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- A young boy is terrified by nightmares he has of strange animals.
- The son of a poor inn keeper decides to leave his home to seek his fortunes in a foreign clime. Bidding his mother good-bye, she puts a locket around his neck as a remembrance. Tears roll by and the folks have not heard from their son. In the meantime, the son has struck it rich, but he has neglected his parents, and in a quiet moment, he remembers the locket his mother gave him. He desires to return home, but to surprise his parents, he writes them he is coming home poor instead of rich. Tears have changed his appearance and on his return his parents do not recognize him. He rents a room from them without telling who he is. In paying for his room, he shows a large sum of money, which tempts the mother to steal, so she can have money to welcome her poor son's return. She enters his room and kills him. She then discovers it was her own son by the locket hanging around his neck. The sheriff arrives and takes her away. While pleading with the sheriff, she awakes and finds it all a dream. The son comes down and tells her who he is.
- King Baggot is a comedian out of work. He finds it very difficult to get a Job, but finally secures a position as principal comedian with "The Girl from Wayback" company. King is devotedly attached to his wife and child, but his wife is very vain and shallow, and accepts the attentions of Basil Graham, the foppish tenor of the company, who, while professing friendship for King, takes every opportunity of flirting with King's wife. This is done to such an extent that it arouses the attention of the stage-hands, with whom King is a great favorite. On the opening night, King scores a great triumph. He has left his child in the dressing room and she is playing with some poison King had been using for a burn on his arm. King finds it in her possession and hurriedly takes it from her, showing her the danger of playing with it. King is very much hurt by the coldness of his wife's manner. His child strays from the dressing room to the side of the stage, and. Whilst her father is on the stage, she plays with the button on the door of the wing, making it necessary for King to exit behind the other wing, where he discovers his wife in the arms of his false friend. They do not see him, and, brokenhearted, he goes to his dressing room and takes the poison, determining to end it all. He rushes back to the stage for his last scene and his wife and the tenor determine to elope. They are hastily leaving the theater when King, at the finish of his scene, as the curtain falls, drops with agony to the stage. The manager frantically goes before the curtain and asks if there is a doctor in the house and one comes forward, and King's child shows the doctor the poison bottle. The doctor calls for an antidote, which is instantly produced by one of the property men. The doctor gives it to King who is anxiously watched by the crowd in their stage garb and motley, for the sign of life. The child, in the meanwhile has strayed outside and shown her mother the poison and, when she realizes the terrible truth, she runs from her would-be lover and goes to her husband's aid. Somewhat disgusted the tenor follows her, and when she finds that King is recovering she begs him to forgive her, realizing that it is the comedian she has loved after all. The husband and wife are united.
- During a temporary cessation of hostilities below the Mason-Dixon line, Col. Carlton is granted leave of absence, and accompanied by Lieut. Carney, his daughter's sweetheart, visits his Southern home. There Lieut. Carney is honored by Virginia Carleton, accepting his proposal of marriage. At the expiration of their furlough, the lieutenant and the colonel leave to rejoin their regiment. Strife of war dangerously adjacent prevents the making of a trip by the Carltons to get a new wedding outfit, with the result that the mother unpacks the attic trunk and her own wedding gown undergoes alterations for the happy occasion of her daughter's marriage. Meanwhile, the opposing armies draw nearer and Grant's force is discovered by the Confederates to be in a weak condition. To enable the strategic maneuver of the Confederates taking advantage of this position of the Federals, Lieut. Carney voluntarily assumes the perilous responsibility of slipping through the Federal lines to warn other Confederates of the contemplated attack, likewise securing their reinforcement. This plan of Lieut. Carney's is thwarted at a crucial period by the Federals detecting his effort to get through their lines. Carney's horse is shot and he is compelled to seek safety in flight. The chase ends with Lieut. Carney fleeing to the home of his sweetheart, hotly pursued by the determined Federals, who suspect he hears important dispatches bearing on the hazardous position of their division. When Carney breaks into the house, Virginia and her mother are draping the wedding dress on an improvised "form" beneath which Carney is hidden as the Federals enter. Driven to desperation, Virginia is compelled to play the part of an obliging hostess to gain time. The tired Federals succumb to her charms and she is enabled to gain time to assist Carney in escaping. The officer of the squad becomes intoxicated, and Virginia, with the assistance of Carney and two family slaves, has his uniform changed to that of Carney's, and the Federal, in Confederate uniform, is put on a wagon and sent away in apparent flight, which is detected by the Federals, who give chase. Carney then escapes. With the help of the passport which he finds in the coat of the Federal officer, Carney delivers his message in safety, enabling the Confederates to accomplish their purpose. This advantage is later turned in the opposing army's favor, and the Confederates are forced into the "Hornet's Nest," where lack of water aids in weakening their opposition. Virginia's horse, ridden by Carney, is sent with a note asking for water, and Virginia accomplishes the perilous feat of carrying through the fighting lines of the Federals enough water to enable the hard-pressed Confederates to hold their ground until the Federals, in command of Gen. Grant, decide to abandon trying to gain their place of retreat. Virginia is acclaimed a heroine by the cheering army of Confederates, and she flies, embarrassed, to the eagerly waiting arms of Lieut. Carney.
- John Storm wins a football game. The father of Doris Mills gives his consent to her marriage to John. When John gets home he finds the body of his father, who has committed suicide. The son discovers that his father bad been a defaulter. Knowing that Mr. Mills had been a heavy loser, John determines to go out into the world. He is unsuccessful. He falls into the clutches of crooks. By them he is led to believe that he is to do some detective work, but discovers the truth when he is led to the rear of Doris's home. John determines to see the affair through. He is admitted to the house by the butler, a confederate, and is the means of preventing the burglary and also of turning the crooks over to the police. He wins Doris.
- Police Officer King Baggot 174, is in love with Jane, the stenographer to the "man higher up." who has the whole of the criminal element of the city in his grasp. One evening while Jane and Officer 174 are walking along the street, he identifies the cleverest picture thief in the world getting out of an automobile and entering millionaire Forgan's Art Gallery. Suspecting that something is wrong, Officer 174 tells Jane to go home, and he, by a clever ruse, overcomes the chauffeur, puts on the chauffeur's uniform and hat and takes his place in the automobile. The picture thief comes out with the priceless treasure under his arm, and. not suspecting that the chauffeur is an officer, gives him instructions to drive rapidly away. Officer 174 drives him to the nearest police station and puts him under arrest. For his clever work be is thanked by the Commissioner of Police, who makes him a detective officer. The city is so thoroughly alarmed at the predominance of vice and gambling that the major appoints Officer 174 as lieutenant of the squad. Immediately all the denizens of the underworld, thoroughly alarmed, appeal to the "man higher up" to protect them. He sends his emissary with an offer to Officer 174 of a position at a fabulous salary as manager of an orange grove in Florida. Officer 174 promptly sees through the whole thing and kicks the emissary out of the place. He rushes with dismay to the "man higher up" and tells him that Officer 174 cannot be bought. By this time the inhabitants of the underworld are in fear. Levenstein, proprietor of the Nestor Gambling Club in the tenderloin, defies law and order and insists upon running his club. Officer 174 makes a sensational raid and arrests Levenstein, his operators and his guests. The underworld, now thoroughly frightened, is determined to adopt drastic measures, and two notorious gunmen are hired to get Officer 174 out of the way. He, by a clever ruse, outwits them by placing a dummy in his place. They fire at the dummy. Thinking they have succeeded in killing him, they rush back with the news to the "man higher up." To their amazement they find this is not the case. Then the "man higher up" makes his first mistake. He interviews the Commissioner of Police, telling him that Officer 174 is a grafter, and to prove it, he hands the commissioner some bills and asks him to mark them, and that he will find them on the person of Officer 174 in the office of the "man higher up" at 3 o'clock that afternoon. He then sends a message to Officer 174 to the effect that if he comes to the office that afternoon at 3 o'clock, the "man higher up" will make a confession and give evidence, laying bare the whole system. Jane, the officer's sweetheart, through the use of the Dictaphone, overhears the plot, and when he arrives she tries to persuade him not to go into the office; but she is too late. While he is in there the marked bills are placed in his hand. The commissioner, with several police officers, accuses Officer 174 of grafting. He is arrested and the marked bills are found in his hat. The commissioner tells him that he is to leave the force in disgrace and ignominy, when Jane arrives on the scene with the Dictaphone and compels the commissioner to listen to the voice, wherein the whole plot, the "man higher up" and his accomplices are revealed. Then the commissioner arrests the '"man higher up" and the city is relieved of a terror that has menaced it so long.
- The heroine saves not only the money box from the villain, but gets there on time to stop the passenger train that is roaring toward the burning trestle.
- A hunchbacked New York City optician restores a blind girl's sight; she loves him in spite of his disability, because it is "the heart that sees."
- A man is magically transformed into a horse.
- The productions from Thanhouser's mature period, 1915-1917, clearly show the advancements that set the stage for the first cinematic golden age, the 1920s. Such advances are evident in this surviving shortened version of "Fires of Youth": detailed character development by veteran actor Frederick Warde (and in a smaller role, at least in the shortened version, by Jeanne Eagels), mature editing techniques, special lighting effects, intelligent story development, realistic use of locations, fluid dialogue inter-titles, complex staging and access to better cameras with the defeat of the Patents Trust. Acclaimed French stage and film director Emile Chautard was brought from Éclair studio in France to direct.
- The cub reporter loved the owner's daughter. He learns by chance of a plot to sell the paper's power by the managing editor to a pair of crooked contractors. The owner refuses to listen to his discovery, but the girl does and believes him. Together they plan to force the owner to take some action. The dinner at the owner's house is spoilt by the girl who compels them to dine in a private room at Muscveys, where the managing editor has an appointment with the contractors. The cub plants a dictograph in the room where the contractors are and puts the receiver in the room where the owner and his party are ushered. Their entire conversation is heard by the owner. The cub is dragged from the fire escape where he has been concealed; a terrible fight ensues; the police are called in and the managing editor and his crooked friends are taken into custody. The cub is rewarded with the managing editor's position and the girl's hand.