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Madeline's mother is a widow and her twin sister, Marion, is crippled. Mrs. Goddard takes in sewing, and Madeline sells newspapers. The daughter of a wealthy man becomes interested in the little newsgirl, and on further acquaintance May Gordon persuades her father to pay for an operation on Marion Goddard's hip. They take Marion home to their beautiful house to recuperate. Meanwhile. Red Hogan, wanted for burglary, breaks into the Gordon mansion with Whitey, his pal. Marion blocks his operations and effects his arrest. Mr. Gordon has offered $1,000 for Hogan's capture and this he now insists upon awarding to Marion. But she will not take the money. Mr. Gordon retaliates by making Mrs. Goddard and both Madeline and Marion members of his own household.

Tom Fitzsimmons is discharged from the ranch where, as a cowboy, he has the nerve to propose to the ranch owner's daughter. Disheartened, Tom seeks what solace he can find in the nearby booze emporium, and there, in a penny dreadful, he reads of a hold-up. This determines his course and he goes out to become a bandit. In holding up the stagecoach, however, he finds that he is in reality holding up the hold-up man Red Bill, for whom $1,000 reward is offered. He completes his capture, collects his thousand dollars reward, and returning to the ranch dazzles the owner's eyes with his crisp thousand-dollar bill and wins the girl.

Frank Edmanton, secretary to the president of the First National Bank, is a married man, yet he is infatuated with Lila Holmes, a woman of the half world. Lila herself is disgusted with the part she plays in life, especially so when her mother refuses to accept money from her, knowing her mode of making her living. Lila's mother has all her savings in a small country bank. Lila waves aside Frank's entreaties that she join him, with the statement that she can never consent to such a proposition unless he can supply her with the luxuries she has been accustomed to. There is a run on the country bank in which Lila's mother has her money. The president 'phones the First National in the city, asking for aid to ward off the rush of depositors demanding their money. Frank is selected by the president of the First National Bank to convey a large sum of money to the country bank. Feeling the money once within his hands, Frank is tempted to use it, and goes to Lila's apartment, shows her the money and begs her to flee with him. Lila, realizing in him another victim, consents. She bids him wait below until she gets ready to leave. Suddenly her eyes fall upon a paper naming the depositors of the bank. She then realizes that her mother's savings are in jeopardy unless the money reaches the country bank. Seizing the bag containing the money, she leaves the house secretly, and forcing Frank's chauffeur to do her will, is driven to the country bank, where she arrives just in time to allay the fears of the frenzied depositors. Her mother is in the crowd at the door, and recognition between them follows, with forgiveness. Frank, meanwhile, has found Lila absent from her apartment and decides he has been tricked. He goes home with the intention of quitting life, but his wife finds him with the revolver in hand about to kill himself. He tells her the whole story from beginning to end. His wife calls the country bank on the 'phone, where she learns what has happened. The president of the bank puts Lila on the 'phone and she asks for Frank. She dismisses him with the statement that she is going home with her mother, and admonishes him to be good to his wife. Frank explains to the bank president that, falling suddenly ill, he had turned the money over to Lila for delivery and no one except his wife and Lila suspects his intended absconding.

Scotty's only daughter, Ethel, was becoming gradually blind. Doctors made an examination, and concluded that an operation was necessary to save the girl's sight, the cost of which would be two hundred dollars. Scotty had not the required sum and to make things worse, lost his job at the factory. At this state of affairs, Scotty, determined to save Ethel from a bitter life, set out into the world to find work. His wanderings led him to an oil well, where a goodly foreman pressed him into service. It was not long before Scotty was sent out on a special job near the wells. Meanwhile, the foreman's little girl had started from her mother's side and wandered to dangerous ground near a cliff. Scotty saw the little one and risked his own life to rescue her. He climbed the treacherous precipice and carried the child safely to the wells. His heroic act was witnessed by the frantic mother through a surveying instrument. At the wells Scotty fell, exhausted, and was carried to the foreman's house. On regaining consciousness he told of his own little girl back home becoming more and more blind every day, and to save whom he was struggling. His tale struck deep into the hearts of the men, all of whom had witnessed his valiant deed. It was voted to lake a collection, and, with the foreman as the largest contributor, Scotty was enabled to save his daughter from a calamity shortly worse death.

A wealthy old man is murdered after deciding to write his nephew out of his will. Fearing that he will be accused of the murder, his nephew takes flight, but with the help of a young woman whose life he saves, he sets out to try to track down the actual murderer.

David Garth, a country physician, earns only enough for a bare existence. His daughter, Winifred, takes care of their home. The doctor distrusts modern medical science and refuses to have anything to do with it. He is, naturally, infuriated when he learns that Kent, a young surgeon, has come to the village. The old man is further incensed when he learns that Winifred has taken a liking to Kent and refuses to meet him. Despite her father's prejudice Winifred and Kent become infatuated with each other and hold clandestine meetings. Dr. Garth falls into the snares of Shrubbs, a money lender. Shrubbs has a note of the doctor's and threatens to foreclose on the cottage. Tom, a servant of Garth's, steals the note from Shrubbs' office. Kent, in response to a letter from Winifred, leaves his office while Tom is committing the theft. The next morning the theft is discovered and Shrubbs offers $500 reward for anyone who will identify the thief. One of the townsfolk volunteers the information that Kent left the building late in the evening and the doctor corroborates the statement. Meanwhile Tom offers the note to Winifred and she tells him to return it. He leaves town at the same time Kent is accused of the robbery. Tom rushes back to Winifred and tells her of the arrest. They go to town to vindicate Kent. Tom declares his guilt and demands the $500 as a reward for finding the thief, himself. Shrubbs is compelled to pay and Kent makes him promise not to prosecute Tom. The doctor consents to the marriage of Kent and Winifred.

Steve Frazer, a young cowpuncher on the Bar X Ranch, loved Madie, the winsome daughter of Chet Howard, the sheriff, and she was not indifferent to the manly cowboy. Loverlike, they had a post office in the mountains, among the rocks, and many little notes were exchanged between the happy pair. The mountains sheltered a pair of holdup men, who had long terrorized the country, and the cattlemen after a conference, decided to offer a reward for the capture, dead or a live, of the mysterious bandits. The notices were posted by the sheriff, but the depredations of the bandits continued, and one morning a ranchman, going home with a large amount of money, the payroll for his employees, was held up and robbed by one of the pair. The bandit escaped into the shelter of the mountain and by a strange coincidence cached the bag of gold in the lover's post office. Shortly after Steve Frazer rode up to get his accustomed note and found instead the bag of gold. Leaving the note and taking the gold, he hurries to the sheriff's home to report his discovery. A posse is formed and they start immediately for the scene of the holdup. In the meantime the bandit who committed the daring crime has sent his confederate, with minute instructions, to procure the gold cached in the lover's post office. He finds the place, but instead of the desired gold he finds a note: "If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut our love in two." Believing that his partner has duped him, he returns to the rendezvous and accuses him of double crossing him. This is denied emphatically, and together they return to the rock, but only find the note. Both are now thoroughly angry, and accusations against each other are fast and furious. "When thieves fall out, honest men get their dues," and forgetting where they are, start to fight. They are thus engaged when the posse come upon them and they are easily captured. The reward offered for their capture goes to Steve Frazer and he is now in a position to claim the winsome Madie Howard, and the culmination is a happy one.

'Arriet Rogers, the daughter of a retired costermonger, Tom Rogers, has two very ardent suitors, Bill Larkin and Bob 'Armon. Bill is a sailor at the London docks and is a very steady young fellow. Bob, on the other hand, is not nearly so steady, but makes a lot of money betting on horses. In this way, by helping him rake in several good pots. Bob curries favor with old man Rogers, who promises him that he shall wed his daughter, 'Arriet. They are married in great style and look regular toffs on their wedding day, driving down Whitechapel in grand style. Bill is abroad in his ship and does not hear of the wedding until long afterwards. Luck is fickle and soon turns against Bob 'Armon, who loses not only all his own money, but all the savings of his father-in-law. Then he takes to drinking heavily and badly ill-treats his wife, who is about to present him with an heir. His drunken and thriftless habits are such that old man Rogers soon dies of a broken heart, leaving 'Arriet in the sole care of her now utterly brutal husband. Even after the birth of 'Arriet's baby, Bob continues his downward career. After a drunken row in a public house, in which he severely wounds a pot companion, he is obliged to flee the country and leaves his wife utterly penniless. 'Arriet has now no means of supporting herself and the baby and is reduced to such straits that she is obliged to beg in the streets, to save herself from starvation. One day, when soliciting alms in a public house, she meets Bill Larkin, who has just returned from a long voyage. She recognizes him, but so weak has she become from lack of food, that she is unable to bear the shock and sinks to the floor in a swoon. Bill has her carried to her home and sends for a doctor. It is too late, however, for starvation has so shattered her health that she dies the next day, after receiving Bill's promise that he will care for her child as if she were his own. Bill faithfully fulfills his vow for the sake of the little woman he so dearly loved,

"Lady Fingers" Hilgard is the black sheep of a fine English family. He runs a dance hall at Lumber Cove and Babette is his favorite. But Babette turns her affections to Blue Blazes Rawden when he leads his men into the Cove for a spree, and Hilgard taunts him into a duel, the winner to take the money, the resort and the girl. Hilgard is killed, but Babette finds Rawden's gun has not been discharged and fires one shot, persuading Rawden that he shot in self-defense. Hilgard's mother and younger brother come to camp and the old lady shows a motherly affection for the man she believes to have been her boy's pal, but Babette, scorned, tells the brother Rawden killed "Lady Fingers," and unable to deny, Blue Blazes again hits the trail alone, in spite of Babette's frenzied entreaties.

This picture tells the story of Ralph Tillman, a clever United States Secret Service Agent and telegraph operator, who is instructed to report to the War Department. He is sent to General Sickles to become a northern spy. He chooses Frank Lyons, another telegraph operator to accompany him. Before leaving Washington, he calls upon his fiancée, Vera Colby, and tells her of his perilous assignment. In the South, Tillman meets Roxy, a beautiful waif, who understands telegraphy. She falls in love with him, but discovers that he is a Northern spy. She catches him telegraphing important news, covers him with her revolver and telegraphs to the Confederate camp that she has caught a spy. He tells her of his love in the North, and she permits him to escape. Tillman goes North to his sweetheart, finds her married, and returns South to bring love and happiness to Roxy.

Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to the hacienda of the Mexican officer, Senor Paranze, where his wounds are dressed by Senora Paranze. The latter falls in love with the American when he defends her from her brutal husband. She is about to aid him to escape when she discovers that he has a sweetheart. Learning who the girl is, Senora Paranze bids Wallace go to a certain spot and there await further instructions as to his escape. She then writes a note to Dorothy telling her to meet her wounded lover there. Dorothy receives the note and with her father makes a night ride to the spot. On arriving, the three Americans are captured by Mexican bandits. The Senora had arranged it. She awaits to enjoy the sight of her triumph. But it is more than she can stand; she attempts to secure their freedom. Unable to do this she returns to her husband. In the meantime Dorothy secures a knife and cuts the bonds of her lover and by an adroit action the pair holds up the chief and the band. They escape to be pursued across the border, where a skirmish takes place. A squad of American cavalry rescues the lieutenant and his party and drives off the Mexicans.

They are true blue villains, both of them, and they are father and son. What is more to the point, they also are crooked lawyers. The son's wife is allowed none of the pleasures of life, but is obliged from morning till night to wash dishes, clean house, keep the rum bottle filled, and to discharge faithfully other innumerable duties which her husband sees fit for her to do. The lawyers are made the legal advisers of a pretty young girl. They plot that Villain, Jr., shall marry the girl and get the money, the disposal of the present Mrs. Villain, Jr., to be left to the future. However, the girl finds an able ally, and together they break the fact to the wife. She joins her muscle to theirs, well developed by her years of hard work, and father and son are worsted. In the finale the son comes crashing through the walls of his father's bedroom in a cycle car. nearly paralyzing the latter with fright. They both take a drink, however, and call it square.

"Fighting Dan" McCool of the Confederate army, is detailed to visit Reidville as a private citizen and look out for spies who may be enlisting. There he meets Edith, a charming southern girl, and he immediately becomes suspicious of Bert, who is paying ardent court to the young woman. There is a call for troops and men from every walk of life abandon their labors and take up the cause of the South. Bert swaggers about in his new uniform and for the first time it is noticed that Dan has not declared himself as a volunteer. He is branded as a coward and is shunned by Edith and her friends. Within a few days Dan secures positive evidence of Bert's treachery, which is to give the Confederate battery to the Federals. A fierce engagement takes place in the village street and Bert displays his cowardice. Terror reigns and the southerners flee before the fierce and unexpected assault of the enemy. Dan now sees that it is time for him to act. He picks up Bert's discarded sword, rallies the troops and leads them to victory. Once again he is "Fighting Dan" McCool and the day is saved. As the evening falls Dan again visits Edith's house, where news of his valor has preceded him. He is now seen in his true light and when Edith promises him her hand, the hero declares that the day has brought him a double victory.

Like many other little boys, Sonny Jim hates the dark. At bedtime his mother tucks him in his crib, surrounded by Chap, his dog, and a Teddy Bear. After she has put out the light and gone downstairs, his eyes get big and round with fright. Finally he creeps to the stairs and calls down, "Say Daddy Jim, it's awful dark up here." Daddy puts him back in bed, telling him very gravely not to be a "'fraid cat." Daddy's business is not going well, he must raise money immediately, and meeting Old Skinflint Pennyworth, desperately requests a loan. Old Skinflint finally agrees. Daddy Jim gives Old Skinflint his 30-day note for $5,000. A month later, the note falls due. Daddy has not the money to meet it and begs Skinflint for an extension of time, but receives a flat refusal. Sonny overhears Daddy angrily telling mother that, "The Old Skinflint would break me, if he could." That night, Daddy and mother go to a nearby party. Sonny in bed, awakens and finding himself alone in the dark, is badly scared. He tells Chap, "Perhaps the Old Skinflint has broken my Daddy all to pieces." Sonny steals outdoors, determined to go to Old Skinflint's house and accuse him of the crime. Daddy comes to see if Sonny is all right. Unable to find the boy, he is greatly worried, and rushes back with the news. Sonny, although terribly frightened at the awful darkness, finally reaches Old Skinflint's house. After much hammering and ringing, he is admitted. Old Skinflint is astonished and saddened when Sonny accuses him of "Breaking his Papa." He calls up Sonny's parents and tells them where the boy is. Daddy Jim arrives and finds Sonny asleep in Old Skinflint's arms. The old fellow is smoothing the boy's hair, his face wonderfully softened. Sonny awakes and tells Daddy, "I ain't a 'fraid cat anymore, and he didn't break you, did he Daddy?" Old Skinflint flushes and as Daddy is leaving with Sonny, the old man, whose heart has been touched, slips the canceled note into the boy's hand. Daddy thanks him and goes out with Sonny. Old Skinflint, with a wistful smile sits holding his arm as though Sonny were still there and tenderly stroking the child's head.

Detailed to uncover a suspected still in the hills. Jack Curtis, a revenue officer, poses as an artist and meanders about the hills in search of the necessary evidence. After wandering from place to place he puts up at the little home of Jabez Morton, who is the owner of the still, and meets his daughter, Melinda. a beautiful young girl, Thinking to help along his search for the illicit still, he pretends to fall in love with the girl and for a while she finds herself really in love with him. She has a mountain sweetheart who suspects the supposed artist and tells Melinda of his suspicions. At first she does not believe that her sweetheart's accusations are justified, but she determines that should they prove correct, she will do all in her power to give Curtiss an opportunity to escape. She sees a love letter he writes to a girl up north, and in jealous indignation tells her sweetheart that she will arrange a meeting with Curtiss, which he must attend, concealed outside the door and, if she waives a handkerchief, to shoot Curtiss as he leaves the house. When Curtiss and the girl are alone she asks him to tell her the truth regarding his professed love for her. He at first tries to evade an answer, but when she persists he laughs cruelly, mocking her for thinking that he would really love a rough mountain girl like her. He turns coldly and starts from the house. Melinda stands poised an instant with her handkerchief in her hand ready to give the signal, but her love for the man who has treated her so badly is too strong to be overcome and she allows him to depart unharmed, gone forever from her life. Alone in the room, with a look of despair on her face, she sinks slowly to the floor, and, convulsed with sobs, buries her head in her arms. Her only consolation is in knowing that there is one man who really loves her and will cherish and comfort her.

Major Baker, an officer of the Regular Army during the Civil War, becomes enamored of Millicent Brown, who, while she does not reciprocate his affection, esteems him very highly. He is about to propose to her when the scene is interrupted by the arrival of Col. Theodore Allison, a handsome young Colonel of the Fifth Pennsylvania Artillery. The men are friends and exchange greetings. Major Baker withdraws, and as he is leaving the room suspects that possibly the handsome Colonel is also a suitor for the band of Millicent. We next see the personages in whom we have taken an interest at a ball given at the armory of the Fifth Pennsylvania Artillery. After one of the numbers there is a dispute as to who has the right to the next dance with Millicent, Major Baker or Col. Allison. Each has the young lady a name on his card for the dance in question. The matter is settled by Allison claiming a preference because of the fact that he is the young lady's fiancé and showing to Major Baker the engagement ring on Millicent's finger. Major Baker bows stiffly and withdraws. In the next dance, a Virginia Reel, which is very prettily shown, we see the emotions that are uppermost in the breast of the Major and his growing hatred of the man who has come between him and the realization of his hopes. Suddenly into the ballroom come orderlies, dispatched from the Brigadier General to deliver messages to the various officers on the floor. The one to Allison reads, "Your regiment ordered to the front. Report immediately." A general order stops the dancing and all is confusion and haste. Millicent sees Major Barker crossing the floor on his way out of the armory, and begs him to make up with Col. Allison, as they are both going to the front and there is no knowing what may happen. As the two men face each other with the girl in between them, Major Baker deliberates a moment, then shakes his head and departs. Theodore and Millicent fondly embrace, and the young Colonel leaves for the front. Two months later we see the regiment of tailor-made soldiers of the Fifth Artillery under command of Col. Allison taking charge of Fort Loring, a key position in the mountains within the fighting zone of the Civil War. By a strange coincidence Major Baker is in command of the fort to which Col. Allison is detailed. As Baker's regiment of veterans marches from the fort they jeer and laugh at the "toy soldiers" of Allison's command. After the formal military ceremonies and just before Major Baker's departure, Col. Allison offers him his hand; instead of taking which Major Baker stiffly gives a military salute and joins his company. Time goes on and Major Baker becomes attached to a distant command at another scene of action. Orders are given for the advantage of a body of Union troops through a narrow gorge in the mountains in the vicinity of Fort Loring. Col. Allison is watching the men on the march. His eye suddenly discovers in the distance a Confederate officer ride into the head of the ravine and suddenly darts back toward the ridge of the hill. Presently a large force of Confederates rushes to cover behind the rocks on either side of the rough mountain roadway. Allison issues orders to his gunners down the line. He sees the Union men walk into the trap. There is no chance to save them before they do so, but immediately they begin to retreat and the Confederate force has driven them so that they are under the shelter of the guns commanded by him. Allison gives the order for continuous firing. We see the boys working behind the earthworks and also the effect of their shells upon the advancing enemy. For days the fight goes on. The Confederates attempt to go through but are constantly driven back by the shell fire. The fort is cut off from outside supplies by flank movements of the enemy. This fact is communicated to the General in command of the division in which Major Baker is now a prominent figure. As the dispatch bearer greets the General and the message is opened disclosing the fact that the Fifth Pennsylvania Artillery is fighting against odds without food, he turns to Major Baker and orders him to the immediate relief of the garrison. We now go back to the fort and see the men who were jeered and scoffed at because of their dudish appearance fighting against terrible odds, hungry, thirsty and haggard, but game. Their shell fire is more desultory than ten days previous, and the enemy, realizing the fact, takes a desperate chance and charges through the gorge. At the critical moment relief comes, and Major Baker's regiment rushes into the fort and repels the advancing charge. As Col. Allison staggers feebly and salutes the incoming commanding officer a thrilling and pathetic scene is presented. Baker is covered with dust and powder marks. Allison, who has been shot in the arm, is bravely replacing the colors which fell when the flag staff was struck by a shell, stands before him feebly saluting with his right hand, while the left arm hangs limply by his side. Baker presents his orders. As he does so Col. Allison topples and is about to fall, when Baker grasps him firmly about the waist. The emotions of the two men are better imagined than described. In the soul-stirring thrill of the moment Major Baker forgets his enmity. Holding Allison firmly with his left arm, he extends his right and grasps the hand he has twice refused to hold in friendship. Several months later Major Baker's regiment is passing through the city in which Millicent lives. Col. Allison has been given a furlough on account of his injuries and goes home in company with Major Baker. Millicent, while watching the returning troops, is surprised at the entrance of the two men and their changed relations.

Dancing through the forest surrounding a lake far up in the mountains, Anita of the Forest, a beautiful child of nature, sees two campers on the opposite shore. Frightened, she runs away. The following day she suddenly comes face to face with Earle, one of the campers, and he falls in love at first sight. They gaze at each other a brief moment, then her shyness causes her to dash into the dense woods and hide. She meets Herbert, the other camper, who attempts to seize her, but she quickly eludes him and goes to her only friend and confidante, an old minister. She tells him of the two strangers, and he warns her against Herbert. Earle and the forest girl meet again, and she introduces him to the old minister, who approves of the young man. Later, they confess their love, and Earle places a ring on her finger. Then, for the first time, a man's lips touch hers. Shortly afterwards, the girl is caught by Herbert, who attempts to force his undesirable attentions upon her. Just then the minister appears, and warns the fellow to keep away from the girl. When Herbert learns Earle is engaged to Anita, he endeavors to persuade him to renounce her, telling him of the aspirations he is leaving behind for the sake of an unsophisticated girl. Anita overhears them and sorrowfully hands her ring to Earle. He tenderly replaces it and tells Herbert he intends to marry Anita and that their friendship is at an end. The two men part company and Earle and his bride-to-be go to the old minister, where, amidst the beautiful woodland bowers, they are made man and wife.

Anne Strong and brother, a young Episcopal rector, live together in the rectory of Calvary Parish. The rector is engaged to Marjorie, who does not share in her fiancé's love for children. Marjorie's father forbids her marriage to Strong. Two days later Anne disappears. Later that year Strong finds a baby upon the doorstep of the parish and to the infant is pinned a slip asking Strong to rear and protect the child. Helen. Later Strong receives a note from Marjorie, telling him that because her father has not consented to her marriage that she has entered a convent. Strong learns to love little Helen as she grows older and his explanation to the vestrymen fails to satisfy them, so Strong presents his resignation and takes charge of a mission at Goldfield, Nevada. As years go on, Strong falls in love with Imogene, the daughter of the mine owner. He requests Imogene to become his wife and her father wires to Strong's former parish for information regarding him. The answer is that Strong was compelled to resign his parish because he could not prove the identity of the child. Rushton exposes Strong to the miners. Harold Gordon, after Anne's disappearance in the east, also goes to Goldfield, Nevada, where he becomes superintendent of Rushton's mine. He also proposes for Imogene's hand, but Imogene still loves John Strong. Gordon in a dance hall at San Francisco meets LaBelle Favorita. They quarrel; Gordon is later found dead while Favorita makes her escape. Helen, now a beautiful young girl, saves John Strong's life. Assisted by Imogene, Helen takes Strong to a farm house. Here LaBelle Favorita is now engaged as a maid. As Strong and Favorita recognize each other, the woman confesses that she is Anne Strong, his sister; that Gordon is the father of the foundling placed on John Strong's doorstep, 'neath Calvary's Shadow. At the end of Anne's story, Strong gives Helen, the foundling, to her mother and Imogene, now satisfied to whom the child belongs, begs Strong's forgiveness.

When the little romance between the honest farmer and the sweet refined little school miss sprang up, people shook their heads doubtfully and wonderingly. The village folks had seen many unhappy marriages grow out of a little moonlight and sentiment. They realized that the farmer and the teacher were mismated and they foresaw the ultimate heartache and unrest. But the farmer and the school miss, they looked at their romance with rose colored glasses, and saw sunbeams and song and the old "happy ever after" fairy tale sequel. Well, they married. The farmer was sincere and devoted, but he was blunt and even coarse and uncultured. And after the romance bad graduated down to the dreary monotony of uninteresting intimacy, she became slightly tired, tired of the housework, tired of the sameness, tired of her husband's unpolished demeanor. One day a stranger passed the house. He was a gentleman, well-mannered, clean-cut, well-dressed. They chatted, the whisper of the serpent. And they saw each other again and again, and once they decided to run off. The farmer read the little note. "I'm tired of being a farmer's wife, and have gone away," looked into the shadows and the silence and prayed only that she be forgiven. The train on which they were eloping met with an accident, and the school miss was badly hurt. Once the gentleman looked at her glanced covertly about, and unperceived quietly slipped out of the station and away. He could not afford to have his name linked with a woman in a train accident. She got well again, and wended her way back to the little farm. She walked into the orchard again, and saw her husband sitting in a pensive dream. What his eyes saw, none can say, but suddenly they looked up and upon the form of her for whom he was longing. In a moment she was held in strong arms, and her repentant kiss eradicated all the memory of her weakness.

Joe, the hostler at the "Magpie," wooed and won fair Annie and through years of cloudless sky a baby crept into their house and grew into childhood. One day down the lane chanced a gentleman to roam. Little baby laughed and smiled at him and the child that Joe and Annie had prayed for brought about the mother's sin. 'Ostler Joe came home one night to find the house deserted. Fair Annie had listened to tales of a great city and, forgetting everything, love, honor, child and husband, she had gone with the handsome gentleman who had passed by one day. Years passed by and Annie rose to fame and glory, but the law of compensation followed out its course. One day Joe read in the paper that the woman he had loved and who had deserted him, was dying in a London garret, destitute, poverty-stricken and alone. Death found her locked in those strong arms that had held her as a bride, and whose love had never faltered; a great, strong love that was higher and deeper than sin and a woman's weakness, greater than doubt and hatred and revenge, and so it is that the stone above her grave bears the sacred name of wife.

Willie prevails upon his father to buy him a game called "New Magic Tricks." Father willingly presents his son with the game. That evening Willie takes a snooze in the big armchair and dreams. A magician walks calmly into the room, puts Willie wise to a few tricks, and with the knowledge thus gained Willie starts out to "start something," and a huge amount of fun follows. Everything Willie touches with his magic wand turns into life.

"Salvation" Smith is a traveling preacher, who stops at Cattleville, Ariz. for the purpose of introducing religion among the cowboys. Our first scene shows the cowboys having a lot of fun with the new preacher. The next day we see the cowboys doing some very amusing dancing and acrobatic stunts when "Salvation" comes in and announces that he is going to hold a prayer meeting. The boys laugh, but Nellie, the daughter of old Pop Greyson, who keeps the hotel, comes in and insists that the parson be given a show. Smith prays, and the cowboys, touched by his fervor, respond to his preaching. "Salvation" becomes interested in Nellie, and he tries to teach her something about the Bible. Big Bill comes in, and thinking the minister is trying to court the girl, he strikes Smith, Jim Roberts, who is Nellie's real sweetheart, enters and calls Bill down good and hard. Bill and Jim agree to fight it out in the woods, where they meet. A thrilling duel ensues in which both men are shot, Bill seriously. Jim thinks he has killed Bill, and he crawls away. "Salvation" finds Bill and carries him to the hotel, where he is pronounced dead, and is laid out on the table. The sheriff goes after Jim, who, being wounded in the leg, has crawled to "Salvation" Smith's cabin. The sheriff goes after Jim, who, being wounded in the leg, has crawled to "Salvation" Smith's cabin. The sheriff is heard coming, and Jim begs Smith to save his life. A thrilling dramatic situation follows when the gentle preacher decides to protect the cowboy, and when, in answer to the sheriff's question, "Have you seen Jim Roberts?" Smith tells his first lie. That night Smith helps Jim escape on his horse. A very funny comedy scene follows in which Big Bill, who is laid out under a sheet as a corpse, comes to life and makes the watching cowboys believe he is a ghost. "Salvation" Smith leaves for other fields. While preaching on the street Jim Roberts, who believes he is a murderer, comes up. Smith stops preaching, grabs Jim and tells him the truth. Our last scene shows Jim and Smith being received by the cowboys back at Cattleville.

Oscar Bingham believes he is the only pebble on the beach, so far as Mamie Devere, the popular musical comedy actress, is concerned, but one morning an anonymous letter from "A Friend," causes him most furiously to think, and act. Can this accusation of flightiness directed against his darling Mamie have any foundation in truth? He will investigate the matter forthwith. Evening arrived, Oscar dons his "glad rags" and hies himself to the Imperial Theater, and when he goes round onto the stage to visit Mamie at the end of the first act, the actions of his beloved seem to lend color to the accusations of Oscar's anonymous correspondent. But Oscar must be sure. And this is where his brain-wave occurs. He bribes the theater fireman to change places (and clothes), with him, and whilst impersonating the doughty flame quencher, sees quite enough to quench his own flames of love. An interview with the Fire Chief (during the course of which Oscar gives him an involuntary shower-bath), and an ignominious finish in the "cooler," leave Oscar in a considerably chastened frame of mind, so chastened that he vows never to chase after musical comedy satellites for the future.

Pretty Kitty sends Smaxon and Jimstack, her two unwelcome suitors, off to await her under the old oak tree when she will elope with them. (Of course, neither knows of each other.) Kitty then elopes with Tom. Smaxon and Jimstack do not realize how lucky they have been until one day they peep into Parker's window and find him scrubbing the floor and she reading a novel. They then agree that "'tis better to have loved and lost," and so does Tom.

A young girl elopes with her sweetheart and becomes wealthy, while her parents become poverty stricken. One day her mother, in search of work, gets a cook's position in a beautiful residence where her cooking is not satisfactory, arid she is again discharged. Being engaged and hired by the butler she never sees the mistress of the house until she comes to leave, when she discovers it's her own daughter.