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- Prevented from dating his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
- John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay young woman siren, who lives in the same apartment house as he does. So marked an influence does she have over him as time progresses that at last he quite forgets his home ties, neglects his family, and goes the way of many other men who have forgotten the meaning of paternity and blood ties. The story is advanced through many scenes enacted with the accompanying notes of New York's night life, and the denouement comes when the faithful wife discovers her husband's infidelity. At this time the mother's mind nearly loses balance, while Jane, the beautiful daughter, crazed by the grief of her mother, determines to take part in the tragedy. With revolver in hand she steals up to the apartment of the woman, but her frail nature is overcome by the temperamental anger of the woman and her mission fails. However, the errand is not fraught with failure for the father, coming in at this moment, finds his daughter being made love to by the sweetheart of the young woman, and realizes the road upon which he has traveled. When he confronts his daughter and says, "You, my daughter, what are you doing here?" The daughter answers, "My father, what are you doing here?" The realization is brought home to the father's mind that the law of moral ethics that governs a woman's life necessarily governs that of wan as well. Reformation comes in his character. He takes his daughter away with him and together they go back to their home of happiness and content.
- May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a city man, comes to town on a visit, falls in love with Carol and wins her away from Frank. Carol is pleased with his attentions and poor Frank is brokenhearted. Calling one day to see Carol, George meets May and falls madly in love with her, and finally runs away with her and they are married. Carol, in despair, turns back to Frank and they are married, and a year later a baby is born. In the meantime, May and George have been living in another town. May is about to become a mother. George brings her to her own home for the interesting event and her child is soon born, but is still born. Crying for her baby, the physicians fear to tell her and are forced to try and find a baby to take its place until the wife is strong enough to bear being told the truth. Carol is approached and at first refuses but finally, for her sister's sake, consents and May is made happy. Carol misses her baby and May refuses to let her bother with "her" child and Carol is frantic but dare not tell the truth. Finally May overhears the truth from the doctor and nurses' conversation and takes the baby back to her real mother, and the sisters are reconciled.
- Meg was one of the "painted women," who had got to the point where she did not care. Anita, her room-mate, on her death-bed told the cadet who managed them both about her old blind mother in another state who recently had come into a small fortune, and how she had kept hoping to go back home, but now it was too late. After the burial, the cadet told Meg that he had money in sight. She was to go with him and impersonate Anita. When she had won the confidence of the blind old woman, they would make a rich haul, and then go and live straight together. Anita's mother welcomed her long-lost daughter, as she supposed Meg to be, and everything that she had to give she showered upon this hardened woman of the underworld. Every night she would go to her bedside and her tears of joy burned into Meg's calloused heart. Delay on the girl's part angered the cadet. When Meg confessed to him that she could not bring herself to defraud the love-hungry old woman who called her "daughter," he threatened to expose her and give her over to the law. But a burglar, escaping from the police, ran across the cadet's path and the latter stopped the bullet. He was a stranger with an unsavory reputation. Nobody cared. And Meg heard the news with a deeper feeling than mere joy. Her past was dead. And there was the old blind mother to live for and love.
- Helen and Manders are in love and wish to marry. Her parents object to his poverty and want her to marry Alving, a notorious rake, who is wealthy and powerful. Manders protests. The family physician also objects because of the result such a match would mean on the children, but Helen's parents laugh at these new-fangled notions. The doctor then appeals to Alving, who laughs him to scorn. Urged on by her parents, ambitious Helen, disregarding all warnings, marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young married woman. She contemplates leaving her husband and seeks her physicians advice, but he declines to give it. She then sees her pastor, who advises her to adhere to convention and her husband. Meanwhile, the young married woman gives birth to a child by Alving, and the physician agrees to bring the father to see it and keep the real parentage secret. Helen also bears a boy named Oswald. When Oswald is nine, Alving dies, a victim of his excesses. Oswald lives a clean life and studies art, but at times his mind seems affected. The mother remembers the doctor's warnings, but rejects them as silly. Knowing the boy has lived a clean life, however, she soon comes to accept the physician's predictions as fact, and schemes to save her son by marrying him to a sweet young girl. She picks out the daughter of her husband's paramour, and, totally unaware of the girl's parentage, draws the two young people together. They fall deeply in love and are to be wed. When the physician receives the wedding invitation, he realizes he must stop the wedding. He feels duty-bound to tell the truth, and does so to Oswald, his mother, his bride-to-be and her father. Realizing that he must protect the girl he loves and embittered by his inheritance, Oswald plunges into mad excesses. He grows to hate his father and then his mother for the past they have embedded in his nature, and his mother slowly realizes the truth of the physician's predictions. Horror stricken, she watches the gradual rotting of her son's brain. The girl, meanwhile, has retired to a convent. Against the oncoming insanity, Oswald fortifies himself with poison, but one day his mother finds him sitting on the floor, paralyzed, playing with the sunbeams, and runs for the pastor. During her absence, he succeeds in reaching the poison and mother and pastor find him dead. As her only hope of consolation, the mother turns to the pastor.
- Frank Hastings, unjustly convicted of Darrell's crime, the robbing of Jason Ferguson, effects his escape from the penitentiary, and under compulsion, Darrell's escape, too. Without revealing his past, he establishes himself in life and marries, but is driven from town by Darren, who attempts to blackmail him. In New York he patents a time lock and becomes rich. When Darrell locates him again he submits to blackmail, but rebels when Darrell and another burglar call on him to open a safe with his time lock. Finally he goes with them, opens the lock and then, when the thieves are inside the vault, slams the door shut and leaves them there to suffocate. It is Saturday night and they will not be found till Monday morning. His wife, Mary, notices his manner, however, and gets his secret out of him. She forgives him for his past, but insists he shall not be a murderer and persuades him to telephone the police. With the president of the bank and the police, Frank goes to the bank and opens the safe. Meanwhile, in the vault, Darrell has fought with his pal and killed him, and when the door is opened be is shot and killed in an attempt to escape. Dying, he confesses all the wrong he has done Frank.
- Seamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds his wife married to another, and though he loves her, he cannot bear to disrupt her current happiness.
- Anita, a Mexican girl, falls in love with John Gordon, an American mine superintendent hated by her brother Pedro. Pedro plans Gordon's assassination. Anita conceals in her clothing a black bean, and feigning that Gordon has done her wrong, goes to her brother and begs to be allowed to kill the American. As she has expected, Pedro tells her that the assassin will be chosen by lot, and then he passes round a hat full of beans, all of which are white save one, which is black. Anita surreptitiously takes the black bean out of her waist and the duty of planting the bomb which is to destroy her lover is accorded to her. After she disguises herself as a man and rides off, Pedro discovers the black bean left in the hat. Suspicious of Anita, he follows her on horseback. She does her best to evade him, but is caught and forced to plant the bomb, but she has secretly removed the fuse. Meanwhile Gordon finds the unexploded bomb, and looking for its thrower, he sees Anita struggling with Pedro in the distance. Gordon arrives just in time to save the girl's life, and the brother and his horse, falling over the cliff, are killed.
- A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners.
- Nell and her old grandmother are poor and alone in the world and finally leave their old home and wander into the country in search of work. They reach a little country town and apply at a boarding house for work. Nell agreeing to work for nothing but board and lodging for herself and "Granny." This Sears, the proprietor, agrees to, but Nell is worked to death at waiting on table and other chores, and Sears is very unkind to her and "Granny." Graham Wilkes, a wealthy young man from the city, on the outs with his father, comes to the boarding house and becomes interested in little Nell, much to Sears' disgust, the latter redoubling his harsh treatment of Nell. Finally they can stand it no longer and leave. But en route Nell overhears a plan to rob Sears and Wilkes by a couple of tramps, and in spite of her being badly treated by the former, she decides to warn them and prevent the robbery, which she does. Sears now repents of his treatment of her but Wilkes has become interested and Nell turns to him for care and comfort for herself and Granny.
- Tom Miller's father, a judge, opposes a popular movement to win probation for first offenders. He discovers that his son is spending too much time lounging around a pool room and sharply reprimands him. Ridiculed by his young pals, however, as "papa's boy," he breaks his promise to the Judge and to his sweetheart, Helen Moore, and visits the pool resort in secret. A man is shot and Tom is accused of the crime. Under an alias he hopes to get through his trial and serve his time. But Judge Miller is transferred to the criminal department and Tom is recognized. He pleads probation. The Spartan father, however, sentences his son for five years. At the "pen" Tom overhears a plot against his father. He escapes and follows the crooks to his home, where they attack Mrs. Miller and Helen, who are alone. Tom is accidentally wounded by Mrs. Millernwhile he is trying to defend her. His father, arriving, takes him for an accomplice of the crooks and orders him carried to a public hospital pending his return to the pen. Later, Tom and the nurse overhear the confession of the man who committed the murder in the pool room. Helen intercedes with the judge. The man's confession is accepted and Tom is vindicated. Then Doris, who has momentarily disappeared, returns to receive the earnest compliments of Lawyer Morris and his son Boyd, who is in love with her.
- Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife. Nettie is in love with Colter, a young Easterner, and though it pains her to do so, tells Magoon of the fact. Magoon leaves town to become sheriff of the adjoining county. A murder is committed in the mining camp, and Colter is unjustly accused. Nettie rescues him from jail and sends him to Magoon. The sheriff with admirable self-sacrifice hides his rival, and, when the posse arrives, points out what Nettie has done for the boys of the mining camp. Colter is released, and all the boys escort him back to Nettie.
- A soldier's widow and her three sons comprise the happy Winthrop family, until one night while they're at dinner, news come of the fall of Sumter and Lincoln's call for men. Mother bravely decides to give her three sons to her country. At Bull Run, eldest son Harry is fatally wounded and dies after an affecting scene in which he yields his colors to his comrade. Mother covers the chair he occupied at the table with the flag that draped the portrait of her dead husband. Second son Edward is killed as he delivers General Grant's dispatches. Mother covers his chair at the table with a flag. Youngest son Robert is in camp near his home. Mother learns that a battle is imminent and resolves that the remaining boy must not be killed. She goes to the camp, finds Robert in his tent preparing for an expected battle. When the bugle sounds "Boots and Saddles" she frantically tries to detain him with her entreaties. Finally she seizes his pistol, puts it to her breast and threatens to end her life with it if Robert leaves the tent. The troopers are leaving for the fray. Robert is obliged to choose between his country and his mother. He remains, brokenhearted, saying she has branded him as a coward. After the battle, Robert, charged with cowardice and desertion, is arrested. On the day of the court-martial, General Grant, on a tour of inspection, stops at the Winthrop house to rest, sees the two flags on the chairs, and learns the story of the three sons from Auntie. At the court-martial Robert is asked to speak in his behalf, but says nothing. Mother forces her way by a sentry and tells the story. Robert tries to hush her, fails and turns his back. General Grant arrives in time to hear her story, exonerates Robert, declares his act required more courage than to face enemies, orders him to report for duty, and reconciles mother and son. When peace has been declared Robert returns home with the remnant of troop that started and his mother thankfully folds him to her breast.
- Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than he does to her and spends more and more time away from home. A handsome young neighbor notices her emotional state and decides to try to take advantage of it. In her confused and lonely condition, Kitty finds herself attracted to the man and begins to think about running away with him.
- Bill, the biggest boy in school, abuses one of the smaller pupils and blames Joe, the son of a poor widow. The teacher punishes Joe. After school Joe calls Bill to accountant and worsts him in a fisticuffs encounter. He also protects Dorothea, the bank president's pretty little daughter, from the bully's unwelcome attentions, and she rewards him by inviting him to her birthday party. But the poor boy has no money to buy Dorothea a present. He is a young man of advanced ideas, however,so applies at the local bank for a loan of 10 cents. The bank president issues the tiny loan with all formality, and the poor boy buys the present and goes to the party. A week later, Joe's loan falls due. He earns the money and hurries away to repay the bank. Arriving after closing hours, he enters a store next door, and finds himself among crooks who are absorbed in breaking into the bank. Joe hides. Following the bandits into the bank, he manages to make his way into a private office where he calls up the bank president on the phone. The police arrive. In the gun fight, Joe is accidentally wounded. The bank president gives the boy's mother a substantial sum of money as a reward of her son's bravery. Dorothea and Joe pledge to be friends all their lives.
- Dan's father, who is president of his lodge, has a goat delivered to his house for the initiation to take place that evening. Dan hitches the goat to the baby carriage and goes for a drive. On the boulevard he meets Billie, who is taking Mae for a drive in his pony cart. Mae is disdainful. While she and her escort are in an ice cream parlor, Dan unhitches the pony and leads it away. When Billie and Mae reappear, they are sadly upset by the loss of the pony. Dan offers to take Mae home in his goat cart. She accepts gratefully. Going downhill, the goat becomes unmanageable. Mae is spilled in the dirt, and Billie, who meanwhile has given chase in a burro outfit, again wins the fair lady away from his rival. Dan determines to get even. He plans to hold a lodge initiation patterned on the one he has heard the grown-ups talk about. That evening the affair comes off, and Billie is made the "goat" of the occasion. Billie and his father arrive home from their respective lodge initiations much battered up. They solemnly give each other the lodge high sign, and discreetly separate.
- Little Dick is ambitious to be a detective like his father. He reads many detective tales and acts out the stories with his playmates. His father sees him at his games, gives him a badge, and promises to make him a real sleuth. The next day Dick hears his father called on a big Italian murder mystery case. While playing with the boys, he sees a dark-browed foreigner rush out of a house and race down the street. This looks suspicious to Dick; he gives pursuit. The Italian dashes out of a drugstore with a bottle labeled "poison." Dick sees him hand it into a room and then wait anxiously about outside with several villainous-looking companions. Leaving two of his little pals to stand guard, Dick rushes to the police station and returns with an automobile full of police. They seize the Italians, then discover that the Parisi family is celebrating the arrival of a new baby.
- Famous kid detective Dick, with the co-operation of his stenographer, succeeds in running down a desperate character. But the little stenographer falls victim to the wiles of the villain's wicked accomplices, and is placed by them in vile duress in an alley ash-barrel, where she falls asleep. The ashman comes and loads the barrel, with other trash, into his wagon and drives off. When the bad-boy accomplices discover that the ash man has taken the barrel away to be dumped into the ocean, their terror knows no bounds. With Detective Dick they pursue the wagon in hot haste, arriving at the ocean just as the ashman throws the barrel into it. The little stenographer's hat floats to the surface, convincing the frightened kids that she has drowned. They inform the ashman what an awful tragedy has happened, and he dives to find the body. But the cute mistress of the typewriter, awakened by a sudden jolt of the wagon, opportunely escaped from the barrel sometime before. When she appears to the boys in the flesh they believe she is a ghost and are frightened nearly to death.
- Elmer Kent is a clerk in a large establishment, and earns fifteen dollars a week. He supports his sickly mother, and every cent of his salary is required to make both ends meet. The heaviest expense is the payments on the cottage which his father, before his death, partially paid for. Recently more money than usual has gone for necessities for his mother who has had an ill turn, and the real estate agent sends him word that payments overdue must be remitted the following day or the cottage will be seized. The next day is Saturday and pay day. Elmer hurries with the money to the agent's office only to learn he has gone to the beach. He follows, him but at the summer resort is waylaid by a fellow clerk. Wirt Hadley, who introduces him to two pretty girls. They have a good time, Hadley footing the bills until the girls begin to pass remarks about Elmer's being a "tightwad." Discouraged, irritated by their ridicule, and despairing of finding the agent, he treats everybody to a sumptuous meal at the café. There Carr, the agent, sees Elmer, forms his own opinion of the spendthrift, and when the young man applies on Monday for an extension, sternly refuses. Elmer and his mother are evicted. Meanwhile the girls enjoy life at the beach, where they are summering, all unconscious of the misfortunes their careless twitting of a sensitive youth have caused.
- Mr. Gay gets an invitation to join a poker game, but as there is a burglar scare in the neighborhood his wife objects to his going out that night. He persuades her to go to bed early, so that he can follow the instructions of the invitation, to go after his wife is asleep. But the wife reads the note and is wise, and decides to counterplot by locking up Gay's clothes. In the meantime Mary is entertaining the cop in the kitchen. In the parlor Gay yawns and pretends to be sleepy and proposes to his wife to retire early. The wife, having laid her plans, consents and takes opportunity while he is locking up the house, to take his coat and other clothes and lock them in the wardrobe in her bedroom. Gay patiently waits for his wife to go to sleep; then finds that he cannot get his clothes without awakening her. The cop outside finds it is a cold night; he enters the kitchen, empties the bottle and goes to sleep. Gay hears him snoring. An idea; he will borrow the cop's coat and surprise the fellows at the club. On his way he disperses a gang of toughs, receives a bribe and drink from a saloon keeper, only to find when he gets to the club that the other members flee in terror at the sight of the brass buttons. Gay takes the jack-jot. The cop in the meantime has awakened and starts to look for a bracer. The wife hears the noise, thinks the cop is her husband, tip-toes up to him and hugs him. Mary, the maid, enters to see Mrs. Gay hugging the cop. But Mrs. Gay screams as she finds she has been hugging a stranger and runs to her room. Mary is mad at the cop, but he dare not leave the house without his uniform. Gay on his way home from the club recovers the proceeds of a burglary, which had been dropped by the crooks in their flight. He arrives home with it and tells the cop to take it to the station house, it will mean promotion for him. Gay then makes the place look as though a burglary were committed. He calls his wife and poses as a hero. The cop later makes peace with Mary by showing her the added stripe on his arm that he got for his bravery.
- Before his niece and ward, Dosia Dale, comes of age, her uncle, who has spent her entire fortune, must think of a way to account for his actions. He proposes marriage, and when Dosia indignantly refuses him, he conspires with his evil friend, Dr. Protheroe, to do away with her. Declaring Dosia insane, the two men lock her up in the doctor's insane asylum, but she manages to drop a note from the window. Her plea for help is found by a reporter named Ford, who feigns insanity in order to gain admittance to the asylum. Dr. Protheroe becomes suspicious of Ford and locks him up with Dosia, whereupon Ford, knowing that his friend Cuthbert will notify the police if he and Dosia do not emerge safely by twelve, barricades the door and waits. In a furious battle with the police and the militia, Dosia's uncle and Dr. Protheroe are killed and the house set ablaze, but Ford and Dosia escape, leaping from the roof into a fire net below. All danger passed, Ford and Dosia become engaged.
- Imar the Servitor rescues an American tourist who has lost his way in the desert and the two men become friends. Before he leaves, the American gives his friend a picture of his fiancée. When the tourist returns home, he discovers that his girlfriend has married a horseman, both of whom have journeyed to the Arabian desert. Imar's master attacks the trader's wife. Her husband then accuses her of infidelity and starts to beat her. Imar recognizes her from the picture given to him by his American friend and rescues her. They both traverse the desert and meet her former fiancé, who has been sent for. Her husband and Imar's master are slain, leaving the three friends free of any retribution.
- John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library. The young man is taken to the penitentiary, but eludes his guards and escapes. His sweetheart engages a noted detective who finds a small Hindu image in the hand of the dead man. Following this clue the detective learns that the image is symbolical of a Hindu secret sect known as "The Black Adepts." He trails two Hindus and finally arrests them. He finds in their possession the other part of the image in which is secreted a valuable ruby. Young Stafford is recaptured, but is saved from execution when news of the arrest of the Hindus is telegraphed to the penitentiary.