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- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
- Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.
- When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
- It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure it will be the next William Skinner Jr. When the bundle of joy finally arrives, much to his surprise, it's a girl. However, Honey and William are just as happy as if she were a he.
- An unrepentant crook enters a dance hall and gets in a fight over a girl. As he, unknowingly, breaks into her house, another bloody mess stains the residence's thick carpets. Can a simple act of kindness pave the way for his regeneration?
- Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.
- Episode 1: "The Tragedy" Mary Page, actress, is playing the leading role in "The King's Daughter," in rehearsal at the opening of the story. The show is secretly backed by David Pollock, man about town, who is in love with the girl. Mary is in love with Philip Langdon, a young lawyer. Pollock attends every rehearsal. He is really watching Mary. Philip Langdon, attorney-at-law, one day, keeps an appointment with Mary. He is talking to her on the stage when they are discovered by Pollock. Pollock is overcome with rage and orders the manager to show Langdon out. Langdon smilingly leaves the theater and waits outside. Mary goes to her dressing room. Pollock follows and attacks her. He is worsted in a fight by Langdon, who hears Mary's cries. On its premier, the play is declared a huge success and Mary attends a banquet given for the company. She is accompanied by Langdon, who waits in the hotel lobby. Pollock also goes to the hotel and engages a room, drinking heavily. He sends a bellboy to Mary with the message that Langdon wants to see her and she comes to the room. There she discovers herself trapped. Langdon, meanwhile, sees Mary leave the dining room and follows her. While he is trying to find out where she went, he hears a scream and a shot. He leads the crowd to Pollock's room, where he finds him dead. Mary is arrested.
- Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
- A cowboy travels East to settle an old score. He finds the man he's been looking for, but his beautiful daughter pleads for her father's life.
- David Whiting belongs to a fine old aristocratic family of the south and is an officer in the United States Army. He believes in the Union and he is opposed to slavery. When the Civil War breaks out he frees his personal slaves and joins his regiment to fight for the north. His brother, Walker, is an honorable man, but hot-headed and impetuous, the opposite of his brother. He joins the southern army fighting against his brother. Edith Whiting, the sister, and her parents are extremely bitter over David's defection. The play opens shortly before the Civil War, when David is visiting his home with a friend and brother officer, Jack Spencer, who is engaged to Edith. Edith quarrels with Spencer over their differences in principles and returns his engagement ring. David is in love with Ruth Tyler. During the war the Whiting family, deserted by the slaves, have a hard time to make ends meet, and borrow from a professional money-lender, Thomas Spicer, giving mortgages on their property. Spicer is anxious that his son be recognized by the better class of people. He is ambitious for him to marry Edith Whiting. Edith always spurns him, even though word reaches her that Spencer has been killed. After the war David, now a colonel, returns to his home town with his troops as military commander of the district. He pays off the debts on the plantation and saves his sister from further humiliation at the hands of Spicer. A few days afterward Spicer is found murdered. Walker Whiting is found leaning over the body. A gun belonging to Walker is found by the man's side. It is well known that there was bitter feeling between Walker and Spicer, so he is arrested and accused of the murder. It devolves on David to court-martial and try his own brother. However, Rufus, a slave, confesses he killed Spicer because he once horsewhipped him. Although David had done all of this and much more for his family, had restored order and saved the residence from great humiliation and outrage, both his family and all his old friends are still cold to him. The sting of victory comes when the woman he had long loved, Ruth Tyler, rejects him and throws herself into the arms of his brother. David has won the fight for his principles, but lost the girl.
- A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
- Dick Graham's father runs the general store in a small western cattle town. Betty, his sister, assists her father in the store; at the same time attending to the housework and in a motherly sort of way, looking after Dick. The store nets the family a fairly good income and old Graham, blindly proud of his son, gives the boy a good allowance and his leisure time with the result that Dick falls into evil ways. His games finally break him and in deep debt he finds it necessary to appeal to his father and confess all or to, in some way, raise the money by going to work. Neither appeals to him, and when the devil, in the person of one Pedro Verez, a Mexican, comes to him with an easy opportunity to re-establish himself without either work or a confession. Dick agrees to join him in the enterprise. Verez knows of a fine string of horses which should net the two a good, round sum, and which might be appropriated with little danger. Yet they have not counted on the alertness of the owner, who comes upon them and succeeds in capturing Pedro, although Dick gets away. The Mexican is turned over to the sheriff and a warrant is sworn out for the arrest of Dick Graham. It is timely to say here that Betty has for some time entertained a young deputy, Dan Morris by name, and it is Morris who regretfully receives the warrant and is told to serve it. Duty bound, he mounts his horse and rides to the Graham store, but just too late, as Dick has confessed to his sister and has begged her to save him. The girl thinks fast and finally, in desperation, dons a suit of her brother's clothes, and while the father has detained the young deputy in the store, has slipped out and mounted to the saddle. Morris, in the meantime, has informed the store-keeper that he will have young Graham if he must demolish the locked door between the store and the living quarters. Just then Betty, in her brother's clothes, rides by the store and is seen by Morris. He of course thinks she is Dick, and after a scuffle with the old man, dashes out of the place, into his saddle and is soon in hot pursuit. Dick joyously listens to the retreating hoofs, then after writing a note of good-bye to his father and sister, in which he makes promises to mend his ways, slips from the house, mounts and rides in the opposite direction. Morris follows the supposed Dick and after an exhaustive chase on foot, the girl drops, faint from sheer fatigue. It is then that Morris discovers the identity of the rider. In his heart he is deeply grateful and as he carries her tenderly back to her horse, he thanks Heaven that Dick has got away. At the store attain, the girl accepts Morris upon his proposal, while the latter wins also the consent of old Graham.
- Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.
- The story of six affairs of the heart, drawn from controversial feminist author Mary MacLane's. None of MacLane's affairs - with "the bank clerk," "the prize-fighter," "the husband of another," and so on - last, and in each of them MacLane emerges dominant. Re-enactments of the love affairs are interspersed with MacLane addressing the camera (while smoking), and talking contemplatively with her maid on the meaning and prospects of love.
- Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a director, in order to sulk and give vent to her feelings. She and her father have many tilts over her stubbornness, and Jane is perpetually victor. Her father discharges the flirtatious hospital superintendent one day, and that worthy leaves, taking with him the entire staff and leaving the hospital isolated and cut off from the world. That evening, the "red-haired person," the new superintendent, arrives and his experiences with the hungry patients, not to mention the bad-tempered Jane, serve as a background for a most delightful little comedy. Suffice to say, Jane, for once in her life, meets her match in the "red-haired person," but she rather enjoys being bossed, and an ultimate midnight episode in which she is the moving factor, brings father, the next morning at dawn with three autos loaded with assistance, only to burst in on the greatest surprise of his life. But we'll not discuss it here.
- The awakening to a broader understanding of one's life partner in marriage, after the primrose path of the honeymoon is left behind, and the more commonplace things in life are to be dealt with, is often a tragedy which harvests bitter tears and many vain regrets. The story of Mr. and Mrs. John Seymour is the old, old story of love lost after marriage. In the closer intimacy which marriage offers. Mrs. Seymour finds in her husband anything but ideal characteristics which she imagined he possessed, and consequently ceases to love him. On the other hand, her husband, blind in his devotion, overlooks his wife's shortcomings. As is often the case in such a woeful one-sided love. Mrs. Seymour finds the company of other men more pleasant than that of her husband, and becomes infatuated with handsome John Hazleton, who, in turn, loves her passionately. Unbeknownst to her husband, Mrs. Seymour meets secretly with Hazleton, and in the end the misguided woman is persuaded to elope with Hazleton. Seymour has lately been suspicious of his wife's unfaithfulness to him, and upon the day Mrs. Seymour and Hazleton have chosen to leave the city together, he enters the house. Hazleton. who is in Mrs. Seymour's apartments, assisting her in her packing," and finding escape from the room cut off. hides himself in the woman's trunk just as Seymour enters the room. The woman offers no explanation of her excitement and flurry and accounts for the trunk and the litter of clothing about it in a feeble excuse that she had decided, to spend a few days at the seaside. Seymour's suspicions are verified when he observes on the table a lighted cigar. A movement from within the trunk satisfies him of the whereabouts of the intruder in love and home. Seymour plans revenge and adopts a unique and novel one. From a drawer in the writing table he draws a revolver, picks up a sheet of paper, and tearing a hole in the middle for a bull's-eye, requests his wife to place it on the trunk, that he is going to show her some expert marksmanship. The woman, horrified, refuses to do so. He forces the paper into her hand and compels her to place it upon the trunk. Calmly he raises the revolver and fires. A moment later a railroad ticket agent, accompanied by two baggage men, enters the room, in answer to Mrs. Seymour's summons. The trunk and its contents are carried out of the room and Mrs. Seymour given her ticket, while her husband expresses the hope that she "may have a pleasant stay at the seaside." The woman, dazed by the sudden and awful tragedy, stumbles room out of the room and Seymour drops into a chair, his face in his hands.
- A cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, overcome by the fumes of the fluid while the chemist is out summoning others to witness the work of his discovery. A doll the chemist has given life to seizes the elixir and pours it on Ruby. She is changed into a doll. Together the two leave the shop. The chemist, the toy king and Ruby's fiancé rush into the place and are horrified to find Ruby missing. They summon the police and a search is instituted. Meanwhile, the dolls journey to the display room of the factory, and with more elixir, bring a doll justice of the peace to life. He marries them and they speed off in a miniature automobile. After the honeymoon trip they select the kennel of Sherlock, the watchdog, as their home. The dog likes the dolls and keeps them supplied with food. Then, one evening, while strolling through the plant, they discover a bomb set by striking workingmen to destroy the building. The dolls realize their peril but it is too late to escape. The bomb explodes and Ruby comes to life. She is puzzled, then realizes that all was simply a dream, inspired by the ravings of the cracked-brain chemist.
- Gilbert Sterling had never wanted for anything. He had been given plenty of money to do with as he pleased, and it was perhaps the fault of his parents that he became worthless, good-for-nothing. The firm of John Sterling and Sons bad been organized by his father, and. when Gilbert was old enough, he took active part in the management. Gilbert's love for the gay life led him away from his duties, and it was nothing unusual for him to spend six nights out of the week with questionable company. Early one morning, intoxicated, Gilbert finds his way to his home. His father reprimands him and finally puts him out of the house, telling him "never to return." Ralph, Gilbert's brother, is engaged to a society belle by the name of Gertrude Chapin, and the end of the second reel shows the two families making arrangements for the wedding. Years later, we see Gilbert a ragged, good-for-nothing tramp in the far west. His happy-go-lucky ways and mannerisms are appreciated by the men in the small town, who pay little attention to him, except for contributing the "makings" or an occasional twenty-five-cent piece. In the meantime, Ralph has engaged in a crooked deal. His father becomes furious and will not reconcile himself to the commercial transactions. The son leaves his office, swearing that he is through with the firm. Sterling and Son, forever. He associates himself with another company and forces his father to the wall, breaking him. The old clerk, who had befriended Gilbert many times, pleads with Ralph to help his father, but for his trouble he is requested to leave the office. Gilbert befriends an Indian who is taken with smallpox, and as a reward, Is left a deed for the Lone Star Mine. He prospers, and after months of labor, becomes very wealthy. His father and mother, in the city, now destitute, are taken to the poorhouse, Ralph having refused to help them in any way. A letter from the east informs Gilbert of his parents' whereabouts, and he hastens to them, restoring them to their old home. Ralph tries to corner the wheat market and Gilbert gets the tip and "breaks" him, and the pretty society butterfly Ralph had married deserts him, now that he is penniless. The worthless son finally saves the life of his brother, and a happy ending takes place, the family now reunited and the old firm name "Sterling and Sons" re-established.
- Jack Hartley, the foreman of the Triple X Ranch, is engaged to Nellie Monroe, the ranch owner's daughter. A quarrel starts between Jack and "Red" Williams, a cow-puncher, when the latter first makes advances to Nellie, and second, when Williams abuses a faithful Indian ranch hand. On this latter occasion Jack is unable to restrain his temper and the result is a short fist fight in which Williams is defeated. Smarting under the punishment, Williams seeks revenge. For some time the miscreant cow-puncher has been in league with a bunch of cattle rustlers, whose several attempts at a raid on the Triple X cattle, however, have brought them nothing, and due entirely to the alertness of Hartley, the foreman. They have sufficient cause to hate the manly young fellow and when Williams, after having been put out by the foreman, stalks into their camp, begging them to join him in obtaining his revenge, all are willing. That they must be cautious, however, is plain to them when another of the band joins them, bringing in tow Indian Pete, whom he had found spying about the shack. When Williams sees the Indian and recalls that he was the cause of his beating from Hartley he is in favor of killing the Indian, but the others restrain him. Having settled upon a plan of revenge, Williams is dispatched with a slip of paper, bearing a few words scrawled in lead pencil which is to be the undoing of Hartley, providing, of course, the game works right. The others ride off leisurely to the Tripe X horse corral and make away with a dozen or more ponies, while Williams is to work his end of the same with Hartley. He finds Hartley at another part of the ranch and succeeds in establishing a reconciliation, after confessing his wrong and pleading forgiveness. Hartley gives him his hand and brings out his cigarette paper and tobacco when Williams asks for "the makin's." When Hartley is not looking Williams slips the bit of paper in among the rice wrappings, then bids Hartley good-bye and leaves to put the finishing touches to his nefarious scheme. A few minutes later he rides excitedly up to the ranch house and calls loudly for Monroe When the old ranchman appears, Williams tells him of the stealing of the ponies, and adds further, "And I know who's at the back of this dirty trick. It's Hartley. If you don't believe it, I can prove it." The alarm is given and Hartley, unsuspicious of the conspiracy, comes running on the scene. A little crowd has gathered when Williams makes his accusation: "I saw him with a bunch of greasers this morning, and I saw him get a note from them fifteen minutes ago, and that note is in the pocket of his shirt. Search him." The astonished and enraged Hartley is seized and searched. The note is found and reads: "Jack Hartley. Got the horses all O.K. and will divide with you to-night. Meet us at the usual place. The Bunch." Hartley is given no attempt to defend himself, despite Nellie's desperate pleadings. He is ordered to mount his horse and leads the procession on the way to execution. In the meantime, Indian Pete, left with a drunken cowboy, makes his getaway and, with his hands still tied behind him, mounts a horse and rides desperately back to the ranch. There is no one there but the heart-broken girl. He tells her everything as she releases him and the two mount and ride at top speed to the scene of the execution. They are just in time. The Indian proves Hartley innocent and Williams is seized and stood in Hartley's place. The film ends here, with the embrace of the lovers.
- Mr. and Mrs. Keith and their son, Paul, are seated in the living room of their home, when the maid brings in a letter. Mrs. Keith opens the letter and reads that her brother is sailing that day from Yokohama, Japan, and are bringing back with them a little Japanese girl, whom they have adopted. Some time later they arrive. Paul is infatuated with O'Saki San, the little Japanese girl, and spends many pleasant minutes with her that evening. He treats her as he would a doll. O'Saki San falls in love with him. Paul caresses her. That evening O'Saki San tells her new mother that she has fallen in love with Paul. Later, Edith Towne, Paul's fiancée, arrives. O'Saki San meets her. The little Japanese girl is forgotten when Paul sees his beloved one. Paul marries Miss Towne. From a window in her room, the little Japanese girl, with her heart overflowing with love for Paul, sobs her little heart out and, prays to her God, that he will have pity on her. Several days later, the little queen of the land of the sun and the cherry blossoms, passes into another land from a broken heart.
- A newly married man finds it impossible to get along with his wife's mother, who lives with the couple, and plans to get rid of her. He receives an advertisement from a hypnotic school, which informs him he can learn to hypnotize by mail. He has an idea that he can hypnotize his mother-in-law, thereby making her leave his home. He receives the lessons and proceeds to learn the art. He practices continually wherever he goes. In the street car he scares passengers with funny antics; runs into a man carrying a sack of flour; makes his mother-in-law pack her belongings and leave his home. The amateur hypnotist meets his Waterloo when the indignant old lady finds him later.
- A propaganda re-enactment, co-financed by the Woodrow Wilson government, of the 1890 massacre of 300 Lakota residents of South Dakota, which was portrayed as American military heroism and justified as part of the assimilation effort.
- An archeologist discovers an ancient parchment inside a mummy case, and realizes that he is the reincarnation of the lover of an Egyptian princess who took her own life many centuries earlier.
- The miser Scrooge passes down a London street the morning before Christmas, on his way to his counting house. So much is he detested that no one speaks to him until a beggar approaches, asks for alms, and is angrily stricken to the ground. A spirit appears and tells the miser that the beggar will again appear that night. Scrooge approaches his counting house, and as he is entering, the beggar again appears before him. He places his hands before his eyes to shut out the apparition, and when he looks again the figure has vanished. The interior of the counting house where Bob Cratchett, the clerk, and Fred, the nephew of Scrooge, are attending to their duties. Fred announces that he has just been married. His bride, together with the crippled boy, Tiny Tim, enter the office. Looking out the window, they discover the approach of Scrooge, and at the advice of Fred the ladies conceal themselves. Scrooge enters and is told of Fred's marriage. He kisses the bride, but immediately regretting his action, orders them out of the office. They plead for a Christmas holiday, to which Scrooge eventually consents. The spirit appears and leads Scrooge from the office. A merry throng on a London street, with a stranger scattering money to the children who gather about him. The spirit leads Scrooge to the throng, who shun him as he endeavors to speak to them at the command of the spirit. The cripple at the lodgings of Scrooge, and the latter entering, still led by the spirit. The beggar warms himself by the fireplace, while Scrooge in anger attempts to strike him, when he is transformed into the image of the dead partner of the miser. Horror-stricken, Scrooge sinks into a chair, and looking into the fireplace seeks a vision of his boyhood days. With a cry he sinks to the floor. The spirit again compels him to look into the fireplace, where he sees a vision of his forsaken sweetheart, as well as that of himself as a young business man. Thoroughly overcome, he falls to the floor exhausted, but the spirit again raises him with a command to follow him from the office. The meager home of the Cratchetts, where, at the command of the spirit, he showers money upon the ill-paid clerk and his happy family and is again led away. The Christmas festivities at the home of Fred, the nephew of Scrooge, Fred toasts his uncle, but the company refuse to drink to the toast. Scrooge, concealed in the recess of the window, notices this, and coming forward, showers them with money, promising that hereafter he will lead a different life. The spirit and Scrooge in the lodgings of the latter, where Scrooge falls upon his knees in prayer. Christmas Day, Scrooge gives a banquet to all his house can hold, including Fred, the Cratchetts and his friends, where he promises that in the future he will live to achieve the happiness of others.
- In this subject, the camera conveys us to the beautiful Cayuga Lake and valley at Ithaca, N.Y. Wonderful panoramic views of the valley, taken from Cornell University, are unfolded before us, and then is shown the University campus with its hurrying throngs of students. The football team is next seen at afternoon practice, including tackling, bucking the line and going through various intricate formations. Next we see a football aspirant tried out for a position on the team. He lasts until the entire team make mince-meat of him, then solemnly swears "never again." This, together with views of the students parading to the field, and going through their famous "snake-dance," terminate as interesting a subject on college life as can he imagined.
- Drowsy Duster, a genial specimen of the genus "hobo" is the target for an old maid who, taking advantage of leap year, proposes to him. He finally tells her to get the license and he will wait. The moment she is gone he flees for his life. Drowsy now goes to sleep before a classy billboard on which is depicted "La Belle Cassie," a noted actress. Suddenly Cassie comes to life, steps out of the sign and asks Drowsy to escort her home. He joyfully does so where he obtains a shave and swell clothes. Cassie now takes him to the theater, where Drowsy is suddenly called upon to take the part of the hero, who is ill. Drowsy costumes up in old Roman style, rehearses his role of sawing off the villain's bead and is a great hit. The manager engages him on the spot at a fabulous salary, the curtain goes up. Drowsy and Cassie prepare to make their entrance when, Drowsy is rudely jerked to his feet and gazes into the grinning face of the old maid, who has returned with the marriage license and a minister. With despairing looks toward the billboard, and cursing his beautiful dream. Drowsy is forced to listen to the minister toll off the words that unites him for life to the old maid.
- Young Frank McLain loses his position in the east, and resolves to go west to prospect for gold. Arrangements are made that he leave his wife at home, and send for her later, as soon as he has found a position. Frank's prospecting proves a failure, and he is without funds, when his plight is made more severe by receiving a letter from Alice, his wife, stating that she also is out of money, and is threatened with expulsion from their home by the landlord. It is at this moment of despair that an escaping bandit, one "Bad" White, as he is known, enters Frank's cabin, begging protection from the sheriff and posse, who are in hot pursuit, promising Frank a bag of gold if he will secret him someplace about the prospector's quarters. Frank hesitates but a moment, and, finding the temptation too strong to resist, yields. The sheriff enters, and asks Frank if he has seen White, and then leaves when Frank says he has not. Later, Mrs. McLain receives money from her husband, and decides to go west without notifying Frank. She arrives, and takes the stagecoach to Snaketown, a mining town, unaware that her husband and "Bad" White have made plans to hold up the very stage upon which she is a passenger. White, however, learns of her arrival in time to forestall the hold-up, and later, when Frank and his wife meet, the two resolve to give up the game of outlawry, happy at having escaped the disastrous end of Frank's romance, which would surely have occurred had the hold-up happened.
- American sailor Allan Carroll, an American sailor, is shipwrecked of the coast of Japan in the 19th century. He makes it to shore and is rescued by kind Yori. The local ruler, Prince Iku, has ordered that all foreigners who are "trespassing" on Japanese soil should be killed. He hears about a foreign sailor who washed ashore and has been hidden by villagers, so he sends his sister Omi San to investigate. She finds Alan, and instead of turning him in to be executed, she falls in love with him. Prince Iku captures both Allan and Yori and intends to execute both of them. Complications ensue.
- Buffalo Bill is shown in the early days of his thrilling career as a pony express rider in the pioneer west; later as hunter of buffaloes and then as the chief Indian scout for the United States army. Appearing with Buffalo Bill in the picturization of the Indian battles which follow are Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, Major-General Jesse M. Lee, and Brigadier-General Frank D. Baldwin and Marion P. Maus and other heroic figures of the pioneer days. Historically accurate versions of the Battle of Summit Springs, the Battle of Warbonnet, Col. Cody's knife duel with the Sioux Chief Yellow Hand and his fight with Chief Tall Bull, in which the Indians were killed are shown. Five thousand United States troops and Indians participate in the battles. Buffalo Bill's later life, giving intimate glimpses of him at home and, of his great hunting expeditions, including that on which he guided the Prince of Monaco after big game in the Rockies, conclude this picture.
- Husband and wife lie to each other to conceal a pending important event. Jealousy and suspicion lead to a comedy of errors and nearly a tragedy.
- Once upon a time there was a girl whose principal ambition in life was to stand ace high with all the nice men of her set. She was so foxy that at times she got in front of herself and blocked her own plays. She was informed, in taking notes of what man most desired in woman, that man wanted a dame that will play up to his loftiest ambitions and supply his home with an atmosphere of culture, which is the ozone of married life. So the girl put it down that it was her cue to chop out all the twaddle and be a sort of Lady Emerson. But when she had a chance to try out her new method of landing in the matrimonial game she found that the flashy young woman who deals out slang, moves up to the cocktails freely and does a Gertrude Hoffman on the table is the one the men lose sleep about. So the next time she went to a blow-out the wise girl added a dash of red to her costume, and cut loose and got along first rate, even though she did a lot of the things that none of the men approve, but somehow love to put up with. Moral: He can always pick out the right kind for the other fellow.
- Tom Ripley, a cowpuncher from the Circle A ranch, wins the hatred of Jim Simpson, another cowpuncher, when he defends Lightfeather, a pretty squaw, from the insults of Simpson. The affair occurs in the Silver Dollar saloon in Bisbee. Some few days later Lightfeather goes to her protector's cabin and presents him with a pair of fine moccasins. Tom is duly grateful and advises the little Indian maiden that if she is ever annoyed again, not to hesitate to shoot the persecutor. Not long after this meeting Simpson encounters Ripley out on the range on the brink of a precipice. A fight ensues in which Ripley is thrown over the cliff and frightfully wounded on the rocks below. Ripley's riderless horse gallops away and is later seen and recognized by Lightfeather. The squaw mounts the horse and follows the tracks back to the top of the cliff where she finds her good white friend. After much difficulty she assists him back to the cabin and cares for him in his convalescence. Simpson, who has vowed to "get" Ripley at any cost, watches Tom's cabin day and night but the wary Lightfeather has seen him skulking about and keeps a sharp lookout after Tom. Later when she sees Simpson slipping threateningly on Ripley and about to fire at him, she draws her own weapon and a timely shot kills the would-be murderer. Ripley turns to find Simpson lying dead, just behind him, when the little squaw comes from behind her hiding place in the nearby bushes, confessing that she had killed Simpson to save him. Ripley brings up his horse and swinging into the saddle, pulls the squaw up behind him, just as a party of cowboys, who have heard the shot, run upon the scene. A lively chase follows. By numerous tricks Ripley throws his pursuers off the trail and after a long ride draws rein at a little creek, the boundary line of two counties. When he crosses this he knows he will be safe from the sheriff, at least. Pulling a notebook from his pocket Ripley scribbles a line to the sheriff, which be ties to a weed at the water's edge. Some time later the sheriff and his posse arrive at the crossing and find the note. It reads: "Buck Brady, Sheriff: We have crossed the boundary line forever. Good-bye. The squaw only killed a cur, and you know it. Tom Ripley." The sheriff reads the note aloud and turns to his men. "Tom's right," he says, "that Simpson was never no account, nohow." And the little party of cowboys swing leisurely into their saddles and turn their horses' heads toward home.
- Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted. At college her sleeping quarters are in the dormitory, and that night while Sweedie sleeps the other girls cook a rarebit. The matron is awakened by their giggles, and when they hear her approaching they put the rarebit dish in Sweedie's bed, then pretend they are asleep. The matron finds the dish and scolds the innocent Sweedie. After she leaves a pillow fight ensues, in which Sweedie is victorious. Next day she receives a note from her Romeo telling her to meet him at 11:00 P.M. and they will elope. He tells her he will wear a mask and advises her to do the same. Another coed receives a note from her sweetheart to the same effect. The result is that the elopers at the last minute are about to marry the wrong party.
- Ralph Murray and his wife are devoted to each other, yet they have their usual lovers' quarrels. One afternoon, Murray calls to see a friend, Jack Carson by name, who insists that Murray take his wife to luncheon. It so happens that Mrs. Murray sees her husband with "the other woman." The gossips spread the news fast, which develops into a suicide and a death by a broken heart. Speak no evil and the world is a song; speak thou evil and the world goes wrong.
- Broncho works for a despicable land grabber who treats his help like a brute. The men finally plot to lynch the land grabber. Broncho races on his horse ahead of them and tells him of the plot. They barricade the doors, but the lynching party breaks them down and drag the two men away to string them up. But the girl has seen them and raced for the sheriff, who arrives just in time to prevent the lynching. The land grabber experiences a change of heart. He appoints Broncho foreman and the men have won their point and return to work satisfied, while Broncho falls in love with the girl who saved them.
- A wanted cattle thief risks imprisonment when he tries to help a sick rancher and his daughter. He takes the man into town to see a doctor, and he is recognized and arrested.