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- Two old veterans, one a Yank, the other a Rebel, both inmates of the country poor house, have been cronies for years. The Yank always carries his old bugle while the southern veteran is never without his sword, which he uses as a cane. Both old men live close to the Military Academy, which they often visit and in which they soon become great favorites. They are both present when the funeral of a soldier takes place, and in a spirit of mischief the Yank tells the Southerner, that no military honors will be accorded him when he dies as there are no rebels left. This preys upon the old man's mind until he finally writes a letter to the commander of the Academy, begging him to give him a military funeral when he dies, as he has no kith or kin nor a Southern Army to do this for him. When the letter is read at the barracks there is not a dry eye among the hundreds of cadets who unanimously vote that the old Southern soldier be notified that full military honors will be accorded him at his funeral, though they are in hopes he will be spared to them for many years. Sham battles are quite often indulged in by the cadets, and one day while one of these battles are going on the old Southerner is awakened from a dream of by-gone days by the rattle of firearms and cannons. His half awakened condition makes him think he is back on the firing lines among his old soldiers. Forgetting his weakness and old age and filled with a spirit of patriotism, he dashes towards the scene of battle just as one side is retreating. He swings his old sword over his head and cries to the boys to "charge," and leads them against the opposing side. The boys, thinking the old man is joining their sham battle, cheer and follow him, but alas, his poor old heart has been over-taxed, and as he climbs on the breastworks he totters and falls, and the spirit of the old rebel goes to its rest. The soldiers of the Academy bury him with military honors. After the last volley has been fired and the academy bugler is about to sound taps, his old Yankee crony with the old bugle under his arm begs permission of the captain to let the music of his old bugle perform this service. As the last note dies away the old Yank falls across the grave of his friend and the two souls are joined never to battle or part again.
- Fred Meredith is a victim of the "white plague." While assisting an old lady who has fallen in the street, he is brought to the notice of Mr. Walters, a rich philanthropist, and his daughter. He invites Fred to call at his house, which he does. Fred is advised to go to a sanitarium. He arrives at Ray Brook Sanitarium. Scenes are shown where Fred is taking the cure, right on to his final discharge from the sanitarium. He decides to go to a health resort and while there receives a visit from his benefactors. Fred has been indulging in various winter sports and persuades Mr. Walters and Bertha to visit the skating race with him. The box office is robbed. Fred goes after the robbers. The hold-up men are thrown from their sleigh over a cliff, one of them is killed and the other tries to escape with the money but is captured by Fred. Fred realizes that Bertha's interest in him has grown to love, and that he also loves her; thus two loving and sincere hearts are united.
- Tom O'Hara, the foreman of the Bleecker Lumber Company, is in love with the daughter of his employer, and, although his suit is looked upon with favor by all, his course of true loves does not run smooth, owing to the tactics pursued by Pete Le Faner, a bully, whom Tom had to thrash more than once for his cowardly attacks. Le Faner has at one time been deeply in love with Rose Baptiste, the beautiful daughter of a lumberjack, but finally tiring of her beauty, he cast her off. The girl told her father who vowed to avenge her honor. The opportunity came when Le Faner followed Tom and his sweetheart, and then purposely picked a quarrel. Tom, unable to withstand his taunts, sprang at his insultor and, in a few seconds, the men were locked in a deadly embrace, while the girl rushed to the camp for assistance. Tom succeeds in thrashing Pete until the latter cries for mercy, then leaves him while he follows his sweetheart. As Pete is left alone, the father of the girl he has ruined, rushes upon him and makes him pay with his life for the girl's honor. Rose has in the meantime obtained help and, upon returning to the spot where she left the two men, only the dead body of Pete is found. Tom is at once arrested for the murder and is held for the jury. The conscience of the murderer, however, will not permit him to rest, and in a moment of remorse, he confesses his crime to the sweetheart of the man who is awaiting death in a prison cell.
- Jerome S. Beresford, a lieutenant in His Majesty's Army during the Revolution, was a conspicuous figure in the war that made famous the name of Washington. Wounded in a skirmish while far away from headquarters, his comrades ask for assistance at the home of Dr. Adams. Beatrice, the only daughter of the aged doctor, volunteers to act as nurse and in the close companionship of the sick room, the two enemies fall in love with one another. Lieutenant Beresford, almost in perfect health, is all set to return to his army when he receives a visit from Major Fitzgerald, the head of the British Army in the vicinity. The Major becomes insulting when the old doctor and his daughter refuse to drink to the health of King George. He insists upon kissing Beatrice, who throws the contents of a wine glass into his face. During his absence from headquarters the plans of the Yorktown fortifications are stolen from his room by Beatrice's young brother, who is seriously wounded while escaping. After the British leave the home, Beatrice finds her brother and receives his dying command to deliver the plans to General Washington. Disguising herself in her brother's clothes, the young girl starts on her perilous undertaking. She is captured and brought before Major Fitzgerald, who recognizes her and demands the kiss she had refused him at her home. In desperation the girl seizes a heavy brass candlestick and knocks the Major senseless. She is about to escape through the window when Lieutenant Beresford intercepts her and demands the plans, which she reluctantly surrenders and the lieutenant aids her to escape. Upon regaining consciousness the Major sees the open window and the Lieutenant leaning from it, and draws his own conclusions. He threatens Beresford with court martial, but is killed by a stray bullet before he can execute his threat. Lieutenant Beresford is compelled to surrender to Washington and when Beatrice, who has found protection in Washington's camp, hears of Beresford being a prisoner of war she pleads for his pardon so effectively that General Washington cheerfully grants it and a happy reunion follows.
- A young doctor seeking to build up a practice, finds little time for his family and the wife, being a pleasure-loving woman decides to seek amusement in the company of other men. The doctor hears of her acquaintance with Mr. Tolane, a sporting man, and calls his wife to account for it. This brings about a severe quarrel in which the doctor, in a heat of passion, unintentionally strikes his wife across the face with his riding crop. Although the husband is sorry, the wife is determined to leave him. She takes the child and goes to a small country town, taking a position as school mistress. Mr. Tolane, who is a broker, gets a call to come to the same town where the wife is teaching school. He meets her unexpectedly and continues his attentions. This arouses the tongue of gossip, which becomes so severe that the wife is forced to give up her position. This gives Tolane the opportunity he has sought, and he persuades the wife to go with him. They board a train for a distant city, but Providence wills otherwise. The train is wrecked while going through a tunnel; the tempter is killed, and the erring wife becomes a cripple. A call for medical aid is answered by the husband, who, arriving on the scene of the accident and finds Tolane dead and his wife injured. He takes her back to his home and although she is compelled to go around the rest of her life on crutches, her husband's love and devotion repays her for all the suffering, and she realizes that a husband's devotion is worth far more than a life of pleasure.
- Escorted by a lieutenant of the army, the two daughters of the Major have no fear as they make a long journey across a country swarmed with war-maddened Indians and quite a large number of renegades. Several of the Indians appoint one of their number to act as escort for the party and betray them into their hands at the first opportunity. The treacherous Indian guide leads the party astray in the woods and, but for the fortunate appearance of a famous trapper, the sisters would undoubtedly have become captives of the Indians. The trapper's shrewdness for a time overcomes the craftiness of the redmen, but the odds prove too great against him and in order to save the daughters of the Major and their escort, he leaps into the raging torrent below the cave where the party have sought refuge, and begins a dangerous trip to the fort to seek aid. The party is captured by the Indians in spite of the brave fight made by the Lieutenant and bound hand and foot they are brought to the Indian village. Indian runners are sent forth to notify the chiefs that a special council is to be held, and soon the famous council of the six nations is in session. The Lieutenant is condemned to the stake and after a war dance, preparations are made to execute the order, when Providence, in the shape of a body of mounted militia, led by the trapper, interferes with the plans and the Indians, in their eagerness to escape from the merciless fire of the army men, forget all about their victims, who are rescued and are safely escorted to their destination.
- The Sheriff, father of the girl and a handsome son whom he is educating at an eastern college and his good wife, constitute the Sheriff's family. The Sheriff's pay is not princely, and he finds it hard to make ends meet. He is sorely tempted by a dishonest cashier of a small bank, who is anxious to annex for his own use a consignment of gold that is expected at the bank. The cashier, to cover up his tracks is willing to let the Sheriff and his friends in on a good thing. The Sheriff falls for the scheme temporarily, and covers his track by means of a false telegram calling him out of town. Of course the Sheriff does not leave town, he is too busy robbing the bank and hiding the loot in a rendezvous in the wilderness. The gold arrives at the bank on time and disappears the same night. The cashier is found bound and gagged and tells a glowing story of a daring hold-up by a masked band. During her father's absence the Sheriff's daughter determines to take the trail and run the robbers down herself. With two hounds and her brother's eastern chum she starts out. The dogs readily picked up the scent and follow it to the robbers' retreat, where the girl discovers that her father is implicated in the crime. Her father has already repented his step in the matter and has declared to the others that he will return the gold, resign his office and let the law deal with him. While he holds up the others, the Sheriff's daughter secures the gold and returns it to the bank. When the cashier learns of this, he accuses one of the men of breaking faith with him and they are soon in a deadly clinch, and disappear over the brink of a mighty chasm. Later they are found lifeless at the foot of the cascade, thus paying for their sin.
- Big Jim Darrell, a workman in a factory, is suddenly overcome by an attack of dizziness, falls on a returning belt, is severely injured and taken to the hospital. After his discharge, he is warned by the doctor that any unusual excitement might cause his mind to give way. When he regains his strength, he goes to the mill and asks for a position but is refused, and does his utmost to break up a love which he thinks cannot be sincere or honest on the part of the son of his employer. This so preys upon his mind that he gets no rest. During one of his melancholy spells he falls asleep and dreams that his fears have been realized, that his employer's son had deceived his daughter and then cast her off. But dreams go by the contrary, for during the time that he was having this horrible dream, the young people were being quietly married by a minister. He awakens in time to hear the news of the marriage from his daughter's lips, who has just come in with her husband and her father-in-law.
- An international marriage, the desire of a fond and title-loving mother, which would have turned into a tragedy, is averted by Willie's love of a pretty face, a glimpse of which he had caught during an auto trip. Willie's desire to become acquainted with the owner, leads him into many strange places. During a visit to the Immigration Office, he becomes interested in the case of the Italian woman, who is seeking her husband, of whom she has a photograph which she shows Willie in her appeal for assistance. Willie, after leaving the Immigration Office, decides upon a trip to the seashore, and a dip in the ocean. To his surprise and pleasure he meets the young lady whose face has haunted him for many days. Willie and the young lady mutually attracted, soon become very fast friends, and Willie plans to visit the young woman at her home. He meets the title-loving mamma, who does not hesitate to discourage Will's attentions to her daughter, which was not at all pleasing to the daughter. The Count is introduced to Will during an evening on the piazza, and Will is immediately struck with the remarkable resemblance of the Count with the photo that he saw at the Immigrant Office in the hands of the deserted wife. Will communicates with the authorities who bring the wife to the seashore and, in the presence of the title-worshiping mamma, he proves the Count to be an impostor, as well as the husband of the Italian peasant. Needless to say that both the daughter and Will were very pleased at the outcome.
- The story concerns the fortunes of two miners who have cleaned up a big stake and are starting for the States. One of them is infatuated with a dance-hall girl, whom he wishes to take back with him, but she thinking she is not good enough for him, refuses. The girl is compelled by threats to enter into a scheme in which the man she loves and his partner will be robbed of their possessions. The girl reluctantly helps to entrap the men, but before it is too late she relents, and throwing all fear from her, she dashes through a blinding snowstorm to the headquarters of the Northwest Mounted Police, and assists them in saving the man she loves.
- Lucy Davis, of Hamilton, Ind., not contented with the lowly comforts afforded by her mother and grandmother, decides to seek employment in New York City. After writing several big concerns and receiving one note with a little encouragement, she prepares to leave home. Arriving at the little station in Hamilton, she attracts the attention of George Edwards, a traveling salesman and intimate friend of several notorious people in New York City. He presses his attentions upon her and insists upon helping her on the train, having previously wired Violet Bowers, an old friend of the underworld in New York, advising her the time of their arrival. Violet, much interested in seeing new faces, prepared to meet George and his "find" at the Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal in New York. Lucy, on her arrival in the metropolis, is much amazed at its magnitude and is an easy prey for the clutches of George's friend, Violet Bowers. Violet has little trouble in persuading Lucy to take quarters at her house until such time as she secures a position. Arriving at the beautiful residence sustained by Violet Bowers, Lucy tells the story of her family's early prosperity, her father's untimely death, later of their want and poverty, and that she has come to the city in order that she might provide more comforts for the folks at home. Violet is touched by the innocence and youth of Lucy and decides to save her from the many pitfalls of friendless girls in the big city. George Edwards arrives, demands an interview with Lucy and when refused by Violet, decides to accomplish it by force, when he is intercepted by Jones, a friend of Violet. A short quarrel ensues and George leaves swearing vengeance on Jones. Violet returns to Lucy, insists upon her accepting a loan and induces her to return to her mother. She accompanies her to the station, waves a fond good-bye and feels the better for having saved an innocent girl from a life of misery and shame.
- Desirous of having all his friends know that he had made a successful real estate deal, Jameson struts through the village streets, foolishly displaying a large roll of bills. Jack Wilson, a ne'er do-well of the town, seeing the display of money, makes up his mind to relieve Jameson of it and attempts to hold Jameson up, but is prevented from doing so by the timely arrival of wayfarers. Undaunted, he follows Jameson to his home and is witness to a quarrel between Jameson and his wife; she upbraids him for remaining away so long. In anger, Jameson leaves the house and throws the money upon the table. Jack Wilson enters the house after Jameson leaves, and waiting until the little girl is sent to bed, makes another attempt to get the money. He is caught by Mrs. Jameson and a frightful struggle ensues. The child, awakened by the noise, hastens to her mother's door and cries to be admitted. Wilson threatens to kill Mrs. Jameson unless she tells the child that her father is in the room. After the child leaves, the struggle is renewed and Mrs. Jameson is accidentally shot by the discharge of a revolver, which both tried to get possession of. Wilson escapes, and Jameson, coming home intoxicated, is held for the death of his wife. The child's evidence that her mother told her of her father's presence in the room, convicts Jameson, and he is sentenced to ten years at hard labor. The child, Grace, is adopted by a wealthy family and becomes a social favorite. Jack Wilson, in the meantime, has become a modern raffles, and eventually becomes a guest at many social gatherings. As one of the invited guests at a social gathering in the home of Grace's foster parents, he meets the daughter of the woman he had robbed and accidentally killed. He learns her identity when Jameson, released from prison, comes to see his daughter. He falls in love with the beautiful girl and decides to reform. Upon informing his pals of his intentions he is ridiculed, and his pals arrange to rob the home where he is a guest. Wilson, trying to prevent the robbery, is shot by one of his former companions, and believing that death is near, makes a complete confession, exonerating Jameson of the murder of his wife.
- Norman O'Neill and George Fitzhugh are in love with Nora Danver. George proposes to Nora and is informed that she is going to marry Norman. George encounters a man and a woman, and believes he recognizes Norman. He immediately returns and informs Nora of this. She disbelieves him, but nevertheless is persuaded to accompany him. Nora, believing her fiancé faithless, decides to break the engagement. In the meantime the man and woman come to the entrance of the Danver estate. The man leaves the woman and enters the grounds. Nora's father is asleep in his armchair in the library and is awakened. He finds an intruder searching his desk. The intruder overpowers him and. in the struggle, the father believes he recognizes Norman. Nora meets Norman on the lawn and informs him that she saw him with another woman and that she has reason to believe him faithless, and will listen to no explanations. Nora's father, who has been injured by the intruder, staggers from the house. Norman and Nora come to his assistance, and the father tells of the robbery and accuses Norman of the theft. Norman, dazed at the accusation and realizing that things look black for him and that even Nora believes him guilty, decides to escape. The soldiers are informed and sent in search of Norman. They come across a man whom they believe to be Norman, but he eludes them. The escaping man is finally shot by the pursuing soldiers, but takes refuge in a tunnel. There he encounters a man and a struggle ensues. After the struggle one man is lying on the ground and the other whom he recognizes as Norman runs from the scene, as the soldiers approach. The man is raised from the ground. George accuses him of the theft, calling him Norman's name. The man informs them that he is not Norman and, realizing that he is near death, confesses that he is the one who is guilty. George sees the remarkable resemblance between the man and Norman, and later when he comes across Norman, he tells him of the mistake and of his double's confession.
- Bert Morton and some college companions, while on an automobile tour stops at a farmhouse for refreshments meets and falls in love with Mary, the farmer's daughter. She returns his love. Bert receives a letter from his father stating that it is necessary for him to come home and marry Alice Martin. Bert informs Mary that he must leave for a while, keeping her ignorant of the real reason. His father persuades him to marry Alice Martin, as it will be the means of saving them financially. Although Bert loves Mary and is in honor bound to marry her, his father's appeal that a marriage with Alice will save the family fortune, finally wins the boy over and he shuts his eyes to the vision of the unfortunate little country girl who is eagerly awaiting his return. When she does not hear from him, she decides to visit him. In the meantime Bert becomes engaged to Alice Martin and the wedding day is set. Mary arrives at Bert's house and tells Bert the "truth," stating how necessary it is for him to marry her. Bert offers her money, which she spurns. Mary seeks to find consolation in death, but is saved by two workmen and is brought to the home of Bert's fiancée. Later, when Bert calls on his fiancée, he meets Mary. Alice overhears a conversation between Mary and Bert and thus learns the truth of their relationship. The revelation is a great shock to her, as she loves Bert, but womanhood asserts itself and wins out. She explains to Bert that she knows all and obtains his promise that he will wed the unfortunate girl, who in the eyes of God is his wife. Bert confesses all to his father and receives full forgiveness as well as a welcome greeting for his wife.
- An Indian, while attending college, meets and falls in love with Ruth Howard. He proposes to her and Ruth, although she loves him, rejects him on account of his race. The Indian, realizing the pain that the loss of Ruth has caused him, goes away to forget her and, incidentally renounces civilization. Two years elapse and Ruth marries a wealthy man. Ruth receives a letter from her chum to visit their ranch out west and accepts the invitation. Ruth away from the city becomes like a young colt, and goes roaming about the wild country. The Indian who has given up civilization on account of love for her, has become a nomad and has wandered around the country, seeking consolation in solitude. Ruth's face is always before him and in one of his moments of melancholy, he falls asleep and dreams of his love, and upon awakening, sees Ruth upon an unmanageable horse. He springs forward and is just in time to catch her in his arms. The love flame which has remained dormant the past years is awakened; Ruth forgets all else, except her love for the Indian. She is brought to her right senses when she sees an old Indian and his squaw which causes her to realize what her future might be with the Indian. The Indian becomes ferocious at the thought of losing Ruth the second time. Ruth frightened, tries to force herself from his embrace and in the struggle, the bank upon which they are standing gives way, and both are hurled to the rocks at the bottom of the cliff united at last in death.
- Sim Perkins, the village fool, receives the nickname of "The Borrowing Simp," from his cronies at the corner grocery. He had never been known to have any money or do any work, but always possessed everything he desired by simply borrowing it. Simp becomes annoyed when all his cronies marry, and finally decided that he will marry too. Without much thought on the seriousness of such a step, he starts out on a "borrowing" expedition. He first borrows the horse and wagon belonging to the grocer, then a hat from the head of one of the bystanders, and in spite of the laughter of the crowd he assures them that he will soon return with a full equipment of household furniture and also a wife. He finally gathers a wagonload of furniture, including a burning stove, as well as a dinner. With this equipment he stops at farmer Loon's house and borrows his simple-minded old maid as a wife. Simp has a splendid wedding. All his neighbors are there and enjoy Simp's hospitality as well as the dancing of the old-fashioned Virginia Reel. Simp and his wife finally settle down to the humdrum of married life with no thought of the morrow, when like an avalanche, the neighbors call and remove all the household goods that Simp had "borrowed" to start house keeping with.
- Mrs. Green and Mrs. Bibbs, two dyed-in-the-wool suffragettes, are all aflutter over the coming suffragette parade, and are causing no end of trouble to their respective husbands by insisting that they participate in the parade and thus show their loyalty to the cause. Both women are typical "amazons," and, while Mr. Green is a normal-sized man and well able to take care of himself in spite of his wife's pugilistic tendencies, poor Bibbs is not so fortunate, as he measures a little over four feet and weighs but 110 pounds, while his wife tips the scale at 230. Like all little men, Bibbs is quite sure he can control his wife and make her do as he pleases. To prove his strength of will, he wagers $100.00 with Green that he will not parade with the suffragettes in spite of his wife's demands. The day of the parade arrives. Green like a wise fellow, has disappeared from town on pretense of business. Bibbs decided to stay at home and show his wife that he was boss. Imagine his great surprise when Mrs. Bibbs insisted that he join the paraders and when moral suasion proved futile, the weaker sex grabbed Mr. Bibbs by the collar, and, in that humiliating position, he was compelled to not only walk through the streets, but also join the parade of suffragettes up Fifth Avenue, and what was more humiliating, when his spouse tired of the struggle, there were plenty of volunteers to help her. The next day in his office, poor Bibbs silently paid over $100.00 to Green.
- Gaspard has been reduced to poverty by excessive drinking. He has a friend who is in reality the lender of a band of anarchists who are plotting to overthrow the present government of a South American republic. The chief of the Secret Service chances to meet Gaspard's wife and assists her home after she had a bad fall. The friend, Renaud, arouses in Gaspard a ferocious hatred when he informs him that Gaspard's wife is in love with the government official. Renaud persuades Gaspard to join his band of anarchists. In the meantime, the chief of the Secret Service receives word that a plot against the President has been formed. Gaspard joins the league. Renaud learns that the President is going to leave the Executive Mansion and informs his fellow conspirators. The detective who has been following Renaud gains admittance to their rendezvous and secretly removes the explosive from the satchel which they intend to hurl at the President. The conspirators do not notice the absence of the explosive from the satchel which is taken to Gaspard, who meets Renaud at the spot where the President is supposed to pass. In the meantime, the wife finds the note that Gaspard dropped. She decides to prevent the assassination. She comes upon the scene just as Gaspard throws what he thinks is a deadly explosive in front of the President and escort. Gaspard in terror as he realizes that the President is unharmed, runs madly away. He is pursued by the Secret Service men. Gaspard in his endeavor to escape falls over a cliff and is dangerously injured. Realizing that death is near he confesses all and Renaud and his fellow conspirators are captured. The chief expresses his sympathy for Gaspard's wife, later his strong interest ripens into love which she returns.
- Jack Wilson, a young revenue officer, falls in love with Edith Murray. Edith does not love him, however, and tells him so. She later marries Dick Noble, a young Virginian, whose supposed occupation is that of a lumberman. After the honeymoon the young couple go to their home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Everything is happiness for Edith until by a chance she learns that instead of being a millman her husband is a moonshiner. Jack Wilson is detailed by his superior officer to arrest Noble. The very night that Edith has discovered Dick's illegal occupation. Jack and a fellow officer are trailing him through the mountains and getting evidence against him. At a cross road Jack and his companion separate. Jack getting the right trail, soon catches up to Dick, whom he follows to his home. When he arrives there. Dick meets Edith, who is in tears and heart-broken over her discovery. He promises her to give up his illicit pursuits and he has hardly done so, when Jack Wilson dashes into the room and places him under arrest. The scene which follows is absorbing in its tension, enough to say that love triumphs and Dick and Edith seek the new life in the Great West.
- George Benson, son of a rich lumber merchant, and John Dalroy, a lumberyard employee, are both in love with Mary Moore. John obtains Mary's promise to become his wife. When John draws his payroll from the bank, George takes the money, and the blame is placed on John, who is arrested in Mary's presence. On his way from the station after serving two years in prison, John meets his old rival George and realizes that if he goes back to Mary, he will only bring disgrace upon her; he decides to leave for the North. Seeing John get on the train, Geroge is satisfied with the result of his plans, but his pleasure is short-lived as his severe cough becomes more pronounced. Just before he finally succumbs to tuberculosis, George confesses that he took the money and put the blame on John. Mary insists that George's father write a letter to a friend in the North (a guide), giving a description of John. When John reaches the northern country he engages a guide to take him over the hills, and the guide, desirous of getting the gold that John has in his possession, shoots John and escapes with the dog team. He is later killed. After the attack that the treacherous guide had made on him, John falls exhausted and as he lies on the ground, the falling snow slowly covers his body until a blizzard finally buries him from sight. The guides who have located John's trail finally come to his frozen body. The girl who has been waiting for the return of her sweetheart little dreams that he will be brought home to her dead.
- During the American Revolution, a Hessian soldier is rejected by a young American girl. Embittered, he betrays her and the man she loves, a veteran of the battle for Lexington, and both die in a savage Indian attack in the Mohawk Valley.
- Clementine Boland and Benjamin Yardley love each other, but Clementine's father objects to the young man marrying his daughter. After the young man is several times ejected from the house by the father, he decides that the only alternative is that he and Clementine elope. While they are planning together the father overhears them and orders his daughter to remain in the house. Benjamin is persistent; he gets a ladder and by that means gets Clementine out of the house unseen by the father, but they are seen by the gardener, who informs the father. Clementine and Benjamin get in carriage and start for the church. In the meantime the father gets into his auto and follows the elopers. The carriage breaks down, Clementine and Benjamin are forced to run from the father, who arrives on the scene. The father chases after the couple. After a chase Benjamin bribes a farmer to help them out, giving him some money. He tells the farmer to put the old man on the wrong track. The father arrives on the scene and the farmer informs him that the boy and girl are in his house. The father follows him to the house and the farmer gets him to enter his store-room. The father does so and the farmer immediately closes and locks the door, holding the father a prisoner. The boy and girl run to a church and are married. The father, who has been held a prisoner for three hours, hears loud talking, and, placing his ear to the door, hears the farmer's wife pleading with her husband. The husband in a fierce voice tells her that nothing that she may say will save his life. The farmer takes his knife and sharpens it. The father, terror-stricken, believes that the farmer and his wife intend to kill him for his money. The young couple, believing that they have the laugh on father, through the window see the bloody knife in the farmer's hands, and hearing the wife upbraid him and declare "that he has killed him," the couple come to the conclusion that their papa has been killed and run to the sheriff, informing him of the tragedy. The sheriff and some farmers go to the farmer's house. They arrive in time to see the farmer come from the house with a shovel and hear him inform his wife that, "It is best that he bury him now." The sheriff, on Clementine's and Benjamin's accusation, arrests the farmer, who eventually, after some explanations, takes them behind the barn and shows them his wife's pet pig that was sick, and he was compelled to kill him. They all go in the house and the father is released from his prison. The young people get the father's blessing, who is thankful that the outcome of the affair was not as tragic as he anticipated.
- Maggie Dooley is the cook and general maid of all work at the home of a stock operator, whose family consists of a wife and marriageable son. Maggie is grotesque in appearance and her particular forte is a decided ability to break valuable china-ware and get the cooking and house cleaning particularly mixed. Things are at such a pass that "Pater Familias" is about to "fire" Maggie, when he receives a message that his fortune is swept away in Wall Street. Simultaneously, Maggie receives a letter, which her master and mistress see, to the effect that she has fallen heir to $100,000, through the death of her uncle. Maggie's wealth is the immediate object of envy to her employers. They show her every respect, and the situation becomes most ludicrous. Finally the father schemes to annex Maggie's coming fortune by inducing his son to marry her. This doesn't please the boy, but he finally yields to the tearful appeals of his father and mother and consents. Maggie is highly delighted at the prospect and a speedy marriage is arranged. After the wedding supper, the hilarity is at its height, when a message comes to inform Maggie that her uncle was merely in a trance and that the first message is, therefore, a mistake. The effect of this news is electrical; the ensuing conduct of the father, mother, son and Maggie is one continuous scream on and off the film.
- Hiram Perkins, a young farmer, has married a beautiful country girl, and, after the novelty of the honeymoon had worn off, he became blind to his wife's charms and made of her a farm drudge. His main object in life was money, and to increase his income, he decided to take in summer boarders. Dick Ravenwood and his mother were the first to come there and Dick, becoming charmed with Mrs. Perkins' personality, did everything in his power to lighten her burdens. Perkins' mind, too cramped for any broad thought, misunderstood these innocent attentions and did not hesitate to unjustly accuse his wife of unfaithfulness. Mrs. Perkins bore all this with the spirit of a martyr, and was greatly relieved when upon her younger sister's arrival, Dick concentrated all his attentions upon her. Dick's impetuous nature knew no obstacles and he quickly won the heart of Mrs. Perkins' younger sister, Nellie. Nellie would not name the happy day until Dick had spoken to her sister, so Dick sends a note asking Mrs. Perkins to meet him in a secluded spot (where Nellie is in hiding), as he has something of great importance to tell her. This note falls into the hands of Perkins, whose brain becomes fired with jealousy and whose evil mind can see nothing but wrong in every action. Perkins bides his time and upon seeing Dick alone in a canoe fires at him, causing Dick to fall into the water helpless. Mrs. Perkins hears the shot, and, looking toward the lake, sees Dick slowly sinking. Without a moment's hesitation she leaps into the river and rescues him. Perkins is finally made to realize his mistake, and also to appreciate his wife whose drudging days are about over at the time when Dick marries her sister.
- Jennie Forrester has been the playmate of the Harrison boys ever since she wore pinafores and pigtails. When the older brother, Louis, proposed to her, Jennie promptly refused him, as she loved the younger one, whom she had already accepted. Louis in anger denounces his brother and they come to blows. The crowd of cowboys step in and prevent what might have been a fatal quarrel. John Hopkins, who hates Louis bitterly for an imaginary wrong, has been a witness to this quarrel and sees an opportunity for revenge without danger to himself, as he thinks. The two brothers have been left alone, after assurance by both that the quarrel would not continue. The younger one removes his belt with his gun and knife, and hangs it on his saddle horn, while he goes to the brook to get some water to wash himself with. The elder remains on a log, brooding. Hopkins sees this from a distance and when Henry has left, he takes the younger brother's knife from the belt and sneaking up behind Louis, stabs him in the back. Not satisfied with his fiendish act, he robs the body, then rushes away. The cowboys discover the body with Henry's knife sticking in his back and remembering the quarrel, they conclude that Henry is guilty. Western law is brought into play and in spite of Jennie, preparations are made to hang him. Jennie in the meantime has ridden at breakneck speed for assistance to the authorities. She is held up by Hopkins, who shows her a purse of money, which she recognizes as having belonged to the murdered man. By a clever ruse, she unarms him and compels him to ride with "hands up" to the scene of execution in the nick of time to save her lover from death and the cowboys from committing a crime.