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- Showing how a sketch team nearly raised a riot at Coytesville.
- Senorita Inez, a great heiress, engages Jacinto as gardener. The poor gardener loves the heiress, but does not dare to make his passion known. Inez, realizing her love for the gardener, refuses a flattering offer of marriage. Jacinto, believing his love for Inez hopeless, decides to withdraw from the world. Inez, in bitter despair, seeks in vain for her lost love, and learns that Jacinto has become a monk. Fifty years elapse. Francisco Toledo applies for work and the old lady sees her own romance repeated. Senorita Inez makes a will which she hopes will bring happiness to Bonita. Bonita from a sense of duty refuses to leave the Senorita. On the old lady's death her will is read. In it all Senorita Inez's property is bequeathed to Bonita, providing she does not marry and that she maintains the flower garden in the same good condition in which it is. Francisco, hearing the contents of the will, believes there is no chance for him. Bonita disregards the will, however, and through pique destroys the garden and is advised by the old Notary that she loses the property. In the meantime, the monk Jacinto visits the rose garden, the grave-yard of his youth. Meeting Francisco, who is about to give up the struggle as did his predecessor and become a monk, the old monk dissuades him and tells him his love is not hopeless. The old Senorita's plan succeeds and the fond lovers are wedded. In a codicil to her will, Senorita Inez provides that "All that property forfeited by my niece Bonita. I give to Francisco Toledo." The happy young pair replant the garden while old father Jacinto, striving to forget his dead youth, prays for the peace he has never known.
- A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen climbs into the cab of a locomotive standing on a siding and takes up the chase. Traveling on a parallel track, Helen leaps into the stolen engine, overtakes the robbers, and recovers the package. At the final fadeout, Helen once again refuses a proposal of marriage, anticipating further hazards in the weeks to come.
- Wharton, trailing Red Leary and his gang, learns that the men intend to wreck the Limited. Curley, a fireman, is implicated. The crooks become aware of Wharton's presence and attack him. Helen comes to the detective's rescue with a revolver and captures one of the men. Undaunted, the rest of the gang plant dynamite in a culvert. Adair comes upon them just as they are in the act. The crooks capture the detective, bind him, and then place their victim so near the dynamite that the explosion will kill him. One of the desperadoes tries to capture Helen, but the girl flees and attempts to cross the drawbridge a short distance away. The crook overtakes her and the two battle as the draw is raised. Falling, they roll down the incline. Helen's assailant is stunned and the girl gains her freedom. The draw is lowered and the girl rushes back to rescue Wharton. Red Leary's men have connected the detonating charge to a push button which is placed on the track. Thus the Limited in passing over this button will seal its own doom. Helen sees the apparatus just as the train approaches, and snatches it from the track in the nick of time. She frees Wharton and accompanied by him, goes back to where the button lies for the purpose of disconnecting it. They come too late; an accident causes the dynamite to explode. Caught by surprise, Red Leary and his men are killed.
- Peace, after many years of warfare, is declared between Cheyenne and Ogallala. Capt. Blackburn, surgeon of the Army Post, loves Ellen, the Commandant's daughter. While treating the sick daughter of Crazy Horse, the Cheyenne chief, he incurs the enmity of the Medicine Man. Upon his return to the post, Blackburn is called to attend a settler. While on this mission, the daughter of Chief Crazy Horse dies. The Medicine Man seizes this opportunity to wipe out his score against Blackburn and urges the Cheyennes to wipe out the post. Hawk, a Cheyenne trader, who has been befriended by Ellen, hastens to warn the Post. But the soldiers, outnumbered and overwhelmed, are massacred after a terrific battle. Ellen, aided by Hawk, makes her escape. The battle over, Helen and her rescuer return to the post. Ellen is overcome, but tearing a piece off her apron, and writing a message on it, with a bullet telling Blackburn that she has been taken to the Cheyenne camp by Hawk, who will protect her. The note is fastened to a charred post by Hawk's tomahawk. Blackburn returns to the ruined post and finds Ellen's message. He despairs of rescuing his sweetheart until the sight of Hawk's tomahawk gives him a daring idea. Going to the Ogallala camp he slays a scout and lays the tomahawk near the body, where it is found shortly after. Believing the Cheyennes to have violated the peace pact, the Ogallalas vow vengeance and leave for battle. Blackburn, attempting to approach the Cheyenne camp, is captured by the Indians, who proceed to torture him at the stake. Just as the torture commences, the Ogallalas fall upon the camp and a furious battle ensues. While the combat rages, Ellen. Blackburn and Hawk make their escape.
- Hanging from a rope over the track, the detective seems certain to plunge to death when the oncoming train splits the knot of the rope which has been tied to a rail and slung over the bridge girder. Helen's presence of mind and nerve in swinging out over the river on the other end of the rope and thus balancing the detective until the train has passed prevents the terrible catastrophe. Later, when pursuing the culprits, Helen once more takes her life in her hands by throwing a lasso from the hand car on which they are pursuing the freight over the brake beam, and then crawling hand over hand to the top of the car.
- Ham and Bud land jobs as gardeners at the Sawbones home. The Doc receives word that a bundle containing "you know what" will be waiting for him at the old mill at midnight. The Doc and his three fellow workers sharpen their instruments in gleeful anticipation of a night of experiments. Ham and Bud have meanwhile been more busy with their rivalry for the favor of the Doc's daughter than their gardening duties. Bud is the favored one, and when he hears the Doc instructing Ham to go to the old mill at midnight to get the bundle he hurries there first and slips into a bag. Ham is scared stiff enough when he puts the bag on his shoulders without the necessity of Bud tickling his ribs, which makes Ham do the four-mile journey back to the house in two seconds flat. Back on the operating table Bud makes his presence known, and then on a pretext succeeds in inducing Ham to take his place for a few minutes. Then while Bud is managing his elopement with the fair daughter, the doctors prepare for their task. But the corpse comes to life, and starts a train of complications.
- Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train. The crooks are captured, Helen's pluck wins Billy's heart, but, as usual, she refuses, with an eye on next week's adventure.
- The story centers around the escapades of the pampered son of a wealthy father who falls in love with a popular dancer years older than himself and who is only slightly amused at the young man's ardor. Of course there are other admirers and when the young man finds that the way to the dancer's heart seems to lie through the giving of expensive presents, he bethinks himself of his mother's jewels. His idea is that she has so many beautiful treasures that she would hardly miss a rope of pearls, and with easy conscience he opens the family safe, takes the pearls and presents them to the lady fair. Of course the loss is discovered and a detective is summoned to solve the mystery. In the meantime the boy's grandmother, a most lovable old lady (played in person by Mrs. Heely, one of the most famous old ladies of the stage) notices the boy's great distress of mind and persuades him to confess to her, and knowing the truth the old lady goes to the dancer and tells her the whole story of the boy's impending disgrace. Her touching appeal softens the heart of the adventuress and she restores the jewels to the old lady, who brings them home just in time to prevent the boy's everlasting disgrace.
- The old station agent becomes ill and his daughter, Hazel, takes his place. Freight engineer Tom Evans, Hazel's sweetheart, makes a call. A message comes over the wire addressed to the superintendent of the Lucky Strike Mine, reading: "Express envelope containing money for monthly payroll on 9:20 express." H.L. Babbs, treasurer. While Nan is on the station platform signing for the express package a couple of tramps, looking for a place to spend the night, enter the station and see the telegram concerning the express envelope. Hazel is attacked by the tramps, who demand the money that they know is in the station. Getting her right hand free, standing with her back to the operating table. Hazel calls the operator at Brooksville, five miles away, asking for help. The operator receives the call and rushes out of the signal tower to a freight train on the siding. Running to the engineer, who happens to be Tom Evans, he tells him of Hazel's apparent danger. Evans uncouples his engine from the train and rushes to the rescue, arriving in time to not only protect Hazel and the express envelope, but he also effects the capture of the tramps.
- Steve Nelson, a clever crook, arrives at the little station where Helen is operator. He lives quietly at the village's little boarding house preparing for a coup when Helen receives instructions that lead her to suspect Steve. By a clever ruse she succeeds in exposing him and making him prisoner in the station. He escapes and flees on a stolen engine. Helen follows on another locomotive and after a thrilling chase overhauls him, couples the two engines together, and then crawls on the swaying coupling to the other locomotive to bring Nelson to bay.
- Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, cuts the wires of Helen's telephone to prevent her from calling for help, binds and gags her, and boards the outgoing Limited. Freed by Detective Sheridan, the two of them get into a gasoline speeder standing on the sidetrack and pursue the Limited. Knowing he is to be captured, Brandt jumps off the train and is killed.
- The plot centers around a little pioneer family consisting of the father, mother, a little boy seven years of age and a little baby, one year old. While the father and mother are away from the cabin working in the fields the little boy is left to look after the baby. Some Blackfoot raiders happen by but the little boy sees them in time to find a novel hiding place. He puts the baby in the well bucket and lowers himself with the baby to the bottom of the well. In the meantime the Indians ransack the cabin, loot it and after setting it on fire depart. Father and mother, who have beard the outcries and seen the flames from the distance, unhitch their horses from the plow and ride to the fort for help. A squad of soldiers rides back with them and after a sharp skirmish with the Indians the cabin is found in ruins. There is no trace of the little ones and the distracted parents of course think that the Indians have either murdered them or taken them away. Finally, however, the father hears the little boy calling and after a search the cries are located and the two youngsters are drawn up from the bottom of the well safe and sound.
- Bob Prentiss wagers ten thousand dollars against Jack Carlyle's five thousand dollars that Carlyle cannot work his way around the world in twelve months without revealing his identity. Carlyle leaves New York as a sailor on board the steamship Baltic bound for Liverpool. A few days out from shore Carlyle gets a glimpse of Diana Grant, a young heiress who is sailing with her father and an aspiring suitor. Count Zuroff, and proceeds to fall in love. Count Zuroff is a persistent suitor, but as he is about to propose to the fair heiress Carlyle upsets a bucket of water and interrupts the proceedings. The following day Diana meets with an accident and again comes in contact with Carlyle. From now on Cupid gets busy and the wager is forgotten in the pursuit of love. Diana rebuffs the count and is ordered home by her father. Carlyle is still on the job, on the return journey he succeeds in meeting Diana several times and Diana consents to elope, still ignorant of Carlyle's real identity. Reaching New York a license is secured, the marriage takes place and Diana and her papa learn she has drawn a prize.
- Crossed telephone wires enable Helen to overhear a plot between Joe and Bill, escaped convicts, to join a number of Chinese who are being smuggled into the country in a freight train. The girl telegrapher notifies the railroad detectives and when the car in which the Chinese, cooped in barrels, are hiding crosses the Mexican border, the detectives surprise the Celestials. After a desperate fight, the Chinamen are subdued, the detectives take their places inside the barrels. Bill and Joe board the freight a few miles from the border. Helen who has been following them in an auto, leaps from the speeding machine to the side ladder of the racing train. Over the roofs of the cars the brave girl pursues the fugitives. Joe and Bill turn upon the girl and attempt to hurl her to the ground. Leveling a pistol, Helen subdues the convicts and compels them to leap into the auto which, driven by Conrad, one of the detectives, has been keeping pace with the freight. Later, Helen accompanies the officials when the latter raid the rendezvous of the smugglers and assists in capturing the entire band.
- Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's three year old daughter, who has ventured onto the tracks of the oncoming Elwood Express, and just in the nick of time, grasps the girl off the tracks, but in so doing, must leap off a trestle into a river thirty feet below; unable to swim, the two of them are rescued by the grateful and still hopeful Blake, but Helen prefers to face next week's hazards single-handed.
- Sent to the hills for the purpose of locating the counterfeiters, who are flooding the countryside with spurious money. Deering makes his home with the Gordons. The Secret Service man falls in love with Elizabeth. Simpson, one of the counterfeiters, passes his product by posing as a Bible salesman. Gordon returns home, after serving a twenty-year sentence. Informed by his wife that their daughter knows nothing of his criminal career, the ex-convict consents to keep out of Elizabeth's sight. Later, Gordon discovers Simpson in the act of victimizing his wife and daughter. The counterfeiter, however, cleverly assuages Gordon's anger and induces him to join the gang. At the same time, Deering, posing as an expert engraver, worms his way into the gang's confidence. The detective's identity is discovered by Gordon and the latter betrays him. The ex-convict then learns that the young man intends to make Elizabeth his wife. Determined that his daughter's happiness shall not be destroyed, Gordon allows Deering to escape. The detective, enlisting the aid of the sheriff and his posse, surrounds the counterfeiters' den. A desperate battle ensues. It ends when the tackers' bullets strike a box containing dynamite. The resultant explosion kills every man in the cabin. Mrs. Gordon and Deering keep from Elizabeth the knowledge that her father was one of the victims.
- When Dick, an aeronaut [sic] is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Helen aids his escape on the outgoing Black Diamond Express. The cowboy's friends pursue the train, Helen takes to the air, heads them off, rescues Dick in the nick of time, proves his innocence, and rescues him from a lynching mob. At the final fadeout, Helen refuses marriage proposals from both Dan and Dick, preferring to pursue further hazards of her own next week.
- Two young men of sturdy New England stock are in love with the same girl. The favorite lover, however, is somewhat timid and fails to see that he is indeed the choice of the girl. In his disappointment he decides to enlist in the regular army. The other lover proposes and is rejected, and he too, decides to enter the army. The young men enlist and are sent with their regiment to the Philippines. There their company is detailed to a chase after Moro bandits. Here the favorite lover proves himself a real hero and loses his life in an attempt to cover the cowardice of his friend. The survivor goes back home after his enlistment expires and attempts to claim the girl. His suit is favored, but continually he is haunted by the ghostly presence of his dead friend, and even before the marriage altar the apparition appears in time to prevent the ceremony.
- Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps into a racing auto and takes off in pursuit. In the meantime, the freight's brakes fail, and the train breaks in two. Helen, on a road parallel to the tracks, leaps onto a flat car, runs forward, informs the train crew what has happened, and captures the crooks.
- Drennan is the owner of a clothing factory. Conditions there are so bad that Mary Smith contracts consumption. Drennan enters the factory one morning just as Mary has an attack of coughing. He roughly abuses her and orders her to go on with her work. Terrified, the girl does her best. But her weakness is too great; she cannot keep up with the others. Drennan notices this and discharges the girl. The owner receives a letter from the Board of Health ordering him to remedy the conditions in his plant. Instead, Drennan bribes the political boss and ignores the order. The governess to George, Drennan's four-year-old son, resigns her position. Mrs. Drennan advertises for another maid. Mary applies for and receives the position. Drennan does not see his son's new governess. A few weeks later, George complains of feeling ill. Mary has succeeded in keeping the knowledge of her own illness from her employers. The doctor examines the child and declares him tuberculosis. Drennan then sees Mary for the first time. The physician examines the girl and informs Drennan that his son has contracted the disease from her. In agony the factory owner reproaches the girl. But Mary flares up and informs him she contracted tuberculosis in his factory. Drennan sees his culpability and is overcome with remorse. He sends Mary and his boy to a sanitarium. The patients are finally discharged as cured. Meanwhile Drennan has had his factory renovated and it becomes the most sanitary shop in the state. He takes Mary and George to see the place. Mary is about to sit at one of the machines, thinking that she is to return to factory life. Drennan stops her. It is his desire that hereafter she devote her life to the care of her own health and that of his son.
- Scene I: The Peaceful Seminole Family. An offer for his daughter's hand. Scene II: 'Tis thus the Seminole takes his bride. Scene III: The order to "move on" is given by the White Man. Scene IV: Farther southward the Seminole takes his course. Scene V: In the Everglades. Death of Che-e-ho-la's beloved squaw. Scene VI: The last funeral rites. Scene VII: The United States order is given all Seminoles must join the Creeks in Arkansas. Scene VII: Farewell to their beloved Florida. Scene IX: In the New Country. Amid unfriendly tribes. Che-e-ho-la's heart is breaking for his old home. Scene X: Che-e-ho-la determines to return to his beloved Florida to die. Scene XI: After Many Weeks. Through trackless forests, the old chief reaches his beloved Everglades.
- Ralph, a young M.D., hangs his shingle in Hicksville. He is the only physician in town. The young physician falls in love with Rose. Bailey, a wealthy young hypochondriac, also loves the girl. His suit is favored by Mrs. Rand, Rose's mother. The woman frowns upon the doctor's request for her daughter's hand, declaring that Rose is too good a match for a penniless M.D. The lovers later hit upon a scheme. Shortly afterward, Rose declares that she feels ill. Ralph is hastily summoned. He gravely announces that the girl has the smallpox, and that it is his duty to quarantine the house. The news spreads and the villagers hasten to the office, where they shower vaccination fees upon the young doctor. Bailey rushes into the office. To get him out of the way, Ralph declares that the young man has smallpox in its most virulent form. Terror-stricken, Bailey hastens home and tumbles into bed. Ralph's suit prospers as the result of his frequent calls at the Rand home. To keep Mrs. Rand out of the room in which he and his sweetheart spoon, the doctor vaccinates the mother upon her ankle. Bailey, meanwhile, has summoned a physician from another town and learns that he has been tricked. He hastens over to the Rand home, where he wrathfully tells the story to Mrs. Rand. The two enter the next room and find the lovers blissfully absorbed in each other. Seizing Ralph by the ear, the mother demands an explanation. Ruefully rubbing the injured member, the young doctor declares that it was all caused by his love for her daughter. Remembering how cleverly he has fooled the entire village, Mrs. Rand finds it hard to remain angry. Trying desperately to remain stern, the mother demands to know how Ralph expects to support Rose. But the boy, pointing to his bulging pockets, cheerfully declares that he has made enough in vaccination fees to enable him to live in luxury for the rest of his life.
- The unreasoning jealousy of the ranch foreman, in love with Edith, is aroused by the coming of the new night operator to Lone Point. So that, when it appears that the night operator has robbed Purdy, the rancher, the foreman's jealousy blinds him to further investigation, and he sets out with the punchers to deal frontier justice to the night operator. The latter is thrown into a box car at the Lone Point siding, which is then sent down grade to certain destruction. Helen arrives at the station in time to learn of the terrible deed and sets out in pursuit on her horse. She finally overtakes the locked car and leaps from her horse to the handrail. But before she can put the brakes on the open drawbridge looms up ahead, and it seems that her sacrifice will be in vain for there is barely time to bring the car to a stop. Tugging at the brakes, Helen halts the car within inches of the edge of the tracks.
- Documentary showing the aftermath of a 1911 battle in Juarez, Mexico, during the Mexican revolution between the forces of revolutionary leader Francisco Madero and troops of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz. Madero's forces, led by Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco, won the battle, which led to Diaz's resignation and his exile in Europe.
- Micky, an escaped convict, picks the pocket of Levy, a counterfeiter. He is seen by a policeman, who compels the counterfeiter to accompany him in the pursuit. Micky gives Rose, his sweetheart, some of the counterfeit money. The people she passes it on raise a howl and go after her. Chance throws Levy, his confederate, Rose and Micky together and they attempt to escape in an auto of the vintage of '61. They are captured after a rip-roaring chase and lugged to jail.
- Grace is somewhat disgusted with her sweetheart, Tom, because he is such an ardent "fan" and seems to give more attention to baseball than he does to her. Tom induces Grace to attend the game and she becomes as enthusiastic as he. The home team slumps and the fans are quite disheartened. To clear things up Tom asks Grace to marry him, but she replies she will not give her consent unless the home team wins the pennant. Quite discouraged, Tom calls on his friend, Hal Chase. Hal says the team can win out if they capture a decisive game to be played that day, and he assures Tom he will try his best to bring home the victory. At the game Tom and Grace are quite despondent when the game stands 2 to 0 in favor of the enemy in the last inning. With two men on bases, Hal Chase knocks a home run and excitement reigns supreme. The home team has now won the pennant and Tom has won his bride. When he calls to present Grace with the ring Hal drops in on them and is heartily congratulated by the grateful fans.
- Gridley has served the Garretts, father and sons, for forty years so that his heart grieves to see Stanton becoming a money-grubbing nervous wreck and Paul a weak-kneed, though good-natured, spendthrift. Paul is about to marry Olive, a woman of the world, and Stanton, though he knows her past, maintains silence because of a clause in the will that deprives either son of his share in the Garrett estate should he marry before thirty. Gridley appeals to his better nature, and after a grim struggle with himself he listens to the servant whom in recent years he had come to think a doddering old nuisance. Paul declares that the money is nothing to him and that Olive will stand by him, but that worldly person soon changes her mind. Awakened to his folly Paul sees that Stanton also has lost his sneering blasé manner, and the years roll back as the two brothers once more reunited romp about the faithful Gridley.
- Helen's cleverness exposes a band of counterfeiters who later succeed in turning the tables on the railroad detectives and tying the two men to the cowcatcher of a train which they then start off down the grade. Helen pursues the train on a motorcycle and boards it by a leap to the handrail of a freight. The engine is soon brought to a stop and the detectives released. Helen also lends her assistance later to the capture of the counterfeiters.
- Little Tom, who has inherited a terror for the sea, faints when his father tries to take him into the surf. Fifteen years later Tom finds that time has not overcome his terror. Meeting Jane Mayfield, they become acquainted and afterward betrothed. A few days later, Tom, much against his will, allows Jane to persuade him to join her merry party to the sea shore. While in bathing, Jane is carried out to sea by the undertow. At her cry for help Tom rushes to the water's edge, but his old terror renders him helpless. A number of bathers quickly go to the rescue of Jane. When brought ashore and revived she calls Tom a coward and orders him from her presence. A few days later Tom calls at her home to offer an explanation, but not finding her there, he asks permission to write her a note. While writing the telephone rings. He learns that Jane is at the other end of the telephone at her father's office, locked in and that the building is on fire. Mounting his motorcycle he rushes to the building, breaks in the door, and at the risk of his life carries her through the flames and to safety. The next day, calling at Jane's home, explanations take place and the past is forgotten.
- Sailor Jack and his shipmates on shore leave spend their money and time as sailors who have been on a long voyage and just landed usually do. Wandering about the town their first evening ashore the sailors stop on a corner where a crowd has collected and listen to a detachment of the Salvation Army. Sailor Jack, although under the influence of liquor, is impressed by the strong appeal of Captain Agnes, a Salvation Army lassie, and is induced to go to their nearby hall where services are to be held. Jack signs the pledge and falls in love with the lassie. Rapidly prosecuting his suit a month later Jack wins Agnes' promise to wed. A few months of happiness follow but Jack's jealousy is unwarrantedly aroused by the friendship between Agnes and Lieutenant Landers of the Salvation Army. Jack forgetting his good resolutions in anger breaks his pledge and spends the night drinking and the next day ships for a long voyage. While at sea remorse takes possession of Jack. Realizing the injustice he has done his wife he makes up his mind to return home as soon as possible and beg her forgiveness. Jack's long trip being ended he seeks his deserted wife who has been wearily awaiting his return. With a glad cry Agnes holds out her arms to the truant husband who, kneeling at her feet, confesses his transgressions.
- Curtis, the overbearing captain of a canal boat, tires of his sweetheart, Martha, and forces his attentions on Sal. Sal, however, has given her heart to Bob, one of the loaders, who incurs the enmity of the captain. The two men have an encounter which leads to the dismissal of Curtis and Bob becomes captain. Dick and Madge, two youngsters who aspire to become detectives, discover that Curtis is plotting Bob's undoing. They inform Martha, who promises to assist them in protecting the new captain. The plane house, containing the mechanism controlling a cable in the canal, is situated at the top of the spillway, through which the overflow from the flume rushes in a miniature Niagara. Curtis overpowers Ryan, the plane tender, and pulls the lever which will wreck Bob's boat. Sal interferes, but not in time to save Bob from being, injured. Bob manages to make his way to the plane house and is attacked by Curtis, who forces him toward the rushing waters. At that moment Martha arrives with a rifle at the foot of the spillway. She knows that she cannot prevent one of the men from being killed, and determines to sacrifice Curtis, that Sal may be happy with Bob. Martha fires and Curtis, falling into the cataract, pays the penalty.
- A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He steals several sticks of dynamite, climbs to the top of the mail crane and ties to the explosives to the mail bag. Helen sees what is taking place, climbs to the arm and unties the dynamite. With the passenger train a short distance away, she hurls the explosive away just as the train approaches.
- When he learns that the revolutionists have stolen his chickens, Senor Sourface joins the Federal Army in revenge. He is captured by General Caramo, the leader of the rebels, and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. Does this terrify the brave Sourface? Not at all. The news, however, causes his wife and daughter to come on the run. They are informed that Sourface is to be shot out of a cannon. At the hour of execution, Senora Sourface and her daughter mystify the beholders by hastening to a spot a mile away, armed with a blanket. Sourface is shot out of the cannon. It happens that the man, an ex-circus performer, used to do this act twice a day, and he lands in the blanket held by his wife and daughter, unharmed.
- The raising of cotton and the manufacturing of cloth are shown.
- Beauty, a horse owned by a California girl, is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable animals in the world. Scientists who have witnessed Beauty perform, are unanimous in declaring that the animal possesses intelligence that is almost human. This feature shows Beauty going through his paces. At the command of his mistress, the horse fetches objects some distance away, shows how scouts pursue a trail, and performs other amazing feats.
- An investigation is held at Hart's Junction to solve the blowing up of ammunition trains. Helen, the operator, is questioned by a detective. Belding, the "brains" of the dynamiting gang, and Steele, his accomplice, approach and note what is taking place. Helen is excused. Crossing the platform to meet the incoming train. Helen sees Belding and Steele. She gets on the train for Fardale. Belding and Steele get in an auto. Wertz, another member of the gang, "listens in" on the wire near Fardale and gets information regarding the munitions trains. Merkel, a lineman detective, sees Wertz. Merkel attacks him. In an exciting chase, with the gang fleeing on a freight, Helen climbs a telegraph pole and gets on a carryall arrangement which runs along a cable stretched between two poles on either side of the tracks. She starts the carryall, and when she is over the train one of the gang shoots and cuts the rope. She drops and lands atop one of the cars. She recovers and succeeds, with the aid of others, in capturing the plotters.
- Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brake apparatus. As a result, the box car runs wild, trapping him inside. Before Helen can sidetrack the runaway, it shoots off the track at Elbow curve, overturning as it topples down the embankment. Helen smashes a hole through the side, braves the flames, crawls into the car, rescues Jim and drags him to safety. But her heroism is too late; Jim dies in her arms.
- During an Indian tribe's warfare the little daughter of one of the chiefs, who has fled in the panic with the other children, becomes lost and strays into the path of a pioneer family. The pioneers have just buried their only little child at the side of the trail and their hearts go out to the miserable Indian child who timidly approaches them for protection. They take care of her and bring her up as their own and the girl becomes in training and dress like one of her white sisters. There comes a time, however, that a young white man falls in love with her and her foster parents consider it their duty to tell both the girl and the young man the story of her origin. The girl's first impulse is a desire to see something of her people, and her father and her lover reluctantly consent to accompany her in a search for the tribe from which she originated. Thinking that her long life among the whites will cause her to revolt when she sees the poverty and hardship of her own people, but it turns out that "The Call of the Blood" is too strong, for when the tribe is finally located the young squaw completely forgets her foster father and her white lover, takes up with a young buck, whose squaw she becomes in spite of the argument and protestations of her white friends.
- The nine scenes of the picture, set in a background of beautiful Southern scenery, tell the story of an unhappy marriage, a separation of years, and a final reunion. Tangled up in the tragedy of the unhappy lives of this couple is the romantic love story of a young rector, that is brought to a happy ending only at their final reunion. Scene 1: Mrs. Dean decides to leave her husband. Scene 2: Mrs. Dean finds a new home with the rector. Scene 3: Five years later Mrs. Dean stops her husband from marrying Florence King. Scene 4: Florence gives up Dean but promises to marry him if he will reform. Scene 5: The rector sees more of Florence. Scene 6: The rector believes Florence still loves Dean. Scene 7: The rector is shy. Scene 8: Dean determines to return to his wife. Scene 9: Love triumphs over all.
- Sis is a lover of music; she plays the harmonica. So it's all off for her chauffeur admirer when she bears the banana peddling genius play his violin in the park. The violinist is a faithful lover until he is taken by the professor and made into a maestro concert player overnight. Nell, who fears that Jack's affections are growing cold, invites the newly-found genius to play at her home, which is where Sis is employed, When Sis, who is mourning her lost love, hears the strains of his violin a real hot time begins for all concerned.
- The Redman is forced to retreat before the mad rush of the gold seekers. A month after the rush starts in John Brigham tries to jump a claim but is quickly driven out of camp by the miners. A tenderfoot arriving in the camp, the miners steer him to a worthless claim. Driving his location stakes in the ground the tenderfoot goes to the nearest settlement for supplies. While he is away the miners plan to salt his claim with brass filings for a joke. Returning to the camp the tenderfoot starts working and quickly discovering the brass filings, which he things are gold. Hunger and excitement render the tenderfoot delirious. Learning of his serious illness next day the miners are remorseful for their joke and they substitute in his shot bag gold dust for the brass filings. Two weeks later Brigham, who has heard of the apparent wonderful strike of the tenderfoot, buys the claim for twenty thousand dollars. Going among the miners he boastfully says, "Well boys, I beat you to it." With the twenty thousand dollars in his pocket the tenderfoot bids the boys good-bye and starts back east. The next day Brigham puts a gang of men to work on the claim and very soon discovers he has been buncoed to a finish through his own cupidity.
- Helen, by a courageous leap from a motorcycle, reaches the burning boxcar in which the detectives are imprisoned and succeeds in applying the brakes in time to bring it to a stop and save them from almost certain death. Her bravery also enables Detective Kent to secure a coveted reward for the capture of the famous crook, which puts the seal of a "happy ending" to his romance.
- Bertie finds a bank book showing a small credit to the owner. The same day his landlady tells him he must pay up or skidoo. He gets an idea. Taking the bank book he writes in deposits amounting to $50,000. That night at dinner he apparently unconsciously drops the bank book in the dining room where it is found by one of the young lady boarders and shown to everyone in the house. This means instantaneous popularity for Bertie. The landlady from that time on cannot do enough for him. She consents to his marriage with her daughter and insists on showering attentions galore upon him, much to the disgust of the other men boarders. The final outcome causes the ladies of the household to bemoan their fate and the men rejoice.
- Weary Willie has nothing but hard luck. He starts with an attempt to steal soma pies from a kitchen window but that goes wrong. Then he swipes a blind man's sign and makes a bluff at begging. That gets him into the most trouble of all and he is a badly battered tramp when the cop on the beat gets through with him.
- The inauguration of Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater, the new Lord Mayor of London, and a view of David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at Bedford are shown.