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- Ned Gillett's father, head of a big trust company, kills himself when it is discovered that be has embezzled, and Ned, convinced that Francis Hardor, his sweetheart, would not marry the son of an embezzler, goes West without telling her. In the mountains he rescues, Larence, an old miner, from Billows Jones, a desperado. In revenge, Jones dislodges the old man's shack from its perch on the hillside. Ned escapes, but the miner is fatally Injured. He tells Ned of the Mainspring, a mine in Calvert City which he had abandoned, intending to return when he could work It. On Ned's arrival in Calvert City he finds Jones selling abandoned mines to Easterners. Jones has a sucker in tow who proves to be the brother of his old sweetheart, Frances, who is with him. She meets Ned but ignores him, and embarrassed at his presence, returns home. Ned files his claim, and saves young Hardor from being swindled by Jones. They then become partners in the "Mainspring," which turns out well, but they have trouble with the miners, instigated by Jones. Frances and Peggy, Hardor's sweetheart, visit the mine and are caught in a fire started by tools of Jones. They are all rescued by Ned. The miners attack the office building. Ned is wounded during the fight, but Jones is killed. After his recovery Ned awakens to find Frances at his side. Mutual explanations heal the old estrangement, and both are happy.
- Madge O'Mara supports her invalid mother by working as a cashier in a cheap chophouse on the waterfront. Madge is ambitious and when Reginald Van Dorn crosses her path she loses her heart and head. Portuguese Joe, who runs the chop house, becomes jealous of the boyish millionaire. Reginald and Madge resolve to be married. The wedding date is set, but through the interference of Van Dorn's parents and Portuguese Joe, all that Madge receives is a farewell note from her lover. She resolves to be revenged. Three years later, unhappily married, Reginald Van Dorn meets with an accident and Madge O'Mara, now a nurse, attends him. She holds in her hand the power of his life or his death. As she is about to let the man die in revenge for her wrongs, the professional honor as a nurse and her old love for him returns and she saves him.
- Tom Winters and May Summers marry and remove to the city. They are joined later by Jerry Summers, who marries Miss June Fall a year later. On the wedding day Jerry joyfully telegraphs his mother that she has a new daughter. On the same day, Tom telegraphs his mother, announcing the arrival of a new baby. The telegrams arrive together, and are misdirected by the local operator. Mrs. Winter receives Mrs. Summer's telegram, and vice versa. The horrified mothers at once set out for the city, where, after an amusing scene, everything is explained.
- The woman teacher at Hokum Center could not handle her unruly pupils. When the Mayor of the town is attracted by the commotion he fires her on the spot and sends at once to the city for a man teacher. Bill, the new teacher, arrives and receives a warm reception by the pupils. His arm becomes so tired spanking them that next day he opens school with a fangled spanking machine installed. This does the business and the pupils decide that the new teacher had best be let alone. May, the belle of the village, is fond of Jed, who considers himself too big to go to school. When he learns that the new teacher is paying court to his May, he decides to go. Bill at first thinks that Jed is a little fellow, because he is slumped away down in the seat, but is amazed to discover Jed's size. He realizes that if Jed continues to be a pupil his reign as master of the school will soon come to an end. For just such an emergency he has provided a bottle of "Courage," which he keeps behind the map, and of this he imbibes at frequent intervals. The Mayor pays the school a visit to see how his new "man" teacher is getting along and finds everything fine. Bill decides that is is now brave enough to thrash the unruly Jed. He makes an attempt, but fails and seeks safety in flight.
- When Lee visits Eddie in the hospital he becomes smitten with the nurses. He tells Eddie to move over to one side of the bed so that he can lie beside him. Eddie refuses. Then he tries to change places with Eddie. Eddie is willing, for he is dead anxious to see the baseball game that afternoon. The plan is spoiled when the two are seen about to change raiment, and Lee is thrown out of the place, while Eddie is put back to bed. After several attempts on the part of Eddie to get out and Lee to get in, Lee finally does get in, and the change is made. Meanwhile a new nurse and an outside doctor came on duty. The nurse is ugly, and gets her instructions mixed as well, mistaking Lee for a patient that is to have a leg cut off. Eddie is seen buying a ticket for the ball game by Edith, the pretty head nurse, who is out for an airing, and she and Gamble, who also happens along, give chase. They capture Eddie and take him hack to the hospital just in time to prevent the operation that is about to take place, thus saving Lee's leg and getting Eddie back to bed without his seeing the game that caused most of the trouble.
- The Earlings are the leaders of their town's "peace-at-any-price" propagandists. However, their small children, Daisy and Bobbie, are strong for war play. Recruiting officers, in order to frustrate the parents' plans, persuade the children to enlist as an honorary soldier and Red Cross nurse. The newspapers publish the story of the pacifist's children enlisting, and it is read during a big peace meeting. Daisy hotly replies to her parents' scoldings with the statement that she'd rather enlist than have to be conscripted. This puts the matter in a new light to the peace advocates, and there is a rush to the recruiting offices.
- Jabs get work on a railroad, Jabs as chief baggage smasher and Pokes as assistant. Pokes does all the work, while Jabs gets the tips and honors. A messenger from a bank with a million dollars in his grip arrives at the station, followed by Lanky Luke, a crook, and also by a female detective to see that he is not molested. The detective's and messenger's grips get mixed, and when the detective goes to the waiting room to doll up she finds she has the wrong grip. Meanwhile the crook, having knocked out the messenger and taken possession of the grip which he thinks contains the million, is waiting for the train, when the detective accosts him. After a fight, the detective is overpowered and placed on the railroad track. The train is approaching when Jabs, seeing the form on the track, summons Pokes to the rescue. Pokes returns to the station with the fainting female in his arms and is met by Jabs, who relieves him of his burden and carries her into the station where he receives the hearty congratulations and applause of the crowd. Pokes gets down behind the ticket rail and murmurs: "What's the use of being a hero, anyway?"
- Prunevllle had real cause to be proud of its opera house. Its manageress, doesn't she do everything in it from taking tickets to filling in on the stage in an emergency? But when Imperial Burlesquers came in town, one of its members, Tessie, attracts the husband of the manageress. That night finds the manageress a very busy woman, selling and taking tickets and acting as usher. Curtain time finds her behind the scenes to lend a hand while her husband leads the orchestra - not, however, without a lot of "spiritual" assistance. All goes well until the end of the first act when the husband, becoming very thirsty, borrows some money from one of the audience and sneaks off to the family entrance next door. He encounters Tessie, who is not averse to a little refreshment. When it comes time for the second act to open there is neither an orchestra leader nor dance specialist. The manageress perforce must take the dancer's place, which she does, overlooking the absence of her husband. But when the said husband sneaks back to his place in the pit with powder marks of a pair of woman's arms about his neck and, at the same time, Tessie hurries to her place on the stage and the wife sees the powder on her arms - it is too much for her and a fight starts in which everybody becomes mixed. Finally triumphant, she turns her attentions to her battered husband and taking him fondly in her arms assures him that she knows she stopped Tessie just in time to keep her from losing him.
- Coincident with the arrival of Lieutenant Borden at Port Congo to suppress the lawlessness of the renegade, Jahalli, James McGraw and wife, together with their daughter, Doris, leave for McGraw's ostrich farm. Jahalli has long since vowed revenge on the McGraws for fancied wrongs, and, with his horde of savages, he descends upon the McGraw dwelling. Laying siege to the home, the desperate bandit is opposed by McGraw and his few retainers. Doris McGraw resolves to escape and go for assistance. The horses have been stolen, and as a last resort she mounts an ostrich and rides the fleet bird to Fort Congo. There she finds Lieutenant Borden and his soldiers. She leads the rescuers to the McGraw dwelling. They arrive in time, for the savages have set fire to the home and death seems near to the occupants. Lieutenant Borden never forgets the bravery of Doris, and later, when peace has come again, he asks her for her heart and hand. Willingly she gives him her love.
- A peek into the colonel's ammunition factory is rewarded by the sight of a patriotic party, headed by a bunch of healthily laying hens who help their country by their efforts, even dispatching the "hen-shells" into an adjacent building, there to remain until they grow "ripe." A sight of Colonel Pepper's signal station is seen, and his signals, which mean "Get ready for target practice," are shown, the hens all obeying. The mobilized farm, run by Colonel Pepper, exploits all of the animals in training, their patriotic efforts being largely rewarded in the end.