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- Hiram Brown and his family decide to emigrate to the west and cast their lot in the then-almost uninhabited country known as Minnesota, leaving their improvised home on the Ohio River. They started on their long journey in old fashioned covered wagons. Two months later, they reach the Mississippi River; being in the early fall the water was low and easily forded upon their landing. They camp for the night. Indians not relishing the invasion of the pale face watch them under cover of darkness, the Indian village nearby give the family warning to move on, but this the sturdy farmer refuses to do and is seen cultivating with his team of oxen. An Indian girl (a spy) under the guise of selling Indian wares, is admitted to the camp, gaining the information she sought, reports quickly tribesmen, who resolve upon decisive action at once. In the meantime Spotted Eagle has formed an attachment for one of Brown's daughters. A plan of complete capture of the family is arranged and carried out with all the cunning and fearlessness that characterized the American Indian of that period. They take their captives to the village where they are tied to the stake. A trapper taking his life in his hands, runs the gauntlet, mounts a running horse and hurls the Indian to the ground (a sensational scene in the extreme). The young girl who had previously warned the camp of Indian uprising is seen making her way to the military post to report the capture. When the soldiers reach the Brown camp, they find the settler that had made good his escape on Indian horse and who guided them to the village where a spectacular rescue of the prisoners is affected and again reunited.
- Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar. "One year later" Bud tires of society. We see Bud and his new wife entertaining and our cowboy shows plainly that he is desperately weary of the effete East, then Bud goes to the club and the men he meets there and their conversation is getting on his nerves. "After the theater" a return home and Bud longs for the fresh air of the vast West. As he sinks wearily into a chair a Remington painting catches his eye. It is one he had recently purchased, a broncho buster and his locoed horse. The artist had caught the wild spirit of his subject, and as Bud's mind returns to scenes of a similar nature, a happy inspiration comes. "By Jove, I'll do it." He seizes a telegraph blank, rings for his butler, and sends the following message: "Col. Dalton, Foreman Circle 'D' Ranch, "This high-brow life is killing me. Am sending you special train. Bring the whole outfit, band, horses and all. This town needs excitement. Come and help wake it up. BUD." A few days later we see the boys at a swell suburban depot: Bud and his wife in their auto, and the punchers in chaps and sombreros soon create a world of excitement on the city streets. Then Bud takes the boys yachting; next to see a melodrama, where the Colonel takes exceptions to the villain's heartless treatment of "Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl." "Bud, either send those horrid creatures back where they came from or I get a divorce," declares Mrs. Bud. So the boys are next seen in a palatial café car homeward bound. The Colonel gets into an argument with the colored cook and that worthy dives through an open car window to escape the cowboy's wrath. Our closing scene is in the cozy home of the millionaire. He and his wife are enjoying a quiet tete-a-tete when the butler bands in a telegram. It reads; "On root. Everybody enjoyin' theirselves. The Colonel sure some happy, he just shot a coon. Will send the bill to you. THE BOYS." Bud laughs heartily. The wife joins and as she nestles up to her big manly husband, says: "You won't ever want to be a cowboy again, will you, Bud?" Bud turns slowly; looks at the Remington painting which has been the innocent cause of their recent quarrel, and walking over, he turns the picture to the wall, holds out his arms to his wife, and as her head nestles against his shoulder, we plainly catch his words, "Never Again."
- General Arleno, the last grandee of the old Spanish regime, refuses to sell a certain sea-girt tract in California a big corporation for harbor purposes because it will dispossess his poor fisher folk. The railway discovering that his grant has a defect of title, take forcible possession, trusting luck to fight out its claims in court. Their harbor engineer, who has been called for this project, has fallen in love with a fair Californian at the closing of a mission school. She makes her home at the house of her uncle General Arleno, and when she returns there and finds her lover directing the invasion against their ancient estate, she gives him the hardest fight of his life; but, love finds a way and it ends well for all concerned.
- Now, girls, if yon turned suddenly around and found a nice, gentlemanly skeleton seated comfortably beside you, would you scream or be too frightened to utter a sound? Now Martha, the new maid of all employed in a medical college, was content to juggle pans in the kitchen, but when brought face to face with the cold remnant of a past mortal, she lets out a noise that would fade the sound of a moving picture machine into insignificance, and rushes from the room only to be confronted by another and another, until Martha is a regular encyclopedia of all that is frightful. Composing herself long enough, she summons the officers, who are led to believe something bordering on a massacre has occurred, and hasten to the scene. The appearance of the skeleton cools their ardor and dampens the courage of the bluecoats and they join the merry stampede. Martha hits a street car for the tall and uncut, but our friend the skeleton bobs up again and a large hole in the car window marks the maid's hasty exit. Seeking refuge from her Nemesis, she lands in a room with no visible skeleton, but the news was too good to be true and poor Martha finds it necessary to imitate Halley's Comet and on the window marks her course, landing on a steep roof, tumbles into the bathing tank below and is only rescued with difficulty. Poor Martha had a hard time and has never reconciled herself to the association of skeletons.
- The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, against the wishes of her parents, marries John Morton. They disown her and she drops out of their lives. The Mortons do not prosper in a worldly way, but a daughter is born to them and they are happy until death invades the home and takes the mother, John Morton continues the struggle alone, caring for his daughter. The wealthy Raymonds finally learn of the existence of the child, and become obsessed with a desire to possess her, and bring her up as a lady. They advertise to learn of her whereabouts, and this comes to the attention of Morton. In the depths of despondency he consents to the sacrifice, as an opportunity for the girl. Their lawyer prevails upon him to make the change. Rose Morton, when in her new and luxurious surroundings, pines for her dear old dad. Good luck favors Morton and an invention suddenly brings him a fortune. His first thought is to get possession of his beloved child. At this time he receives a telegram announcing her illness. The attendant physician announces the only thing that will save her life to be the presence of her father. John Morton arrives just in time. The sight of him restores the ailing girl and the Raymonds are reconciled to him,
- Mrs. Wise leaves her rings on the back porch of her house when she goes in to collect the laundry for the washerwoman. Later the misses the baubles and decides that the negress has stolon them. She immediately starts out after the poor washerwoman and meets a series of amusing adventures before she discovers that the woman of color is absolutely innocent. In the interim, Mrs. Wise's husband, returning home, finds the rings where she had left them. Then resolving to try a sure cure for his wife's carelessness, he places them in his own pocket, so that he can worry her by recrimination for a while longer. When he reaches his office he recounts the anecdote to a friend, showing him the rings, and then absent-mindedly leaves them all on his own desk. When he reaches home that night he starts in to lecture his wife at table, and to verify the results of his find, reaches into his pocket, and finds the entire lot of diamond rings missing. Without stopping to explain, he rushes back to his office. In the meantime, the alert stenographer finds the rings and promptly carries them to Mrs. Wise, The excited Wise routs out the janitor, dashes into his office, and not finding anything there, accuses the worthy watchman of purloining the jewels. This charge is resented vigorously, and Mr. Wise is considerably mussed up. He then limps on to the home of his stenographer, tries to fasten the accusation upon her, and is indignantly thrown out by her visiting sweetheart. Poor old Wise arrives home sadder and much dilapidated, to find his wife wearing her rings.
- The story is based on the idea of a dancing girl, attaining redemption through playing the part of Magdalene, in a primitive passion play. This is founded upon an ancient Spanish custom which is still in vogue in the rural regions of southern Spain. It is considered the playing of the part purifies the subject of original sin, and completely regenerates Magdalene, a dancer in a café. She sees Jack Wilde, a hated "gringo" whom she immediately loves with all the ardor of her primitive nature and he honorably returns her love, but his father frowns upon any such misalliance so emphatically that the poor girl is driven to despair. She is given an opportunity to appear in the passion play and takes advantage of this to secure regeneration and grace in the eyes of her obdurate parent: but it works the other way, for he is a practical party and does not believe in such a method for establishing the standard of caste. Her old lover, mad with rage, tries to take her by force. She turns sadly away from the door of the American's hotel, but is stopped by the kind old padre. He induces her to forsake the world and enter a convent, so that her redemption becomes truly complete.
- Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary. As an odd coincidence. Frank Fink, a hardened degenerate, is sent up at the same time and he becomes a prison parasite on Stone. Both men are released about the same time. Wilbur Stone has secured a good position and tries to forget the past when the drunken and dissolute Fink happens to stagger into the office where he is employed. He with criminal cunning threatens to tell Stone's "number" to his employer, and the latter in terror gives up "hush money" to prevent it. A new drain comes on Stone in the person of his twin brother who has heart disease. This unfortunate young man drops dead in Stone's apartment, and the resemblance to him is so striking that he concludes to suddenly disappear and leave the impression that the dead brother is himself. The drunken Fink invades the apartment with the usual demands for money, staggers over the dead man, is discovered there and finally convicted of murdering him. Stone reads this where he has sought new life in a distant city, and to save an innocent man from the noose rushes to the rescue and arrives at the eleventh hour. He succeeds and is again so thoroughly impressed in the esteem of his employer that he is advanced in office and his past is made honorable forgetfulness.
- Hilda was the bakery girl, with a sweetheart who was not altogether welcome on account of Hilda's employer, who objected to his visits. In order to secrete her lover from the baker, who was coming, she hides him in the cold oven, but forgets to hide the tin pail that the beer came in, and a mouse is scented and poor Hilda lost the job and the boss baker hires Hans to take her place; also orders a fire built under the cold furnace. The boy helper, remonstrating, finally tells him there is a man hidden there. The boss at once sees the situation and goes for material for the fire. The sweetheart, overhearing this, makes his escape to the flour bin. The fire is built, but upon examination he finds the bird has flown. Determined not to be outdone, a few old bones are gotten from the cast-off scraps and placed in the oven and Hilda sent for. The boss having had a good laugh at her expense, is just preparing to go fishing over Sunday and accordingly locks the flour bin and repairs to the country to angle for the finny tribe. Upon his return Monday, he finds the new baker on the job and prepares to fill up the bin. In a moment of their absence the lover escapes back to the oven, only to be compelled to confront his executioners, who are amazed and exit pell mell to the street. An excited chase ensues,
- As revenge for being rejected by the Widow Morton, Dr. Pelham fakes his own death and frames her son Alfred for the crime. Alfred enlists the help of Professor Locksley, The Hypnotic Detective, to solve the crime.
- Belle Boyd was one of the most daring and dashing figures of the South in the great Civil War. She was captured and imprisoned a number of times, and was personally commended by General Stonewall Jackson for her distinguished services on behalf of his army and her country. The details of this story are fictional, although it is an historic fact. Belle Boyd went through the zone of fire on a battlefield, escaping by dropping to the ground between every volley and then jumping to her feet and running toward the Confederate battery. The scene opens with the home of Belle Boyd in neutral ground. She and her girl companions are "sewing-up" the gallant battle-scarred Southerners, whose uniforms were necessarily neglected after the first few years of strenuous service. The watchful darkey runs into the parlor where the tailoring is proceeding on the living models and sounds the alarm, "The Tanks are coming," The Confederate officers desert their sweethearts, mount in hot haste and make for their lines! They are well out of the way when a Federal troop of cavalry escorting General Shields and staff come upon the porch. The General says they must use the house a few moments to discuss battle plans. Aunt Cloe ushers them into a parlor at the invitation of Belle Boyd. This parlor is rather dilapidated. The General sends his orderly out to inspect the premises to observe if they are safe from eavesdroppers and posts a sentinel at the door of the parlor. The soldier inspects, but he no sooner leaves the room above the parlor than Belle Boyd emerges from hiding in an old armor. She darkens the room, draws aside the rug in the center and looks through the hole in the ceiling, sees the plans exposed on the parlor table below and hears of a plot to capture General Jackson. She makes note of them, as they are most important for "the cause." When the officers depart she is at the front door to bid them "good bye" and through substituting a blank roll secures the battle plan from an enamored subordinate. Men follow her wild ride and her race through the battlefield, bringing information that saves Jackson's corps from defeat.
- Granny Willard, seeing the end of her days approaching, begs to leave her bed and sit in her old armchair, the bumble throne about which three generations have assembled. Her favorite grandson, Tom Willard, has come in from the farm with his buxom wife to visit. So the strong arms of youth carry old age gently to the armchair in the sunlit room for a last meeting with all her kith and kin. There came the rural types known to that modest old cottage, and then that more sacred circle of grandsons with their wives and little ones. So a lovely day passes, as do others, until the shadows darken and tears pay tribute to the passing of dear old granny. After the days of mourning, the family again meet to hear the last will and testament of the departed. All are remembered in substantial fashion, save the beloved grandson, Thomas, who must needs be contented with Granny's Old Armchair. Other members of the family, visibly more fortunate, expect that Thomas, the poorest of them all, will attempt to break the will; but he accepts the legacy with love and gratitude. Fate, as if to further vex him, burns his house, but he, faithful to his trust, saves the rickety old chair. Part of the bottom is burned away, showing a note projecting from the upholstery. He investigates and finds it is upholstered with valuable securities, so, while he lost his house, he gained a fortune, and all his loving kindness was rewarded after all.
- Big Otto's circus comes to a standstill when the old showman sees a farmhand creeping under the canvas to see the show. He attempts to oust the farmer and a fight ensues. As an outcome Big Otto is held in defray of bonds, and his circus is attached. Under cover of darkness Big Otto steals out, releases his pal, Toddles, the trained elephant, and make his escape. The pair is overtaken, but at a word from Otto, the elephant charges the "bloodhounds of the law," and thereafter their road is clear. After many trials and hardships the big beast climbs into a freight train and drags his master in after him. Later they arrive in a town where a friendly circus is playing and the two old pals are given deserved employment.
- It so happens that Widow Jones' daughter is beloved by the son of Widower Brown and the parents in each case who are strangers to each other, strenuously oppose anything that looks like no alliance between the families. One day the widow discovers the young man making love to her daughter and after reproving the girl, she pens a protest to the boy's father in a style that scorches the paper. The young people are not slow in ascertaining the attitude of their parents and put matters in train to outwit them. The son writes a letter to the daughter, informing her that the carriage will be waiting under the old pepper tree in readiness for their elopement and that his face will be curtained by heavy whiskers. She, in response, declares she will be in readiness and disguised by a heavy veil. These letters are then so disposed that quite by accident they will fall into the hands of the bothersome parents. This all works out as planned and both the widow and the widower conclude each independently to teach their child a lesson and thoroughly discomfit the one of their enemy. He hides himself in whiskers to disguise the briskets of age, assumes a falsetto voice, takes on a springy step and otherwise has the debonair air of youth. The widow, who has lost her waistline, gets all laced up and dolled out with veils and trimmings, so that she looks like a sixteen-year-old Tango girl. Then with impatient eagerness, the widow and widower each finally primed for revenge, keep the appointment under the old pepper tree. The widower cannot resist the temptation to kiss something young and tempting, so he plants a bus that almost starts a tooth in his willing victim. The widow, in turn, finds it to her liking to be squeezed by a boy whom she thinks is very strong for eighteen. The pair depart for the minister's residence, and in the interim the lovers have escaped and follow them in an auto. The widow sees and seizes a triumphant moment when she arrives in the drawing-room of the parson and throws aside her veil to find herself staring in the face of the widower who has discarded his herbivora in the form of those thick-laced whiskers. At this juncture the son and daughter rush into the scene, telling the bewildered fat folks that they have forgotten their marriage license, but they have brought theirs with them. The widow and the widower see the point of the joke and realize that they ought to be good neighbors and good parents, so they give their consent to the union.
- Bad Brown, a cattle rustler, finding things slow in his locality, proceeds to fill up with red liquor, and then starts to shoot up the frontier settlement. About the time he has got everybody behind door, the stage rolls into town, and Bad Brown scares Pat and Biddy, the new arrivals to death with his noisy fusillade, and the dangerous proximity of his wild shooting. Buck comes in like an innocent spectator at this time; but does not get injured, in fact, he soundly trounces the drunken rustler, thereby earning the everlasting gratitude of Pat and Biddy. All this does not sober Brown, and he is inclined to commit more serious crimes than to merely get drunk, so the sheriff comes along and swears in Buck, as one of his posse. Bad Brown, however, has a pretty daughter, Marie, and Buck is in love with her. He compels his daughter to hide him, but after a series of dashing adventures Buck routs him out and starts the old offender off to jail. The girl's relationship at the time with the old man was unknown by the dashing Buck, but she admits, afterward, that he is her father. She feels, however, the need of a better protector so much that she accepts the fearless hand of Buck for life.
- Jim Sherman, a Northerner, living in the South, joins the Federal forces. His heroic wife, Jane, and his baby daughter, Lillian, bid him a sad farewell. The Federal recruits are quartered some miles down the river, and there come tidings to the new soldier from his wife and little daughter, and he returns them a letter, which they open feverishly for news. He encloses a little letter for the child, and she is delighted. Immediately she laboriously starts out to send a letter to her father in reply. Just about this time a lot of Confederate officers, who are making a daring reconnaissance toward the Federal lines, drive into the yard of the Sherman home and take possession of the house. The mother is very much frightened at this invasion, but the officers are gentlemen, and are soon made at home. Lillian quickly makes friends with the men. The business of the officers, however, is urgent, and they soon dismiss the family from the room, get out a war map and as Lillian has returned and is playing on the floor with her doll she is allowed to remain in the room. They set her down from the table, where they have been showing her the map, and while she is apparently innocently playing with her doll, she is all ears, listening to their plans for the capture of the Federal camp, where her father is stationed. This plan is embraced in a message that Col. Mooney places in his hat. Lillian purposely breaks the head of her favorite doll, then shows it tearfully to Col. Sayles, who tells her to take it to her mother to be mended. She exits in presumable great grief. Once out of the room, she rushes joyously to her mother and explains to her what she has heard. The mother realizes the importance of the message, and when she invites the officers to lunch, instructs Lillian to get the note if possible, and make a copy of it. The child follows instructions, replaces the original in the hat that has been left in the front room, and afterwards gives her mother the copy. While the men are still at the table, Jane, the mother, rushes to the stables, secures a mount and quietly rides toward the Yankee lines. As the officers are weary from the hard riding, and wish to give the horses a rest, they take long leisure at the luncheon, but after a while time presses and they go back to the front room. Maj. Mooney, examining his hat and finding his message still there, is unsuspicious and sends the orderly to the stable to get their mounts ready. Meantime, little Lillian uses her wiles with such charm that the officers are loath to leave such pleasant company and resume their hard ride. When the orderly returns from the stable and reports "one horse shy," there is instant commotion. Until now the lady of the house has not been missed. There is a grand rush to the stable and the old hostler is threatened with death if he does not tell them who has taken the horse. He stolidly refuses to give the information, and they return to the house, questioning the child and threatening to cut off her ears unless she tells them where her mother is, but she simply laughs in the faces of the officers. They see questions are useless and as time is passing, decide at once to ride forward. In the meantime, Jane is speeding toward the Yankee camp with the information safe in the sole of her shoe. Eventually she comes to a bridge, where she sees a picket-post that will make her passage impossible. She deserts her horse and, running a distance through the woods, swims the stream a distance above the bridge. She reaches the Yankee camp and is led to headquarters with her news. Instantly there is a commotion in response. The entire camp is up in arms. Jim meets his wife, and is ordered to take personal charge of her. The Union soldiers take the bridge where the picket-post which blocked Jane's path is stationed and quietly advance on the general body, and the Confederates, instead of surprising them as originally planned, are themselves surprised and overcome. The Federal charge is quick and decisive. The Confederates retreat in disorder. The Colonel in command, out of gratitude for the valuable service of Jim's brave wife, gives him a three months' furlough to visit his home, where the Confederate coup was frustrated by the cunning of baby Lillian.
- A young man, accused of embezzlement, is acquitted, but the shadow of the crime persists in hounding him.
- Tess Sutton, the daughter of a miner, who is likewise a miser, dutifully dwells with her father by a lonely mountain farm, where his little mine and flume are located. She is loved by Hank, an uncouth mountaineer, in a primitive way, but her thought centers about a young doctor in the faraway settlement. He saves her from some embarrassment by calling at her cabin when Hank is an unwelcome visitor, and incurs the everlasting enmity of that bellicose individual. He tries to waylay and assassinate his rival, but the girl shows him the other way at the pistol point. The sudden death of her father and the discovery of Hank, allows him to lead a drunken lynching party after the doctor. Again the bravery and resourcefulness of the mountain lass comes into play and they escape by the perilous way of the timber flume.
- A bank teller seeks vengeance upon the president of the bank who had him convicted of thievery.
- Jim Claiborne and Nat Hawkins, Kentucky mountaineers, are heads of clans who have been at war with each other. They meet in the village on market day, and Hawkins takes a shot at Claiborne, but his gun-hand is knocked up by Mrs. Claiborne; so, Hawkins leaves, swearing "to get" Claiborne. When the families return to their mountain cabins, each starts out on a man-hunt for the other. Hawkins intends to ambush Claiborne, but when Mrs. Claiborne sees his grim face at the cabin window, she quickly sends a note by her small boy to the revenue officers, telling them that Hawkins, a moonshiner, is in the neighborhood. The woman then uses her wits to detain the unwelcome visitor as long as possible in the hopes that the officers will arrive. The boy delivers the message but the strenuous ride is too much for him, and he falls from his horse of heart failure. Hawkins sees him fall and carries him in. Then he rushes for a doctor and brings him. The latter declares that the only hope for the child's life is a transfusion of blood. The poor mother is too weak to submit to such a strain. Thereupon Hawkins offers his own veins and gives up his blood so the child of his mortal enemy might live. Mrs. Claiborne is now filled with regret and remorse at having given information to the officers. Claiborne walks in and is about to shoot Hawkins when his wife interposes and tells him the sacrifice Hawkins has endured. Claiborne accepts his hand in forgiveness and the feudists are reconciled.
- Bill Harcourt and Jim Harcourt, who have always shopped in the country by mail order, come to live in town and conclude to furnish a little flat on the easy payment system. They get out of work and out of money, and the furniture dealer snatches out his goods, leaving them in a bare establishment, barring the fact that each has a pair of pajamas. Their aunt and uncle, from whom they have great expectations, send word that they are coming to visit. Put to their wits' end to make an appearance, they borrow clothes and furniture from the neighboring flat and entertain their relations. The good impression is rudely shattered when the neighbors return suddenly. The neighbor strips the flat bare again and leaves the boys in their "dream robes."
- Arthur Baxter comes to spend the week end with John Masterson, a wealthy merchant. With him are his nephew, Jack Warrington, and his niece. Margaret Warrington. Arthur is in love with Margaret; she repels his advances, but he persists. Her uncle, however, rather favors the match, as he thinks Baxter is wealthy. Jack Warrington, however, takes a different view of the matter and is badly worsted in a fist fight. He goes out hunting, and when he returns later, he finds Baxter asleep in the library; so he quietly slips in and lays his revolver and cartridge belt on the table. He leaves the room, and some time thereafter a shot is heard; Baxter is found dead in the chair; the police investigate and arrest Jack. Jimmy Norton, a keen police reporter, and friend of Margaret, refuses to believe that Jack is guilty. He discovers by accident, that the sun shining through a glass gold-fish bowl, has focused on a cartridge in the belt that Jack laid upon the table, exploded the shell and caused Baxter's death. The judge, and the jury immediately clear young Warrington, and Norton's interest in her brother's case inspires Margaret to give him the answer he has waited for so patiently and long.
- The Rider family, who are wealthy, pool issues to prevent young Hugh Martin from ever being left alone with their delightful daughter, Dorothy, long enough to propose to her. The family fears that Dorothy might accept him, and they consider Hugh Martin absolutely ineligible. Hugh is finally forbidden the house entirely, and then encounters a series of escapades in which he impersonates a paperhanger, who has been engaged to cover several rooms in the Rider mansion. He also makes up for several other disguises with farcical complications; still he is unsuccessful in his efforts to see Dorothy alone. About this time the ever-alert Rider family conceives the idea of sending their daughter to a fashionable rest-cure and sanitarium. He, however, feigns illness, and presents himself as a patient at the same sanitarium. Much to his amusement, the physician, on examination, tells him that an operation is at once necessary. He is thoroughly alarmed and tries to get away from his room by the fire escape. Ignorant as to location, and unseen by Dorothy, he hides in her room. It then develops that it was the patient in the room next to Hugh's that was to be operated on, and not Hugh, and the physicians, discovering their first error, come to the conclusion that Hugh's symptoms are those of incipient smallpox. This rumor is fruitful and drives out everybody, leaving Dorothy and Hugh alone in the premises. The dénouement comes in picture showing Dorothy and Hugh standing on the roof of the sanitarium, which is now surrounded by police and is in quarantine. The telephone, however, is still immune, and Hugh sends for a minister, who stands upon the roof of the building across the way, while the policeman acts as best man, and the marriage service is performed.
- John Morton, a rising young businessman, comes under the fascinating spell of Vera Violetta, a burlesque actress, and lavishes costly gifts upon her. His infatuation soon becomes subject for invidious remark, and a fellow employee of his company, writes to Morton's mother that her son is trembling on the verge of ruin, because of the evil influence of this adventuress. The grief-stricken old lady comes at once to the city from the little village where she has lived so long, to see if she can break up this unholy attachment. Mme. Violetta has played her trump card and induced John Morton to sign a $5,000 cheek in her favor. The next day she takes her automobile and speeds to the bank to cash the paper. Her chauffeur runs down and injures an old lady, but Mme. Violetta is good-hearted and takes her in the machine, rushing her to her own apartment, where she nurses her back to life. When the old lady regains consciousness and strength, she tells the woman of the mission that has brought her to the city. Unscrupulous as she is, the adventuress is immeasurably moved and her better nature is aroused. She rushes into her own room and there, in a dissolve, is shown the vision of her own innocent childhood, her blooming girlhood, and then the lonely grave where reposes the dust of her broken-hearted mother. She tears up the check to save Morton from disgrace, and leaves him a note severing their union. When he calls on his inamorata, he finds her gone and his mother waiting with forgiveness such as only a mother can give.
- In the grounds of a sanitarium are gathered a number of mentally (but harmless) deranged patients. The most conspicuous is a tall tragedian. When he escapes from his keepers the superintendent concludes that he will naturally make his way to the theater in search of an engagement. The various managers are notified, and the first man that excites suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a poor actor of the antique type, who honestly and vociferously applies for a position. He does not understand why he is detained without a contract, and is about to pull the house down when the manager receives word that the real "dip" has been recaptured elsewhere.
- The "Diamond S" ranch abounds in thrilling scenes of dare-devil cowboy life. One feature of the great subject is a number of scenes showing the Champion Woman Bulldogger and Steer Thrower of the world in action. She is shown, in close-up, intimate views, accomplishing this difficult feat in record time. This, with the congress of Rough Riders, Broncho Busting, the Round Up, wild riding, etc., make a picture of unexcelled skill and excellence.
- Tom Martin, a ranchman, busy until his wedding day, finds that his clothes are rather shabby for such a showing, so he hikes to town and purchases a full supply of new duds. As he is about to start home, he meets congenial friends who insist upon drinking to the bride. One thing leads to another and Tom is presented with a full bottle to keep him company on his way home. He decides, when part way home, to put on his new clothes and save time, and he is somewhat unsteadily engaged in this occupation, when his horses get tired and run away. He chases them in airy attire, but just as he catches them, he is forced to desert and hide. A couple of plains girls ride into the picture. They think that the team has wandered away, so they drive the horses back to the ranch, where the wedding party is anxiously waiting. The prospective bride is furious and in caprice is about to marry Tom's rival. Tom, still shy on clothes, but thoroughly sobered arrives just in the nick of time, is forgiven and the wedding event comes off as scheduled.
- Desmond, chief of the police, admits that Detective Tait is the best man in his service, but says in response to his appeal for the hand of his daughter, "Nix on the son-in-law business." He tells him to go capture the green gang of counterfeiters and he may change his mind. The young detective stumbles on the rendezvous of the gang in a seemingly deserted building., but is discovered and overpowered, and is bound and gagged and left to the rats in the basement. A rat-catcher, who has been sent by the owners of the building to rid it of pests, finds the detective, but before he can get help is similarly conditioned by the counterfeiters. His pet ferret frees him by gnawing the ropes that bind him and eventually carries a note out through the tiny barred window to the street.
- A titled lady, gorgeously gowned, returning from a ball, enters her boudoir, and is about to disrobe for the night. As she sits at her dressing table removing the necklace of jewels from her throat, she sees by reflection in the mirror a movement of the portieres, and observing a coarse shoe projecting below, immediately surmises some burglarious intruder is ensconced behind the drapery. In spite of the discovery of such a dangerous intruder, the Countess goes calmly about her affairs, placing her jewels in a casket, and finally, with the aid of a hassock on a chair, puts the casket on a high self in the closet. Retiring to a lavatory, she dons her negligee, returns, sits again before the mirror, takes down her hair, and brushes and braids it for the night. She simulates weariness, drops upon the couch and is soon apparently asleep. The burglar in the window alcove, judging from the spell of silence, concludes to get busy. He tears the curtains aside, steals into the room, looks for the jewel casket and then discovers it on the high shelf where the Countess had placed it. He steps into the closet, preparatory to looting, when the Countess nimbly darts to the closet door, snaps the lock and rings for the servants. As they rush in, the nerve strain of it all crowds upon her, so that she faints as she explains pointing toward the door, behind which is ensconced the dangerous visitor. The servants quickly summon the police, who capture the burglar, and the Countess saves her jewels.
- Looks are deeper than hair and hide as this pictorial recital of the devotion of a peripatetic pup will indicate. This tramp dog is rescued from a gang of hobos, and later in the story protects his new master from the murderous machinations of the tramps, and incidentally helps him to win the girl he has loved all along but never mustered sufficient courage to tell her about it.
- The love of Jim Dolan for Grace Wellington incurs the hatred of Ed Jones, who is trying to win the affection of Grace Jones, a foreman on the Brown ranch, and Brown, himself, call upon Dolan and request that he sell his little claim, which is bordering the ranch of Brown. Jim refuses to listen to them and his demands of Jones to keep quiet tend to intensify the latter's anger. Seeing a chance to get even with Jim, Jones puts a malignant motive into effect. One night he steals a number of branded hides from Brown, which he buries on the claim of Jim. He then reports that a number of the hides have been stolen and with the aid of the sheriff discover the missing skins. Jim is arrested and sentenced to ten years in the town calaboose. Grace, believing that there has been foul play, smuggles a saw and a note, which tells him of the relay of horses to help him escape. It is not long before Jim is urging the steeds to great speed. The sheriff and the posse soon discover his flight and are soon upon his trail. When Jim comes to the last relay he makes the alarming discovery that the horse is lame. Breaking his rifle, he runs cautiously to the river, submerges himself and breathes only through the barrel of the gun. His ingenious tactic effectuates his escape from the posse, but he is later captured on the river bank by Apaches, who tie him to the tail of a wild horse as a sort of amusement. He is rescued by a prospector and nursed back to health. Around some supplies that the old prospector has bought in town is wrapped a newspaper stating that Ed Jones, who has been wounded in a saloon fight, confessed that it was he who stole the hides and cast the blame upon Jim Dolan. Jim tells his story to the kind-hearted prospector, and it is not long before he is in the arms of his sweetheart, Grace.
- A romantic young author, wearied with the rush of a prosaic age, who loves the open, accompanied only by his flute, starts on a spring tour through the rural regions. In his wanderings, disguised as a gypsy fortune teller, he sees a lovely girl and makes her acquaintance. In reading her happiness, he mentions the rover with the magic flute, to quicken her interest. Having inspired the thought, he goes on his way, discarding his disguise. The next day the fair one hears the luring love note of the flute, and follows it to the forest. There she finds a dark, handsome young stranger sleeping. She gazes a moment, spell-bound, then flees. The sleeper is awakened and follows her. Eventually they become lovers; but the maid's father will have nothing to do with a flute player. Strangely enough this newspaper man is a publisher, and in financial trouble, A wealthy friend comes to his relief, who seeks in marriage the hand of his daughter. The young author betakes him to his desk and writes a romance entitled, "The Rose of May." He offers it anonymously to the publisher, and it becomes top-listed as "a best seller." A year passes, the girl, stung by his seeming forgetfulness, is about to accept the elderly suitor, when she hears the sound of a distant flute. Again the lovers meet, but this time to part no more, for the proud parent, now made wealthy by the man who plays with a pen as potentially as he does skillfully with a flute, is very desirable.
- Bob, an honest country lad, falls in love with Annie, the daughter of the richest man in that little village. All goes well until Ralph Gunter comes to town. He poses as a gentleman, but has the unenviable handicap of a criminal record. He wins the unsophisticated Annie without much effort, and she turns down Bob without a struggle, dazzled by the grand air of the new man from the big town. The latter has hardly set his matrimonial line before he receives a letter from a former pal in crime threatening him with exposure unless he "comes through" for $500. In desperation to hold what he already has and the effort to get more, he contemplates the plan of robbing old Sharp. Annie's father, on the night of the day he collected his rents. Sharp is a miserly old man and secretes his money about his house, instead of trusting it to a bank. Bob discovers Ralph trying to break into the house and in the encounter that follows Bob is downed and Ralph escapes. The former is taken for the would-be robber and is next sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. On his release, he vows to kill Ralph, who married Annie the day he was sentenced. Ralph, a sick and broken man, goes to the mountains to try and recover his health, accompanied by his daughter, who strongly resembles her dead mother. Ralph, now prematurely old, has been out of confinement long enough to wear off the prison pallor, and is a dead shot now, well healed for vengeance. As the pair come driving up the mountain trail. Bob keeps Ralph covered with a rifle from his ambush. Just as he is about to press the trigger and send the bullet home, he sees reflected in the face of the girl, the memory of her mother, whom he loved in the lonely years that have gone. A flood of remembrances overcome him, his gun, the instrument of vengeance, drops from his nerveless fingers and he allows his long, bitterly cherished plan to pass.
- The farmers Dickens and Lawson had been contented neighbors for many years and to their great happiness their children Jim Dickens and Helen Lawson were inclined to continue this friendship by a more binding tie. The parents watched the progress of the match with kindly eyes and felt that nothing could interfere with their favorite plan. A sweet breath of purity seems to fill the picture of Sunday on the farm and the "Coming Thro' the Rye." In the midst of the harvesting of the wheat, a breakdown occurs and Jim is obliged to hurry to the city for repairs. On his way to town, Jim comes to a carnival tent, where all is laughing and dancing and he becomes infatuated with a beautiful young dancer. No one is there to bring to his mind the thoughts of one more lovely on the little farm; he is an easy victim and forgets all but the present. On his return to the farm, Helen is at the gate to meet him but is turned down by Jim. The sorrowful girl sees him again leave for the city, where he is to meet the dancer. He meets her, and his eyes are opened. He begins to realize the wrong done Helen and returns to the farm. He pleads with his old sweetheart and the close of the picture is a happy one. "When the Harvest Day is Over."
- Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's palace. Royal personages and their attendants flee from the spotted terrors, and Kathlyn takes advantage of this to get away from the throne-room, where she was surrounded by enemies. She flees into the Garden of Brides and takes refuge in a covered bullock cart close to the palace walls. The scene opens as Kathlyn lifts the draperies of the covered cart and gazes affrighted at the prowling leopards in the palace yard. As they rush by, she deserts the cart, and runs through the garden. Still, the walls seem to bar her escape. A heavy, clinging vine is not to be despised and immediately uses this means to scale the barrier. Her father and Ramabai, who have been reinforced by Bruce and Pundita, have their camels only a short distance away and her appearance is hailed joyously. She is assisted down the wall by a ladder, then the party mount their camels and start through the city of Allaha. As they pass through the outer gate, they are recognized by Umballah's Captain of Guard, who hurriedly rushes to the palace and notifies Umballah, who is holding a session with the Council of Three, of his discovery and their departure. Umballab derides to give chase, as he is particularly anxious to recapture Col. Hare, who has been made king, merely to serve as the creature of his caprice. Then begins an exciting chase over plains, and through woodlands with thrilling incidents. At a native village, the party come upon a festival in which the dancers are masked with animal heads. Learning of the close pursuit of Umballah, they persuade the dancers to allow them in their places, and although Umballah and his followers come upon the scenes and see the dancers, they do not penetrate the disguise and recognize them, and so disgusted, they finally reluctantly return to Allaha. Kathlyn and her party, having secured fresh mounts, start on their way to cross the mountains and eventually stop and camp for the night. During the hours of darkness, treacherous natives steal their horses, greatly inconveniencing the travelers. Different members of the party start out in the morning to hunt their property, and Kathlyn is trailed through the broken country by a pair of hungry tigers. Her situation is perilous, indeed, when a sheep-herder observes her and, throwing up a rope, Kathlyn fastens it to a rock, and then slides down the face of the cliff, leaving the maddened, astonished brutes snarling at the summit. Hardly has she escaped this danger, when she hears the howling of a pack of wolves, and rushes breathlessly along until she sees the mountain rest house where the faithful Pundita is resting. The wolves make for the cabin, but the women cunningly see an inner room in the house, and by concealing themselves in the cupboard, allow the wolves to rush into it, then, shoving the door shut, trap the savage howling beasts. By this time Col. Hare and Bruce have arrived upon the scene. Kathlyn shows the hunter how she has imprisoned the wolves, and he leisurely picks off the leaders with his rifle. About this time a caravan comes that way, which they join, and eventually arrive safely at a seaport town. Here they learn, to their sorrow, from a California cablegram, that Kathlyn's sister, Winnie, had sailed several weeks before for India, and is now in the city of Allaha. Although their own safety was secure, they decided at once to return to Allaha, as they are familiar with the treacherous disposition of Umballah, and know he will visit all his wrath upon the innocent girl. This is about as they expected, for the real ruler of Allaha, having discovered Winnie and recognizing her as the girl he saw in California, makes her a prisoner, and, previous to placing the Crown of Allaha upon her head, has her sequestered in the harem. Kathlyn and her party secure disguises before entering the city, and come upon the scene on the very day of the coronation. They manage to secure admittance to the throne-room, and Kathlyn secretly gets a message to her sister, assuring her of the plans made for her rescue. The openly cruel treatment of Umballah to Winnie causes Kathlyn to throw aside her disguise, and boldly reveal her own identity.
- Buster Holmes receives a letter from his late uncle's attorney in the east, stating that he has inherited an income for life, if he will take a course through the university. Owning nothing but his spurs, boots and saddle, he concludes to favor the education. Six years after the old spell of the west urges him back again, but the east has so bleached him out that, disguised in store clothes, he goes back to the ranch looking like a true tenderfoot. All the boys naturally take advantage of the callow newcomer, but the ranchman's daughter is much disgusted by what she considers their cruelties, and her interest presently ripens into affection. One day at the corral the boys are saddling up an outlaw, and Buster Holmes manages to get from the girl a promise that she will marry him if he can ride the bad horse. He gets firmly upon the hurricane back of the "bronc," who does all the stiff-legged and hunch-back stunts his wild and vicious brain can conjure, but Buster sticks to his mount like a centaur. This makes the other shame-faced cowboys hide behind the fences of the corral, and the girl is angered because the dude has been deceiving her. Presently she stops her pouting, flaunting and protesting as she finds him, after all, a better man than she thought, and is happy with him heart and hand.
- A doctor, summoned to a mountain ranch finds the little girl of the household dangerously ill, but asserts that her life can he saved if a certain medicine can be procured within two and a half hours. Roderick, the brother of the little girl, volunteers to make the ride, twenty miles, and return in the time specified. On his way to the drug store he arranges for "relays", and comes back with the medicine in time to save the ailing child's life.
- Donald Gale, down in fortune, leaves his little family in New York and goes to Nevada to prospect. He has formed a partnership with a man named Hawkins, but taken seriously ill, he writes out a power of attorney, and gives it to the latter, authorizing him to dispose of his share of the mine (which they have found prospectively rich), in the interests of Mrs. Gale and the children. He then writes to his wife telling her what he has done. In the interim, Mrs. Gale herself has fallen seriously ill and her children, alarmed, start out for help. Bobby, the boy, encounters Officer Casey. Casey requisitions Dr. Jones, who happens to be passing, and they visit the ailing woman, finding her in a state of collapse, after having read the letter from Nevada. The doctor has the invalid removed to his private hospital and the good Officer Casey says he will keep an eye on the children. The villainous Hawkins, taking advantage of Gale's trust, sells the mine to a man named Brown, and decamps, leaving the sick man to die alone in the mountains. Brown visits the shack, learns the circumstances, nurses Gale back to health and presents him with his rightful share of the property. Hawkins being bad, gets worse. He goes to New York, blows in his money and becomes a burglar. Fate leads him to the Gale house, and Officer Casey catches him in the act of burglarizing Mrs. Gale of the money that she recently received from her husband. He finds in his search of Hawkins' person, the power of attorney given him by Gale, which identifies him, and eventually convicts him of fraud. Gale comes back in prosperous circumstances; there is a reunion dinner in the Gale home at which "The Cop on the Beat" sits at the head of the table.
- Arabia, the feature of a society circus, causes his owner, Essie Fay, disquietude in unmistakable signs of sickness. In conformity with expert advice she concludes to send her pet to a sanitarium, and she relieves old Joe, the Negro hostler, of his duty as a rubber-in of liniment. The scene shifts from the circus stable to Dr. Blevin's health resort. Joe comes, leading Arabia, followed by Miss Fay. When she goes into the house to consult with the doctor she is promptly followed by her horse. As the door closes before the horse gets to the threshold of the office, the animal wanders down the corridor of the resort. Seeing a door ajar, the horse noses it open and enters the room of an old maid. Miss Betsy Briggs vacates the premises, and Arabia, curious, opens her trunk and, after emptying it of female apparel, closes the lid and stalks out. Yens Yensen, the window washer, observing Arabia entering a room, falls to the ground in faint, and the horse comes to the window and looks down at him in a mournful way. Sambo Johnson comes slouching down the hall with a tray of food balanced on his hand, which is upset when Arabia rushes at him. On a further tour of inspection the horse picks up the handbag of a nurse and will only give it to her mistress. As a finale the horse takes to her bed and, adjusting a nightcap, signals "Good night."
- It is aphoristic that people possessing red heads, get what they go after. "Red Head" is a girl, who happens to be at once the fear and the pride of her particular class, a sort of angel child girl that merrily dominates distressing periods in child life. She introduces herself through the medium of a goat that butts everybody out of the way on the sidewalk. Next she appears at the ball game and proceeds to do things that the boys cannot. When they pitch upon the umpire, she takes his part and vanquishes the crowd, she being as handy with her fists as they with their heels. She is certainly a lively and amusing factor and keeps things going, in a slashing, juvenile comedy.
- Ruby Blackwell, typical young girl of Arizona, lives with her brother Tom, and their widowed mother in a cabin in the mountains. One day Tom takes Ruby on a lion hunt. They track a puma, or mountain lion. Tom shoots the beast, which, wounded, bounds into the canyon. Tom instructs Ruby to proceed to the ridge and await him there, while he follows the puma up the mountainside. Ruby discovers the cubs belonging to the puma which Tom has shot, and she immediately becomes so engrossed in playing with the huge kittens that she forgets the rendezvous her brother had appointed. Tom finally locates her. The cubs are taken home. They grow up around Ruby like friendly dogs. Pete Lopez, a bad Mexican, who admires Ruby very much, tries to steal one of them at night, after Ruby has refused to sell the animal to him, and the baby puma defends itself vigorously until Tom and Ruby rush to its rescue. Two years later, when Ruby has become principal of the little mountain school, this puma, now full grown, finds opportunity to repay the loyalty of his mistress and "get even" with Pete by saving the life of Tom from ravishing wolves and the honor of Ruby from the miserable Mexican.
- Guy Morris, a promising young medical matriculate, is in love with Stella Razeto, but he has a false friend in Henry Walker, who forges a letter from him to the girl, which causes her to dismiss him without explanation. Then the rival having cleared his way treacherously steps in and wins the girl. Ten years fly swiftly by; the medical student has achieved distinction in his chosen profession end gone steadily up, while Henry Walker has gone down. The woman that he married under false pretenses has suffered and shared his ignoble lot uncomplainingly and is left a widow in reduced circumstances. She is compelled to take in sowing. She sends her child out on an errand and the little one is struck by an automobile and appears to be seriously injured. She is carried to a hospital, where Dr. Walker, her mother's former sweetheart, is the interne. The mother visits the place to see the child; the elderly pair meet face to face for the first time since the fatal letter parted them. Through his marvelous skill the doctor restores the child, and from the mother he learns the truth about the forged letter that parted them in the long ago. A new light flashes across the meridian of their lives, the old love lives again and romance becomes a reality.
- Bob Walton is apparently a very prosperous young broker, but when he asks Edith Gates to become his wife, her father is a bit dubious about his finances and reluctantly gives consent. Considering the fact that he is a broker. Bob is very careful. As he has begun to build a home for himself and his prospective bride, he does not deem it advisable to act upon the suggestion of his brother, and buy stock in the Golden Cloud mine. Troubles, however, never come singly. He has discussed the proposition with Edith Gates and discarded her advice, and she has left, when he receives a telegram that the bank holding a large deposit of his father has failed and left that aged man prostrated, and fast following it comes an appeal from his old mother. He hurriedly calls Edith up, summarizes to her the bad news, giving no explanation beyond the fact that he will be away for a few days. She determines to catch him at his office, but arrives there too late. On the desk she finds the message from his mother and immediately understands the sacrifice he is making to save his parents from distress. She looks for the mining tip on the Golden Cloud, that she had seen at a glance on her previous visit, and finally finds it in the waste basket. She is something of a speculator herself. She hies to her father's office and demands $10,000 to be used in a certain investment. As she has been accustomed to having her own way, she gets it. After a few days Bob returns and requests that the marriage be postponed because of his parents' troubles, to which fact, she now understanding, readily assents. Family cares not only harass Bob, but the market seems conspiring against him; he is hard bit and growing desperate. He picks up the paper and roads of the phenomenal rise in Golden Cloud securities and casts it away from him in disgust. The picture flashes to Edith's home, showing her reading the same paper, but she clasps the paper in ecstatic fashion, rushes to the phone and shouts to her brokers, "Sell. Sell. Sell!" The next day dawns dark for Bob, until Edith and her father invade his office and she slips into his hand a large official envelope crowded with important money, remarking, "I stole your tip and invested in the Golden Cloud." He opens the envelope, finds a draft for $100,000 and the crumpled tip on the Golden Cloud.
- Bunny Summers, an awkward yokel, meets Lydia Beebers, a new belle, at the Spikeville post office, and is at once smitten with her. He makes several attempts to get acquainted, finally succeeds and takes her to church. Bunny observes in the paper that the "center" on the State University football team has not returned to college, and determines to go to the University and try and secure the coveted place on the team. At first his parents ridicule the idea, but finally consent to his going. Lydia and various natives of the town ridicule him, but do not shake his determination. Bunny never traveled on the train before, and is consequently a green 'un. He takes apples from the news agent's basket, throws his carpet bag in the aisle, and creates a scene all around the car until he is quieted by the conductor. At the college station, he is ridiculed by the '"college sports," and one of them tries to sell him a "campus ticket." Bunny, undaunted, perseveres, and when he appears on the football field, he is greeted with jeers. The coach looks pleased, however, for he appreciates the mettle of the young man. The day of the great Thanksgiving game arrives, and his opponents are ahead. All at once the "center" of the home team is injured and has to be taken out of the line-up, and Bunny is called to fill his place. He stops the advance of the enemy, and when his side is given the ball on the offensive, he tears big holes in the opposing line, and after great gains, he allows the fullback to get through and make a touch-down, winning the game. Bunny is the hero of the hour. The natives of his own Spikeville read an account of the game in the paper, and see Bunny's picture with it. The fair Lydia gets a card from him, telling her that he will be due to arrive on the morning train, so she and the whole village go to the train to meet Bunny with a band. He is no longer the village rube, but a real hero, and nobody knows how to appreciate him more than the fair Lydia.
- Broker Trask and his wife, having accumulated a competence, experience a diverging desire, the one wishing for rest at home and the other longing for social conquest. The husband expresses himself petulantly: "Our evenings have reached a point where they bore me," and his wife agrees with him. Trask has visions of his club, she of bridge and her frivolous companions in finery of fashion. The eventuality is that Trask takes up quarters in the club, where he meditates with libations upon the emptiness of his own life. His wife, soon resenting his attitude, through the advice of her society friend, seeks an attorney with a view of separation. "On what ground?" queries the limb of the law. This stumps her. Trask, in turn, goes to his lawyer for advice and in response to the same question, explains, "We have simply drifted apart, mutually grown tired of each other's company. She has social aspirations; I detest them." The lawyer pondering on his response, dreams of his own happy home and the two little ones that toddle out to meet him morn and night. He seizes upon a device never dreamed of by Blackstone. He makes suggestion that is eagerly seized by his lady client. At an orphanage, arrangements are made and that night the lonely wife of the broker finds a little baby on her doorstep; so she immediately writes her attorney: "I am so happy. If Jim would come home my cup would be filled, but I won't ask him." The scene advances by a single leap, five years, showing Trask and his wife a reunited and happy couple with something to live for, and every evening is interesting without artificialities.
- Huntington Morgan, a leading man "out of work," finds himself one day penniless and breakfast-less. This is his lucky day, however, and fortune leads him straight to a wallet containing several hundred dollars in greenbacks. The wallet was dropped by footpads, who had held up a wealthy real estate man named Aleshire. In the wallet is Aleshire's address. Aleshire, however, has recently rented his townhouse to a spinster, Miss Mahaffy, and has moved to a suburb. Overjoyed at his find, Morgan crosses the street toward a restaurant to stay the pangs of hunger. He is knocked down and rendered unconscious by a passing automobile. The owner of the car finds Aleshire's address in the wallet, concludes that the victim is the owner of the name, and forthwith transports him to the Aleshire townhouse. Miss Mahaffy is out. A maid, who has just been hired that day, allows the frightened car owner to deposit the injured actor in Miss Mahaffy's bed. Miss Mahaffy soon returns. Also Mr. Morgan awakes. He takes in the situation in a moment, and cleverly allows the flustered spinster to believe him to be Mr. Aleshire, whom she has never seen in person, having done business through his agent. The fun waxes fast and furious. Mr. Morgan's false pretenses are at last discovered, but he handles his discoverers so cleverly that he gets away with the roll of greenbacks after all.