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- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- Walter Avery is blessed with a most dutiful and loving wife whose every endeavor and thought is to make him happy, but being a man of the world he finds domestic life dull and his wife's attentions boring, and he eagerly accepts invitations to the different social functions. Accompanied by his wife, he attends a social gathering and meets a young dancing girl, society's favorite entertainer. He is immediately obsessed and infatuated, and his feelings are clearly reciprocated. Mrs. Avery's suspicions are aroused and she accuses him of undue attentions toward the dancer. He, of course, denies her accusations and cajoles her into believing that his thoughts are always only for her. But the time comes when she sees positive proof of his perfidy in a letter to him from the dancer, inviting him to attend a dinner at her home given in his honor, hoping he will not fail to grace the occasion. When he is about to leave for the dancer's home, Mrs. Avery picks up a bottle of poison, threatening to take her life if he goes. Regarding this threat merely a jealous woman's trick to keep him home, he derides it and pours the bottle's contents into a goblet, remarks that taking it that way would be more convenient, and off he goes. When he is gone, the situation's true aspect dawns on her. She realizes for the first time what a despicable wretch he is--not worth the effort to save him--so she dashes the glass with its contents to the floor. However, the strain of the ordeal proves too much for her and she falls to the floor in a swoon. Meanwhile, Avery reaches the dancer's home and his entrance is toasted. By strange coincidence, the glass handed to him is identical to the one he handed his wife and at once becomes conscience-stricken that his wife might have carried out her threat. Rushing back to his home he finds his wife in a swoon and thinks she is dead--and he caused it. Instantly he becomes a veritable maniac and dashes madly out of the house and back into the dancer's home like a fiend. The guests are thrown into a panic as he shrieks, "I killed my wife. I killed my wife!" and falls across the table dead, struck down by the relentless avenger of injured virtue.
- Annie is a maid who is seduced and made pregnant by one of her boss's relatives. Her loving fiancée, Johann, stands by her but her employers turn her out onto the street. Annie relocates to a nearby village for the birth where she reluctantly gives her baby up for adoption. Many years later she returns and, with Johann's help, kidnaps the child. The two are caught, arrested and imprisoned. After serving their sentence, Johann sets the manor house afire without realising that Annie's child is inside. When Annie tries a rescue, she perishes in the flames.
- Tip in the Canadian woods is a small town where John Stanway's law office window looks into the window of a saloon next door. One day while working at his desk Stanway sees a brawl in the barroom, in which the bartender finally hits a man over the head with a mallet; this is all Stanway can see clearly. It develops later that the man who was struck dies, and the blame is shifted by the bartender, who knows nothing of Stanway's espionage, to the town drunkard, who has a beautiful daughter with whom Stanway is in love. Of course the story ends properly, as all stories should, with the bartender in jail, the town drunkard reformed and the lawyer married to the girl. But before it ends there is a corking good fight between the accused man and the real culprit.
- After a vain search for fortune in the depths of the earth, a prospector comes upon an Indian arrowmaker, who is about to conceal a quantity of gold which he has mined. The temptation is too great for the unlucky prospector and he follows the arrowmaker to a cave, kills him, and starts across the Colorado desert with the ill-gotten gold. The arrowmaker's daughter finds her father's body and a clue to the murderer. She takes up the trail and in turn is followed by her Indian lover, who assumes that she is in love with the white man. The prospector and the girl are soon in agony because of a lack of water, but little by little the girl overtakes him, and, exhausted, they can go no farther. The Indian, with a supply of water, arrives in time to resuscitate the girl. The murderer proffers them the gold for a sip of water, but the offer is spurned, and together they watch him die.
- Aunt Hetty comes to visit her nephew and niece and brings her goldfish. Her niece is most hearty and affectionate in welcoming "Aunty." Some say that it was because Aunty had money and the niece wanted to be sure of appearing in the will. But it doesn't seem possible. Anyway Aunty arrived, she sent for fresh brook water and the errand runner met the Constable, who was also Fish and Game Warden. The nephew 'phones home that he is detained by an important meeting and will not be home to dinner, or supper. The truth is that he has a poker party bid. Beside playing poker he "has a few" with the rest of the follows, and then he has a few more. Somehow, someway, he manages to get home after all are in bed. Quite natural in his condition he wants a drink, meaning a drink of water, of course. He discovers Aunt Hetty's goldfish bowl, is about to drink when he sees "monsters" swimming around. The bowl goes to the floor with a crash. Aunt Hetty and niece seem to shoot into the room and discover him in the throes of reptile fear. Aunt Hetty scoops up and saves her fish and a doctor and nurse arc sent for. Nephew falls in love with the nurse. It all ends well, for nephew promises to abstain when the goldfish horror is explained. Aunt Hetty thereupon enters his name in her will and her visit promises a pleasant future for all.
- Jane Carston was to return tomorrow from Ohio, where she had been at school for the past three years, and the ranch was all agog with expectancy and cleanliness. Head cowboy Bob Evans was the most eager and anxious. Tomorrow finally became today and Pa had gone to the station in his best linen duster and the buckboard to meet Jane. Finally, in a cloud of dust, Bob discerns them on the brow of the hill. Arriving at the house Jane greets mother with a rousing smack. She was effusive and kind to all the boys, until Bob. Then, was it possible Jane could be shy? Anyway her greeting was different from the rest. Things progress nicely until Bob is asked to mail a letter for Jane to Dr. J.C. Bronner, to whom Jane refers as "her darling old school friend Jack." Jealousy on Bob's part makes him very miserable, but is intensely amusing to Jane. Jane decides to clean up that "nasty messy old bunkhouse." She discovers a caricature of Dr. Jay Bronner on Bob's bunk and it incites her to further increase his jealousy. Jane flirts with Dick, another cowboy, and he promptly falls in love with her. The crowning blow comes to these boys when Jane tells them that Jack, her doctor, is coming out on a visit and shows them a letter from him in which it is inferred that Jane and the doctor would take a little tour of the world. Desperation makes these rivals join forces against this common foe, and they determine by "black hand" means to make him leave the country. The day the doctor is to arrive, all the boys are to go to the round-up and branding, and Bob and Dick both promptly refuse to go to town for the doctor, but all the boys leave the ranch. Jane goes herself and meets a charming young girl, Dr. Jacque Bronner. The girls are convulsed over the anger of the cowboys, but Jane secretly admits to Jacque her love for Bob. Returning from the branding, they are told the doctor has a headache and Jane was serving tea to the doctor in "his" room. This is too much for the boys. That night they enter the doctor's room, masked, with the purpose of "blue-checking'' him out of the country. In the surprise which follows their discovery of the doctor's sex, they miscalculate her determination, and Dick receives a painful but not severe flesh wound from the doctors silver derringer. Doc keeps them covered and yells lustily for help. Discovery and confusion not unmixed with mirth, follows. During convalescence under the Doc's attention, Dick heals his arm and breaks his heart. Bob sees silence may be golden, but learns that a speech in time saves many heartaches. Dick's heart and arm are healed simultaneously.
- George and Mabel are in love. Mabel's father is opposed to George and his suit. George writes Mabel a letter, asking her to meet him at Darling's restaurant. Father gets hold of the letter, and decides to meet George himself, taking with him a large club. Mabel warns George. George disguises himself as a blonde lady and keeps the appointment. George flirts with father and they dine together. Father is very much smitten, and George steals father's hat. George then runs out on father, who does not know what to make of it until he arrives at home, only to find George and Mabel planning their wedding day. Father raises a row until George threatens to expose his wild actions and career in the restaurant, and father has no other course left open to him than the giving of the parental blessing.
- The deacon is a reformer, and is appointed the head of the Purity League, composed of the old maids of the town. A poster of a dancer is condemned by the league. The deacon goes to an amusement park and there sees the original of the poster standing on a platform during a ballyhoo, and sneaks in and gets a front seat. The dancer's efforts are met with a storm of applause from the deacon, who meets the girl after the show and becomes badly smitten, and in a moment of weakness is persuaded to have his tintype taken with the girl in costume. Some time later the show hits the deacon's home town, and the Purity League tries to prevent the performance. The arguments with the management reach an exciting stage, when the girl comes up and shows the picture of the deacon. The leaguers turn upon him, strip him of his badge and assist his wife in teaching him a thorough lesson.
- John Allison sees the cowboys off on the roundup, and is left alone with his wife and baby. Faber and Stern, two horse rustlers, know this and attempt to steal two horses. They are frustrated by Allison, and in an exchange of shots Faber is badly wounded in the left arm, and Allison sustains a flesh wound in his right arm. The men escape. Mrs. Allison binds her husband's arm and rides away for the sheriff and a doctor, leaving the baby with Allison. Faber insists upon returning. Stern accompanies him. Faber creeps up to the ranch house door and shoots Allison. Stem enters the house and sees the man is beyond help. He sees the baby and, thinking it may starve, takes it away with him. He has a long and cold ride to his mountain shack, and upon his arrival discovers that the child has died from exposure. Years pass, and Stern becomes a horse dealer. He has kept a pretty little brooch which he found upon the baby. He runs across Worthless Dan, a boy of eighteen. Stern gives him food and persuades Dan to accompany him. They call upon Mrs. Allison, and while refusing to buy a horse she is attracted to Dan, who reminds her strongly of what her boy would have been at his age. The next day Stern shows Dan the baby's brooch, and he tells Dan he can pass off as the widow's son if he (Dan) will do as he is told and help him (Stern) occasionally. Dan consents. Mrs. Allison is easily convinced and Dan goes to her, and soon learns to love this gracious lady. One night Stern enters the house and, seeing Dan alone, demands that he break open the safe and go with him. There is a fight, which Mrs. Allison witnesses, and Stern is ejected. Dan confesses the deception, but Mrs. Allison takes him to her heart.
- 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.
- Jim Hale is engaged to a pretty girl, Irene Smith, and goes west to search for gold. After enduring many privations he finally strikes a promising vein of rock, and spends his last money for powder to blast with. A terrific explosion rends the mountainside, revealing no yellow metal. Despondent and discouraged, Jim writes to his sweetheart, releasing her from her engagement and bidding her good-bye forever, and goes on his way. In his abstraction he becomes lost in the desert and suffers from the blistering rays of the sun and raging thirst. In a dying condition he is found by the Indians, who bring him back to health, and Jim marries an Indian girl and becomes a fur trader. Irene Smith and her father go in search of Jim, joining an emigrant train. The Indians plan to capture the train, and Jim determines to prevent the massacre of the whites. His squaw aids him in this, and he reaches the emigrants and leads the women and children to a distant fort, while the men remain to guard the horses, oxen and equipment. The meeting between Jim and Irene is pathetic, Jim confessing his marriage. A terrible battle takes place between the whites and the Indians, while Jim leads the soldiers to the scene. They arrive too late, as they find nothing but the smoking ruins of the camp. The squaw, thinking her husband is among the slain, determines to avenge Jim's death, and during the night enters the chief's tent and kills him. She is caught by the squaws, who beat her and throw her over a cliff. She painfully drags herself to the door of the cabin, where Jim finds her, and she expires in his arms. The picture ends with a silhouette dissolving scene after a title, "The call of the blood," showing Jim riding slowly back to civilization and Irene.
- The picture was taken in the Sierra National Forest in California and shows what a wonderful work the United States rangers are doing. We are first shown one of the principal causes of forest fires, that of careless campers failing to extinguish their campfire. Next we see the lone lookout on top of the mountain peak overlooking the entire forest area. He spots the white haze crawling up over the distant ravine and sends the alarm to the forest headquarters over the 'phone. From headquarters the alarm is sent to the nearest ranger and we see him mounting his horse and starting for the fire. In turn each ranger is notified and all arrive at the burning forest, and then begins a fierce fight against the fire. Not by water, but by rake, hoe, brush and most of all by fire itself. The fire getting beyond control, a general alarm is sent in and help is called from the power house, but the fire continues to resist their endeavors and more help is needed. The heliograph is called into play and a message is sent miles across from one mountain peak to another. As a result farmers are called out who, getting on a high speed truck auto, dash to the burning forest. We see a settler driven from his home and all his possessions lost in the flames. And when night closes around we see what a strong lesson has been taught to the few merry campers who left their fire burning by the roadside, never thinking of the future nor of the result. We are shown the pathos and the destruction caused by carelessness.
- John Blair, the District Attorney of a large city, is a drug fiend, and on the day he is to sum up the People's case in a celebrated murder trial, he finds that he is unable to continue. A young lawyer, named Gary, who has followed the case, calls upon Blair, seeking employment. The following scene is achieved by a double exposure which is perfectly accomplished. Confronting each other, the similarity of their countenances astounds them both and it gives Blair an idea. He offers Gary $1,000 to exchange positions with him. Gary agrees and they exchange apparel. Blair goes to the poor lodgings of Gary, while Gary, accompanied by Blair's wife, who has not detected the substitution, goes to court. With an eloquent summing up Gary wins the case. It is then he breaks the news to Mrs. Blair. She is at first unconvinced, but finally they both go to Gary's hoarding place where they find the real Blair dead. His good name and the reputation of his family are at stake, so a compact is arranged, whereby Gary becomes Blair and the real Blair is buried as Gary, the unknown.
- Captain King is a Northern officer who is shot and left unconscious on the field of battle, which takes place near the home of Lieutenant Kane, a Southern officer, who is also badly wounded. King regains his senses, and as he sits up and endeavors to take a drink from his canteen he sees a ghoul at work on a group of dead and dying Confederates, Drawing his heavy pistol, he makes short work of the human vulture, and staggers to the spot, where he discovers Lieutenant Kane with a spark of life still remaining. He gives the Southerner a drink from his canteen and extricates him from the bodies lying on top of him, and then binds up his wounds. In the meantime Kane's mother and sister learn that he is among the missing and go to the battlefield in search of him. The two officers are brought to the Kane home, where King soon recovers, while Kane lingers between life and death. King's command comes back and he joins his regiment. The officers hold a conference in the Kane home, and Lieutenant Kane is moved to an old darky's cabin to prevent his capture. One of the Northern officers is Dick Stanton, of the Confederate secret service. Helen Stanton has nursed King, and he has fallen in love with her. Stanton forces his attentions upon Helen, who is saved from an embarrassing situation by King's interference. Stanton follows Helen to the cabin and enters, intending to cause the arrest of the wounded officer, but is amazed to find that Kane knows him and introduces him to Helen. Stanton tells them he is endeavoring to secure the Federal plans for General Lee, and Helen promises to aid him. During the conference he, supposedly accidentally, knocks down the candlestick, and when the light goes out he hands the papers to Helen, who has been watching her opportunity, and she rushes from the room. The sentries head her off and attempt to capture her, and she doubles on her tracks and re-enters the house, running up to the attic. Captain King follows and is thunderstruck to find out the identity of the fugitive. He takes the papers from her and, hearing the steps of other pursuers on the stairs, he takes quick action to save her. Hiding her, he kicks the window out and shoots himself in the arm and tells the other officers the spy has leaped out. His coat is torn open to bind his wound, and the missing papers drop to the floor. He can make no explanation, and an immediate court martial is ordered. Rather than betray Helen, King accepts his condemnation as a spy. Stanton manages to stay behind during the excitement in the attic, and finds Helen. She promises to elope with him if he will leave behind a written confession that he is the guilty party, to exonerate King. He writes the confession, but refuses to give it to her, and the overwrought girl attempts to take it by force. She is roughly handled by Stanton, and in the scuffle she pulls his revolver from its holster and fires. The shot arouses the officers on the floor below, and as they come rushing up Helen places the confession in the stiffening hand of Stanton, acknowledging that he is a Confederate spy, and secretes herself. King is restored to his position, and parts from Helen in an affecting scene.
- A fisher maid named Betty on the rock shore one day meets Jack Dubois, a revenue officer. They part to meet that evening at the same place. Sam Wilson and his band of beachcombers change the government beacon fire, used to guide vessels safely past the rocks. Betty reaches the scene as they have finished their work. She is immediately taken prisoner and carried off to their rendezvous. Dubois, arriving a few moments later, is searching for Betty when he discovers the misplaced light. He connects the transposed light with the disappearance of Betty, and gathering his comrades he sets out to find Betty. He does not find her until the pirates are prepared for the final rush upon the hut in which Sam Wilson, now violently in love, is guarding Betty. In payment for his kindness Betty hides Sam from her lover, and all of Wilson's hopeless love is vented in a passionate kiss of her hand.
- During the early Christian era, Karma, a very spiritual and virtuous High Priest of the Temple of India, resists with all his religious fervor, Quinetrea, a beautiful and fascinating enchantress. Quinetrea eventually conquers and Karma falls a victim to her wiles. She triumphantly taunts him, and outraged at her cruel deception. Karma curses her, and Quinetrea is transformed into a huge snake. Fifteen hundred years later, Karma appears, reincarnated in the personality of Leslie Adams and loves the beautiful heiress, Lillian White. Together they visit the ancient Temple of Karma and are shown the reptile, which every hundred years resumes human form. While Leslie gazes fascinated, the snake uncoils and Quinetrea stands before him in all her bewitching charm. She holds him with her hypnotic power and forces him to accept an amulet for his betrothed, upon receiving which Lillian falls dead. Karma beholds a vision of his former self as High Priest, again curses Quinetrea, and drops dead across the prostrate body of his betrothed.
- John Langdon, a prosperous young business man is seen in his happy home with his wife and four-year old daughter. On his way to business he meets an old college friend, who shows him a telegram from a horse owner saying that a certain horse cannot lose and for him to go the limit. John is not interested, and tells his friend so. His friend, Dick Ralston, is next seen in a gambling house, where he wins a twenty to one chance. At John's house that night he produces a large roll of bills saying the tip was good and the horse won. Next day Dick calls at John's office and shows him another telegram similar to the first one. This time John is persuaded to accompany Dick to the poolroom, where they both win on a long shot. John becomes a frequent visitor at the poolroom and neglects his business. Soon he becomes bankrupt, and mortgages his home. He takes one last chance and loses everything. Shortly after we find the family living in a miserable attic, poverty-stricken, the wife very ill and John a drunken wreck. The wife dies and John, filled with remorse, sinks on the table in the wretched room, with his child beside him.
- A prospector dies suddenly before the town tavern and leaves his small daughter, Ann, to be brought up by strangers. Eleven years later finds her a western beauty, the "darling of the camp." She can play poker with the best of them and luck will usually smile in her direction. One day while on her accustomed ride, she meets Smith, the gambler, who falls in love with her, and she, never having known a better man, reciprocates. Smith teaches her how to help him to cheat at cards, and their winnings are enormous until the game is discovered and they are obliged to fly. Smith is wounded, but Ann is aided in her escape by a kindly stranger whom she had aided in illness. He gives her a letter to friends in New York, who receive her as one of their own and educate her to refinement. After three years she is an accomplished and attractive young lady. Maurice, son of her kindly benefactors, at this time ends his long estrangement with the family and returns. It takes but one month for him to win Ann's love, and with the old folks' approval, the wedding is planned. The night before the ceremony Ann bears a noise downstairs, and investigating, finds a burglar, who is none other than her old lover, Smith. Recognition is instantaneous. He threatens to expose her past unless she "comes across." Maurice comes to the rescue and ejects Smith, but the latter gives him some of Ann's love letters. It is hard for Maurice to believe Smith's story, but Ann confirms it and gives him the privilege of canceling the wedding. Never! Maurice loves her for herself regardless of her past, and nobly tears up the letters unread.
- The heir to a comfortable fortune is followed by a tramp and laid low with a blow from a hammer which the tramp has stolen from the blacksmith shop of Jeff Reed. The tramp buries the money near a hollow tree and then summons the police who find the hammer and accordingly arrest the blacksmith. Reed's outraged family help him to escape from the cell and he goes to the scene of the murder in search of some evidence that will clear his name. The tramp returns about this time and the blacksmith watches him intently from the hollow tree in which he has concealed himself. When the tramp has dug the money from its hiding place and started away, Reed springs upon him, turns him over to the authorities and has little difficulty in proving his innocence and the guilt of the new prisoner.
- A child stops an ex-convict from killing his wife.
- Roy Delmore, a young actor, loves Violet, but her father refuses to sanction the marriage, for he wishes her to wed an old bachelor friend. The young suitor confides to his dearest friend, who is also an actor, and tells him of his hard luck. The suitor decides to impersonate the elderly admirer, whom they entice into an automobile by a clever ruse. They secure his clothes and the young man impersonates him and is admitted to the house. In the meantime the girl decides to disgust and discourage the elderly suitor. Taking the butler into her confidence, she has him sprinkle the room with brandy and puff it full of cigarette smoke and pours a quart of whiskey in the decanter. When the young actor enters the house she, taking him for the elderly admirer, acts the tomboy and then beats him about the room with boxing gloves. He discloses his identity and she explains to him the reason for her extraordinary actions. Roy then sees her father and quickly gets his consent to the marriage, for he has reassumed his disguise, and the stern father believes him to be the elderly admirer. The father leaves them alone and Roy telephones to his friend, who throws the elderly admirer out of a saloon door, where he collides with the girl's father, who believing him drunk, tells him never to visit his daughter again. Then he returns home and sees a portion of the side whiskers sticking to the daughter's face, learns of the deception, and although angry at first, he soon treats it as a joke and gives his consent to the marriage.
- An escaped convict's dying confession clears a clerk convicted for stabbing a banker.
- A vicar's daughter elopes with an actor who kills his manager and is acquitted by the barrister who loves her.
- Jim Carey finds an old prospector dying in the desert, and is entrusted with his treasure as a reward for hastening for help. This good act is witnessed by Galvez, who harbors revenge against Carey. He finds his knife, finishes the old man in the desert, and charges Carey with the crime. In his wild ride for the doctor Carey saves the stage from a hold-up and rescues the governor's daughter. In the plea for executive clemency, made by his mother, to save him from the scaffold, she shows his picture to the governor and it is recognized by his daughter, which establishes his alibi, and brings his accuser, Galvez, to justice.
- The Indian chief mourns for and is burying his little child, and his squaw is inconsolable. An Indian goes to a saloon and is plied with the forbidden firewater. Another Indian tries to get him to leave. He refuses and when he finds he is being tricked by a gambler, a fight ensues and the Indian is killed. His companion escapes and tells the chief that his brother has been killed by a pale face. The chief swears vengeance. He goes to the fort to demand justice, and is told that Red Tape demands a civil and not a military trial. The chief, unable to comprehend and believing that there is no justice where the redskins are concerned, takes an oath over his brother's body to exterminate the pale faces. The Indians go on the warpath. They first attack isolated settlers and in one instance are repulsed by sharp shooters, who pick off several of the redskins from a tree. Prairie schooners, filled with settlers fleeing from the avenging Indians, leave their wagons and ride off on the horses. A party of several wagons is caught and massacred. A woman has her baby torn from her arms by the Indian chief, who is about to kill both when his squaw, with the mother instinct, begs him to save the woman and to let her have the child to fill the void caused by the loss of her own baby. The Indians decamp with the little girl, and when the troopers arrive they find a raving woman, bereft of reason. The squaw cuddles the baby to her bosom and is content. Fifteen years later the poor mad woman lives in a tree house. It is partially ornamented with scalps, scalps of Indians, for the wild woman has become the scourge of the red man. She hunts amongst the rocks. When the Indians approach she throws a rock at one of them. He falls dead. His superstitious companions flee in terror. The wild woman laughs with glee and adds another scalp to her collection. The little white child taken by the squaw grows into a beautiful young woman and she lives happily with the Indians and is attached to the squaw. The authorities at Washington write to the commandant of the fort, requesting that investigation be made of the presence of a wild woman stated to be in the vicinity of the fort, a young lieutenant offers to take it up unofficially, and is granted permission. The wild woman kills another Indian and the tribe is filled with terror. The young lieutenant, at the head of a detachment, visits the Indians and learns of the terrible scourge. Several of them lead the lieutenant to the scene of the outrages. The wild woman sees the cavalry and hesitates. Then she sees the Indians and savagely kills one with a rock from her three home. An Indian fires, and the lieutenant climbs the tree and finds her desperately wounded on her platform. The cavalry take her, unconscious to the Indian camp where she is laid on a pallet in a tepee. White Dove bathes her head and the woman comes to and looks at her curiously. She suddenly grabs at the locket White Dove is wearing and faints. The lieutenant notes all this and interviews the chief, when he learns how his squaw adopted the child, thinking the mother dead. The lieutenant is much attracted to the beautiful girl. Time passes. The mother recovers her reason and is taken back to civilization.
- Cora casts aside young spendthrift George after he spends his last dollar. As he leaves he reproaches her so severely that she is frightened and threatens him with a pistol. He seizes it, it is actually discharged, and she is wounded. Horrified, he is about to kill himself when the police enter and she accuses him of attempted murder. He is sentenced to prison for 10 years. She is scarred for life and broods over it until she is warned that her reason will be affected. George is released on parole after he has served less than half of his sentence. He falls in love with Marcelle and later marries her. She knows nothing of his criminal record as he has broken his parole and changed his name thus rendering himself liable to arrest. Cora has opened a gambling saloon. One night George visits the place and she recognizes him. She pleads for his love. He scorns her. She has him followed and sends him a letter threatening to denounce him. He decides to plead to her. His wife follows him and hears him denounced as a convict and she confronts Cora with deep scorn. Cora calls up the police and tells where they can find the convict who has broken his parole. The young couple goes home to await the officers, who go first to Cora and find her a maniac; the excitement has been too much for her. They go to George who clasping his wife in his arms is awaiting arrest. To their surprise the officers tell them the department has decided to pay no attention to the charge of a maniac and leave. Later, George and Marcelle attend the deathbed of the repentant adventuress.
- Captain Arden is ordered by Colonel Hampton, in charge of the frontier fort, to go under escort to Culvert's Corner and await a wagon load of supplies. He bids good-bye to his wife, Blanche, as she is talking to Lorimer. Passing the post trader's store, the Captain goes in for some tobacco. He sees an Indian, Still Foot, in the act of stealing a blanket, and beats him. Lorimer comes up and interferes, and the keeper of the store, Munson, and his daughter, Bonita, both make light of the matter. Not so Arden, who is very angry at Lorimer for his interference. Blanche meets Lorimer outside of the store, and whilst conversing, he drops his glove, which is picked up by Blanche's Indian attendant, Oak Leaf, who conceals it in the bodice of her dress. Lorimer and Bonita go riding. Lorimer misses his glove, and proposes to Bonita, who accepts him. Still Foot harbors revenge for the indignity shown him by Arden, and Lorimer reproves him, when he sees the Indian stalking Arden with a knife. Arden meets the supply wagon, and at Culver's Corner spends some time in the saloon, and leaves it somewhat intoxicated and with a bottle of whiskey. it is Lorimer's birthday, and his chums prepare a good natured reception for him when he enters the mess room. They belabor him with paddles. He frees himself by slipping out of his coat and escapes with his friends in hot pursuit. He dashes into the Arden home, and Blanche, entering into the fun of the thing, tells Oak Leaf to show Lorimer the stairway. Oak Leaf shows him, and Lorimer runs up the stairs and hides in the attic. The boys follow him into the house, and Blanche tells them Lorimer has gone out by the back door. They dash out, and not seeing him, divide up to prevent his getting away. Lorimer is in a fix, and while debating what to do, he sees Arden return, staggering, and in a bad temper. Lorimer recognizes his awkward position. Arden is seen entering his house by the sullen Still Foot. The Captain is insulting to Blanche and she and Oak Leaf leave him alone. Blanche scribbles a note to Lorimer, in which she describes her husband's ugly mood, and begs him to wait until it is dark, and then to get down by means of the rain pipe. Blanche returns to Arden, and upon her remonstrating with him for ordering more liquor, he flies into a passion and tries to injure her. Later in the evening Arden falls asleep. Still Foot steals in and stabs him. Oak Leaf enters the door and sees this, but Still Foot gags and binds her and takes her away. In the struggle, Lorimer's glove falls from Oak Leaf's bodice. One of the junior officers goes to the doctor and begs him to try and sober Arden up before the Colonel sees him. He breaks in upon Arden as Lorimer, hearing something and divining something serious has happened, is about to make his escape. The Colonel and Blanche are summoned, and the tragedy confronts him. As Lorimer slides down the water pipe, it collapses, and he falls stunned. The officers in the house hear the fall, and go out and investigate. Lorimer is brought in and confronted with his missing glove. Horrified, he pulls out his handkerchief, and with it comes the note Blanche wrote him. Both are placed under arrest. Bonita does not believe in Lorimer's guilt, and states her determination to stand by him. Still Foot brings Oak Leaf to his tribe, and demands protection. Bonita visits Lorimer in prison, and he tells her that he is sure the crime lies between Still Foot and Oak Leaf, and that without them he cannot prove his innocence. Bonita gets a gun and rides to the Indian camp. She is told that Still Foot is not there. She is seen by Oak Leaf, who slips away and meets her by the stream. Oak Leaf promises to help Bonita capture Still Foot. They overpower him in the early morning, gag and take him away at the point of a gun. The Indians discover the absence of Still Foot and Oak Leaf, and give chase. Bonita and Oak Leaf eventually get Still Foot to the fort, where matters are explained and adjusted, and Lorimer is freed. He and Bonita are reunited, while Blanche's name is successfully cleared of all suspicion.
- Holtz, Schultz and Schmaltz are three friends. They attend a meeting of spiritualists and discuss things pertaining to the other world. They separate and go home. Holtz upon his arrival is shocked to find upon his opening his door, a large black coffin. Frightened out of his wits, he runs from the house. He meets Schultz, and Schultz doubting his story, accompanies him home. He sees the same sight, and they both run away. They then go to Schultz's home, and the same thing awaits them there. They run again, and meeting Schmaltz, tell him of their strange experiences. He accuses them of having the meeting they attended on their mind, but agrees to go with them to Schultz's room. He goes, and he also sees this gruesome object. He takes them to his room and there also is a strange black coffin. They run out and get a policeman. All four come back, and after much hesitation on the part of all, the officer goes to the coffin to see what it contains. He finds a letter from a friend of Schmaltz, who is an undertaker, explaining that as he is retiring from business, he is presenting his friends with a coffin, in the belief that they will need it some day.
- A prince among good fellows is John Northrup, who loves his club, but never forgets he has a home and a fond, loving wife. He keeps good hours notwithstanding the jibes and jests of his fellow club members. One night, he is pleased to find his wife preparing a Welsh rabbit for him. After finishing the rabbit he sinks into the old armchair at the fireplace to smoke a cigar and soon dozes off to sleep and has a most remarkable dream. He sees himself about to die, supposedly of having over indulged in Welsh rabbit. The doctor at the bedside pronounces his case beyond hope; he bids his wife and friends goodbye and dies. His spirit is transported Heavenward by an angel, who guides him to the golden gates of Heaven. Here he meets unexpected obstacles, and plead as he will, he fails utterly in gaining admission. Finally in despair he inquires for Tom, Dick and Harry, who were his pals at the club and learns that they have been sent to the world of darkness, so sadly he begins his journey on the downward path and finally reaches the domain of his Satanic majesty, who gives him a royal welcome and bids him enter, assuring him that his friends Tom, Dick and Harry are inside. Upon reaching the depths below he finds it uncomfortably hot, owing to the fact that the Satanic stokers are working overtime. He meets his friends, Tom, Dick and Harry and a devilish bartender serves them with fiery drinks after which they initiate him by roasting his feet in a blazing furnace. At that moment he is awakened from his nightmare and is overjoyed to find himself in his own room, so close to the grate fire that his slippers are scorching. At that moment he espies his wife, who looks askance at her chuckling hubby. Describing his dream, she laughs heartily as he declares no more Welsh rabbit at midnight for him.
- Mary has two admirers, John and Hal, but while her father and mother approve of John, Mary selects Hal, marries him and moves to another state where, after staking out a claim, both start to work it. Mary is injured by an explosion at the mine, and Hal writes her parents to come. In the meanwhile, he has met a dance hall girl, Cally, and as the accident has blinded his wife, he makes love to "the woman who don't care" in her presence. Doctor Scott performs an operation on Mary's eyes and after removing the bandages, lifts the shade, but the first thing the wife's eyes fall upon is her husband with Cally in his arms. It is the last straw, for months she has been made to realize how thoroughly worthless a man she has married in preference to the nobler John. Cally and Hal elope, but the horse runs away, instantly killing the woman, and Hal soon follows her. However, Mary is not left alone, for her parents arrive and with them is John, who has come to offer what aid is in his power, and to later take his place beside the woman he loves and who now loves him.
- Col. Miles believes a three-year term enlistment will benefit his son, and prevails upon him to join his command as bugler. Col. Miles is in active service in Arizona. Milton, the son, lives at a rapid pace. An act of insubordination calls for punishment, and although the Colonel is deeply grieved, he permits the arrest of Milton. Milton, believing his relationship will protect him, becomes quarrelsome with an officer and assaults him. The colonel treats the case with the same dignity as one of no kin, and orders Milton court-martialed for the offense. Milton becomes vindictive towards his father. During the trial, at which the colonel attends, Milton insults the officers present, the army in general, and likewise the colonel and "that d----- rag" he has been saluting for twenty years. He tears the flag from the table and throws it beneath his feet. The colonel apologizes to the officers for the defilement of the country's flag by his son and he orders the buttons cut from his uniform and that he be drummed out of camp. This is done, Milton disappears and from that day on the colonel ages rapidly. As a shabby hobo Milton arrives back home and at night calls on his sweetheart. The girl tolerates his presence, listens to the outpouring of his grief and explanations, then tells him she still loves him, but it is a love such as one has for the departed, for he has destroyed all ties of betrothal. After leaving his sweetheart the fires of conscience begin their relentless gnawings. He loves his father despite his period of execration, but the magnitude of his shameful offense holds him in obscurity, an outcast. He cannot resist the power that draws him to the neighborhood wherein his father's command is located. As a shabby tramp he seeks a bill that overlooks the camp, and day after day he crawls silently to the top where he can feast his hungry heart on the scene where waves the flag and people he renounced. One day he is almost discovered by a small party of cavalrymen. Then he abandons the neighborhood rather than be discovered. In order to shun all that would bring up scenes of the past he ingratiates himself into the good graces of an Indian tribe and eventually is taken into their fold. The Indians begin a series of depredations and finally killings. The awakening comes to Milton when a squad of his father's own command comes to the Chief to remonstrate, when at a given signal the squad is massacred, all of which is seen from Milton's tent flap, where he is hiding to conceal his identity. The bodies are divested of uniforms, which are burned, bodies hidden and horses rebranded, etc. Milton learns there is to be an immediate attack on the camp of his father's command. He secures the bugle of the massacred musician, secrets it, then determines to warn the camp and sacrifice his life if need be. Growing desperate as the war dance begins, he seizes his horse and gallops away. Other Indians see him, fire, and the shot renders his leg useless. As he nears the hill from which the camp is viewed, he sees the Indians creeping to attack the camp. He makes the top of the hill in time to blow repeated calls "To arms." The camp, not knowing who the bugler is, takes advantage, and is enabled to repulse the attacking Indians after a brisk fight. Milton is satisfied with his sacrifice, and crawls away willing to die rather than reveal himself, yet anxious to keep out of the hands of the Indians. A couple of Indians have stalked him, however. They capture and take him before their chief. They torture him, not to the point of death, for the Chief has a more subtle means of revenge. He heats a Bowie knife and destroys the sight of both of Milton's eyes, then places him astride a horse, ties hands behind him, feet beneath, clothed in full Indian regalia. Then has three or four Indians take him to trail leading to camp, set the horse in free flight so he will approach the camp. The Indians retreat, knowing he will be shot by his own people. The Colonel after the battle, wonders if the unknown warning bugler is Milton. Old memories awaken. He wanders about the camp, his mind intent upon thoughts of his boy, when he notices the approach of a single rider. He fears trickery, and takes a gun and shoots the oncoming Indian rider. The horse is stopped a short distance from the stockade gates by some of the soldiers, and they recognize the body as that of Milton, the long-missing bugler of their company. Realizing the horror of the situation and fearing for the Colonel's mind from the shock of unconsciously killing his own son, the soldiers throw a blanket over the remains after taking him from the horse. The Colonel approaches and is desirous of getting a full report, and is puzzled at the meaning of the occurrence. The soldiers are successful in keeping him from viewing the body, but by chance a hand of the body projects from underneath the blanket, on one finger of which is a ring which the Colonel recognizes as belonging to his son. He totters for a moment, then tries to get to the body, but the soldiers forcibly keep him from it until the Colonel thunders a threat of arrest, when they fall back and more away with backs to the scene. The Colonel discovers the identity of the body and calls for the surgeon, who comes and pronounces death. As the Colonel stands stunned into silence with the awfulness of his grief, the surgeon pulls from the breast of the body a small case in which is a small silk flag. Nothing more is found. The Colonel reaches for it, realizing its meaning. He stands at attention, salutes the body with all the dignity of his drooping body, turns to a subordinate officer, charges him to take command of his place, removes his sword and belt, which he lays on the body. He weeps over the loss of his boy as the soldiers move silently away, leaving their beloved Colonel alone in his grief.
- A bank clerk uses a bulldog to catch his robbing rival.
- A Chinaman captures a captain, poses as him, and is caught by a detective posing as a lascar.
- A Lord's daughter elopes with a man who is arrested when he dons a dying highwayman's coat.
- A woman persuades a workman to kill her rich uncle.
- A detective poses as a murdered squire to trap a burglar.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.