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- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
- A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.
- Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.
- Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
- Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's. None of MacLane's affairs - with "the bank clerk," "the prize-fighter," "the husband of another," and so on - last, and in each of them MacLane emerges dominant. Re-enactments of the love affairs are interspersed with MacLane addressing the camera (while smoking), and talking contemplatively with her maid on the meaning and prospects of love.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.
- Forced by the death of her mother to care for her three brothers and sisters, little Mona Fairfax is known to farmers of her district as Young Mother Hubbard. The children's step-father, heavily in debt and tired of the burden imposed by the little family, abandons his farm, leaving the children, penniless, to shift for themselves. The following day Daniel Banning, a wealthy "country gentleman" and owner of the Fairfax farm, calls to collect back rent. He finds Mona and her children panic-stricken over a note left by their step-father, telling of his decision to leave. Banning turns a deaf ear to Mona's pleas that she be allowed to remain on the farm with her wards. He notifies the Children's Welfare Society. Directors of the society go to the farm, load them into an automobile, and take them to the society's headquarters. At headquarters the chairman calls for volunteers to take the children into their homes. A square-jawed woman, a miserly old man, a brutal fellow, with bull-dog features, and a ponderous, harsh, mannish looking women, each agree to take a child. When it dawns upon Mona and her brothers and sisters that they are to be separated they break into tears and beg piteously to be allowed to remain together. Their pleas are ignored. Finally Mona begs that they be allowed to spend a last night together on the Fairfax farm. The request finally is granted. That night Mona hitches the family horse to a rickety old wagon and the children set out to escape. They fall asleep and the horse stops near Banning's house. The housekeeper takes them in during the master's absence. When Banning returns he is furious. Mona offers him a wisp of flowers, which he scorns. Finally, however, the child's smile wins his heart and he cuddles her. Later when agents of the welfare society try to take the children, Banning drives them from his place, declaring he will adopt Young Mother Hubbard and her entire family.
- An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
- Jason Watkins, a real estate and loan agent, enters his office in the little Arizona town of Navajo, to find that during the night robbers have visited the place and broken into his safe, taking with them a large sum of money and other valuables. Watkins immediately notifies the sheriff, a posse is hurriedly organized and a search made for the culprits. However, their search is unfruitful, and Sheriff Watkins dismisses the posse and rides on to a neighboring town. In the meantime Big Bill Hastings, the robber, who has hidden in the hills until satisfied the posse has given up the chase, has examined his loot and stowed it away in his shirt bosom. For the first time in twenty-four hours he has thought of food, and now finding his inner man crying to be fed, he mounts his horse and cautiously rides down the trail. A few hours later he enters a gambling house in the town to which the sheriff has also ridden, eats and drinks, and after turning the roulette wheel a few times just to test his luck, saunters out, and into the arms of Sheriff Wells. The sheriff recognizes him and draws his gun before Big Bill has recognized his pursuer. Bill submits to the arrest good naturedly, and goes back with the sheriff to the hotel, where they must wait for a morning train hack to Navajo. The evening drags slowly and the sheriff suggests that they visit the gambling house just to pass the time away. At the table the sheriff sits down just for a friendly game or two, though he is warned by Bill that he is likely to get cleaned. The sheriff plays and loses, and unmindful of Bill's advice, lays out more chips on the table. Bill yawns and stalks to the door, and turning to the sheriff says, "I am going to bed, sheriff; I will be there when you come." In the west in the early days a man's word was as good as his bond, and despite the fact that Big Bill would probably serve a long sentence if found guilty, the sheriff knew the bad man would keep his word. Later Sheriff Wells, stripped of his money, and of Jason Watkins' money, which he had taken off his prisoner, enters his room at the hotel. Bill is there, steeping peacefully, but awakens when the door closes. The sheriff confesses his loss of the money. Bill listens silently and finally tells the sheriff to go to bed. Shortly after, when the sheriff has dropped off to a restless sleep, Bill slips a weapon from the sheriff's belt and slips out of the room. The next scene shows him stealthily entering the gambling house, where the proprietor, alone, is counting up the day's receipts. He is masked and the proprietor is unable to recognize him though his intentions are easily apprehended. In the end Big Bill leaves with the stolen money, gambled away by the sheriff, and returns it to him. The sheriff, glad to get the money back, allows his prisoner to go after exacting a promise of reformation from him.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- A husband, in Minerva Booth's opinion, is a necessary evil, like a boll. After her marriage to Milton she straightway forgets him in a real estate business she and her mother, Virginia Stratton, have started. Milton Stratton, another henpecked husband, and Raymond Bronson, a mutual friend, picket the women's office. By intercepting prospective purchasers and buying them off, the men finally cause the budding real estate women to go bankrupt. The latter then turn to their husbands fearfully with pleas for forgiveness, and apologies for losing so much money. Booth and Stratton think the money well spent, however, for it has brought them back their wives.
- Mustang and Slim are on very friendly terms. The same may be said of their wives, and when Slim's wife warns him that it is Friday the 13th and beware of friendship, he scorns her. He and Mustang go to the saloon together while their wives exchange visits. Sophie, Slim's wife, has made some doughnuts, and her son, after filling his pockets, jumps out the window and runs to meet Mustang's son. The two boys fight over the doughnuts. The old squire happens along, but is unable to part them. He rushes to Slim's home where the two mothers are talking over the village gossip. They hurry to pull their boys apart, but instead become angry and fight. By this time Mustang and Slim have heard the rumpus and hasten to the rescue. They too become angry and fight. The boys finally make up and while their parents are out in front fighting, Slim's son sneaks in and gets the doughnuts. They retire behind the back fence to eat the doughnuts and fix up their difficulties.
- Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.
- A cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, overcome by the fumes of the fluid while the chemist is out summoning others to witness the work of his discovery. A doll the chemist has given life to seizes the elixir and pours it on Ruby. She is changed into a doll. Together the two leave the shop. The chemist, the toy king and Ruby's fiancé rush into the place and are horrified to find Ruby missing. They summon the police and a search is instituted. Meanwhile, the dolls journey to the display room of the factory, and with more elixir, bring a doll justice of the peace to life. He marries them and they speed off in a miniature automobile. After the honeymoon trip they select the kennel of Sherlock, the watchdog, as their home. The dog likes the dolls and keeps them supplied with food. Then, one evening, while strolling through the plant, they discover a bomb set by striking workingmen to destroy the building. The dolls realize their peril but it is too late to escape. The bomb explodes and Ruby comes to life. She is puzzled, then realizes that all was simply a dream, inspired by the ravings of the cracked-brain chemist.
- Edgar Allan Poe, while at college, incurs many debts and is sent home in disgrace. He is ordered from the house by his father. Shortly after, he marries, and tries to make a living by writing, but is a failure financially. His wife dies because he is unable to furnish her with even the bare necessities of life. He is plunged into great grief and despair. All night he sits brooding over his loss. Through his distorted imagination he sees the ominous raven enter his chamber and croak gloomy forebodings. The spirit of his wife also appears and finally he himself dies, and is wafted to heights supernal, where he is united with his "Lenore."
- An unrepentant crook enters a dance hall and gets in a fight over a girl. As he, unknowingly, breaks into her house, another bloody mess stains the residence's thick carpets. Can a simple act of kindness pave the way for his regeneration?
- Aware that his sons, Joseph and Dickie, possess no business sense, Henry Hyman, on his deathbed, tells his economy-minded private secretary, Nora Blake, to take charge of his jewelry store. After the old man dies, however, his manager, Travers, insists that he has been made the boss. He then uses the status that goes with the position, as well as a necklace that he has stolen from the store, to woo Lucile Hudson away from her fiance Dickie. While Dickie then becomes engaged to Edna, Nora's best friend, Nora begins a romance with Joseph, who knows just enough about assets and deficits to complain that Travers is bankrupting the store. Nora then learns that Travers stole the necklace and has the police arrest him, after which she assumes control of the business and marries Joseph.
- Max gets into trouble at the altar. He has just kissed his bride when he espies over her shoulder a pretty girl sitting in a front pew. Max cannot help giving her a wink. His bride sees him. They continue the battle in their honeymoon apartment. After all the furniture is broken up they decide to break up housekeeping, even before they have started. Mrs. Max agrees that her flirtatious spouse shall compromise himself with the girl in the pew so she can get a divorce. Max leases an apartment, invites the girl to meet him there, then tips off Mrs. Max to raid them with detectives. But Max and the girl mistake the apartment and get into a private sanitarium for lunatics. The professor chucks them into padded cell No. 89 with a dozen crazy people. Mrs. Max and her detectives make the same mistake. All of them come face to face in No. 89. The girl berates Max for getting her into such a mess. Max and his bride look at each other, then at the crazy people. They decide life might be worse and fall into each other's arms. Max doesn't want a divorce, after all.
- The subject illustrates the eventful life of the James and Ford brothers, from the .time the former left their home after the attempted lynching of Dr. Samuels to the surrender of Frank James to Governor Crittenden of Missouri. Among the thrilling and vividly graphic incidents are the "hold up" at the County Fair in Kansas City, and the robbery of the Chicago and Alton train, showing a race between rough riders and a locomotive. The death of Jesse is depicted, according to history.
- The awakening to a broader understanding of one's life partner in marriage, after the primrose path of the honeymoon is left behind, and the more commonplace things in life are to be dealt with, is often a tragedy which harvests bitter tears and many vain regrets. The story of Mr. and Mrs. John Seymour is the old, old story of love lost after marriage. In the closer intimacy which marriage offers. Mrs. Seymour finds in her husband anything but ideal characteristics which she imagined he possessed, and consequently ceases to love him. On the other hand, her husband, blind in his devotion, overlooks his wife's shortcomings. As is often the case in such a woeful one-sided love. Mrs. Seymour finds the company of other men more pleasant than that of her husband, and becomes infatuated with handsome John Hazleton, who, in turn, loves her passionately. Unbeknownst to her husband, Mrs. Seymour meets secretly with Hazleton, and in the end the misguided woman is persuaded to elope with Hazleton. Seymour has lately been suspicious of his wife's unfaithfulness to him, and upon the day Mrs. Seymour and Hazleton have chosen to leave the city together, he enters the house. Hazleton. who is in Mrs. Seymour's apartments, assisting her in her packing," and finding escape from the room cut off. hides himself in the woman's trunk just as Seymour enters the room. The woman offers no explanation of her excitement and flurry and accounts for the trunk and the litter of clothing about it in a feeble excuse that she had decided, to spend a few days at the seaside. Seymour's suspicions are verified when he observes on the table a lighted cigar. A movement from within the trunk satisfies him of the whereabouts of the intruder in love and home. Seymour plans revenge and adopts a unique and novel one. From a drawer in the writing table he draws a revolver, picks up a sheet of paper, and tearing a hole in the middle for a bull's-eye, requests his wife to place it on the trunk, that he is going to show her some expert marksmanship. The woman, horrified, refuses to do so. He forces the paper into her hand and compels her to place it upon the trunk. Calmly he raises the revolver and fires. A moment later a railroad ticket agent, accompanied by two baggage men, enters the room, in answer to Mrs. Seymour's summons. The trunk and its contents are carried out of the room and Mrs. Seymour given her ticket, while her husband expresses the hope that she "may have a pleasant stay at the seaside." The woman, dazed by the sudden and awful tragedy, stumbles room out of the room and Seymour drops into a chair, his face in his hands.
- Richard Morgan, John Booth's employer, appropriates a certain amount of money from the firm of Morgan and Company, and in order to escape the penalty, places the blame upon Booth. Certain leaves of the ledger are discovered in Booth's desk; Morgan had placed them there. Booth is sent to prison. Mary, the wife of the convict, to support her child becomes a trained nurse. Some time later Morgan becomes a victim of brain fever. Mary is sent from the nurses' association to take care of him. Her careful nursing restores Morgan to a normal condition, and the doctor tells the broker that Mary had saved his life. Morgan is grateful. Several days later, while reading to Morgan, Mary discovers an article concerning her husband, that he is again up for trial. Morgan takes the paper from her and reads the story. After a night with his conscience he decides to sacrifice himself, and consequently the next morning he tells Mary that he is guilty of the crime her husband is being tried for. In gratitude Morgan goes to court, where he openly declares himself before judge and jury as being guilty. Thus a man is regenerated and husband and wife reunited. Morgan, though a crook, had proved himself to be a man and the stain of guilt is removed from the shoulders of the honest employee, John Booth.
- President William Howard Taft turns the first spadeful of earth for the coming Panama Pacific Exposition which was to celebrate the rebuilding of San Francisco.
- A little girl visits her friend in her posh home, and the two girls launch a series of practical jokes on the clueless adults in the house.
- William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure it will be the next William Skinner Jr. When the bundle of joy finally arrives, much to his surprise, it's a girl. However, Honey and William are just as happy as if she were a he.
- Art and Jasper, a poor American boy and his faithful dog, have only each other in the face of a cruel world, which constantly imperils their liberty. Art's efforts to raise $2 for Jasper's tax brings him into conflict with the law, but he eventually proves his good intentions and finds a loving home with the Dorays.
- A propaganda re-enactment, co-financed by the Woodrow Wilson government, of the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota residents of South Dakota, which was portrayed as American military heroism and justified as part of the assimilation effort.
- While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
- The Man, down on his luck, breaks into the home of a wealthy clubman to burglarize the place. The sudden dropping of a book which the man has displaced, arouses the wife who has been sitting up waiting for her husband. Ignorant of the fact that there is a burglar in the house, she telephones her husband at the club and asks him to come home. He refuses to do so until he is ready. When he arrives home, he is intoxicated. Her refusal to kiss him sends him into a drunken rage. He mistreats her. The Man has watched the whole domestic tragedy. He rescues the wife but while she is thanking him, the husband gets the "drop" on him and calls the police. The wife tells him that if the Man is arrested she will say he is her friend. The husband then comes to a realization of what he has done and begs forgiveness. The Man puts back the things he stole and goes out.
- T. Boggs Johns and George Nettleton, proprietors of the Digestive Pile Manufacturing Companny agree upon a unique method to stop their quarreling: play a game of poker, the loser to act as servant to the winner for a year. If either member of the agreement reveals the circumstances of the pact, he shall pay a fine of $5,000. Boggs loses, and he must serve as butler in the Nettleton home. His sweetheart Florence Cole comes to dinner at the Nettletons' and is surprised to see Boggs acting as butler, but cannot learn what has brought about the change in his social status. Thomas J. Vanderholt, an attorney in love with Florence, lets her in on the pact and tells her that he drew up the plans. She denounces him, and she and Boggs plan revenge on Nettleton. Boggs arranges an intimate tableau with Mrs. Nettleton; this so angers Nettleton that he schemes to make Boggs the loser financially, but Florence declares that the pact, being based on a poker game, is not legal.
- George Harris and his pretty wife have ceased to care very much for each other. George is indifferent and his wife sensitive and when the young husband realizes their strained relations he endeavors to revive the old love. However, his overtures of peace and his evident willingness to "make up" are not accepted and with a sigh he takes his hat and leaves the house. In the park he seats himself dejectedly on a bench, endeavoring to think of some plan through which he can win back his wife's love. Brooding over his troubles he does not notice the approach of two ladies, apparently mother and daughter, who sit down on the bench beside him. Through a slight accident, when the girl drops her book and Harris returns it, he starts a conversation, and the meeting ends with the young lady and he exchanging cards. Harris sets out to walk to his office, recalling pleasantly the happy meeting and wishing his wife were as sweet natured as the little lady he had just left. A desire to see the young girl again takes possession of him, but he resists the temptation to return to the park and compromises with a resolve to send her a box of flowers. At the florist's store be orders a great bouquet of roses and attached to the box a card bearing the name and address of the young lady. A messenger boy is hurried off to the address given and Harris goes on to his office. On the way the boy meets a few other young street Arabs and joins them in a game of "craps," but they are interrupted by a policeman and in the hurried getaway the boy loses the card. He returns to the florist's, but neither of them can recollect the name and address, when the florist seems to recall that the flowers were for Mrs. Harris. The petulant wife is surprised when she opens the flowers and finds they are from her husband, and at the end of the long day, when her husband has returned, she has made up her mind to give him more of her love. He finds her smiling and pleased and upon her explanation about the flowers, which, to him is at first a mystery, opens his arms and takes her to his heart.
- The girl gets a job on the local newspaper and is sent out to get the story of one of the escapades of a rich bachelor. While she is on her way she determines to break into the house, because she is sure the bachelor will refuse her an interview. She breaks into the house and is blithely gathering the details of her story when the bachelor surprises her and calls the police. Just as the police arrive, the bachelor puts on a housecoat and an old cap. He looks very much like a burglar. The girl, seeing this, holds him at the point of the gun, hands him over to the police and goes back to the office with her story.
- The miser Scrooge passes down a London street the morning before Christmas, on his way to his counting house. So much is he detested that no one speaks to him until a beggar approaches, asks for alms, and is angrily stricken to the ground. A spirit appears and tells the miser that the beggar will again appear that night. Scrooge approaches his counting house, and as he is entering, the beggar again appears before him. He places his hands before his eyes to shut out the apparition, and when he looks again the figure has vanished. The interior of the counting house where Bob Cratchett, the clerk, and Fred, the nephew of Scrooge, are attending to their duties. Fred announces that he has just been married. His bride, together with the crippled boy, Tiny Tim, enter the office. Looking out the window, they discover the approach of Scrooge, and at the advice of Fred the ladies conceal themselves. Scrooge enters and is told of Fred's marriage. He kisses the bride, but immediately regretting his action, orders them out of the office. They plead for a Christmas holiday, to which Scrooge eventually consents. The spirit appears and leads Scrooge from the office. A merry throng on a London street, with a stranger scattering money to the children who gather about him. The spirit leads Scrooge to the throng, who shun him as he endeavors to speak to them at the command of the spirit. The cripple at the lodgings of Scrooge, and the latter entering, still led by the spirit. The beggar warms himself by the fireplace, while Scrooge in anger attempts to strike him, when he is transformed into the image of the dead partner of the miser. Horror-stricken, Scrooge sinks into a chair, and looking into the fireplace seeks a vision of his boyhood days. With a cry he sinks to the floor. The spirit again compels him to look into the fireplace, where he sees a vision of his forsaken sweetheart, as well as that of himself as a young business man. Thoroughly overcome, he falls to the floor exhausted, but the spirit again raises him with a command to follow him from the office. The meager home of the Cratchetts, where, at the command of the spirit, he showers money upon the ill-paid clerk and his happy family and is again led away. The Christmas festivities at the home of Fred, the nephew of Scrooge, Fred toasts his uncle, but the company refuse to drink to the toast. Scrooge, concealed in the recess of the window, notices this, and coming forward, showers them with money, promising that hereafter he will lead a different life. The spirit and Scrooge in the lodgings of the latter, where Scrooge falls upon his knees in prayer. Christmas Day, Scrooge gives a banquet to all his house can hold, including Fred, the Cratchetts and his friends, where he promises that in the future he will live to achieve the happiness of others.
- Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her. Helen works her wiles upon the adamant Craigen and finally elicits a proposal from him. The guests in the next room, who have been listening, come out at the critical moment, and congratulate her. Craigen demands an explanation, and he is told that it is all a joke. He refuses to accept the incident in such a light, however, and makes preparations to leave for his home in the mountains. At this juncture. Tracey, who had been called out of town on important business before the commencement of the party, returns. When told of Helen's episode with Craigen he becomes very angry and upbraids her. Tracey then goes in search of Craigen, whom he does not know, and mistaking Keen Fitzpatrick, a reporter, who has been waiting in the next room for an interview with Craigen on Patagonia, for the man he is in search of, he starts to pour a scathing indictment upon him. The guests hear the tirade and inform Tracey of the identity of the man to whom he is speaking. Meanwhile Craigen, having packed his belongings, is leaving in his auto. As he is passing the back entrance, Helen jumps in front of his auto and tells him that, inasmuch as he does not know anything about women he should adopt the Patagonian savage method and carry her off to his home where he could study her. He puts her suggestion into effect and Helen is carried off in the auto to his home in the woods, where he brutally orders her about. She attempts to escape, and Craigen chains her to the floor. While he leaves her for a moment to put his car into the garage, "Boney," an escaped lunatic, makes his way into the cabin. He styles himself Napoleon Bonaparte, and raves about his armies. As he is swinging his sword about the room, Craigen appears, and by diplomacy succeeds in getting "Boney" upstairs to review his armies where he is locked in a room. Craigen returns to Helen. His back is turned to her and she knocks him unconscious with the telephone. Taking the keys from his pocket, she releases herself and escapes into the woods. Craigen recovers his senses and, finding the note Helen left informing him that she feels sorry for her action and has gone for help, fears for her safety, and goes out in search of her. During his absence Fitzpatrick, who was trailing, arrives. On searching through the house for Craigen, he comes upon "Boney," whom he takes to be the man he is searching for. He demands to know where the girl is, but "Boney" only raves about his armies. The two are just on the point of clashing when Craigen returns. He reveals his identity to the reporter, and tells him that Helen has fled into the woods. The asylum keepers trace "Boney" to Craigen's home, and take him away. Tracey, who has also been following, arrives at the cabin and confronts Craigen with a revolver. He demands Helen or his life. Craigen manages to convince Tracey, after an argument, that Helen has fled into the woods. Helen has seen Tracey's car going in the direction of Craigen's home, and fearing trouble, makes her way back. She arrives just after Tracey has left. The other members of the house party arrive to take Helen back, but she refuses to leave Craigen.
- A Messenger Kid stopped to Gaze at a picture of Jess Willard in a window and began to Weep bitterly. A soft-hearted Commuter halted. "Why do you weep?" he asked. "Aw, gee, what chance have I to ever be like him," came back the Tadpole. "What a perverted Ambition. Why don't you strive to be like me? I am a candidate for Director of our new four-hole golf club and I play whist on the train with a man who once lived in the same house with Billy Sunday." So the boy became a caddy and listened to the Poor Nuts who babbled about Tough Lies and Dubbing Approaches and reflected that they were much inferior to his own Dad, who had to Shove Lumber all day while these Superficial Johnnies had money to toss to the Birds. When the Kid reached the age of Sagacity he became a baseball fan. His wife never knew what the fan was talking about but she helped him into the house and mixed his Throat Gargle for him. Then the Fan came to his Ninth inning. She pleaded for one final message. His lips moved. She leaned forward. Fan wanted to know if there was anything in the Morning Papers about the condition of Heine Zimmerman's Knee Cap. Moral: There is a Specific Bacillus for every Classified disease.
- Henry and Tom Bisbee love the same girl. Tom wins her and Henry is embittered, turning into a crabbed old bachelor. Frances, at the age of sixteen, is left an orphan. Her mother left a letter asking the uncle, Henry Bisbee, to take care of the daughter. He, much against his will, decides to accept the trust if it is a boy. Frances disguises as a boy and goes to her uncle, who receives her coldly. She loves flowers, books and pretty things. The uncle finds a mirror and powder puff in her bureau and accuses the supposed boy of being a "sissy." "Jerry the Rat" tries to rob the house and is prevented by Frances. The noise calls everybody to the scene and Frances faints. Her sex is discovered, but the uncle has learned to love her and forgives her. He then reveals the tragic story of his love for her mother and the duplicity of his brother, Tom. Dick Truesdale, who is the only young man the crabbed old uncle would tolerate at his home, finds a great charm in Frances, when she is supposed to be a boy. When he discovers she is a girl, he tells her of his love and finds it is reciprocated.
- Tom Ripley, a cowpuncher from the Circle A ranch, wins the hatred of Jim Simpson, another cowpuncher, when he defends Lightfeather, a pretty squaw, from the insults of Simpson. The affair occurs in the Silver Dollar saloon in Bisbee. Some few days later Lightfeather goes to her protector's cabin and presents him with a pair of fine moccasins. Tom is duly grateful and advises the little Indian maiden that if she is ever annoyed again, not to hesitate to shoot the persecutor. Not long after this meeting Simpson encounters Ripley out on the range on the brink of a precipice. A fight ensues in which Ripley is thrown over the cliff and frightfully wounded on the rocks below. Ripley's riderless horse gallops away and is later seen and recognized by Lightfeather. The squaw mounts the horse and follows the tracks back to the top of the cliff where she finds her good white friend. After much difficulty she assists him back to the cabin and cares for him in his convalescence. Simpson, who has vowed to "get" Ripley at any cost, watches Tom's cabin day and night but the wary Lightfeather has seen him skulking about and keeps a sharp lookout after Tom. Later when she sees Simpson slipping threateningly on Ripley and about to fire at him, she draws her own weapon and a timely shot kills the would-be murderer. Ripley turns to find Simpson lying dead, just behind him, when the little squaw comes from behind her hiding place in the nearby bushes, confessing that she had killed Simpson to save him. Ripley brings up his horse and swinging into the saddle, pulls the squaw up behind him, just as a party of cowboys, who have heard the shot, run upon the scene. A lively chase follows. By numerous tricks Ripley throws his pursuers off the trail and after a long ride draws rein at a little creek, the boundary line of two counties. When he crosses this he knows he will be safe from the sheriff, at least. Pulling a notebook from his pocket Ripley scribbles a line to the sheriff, which be ties to a weed at the water's edge. Some time later the sheriff and his posse arrive at the crossing and find the note. It reads: "Buck Brady, Sheriff: We have crossed the boundary line forever. Good-bye. The squaw only killed a cur, and you know it. Tom Ripley." The sheriff reads the note aloud and turns to his men. "Tom's right," he says, "that Simpson was never no account, nohow." And the little party of cowboys swing leisurely into their saddles and turn their horses' heads toward home.
- Robert Carrolton Jinks and his companions form a marching club to boost the presidential campaign for General Grant. They design fantastic costumes and set the club in an uproar when they appear in them. Jinks is made captain of the marching club and dubbed "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines." While discussing plans for the campaign Jinks sees a bill poster pasting up a great placard announcing the coming of Madame Trentoni, a famous opera singer. Jinks and his two friends decide to go to the boat to meet her dressed in their marching uniforms and accompanied by a band, just for a joke. Jinks bets $1,000 with his friends that he can make love to her. The boat is an hour late in docking and the band leader discovers that he has been playing his music for nothing. He becomes angry and the entire band adjourns to a nearby saloon for drinks. Jinks and his friends go with them. Reporters who have gone to the boat to meet Madame Trentoni fear that if Jinks and his band are present at the arrival of the boat it will interfere with their interview. So they bribe the band master not to play. Jinks and his friends arrive at the boat late, having been delayed by a violent argument with the band master. They finally discover Madame Trentoni, however, and Jinks falls madly in love with her. She has great trouble with the customs inspector and Jinks pulls out a roll of bills and hands it to the official. He is immediately arrested for attempted bribery and taken to jail. He finally is released on bail and goes to call on Madame Trentoni, who is stopping with her foster father. She is as much in love with him as he is with her and the courtship progresses rapidly. Jinks tries to call the bet off with his friends, declaring that it is an insult to Madame Trentoni. They refuse to listen to him, and he finally agrees to pay the bet, giving them a card reading "I.O.U. $1,000 for the bet regarding Madame Trentoni." The two friends are also much taken with Madame Trentoni and attempt at various times to see her. She refuses to have anything to do with them. This makes them angry and they decide to get even with Jinks. They tell her foster father that Jinks intends to marry Madame Trentoni for her money only. He refuses to believe it until shown the "I.O.U." when he flies into a fit of rage. He tells Madame Trentoni and she then refuses to see Jinks. Jinks finally discovers why she is angry and after several unsuccessful attempts to see her gains admittance to her apartment and tells her the facts of the case. She throws her arms about him. As they are in this position a detective enters the room to arrest Jinks. His bribery case had come up in the court the day before and he had forgotten to appear. Trentoni tells the detective that she and her sweetheart have had a tiff and want a chance to make it up. Her pleading, with the promise that Jinks appear in court the next day, wins the detective's assent. The two then embrace and everything ends happily.
- Shanty Moir is the terror of "Fifty-mile" camp, a mining settlement in the great north country. He operates a gold mine, the location of which he keeps secret. By brute force he compels Roy MacGregor, half owner of the mine, to do the work of a horse. He intends to kill him when the gold supply is exhausted. Hattie, MacGregor's daughter, is rescued by Rivers, known as the Snowburner, at "Hell" camp. She and her uncle are searching for Shanty, whom they think has killed her father. After hearing the fate of MacGregor, Rivers decides to locate the gold mine. Pretending to be a half-wit, he goes to "Fifty-mile" camp where he meets Shanty and allows him to take him to the mine as a slave. After he has learned the location of the mine and found MacGregor alive, he kills Shanty in a hand-to-hand fight. Taking all the gold Shanty possessed. Rivers starts back to "Hell" camp with MacGregor. When MacGregor's daughter, Hattie, sees her father still alive, she throws her arms about River's neck and begs him never to leave her.
- Walt Benton, leader of a mysterious band of moonshiners and thieves calling themselves "The Sky Hunters," vows to raise his daughter as a boy because he had wanted a boy to perpetuate the Benton reign. Fifteen years pass. The father dies. The girl is put in his place, as a man, called Konkawa. The Secret Service sends Steve Jackson into the mountains to rout out the Sky Hunters. He meets Konkawa and arouses her suspicions. They struggle in the darkened room. Steve realizes he is not struggling with a man and turns her cheek to his and laughingly kisses her. With the woman in her awakened and with Steve's stories of the women back in the city in her mind, she loses her bitterness and her face melts into the softness of a woman's. She allows Steve to get away because of this feeling. His coming has disrupted the band, however, as the leaders destroy their haunts, fearing the return of more officials. Steve wires Washington that he has failed in his plan and is coming in to plan a new attack. He takes the train that night. The remnants of the Sky Hunters, revengeful and armed, head off the train, and bind and gag Steve at the side of the road. In the meantime the girl is having the first woman's battle of her life. She wants Steve but she also respects her oath to her father. However, she finally gives in to her love, having learned that the Sky Hunters are hopelessly disbanded. At the railway track she unbinds Steve. Later the girl is shown in feminine clothing back in "their" home at Washington.
- Broncho Billy wins out over his rival for the hand of a sweet country girl. Later he meets a girl from the city and falls in love with her. He goes to his fiancée and asks her for his ring back. She gives it up, though she is brokenhearted. Then Broncho goes to the city to visit the girl who had flirted with him while she was on a vacation to the country. He finds that she is immensely wealthy. She merely laughs at him when she sees him in his countrified clothes. He then returns to reclaim his old sweetheart only to arrive in time to see her wedded to his rival.