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- Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
- A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- Joe has become a fugitive. While the sheriff's posse is hunting him, one of the men, Bill, is wounded and falls from his horse. Joe returns after the posse have gone, and after blindfolding Bill, Joe takes him to his shack, dresses his wounds and takes care of him until he is able to travel. Joe then takes Bill to the edge of the town and points out the way. Bill goes immediately to the sheriff. Having blazed the trail, he tells the sheriff that he can take the suspect alone, but that the boys are to follow. Bill returns to Joe's shack, much to the surprise of the fugitive, but Joe, nevertheless, gets the drop on the newly-made deputy, and leaving him in the shack, starts outside for his horse. The sheriff's posse, riding up from the rear, fires upon him, the shot going through the window to where the deputy is seated. Joe makes his escape on his horse. The sheriff and his men run into the shack to investigate, only to find Bill, the deputy, dead, and a letter addressed to Joe from his brother, explaining that it is the brother and not Joe who is wanted.
- The story opens when a party of Indian trappers bring the news to the fur trader that a stranger, a white man, is hunting in their territory. Soon afterward the stranger, unaware that he is transgressing the traditional rights of the trader, is captured and brought to the post. Aurora, the trader's motherless daughter, has been raised to womanhood at the post and has associated with few people other than redskins. At her first meeting with the stranger she is deeply impressed. Their acquaintance soon ripens into love. The trader does not know exactly what to do with the poacher, and so holds him at the post. The stranger attempts to obtain a gun, some matches and a knife, that he may leave. His attempts are unsuccessful. The trader finally decides that the stranger's punishment shall consist of being turned out in the trackless forest without food or weapons. Aurora learns of her father's designs. To save the stranger she spirits a gun, knife and matches and gives them to the stranger. He escapes into the forest. He sprains ins ankle, however, and is taken prisoner by the trader's Indians. "Tell me who gave you the rifle and I'll send you safe on your journey," offers the trader. But the stranger declares that he will submit to death before divulging the secret. To save his mistress, Saskatche, a young Indian, declares that he gave the stranger the rifle. When the trader flies at him in an angry rage, Aurora confesses and that her action was prompted by love for the young trapper. The anger of the old trader is mellowed by his love for his daughter. His mind reverts to the romantic days of his own youth and he ceases to be the despot. He becomes a father. He forgives the stranger and his daughter and consents to their marriage.
- At an embassy ball Robert Carlton meets the girl of his dreams. He is attracted by an odd ring she wears, a circle of perfectly matched rubies. The following evening Carlton is jostled by an evil-looking fellow. Pausing to light a cigarette, he discovers a ring upon the sidewalk, a counterpart of that worn by the girl he loves. He places the ring on his finger. Some evenings later Robert visits a Bohemian café. A distinguished looking foreigner enters; a gleam of satisfaction appears as he catches sight of the ring which Carlton wears. He drops a note into Carlton's lap and then leaves. Carlton finds the note a sort of cryptic invitation to follow. Outside the café he meets the stranger who, without a word, leads the way. Carlton follows into an evil-looking house. Once inside the stranger leaves him. Carlton begins a tour of inspection when he hears a slight rustle. Turning, he is astonished to see the girl uppermost in his thoughts. She accuses him of being a detective. Carlton explains the affair. As she is about to help him out of the place the stranger returns with a dark robe. The girl is at her wits' end. Entering, Carlton finds himself in an underground council chamber containing thirty or forty strange figures clad like himself in long dark flowing robes. The leader of the meeting calls for the password. Carlton cannot give it. The leader, accusing him of being a spy, condemns him to death. Carlton is chained to the wall, beside a lighted bomb. To save the man she loves, the girl leaves by a secret passage and informs the police. She saves her lover from the clutches of the Nihilists, by herself turning traitor to the cause.
- After avoiding a bandit's advances, a woman receives his bet that she will kiss him willingly.
- The story is of twin brothers, Jim, honest and steadfast, and Tom, a n'er-do-well. Both are in love with Sarah, daughter of an old miner. She is "cold" to the suit of the worthy brother, while she loves Tom and promises to become his wife. The brothers own a claim known as the "Twin Brothers' Mine." Believing it to be worthless, they give it to Sarah and her father. As he has lost the girl he loves, Jim leaves. Sarah's father works the mine. During the early part of his married life, Tom goes from bad to worse. Finally he steals a shipment of gold en route to the U.S. Mint. After hiding it in the "Twin Brothers' Mine," he is captured. He refuses to divulge the hiding-place of the stolen gold and is sentenced to fifteen years in state prison. In addition to this trouble, Sarah's baby dies. These multiplied sorrows cause her to lose her reason. She is removed to an insane asylum. At this time there is a great popular interest in the new radium process of a celebrated pathologist, who claims he can cure seventy-five per cent of all insanity cases treated by his method. Jim and Sarah's father visit the insane girl. The father shows her some new samples of ore from the claim. The insane girl is so struck with it that they allow her to retain it. The pathologist tells Jim that her reason can be restored by the radium process, but that the cure will be expensive, Jim then visits Tom, the convict, and explains the situation. Tom cannot direct his brother to the hiding-place of the stolen money, and as a consequence Jim offers to change places with him. The exchange is effected and Tom goes for the money. By a strange trick of fate Sarah's case is chosen for demonstration treatment. The pathologist discovers that the ore left with Sarah by her father is rich in radium. They go to the mine to make further investigation. A blast is set off. Tom is inside looking for the stolen money. He is fatally wounded by the blast, but before he dies he confesses concerning the prison episode. All hurry to the prison to secure Jim 's liberty.
- A wealthy banker, Peter Oakley, is giving a reception. The guests are exclusive people of leisure, and among them are Philip Smalley, an amateur detective, and Julian, an old friend of the hostess. Dr. Brandt arrives. While waiting for the banker he lays down his medical case. The guests are curious and they look through the case and examine a hypodermic needle and a phial of poison, a drop of which, the doctor explains, is sufficient to kill ten men. The banker holds Brandt's note, which is already mature. Brandt insists that the banker give him more time on the note and the hanker refuses. The two men seat themselves before a pair of portieres; the banker produces a threatening letter sent to him by Brandt. They quarrel. From the rear a hand is seen to cut a rent in the portiere. This hand then feels the position of the banker's arm. It withdraws; the hand reappears, holding a hypodermic syringe. The needle is forced into the banker's arm. The poison is potent and the banker dies, after a few gasps. All in confusion until Smalley takes temporary charge of the case. He soon ascertains that the banker was murdered. He finds a broken bit of hypodermic needle in the dead man's arm, and upon one of his cuff-links a thumb print, bearing a V-shaped scar. The police are summoned by Julian. Upon the floor near the spot of the murder is found a threatening letter from Brandt to the banker. Every clue points to the fact that Brandt is the murderer and the doctor is overcome with terror of the situation. The police arrive, and Smalley turns over to the lieutenant of police all the dues which he has collected. The lieutenant hastily concludes that Brandt is guilty, especially as an unintentional eavesdropper testifies that she heard the two men quarreling violently. As the lieutenant is about to lead Brandt off Smalley suggests that the case pend a few moments while he make further investigations. Smalley sits in the chair, a moment before occupied by the dead man. He rehearses the moment preceding the murder. His eye finds the rent in the portiere. Behind the portiere he finds a hypodermic syringe with a broken needle and a lady's handkerchief. All ladies in the room disclaim ownership. By its rare perfume he concludes that it belongs to the hostess. He presents it to her and she faints, Julian is very much concerned. Smalley takes up Julian's cigarette case which lays upon the table. On its polished surface he finds the thumb spring bearing a V-shaped scar. Smalley places the hypodermic syringe in the cigarette case and leaves it on the table. Julian takes it up, opens it, and Smalley sees on his face that he is the culprit. Julian strolls to the door, when he is confronted by a policeman. He returns to the center of the room and in a glance between himself and Smalley he understands that the game is up. From his pocket he takes a small bundle of letters and hands them to his hostess. The lieutenant places his hand upon Julian's shoulder and arrests him. With a rapid movement Julian uses the remaining poison in the syringe to make his own quietus. He jabs the needle into his arm and dies as quickly as the banker. The letters that he gave the banker's wife were love letters and they show that it was at her suggestion that the husband be put out of the way to the end that they might secure their freedom.
- The story, in brief, relates to that famous character of history, Captain Kidd, from the time he became a pirate until his fall. According to history he was sent out to subdue piracy by King William III of England, who had heard of this captain's ability in combating these wolves of the marine commerce. Kidd starts out with good impulses. A misunderstanding with his sweetheart, whom he was about to marry, changed the tenure of his life, from a law-abiding citizen he suddenly was transformed into a fiend. He embarked with embittered thoughts that soon answered the summons of rancor. He fell for the temptation to reap an easy fortune through piracy. Ever actuated by the gnawings of a self-imposed broken heart, Kidd ruled with unpitying hand. A poor wretch, one of his own crew, whom he had ordered thrown overboard for no reason whatever nearly caused Kidd's downfall. In the meantime Peggy, his sweetheart, had pined through sorrow. The American shores invited. It was thought a change would do her good and she embarked with her father. Through a strange act of fate this ship fell a prey to the ever watchful eye of Kidd's crew. Battle and carnage reigned. Peggy recognized her old sweetheart directing the killing. When he finds her she has been mortally wounded. Gathering her in his strong arms he totters with unseeing eyes to the forward deck, where she dies. The man whose life had been seared through his own jealous nature becomes again as a child with a grief that was simple and sincere.
- Mrs. Van Jessalyn-Smythe and her daughter are annoyed at the prospect unfolded by the receipt of a letter from her married sister, saying that her daughter Jennie has married Bill Simpkins, because they are expecting a distinguished visitor, Lord Brighton, on whom the daughter intends to impose all her feminine charms. However, the boob and his bride arrive. The following evening there is to be a ball in honor of Lord Brighton. The hostess sends a complete set of full evening dress to their apartment. The boob and his bride manage to get into the clothes, but in each case, the shoes are too small. They limp into the ballroom. Mrs. Smythe is disgusted with the boob's awkwardness. When the tight shoes become unbearable, the bride goes into the conservatory, and attempts to take them off. She is seen by Lord Brighton, who immediately runs to her assistance. While he is tugging at her shoe, the boob happens upon the scene. "How dare you make love to my wife," the boob roars, and chases him through the ballroom. He follows the aristocrat until he is well down the driveway, and then returns to relate the joke to his wife. The boob and his wife decide that fine clothes are not for them, and they return back to Spoonville on the first train.
- Eddie leaves on the train for his uncle's place to meet the girl who has been picked out for him to marry, much to his displeasure. Victoria sets out for her aunt's for the same purpose and takes the same train. Neither knows the other and has no idea in what the other looks like. The fat man and his wife and three children board the train. Finding that they have left the baby's nursing bottle behind, the wife gets off to buy another and misses the train. At the next stop the fat man gets off to telegraph to his wife, leaving the children in charge of Eddie, who is his friend. Eddie meets Victoria, and after a short courtship they are married by a minister on board, not knowing they are fulfilling the wishes of their respective aunt and uncle. The porter comes to Eddie's assistance in caring for the children, not without having trouble with everyone aboard. Victoria arrives at her aunt's before Eddie, and they are pleasantly surprised to find they have already been married, which brings the story to a happy conclusion.
- Gertrude lives with her uncle, who is rough, uncouth, and treats her unkindly. Jim, a river pirate and thief, comes with his boat. He is taken with Gertrude, and she is so unhappy with her uncle that she is glad of his attention. He proposes that she elope with him, which she does, and they sail away in Jim's boat. In the morning Gertrude implores Jim to take her ashore to a minister, that they may be married, but Jim refuses. He sails away from the town at which they anchored. While Jim and his crew are drunk, Gertrude escapes in a small boat. She endures great hardships, but finally reaches the shore. She is found at dawn by some fishermen, but has suffered a lapse of memory, and can tell nothing of her past life. A minister, who is called to the scene, takes Gertrude home to his mother. Gertrude helps the minister in his work among the fisher folk, and in time they are married. One day Jim's boat puts in at the village. A subscription has been taken up to build a new church. The minister takes the money home with him. One of Jim's men sees this and tells him. That night Jim goes to rob the minister. He is discovered by Gertrude, who, in shock of recognition, recovers her memory. The minister awakens, and sees Gertrude with Jim. Gertrude follows Jim to the shore, in the hope of recovering the money. The minister is overcome, but recovers and follows. Gertrude appeals to Jim, but he laughs at her. The accomplice demands his share of the money. Jim refuses, is knocked into the water and drowns. The accomplice runs away, and the minister and Gertrude are left alone with Jim's body. Gertrude confesses to the minister, who takes her in his arms.
- In the first scene we are taken on to the deck of Capt. LaFette's ship at the time a furious battle is raging between his crew and that of Blackbeard's, a rival buccaneer. There is the flash of cutlasses, hand-to-hand struggling between men with bare backs. Blackbeard is defeated; the leaders join hands later and agree to join forces. Then follows another battle quite as exciting and furious and even more pitiable, for the victims include innocent men, sailors under the English captain and a woman and a child. The woman, wife of the captain, is slain before his eyes while defending her baby boy. LaFette decides to adopt the little fellow. Twelve years pass and the boy, now a man, deplores his lot, finding consolation only in the tintype portrait of his dead mother. He has never actually served with the pirates in their desperate deeds. Blackbeard attempts to force LaFette to compel the boy to fight without success. There is a shore leave for the men. The boy is forced to accompany the two captains on a visit to the governor, under the disguise of the Earl, and his two friends whom the pirates killed. The boy falls in love with the governor's daughter and is torn with grief at his false position. Blackbeard is disturbed with jealousy, for the girl is taken with the boy. But the boy's manhood, under the stimulus of love, awakens and he dominates both Blackbeard and LaFette. In revenge Blackbeard turns state's evidence, informing the governor of who they really were by letter after their departure. In the raid that follows LaFette manages to escape. The boy is placed upon trial and tells his tale, which is discredited by Blackbeard. LaFette hears of the trial, gets to the judge's court and manages to stagger in and tell the truth about the boy, which is needed to clear him. Blackbeard, wild at seeing himself thus trapped, shoots LaFette. The play closes with the boy and girl plighting their troth.
- Jim, a good fellow at heart, is thrown off by his uncle, a banker, and compelled to shift for himself. As nothing else offers, he becomes a member of a life-saving crew at the seaside resort. Here it is we have the first thrilling incident that speaks highly of Mr. Turner's ability as a producer of realism. It is the saving of a girl from drowning. Jim warns a young woman bather against a dangerous undertow. Heedless of his warning, she goes beyond her depth and is carried out into the lashing surf. Jim dashes in and saves her. His deed is the occasion for a pleasant intimacy and they soon learn to love each other. Lucy, the girl, is at the seaside for her health and lives with a widow and her invalid daughter. Lucy has a sister in the city, Jenny, a captain in the Salvation Army. News dispatches arrive daily telling of the massacre of Christians in a Boxer uprising in China. The Salvation Army calls for volunteers to go to the relief of those in danger, and Captain Jenny is offered a command. Jim is notified that his uncle is dying. He leaves his sweetheart, promising to return immediately. Shortly after his departure the invalid girl dies and Lucy returns to the city, where she joins her sister. Having inherited his uncle's fortune, Jim returns. Approaching the house, he asks for Lucy. "The girl was buried four days ago," is the reply. Believing his life wrecked, Jim again goes in for dissipation. One evening he is in a saloon when Captain Jenny enters, selling "The War Cry." One of the men attempts to be familiar and Jim interferes. Subsequently he becomes interested in her and one evening when fire breaks out in the Salvation Army hall, he fights his way through the flames and saves her life. In the meantime Lucy has written to the life-saving station, asking information of Jim. In answer to her inquiry she learns that Jim has left there and that his whereabouts are unknown. Lucy, however, confides the story of her love to Captain Jenny. Captain Jenny is still firm in her determination to respond to the call of mercy and goes to China. However, when Jim asks her to be his wife, she reconsiders and resigns from the army. Preparation for the wedding is made. On his way to his bride, Jim reads placards before a motion picture theater advertising "Life Savers at Work and at Play." He brings Captain Jenny to the theater. Captain Jenny sees the motion picture in which Jim rescues Lucy and she recognizes the girl as her sister. Jim tells her of his love affair with the girl whose life he saved. After Jim leaves her, Captain Jenny dresses herself again as a Captain in the Salvation Army. She packs her things and leaves a note for Jim. It reads: "The girl you thought dead is my sister, Lucy. Crown her with the happiness you offered me. The light of Heaven points my way to China. Pray that peace may soon rest in the heart of Captain Jenny."
- A gambler who has plucked a goodly share of other people's money, is about to leave for Europe with his woman. In his attorney's hands he places money and a note to another woman, saying that his secret marriage to her was illegal, and that he will provide for her and the child if she will accept his terms. The attorney delivers the note, but the woman refuses the money. A yeggman is watching the scene through the window, and he sees the attorney slip the money under the tablecloth. The crook determines to come that night and steal it. When he sneaks into the room that night he finds the woman dead of sorrow and worry and poverty. He recognizes her as his first sweetheart. He takes the little girl into his arms and his mind wanders into the past. His memories are shown as they reoccur to him. He is young, clean-cut, and is proposing marriage to his sweetheart. He is refused. He enters a saloon and watches a gambler lose all his money to a stranger. The stranger leaves the saloon and the gambler decides to get him money back. He follows the stranger. There is a scuffle and the stranger is killed and robbed by the gambler. The young westerner sees the crime committed and rushes up to see if he cannot be of some use to the dying man. The gambler returns to the saloon and accuses the westerner of the murder. He is captured, tried and sentenced to a long term in prison. The gambler proposes to the girl and she accepts him. The yeggman's memories fade away and he draws the child closer to him. He takes her to his rooms. He becomes an honest man and labors for the child. One morning he picks up a paper and reads that the gambler and his woman have lost their lives in a wreck at sea.
- A gypsy girl is brought to the sheriff by a ranchman with the demand that her people be forced to move off his land. The hot-blooded woman no sooner sees the sheriff when she falls in love with him. She displays her womanly charms and the animal instinct in him is aroused. Ella, the sheriff's sweetheart, is a simple sort of a country girl, yet the gypsy woman hates her and in turn, when the gypsy's name is connected with that of the sheriff by the town people, Ella also hates. She tells the sheriff that she will have nothing to do with him until the gypsy leaves town. Understanding, or believing he does, the sheriff goes to the gypsy girl, tells her that they are of a different race, that their places in life are widely separated and she consents to leave with her folks. After their departure the sheriff is notified that a notorious outlaw is in his territory. He rides into the mountains. The outlaw successfully seeks refuge with the gypsies, though the girl washes her hands of the affair. Later, the girl, though pursued and mortally wounded by the bad man, returns to where the sheriff had been left a captive by the gypsies, and releases him. She receives the knife meant for the sheriff and with the last spark of life, turns and stabs the outlaw to death. The sheriff carries the body of the girl to town. He is seen approaching with the body across his saddle by the sheriff's sweetheart. After disposing of it, he knocks at the door. It is opened, his sweetheart sees him and closes it in his face. The sheriff throws the locket containing her picture to the ground and tramples on it, disgusted with it all. It was the bad "good" woman who ruined the life the good "bad" woman had saved.
- Robert Warning, very much in love with his wife, and detesting that dog that is invariably placed at his table, decides to decapitate the canine. His wife circumvents him. A row ensues and the husband leaves for his office in a huff. A month passes and still the coldness exists between them. Warning gets a telephone call at his office that the stork has arrived. Elated, he dismisses his office force, hies himself to the club, and his fellow-members and drinks to the health of the stork's gift. Arriving home, he is almost prostrated to find a bouncing puppy instead of a bouncing baby. Indignant at the misunderstanding, he resolves to go to his uncle to recuperate from the shock, only to he confronted at every turn by dogs of all descriptions. In the midst of his turmoil at his new abode, he receives a wire to return home because the stork has made another visit. Thinking to please his wife, he purchases clothes for the puppy's outfit and departs for home. Imagine his utter amazement and joy when he discovers that the stork has really left a baby this time.
- The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.
- Dance Hall girl's devotion to her little daughter brings her to the honest protection of a mine owner.
- Springtime. Everything in nature is awakening. A pretty girl in a boat is drifting. Sterling sees the girl and becomes infatuated. At the same time another man sees the girl and he, too, falls in love. They pursue her in boats, each unaware of the other. The girl escapes on shore, where the two men meet and the rivalry begins. By a peculiar ruse Sterling manages to best the other rival and win the girl. He brings her to a lawn dance and makes a hit with the guests by bringing such a pretty girl. The other man in the meantime makes the acquaintance of a Salome dancer and surprises the party by appearing with her. The shapely form and grace of the beautiful dancer completely unbalances Sterling's mind and he rushes madly to her. The rival naturally objects and a sword duel is the result. The rivals turn out to be terrible cowards, and the affair of honor turns out to be a fiasco. In the mix-up that results the Salome dancer escapes into a public park, with the park police in hot pursuit, trying to cover her up. They are chased to a bridge where the rivals, in mortal combat, pitch headlong into the water sixty feet below. The efforts to save the rivals from drowning result in the most comical incidents imaginable.