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John Haller, a banker, is head of the powerful organization of beggars in his city. His daughter, Meta, knows nothing of the double life her father is leading. She is loved by Paul Wilson, a young society man, but will not marry him until he has succeeded in a useful occupation. Paul secures work on the Evening Herald and is told that the position will be a steady one if he can unearth the system back of the begging graft. Paul starts to work and his articles begin to worry Haller and Brooks, the manager of the beggars. One night Paul sees a beggar enter a limousine. He hangs on to the back and is surprised when it drives up to Haller's house. Paul has the city editor of his paper make the announcement that the name of the mysterious beggar king will be revealed in the Sunday edition. This announcement causes alarm to Haller, and joy to Meta. Haller is visited by an old inventor, who asks him for funds to secure a patent for a typewriting device he has perfected. This device makes it possible for writings on one typewriter to be transmitted automatically to another machine any distance away. Haller has machines installed in his library and the office at beggar headquarters. Paul is forced to report that he has not yet succeeded in finding the beggar king. That night he again keeps watch at beggar headquarters, and sees the limousine waiting. He conceals himself in the car. A few moments later, the beggar enters the machine, and the chauffeur drives on before Paul is discovered. The beggar is removing his make-up, and Paul sees the man is really Meta's father. He jumps out of the moving car, and Haller goes home greatly agitated. The next morning he determines to save his daughter's disgrace at any cost. He sends Brooks a message to have three gunmen wait in his garden. He writes a note to Paul telling him that he will learn important information for his article by calling that night. Night comes. Haller tells Meta he is called away and for her to keep Paul there until he returns. In the garden he gives instructions to shoot Paul if he leaves before eleven o'clock. Paul calls at the house. Meta cajoles him into remaining, thinking that his article has already been turned in. At the newspaper office the editor grows frantic. They try to communicate with Paul by telephone, but Haller has removed the bells. So they send a boy with a message that the forms will be locked in thirty minutes. When Meta learns that Paul has not done his work yet, she tells him to write his article on her father's typewriter, and keeps the messenger waiting. Paul has a struggle between love and duty, and finally writes a note to the editor, resigning his position, as he has not discovered the name of the beggar king. The message is transmitted at beggar headquarters, and Haller sees what a mistake he has made. He rushes out to save Paul. Meta is indignant when she realizes that Paul has failed. She orders him out of the house, saying that she never wishes to see him again. The gunmen are waiting. As Paul leaves the house, they take careful aim. But just as they fire, Haller rushes up shouting a warning to Paul, and he receives the shot. Haller, fatally wounded, confesses to Meta the whole truth. She sees how she has misjudged Paul and he comforts her, telling her that the secret of her father's life will never be known.

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another telegram telling her the inheritances is only $25. All her new 'friends' desert her, except her poor boyfriend, Cy.

The Jordans, Phil and Ruth, accompanied by Philip's wife, Polly, and Dr. Winthrop Newbury, a suitor for Ruth's hand, bid old Mrs. Jordan good-bye at the station of Milford Corners, Mass., and depart for the west, to work over some unredeemed desert land, which was left to the Jordans by their dead father. Arriving in the west, they take up their work, but it proves anything but a success. On the brink of the Great Divide lives Stephen Ghent, an untamed and untrained man of the west, and on account of his manner is respected by the habitués of Miller's saloon and dance hall in the town, which he and two of his acquaintances in the persons of Pedro, a half-breed Mexican, and Dutch, a brutal type of the west, frequent. Polly tires of western life and jumps at the chance to take a trip to Frisco. Philip drives her down to the station that night. On an adjoining ranch a cowpuncher is seriously hurt and a boy is dispatched for Dr. Newbury. After cautioning Ruth to retire early, the doctor takes his leave. Stephen Ghent, Pedro, and Dutch are down in the town drinking. They afterward depart and start up the Coldwater Trail, which runs alongside of the Jordan home. As they pass the dimly lighted cabin, they see a woman standing in the doorway. Cautiously approaching the door, they enter the cabin and Ruth is overpowered. Dutch and Ghent fight a duel for her in which Dutch is killed. Pedro is bought off by Ghent with a string of nuggets, and Ruth belongs to him. In the man of the woods, Ruth recognizes the ideal man she desires for a helpmate. Ruth agrees to marry Ghent and live as his wife in name only until he has changed his character. Ghent agrees and they are married. Ghent then brings her to his cabin. As day by day goes by, Ruth begins to see other qualities in her husband and also to believe in him. One night, however, Ghent filled with a desire for her and goaded on by the whiskey that is in him breaks his promise. Ruth denounces him for his actions and tells him that not until he has purged himself through suffering will she ever believe in him again. She also tells him that she is going to earn enough money to buy back the string of nuggets from Pedro, with which he managed to get her into his power. Some time later Ruth departs for town to sell her last blanket. She has been weaving Navajo blankets in order to raise the necessary amount to buy back the nuggets. In the meantime the Jordans become disgusted and prepare to go back east. While waiting at the station they find Ruth, who has just completed the sale of her blanket. They see her start up the trail and follow her on foot. Ruth buys back the string of nuggets from Pedro, but she has not time to turn it over to Ghent upon her arrival at the cabin before she is overtaken by the others. It is her desire to have them believe she is happy and refuses to go back east with them. She introduces Ghent to them just as they are ready to catch the train. Ghent, unable to understand her changed attitude, starts to thank her. She tells him that circumstances forced her to act as she did, but that she is now able to buy back her freedom from him. Ghent is stunned, and at first refuses to let her go, but when she tells him of the life that is to come and that it is their duty to protect its happiness through a mother's love, he finally releases her from her promise, and Ruth, with the sense of newfound freedom, starts down the trail to overtake the others before it is too late. Ghent's attention as he looks after her is suddenly attracted to a bit of trembling earth on the mountainside. He realizes the great danger that Ruth is in and starts down the trail to rescue her. He is just in time and has thrown her to one side when the landslide comes upon him and carries him into the valley below. The rumbling sound has caused the others to look back. A reunion takes place over the injured Ghent. He is brought to the cabin, where he recovers under the care and attention of Dr. Newbury and Ruth. Ruth tells him that he has purged himself through his suffering and once more the couple start out in life upon a happier basis.

Mattie Cook, the undertaker's daughter, loves John Scott, who has no job. Her father wants her to marry Sime Sloan, who has a job, and it takes all of Mattie's persuasive power to overcome Dad's objections, but she is equal to the occasion. She gets rid of John's two rivals, Sime and Bime, by promising to marry them it they will prove their love for her. To prove it one must sleep in one of her father's coffins and the other sit by it all night. Unknown to one another they come to fulfill their promise. After some hesitancy they settle down to the task. It really looks as if she would have to marry one or both, when she thinks that a little noise would help some. With the aid of John, she manages to get rid of both. In their fright they run through the meeting house presided over by Dad, who gets a couple of spills. He finally decides that John is the most sensible and thinks he can help in the undertaking business.

Jim Brooks and Dan Reeves, prospectors, accidentally locate on the same claim. Reeves, an old man in bad health, suggests that rather than have trouble, they form a partnership, which is signed and witnessed in the home of Joe Johnson, a young miner. Reeves leaves all the business to Brooks, who files the claim in his own name. On the day the partnership is formed. Reeves learns that his daughter, Ella, is about to visit him; he takes his copy of the agreement and placing it in a tin box, secrets it among the bricks in the fireplace of his cabin. A few hours later he finds a nugget on the claim and the excitement causes his death. When Brooks arrives on the claim he finds the dead body of Reeves, and decides to rob his daughter of her share in the mine. Ella arrives at the little mining town and is met by Brooks, who tells her that her father, who was an employee of his, has died. Joe Johnson and his mother inform her of the partnership and offer her a home. Joe remembers that the blotter used at the signing of the papers was a new one, and that by holding it before a mirror the signatures are legible enough for him to invoke the aid of the sheriff. In the meantime, Brooks has employed Tom Calhoun, a worthless prospector, to assist him in working his claim, and during an altercation when Calhoun attempts to steal his gold, a can of powder is knocked into the fire place; the explosion which follows wrecks the cabin and kills the two men. Joe and Ella, who are on their way to the claim with the sheriff, see the explosion and on their arrival at the cabin Joe discovers in the debris Reeves' copy of the partnership, which effectually establishes Ella's right to the mine. Later a new partnership is formed for life between Ella and Joe.

The scene is laid in one of the trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company and the young factor, Malcolm Young, loves Utoka, the pretty daughter of the chief of a nearby tribe. Jules Laprese also loves the girl and the half-breed hates Malcolm as much as he loves the pretty Indian maiden. Only Utoka's watchfulness saves the young factor's life on several occasions and this loving care is relaxed only when Jules brings her a letter and photograph which he has stolen from the factor. The picture is that of a beautiful young white girl and the loving message that accompanies it leaves small room for question of the factor's lack of good faith. Utoka is prostrated by grief and Jules leads her father to believe that a more serious wrong has been wrought by the head of the trading post. With his braves the old chief captures the factor and drags him, a prisoner, to the camp where Malcolm is put to torture before the fire is to mercilessly end his sufferings. Meanwhile Utoka, who cannot believe her lover guilty, seeks the post and discovers what has taken place. With the good father, the missionary who keeps pace with the advance of the Hudson Bay posts, Utoka returns to the camp and saves the life of the factor. He proves that the letter was from his sister and not from some sweetheart in Montreal and the half-breed is made to suffer punishment for the affront he has put upon the tribe.

A photoplay is wanted quick. The manager calls in the director to give him one in a hurry. The director shows him several scripts, but they do not suit; so the director is compelled to call the scenario writer to have a play written in an hour. The director summons his company and reads the play to them; then tells them to make up, while he gives his plots to the stage manager. Being weary, he falls asleep in a chair in the center of the stage and dreams the following: A young girl, employed in an office, falls in love with the head clerk. The boss is a black mustached villain, who is also in love with the girl. To make an impression he gives her his photo, which she throws with contempt on the table. He then tries to embrace her. She calls for help, when her sweetheart (the head clerk) comes to her rescue. At this juncture, the heavy man is not strong enough in the part and the director stops the play and shows him what to do. The play is resumed, the "heavy" throws the head clerk into a vault and locks him in, then embraces the girl, who repulses him and runs. The clerk by his superior strength batters down the steel vault door and escapes. The "heavy" pursues the unfortunate girl up the fire-escape to the roof, then to the water tower, where she defends her honor by beating him over the head with an iron rod. Fearing she has killed him she makes her retreat, only to be pursued by the villain. Rushing to the edge of the roof, she sees her lover, and calls him. He tells her to jump. She does so and alights safely in his arms. Undaunted, the villain, saying she shall not escape me, leaps six stories to the ground. Landing uninjured, he starts in pursuit. Here is where the detective takes up the trail, and after a long chase catches the villain. The stage hands, in setting the stage, allow a piece of scenery to fall upon the director, which awakens him from his dream.

During a rehearsal of his new play, Peter Richards recognizes in Mary Walters a well-known leading lady of 20 years before. She has met with reverses and is now employed as wardrobe woman in the company which is producing his play. On opening night, the play is a failure, and the manager who financed it decides to take it off immediately. Mary Walters is the only one in the theater who has feeling enough to show sympathy for the author in his misfortune. An extra girl's chance remark gives Peter an idea for another play, which he writes and calls "Granny," and he has enough confidence in Mary Walters' ability to offer her the leading part, which she gratefully accepts. Confident of its success, Peter's ambition is to produce "Granny" at the same theater where his former play met with such complete failure, but the manager refuses to produce it and Peter is forced to sell his home in order to secure enough money to put on the play. During his days of trouble Peter sees Mary's worth and as he walks with her to the theater on the opening night, they pass a quaint little church and Peter asks her to share the future with him, no matter what the night may bring them. Mary consents and they enter the rectory and are quietly married, after which they go to the theater for the opening performance. Peter's judgment is vindicated and the play is a hit.

Laddie, the little son of a widower, worships his father. The father is in love with a good and beautiful woman and asks her to be his wife. He tells Laddie that he is to have a new mother and is surprised when the boy is grief-stricken. After the marriage, the new mother tries to win Laddie's love, but her efforts are a failure. A baby sister comes to Laddie's home after a while and out of love and pride for it, Laddie unbends a little towards the mother who owns it. But the little sister dies, and the mother, ill and delirious, stretches out her arms and calls unceasingly for her baby. Laddie sees and hears her and his heart is so touched that he determines to get another one for her. He starts out to find one and in the park, seeing the mother of many children, is surprised when she refuses to spare one, even when he offers his watch in payment. But Laddie finds a baby in a carriage outside of a house and wheels it off. He takes it to his mother and when her empty arms are filled, she quiets down and peace comes to her. Laddie leads his father to the house where he got the baby and the distracted parents are assured that they will get their baby back. They see that their baby is safe and leave it where it is. Laddie's mother later gives up the baby and once more has empty arms, until Laddie creeps into them and is cuddled to her heart where he finds happiness.

Mr. Newlywed is of a very jealous disposition, and thus makes his darling little wife most unhappy. He kicks the ice man out of the house, he fights the milk man, he gets after the letter carrier and even cools his temper on the garbage collector. In her despair, the young wife invites her friend to come and help her cure her jealous husband. The young lady arrives and the two at once lay out a plan to effect a sure cure. A dummy of a man is made and the same placed in the wardrobe of the sleeping room. The next morning the young wife flirts with the ice man. The husband appears and is furious. Imagine his surprise when the ice man is a great big fellow, and instead of punishing the ice man, Mr. Newlywed gets a good trouncing. The same happens to him by the milk man, by the coal man and by the garbage collector. The young lady having ordered big, strong men to do the delivering on this particular day. Not enough with these lessons, the young wife pretends to have received a male visitor. She runs up to the bed room, stands before the wardrobe and refuses her husband to open the wardrobe. Now he is sure of the presence of a man in the house, he opens the wardrobe, the dummy falls into his arms. He wrestles with the intruder until the dummy falls apart and he sees he has been made the target of his wife's and her friend's wit. He apologizes and from all appearances he is cured forever of his jealousy.

Gabriel Hall is telling the village parson why it is that he believes in God and the angels, so ably poetized by the late John G. Hay in one of his earlier poems. Gabriel comes to town with a load of turnips, bringing his little boy, Gabe, with him. Going into a store to make a purchase he leaves little Gabe in charge of the horses. The horses run away with him over the snow-covered prairie. Hall goes in search of the boy and finds at first only the overturned wagon in a snow drift. Despairing of human aid he kneels in the snow in prayer and shortly thereafter finds the little boy in a sheepfold, where he is nestled among the sheep. This is the reason, why in bidding the parson goodnight, he emphasizes his belief in the efficacy of prayer with the verse: "And I think that savin' a little child / And bringin' His to His own / Is a whole lot better business / Than singin' around the throne."

Businessman Philip Nuneham pays more attention to his business of building power plants than he does to his wife Christabel. Feeling neglected and unloved, Christabel is receptive to the attentions of Rex Allan, a young army officer. When his regiment is suddenly called to duty in India, he convinces Christabel to secretly accompany him to Southampton to see him off. She spends the night with him, and on her way home the next day she is involved in auto accident and injured. Renowned evangelist Sylvanus Rebbings rescues her. He has the largest congregation in the country, but has incurred the enmity of the religious establishment because of his "radical" views on religion and religious hypocrisy, Christabel finds out that she really needs his help when Rex comes home from India and she attempts to end their affair, but her husband discovers her infidelity and threatens to divorce her and keep their daughter Ione.

John Fordham, a wealthy ranch owner and his daughter, Ethel, meet with an automobile accident near the ranch house of Jim Clifford. Proffered hospitality is accepted. An acquaintance is formed, which results in Mrs. Clifford inviting Ethel to visit the ranch again, and a few weeks later, Ethel arrives for a more lengthy stay. Jim falls in love with Ethel and later when she refuses his offer of marriage, it develops all the brutality in his nature. Ethel's love for adventure almost causes her death when she persists in riding a spirited horse against the advice of Ed Wallace, the foreman of the ranch. If requires all of Ed's skill and courage to save her after a thrilling and dangerous ride. This experience is the beginning of an interest between the young couple, which soon ripens into a strong attachment. Jim allows the worst in his nature to control him, and when Manuel, a Mexican, kills a drunken cowboy in self-defense, Jim conceives the idea to fasten the crime on Ed Wallace. The fact that Ed has previously quarreled with the cowboy lends color to the accusation, and he is held as the murderer. Fearing that Ed will be lynched, Ethel starts for the sheriff. The Mexican, who is making his escape, sees Ethel and suspecting her purpose, binds and ties her to the stump of a tree and rides away. Ethel manages to free herself from the stump, and with her hands still tied, mounts her horse and taking the bridle between her teeth, continues her ride. She reaches the sheriff, who starts with her towards the ranch with his posse. In the meantime, Jim has persuaded the cowboys to lynch Ed, hut the timely arrival of Ethel and the sheriff stop the proceedings, and the capture of the Mexican who has stopped to say goodbye to his sweetheart establishes Ed's innocence.

Bob and Lena want to get married, but first they have to get around the objections of Lena's father.

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.

Tom Morton, in love with Elsie, is unaware that his friend, Jack Winters, also loves her and is trying to win her away from him. While out riding one day, Tom sees a little Indian child playing with a rattlesnake. He shoots the rattler and thereby gains the gratitude of the child's mother. Returning to her hut with the child, the mother is beaten by her husband, Sancho, while he is in a drunken frenzy and she, swearing vengeance, follows him with a gun. In the meantime Tom and Sancho meet and have an altercation. As Tom draws his gun, the squaw shoots from ambush and Sancho drops dead. Men rushing out of the store find Tom with his gun drawn and he is accused of the murder. Jack who has been attracted by the queer action of the squaw, follows her and witnesses the firing of the shot, but remains silent, planning to have Tom convicted of the murder and thereby winning Elsie. The day before the trial, Jack frightens the squaw into leaving by telling her that she is suspected of the murder and she, after a night of wandering falls exhausted at the door of Elsie's home. While being cared for by Elsie and her mother the squaw recognizes the picture of Tom and upon being told the cause of Elsie's grief she confesses that she killed Sancho. Elsie immediately takes her to the court house where she tells her story. As she finishes the exposure, the wounds inflicted by her husband prove fatal and she falls dead at the feet of the man she has saved.

Evelyn, in order to care for her invalid mother and young sister, for some time has been a cabaret performer at the restaurant of Brady, a dissolute and repulsive brute, who has taken a fancy to the girl and, in order to secure a firm hold upon her, has advanced her money. Worn out by her battle, Evelyn goes one Sunday morning to a village near the city to seek repose and, in the absence of the organist of the village church, volunteers to take her place. She meets Abner Duncan, comparatively young and wealthy, but through training a stern Puritan. Unconsciously they fall in love, but neither realizes this for some time. Evelyn continues to come to the village and is presently the subject of gossip, as she discloses nothing whatever concerning herself, and even Duncan in his narrowness has not faith enough in his own heart to accept her. Evelyn ceases to go to the village, and Duncan begins to realize that without her his life is sad. Evelyn has been told by the doctor that the only hope of saving her mother's life lies in sending her to the south within two months. Evelyn attempts to borrow the necessary money from Brady, but he refuses, telling her, however, that he will make her a wedding present of $1,000. Duncan is a large contributor to the Society for Moral Uplift, and is appointed a member of the investigating committee, which is looking into the matter of cabaret shows. On his first tour of inspection, Duncan sees Evelyn and is horrified. Thereafter he sternly attempts to put the girl out of his mind, but fails. At last he yields to his love and determines to marry her. Going to the city, he seeks information at the restaurant, and is directed to the apartments upstairs. Here he finds Evelyn, and recklessly declares his love. Evelyn pulls aside a pair of curtains and discloses the repulsive form of Brady, sprawling in a drunken stupor. She tells Duncan that his awakening is too late, that for a week she has been the wife of Brady. Crushed, Duncan stumbles away. Evelyn smooths out and re-reads a crumpled telegram from her sister in the south, which tells her that, after all, her terrible sacrifice was in vain, that her mother died that morning.

Two members of the Never-Drop Aero Club claim that they can reach the moon by the aeroplane. They get an astronomer to get his telescope out and see how the conditions are on the moon. He comes on with a big telescope and looks through it, finds everything in fine condition from earth to moon, so the party start out. As they rise and turn upside down then right side up, they start on their journey to the moon. They pass over a busy city, knocking down buildings and chimneys. After passing over the city they come in contact with the planet Saturn. Bump it, encircle it, and then on their way to the moon they ride through the air and see an old man coming out of the planet Mars. The anchor on the aeroplane accidentally catches the old man by the neck and carries him off. The old man tries to get away, and he sees Halley's comet coming along and he grabs hold of the tail of the comet and goes away. One of the men in the aeroplane sees him and takes out a lasso. With a couple of swings he catches the old man around the neck and drags him behind. At last the moon is reached. The man in the moon opens his mouth and they all go in. The party drop from top of the moon all in a heap. They get up, look around and a large bird comes in and lays an egg larger than itself and flies off. The travelers put the egg on a fire, which is burning nearby. The egg cracks and a lot of little birds are hatched. Suddenly a strange animal comes on the scene and eats the little birds one by one. The animal fills up and bursts. Another enormous crazy-looking animal comes out of the cave and chases the men off the moon into the sea.

A picture of the army target practice at one of the government drill institutions. The targets are raised and lowered automatically and show the marvelous skill of the American marksmen. Instruments for testing sight are clearly shown; also the rapid loading and firing of the guns.

Little Mrs. Chalmers is afraid of nothing. When the men push past the line of waiting women at the railroad station she throws them back into their proper place and holds them there until the women have been waited upon. A masher follows her through the park and persists in annoying her with his attention. She makes quick work of him, throwing him into the river. She foils an attempted holdup and captures a Black Hand abductor with scarcely an effort but she is only a woman after all and when she sees a tiny mouse running around on the floor, she climbs onto a chair and screams for help as loudly as if she had never accomplished great feats of bravery. Her feelings may well be imagined when it is found that the mouse is only a mechanical toy operated by her son Johnny in revenge for her refusal to let him go out and play. To cry over a real mouse would have been humiliating, but a clockwork affair-. Johnny is very very sorry that he did it, but it is too late to mourn. The illusion has been shattered.

Dr. Harry Matthews, is a widower, and not wishing to have his children, Marie and Jimmie raised in the city; he places them with their aunt in the country. He visits them once a week. Then Matthews falls in love with Ethel Wynn, but discovers she has a marked aversion to children. He ponders upon the advisability of marrying, but his intense love casts aside all obstacles and he proposes to Ethel and is accepted. His children he decides to keep a secret, trusting that in time everything will be settled. On his next visit to the children, he breaks the news of his engagement, but tells them they must stay with their aunt for a while longer. Marie is heartbroken, and little Jimmie vaguely realizes that he is to lose daddy. Ethel is faithful as a wife, but Matthews is handicapped by her desire for extravagance and society. For a while he lives beyond his income, then in desperation drifts into the stock market. In the meanwhile, little Jimmie in the aunt's home, longs for daddy and fails in health and spirits. Marie finally decides to take the lad to the father's city home. On the night Marie arrives in the city with Jimmie, Harry and Ethel are attending a society function. The children arrive at the home during their absence and the butler grudgingly allows them to await the return of father. He seats them in such a way that a screen in the drawing room hides them from callers. They fall asleep behind the screen. Ethel is the ruling favorite at the ball that night. In the midst of the festivities Matthews receives a message that his entire investment in stocks is wiped out. Half-dazed Harry goes home and enters the house, passing by the screen that hides the children. Up to his room he goes. He realizes that he is ruined and rather than tell his wife he decides to end his life. Ethel, worried by her husband's conduct, leaves the ball shortly after he does. She, too, enters the house alone, passes through the room without seeing the children and is preparing to ascend the stairs when she sees Harry coming down, revolver in his hand. She steps behind the door and watches him. She sees him go to a desk near the screen and pen a short note. She sees him lift the revolver to his head. The horror of the thing flashes upon her. She starts to dash from behind the curtains, then she suddenly sees the revolver lowered. A slight noise has arrested Harry's action. Marie, in awakening, has knocked a photo off the table. Harry goes to the screen, and stands face to face with his children. As if in a dream he hears the tale from Marie's lips. Ethel, too, from behind the curtains hears the story. When Matthews turns around, he finds Ethel at his shoulder. Harry explains his reasons for deception. Ethel is not angry. Her heart has been touched by the sight of the children. She kisses Marie, then Jimmie, and at the sight of the little pale, peaked face, all her better instinct asserts itself. She carries the lad upstairs to bed. Harry is converted into a new being by the events. All of his misfortunes are forgotten, and he starts forth again.

The story of a man's gratitude to a snake for saving his life: He takes the snake home to live with him and then conceives the idea of having the snake kill the man who stole his sweetheart. He places it in the other man's bed. But when the little daughter of the girl he had once loved creeps into the bed, he has a change of heart.

Willie Tait appears one day at the club room, dressed in a new hunting suit. The boys enjoy a good laugh over his costume. While in the club, some of the boys extract the shot from his shells and then hurry off to a costumer's and rent a bear suit. One of the boys dresses up like a bear and, followed by the other members of the club, hurries to the woods to overtake Willie. Willie is frightened to death at the sight of the bear, drops his hunting bag and gun. He is chased some distance by the supposed bear, and when he finds the bear close upon his heels, he climbs a tree, only to be pulled down by the bear. He is finally allowed to escape, and the boys hurry back to the club house to hear Willie's story, Willie tells the boys of his terrible battle. The boys give him the ha! ha! and produce the bear.

A man, his wife, and a drunk are all confused over who owns a lapel pin, not realizing there are two of them.