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- Jack and Frank, both captains, love Jane, the daughter of an American general. Jane favors Jack. Jack is a dissolute character, who has compromised Mollie, the sister of a sergeant in the regiment. She firmly believes that Frank will wed her. Her brother discovers Frank's perfidy and would kill him, but is prevented by Jack, who persuades all parties to keep silence for the honor of the regiment. The contretemps are responsible for Jack's missing an appointment with Jane. She is very angry at his tardiness, and going out, passes near the spot where Jack is comforting the miserable Mollie. Frank takes advantage to point out the compromising scene to Jane, who is convinced that Jack is false, and refuses to even say good-bye. Mollie accompanies her brother to the islands as a nurse. Jack believes Frank's assertion that he is engaged to Mollie. Nita, a native girl, is rescued from insults by Mollie and Jack. The American soldiers are ambushed by Filipinos. Jack prevents Frank from running away and is hit on the head by the coward. Frank commands the troops to retreat in disorder. He escapes the general slaughter. He is court-martialed, but says that Jack gave the order and is exonerated, while Jack's name is dishonored. Jack is found by Mollie, and later Nita saves them. Jack is taken to their cabin and tenderly nursed by Mollie. His mind is a blank. Her pity turns to love. Jane hears of Jack's disappearance and, heartbroken, goes to the Philippines to act as nurse. She is told that Jack is dead, and will have nothing to do with Frank, who tries to court her. The sergeant, Mollie's brother, escapes, and knowing that he will inform American headquarters of their whereabouts, the Filipinos surround the Americans. Jack wanders off, and seeing a cave enters it. It leads him through the hill to the basin beyond. The excitement clears his brain and memory returns. He reaches the troops, and leading them through the secret passage, they turn defeat into victory. Jack, wounded, is found unconscious by Jane. Mollie finds them and overhearing Jane's impassioned words, knows the truth. The sergeant finds them all there and Frank, knowing his end is near, shoots at Jack, the bullet killing poor Mollie instead.
- At the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. She meets Harry and together they take a coach to the Southern town they have selected to spy upon. A prominent colonel in the Southern army deals with dispatches, and it is this man that Grace investigates while Harry awaits events. The colonel has a sweetheart, May, and Grace manages to got an introduction to her at a ball by purposely tearing her dress and appealing to May for help. This leads to an acquaintance with the Colonel, and she practices all her woman's wiles and fascinations upon him and he is impressed with her. Grace learns that important dispatches are to be forwarded and plots to get into the colonel's house. She manages matters cleverly, and contrives to have her carriage break down before his residence. The colonel endeavors to get rid of her, but she stalls him off until the arrival of May, when he has to hide her in the next room. May comes to warn him about Grace, for she is suspicious and her woman's intuition tells her that Grace is there for no good. The colonel tries to defend Grace, who gets a chance to change the dispatches for false ones, but drops a letter by mistake, and escapes by way of the window, giving the dispatches to her brother. May sees the letter of commendation from the North. A servant has seen Harry. The colonel rides off after him. He catches up with him as they ride into the battlefield, and in a hand-to-hand duel Harry is killed by the colonel, who is himself mortally wounded by a stray bullet. Grace returns to Washington and receives compliments and rewards. She returns to her home with a clouded conscience, and while sitting looking at her reward, the specters of Harry and the colonel appear and beckon her. She is forced to go with them, and together they appear on the battlefield and they show her their own bodies, and slowly they fade away and their specters enter their dead bodies. She comes to and staggers to the stairs to get assistance. She faints and falls down the stairway and dies.
- The story is a repetition of history, of the Indians and whites living in peace until one of the whites commits an overt act, which arouses the redmen. In this case Johnson, the trapper, finds Peach Blossom out in the fields gathering herbs and kidnaps her. The girl sees the Indians, out on a hunt, calls to them, the trapper throws her to the ground, and then escapes. Eagle Eye, in revenge, goes to Johnson's cabin and takes his boy, who is carried to the Indian camp and turned over to Mona. She becomes a little mother to the child, refusing to permit others to touch him. Mrs. Johnson, discovering the loss of the boy, rides to the fort and informs the commander. He orders out a troop. When the Indians hear of the approach of the soldiers they break camp and take up a position in what seems a very poor tactical position in a hollow, where the soldiers can not only shoot down into them, but roll rocks among them. The Indians are captured and lodged in the stockade. Big Rock and Dark Feather scale the fence. Big Rock steals up behind the sentry, throws him to the ground and with Mona gets away. The soldiers pursue. The chief, exhausted, is overtaken and shot. The Indian woman draws a knife and plunges it into her own breast.
- The basis of the story is an old edict, issued as the result of one of the tribal differences, that death shall be meted out to the Hopi woman who marries an Apache. Crouching Panther is struck by a rattlesnake, and goes to the camp of a party of surveyors. A member of the group, Jose, the Apache graduate of Carlisle, moves quickly. He cauterizes the wound and starts the Panther on his way home. A short time afterward Jose, on a hunting expedition, encounters a trap arranged for some animal and falls, badly hurt. His cries are heard by Starlight, who releases him and takes him to her home. As the injury mends, the two fall in love, which arouses the jealousy of Gray Wolf, a Hopi, himself a tribal marriage ceremony, in which the entire Indian community participates. Following the wedding the husband assumes the garb of a Hopi. As he appears before the bride in his abbreviated costume she discovers on the breast of Jose the mark of the Apache. In terror she tells Jose of the old edict, that she must die if his antecedents are revealed. Jose puts on a shirt, but Gray Wolf has discovered his origin. The chief is informed, and the two are seized. Starlight is forced to run the gantlet. Surviving this ordeal, she is thrown into a room of the pueblo, there to starve. Jose is bound to the side of the pueblo, to undergo the fate of his bride. Just following the marriage ceremony, Crouching Panther has returned and has most cordially greeted Jose, having in mind the signal service the Apache had rendered him on the occasion of the snakebite. The Panther was unable to save Starlight from her punishment, but he goes to Jose at his first opportunity, assuring him of his help. The watcher by the side of Jose is caught off his guard and put out of the way. A second Indian likewise is quickly disposed of. The two then go to the relief of Starlight. She is lifted up to the second floor, where the party await an opportunity to elude the vigilance of the tenants of the strange abode. They are all astir, and there is an animated picture. Finally the three mount horses and ride to the border. There at the dividing line between Mexico and the United States the Hopi gives Jose raiment and belt and pistols. As the light fades the Panther stands watching the two ride into the night. Jose had saved his life when he was injured. The Panther has saved two lives.
- Bailey, the squaw man, is panning gold on his claim, watched by White Eagle, his half-breed son, and Chief Black Eagle, who is attached to both father and son. Flying Bird, the mother of White Eagle, has dinner ready and comes out to call the men in. The chief goes unwillingly. The Apaches declare war upon Black Eagle and his tribe, by sending a bundle of arrows, tied with a snake skin, to Black Eagle. The latter defies him by breaking one of the arrows and returning it to the Apache chief. Black Eagle plans an ambush for the Apaches. He takes Bailey with him, and Flying Bird and the boy. White Eagle, are sent to the chief's camp, where they are welcomed. The Apaches fall into the ambush and are routed, but Bailey is killed. Flying Bird is inconsolable and when she is able to get away she goes to Bailey's last resting place and kills herself. Chief Black Eagle sends White Eagle to college. On his return White Eagle again adopts the costume and the customs of the tribe. A new frontier post is established in the desert. It excites the anger of the Indians. The colonel of the fort has his daughter, Dorothy, with him. She is sought in marriage by one Smalley, but she has no love for him. He is revengeful and allies himself to Pasedo, a Mexican. Dorothy goes riding. Her horse gets away from her, and White Eagle, who is out in the open, reading, sees her and assists her back to the fort. Later White Eagle, who has been appointed a chief, invites the garrison to attend their games. While the Indians and soldiers are engaged in the sport of the games, Smalley and Pasedo sneak off and, desiring to create trouble, shoot an Indian. The Indian is found and brought on, and White Eagle, with Indian cunning, compares the mud on the Indian's feet to that on the feet of the men present. He fastens the crime on Smalley, who is put under guard. The next day the colonel receives a message asking that a detachment of cavalry be sent to protect a gold train. Several squads ride out. With the assistance of Pasedo, Smalley escapes. The two get whiskey and take it to the Indians, who go on the warpath. Black Eagle and White Eagle are disgusted and go and warn the fort. The colonel sees the gravity of the situation and sends an orderly to overtake the cavalry and bring them back. The orderly finally reaches them and they turn back. Smalley abducts Dorothy and rides away to the Indian camp with her. They meet Moon Face, the hostile chief, and Dorothy convinces him that it was Smalley who killed the Indian. They make short work of Smalley, but send Dorothy to the Indian camp. The colonel finds a small handkerchief outside the fort and identifies it as his daughter's. He is in despair. White Eagle offers to go and rescue her, and tells them a flaming arrow shall be the signal of success. White Eagle rescues Dorothy, but is overtaken and they take refuge in a hut, where they hold the redskins at bay until their ammunition gives out. The cavalry, on their way back to the fort, see the Indians attacking the hut and, scenting trouble, rout them and take White Eagle and Dorothy back with them. Moon Face, unaware of the rescue of Dorothy, goes to the fort and demands surrender. He threatens that otherwise he will burn the white girl. The distracted colonel has but one course. He refuses and the battle starts. In the midst of it a flaming arrow is seen in the air, and the colonel knows that Dorothy is safe and on her way. The fort is hard pressed, but the returning cavalry gives relief and Dorothy is restored to her father's arms, and White Eagle receives the congratulations of everyone.
- "The Woman in White" is the story of a bold substitution made because a young wife refused to transfer her property to her scheming husband, Laura being the wife and Sir Percival Glyde being the husband. The Woman in White of the story is a girl of about Laura's general age and personal appearance, who has exhibited mental peculiarities from childhood. They were harmless in a way, one of the principal eccentricities being that of always dressing in white. When she finally became a source of distress to her own mother, the latter preferred to have her placed in a private establishment rather than a pauper asylum, and the mother thus played a part in the strange deception which was practiced by Sir Percival Glyde and Count Fosco. In order to obtain an enormous estate which would descend to Sir Percival in case of Laura's death without issue, the feeble minded and feeble bodied Woman in White was drilled to impersonate Laura while the latter was incarcerated in a private madhouse. Such is the plot of the story with Count Fosco as the principal conspirator and a little Italian named Professor Pesca as the real instrument of justice, although Laura's lover, Walter Hartwright, was an active agent. The photodrama opens with a revelation of the existence of one of those brotherhoods organized in Latin countries for political or criminal purposes. The members of the secret society are all gathered when Count Fosco betrays them by signaling to the police. A raid and terrific struggle follow; but little Professor Pesca escapes to the consternation of the Judas who has betrayed his fellow-members of the society. The love story of Walter Hartwright follows. He is the drawing master at the home of Laura and falls deeply in love with her. His love is reciprocated by the charming young girl, but the usual obstacle interposes that makes stories oi this kind interesting. Laura's husband has already been selected for her and the discovery of her affection for the drawing master results in his discharge. An end being made to the intimate relations she enjoyed with Walter Hartwright, and the young girl being completely under the dominance of her English father, she is compelled to marry the baronet that he has chosen, Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival Glyde is one of the decadent gentlemen of title who come to this country every year in search of some weak-minded heiress; and as his main purpose in matrimony is that of obtaining property he falls into the scheme of substitution suggested by bold Count Fosco. He has borrowed money from Fosco, and is such a moral idiot himself that he consents to have his wife drugged and incarcerated in a madhouse when she refuses to transfer her inheritance to him. It is almost unbelievable at this stage of our civilization that such a scheme could be carried out without immediate discovery because of the large number of people involved in transferring the young wife from her home to the private asylum and in the acceptance as a substitute of the half-witted woman who is nearly at the point of death. There could be no intelligent and honest acceptance of the sickly idiot in the place of the bright and charming girl she resembled, but as a matter of fact, the use of private asylums in England for the purpose of incarcerating people who are in the way was so common at that time that the great novels of Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade on that subject stirred up a political and moral revolution. Laura manages to escape from the private asylum after her substitute has died and been buried and she visits the graveyard where a stone has been raised sacred to her memory. Walter Hartwright meets her there. Believing her to be dead he visits her tomb as a matter of sentiment and finds a woman in black who is none other than the one supposed to be lying beneath the sod. The story now turns to the re-establishment of Laura's identity and this is brought about by the intuitive steps taken by Hartwright to follow up the associations of Sir Percival Glyde. He finds him in company with Count Fosco, then shadows the latter persistently, but without result, until he describes the arch villain to his particular friend and associate, little Professor Pesca. Pesca has not forgotten the treachery of Count Fosco and might be excused for writing the latter's death warrant on the spot. Instead, he gives Walter a communication to deliver which warns Fosco that he will meet his death by secret violence unless he re-establishes the right of the living Laura to her inheritance and to her place in society. Armed with this letter Walter extorts a written confession from the arch conspirator, the consideration being that Count Fosco shall be permitted two days' time to escape vengeance at the hands of the Brotherhood. The interesting and impressive Count Fosco, one of the boldest villains ever delineated in the social drama, removes the hirsute ornaments on his face and otherwise disguises himself to escape what should be coming to him. We feel that he is well out of the way, but what about the drunken decadent of attractive title, Sir Percival Glyde, who has slipped into matrimony and a tremendous inheritance with a conscienceless lack of scruples peculiar to his kind? A visitation of God causes the death of Sir' Percival Glyde in a highly dramatic fire scene. He is partially destroyed when rescued by Walter Hartwright and carried into the open to perish miserably. His dying confession completes the chain of evidence necessary to prove his own infamy and the true identity of the young wife he had placed in a private madhouse. The play ends with the final terror of Count Fosco. He has been detected by members of the Brotherhood in spite of his disguise and is shadowed from point to point in some very effective scenes until we see him in the last one lying dead at the heads of those he betrayed, alone in a humiliating end of a long life of degraded ability.
- Tom Warren, a young prospector, falls from a cliff. Angus McLean and his daughter, Jean, find Tom at the bottom of the cliff, and carry the injured man to their cabin. In gratitude Tom locates his claim in their names as well as his own. Dave Moody, a mining man, covets Tom's claim and plans to defraud him. Angus and Tom are obliged to fight for their rights. Jean makes a dash for the records. Jean, on her return to the claim, hears the distant popping of guns and divines the truth. She rounds up a band of cowboys and goes to the rescue. The enemy is caught between two fires and goes down to defeat. Jean will shortly become the life partner of Tom Warren.
- Claude Petreaux is an old doll maker, who lives with his daughter, Lucille. He has an apprentice, Villon, by name, a worthless man who loves Lucille. The young folks wish to marry, but Claude denies his permission. Villon persuades Lucille to elope. The old man is broken down with grief and swears that she will never darken his door again. Five years pass. In a distant city the young people are struggling to make a living. As a doll maker, Villon has not achieved success and he has already began to descend the steep roads of dissipation. A little girl, four years, has been born to them. One day the little girl brings home a dog to the already half-starved household. Villon, in drunken anger, at having another mouth to feed, kicks the dog brutally, and would put him out of doors, but the little girl takes the dog in her arms and pleads that it may he kept. In this she receives the support of her mother. In rage he vows that he will never feed them and leaves them to shift for themselves. The old man, in the meantime, feels that death is near, which increases his longing for Lucille, who paints a miniature of her baby and sends it to her father. He receives the miniature and calls in a notary. He disposes of his stock, and, using the miniature as a model, he fashions a doll and dispatches it to them. The wolf of starvation has made its appearance to Lucille and her child. She is anxiously awaiting a return to her letter. The packet with the doll arrives. The little girl is delighted with it, but the mother is keenly disappointed that no tangible help has been vouchsafed, and gives way to despair. At this time Villon returns deeply repentant with promises of reformation which woman-like, she accepts. The father takes the doll away from his child and throws it out of the window. The dog runs after it and the little girl sobs for her new toy. The father scolds her and the mother tries in vain to give her comfort. In the meantime the dog has found the doll in the yard and proceeds to tear it apart. The child seeing this, sobs even more piteously than ever at the destruction of her plaything. The mother's heart relents and she bids Villon go and rescue it. He brings it in, in a mangled condition when to their surprise and delight they find the concealed money.
- The Governor's daughter has many suitors. She tells them all that the one who brings her a branch from the Indian's sacred tree at the top of Montmartre shall win her hand. Two of the suitors accept the challenge and start out. Both arrive at the mount at the same time. A duel takes place between them and the defeated suitor apparently leaves for home, but realizing that the captain will win the hand of the girl, he plots with the Indians to do away with him for having dared to touch the tree which they think is sacred. The Indians come upon the captain as he descends the tree with the precious branch and invite him to a feast. In the meantime several of the savages have loosened the roof of the cave and as the captain enters, the top caves in. The captain's life is spared, but he loses his eyesight forever. He becomes the charge of the superstitious Indians and is given to a squaw, who is instructed to take care of him. Months afterward, the blind captain tells his faithful guard of his lost love and why he risked his life to climb their sacred tree. In the meantime, the Governor's daughter, believing the captain dead, consents to marry his rival, who has claimed that he was wounded while endeavoring to reach the tree and carried back the tale that the captain was killed. The Indian girl, after hearing the captain's story, yields to his entreaties to help him escape, and arriving at the Governor's house they learn that the ceremony is about to take place in the chapel. As the Indian girl leads the blind captain into the church, the priest who is about to pronounce the rival and the Governor's daughter man and wife, is stopped by the cries of the captain. He tells his story and the Indian girl also tells the plot of the rival. The rival rushes from the church and the Governor's daughter, realizing the great wrong which she has done the captain, falls on her knees to ask forgiveness, which is gladly given and the captain leads her to the altar and the ceremony is continued.
- This story deals with the lives of the Indians who ruled primeval North America for centuries before the white man came. Meene-o-Wa, the fairest maiden of all the tribes of the Utes, was called "The Yellow Rose," because of her beauty. Wathuma, the leopard, loved her, but her heart was not given to him. One day in the forest she came upon a handsome young stranger. They looked into each other's eyes and Meene-O-Wa knew that she loved him. Leaving him there she ran away, but be followed her back to her father's camp. He went to the old chief and asked her band in marriage. But the chief, looking upon his headdress of a single feather, told him that the man who won his daughter must be a chief. Then, considering, he told the stranger that if he could vanquish the famous warrior, Wahtuma, in a wrestling match, he might claim as his reward. "The Yellow Rose." Wahtuma, full of hate for his rival, put forth his best effort in the fight that followed, while Meene-O-Wa stood by, her heart torn with the fear that Waheta, the stranger, might lose. But the straight and supple stranger soon had the master hand, and slowly forced his foe to his knees, amid the plaudits of the tribe. So Meene-O-Wa was given to Waheta, and Wahtuma left them, vowing vengeance. A few days later Meene-O-Wa, while waiting in the woods for her husband, is thrown from the rocks by Wahtuma. And there it is that her husband finds her, dead. The bereaved husband carried his wife's body back to the camp, and, after handing her to the old chief, he begs one boon of the great spirit that he be able to kill Wahtuma. Rushing out into the woods, he comes upon the leopard, and he gives him just one chance to defend himself. Before the fury of the maddened husband the other man's weapons are powerless, and he is overcome and killed. Waheta then returns to the camp to mourn over Meene-O-Wa's body.
- An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.
- An heiress, under the protection of the Queen, falls in love with a poor knight.
- One day, in the spring of 1812, Black Partridge, a friendly Pottawatomie chief, appeared before Captain N. Heald, the commander of the garrison at Fort Dearborn, which occupied the site of the city of Chicago previously to 1812, Singing Bird, a squaw, accompanied her father. Black Partridge handed back the famous "Peace Medal" to Commander Heald, telling him that the Indians were on the warpath and beyond control. Rawlins a dissolute Englishman, insulted Singing Bird, and was confined in the guard house, from which he escapade. He joined the Indians and incited them to attack and destroy the garrison and settlers. Captain Heald received a message, brought by a friendly Indian, from General Hull, telling him that Mackinaw had fallen and instructing him to evacuate the garrison and distribute the United States lands amongst the Indians. Rawlins plotted with the Indians to offer safe conduct to the whites at Fort Wayne. Heald deemed it policy to accept the offer, and the garrison and a handful of settlers evacuated and marched out. The attitude of the Indians was unmistakable and the band played the "Dead March in Saul." The attack was made, and with few exceptions the brave band was murdered. Captain Heald was overpowered and Mrs. Heald, standing bravely by her husband's side, was seized by Crouching Cat and was about to be captured when Singing Bird killed the Indian with a tomahawk, Rawlins endeavored to take her off, but Singing Bird pulled Mrs. Heald, badly wounded, upon her horse, and escaped with her. Rawlins had Heald tied to a tree, having saved him in order to torture him. Singing Bird drugged the guard's water, and freed Heald and helped him to escape. The brave Indian girl was badly wounded and died in Mrs. Heald's arms as a detachment of soldiers from Fort Wayne rode up to complete the rescue. The Indians burned the fort and celebrated their victory.
- It all depended on Bernice. Whether her consumptive brother obtained the light and air that meant life to him, and whether her aged mother and little sister ate dally and slept nightly, all depended upon her. Bernice made a few dollars as a stenographer. One day her pressing needs presented a new view of economics to Bernice. Her employer had too much money, she had nothing. The checkbook lay open on the desk. He would never miss it; why shouldn't she. Her employer did miss it, and sent for a detective. She was suspected. The detective called at her home in her absence, and questioned her family. The consumptive brother admitted that she had given him a sum equal to the amount missing. Bernice was arrested. A short while after the incident, her mother went to the little prison where Bernice was awaiting trial, leaving the sick boy to take care of the baby June. In the boy's mind was conflict, in his heart was war. Long he thought, and then his resolution was formed. Taking the tot, he rallied all his weak strength, and started for his sister's employer's office. The walk was long, he was weary and exhausted, but he stubbornly continued, reached the door, and fell fainting. Baby June entered the office, and walked straight to the employer. He looked into June's eyes, and saw the eyes of his own love lost. The baby's story was told, and the baby fingers led him to the door where the unconscious boy lay. The invalid was revived, the girl's sacrifice explained. At her employer's request, she was liberated from prison and her position was returned to her. The consumptive went to Mexico at her employer's expense, and Baby June won a life-long friend.
- Jim quarrels with his sister Nela, leaves home, and to soothe his ruffled feelings enters a saloon and gambles. Jack, a stranger, enters the place and is persuaded to join the game; Jim picks a quarrel with the stranger and finally draws his gun, which Jack takes from him, hits him on the head, stunning him. Thinking he has killed Jim, Jack makes a getaway. After laying Jim upon a chair, the gamblers go in chase of Jack. In the brief time that the saloon is vacant, Jim comes to, and in a dazed state leaves the saloon by a back door and wanders away. The sheriff and posse go after Jack, who eludes them and doubles back. He finds Jim unconscious by a creek, is delighted and takes him on his horse to his cabin in the hills, where he and his partners take care of Jim, whose wits have not fully returned. Jim's sister Nela is told of the assault upon her brother, his disappearance and of his hat being found by the lake. She mourns him as dead and vows to avenge him. She goes into the hills each day and practices revolver shooting. Jack finds her there one day, and not knowing who she is, teaches her how to shoot properly. They often meet and a mutual attachment springs up between them. One day he asks her why she is giving so much attention to revolver practice; she tells him. He, being of too decided a nature to deceive her, tells her that he is the man who injured her brother. Before he can explain bow the quarrel occurred, or how be had rescued and cared for Jim, she aims her revolver at him. He, looking directly at her, opens his arms and tells her to shoot. She falters and the gun drops just as Jim, having recovered his faculties, bursts in upon them. The explanation leads up to happiness.