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- At a solitary cheap inn, a distant traveller overcome with fatigue has a close encounter with the supernatural.
- At the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, CA, the "Chitose", a ship built for the Japanese Navy, is seen being launched after completion. A yacht, the "Unadilla", passes by in the foreground, with its passengers looking on. A small fishing boat and a rowboat are also seen in the vicinity,.
- The crew of the US Navy torpedo boat "Morris", out of Newport, Rhode Island, prepares to load a Whitehead torpedo into its firing tube and launch it. After the smoke clears, the torpedo can be seen cutting through the water, leaving a trail in its wake.
- In China at the turn of the 20th century there was a rebel group called the Society of the Harmonious Fist, otherwise known as Boxers. They attacked westerners and any Chinese who associated with Westerners. In this short, a Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured Boxer rebel.
- Vintage cars are filmed going up and down mountain roads. Some of them struggle with the steep grade.
- A documentary of the opening game of the 1905 National League baseball season, with the New York Yankees and the Boston team, playing in New York City. Featured are Yankees manager John J. McGraw and famed pitcher Christy Matthewson. The game was attended by more than 40,000 fans, making it the largest crowd in the history of the game up to that time.
- John is a pleasant young man and gets along with his fellows at work. However, he has one small flaw: a terrible temper. One day, in a fit of rage, he accidentally kills a co-worker. Shocked at his crime, he flees town, leaving friends and family behind. He roams from place to place, trying to forget what he has done, but to no avail. One day, broke and hungry in a large city, he saves a blind man from being killed by a runaway horse, only to be seriously injured himself in the process. As he lay in the hospital, near death, he believes he sees an angel speaking to him in a vision. What is the angel trying to say?
- In the period before the Civil War, a young man returns to his hometown of New Orleans after having been gone for a long time. He soon meets and falls in love with an "octoroon", a young woman who is one-eighth black. However, since the "one-drop" laws--anyone having as little as one drop of "Negro" blood in them is still considered black, and therefore subject to be sold as a slave--are still in effect, the girl is sold at auction and purchased by an evil and murderous overseer. The young man sets out to free his love from the clutches of the evil slaver.
- The son of wealthy Lord Stanley has been disinherited and thrown out of the house. He travels to Africa for fortune and adventure. He finds a job as a horse groomer for a wealthy family. He falls for the family's daughter, but they are against the relationship because they think he's just a common stablehand.
- Back in the East Dick Carewe loved Ethel Morgan. He was poor, and she was a daughter of wealth. Dick's fine manhood and sterling qualities awakened an all-devouring love in Ethel's heart. Their troth was pledged, and Ethel's father was consulted, and in a spirit of mercenary prejudice he repulsed Dick. Resolved to obtain his loved one, Dick is resolved to obtain the fortune Morgan demanded his son-in-law should possess. He bade his sweetheart good-bye, and with her locket about his neck left for the West and opportunity, vowing not to communicate with Ethel until he was ready to return and lay a fortune at her feet. Lone Gulch was his destination, and once there he began prospecting. A filter of gold dust in the bed of a stream attracted him and he staked a claim. His camp was on the edge of an Indian reservation and it was quite natural that he should meet Starlight, a daughter of the tribe. She was a sweet, romantic little thing, and instantly fell in love with Dick. He, unaware of the girl's passion, lavished kindness upon her, innocently nurturing her love until her whole life was wrapt [sic] up in him. Starlight was betrothed to a young brave of her tribe, the choice of her father. The young Indian hated Dick, and vowed a jealous vengeance, inspiring in Starlight a fear for the safety of the white man. Back home, Ethel was grieving for Dick. Her unsatisfied love was slowly killing her and the family physician, powerless to administer to the love-sick maiden, advised a change of climate. Mr. Morgan owned a ranch in the vicinity of Lone Gulch, and he took Ethel out there to recuperate. Dick had kept his vow of silence and had never written to Ethel, so she was ignorant of his whereabouts. Starlight and Ethel became great friends. Neither was conscious of the other's love for Dick. The little claim petered out, and the young prospector became discouraged. He resolved to seek his fortune elsewhere. Wandering over the Arizona desert without water, food or horse, half dead from thirst and exhaustion, Dick fell unconscious at the edge of a cliff overlooking a canyon. The earth gave way and he was plunged into the river a hundred feet below. Starlight, in her canoe, saw Dick fall, and she rescued him from a watery grave. Fearing to take him to her own people lest the young brave carry out his threat, she fetched bandages and blankets, and under an old tree, nursed Dick back to life. Accidentally she discovered the locket about his neck, and the realization of his love for Ethel overcame her. She fought a great battle of self-sacrifice and took the man she loved back to Morgan's ranch. Her heart broken when she beheld the greeting of the two lovers and the reconciliation of the father, and she wandered away through the woods until she came to the old tree. With heart-broken devotion she crooned over the spot where Dick had lain while she nursed him. Nature cried out its comfort. The daughter of nature sank into the embrace of the gnarled old tree of centuries, and was soothed by the whisper of the wind in the branches.
- The fisherman was a gabby, egotistical Opie Dilldock sort of an old chap, who took particular delight in boring his acquaintances with his tales of valor. But all he had to show for his greatness was a shabby suit and a long beard. On his way to the pier, he boasted of the fish he would bring back. On the pier he fell asleep and dreamed a dream full of wonderful happenings. In his subconscious state he got a bit and landed a coffee pot wadded with money. Then things began to happen. He hurried uptown and bought a loud suit and high hat from a second-hand dealer, flooring the son of Israel with an over-dose of pay. Moved by a spirit of philanthropy, he rode down the street on a mule, led by a policeman, followed by another officer, bearing a sign inscribed " The Money King." He purchased the entire stock of a flock of newsboys and stuffed the hat of a blind man with money, causing instantaneous recovery of sight. He bought out a candy store to satisfy the longing of a couple of sweet-toothed urchins. He settled an argument between two gamblers by destroying the money they were quarreling over and replacing it by a large amount of his own. Feeling paternal, he took a pair of infant twins for an outing. Attracted by the sylph-like form of a lady in the park, he flirted and was encouraged. But the fisherman fled in alarm. Then began a fast roaring finish. In his flight he knocked over a couple of drunkards and rushed into a group of disabled people in front of a sanatorium, producing a cyclonic mix-up from which he emerged on crutches. The final action is back on the pier. A couple of boys in a boat discovered the sleeping fisherman and tied his line to their skiff. The fisherman was pulled into the river, where he awoke and scrambled back to the pier. He had been thrust out of a dream world of money, into a real world of dampness.
- Flying pirates torpedo a liner then travel under the sea to salvage bullion.
- An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison with strict discipline, drills, etc. On the evening of the day the picture opens, the oldest boy wishes to go out to make a call on his sweetheart, but the old soldier commands the boy to stay at home. This command the boy is loath to obey, but his father, himself brought up under rigid military rule, rails at his insubordination of the boy, and threatens that if the boy goes out he goes for good. The boy does go, however, and returning finds sure enough the door barred against him. Sad and homeless he wanders, but it is fortunate he goes for the next morning he views from a distance a tribe of Indians starting out on the warpath. With this lead, he with valiant effort, secures the aid of a troop of patrolling soldiers, who rescue the boy's family and sweetheart just in time. The military training imbued by the old soldier stood in good, as it was the means of holding the Indians at bay until help arrived.
- At the recent election at Clearfield, the suffragettes made a clean sweep. The first thing the women did was to start a new police force. A number of the bravest women in the town were appointed policewomen. The new "coppers" have no trouble in arresting prisoners. In fact, it is the ambition of all the men in town to be arrested by the fair cops. The prisoners are entertained royally by the police. They do such a business that it is necessary to put a sign outside of the police station reading, "No More Prisoners, the Cells All Filled." The married women of the town hold a meeting to protest against the police force, claiming that their husbands are in jail in place of home. They all go in a body to the police station, where a riot starts, the wives dragging their husbands away from the lady police and taking them home. The picture closes with the lady police all angry because the nice prisoners have been taken away, and the whole force have a good, long cry.
- Pretty Bessie King has all the cowboys' hearts thumping ragtime jigs against their ribs whenever she comes to town, and Alkali is the hardest hit of all. After a series of flirtations she finally takes Alkali for better or worse and they are married. A year later a small son and heir keeps Alkali doing Marathons across the midnight floors. A newspaper article now alarms the community concerning a new disease called "Kimonitis," that attacks women and babies. Consequently, when Alkali goes home one day and finds a note left by his wife saying she has gone to Pocatello "to have her kimono cut out," he rides wildly into town on a hand-car, meets wifie coming from a store and is horrified when she tells him she has her "kimono" in the box under her arm. On reaching home Alkali is both amazed and delighted to find the kimono is nothing but a calico affair the town seamstress has cut out for wifie and his wild ride has been in vain.
- Miner Dan Harding has a wife and young daughter, but spends much of his time--and most of his money--at the barroom with his friends. One night his friend John Webster finds him drunk and broke at the bar. Knowing Dan's wife is worried about him, John takes him back to his place, where Dan passes out. When Dan awakens he returns to his home, only to see John and his daughter asleep on the chair and his wife sitting nearby sewing--not knowing that John had gone to the house to give Dan's wife money because Dan had spent all of theirs, and tired from the night's activities, had fallen asleep on the chair--Dan concludes that John and his wife are having an affair, and leaves town. Complications ensue.
- An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
- George, an "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically-inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, a strapping, muscle-bound stud is also after Clarice, and she seems to prefer him to George. After reading an article by a female writer saying that women prefer the "caveman" type of man, George decides that if that what it takes to get Clarice, then that is what he will be.
- When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
- The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The Army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints, and the surveyors are killed by the Indians. A vicious Indian war ensues, culminating in an Indian attack on an army fort.
- The story of Lt. Joseph Petrosino, an Italian-American New York City police detective, who was assigned to investigate the Sicilian Mafia, which was beginning to become a major problem in New York. He did such a good job that the city sent him to Sicily to gather information on the Sicily/New York Mafia connections. He was murdered in Palermo by Mafia gunmen. The 1960 film Pay or Die! (1960) starring Ernest Borgnine was also based on his life.
- Although some scenes were re-enacted after the fact, this is a real documentary on the struggle of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to overthrow dictator Porfirio Díaz . Directors Christy Cabanne and Raoul Walsh took a camera crew to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1912 and traveled with Villa, filming footage of his army on the march and engaged in battle with federal troops (director Walsh confirmed in an interview the long-rumored story that Villa insisted on the filming of execution by firing squad of several dozen federal prisoners, but that when he returned to Hollywood the studio thought the footage too grisly and cut it out).
- Two boys from Labrador, Canada, visit their aunt in Westcheser, New York. Although it's in the middle of a cold winter in New York, the nephews from Labrador are used to much colder weather and think the New York winter is too warm for them, and act accordingly.
- Broncho Billy is seen leaving his humble home in the east to make his fortune in the far west. He kisses his mother fondly goodbye. Broncho Billy, a tenderfoot at this time, arrives in the west, goes to the hotel and engages a room. After placing his belongings in his room he saunters about the hotel lobby. Al Wilkes, a rough western cowpuncher, imagining he can make this unknown man of the east dance, plays a lively tune around his feet with a forty -four caliber revolver. Broncho Billy gives Wilkes a look, and calmly leaves the room. Broncho then strolls into the gambling house and refuses to take a hand in the game. He then walks into the barroom and orders a glass of soda. Wilkes enters the saloon, and seeing Broncho Billy drinking the nearest thing to water, makes fun of him. This grates on the young easterner's nerves. Wilkes calls him a "Mollycoddle," or something to that effect. Broncho suggests a fight to take place right then and there. Broncho is informed by the cowpunchers who have congregated, that they are not accustomed to using fists out west, that if he wants to fight he will have to practice shooting with a gun. Broncho immediately purchases a beautiful horse pistol. Filling his pockets with ammunition, and taking his new treasure, Broncho puts up a bottle on a rock in the road and fires several shots at it. None of them hit the mark. A larger bottle is then shot at without effect. Several months later, Broncho Billy is seen in a clearing in the woods with six beer bottles lined up before him. He shoots at them and hits his mark every time. A more difficult stunt is performed by his placing six playing cards on a table, some distance from him. Broncho Billy shoots at these cards and punctures each one of them. Now, Broncho Billy says, "Where is this fellow Wilkes?" Wilkes has had a grudge against Broncho Billy since the first meeting, and has waited for an opportunity to shoot him. Broncho Billy sees the cowpuncher approach. Wilkes pulls his gun, but is not quick enough, and Broncho Billy shoots him in the arm. Fearing that the boys will lynch him, he rides on horseback to the sheriff's office, where he explains what has occurred. The sheriff gives Broncho Billy a revolver and locks him in a cell. The boys, hearing what has happened to Wilkes, go to the sheriff's office, break the door in, and are about to capture Broncho, when Wilkes arrives and explain to his fellow cowpunchers that he was wrong. Broncho Billy and Wilkes shake hands and everything ends in a peaceful manner.
- Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
- The minister of a village is in love with a young girl of the village, but she is saving her charms for the young schoolteacher, a "man of the world," and they elope. The villagers, a puritanical lot, turn their backs on the young couple for their "sin", and they decide to leave the village, but they return soon after to warn the people of an impending Indian attack.
- Unable to find help to work his farm, a farmer gets a bright idea--he advertises that any man willing to work on his farm will be permitted to court his two daughters. The girls and their mother don't take kindly to being offered as an "incentive", so when some college boys show up looking to take advantage of both offers, the girls come up with a plan of their own.
- A reporter sees Jerry buying presents for a baby and concludes that they must be for his own. She puts an article in the paper which Jerry's uncle in the country sees. He sends congratulations and intimates he might be moved to give Jerry a big check. Jerry mails uncle a photograph of "the baby," his wife's dressmaker's baby, and invites Uncle to visit him. Jerry borrows the dressmaker's baby and when uncle arrives, points proudly to it as his own. Uncle gives Jerry a big check. A critical situation arises when the dressmaker comes for her child. Jerry persuades her to wait. She agrees, but looks forbidding. She returns soon and insists upon the return of her child. With the baby gone Jerry is panic-stricken and persuades Uncle to go back home. But Uncle misses his train and returns to wait and have another look at the baby. Jerry telephones frantically to his wife to make some excuse. She rushes out and induces a friend to lend her a baby. Jerry, coming home, sees a colored mammy with a baby. When Uncle is asleep in the parlor, Jerry rushes out and borrows it. Mary, the maid, realizing the situation, goes out and borrows a baby from the butcher's wife. Jerry returns. The baby he has is heavy and has long hair. The first baby was light and had no hair. Jerry is trying to explain, when his wife comes in with baby number two. Uncle is bewildered. He asks if Jerry has twins. Twins. Of course. A fine explanation. Uncle makes out a second check. While Jerry and his wife have taken the "twins" from the room, Mary enters and takes Uncle upstairs and shows him baby number three. She has not seen the other two. Jerry's triplicity is discovered when three mothers arrive and clamor for their children. The dressmaker comes also to show off Jerry's little namesake in its new clothes. Four babies. Uncle demands the return of his check and he stamps angrily from the house. Jerry collapses and jumps at the sound of anything that reminds him of babies.
- Desmond Haight is going to the home of the poor widow Black. Desmond Haight is going with his feet. This is curious, but true. The widow Black is weeping. Desmond is going to foreclose the mortgage at six o'clock. What does she do? She telegraphs her wealthy son, George, collect. What does George do? He rushes to the rescue with his wife. On, Stanley, on. Speed thee, gentle train. At the junction they change to the L.L. Limited. It is called the Limited because it knows its limitations. Shush. Shush. Is this the L.L.L. getting up steam? No, it is the conductor playing cards with the engineer on the cow catcher. The conductor has no more money. George pays his fare. Pretty soon the engineer wins that. Then the train starts. It is only forty minutes late. In a little while the train stops. It is tired. The engineer and conductor get out. They are also tired. They have been working for an hour. They have brought the L.L.L. safely over the shining rails for almost four miles. After a time they decide to load the engine with wood. George comes out. He is angry. What does he do? He helps them with the wood. What do they do? They let George do it. An hour later. Who is that strange person? That is Samanthy Wiggins. What is she waiting for? She is waiting for the L.L. Limited to catch up with her. Kerblank. Kerblank. Kerblank. That is the L.L. Limited bowling along at three and one half miles per hour. Is it not inspiring? Samanthy walks beside it. She gives the engineer apples. She has a kind face. Oh, see the men fighting right in the middle of the track. Aren't they afraid the L.L.L. will hit them? No. The engineer and conductor stop the fight. Noble-hearted men. George comes out again. He is very angry. It is half-past four. He says mean things to the conductor. The conductor gives him a shove in the face. George and his wife walk the rest of the way. They gain on the train, about one mile in every two. The widow Black is still weeping. The villain is foreclosing. "My noble son." "Hence, uncouth miser." Happy mother. Despicable Desmond. Generous George. Noble L.L. Limited.
- John Reynolds and Hiram Williams have been friends and business partners for years. Reynolds has a daughter, Vivian, and Williams has a son, Jack. The men have always wanted to see their children married to each other to cement relations between the two families. When Jack turns 20 his father dies, leaving him under Reynolds' guardianship. Several months later Jack decides to try his hand at being an artist in Europe for a few years. He bids goodbye to the now 16-year-old Vivian, who promises to marry him when he returns. Not long after Jack leaves, Vivian meets George Haldane, a playboy with little money and less character, and falls in love with him. When Jack returns from Europe, Vivian tells him of her relationship with Haldane, but doesn't tell him that they are actually married. Vivian's father disowns her and Jack, brokenhearted, returns to Europe. Vivian gets pregnant, and three months after the baby is born George deserts her for an old girlfriend. Then things go from bad to worse for her.
- Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
- Oklahoma lawyer Al Jennings, whose father was a famous and respected judge, is enraged at the murder of his brother Ed, shot in the back by two killers. As if that wasn't enough, he finds himself falsely accused of robbery, and while escaping those phony charges he is chased and shot by a posse. Although wounded, he manages to elude the posse but takes his revenge by robbing a country store. It's not long before he has his own outlaw gang, with headquarters at the Spike S Ranch. A local sheriff is determined to capture him, so Al and his brother Frank make plans for one last, big robbery before leaving Oklahoma forever.
- Ike is made the ranch's cook. When a traveling theatrical troupe get stranded nearby, Ike asks them back to the ranch, mainly so he can get next to their pretty leading lady, but he finds that he has to compete for the girl's affections with her pet monkey.
- The daughter of King Neptune determines to avenge the death of her sister, who was caught in a fishing net laid by the king of a country above the waves. However, she soon falls in love with the king upon whom she planned to take her revenge.
- While with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, Lt. Dubois seduces the lovely Zora, leaving her with a child and his medal for bravery. Sheik Achmed generously befriends Zora, and when she is killed in an accident he raises her son, El Rabb, as his own, and soon El Rabb and Achmed's biological son Bel Khan become best friends. Years later Lt. Dubois, now a general, is dispatched to Algeria to crush a revolt led by El Rabb and Bel Khan--and he doesn't know that El Rabb is his son--who wears his father's medal around his neck.
- Ike's uncle dies and leaves him a lot of money. He decides that he and his wife will buy a hotel. His first customers are a traveling circus, and when they can't pay the bill they leave Ike an elephant as payment--but it turns out that the elephant is stolen, and the next thing Ike knows, he's being accused of being the thief.
- Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than he does to her and spends more and more time away from home. A handsome young neighbor notices her emotional state and decides to try to take advantage of it. In her confused and lonely condition, Kitty finds herself attracted to the man and begins to think about running away with him.
- A reckless young man gets violent and belligerent when he gets drunk, which is often. One night during a drunken argument with his sister, he is stopped from attacking her by a young woman who lives across the hall. Angry at first, he comes to admire the woman for sticking up for someone she didn't know. Soon he decides to turn over a new leaf, and he stops drinking and brawling and gets a job. Soon he finds himself in a position where he must return to his old ways in order to save the young woman who changed his life.
- While passing over the palace of a king, the Spirit of Dreams discovers a troubled state of affairs. The people are poor and terrorized, the king is a lecherous tyrant, and love and happiness are nowhere to be found. So he picks out several people--including the king and his unhappy daughter, who is in love with a poor peasant boy that the king has thrown in prison--and casts a "dream rose" upon them. Each has a dream that gives them a different perspective on their own situation and a possible solution to them.
- Rev. Mark Stebbing, a tough, up-from-the-streets kind of guy, finds himself in competition for the affections of pretty Margaret Wharton with Rev. Lionel Barmore, a suave, polished aristocrat. When a poor church and a wealthy one both need new pastors, Stebbing volunteers to go to the poor one, while Barmore requests--and gets--the rich one. When both men propose to Margaret on the same day, she accepts Barmore. Meanwhile, Margaret's father--a wealthy industrialist--is having labor problems at his plant, and angers his workers so much that they plot to blow up the plant--with Margaret inside.
- Personal criticism is the cause of a severe quarrel between Bunny and Flora, his wife, and both, unknown to each other, decide to "polish up" their manners and appearance. John "dolls up" in silk hat, cane, etc., and while out walking, flirts with two pretty girls, Maude and Belle, who invite him down to Orange Beach on the following day. Greatly to his delight, his wife informs him she is going to visit her sister, although she really intends to visit Orange Beach to "polish up" a bit, acquire the latest fashions, etc. The following day John goes to the beach and takes Room 17 at the hotel. He meets Maude and Belle and they indicate that their room is just across the hall. Meantime. Flora arrives and registers under the name of "Evangeline Gray" in room no. 16. She sprains her ankle. The doctor attending her pats her hand soothingly and she coquettes with him. She becomes acquainted with Maude and Belle and all swap confidences concerning the "Old Dear in the next room" and the "Nice young Doctor." The girls suggest they have a little supper party with "Evangeline." and the doctor, so that evening, Bunny, with his arms around the two girls, enters Room 16 and confronts Flora, whose hand is being affectionately petted by the doctor. Flora keels over in a faint while John sinks into a chair, exclaiming, "My Wife." For a while serious trouble is threatened, but at last the confusion subsides. Flora and Bunny deciding it "Is Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other," begin to see the humor of the situation. He suggests they have the party just the same, and proposes a toast to their new friends.
- Young Ruth Morgan, an orphan, decides to leave her small town to make her fortune in the big city. Meanwhile, in another small down, young doctor Allan Buchannan also decides to strike out for the big city. Unfortunately, Ruth falls in love with a rich playboy who soon betrays her, and Allan makes a tragic mistake by accidentally prescribing a drug that results in a child's death. Soon afterwards he learns that his sister has died in a train accident. Despondent and grief-stricken, he walks to a nearby river, intending to end it all by jumping in. There he meets Ruth, who is there for the same purpose.
- The Russian Czar sends his trusted confidant, Michael Strogoff, to warn his brother the Grand Duke of a Tartar rebellion that will be led by Feofar Khan and Ivan Ogareff. Calling himself Nicholas Korpanoff, Strogoff poses as a trader to journey to warn the Grand Duke. On his way he meets Nadia Fedorova, a young girl trying to join her father Wassili, a political activist who has been exiled to Siberia. Strogoff is captured by the Tartars, who don't believe he is a trader and threaten to torture Strogoff's mother Marfa unless he reveals his true identity.
- Jim Hackler is the political boss of a small town. When local lawyer Elias Rigby decides to run for Distrct Attorney, Hackler sees a chance to get revenge on Rigby--years ago both men were in the Army and best friends, but Rigby had intercepted letters to Hackler from his sweetheart, and wound up marrying the girl himself. Hackler persuades Rigby's daughter's fiance' to run against him, but things don't quite work out the way he wanted.
- The strain of keeping such late hours as he does puts a strain on a young musical prodigy. He spends a relaxing time in the country, and meets a young girl to whom he takes a fancy. After he returns to the city, he discovers that his eyesight is failing. He hurries back to the country to see the girl one more time before he goes completely blind. However, events occur that soon change his life forever.
- Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
- Young Dolly Lane has committed herself to becoming a star on the stage, but when she meets handsome and wealthy farmer Steve Hunter, she falls in love and marries him. Unfortunately, Steve soon loses his fortune and the couple is forced to move in with a friend, Teddy Harrington. Not long afterwards Steve's rich uncle dies, leaving him wealthy, but on that same day Dolly is asked to take the place of a stage star who has taken ill. She does and becomes the toast of Broadway, but now Steve wants her to return with him to the West and become a farmer's wife. She relents, but soon becomes bored with that role and longs to return to the stage.
- A brutal, sadistic overseer runs a pearl-diving operation on a South Seas island and treats the natives terribly, torturing them and violating their women. A local native girl falls in love with him, despite his sadistic tendencies, and things come to a head when the locals can't put up with any more of his brutality and take matters into their own hands.
- The Escott family, on their way to Montana, is attacked by Indians. Army Lt. Joe Lanier afterwards finds little Elsie Escott, the only survivor, and brings her to his mother, who takes in the girl and raises her. Joe later leaves the army and becomes a successful miner, and over the years as he sees Elsie grow into a woman, he falls in love with her. Soon, however, a handsome stranger named Bob Stanton becomes his rival for Elsie's affections, and when Joe becomes jealous Elsie gets angry and makes plans to elope with Stanton. However, a war with Spain complicates everything.
- Horace and Ethel Simpson, wealthy siblings touring Europe, fall prey to Russian conmen, one of who plans a marriage with Ethel. The executor of their fortune Daniel Pike, assisted by Grand Duke Vasill, exposes the Russians for what they are.