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- Dick Blair, the idle son of millionaire parents being born with a "silver spoon in his mouth" like many another of the "Idle rich," abuses his opportunities and becomes in early manhood, a dissipated man about town. In spite of repeated warnings and also threats of disinheritance, he continues in the "pace that kills" until his father, realizing that unless the boy is thrown upon his own resources and made to feel actual want, he would go to an early grave, finally drives him from the home that had sheltered him since childhood, and orders him to make his own way in the world. His new life begins when he saves from drowning the daughter of a famous banker and modestly disappears after the heroic deed. In answering an application for a private secretary, he finds his employer to be the father of the girl whom he had saved from drowning. The daughter of the banker recognizes Dick as her rescuer and the banker takes a special interest in him. Dick's sterling qualities eventually win him a junior partnership with his employer and also the hand of the girl whom he rescued from a watery grave. Proud of his wife and the position in life he has attained, he calls upon his father and a happy reconciliation follows.
- A Mexican stops at the house of a trapper and asks for a drink of water. Marie, the trapper's pretty wife, complies with his request. After appeasing his thirst, he tries to force a kiss upon her. He rides away leaving her sobbing at the humiliation. The husband gets a clue to the Mexican's trail by the old hoof print of his horse. He comes upon the Mexican, who is engaged in a game of cards. The trapper has words with the Mexican, and in the struggle which follows the gun held by the Mexican is discharged and the Mexican falls. The Sheriff starts to get his man but meets with an accident on the way. Marie is on her way with food to her fugitive husband, when she finds the sheriff prostrate with a broken arm. She assists him to her home. When the sheriff is well on the way to recovery, he discovers that Marie is the wife of the man he is hunting down. The trapper, in the meantime tires of hiding and returns to his home, and, peering through the window, notes the sheriff patting his wife's head. The trapper dashes into the cabin with drawn gun. Marie jumps in front of the sheriff to protect him. After the husband has explained the circumstances of the killing (which was purely accidental), he offers to go with the sheriff, but when he looks at the weeping woman decides that he never did care much for the office of sheriff and bids them both good-bye and leaves them in peace.
- Mrs. Radcliff, a wealthy widow, had been engaged for some years to a titled foreigner. They plighted their troth while the widow was abroad education her only daughter and the prospective bridegroom was expected daily to attend his nuptial ceremony. In honor of his arrival, the widow had prepared a garden fete to introduce her prospective husband to her friends and intimates. The step from girlhood to womanhood is small, separated only by the difference between short and long dresses and wearing the hair down the back or on the top of the head. When the widow first met the Count her daughter was a little girl in short dresses, now, returning from boarding school with her long skirts. She was a very attractive young woman, which the mother with her worldly experience was quick to realize. A woman may be as old as she looks, but not so when she has a grown-up daughter in evidence. Therefore, the daughter was requested to temporarily return to her short skirts for the Count's benefit, but when she was also informed that little girls could not attend the garden fete she rebelled, but the mother was obdurate. The daughter met the Count as a little girl and acted the part, for she played many a kid prank upon the two lovers, much to their embarrassment. The night of the fete arrives and so did the daughter, but in her proper garb, where she met the Count and where that observant person realized that the daughter was even more attractive than the mother. Moonlight on the water has been the result of many a romance. That was the result of the Count's and his prospective stepdaughter's boat ride on the bay. The Count was a poor oarsman; he lost both oars and the wind and tide did the rest. The couple were marooned on a barren island far from shore and not rescued until the next morning. The night was cold. The Count first protected his charge was cold. The Count first protected his charge with his coat, then his arms. The result was to be expected; the widow gained a son-in-law instead of a husband.
- Two well-to-do brothers, Tom and Jerry, have been associated in business for years, and the affection existing between them is something remarkable. Through the loss of his wife, Tom is given to melancholy and shows sign of a mental breakdown. This culminates in a complete aberration when his only daughter elopes with a young man from the Golden West, who has been visiting relatives in the vicinity. Jerry receives a letter from his niece in her new home and he decides that a change of scene would be beneficial to Tom's condition. They go west and are discovered in their western home having brought family jewels, heirlooms and the proceeds of the sale of their eastern property. An adventuress known as "The Badger Queen" in league with a desperado, has been doing the Lady Raffles act along the borders of New Mexico and Arizona. It is a singular method they adopt to secure hush money. She secures lodging at ranches and then disappears. Her paramour threatens exposure and is usually bought off. They play the same game upon the unsuspecting brothers and make their "getaway." They are, however, under suspicion and the sheriff soon rounds them up and recovers the loot, bringing them back for identification. This leads to the happy reunion of the family. The sight of the daughter and her little child happy in the love of her husband and his mother brings a ray of reason to Tom's mind and he eventually is restored to health and his reason returns.
- It was a sad group which sat in a cold cottage, just a few days before Christmas. With two children to provide for, Widow Mitchell found her cross a heavy one to bear, but she bravely struggled on. Helen slipped from the house quietly. After wandering about for half an hour, suddenly, she saw in the distance an old man. He was dressed peculiarly and smoked a stubby pipe. Here, indeed, was Santa Claus. Shortly be reached a cabin on the hillside and entered. Helen stood outside almost too frightened to breathe, but she soon summoned up courage enough to slip up and peek through the window and there she saw an old trunk, its lid thrown back, and in the old man's hands an old doll and a locket. He was thinking of the past. His mind wandered again to the scene of long ago when his little home was made desolate by an Indian uprising. Then she hurried home to tell her mother about finding Santa Clans. To please the child, she helped her fix up a note asking Kris Kringle for the things she wanted. Helen bravely went to the old man in the cabin and handed him the message. He read it over slowly. By degrees he drew from Helen the story of her widowed mother and sick brother. At dusk Helen's mother rushed in. She had grown anxious when the child had not returned and decided to go in search of her. At the sight of the old man, Mrs. Mitchell fell, fainting in the arms of her father. The old man lost no time in arranging the Christmas details. Helen and brother bad their tree and loads of toys.
- Bob Strong, an American in Sicily on business, has been the guest of Don Sebastian for some months. The Don was a widower with an only daughter just verging into womanhood, and upon her developed the duty of entertaining her father's guest. The Don's principal source of income was derived from the Sulphur mines which had been in his family for generations. Unfortunate investments had forced the Don to mortgage his property. The man he borrowed the money from was a retired banker, but in reality Rizal, the chief of a band of brigands, from which source he derived his immense fortune. The mortgage fell due and the Don was much depressed by reason of the fact that he would be obliged to ask for a renewal. Bob Strong learned of his host's difficulties and offered his help, which the Don, in his pride, refused to accept. The Don's daughter unaware of her father's predicament, refuses Rizal's offer of marriage and when Rizal observes that the daughter's affections are for the young American, these two men have words and a quarrel, in which Bob thrashes Rizal, the unsuspected bandit chief. Rizal, to be revenged, has his band capture and bring Bob to the bandit stronghold, which is located in a worked-out part of the Sulphur mines. To complete his revenge he determines to steal the Don's daughter and to marry her in the presence of the captive American. An English tourist on a hunting expedition wees the proceedings at a distance and interferes by the use of his long-range rifle; one after another of the brigands is killed or wounded and not knowing from whence the destructive shots are coming, fly in consternation, leaving Bob and the Don's daughter to be released by the Padre, whom the brigand chief had brought to his stronghold, to perform the marriage ceremony. The young people arrive safely at home without the knowledge as to who their deliverer was, until the British marksman puts in his appearance and explains the mystery.
- In our picture of the "Children's Paradise," a splendid opportunity is given to see the life these "babies of the poor" lead daily in one of the largest fresh-air homes in the world. Mt. Lawn is situated at Nyack, on the Hudson, N.Y., and was founded by Dr. Louis Klopsch, in 1895. The home occupies 35 acres of beautiful woodland and is indeed a veritable paradise for the little ones who never see a blade of grass grow or can fill their little lungs with God's fresh air. Three thousand starved babies are made happy and healthy by a two weeks' vacation, when they receive plenty to eat and can breathe God's pure air. The home is supported by voluntary contributions and costs to maintain, $20,000 per year.
- The Metropolitan police are mystified by a number of robberies, in which the robber leaves absolutely no clew. When a cable from France informs them to be on the lookout for a famous French crook who is a master of hypnotism. They assign their best detectives on his trail. At the Van Osten reception the police mingle with the guests, and one of their number becomes suspicious of an apparently dignified French nobleman with exceptionally piercing eyes. His watchfulness is finally rewarded when he sees the Frenchman put under hypnotic power the young woman who is engaged to marry the son and heir of the Van Osten millions. The detective hears the explicit instructions given to the young woman to take the famous Van Osten jewels from their hiding place and bring them to him. Under the hypnotic power, the young woman obeys the command and is seen handing them to the Frenchman by her fiancé. Thinking that his sweetheart is in league with the man, he obtains the jewels and permits suspicion to fall upon himself. All ends happily when the detective steps forth and arrests his man, compelling him first of all to release the woman from the hypnotic spell.
- The daughter of a detective solves the case after her father is killed.
- A young squire has fallen in love with the pretty daughter of one of his tenants. Unfortunately he has never been able to declare his love to the pretty Irish lass for lack of opportunity. While visiting among his tenants with his sister, they come to the home of the girl's parents and the young squire makes the best of this opportunity, declares his love, and asks the pretty colleen to become his wife. Although flattered by the offer of the young squire, the lass hesitates about accepting, as she loves and is beloved by a handsome Irish lad of her village. Being undecided, she asks the squire for time and assures him of her answer on the morrow. The squire returns to his home and writes a note to the colleen, stating that he will call the following day for his answer. As the girl is perusing the epistle and pondering over the dilemma she falls asleep. She dreams that she has married the squire and that he has grown tired of her: he has even gone so far as to hire assassins to waylay and murder her. The timely arrival of her former sweetheart and his heroic battle with the hired assassins saves her from this violent death. The young squire meeting his wife and her former sweetheart becomes insanely jealous. He is about to kill her when her former sweetheart begins a desperate struggle and accidentally kills the young squire. Soldiers passing that way come upon the scene and place the Irish lad under arrest for the murder of the squire. The lad is condemned to death and the day is set for his execution. The girl then realizes how great her love is for the poor Irish lad and also that her marriage to the squire was a great mistake. She visits the lad in his cell on the last day and as he is led forth to the execution she falls in a faint. She wakes from this horrible dream sobbing bitterly, and makes up her mind as to the proper answer to give to the squire. When the squire calls on the following day she introduces him to the Irish lad who has been her sweetheart for years and thanking the squire for the honor of his proposal, assures him that she would rather be the wife of the Irish lad, whom she loved. The squire takes his defeat manfully and makes the happy couple a substantial wedding present sufficient to give them a start in life.
- From sunny Spain comes the story of a Senorita's devotion. The story of a love which went for naught, and could only be shown in silence. It has to do with a young American whose sojourn in Spain was marred by an encounter with brigands who left him for dead. Papinta, a pretty Senorita, while gathering flowers along the mountain side, discovers the wounded Yankee and brings him back to life. The story then becomes exciting. We leaves the film to tell what followed. Suffice it to say, there's a surprise in store not only from the standpoint of a story but photography as well.
- Mrs. Burridge, a widow, satisfied that her husband has died while in the U.S. army service, marries an honest old farmer, Andrew Armstrong, who gives her and her son a pleasant home. To supply his stepson with money the old man is compelled to mortgage his home. While he has the money in his possession he is accosted by an old tramp, who claims to be his wife's first husband and to keep the tramp from revealing the secret, he hands him the money he has received from the mortgage. This transaction is witnessed by his stepson, who robs the old tramp and throws him over a cliff. Captain Craven, an ex-army officer, who is spending his vacation in the town, saves Kate, the stepson's fiancée, from drowning and falls in love with her. In visiting Kate at her home he finds the tramp, who has recovered from the fall over the cliff, proclaiming himself as the husband of the present Mrs. Armstrong. He recognizes the tramp as Keets, a deserter of the U.S. army, and denounces him. The old tramp then confesses his identity and upon seeing the stepson upon the scene, he accuses him of having robbed him and throws him from the cliff. Kate, upon hearing that her fiancé is a thief, breaks her engagement and accepts the attentions of the man who had saved her from a watery grave.
- A young Russian noble, Ivan Baranoff, falls in love with a Jewish maiden of the city, Olga by name. The girl's father, a straight-laced, yet refined Jewish Rabbi, is incensed at the thought of a union between Olga and the son of a cruel Russian ruler and forbids her seeing him again. A stormy scene ensues and the angry father whips the girl for her disobedience. Smarting under the sting of his blows, she writes a note declaring her intentions and leaves to join her lover. Ivan and Olga go hand in hand to the great Church of St. Petersburg where the girl renounces her Jewish faith and becomes a Christian. Her father, mother and brother seek admittance to the church, hoping to prevent the ceremony, but are set upon by Russian peasants and only saved from violence at their hands by the timely arrival of Olga and the Priest. An over-zealous peasant reports to the Russian Prefect of Police that the old Rabbi was inciting riot and endeavoring to start a movement against the government. Being a rank Jew-hater, Metchinoff sees a chance to vent his ire against the hated race and sends the peasant, well supplied with gold, to the drinking places with instructions to buy wine for everyone who will drink and then to encourage a wholesale slaughter of Jews. The peasants, headed by their leader, rush to the Tabernacle while the Jews are observing "Yom Kippnr," or the Day of Atonement, and while in the midst of their religious ceremony, the maddened peasants fire the edifice and kill many of their number. The Moscovitch family are miraculously saved from death only to be taken prisoners and brought before the Prefect who consigned them to a worse fate, Siberia. Ivan intercedes, but with no success and the little band of sufferers are led away to await the long march over the ice fields to a living death. Olga and Ivan plan to effect their escape. He follows the guard, appointed by the Prefect to escort the prisoners on their journey, and manages to fill him with wine whereupon he takes his official orders and letters, disguises himself as a guard and hurries off to the prison where he finds Olga, in the guise of a Sister of Mercy, supposedly ministering to the wants of the prisoners. They manage to effect the escape of the Jews and Olga's parents reluctantly offer their forgiveness together with their thanks. Ivan books passage to American for the entire party and they leave Russian soil never to return. They arrive in New York and are cared for by relatives. Later on, happy and prosperous, they visit Washington, the nation's capital, where President Taft receives them.
- Two jovial sportsmen, after a successful day of fishing, come upon old Uncle Moe, tight asleep with a fishing pole in hand. They decide upon having some fun with the old negro, removes his line from the water and attaching a large fifteen pound fish to his hook, they throw it into the pond. Uncle Moe is awakened by the jerk and is surprised when he pulls out a large fish. Chuckling with delight at his apparent success he goes to another part of the stream. As he leaves the spot the two jokers appear and detaching the big fish from the line, replace it with a very small one. When Uncle Moe returns with a very small fish he had caught at the other part of the stream and goes to put it on his line, imagine his surprise when he draws forth a small fish in place of the large one he had left there. Uncle Moe begins to imagine he is seeing things, and decides to change his location again. Taking the two small fish, he ties them together, examines them critically and drops them into the water, after having secured the end of the string to a rock. When he returns the jokers had already been at work and when he draws up the string he finds two fifteen pounders in place of the two little ones he had left there. Uncle Moe decides not to take any further chances, and shouldering the fish he hobbles toward his hut in the hills. This is more than the jokers bargained for and in order to obtain their own fish they are compelled to buy them.
- Pretty Maggie Dolan had given her final answer to Jim, her childhood sweetheart, that unless he abstained from the use of liquor, she would never marry him. Jim's faithful promise was soon broken, as he came among a crowd of his boon companions. Upon calling for Maggie that evening at the bank, where she was employed, his free use of the "cup that cheers" was very noticeable. When Maggie refused his escort, he became abusive and received a thrashing at the hands of Tom Bell, the teller of the bank. When Maggie marries Tom, Jim, contrary to all expectations, becomes a respected citizen and eventually one of the chief detectives on the New York police force. After five years, Tom Bell becomes the trusted cashier of the bank, and finally succumbs to temptation. His investments with the bank's capital have been utter failures, and an examination of the books will show his guilt. Filling his grip with all the money he can lay his hands on, he prepares to leave the city. While in hiding, he sends for his wife and baby, and tells them he will soon send for them to join him in some foreign country. But fate interferes in these well-laid plans. While returning to his home, Mrs. Bell and the baby become separated and the baby is found, weeping by Jim O'Neill, now an honored member of the New York detective force. The baby innocently leads the detective to her father's hiding place, and Jim recognizes in the absconding cashier, his successful rival. After securing the grip containing the money, he returns to Tom the revolver he had taken from him. Tom recognizes the significance of the loaded revolver being left to him and pays for the defalcation with his life. Jim brings the baby to her mother and returns the money to the bank, after receiving the assurance of the bank officials to hush the matter up for the sake of the wife and baby. Two years later, Jim receives his reward by leading to the altar, his childhood sweetheart.
- When the daughter of the millionaire iron worker is saved from injury and possible death by one of her father's employees, she becomes interested in the gigantic and handsome specimen of manhood, who by sheer brutal strength, stops a maddened horse in his headlong flight. The young giant, besides possessing abnormal strength, has also a goodly share of brains, which he utilizes to such good effect that he eventually becomes superintendent of the steel plant. He learns to love the girl with a strong man's passion, and like his ancestors of the stone age, vows to make her his, in spite of all obstacles. The girl learns of his love and also of her power over this giant and, womanlike, is pleased. As a member of a spiritualistic society, she comes in contact with one of the lecturers, who loves her, and of whom the young giant is jealous. When the young giant professes his love, she coquettishly runs from him, and tells him to wait. The professor of spiritualism and the young giant meet at the steel works, and in a moment of jealous rage, the instinct of the prehistoric man asserts itself, and he is about to throw the professor into the gaping furnace, when an apparition appears of himself and the girl in the garb of the stone age, locked in each other's arms. Again this apparition appears to the girl, who being a spiritualist, realizes that she and the young giant had been mates in the stone age, and therefore, should become mates in the civilized world
- After having drank himself into poverty, Zeke Thompson, a young sailor, realizes the error of his ways and turns to seek other means of support for himself and loving wife. He goes to his father's home and comes just in time to interrupt a burglar at his work. A struggle ensues in which Zeke is felled. When he recovers his mind is a total blank. His hat is left in the room and is discovered by his father, who suspects him of having robbed him. Wandering along the docks he receives work as a deckhand upon an outgoing steamer. The burglar, who was also a sailor, seeks the "cup that cheers" and is soon in a semi-conscious state. While in this condition he is shanghaied and placed aboard the same vessel that Zeke has been put on. He comes face to face with Zeke and realizes that his blow has deprived Zeke of memory. Remorse sets in and he tries to recall to Zeke the scene of the conflict. The men become fast friends. A wreck occurs and Zeke saves the life of his companion almost sacrificing his own. A blow on the head during the rescue brings back his memory and he first learns that his sailing companion is the man who had robbed his father. Zeke becomes ill and his companion nurses him back to health and strength. They are rescued and Zeke forgives his companion. The sailor confesses to Zeke's father that he was the guilty one and Zeke, vowing never to touch liquor again, is clasped in the arms of his loving wife.
- Courage was never a great factor in the make-up of Dick Moore, and when his father orders him to give up the girl whom he loves, Dick, after a mild excuse, consents to do so. But when he meets his sweetheart, her love and beauty overcome all promises and he decides to run away. In the meantime, the butler and his wife decide to rob the old man of a large sum of money, and in the struggle which ensued, the butler picks up a riding crop which belongs to Dick and strikes the old man in the head, killing him instantly. Dick's crop is considered sufficient evidence and a general search is made for him. Instead of facing an inquiry, he deserts his sweetheart at a ferry landing and disappears. A year later, as a private in the U.S. army, he volunteers to carry important papers across the enemy's camp and almost loses his life in the attempt. While in the hospital tent he is put in the care of a special nurse, in whom he recognizes the sweetheart he had deserted. Explanations follow and the young woman is finally satisfied that she can trust her future with the man, who, though at one time a coward, had completely vindicated himself in the brave action for his country.
- The mother, with her son, visits an old friend of her husband's in hopes that she may secure a position for her boy in his office. The boy meets with the gentleman's approval and is engaged as a stenographer. In the office is a young man who has been living beyond his means. He robs his employer of a sum of money, and to throw suspicion form him, places some of the money in the boy's desk. The employer discovers the loss of the money, a detective is called and in his search the detective finds the money in the boy's desk. The boy is accused of the crime, he protests his innocence, to no avail. His employer decides that the law must take its course, the boy is arrested. The mother learns of her boy's arrest, she goes to the employer and pleads with him to spare her boy. Her pleadings are in vain. The employer declares he can do nothing toward freeing her son, he has committed a crime and should pay the penalty. The guilty clerk is troubled with a guilty conscience and takes relief from his trouble thoughts by excessive drinking .While walking across a street he is hit by an automobile and injured. The accident occurs in front of the boy's mother's home. He is carried in the house and taken care of by the boy's mother. He has been treated so kindly by the mother that he decides the boy shall suffer no longer. He makes a confession of his crime on the strength of which the boy is released from jail. The employer expresses his regret of having dealt with the boy so harshly, reinstates him in the office in a higher position. In the meantime the guilty clerk has recovered from his injury. The boy's mother begs the detective who is to take the clerk to jail, to allow her to take the clerk to the employer's office. She decides to plead with the employer in the clerk's behalf. The mother, with the detective and clerk, come to the office, she realizes that the employer has decided that the clerk shall be punished, but hopes to soften the employer's heart. The employer remains firm and the clerk is taken away to jail.
- John Walsh was born and raised in the lower East Side, there, as boy and man, he had worked and played, laughed and cried, and the conditions and customs of this vicinity were an open book to him. Early to appreciate the value of an education, he managed to struggle through public school, not a struggle as far as intelligence was concerned, but a struggle to remain in school because of his being obliged to help towards the support of his family. He managed to do more than his share in this respect, by selling papers and doing odd jobs before and after school hours. Arriving at manhood his cherished ambition was realized, for he secured an appointment on the police force. He was that type of young New Yorker who has made the history of the metropolis, in politics, in business and yes, in finance. Skinny Leach was that other type of East Sider who fill our police courts and jails. As a boy he was constantly sought by the truant officer or kept busy eluding the police. As a youth he slept in hallways or wagons, and as a man became the leader of a growler gang, living by levying tribute from inoffensive Chinamen and Hebrews for funds with which to rush the can. It was ordained that these two opposites meet, for when the young patrolman was assigned to duty, his post was located in the vicinity of Five Points and Chinatown. Here is where the growler gang held sway and where Leach ruled. Hazing is not only practiced at West Point, for at Five Points the kid coppers must go through their course of sprouts, and believe us from what we've heard, we would prefer the Army brand of hazing. "The easiest way may be the best," and "You may catch more flies with molasses than with salt." But John knew his people, to win the respect of the gang element yon must be a better man. "Hey, fellers, there's a new cop on the beat. He soaked me for trying to do Mickey the Bootblack out of the price." That was all that was necessary; such an affront to the gang was not to be tolerated and they proceeded to do the fresh cop, and they almost succeeded, too, but for Mickey the Bootblack and his sister Nell. The gang got John; they beat him up good and they finally cooped him up in a Chinese chop suey joint for the new cop gave a good account of himself, as future reference. It was not all one-sided, though, the leader of the growler gang can testify. When Mickey reached the station house the reserves had an incentive for haste, for one of their fellows needed help. Copper and crook have no love for each other and it was a merry little war that Chinatown witnessed that day, on the street, through houses and on the roofs, that gallant squad of bluecoats took the opportunity to settle many an old score. Leach got his, about five years, ample time and opportunity to reflect upon the error of his ways. We are glad to say that he did. He tried to get work after he had done his bit, but, well a jailbird doesn't always get a show, maybe he is hounded by the police. This ex-convict was arrested on general principles and brought before Captain Walsh, and that's why he is an honest hard-working man to-day. He did not receive a lecture on the error of his ways; he was given a chance, "If you'll stand for him, Cap, I'll give him a job. Can you drive, young feller? Git up." Leach owns a couple of teams himself now. The other day he delivered a package to Mrs. Captain Walsh, Mickey's sister, how did you guess? And she let him kiss the baby, too. That's an East Side evidence of good will.
- A well-bred young Polish Jew has followed many of his kind to the land of the brave and the home of the free. Then, following the precepts of his forefathers, he has married and multiplied the race, which in this instance consists of a young daughter, now aged ten. Prosperity had turned her back upon this ambitions son of Israel, and a bare existence was all that this fickle goddess of fortune allotted him. The crisis was reached when he was thrown out of employment, without any provision being made for a rainy day. But God is good to the faithful, and when the clouds of adversity were darkest, a ray of sunshine broke through. The young Pole's mother arrived in America, bearing with her the proceeds of the sale of all her possessions in the fatherland, sufficient to assure a life of comfort to her beloved children. Without question, the aged mother gave her all to her son and daughter-in-law, and little did she think of the consequences. The daughter-in-law, American born and without the knowledge of the duty due a parent, in the ease and affluence following their sudden good fortune forgot whence it came and to whom it was due. The old mother was in the way, interfered with her son's wife's social aspirations, and, alas! was abused and degraded by her daughter-in-law. What man has joined together, let no man put asunder; so, rather than come between man and wife, this grand old woman, without thought of self, leaves the comforts of a home which she in fact had established. Selling papers, peddling and performing menial labor may provide a living for the young and strong, but the load was too heavy for this Spartan mother. That she was saved from a watery grave she does not now regret, for being restored to the arms of her son and his repentant wife and with a loving grandchild to attend her every wish, the memory of the past seems but a dream.
- Madge Morton, who after losing her mother, is left alone in the world. She is cared for by a minister, who soon learns the girl's story and adopts her. The minister has a son by the name of Harry, who takes a large amount of money from his father's desk, to spend on a girl he met while at college. Madge, who has witnessed the deed, is discovered in the room by the minister, who, believing she stole the money, orders her from the house. In the meantime, Harry is apprehended of the girl's character, and returns home with the money intact, only to be told by his father that he has ordered Madge from his home, believing that she stole his money. Harry immediately starts out to find the girl, which he does. She is reconciled with the family, and all ends happily.
- When Willie's sweetheart learns that his father had opened her note to Willie making a secret appointment for that evening, and intended to keep the appointment himself, she prepares a little surprise for him. With the help of a friendly carpenter and his ladder, she releases her sweetheart, who had been locked in his room by his father, and then arranges with a colored girl to dress in her clothes and meet the old gentleman, having shaved his beard and mustache, and adorned himself in automobile apparel, goes forth to keep the appointment. To his surprise he is met pleasantly by his son's sweetheart, and she permits him to fondle and kiss her. At this moment the sweetheart arrives and the young lady raises her veil and discloses the grinning features of a colored girl.
- "The mills have been shut down for six months." No need to go into extensive details; can you not see the gaunt faces, the wild and hollow eye, the pinch of poverty obscuring the heavens from these poor suffering souls? A philosopher has said: "Some men go through life with their eyes half closed, like a tailor threading a needle. So did John Caxton, the owner of the mills. From continued self-indulgence, luxury, comfort, a disposition to sidestep every issue that might disturb the serenity of his life, he became an inert mass, simply a receptacle for money made by those who toiled for him at starvation wages. McBride, his manager, was a good man to have about. What would Caxton do without this paragon of a man, who relieved him of the annoyance of thinking too much? Well, McBride, a product of the lower East Side, was for Mac first, foremost and last, never losing a trick, and you can bet if an opportunity to be cruel, mean and treacherous and generally dirty presented itself, Mac never passed it by. The workmen hated his "insides" and not without cause. Caxton was half disposed to meet their demands, but Mac insisted that their percentage of profit was lower than the preceding year. The men began to get turbulent. Such conditions bring out agitation, and Schmidt, who was secretly an anarchist, lost no time in stirring them up to a frenzy; but there are generally some cool heads who believe in pacific measures, and such a one was John Strong, a first-class mechanic, with a wife and daughter Gertrude. John was well liked by the men. One day while Cora Caxton, the mill-owner's daughter, was walking along near his house, Schmidt, who was haranguing the crowd, broke into the storm of abuse at her good clothes and luxury, and he and some others scared the child into a panic. Strong calmed them and took the child into his house to protect her. Here she was confronted for the first time with the life of the poor; it touched her heart and she immediately became the friend of the little family. So impressed was she with Gertrude, that Strong and his wife granted her request to take Gertrude to the Caxton mansion on a visit. There she met the owner, and after many questions, he began to wake up to the true state of affairs. He summoned McBride by messenger. Scarcely had the note left the house when Schmidt sneaked up and began to ignite a bomb on the step; it spluttered and in a moment would have reduced the house to powder but for John Strong, who, like the quiet hero he was, picked up the deadly thing and threw it away. McBride, seeing him with the infernal thing, immediately summoned an officer, accusing him of the attempted crime. He was taken before Caxton, who, in a rage, ordered him to prison. But the children have observed the action from the window and clear him, as the real culprit, Schmidt, is brought in by an officer. Needless to say, Caxton is grateful to their preserver, and is willing to meet any demand that John Strong may make; but John says, "All I want is a square deal for the men." Caxton agrees, and taking John out on the front steps, where the crowd of workmen have congregated, assures them of his friendship, and furthermore discharges McBride and takes John and Gertrude in his own automobile and goes with them to the humble cottage to convey the joyful news to John's wife.
- There's plenty of material for good dramas in the Salvation Army. Almost every soldier in this vast organization could tell a story of heart-throbs, of hopes and ambitions, of storms and distress, which would suffice to make a drama dramatic. "The Angel of the Bowery," is famous in song and story all over America. She was a Salvation Army lass whose father had died a drunkard. She loved a chap in their home town but the boy's mother would not countenance a union between her son and a drunkard's daughter; so the girl went to New York and became a Salvationist. Little did she know she would later meet her old sweetheart in a low Bowery dive, where he had finally drifted after leaving his mother in anger, and started on the downward path. But she never faltered when her duty called. Just what transpired afterward must not be told. That there was a wedding at the Barracks must be admitted, however, and it was attended by the rank and file of the army.
- Misfortunes change Dennis Cassidy from an honest, sober and industrious working man into a desperate character. With a wife, baby and happy home, there was no more contented person in the city than Cassidy; but fickle fortune points her arrow at him and troubles come one after another. A premature explosion deprives him of his livelihood, blindly signing away his action for damages, leaves him without redress in the courts. The loss of his home and death of his wife and baby deprive him of all reasoning power and leaves him with a bitter hatred against the world of honesty and respectability. He attributes all his misfortunes to the man who got him to sign the release for damages and with brain afire he calls upon him bent upon vengeance. At the sight of the man in his happy home, Cassidy becomes crazed with anger and is about to shoot the author of his misfortunes, when the sight of a little child coming in to kiss her father good-night stays his hand and recalls to his maddened brain the picture of his own little darling, now sleeping peacefully in her grave. Poor Cassidy comes to his right senses at the sight of the innocent babe and again becomes an industrious citizen, sadder but wiser, and leaves vengeance to a Higher Power.
- A good woman's love and a true woman's devotion have formed the themes tor countless novels and plays, but these qualities are so worthy that their telling will bear unlimited repetition. That John Gray is alive to-day and enjoying the loving companionship of his wife is only due to the love and devotion of the Indian squaw who sacrificed her own hopes and love that he might live and be happy. Gray, an ex-easterner, has made the west his home for some years. The owner of a prosperous ranch, he was universally liked by employees and neighbors; his generous and sunny disposition made him a host of friends. He did not save the squaw's life or make love to her; he merely protected her from the insults of a worthless greaser. She was a woman and that was sufficient for John Gray. But, alas! this poor little untutored half-savage viewed it from her point of view, a man only protects the woman he loves, and then and there gave to Gray her uncontrollable affection. There was no question about her love for Gray. She did not declare it from the housetops, but in a hundred different little ways showed that he was her man. When the saloon keeper of Broncho Forks was found knifed to death and there was scrawled upon the bar a message that John Gray had committed the act, there was no excuse for doubt in the minds of anyone but that Gray had actually committed the crime. This did not convince the squaw, however. Gray told her it was not so, and his word was all-sufficient, and the fact that she helped his escape, furnished him with food and shelter in the mountains, was to be expected; but when another woman appeared upon the scene, in the guise of Gray's intended wife, all the savagery in the squaw's nature cropped up and she did everything to keep the man for herself, even leading the other girl into the belief that Gray was guilty in the hope of sending her hack where she had come from. The squaw's devotion was brought to the front when Gray was tracked and captured and about to be lynched; then this little savage divulged the fact that she had wormed herself into the confidence of Pedro the greaser and that he had shown her the hiding place of the gold he had stolen from the murdered saloon keeper, and gave Gray's life to the other woman.
- Harry Mason has become infatuated with Nanon Belary, a designing woman. He has spent all his money on her, and resorts to rob the bank in which he is employed. While at a restaurant with the woman he meets an old acquaintance, Walter Moore. Nanon learns that Walter is a wealthy politician and she immediately sets out to make a conquest and is successful. Harry's shortage in the bank has been discovered and he is advised to leave the country. He asks the woman to accompany him, but she merely laughs at him. Harry warns Moore to have nothing to do with the woman. While Harry is giving Moore advice, he is captured by the police. Moore takes Harry's advice and leaves the country. On his new environment he meets a society girl, falls in love, and as time goes on, they agree to be married. The announcement of their marriage is seen in the papers by Nanon, who sends a threatening letter to Moore. He goes at once to the home of Nanon. Harry, who has escaped from the penitentiary, also arrives at her home at the same time. In a struggle with the woman, her gun is discharged, killing her. Harry now makes his escape. Moore, who has been waiting in the outer parlor, enters when he hears the shot. The police enter, and he is blamed, and put into jail. However, Harry makes a confession, and all ends happily.
- A seafaring man in moderate circumstances has left his daughter with his widowed sister and her crippled son at their modest home in Liverpool, England, while he goes to look after some property he had acquired in the Bermudas. He is taken suddenly and seriously ill aboard ship and a wireless message to this effect is sent from the S.S. Trent to his daughter. The aunt has not sufficient funds to pay for her niece's passage and the daughter therefore resolves to disguise herself as a boy, in one of her cousin's suits of clothes and steal her way aboard a schooner about to sail for Bermuda. She gets aboard the vessel and secretes herself in the lifeboat, where she is discovered when out at sea, by Dick Dead Eye, a villainous sailor. The Captain orders the flogging usually meted out to a stowaway, but the mate, a sympathetic, manly fellow, is struck by the boy's appearance and innocent manner and refuses to apply the lash. The Captain administers the Cat and in her struggle the sex of the stowaway is revealed. During the voyage the stowaway jumps overboard and saves the mate's life, which has been placed in jeopardy by the vengeful Dick Dead Eye. During the long trip to Bermuda the mate and the girl stowaway are constant companions, and love finally wins its way and the mate lays his heart and fortune at her feet. Arriving at Bermuda the lovers find the girl's father at the Seaman's Hospital, almost recovered and return with him to England by the first steamer where the young couple are happily married at an early date.
- When a shiftless, worthless son advances the theory that he need not work so long as Dad is willing to and spends his time in pool rooms and other disreputable places, he is only one in thousands of others just like him. He doesn't mind if a loving mother grieves; he won't allow himself to realize she cares. He's in the rut and he's going to stay there. Then his father's house is robbed and suspicion points to the son. The evidence is strongly against him and things look dark. Luckily for him, a big-hearted desk-sergeant seems to think there's some good in the young fellow, at least he takes a chance of losing his stripes and shield, and allows him to go out of jail for twelve hours when the boy swears he can bring in the real culprit. Nor did the sergeant make a bad guess for the erring son did bring in the thief, and the money he stole, besides. You can imagine how proudly that desk-sergeant felt when he brought that boy home, acquitted of the crime, and led him to his grief-stricken mother. Dear old Dad tried to maintain a stern exterior but his trembling lip betrayed his inward emotion. Anyway, everybody seemed to realize a big lesson had been taught. A future loomed up ahead of the boy and he made up his mind to go after it. Perseverance won and he later on owned a paying business of his own. And, do you know, he blames "the copper" for it all.
- The rush for gold was on and many there were who flocked to Nome in search of the precious metal, among them Tom Stuart, who left a wife and young daughter behind, back east. The girl fell in love with the son of a rich broker, and when he informed his father that he intended to wed the girl a storm of protest followed and the boy was warned never to see the girl. However, love knows no obstacles, and the happy twain were wed. They departed for the west shortly after, the girl writing her father in advance of their coming. Meanwhile, there was trouble in the gold mining camp and Tom Stuart was daily missing small portions of his hoardings of dust. Where it went he could not guess, but suspicion pointed strongly to Jose, a Mexican roustabout. Tom's partner was unmindful of the loss and led a care-free happy life. When the newly-married couple from the east reached the Nome region they were tired and worn out. They sought shelter in the very cave where Tom Stuart's gold was concealed and accidentally discovered the treasure. Of course, they filled their pockets and journeyed to the camp. Tom Stuart discovered his loss the next day and aroused the camp to action. Jose, the suspect, was dragged to the nearest tree and was about to lose his life, for he confessed to small thefts, when the broker's son learned of the commotion and appeared on the scene in time to explain away the guilt of Jose. Father and daughter met for the first time in three long years, and Tom accepted his new son-in-law in good faith, in spite of his innocent escapade, which almost caused a tragedy. Some time later the happy and prosperous couple returned to the east, just in time to save a ruined broker from suicide. A father's forgiveness followed, of course.
- It remained for the fearless "Italian Sherlock Holmes" to run down the boldest and most merciless band of kidnappers ever recorded by a Sicilian Camorrist, who had escaped from Italy and later became a small banker in New York; this gang of terrorists had been levying blackmail on the small Italian merchant who showed signs of prosperity until the police were thrown into confusion by the succession of bomb outraged and kidnapping which followed when a victim failed to respond. Finally, a young Italian police lieutenant, Victor Petrosio, begged for a chance to break up the gang. He was given the opportunity and the story of his wonderful experiences and the dangers he encountered, we have told in pictures. Not only do we show "the Italian Sherlock Holmes" fighting against terrible odds at the risk of his life, but the scenes incident to the rescue of the kidnapped children, the capture of the wily Black Hand leader, and the return of the children to their grief-stricken parents; but we illustrate that notable occasion when the brave Petrosio was honored for his daring by the entire department in the presence of his brother officers and representatives of the press.
- Neglected and abused by her husband, May Sommers has submitted to the indignities heaped upon her, as only a good and loyal wife can, when he brutally drove her from home, broken-hearted, she sought peace and happiness in the waters of the bay. But fate had other designs for her future and she is rescued by the son and daughter of a wealthy planter. In this family she is cared for and after a long convalescence is induced to remain as a companion and governess to the eldest daughter. Her past was forgotten, care and tenderness restored the girlish beauty that she possessed at the time of her marriage. Thrown into daily companionship with the son of her benefactors, there could be but one outcome, love, and he very soon told her of his affection and asked her to become his wife. May dare not confess her terrible secret, and allowed her suitor to think that love was not reciprocated. So time passes until May's husband appears upon the scene as a suitor for the hand of the daughter of the family in which his wife has found a home. May waylays her husband and threatens him with exposure unless he takes his departure, and wild with rage at her interference, this brute beats and chokes his wife whose life is perhaps saved by the timely arrival of her admirer. At bay, May's husband skulks off vowing vengeance, but meets his just deserts. Being unfamiliar with the neighborhood, he loses his way in the night and falls over a cliff, where his lifeless body is found next morning. A year later May's lover gains the reward he so long waited for.
- Rose Martin is loved by Tom Belden, a young cattle owner, but Rose prefers Jack Bennet, employed by her father, which arouses the enmity of Belden and who picks a quarrel with Jack. A lariat duel is arranged on horseback. Belden makes a lucky throw and drags Jack from his mount and starts over the prairie dragging the helpless lad to certain death. Rose suspected trouble and has ridden in the direction in which she saw both men ride. She comes upon the scene as Jack, unconscious, is being dragged to his death, and riding hard she meets them and at the point of her gun makes Belden halt. Later, as her father discovers that his daughter loves Jack, he prevails on his wife to give their daughter and Jack her blessing. Belden, learning of this, sends a Mexican cattle puncher with a decoy note to the girl, whom he meets some distance from the ranch with her horse and bulldog. Suspecting no harm she follows the Mexican, who takes her to a shack and locks her in, then rides off to inform Belden; but the Mexican overlooked "Yank," the dog, who attacks the door of the shack where his mistress is a prisoner. Rose writes a note, which she forces out through a small crack in the door. The dog grasps it in his mouth and places it in the hands of Rose's mother, whom he sees at the door. She summons her husband and shows him the note, which notifies them that she is held a prisoner. The dog leads them to the shack and Rose is soon liberated. She tells her story to the boys, who start out to round up Belden and his Mexican, which they finally succeed in doing and roping them with lariats, they force the two worthless to go to the ranch and at the point of guns they compel them to kneel and apologize to Rose. The last scene shows the young couple ready to be married.
- The life of a settlement worker means a series of self-sacrifices which none but the bravest in spirit dare undertake. When the Rev. Horace Thompson signified his intentions of entering this neglected field of spiritual work his friends were greatly surprised, but all persuasion could not turn him from his path. Renting a room in a typical tenement he began his charitable work with "love to all and malice towards none." He became acquainted with his next room neighbor, a young matron in poor circumstances whose husband was in jail, through her little girl who, with childish candor, made friends with the handsome young minister and made his room her playroom during the absence of her mother. The minister learns that his neighbor is to be evicted for non-payment of rent. Eager to assist, but fearing to offend her, he hits upon a novel method. He volunteers to care for the child during the mother's absence and when the little one falls asleep he hides a sum of money in his clothes, which the mother later finds, and, appreciating the deed, accepts the help. An eventful day arrives when her husband, who has escaped from jail, comes and demands help. He brutally attacks her and leaves her unconscious. The little girl runs next door for assistance and the minister is in time to meet the escaping convict, but, being unarmed, is unable to stop him, so turns his attention to the unconscious woman and the frightened child. The ex-convict is shot by the police in trying to make good his escape, and when the minister learns the identity of the man, he takes the mother and child to the home of his mother while he returns to his settlement work with the picture of the woman and babe ever before him. Love cannot remain silent forever and although reluctant to confess his love for his former neighbor, he shows it by every action and deed. Brave under all circumstances, he is compelled to rely upon his mother when it comes to declaring his love, but all ends happily when she assures the mother of her willingness to become her daughter.
- A big, strong, young American, the son of wealthy parents, instead of devoting his time to business and becoming a respected citizen, finds that a life of idleness and sport is more to his liking. Warnings and threats make no impression until the father, losing all patience, finally disowns him and drives him from the house. He soon discovers that the dollar is his best friend, as persistent efforts to borrow money from his fellow members at an exclusive club results in a polite request for his resignation. He falls lower and lower until finally he becomes a tramp. He becomes keenly aware of his condition when time and again he is driven from doorsteps or chased by dogs whose irate owners have no sympathy for tramps. Shunned by men, women and children in every walk of life, he becomes immune to all sense of feeling and sinks to the lowest levels. A little girl's kindness in offering part of her food opens his eyes and when the little girl's sister reproves him for the life he is leading and tells him to become a man. New courage enters into his shrunken and stupefied existence and he promises to make another effort. He comes to his father and pleads for another chance to make good. The yearnings of the boy's voice and his poor condition touches the father's heart and a reconciliation follows. With the picture of the young girl always before him the young man makes great strides in his business career, and when he presents himself at the home of the young girl whose kind words gave him courage to start life anew, she does not recognize his identity. She admires his manly spirit in confessing that he is the former tramp and as their acquaintance lengthens, she finds many other admirable traits in her handsome companion. From admiration to love is but a short step, which both take with evident pleasure.
- A seafaring man of middle age had been paying attention to a young lady for a number of hears, and finally musters up enough courage to propose. This is accepted, with the stipulation that he will forsake his convivial companions, his pipe and tobacco. These conditions seem difficult to fulfill. Armed with the best set of resolutions ever adopted, he sallies forth to prepare for a six months' cruise. Meeting a number of cronies, who congratulate him upon his successful wooing, he is enticed into a saloon, to drink a toast to his fiancée; they load him to the guards and while in this condition, an idea occurs to him that it would be quite proper to pay his sweetheart a final visit and present her with a bouquet of roses. She fires him on the spot and it looks as if "Love's Young Dream" is over. We see him next day starting for his vessel full of "remorse and regret," those tuneful companions depicted upon his countenance. His little nephew and the niece of his betrothed were witnesses of the betrothal, which makes his regret more poignant. Twelve years later the captain returns from his rovings to find that his early love is still true, and had left the "gate open." The young couple have grown up and are engaged to be married. He is timid, however, and afraid to venture near the house, he makes himself known to his nephew, who endeavors to adjust matters, and assures him that his sweetheart of yore is only longing to forgive him. After several laughable incidents the old couple are about to enter upon the sea of matrimony. They sail down life's stream together.
- Neta, a pretty Italian lace vendor, leaves home for her day's vending among the tourists who visit the pretty winter resort. A young American chap who is visiting the resort and under the watchful care of his parents sees the pretty Italian miss and immediately loses his heart to her, which causes Santos, her donkey driver, to become crazed with jealousy. The American boy buys an extravagant quality of her wares and makes himself so agreeable to her that she can't help but love the manly Yankee lad. Santos remonstrates with her and demands that she ignore the American. She only laughs at him. Blinded with rage, he pushes the girl over a mighty cliff where she falls into the sea; the water not being deep enough to break her fall, she meets with a broken leg. She is found by some Italian fisherman who are dragging their fish nets through the surf and carried to her home. Santos tries to throw the blame on the American, but the boy is soon vindicated in a novel manner and he devotes his time paying attention to the suffering girl. The parents of the boy and girl have become reconciled to conditions existing between the young couple and all ends happily.
- Imagine befriending an injured seaman and hearing from his lips the strange story of a buried treasure which had lain hidden for a great many years where even the old seaman who possessed a map of the location had not been able to find it. Then you begin to see an interesting plot with possibilities for many novel situations. Upon the death of the seaman, the map was carefully gone over and sent to the nephew of the man, to whom it was bequeathed by the dead seaman, with minute instructions how to proceed with the search. The nephew, fresh from college, was cruising about for his health, finally stopping off a Bermuda, where, fortunately, the map indicated the treasure might be found. Receiving his uncle's letter and instructions, he entered into the spirit of the quest for the excitement of the venture rather than in the belief that he would really find the hidden gold; but he little dreamed that a pretty girl and two murderous brigands would add to the excitement. His experiences before locating the treasures were rather thrilling for a young college chap and the film is made to show them. That he lost the treasure the moment it reached his hands is also a part of the narrative, but the pretty girl through cleverness and bravery, not only saved his life but restored the treasure to him and you can guess what followed.
- Having been infatuated with a famous dancer, Jack Gordon had no thoughts of his home and neglected wife. The wife, ignorant of the infatuation, and believing the "oft-told tale of business," pitied her husband and sought to make things more pleasant for him. On the occasion of her birthday, she had prepared a splendid little dinner for her husband and was chagrined to learn that he would not be home "on account of business," but instead of business, he went to keep an appointment at the home of the dancer, where there was to be quite a gathering of people. He intended to surprise her by presenting her with a beautiful jeweled bracelet, but when he sought through his pockets he found that he had lost it. The dancer became enraged at being humiliated in the presence of her friends and insultingly dismissed him from her presence. He leaves in a rage, vowing never again to see her. Although disappointed by her husband being absent at the occasion of her birthday, the wife is made happy at the presence of her father. The old man finds a box on the floor which the husband had dropped before leaving, and when the wife opens this and finds a beautiful bracelet, she becomes happy at the thought that her husband has not forgotten her birthday and joyously shows it to her father, who deftly removes a card which shows that the present was meant for someone else. He acquaints his son-in-law with this fact, and makes him promise to sever all connections with the dancer and become a devoted husband, which the young man gladly does.
- Joe Bowers and Dave Ellis are suitors for the hand of Madge Logan. Dave seems to be the favored one, and Joe, in a jealous rage, sends a warning to the Revenue officers and describes the location of Dave's still, which is raided in due course of time. Dave is captured, but is discovered by Joe, who releases him. Dave, in his terror, runs away, and leaves Joe to fight it out among the rocks, which he does, until his ammunition is exhausted. Then he is captured and jailed. Madge is apprehended by a conversation with Dave of Joe's position. She quickly informs the boys, who, in a very sensational manner release Joe. After his resume, Joe is forced to hide in the mountains, leaving his old Mammy to work out her living as best she can. Madge, in the meantime, has been helping his mother in her toil Joe has been longing for a sight of his Mammy and decides to go home and see her. Dave has left the district for good to avoid capture. Joe of course believes Dave to be still happy in his love for Madge and as the half-starved, care-worn boy reaches his home, great is his surprise to find Madge living with his mother and helping her with the work. The poor old lady clasps her son to her arms and tells him how good Madge has been to her. Joe looks longingly at Madge. "Hain't ye married to Dave yet?" Madge hangs her head and tells him she has been waiting for him. The boy's surprise knows no bounds as he clasps her in his arms. Soon he learns that the Revenue officers have exonerated him and a new life begins for Joe, Madge and Mammy.
- Grey Wolf, a young Indian brave, falls in love with the daughter of the chief of the Sioux tribe and after presenting the chief with horses and blankets he obtains the young Indian maid, Blue Bird, as his squaw. Blue Bird is not pleased with her father's choice of a husband, and at night when Grey Wolf is asleep she quietly steals away, taking with her the horses, and returns to her tribe. The crafty chief is pleased to see his daughter, as she may be the means of bringing him many more blankets and horses. Grey Wolf, upon awakening, discovers his loss and determines to gain possession of his squaw as well as his horses. He appears before the chief and demands his property. The chief has him beaten and thrown from the camp. Smarting from the injustice, he appears at night when the entire camp is asleep and stealing into the tent of Blue Bird, drags her forth and escapes in a canoe. While being pursued by other Indians in a canoe he gives battle and after overturning the canoe of his pursuers makes his way safely to his own tent. Blue Bird cannot but admire the bravery of the man who bought her, and seeing how he overcame every obstacle in order to obtain possession of her, she learns to love him, and cheerfully accompanies him to his tent as his bride.
- The year '61 is a memorable one in the history of this country. Thousands of loyal patriots gave up their lives upon the battlefield and left widows and orphans to the tender mercies of charity. The boy of Shiloh, too young to carry a musket, but too patriotic to remain at home, entered the service as a drummer. With patriotic fervor he beat his drum and led the brave boys into battle. A stray bullet finally silenced the drum and the drummer. His last dying thought was of his mother and her teachings. Hardened men, who had seen death every minute of the day. and who faced death all the time, gathered about the little crumpled form and with tears streaming down their cheeks listened to the prayers of the dying drummer boy of Shiloh.
- A young student is visiting the coast and while climbing the rocks hisses his footing and falls from an immense height. His fall is broken by scrub cedars that grow among the rocks, where he is found by a young fisherman, who goes for help and he is carried to her father's home and cared for. The girl is loved by a young fisherman. In a month the young student is able to be about and in recognition of the girl's kind service, he presents her with a ring. As the young student reads to the girl daily, love for him has awakened in her. She is true to her young fisherman lover and returns the ring to the student. The young student realizes the girl's feelings and with a last look through the window where the girl and her lover are seated, he turns away to face the city life again.
- What a price pride has paid in this world of ours. Had only young Mrs. Druce frankly told her husband, the only part of her family history with which he was not familiar, there would have been no family skeleton to rattle its bones in their household. Her only brother had been a wayward and dissolute boy, and as a man committed a crime for which he was sentenced to prison under an assumed name. Being one of several convicts to successfully escape from prison, he obtained shelter in the home of a poor hardworking brother and sister, gaining their sympathy in the guise of a workingman who had been injured by a fall and temporarily unable to labor. According to the demands of her convict brother for funds necessary to his flight from the country this weak sister took to him her pearl necklace, a recent present from her husband. All might have been well, had her husband been less proud of the personal appearance of his handsome young wife, for when he requested, then insisted, that she wear the necklace at a function they were to attend, the aid of the police was solicited to unravel the supposed theft. The convict did not want pearls, he needed money and not being well enough to attend to the matter, his young benefactor gladly conveyed a note and an innocent little package to a friend of the sick workingman. Now the police happened to have the addresses of all the connoisseurs of pearls, who were not out of town, and one of the first visits they paid was to the saloon in which our convict's pal made his headquarters. They arrived in time to get the pearls but they were still in the pocket of the convict's messenger. Silly little wife; your husband loves you; he didn't marry your family, he married you. Why don't you make a clean breast of it? But no, she must revisit her brother and demand back her necklace, perhaps she thought he would loan it to her for just a day or two. That is how she happened to be in the room with her brother when the police brought back the messenger to identify the poor sick workingman, who had sent him on an errand. That's why she left the room so unceremoniously with her convict brother by way of the ladder to the roof, and that was the cause of her descending to the street by means of the fire-escape, and that's how she arrived home and kept her terrible secret from her husband. For when the boy could not produce the poor sick man, the police had the thief who stole Mrs. Druce's pearl necklace. Nor did his little sister's story enlist any consideration until later on. This poor, little sister was a different kind of a sister, her wits had not been dulled by sitting on a family skeleton, but had been sharpened by fighting the wolf of hunger from the door, so she took a hasty trip to the roof and not fancying the view, sought the street via the fire escape, and being interested in the poor, injured workingman, found the one she wanted and when he was comfortably settled in one of his haunts she lost no time in making a call on the nearby police station. There she found a man in blue, they are not all alike, this one had some gray matter under his hair, that's why he wore some gold braid on his coat and that's why he had captain on his cap and that's why they call him chief to-day. He listened to the little sister's story; he took several officers with him, and he captured an escaped convict for whom the State had offered $1,000 reward, dead or alive. You know who deserved the reward and, of course, she got it, but best of all, she and brother gained a friend, for brother is now private secretary to the chief. Young Mrs. Druce? Why she buried her family skeleton. The convict had no reason to tell who he was.
- Mr. Groucho could not bear the noise of the celebration of Independence about his house, and when a crowd of youngsters stop in front of his house and commence shooting firecrackers, Groucho flies to the quietude of the country and is just beginning to enjoy his rest when a sham battle occurs and he is again driven forth. He next seeks a quiet Fourth on board a pleasure boat, but, unfortunately, the other passengers are bent on celebrating the glorious Fourth and Groucho is compelled to leap into the river to escape the noise of young and old America. Ah! A though has struck Groucho and he hurries to the cemetery, here indeed he thinks of finding it quiet, but Groucho did not know of the burial of a soldier and when the sound of the volley being fired over the soldier's grave reaches the ears of Groucho, he hurriedly decamps, seeking other quarters. Next Groucho comes to a sanitarium and falls from exhaustion. The superintendent of the sanitarium being a patriotic citizen has gathered his patients on the lawn in front of the sanitarium and they begin to celebrate in the usual noisy way. Groucho tries to run away from this scene, but is seen by the doctor and patients, who immediately give chase. After Groucho has been captured he is pronounced insane by the doctor and locked in a padded cell. As Groucho is peering forth between the bars of his window, a keeper sets off a box of firecrackers and poor Groucho is compelled to bear it all.
- The heroine of this story, having lost her mother when but barely more than a baby, was left to the care of her father, who, thinking that his infant daughter should have a mother's care, married a widow with an only son. Having as he thought, provided his daughter with a mother's care, he dismissed the matter from his mind entirely. Unfortunately for the little motherless one, the woman whom her father married had no room in her heart for her husband's daughter, and the little one became the butt of her ill-temper. Neglected, abused and beaten, the little girl seeks solace in her poorly-furnished room before the portrait of her sainted mother. With tears streaming down her cheeks, she prays for her mother to return or take her to her heavenly home. In this pitiful attitude the father finds her and hears from her own lips the story of her miserable existence in her own home. When confronted with the child's statements, the stepmother denies any cruelty and excuses her treatment by pleading her desire to punish the child for her willfulness. Having had his eyes opened, the father pays closer attention to his motherless baby, and discovers the truth at last. He orders the woman from his home and devotes himself to his daughter. A childish brain, full of innocence and purity can bear no ill will, and when the little girl hears from her stepmother of his mother's illness and lonesomeness, she brings about a reconciliation and is amply rewarded by the gratitude and love of her hitherto cruel stepmother.
- Living a frivolous, butterfly life, Eleanor Summerville cannot sacrifice her pleasure-loving habits for the sake of love, and refuses the offer of marriage of Frederick Robinson, but becomes the wife of Count von Bulow. When she hears of Robinson's success in the financial world, where he is known as one of America's multi-millionaires, she regrets her decision of having married the nobleman, and, notwithstanding the fact that Robinson is married, she decides upon winning him away from his wife. Although Robinson shows her, time and again, that he does not care for her, she, with the devilish cunning, traps him into a compromising position, and is discovered by her husband, who immediately issues a challenge to the man he thinks has ruined his home. Finding that the lives of two good men are at stake, she regrets her conduct and does everything in her power to stop the duel. The duel is fought and Robinson is wounded. In her efforts to stop the duel, she meets with a serious accident, from which she cannot recover. She confesses to her husband and exonerates Robinson of all blame. She does not survive from the shock and accident, and after receiving forgiveness from those she had wronged, she dies, praying for forgiveness from the Higher Power.