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- A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
- After avoiding a bandit's advances, a woman receives his bet that she will kiss him willingly.
- An undersized student has a rival in the school athlete for the love of a girl. The student, interested in the occult, brings about a transition of souls; that is to say, he transfers his soul into the body of the athlete and forces the athlete's soul into his own. After the completion of the experiment the student is unable to change back. When the athlete finds himself locked up in the puny body of the student his anguish is awful. His football companions, who formerly looked up to him as their peerless leader, now laugh in derision at his piteous attempts to tell them who he really is. The student, when self-endowed with the athlete's body, and finding it impossible to get back, smashes in blind rage the crystal which he used in making the exchange. The student previously believed that if he only had a fine physical frame he would have more chance in the loved one's affections. His father, returning from India, brings with him a wise old Hindu swami, who, finding that the boy is interested in the things that interest him, gives him some of his secrets. It is through this uncanny knowledge that the student, in a hypnotic séance, exchanges his body for that of the athlete's. The plot, however, does not work out as desired, for the girl transfers her affections to what appears to be the student. She does not know why this is, but the student, now in the athlete's body, realizes that after all it is not the outward appearance of the man that attracts her, but the real man himself. He therefore tries to get back, but finds it impossible. In the nick of time the swami reappears and repairs the damage wrought by the dangerous experiment.
- The story opens in the west and shoes a happy family made up of the father, mother and two brothers. Lee, the younger brother, is not only the pride of his mother's heart, but of his elder brother's, as well. In line with the wishes of his family, Lee loves and intends to marry Rose, a girl of his own type. However, the tranquility of the family is rudely disturbed by the arrival in the small town of Ramona, an adventuress from the east. Lee meets her in the village saloon and falls an easy victim to her wiles. Donald, the elder brother, remonstrated with Lee. Lee, deep in the coils of the adventuress, refuses to listen to his brother's advice. To save him. Donald makes love to Ramona. She is duped, believing she is adding another easy victim to her already large collection. Ramona spurns Lee now that there are new worlds to conquer. Lee, in the blind rage, shoots Donald. He escapes from the saloon, but is pursued and brought back. The scales, falling from Lee's eyes, begs Donald's forgiveness. Donald forgives, and in that his object has been accomplished. He scorns for Ramona. A detective arrives from the east and arrests Ramona, explaining that she is wanted for forgery. With the removal of the adventuress, the happy tenor of their lives continue. Rose and Lee are reconciled.
- At an embassy ball Robert Carlton meets the girl of his dreams. He is attracted by an odd ring she wears, a circle of perfectly matched rubies. The following evening Carlton is jostled by an evil-looking fellow. Pausing to light a cigarette, he discovers a ring upon the sidewalk, a counterpart of that worn by the girl he loves. He places the ring on his finger. Some evenings later Robert visits a Bohemian café. A distinguished looking foreigner enters; a gleam of satisfaction appears as he catches sight of the ring which Carlton wears. He drops a note into Carlton's lap and then leaves. Carlton finds the note a sort of cryptic invitation to follow. Outside the café he meets the stranger who, without a word, leads the way. Carlton follows into an evil-looking house. Once inside the stranger leaves him. Carlton begins a tour of inspection when he hears a slight rustle. Turning, he is astonished to see the girl uppermost in his thoughts. She accuses him of being a detective. Carlton explains the affair. As she is about to help him out of the place the stranger returns with a dark robe. The girl is at her wits' end. Entering, Carlton finds himself in an underground council chamber containing thirty or forty strange figures clad like himself in long dark flowing robes. The leader of the meeting calls for the password. Carlton cannot give it. The leader, accusing him of being a spy, condemns him to death. Carlton is chained to the wall, beside a lighted bomb. To save the man she loves, the girl leaves by a secret passage and informs the police. She saves her lover from the clutches of the Nihilists, by herself turning traitor to the cause.
- Red Margaret, a moonshiner, struggles between love for a government agent and loyalty to her people.
- A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.
- The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.
- Lauretta Queenin is a country girl, and despite the fact that she is 40, she is inclined toward love and romance. She writes her name and address upon an egg intended for market. The egg finds its way to Warren, a newly-married businessman. As a joke Warren writes to Lauretta, vowing his love and requesting her photograph; he signs the name and address of his friend Kenneth Kline. On receipt of this missive, Lauretta sends her picture to Kenneth; his wife receives and destroys it. The next day, Lauretta wires Kenneth that she is on her way to him and will arrive at 3:15 the next afternoon. The town constable finds the original letter to Lauretta. Believing that she is being enticed to the city by Kenneth, the constable wires the city police the particulars. Warren accompanies Kenneth to the railroad station. They meet Lauretta, take her to a restaurant, and explain that they are married and that it is all a joke. The two men's wives locate them in the restaurant. Kenneth and Warren escape unnoticed. The wives enter into the heated argument with Lauretta, which finally results in the arrest of all three women. Kenneth and Warren help their wives out of jail, only on the solemn promise that they will never again pry into their affairs.
- An injured telegraph lineman, the father of a large family, finds it difficult to make ends meet. A gentleman thief attempts to aid the family by desperate means.
- Nellie loves Ned. Her father won't have Ned around the house and insists upon choosing Nellie's callers. He finds Ned at the house one day and telephones to Freddie, a rather effeminate youth, asking him to call immediately. Freddie does and Pa makes Nellie talk to him while he engages Ned in conversation. Ned gets disgusted and leaves. Freddie in his awkwardness, steps on Nellie's dress and tears it. That finishes him and he leaves. Father determines to get a real man for his daughter the next time and sends for Captain Fitzbugle of the town militia. The Captain calls and Nellie sees him. He boasts of his feats of courage to father, and pa thinks he is the bravest in the world. Nellie decides to have some fun with her father and the brave man in uniform and dresses in her father's clothes, wearing a mask. She gets an old horse pistol and enters the room where the Captain is still waving his sword. She points the gun at them and they collapse. She makes the Captain stand on his head and he runs from the house with Nellie close at his heels, waving the gun. The Captain runs into a policeman who chases Nellie through the streets and back into the house. She runs into the parlor and the policeman is about to arrest her when father explains that the desperado, unmasked is his daughter, and the policeman, after taking the gun away from her leaves. Father seeing that he is unable to curb his daughter's waywardness, writes Ned to call, hoping thusly to cure her had habits. Ned accepts the invitation and Nellie and he are reunited.
- Mrs. Van Jessalyn-Smythe and her daughter are annoyed at the prospect unfolded by the receipt of a letter from her married sister, saying that her daughter Jennie has married Bill Simpkins, because they are expecting a distinguished visitor, Lord Brighton, on whom the daughter intends to impose all her feminine charms. However, the boob and his bride arrive. The following evening there is to be a ball in honor of Lord Brighton. The hostess sends a complete set of full evening dress to their apartment. The boob and his bride manage to get into the clothes, but in each case, the shoes are too small. They limp into the ballroom. Mrs. Smythe is disgusted with the boob's awkwardness. When the tight shoes become unbearable, the bride goes into the conservatory, and attempts to take them off. She is seen by Lord Brighton, who immediately runs to her assistance. While he is tugging at her shoe, the boob happens upon the scene. "How dare you make love to my wife," the boob roars, and chases him through the ballroom. He follows the aristocrat until he is well down the driveway, and then returns to relate the joke to his wife. The boob and his wife decide that fine clothes are not for them, and they return back to Spoonville on the first train.
- The story, in brief, relates to that famous character of history, Captain Kidd, from the time he became a pirate until his fall. According to history he was sent out to subdue piracy by King William III of England, who had heard of this captain's ability in combating these wolves of the marine commerce. Kidd starts out with good impulses. A misunderstanding with his sweetheart, whom he was about to marry, changed the tenure of his life, from a law-abiding citizen he suddenly was transformed into a fiend. He embarked with embittered thoughts that soon answered the summons of rancor. He fell for the temptation to reap an easy fortune through piracy. Ever actuated by the gnawings of a self-imposed broken heart, Kidd ruled with unpitying hand. A poor wretch, one of his own crew, whom he had ordered thrown overboard for no reason whatever nearly caused Kidd's downfall. In the meantime Peggy, his sweetheart, had pined through sorrow. The American shores invited. It was thought a change would do her good and she embarked with her father. Through a strange act of fate this ship fell a prey to the ever watchful eye of Kidd's crew. Battle and carnage reigned. Peggy recognized her old sweetheart directing the killing. When he finds her she has been mortally wounded. Gathering her in his strong arms he totters with unseeing eyes to the forward deck, where she dies. The man whose life had been seared through his own jealous nature becomes again as a child with a grief that was simple and sincere.
- Eddie, the brave fire laddie, loves Nellie, the pet of the firemen, and the captain's little daughter. Lee, a cowardly villain, has evil designs on the girl. With the help of two bearded cutthroats, the villain abducts the guileless maiden and takes her to his den of crime. Eddie wades through blood and fire and fights his way into the villain's lair. He is overpowered by the cutthroats while the villain snarls: "'Tie the cur up, boys, while I go and marry the girl." The cutthroats drag the girl downstairs; Eddie bursts his bonds, and from the window he throws a rope to the sidewalk and lassos the villain's revolver; the hero shoots six blocks down the street, and each of his five bullets strikes the gong in the fire department and sounds the alarm. In the meantime, the justice of the peace at the point of a revolver is marrying the villain and the innocent girl. The hero escapes from the den and joins the fire department, which is speeding toward the justice's office. The girl is rescued in the nick of time. However, the wicked villain outwits the hero. He jumps into a cab and blows himself up with a dynamite bomb.
- Mr. Wouldby Strong is a prizefight fan and spends most of his evening trying to convince the boys what a great fighter he is. His wife becomes disgusted with him and they quarrel. Strong tells her she doesn't understand him and that he will find someone who will. With this he goes downtown to the boys. Meanwhile, Mrs. Strong's uncle visits her and she explains her marital woes. They leave a note on the table signed by the wife saying that she has left him for a better, handsomer man. They then go to the theater. Strong returns home after a good time with his friends. He falls asleep and dreams prizefight nightmares until he awakens in a cold sweat. He finds the note and completely breaks down. His wife and her uncle return and Wouldby Strong starts in to thrash the elderly man when the truth comes out.
- Springtime. Everything in nature is awakening. A pretty girl in a boat is drifting. Sterling sees the girl and becomes infatuated. At the same time another man sees the girl and he, too, falls in love. They pursue her in boats, each unaware of the other. The girl escapes on shore, where the two men meet and the rivalry begins. By a peculiar ruse Sterling manages to best the other rival and win the girl. He brings her to a lawn dance and makes a hit with the guests by bringing such a pretty girl. The other man in the meantime makes the acquaintance of a Salome dancer and surprises the party by appearing with her. The shapely form and grace of the beautiful dancer completely unbalances Sterling's mind and he rushes madly to her. The rival naturally objects and a sword duel is the result. The rivals turn out to be terrible cowards, and the affair of honor turns out to be a fiasco. In the mix-up that results the Salome dancer escapes into a public park, with the park police in hot pursuit, trying to cover her up. They are chased to a bridge where the rivals, in mortal combat, pitch headlong into the water sixty feet below. The efforts to save the rivals from drowning result in the most comical incidents imaginable.
- King, an American, is separated from his wife. Later a child is born unknown to him. Years pass. We find him a successful stock manipulator on the Paris stock exchange. The wife, with her child, is visiting in France. The child is lost in one of the parks. She is kidnapped and is sold to an unscrupulous Fagin, who forces the child into the street as a beggar. She is found by her father, who, unaware of her identity, gives her a home and becomes greatly attached to her. Later the mother finds her child playing in the gardens of her husband. She attempts to take the child away with her immediately, but the child insists that her mother first see her benefactor. The man and wife come face to face and are reconciled.
- Hubby is a sport. His wife, who loves him dearly, awaits his homecoming one night and finally falls asleep in her chair. Hubby continues to have a good time at the poolroom, forgetting all about wife and home. The pool room is raided and Hubby climbs up the fire escape and enters a room. It is that of a small boy, asleep. In order to escape through the line of policemen surrounding the building, he dons the boy's clothing and leaves his own. He returns home, passes his wife, who still sleeps, and turns in after hiding his stolen clothes. The next morning he swears that he was in early and his wife believes him until the boy calls at the house dressed in hubby's clothes. Confronted with the evidence, Hubby is forced to give the clothing back and stand a severe lashing from his wife. An amusing farce.
- In the first scene we are taken on to the deck of Capt. LaFette's ship at the time a furious battle is raging between his crew and that of Blackbeard's, a rival buccaneer. There is the flash of cutlasses, hand-to-hand struggling between men with bare backs. Blackbeard is defeated; the leaders join hands later and agree to join forces. Then follows another battle quite as exciting and furious and even more pitiable, for the victims include innocent men, sailors under the English captain and a woman and a child. The woman, wife of the captain, is slain before his eyes while defending her baby boy. LaFette decides to adopt the little fellow. Twelve years pass and the boy, now a man, deplores his lot, finding consolation only in the tintype portrait of his dead mother. He has never actually served with the pirates in their desperate deeds. Blackbeard attempts to force LaFette to compel the boy to fight without success. There is a shore leave for the men. The boy is forced to accompany the two captains on a visit to the governor, under the disguise of the Earl, and his two friends whom the pirates killed. The boy falls in love with the governor's daughter and is torn with grief at his false position. Blackbeard is disturbed with jealousy, for the girl is taken with the boy. But the boy's manhood, under the stimulus of love, awakens and he dominates both Blackbeard and LaFette. In revenge Blackbeard turns state's evidence, informing the governor of who they really were by letter after their departure. In the raid that follows LaFette manages to escape. The boy is placed upon trial and tells his tale, which is discredited by Blackbeard. LaFette hears of the trial, gets to the judge's court and manages to stagger in and tell the truth about the boy, which is needed to clear him. Blackbeard, wild at seeing himself thus trapped, shoots LaFette. The play closes with the boy and girl plighting their troth.
- May and Maud Smith are two sisters living in a hall room at Mrs. Prune's. They are out of work and very despondent. So is Jimmie, who occupies the room next to the girls. They are all delinquent in their board bill, and Jimmie tries to steal up to his room without the landlady seeing him, but Mrs. Prune comes out and demands her rent. Jimmie shows her a letter that he has prospects of a job, but she wants her money and refuses to allow him in the dining room, until he has paid. He goes to his room and on the way meets the two girls, who were fortunate enough to have had enough money to pay part of their board and thus entitled to a meal, at least. The girls attempt to smuggle Jimmie into the dining room, but the untimely appearance of Mrs. Prune frustrates their plan. Jimmie is sitting in his room, disconsolate and hungry, when he hears voices in the adjoining room. He listens at the door and hears one of the girls exclaim, "Here is a way out of our difficulties," and then, "It's the only way. Let us dye together." Jimmie does not stop for more, but rushes away for help. And in the meantime, the girls had been reading an advertisement in the newspaper, a want ad, which calls for "two sisters for vaudeville; must have blonde hair, etc.," and which brought forth the remarks Jimmie had heard. They decide it is their last hope to relieve their pressing need of money. Jimmie fails to find a policeman so rushes to a detective agency and informs Hawkeye, the detective, that two girls are about to commit suicide. Jimmie and Hawkeye, with the latter's "fussies." Watch the house, see one of the girls come out and follow her to a drug store. They are convinced she has gone to buy the poison. Hawkeye sends Jimmie for a doctor, while he and his men follow the girl back to the house. Jimmie arrives about the same time with the doctor, and they all enter the house and creep upstairs to the girls' door. When they burst into the room, they find the girls dying their hair. Explanations ensue, and the disgusted detective leaves with a glaring look from his "Hawkeye" meant to whither the frightened Jimmie.
- The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple. The mother recognizes the father, and the young couple are told the horrifying news. Distracted, the girl runs away. After upbraiding his parent, the boy seeks out his father. Together they solve the tragic question which confronts them. Hand in hand they walk into the illimitable ocean until they are covered by the water.
- A young girl survives a dreadful childhood and grows up to right an old wrong.
- In an out-of-the-way spot in the mountains refugees from the United States and Canada, who are wanted for various crimes, have gathered. A man wanted for embezzlement arrives with his daughter Pauline. The embezzler is a natural leader and, to James' chagrin, becomes the leading spirit in the colony. Two members of the Northwest Mounted Police, Lon and Mac, are on the embezzler's trail. The embezzler, without James' knowledge, stations his men and instructs them to fire on the police. Mac is wounded. The embezzler's daughter takes him to her cabin. On one occasion the girl leaves the cabin and confers with her father. Lon follows and learns that her father is the man they are seeking. Believing that he has the girl at his mercy, Lon makes advances. Mac interferes because he, also, has fallen in love with Pauline. Lon then tells him of the girl's father. Mac goes to James and demands the surrender of the embezzler. James complies, and Mac arrests Pauline's father. The girl then appeals to Lon, promising him everything if he will save her parent. Lon lifts his revolver to shoot Mac. However, other refugees mistake Lon's intention. Lon is shot, and as they shoot at Mac the embezzler is killed. They are about to finish their work when another one of the mounted police comes up and covers them, while Mac disarms them. The girl looks from her dead father to Mac, whom she has already learned to love.
- Mrs. Newlywed leaves to spend a week in the country. Mr. Newlywed promptly arranges for one of his club friends to make his home his temporary headquarters. In the midst of their mirth making a telegram announces a month's visit from the wife's father and mother, they not knowing the daughter was away on a visit. A smallpox sign is being placed on the house next door by the attending physician and Mr. Newlywed conceives the brilliant idea that to offset the pleasure of the parents' visit, he will change the sign to affect his own house, thus insuring peace and happiness. This is done. The police quarantine the house, and later, through the window, Mr. Newlywed and his friend have the pleasure of seeing the parents make hasty retreat on viewing the dreaded sign. Relief by this expedient, however, is rudely marred by the wife, who believes her husband is pining away in loneliness. She cuts short her visit and starts to return home to surprise her husband. Meanwhile, the boys decide on spending an evening at the theater, but run against a relentless barrier when, on attempting to leave the house, they are informed such a thing is impossible until the health department relieves them. Undaunted, they make many futile efforts to steal from the house, and it is then Mr. Newlywed becomes inspired with a scheme of having his friend, the undertaker, come to the house with a rough coffin and assist in effecting their escape under the pretense of death and the removal of the bodies. It is at this juncture, as the box is being reverentially placed in the wagon, that the wife appears. Horrified, she learns from the officers of the death (?) of two men in her house. Before she has an opportunity of fainting, the doctor arrives on the scene, having learned the sign as originally placed was tampered with. Mr. Newlywed, hearing his wife's voice, raises the lid and is detected as he is peering out. He and his companion are rudely withdrawn from the coffin and the doctor orders their arrest. Mr. Newlywed, without realizing the effect of his excuse, pleads to his wife to assist them, explaining the telegram from her parents. This incenses her and she permits the arrest. Later, as the two culprits are serving a 30-day sentence, Mrs. Newlywed compels her husband to personally write a letter to her parents to make them a six months' visit, and he is forced to smile as he later bids them welcome.
- A wayward girl falls in love with the handsome image of a burglar she sees in a photograph.
- The district attorney and the doctor are good friends. Thus, when the doctor is arrested for speeding, it is the most natural thing in the world that he should go to his friend and attempt to beg off. He tells the district attorney that he was speeding to the aid of a sick man. The attorney refuses to take this for an excuse. Shortly afterward the district attorney has a nervous breakdown and the doctor informs him that he must take a month's vacation. The attorney, weighted down by his strenuous duties, refuses to take a rest and his wife hatches a scheme with the aid of the doctor, the police judge and the police and chauffeur as accomplices, whereby her husband will be compelled to take his vacation. The wife asks the attorney to take her for a drive. He consents. Just prior to entering the machine, the chauffeur is taken ill and the matter of driving the car falls on the district attorney. During the drive the wife affects a stroke of heart trouble and begs that she be hurried off to the doctor. The attorney smashes the speed limits. The motorcycle patrolmen, who are parties to the plot, arrest the speeders. He is taken before the judge and sentenced to thirty days in prison as an example to others. The following morning it is announced in the papers that the district attorney has gone on a month's vacation. The wife's object is attained, and she, with the other accomplices, goes to the jail to tell him of the joke.
- Eddie leaves on the train for his uncle's place to meet the girl who has been picked out for him to marry, much to his displeasure. Victoria sets out for her aunt's for the same purpose and takes the same train. Neither knows the other and has no idea in what the other looks like. The fat man and his wife and three children board the train. Finding that they have left the baby's nursing bottle behind, the wife gets off to buy another and misses the train. At the next stop the fat man gets off to telegraph to his wife, leaving the children in charge of Eddie, who is his friend. Eddie meets Victoria, and after a short courtship they are married by a minister on board, not knowing they are fulfilling the wishes of their respective aunt and uncle. The porter comes to Eddie's assistance in caring for the children, not without having trouble with everyone aboard. Victoria arrives at her aunt's before Eddie, and they are pleasantly surprised to find they have already been married, which brings the story to a happy conclusion.
- Giovanni, the cashier of a bank, is the leader and evil genius of a black-hand society. From his window in the vault he directs its operations. His confederates come to him with bank books as if to deposit money and in these bank books their messages are exchanged. Giovanni loves Maria, the bank president's daughter, and although his affection is not returned he holds her under a sinister, hypnotic influence. A crippled girl, to whom Maria gives a necklace as a token of friendship, is abducted by the society and held for ransom. The ransom is paid and the girl liberated, but the necklace is stolen. In the meanwhile there is a run on the bank, and the society informs the bank president that in case the society's money is not paid he will answer for it with his life. Incident to the run the frenzied crowd beat at the doors of the bank and the president is terrified. Giovanni leads Maria and her father from the bank by a rear door and takes them to the country headquarters of the society. Maria sees the necklace which she gave the crippled girl on the neck of an inmate, and she realizes who Giovanni really is. She sends the chauffeur for the police. Maria then falls under the hypnotic influence of Giovanni and a forced wedding is about to take place when the police arrive and arrest Giovanni and the members of his gang.
- Pearl receives a letter from her cousin, Dora, to the effect that she and her husband are going to Europe, and are going to send Pearl their machine. Pearl and husband decide to learn how to drive a car. They buy complete auto togs and hire a machine. The machine takes all kinds of funny turns. Ulysses is compelled to get out and get under the car. The car starts at a terrific rate. They are fined $50. At last they decide to wait until they get Fred's machine before they do any more riding. The gift arrives and they nearly collapse when they learn that it is a sewing machine instead of an automobile.
- Producer Leonard Dare finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with Dare. Hall's wife is sick; the doctor has instructed Hall to give her better food and medical attention. Hall, desperate, takes the opportunity of urging Dare to allow him to read his play. Spellbound, Dare listens to the most absurd line of talk he has ever heard, but is very much surprised by the magnificent acting of the author. Dare writes out a check for the play and, while the hungry man looks on, calmly throws the manuscript on the fire. Dare says he will make him the greatest living actor. Hall is cast in the part of PhiIip Dawany. At first Hall is treated with distinct coldness by the audience, but at last cheer after cheer rolls out as the curtain falls. In this moment, his hour of triumph, a message reaches him from home: His wife is dead.
- A woman of loose morals takes the place of a young bride.
- Little Nellie is a poor but honest working girl and no match for the unscrupulous Max, who is working for her downfall. In attempting to elude Max, Nellie is knocked down by an automobile, driven by Bob, her lover. Bob takes the girl into his machine. Unseen by Bob, Max climbs into the back seat of the machine and at an opportune moment, knocks Bob over the head and drives away with the defenseless girl. He takes her to a secluded spot, but his evil designs are as naught against her simplicity. With a well-aimed blow she knocks the villain unconscious and escapes. Max recovers, hires two roughs to aid him, and pursues the girl to the place of her employment. He has her discharged and when she leaves the store he again captures her. Bob, the youthful hero, traces Nellie and her abductors to a den of iniquity. There is a terrific fight and Bob is captured and tied to a tree. A dynamite bomb is lighted and placed a few feet from him. With a tremendous effort Bob tears up the tree by the roots and severs his bonds by means of the burning fuse. With the bomb he lights his cigarette and then hurls the explosive at the ruffians. He saves Nellie in the nick of time from the villainous Max. The defenseless girl then drags her savior to the nearest justice of the peace.
- Bob is given a vacation. He says good-bye to his girl and promises to write her every day. First he tries his hand at fishing. He chooses a lake where there is a sign warning people against trespassing. He is caught, arrested and fined fifty dollars. He pays. The next day he meets an automobilist, who offers him a ride. He accepts. They speed along and the sheriff arrests him again, this time for speeding. He is again fined. He pays and is dead broke. He tries to get out of his hotel without paying his bill and the landlord discovers it. He swears out a warrant. Bob climbs out the window and tries to race out of town, but falls into the hands of the sheriff. He is again arrested and is sentenced to thirty days in jail for trying to beat his hotel bill. Meanwhile, the girl anxiously awaits word from him. He is released, returns home and finds that the girl has forsaken him for his best friend The next year when the boss offers Bob a vacation, he quietly refuses.
- Mr. Cool acts that way towards his wife. She is angry because he is not more demonstrative in his affections. She writes a letter so that he can see it, telling a friend of hers that she has decided to flirt desperately with some young man. Hubby reads the letter. Ferdie Fly, a masher, follows Mrs. Cool the nest day and enters her house. He pretends that he is a ladies tailor and presents a card to her. Hubby is in the next room. Ferdie makes love to Mrs. Cool. Mr. Cool takes two revolvers and loads them with blank cartridges. He enters the room and demands that Ferdie fight him a duel, and orders Mrs. Cool into the next room. She goes. The men raise their pistols and, on a shot from Ferdie's revolver Mr. Cool drops to the floor. Ferdie runs out of the house frightened. Mrs. Cool enters the room and is horror stricken to find her husband supposedly dead. She decides to join him and tries to shoot herself, while Hubby, on the floor is enjoying the huge joke. Three times she shoots herself, and falls to the floor but on each occasion she is surprised that she is still uninjured. Meanwhile Ferdie has rushed into a policeman's arms and informed him that he has killed a man. They return to the house whereupon Mr. Cool sits up and Ferdie rushes pell-mell away from the supposed ghost, while Mr. and Mrs. Cool make up, she promising never to flirt again.
- Lydia, the daughter of an affluent father and mother, is loved by her tutor. Unused to men, she is attracted by him and would continue to be so but for the arrival of Sterling Paul, the son of an old friend of the family. Both young people fall in love at first sight. In anguish the tutor threatens to kill himself. This threat works upon the girl's nerves and when Sterling is called to his home she consents to a hurried marriage. As the bride is departing with her husband the tutor induces the maid to allow him to deliver the bridal bouquet. Lydia finds a note inside, which says that the tutor has committed suicide and will haunt her forever. Superstitious and nervous, it works upon her mind and constantly she sees a vision of the disappointed man about to kill himself. Her gradual decline in health causes the husband's anxiety and finally he prevails upon her to return home in hope that the old scenes may bring back strength. Arriving she observes the tutor in the garden playing with the maid; her relief is pitiable. The tutor was about to commit suicide when his hand was stayed by the little maid and his affections gradually turn to her.
- Mrs. Houston and her daughters in an eastern city receive an unexpected telegram from the west, informing them of their heritage of "Rough Neck Ranch" together with inquiry as to its management. In spite of Mrs. Houston's protests, her daughters decide to manage their own ranch and promptly wire information to that effect. The foreman, upon receipt of the message, reports the unexpected outcome to the punchers, who give utterance in chorus, "That no darn skirt bosses the ranch." In time Mrs. Houston and her daughters arrive at a small western station, where they are saluted by several rounds of ammunition, piled into a buckboard and driven to "Rough Neck Ranch." Mrs. Houston finds things rather untidy and proceeds to adjust them in accordance with her feminine tastes. Having learned the art of fine pastry and fudge she gives a sample of her pies to Lee, who is immediately transformed into an ardent admirer. After a few days a general change is in evidence throughout the ranch, which has been renamed "Maidens' Rest." The arrival of other girlfriends adds to the befitting of its new christening. The punchers unable to tolerate the female monarchs, openly rebel. The girls, in answer to their demand, stick up their noses and prepare to care for the ranch duties themselves. The punchers amusingly watch their preparations in various undertakings. In the meantime the Indians have gone upon the warpath and happen upon "The Maidens' Rest." Finding no male opposition, they immediately prepare to carry off the would-be strike breakers, who for the first time give utterance in their prayers for "man," which is promptly answered by the arrival of the punchers, who put the Indians to flight. A fuller consideration as to the need and uses of "man" having been deeply manifested, an inseparable unit becomes apparent between both species at "Rough Neck," alias "Maidens' Rest" Ranch.
- MacQuarrie is a modern Fagin, a man of almost irredeemable character. The mother is dead and he raises the children himself in his own way. He terrorizes them and makes them beg, while he carries on his business of petty thievery. When the children come in, he takes their money and pushes them out again. The weary children bear the sound of an organ as they pass a church, and being tired they enter. The organist sees their grief and gets their sad story from them. She insists upon accompanying them to their home, and is insulted by the father. She tells the police what she knows. That night the father makes the children go out to beg again, and he starts forth with his tools to ply his nefarious trade. The children seek the church and the kind lady. She gathers them to her and all sing as she plays. The father is interrupted by the police, and in a running fight he is shot. He throws his hat away and misleads his followers. Passing the church, and being desperately wounded, he seeks its shelter. He sinks to the floor and sees his children with the organist. She plays a song that his mother used to sing, and in half delirium, his mind wanders back to earlier days. He sees his young mother at a similar organ and remembers the thrill it used to cause him. He sees himself coming home drunk and her anguish. His time has come, and he staggers to the little group, gasps out a plea for forgiveness, and dies. The organist clasps the children to her, determined that their lives will start anew in beautiful surrounding.
- Flossie was of a forgetful turn of mind. She has two gentlemen friends, Chester and Joe. They both call on her, Joe being there first. Chester arrives and Joe determines to go. Flossie walks with him to the hallway and absent-mindedly gives him Chester's coat. She forgets all about Chester, who is sitting in the parlor, and walks out with Joe. They walk about a block and then Joe discovering Chester's overcoat, they return. Chester meanwhile has been impatiently waiting Flossie's return. She enters with Joe and he gets the right overcoat. He leaves, this time alone. Chester proposes to Flossie, is accepted, and he gives her a ring. The next day she is out walking with him. Chester goes across the street to mail a letter and Joe passes in his auto. She calls him and they ride away together, forgetting completely that Chester ever existed. Joe, after taking her home, proposes to her and she accepts. He goes to put a ring on her finger when he notices the other. Chester enters at that moment and explains to Joe's chagrin, that the forgetful girl is his promised bride. They go to the minister and are married. She forgets who she is married to and kisses the minister, much to that reverend gentleman's consternation. However, Chester determines that he can cure her of her forgetfulness and all ends well.
- An anarchist has a sweetheart who is sought after by another man. The latter meets the girl in a park, where, under the watching eyes of the anarchist, he makes violent love to her. Though she repulses him, the anarchist suspects her loyalty to him and casts her aside. The other man, in revenge, notifies the police of the whereabouts of the girl's lover and his companions. On the road home, after this happening, the unhappy lover, King, meets a little girl, buys her a toy horn and takes her to her doorway; she lives in an apartment directly above, where he has his studio. The police come and are about to break in the door. The anarchist, the girl and his companions decide to die rather than give up. Their leader is about to cast the bomb that would send them into eternity when he hears the horn blown by the little girl. He realizes that another life must be sacrificed if he throws the bomb. All surrender, and the anarchist takes the hand of the girl, assured of her loyalty.
- Mary, daughter of Tom Ashe, revenue officer, is in love with Bud, the son of Lige Stillwell, a moonshiner. Though Bud does not sanction his father's illegal business, he is condemned by Mary's father, and when he finds them together after repeated warnings, he disowns the girl. The minister tries to bring about a reconciliation, telling the police officer that he should not blame Bud for the sins of his father. Mary and Bud make their way to the cabin of his father, where Mary is received with open arms. Here the minister finds them after a narrow escape from death, when he is mistaken for a revenue officer. Determined to gain conclusive evidence against the moonshiner, Ashe and his men search the hills for the still. Making his way to the cabin, he is about to give the signal to his men waiting below, when he observes his daughter being married to Bud by the minister. Ashe observes the old moonshiner forswear his practice and the destruction of the still. As she comes forward and extends his hand to the old moonshiner, who takes it readily, the deadly enmity of years is quickly turned into a strong friendship. Since the officer's only objection to Ligc was the latter's illegal business, he gives his blessings and departs to carry the news to his men.
- Ben Darwin had been a widower since Hilda's birth. Ribbons or anything that suggested finery to the old man was most sternly forbidden his daughter. Darwin was troubled over Hilda's friendship for Frank Boardman, a stranger in the place. It is in her nook in the mountains that Hilda finds Frank's note asking her to meet him the next day. Before the old man can be persuaded to give his consent, the elder Boardman arrives, and learning that his son is on the verge of marrying the mountaineer's daughter, he showed Darwin a letter in which Frank declared he didn't love, and had no intention of marrying "the girl in question." "The girl in question" is Miss Grace Elkins, and although Mr. Boardman knew this, he silenced his conscience with the "all's fair in love" adage. White with rage, old Darwin insisted that his daughter at once make preparations to visit her aunt. Frank learns of their departure and hastens to head them off. Sending the astonished father up the road at the point of his gun, Frank jumped into the buggy beside Hilda and dashed off to the minister's. The deception is later acknowledged by Frank's father and all ends happily.
- Believing his sweetheart untrue, a man marries an adventuress, only to discover that her first husband is still alive.
- Gentleman Jack is a general favorite at the summer hotel, until the arrival of Eddie and his new and fickle wife. Each time Eddie looks at his wife and conceives her smiling at another man he immediately sees visions of a tragedy. Affairs go on until one day Eddie sees his wife smile at Gentleman Jack, who occupies the apartment across the hall. He leaves for work and as he goes along he thinks. Then he turns around and hotfoots it to his wife. In the meantime the young wife has locked herself out of her apartment and can't find the janitor. Gentleman Jack obligingly offers her the use of his apartment while he finds the janitor. An old maid sees the young wife enter Jack's room. When Eddie arrives he is met by the old maid. "Your wife, sir," she whispers, "Is in that room." Presto, all his suspicions are verified. Eddie gets his gun and goes after his imaginary rival. Jack does not stop to explain matters. After a half dozen bullets have sung their little song in his ear he concludes to move on down the street. Mutual explanations are exchanged and Eddie goes on beating his wife. even more violently than before.
- John Ross is a brutal cattle king. His son, Harry, something of a gentleman, loves Mabel, daughter of Jones, a sheepman. Ross, his father, is also attracted to her. Ross and Jones clash. Ross strikes the sheepman over the head with the butt end of his revolver and kills him. Harry, fearing his father will cause trouble, follows him. He finds the body of Jones. While he is examining it, he is joined by a sheepherder. The sheepherder gives the alarm. The war is on. He reports to the sheriff that Harry killed Jones. Ross rides back to his ranch, realizing that his act will precipitate war. He calls all his employees together and plans a campaign. Harry enters and sees evidences of the fight with Jones on the butt of his father's revolver. On a shallow pretext, he exchanges revolvers with his father. Harry is arrested. The cattle war is now in full sway. Flocks are butchered. Camp equipment is burned, with the result that the dry grass of the prairie catches fire. The sheepmen assemble in a cabin with their families for a last stand. On the way to town, Harry sees the fire, realizes that the girl is in it and escapes to rescue her. He falls unconscious amid the ruins of her home. The sheriff carries the news to Ross that his son is in the flames. An undiscovered emotion rises in Ross. His brutal spirit vanishes and he rushes to save his boy. Mabel arrives at the sheepman's hut. Ross rides in with his son over his saddle. The sheriff arrives and rearrests Harry. Harry is willing to assume the fault of his father, but the father confesses and is arrested. The girl goes away with Harry.
- For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams. Dawson has an only daughter, June. There lives with him one, Wood Dawson, a nephew. In the rival family there is an only son, Joel. Joel and June were secret lovers. One day a gospel man comes into the territory and convinces the heads of the two families that their feud is ungodly. All their various henchmen are disarmed and peace and harmony is established. That is, until Wood learns that Joel Dawson is his successful rival for the hand of June. Then Wood becomes stiff-necked. He circulates the report that Joel and June have been carrying on improperly. He has words with Joel and in the general fight which follows Joel shoots and kills Wood. Both families reopen hostilities. Hen Dawson forgets his oath and sets out to kill Joel. However, when he finds Joel he finds June with him ready to elope. Tragedy is about to take place, when the gospel man forever puts an end to the long standing war of extermination. He marries Joel and June.
- The art of silver plate making as illustrated in this film is the result of a special concession given to the Imp Films Company by one of the most eminent firms in the world, Sheffield Plate Co., of New York City. We see the fashioning of the metal into various articles for table and decorative uses, and the mechanical appliances of a first-class silver plate making factory in actual operation.