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- This is a bogus title which appears in The Universal Silents by Richard A. Braff. No film of this title was either produced or released at this time.
- "The Woman in White" is the story of a bold substitution made because a young wife refused to transfer her property to her scheming husband, Laura being the wife and Sir Percival Glyde being the husband. The Woman in White of the story is a girl of about Laura's general age and personal appearance, who has exhibited mental peculiarities from childhood. They were harmless in a way, one of the principal eccentricities being that of always dressing in white. When she finally became a source of distress to her own mother, the latter preferred to have her placed in a private establishment rather than a pauper asylum, and the mother thus played a part in the strange deception which was practiced by Sir Percival Glyde and Count Fosco. In order to obtain an enormous estate which would descend to Sir Percival in case of Laura's death without issue, the feeble minded and feeble bodied Woman in White was drilled to impersonate Laura while the latter was incarcerated in a private madhouse. Such is the plot of the story with Count Fosco as the principal conspirator and a little Italian named Professor Pesca as the real instrument of justice, although Laura's lover, Walter Hartwright, was an active agent. The photodrama opens with a revelation of the existence of one of those brotherhoods organized in Latin countries for political or criminal purposes. The members of the secret society are all gathered when Count Fosco betrays them by signaling to the police. A raid and terrific struggle follow; but little Professor Pesca escapes to the consternation of the Judas who has betrayed his fellow-members of the society. The love story of Walter Hartwright follows. He is the drawing master at the home of Laura and falls deeply in love with her. His love is reciprocated by the charming young girl, but the usual obstacle interposes that makes stories oi this kind interesting. Laura's husband has already been selected for her and the discovery of her affection for the drawing master results in his discharge. An end being made to the intimate relations she enjoyed with Walter Hartwright, and the young girl being completely under the dominance of her English father, she is compelled to marry the baronet that he has chosen, Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival Glyde is one of the decadent gentlemen of title who come to this country every year in search of some weak-minded heiress; and as his main purpose in matrimony is that of obtaining property he falls into the scheme of substitution suggested by bold Count Fosco. He has borrowed money from Fosco, and is such a moral idiot himself that he consents to have his wife drugged and incarcerated in a madhouse when she refuses to transfer her inheritance to him. It is almost unbelievable at this stage of our civilization that such a scheme could be carried out without immediate discovery because of the large number of people involved in transferring the young wife from her home to the private asylum and in the acceptance as a substitute of the half-witted woman who is nearly at the point of death. There could be no intelligent and honest acceptance of the sickly idiot in the place of the bright and charming girl she resembled, but as a matter of fact, the use of private asylums in England for the purpose of incarcerating people who are in the way was so common at that time that the great novels of Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade on that subject stirred up a political and moral revolution. Laura manages to escape from the private asylum after her substitute has died and been buried and she visits the graveyard where a stone has been raised sacred to her memory. Walter Hartwright meets her there. Believing her to be dead he visits her tomb as a matter of sentiment and finds a woman in black who is none other than the one supposed to be lying beneath the sod. The story now turns to the re-establishment of Laura's identity and this is brought about by the intuitive steps taken by Hartwright to follow up the associations of Sir Percival Glyde. He finds him in company with Count Fosco, then shadows the latter persistently, but without result, until he describes the arch villain to his particular friend and associate, little Professor Pesca. Pesca has not forgotten the treachery of Count Fosco and might be excused for writing the latter's death warrant on the spot. Instead, he gives Walter a communication to deliver which warns Fosco that he will meet his death by secret violence unless he re-establishes the right of the living Laura to her inheritance and to her place in society. Armed with this letter Walter extorts a written confession from the arch conspirator, the consideration being that Count Fosco shall be permitted two days' time to escape vengeance at the hands of the Brotherhood. The interesting and impressive Count Fosco, one of the boldest villains ever delineated in the social drama, removes the hirsute ornaments on his face and otherwise disguises himself to escape what should be coming to him. We feel that he is well out of the way, but what about the drunken decadent of attractive title, Sir Percival Glyde, who has slipped into matrimony and a tremendous inheritance with a conscienceless lack of scruples peculiar to his kind? A visitation of God causes the death of Sir' Percival Glyde in a highly dramatic fire scene. He is partially destroyed when rescued by Walter Hartwright and carried into the open to perish miserably. His dying confession completes the chain of evidence necessary to prove his own infamy and the true identity of the young wife he had placed in a private madhouse. The play ends with the final terror of Count Fosco. He has been detected by members of the Brotherhood in spite of his disguise and is shadowed from point to point in some very effective scenes until we see him in the last one lying dead at the heads of those he betrayed, alone in a humiliating end of a long life of degraded ability.
- Claude Petreaux is an old doll maker, who lives with his daughter, Lucille. He has an apprentice, Villon, by name, a worthless man who loves Lucille. The young folks wish to marry, but Claude denies his permission. Villon persuades Lucille to elope. The old man is broken down with grief and swears that she will never darken his door again. Five years pass. In a distant city the young people are struggling to make a living. As a doll maker, Villon has not achieved success and he has already began to descend the steep roads of dissipation. A little girl, four years, has been born to them. One day the little girl brings home a dog to the already half-starved household. Villon, in drunken anger, at having another mouth to feed, kicks the dog brutally, and would put him out of doors, but the little girl takes the dog in her arms and pleads that it may he kept. In this she receives the support of her mother. In rage he vows that he will never feed them and leaves them to shift for themselves. The old man, in the meantime, feels that death is near, which increases his longing for Lucille, who paints a miniature of her baby and sends it to her father. He receives the miniature and calls in a notary. He disposes of his stock, and, using the miniature as a model, he fashions a doll and dispatches it to them. The wolf of starvation has made its appearance to Lucille and her child. She is anxiously awaiting a return to her letter. The packet with the doll arrives. The little girl is delighted with it, but the mother is keenly disappointed that no tangible help has been vouchsafed, and gives way to despair. At this time Villon returns deeply repentant with promises of reformation which woman-like, she accepts. The father takes the doll away from his child and throws it out of the window. The dog runs after it and the little girl sobs for her new toy. The father scolds her and the mother tries in vain to give her comfort. In the meantime the dog has found the doll in the yard and proceeds to tear it apart. The child seeing this, sobs even more piteously than ever at the destruction of her plaything. The mother's heart relents and she bids Villon go and rescue it. He brings it in, in a mangled condition when to their surprise and delight they find the concealed money.
- Billy is in love with Lottie, the daughter of old man Smith, who does not approve of Billy as a suitor because he wants his daughter to marry Percy Meldon, the dude of the village. Billy is discovered sitting on the porch spooning with Lottie. The old man becomes so enraged that he picks up pillows, books and various other articles, and proceeds to the porch where he hits Billy on the "bean" with them. But this does not dampen the ardor of his love. When he learns that the family is going to a theater that afternoon, he decides to call on his sweetheart again, which he does. The door is locked but he climbs through the window. Unfortunately for him the old man forgot his theater tickets; he returns and finds Billy hid under the table. In trying to pull him from under he unconsciously pulls his trousers off and kicks Bill out of the house without them. Bill is now at his wits end what to do as he is informed that the father is going to place the girl in a convent that afternoon. He arranges with several friends to meet the old man in his automobile on the way to the convent, and pretend to hold him up and rob him when at the opportune moment Bill will rush upon the scene and defend the old man. The plan is successfully carried out, and he succeeds in fooling dad and gaining his consent to marry Lottie.
- Lawrence, the son of wealthy parents meets Miriam on a highway. He is attracted by her beauty and sweetness and upon a second meeting, invites her to the county fair. While they are taking in the exhibits, some of the playful rubes begin throwing confetti and some of it is thrown into Miriam's eyes. Lawrence takes her home. The country physician is called. He recommends a specialist he sent for. Lawrence persuades Miriam and her mother to allow him to assume the expense. He then goes home and tells his father of his love for Miriam. The father angrily dismisses him. The specialist arrives. Miriam's eyes are bandaged with the strict command that the bandage should not be removed for three days if she is to regain her sight permanently. Larry, the following day, is thrown from his horse over the edge of a cliff. He grabs hold of some small shrubs and hanging there calls for help. Miriam hears Larry's call and gets up frightened, and gropes her way out of the house. As she draws closer to the place from which the cries had come, she listens intently for a repetition of the cry for help. In great anguish she snatches the bandage from her eyes, sees Larry, grasps his arm and calls for help. Larry's father, walking down the road, hears her call and rushes to the scene, and he and Miriam together pull Larry up to safe ground. The father turns and calls to Miriam. She turns in the direction of his voice and staggers toward him, for she has become totally blind. The father, realizing the terrible sacrifice she has made for his son, goes to her, takes her in his arms and gives her to Larry and though blind, she snuggles contentedly in Larry's arms.
- Bertie Cecil is a member of England's nobility and of the National Guardsmen. He finds particular diversion in innocent flirtations with married women. Lady Guinevere likes him in a silly sort of way, and determinedly resolves to keep the romance from her husband's observation. Bertie's brother Berkeley, loses heavily at gambling and asks Bertie for financial assistance. Bertie patiently but sadly explains that he cannot meet his own debts. At nine o'clock that night Lady Guinevere visits Bertie in his home. Berkeley goes to a Jew money-lender, offers a note tor sufficient money to cover the deficit, and signs his brother's name, endorsed by a friend, Lord Rockingham. A little later the last slim vestige of Bertie's fortune is wiped away. Rockingham's eight-year-old sister comes to him and offers him some gold. Bertie tells her be cannot accept the money, and that when she has grown to womanhood she will know the reason. He asks tor the little enamel box in which she has carried the sold pieces as a memento, and receives it just as he is summoned by a messenger to Rockingham's quarters. He finds Lord Rockingham and the Jew money-lender, with the forged note. Rockingham pleads with him to deny the charge, and explain where he was the night the note was executed. If Bertie speaks, he must soil a woman's name; if he spares her, his silence must be accepted as admission of his guilt. He keeps his silence and his faith with Lady Guinevere. It is only a few minutes later, when the Jew attempts to place the handcuffs on him, that he realizes he is under arrest. However, he escapes and goes to Africa and engages under the French flag. Cigarette, soldier of France and daughter of the army, loves Bertie. He looked upon her wild dances and riotous revelries with a little disgust and a great pity. Ten years he had lived under the French flag and the African sun. But the memory of before still lived and lingered with him. To Africa came a party of tourists from England. They visited the barracks. Among the women in the party was a sweet, young, beautiful slip of a near-woman. She was to Bertie a link of the past, a vision of the happy yesterday that had died. He was, to her only a soldier of France. But somehow they became acquainted, and somehow she became interested in him. And Cigarette saw it all. When he fell wounded in battle. Cigarette dragged him from the red field to a shack in the outskirts. And through the long, black night she nursed him. Then, faintly, feebly, she heard his voice and a name. Eagerly she listened, her heart beating a prayer, the only prayer her being was ever known to make. But the whispered name was the name of the other. She choked the sob and flew from the tent, that he might never know. One day the English woman saw the little enamel box, now rusty, battered and tarnished. She saw it, and started and stared, and asked him where and how he obtained it. He related the incident, and she told him it was she! She explained that Lord Rockingham was with her in Africa, and begged him to stay until her brother returned to the house. With a sudden, startled fear he begged her not to disclose his presence, and flew from hers. Once, on a street in Algiers, he looked into his brother's face. He greeted Bertie with a vague, trembling fear. But Bertie told him to leave Africa with his title and his honor, return to England and live his life according to them. An irresistible something drew him back to the woman. The colonel of Bertie's regiment saw him come from the house, and in jealous rage demanded to know why he had gone there. Bertie was silent. The colonel sarcastically insinuated that the aristocrat was cold to her equals, and carried on her midnight intrigues with the blackguards of his camp. A moment after the deed, Bertie realized that he had struck him. He was court-martialed, found guilty, and sentenced to be shot on the morrow. Cigarette heard, and. frantic with grief and dismay, she ran up the street, and stopped to peer into a face. The face was the face of Bertie. She stopped him and excitedly told him all, and learned he was Bertie's brother. To her the boy confessed all, and not waiting, she had him write his statement, snatched the paper and dashed off for the marshal's tent. Her story was told and proved. The stay of execution of sentence was given her, and she resumed her break-neck ride. She rode into the scone of the execution just as the command was given to fire. Her shouted "Stop, in the name of France!" came a moment too late. The command had already been given, and the guns were speaking their dirge. But even fleeter than the leaden death, she hurled herself from her horse, in front of Bertie. After the first moment of dull, despairing astonishment, he realized that she had sacrificed her life for him, realized in the last chapter all the devotion and integrity of her love. Slowly he dropped his head until his lips met hers. But the long-longed-for sweet had come too late, and the victory of her love was too late to be anything but defeat. Once she smiled, a sweet, fleeting smile of triumph, and in the kiss that she had hoped and lived for, she died. In England Bertie and Guinevere sat together. Sadly they smiled at each other. They were thinking of a distant grave, the human cost of their happiness.
- Jack Downs goes on a motoring trip and locks up his apartment in the city, dropping his keys in the operation. A tramp comes on at this time, picks up the keys and takes possession of the apartment in the owner's absence. He adorns himself in Jack's clothes and then decides to rent the apartment. Nancy Butler meets Jack on the road and they become acquainted. On her arrival she seeks an apartment, and by one of those peculiar turns of fate answers the tramp's ad. She is shown the apartment and rents it, the tramp leaving happily after consummating a clever deal. One night Jack returns and then complications arise. Nancy recognizes him and claims the apartment, but Jack convinces her it is his. She decides to leave, but he, pleading illness persuades her to remain. She in sympathy, telephones a D.D., mistaking him for a M.D. In the meantime, a maiden aunt calls and Jack in desperation, claims her niece as his wife, and then at last the D.D. arrives in time to straighten out the tangle.
- Violet Horner is in love with Billy Quirk. Her father dislikes Bill and tells this to Bill's father. Incensed at this, the elder Quirk bets Violet's dad that he (Horner), will beg Bill to marry his daughter. Horner takes the bet. To keep Violet away from Billy, she is sent to a boarding school. Bill, disguised as a girl, gets into the same school and nearly wrecks it. The ruse is discovered by the principal. Billy persuades Violet to elope with him, and while running to the parson, they bump into her father, who calls an officer, but Bill gives the cop the slip. Later, Mr. Horner gets a letter from his old friend, Captain Spar (who has settled in the Canary Islands), telling that his son, the Prince, will call. Violet steals this letter and shows it to Billy, who conceives the idea of hiring a couple of tramps. He makes them up as Zulu slaves, and himself as the Prince. In this disguise they go to the Horner borne, where they get dad's goat. Pa Horner 'phones to Billy's dad to have Billy come over to marry Violet, and collect the wager that the young folks may have as a wedding present.
- Somewhere in the West of Europe, lying on a cozy stretch of fertile land, was a principality where love was king of everything and everything was fair. There was a princess, a bright, blithe, buoyant, vivacious miss, who life was a toy and the world a play-ground to. The fires and forces of youth firmly emphasized the dominant spirit and the tender strength of her charming femininity. The courage and confidence of youthful years reinforced the happy contentment of her carefree nature. Yet, often when the twilight fell, hushing the din of the day, and a lone star glimmered in the western sky, whispering with wondrous witchery of the day's decease, she would sit in pensive musing and gaze across more miles than the eye could see, seeming to listen to a vague voice within her, the soft, still call of slumbering love. Across the mountains to the westward, nestling in the lap of the foot-hills, drowsed a little municipality in peaceful but unproductive slumber. The ruling prince was a statesman. A long hereditary line of political marriage and mirage had subdued whatever poesy or romance he might otherwise have possessed. He had the advertising instinct. He was not a visionary, but he had the foresight to realize that an alliance with the striving, thriving community across the mountains would result in good and gain for his own dominion. So he dispatched his heralds to advise King Theold that he was coming to sue for the hand of the princess. The king was old. The years had written their weary record on the scroll of his soul. He desired the princess to wed before the grave sent its silent summons. He exhorted her to marry the prince; but the wee whisper of that subtle power slumbering somewhere in her soul wakened and warned her to war. She donned the peasant's garb, left the grim grandeur and the menacing mockery of the castle, and went out into the world. And there she met one whom ages ago Fate had coupled with her, one who kindled into flame the spark of love and longing that had flickered somewhere in her superconscious being, like a torch showing her soul its way through man's defiance and destruction of nature's prerogatives, to the haven that had been designed and assigned for it. She did not know that he was the prince incognito, nor he that she was the princess; such is the mystery of fate's mastery. But it was given them to see and know and understand.
- Bill Downing and Jim Redburn, two burglars, are in the hands of the police. Jim Redburn's wife, Mary, comes to the District Attorney and pleads for her husband. The District Attorney influences Jim to turn state's evidence and Downing is sentenced to prison. Downing swears to get even when his prison sentence is up. Five years elapse. The District Attorney has helped Redburn to a steady job. He has lived straight and has his wife and child in a nice home. Bill Downing is released from prison. He returns to New York to look for Redburn. He goes to the old thieves' haunts, but cannot find his man. He meets Jordan, another thief, and Nance, who tell him of Redburn's new address. Downing makes his way to Redburn's house in the country. He tells Redburn that he has come to kill him. Redburn admits Downing is justified, explains that he did it for the sake of his wife and child. Redburn gets up and writes a letter to Mary, telling her goodbye, and shows Downing that he is ready to take his punishment. Downing is impressed by Redburn's courage, and asks Redburn if there is a chance for him to live straight. Redburn shows him a letter from a man in the west who wants an electrician. As Downing has no money Redburn gives him $100, and he departs.
- Billy Quirk and his sweetheart Dolly plan to elope, but troubles follow them fast and furious. Dolly refuses to leave her pet dog behind. This causes a number of complications that sorely taxes the groom's devotion. They are put off streetcars and out of hotels, and forced to climb trees and fences, while Billy's friends, who have got wind of the affair, track them in hot pursuit. While the young couple are trying to elude their friends, the bottom falls out of the box in which the dog is concealed, and the pup runs away. Finally, after many ludicrous happenings, the baggage is collected, the dog returned, and amid a shower of rice and old shoes, the Quirks start on a real quiet trip.
- Charlie, married, has a flirtation with Tessie Applesauce. A letter which he receives from her falls into the hands of his wife. Charlie explains that the letter was not meant for him, but for another Charlie, who is the image of him in appearance. Wifey is dubious about believing him, and it is not long before her suspicions are again aroused. She decides to test him. She pretends one evening, when her husband returns, that his double has been to the house, and as he resembled him so strongly, she thought he was her own husband and allowed him to make love to her. Charlie is properly fooled, and seizing his pistol, goes hunting for his double. In his excitement he drops a handkerchief, which bears the name of Tessie. Wifey is aroused and determines to teach him a drastic lesson. Barring all doors and windows to the house she dons her nightdress, and when her husband returns after a fruitless search, he is told to go away and not disturb her husband, who is asleep. There is a pistol shot from the window and the enraged Charlie flees. When he is allowed to return he sticks close to home, his lesson thoroughly learned.
- Robert Warning, very much in love with his wife, and detesting that dog that is invariably placed at his table, decides to decapitate the canine. His wife circumvents him. A row ensues and the husband leaves for his office in a huff. A month passes and still the coldness exists between them. Warning gets a telephone call at his office that the stork has arrived. Elated, he dismisses his office force, hies himself to the club, and his fellow-members and drinks to the health of the stork's gift. Arriving home, he is almost prostrated to find a bouncing puppy instead of a bouncing baby. Indignant at the misunderstanding, he resolves to go to his uncle to recuperate from the shock, only to he confronted at every turn by dogs of all descriptions. In the midst of his turmoil at his new abode, he receives a wire to return home because the stork has made another visit. Thinking to please his wife, he purchases clothes for the puppy's outfit and departs for home. Imagine his utter amazement and joy when he discovers that the stork has really left a baby this time.
- Billy and his sweetheart have had a little quarrel, and just to make him jealous, she accepts the attentions of another suitor. When she thinks she has punished Billy enough, she decides to break her engagement with Billy's rival, and to again accept Billy's attentions. But before doing so she requests Billy's rival to return to her the letters that she had written to him during their short courtship, which he absolutely refuses to do. He informs her that he is going to Europe, and that when he returns he will amuse the boys at the club with the letters. In desperation she informs Billy of his rival's intention, and informs him that she cannot accept his offer of marriage while his rival retains those letters. On Billy learning that his rival, whom he has never met, is about to sail for Europe, he decides to burglarize the house and get his sweetheart's letters. But, unfortunately for Billy, his rival misses the boat and returns in time to catch Billy robbing the house. Not knowing Billy, and thinking that he is a burglar, the rival 'phones for the police. He then confronts Billy, who in turn thinks the rival has gone to Europe, mistakes him for a burglar, and when the police arrive Billy has him arrested; but as they are taking him away, the butler, whom Billy has robbed of the keys so that he could enter the house, arrives with a policeman and identifies the rightful owner. They then return to the house to arrest Billy, who succeeds in getting out of the house with the much coveted letters. He returns them to his sweetheart, who then accepts his proposal.
- Reginald is a coward; wealthy young widow Mary adores bravery. Reginald takes Mary's baby Kitty out for a boat ride; Kitty falls overboard and would have drowned if not for Bob the lifeguard. Reginald bribes Bob and, taking the baby, claims that he saved her He is acclaimed the hero and awarded a medal. Later he takes the mother for a boat ride and when the boat upsets, Bob again comes to the rescue. Reginald is discovered as a fraud and Bob is made the hero and taken to the garden party that evening, where the assembled guests treat him coolly.
- Larue, a French-Canadian trapper, and his wife live in the northwest woods. He is a typical ignorant man of the brute type, and his treatment to his wife is such as one would accord to a dog. The wife never resents this, but expects it as part of her lot, until one day a New York artist, on a hunting expedition, meets her. He sees the treatment accorded the woman and his soul rises in anger. He shows her the courtesies one would accord a great lady, and it awakens in her a vista of a new life. Larue sees the treatment of the artist and mistakes it for love and watches the two. An accident occurs whereby the artist rescues Larue from accident, and a friendship springs up between the two, but it is not strong enough to allay the suspicions of the jealous trapper. One day he catches the two together and covers the artist with his gun and takes him off to kill him. A fight ensues between the two men. The wife watches in fear and anguish, and the artist triumphs. Then at the end the artist explains that what Larue mistook for love was just the ordinary courtesy a man should show to a woman, and opens the eyes of the trapper to a new view of life. The artist leaves them happy in their new life.
- Three centuries ago among the prehistoric Indians of Northern Canada, a young chief and a brave fought in their primitive fashion for the band of a young squaw, the brave seeking to possess her by force, but she is rescued in time by the chief, whom she really wants. The old medicine man of the tribe unites them and gives them each an amulet which has the magic properties of keeping them both from harm and bringing them both together in some future life. The same four souls are reincarnated in the present day inhabitants of the east side of New York. The medicine man as a settlement worker, the chief as a factory hand, the squaw as a factory girl and the villainous brave as an east side gangster. Again the villain seeks to possess the girl after the manner of his kind, but she is saved by the factory hand with the assistance of the settlement worker. The two souls discover their former identity by the possession of the amulets have been handed down to them as heirlooms, and remember again their former incarnation as they are reunited. In this life the villain is regenerated by the efforts of the settlement worker.
- A Mexican bandit with his motherless girl is chased by a sheriff's posse, and the little girl is lost in the race. The bandit is captured, tried and sentenced to be hung, while the little girl is found by a traveler and placed in an orphan asylum. The bandit escapes and swears vengeance on the judge who sentenced him. In the meantime, the little girl is adopted by the judge, who finds a locket on her neck. Fifteen years after, the bandit captures the judge's adopted daughter, not knowing she is his own daughter, and takes her to his hiding place, leaving her in charge of a mute. He goes to send notice to the judge that he can have his daughter by paying a large ransom. During his absence, the girl gets the better of the mute and almost escapes as the bandit returns. He sends the mute outdoors and tells him to shoot, and shoot to kill, if anybody as much as moves the blanket at the window. He then locks the door. The girl attacks him, and in the scuffle he finds the locket by which he recognizes the girl as his own daughter. He goes to the window to tell his men to let her go, and as be moves the blanket the mute shoots, and he is mortally wounded, but has strength enough to call his men and tell them the ransom is paid, and for them to escort her to safety. As they leave the room he falls dead without telling anyone she is his own daughter.
- Years before he had gone away, had crossed his native mountains into a country where might is measured by other things than the strength of arm and the amount of arms one possessed. He had gone and got cultured, that's what. He had exchanged instinct for intelligence, cunning for intelligence, stealthiness for strategy. He had bartered brawn for brain, but he kept enough of the former for emergencies. He had studied the law and was returning to introduce and enforce it in a place where the only law was the denial and defiance of it. As he rode along the narrow road he came across Judith, a playmate of the old years and the sweetheart of his kid-hood days. She was now a woman, with the tender suggestion of young and yearning womanhood expressing itself in her shy recognition and bashful welcome. He gazed at her, and a dead memory of the young yesterday was resurrected and restored. Then, his eyes feasting on her pensive face, as though they were reluctant to look away from the sympathy and sincerity growing and glowing there, he rode on into the town. The mountaineers muttered sullen words when they saw the shingle, "Clem Parker, Attorney at Law." They resented his return and intrusion, and disliked the significant suggestion of the sign, to them a sign of no good omen. For between you and us, they were moonshiners, and his face looked too honest and earnest for their future prosperity and security. It happened at Judith's birthday dance. The leader of the clan, inspired by a quantity of whiskey, attempted to kiss Judith, and Clem struck him down. That night the clansmen held council in the old barn and decided to take peremptory vengeance on the offender. Judith, eagerly and anxiously listening, heard all, and quickly apprising her father they hastened to prepare Clem, but arrived just in time to be a little too late. The wounded lawyer and the fleeing riders conveyed the grim, graphic tale. Their second attempt to wreak their wrath upon Clem, when they hurled him over the precipice, only resulted in the discovery of the distillery in the cave below. Even their attempt to kidnap Judith was frustrated by a kid who had learned their purpose and communicated it to the sheriff. Determination and courage eventually triumphed over disorder and cunning, as they generally do. And the triumph included the victory of a greater law than that prohibiting moonshiners. For one night, while the old moon was smiling down upon a silly earth, Clem whispered something to Judith that brought a sweet blush to her cheeks and a tender glow to her eyes. And Judith said "yes."
- It all depended on Bernice. Whether her consumptive brother obtained the light and air that meant life to him, and whether her aged mother and little sister ate dally and slept nightly, all depended upon her. Bernice made a few dollars as a stenographer. One day her pressing needs presented a new view of economics to Bernice. Her employer had too much money, she had nothing. The checkbook lay open on the desk. He would never miss it; why shouldn't she. Her employer did miss it, and sent for a detective. She was suspected. The detective called at her home in her absence, and questioned her family. The consumptive brother admitted that she had given him a sum equal to the amount missing. Bernice was arrested. A short while after the incident, her mother went to the little prison where Bernice was awaiting trial, leaving the sick boy to take care of the baby June. In the boy's mind was conflict, in his heart was war. Long he thought, and then his resolution was formed. Taking the tot, he rallied all his weak strength, and started for his sister's employer's office. The walk was long, he was weary and exhausted, but he stubbornly continued, reached the door, and fell fainting. Baby June entered the office, and walked straight to the employer. He looked into June's eyes, and saw the eyes of his own love lost. The baby's story was told, and the baby fingers led him to the door where the unconscious boy lay. The invalid was revived, the girl's sacrifice explained. At her employer's request, she was liberated from prison and her position was returned to her. The consumptive went to Mexico at her employer's expense, and Baby June won a life-long friend.
- Harry Manning, the son of a fashionable family, is compelled to earn his own living because of money reverses. An old friend helps him obtain a position as floorwalker in a large department store. The employer, a very wealthy man, has a daughter who falls in love with Harry, and pursues him, but he, from the serene height of his aristocratic lineage, looks askance at her. She hits on a fine idea: She obtains a photo of him and one of herself and has a double print made, showing both on the same card. This wonderful scheme fails in its intent, and even makes him more distant than ever. Another wondrous scheme takes root in Ethel's mind, whereby she may be able to obtain her heart's desire. She conspires with two friends to impersonate two sneak-thieves. They are to come to the store, steal from her a gold mesh bag in such a manner that Harry can see, and capture them. She hopes this will bring him closer to her--but this preposterous idea works out exactly opposite to her wishes. The pseudo-thieves sneak the bag, but are seen by someone else. To make their getaway in the excitement, they pop the bag in the side pocket of the unsuspecting Harry. The bag is found in Harry's pocket; he is accused and about to be arrested when Ethel breaks down and confesses that it was all a joke she planned. Her father forgives her, Harry is promoted, and at a birthday party given in her honor, Harry gives her another mesh bag containing an engagement ring. She joyously accepts and her father gives his consent.
- A bevy of chorus girls, at the close of a successful season, decide to go on a spree, to a quiet beach resort. They plan beautiful designs in bathing suits. The country rubes go crazy over them, but the local Spinsters' Club is aroused and the girls are all arrested in their bathing suits. The judge fines them each five dollars. There is no money in their bathing suits. The judge pays their fines himself and, later goes to collect the money. The girls give him the time of his life. From being a "Rube Town" the conditions become altered, but the Spinsters' Club gets busy and the girls aid them ; eventually a good moral lesson is given to the community.
- Billy and Tessie are greatly in love with each other. Tiring of sitting around the house and doing nothing, Tessie decides to learn manicuring by correspondence. Billy tries to dissuade her, but doesn't succeed. After her third lesson, she persuades her father to let her work in his barbershop. Her first customer, Percival, is practically butchered and when the porter upsets the water intended for his hands down his neck, confusion reigns.
- Adolph, a half-witted hunchback, loves a girl who is loved by Miles, a lighthouse tender, whose affection she returns. They have a clandestine meeting, as her father objects to Miles. Later Miles and the girl are married in a boat, while the father rages on the shore. A month later Adolph cuts the wires and punches holes in the oil tank at the lighthouse. Miles, the keeper of the lighthouse, finds that the light will soon be extinguished, as holes have been bored through the oil tank. He goes ashore for oil. The hunchback, who is laboring under a delusion that the lighthouse keeper's wife is held a prisoner by her husband, comes in the house and asks her to go away with him. She refuses to leave, and he ties her to a chair. Then he goes up to put out the light. A steamer is seen approaching. Adolph is just about to put out the light when the wife breaks loose, runs upstairs, and after a fight she throws him from the lighthouse window and manages to keep the light burning until the ship is safe. Then she and her husband search for the hunchback and find him clinging to a boat and almost dead. They resolve to care for him in the future.
- He was old. His heart was a battlefield where all the wars of the world had been fought and lost or won. He had seen life and heard it; in his ears had rung the shout of victory and the groans of defeat, and despair, songs of merriment and the silence of misery. A thousand times he had been close to the door of death, but Some Power had not permitted him to enter the far away so near. But now be was old, and in its tardy time had come the Medal of Honor that his valor had earned in the distant yesterday. Amid a solemn hush the speaker arose, and in a voice trembling with the emotion of the buried memories of the red days and the crimson carnage, told of the deed that would live after what was said there would be forgotten, how, amidst the blinding smoke of musket-rattle and death shots falling thick and fast, in the very hell-born roar of battle, with shot and shell screaming their dirge, all forgetful of self, he dashed across the death-line and rescued the colors. Timid, trembling, tenderly he took the medal and pressed it to his heart, while the cheers of the veterans echoed again all the din of the conflict. Only one voice was silent, only one heart envious. He, too, had been brave and valiant, had suffered and attempted much throughout the strife, but he was one trait short of being a hero; he lacked resignation and repression. He looked with covetous eyes upon the medal, and a dangerous greed stole into his heart. The old hero's grand-daughter was a happy girl when she heard the glad news. Proudly, reverently, she caressed the symbol of suffering and sacrifice. To him the medal was everything. He became ill. The ecstatic excitement created by the medal may have had lots to do with it. There was no money in the house. It wasn't that the girl valued the medal less, but that she loved him more, so she sold it; sold it for medicine, bartered it for the life that had so often been placed in jeopardy to earn it; sold it to him who envied and coveted it. His life was saved, but he was more than dead when he discovered the loss of the medal. Something in the bereaved mind surrendered to the great grief that overwhelmed him, and he forgot. Forgot all but the medal, and it was pitiful to see him searching, searching, always searching, and searching always in vain. The girl, broken-hearted and desperate, raised the money and tried to redeem the medal, but he refused to part with it. If he had been a younger man he could not resist her tears and the pathetic, sympathetic plea in her sobbing voice, but he was old, old and selfish, selfish and vain. He refused. At last she went to the Legion of the Medal of Honor and told the truth of the tragedy. The wrong was righted, the hero received back all that he lived for, and that he had so nearly died for.