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- Daisy Crane, the village good-for-nothin' and town charge, is farmed out for her keep to Mrs. Gray. Mischievous and eternally at war with the rest of the children, Daisy is a burden to the townspeople and particularly to the schoolmarm. After a stormy episode at school, the board decides to employ a male teacher and engages Robert Manning, a man of deep understanding. He is instructed not to spare the rod, and special attention is directed to Daisy, His handling of the good-for-nothin' seems to awaken a new spirit in the girl and soon she realizes that Manning is a friend. In his determination to develop what good there is in the girl, he gives her his undivided attention outside of school hours, all of which affords the busy-bodies of the community food for scandal. The gradual taming of Daisy becomes obvious and a deep friendship springs up between the child and the school master. One day Daisy sees Manning walking with two other girl pupils of the class and she becomes jealous. Her childish attitude at viewing the situation causes her to run away and brood. In the meantime, Mrs. Gray institutes a search for her and the scandal mongers of the town and the school board suggest that Daisy could be found at Manning's home. Unable to control her jealousy, Daisy at last decides that she will return a little book of poems that the schoolmaster gave her as a present. She goes to his home and as she is about to enter she sees the school board coming toward the house. Fearing them she secludes herself close by. Manning receives the members of the school board and invites them to enter his home. While they are inside, Daisy gains an entrance to the place and hides in a closet in another room. The board members tell of Daisy's disappearance and almost openly accuse the schoolmaster of having her in hiding in his place. He therefore invites them to make a search. This startles Daisy and she runs for the window to escape, but in doing so attracts attention by the noise she makes. Manning is astonished. The deductions are inevitable. Manning cannot explain and Daisy will not. Realizing he must act quickly, Manning announces Daisy as his future wife stating he will marry her on the morrow. The members of the board leave the house and stand gossiping outside, one urging that Manning be informed of the origin of the child. Manning escorts Daisy to her home and as he arrives he is confronted by Silas Hodges and others who tell him of the Brat's life. Daisy steals away and Manning finds only traces of her at the lake.
- Symbolisms: "The Trap." Scene 1: A bear trap on the ground; a man's hand enters the picture from above, presses down the jaws, shows how they work, and as they spring back into place his hand begins to scatter the leaves over the trap. Scene 2: Close-up of a saloon doorway, showing the swing doors opening in and springing back to place. The movement is the same as the bear trap. "The Bait." Scene 3: A bear trap is shown on the ground covered with leaves. A man's hand enters from above with a leg of meat. He holds it above the trap for a moment then lays it gently on the trap. Scene 4: The saloon swing doors are again drawn back by unseen bands and as they open just wide enough to make a panel in center of picture "Margot, the bait," is shown sitting on the edge of a table, and talking and laughing to unseen people. "The Game." Scene 5: Close-up is shown of rocky background. A puma is shown coming from behind the rocks with a snarl. Scene 6: Close-up of exterior of barroom doors. Camera shows Ed Mitchell, the stranger, halt intoxicated and a man's hand on his shoulder trying to lead him into the barroom. He registers disinclination, laughs in maudlin manner. Man's hand urges him in. Camera then shows Tom, the gambler, with his arms reaching out toward Mitchell; he opens doors and gently pushes Mitchell through. The story opens in a symbolic vein: the bait, the game, the trap. The analogy is drawn between the catching of big game with the usual bait in the trap, and the luring of big game with the bait of lovely but pathetic Margot, victim of a low man whom she believes to be her husband, and who has her in his power through a hold upon her father. The bait is sent into the saloon to fleece "the stranger" with the big roll. He discovers the game, the trap and the bait and a shooting tray takes place. Tom, the gambler, is badly wounded, and his partner in the game, "Old Bill," is slightly injured. Margot, believing Tom dead, escapes with her father. The scene then switches to the big trapping vicinity of which Bruce Powell, the trapper is the big man. He is shown trapping pumas. "Old Bill" and Margot make their way across country. A trap has been laid for game and "Old Bill," stumbling with exhaustion and illness, falls into it. Margot's screams attract Powell, who hurries to the scene. He carries the old man to his cabin where he expires after confessing to Margot that Tom was not her husband. The trapper soon learns to love the girl. Four months later they are happily married when the vultures, headed by Tom, arrive in the community, having exhausted the old fields. The wages have been dissipated and the next check being belated the trappers mutter and rebel against Powell, the paymaster, holding him responsible. Powell draws his own earnings from the bank and by announcing that the money is forthcoming stems the tide of rebellion. The father of Greta, the child of a neighbor, cared for by Margot, spends his hours in the saloon gambling and drinking. Margot, with Greta, goes to the saloon to get the derelict and is discovered by Tom. He follows her to her cabin. Powell has placed his money in his home for safekeeping. Tom makes Margot give him the money while Powell is absent. Arriving home he discovers his loss and attributes the crime to some outsider. The men, hearing of it, are calmed by the arrival of the belated payroll. Meantime, Tom fleeces the trappers of their remaining wages. Powell comes to the saloon and announces that the men are to be paid. Tom recognizes the purse of Margot, which Powell carries, and makes reflections upon Margot's character. Powell threatens to kill him if he finds he lies. In the meantime the trappers have left the bunk house for the paying station. Tom steals the money which the trappers have pooled from their earnings, leaving the big knife of Powell to deflect the blame. Tom then goes to Powell's cabin and demands that Margot turn over the money to him. She promises to meet him later with the money. Mitchell, the stranger, who also comes to the community, overhears the conversation. Margot meets Tom. The scene is witnessed by Powell from the distance. Margot leads Tom to a trap, killing him. The trappers, receiving no money and finding their fund stolen, suspect Powell through finding his knife. They hurry to string him up and find him lifting the dead Tom from the trap. Mitchell suggests that they search the body of Tom. The stolen money is found. Mitchell then looks at the fainting Margot and the stricken trapper. He leads the mob away from the scene, saying that the settlement is between these two souls. Powell's arm goes around Margot in love and protection and they go toward their cabin.
- Marion, who has kept house for her father since her mother's death, has two suitors, Rufus Strong, the village blacksmith, and Eph Little, the village beau brummel. She favors the latter and marries him. After their marriage Eph becomes a loafer, and Marion does the work, greatly to her father's disgust. One of the village boys has become a sailor and comes home with the wonderful tales of the sights he has seen, and Eph decides that that is the only thing that will make a man of him. He steals off with the family wealth. The father, hearing someone moving about in the living room, decides to investigate, and gets to the door in time to see Eph remove the money from the old sock, but doesn't stop him as he is glad to get rid of him. Months later the villagers learn that the ship on which Eph sailed was lost with every soul aboard, and immediately inform Marion. After a long period of mourning, Marion marries Rufus, but still worships her dead hero. Meanwhile Eph is tossed up on an unchartered island, and is rescued by the natives, and being the only white man on the island, is worshiped by all of the women, much to the displeasure of the natives. A ship being blown out of her course by a storm, sends ashore for water, and the captain offers to take Eph back to civilization, but he is too well pleased where he is, and refuses to go with them. As the crew starts back for the ship the natives beg them to take the bad man away, which they finally succeed in doing. Like the proverbial bad penny Eph turns up and walks right into the house, not knowing that his wife has re-married and has a child, but notwithstanding this fact she rushes into his arms like a happy child. Rufus tells Marion to choose between he and their child or Eph, and she decides to stick to the father of her child.
- David Quixans. a young Jewish violinist living in the town of Kishineff, Russia, is left an orphan through the massacre of the orthodox Jews upon the "Black Easter" of Russia, when under the leadership of Baron Revandel, Governor of Kishineff, who has been commissioned by the Czar to baptize one-third and massacre one-third of all the Jews in Russia, he is left orphaned in his ruined home. The sympathy of Vera, the daughter of the Baron, is aroused in connection with the Jewish outrage of which she is a witness. While upon an errand of mercy, she attracts the attention of the Czar's spies and is subsequently made a prisoner, where her father refuses to recognize her and she is sentenced to Siberia. A Jewish woman who wishes to join her husband in Siberia induces Vera to change places with her and Vera successfully makes her escape upon a trading vessel bound for America. David is exiled with the Jews to America. He joins his uncle in "The Music Master" and "Grandmother" in New York. Vera in America finds employment in a Russian Mission upon the East Side, where she attracts the attention, by her beauty and culture, of Quincy Davenport, a patron of music in search of genius upon the East Side. Vera interests Davenport in David, whom she has met, and Davenport offers to send him abroad to study, realizing the possibilities of his music. David refuses to be patronized by a man who had no greater aim in life than amusement. Instead, he interests a German music master in a wonderful symphony symbolic of the amalgamation of all the foreign races in the great "melting pot" of America. David and Vera through a bond of music find themselves in love with each other to the horror of David's uncle, who considers David false to his race in loving a Christian. Davenport cables Vera's father of her presence in America and her engagement to a common Jew peddler. The Baron hastens to America, where meeting Vera he reproaches her for forgetting her country and birth. Vera finally induces him to meet David. Throughout the year the memory of the man who ordered the massacre that left him an orphan has been an obsession with David, and when he sees and recognizes in Vera's father the specter of the past, he is overcome with horror, declaring that a river of blood separates them forever. Overcome with sorrow, the Baron offers to let David take his life, but at the crucial moment David discovers a broken string upon his violin and realizes that rage had for the moment swept aside the brotherhood of the great land of the free. He controls himself and leaves the Baron. The great symphony finished, David appears before a brilliant audience and is proclaimed a genius. The audience is swept to its feet with enthusiasm as the music vividly portrays the saving of all the races in the great crucible of the "melting pot" of America. Overpowered by his success, David leaves the theater seeking refuge in the solemn quiet of the night, where he is followed by Vera, who convinces him that here in the new land all race prejudice has been swept aside and love and liberty can walk unmolested together.
- Crossing the veldt in Africa, "ticket of leave" man Dick Caulder comes across a prairie wagon and sees a lion about to enter. He kills the lion and finds within a dead woman and a little girl of about seven years, crying beside her. Taking the child, he finds her father further on, lying dead. He had been on his way to a doctor for his wife when he encountered a lion. Dick Caulder takes the child to a lonely cabin. Being a criminal of long career, he pursues his dark ways. He takes as partner another evil fellow by the name of Tom. The girl grows up in a dark and menacing atmosphere. The two men are diamond '"fences," getting the diamonds from a kaffir and passing them to smugglers. Sid Rolfe is sent from a London office to discover the source of leakage. It is a month before he finds any duo. He then discovers Caulder in a low saloon, and comparing him to an old photograph taken from the Rogues' Gallery, he spots him as a desperate character. Following the men, he sees the meeting with the kaffir and calls the halt. They, shooting wildly, escape him, but he marks their vicinity and later is saved from a lion by Marta, who gets him to the cabin. He finds a hand-bill of reward and suspicions that he is in the den of thieves. He questions the girl, learns her story, and is persuaded by her to hide in the room above when she hears the men coming. They discover his presence, know he is the man that is after them, and trap him, inasmuch as he cannot come down without being attacked. After many ruses, he comes down and bravely enters a battle with them. In his encounter with the lion, his horse has escaped and returned to headquarters. Suspicion is aroused and a searching party sent for him. The party arrives at the crucial moment. Caulder is killed and Marta, the poor little victim, is freed at last from her dark surroundings. She goes into the sunlight with Sid.
- Stanley Clark seduces innocent young Marion in a hotel room, then tears out the incriminating page from the hotel register to use for blackmailing. Years later, Marion marries Governor John Loring whose brother, Richard, overhears Clark extorting money from Marion. Richard follows Marion to Clark's room where she begs for more time to raise the required money. As Richard fights with Clark, Marion picks up a gun and accidentally shoots and kills the blackmailer. Richard takes the blame for the murder, is convicted and sentenced to be executed. Out of guilt and fear, Marion remains silent during the trial, but eventually tells her husband the truth. In order to save his brother, John sacrifices the governorship and moves his family to another city.
- H.M. Stanley exploring Darkest Africa, struggles on through the jungle with his dissatisfied native followers. With the assistance of Bonavita, who has joined him, and the exercise of the strictest discipline, he manages to keep his load bearers on the move. But when his alert eye relaxes for a moment there are desertions. Food is scarce and complaints are so numerous that Stanley, coming upon a small village, decides to pitch his camp. Subsequently, when death from lack of provisions is imminent, Stanley names this resting place "Starvation Camp." The fast disappearing rations are measured out in small quantities and close guard is kept over the scant supplies. Ada, Nina and Jack, with the Old Hag as a guide, decide to keep near Stanley. The White King, being more determined than ever to regain possession of Ada and force her to become his wife, formulates a plot to lead the little party astray. He sends a trusted lieutenant to intercept them. The lieutenant declares that he has forsaken allegiance to the White King and wishes to help Ada. Promising to lead them to a place where great quantities of food is hidden, they unsuspectingly follow. As night falls they prepare their camp and light a fire to keep the animals away. This serves as a beacon for the White King. In the middle of the night a powerful hand is placed over Ada's mouth, her cries are stifled and she is abducted without abducting Jack, Nina or any of the others. Ada is conveyed to the edge of a remote village. The White King arranges that a missionary perform the marriage ceremony. While the White King is gloating over Ada's helplessness a hue and cry arises from the village. The Raiding King has entered the village to sack it and make slaves of its inhabitants. Being rivals in the practice of cruelty, the White King dashes away to gather his shattered forces and to offer battle. While they are away Ada escapes and rides into the jungle, where she meets Bonavita, Jack and Nina with their followers who have organized a searching party for her. They witness the fight between the two kings. The Raiding King wins the battle and the White King's escaping natives. Ada, with her companions, is captured and brought back to camp. The guiding party from Stanley's camp being too small to effect a rescue, hurries back to Stanley for enforcements. Stanley and his entire party start on a rescue trip. Meanwhile Ada is obliged to undergo the torments of the White King and the Raiding King, both of whom curry her friendship. The Old Hermit is impatient and hurries ahead of Stanley's party. Through a ruse he effects the release of his friends and they have started to escape when an alarm is sounded. In the blackest of the night another battle follows. Stanley's party arrives on the scene, and pitching into the natives, conquer them. The slaves are released and a search instituted for Ada, Jack, Nina and their party. They have disappeared, however, as if swallowed up by the earth. Disconsolately, Stanley retraces his steps. His next move is to locate the missing party.
- Captain Vincent is in command of an outpost in Arabia. Mr. Calvin, a naturalist on his way to the interior to collect fauna or flora, presents a letter of introduction, as he wishes to leave his daughter who accompanies him, at this post, and to await letters of importance. While there are soldiers in the post, the servants are natives. Carol is oppressed by their silent ways, and ever-present watchfulness, but the young captain assures her that she will become used to it in time. As the days pass, the young people become more interested in each other. One day one of the servants steals a razor from the Captain who orders him whipped and in revenge the native conspires to kidnap Carol and sell her as a slave to a traveling band of Arabs. The letters arriving, the naturalist, escorted by the Captain, starts for the interior. This pleases the Arab as he will now be able to carry out his plans. He sends one of his tribe to the interior to get an elephant that he may get the girl through the jungle. Carol, in spite of warning, leaves the post and the Arab follows her and lifting her to a horse, rides away with her. The other native aids him. Lieutenant Dagwell, learning of the abduction, hastens in search of her father and the Captain to tell them of the girl's fate. In the meantime, the wandering tribe refuses to send back the elephant to their leader as they are terrorized by a man-eating lion in the neighborhood. When the Arab gets the girl to the hut appointed as the meeting place, he does not find the elephant. He is afraid to lose time, so leaving the girl pinioned in the hut, he starts away to find the elephant. He is caught by the lion and killed. A night of horror follows, in which the hunting party struggle through the jungle hoping to find the girl, while she, a prey to terror, is menaced by the animals who try to get in the hut. Just at daybreak the hunters come upon the hut, and the shot of the Captain kills the lion, who has at last broken the door and is springing within. So all ends happily.
- Mary Harding and Frank Manley love each other and the old folks agree that they shall marry. A week later a mining expert, accompanied by Devoe, a stockholder, while prospecting, finds a rich vein of silver ore on the Harding farm. Frank witnesses this discovery and follows the two men to the farm house just in time to prevent the Hardings from selling their farm with its hidden treasures for a paltry sum of money. After a fierce fight Frank destroys the bill of sale and the Hardings are the possessors of a fortune. Devoe has been attracted by the beauty of Mary and he determines to win her and the wealth that will be hers. The next day Devoe calls and so turns the mother's head with his attention to herself and Mary that when Frank calls the scheming mother tells him that now they are rich "Mary can marry a better man." Poor Mary surrenders to her scheming mother and becomes betrothed to Devoe. The wedding day finds Mary bedecked in bridal finery, but most unhappy. Meanwhile, Frank has come for an explanation from his sweetheart. The English butler who orders him away is thrown down the stairway and Frank enters to find Devoe, who insolently bids him leave the house. Frenzied by such treatment, Frank knocks Devoe down and the two men have a terrific fight, which is interrupted by the entrance of the father with Mary's note. Frank dashes out to find her. The old man follows. Back in the old home once more. Mary in her old gingham dress needs only one thing to make her perfectly happy, that is Frank, who enters, and then, Old Father enters with the minister, who marries the couple.
- In punishment for a mortal sin committed, the soul of an Egyptian Prince has been reincarnated in the body of Monte, an African lion, and as time passes the fallen one ever seeks release to the soul of man. Sin has not been eliminated from the world, and extreme evil resides in the heart of Krama, an Indian Rajah. There is but one influence which this wicked Prince fears and that is the influence of the lion Monte which is now a member of his menagerie. Major Grey, an English army officer, is stationed at the military post in the district over which the Rajah rules. The major's daughter, Margaret, has just been betrothed to Capt. Carlyle, a young officer in the major's command. The Rajah conceives a wild infatuation for Margaret and being possessed of a weird hypnotic power, he proceeds to exercise it on the young girl to further his evil designs. The young captain is mystified at Margaret's growing indifference towards him and her apparent interest in the Rajah, not being aware that his sweetheart's will and mind are under the control of the Prince. At an embassy fete the Rajah, by silent command, compels the girl to meet him in the gardens. The captain jealously follows them, witnesses Margaret about to yield to the Prince's advances and promptly challenges him to combat. The guests interfere and a tragedy is averted. Margaret's father believes the captain to be a victim of unreasonable jealousy, and thus the breach between the young couple is widened. Irritated by the apparent animosity of the lion Monte towards him, the Rajah orders the beast killed, but the animal's keeper, who has become greatly attached to the lion, cannot induce himself to carry out his orders and to avoid his master's displeasure sets the lion free in the desert. The Rajah utilizes his power over Margaret and forces her to a clandestine meeting, whereupon he proceeds to forcibly carry her off. A guard, who has witnessed the event, reports the occurrence to Capt. Carlyle. The young captain, with a small detachment of his company, proceeds to the Rajah's palace to demand the return of Margaret, because from the reported events he now suspects the Prince's undue influence over his sweetheart. A servitor of the Rajah, whose ill-will he has gained, informs the captain of the secret retreat to which the Rajah takes his favorites and from whence they never return. Meanwhile, the Prince, who is carrying the unconscious girl across the desert, encounters Monte, the lion, which attacks him. The Prince is killed, and, having destroyed a thing of evil, the soul of the old Egyptian Prince is released from the body of the beast. The captain, in rapid pursuit of the abductor of his sweetheart, comes upon Margaret just as she regains consciousness, and now relieved of the Rajah's influence and once again her old self, a happy reconciliation takes place between the young lovers.
- Expert photographer Paul Grainy receives an assignment from a society of Natural History to go to Africa to gather specimens and photographs of the beasts of the jungle. He is accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and Thelma, their daughter, and Al Morse, his chemist. Arriving at their destination they make camp at the edge of the jungle. A band of natives have established a settlement on the other side of the jungle near a stream. Among the number is the water-carrier, the drudge of the tribe, whose only friend is Ena, a big elephant. Because of his love for the beast, the carrier arouses the enmity of the Chief and he is ordered thrashed. Ena comes to the rescue of the defenseless man. Paul engages guides and starts off into the jungle. He leaves his wife and child behind in the care of Al, his chemist. Al is satisfied with the manner in which events have turned out, for alone with the young wife, his cherished opportunity for love scenes with the little woman has come. The following day the chemist accidentally cuts his finger. He succeeds in arousing the sympathy of the wife, who volunteers to bandage the wound. The two enter the living tent and as Margaret binds the injured finger, Al embraces her. While she struggles with him Thelma is heard outside the tent. Al departs, leaving the wife in fear. Paul, in the thick of the jungle, is successful in his photographic work and with all of his plates and film exhausted he starts for the camp. He is greeted by his wife and baby but notices a change in Margaret. He questions her, but she fears to tell him the truth. The following day Paul and his party start out again. Some hours after the party has departed, Thelma wanders away from the camp and when nightfall comes she has not returned. Margaret is frantic, and she appeals to Al to help her find her child. With Thelma out of the way, the chemist believes he can gain his end, and Margaret's wishes fall on deaf ears. Paul comes in contact with the leopards and lions and the guides telling him that they are close to a nest of the beasts, he rigs up his flashlight apparatus, spreading out wires which cause an explosion when coming in contact with anything. Thelma has wandered into the jungle. Soon she hears the howling of a lion and she runs down a steep embankment, spraining her ankle. She crawls along. The lion is in pursuit. Thelma reaches a water hole where, not far away, Ena, the elephant, is waiting for the water-carrier. The youngster's screams are heard by Ena and the big beast answers the call. Ena picks Thelma up in her trunk and carries her to safety. The child and beast are found by the water-carrier and guided back to the natives' camp. A runner comes to the Grainy camp with plates which have been used and Al receives them. Margaret writes a letter to her husband and tells him of the disappearance of Thelma. The letter is delivered by the runner. Al develops the plates and is astonished when he comes across one showing Thelma and the elephant. He goes to Margaret and displays the plate and tells her that she is probably in the jungle with her father. With no one about, the chemist makes efforts to cause Margaret to be unfaithful to her husband with the result that the wife faints. When Margaret regains herself he proposes that they start out to find the party in the jungle. Margaret agrees. Paul receives his wife's letter and orders a hurried trip back to the camp. While riding fast he is thrown from his horse and forced to discontinue. The party is close to the native village and Paul is taken there and cared for. There he meets his daughter. While Al and Margaret are driving in the jungle, the chemist suddenly forces his obnoxious attentions upon her. She manages to get away, and providentially she walks into the native camp where she meets her husband and tells him of her predicament. Al, believing that Margaret is near, accidentally approaches the camp, Margaret sees him and informs her husband, who thrashes him. As he is backing away he fires at Paul. The bullet misses its mark. The chemist runs into Ena, who happens to be standing at the back of him. The beast throws the chemist upon the ground and crushes his brains out with his foot.
- Young English engineer Richard Mann has been commissioned to make a preliminary survey for a new railroad in South Africa. At a farewell luncheon at his club, the charm of the ultra-fashionable young ladies of the metropolis is the topic of discussion. The subject does not interest young Mann, who assures his friends that his work will always be his bride. In the Transvaal, the Boer population is resentful towards all modern improvements and particularly against the proposed encroachment of their lands for railroad purposes. Jan Kruger, a prosperous farmer and leader among his neighbors, was particularly bitter against any and all changes in the general conditions of their country. His daughter, Hilda, a sweet and lovable young miss, quite naturally was a partisan to her father's views. These were the conditions that Richard was obliged to contend with upon his arrival at the field of his activities, in addition to the hardships of his work and the dangers of the wild beast-infested jungle through which he was to blaze the way. Hontas, a half-breed, was Kruger's foreman and had long cherished a wild desire to win Hilda's love. While the old Burgher was away from home one day, Hontas, after being repulsed by the girl, attempts to use force, for which he receives a beating from her father, and is summarily discharged. Kruger is a man of violent temper and given to beating any lazy blacks who worked for him and has thus earned their hatred, which fact the discharged foreman uses for his purpose later on. The surveying party pitch their camp near Kruger's land and in the course of events, Richard calls upon Kruger with his credentials, but is ordered away at the point of a rifle. Hilda joins her father in berating the intruders. A few days later Richard rescues Hilda from the violence of the half-breed and wins her gratitude and also the knowledge that she is a most adorable young lady, and proceeds to mentally compare her with the fashion plates of his country. The appearance of the surveying party causes the Burghers to hold a meeting at the trading post, and Richard plans to attend this meeting to plead his cause. Hontas learns of the proposed all night absence of Hilda's father and plans to seize this opportunity to carry her off, enlisting the help of several of Kruger's resentful blacks to accomplish his purpose. Richard proceeds alone upon his mission, but is beset by lions in the dense jungle and forced to return to camp and in doing so is obliged to pass through Kruger's land. Hilda hears the approach of the vengeful half-breed and his followers and makes a brave resistance, but outnumbered, she is surprised from behind by one of the crafty blacks. Richard arrives upon the scene in time to save the girl from her captors, whom he puts to flight. The cowardly half-breed, knowing that quick justice awaits him if caught, seeks the darkness of the jungle for safety. The lions which blocked Richard's path, have been driven from their haunts by hunger and have invaded the outskirts of the settlement, surprising Hontas in his flight. A short pursuit, a vain struggle and Hilda was avenged by lions.
- Valentine Maynard, being ambitious to climb the social ladder, decided that his first steps must be to secure a brilliant marriage for his daughter, Dora. Sir Percival Bonehead therefore easily secured a cordial invitation to lay siege to the hand and heart of the great heiress, for Maynard had assured himself that while his Lordship's finances were low, his social position was exceedingly high. However they bad both reckoned without their host, for Dora was secretly engaged to Wallace Ross, who no sooner learned of her father's matrimonial plans for her than he decided to administer the love cure to his Lordship by having his mischievous chum, Roy Cheves, impersonate Dora. Sir Percival proposed and Roy promptly accepted with a vigorous embrace, and upon being complimented upon his strength, begged his Lordship to put on the gloves with him. The unsuspecting Earl complied and as a result received so sound a beating that Maynard's profuse apologies were of no avail. In the meantime, Dora and Wallace had been quietly married on the lawn, and when Maynard seemed inclined to storm, Roy again stepped forward with his boxing gloves, and as a result the young couple received a submissive father's blessing.
- Bruce Lloyd was in the seventh heaven, for not only had he won Clare Sutton's consent to an early marriage, but her father's approval and hearty congratulations. But be had forgotten the ambitious and commanding Mrs. Sutton, who no sooner learned of her daughter's engagement, than she announced that Sir Percival Bonehead had been selected as a docile and more suitable son-in-law. Fate, however, was for once against the energetic lady, for scarcely had she ordered the rebellious Clare to her room and followed to sing the Earl's praises, than Harry Way and Joe Howard dropped in on their way to the club, where they were preparing for the masquerade. Howard had on his bear's suit, and this gave Sutton and Lloyd an idea; they would send a letter to Sir Percival saying that he must join their lodge, the Royal Gazabos, if he wished to marry Clare, and what they would do to him. The Earl, being determined that nothing should prevent him from winning the Sutton millions, duly arrived to be initiated into their secret order. Way, with Howard in devil's costume, blindfolded his Lordship, and taking him to the top of the house, quietly dropped him through the chimney, and as he landed in the fireplace below, Sutton and Lloyd, in bears' costumes, pounced upon him and succeeded in tearing off every shred of the Earl's outer garments. In this ridiculous predicament, he managed to dart out of the door, and seeing a blanket on a horse nearby, snatched it and ran panting down the street. The owner of the blanket gave chase. Thus attired, with an officer and a mob at his heels. Sir Percival ran straight into the arms of Mrs. Sutton, who, Clare had seen to it, was ready to appear the moment her father and lover sent word. One glance at his Lordship and the scandalized lady fainted in the arms of her delighted husband. Clare and Lloyd fled to the minister, and Sir Percival, a sadder, and let us hope, wiser man, was led away by the officer.
- Annie Welslie, a charming society girl, and her maiden aunt Julia are stopping at a winter resort in Florida, where they meet Jack Barton and Bill Lanison, who are pals. Both are gamblers, but honest, big-hearted and true. Jack is a handsome, dashing fellow, very manly, somewhat rough, but one of nature's noblemen. Annie falls in love with Jack, but conceals the fact from her aunt, who is a great stickler for propriety, and Bill falls desperately in love with Aunt Julia. Lewis Waldron, who is also in love with Annie, tries to poison her mind again Jack, telling her that he is a gambler. Annie refuses to believe this; she defends Jack and dismisses Waldron, telling him she never wishes to see him again. Jack appears, offers Waldron his hand, which is refused. Waldron leaves vowing vengeance. Jack declares his love for Annie, and in spite of her aunt's objections, is accepted. Bill, his pal, taking courage from Jack's success, tries his hand at love-making, but is a dismal failure; however, he does not despair, and concludes to try again. Seven years elapse. We find Jack and Annie happily married and living on a ranch in Colorado. A little daughter (Irma) has been born to them, who is the pride of Jack's heart. Aunt Julia visits them, and Bill, who has been a true pal to Jack, sharing his fortune in the west, again meets her and renews his love-making in his earnest and ridiculous fashion, and this time with more success, as Aunt Julia accepts him on condition that he renounce gambling, which he does. Waldron, under the guise of a friend and brother, has also followed them west. Jack has implicit confidence and trust in his false friend, and being called away to Texas on business, leaves his wife and baby under Waldron's protection. After an affecting scene. Jack takes his departure, but in his grief leaves his traveling bag behind. No sooner bas Jack gone than Waldron proceeds to poison Annie's mind against Jack, telling her that there is another woman, and Jack has gone to Texas to open a gambling house. He convinces her of this by false proofs. In her desperation she decides to leave him and return with her aunt and Waldron, whom she regards only as a brother. During this scene Jack returns for his bag. He overhears the conversation and learns of Waldron's treachery. As they are about to depart, Jack intercepts them. Here follows a thrilling scene in which Jack attempts to kill Waldron. Annie stops him and pleads for Waldron's life. Jack permits Waldron to go unharmed, but tells Annie they can no longer live together. At this point Irma, their little daughter, in her baby way tries to reconcile them. Jack demands that the child choose between mother and father. The child attempts to join their hands. The father relents and decides to go away and leave the child with its mother, giving Annie, his wife, the house and all it contains. While he is in another part of the house looking for the deeds, Waldron returns to take Annie away. She sees her error and tells him to leave the house. He attempts to embrace her, when she picks up the revolver Jack has left on the table. She levels it at him at him and commands him to go. He does so. Jack in the meantime has returned and witnessed this scene, unseen by them. He goes to Annie, who is sobbing, and he begs her forgiveness. As he takes her lovingly in his arms, Irma kneels before them in an attitude of prayer.
- When Mr. Jonathan Swell of the city, glancing idly through the "for sale" column in his perusal of the morning paper, found that a small house in the country was to be sold, it took him just long enough to get into his hat and coat, leave orders with his housekeeper and catch the first train to look the place over. Arriving upon the scene, learning the right direction he jaunted happily along almost as light as the country air he breathed. He soon discovered his path led him along the banks of a stream. The warmth of the summer air; the re-awakened desires and pleasures of boyhood seized and permeated his veins. With an outburst of enthusiasm he looked carefully about, then hurriedly disrobing plunged into the stream to enjoy a good old-time swim. Miss Evergreen of Lonesomeburg, the seller of the house, above mentioned, had living with her, two nieces, the youngest of whom was a veritable tomboy and at the moment Mr. Swell was disporting himself in the water Jennie, the tomboy, was rolling an empty barrel along the lane. At a turn toward the river she was confronted by a pair of trousers hanging from a bush. "Just what we need for a scarecrow," said she, confiscating them at once and making a beeline for home, minus the barrel. The ensuing adventures of Mr. Swell in the barrel, a substitute for his trousers, which he later discard for a skirt belonging to Miss Evergreen, furnish an abundance of fun. In the last scene Mr. Swell is seen again in his palatial city home enjoying its comforts and vowing to never again seek divertisement in the country.
- Marion, the beautiful daughter of the Castlewoods of Maryland, is loved by Harry Fairfax, an American, and Captain Blackford, of the British Army. Fairfax is the favored suitor. The Revolution of '76 separates the lovers. Fairfax, now a lieutenant in an American regiment stationed near Castlewood, visits his sweetheart. A company of British soldiers under Captain Blackford take possession of the Castlewood house. Fairfax secretes himself in a closet. Captain Blackford enters and mad with love for Marion, he embraces and kisses her despite her struggles to get away from him. Fairfax comes to the rescue of the girl he loves. Blackford summons his soldiers who take Fairfax as a prisoner of war caught in the enemy's lines. Blackford then offers the terror stricken girl this proposition: if she will marry him he will permit Fairfax to escape; if Marion refuses, her lover will be shot as a spy. The Englishman gives her one hour to decide the matter. The brave girl, left alone, writes a message to the American Commander asking that he rescue Fairfax, and she sends her brother, a lad of ten years, on horseback to the camp. There follows a thrilling ride by the lad, shot at and pursued by the British outposts until he delivers the message to the American troops, who start to the rescue of their brave lieutenant. Blackford comes for Marion's answer and when he shows her, through the window, Fairfax bound and facing six rifles which, on a signal from the English captain, will kill her lover, Marion consents to marry the villain to save Fairfax. A minister, who has been summoned, makes Marion the wife of the dastardly Englishman. Fairfax is released and permitted to go in the uniform of a British soldier, but Blackford has instructed his villainous sergeant to have Fairfax shot as he is about to leave the British lines and the brave fellow falls seriously wounded. The American troops surround Castlewood, the British are driven off. Captain Blackford is killed and Marion is once more free to marry the man of her choice. Fairfax is discovered by American troops and taken to the Castlewood mansion, where Marion's skillful nursing restores him to health. Our last scene shows the marriage of the lovers. In the midst of their happiness a courier summons Fairfax to join his regiment, and the bride of a moment, shows her true American, spirit by fastening her husband's sword on his belt and bidding him go and fight for his country.
- Steve Martin, a sheep-herder, has been living happily in the love of his daughter, Beulah, when a shadow of his past looms up before him. Years before he had become involved in a counterfeiting scheme with Tom Walsh, who remained to expiate the crime, Steve escaping. Walsh, who alone shares Steve's secret, is now a nefarious character engaged in rounding up sheep which he steals and drives over the government lines. When he finds that he is in Steve's neighborhood his mind reverts to their common past. Cunning and revenge combined prompts him to go to Steve's house and by menacing him with the past makes him a tool in his criminal undertaking. Steve, to shield his daughter, weakly consents. In the meantime, Jim Thorne, a government ranger, in love with Beulah, senses something wrong and instructs his assistant to be on the lookout, promising to meet him at a certain time. Steve and Tom are rounding up sheep when the assistant appears. Tom kills the assistant, and Steve also fires but believes it was his shot that went true. The dying man manages to slash Tom on the arm in the death struggle. The assailants escape. Jim, according to arrangements, arrives at the spot and finds his dying comrade, who tells him that he has slashed his murderer on the arm and to look for him. He then dies and Jim, putting the body on his horse, takes him to Steve's house. A frightful storm comes up and Tom decides to take refuge in Steve's house. Looking through the window he sees Jim examining the arm of Steve and then knows that he is a marked man. The next day, overheard by Beulah, he threatens Steve and also the life of Jim. He has conceived a cunning revenge for the ranger. From the cave of a puma he takes several cubs to Jim's cabin knowing that the mother will follow. In the meantime Beulah goes to warn Jim of the criminal's design. Jim laughs at her fears but is on his guard when he happens to meet Tom. He is quicker with the gun than Tom, however. He fires and fearing that he has killed him Jim carries the unconscious form to his cabin and places it upon a couch under which the puma cubs are lying. He goes to a stream to get water to revive him, but while absent the revenge Tom so cunningly planned proves a boomerang, for the puma enters and finding Tom helpless draws his life. Beulah has heard the shots exchanged and she and her father, coming to the cabin, finds the two terrors of the fold have passed and the slash on the arm proves that the murderer of the ranger has been found.
- Jim Carr is the owner of the water rights which irrigate a great number of ranches. He is an unscrupulous man and decides to confiscate all the ranches by ruining the ranchers. This he does by raising the already high rates to an impossible price per acre. Robert Wilton owns a ranch and is the accepted lover of rancher's daughter Mary Mills. This arouses Carr's jealousy. When Wilton, whose lands are already perishing for water, received the notice of the extortionate raise, he rides furiously to the dam and accosts Carr, whom he finds there. Carr laughs him to scorn. Wilton rides to the sheriff and hopes that he may invoke the law, but the sheriff is "fixed" and he finds himself helpless. Murder comes into his heart almost when he thinks of the ruin that is coming to himself and other ranchers, who have pioneered and have made the desert to blossom like a rose and now are threatened by ruin. Mary's father deeply fears Carr, because his land is mortgaged to him, and when the outraged ranchers form a mob to take the law into their own hands, he joins the faction that comes to Carr's defense. One of the poor ranchers who has toiled for years on his little piece of land is a Mexican. He joins the mob, and in the deadly battle that ensues, he and Mary's father are killed. Robert in the meantime has refused to join the mob, believing that the law can still be invoked. After the battle, the Mexican woman, Pedro's wife, goes mad with grief and despair. She swears vengeance over her husband's dead body. She goes to Carr's cabin and shoots him. In the morning Robert goes to plead with Carr. He, to be sure that his own passion of soul does not master him, empties his gun and leaves it near the house. This, with the many quarrels and his words to the rancher, "Do not do this, boys, there is a better way," forms a chain of circumstantial evidence that convicts him of killing. In the meantime, the Mexican woman has gone into the desert, but realizing that another life is coming, she returns. Mary finds and nurses her, and through this charity Robert is saved. Justice at last hands down a decision and peace and love at last reign in the valley.
- Having conquered the Bungangetas and destroyed their village, Stanley and his party move onward to find Ada, who has been kidnapped by Andrea and taken through the jungle to reach Andrea's home. Jack, Ada's sweetheart, becomes impatient at the slow progress, and hurries ahead. In the jungle a tiger separates Andrea and Ada. She takes refuge in the hollow of a giant tree trunk where she finds some lion cubs. As she fondles them the lioness approaches and plunges at Ada, who drops prone to the ground. Her presence of mind has saved her for the animal, mystified, stands over her for a moment and then returns to her cubs. Ada silently rolls into a creek running close by. Ada unsuspectingly walks into the camp of the Babusosses, a band of crocodile worshipers, while they are making the religious sacrifice of throwing their girl-babies to the crocodiles. She denounces the ceremony and as the headman tosses an infant form into the water. Ada swims after and rescues it. A giant monster of the deep makes its way toward Ada but Jack, who has just arrived on the scene, takes in the situation at a glance, and swimming to her aid brings her to the shore unharmed. The incident is witnessed from the distance by Andrea who, realizing in it an opportunity to gain possession of Ada. explains to the headman that the act is a desecration to the Babusosses idol, and incites them to punish the malefactors. Andrea holds a peculiar authority over the Babusosses. At his command they tie Jack to a stake and send for a witch-doctor to marry Andrea and Ada. Preparations for the ceremony are well underway when native scouts report the approach of Stanley. The active force is divided into sections to meet the invaders. A pitched battle follows. Stanley's party is compelled to retreat and Stanley is captured. Ada and Jack escape, however. Not to be thwarted Andrea, now the spokesman for the victors, sends word to Ada that he will release Stanley if she will surrender herself to him. reminding her that Stanley has done so much to help her that she should not deny him. He adds unless she consents he will kill Stanley. The party is at its wits end at this news. Proceeding further in order to be out of the range of the Babusosses and to formulate plans for regaining Stanley, they meet Livingston. The forces of the two parties united, an attack is made upon Andrea with the result that the Babusosses are overwhelmingly Stanley and Livingston and Jack are united, and all the expedition turned into success.
- John David, a spender, promises marriage to the Worldly Woman. He suggests by letter that their engagement be announced at a big dinner he will give. The Worldly Woman is also admired by the Libertine, who calls at the Worldly Woman's apartment and is admitted by a Japanese butler whom he abuses, arousing a hatred which the Jap keeps well under control. The Libertine attempts to make love the Worldly Woman but she holds him off by flaunting David's offer of marriage in his face. When she leaves the room the libertine turns his attentions to a Japanese maid, the wife of Yamato, the Jap butler. His attempt to caress her frightens her and she screams, bringing Yamato into the room and between the two struggling people. The Libertine slaps Yamato across the face for what he terms insolence. The little Jap bows his way out but with suppressed anger in His heart. The night of the big dinner arrives and John announces his coming marriage. One of the suddenly discovers that there are but thirteen people at the table, and John leaves the party to go out and find the fourteenth. He chances to meet the Wanderer, an individual he once knew but who he does not recognize. John meets a pretty girl and grabs her by the arm and begs her to join his party. The Wanderer makes John let her go. John is furious but the soothing words of reproach of the Wanderer change his mind, whereupon he smilingly admits his wrong, gives him his hand and takes him to the banquet room. The newcomer is greeted with hilarity and is called upon to speak. After a toast he turns to John and quietly but forcibly berates him for his waste. He describes how this waste would give life to starving families and as he finishes a butler enters with a telegram which reads: "Cut expenses immediately. Your entire fortune swept away. Letter explains." The guests leave, and John is left alone with the Wanderer, and he asks the Wanderer's identity. The Wanderer answers: "I am your conscience." Thereafter the Wanderer is called Conscience. John and Conscience go to the home of the Worldly Woman, Conscience remaining at the door. John discovers her in the arms of the Libertine. She says that the Libertine is now her accepted lover. John attacks the Libertine and flinging him over a couch attempts to throttle him. From under the draperies of the couch a brown hand steals. It clutches a long needle which it plunges into the neck of the Libertine. The head of the Libertine falls back dead. John thinks he has strangled his adversary. He and Conscience leave for the west. Days pass. On the train he reads in a newspaper that evidence points to the Woman's guilt and that she has been indicted for murder. The presence of Conscience torments him and to escape he leaps from the train and boards a freight train going in the same direction. Conscience follows, however. They take refuge in an open coal car where they are held up by two tramps and forced to exchange their clothing and to give up their valuables. The town of Laurel Run is in the throes of excitement, a string of horses belonging to the sheriff having been stolen. The unknown criminal is the Gambler and he has sold the horse to two Mexicans. One of the horses, a pony, and the Sheriff's favorite mount, escapes the Mexicans and wanders into an open plain. John and Conscience, discovered by the train crew, are thrown from the car and wandering along come upon the pony. John mounts it and with Conscience at his side, goes to Laurel Run. The sight of two vagabonds entering the town, one of them riding the Sheriff's pony, is positive proof to the villagers that the strangers are the thieves; that is, all except the Sheriff's daughter, the postmistress of the village. Instinctively she feels they are innocent. The Gambler proclaims that they be punished, and incites a mob to wreak its vengeance. The Girl steps in, however, and at the point of a gun stays them off, pending the return of her father, who, with a posse, has gone after the thieves. Meanwhile the Sheriff returns with the stolen horses and the crowd's temper changing, it disperses. In time John becomes a popular citizen. He has fallen in love with the Girl, much to the chagrin of the Gambler. Through the Girl's efforts John gets a place as a rural free delivery letter carrier. Meanwhile the Gambler's antipathy for John has increased, and he attempts to find a way to discount him in the eyes of the Girl. One day he spies John intently reading a newspaper which carries a story to the effect that the Woman had been acquitted in the Libertine murder case and that a search has been instituted for John David, whom she has accused. John hurries away leaving the paper lying on the ground. The Gambler picks it up and divines through the story the cause of John's agitation, wires the New York police department of John's whereabouts. John proposes marriage to the Girl and is accepted. Some days elapse when a long legal-looking envelope addressed to the Sheriff arrives. John discovers it as he sorts the mail. Fearing the worst, he succumbs to temptation, opens it and finds an announcement of a reward for his capture. Resolving to keep his secret he places the envelope in his pocket. Later a stranger arrived in the city. His mission was unknown, though he posed as an automobile salesman. The Gambler, still alert for evidence, shadows John and one evening finds him alone in his cabin gazing meditatively at the reward sheet and the photo of the Girl laying on the table before him. The Gambler enters and at the point of a gun obtains the sheet. A fight follows, a lamp is knocked down, the house is set into flames and John, after overcoming the Gambler, escapes just before the house collapses. The next day John and the Girl are to be married. The Stranger enters the post-office, obtains his mail from John and leaves. At noon the wedding ceremony is held. In the midst of it John suddenly draws back in horror and shouts that the marriage cannot continue, that he is a murderer. At this point the Stranger introduces himself to the Sheriff as a detective, and taking from his pocket a letter from his chief reads an announcement of John's innocence; that the Libertine was killed by Yamato, who confesses on his death bed. So the Conscience of John David was satisfied and glorified. John turns to go out but the Girl holds out her arms to him and the Sheriff clasps his hand and gently moves him into the arms of the Girl.
- When sober, a better father than John Claton could not be found, but, alas! both Grace and Frank knew to their sorrow that when under the influence of liquor their father was quite a different man. This he fully illustrated as he came in to-day, and when Frank attempted to shield his sister from the old man's abuse, he was savagely ordered from the house. Jain Buckstone, who had come in during the quarrel, was greatly elated because Frank was out of the way. He had but to supply Claton with liquor and pretty Grace would soon be forced to listen to him. The old man, all unconscious of the other's thoughts, demanded his companion's flask. No, not one drop should he have. With an oath, Claton sprang upon him, but, being no match for the younger man, was mercilessly hurled over the cliff. Now, at last, Grace should be his be determined, as he stumped hurriedly along, and, upon reaching their cottage, opened the door and stepped boldly inside. Frank who, during his year's absence in the West, had struck it rich, and hastening home to bring the glad tidings to his father and sister, reached the garden just as Buckstone entered the house. He was, therefore, in time to administer a thorough thrashing to the drunkard, while Claton, who had almost marvelously escaped with only a sprained ankle, and now came limping in, wished to have it repeated. Fully realizing the dreadful havoc which liquor had almost wrought, John Claton swore never again to touch the poisonous fluid, and from that day to this, he has kept his word.