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- The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
- 191114mNot Rated5.0 (655)ShortA Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust. Events continue to turn for the worse when invading Yankee soldiers arrive to loot and torch the widow's home. George saves the officer's daughter and battle sword by braving the flames.
- A Confederate soldier shames his mother and sister by going AWOL during battle. His sister takes his place, with tragic results, leaving him to live out his life in shame, hiding to protect his family name.
- Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George, a slave, takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
- Mr. Norton discovers his wife in the arms of his neighbor, Captain Roberts, a married man. His first maddened impulse is to kill his faithless wife, but on his way for the gun his little child runs to his arms to say good-night. The incident unnerves him and his wild determination is destroyed. He decides upon another course. He goes to Mrs. Roberts and tells her that he intends to ruin the Captain's home as her husband had ruined his, and that unless she consents to elope with him at ten o'clock that night he will shoot her husband on sight. Mrs. Roberts, in grief and despair, premises to elope in order to save her husband's life. That evening, when the Captain returns, she accuses him of his sin, and he makes an earnest and effective plea for forgiveness. Meantime the grim hour for her decision is past, and with the strength of woman's devotion, she determines to sacrifice her life for her husband, rather than stain his name. Donning his military cap and cape, she walks out on the veranda, just as Mr. Norton has accepted her absence to signify her refusal to elope. True to his threat, when he sees the figure on the veranda, he mistakes it for the Captain, and shoots. The Captain realizes the bitter fruits of his sin, but the wound is not fatal, and the courageous wife's nobility and bravery inspire an admiration in her husband's heart that completely resurrects the old love. Mercy is mightiest in the mightiest.
- A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
- Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?
- A party of friends goes to the seashore to enjoy a day's outing. To get rid of the womenfolks, the menfolks induce them to take a plunge in the ocean before luncheon, so that the men can enjoy a quiet little game of cards. But the game does not prove to be very quiet; it terminates in a duel, which the women strategically avert in the nick of time.
- Prof. Howe knows more about antiques than he does about love affairs and consequently he declares that Dick, his daughter's sweetheart, is a nuisance. Howe purchases an ancient Egyptian mummy and Dick observes the delivery of the huge case. A daring scheme occurs to him. With Arvilla's assistance he takes the place of the mummy and when Howe opens the case he hears a sepulchral voice exclaim: "Let your daughter marry whom she chooses. Rameses demands it." Arvilla says she chooses Dick, and Howe, grasping his daughter by the hand, hastens to Dick's house to satisfy the mummy. Dick has the time of his life in making a wild dash to his home before the arrival of the professor. Then he is induced (?) to listen.
- On his wedding eve Henry Halleck opens a sealed envelope which has been handed down to each generation, and learns that the family is cursed with a lust for drink. He signs the pledge which bears the signatures of his fathers. Two years later he is a widower, with a son, Jack. Jack grows to manhood and not possessing the strength of his father, falls into evil ways. Jack pays the penalty for his weakness and Halleck takes the grandson, Harry, into his home. Many years later Harry becomes engaged to Anna, a charming girl of the neighborhood, and on his wedding eve he, too signs the pledge. But Harry has inherited his father's weakness and the old man's heart is broken. Forbes, a young man of the north, visits the old home and falls in love with Anna. Harry succeeds in discrediting his rival in a most cowardly manner and marries the girl. After the ceremony, Harry, made bold by liquor, jokingly confesses to Anna how he has deceived her and she locks herself in her room. The fox hunt is to take place next day. At the Hunt Breakfast Harry, unable to overcome his weakness, drinks heavily and insists upon riding a spirited horse. In the chase he tries to make a fence and is thrown to the ground. He is carried back to the breakfast room where old Halleck is left alone with his dead. Later Forbes gains from Anna a promise for the days to come.
- Krazy-Nutt, tired of the confinement of four stone walls, left quite unexpectedly. Krazy-Nutt's passion was athletics. Mr. Newlywed thought Krazy-Nutt his aunt and sought to gratify the passion when Krazy-Nutt cried for a horse to go horseback. The Dilly boys of the local theater supplied the need as the fore and aft of a much-desired steed. They started something and kept it up, and Krazy-Nutt had a ride all right, all right.
- Arnold and Wiggins were rival candidates for judge. "I'll put one over on Wiggins," declared Arnold, and he proceeded to hire the town band and march to the grand-stand where Wiggins held forth. "Ring," went the band, but Sammy Getup got one over on Arnold in a sudden and unexpected manner.
- A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again and tells her they cannot marry until he has enough money to pay off his debt. While the farmer and his wife are asleep, the maid foolishly steals their money. The peddler takes the money and leaves on a train to get out of town. Overcome with guilt, the young maid runs away from the farm. Meanwhile the peddler gets into a fight and is thrown off the train. The maid stumbles upon him by the railroad tracks. She finds the money on the peddler and returns it to the farm couple before they even knew it was missing.
- Tom Morton, in love with Elsie, is unaware that his friend, Jack Winters, also loves her and is trying to win her away from him. While out riding one day, Tom sees a little Indian child playing with a rattlesnake. He shoots the rattler and thereby gains the gratitude of the child's mother. Returning to her hut with the child, the mother is beaten by her husband, Sancho, while he is in a drunken frenzy and she, swearing vengeance, follows him with a gun. In the meantime Tom and Sancho meet and have an altercation. As Tom draws his gun, the squaw shoots from ambush and Sancho drops dead. Men rushing out of the store find Tom with his gun drawn and he is accused of the murder. Jack who has been attracted by the queer action of the squaw, follows her and witnesses the firing of the shot, but remains silent, planning to have Tom convicted of the murder and thereby winning Elsie. The day before the trial, Jack frightens the squaw into leaving by telling her that she is suspected of the murder and she, after a night of wandering falls exhausted at the door of Elsie's home. While being cared for by Elsie and her mother the squaw recognizes the picture of Tom and upon being told the cause of Elsie's grief she confesses that she killed Sancho. Elsie immediately takes her to the court house where she tells her story. As she finishes the exposure, the wounds inflicted by her husband prove fatal and she falls dead at the feet of the man she has saved.
- After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love.
- The publisher wrote Ferdinand to change his story and kill the old man on his arrival. Then father came to town. He read the note. In the kitchen Ferdinand was preparing a chicken dinner, where a live chicken refused to be cooked. Father believed the worst and summoned the police, which enabled the chief to test his new method of putting speed into cops.
- Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved the girl as well.
- Marks and Johnson, two businessmen, receive notice of a special meeting of the board of directors of the bank. This notice they lose no time in showing to their wives. It is a good excuse to attend the regular weekly card game at the club. While the club is in session, it is suddenly interrupted by the police. During the raid, Marks and Johnson make their escape. They are closely pursued by two cops. They finally make their getaway on a freight train. In the morning when the train stops they find they are in a town that is under martial law. They think it is a good idea to deceive their wives and have a good time and a few days sport. They borrow a couple of soldiers' suits, have their pictures taken which they send back to their wives, saying that they have been drafted in the army. The wives, hearing of the hardships of the soldiers, decide to visit their husbands with baskets of food. They arrive in town and go from camp to camp. The soldiers do not know their husbands. A friend of Marks and Johnson meets the wives and puts them on the right track. He learns of the deception and fixes things up. Marks and Johnson meet their wives and get away with the joke, and return to their wives love and confidence.
- John Franklin, a stolid Quaker, devotes his simple life to the Lord and horses, worshiping the former, shoeing the latter. His sister, Priscilla, is housekeeper. In the depths of John's big, simple heart, love is growing for Ruth, daughter of the Rogers, staunch Quakers. Howard Clark, an idle, rich young man, makes it his business to become acquainted with the young Quakeress, and when she chides him for his reckless, sinful ways, he tells her that he would reform if she would help him. The girl is seized with the idea that the Lord has sent this man to her to be saved and she resolves to perform her mission. In the course of their talks, she falls in love with the reckless young fellow, and when he asks her to elope with him, she does so. The elopement causes grief to the old folks. John is greatly depressed. Clark marries Ruth and they live happily for a while at his home in the city. But although Clark loves his little wife, he goes back to his old ways because Ruth clings to her old-fashioned ways and does not make free with his pleasure-loving friends. At last, lonely and miserable, Ruth returns to her home. Her father's harsh words anger her and although he does not refuse her admittance, she is too proud to accept his hospitality. From his blacksmith shop John sees Ruth staggering in the road. He takes her into his house where she sobs out her story. John hastens to the city, where he finds Ruth's husband in the midst of a midnight revelry. In front of all the guests, John drags Clark from the house and forces him to return to the village. When they arrive, they find that the stork has reached there ahead of them. The little mite awakens in Ruth's husband all the manhood that has been slumbering and when the happy family later returns to their city home. Friend John at his forge is comforted in knowing that Ruth is happy.
- Brown, on the eve of marriage, gives a bachelor supper to his friends. Brown's housekeeper brings her infant child to his apartment and deposits same in his bedroom, while she puts his room in order. He sends her out to post a letter to a friend. In the meantime his fiancée's mother makes a tour of inspection and discovers the baby among other evidences of Brown's bachelor dissipations. Misunderstandings naturally ensue, which are finally adjusted by the return of the housekeeper.
- His declaration of independence failing, he decided to leave home forever. Little he knew that detectives Sharp and Quick were on his trail. One drink before train time settled it.
- Moving Picture World magazine (Oct - Dec 1913) described this film as "a farce of suffragettes and comic cops."
- An air of excitement pervades the little town of Squashville. The local baseball team is to cross bats with the determined organization from Stringtown and the game will decide the season's championship. Mamie Wallace, an ardent enthusiast, appears on the field with her father and greets her sweetheart, Montjoy Jones, who, resplendent in his uniform, assures his friends that Squashville will capture the pennant. It is a hotly contested game and as the final inning approaches Squashville has a lead of three runs. The local pitcher wavers momentarily and the visitors fill the bases. Now comes the crucial moment. A high fly is driven toward Montjoy, who makes a terrible muff and loses the game and the championship. Montjoy becomes a stranger in his own town. His friends desert him and no one has a kind word. The love of his sweetheart turns cold and her father forbids, the disgraced player from entering the house. The outcast seeks the solace of sleep and has a wonderful dream. He plays the game again. This time he catches the fly and retires the side. He is acclaimed the hero of the hour. It happens that a scout for the New York Giants witnesses the game and wires to Manager John McGraw, who has his team in training at Marlin, Texas. Acting upon the scout's advice, McGraw sends a contract to Jones, who loses no time in preparing to join the team. Squashville gives its "first citizen" a rousing send-off. At Marlin Montjoy reports to McGraw and meets the famous veterans who have brought two championships to New York. McGraw and Mathewson, the peerless pitcher, take the recruit in hand. He has a severe lesson in sliding and McGraw shows him how to bat. Mathewson's fast curves put the young fellow on his mettle. After the training season the team goes to New York for the first game of the season. Montjoy has shown such skill with the bat that he is sent in a "pinch hitter" and knocks out a home run, which clinches the game for the Giants. Modestly he submits to an interview and news of his fame reaches the home town. Mamie and her father determine to see the famous star in action and make a trip to New York. It is a spirited game that the Wallaces witness. One sensational play follows another and finally the great Mathewson is called up to replace a weakening pitcher. A hit off the famous twirler causes alarm. Mathewson sees an opportunity to work an extraordinary play and confers with Montjoy, who has been sent to the shortstop position. The result is a lightning triple play. Again Montjoy is the hero. As he passes one of the boxes he sees Mamie applauding him. What a pleasure it is to pass by and ignore her. And then he wakes up. The stern reality of his position strikes home as he sees a note thrust under the door. The note is from Mamie, stating that after much persuasion she has prevailed upon her father to permit Montjoy to call, but father has declared that if baseball is mentioned, the player will have to "beat it," Monty throws bat and glove into the street and hastens to his sweetheart's home.
- 'Twas Sunday in the park. "I bet she's worth a million," he murmured to silent exultation, as he slipped on the ring. 'Twas Monday morning. She was a "stingy-grafter" and he a lawyer with a bad case of pawn or starve. Who would a thought it? But it takes a lawyer to start things. He did with the office across the way, where his "stingy-grafter" grafted. He reached rock bottom.