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- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.
- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- In the eastern part of New Mexico is locate the little mining town of Gatlach. There, however, we find an active mining camp dependent largely upon the famous Gatlach mine for its existence. Living in the camp we find Florence, who is loved by Jake. Florence, too, loves Jake. A new superintendent arrives to take charge of the mining property. The new arrival meets Florence and the man and girl fall in love. Discontent among the Mexican and half-breed miners develops. They mutiny, coming to the office making demands which the super promptly refuses and orders them from the place. The ruffians withdraw to arm themselves and then plan an attack upon the office and the death of their boss. Jake overhears the plot, and while he has no love for Harry, determines for the sake of Florence to save them. He rushes to the office and warns them just as the mob appears. They are pursued and finally take refuge in a narrow pass. With only one horse, escape for the party is impossible. Jake forces Harry against his will to take the horse and Florence and escape. They depart seeking aid, which is found in the shape of a troop of cavalry out scouting. Thus reinforced, they rush back to Jake's aid, but too late, he has fought his last fight and given up his life for those dear to him.
- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- A great number of prognosticators often terrify us with visions of what will be when women shall rule the earth, and the time when men shall be subordinates and adjuncts. It is rather a fine question to decide, for chivalrous men, anyway. Today, with the multiplicity of feminine activities and the constant broadening of feminine spheres, it is difficult to predict to what height women will ascend. In the Solax production of "In the Year 2000," the release of Friday, May 17th, a serio-comic prognostication is unreeled on the screen with such magnetic force, charm and rich imaginative detail that one is compelled to accept the theories advanced on their face value. The conditions are reversed. Women in this film are supreme, and man's destiny is presided over by woman. No attempt is made at burlesque, but the very seriousness of the purpose of the theme makes the situations ludicrous.
- A chance find of money makes the penniless Sam a good match for the nouveau riche Lindy. But Sam soon loses the money at cards - and with it the favor of the unfaithful Lindy.
- A sympathetic bandit chief fights for freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
- A young boy hears wondrous tales of London, where the streets are paced with gold. He leaves his country home to see his fortune in London.
- Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes. Nelson, a detective, is called upon to solve the mystery. On the box he finds a peculiar trademark, which he seizes as a clue. At his home he finds the same odd mark on an ashtray bought by his mother in a Hindu curio shop, and he learns that the box containing the snakes was purchased by a Hindu woman. Calling upon the woman, he is surprised to find himself in the home of a Priestess of Buddhism. The Priestess tries to fascinate him with her beauty and, not succeeding, drops a powder into an incense burner, the fumes of which begin to throw him into a stupor. He fights his way to a window, blows a police whistle, and is attacked by three giant Hindu attendants. But the police arrive in time to save his life, and the Priestess is arrested and thrown into prison. The dancer, Norma, is attracted to Nelson by his bravery, and they become friends. Meanwhile, the Priestess succeeds in working a psychic miracle in which she goes into a trance and, while her earthly form remains in prison, her soul is freed and appears before the horrified detective in his study. His nature is changed immediately by the Priestess's mystic influence, and his face becomes the face of a hardened criminal. Changing his clothes for one of the rough suits used in his detective work, he visits a den of crooks and aids them to rob a bank, the plans of which he has been entrusted with in his professional capacity. Later he is called to the bank to investigate the robbery and, not knowing of his dual personality, makes every effort to find the man who had committed the crime. He finds his own scarf among the scattered papers taken from the safe. A threatening letter, which he receives from the followers of the Priestess, is seen by Norma, who is so greatly concerned for his safety that when he asks her to marry him, she quickly consents to an engagement, so that she can do all in her power to protect him. His old mother is puzzled by seeing him leave his own house through the window, when he is again visited by the spirit of the Priestess and influenced to aid the same band of crooks in the robbery of his own home. When his real personality returns, he finds himself in his own office, where he has been discovered by his mother, sleeping in a chair, dressed in his old clothes. Upon discovery that his house has been robbed, he calls the chief of police and is seen by the companions of his criminal personality, who thinks that he is acting as an agent of the authorities merely to place them in the hands of the law. When he is again transformed toy the spirit of the Priestess and returns to the thieves' den, they regard him as a spy and plan to do away with him, leaving him bound and gagged in the care of an old hag, while they celebrate his capture. But Norma, who, with his mother has been watching him, follows him to the den of thieves and, overpowering the old woman, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, the followers of the Priestess succeed in rescuing her from her prison cell and are speeding away in an automobile when Nelson, who still retains his criminal personality, asks them to assist him to escape from the crooks, who are closely upon his trail. Thus, he unwittingly places himself and his fiancée in the power of the Priestess, who makes them prisoners in a temple of Buddha. Norma faints, and when Nelson's real personality returns, he finds himself bound hand and foot in the temple. Norma quickly explains the situation to him and, by burning the ropes that bind his wrists with the fire in the incense burner, he frees his companion and makes his way to the roof by the aid of a heavy chain from which a large oriental lamp is swung from the ceiling. He succeeds in helping Norma to the roof by the same method and they reach the ground with the aid of a large tree. The chief of police, who has been summoned by Nelson's mother, overtakes the crooks and arrests them after a desperate struggle. But the Priestess cheats the majesty of the law by the aid of a poisoned ring with which she does away with herself during one of her wild fanatical dances. Her death marks the end of her influence over Nelson, and he at last feels free to marry Norma.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- A married couple decide to "live separately together."
- A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
- Brendan O'Malley is a Robin Hood like bandit, who repeatedly escapes from jail, survives attempts to kill him, and eventually manages to sail to safety on a ship with the lady of his heart who helped him in his latest escape.
- A conjurer, by mental suggestion and tricks, known as slight-of-hand, and optical illusion, changes the habits and disposition of an inebriate and a grouchy old father-in-law. Through his efforts, the grouchy old man becomes a gay old blade, and the inebriate son-in-law becomes a teetotaler. This change brings satisfaction to the young man's wife, and the wife of the old grouch. The story starts with a big artistic insert, of a neglected young wife, looking at a clock at 3 a.m., and hubby still at the club. Wifey, the next morning. Immediately goes home to mamma upon whom she inflicts her tale of woe. Papa is an old grouch, and he does not encourage the protestations of his daughter. The mother, however, sympathizes with her child and plans to engage the conjurer, by whose advertisement she has been attracted. The conjurer's services are enlisted and the merry time begins. A remarkable scene takes place in the conjurer's laboratory, in which a skeleton goes through many grotesque and comic stunts.
- "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death. In the meanwhile Paxton's horse comes back to his general store. When the riderless horse arrives there is naturally considerable excitement. Gray arrives on the scene and he makes things look pretty black for Jim, the man who was last seen with the postmaster. Jim is placed under arrest, but the boys, as well as the postmaster's young daughters, May and Gladys, do not believe Jim to be guilty. May and Gladys ride the trail and finally find their father after he calls to them. Gray stoutly asserts his innocence and manufactures evidence incriminating Jim. May and Gladys, the "two little rangers," however, untangle the evidence and their father's story cinches things. When things begin to look pretty black for Gray he retreats to his shack. The girls, however, are determined to get him and, after seeing their volleys of bullets have no effect, discharge a firebrand from a bow. The firebrand sets the shack on fire and Gray perishes in his own tomb.
- A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead.
- Harold Crosby, a man about town, awakes one morning from a drunken stupor to find his little girl calling and tugging at his arm. Unable to arouse him, the child in alarm runs into the street. Gradually coming to his senses, Harold is vaguely alarmed and puzzled to find a revolver by his hand on the table. Looking across the room, he sees his wife, as he supposes, asleep on a couch. Going over to her, he endeavors to awaken her and discovers that she is dead. The horrible truth dawns upon him, he has killed her, probably in a drunken quarrel of which he has no recollection. Realizing his danger, he starts to flee, but is met by two officers whom Helen, his little girl, has brought back with her. Two years later we find Helen an inmate of an orphanage. One day Mrs. Magrue, wife of a wealthy banker, whose union has been childless, comes to the asylum with a view of adopting a child to take into her home. She finds Helen crying. The other children will not play with her. They have learned of her father's sin and will have nothing to do with the child of a man who murdered his own wife. Ignorant as to why the children have hurt the little girl's feelings, attracted by her beauty and charm, Mrs. Magrue selects Helen. Six years later we find her happy with her friends and adopted parents when one fatal day, Mr. Magrue brings to his house a friend of his, Inspector of Police Berg, Inspector Berg immediately recognizes Helen as the child whom he took from the murdered woman's apartments so long ago. Surprised to find her as a member of the Magrue household, and attracted by her beauty, the Inspector feels that he is safe in taking an unfair advantage of his knowledge to insult Helen. She, however, resents his advances and smacks him in the face, and in a rage he retaliates by telling her foster parents of her parentage. They feel obliged to let her go, and Helen finds herself once more friendless and adrift, "the sins of the father" visited upon her. She meets John Noble, pastor of the church she has occasionally attended, and upon his urgent request tells him her story. He immediately offers her a home with his sister and himself, and Helen, grateful and happy, feels that she is once again at home. Grace Noble, the pastor's sister, takes Nellie to the sewing society of the church, where she is introduced to the sisters. Going one day to the church where the sisters are preparing to decorate the pastor's study, they are seen by Inspector Berg, who still smarting under his repulse by Helen and desiring to get even, follows them into the pastor's study, where he denounces Helen, telling again the "sins of her father." His insulting manner is so personal that Pastor Noble knocks him down. Helen interferes, knowing that her beloved pastor will probably get into trouble on her account, admits the truth of Berg's story and leaves the church, never to return. John Noble will not have it so, however. He follows Helen and insists that she return to his home with him. Later they are visited by a delegation of the church "sisters" who demand that the pastor turn Helen out. He refuses and resigns his pastorate. Helen, realizing that her presence is a source of trouble to her benefactor, determines to go without his knowledge. He detects her, however, as she is leaving, compels her to stay, declares his love for her, and finally Helen finds a safe and sure haven of refuge in his arms, "The world forgotten and by the world forgot."
- Billy takes his friend Tom out for a drive in his new car. Tom gets off to make a purchase while Billy is waiting. Along comes Marian, beautifully clad; Billy wishes to himself that she would come into his car. Somehow his wish is immediately fulfilled, for Marian, thinking that he is a public chauffeur, hires him. Billy blissfully drives Marian on, and at his journey's end tells Marian that she may always have his car at cut rates, if she 'phones him at the garage. Billy rides off in high spirits. He is rich in imagination and already sees himself embroiled in a tempestuous love affair. After a series of auto complications and fun, with mistaken identities worked out in an entirely new way, and in an atmosphere absolutely original, mirth-provoking Billy boldly captures his pretty maid and rides off, but the car breaks down, and so we see them both in the end fixing the car amidst besmudged and begreased bliss.
- Herbert Moore leads a gang of crooks by a sheer force of mentality, while his pal Burley Butts leads by brutal force. Between them they plan to rob noted philanthropist Mr. Stanhope, on whom Moore has been spying. For their ill purposes they use little Oliver, one of Butts' unwilling pupils. On a dark night they embark on their venture. Gripping events ensue in rapid succession: Oliver enters the house. He makes his way, with a bulls-eye lantern; here we have a remarkable light effect, a sudden flash, the lights go up, and little Oliver faces the muzzle of a revolver. Mr. Stanhope is surprised to see the youthful criminal. He quizzes him. But little Oliver cries and tells his story. Stanhope is moved by the boy's tale. In taking out his handkerchief to dry his eyes, Oliver drops a silver half-dollar. Mr. Stanhope attempts to return it to Oliver, who brushes it away and tells him to keep it, informing him that the silver half-dollar is the gang's insignia and it can open in the middle and be used in an emergency as a saw for cutting rope, wire, or glass. Stanhope's interest is aroused, and he places the little souvenir in his pocket. Later this piece of metal is one of the means of saving his life. Oliver then pleads to be let free, and Stanhope allows him to go, after taking an oath that he will not attempt to steal again. This attempt failing, the gang sets a trap for Stanhope, but little Oliver passes a note and key to his benefactor when the thugs lower him into a vault. When Stanhope finds himself in the narrow vault, he struggles hard to free himself from the bonds which almost cut to the bones. He frees himself sufficiently to get the silver half-dollar, which he now puts to good use. After hours of effort he breaks his bonds. He tries to straighten himself and then finds the heavy key and the note in his coat pocket. He is scarcely able to read the instructions. The greenish light gives him the appearance of a man risen from the dead. Gradually his dulled mind absorbs the portent of the note. He desperately feels for the secret keyhole. His search is not in vain. Presently, he swings back the granite door and he is confronted with a vista of the city's filth and slime. He crawls through the outlet and makes his way through the sewer channels. The stench from stagnant sewerage pools, cesspool waste, mud and dirt, nearly suffocates him. But on and on he struggles, up to his knees through this liquid filth. Even an attack by a horde of sewer rats does not swerve him from his path. He fights the rodents off and they scamper. At last, weary and exhausted, he finds his way to the sewerage main, a ladder leading to a manhole giving entrance to the street. Bespattered with mud and filth, disheveled and bedraggled, he rushes through the streets and to the police station. The gang is soon surprised by big Colt six-shooters and little Oliver and his brother find a home in Mr. Stanhope's happy household.
- Children play in the snow and build a snowman. Along comes a bully and after bullying the children, decides to demolish the snow figure. The bully then walks off satisfied with the mischief he had done. After interfering with the fun of other children, the bully sits down to rest. He imagines that the demolished snowman has come to life. The animated snowman tries to grip him, but the bully is agile. He takes to his heels. The snowman gives chase. After running on indefinitely for miles and miles, the bully is caught. The snowman rolls him up in a huge snowball and sends him rolling down a steep abyss. The bully gets up with a start as he finds he has been soaked with a snowball. He laughs, and goes back to the kids he had bullied and helps them to patch up their broken snowman.
- Clay Woodruff objects to the way his wife dresses when she goes for a walk, so she changes to a suit exactly like his. He, to get even, puts on her dress and hat, but when they see each other they are about to compromise and put on their own clothes, when in walks Aunt Mariah in a harem skirt cut in a very extreme style. Seeing this, Clay decides that this is the limit and forthwith goes on a drunk. His wife and aunt try to cure him by means of mental suggestion, telling him the liquor he drank has been poisoned with morphine and that he must keep dancing or he will die. The butler, coming in with a milk antidote, learns why Clay is dancing and he forthwith begins to execute the same movements, for he too has been at the decanter. The maid arrives upon the scene, and learning the reason, immediately starts to dance too. She has not been behind the others in sampling the bottle. In a like manner the wife and aunt join the party and they all dance to the telephone and call the doctor. The doctor arrives and before anybody can stop him he has sampled the beverage, and when they tell him that he is poisoned we see that he is as vigorous a dancer as any of them. Finally, after they are all worn out they find that it was a mistake arising from the efforts of Mrs. Woodruff in trying the mental suggestion cure.
- The first story begins with a young and pretty girl named Isabelle sitting upon a hill. It is then that she is attacked by Pedro. And following the common thematic trajectory of the time, Isabelle is then rescued by the kind and brave medical student who spends his time as a minister for the poor, Alonzo. Pedro is insistent on revenge and applies to the local monastery where Alonzo works in order to frame him. He hopes to frame him for the mysterious and sudden disappearance of the church's jewels. The frame ends immediately after Pedro plants the jewels in Alonzo's home and the monks are quick to punish Alonzo and Isabelle.
- In Casgar, on the utmost boundary of Tartary, lived a tailor and his pretty wife. One day a little hunchback seated himself at the shop door and began to sing and play on a tabor. The tailor invited the hunchback in to entertain his wife. The hospitable wife immediately placed a dish of fish before the men. The hunchback swallows a bone and chokes to death. The accident greatly alarms the tailor, who fearing the magistrate will hear of it, plans to get rid of the corpse. They carry the body to the house of the Jewish doctor and put it at the bottom of a steep flight of stairs, then hastily run away. The doctor, coming down the stairs without a light, falls upon the corpse. He thinks he has killed a poor, sick fellow coming for treatment. Stealthily, the doctor and his wife carry the body to the terrace of their house and throw it down the chimney of their Mussulman neighbor. The Mussulman is one of the Sultan's purveyors; coming into tho room, sees a man at his chimney. Thinking he is a robber, he strikes him a good blow with a stick. The corpse falls on the floor, and he thinks he has killed the man. In great distress and fear he carries the body to the end of the street and places it in an upright position against a shop. A rich Christian merchant, coming home from a night's festivities, jostles into the corpse, which falls upon him. Thinking he is being attacked by a thief he throws him down, calling "Thief." The outcry alarms the watch, and finding a Christian beating a Mussulman, they arrest the merchant and bring him to the magistrate. The magistrate recognizes the hunchback as the Sultan's buffoon, and orders death to the merchant. Just as he is about to be hanged, the purveyor comes along proclaiming himself the guilty party. The executioner releases the merchant and puts the rope around the purveyor's neck. Just then the voice of the Jewish doctor calls for the execution to be suspended. The Jewish doctor tells his story and is condemned in the place of the purveyor. The rope is just about to go around the doctor's neck when the tailor rushes in to tell his story. The Sultan, hearing of the mix-up, commands them all to his presence, and though he grieves for his buffoon, he pardons all concerned in his favorite's death.
- Editha Brawnson, a successful magazine writer, receives a letter from the Managing Editor requesting her to secure a story depicting the life of the Underworld. Miss Brawnson determines to get the necessary data for her article by disguising herself as a habitué of the underworld and mingling with the people whose lives her facile pen will portray. She begins by entering a cheap saloon on the lower East Side. While there she discloses a large sum of money, which attracts the attention of old Mother Gessop, a habitué of the place. Mother Gessop persuades Editha to go with her, and introduces the daring young woman to the leader of a gang of notorious robbers. The chief of the gang of robbers, becoming suspicious of Editha, determines to put her to the test. He forces her to accompany him to a house, and awaits outside while Editha enters the place. As she is about to rifle the safe she is interrupted by Bert King, the owner. Surprised to find a woman engaged in such an occupation, King, nevertheless, thinks it his duty to give her up to the police. As he turns in an alarm Editha faints. Bert makes a careful scrutiny of his prisoner and discovers the letter from the Managing Editor, which disclosed to him Editha's identity. He sidetracks the police and allows Editha to depart. Bert subsequently sees Editha in her home; they marry and live happily ever after, and the burglars are arrested and thrown into prison.
- A Mexican officer is desirous of obtaining the intentions of the American troops. He converses with Decastro, who suggests that they send Juanita, a Spanish girl, into the American line. Juanita succeeds in getting acquainted with Lieutenant Harvey, of the American troops. Harvey teaches her telegraphy. Juanita, so far, has not been successful in securing any information that would be of use to the Mexican government, so she plans to admit Decastro into the telegraph office, when on one is there but the lieutenant. Decastro, after a struggle, subdues the lieutenant, and carries him to the Mexican general. Juanita, who is in love with the lieutenant, takes good care that no harm is done to her lover, and plans his rescue. The Mexican general orders that he give him all the information he can. He promptly refuses. Juanita interrupts and asks to be left alone with Harvey. Her request is granted. Now she plans his rescue. She dashes away to a telegraph pole, climbs, taps the wires, connects them with her instrument and is successful in conveying the news to the American troops. Enraged at the apparent treachery of Juanita and the persistent refusal of Harvey, the Mexican officer determines that the lieutenant be shot at sunrise. The execution is interrupted by the arrival of the American troops and Lieutenant Harvey is restored to his freedom and the loving arms of his sweetheart.
- Mrs. Reggie Jellybone has her husband completely under control. She places a reflector on her sewing table in such a position that every movement and expression and manifest desire of her husband become known to her. She is, therefore, able to anticipate his movements and interfere in his plans. He seldom gets a chance to go to the club on the pretense of sitting up with a sick member. One night the boys at the club need a fifth hand very badly, and when they call up Jellybone, Mrs. Jellybone answers the phone, but they are not daunted. Mr. Resourceful is sent to get Jellybone in spite of his wife. A scheme is concocted and Jellybone goes to the club leaving a dummy on his side of the bed. When Mrs. Jellybone comes up to the room to retire, she finds blood-stains on the bed-clothes and grows excited. She shakes the dummy and the head is severed from the body and rolls under the bed. She excitedly concludes that her husband had been murdered, and immediately she calls for Burstup Homes, the renowned private detective. Burstup Homes arrives puffed up with importance, makes a very ceremonious investigation and deduces that the man is really dead. Furthermore, he deduces that a man wearing a ten size shoe is the criminal. In the examination Burstup Homes forgets essentials and takes up his time with details. He follows the blood-stain clue and a foot print clue. The visible stains on the improvised bed-sheet ladder which Jellybone used as a means to effect his escape also attracts the detective's attention and gives him strong evidence of an entrance and an exit from the house through the window. In fact, there are clues galore and Burstup Homes feverishly goes to work. Everyone he meets is a suspect. Deacon Stronghead, whom he meets on the way from the knife grinder where he had a knife sharpened for his wife, offers the strongest causes for suspicion, because he carries a concealed weapon, and the story is more complicated when Mrs. Jellybones plays a trick on her husband. Off she goes to the club, and here comes the big surprise, she does not pounce on her husband, as one would expect, but is so delighted that he is alive that she embraces him most rapturously. Jellybone begins to think that his wife will soon be stricken with an attack from over-indulgence and suffer untold agony. The farce ends up in the police station where Burstup Homes' failure is provocative of much laughter, but he is not at all dismayed and retorts that the police are jealous of him.
- The story revolves about the jealous plots of Stephen Swenson, a man with little or no moral sense. He is jealous of young Henry George, who is betrothed to Blanche, the daughter of the paralytic. Swenson hires two thugs to "do up" his rival. The thugs drop George down a well, in the sight of the paralyzed man, who is powerless to interfere. Knowing that the paralytic cannot divulge the crime, Swenson comes back to make love to the paralytic's daughter. What follows is the pantomimic agony of the paralyzed man in his mute attempt to disclose the fact that Swenson is a murderer.
- Two old fishermen sitting outside of their cabin see a boat at sea on fire. They rush to the life-saving station and report what they have seen. The ship is destroyed and the passengers are lost with the exception of a little boy. One of the old fishermen, who has a little girl the boy's age, decides to adopt him. The children become very fond of each other. Ten years later a New York lawyer comes to the fishing town and wants to adopt the child, but the boy is old enough to decide for himself, and does not want to go. The case is brought to court and it is decided that the child remain with his adopted parents, but that they place the money in the hands of a banker and the guardianship of the lawyer. Not very long afterward the banker is on the verge of bankruptcy and borrows from the boy's money. He has no means of returning it and decides to sell the boy some worthless stock in an unformed corporation. On his visit the banker falls in love with the young girl, now grown to be a beautiful young lady. The boy becomes jealous and seeing the banker kiss the girl fights with him on the edge of a cliff, from which the banker, who is not badly injured, falls. The boy, repentant, helps the banker to his father's house. The girl falls in love with the banker and elopes with him, but he soon neglects her for his gay companions and she returns to her father's home. The banker plans a robbery upon his own bank and is aided by crooks, who dig a tunnel under the bank and enter through the floor of the office. But the banker has already taken the money his confederates seek and flees to the fishing village where his wife is living with her parents. He is followed by the crooks, who trap him into giving them the stolen money. Having been seen by his wife's people, he takes the clothes from a body which is cast up by the sea, placing his own suit upon the unfortunate victim of the waves and placing a suicide note in the coat pocket. He tracks the crooks to a dive in the city and attempts to recover his stolen wealth, in a spectacular fight he follows one of his assailants down a fire rope from the window of a tall building, grappling with him in mid-air. The terrific struggle which ensues ends by the banker plunging headlong to the street below, thus ending his miserable career. The boy and girl live and love, as in their childhood, down by the sea.
- Old Joel Smith is charged with murder in the first degree. At the trial he pleads in opposition to his own lawyers. He explains that he is now too old to be of any assistance to his widowed daughter and grandchildren, who are dependent on him for support. He says he prefers death to a life of poverty and wretchedness. In telling the judge and jury his pathetic story (which is shown on the screen) old Joel betrays a love for his grandchildren and his fellow laborers that is poignant with pathos. He tells how he had been sent by the men to tell the boss that they were dissatisfied. Athough Joel was a favorite with the boss, his representations while listened to with respect were productive of nothing. His employer simply said, that if he raised salaries to meet the present "high cost of living" he would be compelled to close up shop. Whan they receive the answer from the boss, the men vote to strike, much against Joel's advice, and although he liked his boss, Joel is with the majority and walks out with his fellows. A long period of lean days ensue. Joel's grandchildren and widowed daughter are starving. He is too proud to beg. He goes to the headquarters of the strikers and finds them all drinking and carousing. This is too much for Joel. He announces his intention of going back to work. One of the ironworkers calls him a coward. All of the old man's pent-up anger comes to the surface, and before he knows it, he has killed the insulter. The jury weeps at the old man's pathetic story; they cannot find heart to convict him.
- Golden haired little Buster, a sturdy, manly lad of eight, is mascot of troop "C," 15th Cavalry. The men all idolize Buster and vie with one another in winning his affection. Among Buster's most cherished possessions is an old donkey, "Jennie," which has been given by the men, and a little two-wheeled cart. Driving through the post one day Buster comes across a fair haired little maiden, whose name is May, who accompanied by her uncle, an officer, is out for a stroll. Buster is much impressed with the little girl, and his interest is apparently reciprocated. Later at guard mount they again meet and he promises to show her his donkey. Buster gallantly invites his lady fair for a ride. Immensely interested they drive farther away from the post than safety justifies and are captured by a prowling band of Indians. Taken by the Indians into their village the children are thrust into a wigwam for the night. Buster, however, manages to escape under the cover of darkness, mounting one of the Indian ponies, and hastens back to the post for aid. Troop "C" responds to the appeal of their mascot and with Buster at their head are soon on their way to the rescue. They quickly reach the Indian village, a thrilling fight ensues, which results in victory for the troop and the rescue of Buster's little friend.
- The play opens with the escape of John Forsythe from prison, where he has been sentenced to a term of ten years for counterfeiting. He is seen running through the woods in striped clothing until he emerges on an open road. He there holds up a passing chauffeur and secures a linen coat and cap. These cover the stripes to the knees, and he blacks the remainder from the mud of a swamp until those who sit in front can't tell the difference. In this guise he makes his devious way to the house of his brother Robert, a highly respectable member of good society, who has just been made guardian of person and property for a young lady he has never seen, charming Rosalie Clarke, just fresh from boarding school. John enters the house of Robert and demands protection. Robert offers a small sum of money and tells him to get out. John tears up the money and insists upon a larger amount. The good brother goes to another room, while the wicked one responds to a new criminal impulse. He shoots through the door and kills the man who sought to befriend him. He swaps clothes with the dead man, makes up to resemble him, and rings for the police; the latter is an act of insane cunning. Meanwhile, Dublin Dan hears of the escape of a convict he was instrumental in sending to jail for a long term. He goes to the country home of Robert Forsythe and watches at the railroad station. Who should come down by the next train but charming Rosalie. In gathering together her effects she drops the card of Robert Forsythe, and it falls into the hands of the detective. He promptly makes her acquaintance and assists her to find what is to be her future home. His pleasing appearance and manners, he is a winner, inspire confidence, and Rosalie consents. Thus it happens that they arrive simultaneously and opportunely just as the police John has summoned come on the scene. John claims that he is Robert and asserts that he shot a burglar whom he caught in the act of breaking into his house with the intent of committing a felony. This part of, the plot is replete with dramatic possibilities. Detective and criminal both fall in love with Rosalie, and it is man to man from this moment through exciting situations to the end. Dublin Dan's suspicions are excited by some trivial clue he finds, and he manages to examine this silent testimony while the others are variously engaged. He also objects John to sharp scrutiny when the latter receiver Rosalie. The criminal betrays that he did not know she was coming, and the fact that he has not had time to adjust himself to his new environment is shown in his conduct. Forsythe is savage and brutal, or merely sensuous and lazy as the mood strikes him, but in all cases an instinctive malefactor. Forsythe naturally gravitates to his old haunt, a den of counterfeiters, and there renews relations with confederates who have been operating in a small way. Their laboratory is shown behind a long screen, and John takes up his former occupation with the fanatical enthusiasm of an artist. It is revealed that the adventuress, Jumo, is still infatuated with him, though she has ostensibly given her affections into the keeping of his pal, Bill Steele. Mag Steele is an old hag whose services are those of guard over the safety of the retreat. Forsythe has the temerity to take these people to the house of his slain brother and there make merry to the discomfiture of innocent Rosalie. Rosalie escapes and goes to faithful Dan for advice and help. Dan places her with his mother. Dan goes to the Forsythe house in disguise and informs the merry party he meets there that his motor car is stalled not far away from lack of gasoline. Forsythe offers to send a servant for a new supply. Dan extends a hundred dollar bill, the smallest he has with him, in payment, but this does not attract suspicion. Forsythe takes it and gives counterfeit money in exchange. He is certainly suffering from induration of the occipital. The detective detects, but no matter, just wait. He must locate the den. Forsythe locates him and attempts to abduct Rosalie. She barely escapes the first time by the timely intervention of Dublin Dan in the disguise of a cabman. The second attempt is more successful, and Rosalie is carried away to the den. She is there incarcerated in a prison cell; the den is almost as well equipped as a motion picture studio, to languish while Forsythe resumes his nefarious work in the hidden laboratory. Now comes a closing in of all the elements. Juno is so cruelly jealous that she releases Rosalie from the cell after the others have retired for the night and proceeds to torture her, at least she makes ready, when Rosalie's screams bring the others and the former status is restored. Dublin Dan is not idle. He chances upon Matt, the thug of the counterfeiting gang, in a nearby tavern. In preparation for this encounter the detective has brought along a makeup bag which contains among other wonderful things a live carrier pigeon. Matt the thug has become interested in a drunken sailor who rashly flashes a roll. Dublin Dan interferes and conducts the drunken sailor to a bed-chamber. There the detective has an inspiration. He disguises himself as the drunken sailor, secretes the carrier pigeon in his bosom and contrives to encounter Matt the thug near the counterfeiter's den. Matt takes the drunken sailor into the den to rob him. Dublin Dan not only sees imprisoned Rosalie looking out from behind the prison bars, but is given a full view of the secret laboratory. Feigning sleep while the others play cards, he manages to write a note and attach it to the carrier pigeon's legs. As he sends the dove up the chimney, Matt the thug turns suddenly to help himself to whiskey and catches Dublin Dan in the act. The entire gang assaults the detective in a terrific struggle, with a result that he is overpowered, bound and thrown into a dungeon through a trap door. Is he done for? Ask of the white rats that crawl over his prostrate body and gnaw the ropes that bind him. Dublin Dan rises and rids himself of his bonds. He creeps up an iron ladder, opens the trap and seizes a brace of pistols. Now he has the whole gang at bay. After effecting Rosalie's release, he marches the counterfeiters, one by one, into the prison cell and there he holds them until the police arrive. Best of all, he is so cool about it. When the officers come on the scene he is calmly smoking a cigar.
- Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One Christmas morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway. The butler and housekeeper (in the secret), carry the hamper to the library and present it to Neal. He is greatly puzzled and finding a card attached inscribed "To Major Neal," he opens the hamper, only to slam it hastily shut with a startled and angry expression: The hamper contains a baby girl. The old man orders the child taken from his presence, and advertises for the one who presumed to leave it to take it off. But no one claims the child, whose sweetness and innocent joys soon begin to move the old fellow's heart. The baby constantly makes advances, in spite of rebuffs, until the old man succumbs and worships the child, calling her "Little Sunbeam." Sunbeam is stricken with fever. Now is the mother's chance. She comes (the old family doctor aiding and abetting her), disguised as a nurse, and with a mother's untiring love and care nurses Sunbeam back from the shadowy brink. Old Major Neal and his disowned daughter meet at the bedside of the child, and through their great and mutual love for Sunbeam become forever reconciled.
- Snakey Snodgrass conceives a scheme with which to defraud the crooks of New York. He purchases enough gold to make a brick worth about fifteen thousand dollars. With this he comes to New York City, opens an office as a "Gold Expert" and sends out word to the crooks and swindlers that he has discovered a new metal which will pass as gold. He uses the real gold brick with which to make all the jeweler's tests, with chemicals, etc. Then he has an assistant in a different place gilding bricks and preparing them for sale to the swindlers. The police learn of his activity and they raid his office. He grabs up a brick, which he believes to be the one of pure gold, and is a victim of his trickery, leaving the real one lying on the floor. After Snakey leaves in the custody of the officers, his assistant looks with disgust at the bricks and starts dumping them out of the window. Small boys amuse themselves by throwing the bricks around. Then they decide to put one which happens to be the genuine one under a silk hat, leaving it on a pavement. Various people kick the hat, and hurt their toes, and then laugh when they see the gold brick. At last a broken down, ragged-looking swindler comes out of a saloon door and discovers the gold brick. He takes up a position on a street corner to wait for some greenhorn or rube. Silas Perkins, of Pumpkin Center, who has sold his farm for a thousand dollars comes into town to live with his daughter and her husband, who is a young chemist. Silas is accosted by the swindler, who eventually sells him the real gold brick for a thousand dollars. Silas proceeds to his daughter's house, where he tells them of his purchase. They are heartbroken, and when he learns that he has fallen victim to a simple fraud, the old man is so overcome by the loss of his money that he takes to his bed. His son-in-law calls the doctor, who orders them to tell him that the brick is real gold, in order to cheer him up and bring him back to health. The son-in-law gets some of his chemicals, brings them to the table by the bedside and starts on his tests, planning to "jolly" the old man. His eyes bulge, and he discovers that it is real gold. The old fellow sits up and dons his clothes in a jiffy when he learns that it is true, and the son-in-law, the daughter and the old man hastily call a taxicab and hustle for the office of the U.S. metal assayer. There they sell the brick for its true value, and the last view is that of the old farmer telling the story of its purchase to the official chemist, while the son and daughter join them in merry laughter.
- A priceless diamond stolen by a British attaché from a statue of Buddha brings bad luck to all who possess it.
- Mr. Newlywed will not allow his wife to have a dog. Her uncle, taking pity on her, goes out to buy one. Meanwhile, Wilkens and his wife, butler and maid to the Newlyweds are informed they must retrieve their "secret" child from friends who were watching her. Uncle comes home with the dog, a cute puppy, and shows his niece. He hides it in the sideboard. Mr. Newlywed shows the uncle an article in the paper about a mad dog running wild in Passaic (Solax Film Co. was located in Ft. Lee, NJ). Quickly, Uncle sneaks the puppy out in his coat. The Wilkens' bring their baby in and hide him/her in the same sideboard! Mrs. Newlywed feels guilty and writes Mr. a note telling him to look in the sideboard and not to be to angry for she will never deceive him again. He looks and, seeing the baby, screams, bring everyone into the room, including Uncle with the puppy. Soon, all is straightened out and all ends happily.
- A very efficient draughtsman in the employ of the government, quarrels with the head draughtsman in his department. The head draughtsman makes it very unpleasant for his subordinate. Their relations become so strained that it becomes necessary for the government to discharge the younger of the two men. The young draughtsman is very much incensed against the government. He is out of work for a long time, and his family becomes destitute. His wife is forced to take in work she is not accustomed to, and many nights she puts their child to bed with very little to eat. Because of their close proximity to the barracks, the child is very much interested in soldiers and is naturally very patriotic. George Washington is a god to the child, and the country he built represents paradise to him. The father in his wanderings looking for work, meets an agent for a foreign government, who offers him a big sum for duplicates of the plans of certain fortifications on the Pacific coast. The draughtsman tells his wife about it and she advises him to go to the government and try to get a hearing. He is discouraged in his attempts by repeated repulses and temporizing methods of certain authorities. Finally the draughtsman grows desperate and decides to accept the proposition made him by the foreign spy. The patriotic son of the draughtsman saves his father from treason and disgrace by unique and timely interference.
- The four-masted schooner "Caroline," a valuable seagoing vessel engaged in a peaceful legitimate trade along the rough coast of New England, is the central point around which this interesting drama revolves. Her owner has been forced by misfortune to borrow money from a wealthy merchant who is the secret head of a band of smugglers engaged in bringing Chinamen into the United States by landing them secretly upon a dangerous stretch of the seacoast. The merchant wants the "Caroline" for his illegal traffic, and has also made up his mind to obtain her captain-owner's daughter for his bride. The girl, however, is in love with a stalwart coast guard and is seconded in her dislike for the merchant by her brother who, besides being the first mate of the "Caroline," has rigged a wireless apparatus upon the vessel and upon the roof of their home, and has taught his sister how to communicate with him while he is at sea. The merchant succeeds in secreting a number of his desperate band in the hold of the "Caroline" when she sails upon one of her cruises, and thus gains possession of the vessel and places her crew in irons. She is immediately forced into the "yellow traffic" and used to pick up a cargo of Chinamen who are packed in barrels and loaded upon her deck. Meanwhile the activities of the merchant, the girl and the coast guard upon the land combined with the government's efforts to stop the operations of the smugglers add double interest to the story which reaches a splendid climax when the brother succeeds in communicating with his sister by wireless, is made to walk the plank, swims 140 feet under water, finally clinging to a rudder chain and reaching shore in time to lead a large force against the smugglers on land. He pursues the "Caroline" out to sea and leads an attack upon her ruffian crew, which ends in a hand-to-hand conflict and a triumph for the guardians of the law.
- In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arrives at his destination too late. Forced to retrace his steps, he seeks shelter in a little inn, forgetting that the hour of his birth is approaching. In the middle of the night he awakens, terrified with fright. Standing by his bed with a deadly knife in her hand is "The Dream Woman." She plunges the blade into the mattress as he squirms out of the way. Twice she attempts to reach him. He yells for help. The innkeeper and his family are aroused. Seeing nothing, they drive him away for disturbing them. As he is escaping the apparition appears once more. Fear lends speed to his quaking legs and he runs until he falls exhausted in his mother's arms. Francis Raven, the young man, is home from his hair-raising adventure. His mother is sick and he goes to the druggist for medicine. While there, Alicia Warlock, a very pretty girl, enters. It is easily discerned that she has been wayward; that she is tired of life. She asks the druggist to sell her laudanum. He refuses. As she goes out, she attracts Raven's attention. He is fascinated and follows. When he introduces Alicia to his mother, that good but very superstitious woman receives her with askance. But the son is infatuated and when the mother orders the girl away he goes with her and the two are married. They settle down in a home of their own, but when Raven is absent his wife associates with questionable companions. She drinks and is frequently under the influence of liquor. He finds her in this state and scolds her, but she is defiant. Not willing to give her up, he summons his mother, who promises to use her influence toward reforming the girl. But the mother sees her daughter-in-law cutting bread with the same knife that has always been a part of her son's dream and runs away. Not long afterward, Raven finds his wife stupefied with whiskey. He handles her roughly and finally strikes her. She falls to the floor completely sobered by the blow. In a second the husband regrets his hasty temper, but his wife, beside herself with rage, declares she will murder him with the very knife that has tortured him in his dreams. He gets the knife and vows to put it where his wife cannot find it, but while traveling a lonely road he is attacked, the knife is stolen from him and he is thrown into a well, from which he escapes. A few years elapse and Raven is engaged in the care of horses. Upon the anniversary of his birth two strangers, a man and his wife, employ him to drive them to their station. Having heard his cries they ask for an explanation and he tells his weird story. They pity and employ him as a second groom. To protect him over his birthday the first groom is instructed to watch him constantly during the night. But the first groom while in the village flirts with a woman who readily accepts an invitation to visit his lodgings. Just as she is about to partake of food and refreshments there are groans and cries of distress in an adjoining room. The first groom, not wishing to be disturbed, goes to the frightened man, ties him hand and foot, places a gag in his mouth and returns to the woman he picked up in the street. He does not have much time to revel in her society, however, because his mistress calls him. While he is gone, Alicia steals into the adjoining apartment, recognized the helpless occupant of the bed, draws a knife from the folds of her skirt and plunges it into his heart. The story ends in the fascinating atmosphere of the spirit world with the "Dream Woman" enveloped in soul stirring mystery.
- Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the celebrated detective Bob Macauley whose sweetheart Sylvia is a struggling salesgirl and the sole support of her ailing mother. When she is turned down for promotion by her boss, Sylvia applies for a position with a kindly woman who has offered her help. To her horror, Sylvia soon discovers that the woman is a madame and has lured her to the same house of ill repute in which Charlotte is being held captive. Meanwhile, searching for Charlotte, Bob visits the brothel disguised as a gasman and discovers that Sylvia is a resident. Thinking that she is there willingly, Bob upbraids her, but upon discovering the truth he rescues her as well as Charlotte and delivers Paul to the authorities.
- Dan Wellington objects to his daughter's marriage with Richard Darlington. The father finds the letter in the arms of his daughter and puts him out of the house. The much abused lover is followed out of the house by his sweetheart and maid. The latter conceives a brilliant idea whereby the lover is to assume the disguise of a tramp and rescue the sweetheart from being ground beneath the wheels of an automobile. While the plot is being consummated on one side of a hedge fence, two tramps are asleep on the other side. The excited voices awaken them and while the maid recites the proposed plan the tramps are working on one of their own. After leaving the two girls to go in search of a costume, Darlington is overpowered by the two tramps and hustled off to a lonely hut where he is detained. One of the tramps plans to go in Darlington's stead and do the hero work. Better see the film to cap the climax.
- A story of a poor Jew peddler. Its object is to show a human soul, ill-treated, scorned and terribly injured, showing courageous humanity and protecting from a mob of lynchers the very man who, in the first place, had wantonly upset his basket of apples and then had run over and killed his little daughter. The rich man insults the peddler further by offering him a few dollars. Later, the peddler finds him placing flowers on the child's grave and forgives him.
- The police are on the lookout for Jim Spike, alias Jim Nail, a dangerous highway robber, who has been working with more or less success without being apprehended. The chief of the detective bureau puts two new detectives on the case and enjoins them to be very careful in their investigations, and not to come back without landing the prisoner. The three detectives soon come upon Edgar Carroll, in whom they immediately see a striking resemblance to Spike, the crook. They shadow Edgar from place to place, and soon his life becomes one long game of hide and seek with the detectives. Finally Edgar consults his friend and they both decide to give the detectives a merry chase. Edgar and his friend dress as women and parade the streets in their ludicrous feminine attire. They flirt with the detectives and entice them away from their duty. They do not discover the real identity of their charming feminine companions until they accidentally come upon them one evening and see them leisurely, and with enjoyment, smoking clear Havana cigars. This shocking and unfeminine spectacle arouses their suspicions, but the boys are too clever for these cousins of Sherlock Holmes and, with the aid of an automobile, give them the slip, but the detectives eventually turn up again and arrest the masqueraders. However, they do not remain long in the police station, for the real Jim Spike turns up soon as the crook who tried to snatch Jane Ellery's purse on the ferryboat. Jane is Edgar Carroll's sweetheart, and she recognizes him. A few more complications arise, however, until Edgar and the crook are seen side by side and their likeness discovered, and the cousins of Sherlock Holmes see they have been misguided in their investigations.
- The good people of the Solax community realize that they have cause to make merry before the New Year because the Almighty has guided their breadwinning footsteps toward the Solax Studio's happy atmosphere, bank together like the big happy family they are, to give expression to their happiness in the form of a gift to the immediate cause of their good fortune and sunshine. The scenes present a people full of enthusiasm and good cheer. The plot is not thick, but the execution progresses smoothly and with "spirit." The events take the leading figure entirely by surprise, and her emotion and her gratitude bring a lump to her throat. Scene One. The Surprise. Morning. The good people gathered in the studio and unveiled a pedestal and a bronze figure, a copy from Rodin. The Megaphone then visited the office of The Cause and waylaid her in the Studio. Then Magda Foy, the Solax Kid, revealed the secret, and then the Megaphone makes it more explicit by expressing the sentiments of the Merrymakers and all concerned. (Loud applause.) Madame, overcome with the flattering tribute, is unable to speak. Then up spoke Kid Pirate and threatened that she, The Cause, must herself carry the 200-pound statue home. Scene Two. "Good Spirits." Afternoon. A suspicious noise is heard. Sounds like the sizzling and popping of corks from bottles. The Master of Ceremonies, at the head of the mob, attacks the Studio. The mob finds the tables set and glasses filled. Sounds of sizzling and bubbling proceed. Telltale tears soon begin to appear in many eyes, and lids show an abnormal tendency to droop. Some chuckle and some laugh. All are happy and contented. More speechmaking and applause. (Speech indistinct and incoherent.) Scene Three. Later. Jealousy. A near relative to The Cause and a neighbor of us all was jealous of the aforesaid tribute paid to his kin, so, in order that he may not be outdone in hospitality, invited the mob to invade the sanctified quarters of the Gaumont Company, where he showed some wonderful Gaumont productions.
- Fred Meade, an artist, by mistake sends his sweetheart a box containing a pair of his trousers to be repaired, while to a tailoress be sends a beautiful bunch of roses. In the box containing the trousers he puts a note requesting his sweetheart to wear them and meet him at their trysting-place that evening. The tailoress receives the box containing the flowers, meant for the sweetheart, with a note asking her to cut them off about four inches and returns them that evening. The sweetheart is so incensed at his supposed insult, that she throws the trousers out of the window, where a passing tramp finds them, and hurries away with them. The tailoress, a spinster, although nonplussed at the request, cuts off the long stems of the roses four inches, puts them back in the box and returns them. Fred, supposing them to be the trousers, and with only a few minutes to catch a train, never examines the contents, but snatches the box and hurries for his train, leaving a card tacked on the door that he will return in three days. The tramp finding Fred's address in the trousers pocket, goes to return them the following day, and on reading the card on the door, gains an entrance to the house by a cellar window. He then proceeds to enjoy himself by dressing up in Fred's clothes, and ordering by telephone all kinds of good things to eat and drink. After feasting and drinking to excess, he wanders through the streets in an intoxicated condition, but because of his being well dressed, and finding Fred's card in his pocket, a policeman supposing him to be the artist, takes him back to the house and puts him to bed. The morning paper, however, contains an account of the arrest, and meets the eye of the tailoress, who comes to the conclusion that Fred was drunk when he sent her the roses, and immediately takes the paper to the sweetheart's home to show her. She refuses to listen to it at first, but as the fact of her having received the trousers dawns upon her, she begins to believe it, and both start out to investigate. They reach Fred's house, and seeing the remains of the feast, empty bottles and other signs of the debauch, and finally the man in bed, the sweetheart is overcome with grief. Fred returns from his trip, however, and his arrival on the scene soon straightens out the tangle, and everything is explained with a happy ending.
- Two brothers and a girl. Both are in love with her. Jack, fond of society and high living, always well dressed and gay, seems to have the best of it against his more simple and plodding brother, who rather shuns society, and is wrapped up in his work. Jack, however, has a lot of debts and needs money badly. One day he sees his father receive a big sum of money and put it away in the safe without locking the safe door. Jack steals the money and puts a few bills in. his brother Harry's coat pocket. Harry is accused and might have spent a number of years in jail had it not been for the girl in the story. Louise was a clever girl and had just begun to suspect that Jack was not the hero she had first thought. Her love of justice, as well as a growing love for Harry, helped to set a clever trap for Jack in which he was caught, and most of the money recovered. Of course, she marries Harry.
- Lieutenant Fielding, a young officer of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, returns with his regiment to Alvero, Ariz., and finds himself in command with other officers of the regiment, warmly welcomed by the ladies of the post who have been awaiting their return. Among these are Mrs. Gary, wife of the colonel, and her sweet little sister Grace, for whom Fielding has a very tender spot in his heart. A new commandant has been recently appointed to the command of troop "C" and having joined while the regiment was in the field, the return of the regiment to its post affords the ladies the first opportunity to meet the new arrival. Mrs. Gary recognizes in him an old admirer of whom she had been very fond prior to her marriage with the colonel, who is several years her senior. The unexpected meeting results in a revival of the old friendship and an elopement is planned, which is frustrated by the efforts of Lieutenant Fielding, but whose interference results, however, in placing him in a compromising position which he cannot explain without implicating the colonel's wife. This he will not do and maintain silence though he is placed under arrest and ordered before court martial. The captain, his plans interrupted by the interference of Lieutenant Fielding realizing that sooner or later the truth must be known and he will be dismissed from the service, determines upon flight. Fielding's little sweetheart, Grace, realizes that with the captain gone and with her sister's lips sealed by the necessity of preserving her good name her lover's chances for exoneration are slim. Accordingly she starts in pursuit of the captain, heads him off with the aid of a trusty six-shooter, extorts from him a confession of what actually transpired and returns to the post bursting in upon the court martial with the confession, which vindicates her lover and all ends happily.
- A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
- Old Betsey Older lives in a boarding house in which money-loving Bud Doolittle and wise Tom Dear are also unfortunate boarders. Poor Betsey loses her heart to both of these gentlemen. Betsey tries hard to win the love of these gentlemen, but the harder she tries the less progress she makes. In fact, she gets so tangled up that before long she thinks she "sees things." Bud and Tom try to stake her to each other, for they are both victims of flirting Marian. Tom finally gets Bud to propose to Betsey, misleading him with a phantom legacy. Bud learns the truth of the heiress' real financial position and then leaves her at the altar.
- Rose Creyton, a young country girl, is loved by her old childhood friend, Tom Lawton. While not exactly reciprocating Tom's affection, she is fond of him and, but for the arrival into their quiet village of Richard Hartley, the course of true love would probably have worked out its own salvation. Rose is attracted by the citified manner and "store" clothes of Hartley, to whom her fresh and innocent beauty is a revelation, and they become engaged. Mrs. Creyton is not pleased with her daughter's acceptance of Hartley's attentions and does all within her power to prevent Rose from receiving them. Tom finally musters up courage to propose to Rose, who tells him of her engagement to Hartley and expresses her regret at having to wound her old friend. Tom takes the blow manfully and decides leaving the old village for some far western country, in search of forgetfulness. He wishes Rose happiness, takes a photograph of her which she gives him, goes west and starts mining. Rose's married life proves a complete failure. Her husband turns out a drunkard and gambler, and she and the little boy who has come to them have a hard time of it. Finally, in an outburst of drunken rage, Hartley strikes his wife and, thinking he has killed her, flees, taking with him the child so that he may not be on hand to testify against him. He goes west, and as luck would have it, locates at a mining town close to which is Tom's mine and cabin. Hartley is killed in a drunken brawl and the child, fleeing for his life, runs away, finally falling exhausted at the door of Tom's cabin, just at the moment when Tom, desperate over continued hard luck, decides to end it all. The arrival of the boy saves him. Finding that the child has neither father nor mother, Tom decides to adopt him. His luck suddenly changes and fortune smiles upon the strangely assorted pair. For two years they remain together, growing fonder of each other all the time. In the meantime, Rose has been searching everywhere for her lost boy. She finally gets a clue which leads her to the mining town where her husband met death and learns the whereabouts of her boy. Eagerly starting for the place, she finds not only the boy but her old lover. The boy has learned to love Tom too dearly to be willing to leave him.