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- Little Jack's mother has just died, and confided her son to the care of his grandfather, from whom she has been estranged for many years. The grandfather regards this adoption in the light of an unpleasant duty, and the little boy is left much alone. One day he makes friends with a stray dog, and, braving his grandfather's wrath, leads the animal indoors, only to be scolded, while his friend is shut out. During the night Jack hears the dog bark, and dressing himself steps out of the house. Accompanied by the animal, Jack sets out to find his mother, but has not gone far, when, tired and weary, he falls asleep on the grass. The dog cannot make out this strange behavior on the part of his new master, and promptly trots back to the house. Meantime the boy's absence has been discovered, and aroused by the dog's bark the grandfather, accompanied by the nurse, with the dog leading them, is brought to where the boy is. The sight of the poor little lad, sleeping peacefully, touches the grandfather's heart, and he himself tenderly brings his small charge back. The next day the dog is finally adopted as a member of the family, and surreptitiously the old nurse brings him some food, to be followed by the grandfather. The little boy has been watching and springing out of his hiding place is soon clasped in the old man's arms, while the "Orphan's friend" looks on, immensely proud and pleased with himself.
- Clara, a pretty little school teacher, is courted by two young mountaineers. She favors Jim Mason, who is the postmaster of the village, and Harry Barford, his rival, determines to get Jim out of the way, so that he can win her. Jim and Clara decide to marry as soon as Jim has enough money. Harry sees his chance and offers Jim $500 to manage an illicit whiskey still during his absence. Clara's scruples are overcome by the thought of an early marriage and Jim reluctantly consents. Harry immediately informs the sheriff and a posse is sent to arrest Jim. But Billy, the village idiot, who has fallen asleep while playing his little tin flute, overhears the conversation between Harry and the sheriff and informs Clara of Jim's danger. Jim hides in the woods upon the approach of the posse and, meeting Clara, they flee, both riding on the same horse. A long chase through the snow-covered mountains in which they are closely pressed by the sheriff's posse, forces them to a spot among the jagged cliffs, where their only means of escaping their pursuers is a fifty-eight foot plunge into a raging torrent full of broken ice. They urge their horse over the edge of the cliff and plunge to the depths below miraculously escaping with their lives and safely reaching the shore. They take refuge in an Indian village and the chief, a giant Indian over seven feet tall, appoints himself a committee of one to compel the little fat parson to marry them. Clara returns to the village and Jim goes to New York to prepare a home for her. Barford is appointed postmaster and succeeds in intercepting Jim's mail, meanwhile forcing his attentions upon Jim's wife. Not hearing from Clara, Jim decides to take a desperate chance and return to the village by a dangerous route, which will enable him to elude the guardians of the law. In order to do this he is forced to walk hand over hand across a cable 250 feet long, placed by a lumber company over a deep ravine. Arriving at Clara's house he finds her in the arms of Barford, not knowing he has forcibly placed his arms around her. Jim leaves broken-hearted and is seen by Barford, who follows him at a distance. As Jim is re-crossing the 250 feet of cable, Barford shoots him in the arm, in spite of which he succeeds in escaping and returns to New York. A baby is born to Clara, and she determines to find Jim at all costs and tell him that he is a proud father. She goes to New York, and being in need of money, accepts the offer of a motion picture company to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge for $10,000. Jim, who is desperate and out of work, accepts the offer of the same company to also make the leap, and is horror-struck by recognizing his wife, just as she throws herself from the giant structure into the icy waters below. He leaps after her and succeeds in aiding her to reach a tug-boat, where she rests happily in her lost husband's arms. They make a new attempt to get possession of their baby, but are caught in their cabin by Barford and the posse, where a fierce fight is interrupted by a misdirected blow, which fells the poor village fool, Billy. He is revived and it is discovered that the blow has restored his sanity. He tells of Harford's villainy and produces evidence that brands him as the real criminal and leaves Jim and Clara free to enjoy each other's love.
- When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids,her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out.Soon the mêlée spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines. The Keystone cops find things too much for their efforts to stop it, so firemen and a bayonet-charging squad of soldiers are called into the fray.
- Animated dolls perform in a circus.
- They are newly married and all is as merry as a marriage bell until wifey leaves some sewing, and a needle, upon the chair and hubby sits down and gets up hurriedly. Hubby forgets himself and says a word which wifey says stamps him as no gentleman. Hubby leaves the room in a huff and wifey, deciding that life henceforth is a perfect blank, practices hysterics. Hubby gets nervous and wifey keeps it up for the brute's benefit until he discovers she is perfecting her art for his edification. He resolves to teach her a lesson and going to the dressing room he washes out a bottle with "Poison" on it and pours some soothing syrup into it. He drinks it and staggers out. Wifey seeing the bottle runs for the first doctor, makes him alter his regular visiting list and drags him and his stomach pump to the beach. She likewise commandeers two officers, and they track hubby to the beach. Hubby repents too late, and after the officers have shrunk two perfectly good costumes "rescuing" him from the ocean, the doctor gives a vigorous performance with hubby and the stomach pump as the chief actors. Hubby confesses upon an empty stomach and wifey takes him home, indignant at the remarks made by the crowd, the officers and the doctor.
- Early Gorman, a spoiled child, looked with contempt upon those less fortunate than herself. At the entrance of the park, Bobby and Gertie, two poor little foundlings, looked with awe at Early as she left the big automobile with her nurse and following, ventured to admire her big doll. Incensed at what she considered her presumption, Early cruelly struck Gertie, who told her story to the good sister at the park playground. The sister, accompanying the children, found Early and tried to impress her that rich and poor were all God's children and that she someday might feel the sting of poverty. Upon the sister leaving, Early did not feel quite so well satisfied with herself. Sitting by herself thinking, she fell asleep and dreamed of herself, poor, mistreated and alone, waking up in terror. Her dream had taught its lesson and she tries to make amends.
- John Meldon keeps a western hotel and despite his wife Mary's pleadings, he drinks too freely with the boys who frequent the hotel. At last she falls sick, and the new parson, acting upon the doctor's advice, writes May, their daughter, who is away at school. The parson next takes John to task and backed up by May, who hurries home, succeeds in convincing John that it was his conduct which led to Mary's illness. The night of the crisis, the minister and doctor are watching beside Mary, while father and daughter wait in May's room. Mary passes the crisis and the minister hastens to May's room to tell father and daughter. As he enters, Jim, the leader of the boys, and an unsuccessful suitor, comes up the stairs to his room. He looks at his watch and finds it past midnight. The next morning, he tells the boys of the parson entering May's room early that morning and excites them to drive the parson out of town, but before this can be accomplished, John appears and makes the necessary explanation, sends Jim to his business, and hands May over to the parson, thanking him for making him see the error of his ways.
- A wealthy ship owner cared for but two things in life, his gold and his daughter. But his selfish love of the girl led him to frown upon her suitors, while his greed for gold induced him to follow a niggardly policy so far as his ships were concerned. He insured them, it is true, but he begrudged the money he spent for repairs. He looked at it from the viewpoint that sailors were cheap, and could more easily be replaced than the money of which he was so fond. Therefore, when one of his captains insisted upon repairs being made, he was gruffly rebuffed. The owner told him that he could sail the ship as it was or hunt another job, and the captain decided to stick to the ship, hoping that things were not as bad as he had imagined them to be. For the captain was married, although the fact had been kept a secret. His bride was none other than the daughter of his employer, the miser ship owner, and they were waiting for a favorable chance to break the news to him. The girl wanted to sail with her husband. He refused, but did not tell her the real reason, as he knew it would frighten her, and cause the time on shore to be days and nights of dread. But the girl refused to accept his commands, and secretly stowed herself away on the ship, revealing herself when the ship was out at sea. The captain was glad to see her, but his joy was mingled with forebodings. He knew that he had an undermanned, leaky ship, and that the chances were only even that the he would reach port. When the father found a letter from the girl, telling him what she had done he broke down completely. He had never worried about his "coffin ship" before, but never before had the only person he loved been aboard one of them. The blow that he had expected came, for the ship was reported lost with all on board. And the old man realized that his niggardliness had lost him something that he would have given all his wealth, miser though he was, to retain. He neglected his business, he grew to hate his once beloved gold, and at last, half demented, decided to end his life. The vision of the daughter, for whose death he was responsible, was constantly with him, and he decided to die as she did, in the water. He went to the dock from which her ship had sailed, and gazed down in the cool depths. There was oblivion. On land was only sorrow and remorse. He was about to leap overboard when he heard excited cries. Looking up he saw some people landing from a ship nearby. One of them was his daughter, or else it was a vision. But he decided to approach anyway. It was no vision, but a living, loving daughter, who flung herself into his arms, and rained kisses upon him. Her husband was with her. They had been rescued after a harrowing experience in an open boat at sea. They did not have a chance to ask the father's forgiveness. He humbled himself to them and diffidently asked them to accept his love. He realized that the tragedy was due to him and him alone, but determined that the lesson he had been taught would never be forgotten, and that he would do his duty to the men who risked their lives to bring him wealth and never count the cost when human lives were at stake.
- Dora and Dave are sweethearts. Dora is loved by Tom, who proposes marriage to Dora only to be met by a refusal. He sees a love scene between Dora and Dave and is embittered against his old friend. A messenger gives Captain Hawkins a sum of money to pay off his crew and he places it in a pocket of his coat. He goes to pay the men and finds he has not the coat, and sends Dave to his house to get it. He has previously forbidden Dora to receive the attention of Dave and he singles him out of the party in order to humiliate him in the eyes of his other fishermen. Dave goes to the house, secures the coat, and on the way to the dock he shifts the coat about, and the bag containing the money falls out of the pocket. It is found by a simple-minded Gabe, a fool of the village, who hurries away. Dave gives the coat to the captain, who searches in the pockets for the wallet. He cannot find it and he accuses Dave of having stolen the money. Dave protests his innocence. Tom, who is standing near, suggests he submit to the search. Dave refuses to be searched, but knowing the violent temper of the captain, and that appearances are against him, he submits. The captain and Tom search him but do not find the money. They decide that he has hidden it and let him go and follow him to find the hiding place. The captain, on his way, is met by Dora, who sees that his actions are strange and she connects Dave with his angry mood. She meets two sailors after leaving the captain and is told that Dave has left the village in his dory and has been accused of stealing her father's money. Almost crazed with grief and anxiety she runs down to the beach just after the boat of Dave has been capsized and she finds the waves buffeting it into the shore. The captain, in the meantime, going to relieve the anxiety of the men discovers the simple Gabe playing with the wallet. Rushing to him he takes it from him in a rage and realizes that he has accused an innocent man of theft. In the distance sees Dora helping Dave along the rocks, and roughly hauling Gabe with him, he goes to Dave and humbly asks forgiveness, showing the recovered wallet. Big-hearted Dave is only too anxious to forgive, and seeing his chance, loses no time in asking for the hand of Dora. With the captain's consent comes a happy homecoming and ending to the unfortunate interim, and Dave and his sweetheart can now look the whole world in the face.
- An old man is rejuvenated.
- A fisherman's daughter fears that the family's ship 'De Bertha' will sink. Her neighbor does everything in his power to help her.
- Amos, the old storekeeper receives a letter from his friend James, telling him that as Bill has passed away, they are sending his daughter, Birdie, to Amos, as per agreement. Great excitement reigns, as Birdie will be the first woman in the new town. They prepare a little shack for her, and each in turn try to win her good graces as soon as she arrives, even the old storekeeper taking a hand, but he eventually withdraws, considering himself too old. He now suggests to Tim and Andy that they pretend to shoot each other in a duel, since the one she loves will be the one she goes to first. Accordingly the boys get paint and fix up wounds, while Amos sends Fatty, to notify Birdie. The girl comes and is shocked at what she believes is a tragedy, but instead of going to either Tim or Andy she turns to Fatty for comfort, and after discovering that the boys were only shamming, goes off with her a very much elated young man.
- The leading character, nicknamed "Hook and Hand," is a crook who operates with a hook which he had substituted for a lost left hand. "Hook" is associated in crime with Philip Sleek, a stepson of William Hartman, a banker. Hartman, the old millionaire, does not know of Philip's existence, his wife, for personal reasons, having omitted to mention him. He is a good for nothing, and for a time lives on his mother's generosity. She meets the boy secretly and does whatever she can to give him new starts in life, but all her efforts are of no avail. After "Hook" robs Hartman's establishment, at Philip's instigation, the mother, not knowing where her son had secured a big sum of money, prevails upon her husband to take his stepson into partnership, telling him that he is a cousin returned from abroad. In the meantime the crime is cleverly fastened upon Mr. Hartman's confidential secretary. This upsets the household arrangements because the secretary was to have married Mr. Hartman's adopted daughter. The story is still further complicated by "Hook and Hand's" refusal to enter into a conspiracy that would lead to the destruction of Miss Hartman. Here the clever operations of William Fox, a very crafty detective, who is engaged by Miss Hartman to unravel the mystery surrounding the accusations against her sweetheart, are productive of sensational results. A good many encounters take place between the gang and the police. The young detective finds himself in many tight places. The hero, not knowing at the last moment that he had been vindicated by a deathbed confession by "Hook and Hand," makes a spectacular escape from the officers in charge of his removal from the court to the State Penitentiary. The young man jumps from the window of a very fast moving train into the river, and thus makes on unnecessary getaway. The final scenes are full of thrill, showing the round-up of the gang and the burning of their dive, in which Miss Hartman is imprisoned and from which she is rescued by the police and Detective Fox.
- An old bachelor lives in a nice quiet flat, until a young spinster moves into the flat next door, and then it is quiet no longer. One day she invites some friends to dine with her, and, being of very Bohemian habits, does not provide anything for them to eat, so they all sally forth and return heavily laden with viands. The spinster then finds that she has forgotten her key, and so the merry party resolves to dine upon the staircase. The tranquility of that quiet flat is greatly disturbed by the amusing events that follow.
- Bruce, a cowboy, loves Dolores, the elder daughter of Ranchman Hicks, Hicks' foreman would like to claim Dolores, but she does not fancy him. He awaits his chance to get even with both of them. Dolores goes to town to study singing. Hicks is worried because the drought has decreased his bankroll and Ridgeway, the money lender, takes the ranch as security. Hicks tells Ridgeway to call upon his daughter in the city and this he does, finally taking advantage of her. Time goes on and Dolores returns to find her father very worried over money conditions. She hears that the man who loaned the money will come to claim the ranch. She surprises Ridgeway and her young sister together and sending the girl away she confronts Ridgeway. Their talk is overheard by Carlos, a half-breed, who owes a debt of gratitude to Dolores and the foreman. Bruce would kill Ridgeway, but Dolores begs him not to for her sake and her father's. Carlos goes secretly after Ridgeway after picking up Bruce's gun. Bruce whips the foreman who sneers at Dolores and the foreman arrives at the ranch house at the same time that Ridgeway does. Ridgeway sees the half-breed after him with a gun and hastily persuades the whipped and tattered foreman to put his coat on. The half-breed kills the foreman thinking it is Ridgeway, and Bruce arrives in time to pick up the gun and be suspected of the crime. He is jailed. The half-breed rescues Bruce, and a providential happening enables Hicks to pay Ridgeway off. The latter goes to some Mexicans and persuades them to help him try and get Paquita, the young girl. They succeed in this, hut circumstances cause the sheriff, Bruce and Carlos to arrive in time to save her and to arrest the Mexicans. Ridgeway leaves the others to their fate, but is tracked by Carlos and meets his deserts.
- Fatty and Lucy were secretly engaged to be married, but his two rivals, Tom and Dick, were determined to secure Lucy for themselves; so, when they saw the young people together, they promptly told her father, and the girl was taken to the house and told to stay there. In the meanwhile, the sheriff had offered a big reward for two desperate, masked bandits, and Tom and Dick, thinking to make Fatty ridiculous forever in Lucy's eyes, persuades him to start out to capture the bandits. Fatty was not inclined to undertake the mission, until he heard the boys describing how they would make-up as the bandits, and run Fatty ragged. Changing the revolvers filled with blank cartridges to real ones, Fatty set out, but instead of overtaking the boys, he came upon the real bandits and thinking them the boys, boldly captured them and marched them off, just as they were about to hold up the ranchman. The boys, in the meanwhile, were captured by the sheriff and his posse, and it was not until Fatty identified them at the ranch, much to his secret terror and astonishment, that Tom and Dick were permitted to go, while the sheriff led off the real article. The ranchman was so delighted with Fatty's bravery and the saving of his gold, that he promptly handed Lucy over to the hero, while his rivals slunk away in disgrace.
- Bristol Inn is a tavern in a small western mining town. Brown, the innkeeper, and his wife live at the inn, together with Homeless Mary, a maid of all work. A beggar one day comes to the door, and being refused charity, motions to Brown that he has a letter for him. Brown takes the letter, reads it, and is apparently delighted. He orders wine and cake to be served, and after the beggar departs, shows the letter to his wife, which reads: "Dear Brown: A gentleman will call at your inn for lodging at about eight o'clock tonight. He carries much money and jewelry with him which perhaps we can land. Yours truly, John Lane." Mrs Brown also appears pleased, and together they go upstairs to make preparations. While they are thus employed, Mary, the maid, receives a clandestine visit from her lover, John. She soon sends him off, however, fearing a scolding. As he is about to leave, Brown and his wife come downstairs, and Mary is forced to hide John in a small closet. The Browns send Mary to the next town on an errand to get her out of the way. At about eight o'clock, Graham, the expected lodger, arrives. He does not seem very well pleased with the inn, but decides to make the best of it. He eats a little supper, and being very tired decides to retire. As he is about to leave, Mrs. Brown throws a quilt over Graham's head, while Brown himself stabs and instantly kills him. Meanwhile, John, in the closet, has been waiting for an opportunity to escape, and upon finding that everyone has gone upstairs, decides to leave. Reaching the foot of the stairs on his way to the door, he is startled by a strange sound from above. He stops to listen, and while doing so, a large drop of blood falls on his hand. He is frightened, and runs out to the brook. While running, he is seen by a cowboy and a trapper. The next morning the cowboy happens to be passing the inn and finds Brown and his wife at the door talking very excitedly about the murder. He explains to them that he saw John the night before going towards the brook. At this moment the trapper comes along and confirms the cowboy's statement. John is arrested, tried and convicted. However, visions of the murder constantly bother both Brown and his wife, and very soon remorse overcomes them, and they confess.
- A theatrical troupe is stranded. The manager discovers that Hiram Spinks, who runs a general store, has ambition to become a Shakespearean actor. With Hiram's money they engage the Opera House, and, while making arrangements in Hiram's store, the balance of the troupe devour everything in sight. Hiram, in his enthusiasm, does not notice the damage being done. On account of local talent appearing in a well-known Shakespearean production, the Opera House is packed, and, of course, the manager in his capacity, acts as ticket seller. While the performance is going on and Hiram is making a fizzle in his role, the sheriff from the town from which the troupe has just left arrives and wants to levy on everything, including the manager and the money. The troupe inform the sheriff that the manager is on the stage acting and. while the sheriff goes before the scenes and sees Hiram, the rest of the troupe escape and we see them on their way, riding on a flat car.
- Hawkins is sacked. Mrs. Hawkins takes a roomer to help matters out. Hawkins is suspicious of the gentlemen who takes the room. He doesn't like the looks or the way of him. He peeks through the keyhole and his worst suspicions are confirmed. He sees the scoundrel disguising himself with a beard and a wig. Hawkins turns sleuth. He follows the villain and sees him go into the bank. He rushes to the corner and summons the police. The monster is captured. The party is met by some plain-clothes sleuths, who recognize the man. It is Nick Harris, the detective. Hawkins sneaks off home, while the others run to the bank, where they find that the expected burglars have made their visit and that it has been entirely successful. They determine to make an example of Hawkins and visit him in a body. He sees them coming, and taking his gun he creeps out to the woodshed to hide. Inside he stumbles on the burglars, who are in hiding. They see the gun and give up to the dazed Hawkins, who delivers them with much ceremony to the defective and police. Mrs. Hawkins takes the reward and Hawkins has to be content with his wife's acceptance of him as a hero.
- The old miller has only one treasure. His wife has long since left to struggle alone, and all his love is now centered upon his only daughter. He is angered, therefore, when he finds that she has given her heart to his assistant, and. In his anger, he dismisses the assistant and forbids his daughter to have any more to do with the young man. His daughter is very much grieved, and is soon discovered by her father meeting her lover in secret. At first the old man is angered, but the song of youth, bursting forth in his heart again, recalls him to his true self, and he writes to the young fellow telling him to come to the mill the next evening and they will celebrate the reunion. That day a friend of his warns him against the danger of a fire being caused at his mill through the fermentation of the grain, which has been stored there for a longer time than usual. The miller dismisses the matter, but that night, when his daughter goes into the upper storerooms to see that all is safe for the night, the lamp which she carries causes the gases to ignite, and a fearful conflagration follows. The young girl finds herself unable to escape. There she remains imprisoned by the flames, whilst her aged father hastens for assistance. Fortunately, the assistant arrives upon the scene, and bravely forces his way into the burning mill. He attaches a rope to the window sill and proceeds to lower himself and his sweetheart out of the window. The flames creep along the rope, and at last it snaps, and both are immediately thrown into the river below. They are in a danger even as great, for the river is deep, and the floods have caused it to run with more than its usual force and rapidity. The old miller entrusts his feeble person to a boat, and bravely succeeds in rescuing his treasured ones at a great personal risk. In after years he has occasion to be thankful for his brave deed, and for the song of youth that sounded in his heart at the right moment, for now, instead of having a daughter, he has a son as well.
- In the days of '49, when the rush for gold was on, Jim Rogers with his wife and their eight year old daughter, Ruth, were among the settlers. They meet the Ward family. A gang of bandits have hoisted their tents in the vicinity of the settlers' camping grounds. That night the settlers are attacked and the bandit chief, after taking the locket from Mrs. Roger's neck, abducts Ruth and one of the Ward children. The next morning, the mother is found by a Westerner who takes her to his home. Six months later the bandit quits the outlaw life. Then years pass by. The outlaw chief tells the children, now grown to man and womanhood that he is not their father, but that he is merely a reformed bandit. The children are horror stricken. One day while the boy and girl are at the village store Mrs. Rogers with the ranchwoman come up to the store just as Ruth and her supposed brother are leaving. The mother recognizes the locket, and after explanations she finds her long-lost daughter. Later Ruth and John plead with the mother to forgive the reformed bandit, for he has been so good to them and is the only father they have ever known. Finally the mother forgives the bandit.