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- The Duke, in an effort to 'save' his daughter from marriage to a poor lad of noble birth, hatches a plot which nearly costs the life of that very daughter.
- A butler dons his rival's police uniform and causes him trouble.
- The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
- Lieutenant Yancey's southern sweetheart, Rose, is jealous of Elinor, a northern girl, who is visiting her aunt Mary de Lane. This jealousy is excited by an invitation which Yancey receives from Mary to call and meet her niece. Yancey visits the de Lane home, and while walking along the river with Elinor, he shows her where the Confederate Ironclad is being constructed. Elinor, having strong Union sympathies, reveals the location of the Ironclad to the commander of the Federal gunboats. An attack is made on the Ironclad and Yancey rides to give warning. The Confederates are temporarily helpless as their power is exhausted. Yancey, knowing that a supply of ammunition is loaded on a train in another location, prepares to bring the needed powder to his compatriots. As the train is about to leave, a Federal scouting party rides up and opens fire. Rose and Yancey jump on the engine and make a wild dash to escape with the powder. Elinor, from a distance, sees the fight and sets fire to the bridge over which the train must pass. While riding over the bridge the last car catches fire. Yancey, who has been wounded, is left in the engine cab while Rose crawls over the loaded train and succeeds in cutting off the end car just in time to escape the explosion. The powder is delivered to the Ironclad in the nick of time, and a fierce battle wages between the Confederate vessel and the Union gunboats.
- In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bellboy was firmly but gently given to understand that maids who read "Heliotrope Glendening's Advice to Young Ladies" look higher than ice-water toters. A compromising complication with an unexpected visit from a beautiful lady, quite convinces the aspiring one that wealthy young bachelors might be the grandest men ever, but when it comes to the crucial test, their aspirations are not for chambermaids. Science influences his actions so much that he gets into trouble with the police. When they are through with him he lands in a hospital, but as the clock nears the midday hour the thought of the bomb at home sends him scurrying from the hospital, with patients, nurses, and orderlies in pursuit. He reaches home breathless, to find that Mrs. Pietro has cooked the pig and that the bomb was merely a test to prove his loyalty to the tenets of the society.
- Nursery rhyme enacted by toys.
- In a little village there lived two families who were almost lifetime neighbors and friends. In the one family there was a boy, in the other, a girl. These two had been sweethearts from childhood and each found happiness in the other's company. All was sunshine for Dave, the boy, until the day of the church lawn party, when the nephew of the minister arrived from college. His easy manners and good clothes make an impression on the unsophisticated girl, and it is with slight persuasion she consents to elope with him that evening. The result is the inevitable, for the man proves to be a scapegrace. Meanwhile, the girl, through pride, pretends in her letters home to be doing well. Dave, however, has his misgivings and decides to pay them a visit. The result of this visit is a startling revelation. Later the girl is made to realize faithful Dave's true worth.
- A visitor to Mexico meets a lovely senorita living with an abusive uncle. After his gambling winnings attract the attention of robbers, she sees a way out of her lousy situation.
- Henry Fitch, a young American, arrives in Spanish California in the year 1820, but hardly arrived when it was his good fortune to rescue two young ladies from a band of ruffians. Refusing to pose as a hero he goes on his way and presents a letter of introduction to Joaquin Carrillo, and much to his surprise again meets the young ladies he had so recently protected. He is much impressed with the younger one, Donna Josefa, and as time goes on presses his suit, which is encouraged by the Spanish Don. That the young American is not to have a free field in his love adventure is soon demonstrated. Junipperro Serra, a Spaniard of means, is also enamored of the fair Josefa. Serra learning that Donna Josefa is about to marry the American, attempts to prevent the ceremony by underhand methods. His schemes are frustrated and the sweethearts elope and are married. A year later Fitch and Josefa return to Josefa's home, where upon Serra's instigation, Fitch is arrested and tried for violation of the laws of the church and territory, and condemned to imprisonment and banishment, unless he will produce penance and reparation that can be noticed through the whole of the Pueblo. Good father Vincente suggests to Josefa that Fitch secure a bell to place in the empty tower of the church as the original one had been stolen many years before. A month later Fitch stands before the three judges. A sudden commotion goes through the whole court; everyone is listening to an unexpected sound. The bell that was silent now rings again. Young Fitch, addressing the court, says: "This is my penance and reparation, which I offer to the church. Its voice can be heard and noticed throughout the Pueblo, and will, in time to come, proclaim the wisdom and clemency of this court.
- A gamekeeper's daughter is shot while warning a poacher.
- The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.
- The ungovernable temper of Eva Storm has caused her to be known as "The Village Vixen." Her charming daughter, Maud, is the antithesis of her mother, and promises her hand to Willis, a wealthy young farmer. Eva forbids Willis from visiting her home and the young man asks his father to help him in overcoming the unreasonable prejudice of the vixen. Harrison calls on Eva and asks her to explain why she objects to his son. But it is not in keeping with Eva Storm's nature to listen to reason and she dismisses Harrison. On the way home Harrison meets Maud and has her write the following: "Dear Mother, Willis is a good man and I love him. I do not know why you separate us. I cannot bear it and am going away." Maud places the note on her table and then goes to the Harrison home. When Eva discovers the message she is highly indignant, then becomes apprehensive. She calls on Harrison and accuses him of complicity, but the appearance of Willis indicates that the young couple have not eloped. All through the village Eva searches for her daughter and finally returns home. The unhappy woman mourns the loss of her daughter and realizes that she has brought this great sorrow to herself. There is a happy reunion of mother and daughter, and Willis is no longer forbidden from visiting his sweetheart.
- Betty is the telegraph operator at the railway station in the small town of Oreland. She realizes that the new guest at the local boarding house is "Smoke Up Smith, a notorious car thief". Betty and the other guests devise a plan to capture Smith, but while Betty is telegraphing news of Smith's whereabouts to the proper authorities, Smith manages to slip out of his handcuffs and flee the town. Betty re-captures Smith following a locomotive chase, and turns him over to a detective who is also Betty's boyfriend.
- Nora, a wild girl who lives with her alcoholic father, is forced to attend school. The untamed girl, who does not know how to socialize, is soon taunted by the other children. She warms towards the kind schoolteacher, as he befriends and encourages her, until she is told to wear the dunce cap at a spelling bee. She then angrily leaves the school and encounters a slick huckster. He convinces her they will run away and be married. Meanwhile, the schoolteacher, concerned over the waif's absence, goes looking for her. He encounters her at a crossroad, being spirited away by the cad. He calls the man's bluff by telling them he will get the minister to marry them at once. The huckster high-tails it out of town, leaving a rejected Nora. The caring schoolteacher, lovingly escorts her back to school.
- A spy paints plans on a girl's back and is caught in Boulogne after a chase by motorcycle, horse, car and monoplane.
- A countryman steals a cow, turns highwayman, robs a mail coach and is chased by the Bow Street Runners.
- Wild roses are the joy of Ethel Borsdon's life. She had two suitors, Harry Myers and Charley Gunner. She is a capricious miss, teases them and laughs at both. One day, Ethel, in her daily search, discovers a bush bearing two roses on the top of a steep precipice that rises from the sea. On the same day Harry and Charley sit beside her, Ethel points out the cliff and declares that she will favor the one who secures for her one of the white roses at the top. The men take her seriously. Gunner reaches the top ahead of Harry. Just as his arm is stretched forth to grasp the rose, Harry's hand extends over the edge of the cliff, and a moment later he is facing his rival on the brink. They quarrel and a desperate struggle is precipitated. Myers loses his foot-hold and plunges over the cliff, his hand grasps one of the roses, and he takes it down with him. Gunner, panic stricken at the accident, yields to a cowardly instinct, leaves Harry to his fate and returns to Ethel. He presents the rose to her and claims her love. But there is something in his look that strikes Ethel strangely. She asks where Harry is. Gunner says he does not know. Then she catches sight of a splotch of blood staining the white petals of the flower. Her suspicions are aroused. Gunner averts his gaze. Ethel forces the truth from him, and rushes wildly toward the village to find men to go to the rescue. She reaches a number of fishermen at work, and they hasten to Harry's rescue. They find him stunned, bleeding, lying on a ledge half way up the face of the precipice. One of the sturdy fishermen ascends the cliff, ties a rope under Harry's shoulders and lowers him into the eager hands below. Left alone by Ethel, Gunner, in a frenzy of fear, determines to kill himself. He pulls a revolver from his pocket, places it to his temple. At that moment he sees the party returning and rushes to Harry's home, where he learns that he is not fatally hurt. Harry extends his hand in forgiveness. Later, when Harry is convalescent, he carries the white rose, now faded, to Ethel. He claims her as his wife and this time the little maid accepts him.
- A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a visit. The Englishman turns out to be a stuffy and humorless, and is the butt of several pranks. The drama group dresses as Indians and threatens him, but he turns the tables, pulls out a gun and chases them away.
- Record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition in 1921.
- The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.
- Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats, from whose clutches and abuse she is rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, for she regards him as something different from the white people she has seen. Jack's sweetheart and her father are parties of a wagon-train headed for this place, and as luck has been against him, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. He is amused at this and says "Will you?" "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies the little Indian. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people, who are embittered against all whites.
- Side-showman Jim Burke is attracted by the pretty face of Mary, a country girl who has come to the county fair, and he sends her a note proposing a meeting. The inexperienced country girl, flattered by the showman's attention, joins him and they arrange to elope. Burke's sweetheart Lazelle overhears the conversation and tells Mary's suitor John of the proposed elopement. John goes to warn Mary's parents but finds they have gone to the fair. Running down the road, John meets Mary's father and mother on the way back from the fair. He tells them of Mary's proposed elopement and states that a strange buggy has just driven down the road toward the depot. A wild ride toward the railroad station takes place and Mary's parents arrive just as the young girl is about to board the train. The error she is about to make is impressed upon Mary and she agrees to return home. Just as the train is pulling out, Burke arrives, sees that his plans have been frustrated, and boards the last car. Realizing her fortunate escape, Mary concludes that John is a safer companion than a traveling showman.
- A clumsy maid redeems herself by catching burglars.
- Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper (Mary Pickford); she and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk with them).
- As the husband leaves for the lumber regions, his wife gives him a memory message to be opened after his arrival. Attracted by a maid, cherished by the love of two old brothers, he forgets it until sometime later. The message serves its purpose, however, for through it, after a thrilling experience, the maid learns the true value of the man's love, while he in his turn, goes back to his waiting wife and finds there, along with his shame and regeneration, his heart's desire.