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- Crooks in an armoured car crash into a police car, speed downhill into a river where the car explodes.
- A child dreams of the Bible tale enacted by toys.
- A jewel thief eludes a detective by changing clothes with a Negress at a public bath.
- A girl helps her sister rob a baron's art gallery and escape over the roof.
- A sailor saves a girl from gypsies. She fetches sailors to save him.
- A professor mixes liver powder with tobacco, causing smokers to spin.
- Terrified at the sight of the dentist's forceps, his victim takes gas and dreams that he is in the clutches of demons. The extracted tooth grows as he gazes at it, and pursues him when he flees, but he awakens in time to escape disaster.
- Two boys play tricks and save a girl from a pond.
- A young bank clerk lived beyond his means, associated with vicious companions and finally attempted to pay his debts by borrowing the funds entrusted to his care. His fate was the usual one, and ten years later when he emerged from prison, a physical wreck, he realized that his follies were not worth the price he paid. He was practically penniless and old friends shunned him. After many struggles he secured a subordinate position in the bank where he formerly had been employed, and for a time worked diligently, unheeding the snubs and sneers of the other clerks, who were either honest or had not been found out. Among the employees was a young teller, the only person in the bank who was decently civil to the ex-convict. The teller, sad to relate, was in rough waters himself. He dearly loved his wife, and longed for the day when she would have silks, diamonds and a retinue of servants. Hoping to realize his dream, he thought of speculation, and like the other man, "borrowed" the money over which he was guardian. That very day his crime found him out, for the bank examiner paid an unexpected visit. The teller was called in, questioned, and was on the verge of making a confession when the ex-convict entered the room and said he was the guilty man. The only one who could not understand was the teller, for he had the money in his own pocket at the time. A second later the ex-convict slipped a note into the teller's hand. In it he explained that a prison term would make the teller "a friendless wreck like myself." The ex-convict knew his days were numbered, and was willing to sacrifice himself to save another from becoming an outcast. The teller accepted the sacrifice, for he had a wife dependent upon him. The other man was lonely and friendless, but the good deed he did lived after him, for the teller never forgot that the liberty be enjoyed was won by his pledge to be an honest, upright man for the rest of his days.
- A maid helps a newlywed cook a pancake which makes her husband sick.
- Will, a detective, has a younger brother, who is becoming a crook. Will sees him sneaking away from a saloon, follows him home and catches him hiding jewelry. He makes him confess that he took it from a peddler in the saloon. Will thinks that the best thing for John would be a prison sentence to bring him to his senses. He handcuffs John and sends for the police. Their mother begs Will to give his brother another chance. Just as the police are about to enter, Will puts a chair through the window, takes the handcuffs off his brother and tells the officers that the burglar has made a getaway through the window. John promises to go straight.
- Jim Ward, a southerner, is engaged to Edith Blake, and escorts her to a dance on Christmas Eve. His brother, Jack, hangs a sprig of mistletoe on the veranda and entices the girls underneath it, when he kisses them. Edith has just fallen a victim to Jack's trap and he has clasped her in his arms, when Jim, ignorant of the true state of things, looks out. Angry and hurt, he goes home without a word and thereafter avoids Edith, who is puzzled at his actions, but too proud to ask an explanation. She accepts the attentions of Jack, who falls in love with her. The war breaks out and Jim is among the first to answer the call for men, being made a Hententot. Thrilling scenes of battle are shown in which Jim takes part. Jack marries Edith and stays at home, and, the family fortunes having dwindled on account of the war, he is unable to meet a mortgage held by Silas Green. Green makes a demand for payment, and as he leaves Jack's home he is captured by northern soldiers, who draft him into the service. His cowardly heart revolts at the prospect of risking his life, and he offers to purchase a substitute. Accordingly, he persuades Jack to take his place, agreeing to cancel the mortgage. It thus happens that Jack is seen fighting under the stars and stripes, while Jim is battling under the confederate emblem. In a sensational charge the federals capture a number of prisoners, among them Jack, who is brought before his own brother. Jack is placed in a hencoop, which has been improvised into a jail, and overpowers his guard. He escapes by changing uniforms with the confederate, and making his exit in the midst of tremendous excitement during a crushing attack by the federals. A bomb drops onto the hencoop and in bursting destroys it, killing the confederate guard whom Jack had locked in. and mangling his features into an unrecognizable mass. Jim sees the body and believing it to be his brother, is greatly affected by the pitiful sight. The bruised and battered corpse is sent home for burial, and Jim regrets his enmity, forfeiting the great wrong he thought his brother had done him. Clad in the confederate uniform, Jack is captured by the federals and placed in prison. The war ends and Jim goes home, where he effects a reconciliation with Edith, who is the mother of his brother's child, and marries her. The release of prisoners occupies considerable time, and Jack, with long, unkempt hair and heard, anxiously awaits the day of freedom. When he is finally set at liberty, he makes his way home and sees his little girl, accompanied by the old Negro mammy, going to the graveyard. They do not recognize him, and he learns that they are laying flowers on the grave they think is his. Questioning them he is horrified to learn of Edith's marriage to his brother, and for the first time he understands his brother's animosity toward himself. As night falls he peers into the window and notes with sinking heart the love existing between the trio, his wife and child and his brother. To reveal himself would cast desolation upon three lives; to remain silent would hurt but himself. He resolves to make the sacrifice. Going to the tavern he learns that Silas Green is foreclosing the mortgage on the home, taking advantage of Jack's supposed death. He determines the save the property, but is in a quandary as to how to do it without divulging the fact that he is alive. He resolves to secure possession of the mortgage, and effecting an entrance into Green's house, finds the document. Green, awakening, rushes at the intruder with a pistol and fires. Jack and Green engage in a desperate struggle. A stable man, hearing the shot, grabs a rifle and runs to the house, just as Jack throws his antagonist from him and hurls him through the window. The startled stable man fires at the form, which he thinks is that of a burglar, and Silas Green receives the charge. Jack makes his escape, and the picture closes with him standing in the road, looking longingly back toward the little town sheltering the woman he loves, and for whom he has made such a great sacrifice.
- A curate's cab crashes and he has to pull it himself.
- Captain King is a Northern officer who is shot and left unconscious on the field of battle, which takes place near the home of Lieutenant Kane, a Southern officer, who is also badly wounded. King regains his senses, and as he sits up and endeavors to take a drink from his canteen he sees a ghoul at work on a group of dead and dying Confederates, Drawing his heavy pistol, he makes short work of the human vulture, and staggers to the spot, where he discovers Lieutenant Kane with a spark of life still remaining. He gives the Southerner a drink from his canteen and extricates him from the bodies lying on top of him, and then binds up his wounds. In the meantime Kane's mother and sister learn that he is among the missing and go to the battlefield in search of him. The two officers are brought to the Kane home, where King soon recovers, while Kane lingers between life and death. King's command comes back and he joins his regiment. The officers hold a conference in the Kane home, and Lieutenant Kane is moved to an old darky's cabin to prevent his capture. One of the Northern officers is Dick Stanton, of the Confederate secret service. Helen Stanton has nursed King, and he has fallen in love with her. Stanton forces his attentions upon Helen, who is saved from an embarrassing situation by King's interference. Stanton follows Helen to the cabin and enters, intending to cause the arrest of the wounded officer, but is amazed to find that Kane knows him and introduces him to Helen. Stanton tells them he is endeavoring to secure the Federal plans for General Lee, and Helen promises to aid him. During the conference he, supposedly accidentally, knocks down the candlestick, and when the light goes out he hands the papers to Helen, who has been watching her opportunity, and she rushes from the room. The sentries head her off and attempt to capture her, and she doubles on her tracks and re-enters the house, running up to the attic. Captain King follows and is thunderstruck to find out the identity of the fugitive. He takes the papers from her and, hearing the steps of other pursuers on the stairs, he takes quick action to save her. Hiding her, he kicks the window out and shoots himself in the arm and tells the other officers the spy has leaped out. His coat is torn open to bind his wound, and the missing papers drop to the floor. He can make no explanation, and an immediate court martial is ordered. Rather than betray Helen, King accepts his condemnation as a spy. Stanton manages to stay behind during the excitement in the attic, and finds Helen. She promises to elope with him if he will leave behind a written confession that he is the guilty party, to exonerate King. He writes the confession, but refuses to give it to her, and the overwrought girl attempts to take it by force. She is roughly handled by Stanton, and in the scuffle she pulls his revolver from its holster and fires. The shot arouses the officers on the floor below, and as they come rushing up Helen places the confession in the stiffening hand of Stanton, acknowledging that he is a Confederate spy, and secretes herself. King is restored to his position, and parts from Helen in an affecting scene.
- A girl saves a King's messenger from Richelieu's agent.
- A tramp dreams he saves the Queen and is crowned King.