. She meets Wally and tells him why she could not marry him. The broker, returning home one night in an ugly temper, comes upon his wife sadly contemplating Wally's photograph. She flees before his threats to her room and telephones to Wally to help her. Wally hurries to her as the broker pounds on her door savagely with his revolver. It goes off and seriously wounds him. The distracted girl opens the door and picks up the revolver. Wallace finds her thus. The policeman, who has heard the shot, joins them. Wally thinking the girl fired the shot, tells the police he did it and is taken away. The broker continues to remain unconscious. The doctor reports to a galvanic battery. He recovers long enough to say that he shot himself.
- Louis Mona is left to the care of the monks of the monastery of San Luis, who have brought him up with love and care. Louis, who is devoted to his surroundings, and who knows nothing of the great outside world, and who has no great desire to learn about it in person, desires to join the order, but there is a rule that cannot be overlooked. He must do as others have done and travel for a year in the world in order to determine whether he really wants to become a monk. At the end of the twelve months he can be received into the walls of the monastery by applying at the gate at a given hour. In the chapel Louis kneels to receive the blessing of the good old prior, and the monks present him with gifts of food, money and clothes and bid him farewell. Louis, nervous of the venture, changes his garb and finds himself without the walls of his refuge, free to do his own will. He wanders on until he comes to a place where the roads cross. Which way to take? He decides the question by casting a leaf in the air and seeing which road it blows to. He is satisfied, but before proceeding he sits and rests and eats frugally. A handsome automobile comes to a stop nearby. There is trouble which has to be remedied. A beautiful young woman, wise in the ways of the world, gets out, and seeing the good looking boy, sits by him and talks to him. She learns his history and finally persuades him to accompany her. He goes to the great city with her. She gives him an introduction to her brother, who gives him a position in his banking establishment. The ways of the world appeal to Louis. Ho succumbs easily to the pleasures which surround him. He visits the girl often and a great intimacy springs up between them. One day be finds her smoking. He begs her not to offend that way and gives her a little cross, which he hangs round her neck. She is much affected by his counsel and commences to forsake her former ways and to lead a life of usefulness. He goes steadily down and down despite her efforts and the callings of his better nature. Finally comes drink and gambling and ruin, a stage where he cannot borrow. He shuns society and his fellows, but the desire to see the girl is ever present. One day he passes a hospital for contagious diseases and sees the girl going in, bent on charity. He sees her do this several times. One day he learns that she has caught the dread disease. He manages to see her for the last time; she dies with the little cross clasped to her breast, and Louis goes away and fights his battle out. He duly returns to the old home of refuge and applies for entrance to the monastery. He is received within to lead a life of holiness and to forget the world and his one big sorrow.
- Mercy Merrick, a beautiful young English woman, is the victim of a heartless man. When she learns that he is married she is about to commit suicide and is prevented from doing so by Julian Gray, a young curate. Determined to redeem herself, Mercy enlists as a Red Cross nurse in the Franco-Prussian war. Grace Roseberry is on her way to England to be adopted by her relative Lady Janet Roy, and in passing through the lines she is struck by a piece of shell and left for dead. Mercy Merrick exchanges clothes with Miss Roseberry and takes her letter of introduction, goes to England and is adopted as Grace Roseberry and saves her life. Julian Gray, who is Lady Roy's nephew falls in love with Mercy Merrick, not recognizing her as the woman he had saved from suicide. They are engaged to be married. The real Grace Roseberry is about to be taken away as a lunatic when Mercy Merrick's best nature asserts itself and she declares herself to be an impostor and saves the other woman. In a touching scene, Mercy Merrick goes to bid farewell to Julian Gray and to give him his ring, but the noble young minister tells her that she has suffered enough, and as his wife, the repentant Mercy finds a true shelter.
- The Pearl of the Golden West is an extensively proportioned lady, who is proprietor of the Knockout Saloon. The sheriff, a brave and daring man, save in the face of danger, lays his heart at the Pearl's feet. The City Chap, tall, slim and elegantly powered, rides into the scene on his bicycle. The Pearl immediately falls for his charms. He teaches her to ride his bicycle and is entertained at her home with great ceremony. Meanwhile the jealous sheriff has found a newspaper clipping, which says the City Chap is a bicycle bandit who has deserted his wife and fourteen children. Triumphantly he takes this news to the Pearl, who hides the City Chap under the table. The Pearl doesn't believe it and drives the sheriff away, but in the City Chap's pocket she finds a picture of him with his wife and fourteen children. She forgives his perfidy and later he receives word that his wife has secured a divorce. They decide to be married and go to the saloon to say goodbye. The sheriff is broken-hearted, and as the happy couple mount a tiny donkey and go off on their honeymoon he blows out his brains.
- Marius is a wealthy young Roman patrician. He is weary of the pomp and splendor which surrounds him, weary of the fanning of those who seek to favor or propitiate. With a trusted friend he seeks adventure, and discovers a beautiful maid. The beautiful young Christian woman's ingenuity and loveliness appeal to the grosser passions of the patrician and desiring her, he does not hesitate to carry her off. The girl, Lygia, carries with her a wooden cross bound with thongs, a talisman against this powerful man. He takes her to his Roman mansion. When he approaches her, instead of the reproaches he expects and the fury of a beautiful girl, she appeals to his finer qualities, and when he would take her in his arms, she quietly raises the wooden cross and prays to her god to change him. He finds himself unable to exercise his power and will and that some power he cannot fathom prevents him from taking her in his arms. Instead he lashes her with his tongue and leaves her in uncontrollable anger. He goes to the reception hall and stands and watches a moment. His friends, rich men and influential, are taunting the girl. He strides forward, and reviles and dismisses them. She thanks him simply and the scales fall from his eyes as she tells him of the man of sorrows and he listens fascinated. He takes her to her home and slowly retraces his steps. He sits awhile and in a wonderful vision he accepts conversion and is happy.
- Sammie Johnsin is reading a book about dogs. He goes to sleep and dreams that he is one. Many adventures happen to him, ending with a fight with a cat in which the feline has the best of it. Sammie wakes and decides that he does not care about being a dog after all.
- Bachelor Bill is reminded of his birthday by a postcard from his brother. Edna Vale, a young widow with a baby, sick and almost starving, enters Bill's shack, and finding it empty, decides to leave the baby, with an appeal that it be cared for. Bill comes home, finds the baby on his bed, and has a hard time looking after it, until he advertises in the post office for a nurse girl. Edna sees the ad, applies, and is accepted. Besides caring for the baby, she takes charge of the house and Bill enjoys home comforts of which he never dreamed. His satisfaction gets a rude jolt, however, when Edna finds a note from the Vigilance Committee, objecting to Bill's mode of life and advising him if he wishes to avoid trouble to get rid of the pretty nurse or get a chaperon. Bill expresses his opinion of the committee but Edna, fearing trouble for him, decides to go. When it comes to leaving the baby, her mother heart fails her and she takes it along. Bill comes home, and starts after Edna, as he says, to get the baby. He finds Edna seated by the roadside, crying from weariness and desolation. He asks for the baby. She refuses to give it up. Bill says it's his baby. Edna says that it was hers first. Bill asks why the kid's father isn't looking after his women-folks? Edna replies that he is dead. Loath to give up the baby, Bill asks Edna to sit down till he thinks it over. The parson comes up the road on horseback and gives Bill an idea. He asks the parson if he wants a job. Hearing that he does, Bill invites him to marry him and Edna. She is tempted to run away, but a look at Bill convinces her that he would run after her if she did, so she gives in with good grace.
- Magua, a worthless, treacherous chief, is expelled from his tribe and becomes a guide in the army. His drunkenness causes him to be lashed and drummed from the fort. He endures the punishment with Indian-like stolidity and bides his time to be revenged upon Major Monroe, who ordered him flogged. Soon after Magua is hired at another fort. Judge of his delight when he finds his first mission is to guide his enemy's two beautiful daughters to their father. He arranges a trap from which they are rescued through the heroism of Hawkeye. Chingachgook and Uncas, the last of the Mohicans. Magua is wounded, but escapes and, rallying a large war party of Iroquois braves, he leads them close upon the track. They capture the two girls, David, their singing teacher and Duncan Heyward, a gallant officer. Magua tells Cora Munroe that her father had him flogged and that she must become his squaw. He promises if she will do so, he will free Heyward, David and Alice, her younger sister. Cora agrees to the sacrifice, but the sister will not listen. Heyward is goaded to frenzy by Magua's infamous proposition, and so insult him that the infuriated Indian gives orders for a massacre. As the tomahawks are suspended over the brave prisoners, shots are heard and a detachment of troops, headed by the Scout Hawkeye and Major Munroe, fall upon the savages and conquer them. Uncas, the brave Mohican warrior, has a hand to hand fight with Magua. Uncas receives his death wound and perishes, the last of the Mohicans. The girls are restored to their father, but the general happiness is clouded with sorrow, for all have grown to respect the brave boy who perished for them.
- Moved by anger and a keen sense of having been wronged, a cowpuncher sets out to kill his enemy. In his anger he justifies his act. As a result of a coincidence, he kills his own brother. He becomes a fratricide, a thing to loathe, and he realizes what it is to kill. On a cattle ranch in the far west, two brothers, Pete and Ned Cullen, work for Thomas Bender, the ranch owner. Ned is the ranch foreman. He is faithful to his trust. Pete was born an enemy to the world. All his passionate longings and feverish objections to the work turns inward and lay waste his rebel soul. Pete has trouble with Bender and is discharged. He drinks and nurses the venomous sentiments until he decides to kill Thomas Bender. The ranch owner rides a white horse. While riding home from town. Bender's horse goes lame and the owner exchanges mounts with Ned. As the dusk gathers, the two brothers draw near to each other on a lonely stretch of road . Pete, believing that the rider of the white horse is Bender, shoots. He runs up to the mortally injured man to find that he has killed Ned, his younger brother, the one man he had to live for in the world. Ned made no resistance when the cowboys rode up and took him; he just stumbles along toward the end which awaits such men.
- An injured telegraph lineman, the father of a large family, finds it difficult to make ends meet. A gentleman thief attempts to aid the family by desperate means.
- Edwin August presents a psychological study in eight episodes dealing with the gradual development of inherent thieving proclivities in a child until the age of manhood. The parents see the tendency, but are unable to cope with it and finally, believing the son to be a deliberate criminal, the father expels him from the house. The son's decline is rapid and results in a term in jail, from which he emerges a typical jail bird, the consort of pickpockets and yeggmen. At times there are flashes of his better instinct striving to overcome his weakness, but these become fewer and fewer as he passes down the social scale. At the time when things seem darkest he is in his hovel looking out into a heavy electrical storm. A flash of lightning strikes and at the same moment his soul is reincarnated. When he rises he marvels at his condition, but is unable to explain it. Wandering out upon the street, he enters an art gallery. He comes upon a girl copying a painting that vaguely recalls something familiar. The girl is his former sweetheart, but he does not recognize her. He watches her work and finally, impelled by something within him, he takes the brush from her and with a few well directed strokes turns the work into a masterpiece. She asks an explanation and he tells her that he himself painted the original. She explains the original was painted over two hundred years before, but he insists. Struck by his sincerity, she attempts to solve the mystery and later finds the explanation in a treatise on reincarnation. The thief has been conquered by the soul of the artist. They are married and later a reconciliation with his parents is affected.
- The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain. Dot gets home, tired out and distressed because she has been discharged from the store. Her crippled sister hangs up her stocking and prays for the morrow. It is too much for Dot. She goes out to secure money for a present at any cost. Passing the window of a mansion, she observes a man give a woman a necklace. In the hurried departure, it is left behind. The temptation is too strong: she gets through the window and secures the necklace, only to be confronted by the cracksman, who has entered another way and pretends to be the owner. She tells her sad tale. The cracksman insists upon her taking money to tide her over. Dot hurries out and buying a doll for her sister, returns home chastened and thankful. The cracksman, on the morrow feels the Christmas spirit. He takes the necklace back to the man's house and throws it through the window. He then goes to the home of the girl and receives his reward from what he sees. He leaves with his better self aroused.
- Lloyd Meredith, an actor and dramatist, is at the height of prosperity one season while the next he is at his best extremely. When the story opens he has just finished and had accepted a drama in which he is to play the title role. At the opening performance, Alice Warren, the daughter of well-to-do people who hold actors in disdain, becomes madly infatuated with Meredith. Her parents labor with her, but she is of an independent spirit and writes the actor, declaring her love and expressing her determination to see him often. At her solicitation he admits her to his dressing room. He asks her if she does not realize the folly of writing sentimental notes to actors. The girl breaks down and leaves. Meredith takes an interest in the girl and their acquaintanceship ripens into love. Against the wishes of the girl's parents they are married. Meredith sinks all of his money into a beautiful home, but neglects to have it insured. One night their house burns to the ground and Meredith has a hard time in saving his wife from the flames. While he is fighting for her life he is wounded in the eye; his face is disfigured. Meredith is again poor and begins to write another play. The young wife does not enjoy life with the wolf at the door and she begins to lose interest in her disfigured husband. Despite his objections she goes to work as a stenographer for the manager of a mill and finally she decides to leave her husband for her employer. The playwright is so poor that he can't even pay the gas bill of 89 cents. However, he sells his play and returns home to tell his wife. He finds her note, saying that she has left him for another. This is more than he can bear. He stops up a crevice which might admit air, turns on the gas and throws himself upon the bed to await the end. In the meantime two other things are taking place. The wife has decided that she loves her husband and is returning to him. The gas company has decided that Meredith's bill cannot run longer and a man is dispatched to turn it off. As the gas man turns off the gas in the basement, the wife is trying to get in her apartment upstairs. The landlady unlocks the door; Meredith comes to and the gas man enters with the announcement, that, "You'll have to pay that 89 cents before you get enough gas to commit suicide."
- Lindy, the lone African American, is ostracized by her classmates except for one little girl. When Lindy is a heroine during a school fire attitudes change.
- The temperamental moving picture director is at his wit's end. He must have a scenario dealing with the war situation. While in a frenzy he is interrupted by Hippocrates MacGuinness, who blithely hands him a few bushels of scenarios with such sensational themes as "Gathering the Myrtle with Mary" and "La Petite Avoirdupois," or "Truck. Horse Soubrette." The director's first impulse is to hurl the palpitating Hippocrates from the highest battlements, but he restrains his ardor and pleasantly jostles him down the staircase. Acting upon this helpful though gentle hint, the pleasant-mannered poet tries to write a war story; He goes into a sweet slumber. His pensive brain becomes delirious and he sees forts fall, castles crumble, Zeppelins more plentiful than pigeons, while the blowing up of a man-of-war and the crumbling of trains into smoke are subjects scarce worth the recording. He thinks of a man of dire destiny who invents a portable machine that thinks no more of the enemy's fleet than a matinee girl would of one pound of chocolates. The sky is aflame with burning aeroplanes. Midnight becomes as bright as day as the air monsters explode and fall to the ground a mass of molten steel, while the oceans bubble like cauldrons and the sky shines like a burnished mirror. Then he awakens as the studio scenery falls on him. He is too excited by the nightmare to heed this, and feverishly writes the story.
- Young Dr. Dana is crossed in love, or believes he is, which is much the same thing, and like many bereaved lovers, flees from the scene of his disappointment, without bidding his beloved Ethel farewell. Taking up a practice in a small town, his handsome face and dashing manner soon cause him to become the object of general attraction for all the pretty girls in the village. A group of these girls finally band themselves together for the purpose of forming his acquaintance. Their many and unique methods of accomplishing their purpose are, one after another, frustrated either by chance or the obtuseness of Dr. Dana, until the girls are finally reduced to despair. It is then that Ethel, unaware that the doctor has located in that village, visits there as the guest of a former schoolmate, who is also one of the doctor's most ardent admirers. Ethel joins the band without learning the doctor's identity, nor is the doctor aware of her presence. This state of affairs leads to complications that require the hand of Cupid, assisted by a course of the doctor's most severe treatment, to straighten out.
- Lon is engaged to Jane, a social butterfly whose financial desires are impossible for him to fulfill.
- The great African explorer, Duke Doolittle, comes to a book publisher to sell his book on his adventures. He shows the editor pictures of his adventures hunting big game in Bambazoo. A leopard chases him and he shoots the spots off of it. He then loses his gun and the beast is about to jump on him. The editor asks Duke what happened next and Duke says this is a serial and he hasn't finished the next chapter.
- Edward Brady and Iva Shepard, society crooks, steal $30,000 worth of jewelry. Realizing the notoriety the robbery has occasioned, they decide to disappear for ten years, burying the treasure reclaiming it after their crime has been forgotten. Accordingly, they build a raft and make their way to a fishing village, where they pretend to be survivors of a wreck. They are rescued by Edwin August, his sister and brother, and taken into their home. The crooks feign insanity and refuse to give replies to Edwin's questions. Later, Edwin observes them together in each other's arms. He realizes a deception has been worked upon him. He suspects they are crooks, and proves it by their photographs, which appear in the New York papers. Edwin accuses Iva of feigning insanity. She admits the deception. About to write the authorities, he realizes he has fallen in love with Iva. He decides instead to reform them. Releasing Brady, whom he has imprisoned, he forces him to write the police and disclose the hiding place of the jewelry. He permits both Brady and Iva to remain in his home. In these efforts he is successful. After their partial reformation, he approaches Iva and tells her of his love. She confesses that she still loves Brady. He then goes to Brady and receives a promise from him that he will marry Iva and lead a better life. Iva and Brady leave the little fishing village together. Edwin remains, heart-broken at losing Iva's love, but content in the knowledge that he has saved two lives by his sacrifice.
- Roberts is in love with Clarice Moulton. George Stamford meets Clarice and wins her love. When Roberts learns of their engagement he decides to avenge himself, and he does so in a dastardly manner. It is the day of the wedding of Clarice and Stamford. The bride is ready, and the guests are assembled, but the bridegroom does not appear. We see Roberts and his valet enter Stamford's room, chloroform him and take him out. They take him to Robert's roomy old mansion in the suburbs and chain him up to the wall in the cellar. The bridal party are worried over the failure of the bridegroom to appear and the girl's father goes to his room to look for him, but he can learn nothing of Stamford's whereabouts. The next day Stamford unmasks his captor, who has come to gloat over his misery. Months pass. The girl, believing that Stamford has willfully deserted her, accepts her first lover, Roberts. Meanwhile we see the wretched lover making heroic efforts to escape from the vile dungeon where he is confined. Gradually he wears away a link in the chain. It breaks and releases him. After a terrific fight with his jailer, the valet, Stamford escapes and goes back to the city. Ragged and dirty, he rushes to the home of his sweetheart, where he learns that she has gone to the church to be married to Roberts. He dashes into the church followed by a policeman. The minister is about to pronounce the words that make Roberts the husband of Clarice, when Stamford dashes in and protests against the marriage. He denounces Roberts: but all think that the dirty, ragged man is a madman until he tells his story. Roberts is taken away by the policeman and Clarice takes Stamford in her arms.
- A publisher advertises a prize of $500 for the best short story devoted to "Mother" in her homelife. The advertisement reaches a family composed of a mother and two grown daughters. The daughters have dreams of social conquests and are interested in literary work. Both write and submit manuscripts to the publisher. The young ladies become acquainted with the publisher's sons and a double love affair springs up. The mother, unknown to her daughters, writes the story of her life and submits it in the contest. The publisher's sons call on the daughters, and the girls appear ashamed of their mother with her old-fashioned clothes and manners. Though deeply hurt, the old lady says nothing. Meanwhile, the publisher reads the mother's simple story. He reads between the lines and comes to see that she is the kind of woman he could love. The mother wins the contest and the publisher's heart. The vain glory of the daughters is forever cured. All are married happily.
- Eddie and Martha Davis have taken up their married life in their bungalow. Their faithful slavey continues to minister to their culinary needs at the same time that she persists in her romantic dreams. Still absorbed in her "detectuf" literature, she and her lover the ice man seek further for adventure, and find it in the mysterious doings of the mistress of the house. Martha receives an invitation from a club friend to spend the day with her at the beach. She sends this invitation by her husband, with instructions that Martha accompany him in his automobile to their home and from there they will go to the beach where the picnic is to be held. Martha accepts. When the slavey sees her mistress leave home with the stranger she believes that she is eloping. When Eddie returns the slavey tells him that his wife has gone away with a man. He seizes a gun and starts in pursuit. Left to herself the slavey prepares to entertain the ice man upon his regular rounds. She "borrows" one of her mistress' dresses, dons it, fixes herself up as a grand lady and dazzles her lover when he calls. He is so pleased with the effect that he insists on taking her to the beach for an outing. He is ashamed of his own clothes and the slavey lends him a suit of the master's. In full regalia they leave for the beach where the jolly and innocent little picnic party is already in full swing. The husband reaches the bench in search of his wife and her supposed lover and is unable to locate her until in the distance he sees a dress that he recognizes as his wife's. He chases the wearer through the mazes of the amusement pier, up and down wild rides, across lagoons, on the merry-go-round and upon the backs of camels. In the meantime, Martha, from a different angle has seen a man in the distance, clad as only her husband is wont to dress, disporting himself with a female lady, and horrified, she sets forth in pursuit. The ice man sees her coming, and jilts his companion. Martha chases him while Eddie is equally horrified at seeing his "wife" with another man. Both of them go for help, one for the police and the other for her friends of the picnic party. The slavey and the ice man know that it is their clothing which has placed them in their predicament, and while they have no others to wear they are forced to choose between sacrificing their apparel or losing their jobs, so they hastily tear off the offending garments and place them on dummies hastily constructed from life-belts and planks, and throw them into the water. Eddie, dashing back with the police, sees his wife's dress floating on the surface of the water and promptly dives in to save her. At another spot Martha sees her husband's suit sprawling in the water and effects his rescue on the opposite side of the pier. Both discover their mistake and believe that the other has played a mean joke on them. They become violently embittered. They climb up the ladders on the pier and face each other on opposite sides, recognize each other and are convinced that each has been guilty of a trick on the other. In the meantime, the real culprits have been forced out of the bath-house by the police, and are chased down the pier. They dash in between the combatants just as they rush together, and are seized, recognized and promptly thrown to the fishes, while a tearful reunion takes place between husband and wife.
- James Madison has lost heavily in the stock market. His friend Wesley visits him and leaves in his care a wallet containing five thousand dollars. The wallet is placed in Madison's safe, and in the morning Madison hands the wallet to Wesley but the money is gone. Wesley charges Madison with having stolen his money. A detective is called in, and humorous situations arise from his suspicions of everybody in the household. The mystery is solved when the three men lying in wait see Madison's wife enter in her nightrobe, open the safe and place the missing money inside. Then they realize that Mrs. Madison is a somnambulist and has taken and replaced the money in her sleep.