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- An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is shipping her share of the inheritance in a box. When the box arrives, the old maid discovers it contains a full-sized orangoutang, which escapes from the box and causes her no end of trouble when she tries to inveigle him to re-enter his prison. In the apartment next to that of the old maid is a musician who persists in torturing a trombone, to the exasperation of the old maid, who vainly tries to persuade him to cease his efforts. He, however, only slams the door in her face. When she returns to her apartment, she finds that the monk has again made his escape from the box and is roaming around the room, doing what damage he can. It is then that her attention is again called to the musician, who resumes his practice upon the trombone. The orang makes his escape from the apartment via a window and makes his way unmolested down the street, until he arrives at a circus tent, in which a performance is at that time going on. He enters the menagerie tent and proceeds to release all the animals of the menagerie. The elephants and camels are stampeded, and the lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, and other animals, proceed to make for freedom. Many exciting scenes follow, in which the animals terrorize the neighborhood. They are finally all captured by the keepers from the circus. The old maid and the musician make up their differences, and going after the truant monkey, find him engaged in eating fruit at a fruit stand. He is vengefully borne homeward and confined with no chance of escape, while the romance of the old maid and the musician ripens into love.
- The father is busy with his business. The little child is neglected as the mother is occupied in romantic speculations. And then enters the "friend," who sees his opportunity. One evening when the father is detained on business the wife accepts the "friend's" invitation to the theatre. The father returns and finds his wife gone. When the child tells where the mother is, he realizes that her love has flown, and the next morning he arranges for a separation. A year passes and the mother and child are living together, lonely. The "friend" sends her roses and says he is coming that night to claim his love. While dressing, the mother accidentally finds a white rose that her husband gave her a year before on their wedding anniversary. Memories come back to her, but she disregards them and rushes into the garden to meet her friend. The child, alone and frightened, goes to find its mother in the garden. The child picks a white rose and approaches with it. This brings the mother to her senses and she rushes back to the house with her baby. The baby then takes sick from exposure. The father is sent for, but before he arrives the baby dies. The mother and father are reconciled by their common grief. In the garden the mother sees a vision of her child, which she follows to the house. Here they find that the child is still alive, so the family is happily reunited.
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a quarrel. She tries to make him sign the "demands" of the Wives' Club to which she belongs, and leaves him when he refuses. He telephones to the Strike-Breaking Bureau, and the manager gets a girl from the burlesque troupe to act as strike-breaker till Wifie gives in. Dolly Dimples fits wonderfully well into the Carter household, and all goes merrily till Wifie telephones to ask Hubby if he is ready to accede to her demands. Dolly's voice over the phone and the reply of Carter that her place is satisfactorily filled by the strike- breaker makes her furious and she sets out in hot haste for the house. Hubby has telephoned that he needs police protection, and when the cop appears he gives Carter a whistle, saying that he is to blow it if help is needed. When Wifie sees the blonde beauty she rushes at her to scratch out her eyes. Hubby calls the cop and threatens to have her arrested. She succumbs, and he makes her tear up the "demands" before his eyes. She consents, so that she may have the pleasure of dismissing the blonde strike-breaker.
- Manoah and his wife mourn deeply because both have passed the middle-age mark and remain childless. As they become older, their sorrow increases until one day the old wife calls upon the Lord and prays that they may have a child to gladden their declining years. An angel appears in answer to her prayer and prophecies that she shall have a son but that his hair must never be cut. The angel also declares that the son shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines. In due time Manoah's wife has a son and names him Samson. As he grows to manhood, his extraordinary strength is the marvel of his parents and the community. When he has attained a man's estate he goes to Timmath, where he meets and learns to love Zorah, a Philistine's beautiful daughter. Samson overcomes his father's objections to his marrying a Philistine maiden, and he conducts his parents to Timmath that they may see his bride. While they are nearing the Vineyard of Timmath a young lion roars at Samson. He becomes imbued with the spirit of the Lord, and after struggling with the beast he breaks its jaws. Arrived at Timmath with his parents the nuptial feast is arranged for and the betrothal is announced. During the interim before his marriage, Samson returns to the spot where he slew the lion and finds that bees have gathered there and have deposited honey in the carcass, Thus at his wedding feast he proposes to his guests the riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness," and he offers to give to him who solves the riddle 30 sheets and 30 changes of garments. Unable to answer the riddle, the Philistines go to Zorah, and threaten her with death unless she draws Samson out and obtains for them the answer. She fights against their threats and persuasions but she finally weakens and after obtaining the answer from Samson she tells the Philistines. When the final day arrives and they answer the riddle Samson is deeply wrought up against his wife because he realizes her deceit. In his anger he renounces her and leaves her with her father. However, when his anger cools he returns and wishes to become reconciled. But in the meantime Zorah's father has given her to another. Samson's anger knows no bounds and he goes into the cornfields of the Philistines' and applies the fire brand. Driven to despair, the Philistines blame Zorah's father as the author of their misfortunes and they burn his house consuming Zorah and her father. Weary of the world, Samson seeks a cave on the top of the rock of Etan and dwells there. But the Philistines cannot rest in their hatred for Samson. They gather an army together and go to take their revenge on their enemy and upon the field of Ramath-Lehi, Samson meets the army of the Philistines and single-handed, with the jawbone of an ass he gives them battle, slaying a thousand soldiers in putting the remainder to flight. Samson then goes to the city of Gaze and strikes terror into the hearts of the people by his feats of strength. Sihon, the ruler of the Philistines, plots to take Samson prisoner, and he has the gates of the city locked against him. But when Samson is ready to leave, he wrenches the huge gates from their hinges and carries them away. Samson now meets the beautiful Delilah and is fascinated by her charms. Neither is she blind to the beauty or his strength and she receives him with favor. Making capital of their love Sihon entices Delilah to ascertain from Samson wherein his great strength lies. She refuses but Sihon convinces her that it is a matter of loyalty to her religion and people and she consents. She leads him to her home and employs her charms to fascinate him and she soothes and coaxes him as only a woman can until he is overcome and tells her: "There hath not come a razor upon mine head. If I be shaven then my strength will go from me." Then a prey to her seductions, he falls asleep and she cuts off his locks and summons Sihon and the soldiers. Then Samson is bound and thrown into prison where his eyes are put out with hot irons. He is then made to grind in the prison house and he is whipped as he works like an animal. When Samson's strength is gone he is for the moment forgotten and as the time passes his hair begins to grow out again. And when Samson's hair is again grown out the Philistines gather in the Temple and make merry and call for Samson that he may make sport for them. Samson is taken from the prison and led into the temple by a small boy. He is jeered and hooted at by the Philistines and is made to bow and do homage to Dagon the fishguard. Then Samson whispers to his boy guide to lead him to the sustaining pillars of the temple that he may lean upon them. Samson now calls upon the Lord for strength that he may be avenged for the loss of his eyes. The populace are wild with insane joy as they behold the once mighty man now their clown. As they rail and jeer him he places his mighty shoulders to the huge pillars. The frenzied mocking is frozen upon their lips and there is an awful silence. Then the massive pillars totter and crumble before his touch, the magnificent temple curves, collapses and tumbles upon the multitude. In that hour of death, the old, blind, dying Samson totters and crawls over the ruins until he finds a certain form, Delilah, and he falls upon the body of the faithless one he loved.
- Walter Jason, a young man from the country, comes to the big city to find a position, but fails to do so. Oswald Trumble, so known to society, though in reality a master crook, strolls through the park, his mind busy with a scheme to steal the jewels of Mrs. Crosby Moore, a leader of society, whose forthcoming fancy-dress ball is the talk of the town. As Trumble approaches the bench where Jason is seated, the young man arises, shows exhaustion and then slowly continues on his way. Struck with Jason's clean-cut appearance, Trumble follows the young man, trails him to the river, and prevents him from committing suicide. Later, we find Trumble and Jason, seated together in the grill of a hotel, the latter doing justice to a full meal, purchased by Trumble. Still later, we find Jason in Trumble's apartments, where the latter, under the guise of disinterested friendship, is urging the young man to exchange his shabby clothing for a more fashionable suit. Still later, Trumble introduces Jason into his social set, setting the young man's mind at rest with the explanation that he, Jason, can be of assistance in the disposition of certain bonds, securities, etc., in which Trumble deals. Jason accepts the explanation, also Trumble's money, and makes himself agreeable to those to whom he is introduced. In the course of events, Jason meets Mildred Moore, only daughter of the society leader whom Trumble has marked as his prey. Mutual attraction follows the meeting, though Jason, while recognizing the fact that Miss Mildred is partial to him, forbears from taking advantage of the situation. On the contrary, the crafty Trumble urges Jason to press his suit, for the master criminal knows that Jason's entree to the Moore home will give him the opportunity for which he is waiting. A week prior to the date of the fancy-dress ball, Jason received a card of invitation. He decides not to avail himself of the invitation. Trumble, in a rage, accuses Jason of ungratefulness. Whereupon Jason relents, and sends his acceptance. That night Trumble plans his coup. Thus Jason will be certain to stroll outside the country house with Mildred Moore. Some pretext will be invented whereby Jason will be called away from her, her abduction will follow, and another young woman, attired in Mildred's costume, or its duplicate, will be substituted in her place. Upon Jason's return, he will conduct his masked partner into the house, where, with the assistance of outside confederates, Mrs. Moore will be enticed upstairs and robbed of her jewels. Everything goes as planned, save that Jason, upon his return to the garden fails to see upon the arm of his partner a certain mole, to which, earlier in the evening he had referred as a "beauty spot." His suspicions aroused, Jason conducts his partner to the house, excuses himself, and loses no time in acquainting the detectives, who are present at Mrs. Moore's request, with his suspicions. The girl is caught, unmasked, given the third degree and forced to confess. A trap is set, and Trumble, with others of his gang, are captured. Jason forces Trumble to tell where Mildred is secreted and then rescues the frightened girl. Having returned the girl to her mother, Jason makes an honest confession, in which he accuses himself as the instrument, though an unwilling one, whereby Trumble was enabled to carry out his scheme. Mildred and her mother forgive him, however, and soon after the engagement of the young couple is announced.
- Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman, being friends of both, persuade them to submit to the marriage. This they do. Eileen standing on one side of a curtain and Brandon on the other. The next day Eileen and Brandon are house guests of the Hardman's. When Eileen has finished dressing for dinner she locks her bedroom door, and turning quickly collides with Brandon, whose room is adjoining hers. The two have seen each other on different occasions and there has been mutual admiration. Eileen threatens to tell her husband if Brandon doesn't immediately leave this room, so near to hers. Hardman and his wife, listening at the keyhole, shout to Brandon not to be afraid, for Eileen is his own wife, whereupon Eileen faints in her husband's arms.
- Unhappy with his marriage, The Dreamer runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convinces him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories: in the first he is Napoleon, in the second he is a Knight, in the third he is a Sultan--but he dies in all of them. Meanwhile, his wife is about to be sent into the desert while refusing to marry a Stranger. Before this can happen, the Dreamer arrives and sends the Stranger into the desert. The Dreamer becomes again a loved, respected member of the Town.
- The gambler takes his sick wife to the mountains. The doctor has informed him that she will need special care, and he, with rich, red blood in his veins, is disgusted with life and her in particular. At the local saloon he finds comfort in the smile of one of the female regulars. Jim is jostled and insulted by the cowboys until, maddened, he draws his gun and fires. The posse pursue him, but he escapes to the mountains. Meanwhile, the wife has discovered her husband's infidelity; leaving a note she goes into the hills with the avowed purpose of dying. At the stream she finds Jim, weak from the loss of blood. She nurses him and he, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, where she rapidly regains her health. Jim commences to realize the meaning of manhood. Time goes on; the wife feels now that she can regain her husband's love and starts for the mining camp. On the road her husband staggers to her feet and dies, having been shot after a saloon brawl. She goes on, meets Jim, and together they face the future.
- A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.
- Abraham Lieberman is a coal and ice dealer on the lower East Side, his little business being conducted in a miserable basement, his living rooms being adjacent thereto. But Abraham is happy withal, for his daughter, Rebecca, has come to him from Russia. A month later Rebecca is working in a sweat shop to help keep their little home. There she meets David Cohen, foreman of the place, who falls in love with her. But she tells him he has no chance to win her heart, as it is held in keeping across the seas. A month later her sweetheart arrives from Russia, and David leaves New York. Meanwhile, Jake has become Americanized and desires to take up the study of medicine, but has not sufficient means to enter college. Rebecca comes to his aid, and her little savings enable him to take up his course. In due time he graduates and he hangs up his "shingle," but his patients are poor and so his living is precarious. At this juncture, along comes a Schatchen, a Jewish matchmaker, and offers to get him a rich wife. The girl in question is very homely, but her rich surroundings dazzle Jake and he succumbs. Thus is Rebecca thrown over for Mammon. A few months later the "happy" bridal pair and their friends start for the synagogue. On the way their machine runs down a poor girl who has just come from a drug store with medicine for her sick father. The girl is Rebecca. She is taken to the hospital, where, in deep repentance, her recalcitrant lover begs her forgiveness. In the synagogue, meanwhile, the homely bride awaits the coming of Jake, but her father rushes in and tells of his base desertion. Back at the hospital, Rebecca, regaining consciousness, repudiates Jake and tells him to go to his waiting bride. Paying the penalty of his transgression, he dejectedly goes forth, but deeper humiliation is to follow. Arriving at the synagogue, he is met by an infuriated woman, who spurns him and casts him off, leaving him to the mercy of her friends, who beat and maltreat him, as he well deserves. Months later, David, the foreman, returns, and learning of Rebecca's dilemma, seeks her out and again pleads for her love. Rebecca accepts him and happiness at last comes to the Jewish girl.
- Robert is offered the superintendency of a mine in the west on two conditions: first, that he report at once, and second, that he bring a wife with him. He proposes to his old sweetheart, but she rejects him. He next proposes to another, who accepts until she sees that he is wearing the picture of his sweetheart. He proposes to a third, but is rejected. Then he goes into the telegraph office to wire that he cannot accept the offer. In the office he meets Victoria, an old acquaintance, he proposes, and is accepted. In the meantime sweetheart No. 1 finds a telegram which Robert dropped, telling of the offer of $10,000 if he will report with a wife. She goes in search of Robert. Sweethearts No. 2 and 3 also go in search of the victim. He finds the three waiting for him, but beats them to the church and is married to his old acquaintance.
- Violet Foster engages a new maid and Phil becomes enamored of her. Violet finds the two embracing. She secures a divorce and is awarded alimony, which Phil says he will never pay. He travels in Europe and has a gay time, while Violet is eking out a meager existence in one of the large cities. Phil hires a lawyer when he returns and the attorney gives him his wife's address on a card. Later he meets the maid and she gives him an address similar to Violet's. Phil leaves the card on the table. The next day he goes to Violet's address by mistake. He goes to sleep while waiting. She sees a fat bill book protruding from his pocket and takes it, leaving him a receipt for the alimony.
- When a minister tries to clean up Riverton, he finds an unexpected ally in the barkeeper's daughter.
- Madeline Albright left the city to take up her life on the plains as the wife of cattleman Jeff Albright. The time came when the loneliness of the vast plains palled upon Madeline; she could not resist longing to return to the life and amusements and action, and when she left she took her baby boy Jack with her. Jack grew up and went West, and finally went to work as a cowboy on his father's cattle ranch; neither realized their relationship. Here he met and fell in love with Anita Carew, the foreman's daughter. One day he received a letter from his mother: she was sick and needed to undergo a major operation. A good position as a sheepherder offered itself and, throwing aside his pride, he took it. He became hated and shunned by all but Anita, who still believed in him. But Jack rebelled at the cattlemen's taunts and soundly thrashed one of them. With this Jeff Albright, his father, decided to drive him from the range. In the meantime Jack's mother arrived at his cabin, and was there when Jeff and his men rode up and delivered the ultimatum. She heard a familiar voice and stepped out. Jeff recognized the woman he had yearned for so many years and cattle feuds were forgotten. And there was the boy, his own son, whom he had come to "clean out." And from there on, well, another story commences there, but it is left to the imagination of the spectator.
- The Curate of the boarding school is in love with the madcap, much to the principal's displeasure. While the girls are out playing ball, Harry, the madcap's real lover, climbs over the wall and whistles to Rose, who makes a dive for the wall. The ball which is being thrown to her strikes the principal, knocking her to the ground. She is furious and throws the ball out of the picture, striking the curate who happens to be reading nearby. He picks up the ball, throws it, and strikes Harry, who falls off the wall. Meanwhile, the principal has seen Harry on the wall and Rose beneath it and goes after her, sending her back to the classroom. The girls all rush into the room. Rose tells them to close the door and hold it while she draws the teacher's picture. The principal takes her out and locks her in the cellar. The girls that night try to free Rose. She writes a note and throws it out the window. The iceman finds it, but not knowing how to read he gives it to the Curate, who immediately sees that the note is for Harry. The Curate decides to save Rose and marry her himself. The girls play numerous pranks on the teacher and finally secure her and drag her to the room where she has locked Rose in; they leave the teacher bound and gagged while they continue with the party. When they hear the usual whistle, Rose rushes out of the room. She and Harry see the Curate climbing up the ladder to the room where Rose is supposed to be. They get the girls, who are all in pajamas, into an automobile and drive off for the wedding. Meanwhile the Curate has taken the bride, whom hie thinks is Rose, to the sheriff's office. There he discovers it is the principal, and is about to be married when Rose, Harry, and all the pajama-clad girls enter, and a double wedding takes place.
- Harmon Hicks was enthusiastic about ancestors. He lived in a small country town, and Hank was in love with his daughter Charmion. Hicks received a note from Professor I.M. Bunk, saying that Harmon was descended from royalty. Harmon and Charmion began to cultivate aristocratic airs. I.M. Bunk arrived in the village. Hicks was dressed up like the Lord Mayor of London and Charmion was in all her silks and lace Bunk was instantly smitten with Charmion's looks. Charmion told Bunk that he must bring her a dog with a blue-blooded pedigree. After making a fictitious chart. Bunk went to find a dog. Hank climbed through the window into his room at the hotel and there filled out a chart to suit himself. Hicks was delighted with his pedigree and immediately invited the neighbors. Hank exchanged the chart tacked on the wall for the one he had made. The neighbors began to snicker. Hicks found out the substitution and threw Bunk out of the house.
- Stanley Claverton, son of the secretary of the interior, is given a dinner by his father in honor of his entrance into diplomatic circles. At the dinner he hears of a famous Egyptian woman named Anainoe, who is better known as "The Sphinx," and he longs to meet her. She recently arrived from Egypt. Of the large number of prominent men at the capitol who have fallen for her charms. Troubetskoi, the Russian Ambassador, seems to be deepest in love with her and has become her favorite. The next day Stanley sees her riding by in her carriage and is more deeply affected by her beauty. Madga, the sister of his chum, Sherborne, is getting more attached to Stanley and invites him to an impromptu dinner that evening. He is about to accept her offer when her brother informs him that he has secured two invitations to "The Sphinx." He decides to go with Sherborne but promises Madga that he will write and explain. His visit to "The Sphinx" only adds to his growing love for her. The following day he receives a commission from the secretary of state to represent this country in Egypt. He is handed important papers to deliver to the Khedive. On his way to Madga's home to keep the promised call he sees "The Sphinx" in a passing auto. He hails a taxi and gives instructions to the driver to follow the car ahead of him. He forgets about Madga and when he arrives at the home of "The Sphinx" he hands his card to the servant who informs him that the madame is not at home. Greatly depressed he leaves, but meets on the steps the Russian Ambassador who enters the house with a latch key. Gradually the Russian Ambassador is being forgotten by "The Sphinx" in her newfound love for Stanley. In order to forget his sorrow, Stanley prepares to go on his journey but before he leaves his friends take him to dinner at a restaurant where he again meets "The Sphinx" and Troubetskoi. The Russian Ambassador becomes very angry, and after dinner Stanley, under the pretext of going home, hides outside. "The Sphinx" observes him, and leaving Troubetskoi, goes to Stanley asking him to accompany her home and to protect her from the Ambassador. Stanley acquiesces. Troubetskoi writes to the father of Stanley and tells him that his son is consorting with "The Sphinx." The father orders his son to cease his association with "The Sphinx," but he disobeys, and accompanies "The Sphinx" to a Charity Fete which she promised to attend, and it is here that "The Sphinx" learns that Stanley is casting aside a girl for her. "The Sphinx," feeling sorry for the girl, is already beginning to act strangely to Stanley, and his father urges the secretary of state to have his son sent on the commission at once. Stanley receives word that he must leave inside of twenty-four hours. Being passionately in love with "The Sphinx," he decides to give up his commission, and with this end in view he goes to the diplomatic club to seek the secretary and resign his commission. Here he meets the wily Troubetskoi who after having drank to the success of Stanley in winning the hand of "The Sphinx," drugs him and steals the important papers he has on his person. Troubetskoi informs the club attendant that the youth is drunk, and to have him sent home in a taxicab. On the way home he regains consciousness, and later he appeals to "The Sphinx" who tells Stanley to hide behind the portieres when the Russian Ambassador, whom she knows will come to her and use the papers as a means of getting her back to him, appears. It is not long before Troubetskoi arrives, and at the right moment, Stanley springs upon the Ambassador. Seeing that the youth is being bested, "The Sphinx" stabs the Ambassador with a jeweled knife. In answer to Stanley's pleas to flee with him, "The Sphinx" tells him that she never cared for him, and convinced that she is truthful, he leaves on the train the next morning he reads of the death of "The Sphinx."
- Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.
- Vera, an heiress, while on a trip to the seaside, sees and admires Jack, an oyster dredger. She takes a fancy to his mode of living and through her lawyer proposes to change places and life with him for a time, placing all her property in trust with her lawyer. Jack finally agrees to the proposition and is installed in the wealthy girl's home, while she takes up the work of an oyster dredger. Vera's lawyer plots to force the girl to marry him as he has absolute control of all her property and she cannot gain possession without his consent. Vera is indignant at the lawyer's presumption. Jack tires of the life which is so different from that to which he is accustomed and decides to go back to his dredger. In a saloon, he overhears the lawyer make an insulting remark about the wealthy girl helping the oyster dredger and is about to attack him, when the crooked lawyer steps backward and falls into the sea. Jack and Vera are reunited as the story ends.
- William Jones, raised by his Uncle Frank in the city, was a rounder, while his twin brother, Alberforce, raised in the country by his grandmother and two aunts, was just the opposite. Grandma had picked out Mattie, the little daughter of a neighbor, for Alberforce's wife, so that she could have him always under her eye. But Alberforce had longings for the Great White Way. When a letter arrived from Frank, saying that legal business required his signature, Alberforce was delighted. The three women decided to let him go. He arrived in the city and was met by his uncle. Their father's will decreed that if either of the boys gambled, drank, played with chorus girls, or compromised himself in any shady affair, his share of the money was to go to charity. The lawyer had already satisfied himself as to Alberforce, but he insisted upon seeing William for himself. It was the birthday of the twins, and William, in spite of the coming visit of the lawyer, was determined to have the party he had planned. They were all assembled and making a great noise when Uncle Frank arrived with Alberforce. The two brothers met, and William lent the other a dress suit and told him to comb back his neatly parted hair in city style. Then, when Alberforce appeared in the dining room, they all took him for his brother. This was fortunate, as the lawyer had arrived and was at that moment with Uncle Frank, who had done all he could to make the party keep quiet. The lawyer insisted upon seeing William, and Frank brought in Alberforce by mistake. Of course he answered all the lawyer's searching questions about chorus girls and cocktails in the negative, and the lawyer was satisfied. Marianne De Voe, an actress who thought herself engaged to William, now appeared, and also mistook Alberforce for his brother. She declared that if he refused to marry her she would sue him. In the meantime, Grandma and the aunts repented of their rashness in letting Alberforce to go the city alone, and followed him. They arrived and met William, who was much taken with Mattie. His party was sent home, and he sat on the sofa with the four country women. Uncle Frank entered and found them. William begged Grandma to take him back to the country, and as Alberforce was only too delighted to stay with Uncle Frank, the arrangement was made. William rejuvenates the three women, and we see them, at the end, on their way to a card party.
- Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "The Flea" comes to rob her, bringing his accomplice, the ape. Betty has just time to call her fiancé, when she is locked in a cupboard with the ape. Duffer arrives and fights "The Flea." He fires, but the crook is wearing a bullet-proof vest. Duffer handcuffs him, but the ape unlocks the bracelets. Betty yells for help and Duffer finds her. The men fight again, and "The Flea" escapes up the chimney, where there wages a battle with bricks. The ape goes up the chimney after Duffer, who hangs on to two bricks. They finally pull out and prove to be the sold bricks of which Betty's inheritance consist. They bless the ape as their friend.
- Prof. Alonzo Bozzle, an eccentric zoologist, has taken up the study of evolution as promulgated by Darwin and is pondering especially on the idea that there is a "missing link." One night he dreams that he is an explorer, and that he has just landed upon a foreign shore; he secures the aid of a mahout and an elephant to move his tent and belongings to the jungle, where he will take up the study of trying to find the "missing link." He builds his tent and establishes himself as comfortably as can be, and then with his trusty rifle starts out to explore the jungle. Then it is that he encounters the wise orangoutang, Joe Martin; the two are attracted mutually and the professor takes Joe to his tent and there commences his education along the lines of table etiquette. That night while the two are in bed a couple of lions come prowling about the tent. This startles the two and Bozzle takes his gun and with the help of Joe fires upon the lions. At this juncture Bozzle awakens to find the papers on his desk burning and in extinguishing the flames his own clothing starts burning, so that he is compelled to rush from the house and immerse his body in a barrel of water.
- Bill is a lunatic in an asylum. His friend, Penpoints, happens along and Bill pleads so that his friend decides to use his strength. He spreads the iron bars and Bill escapes. The guards chase them until Bill and Penpoints find a raft on the beach. They remain on the raft for one week, when they drift on an island, inhabited by cannibals. The cannibals decide to have a feast. As they are about to put their visitors in the boiling water, they discover a ring around the moon, which is a sign that no one should be killed that day. Bill tells them that he is the moon god. They all see his baseball and believe him. They make Bill the new king and he has the time of his life with the cannibal girls. Bill suggests a game of ball, which he tries to teach the cannibals, but it ends in a fight. Penpoints tells the cannibals that Bill is a baseball player and not a god, and they decide to kill him. But Bill's wonderful pitching saves his life. Just as the cannibals are about to attack him he finds cocoanuts on the tree near him and starts throwing. He then awakens and finds himself in a padded cell in the lunatic asylum.
- Mary Elton, a wire-walker, marries John Hammond, a lawyer and politician. After her marriage she bids farewell to the circus. After the honeymoon, Mary finds that she is a detriment to her husband s political career, and after coming upon a letter addressed to him in which he is informed that his marriage to a circus girl makes it impossible for him to receive a congressional nomination at the hands of Michael Haggerty, a prominent politician, she writes a letter to her husband informing him of her discovery. Mary returns to her old life in the circus, and receives a cordial welcome from Marsac, the head clown, and her former associates. John Hammond pursues his political ambitions and makes no effort to find his wife, not knowing that a daughter has been born to them. Mary dies in childbirth, having previously extracted a promise from the clown that he will look after her baby. Little Mary grows to womanhood and becomes the joy and pride of the circus. She makes the acquaintance of Hugh Graham, the district attorney. The district attorney and John Hammond, who has been elected governor, view the circus parade. Mary is seen coming down the street on horseback followed by the clown. After the parade the various outside attractions of a typical circus are pictorially reproduced. We see Pedro and a crowd of men gambling while Mary visits the snake-charmer and plays with the snakes. The manager objects to Pedro's gambling and threatens to notify the police, whereupon Pedro and the other gamblers assault the manager. Instantly there arises a cry of "Hey, Rube," and a fight ensues between the gamblers and the circus employees. Pedro pulls out a revolver and kills one of the tent men. The police arrive and the district attorney is summoned to investigate the murder. Mary tells the district attorney that she had seen Pedro fire the shot, and the murdered man is taken away in the patrol wagon, Mary and the other employees following in an auto. Pedro and his followers attack the auto, gag Mary and the district attorney, and take them to a den. Left alone, Mary and the district attorney manage to rid themselves of the ropes that bind them. Mary, being an expert wire-walker, goes to the window, and with the aid of an open umbrella, walks across the telegraph wires and climbs down a telegraph pole. After her escape from the den, Mary telephones to the police station and the captain sends policemen in an auto to the address she gives over the telephone. While the gamblers are carousing in their den, they are notified that policemen are arriving. They try to escape by running to the top of the house. The district attorney has barred the attic door with furniture to prevent the gamblers from entering. The gamblers break in the attic door and while they try to get the best of the district attorney, who is vigorously defending himself, Mary and the police arrive. Pedro manages to escape by swinging along a telegraph pole to the ground, but the other gamblers are captured. Mary takes an umbrella and goes through her remarkable wire walking act, being closely watched by the governor from a private box. Next we see Pedro entering at the back of the box. He has a knife in his hand and Mary, catching a glimpse of him from her elevated post on the wire, shouts a warning. The detective seizes Pedro and the governor is saved. Mary loses her balance in the excitement and is seriously injured by her fall. The governor sees a remarkable resemblance in her to the wife who deserted him years before, investigates, and discovers she is his daughter. Later Mary marries the district attorney.
- Vera Ronceval has been brought up in seclusion by her father, Amos Ronceval, a recluse. One day she meets Orthen Owen, an artist, and they fall in love. When Amos learns of this, he forbids Arthen to see his daughter, and in his rage suffers an attack of heart disease. Dying, he commits Vera to the care of her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, a lawyer. Mr. Ronceval takes Vera away with him to his city home. Arthen, unable to find further trace of Vera, falls upon evil ways, neglecting his art and finding forgetfulness in dissipation. Reduced to poverty, he makes a contract with Lee Varick, famous as an artist, whereby Arthen is to paint pictures, signing Varick's name to them. Varick has acquired his reputation by this traffic in the work of others. In the meantime, Vera has been living with her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, who is a friend of Varick's, and who greatly desires a match between Varick and Vera, Although Vera has never forgotten Arthen, she has, to please her cousin, conditionally consented to an engagement with Varick. One day Vera meets Arthen in his fallen condition, and learning the story of his fall, she tells him that she still loves him, and that she will break off her engagement with Varick. At the same time Arthen, obtaining a new lease upon his manhood, seeks Varick out to return the check just given him for the sale of his name and work to Varick. Vera calls upon Varick, tells him that she knows of his mode of obtaining fame and that she will not marry him. Varick, believing that he has her in his power, attempts to commit an assault upon her. Just then, Arthen, on his way to return Varick's check, hears Vera's cries for help and breaks into Varick's studio. He knocks Varick down and rescues Vera. He then takes her to her cousin, who, upon learning the whole story, gives his consent to the marriage of Vera and Arthen.
- Dr. Warren, sailing for England to receive a legacy, meets his double in Dow, a derelict working on the steamer. There is a wreck; all are reported lost. But Dow and Warren are landed upon neighboring beach. Dow finds the doctor supposedly dead on the beach and formulates a plan to impersonate him. Later, some fishermen find the doctor unconscious on the beach and revive him only to find that his mind is a blank. Searching his pockets they find a card evidently belonging to a London lawyer, the executor of his will. The fishermen notify the lawyer, who immediately comes to the village. Under the doctor's care Warren regains his memory and prepares to return home. In the meantime, Warren's wife, who has been left in care of Dr. Mason, has received word of the wrecked steamer. She is prostrated. Dr. Mason, highly elated, continues his unwelcome attentions to her. The derelict, now impersonating Warren, arrives in New York and is met by two former pals whom he refuses to recognize. His suspicions aroused, one of them follows Dow to the doctor's home, observes the joyous greeting between Dow and the wife, who mistakes Dow for her husband, and thus discovers the deception. Later the crooks attempt to blackmail their old friend Dow. Dow turns against them; he is attacked while in the woods and thrown over a cliff. Dow is found at the foot of the cliff badly injured. Doctor Mason is amazed at the supposed return of Warren. Once in the house Dow recovers consciousness and, fearing death is upon him, confesses his duplicity to Mrs. Warren. Unaware of this confession Mason determines to poison Dow to make sure of his death. At this time Warren himself returns to surprise and gladden the heart of his wife. She tells him of the stranger upstairs who has been impersonating him. Warren rushes up, and enters in time to discover his false friend, Mason, administering poison to Dow. Warren realizes that the poison is really intended for him; a furious desire for revenge takes possession of Warren. Horrified, Mason grabs up a small table to strike the husband. The derelict steps in between and receives the blow on the head. It is his death. Then follows a terrific death fight between Mason and Warren. They crash through the door, down the stairs, over the balcony and into the room below where the wife is. She telephones for the police, but before they arrive the men have succeeded in nearly wrecking the house in their fierce struggle. Mason is captured and led away. Warren takes his wife in his arras, contented.
- By the flickering light of a candle an old peddler hides a bundle of bills in the chimney of his wretched hovel. In a house nearby Mary, a factory girl, lives with her invalid sister. Mary comes to the rescue of the old peddler when some boys in the neighborhood throw stones at him, an incident which earns the gratitude of the miser. Mary is saving her earnings to take her sister to a climate where she will recover from her malady. Mary goes to the bank to open an account and gets acquainted with Charles, the cashier. Charles is afflicted with a secret greed for money and as he handles the funds of the bank he suffers a great desire to take them. Mary's savings at the bank have grown to an amount sufficient to take her sister away, when the bank fails and it is announced that Charles, the cashier, has absconded. The old peddler sees Mary pounding on the doors of the bank. He hurries to his hovel, and gets the packages of bills from their hiding place and prepares to leave. Upon opening the door he is confronted by Mary, who is on her way home. Thinking he sees another vision, he staggers hack. Mary, thinking him ill, enters the hut and tries to assist him. The old man shows signs of insanity, and, throwing the bills on the table, tells her he has robbed the bank. He clutches at his hair and beard, and, tearing them off, reveals himself, Charles, the cashier. Mary is horror-stricken and pleads with him to restore the money to the poor. In delirium he gives her the money and tells her to take it to the bank. She leaves with it. Charles, in a frenzy, starts to pursue her to recover the money when an accusing vision of her appears near the door. He staggers back and over a chair, which he hurls through the vision. Hiding his face in his hands, he staggers to the wall, where he sinks to the floor and dies.
- The Pirate Chief (Pat Rooney) and his Flunky (Kewpie Morgan) are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen (Mary Haines) and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.
- Pat sees in a newspaper that $100,000 is offered for the capture of Villa, dead or alive, so he starts for the border to offer his services to the army. Arriving at El Paso, he is taken for a recruit and placed in the awkward squad. Being hauled up before the general, Pat gets a chance to explain the mistake, and asks that he be made a scout. Fully arming himself and party, he sets out for the interior of Mexico. At night Pat dreams of having Villa surrounded and in his power. Villa dreams of Pat as a sort of superhuman being, who, by merely laughing, can strike men dead. They almost run into each other, before either sees the other. Each beats it for shelter. The only cover available is behind two rocks about a hundred feet apart. Each hides behind a rock, and each begins to shoot at the other. Pat soon runs out of ammunition, so he hoists a flag and the two advance. Villa next produces a pack of cards and asks Pat if he "Sabe Poker." In the ensuing scenes, Pat wins everything that Villa possesses. Pat springs his proposition on him that he take him to headquarters as dead, secure the $100,000 reward, divide fifty-fifty, and then release him, providing he will leave the border for good. The arrival at headquarters creates quite a little stir, and the soldiers are so anxious to see the victim that they almost spoil the little game, but Pat finally succeeds.
- A young seminary girl finds romance.
- At Burke's death, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, baby Rory, who goes into the keeping of his uncle, Sir Everett, who has a son Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped. Twenty years later show Sir Everett's son grown up to be a cad of dissolute habits, but wealthy as a result of the stolen inheritance. Rory has grown to manhood in the home of a poor widow and her daughter Eileen and is in love with peasant girl Kathleen. Sir Everett's son wrongs Rory's foster sister. She dies and Rory swears vengeance upon the wrongdoer. However, vengeance is taken out of his hands. The kidnapper gets into an altercation with the son and kills him. Rory finds the body, is accused of the murder and is convicted and condemned to die. The conscience-stricken kidnapper confesses to a priest--a good friend of Rory's. The priest cannot dishonor the sanctity of the confessional by making the confession public, so he goes to Rory's cell and changes clothes with the young man. Rory escapes, but is speedily recaptured. The time for his execution arrives. The death-bell tolls out mournfully. It arouses the conscience-stricken kidnapper to action. He rushes to the gallows and arrives an instant before Rory is to be hanged. He confesses that the crime was his. Rory is liberated. The tolling of the death-bell also arouses the conscience of Sir Everett. He confesses the kidnapping and restores Rory to his inheritance.
- The curtain falls as Cleo finishes her remarkable portrayal of a woman dying after having taken poison, and she is enthusiastically applauded. Gordon, the debonair lover of Cleo, leaves his box and goes to her dressing room. He is making love to her when Harry Parker, her husband, enters and reproaches her for her unfaithfulness. The husband, picking up a revolver, is prevented from shooting his wife by Gordon, who struggles with him. The noise attracts the attention of Jack Stanley, who has just answered a telephone call at the back of the stage, and who rushes into the actress' room immediately after Gordon has killed Harry. Taking the pistol from Gordon, Jack asks for an explanation, and is bending over the body as Cleo hides Gordon and as the stage manager and stagehands rush in Jack is accused of the murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, and Helen Forde, fiancée of the imprisoned man, is convinced from a newspaper story that he must have had an association with the actress. Despite the fact that Gordon is in love with Cleo, he tries to get Helen to marry him. Cleo also urges the marriage, as Gordon has promised to spend a good part of Helen's wealth on her. Finally, Helen consents, and they are married. Three years have passed, and Gordon tires of Cleo. Helen is brutally treated by her husband, and she realizes that she has made a mistake in marrying him. Cleo, to get revenge on Gordon, informs Helen that it was not Jack who had committed the murder, but Gordon. Through the pleadings of Beatty, the little daughter of Helen, as to the reason why her mother is crying, Cleo, who has been, touched by the child's pathetic appeal, becomes deeply attached to the mother, and the two, women plan to right the wrong. Helen, determining that she will not live with a murderer any longer, leaves with Cleo for the west, and everything goes along smoothly until their funds run low. Cleo, unknown to Helen, obtains a position as a dancer in a café in order to raise a little money to maintain their home. Here she meets Jack, who had escaped from prison. After the performance. Cleo takes him to Helen's cottage, where a happy reconciliation is effected between the estranged couple. Meanwhile, Gordon, who has returned from his business trip, during which time Helen left him, finds the note his wife wrote him before she left. Learning of the whereabouts of Helen, with the aid of detectives, he goes to the town, in which they live, and accidentally sees Jack. Gordon spreads the news that Jack is a jailbird, and a posse is formed and sent in search of him. Gordon calls upon Helen and encounters Jack, who, inflamed at the malicious work of Gordon, springs upon the culprit just as Cleo spies the posse surrounding the house. Holding a pistol at Gordon, she tells him to stand while Jack seeks refuge in a secret cellar, entered through a trap door under the carpet. After abstracting a full written confession from Gordon she permits him to escape. As he is making a getaway, the posse spy him, and taking him for Jack, he is shot. The posse discover their mistake and bring the dead man back to the cottage, but the situation is cleared by the written confession which Cleo produces.
- An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight.
- Repentant of the mistake of her innocent girlhood, the worn-out woman returns to the town of her birth, to the only ones to whom she can turn in her extremity, her parents. She finds them in the graveyard. As she walks through the streets the villagers shun her. The news is rapidly passed that the Magdalen has returned. The gray beards are indignant that she should blast the fair name of their town by her presence there. The citizens' committee calls upon the new minister and instructs him to order the woman out of town. The minister carries his message, but the woman tells him it is her house and she shall stay there. The young minister is struck with the woman and the sincerity of her repentance. He remonstrates with the gossips. He returns to the woman and comforts her. In the meantime, the citizens have gathered to trumpet her out of their village. Hearing some approaching, the minister, fearing to arouse further scandal, steps into her house. The woman bravely goes out to meet her assailants, and they begin to jeer at her and stone her, until the minister defends her. The unoffending half-witted fellow is hit with a brick and killed. And there is a suggestion of a future bond of sympathy between the Magdalen and the minister.
- Dave and Phillip Hull, twins, are totally different in character. Dave is steady, slow to hate and true in love. Phillip, the gay and popular gambler, is perhaps more lovable on the surface, but shifty and flare-tempered underneath. Dave loves little Meg, daughter of Hardy, a cattle rustler. Dave does not know that the father is a cattle rustler, however. Phillip shoots a gambler in a quarrel and makes his escape to his brother's ranch. Here, he meets Meg and immediately begins courting her. She yields to him and he promises to marry her. Meanwhile the gambler dies and the sheriff and posse search for Phillip. Dave has learned of his brother's refusal to marry Meg. Determined that right shall be done, Dave goes for the minister. The father too has learned of the case, but thinks Dave the man. He decides to kill him and starts for the ranch. Dave returns to his home, only to find the posse on his brother's trail. He offers to exchange clothes with Phillip and submit to arrest in his brother's place, providing the guilty man will marry the girl. Phillip agrees. Dave, dressed as his brother, slips from the window to draw pursuit. Meg's father approaches and shoots to kill through the open window at Phillip, whom he supposes is Dave. Dave is brought back and the tangle is straightened out with the sad wedding of Meg and the true-hearted Dave.
- John Smith's daughter has many admirers, but Harry is the favored one, most likely because he is not in favor with father. He is ordered from the house, but before he can make his departure two other admirers call. He hides upstairs, awaiting their departure, and he is in a quandary when Smith comes in. Smith is having troubles of his own; his housekeeper would share his name and fortune, but he is not to be so easily ensnared. He dismisses her and is on the lookout for another. His daughter and Harry are aware of this slate of affairs and start "framing" up the old man. Harry, impersonating a sweet and charming young girl, applies for the position and is accepted. Ere long Smith is in love and wants the housemaid for his wife. A note is dispatched to the former housekeeper and she, heavily veiled, repairs to the minister, where she is made the wife of Smith, much to his chagrin when he discovers what really has happened. Harry has now married the daughter, and with a feeling of elation they start out on their honeymoon.
- Rosselli, a famous painter, accompanied by his daughter, Marie, and her fiancé, Bainbridge, arrive in Honolulu and at once sets out in search of a model. Rosselli is attracted by the native fishermen and through them he meets Clifford, a captain of the Hawaiian fishing industry. He is a picturesque character and Marie becomes interested in him and also in his daughter Leola. Entirely without grounds, for Marie feels nothing more than a passing friendship for Clifford. Bainbridge becomes jealous of Clifford. One day he follows Marie and Leolo and sees them visit Clifford at and accomplishes nothing except to discredit himself. Bainbridge hires an enemy of Clifford to abduct the fisherman and murder him. The hired assassins overpower Clifford and take him aboard their boat. The prisoner puts up what resistance he can. Realizing, however, that this is useless, he plays 'possum. He falls upon the deck and pretends that he is dead. The hired murderers are deceived and throw him overboard. Clifford strikes out and swims for land. The following morning Rosselli visits a plantation fronting on the ocean to secure a desired landscape effect. Marie and Bainbridge accompany him. In the meantime Clifford has struggled to shore and fallen exhausted. He is discovered by a native woman and later by Rosselli and his party. When he regains consciousness Clifford accuses Bainbridge. The would-be assassin plainly shows his guilt and is led away to answer for his crime.
- Bill and Pen Points arrive in a new town being thrown from a boxcar. Bill leaves Pen to go to the ball game. A lunatic comes up and hands him money, which Bill decides to use for clothes. Pen Points finds a detective badge and decides to become a detective. Bill goes to the ball game, meets an heiress is accused of theft and taken to jail. It was a mistake, for the girl finds her purse. She withdraws her charge and asks Bill to see her home. Bill meets her father and mother. Pen Points decides to get revenge. Bill leaves the home of the girl, watched by Pen Points, who decides to tell the girl he is crazy. The girl faints at the news. Bill gets a contract from the manager of the ball team. Pen Points arrests Bill, takes him to the lunatic asylum and they put Bill in a padded cell.
- Colonel Morgan, the last of the Morgans, has finally come to the end of his resources and is compelled to sell his old homestead. On the day before the sale he visits the grave of his wife and before his vision past the many happy events of their married life. While he is dreaming the real estate man brings some prospective purchasers to see the place. Morgan cannot stand this invasion of the spot so sacred to him and orders them from the premises. The next day the place is sold and Morgan is forced to leave. His colored servants feel this keenly, and old Peter tells Morgan that if only he could find the jewels which Mrs Morgan had hidden when the northern army invaded the town it would enable him to repurchase the old plantation. Meantime, with the money obtained from the sale, Morgan goes to the city. "Smooth" McGuire, a confidence man, notices the roll of money and with a confederate of his frames up a deal to sell Morgan a street car. They showed the old man many passengers riding on the cars and point out that it would be a lucrative investment. Old Morgan buys the car, but soon learns that he had simply given his money to the stranger. A kindly policeman gives him sufficient money to return to the old homestead. Old Peter, while plowing the fields, has discovered the jewels and with the money obtained from the sale of them Colonel Morgan is enabled to buy back the old plantation, although the present owners are loathe to part with it and only do so when Peter threatens to establish a colored church on the adjoining Plantation.
- Mr. Cherub is believed to be a model husband and ideal citizen. But his behavior in private does not correspond with his public image.
- Because of the extravagance of his wife, Jim Mason's home is broken up and he becomes a thief. His first attempt at burglary nets him the famous Allison pearls and a most unexpected acquaintance with Florence Allison, whose home is about to be broken up through the neglect of her husband. Jim recalls his own lost happiness, and prompted by deep sympathy, he suggests a plan to restore her husband's love. In gratitude, Florence insists that Jim shall keep the pearls, which he does, only on condition that he shall return them in six months in case his plan shall have failed. The husband, upon returning after a night out with the boys, finds Florence bound and unconscious, and realizes that his neglect has placed her life in jeopardy. The shock rekindles his dormant love and Florence regains her happiness. The trust makes Jim face life from a new angle. To protect the pearls and make good his word of honor to a trusting woman becomes the ruling passion of his life. He faces and overcomes temptations to dispose of the pearls. Down on his luck, he drifts back to the old rendezvous, where one of the gang who has long suspected Jim has the pearls, determines to have them. In a fight which ensues Jim is injured and drags himself to the Allison home to redeem his pledge, as he believes his plan has failed. He finds Florence happy in the possession of her husband's love and receives from her his just reward.
- Helen Wright receives a note from her editor, saying he would like her to write a story, telling how two young people, thrown together, can fall in love within a month. Knowing nothing of love, Helen decides to make it a real story, so inserts an ad in the paper: Wanted, a nice young man as secretary to young brunette, first month as a trial. Helen Wright, 25 Fallon Street. Harry Smith, while passing Helen's house, becomes very much infatuated. The next day his valet desires to quit in order to apply for the other position. He gives the newspaper to his master, who decides, as a lark, to answer it himself. He does and is accepted. As the month goes along, very little work is being done, for they are both much in love. One morning Helen's maid complains of her jaw hurting. A doctor is called, who informs them that she has the mumps and the house must be quarantined for at least a month. Two policemen are stationed at the house. No one can enter or leave. The last day is up, the manuscript finished, but they cannot leave the house. The same day, a burglar enters the house. The maid pleads with him, in fact even goes so far as to kiss him, if he will leave. He insists that she hand over the jewels; she leads him to Helen, who is much more frightened of the mumps than the burglar. Harry enters, struggling with the burglar, sends the maid upstairs, tells Helen to call the policemen, gives her the revolver, takes the manuscript, and as the policemen enter, Harry dashes past them out of the house to the editor's office. The policemen take charge of the burglar, and leave. Harry finds it impossible to enter the house, but he does the same thing the burglar does, enters the window at the side of the house. Helen now has quite a sore throat. Harry enthusiastically enters and kisses her. She implores him not to, telling him that she has the mumps. That night, Harry hits upon a plan to elope with Helen. He goes to her room, throws a blanket over her head, leads her to his house, where he 'phones the minster. After the ceremony is performed, the minister insists, upon kissing the bride. She objects, but he insists. He does. Next day finds the minister with the mumps, the burglar in jail, suffering. The officer watching the house, also has a swollen jaw, and Helen and Harry cannot find room to even kiss, their faces are so swollen.
- Fatty leaves his country home to go to the city. Bess, who lives in the city with her mother and her detective father, takes a novel and goes to the park to read, and strikes up a flirtation with Fatty. The father goes to his office, while the mother purchases a watch as a birthday present for him, but she is seen by a crook, who follows her. When she stops in the park to rest he gets the watch. On his way out of the park the crook passes Fatty and sells him the stolen watch. The crook then tries to flirt with Bess, but is thrown out by Fatty, who has fallen in love at first sight and is invited to Bess's home, after he has made her a present of the watch. When Bess and Fatty enter the house the mother is out in the hall telephoning her husband about the loss, and he starts home immediately. Bess leaves Fatty while she shows her mother the watch he gave her. The mother recognizes the watch and starts for Fatty, being joined later by her husband. The crook sees an open window in the living room and is about to enter when Fatty, still chased by the father and mother, jumps through the window and they go down in a heap. Fatty knocks out the crook, explains everything, and learns that he receives a $1000 reward for capturing the desperate criminal.
- Two couples head for Reno to swap partners, but change their minds at the last minute.
- Mabel Jones returns home from boarding-school, filled with the idea that she is a born novelist and with a partially written manuscript upon a sociological subject, in which the hero is a burglar. Mabel's father is a sergeant of police and having heard in his past experience about all the dealings with burglars he cares for, he turns a deaf ear to her pleadings. Mabel persists in her determination and the sergeant is about to grow real angry when he sees a chance to cure her of her mad infatuation for underworld subjects. Among the sergeant's acquaintances is a young novelist named Jefferson Lang, who is also writing a novel and in which the heroine is a sneak thief. By clever planning and aided by the rest of the police boys, Mabel and Jeff are brought together, he believing her to be "Shifty Sadie," the sneak thief, and she knowing him as "Baffles," the gentleman burglar. Then follows a game of cross purposes and misunderstandings between the young couple, which culminates in them both being arrested by a strange policeman. Unfortunately for the sergeant, his "fine station hand" in the matter is discovered by the pair at the eleventh hour and through the kindly aid of a prison chaplain they turn the tables on the sergeant and the station house in general by getting married.
- Pico is a gangster and has promised his sister, Georgia, who works in the public library, that he is going to quit his lawless life. One night Pico hurriedly enters Georgia's room at the library and leaves a note telling her he intends to finish up some work and may have to leave town. She suspects his purpose and hurriedly prepares to follow him. Duvall, a young physician, is a firm friend of Clay, the county attorney, and one night, while Clay and his sister, Amelia, who is in love with Duvall, are visiting the latter the talk turns to gangsters and the remark is passed that "once a criminal, always a criminal." Pico and his gang, meanwhile, have met a hostile gang and have a battle royal. Georgia hears the firing, and running into the scene, discovers her brother entrenched behind a barrel. She wrenches his gun from him and one of the opponents shoots and seriously wounds her. Pico takes his unconscious sister to Dr. Duvall, who removes the bullet. Pico, by his actions, has aroused the doctor's suspicion, and he is calling up the county attorney when Pico confronts him and in a hard voice asks him if he thinks his action is exactly professional. The physician realizes his breach and hangs up, without getting his party. In the days that follow, Georgia makes quick recovery. Amelia and her brother call during her convalescence and are introduced to her. Amelia immediately sees the physician's interest in the girl is more than friendly, and her jealousy is aroused. She determines to blacken the girl's character in such a way that it will cause a break between the two. While standing near the mantel she slips some of Duvall's heirlooms into her purse and takes them with her when she leaves. Georgia falls in love with the doctor, but believes he will never come to care for her, and so determines to leave secretly. Just as she is slipping out of the door, Duvall confronts her. Duvall in the meantime has missed the heirlooms and on the previous day remembered showing these and many others to the girl. She had taken quite an interest in them, and he suspects that she, being the sister of a gangster, took them. He accuses her, but she denies the charge. Georgia returns home to Pico and tells of the theft. Pico had observed the attitude of Amelia on one of her visits to the doctor's office and suspects her. That night he slips into Amelia's room and finds the heirlooms. On a sudden impulse he calls his sister up and has just told her where he is when confronted by Clay with a revolver. Georgia, getting no answer, suspects something wrong and hurries to the county attorney's house, where she finds her brother about to be placed under arrest. She pleads for his freedom, but in vain. Clay is surprised to know he is the brother of Georgia and calls Duvall to enjoy the joke with him. Amelia has heard of the arrest and hurries down to her brother's office to get the trinkets if possible. Duvall arrives, and at sight of Georgia's grief he also asks Clay to release Pico. Clay refuses and tells them he saw Pico steal the jewels with his own eyes. Duvall, looking closer, recognizes them, and finally the true meaning of it dawns on him and he turns to Amelia, who breaks down and confesses. Pico is released. Duvall then begs Georgia's pardon, and in the last scene of all the doctor and his former patient are clasped in each other's arms.
- Bob Carrol, cripple, works in a little cigar stand down in Chinatown and eats his meals at a coffee house around the corner. Alma Wilson, who waits upon tables, is, unknown to herself, loved by Bob, and also by Jim Carter. Carter is a typical gang leader and Chinatown crook. Alma is infatuated with Carter's good looks. Bob finally musters up courage enough to ask Alma if he may keep her company. Alma answered, "When I go out with anyone, that person must be a man!" Carter overhears this remark and "kids" Bob about it. That night, after he closes the cigar stand, Bob goes to a little Chinese restaurant. Carter enters and hits Bob for a loan, telling him he will show him a way to forget his troubles. Bob, ready for anything, consents. Carter takes him to a room in the rear, supposed to be a storage room, but in reality the largest opium den in the city. Bob refuses to smoke and shortly after leaves. The next day Carter keeps a date with Alma. Bob observes them as they leave and watches them as they go upstairs to the Chinese restaurant. Carter conspires with Hop Lee and has him dope Alma's tea. Bob waits for them to come down, but in vain. In the meantime the drug, having taken effect on Alma, Carter takes her to the den in the rear and, placing her on one of the bunks, proceeds to "soak" a pill and get ready for a smoke. Alma's mother waits for her at home. Finally she comes to the coffee house. Bob meets her and, surmising where Alma is, goes in search. At the Chinese restaurant Bob can see no sign of Alma. Bob endeavors to enter the back room, but is refused admittance. He goes to the police station. The police plan a raid. Bob, knowing the facilities the Chinamen have for getting away in case of a raid, tells them of a plan he has by which they can grab the whole crowd. Going back to the restaurant, the detectives are posted. Bob goes to the alleyway in the rear and locates a window. He breaks the glass, enters, fights his way to the door and admits the detectives. In the mix-up which ensues he is rendered unconscious by a blow on the head. Later, Alma visits Bob at the hospital and the old saying is proved, "A man's a man for a' that"
- Gertrude, a young hopeful, demonstrates her love for flowers by attempting to chew half a dozen roses. Then she proceeds to smoke a pipe, smears herself with jam and indulges in a mud-bath, which is followed by a conventional one.