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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Desire, Goody Margin's ward, is a waif from one of the French colonies. She is distrusted by the stern Puritans of old Salem. Goody Martin dies leaving her herb lore secrets to the girl who practices them. The old governor meets her and, being struck by her beauty, tries to kiss her. She slaps him and he never forgets. Later the fear of witchery spreads through the colonies. Desire's hut is burned and she is pursued and stoned until saved by Margaret Maiden, for whom she becomes a maid. Here Margaret's fiancée, John, meets and falls in love with the little maid whom he calls a very witch in all truth. Later he sees her dancing wildly and freely in the wood and his love cannot be repressed. He catches her in his arms and kisses her. She admits her love for him, too, but then remembers Margaret. Fearing to spoil the love of one who has been so good to her, she goes back to the woods. It is forbidden for any woman to practice what is called black magic in Salem. Desire, on a visit to the town, sees a woman burned and is horrified. Margaret falls ill. The doctor cannot help her. Desire comes back to see her. She knows the herb that will make her well, and despite all protest, goes ahead. Margaret recovers, but Desire is arrested as a witch. In her cell she is sentenced to death as a witch. John and Margaret visit her and say good-bye. Later the old governor comes in. He says good-bye and taunts her. Finally he offers her freedom if she will yield to his love. She laughs in his face. Later she is led out to execution. John comforts Margaret, but he thinks of the other girl, who goes to her martyrdom in that hour. And, as the flames creep about her, Desire bows her head in prayer.
- By profession Mabel is a "Sob Sister," that is, she is a woman newspaper reporter. Kellogg is the star reporter on the Herald, the opposition paper. A tip for an important story is dropped to the Tribune. Mabel is the only one on the job. With misgivings, the city editor lets her learn the inside of a bribe charge against the mayor. Kellogg is covering the same story tor the Herald. Kellogg requests an interview, using the name of his paper, and is refused. Mabel sends in her personal card. She is received by the mayor and given an exclusive story. Kellogg, fuming outside the office, hears a stenographer telephone a restaurant for a lunch which is to be brought to the mayor's office. He prevails upon the waiter who brings the lunch to change coats with him. Kellogg enters the mayor's office as the waiter. Mabel's interview, now at an end, the mayor invites her into his automobile. She speeds toward the nearest telegraph office to get her story on the wire. Kellogg finds a sheet of Mabel's note pad upon which is written enough to give him an idea of the interview. He jumps into a taxi and races toward the telegraph office. On the way he overtakes Mabel. In passing, the taxi crowds the machine occupied by Mabel into the ditch. Mabel is injured, Kellogg writes his story, and hands it to the operator. He has won. Then he begins to think of the little "Sob Sister" he left in the ditch. He takes his story from the operator, addresses it to the Tribune and signs Mabel's name. He then returns to his office, admits that he has been scooped and quits. A short time later the city editor of the Herald calls at Mabel's home, where Kellogg happens to be calling, and makes the following declaration: "You and Cupid scooped the Herald's best man, but we cannot afford to lose him and from now on his salary is raised to family size."
- Frank Milburn, a novelist, is burning the midnight oil, when his artist friends, Du Maurier and Marvin, break in upon his reverie. Frank is annoyed at the interruption and goes for a walk in the park. He rescues a girl from the clutches of a ruffian and escorts her to her home. Frank's friends are wondering what has become of him, when he appears and relates his evening's experience. Upon questioning Frank, who discloses that he has the number of her home, Marvin discovers it is the address of an insane asylum, and all decide the fair unknown must be a nurse in the institution. For some days after Frank is so obsessed with thoughts of the dream girl that he cannot attend to his writing and finally the boys become worried and arrange to help him. Du Maurier phones "Madison Square 4400, Insane Asylum," and requests that a couple of strong arms be sent immediately to secure a friend of his who has gone "nutty." Marvin suggests they draw up a statement to the effect that Frank is in possession of all his senses, to prove later he is sane, which the three then sign. Upon finding himself an inmate of the asylum Frank submits to various indignities, thinking to be rewarded by a sight of his dream lady, and is not disappointed, for while strolling about the grounds the following day he discovers her talking to one of the doctors. He discloses his identity and a week later the boys receive an urgent letter commanding them to get him out immediately, as he wants to leave the place at once with the dearest girl in the world. Dr. Regan at some distance notices them and orders her to go in. Furiously Frank grabs him and a fierce fight ensues, which is brought to a climax when armed attendants rush up and the doctor orders a strait-jacket for the unruly patient. As the two friends have been arrested on the way to his rescue, Joyce determines to aid him, and, having an appointment to attend a masquerade ball with one of the doctors, manages to secure a cavalier costume and smuggle Frank through the gates. He then suggests a call at the parsonage. When Marvin and Du Maurier, after their thirty days' enforced holiday, return to look up their long-lost friend, much to their amazement they find him now a happy husband, reaping the benefits of a well-earned reward from his new book entitled "Hearts and Strait-Jackets."
- One day while out for a ride Frank Bartlett meets Argo, a beautiful South American girl. With some misgivings she accepts his invitation to go for a ride. He takes her to a private room in a café and there tries to make love to her. Beau Brummel hears her screams and goes to her assistance. As a result of it all, the faculty of the college report to both parents. Argo is sent home and Beau is disowned. Beau ships as a stowaway on a South American bound ship. He lands in the same city where Argo lives. She recognizes him as her former rescuer and her father installs him as prime minister. Later he is forgiven by his parents. The friendship between Argo and Beau soon ripens into love.
- In the little kingdom of Transylvania, the young Prince Ferdinand, heir to the throne, causes great uneasiness among his ministers because of willfulness and lack of appreciation of his position. The Prime Minister and the Prince's mother fearing that he will continue his wild pranks and evil habits, become very anxious to have him marry. Thinking to find a suitable mate for him, they invite the three daughters of the King of Bosnia to attend a grand ball to be given in honor of the Prince. On the arrival of the many guests at the Royal Palace the young Prince Ferdinand is found to be missing. The three Princesses have journeyed many miles to attend the ball and to meet the young heir, thinking perhaps to win his regard, are greatly disappointed that after being introduced to them he showed no interest whatsoever, and left immediately and did not appear at the ball. Yona, the eldest of the Princesses, finding that Ferdinand has slipped away with his chum to visit the opera house, where he might see ballet dancers, persuades one of the ministers lo guide her to his box. Yona, seeing that Ferdinand was greatly interested in the performance, and not being observed, returns to the ball. The next day she decided to appear on the stage before him as an unknown dancer, so securing admission to the stage, she persuaded the ballet master to allow her to appear. That night she dances before the Prince, being advertised as the Beautiful Unknown, and Ferdinand, greatly attracted by her personality and clever dancing, determines to meet her. Seeking out the ballet master, he repaired to the door of her dressing room, but Yona refused to be seen. Ferdinand not, however, to be defeated in his desire, commanded her to appear at the Royal Palace on the morrow and dance at the Great Fete in the gardens. Yona succeeded in returning to the Palace in secret. The next day at the Fete she slipped from the Palace garbed to dance as a woodland nymph and when her turn to appear came she danced about the fountain with furious abandon. The court, seeing Ferdinand fascinated by the dancer, remonstrated with him, fearing that he would cause another scandal, but Ferdinand, not heeding them, rushed to the fountain to see the Beautiful Unknown at close range. As Yona saw him rush in, she threw off her disguise and Ferdinand recognized her as the Princess of Bosnia. Seizing his cloak, he placed it about her to cover her from the view of the guests and they, recognizing her also and being overjoyed to find that the Prince had fallen in love with a Princess, left them to explain to each other in love's own language.
- O'Rourke, soldier of fortune and hero of many wars, finds himself in Paris without funds. In a spirit of recklessness, he pawns a valuable watch given him by a grateful republic for services rendered. With the proceeds he enters a prominent Parisian restaurant to dine. There he attracts the attention of the Princess de Grandlieu, her husband, the Prince, and her legal advisor, M. Adolph Chambret. While there an incident occurs which earns the hatred of her advisor, who is in love with her. Later O'Rourke repairs to a gambling house, adjacent to the restaurant. The Princess and party go to a ball at the Hotel Ritz. As usual, the young adventurer attempts to increase his fortune and, as usual, he loses all. Meantime, the Princess receives a note, by messenger, from her brother, telling her that he is in danger of being killed in the desert of Sahara, where he is attempting to establish an Empire against the Princess' wishes. The note also informs her that the Prince, her husband, is at the bottom of it all, as his fortune will revert to her at his death and thus the Prince will gain control of more money. Out of loyalty to her brother, the Princess plans a rescue party which she hopes to have O'Rourke lead. Her adviser is ordered to search him out and bring him to her. Chambret finds O'Rourke in the gambling house, broke. He insults him by referring to a rose received from the Princess. O'Rourke, not waiting for explanations, knocks Chambret down and speeds away. The Princess, on her way home, is insulted by the Prince, who endeavors to learn the contents of the note she has received. Rourke hears her scream for help; he pursues in a taxicab, effects a rescue and takes the Princess home. There he is told of the mission which she wants him to undertake. Of course the adventurer agrees to her wish much to the discomfiture of the Prince and Chambret.
- John Rock, a human spider whose comfortable income allows him to ride about in a motor car to look for victims, foolish girls who are attracted by his promises of pleasure, while driving about has trouble with his car. His motor stops before the home of Joan, a whole-souled girl, living with her younger sister, Millie. Joan at once recognizes Rock, having seen his picture in the paper. She tells Millie how Rock snares innocent girls and ruins them. Left alone, Millie flirts and innocently accepts an invitation to go riding with him. That night Joan finds Millie gone and as the hours pass and she does not return, Joan connects her absence with the visionary face of John Rock. She goes to his home, where Rock explains that Millie had met her death in an accident. Realizing that Millie like the other innocent girls had been a victim of the "Spider," Joan attacks Rock with all her strength. The latter calls the police and later, on a trumped up charge, has Joan sent up the river for ten years. Two years of prison fare and misery hasten a deadly desire for vengeance in Joan's heart and one day Joan was freed. As if guided by an unseen hand she visits a notion shop and then calls on John Rock, who has become a nervous wreck through drink and dissipation. Rock is so horrified at seeing Joan and the knife that he falls over dead. Then Joan went forth into the twilight knowing that Justice had righted the wrong done her sister and herself.
- 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.
- 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.
- Claribel is looking out of the window when she sees a circus parade pass the house. She is enraptured with the sight, but nurse tells her that, "circuses are only for little boys, and not for girls. Take your nap, now." Poor little Claribel jumps into bed and dreams a wonderful dream. Dressed as a tiny boy, but with long trousers, she steals under the flap of a circus tent and finds herself confronted by a huge lion in a cage. Later a monkey jumps at her, but when the elephant comes to her and offers to take her on his back; they are extremely human animals, by the way, she is delighted. Suddenly a big man, really the trainer, appears and tells her, "You are not a boy." Poor Claribel breaks down and cries and confesses hat she isn't, but wants to see the circus so much. She has a dandy time visiting the circus lady's room and donning the prettiest circus costume. She visits all the grounds and makes the acquaintance of all the trick animals. Just as she is about to jump on the back of the balky mule she falls out of the bed and finds that she has only been dreaming again.
- 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.
- When placed in a position to choose between two jealous suitors, a young woman turns the tables on them by choosing a third.
- Worthing, a rich young bachelor, lost in the woods at night while hunting, makes his way to an old inn. Foolishly he flashes a rill of bills; the innkeeper and his partner, Slavin, plan to rob him. Dora, the innkeeper's daughter, overhears the plot and having been impressed by the stranger, assists him to escape. Later, discovering this the men turn her out. Some hours later she comes upon Worthing and he in pity installs her in a house as maid, which he rents. Under his guidance Dora changes to a cultivated woman. Love takes the place of pity in the man's heart and when their love is about to culminate in marriage. Worthing is called away to attend his sick father. When he returns he learns that his sweetheart has been kidnapped by her father. After a fruitless attempt to find her he departs for an extended tour to heal a broken heart. Later, the father and friend are sent to prison, Dora with her baby, determines to go back to the village to seek her sweetheart. She is found in a sad plight by the roadside by Mrs. Leslie, who finding that she is so gifted obtains for her a position as companion to John Sloane, the uncle of Frank Sloane, Worthington's dearest friend. John falls in love with the girl and after a time she marries him for the sake of his child, believing that she will never see her former sweetheart again, Frank returns with his friend John from the trip and they answer the invitation of John to visit at his country place. The meeting between Dora and Worthing is pitiful, Dora's father has escaped and after Worthing has departed he makes his way to John's house and tells him of his daughter's past. He demands money to keep silent. The shock of his wife's history weighs heavily on Sloane and he dies in a short time. After several exciting incidents, in which Dora's father is killed, the young couple are brought together and the old love newly awakened fills their longing hearts.
- A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.
- A Boston girl, Clairbel Sudds, laments that she has no talents and goes to Dr. Daws, something of a wizard, for help. He gives her five magic bon bons, each a different flavor for a different talent. They are accidentally sold to a 12 year old girl named Bessie Bostwick, whose family eats them with bizarre results. By L Frank Baum
- Felix goes to work on the fatal morn that is the time setting of this film. He finally gets to his work after taking a forced ride on a moving "dolly." His work for that day consists of shingling a roof belonging to Tad. He goes to work and makes a mess of the whole affair, and then gets into a quarrel with Tad and his two boys. He finally sets fire to the house and then when it all collapses is thrown into the nearby river. But that is not the end, as he manages to throw the whole tribe of Tad into the river for revenge. This is not all that happens in this little comic classic, but in any case it is enough to know that in the end Felix comes to grief.
- Phillip Randall, a wealthy young southerner in search of health, travels in a coach to a little woodlawn resort, The Ardmore Inn, where he is cared for by old Tom Babcock and his lame wife Rosa. Their daughter Sarah is to be married the next day, in the garden of the nearby convent. Violet, 17, meets the Mother Superior, who reminds her that her 18th birthday is approaching, when she is to take the Holy Veil. On Sarah's wedding day, Violet gathers a large basket of roses for the bride. The village guests have assembled at the inn and Phillip, at Rosa's request, acts as best man. After the ceremony Violet gives the roses to Sarah. She becomes self-conscious under Phillip's admiring gaze. Phillip learns from old Rosa that Violet's mother, after her betrayal by the son of a wealthy man, had died broken-hearted. Before her death she left her infant at the door of the convent, where the child was found by the Mother Superior, who brought her up and called her Violet. The next day Phillip shoots a bird in the convent garden. The bird falls, at Violet's feet. Phillip approaches, and his attitude towards Violet is a mingling of shame, amusement, and awakening love. At the evening vespers she is questioned on her strange mood by the Mother Superior who, after soothing her, sends her to her convent cell to pray for divine guidance. Meanwhile Phillip has a vision of Violet and realizes how completely she has aroused his love for her. Violet has also fallen under the spell of love. She takes a piece of altar cloth she is embroidering, puts it on her head, and leans out of the window to pluck a spray of roses. The candle throws her shadow on the wall of her cell, and a vision fades in of herself arrayed in a white bridal gown and veil with an armful of roses. The vision fades and Violet, terrified by her wicked thoughts, tears the cloth from her hair and flings the roses from the window. Unable to rest, she rushes out of the convent. Phillip, equally restless, leaves the inn and sits down on the steps of the village church. Violet, on approaching the church, starts as she sees Phillip's figure rise up before her. There in the moonlight they meet. Phillip confesses his love. Alarmed at his passionate pleading, she tells him she cannot be false to her vows, and seeks refuge in the convent, where she sobs in despair in her cell. Some days later Phillip is thrown from his horse in a hunting party and is seriously injured. Violet witnesses his fall. For a month he lies ill at the inn, while Violet looks eagerly forward to the day of his recovery. A week before Violet is to take the veil Phillip comes out of his delirium, and longs to see her again. He finds a pencil and pad on the table near his bed, and writes her a note in which he asks her to become his wife if God grants his recovery. On reflection it occurs to him that it would be wrong to make her break her vows, and he is about to destroy the note when he faints from undue exertion in his feeble condition. Old Tom, however, finds the note, and hands it to Violet, who, after reading it, rushes from the convent garden to the consternation of all the nuns. Violet enters the sick-room and kneels at Phillip's bedside. When Phillip opens his eyes and sees Violet, he masters his desire to clasp her in his arms, and asks her forgiveness, telling her he knows that she intends to be true to her vows. Surprised at Phillip's apparent change of attitude, she staggers to the door of the convent, where the Mother Superior catches the fainting girl in her arms. Phillip, on discovering that the note he wrote to Violet has disappeared, learns from Tom that it had been delivered to her. Presently he finds the crumpled note at the foot of his bed, and realizes that Violet had come to consent to give herself to him instead of the Church. The shock causes him to have a relapse, and after his recovery he goes to the convent. Looking over the hedge he sees Violet draped in black. With a little cry of grief, Violet lowers her head in prayer and passes on without a word.
- 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.
- With all her millions and her education at a finishing school, Mame McGuire cannot forget that she is the Soap King's daughter, and that her mother is ordinary and ambitious. When Mame finds a card to the exclusive Van Duysen mask ball, she cannot resist the temptation to go. She goes as Pierette and it chances that young Teddy Van Duysen dresses as Pierrot, and thinking, of course, that the shy little Pierrette is someone he knows, dances with her the entire evening. But she refuses to tell him her name and he is so charmed with her that he proposes they exchange rings, so that when they next meet they may recognize each other. After a minute's hesitation, she agrees, and the exchange is made. The maskers are to unmask at midnight and Mame, knowing that her golden hour is over, slips away and home before the unmasking. Teddy searches the rest of the evening for his little Pierrette, but is unable to locate her. Her mother has been negotiating with the International Matrimonial Bureau in order that Her Mamie shall marry a title, and she receives word that a Duke has been secured and will be forwarded if desired. Mame agrees listlessly to any of her mother's plans and the Duke sets out to arrive on the night of the dinner. Mrs. McGuire sends her invitations to a dinner given in honor of the Duke broadcast. She even includes the Van Duysens, who are furious when they discover an invitation to the "upstart soap people's dinner." Enough accept to satisfy Mrs. McGuire, however, and the Duke telephones that he has arrived and will be there at eight-thirty. She finds she will have one empty place at the table. Desperately she asks her secretary, Miss Swift, what to do, and Swift suggests her telephoning to the fashionable clubs in town in hopes of securing some man to fill in. Mrs. McGuire acts at once and gets the ultra-exclusive Colossus Club on the wire. As she is telephoning, Teddy Van Duysen and two of his chums chance to enter, and overhearing the attendant struggling to understand her, take the wire. They are overcome with amusement at the idea of one of their number appearing at the McGuire dinner, but Teddy, always ready for a prank, decides it would be a lark to go, and tells his friend to say that he has a poor friend named Jones who will fill in for, as Teddy remarks, "It will be fun to see how they do it. I bet they pass soap around with the desert." Mrs. McGuire has told her footman that the Duke is distinguished looking and to bring him in at once, so when Teddy arrives and the footman asks his name, he hesitates, laughingly, and they conclude he is the Duke and before he can correct the error, have sweepingly announced him to the assemblage as "His Grace," the "Duke D'Enfetti." The bonafide Duke meanwhile arrives and is unceremoniously refused admission. Sputtering with indignation, he encounters a policeman, who drags him to the police court, where, after much humiliation, the magistrate sends for an interpreter and learns the little man's true identity. Followed by the policeman, the Duke returns to the McGuire's to have the impostor arrested. The dinner meanwhile has concluded, and Teddy is hoping to get a word with Mame, but he is so surrounded by fawning women that he cannot escape. It is then than the police and the much disheveled Duke D'Enfetti arrive. He is denounced and gracefully admits he is the "poor young man named Jones." Mrs. McGuire demands his arrest, but Mame intercedes. She lays her hand on Teddy's sleeve and at that moment Teddy sees his ring on her hand and she sees hers on his. He is rescued by his friends and confesses to his father, who tells him he should marry and settle down. It is just the advice he wants with the memory of Mame's face in his heart, but he determines to win her as a poor young man, rather than as a Van Duysen and sends her a humble bunch of flowers and a note, asking her to meet him in the park. She wears the flowers, discarding the Duke's roses, and slips out of the house, despite the engagement to drive with the Duke and her mother, and meets Teddy. It is then that all is explained, and he asks her to marry him. "Will you?" he asks, "knowing I have nothing but myself to offer." "Try me and see," she whispers. Her mother and the Duke, driving through the park in search of her, see them, but they escape in a taxi and elope. When Mrs. McGuire learns that her daughter has married Teddy Van Duysen she collapses with joy, but the Van Duysen household is buried in gloom. However, Teddy brings Mame home and wins them over one by one. All ends well save for the Duke, who resignedly searches for a job as chauffeur, not daring to return to Sunny "It."
- Thieves steal the famous Remington diamonds; in order to throw the police off the track, they take possession of a country house where they hide with their plunder until the affair blows over. To further safeguard themselves, they make strange noises to imply the house is haunted.
- Hilda was hardly more than a child when she came to America. Yet it was on the ship that she first met the man who was afterward to take her hand in marriage. Hilda loved dancing and, one afternoon, on the ship's deck, she spun around to the notes of a violin played by an old man. For this her father beat her. John Maine, an artist, interfered. Hilda and her father are met at the pier my Michael, a degenerate brute, who is the foreman of a sweat shop. He offers the girl work at a sum unheard of by her father; the father sees a chance to remain home in laziness and consents. Six years elapse. Hilda has grown to beautiful girlhood. Michael, desiring her love, forces his attentions on her. When she repulses him he gives her more work to do and sends her home. Later, he complains to the girl's father that Hilda is too proud, that she refuses to kiss him. The father promises that the child shall reform. When Michael is gone, he beats the girl and tells her to obey the man who give them their bread. At the shop the next morning Michael again attempts to make love to the girl. Hilda throws him off, escapes from the shop, determined to be left alone. Fearing to return to her father, she makes her way into the country, where she finds shelter with a gypsy band. Here she is taught by Rigo, the leader, to tell fortunes. It is only a short time, however, before Rigo becomes enamored with the girl's beauty and he too attempts to force his attentions upon her. To protect herself, Hilda steals a pistol from Rigo's mattress. Soon after, she shoots a young farmer while in the woods, believing that it was Rigo following her. She discovers her mistake, imagines that she has committed murder, and flees. Rigo and some farmers find the wounded man; he was only slightly hurt, but Rigo sees a chance to get control of Hilda by reason of the act. By stealing a ride in a freight car, Hilda finds her way back to the city. Here she finds employment as a maid in a dancing school. It is not long before she shows marked talent for dancing and the teacher takes an interest in her. Later Hilda finds great popularity dancing for the public. Her picture often finds its way into the newspapers. Rigo, in the city and broke, sees Hilda's picture in the newspapers one day and decides to visit her. This he does and by holding the accident to the farmer over her head. Hilda still believes that she killed him; he manages to get money. Hilda, shortly after, meets the artist who befriended her years before at a café. They recognize each other and the artist asks Hilda to pose for a painting. Hilda consents and as the days pass a strong attachment springs up between the young people. But Hilda, thinking of her crime, fears to accept his proposal of marriage. However, matters come to a head the next night at the café where Hilda dances. Rigo comes to the place and shames her before the public; he demands more money. Fate then decides to play a hand. The farmer boy, visiting the city, walks into the café. Rigo sees him and so does Hilda. Rigo flees, knowing that his game is up. The next night Hilda gives her answer to her artist sweetheart.
- Marie Mathews and her friend, Jeanette, are entertaining Tom and Jack Moore. In a game of tennis, Marie turns her ankle. Tom assists Marie, much to the annoyance of Jeanette, who loves Tom. Tom is much worried concerning Marie's ankle, until Jeanette shows anger at Tom's attention to Marie. As Jack and Jeanette leave the room Tom tries to propose to Marie, but his courage fails him as they are interrupted by the entrance of Jeanette and Jack. Jeanette relieves the situation by playing Tom's favorite selection on the piano. Jack realizing the feelings of Marie, takes her from the scene to a balcony where they enjoy the moonlight. After an argument concerning Jeanette, Marie returns to the drawing room. As Jeanette hears Marie returning she pretends to have something in her eye. Tom endeavors to help Jeanette. As Marie enters the room she sees Tom on his knees. Thinking Tom loves Jeanette, Marie goes to her room. Next morning, at breakfast, Marie is still kind to Jeanette, who shows her dislike for Marie. Jeanette leaves on a shopping trip and meets a messenger who is bringing some flowers to Marie with a note from Tom, in which he tells her he loves her but has not the courage to tell her so in person and begs her to wear one of his flowers that night. Jeanette returns to her room and reads the note which Tom has written. Jeanette sees a chance to turn Marie against Tom and takes the note with the flowers to Marie, who, when she reads, offers congratulations to Jeanette. Next morning early Marie packs her bags and sends for her housekeeper. She gives a check to both the housekeeper and butler and tells them to inform Jeanette in the morning that the house is to be closed. She leaves for her lodge in the hills prepared to live the life of a hermit. When Tom calls to get his answer, Jeanette tells him Marie is unable to see him. Tom leaves dejected. After Marie leaves the city, Jeanette entertains Tom, and in an impulsive moment Tom proposes to Jeanette and is readily accepted. As Tom proposes a vision of Marie comes to him telling him to beware of Jeanette. Five years elapse. Jeanette is driving Tom to the walls with her extravagance. Jack refuses to lend him any more. The bright spot in Tom's life is his little girl, whom he worships. Tom warns Jeanette to be less extravagant, but she still continues to entertain. A vision of Marie comes to Tom when he is about to draw up a brief for an important case in a way that would make him a laughing stock. Marie shows him the right way to draw up the document. From this midnight work Tom goes home to find his wife entertaining a large crowd at supper. He declines their invitation and goes to his little girl's room, where he finds the child unattended. Brought at last to realize his position by the serving of papers on him for a sheriff's sale of all his goods he attempts to end it all, but is stopped again by a vision of Marie, who tells him of his duty. At last Tom's troubles are brought to a close by an accident which kills Jeanette. Subsequently Tom wins an important case which nets him a large sum of money. He turns the office over to Jack and, with his child, leaves for the woods. While tramping along one day through the woods the child begs her daddy to go with her. They take a cross path which leads them to Marie's lodge, where the old sweethearts are reunited once more.
- A man rides by a beautifully and carefully tended garden. He reaches over the wall and picks a flower. Soon it withers in the sun. Its color fades and its fragrance is gone. He tosses it away. In the little room made sacred by her love The Girl rocked the baby and listened for the footstep of The Man, that never came. It was almost impossible to believe that she had been deserted, but now there could no longer be any doubt. She took her baby and walked to her father's home. He opened it and told her to be gone. So she went to the bridge and jumped off with her baby. Men came in boats and dragged her from the river, still clinging to the little, cold, dead baby. Men took her and threw her into prison. A man arraigned her with the righteous and scathing invective. Twelve men sat in judgment upon her. And a man pronounced the sentence: "For the term of your natural life." It was ten years since the doors of the prison closed behind her and Young Mary had become almost Old Mary. For ten years she had sat alone in her cell as the dark came on, and visions of the past came upon the walls in panoramic review. Always there was the face of her baby as it smiled in its cradle and the poor, starved mother-heart wondered if she would ever see or hear or touch a child again. For years she had been a trustee. The longing for freedom long since died, if, indeed, she ever had it after she entered the prison. But as she passed through the outer hall one day the door stood open, and there was a cloak and bonnet on the rack. She stood irresolute for a moment, and then she walked out. She hurried along the road and mechanically felt in the pocket of the cloak. A small purse with a few coins. They meant nothing to her. She had not seen any money for years. Out from a cottage came a little five-year-old girl; Mary knelt in the road and she took the baby into her arms. And then they took hands and walked away together. They come upon one of those little shops that one often sees in the border country. In the cob-webbed window, among the miscellany, were some shop-worn toys and the child stopped to look at them. Mary counted the coins in her purse and they hurried inside. When they came out Mary carried the bundle and the baby ran along at her side. By this time Mary's escape had been discovered and men with guns set out from the prison to find her. Mary and the little girl found a glade in the woods among the thick carpets and tapestries of the vines and mosses and there was a flat rock that made a splendid table. There Mary set the table and arranged the toys, and they played with them. The grim keepers and the frantic mother searched the woods. At last they found her. Mary was the convict again. She had had her little happy day and she was willing to go back to the gray walls. They took her back, and unkindly. The great iron doors closed behind her for the last time. And The Man, who happened to be riding by, sleek and well fed and prosperous, in his automobile, stopped his car and complimented the keepers on the recapture of a dangerous criminal.
- A shot is fired in the darkness of the cabin on an ocean liner; a man falls prostrate across the table while a frightened woman throws a revolver from her and rushing out on deck she flings herself over the rail into the waves. The man was not badly hurt. The woman was washed ashore next morning on the beach of a fishing village. The man traces the girl to be revenged upon her. Meantime in the hut of some fishing folk, Mary, the girl, is happy. Two fishermen love her, one, big and stalwart, the other, weak of mind and weak of body. The big fellow, John, proposes to Mary and she accepts him. Ralph, the other boy, sees the progress of this love affair and smiles upon it, although it breaks his heart. The man of the boat arrives at the fishing village and one day as Mary is dancing over the sands to meet John she comes face to face with this visitor from her past. He asks her to go away with him back to the old life. Mary protests and tells him she has a chance for happiness and begs him to go away and leave her free. He laughs at her; he taunts and goads her into a rage. Ralph comes to the girl who sits sadly on the sand and asks her the trouble. "That man makes you unhappy?" asks the boy. She nods. "Then 1 will take him where he can never make you unhappy again." That night Mary determines to confess all to John. Ralph steals out and finding the stranger, suggests that he row him to the mainland. The stranger jumps into the little craft that sets out on its last voyage. Mary confesses to John, telling him of the past of the days when she was the accomplice of the man on the boat, and how, finally unable to stand the life, she pleaded for a chance to go away and be free and when the beast laughed in her face, she shot him. John soothes her and when he learns that the man has come to disgrace her he vows to kill him. But the dawn breaks on two bodies washed in by the tide, Ralph and the stranger side by side.
- Peter determines to give his wife a birthday present, a bungalow, as she is tired of flat life. But the landlord will not break their lease. Peter meets a friend who tells him he has been put out of his apartment for making too much noise. Peter gets an idea. He induces his wife to go to her mother for a few days. Then he invites Foley, who is a manager of vaudeville acts and who has no place to rehearse a song and dance number, to use his flat. They dance till the ceiling comes down on the landlord's head, and he tears up the lease. Peter leaves, but the police, summoned by the landlord, arrest Foley as Peter, and the story gets into the papers. Mrs. Duffer reads it, and thinks she now knows why Peter urged her to leave home. She returns and finds the chorus girls installed. Foley has broken out of prison, and comes to the flat. The police appear and re-arrest him. Thus Mrs. Duffer learns the truth, and harmony is restored.
- 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.
- Mrs. Simpson attends a lecture on "Vegetarianism." She becomes a fanatic on the subject, and much to the disgust of Sidney, their servants, and the local butcher. The cat's chop is the only meat that is allowed to enter the house. Sidney manages surreptitiously to eat the chop. Then an idea strikes him. He buys several kittens and tells his wife they must have at least three more chops daily. Sidney reads in his paper an announcement of an epidemic in Russia, brought on by vegetarian diet, which causes terrible blotches on the face. He takes the cook and the maid into his confidence and they and Sidney pretend to be suffering, shaking violently all over. Sidney paints their faces with blotches of "iodine," and also paints his wife's face. In awakening she is thoroughly alarmed and telephones for a plentiful supply of meat.
- Two lovers disguise themselves as counterfeiters in order to escape from the girl's disapproving parents.
- 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.
- The girl arrives on a steamer from Europe. She finds a place as maid with the Cliftons. Matters run smoothly until the butler invites the maid for a stroll. The maid declines. Mr. Clifton is called away. Mrs. Clifton takes advantage of his absence to carry on a flirtation with Trinker, a young fop. There is a bridge party. The maid, for the first time, sees Harsleigh. Thoughts, strange and disquieting, of him fill her mind. It is immediately after the bridge party that she finds her mistress in the arms of young Trinker. Mrs. Clifton pledges the maid to secrecy, promising her the gratification of any wish she may have. The maid, remembering Harsleigh, asks to be taken to Newport as an heiress, Mrs. Clifton is forced to consent. At Newport the maid is quite a lion among Mrs. Clifton's friends. Harsleigh falls in love with the girl and pushes his suit. While walking one day, the pair are followed by Louise Jones who is in love with Harsleigh. She observes Harsleigh propose and the girl accept. On their return to the drawing room, Harsleigh announces the engagement, Louise tells him he is making a fool of himself, that he is marrying a maid. When the maid refuses to tell who she is, Harsleigh denounces her as an impostor. At this moment a foreign Chancellor, a tutor and retinue of maids enter and acclaim the maid none other than a Princess of the Royal and the First Lady in Europe. The Princess leaves with her retinue and returns to the Royal Palace in Europe. Shortly after, she receives a letter from Harsleigh declaring his love for her and begging forgiveness. The Princess destroys the letter and thinks only of what might have been if Harsleigh had not failed when "his big chance" came.
- Carter, at college, plays a trick on a professor by putting a skeleton in his bed. In doing so he knocks a vase out of the window. It strikes a girl below and she loses her memory. Carter thinks she is dead and carries her into his room. She recovers, however, and he finds himself the guardian of a pretty orphan, who can recall nothing of her past. Carter has a terrible time keeping her hidden from the sight of the professor and his classmates, and is forced to spend his nights sleeping out on the campus. One day, the maid, who secretly hopes to make a hit with Carter, discovers hairpins on the floor of his room. She hurries to the professor and relates the story of her find. The professor listens and goes with her to make a search. In the meantime Carter has been forced to furnish a wardrobe for his adopted daughter, and the situation becomes so trying that he tries to make her leave. But, as she does not know where to go, or he where to send her, he is forced to keep her secretly in his room. The professor learns the truth and orders Carter and the girl to leave. They do so, but not until Carter has had a battle with the professor and has taught him some manners. Carter marries the girl and takes her home, fearing she will turn out to be a missing mother of a pair of twins. His father and mother will not accept the girl as their daughter-in-law, till the real father proves to be an old friend of Carter's father, and a wealthy oil magnate. Then everything is settled in a satisfactory manner.
- Jacques Fournir, a Canadian guide, receives a letter from Hugh Travers that he is coming to spend several months in the woods, as he had done five years before when Jeanne, Jacques' daughter, was twelve years of age. It is decided that Jacques is to act as guide to members of the Canadian police, who are on the trail of diamond smugglers. Meanwhile, Jeanne, who is now a wide awake young woman, runs off with her dog to meet Hugh at the railroad station. The dog runs ahead and while in the woods is captured by the smugglers, who hide the stolen diamonds in the dog's collar. After meeting Hugh, Jeanne and Hugh enter a canoe which glides gracefully along down the lake as a panorama of picturesque views is reproduced on the screen. On leaving the canoe, they take a stroll through the woods, and run across the smugglers, who overpower Hugh, but Jeanne succeeds in making her escape. During the night, Jeanne stealthily crawls into the camp where Hugh is sleeping. She cuts the ropes with which Hugh has been firmly bound and Jeanne's dog gets loose from the tree, and follows them out of the camp without rousing the smugglers. While resting on some rocks in the woods, Jeanne secures the diamonds from the dog's collar and puts them in her pocket. In attempting to descend from the rocks, Hugh has had a fall, spraining his ankle, and sustaining other painful injuries. Thus the young couple seek refuge in a log-wood cabin from which Jeanne dispatches her dog with a note calling for help. The dog meets Jacques and the mounted policemen who read the message. Meanwhile, the smugglers, on missing their captive and the dog, rush to the cabin and surround it. A desperate right ensues, in which Hugh and Jeanne return their gun fire until the smugglers break in and overpower them. The mounted policemen arrive in the nick of time. Some of the smugglers are shot dead and the others are captured, the diamonds are recovered, and the young couple fall into each other's arms with wedding bells instead of musket shots ringing in their ears.
- Headmistress Flo disciplines unruly boys at her father's school. Her innovative methods include hosing the boys down and locking them inside an ice house. Nothing like stranding the assistant principal on a hoist to make love bloom.
- 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.
- Truth, the mother of Everygirl, lives in their comfortable, cozy little cottage near New York. Love calls for Everygirl to take her to work with him at the office of Work and Pleasure, a strange partnership. Trouble looks upon the attentions of Pleasure for Everygirl, and gloats over Love's discomfort at a situation over which he has no control. Work takes Pleasure to task for his lack of business interest and his attentions to Everygirl, only to be laughed at by Pleasure and told in a polite way to mind his own business. That night Everygirl prepares to go out with Pleasure after having told Love that she will not stand for his dictations. To her mother's surprise, Everygirl goes with Pleasure to a café, where Vice and Temptation have Vanity, Conceit, and Frivolity awaiting for the new prey. Vanity assures her she is too plain. Conceit instills her powers into Everygirl's mind. At first Everygirl refuses wine, but after all the others laugh at her shyness, Everygirl forgets her promise to Truth and tastes of the wine. Vice spots her as a new diversion, and after Vanity and Conceit has arranged her hair. Vice entices Everygirl to a private nook. At first Everygirl likes him, but when she awakens to the fact that his intentions are not good she shuns him and returns to Pleasure, begging him to take her home. She leaves the café. Early the next morning, Vanity and Conceit call on Everygirl with more fashionable gowns supplied by Pleasure. Truth has trouble awakening Everygirl from her slumbers, though she brightens at the sight of the finery. At the office Everygirl has trouble refraining from yawning. This troubles Work, but pleases old Trouble, who seeks the downfall of Everygirl. Love looks on brokenhearted at his sweetheart leaving him. When Everygirl is called by Pleasure, she brightens at his recalling the night before, but shudders at the thought of Vice's suggestions. On her return to her desk Work warns her of the danger of her associations with Pleasure, Vice and Temptation. He tells her such gowns as Vanity and Conceit would have her wear are not for Everygirl and begs her to go home to rest and think it over. On her way she meets Vice and Temptation, but, remembering Work's advice, she refuses their offers, and those of Conceit and Vanity. At home with Truth, Everygirl waits for Love, who comes and takes her once more to Work, who welcomes the old Everygirl. After marriage Everygirl has Happiness, which more than takes the place of Pleasure, Vice, Temptation, Vanity, and Conceit. Trouble comes no more to Everygirl, who lives on with Love, Truth, and Happiness.
- Helga Moran, a young violinist, desiring to play before a great manager, sends in her card only to be rebuffed by the office brat. She returns to the studio of her friends and plays for them. They are fascinated, so much so that they forget the supper cooking on the stove. After the meal Helga returns to the office. The manager is looking for a man to play a lead in one of his productions. He is pestered by all sorts of types: song and dance men, an old opera singer, an old tragedian who still thinks he can play a juvenile, when the manager is almost mad with the pests. There comes into his office a beautiful girl with her violin; he would drive her out as he has the others, but she will not go; instead she plays to him. He is enchanted by her music; they fade from the office into a wonderful glade; he is sleeping at the base of a grand oak tree. Suddenly the tree opens and out dances a nymph; she inhales the fresh air, dusts off the flowers and plays with the rabbits, awakens the sleeping knights, then runs away. With Sir Knight she is persuaded across field and dale, up deep slopes, and romps with him in hot chase. Then back to the office. She finishes her selection; he falls to his knees enchanted. He offers her his all, his heart and his hand, but she is enraged to think her music could affect a man so. She breaks her violin over his head and leaves.
- William Prentiss. financier and bachelor, stormed about when his doctor informed him he must go to a sanitarium. But the case was urgent and the financier consented. Doctor Smith's sanitarium was in the Blue Ridge mountains. It proved an attractive place for Prentiss, in time, the rest and air brought improved vigor. His interest in life returned. Doctor Smith, head of the institution, had many patients to look after. Feeling the need of rest from overwork, he went into the woods for a stroll. A sprained ankle was responsible for his finding an assistant in Hans, a woodcutter, working in the forest. Hans helped Dr. Smith to old Granny Robbins' cottage. The good woman eased the pain. She promised to send the doctor some of her beneficial herbs by her young daughter, known as the Witch Girl, who seldom left the forest glades. Thanking Granny, the doctor returned. Hans was sent for the Witch Girl. He called from crag to crag, and at last, down by the mountain pool, came a faint answer. The girl came when she chose. She disliked gathering herbs, because it meant wading about in the marsh where Granny's pigs grunted and wallowed. But she made the best of it and took a full basket to the sanitarium. That afternoon it was Mr. Prentiss' turn to be strolling in the woods. Suddenly he came upon a scene that made his eyes open, an elfin creature dancing about a tree on which she had pinned a magazine reproduction of his palatial home. He talked to her. She much wanted to see the wonderful house as it really was. When Prentiss suggested a way she consented. Prentiss met her in his automobile. At the house, she was aquiver with excitement, particularly so when the housekeeper dressed her in an embroidered gown. And then she dined with Mr. Prentiss. The girl's beauty and the wine inflamed the mind of Prentiss; he tried to kiss her. She fought him off and fled upstairs, donned again her ragged clothes and escaped from the house by a second story window. Her pet pigeon, which she had brought with her, she let fly with a note to Granny. It brought Hans and the doctor to her rescue after she had spent the night hiding in the grounds. A year passes. There is much meditation on the part of Prentiss. He decides to go out and win the girl in the right way.
- Crooknose is a child of the slums. The slums his mother, dark alleys his father and his family is composed of the crook, the gambler, the demi-monde and the policeman. But despite these family connections Crooknose is organically a decent fellow. He believes in a "square deal." He insists on a "square deal" and as a result he commands the respect, which comes of fear of the gamblers with whom he associates. One day while Crooknose is a party in a quiet game of poker another incident of importance to this story is taking place in a nearby crockery store. Katie, a young saleswoman, and Crooknose's idol, sells a vase to a customer. The buyer of the merchandise asserts that she gave the saleswoman $50 bill. Katie says no and she is discharged. While seeking employment Katie falls into the hands of a procuress who offers her the position of housekeeper for two girl artists. Unsuspecting of the nature of the employment. Katie accepts the offer. The procuress leads Katie to her establishment. The innocent girl only too soon discovers the danger which threatens her. When she attempts to leave the infamous dive she finds that she is a prisoner and that a common person is her jailer. In the meantime Crooknose catches one of the players cheating. He draws his revolver, pockets the money on the table, which is rightfully his, and retreats from the room, holding the other gamblers at bay with his firearm. The proprietor of the house telephones to a number of confederates downstairs and instructs them to rob Crooknose of his winnings. Crooknose is "wise" to their game and he leaves the building by way of the roof. A hot chase over the tops of buildings ensues. In looking for an opportunity to reach the street Crooknose peers through a skylight and sees Katie, the object of his secret love, struggling with the pander. He jumps through the skylight and goes to her rescue. The gamblers follow and a one-sided battle begins. Crooknose is all but vanquished when Bullneck Gannon, a policeman and an old acquaintance of Crooknose, and an admirer of Katie, breaks into the room and turns tide of battle against the gamblers. There is a little scene in the hospital that night, when Katie visits Crooknose and the policeman, which suggests a future romance between Crooknose and the girl.
- Two Mary Wrights start out the same day to spend their vacations, one with the anticipation of enjoying everything that money can buy; the other to realize the culmination of weeks of saving and scrimping. Their destination is the same town; although the rich Mary goes to a hotel while the other goes to a small camp nearby. Soon the rich Mary finds the place dull and her father informs her that he is sending young bachelor Frank Brewer to keep her company over the weekend. When Frank arrives he finds a note telling him that she left because she could no longer stand the dullness. He meets the other Mary Wright, but thinking that she is the one he was supposed to meet, decides not to disclose his identity. Before he leaves for town the two are engaged, but he tells her he knows her address and will call upon her in the city. Meantime, Mr. Wright has received word from his daughter that she expects to be engaged before she returns home. Frank declares that he is engaged to Mary. While they are talking, rich Mary comes in and introduces her fiancé. Frank is in a quandary until he meets the right Mary Wright.
- A young seminary girl finds romance.
- Jack Randolph, a typical southern professional gambler, who makes his living by honest gambling among the aristocracy of the sunny south, is in love with the daughter of Col. Ben Hastings, who has a proclivity for gambling, but is nevertheless opposed to a professional gambler for a son-in-law. He has forbidden his daughter, Nell, to have anything to do with Jack, although he himself meets the young gambler at their nightly rendezvous. Nothing daunted by the Colonel's decree, the young lovers have many secret meetings. A serpentine character by the name of Ezra Hoover, who preyed on those which devastation and want had placed in his power, has acquired much land and many houses which he rents to the so-called white trash. His miserly disposition and picayune ways are closely shown when he forces a poor couple who are in the throes of starvation to leave their home. Jed Miles and his ill wife have been living in one of Hoover's houses and on account of their inability to pay the rent they are ejected. Jack happens to be passing and sees the poverty and sorrow and comes to Jed's aid by giving him the necessary funds to pay his rent and telling Jed to call on him if he needs more. Jed's wife, however, succumbs to her ailment, owing to the unnecessary exposure and Jed, who is madly in love with her, is driven insane. In his madness he goes gunning for Hoover who at this time is engaged in a card game at the tavern with the colonel and Jack. The colonel accuses Hoover of being crooked and Hoover starts to draw, but the colonel beats him to it. Jack grabs the colonel's arm, but the gun explodes the same instant that Jed pulls the trigger of his gun from the outside. Jack, thinking that the colonel has killed Hoover, takes the smoking pistol from his hand and forces the colonel to escape from the window. Jack is placed under arrest and circumstantial evidence convicts him. He is condemned to death and the colonel, frantic, does not know what to do. The day of the execution is at hand when Jed, who has been wandering, comes across a paper, in which he reads that Jack will hang for the crime which he himself committed. The gallows tree is tested and the dawn as it breaks, sees Jack awaiting his fate. But again the Goddess of Chance intervenes and Jed, breaking into the courtyard, surmounts the scaffold and confesses to the crime, for which Jack is wrongly accused. The incident releases Jack.
- When Maurice Ormsbys, son of John Ormsbys, leaves for New York, his father admonishes him to be careful with his conduct, and impresses him with the fact that for ten generations no stigma has ever been known to the family name. Maurice promises to be good, but fate decrees that he becomes acquainted with Mary Hampden, an actress, playing at the Folly Theater, New York. He visits gay cafés with her, and is successful in winning Mary away from her admirers by his magnetic personality. A few months later Maurice asks her to become his wife, but she gives him a negative reply, perceiving that he is a little under the influence of liquor. She promises to give him a definite answer if he should propound the same question with a clear mind. The next day he puts the same query to her, and she. after making him understand the disparity of their stations in life, agrees to marry him. His father reads of his marriage to the actress, and forthwith dispatches a letter to him, telling him that from now on his allowance will be suspended. Maurice receives the letter the morning after a night of debauch. Mary manages to get hold of the letter and thereupon decides that Maurice must make his own way in the world without the assistance of his father's financial aid. Casting aside their life of affluence, they take modest quarters in another part of the city, and live happily for a while. But the lure of their former life proves too strong for Maurice, and they rapidly become poverty stricken. After five years of squalid living, Maurice again appeals to his father for aid, but the old man, who has become a recluse, tore up the letter. His butler, Roberts, learns of Maurice's plight, and sends him $50. The letter falls into the son's hands as he is leaving his poor surroundings and instead of returning with it to his wife, spends it all in a saloon. He is thrown out dead drunk, and shoved on a ship bound for China. One of Mary's former admirers learns of her struggle and comes to her. Mary is about to go with him when her little baby comes creeping towards her. This brings Mary to a realization of her act, and she orders the tormentor out of the room. Roberts and his wife are determined to seek Maurice and place him on the right path. He learns where the son and his wife live and brings her and the baby to an unused part of the Ormsbys mansion. The strain of worry begin to take effect on John Ormsby, and he falls seriously ill. The doctor orders careful nursing, so the old butler and his wife put Mary into service. In time the old man becomes himself again, and thinks of what a happy life his son would have led if he had married such a charming girl as his nurse. He even offers to marry her, but she refuses, feeling that her husband would return. At last Maurice returns, his long forced abstinence from drink curing him of the desire for liquor. He trails his wife to his father's home, where a happy reconciliation takes place.
- Night Wind, so named by the Indians, has been brought up by a Siwash and is considered as a half-breed. She is taken in by the mother of the foreman of a big lumber camp and assists the old lady in housework. The foreman, John Daly, is in love with her, but keeps this a secret. Walter Sandry, a new owner of the lumber camp, appears unexpectedly to run things himself. The rough men of the camp look upon him as an eastern tenderfoot. He does this by licking the camp bully. But he had plenty of grit and makes up his mind to win their respect. He wins the love of Night Wind by giving her his beautiful horse to ride. One day, in a tempestuous fit of emotion, he kisses her. This is constituted among the Indians equivalent to a betrothal of marriage. From then on Night Wind looks upon him as "her man." A New York society girl, Dolly Ordway, an artist, comes to the lumber camp in search of local color. She is given quarters by Walter Sandry. Dolly also falls in love with Walter. Night Wind suspects this and her semi-savage jealousy is difficult to restrain. Dolly tries to win Walter to a declaration of marriage. Several times he is on the point of succumbing when the thought of the simple but beautiful child of nature obtrudes itself. There is a rival lumber company in the neighborhood. The owner falls violently in love with Dolly. He discovers that she is in love with Walter, although she has likewise been flirting with him. He is furiously jealous and determines to ruin his rival. He blows up a raft of lumber with dynamite. Walter is on the raft; he is seriously injured. He is carried to the camp unconscious and both Night Wind and Dolly vie with each other to nurse him. Dolly takes a mean advantage of the situation by declaring that Walter is her affianced husband. This enrages Night Wind. However, the foreman's mother decides that Dolly is entitled to nurse him. Walter recovers and is angry at hearing that he is supposed to be engaged to Dolly. He denies that it is so. This so enrages Dolly that she determines to ruin him. About this time Walter has taken an order for a large shipment of logs. To fail to fulfill this order means the loss of a large guarantee which he has put up, in other words, ruin. Knowing this, the jealous rival visits the men working for Walter and prevails upon them to strike. Walter is in a desperate position. Night Wind appreciates the situation and without saying anything to her "man," she travels through the forest on foot to the Indians' camp. They know and love her as one of their own and have a great deal of respect for what she says. To the chief Night Wind puts her case; she tells him of the strike and asks him to send his braves to handle the logs and thereby save her lover. The chief consents; he calls his braves together and leads them over the hills to the lumber camp. They are working the logs when Walter discovers their presence. The rival lumber man tries to bribe the Indians to quit with money and whiskey. The chief is about to give way to the temptation of whiskey when Night Wind appears beside him. The work is continued. The great dam is lifted and the logs, sufficient to fill the order, rush down the flume. Night Wind finds her reward in the faithful love of Walter.
- A hypnotist puts a young girl in a trance, then gets her to steal for him.