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- The scene is laid in one of the trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company and the young factor, Malcolm Young, loves Utoka, the pretty daughter of the chief of a nearby tribe. Jules Laprese also loves the girl and the half-breed hates Malcolm as much as he loves the pretty Indian maiden. Only Utoka's watchfulness saves the young factor's life on several occasions and this loving care is relaxed only when Jules brings her a letter and photograph which he has stolen from the factor. The picture is that of a beautiful young white girl and the loving message that accompanies it leaves small room for question of the factor's lack of good faith. Utoka is prostrated by grief and Jules leads her father to believe that a more serious wrong has been wrought by the head of the trading post. With his braves the old chief captures the factor and drags him, a prisoner, to the camp where Malcolm is put to torture before the fire is to mercilessly end his sufferings. Meanwhile Utoka, who cannot believe her lover guilty, seeks the post and discovers what has taken place. With the good father, the missionary who keeps pace with the advance of the Hudson Bay posts, Utoka returns to the camp and saves the life of the factor. He proves that the letter was from his sister and not from some sweetheart in Montreal and the half-breed is made to suffer punishment for the affront he has put upon the tribe.
- Out on a Western reservation an Indian mail carrier waits for the mail, which is handed him out of a passing train. He then goes on his route but is waylaid by three outlaws who stab him and get away with the mailbag. True to his oath to deliver the mail, the Indian drags himself after the outlaws and surprises them at a lonely spot just as they are going through the mail. He steals a revolver out of one's pocket and with three well directed shots, fells the robbers. He then picks up the mail and even though wounded to death, drags himself to the next station. He is seen by cowboys who come to his rescue but it is too late; the loss of blood was too great. He delivers the mail and having performed his last duty, he expires. The vision of an angel appears, crowning him with a laurel wreath for duty well performed.
- On New Year's Eve, outcast John Merrill finds himself outside a gay café. He goes to his garret room and declares that he would give his soul for youth and gold. Then appears His Majesty, the Prince of the Nether Regions, who agrees to grant his desires if, in return, Merrill delivers to him one soul each year. Merrill consents, and the bargain is on. Merrill meets banker's daughter Ruth Ashton and falls in love with her. Ruth's brother Archie is weak-willed, but good at heart. A year goes by. Merrill receives a communication from His Majesty, demanding Archie's life. He is in a quandary, but decides to obey. Through Merrill, Archie is found cheating at cards and feels disgraced before the club members. Merrill takes the boy into the next room, but there his manner changes and he advises suicide as the only way out. The boy takes the revolver and His Majesty claims his first victim. Ruth, grieved at her brother's death, postpones the wedding, and Merrill becomes troubled by visions of Archie. The end of the second year comes and His Majesty demands Ashton as the next victim. Ashton's bank is weathering a panic by the assistance of Merrill's promise not to withdraw his funds. But Merrill forgets his promise, and soon there is a run on the bank. Ashton tries in vain to reach Merrill, and finally chooses the same death as his son. His Majesty has claimed the second victim. The memory of the part he played in the death of the two men soon preys on Merrill's mind. He begins to drink. Ruth, although poor now, will not think of marriage. As the end of the third year approaches, he is in a state of collapse. The dreaded letter again falls into his lap. He opens it. On it is the name of Ruth Ashton. Merrill looks up and sees the leering face of His Majesty. He defies him, but His Majesty merely mocks him. Finally Merrill sinks into a chair and now he changes to the old man again in the garret room, where he dies, while His Majesty laughingly claims the soul of his latest plaything.
- Michael Duggan, an ordinary laborer, receives word from a firm of lawyers that an uncle in South Africa has died without any near relatives, and that he has inherited his entire estate, valued at a million. His wife and daughters immediately want to enter society, but Duggan doesn't care for style. The newspapers bear of Duggan's fortune and interview Mrs. Duggan and daughters. When it appears in the papers a real estate man immediately offers them a furnished mansion one month rent free, while they are besieged with invitations and offers of credit. They take the new house and Mrs. Duggan tries to teach Duggan manners much to his disgust. They go to a swell reception. Duggan introduces his daughters to the supposed noblemen, and the daughters invite them to dinner. The guests, fearing they may not behave just so, decide to watch Duggan and imitate him. Mrs. Duggan tells Duggan to watch the Lord and Duke and imitate them. At the dinner there is a general mix-up, at the end of which the butler brings in a note saying that the fortune will have to go to Mr. Daniel Duggan's son, who was supposed to have been drowned at sea, but who has returned. The creditors make a fuss without avail. Wife and daughter are overcome with grief. Duggan is happy to get away from it all, and back to his overalls and corned beef and cabbage.
- Sisal fiber as a substitute for manila is a comparative recent industry, but it meant the commercial establishment of the British West Indies and is a most important industry in the Bahama group. The long, sword-like leaves of the sisal plant, a species of cactus, are cut close to the base and are fed into a machine which strips the watery pulp from the long, silky fiber. The fiber quickly dries and bleaches under the hot sun and the strands are woven into rope said to be fully as strong and lasting as the longer known manila. Most of the work is done by negro hands, for no white person could toil under the sub-tropical sun and long endure, and the young girls and comfortable appearing matrons make picturesque spots against the background of fleecy fiber. All of the interesting operations are shown, including the crude rope walk in which the strands are twisted into a stronger body. Although an industrial, a number of the scenes possessed marked scenic beauty and all of them possess the touch of oddity due to the presence of the negroes who are unlike the negro of the South and still retain almost unimpaired their quaint customs of their African ancestry.
- Two members of the Never-Drop Aero Club claim that they can reach the moon by the aeroplane. They get an astronomer to get his telescope out and see how the conditions are on the moon. He comes on with a big telescope and looks through it, finds everything in fine condition from earth to moon, so the party start out. As they rise and turn upside down then right side up, they start on their journey to the moon. They pass over a busy city, knocking down buildings and chimneys. After passing over the city they come in contact with the planet Saturn. Bump it, encircle it, and then on their way to the moon they ride through the air and see an old man coming out of the planet Mars. The anchor on the aeroplane accidentally catches the old man by the neck and carries him off. The old man tries to get away, and he sees Halley's comet coming along and he grabs hold of the tail of the comet and goes away. One of the men in the aeroplane sees him and takes out a lasso. With a couple of swings he catches the old man around the neck and drags him behind. At last the moon is reached. The man in the moon opens his mouth and they all go in. The party drop from top of the moon all in a heap. They get up, look around and a large bird comes in and lays an egg larger than itself and flies off. The travelers put the egg on a fire, which is burning nearby. The egg cracks and a lot of little birds are hatched. Suddenly a strange animal comes on the scene and eats the little birds one by one. The animal fills up and bursts. Another enormous crazy-looking animal comes out of the cave and chases the men off the moon into the sea.
- A young musician who had been hired to play the violin at a reception, saw and fell in love with Marion Hayes, the daughter of a millionaire. His love was returned and when her father tried to separate them, they decided to elope. About one year after their marriage, the mother died leaving the father with a little girl baby. Then the father became paralyzed. Though it cost him the keenest pang, he sent his child to her grandfather, preferring to tread the path of poverty alone. Sixteen years later the child, now a beautiful young girl, happened to be in a music store when an old and decrepit man came in to sell some of his compositions. They were rejected and the old man was leaving the store when the girl stopped him, bought his compositions herself and giving him her card, told him she would buy any that he might write in the future. The musician looked at the card, noticed the name, questioned the girl and found she was his own daughter. She was equally delighted to find the father she had never known and their delight was made complete when her grandfather gladly received her father into his home.
- When a rich stranger drives his automobile into a backward mountain village, he sweeps a young girl off her feet with his attentions. This infuriates the local schoolteacher, who's been in love with her for some time. Eventually the stranger lures the girl into running away with him, and the teacher must act quickly to make sure it doesn't happen.
- The clerk crown gray in the faithful service of a single employer, arrives one morning to find the young nephew of his boss occupying the desk he himself has had so long. Brutally he is told that he is too old to perform his duties properly and is ordered away. At first his stunned brain is unable to comprehend the situation but gradually he comes to realize that he is being dismissed and frantically he pleads for a chance to make a living, pointing out that with the small wage paid him he has been unable to save anything and in a frenzy seeks to take his chair by force from the younger man. But he is driven from the office and in a daze he makes his slow progress homeward to tell the faithful wife that he has been dismissed. Here, at least, he finds sympathy, but it is the sympathy of a common sorrow, for she, too, realizes that they have been plunged into the shadows of poverty. Bravely the old man goes out to look for work but none have use for him and sometimes churlishly, sometimes with pity he is told there is nothing for him. One or two offer charity but this is refused. He cannot bring himself to take alms. And when the shadows seem the blackest a solution of the problem seems to suggest itself. He cannot longer support his wife. Their scanty store of money will last longer if there is only one to spend it and all will be kinder to the widowed woman. His foot has caught in a length of rope and with this in his hand he seeks the seclusion of a deserted building. Throwing the rope around a beam and climbing upon an old box he murmurs a brief prayer and kicks the box away. The beam is rotten and the sudden weight tears it from its support. There is a shower of plaster and something that tinkles and the surprised suicide finds himself sitting amidst thousands of dollars in gold and paper money. It seems a dream at first but the money is very real and with trembling hands the old man fills a pocket. Now that he has money he feels more brave and he returns to the old office to argue with his employer against his dismissal. It is to no avail but in his vest pocket is a pencil, the property of the firm. This is taken from him and the employer insists upon making further search for what he terms stolen property. The gold is disclosed and refusing to believe so strange a tale a policeman is called in and all adjourn to the police station. It is agreed that the money does not belong to the old man but a young reporter "doing police" draws out a copy of his paper and shows that the old man is heir to the property and therefore the legal owner of the money. The clerk is released, the employer given a stinging dismissal and the clerk passes from out of the shadows of poverty into the sunshine of prosperity.
- Shoemaker Pete Smiley, a shoemaker has the habit of coming home from his night haunts very late with a 22-carat jag. He also indulges in daytime booze-fighting. One day he comes home in a befuddled condition and his wife tries to impress her views on his brain. He smiles and peacefully falls asleep. He dreams that he is in one of his favorite saloons and while imbibing ale, a fairy appears and gives him a pair of shoes. She tells him that the left one will cause the wearer to disappear, the right one to cause her to reappear. He hurries home and gives his wife the shoes. Trying on the left, she disappears, much to Pete's satisfaction. He throws the right shoe in the river, wondering what will happen. He is rudely awakened by his wife and berated for his idleness.
- Dick McKnight, a deputy sheriff of Santa Cruz County, Ariz., receives a telephone message from Sheriff Wheeler, of the adjoining county, to the effect that Pedro Aquilla and his band of cattle rustlers and outlaws are in San Luis Canyon. His brother, Bill McKnight, the sheriff, being away, the young deputy determines to go out alone and corral some of the gang. He leaves a note to that effect for his brother and starts upon his mission. After getting into the mountains he runs across a note fastened to a tree, which reads: "Go Back or You Die With the Sun." Dick is not an impressionable young man, but the words make him think and he gives it more weight than is usually given to anonymous communications. He continues on his journey, but cannot get the note out of his mind. As he goes forward the words burn into his brain and every little noise in the mountains startles him until fear grabs him in its deadly grasp and drives him, a frightened thing, into an old abandoned adobe hut, where his nerve is worn to a raw edge by the fear which the words signified to him. He places his pistol to his head, the revolver explodes and we leave him in darkness. His brother Bill, the sheriff of Santa Cruz County, coming home after a hard ride finds the note that the youngster has left for him and knowing the difficult task that Dick has taken upon himself, he determines to follow his brother. He trails him to the cabin and entering same finds all that is left of a once brave, light-hearted boy. He takes the cursed note from his brother's clenched hand and receives the same fatal suggestion of fear that his brother had felt and when his innocent horse inadvertently rubs his head, against the door of the adobe, he is more startled than he has ever been before. He clutches his revolver, running from what seems to him to be a haunted place. He mounts his horse and rides from that which he had loved most, his brother. Continuing madly along divers trails not knowing just what to do, the insidious note causing that destroying thought, fear ever augmenting and increasing until from a brave man. Known throughout the territory for his loyalty and bravery, he becomes a cringing, incapable child trying to hide from that thing which is seizing him in its grasp. He attempts to hide in an old abandoned monastery, going back further into the depths of the broken walls until he eventually sinks into a deep crevice, almost an imbecile, firing his revolver at unseen things. The last cartridge of his revolver loosens the old clay and they tumble down upon him, burying him in the tomb. The sun breaks through as we see his hand twitching as he smothers, paying the penalty of the suggestion offered by the piece of paper clenched in his hand even unto the end in the agony of fear. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- Fritz Grenshaw was an ideal husband and very much in love with his young wife, Irene. But his disposition was such that he did not show many of those little attentions and caresses which women love. After a while, Irene decided that she was a neglected wife. She wrote to her husband's father complaining of Fritz's neglect. His father thought over the problem and then had a bright idea. He packed his grip and in due time arrived at the home of his son and daughter-in-law. There he told Irene of his scheme and she entered heartily into it. When Fritz come home he found his father very attentive to Irene. At first he took no notice of this, but father's attentions increased at an alarming rate. Finally Fritz remonstrated. Then he became angry, then suspicious, and at last very jealous. He told father right there in pretty strong language what he thought of his actions. Things were getting pretty serious when father and Irene revealed the whole scheme with the result that Fritz and his wife "lived happily ever afterwards."
- During a rehearsal of his new play, Peter Richards recognizes in Mary Walters a well-known leading lady of 20 years before. She has met with reverses and is now employed as wardrobe woman in the company which is producing his play. On opening night, the play is a failure, and the manager who financed it decides to take it off immediately. Mary Walters is the only one in the theater who has feeling enough to show sympathy for the author in his misfortune. An extra girl's chance remark gives Peter an idea for another play, which he writes and calls "Granny," and he has enough confidence in Mary Walters' ability to offer her the leading part, which she gratefully accepts. Confident of its success, Peter's ambition is to produce "Granny" at the same theater where his former play met with such complete failure, but the manager refuses to produce it and Peter is forced to sell his home in order to secure enough money to put on the play. During his days of trouble Peter sees Mary's worth and as he walks with her to the theater on the opening night, they pass a quaint little church and Peter asks her to share the future with him, no matter what the night may bring them. Mary consents and they enter the rectory and are quietly married, after which they go to the theater for the opening performance. Peter's judgment is vindicated and the play is a hit.
- A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.
- Reggie loved Celestina and he did not love her any the less because she had a rich papa, though that was not the reason Reggie loved. Papa had not seen Reggie and so Celestina wrote him to come out to Cliffwood Sunday and let father look him over. That was joyous news for Reggie and he pressed his other trousers and packed them in a suitcase along with the engagement ring and other things and started for the suburban town. Celestina had to go to church with papa but she left a note for Reggie to come straight to the house and Reggie started out. It was a long walk and when Reggie sat himself down to rest he did not know that he was sitting on fresh paint until a constable arrested him because there was a murderer roaming about the country in a pair of white trousers with blood stains on them and Reggie's white ducks fitter the bill except that red paint does not smell like blood. That is what let Reggie out and he retired into the bushes to change to his other pair. All the trouble made Reggie thirsty and he headed for a saloon. Mike Regan was there too, with a growler in a suitcase and a Sunday morning thirst. Reggie picked up the wrong suitcase and so did Mike. He found it out when he offered to treat a policeman to a drink. Reggie's white ducks with the red stains looked bad and the policeman told Mike to keep his explanations for the judge and dragged him to jail. Meanwhile Reggie had reached Celestina's home and to his great joy papa said Reggie wasn't much to look at, but he might do as a son-in-law. That was Reggie's cue to dig the ring out of the suitcase and there was a mighty upheaval when the case was opened and the growler was disclosed. Reggie's papa-in-law-to-be was the reformer most active in making Cliffwood saloons close up on Sunday and he had Reggie arrested for buying beer on Sunday. They took him to court where Mike was being arraigned and the tangle was partly straightened out. Then the real murderer was found. Mike and Reggie were freed and the ring was still in his own suitcase and papa let him put it on Celestina's hand and everyone was happy except the murderer and he had no right to be.
- The Russian Czar sends his trusted confidant, Michael Strogoff, to warn his brother the Grand Duke of a Tartar rebellion that will be led by Feofar Khan and Ivan Ogareff. Calling himself Nicholas Korpanoff, Strogoff poses as a trader to journey to warn the Grand Duke. On his way he meets Nadia Fedorova, a young girl trying to join her father Wassili, a political activist who has been exiled to Siberia. Strogoff is captured by the Tartars, who don't believe he is a trader and threaten to torture Strogoff's mother Marfa unless he reveals his true identity.
- Boris Kreshnef is a young socialist with strong ideas regarding the equal distribution of wealth. His greatest target is Jonathan Gedney, a millionaire. Gedney's son, Donald, has married Faith, against his father's will, who, in a fit of rage, disowns him, Donald and his wife try to make their own way. They succeed but poorly and finally are forced to take humble lodgings. The room they engage is next to that of Boris, who does not know their identity, but learns that Donald can get no work and that they are without food. He takes his bread, cheese and cheap wine, and leaves it at their door and they cannot guess where it came from. Meanwhile Boris' wrath stores up against Gedney. One day Gedney's butler notices that one of his master's suits needs repairs and as he is about to take the package to the tailor's, he sees a vagrant prowling around the mansion, and dropping the package, gives chase. Boris passes, and not seeing anyone to claim the package, takes it home. On examination he found a wallet of money in the coat pocket. When the young people go out next morning to look for work, Boris steals into their room and leaves the suit with the wallet in the pocket. Gedney has a detective take up the case and gives him a sample of the cloth his suit was made of. Donald and Faith return and find the suit, also the money. He puts on the suit to replace the frayed one he has. He discovers the tailor's mark, with his father's name on the lining of the pocket. He immediately thinks that it is his father's way of suggesting a reconciliation and with the suit on, starts out to see the old man, while Faith takes the wallet and goes marketing. The detective runs across Donald and soon has Donald before his irate father. The old man accuses his son of being the thief. Donald tries to explain, but the men only laugh at such a fairy story. They decide finally to go to Donald's lodging. When they get there Faith has returned. The welcome dies on her lips when the old man pounces on the wallet and reiterates his assertion that Donald is the thief. Then Donald thinks his father has done this as a trick to compel him to give Faith up. He turns on him and accuses the old man of trickery. Boris, in his room, hears the altercation and deems it time for him to get into the game. He enters and explains. Then he learns that Donald is the old man's son. That gives Boris an added argument and he scathingly lays out the old man for his treatment of his sou. The detective steps forward to arrest Boris, but the old man stops him. He dismisses the detective and forgives his son, taking the young wife to his heart. Boris is called back when he would quietly exit, and the old man offers to make him his secretary.
- Pierre, a trapper in the Canadian Northwest, treats his wife, Toinette, brutally. His friend, Jean, has his evil eyes upon Toinette, but she hates him. Paul Trevor, N.W. mounted police, meets the girl in the woods one day and helps her with the furs she is dragging. Later they meet several times by accident. One day Pierre sees them together, and, going to the post, registers a complaint against Paul. The commandant sends the young man off on a mission, carrying him further into the North. As he passes Toinette's cabin he finds the girl, almost frozen in the snow, where her husband, in a drunken fury, has thrust her out of doors. He takes her upon his horse and tells her he will take her far away. A storm arises and they seek shelter in a deserted shack. Here her conscience awakens; she must go home. She sees his kitsack and asks where he was bound for. He flings his papers across the room and tells her he has but one thought now, herself. In the meantime, Jean and Pierre lose all, their money and furs, and a quarrel arises. A duel is fought and Pierre is killed. In the deserted shack Toinette makes Paul see things in their right light and he takes her home. She finds her husband's body and her screams bring Paul into the cabin, where he is found by two men of the post, who enter the house to seek shelter from the storm. The fact that he was discovered leaning over the dead Canuck, knife in hand, with Toinette hanging about his neck, is suspicious and they take him into custody. A man is sent from the post to watch the house. Toinette finds a card under the table and recognizes it as one of a pack belonging to Jean. She interests the mounted man in her discovery and he agrees to go with her to Jean's cabin. The gambler starts in surprise as Toinette enters and she shows great friendship for him. She pretends to know nothing of her husband's death and drinks with Jean. But it grows late; she must go home. He wants a kiss. She finally agrees to play a game of cards for the kiss. He agrees and flings down the greasy pack. She insists upon counting them first. The man outside is watching every move. "There are only fifty-one here," she says. At this, the waiting policeman rushes in and after a terrific struggle, leads Jean to the post. All is explained, and Paul freed. He goes into the North on his mission, and she promises to wait for him, for she knows he will return.
- Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
- John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the daughter of the proprietor. It is a case of mutual attraction, causing many a heartache to Si, the clerk, who adores Flo. Cummins manages to have sundry excuses for visiting the little general store, and finally realizes he is head over heels in love with the girl. Cummins, while purchasing cigarettes from Flo, so arouses the anger of Si, who is carrying a bag of potatoes, that he deliberately drops the bag upon Cummins' foot, and that worthy gentleman proceeds to make capital of the injury to remain with the Pages for a week, nursed tenderly by Flo. Si, finding an envelope dropped by Cummins, calls at his (Cummins') club, and asks if he lives there, that he has stolen his sweetheart. Cummins' friends accompany Si back to the village and find Cummins sweeping out the store, having usurped the clerk's position. Cummins is unmercifully "kidded" by his fashionable friends, and Flo and her father, imagining that Cummins has been deceiving them, become very indignant, and he is ordered out, but eventually succeeds in proving that he is genuinely in love with Flo, who reciprocates.
- The story of a man's gratitude to a snake for saving his life: He takes the snake home to live with him and then conceives the idea of having the snake kill the man who stole his sweetheart. He places it in the other man's bed. But when the little daughter of the girl he had once loved creeps into the bed, he has a change of heart.
- Following a prologue which shows that animals frequently desert their young, a jilted prehistoric suitor murders the child of the woman he loves. During the age of the Roman Empire, a soldier has a brief affair with a shepherdess, and long after he has left, she has their child. The shepherdess looks for the father, but returns brokenhearted after finding him with another woman, and then dies while saving her child from a poisonous snake. During the Elizabethan era, a wayward son seeks spiritual redemption through war, and is killed in battle. In modern times, a young, impoverished husband refuses to start a family, despite the pleadings of his wife. Then, when he finally starts earning enough money to consider children, his wife has an accident that makes it impossible for her to become pregnant.
- Andrews, a former shipping clerk, has amassed a fortune in cocaine and therefore discourages his daughter May's romance with Joe, a policeman. Andrews prefers socialite Roger Hastings, whom May marries but soon discovers is a drug addict. While May is recovering from a nervous breakdown precipitated by the knowledge of Roger's addiction, he slips cocaine into her medication. Soon she also is addicted, a fact which Roger delightedly reports to Andrews. Andrews then commits May to a sanitarium and Roger becomes a procurer for a gang of white slavers. When the gang abducts his sister Julia and takes her to Roger's brothel, he turns against them. Julia is released, and after many complications, Roger returns to Andrews' house and, during a struggle, sets the house on fire, killing them both. Finally, Joe rescues a newly cured May and the two are reunited.
- A photoplay is wanted quick. The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl. To make an impression he gives her his photo, which she throws with contempt on the table. He then tries to embrace her. She calls for help, when her sweetheart (the head clerk) comes to her rescue. At this juncture, the heavy man is not strong enough in the part and the director stops the play and shows him what to do. The play is resumed, the "heavy" throws the head clerk into a vault and locks him in, then embraces the girl, who repulses him and runs. The clerk by his superior strength batters down the steel vault door and escapes. The "heavy" pursues the unfortunate girl up the fire-escape to the roof, then to the water tower, where she defends her honor by beating him over the head with an iron rod. Fearing she has killed him she makes her retreat, only to be pursued by the villain. Rushing to the edge of the roof, she sees her lover, and calls him. He tells her to jump. She does so and alights safely in his arms. Undaunted, the villain, saying she shall not escape me, leaps six stories to the ground. Landing uninjured, he starts in pursuit. Here is where the detective takes up the trail, and after a long chase catches the villain. The stage hands, in setting the stage, allow a piece of scenery to fall upon the director, which awakens him from his dream.
- Sisters Edith and Daisy are in love with Dick, a young chap devoted to automobiling. He prefers Edith, and they become secretly engaged, as she doesn't want to tell her father yet. One morning Dick takes Daisy for a ride; there is an accident and Daisy is hurt but Dick is unhurt and carries her home. Her father sees him bringing her in and a servant goes for a doctor. Dick blames himself, but Edith consoles him. The doctor says Daisy will never walk again. The father turns to Dick and denounces him. Dick goes away while Edith consoles her father. Later, while Edith is amusing her lame sister, Daisy confesses her love for Dick. Edith is horrified at first, then realizes that she and Dick must sacrifice their love for Daisy because he was the cause of the accident. She tells Dick this and their happy love affair is turned into a tragedy. The lame girl is wheeled out and Dick asks her to marry him. She consents. When Daisy is once more in her room, Dick sees Edith coming from the house. She had waited to bid him a last goodbye. This time she breaks down. He tells her he loves her. The lame girl upstairs hears them, and she throws down a rose with a note pinned to it telling them that she wants only her sister's happiness. It falls at their feet. They rush in to her, but her mind is made up. They are free to marry. She gets her father to forget all his resentment against Dick and consent to the marriage. The lovers go out happy, while Daisy breaks down in her father's arms.
- Tom Renson is a chicken fancier. He sends for some prize winners. He has won the enmity of Ben Hoggs because Ben thinks he is trying to steal his girl from him, though this is the last thing Tom would think of. Ben writes an anonymous letter to Tess, Tom's wife, and accuses Tom of being a "chicken stealer," telling the sort of "chickens" he means, and Tom has to do some tall explaining. Tom gets word that the chickens will be in on the afternoon train and goes to get them. He drops the letter and Tess gets it. She goes to the train, too. As luck would have it, there is a burlesque show, "all girls" on the train, and Tess thinks those are the expected chickens. Even after Tom fully explains she still has her suspicions.
- Businessman Philip Nuneham pays more attention to his business of building power plants than he does to his wife Christabel. Feeling neglected and unloved, Christabel is receptive to the attentions of Rex Allan, a young army officer. When his regiment is suddenly called to duty in India, he convinces Christabel to secretly accompany him to Southampton to see him off. She spends the night with him, and on her way home the next day she is involved in auto accident and injured. Renowned evangelist Sylvanus Rebbings rescues her. He has the largest congregation in the country, but has incurred the enmity of the religious establishment because of his "radical" views on religion and religious hypocrisy, Christabel finds out that she really needs his help when Rex comes home from India and she attempts to end their affair, but her husband discovers her infidelity and threatens to divorce her and keep their daughter Ione.
- Mr. Buttinsky works as a liaison officer for the Russian embassy. He worked closely with Mr. Trump, organizing his wedding with Melanija Knavs in 1995 an d later on election reforms in 2020.
- Bob and Lena want to get married, but first they have to get around the objections of Lena's father.
- Walter Clark is engaged to his rich young cousin Beatrice Irving. While on a visit to a gypsy camp, he meets Tamandra, and it is love at first sight. He goes back alone and he and Tamandra run off and get married--she marrying him for his money. The young man and his gypsy wife are turned out of his uncle's house. After learning the truth of Walter being dependent on his uncle, Tamandra endures living in poor surroundings with him for one year; then she leaves him and rejoins her tribe. Walter visits the camp and tries to win her back, but is driven off. A child has been born to Tamandra, but she conceals it from him. Later, to keep Walter from annoying her, she has an article published of her death. The uncle reads this and visits his nephew and begs him to return. Back in his old home, Walter and Beatrice fall in love again. On the eve of their marriage, Oscar, a gypsy, asks the sexton about Walter's marriage. He tells Tamandra, who sends a note of congratulations to Walter, which he receives during the wedding ceremony. On receipt of it he deserts Beatrice and rushes off to a monastery. He is admitted and joins the order. There is another lapse of time. Beatrice, having felt the shock keenly, becomes a slum worker. One day while going her rounds, she accidentally meets Tamandra's child, who takes Beatrice to his mother's "poor one-room quarters." The mother dies and asks Beatrice to take care of the boy. She takes him home and the two become great chums. One day while they're playing together, a band of monks are out for a walk, and when they pass by, Beatrice notices Walter among them. She stops him and tells him about Tamandra's death and introduces the boy and relates the story of Tamandra and the boy's relationship. He realizes that it is his son; forgetting his garb, he hugs him. Beatrice asks him to return. He hesitates and declares his vows to the order and that he has already renounced the ways of the world, and telling Beatrice that she should raise the boy as hers. She consents just as the other monks pass, and Walter falls in with them and returns to the monastery.
- Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.
- The sole survivor of an Indian massacre, a baby called Jack Trail, is raised in the shadow of an overhanging eagle's nest by the Silsbees, two immigrants. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Milford, the partner of Jack's deceased father, forges his signature to use money from his property. Years later, Milford's partner, Robert Blasedon, desiring to marry Milford's daughter Rose, who rejected him, seeks to recover the papers and force the marriage. After Jack saves the Milfords and Blasedon from a runaway coach, Mrs. Silsbee, while trying to protect Rose from Blasedon, is killed in a scuffle. Accused of the murder, Jack, who now loves Rose, saves her from Blasedon, but Rose marries Blasedon when he threatens to kill Jack. After Blasedon steals the forged papers, Jack pursues him through the mountains until their struggle ends in Blasedon's fall into a ravine. When Milford learns of Jack's origin, he offers the papers, which Jack declines, saying that Rose is all the wealth he wants.
- Mattie Cook, the undertaker's daughter, loves John Scott, who has no job. Her father wants her to marry Sime Sloan, who has a job, and it takes all of Mattie's persuasive power to overcome Dad's objections, but she is equal to the occasion. She gets rid of John's two rivals, Sime and Bime, by promising to marry them it they will prove their love for her. To prove it one must sleep in one of her father's coffins and the other sit by it all night. Unknown to one another they come to fulfill their promise. After some hesitancy they settle down to the task. It really looks as if she would have to marry one or both, when she thinks that a little noise would help some. With the aid of John, she manages to get rid of both. In their fright they run through the meeting house presided over by Dad, who gets a couple of spills. He finally decides that John is the most sensible and thinks he can help in the undertaking business.
- Alice West gives up her sweetheart lawyer, John Travers, to marry broker Norris Dacre, who controls her father's fortune. Five years later, Travers is elected District Attorney. An investigation is launched against crooked brokers, and Dacre is on the list. Dacre's friends offer Travers a bribe, but the lawyer refuses it. Alice intercedes and Travers promises to be lenient. Then Alice discovers her husband's crimes and tells Travers to prosecute him. Dacre learns what has happened and threatens to drag Alice and Travers through a messy divorce suit. Dacre has taken up with Mimi, a dancer, which enrages her lover, who is a musician at the café. When Dacre goes to the café, he gets into a quarrel with her lover, who kills him. Travers destroys the evidence against Dacre, and he and Alice are reunited.
- The governess takes the little girl for a walk. While sitting on the water's edge the little girl walks away to the hot-house, where she falls asleep. As soon as the governess misses her little charge she gives an alarm. Father and mother and all the servants start on a search. A colored man who stole chickens which he carries in a sack is approached. Thinking his theft has been discovered, he runs away and is chased by the crowd and cornered. When the chickens are found he is given a good trouncing. A fat colored woman does not fare any better. Two tramps who stole a dog meet a like fate. When the searching party gives up all hope the gardener discovers the little girl asleep in the hothouse and carries her back to the arms of the delighted parents.
- A sympathetic showgirl assumes the guilt for her cousin who is cheating on her husband.
- Percival is a spoiled mama's boy. When two toughs make time with his girlfriend he sends a telegram to his mother for help.
- When Jules Beaubien's father died, the young man found himself heir to the stout old mansion in Montreal and the big fortune the family had made in the lumber of the great Canadian forests. But on his deathbed his father made a confession: 20 years ago he met a squaw of the Ojibway tribe and a girl child was born to them; she was now up in Nipissing country with a French-Canadian family who adopted her by arrangement with the father. Old Beaubien's last words to his son exacted a promise that the boy would find his half-sister, educate and care for her, and give her a liberal share of the estate. As soon as affairs were settled Jules started on his quest to find Annette. Arriving in the Nipissing country, he found that the family had moved from the valley, but he was informed that a woodsman, Baptiste Le Grande, could tell him all about her as he had been her sweetheart. He loved the girl with all the strength of his rough manhood, but a city man came along and betrayed her. Baptiste tried to tell the story, but his rage would not permit him to be coherent and Father Paul continued. He told Jules that the seducer had abandoned the girl and gone back to America. Annette, knowing she was disgraced, ran away from her foster parents and wandered to the camps where the women of the trappers tried to care for her. She became delirious, but she never mentioned the man's name. When her child was born she wandered out into the storm with her babe in her arms, lay down in the snow, and died, and the wolves ate her and the child. The rage of Jules and Baptiste was terrible. They swore to find the man and kill him. Baptiste took a crucifix from his bosom, both men kissed the symbol, and for two years the quest of vengeance continued. In the Indian summer Jules heard that frequently parties of engineers would quarter at Andrew McTavish's house in the forest. Here Jules and Baptiste resolved to put up for a while. Two other men arrived, civil engineer Mr. McDonald and his assistant Mr. Huntley, who were surveying for a Canadian railroad. McDonald was a splendid specimen of physical manhood, about 40 years old and very entertaining. His ability at his profession made him rich and with all he was a man of courage and likable. McTavish's daughter Hilda, a fascinating girl, did the cooking and housekeeping, and it was not surprising that McDonald and Jules soon noticed that each were contesting for the smiles of the Scotsman's daughter. Hilda was not adverse to the pleasantries of the good-looking boarders, for her life was far from happy; her mother, not being able to stand the irascible McTavish, had run away when Hilda was a child, and the father vented his revenge and hatred upon the daughter. Soon the rivalry between Jules and MacDonald became an open book. Jules loved Hilda, while the other man was simply playing for a dishonorable advantage. One day the men admitted their rivalry face to face. Jules was willing to play the game fair. The rogue laughed in the other man's face, admitted that he had a wife in America, but boasted of his power over women. In his bravado he told of an affair some years ago with a little girl up in the Nipissing country. It was the story of Annette. Jules would have killed him on the spot, but he was a man of honor; he could not assassinate, he must fight this fiend. Then he must tell also Baptiste, who would also want to kill him, and commit this deed he would if Jules fell in the fight. McDonald, feeling he was losing ground with Hilda, planned to work her ruin through the father. He told McTavish that he had a good mother in America that would care for and educate Hilda and that then he would marry her. The old Scotsman was only too willing to get rid of the girl and demanded of her that he would go with McDonald. Jules had told Hilda of the good love and the bad love and she learned to love Jules. When McTavish ordered her to go with McDonald she resisted. The old man in his rage would have seized her by the throat and strangled her, but Jules bore him to the floor of the cabin, while Baptiste from outside the window covered MacDonald with his Winchester. The fight was desperate and long, but Jules seized Hilda and, with Baptiste and Huntley, who discovered his master's villainy, the four hastened to the creek and in a canoe which had been furnished with supplies for the trip, made towards the Canadian railway for Montreal. McDonald followed and Jules left the party at a landing to meet him. A desperate duel was fought, in which McDonald was killed, and after burying the body, Jules and his party hastened to home and happiness.
- John Burkett Ryder is a master of finance with a boundless desire for wealth. No mean avarice, but a love of the power to be gained through riches, a domineering will and an unscrupulous soul. Previous to the opening of the story Ryder has compassed the financial ruin and professional disgrace of Judge Rossmore, of the Supreme Court, to avenge himself for certain adverse decisions which the judge has rendered against the corporation. Shirley Rossmore, the judge's daughter, and young Jefferson Ryder returning from Europe on the same boat, have met and register a pretty story interest in each other, being at the time entirely ignorant of the friction now existing between their respected fathers. Shirley has written a novel, and from Jefferson's description of his father has made the star character of the story a fair prototype of the master of finance. Ryder, without consulting his son's wishes, has already announced an engagement between Jefferson and the daughter of Senator Roberts. Shirley Rossmore's book which is written under the pseudonym of Sarah Green gets into Ryder's house and makes such an impression that the great financier employs a detective to find the author. Sarah Green is found and Ryder employs her to compile his biography, not dreaming that she is the daughter of the judge he has ruined. Now comes the battle between the Lion and the Mouse. The Mouse wins the Lion's admiration by the outspoken audacity of her opinion of his life and moral code. Kate Roberts, whom Ryder had selected to be his son's fiancée, elopes with his aristocratic private secretary, "Fourth groom of the bed chamber to the second Prince of England." Ryder, to pacify his son and to offset his attachment for Shirley Rossmore, suggests that he marry Sarah Green, "who has proved herself far more brilliant than the judge's girl." It is then Shirley's turn; she declares her identity and admits that she has secured certain letters from Ryder's desk that will prove her father's innocence. Ryder orders her from the house, then he sits up all night, consumes innumerable black cigars and finally conquers his own vanity. Next day Jefferson Ryder proposes, but Shirley declares that she will never marry a man that has such a father. With bitter words, Jefferson denounces his father; he tells him that the girl he loves objects to the family. But John Burkett Ryder eats a big slice of humble pie; he announces that he will prevent the impeachment of Judge Rossmore and implores Shirley to accept his son. The Mouse has conquered the Lion.
- Laddie, the little son of a widower, worships his father. The father is in love with a good and beautiful woman and asks her to be his wife. He tells Laddie that he is to have a new mother and is surprised when the boy is grief-stricken. After the marriage, the new mother tries to win Laddie's love, but her efforts are a failure. A baby sister comes to Laddie's home after a while and out of love and pride for it, Laddie unbends a little towards the mother who owns it. But the little sister dies, and the mother, ill and delirious, stretches out her arms and calls unceasingly for her baby. Laddie sees and hears her and his heart is so touched that he determines to get another one for her. He starts out to find one and in the park, seeing the mother of many children, is surprised when she refuses to spare one, even when he offers his watch in payment. But Laddie finds a baby in a carriage outside of a house and wheels it off. He takes it to his mother and when her empty arms are filled, she quiets down and peace comes to her. Laddie leads his father to the house where he got the baby and the distracted parents are assured that they will get their baby back. They see that their baby is safe and leave it where it is. Laddie's mother later gives up the baby and once more has empty arms, until Laddie creeps into them and is cuddled to her heart where he finds happiness.
- Daddy Bowne has been janitor and special officer of the Boonville Bank ever since it started thirty years ago. Robert Gage, the president, and Daddy have been friends since boyhood. Daddy and his wife and his son, Tom, who has worked his way up from office boy to paying teller, live over the bank. There is no social distinction between the families, so Tom and Grace, the president's daughter, have become sweethearts. Duncan Ross, a well-dressed young fellow, appears on the scene for the purpose of selling stock in a get-rich-quick scheme under the name of "The Wireless Power Co." He succeeds in securing the good opinion of Mr. Gage, who rents him an office in the building and introduces him to his daughter and patrons of his bank, Ross creates a furor and the citizens fall over one another to buy Wireless stock. Grace is infatuated: Tom is neglected. Tom suspects Ross' scheme is a fraud and is supported by his father. To give color to the honesty of his purpose Ross deposited dally his receipt from the sale of stocks with The Boonville Bank. The stock is all sold and Ross fearing to prolong his stay announces that he will banquet the citizens before his departure. Tom finds Grace coming from Ross' office one evening and followed by Ross. A fight takes place; Daddy separates the young men, drags Tom into his own room and tries to quiet him. Tom declares he will leave and begins packing his bag. On her way home Grace misses her mesh bag and returns to Ross' office. Ross believing she has returned to see him attempts to take her in his arms. Her screams bring Tom to her rescue and Ross is knocked insensible to the floor. Daddy finds Tom bending over Ross, fearful that he has killed him. After a moment of suspense Ross indicates returning consciousness, and Daddy tells his boy to take his bag and go. Cautioning his father to prevent Ross from drawing his money from the bank for two days if possible, Tom takes his bag and leaves. Ross revives and Daddy urges him from the room. Daddy collapses on the stairs, where his wife finds him. The next morning Daddy is ill and his mind wandering. Tom has left a note for Mr. Gage telling of his intended departure. Penciling the combination to the safe on the back of the note. Mr. Gage gives it to his son, Bob, who has just returned from college and tells him he will have to take Tom's place. Bob, after copying the combination, crumples the note and flings it into the wastebasket. Here Mother Bowne sees her boy's writing and takes it to her husband. That night in looking it over he discovers the combination penciled on the back. A way to prevent the money from being paid to Ross on the following morning suggests itself. While Ross' banquet is going on he rifles the safe and conceals the money in the cashier's desk. The next morning Ross calls for his money. He sees the empty safe and gives the alarm. Tom, in the meantime, has returned with the Post Office inspectors. He comes into the mob battling at the bank door. Daddy also, from the upper window sees the mob. The sheriff and inspectors break through the mob as Daddy discloses the hiding place of the money. Ross is arrested and taken away as Daddy is being congratulated on saving the bank from a real robbery.
- Little Albert Mills, eight years old, reads in the paper the accounts of the abduction of children and holding them for ransom. He conceives the idea of playing the game on his little sister, Henrietta. He writes a note reading, "I have your children. Put four thousand dollars under the stone on front porch and I will bring them back. They are now hanging by the hair. Blue Beard." He then tells Henrietta to look the other way, and he takes her dolls out of the doll buggy and hides them in the garden. Then he places the note in the rural delivery mailbox at the front gate. A little later a young fellow brings an auto up to the gate and the children plead for a ride. After a little hesitancy he consents and the children are carried away to the park. Mrs. Mills misses the children and finds the note in the mail box. She takes the matter seriously, and gathering a lot of neighbors and a policeman, gives chase to the auto. Many accidents occur in the chase. Finally the kiddies are caught, the dollies are found, and it is due for little Albert to get a spanking, but mother pleads for mercy and the incident ends in a good laugh.
- Although an advertisement for this film appears in Moving Picture World on 17 January 1914, no film bearing this title was ever distributed at this time. The film was condemned by the National Board of Censorship as "inflammable" because of the battle scenes and the subversive tone of Capitol versus Labor. In June 1914 the negative and all release prints were destroyed in a catastrophic explosion and fire in the film vaults at the Lubin plant in Philadelphia.
- Matthew and Reginald Crosby, two brothers, and their cousin, James Thedford, manage an industrial conglomerate. Reginald marries an actress and gives so many lavish and ostentatious parties that one of them leads to a strike after being reported by labor editor Oscar Lackett. The strike leaders are fiery orator Jem Burress, German immigrant Louis Stolbeck, and Stolbeck's feisty daughter Louise, who is also Jem's girlfriend. John Stedman, a labor lawyer, lends moderation to the cause and thus impresses Matthew and Reginald's sister, Grace Crosby, who joins the workers. When Jem, jealous of Louise's infatuation with John, attempts to discredit him with the union members, Louise goes to John's apartment to warn him, but Grace arrives at the same time to accept John's marriage proposal. To prove her devotion to John and the cause, Grace summons her brothers to John's apartment, and when everyone converges, they finally resolve the strike.
- This story deals with the longing of a child for his mother, whom he has never seen. The father, Lord Harcourt, avoids the little fellow, who is a constant reminder of the woman whose life went out when the long hoped for son came. The art gallery where a full-length oil painting of the sweet-faced woman hangs, is the little boy's favorite resting place. Raymond gazes on the face, and he fancies that his mother smiles at him. Then in a fantasy he sees his mother step out of the frame. They hold sweet communion, and the boy feels that he is no longer alone. They play and romp over the lawn. The fantasy continues: his mother hears his evening prayer, he kneels by her side and repeats the words she has taught him. She lays him in his little bed and tells him stories till the "sand man" comes to claim him. Then he awakens from his day-dream, and only the sweet figure on the canvas remains. He is sobbing out his disappointment against the unresponsive painting, when a sweet young woman that Lord Harcourt has asked to be his wife, comes upon the motherless boy, and hears his impassioned appeal to his mother to return to him. Her whole heart responds to the child and she takes him in her arms. Lord Harcourt, missing his fiancée, hurries to the picture gallery in search of her and sees the tender scene. The man has never before realized the heart hunger of the motherless boy, and the woman, soon to be his wife, shows him how the child has suffered for a parent's love. Harcourt's conscience reproves him; he tries to atone to the boy, who responds eagerly, and finds happiness at last in the tender arms of his new mother, and in the long denied companionship of his father.
- Mary Randall, who has just lost her job, is taking care of her widowed mother. Mary learns that her late uncle has left her part of his estate. She and her mother move to Florida to live on the Twisted Oaks Plantation. Mary meets her neighbor, Jack Carleton, and the two fall in love. The workers on the plantation believe in voodoo. The Voodoo Priest incites the superstitious workers. Mary orders him off the plantation, and he vows revenge. After Mary and Jack become engaged, an old mammy tells them the legend of the Ghost of Twisted Oaks: Miss Madeline was loved by all the slaves on the plantation, and was engaged to Master Billy. Justin, his rival, vied for Madeline, and fought a duel. Madeline was killed by a stray bullet. Ever since then, her ghost has haunted the plantation. Now, the voodoo followers decide to make a sacrifice out of Mary. The ghost appears to Jack and leads him to the sacrificial altar, where he saves Mary. The Voodoo Priest is killed when he accidentally sticks his hand in a snake's cage. The voodoo followers are driven from the plantation, and Madeline's spirit can finally rest.
- A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be accused of murder if he pulls the trigger.
- Laura Jackson, left an orphan, comes to the city to obtain employment, but finds employers unsympathetic, and discovers that it is almost impossible for a woman to make a living wage. Her funds are getting low when a contrast between the two bulletins in front of an employment agency impresses her. A male stenographer is offered fifteen dollars and a girl but three. With her small savings she purchases a complete outfit, and as her own brother, sets forth to obtain employment. Her trim appearance is in her favor, and she not only quickly obtains employment, but she wins the love of the girl stenographer, and is forced to disclose her secret to the girl. The bookkeeper is jealous of the stenographer's love for the new clerk, and seeks to obtain his dismissal by concealing some bills in the boy's pocket and reporting his loss. But the stenographer has overseen the action and sets matters straight. Desperate at discovery the bookkeeper aims a blow at his rival that fells Laura to the floor, and in her excitement the stenographer discloses the secret of her sex. Laura is sent to the hospital with concussion of the brain, but makes rapid recovery and returns to her position, now in the proper garments of her sex, to become a member of the firm through marriage with its head.
- To keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle they are accustomed to, wealthy John Hunter makes some large investments in the stock market, but the stocks crash and he loses a great deal of money. When he discovers that his son-in-law Dick Sterling has lost $3 million making investments in his name, Hunter kills himself. His wealthy aunt offers to bail the family out, but on the condition that the money she gives must be under Sterling's strict control. Complications ensue.