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- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
- A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
- Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.
- Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country. Richard Coombs is the nearest neighbor of Madge's aunt, and he finds it necessary for his wife and himself to hasten to the city. A chaperon is needed immediately for their four daughters. By necessity they are forced to take Madge, who is still the runaway Countess Van Tuyle. Jim Ogden is on a canoe trip through the lakes and stops at the Coombs camp. This is the crowning embarrassment for the chaperon. Up to the time the cook, butler and chauffeur have quit and each one of the girls has opened a summer flirtation. However, Ogden persuades Madge to take a canoe ride. Their craft strikes a rock and the two are marooned on a little barren Island. Meanwhile the Count has followed his wife to America and with Madge's mother arrives at the camp. Becoming suspicious, he goes up the lake the next morning and finds his wife with Ogden. Madge escapes in his boat and leaves the two men to fight it out. Mrs. Coombs returns to find her four daughters engaged, the chaperon a sorry sight after her night on the lake and half of her servants gone. However, Mrs. Hemmingway solves everything and promises that she will effect a settlement with the Count to enable her daughter to marry Ogden.
- Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.
- An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
- It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of the adjoining principality, will advance the money if the young Prince of Graustark marries his daughter. Prince Robin, however, inherits an independent spirit, his father having been an American. He refuses absolutely to marry a Princess whom he has never seen. His councilors plead in vain. With the ruin of his country imminent, the boy ruler hastily sails for America to negotiate the loan, hoping at the same time to meet the girl of his dreams. The money is readily advanced by William W. Blithers, a self-made millionaire anxious to have his daughter marry into royalty. The daughter, however, avoids the Prince and he does not see her. He rescues a girl from drowning and falls in love with her. He believes her to be Blithers' daughter, but she does not reveal her identity. Simultaneous with the Prince's departure for home comes a note to Blithers from his daughter that she has sailed for Europe to escape the Prince. Blithers is elated. He is certain they will meet on shipboard. The Prince does meet the girl he loves. In Paris he makes a tryst with her and they are arrested for speeding. Before any sentence can be passed upon her, however, a diplomatic document reaches the court and they are freed. The Prince believes the power of Blithers to be world-wide. The night of his return to Graustark with the welcome news of the loan, the Prince of Dawsbergen is a guest at the palace. A mysterious note calls the younger man to the terrace. There he meets the girl. He tells her that even though she is Blithers' daughter, he wants to marry her. Taking her into the palace he announces her to the councilors as his future bride. He cannot account for their approving smile. "There is your father," he tells the girl as Blithers, who followed them across the ocean, enters the room. She laughs. "No, my father is over there," she exclaims, pointing to the Prince of Dawsbergen. The energetic Blithers explodes when he learns the news. He recovers himself, however, and says: "Congratulations. Prince. I can be a good loser."
- Silas Kendall, a prospector, and his daughter Nell, so the story goes, are prospecting in the mountains, a few miles above Canyon City, a little western town, and the basis of supplies for the hundreds of more or less successful gold prospectors. Kendall has built him a cabin and he and his daughter, a robust little woman, have managed to eke out a living, always hopeful some day of making the "big strike." Kendall is old and not thoroughly responsible at times. In fact, his simplicity and childish trust in all strangers has earned him the uncomplimentary title of half-wit. Twice before our story opens he has lost two valuable claims because of his too freely proclaiming his finds with the consequence that his claims have been staked by other prospectors. The story opens showing Kendall and his daughter leaving the cabin for the hills. The girl works with him until close to the noon hour when she lays aside her pick and shovel to return to the cabin and prepare dinner. While she is thus engaged, there is a knock at the door and a young miner, Hal Martin, steps in. Martin has accidentally wounded himself in the arm while cleaning his gun and applies to the girl for help. She assists him to bind the wound and thanking her he leaves, after bashfully asking to be permitted to call again. Kendall, at work in the hills, is about to give up in despair, when he turns up two small nuggets and other fine pay dirt. With a glad cry he springs to his feet and hurries back to the cabin. Showing the specimens to Nell, he tells her he is going down to Canyon City and have them assayed. Nell, however, pleads with him not to do so, having in mind the other two valuable claims which he had unwittingly lost. He finally gives in and during the old man's absence from the room Nell hides the specimens in a coffee pot. Kendall returns and while Nell is busy outside, finds the specimens and skips out of the room. At the town store the old miner shows the specimens to a number of miners and despite the entreaties of the old store-keeper they entice Kendall to tell them the location of the mine. Nell returns to the cabin shortly after her father has left, finds the coffee pot on the floor and the specimens gone. She is about to give up in despair when there is a knock at the door and Hal Martin enters. The frantic girl explains her troubles and pleads with Martin to help her save the claim. At the store the old man has boastfully told of the rich vein and minutely described it to the other miners, who, when satisfied they will have no trouble in finding the location, run out of the store, mount and ride away. Back at the cabin Martin has listened to the story and tells the girl they must race back to the claim and beat the others to it. The girl quickly saddles a horse. Martin mounts his own and the race to stake the claim begins. The scenes alternate between the miners and the girl and Martin. However. Martin and the girl arrive just in time, and while Martin holds the others off with his gun, the girl stakes the claim. The others, realizing they are beaten, turn away, leaving Nell and Hal alone.
- Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?
- An unrepentant crook enters a dance hall and gets in a fight over a girl. As he, unknowingly, breaks into her house, another bloody mess stains the residence's thick carpets. Can a simple act of kindness pave the way for his regeneration?
- American sailor Allan Carroll, an American sailor, is shipwrecked of the coast of Japan in the 19th century. He makes it to shore and is rescued by kind Yori. The local ruler, Prince Iku, has ordered that all foreigners who are "trespassing" on Japanese soil should be killed. He hears about a foreign sailor who washed ashore and has been hidden by villagers, so he sends his sister Omi San to investigate. She finds Alan, and instead of turning him in to be executed, she falls in love with him. Prince Iku captures both Allan and Yori and intends to execute both of them. Complications ensue.
- Dan Coughlin, a ranger, comes upon a band of smugglers and succeeds in capturing one of them, a half-breed Mexican, "Easy" Joe by name. Joe is taken to headquarters and locked up, while all efforts to wring a confession from him as to the whereabouts of the band's rendezvous have failed. It is not long, however, before the others of the gang make an effort to liberate their pal and send an Indian to spy upon Dan and other members of the troupe. Dan is in love with pretty Molly Parsons, a young woman of the village, the sole support of herself and little sister, a child of seven. "Cissy," the little one, while thoroughly in love with Dan herself, makes life a torment for the big "sis" and her beau, by frustrating every attempt of Dan's to make a proposal until the big ranger takes the young lady into hand and locks her in another room long enough to make his proposal and obtain the fair lady's faint "yes." The Indian spy has followed Dan to Molly's home and through the window has seen the little love scenes, after which he hurries away to the rendezvous of the smugglers and informs then what has occurred. Jenkins, the leader of the gang, thinks for a while and finally confides to the others a plan by which they can obtain the release of "Easy" Joe. The plan is carried into effect when three of the ruffians kidnap Molly and carry her away to their shack, while the Indian is dispatched with a note, which he slips under the door of the ranger's quarters. The next morning Dan finds the note and in great anxiety mounts his horse and rides away to where he believes Molly is captive. His mission ends disastrously as the watchful smugglers also capture him and drag him away to their shack, where he is brought face to face with Molly to undergo the taunts and curses of the band. Dan, aware that his mission was to be a perilous one, has left a note for the Captain, who, upon reading it, orders his men to saddle and dashes away on the trail of the captive ranger. In the meantime, Molly, who has been under the eye of an old hag, has made her escape, and comes upon the rescue party, whom she directs to the smuggler's shack. Here they burst in upon the band, who, in their mad desire for revenge, have tortured poor Dan until he has fallen under the lashes of the leaden whip. All the smugglers are captured and at the close of the photoplay there is a happy reunion between Dan and his sweetheart.
- Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.
- William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure it will be the next William Skinner Jr. When the bundle of joy finally arrives, much to his surprise, it's a girl. However, Honey and William are just as happy as if she were a he.
- The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's. None of MacLane's affairs - with "the bank clerk," "the prize-fighter," "the husband of another," and so on - last, and in each of them MacLane emerges dominant. Re-enactments of the love affairs are interspersed with MacLane addressing the camera (while smoking), and talking contemplatively with her maid on the meaning and prospects of love.
- Robert Carrolton Jinks and his companions form a marching club to boost the presidential campaign for General Grant. They design fantastic costumes and set the club in an uproar when they appear in them. Jinks is made captain of the marching club and dubbed "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines." While discussing plans for the campaign Jinks sees a bill poster pasting up a great placard announcing the coming of Madame Trentoni, a famous opera singer. Jinks and his two friends decide to go to the boat to meet her dressed in their marching uniforms and accompanied by a band, just for a joke. Jinks bets $1,000 with his friends that he can make love to her. The boat is an hour late in docking and the band leader discovers that he has been playing his music for nothing. He becomes angry and the entire band adjourns to a nearby saloon for drinks. Jinks and his friends go with them. Reporters who have gone to the boat to meet Madame Trentoni fear that if Jinks and his band are present at the arrival of the boat it will interfere with their interview. So they bribe the band master not to play. Jinks and his friends arrive at the boat late, having been delayed by a violent argument with the band master. They finally discover Madame Trentoni, however, and Jinks falls madly in love with her. She has great trouble with the customs inspector and Jinks pulls out a roll of bills and hands it to the official. He is immediately arrested for attempted bribery and taken to jail. He finally is released on bail and goes to call on Madame Trentoni, who is stopping with her foster father. She is as much in love with him as he is with her and the courtship progresses rapidly. Jinks tries to call the bet off with his friends, declaring that it is an insult to Madame Trentoni. They refuse to listen to him, and he finally agrees to pay the bet, giving them a card reading "I.O.U. $1,000 for the bet regarding Madame Trentoni." The two friends are also much taken with Madame Trentoni and attempt at various times to see her. She refuses to have anything to do with them. This makes them angry and they decide to get even with Jinks. They tell her foster father that Jinks intends to marry Madame Trentoni for her money only. He refuses to believe it until shown the "I.O.U." when he flies into a fit of rage. He tells Madame Trentoni and she then refuses to see Jinks. Jinks finally discovers why she is angry and after several unsuccessful attempts to see her gains admittance to her apartment and tells her the facts of the case. She throws her arms about him. As they are in this position a detective enters the room to arrest Jinks. His bribery case had come up in the court the day before and he had forgotten to appear. Trentoni tells the detective that she and her sweetheart have had a tiff and want a chance to make it up. Her pleading, with the promise that Jinks appear in court the next day, wins the detective's assent. The two then embrace and everything ends happily.
- It was quite natural that Angela and Richard should be engaged. They have been sweethearts since childhood. Angela, who loved nature, purchases a canary from a bird vendor. When she discovered the bird to be blind, she seeks out the vendor. He explains that all birds are blinded purposely, as they sing better thus. She becomes furious and has the vendor arrested. Her brother, George, an attorney, prosecutes the case and the vendor is severely punished. Then fate took a hand. The day was set for the wedding. Everything was in readiness. An accident cost Angela her eyesight. Would Richard forget he had asked her to become his wife? She was blind, never to see light again. But with all she found herself strangely happy with the canary as her only companion. Richard's ardor had cooled of late. But one evening he was at her home playing chess with George. She stole softly down the stairs and found her way to the piano. When the music reached Richard's ear, he came quietly to her side and said, "It is I who am blind; I love you."
- Frank Bradbury, twenty years old, leaves home because his father's ungovernable temper has made life unendurable. He battles hard to conquer the same emotionalism which he has inherited from his father. The only vicious exhibition of Frank's temper occurs when a schoolmate annoyed his childhood sweetheart, Rose Claybourne. He was expelled from school because of the terrific beating he gave the youth. He becomes engaged to Rose and together they return to his home, seeking his father's consent to their engagement. The mothers of both are hopeful for a reconciliation. Because she had sanctioned the boy's return home, his mother is attacked by the father. Frank arrives while the father shakes his fist in her face and Frank kills him with a paper weight, is brought to trial and acquitted on the grounds that he was justified in the act as he was protecting his mother. Rose and he marry.
- Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
- Edgar Allan Poe, while at college, incurs many debts and is sent home in disgrace. He is ordered from the house by his father. Shortly after, he marries, and tries to make a living by writing, but is a failure financially. His wife dies because he is unable to furnish her with even the bare necessities of life. He is plunged into great grief and despair. All night he sits brooding over his loss. Through his distorted imagination he sees the ominous raven enter his chamber and croak gloomy forebodings. The spirit of his wife also appears and finally he himself dies, and is wafted to heights supernal, where he is united with his "Lenore."
- A cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, overcome by the fumes of the fluid while the chemist is out summoning others to witness the work of his discovery. A doll the chemist has given life to seizes the elixir and pours it on Ruby. She is changed into a doll. Together the two leave the shop. The chemist, the toy king and Ruby's fiancé rush into the place and are horrified to find Ruby missing. They summon the police and a search is instituted. Meanwhile, the dolls journey to the display room of the factory, and with more elixir, bring a doll justice of the peace to life. He marries them and they speed off in a miniature automobile. After the honeymoon trip they select the kennel of Sherlock, the watchdog, as their home. The dog likes the dolls and keeps them supplied with food. Then, one evening, while strolling through the plant, they discover a bomb set by striking workingmen to destroy the building. The dolls realize their peril but it is too late to escape. The bomb explodes and Ruby comes to life. She is puzzled, then realizes that all was simply a dream, inspired by the ravings of the cracked-brain chemist.
- Skinner is afraid to strike his employer for a raise for fear he will be discharged. Mrs. Skinner scoffs at his fears, however, and finally induces him to demand an increase. Her humble spouse gets the proverbial "cold feet" at the final moment; so to "cover up" before his wife, he fibs a little and tells her he got the raise, taking the money from his private bank account. She forthwith makes him purchase a dress suit and "spruce up." Although it almost wipes Skinner's bank account out, he buys the clothes. Skinner is frantic; he sees the wolf at the door. But, by virtue of his dress suit and good appearance, he gets acquainted with some wealthy people and is enabled to put over a big business deal for his firm. Rushing into his company's office with the order, he demands a raise and a partnership in the firm. He gets both.
- Jack Hartley, the foreman of the Triple X Ranch, is engaged to Nellie Monroe, the ranch owner's daughter. A quarrel starts between Jack and "Red" Williams, a cow-puncher, when the latter first makes advances to Nellie, and second, when Williams abuses a faithful Indian ranch hand. On this latter occasion Jack is unable to restrain his temper and the result is a short fist fight in which Williams is defeated. Smarting under the punishment, Williams seeks revenge. For some time the miscreant cow-puncher has been in league with a bunch of cattle rustlers, whose several attempts at a raid on the Triple X cattle, however, have brought them nothing, and due entirely to the alertness of Hartley, the foreman. They have sufficient cause to hate the manly young fellow and when Williams, after having been put out by the foreman, stalks into their camp, begging them to join him in obtaining his revenge, all are willing. That they must be cautious, however, is plain to them when another of the band joins them, bringing in tow Indian Pete, whom he had found spying about the shack. When Williams sees the Indian and recalls that he was the cause of his beating from Hartley he is in favor of killing the Indian, but the others restrain him. Having settled upon a plan of revenge, Williams is dispatched with a slip of paper, bearing a few words scrawled in lead pencil which is to be the undoing of Hartley, providing, of course, the game works right. The others ride off leisurely to the Tripe X horse corral and make away with a dozen or more ponies, while Williams is to work his end of the same with Hartley. He finds Hartley at another part of the ranch and succeeds in establishing a reconciliation, after confessing his wrong and pleading forgiveness. Hartley gives him his hand and brings out his cigarette paper and tobacco when Williams asks for "the makin's." When Hartley is not looking Williams slips the bit of paper in among the rice wrappings, then bids Hartley good-bye and leaves to put the finishing touches to his nefarious scheme. A few minutes later he rides excitedly up to the ranch house and calls loudly for Monroe When the old ranchman appears, Williams tells him of the stealing of the ponies, and adds further, "And I know who's at the back of this dirty trick. It's Hartley. If you don't believe it, I can prove it." The alarm is given and Hartley, unsuspicious of the conspiracy, comes running on the scene. A little crowd has gathered when Williams makes his accusation: "I saw him with a bunch of greasers this morning, and I saw him get a note from them fifteen minutes ago, and that note is in the pocket of his shirt. Search him." The astonished and enraged Hartley is seized and searched. The note is found and reads: "Jack Hartley. Got the horses all O.K. and will divide with you to-night. Meet us at the usual place. The Bunch." Hartley is given no attempt to defend himself, despite Nellie's desperate pleadings. He is ordered to mount his horse and leads the procession on the way to execution. In the meantime, Indian Pete, left with a drunken cowboy, makes his getaway and, with his hands still tied behind him, mounts a horse and rides desperately back to the ranch. There is no one there but the heart-broken girl. He tells her everything as she releases him and the two mount and ride at top speed to the scene of the execution. They are just in time. The Indian proves Hartley innocent and Williams is seized and stood in Hartley's place. The film ends here, with the embrace of the lovers.
- A wealthy alcoholic is disowned by his father for his drunken behavior. Now penniless, he takes a job as a taxi driver, despite not knowing how to drive
- Our heroine is in love with a manly young chap, whose love for her is unbounded. An old maiden aunt tyrannizes over the girl and forbids the girl to receive him when he calls. Of course, the girl disobeys, and the pair are enjoying a loving tete-a-tete when the aunt appears, and is horrified. She sends the girl to her room, in spite of her pleading, and forcibly assists the hero to leave. The aunt intercepts a note the girl has written to her lover, making an appointment to meet him at a certain place and be married. The aunt conceives of a scheme of wearing the girl's clothing and heavy veil, meeting the young man and marrying him herself. She goes to the girl's room, makes her take off her outer clothing, puts same on and locks the door to the room, then sets out to keep the engagement with the young lover. The girl in the meantime, opening her window, discovers a tramp sleeping, awakens him, gives him note and instructions. The tramp hurries away, delivers the note to the lover before the aunt arrives. The lover, apprised of the aunt's scheme, turns tables on the old lady by dressing the tramp in his clothes, and leaving the tramp to meet the old maid. He then releases the girl by means of a ladder. The lovers hurry to the church in time to witness the marriage of the aunt and the tramp. The lovers are then united in marriage and go to meet the aunt and her husband. The aunt, discovering the trick, is wild with rage, but concludes a man's a man, and to the disgust of the tramp refuses to release him. The subject abounds with absurd situations, and will prove n great laugh producer.
- Through a kindly act Broncho Billy earns the deep gratitude of Marion Rivers, who presents him with a Bible. Not long afterwards, she comes upon him as he is about to hold up the stage, but at sight of the girl he is overwhelmed with shame and taking out the little Bible promises her that he will live honorably. In the meantime, Marion's father holds up the stage at another point, and one of the stagecoach drivers, mounting a bareback pony, rides off for the sheriff. Broncho Billy sees Rivers get away with the money, and when he hears the sheriff and his men coming, for Marion's sake he goes to warn her father. To shield him, he takes the bags of money and rides away with the men after him. He leaves the money at the mile post with a, note saying: "Sheriff: I'm through with Bear County, this stick-up was my last," and rides across the border.
- Silver Bell, the winsome daughter of old Gray Wolf, is sought by Fleetfoot, a likely young man of the tribe and a good huntsman. Gray Wolf sees no reason why his obstinate daughter should not become the squaw of Fleetfoot and despite her pleadings to be permitted to stay in her father's tepee she is sold to Fleetfoot for the consideration of Tu-tu, the horse, and a red blanket. Silver Bell unwittingly accompanies Fleetfoot on their way through the woods to the tepee of the young brave. On their way they meet a white man, Jack Sherwood, a miner, and to this latter Silver Bell appeals for protection from the angry fists of her new lord and master. Sherwood listens hesitatingly and learns that the girl was sold against her will and that she would rather die than live with Fleetfoot. In the end he forces Fleetfoot to come with him to Gray Wolf's tepee, and with an offer of much wampum persuades Gray Wolf to reconsider his sale, and in the end Sherwood finds himself the owner of the pretty Indian maiden. The buck stumbles away with Tu-tu and his red blanket, murmuring threats against the white man who, much to the wonder of Gray Wolf and his daughter, refuses to take the girl with him. It is plainly evident that Silver Bell has fallen in love with her protector, and the next day she slips through the woods to the miner's tent and presents him with a pair of pretty moccasins. Sherwood is delighted, but when the girl informs him that as she is now his she will be content to stay with him as his servant. This is a pretty situation for Sherwood, but not fully realizing the real depth of the girl's infatuation for him, he sends her back to her father's tepee. On the way she meets Fleetfoot and an angry altercation takes place in which the brave tells her that he will kill the while man. The girl, fearing for the white man's life, hurries back through the woods and arrives at Sherwood's tent just as the buck is preparing to make short work of the miner. Silver Bell's scream awakens the white man and he and the Indian are soon grappling. The former proves the stronger, and wresting the knife from Fleetfoot's hand he hurls it away. Fleetfoot sneaks away, leaving Sherwood and the Indian girl together. Sherwood expresses his gratefulness and Silver Bell confesses her love. It is more difficult this time to drive her away, but when she is gone the rattling of the stage coach down the canyon suggests a return to civilization. Sherwood is packing his camp outfit when the couch lumbers up and stops at the camp. Sherwood runs forward, when his wife steps out and throws her arms about his neck. This is a surprise for Sherwood, but not more for Silver Bell, who has returned to the camp with another present for the white man, a pretty red blanket of her own weaving. She understands what it means, and as the coach rolls away sinks on tier knees and bursts into tears.
- Max gets into trouble at the altar. He has just kissed his bride when he espies over her shoulder a pretty girl sitting in a front pew. Max cannot help giving her a wink. His bride sees him. They continue the battle in their honeymoon apartment. After all the furniture is broken up they decide to break up housekeeping, even before they have started. Mrs. Max agrees that her flirtatious spouse shall compromise himself with the girl in the pew so she can get a divorce. Max leases an apartment, invites the girl to meet him there, then tips off Mrs. Max to raid them with detectives. But Max and the girl mistake the apartment and get into a private sanitarium for lunatics. The professor chucks them into padded cell No. 89 with a dozen crazy people. Mrs. Max and her detectives make the same mistake. All of them come face to face in No. 89. The girl berates Max for getting her into such a mess. Max and his bride look at each other, then at the crazy people. They decide life might be worse and fall into each other's arms. Max doesn't want a divorce, after all.
- A Messenger Kid stopped to Gaze at a picture of Jess Willard in a window and began to Weep bitterly. A soft-hearted Commuter halted. "Why do you weep?" he asked. "Aw, gee, what chance have I to ever be like him," came back the Tadpole. "What a perverted Ambition. Why don't you strive to be like me? I am a candidate for Director of our new four-hole golf club and I play whist on the train with a man who once lived in the same house with Billy Sunday." So the boy became a caddy and listened to the Poor Nuts who babbled about Tough Lies and Dubbing Approaches and reflected that they were much inferior to his own Dad, who had to Shove Lumber all day while these Superficial Johnnies had money to toss to the Birds. When the Kid reached the age of Sagacity he became a baseball fan. His wife never knew what the fan was talking about but she helped him into the house and mixed his Throat Gargle for him. Then the Fan came to his Ninth inning. She pleaded for one final message. His lips moved. She leaned forward. Fan wanted to know if there was anything in the Morning Papers about the condition of Heine Zimmerman's Knee Cap. Moral: There is a Specific Bacillus for every Classified disease.
- Young Teddy Bimms craves the good life and finds plenty of intrigue and danger when she falls in love with a jewel thief, who is masquerading as a prince. Ultimately, the young girl reveals his true identity and rescues the grateful prince, who promptly proposes marriage.
- The adventures of Max Linder, some based on real events, some fictional, as he travels by ocean liner from France to America.
- In the little western town of Lariat, when our story opens, there is much excitement over the latest depredations of the robber, who, because of his particular ingenuity in hiding his real identity, is styled the "Bearded Bandit." The name was evidently supplied from the fact that he wears a disguise in the form of a heavy black beard. The night before the bandit is reported to have held up a bunch of punchers and got away with a good quantity of dust. Something must be done to stop him, and therefore a posse is organized to accompany the sheriff on a little man-hunting expedition with a prize of $5,000 to the citizen who either bags or "plugs" the dare-devil robber. Curt Wilson, the young sheriff, is in love with Nan Connors, the daughter of a neighboring ranchman, and it is partly to obtain the advice of his prospective father-in-law as well as to see Nan that he rides out to Connors' ranch before setting out on his perilous expedition. He shows Nan and her father the notice stating that $5,000 reward will be given the man who captures the bearded bandit and asks Connors' consent to marry Nan immediately he captures the bad man. Connors winces, then rises and smilingly offers his hand. "It's a bargain," he says, then pleading an excuse to get away he leaves the two young people alone. The next scenes show Connors riding up the mountain road, listening for the first faint rumbling of the wheels of the stagecoach, which he knows is due at this time and which, he is also aware, carries an express box full of bullion. Two hours later the little town of Lariat is again electrified by the news of the bearded bandit's holding up the stagecoach. The sheriff and his posse hesitate no longer, but, swinging into their saddles, start in pursuit of the bandit. On their way they meet Connors, who has disposed of the swag and who even has the audacity to join the man hunters in their search for the wily highwayman. Needless to say, the search is a failure and the disheartened sheriff and his posse return to town. A few weeks go by and we find Connors and a few of his cronies at a friendly game of poker in the "Red Dog," Lariat's best bar and dance hall. Daring the game a young stranger who has entered, is permitted to take a hand, but Connors finds him cheating and, drawing a gun orders him out. The young fellow stalks angrily out, then turns on his heel and fires through the open door. Connors sinks in his chair, mortally wounded, but staggers to his feel and asks one of the boys to fetch his daughter. Half an hour later Nan is at his side, and when they are alone Connors pulls from his breast the bearded bandit's outfit and begs Nan to use them in claiming her reward. Then death seizes him, and the girl falls weeping over her father's body. Rising again stoically she seizes the black beard, the mask and other equipment and thrusts them in the stove just as the sheriff and the boys enter. The "bearded bandit" was never captured.
- Basil Breckenridge, a broken old man on the verge of starvation, but concealing it because of his proud southern ancestry, is set upon by young ruffians on the street. The old man becomes infuriated and gives the young leader a shaking. His father, Ald. Connors, the city's political boss, happens along and attacks the old man, who strikes at him with his cane. The sword blade inside falls out and the police arrest him on the charge of assault with intent to kill. Col. Wright, attorney for the friendless, takes his case. It comes up before Judge Andrews. John Andrews, protégé of Boss Connors, has just been made assistant district attorney, and is there to prosecute. The aged defendant sees the scar on the judge's forehead and hears his name. He sees the two as rival captains in the Civil War, the Confederate picking up the wounded Union officer and taking him to his home. He recalls that when he was believed dead the Northerner took his young wife and baby home with him. Both are near him now, the first time he has seen either for decades. His wife sits behind him, his son is prosecuting him. The scar on the judge's forehead is the mark of their secret duel. A sword, awarded Capt. Knighton for gallantry and pawned by the aged defendant the day before is introduced at the trial but the defendant disclaims ownership. Recognition comes on the part of Judge and Mrs. Andrews and in chambers they plead with Connors and their son, but to no avail. The prisoner's head sinks to his breast when the jury returns. He does not rise when bidden. "Your honor," says Col. Wright, after a pause, "The defendant has taken his case to a higher court." Reverently, Judge Andrews and his wife place the historic sword in the still hands of the late defendant as they are the only persons in the crowded courtroom knowing to whom it rightfully belonged.
- Charles Shea, the handsome young foreman of the Bar Z ranch, has won the love of the winsome daughter of his employer, John Graham. Alice and he are engaged to be married when a telegram announcing the death of his father and the request that he immediately return East, is handed Shea. Promising to return immediately the estate is settled. Shea bids Alice good-bye and leaves for the East. A year passes and no word from Charley. The girl is in despair and. though every cowpuncher on the place loves her madly, she refuses each one in turn, declaring that she will wait for Charley, whom she is sure will return soon. Graham, her father, however, is growing old and needs someone to take his place. He therefore desires that Alice marry as soon as possible and urges her to accept the suit of one of his men, all of them being honest, good-hearted fellows. She tells him that that is where the trouble lies. She likes them all and could not marry any one of them without hurting the rest. Finally, resolved to give up Charley entirely, she resolves on a plan to pick the best man. Her husband must be a good horseman. She informs them that at 8 o'clock sharp the next morning every mother's son of them must be in his saddle ready for a swift and important ride. The next morning she lines them up and tells them that they are to race to the county seat, each procure a marriage license and the first man back to the ranch will have the honor of being her husband. There is a crack of her pistol and the race begins! Mile after mile they cover, each trying the utmost speed of his pony, until the courthouse is reached. The marriage licenses are procured and the real race back to the ranch begins. In the meantime, the Limited, stopping at the county seat just for a moment, has dropped a passenger, a big handsome fellow, Charles Shea. Charley walks straight to the courthouse, procures a license to wed the daughter of Bar Z ranch, hires a horse and sets off at full speed in an effort to overtake the other cowpunchers. Known to him only is a short cut to the ranch, and putting the spurs to his horse's flanks, he dashes down through rocky defiles and surging mountain torrents and arrives at the ranch several minutes ahead of the foremost of the racers. A minister is waiting, the license is brought out and the surprised and happy Alice marries him immediately. The chagrin of the other cowboys soon melts to laughter at the joke and congratulations and a rousing cheer are tendered the bride, all heartily agreeing that the best man has won.
- Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots revenge for the insult and captures Billy, who has rescued a lost old man. The young woman discovers Billy being held prisoner and rides for help. The townsmen gallop toward Billy's rescue.
- A miner, guilty of manslaughter, is rescued from an explosion by a dedicated minister; days later, on his deathbed, he confesses his guilt.
- Buffalo Bill is shown in the early days of his thrilling career as a pony express rider in the pioneer west; later as hunter of buffaloes and then as the chief Indian scout for the United States army. Appearing with Buffalo Bill in the picturization of the Indian battles which follow are Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, Major-General Jesse M. Lee, and Brigadier-General Frank D. Baldwin and Marion P. Maus and other heroic figures of the pioneer days. Historically accurate versions of the Battle of Summit Springs, the Battle of Warbonnet, Col. Cody's knife duel with the Sioux Chief Yellow Hand and his fight with Chief Tall Bull, in which the Indians were killed are shown. Five thousand United States troops and Indians participate in the battles. Buffalo Bill's later life, giving intimate glimpses of him at home and, of his great hunting expeditions, including that on which he guided the Prince of Monaco after big game in the Rockies, conclude this picture.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- This story is based upon the celebrated drama of that title, a story stronger and more impressive than any temperance lecture ever delivered from rostrum or preached from pulpit. Joe Morgan, an honest young workman, beloved and honored by all, a respected husband, father and friend, held in the highest esteem by his employers. His character and habits were temperate and upright. He shunned the saloon as one would shun sure death. The story tells of his terrible downfall, when upon one day he is lured by two "friends" to take his first drink. The demon rum takes possession of him, he becomes intoxicated and reckless, and his employer, finding him in that condition, takes him home. The wife is horrified and grief stricken. His conscience is stirred and he resolves never again to yield to temptation. But the poison is in his nerves and the next day finds him again at the barroom. The patient wife, waiting for his return, suspects the cause of his absence and sends her little seven-year-old daughter to the saloon. Here follows a most pathetic scene. The child enters the bar as the father, in a drunken frenzy, raises a chair to strike another drunken brawler. The little one confronts him. He is sobered at once and allows the innocent little one to lead him away and take him home. More promises are made, but, of course, the demon's work is not completed. He sinks lower and lower, until, discharged by his employer, he becomes the degraded drunkard whose constant haunt is the barroom, and the wife and child are reduced to poverty and hunger. The pitiful episode of these nights in a barroom is brought to a tragic ending. The little child enters the place to coax her father home, when, in the midst of a usual barroom fight, the child is struck with a large beer glass and falls senseless. Morgan is sobered again, and taking the child in his arms staggers home with her. He is now a nervous wreck and beneath the dreadful strain is overcome by an attack of delirium tremens. Thanks to the patience and devotion of a loving wife, he and the child are nursed back to health. Morgan has had his lesson; it has been a bitter one and has caused much suffering, but from this sorrow and evil comes much good. The drunkard is reformed, he becomes an ardent teetotaler and temperance worker. He is re-established and advanced in his position, and we see him several years later, united with his once more happy family, an honored man and an ornament to society.