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In honor bound, Stephen Fiske, Jr., son of a supposed millionaire, tells Doris Myhtle, his fiancée, that the death of his father has revealed that he has died penniless and left him a poor man. She is so disappointed she returns her engagement ring to him, which he throws into the fire. He is obliged to go to work as an ordinary laborer. She tells her Aunt Patience, with whom she lives, and the old lady confides the romance of her life to her. She was engaged to Stephen's father. She rejected him and it was the regret of her life, and almost broke her heart when he married another woman. One evening, Aunt Patience, after a day's shopping, entering her home, slips, injuring herself, and Stephen, returning from his day's work, finds her on the area step, and carries her into the house. He calls a doctor, who pronounces her injuries fatal. The old lady recognizes Stephen, of whom she is very fond, and who closely resembles his father. She expresses a hope that he and Doris will be wedded to each other, and again repeats the romance of her life. As she does so, visions of the happy retrospect appear before her and she passes away in thoughts of that past happiness, and a full realization of the joys that await her in the life beyond. Grieving at the loss of their good friend, Doris and Stephen, kneeling at her bedside, touch hands, and looking into each other's eyes, they ask each other if they will fulfill Aunt Patience's hope. The mutual fervor with which they silently embrace each other is their answer.

The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.

Decorated by the Legion of Honor for his services in the Imperial Guard, under the Emperor Napoleon, on the burning sands of Africa and the snows of Russia. Havresac, one of the Old Guard, in his second childhood, lives on the memories of his past. His niece, Melanie, works as a maker of artificial flowers and manages to keep a meager home over their heads. Two French officers, Colonel Weston and Colonel Millard, learning of their poverty and the past history of the old soldier, call at their home and provide for their needs. Colonel Weston falls in love with Melanie and asks her uncle's consent to their marriage. At first Havresac refuses, but later, he places Weston's hand in hers and gives them his blessing. Just after this has occurred, the old man hears the playing of the band of a passing regiment, and looking from the window. Insists upon taking his musket and joining the march. He is restrained by the Colonel and Melanie from leaving the room, but to satisfy the spark of his old-time valor, they allow him to stand in front of the window with his musket at "shoulder-arms." He becomes so inspired it is too much for his waning strength and he falls into his old arm-chair and passes through the last great battle of life into the presence of the Great Commander of those who have fought the fight and passed into the great beyond.

While traveling to meet her sweetheart, Richard Carr, in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Bonaluria, Peggy Dare's train compartment door is thrust open and a little boy is thrown at her feet. Peggy is so taken with the child, who tells her that his name is Manouche, that she looks after him. She foils an attempt to kill Manouche, before arriving in Bonaluria where she learns from Richard that the boy is really the Grand Duke. Peggy and Manouche are then separated as Peggy goes to live with Richard's mother and the boy returns to court. However, the power hungry Prince Henri, who is madly in love with Peggy, abducts the little duke and holds him ransom for Peggy's affections. For the sake of the child, Peggy agrees to go away with the prince and accompanies him to the castle. Carr, believing that Peggy has betrayed him, follows and is imprisoned by the prince. They are all rescued when the Royal Guards, summoned by Peggy, arrive and arrest the prince. Carr then apologizes to Peggy for his suspicions, and together they sail for America.

Among the green hills and running brooks, we follow the country boy and girl, who are happy in the contentment of their hearts and a ripening love for each other. In contrast we see another picture of a city boy and girl with entirely different surroundings, at odds with each other and the boy disturbed by the coquettishness and indifference of the girl. To assuage his wounded feelings, he tells her he will go away to the country where, among far different scenes, he will die of a broken heart. While "dying" he meets the young country girl and soon forgets all about his city sweetheart. He makes love to the girl. To further his interests and make her succumb to his blandishments, he tears his clothing, puts blackberry stain upon his face and lies down at the foot of a cliff, where the country girl, on return from milking, finds him. She helps him to her home, where the young man is attended by her father and the rest of the family. The rustic youth is almost forgotten. And we have almost forgotten the young city girl, who now makes her appearance in the country. The country lad readily sees through and exposes the ruse by which the city chap has been trying to gain sympathy. While this is taking place the city girl confronts her erstwhile lover and he, forgetting all about his pretended pain, clasps her to his arms. At the close we are brought back to a scene similar to the first one. The country maiden, all forlorn, is plucking the petals from a bunch of flowers which she holds in her hands, repeating, "To-day, to-morrow or never," when her country lover softly approaches her and folds her in his arms, saying, "Today."

Poor Bessie MacGregor is struck by the automobile of wealthy Mrs. Templeton Orrin and is taken home to live with her. But Bessie leaves when Mrs. Orrin's brother, J. Warburton Ashe, trifles with her love. Thief Tony Pantelli befriends her in the tenement where she finds a room, tries to obtain money for her care from Ashe, and, failing, steals a goblet that Ashe has brought home from England, thinking it may be the Holy Grail. The goblet, which gives off a glow and is reputed to have healing powers, is recovered, stolen again, again recovered and stolen, and finally lost in a river. Meanwhile, Ashe exonerates Tony in night court, realizes he really loves Bessie, now cured, and is reunited with her.

After the sinking of the Lusitania, American James Garrison "Garry" Owen joins the British army and fights gallantly until he is wounded and subsequently discharged. Recuperating in New York, he meets and falls in love with Helen Lloyd, and the two plan to be married after his return from active duty with the American forces in France. Helen's brother Albert, fighting in France under Garry's command, panics and deserts his post, and Garry is forced to report him. At the court-martial, Albert is sentenced to death, but when Company D is attacked, his heroic actions save the day and he dies a hero. Meanwhile, Helen is abducted by German officer Friederich von Emden, whose submarine transports her to his headquarters: Madame Arnot's chateau in Belgium. Von Emden captures Garry and orders him to attend a banquet celebrating the German's forced marriage to Helen, but an old servant named Sonia poisons most of the German guests. Garry kills von Emden, then escapes with Helen to the Allied lines.

Peter Barton leaves his wealth to his niece Mary, disinheriting his dissipated son Edgar, who steals the will. Jack Smart, a rascal and an associate of Edgar's, keeps close watch upon him. At revolver-point Jack compels Edgar to surrender the will to him. Obliged to go to work, Edgar's cousin Mary takes a position as a reporter and meets Tom Swayne, who falls in love with her. Tom sees Jack Smart in a restaurant, and after the villain leaves, Tom picks up a menu card upon which Smart has written some hieroglyphics. Mary shows him an envelope which she picked up in her uncle's room, where Smart took the will from Edgar, after he had stolen it. Tom compares it and the hieroglyphics on it with those on the menu card: they are the same. Smart agrees to return the will to Barton for $10,000. Mary and Tom enter the restaurant where Tom found the menu card, and see Smart enter and leave. They ask the waiter who wrote the hieroglyphics on the card. He tells them the man who has just left. Tom and Mary trail him. Smart returns to the restaurant and meets Edgar Barton. They enter a private dining room. Barton passes over the money to Smart. Edgar is applying a match to the will when a policeman, with Tom and Mary, enters. The policeman rescues the will and gives it to Mary.

During World War I, beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft, and Dr. Wolff, a Danish scientist who is actually a German agent. When Jack learns that Wolff is masterminding a plot to bomb several munitions factories and destroy the water system in New York City, he goes to the spy's home and confronts him. Wolff locks him up, then forges a note to Leslie claiming that the young man has run away to escape the draft. Her suspicions aroused, Leslie alerts the authorities and plants a dictograph in Wolff's house, through which she learns of the scheduled bombings. Accompanied by the police, she arrives at Wolff's residence just in time to prevent Jack's murder and the destruction of the city.

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

Peter Blood, a young Irish physician, treats a rebel soldier wounded in battle, and he is arrested, tried for treason and sent into slavery to Barbados. He and his friend Jeremy are bought by the vicious Col. Bishop, who purchases them for his niece Arabella. Blood rallies the other slaves to rebel against their slavery; they escape and take over a Spanish galleon. Blood and his crew become pirates and the scourge of the Caribbean. England, at war with France and losing, offers him a commission in the Royal Navy if he will fight for them. Blood, who has no love for the French but even less for the English, has to decide whether it's better for he and his men to fight with the English or against them.

An account of the life of Jesus Christ according to the New Testament, told as a series of tableaus interspersed with Bible verses.

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style.

The man, Adam, not content to he alone, unto him was given a woman, Eve. They are happy and content, until one day, there comes to their home a tempter. They take him in, feed and house him over night, and during his stay, he shows them many trinkets, laces and other finery, which appeals to the woman's vanity, and she begs her husband to buy them for her. His scant earnings as a gardener cannot cater to the indulgence of luxuries, and he refuses. She pleads with him and when the peddler retires for the night, Eve persuades Adam to steal from the peddler's pack that she may possess that which she craves. Adam succumbs to her enticement and the seeds of sin are sown and their happiness and peace of mind depart from them from that time henceforth. In the morning, when the peddler leaves, they would believe that their unhappiness had gone with him, but not so, they must reap that which they have sown and the disquieting spirit of evil hath taken possession of their hearts and home. When the peddler discovers that he has been robbed, he is fired with the spirit of revenge and immediately reports his loss to the town authorities, who hasten to apprehend the culprits. On their way, the news spreads among the townspeople, who pretend to be inspired with righteous indignation, but in reality they secretly rejoice in the downfall of their weak and foolish neighbors. Brought face to face with the peddler, Adam and Eve confess their guilt and the discovery of the stolen property at once convicts them. Imprisonment is the penalty of their crime, but through their appeals for mercy, they are condemned to banishment.

Agamemmon returns to Argos from the Siege of Troy, bringing, as a prisoner and trophy of war and victory, Cassandra, the beautiful daughter of King Priam of Troy. Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, has a lover, Aegisthus, who fans the flames of jealousy aroused in Clytemnestra by the arrival of Cassandra, with whom Agamemnon is very much infatuated. With caresses and expressions of admiration, Agamemnon is received by his wife and welcomed by his daughters, Elektra, Chrysothemis, and Orestes, his son. His wife is on the point of following her children from the room when she beholds her husband anxiously looking out of the window and casting longing glances at the beautiful captive, Cassandra, The wife is confronted by her lover, who prompts her to kill her husband with the battle-axe which the King laid aside as he entered the room. Spurred on and lashed into a jealous frenzy, the Queen kills her husband, and when Cassandra, who has seen the murder of Agamemnon through the window, rushes upon the scene, she, too, is killed by the infuriated Clytemnestra. Hearing the commotion, the King's children come into the room and, gazing upon the face of their dead father, are struck with horror. Elektra is so shocked at the sight that she stands spellbound and speechless until her whole nature seems to change and assert itself in an overwhelming denunciation of her mother, calling upon her brother, Orestes, to make a vow to avenge the death of their father. Clytemnestra marries her lover, Aegisthus. Elektra has lost her reason, possessed with vengeance and a hatred for her mother and her consort. Orestes has become a wanderer and adventurer. He causes a false report of his death to be carried to his mother, who rejoices at the news and freedom from the haunting thoughts of his return to avenge Agamemnon. Tears have passed and Orestes, now a young man, returns to Argos and meets Elektra, who does not know him. He compassionately caresses his unfortunate sister and gradually makes himself known to her; then she remembers all, and pleads with him to carry out his vow of retribution upon Aegisthus and his mother. Orestes assures her that is the object of his return. She tears up a stone from the courtyard and reveals the axe with which their father was killed. Orestes seizes it and. rushing into the castle, kills his mother; then goes in search of her lover, whom he comes upon and pursues from hall to turret, through passageway and up winding staircase, and slays him just as he is about to leap from a window, through which Elektra, in the courtyard, beholds the scene with frenzied expressions of delight in the decree of the fates.

A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.

After a long discussion with her collaborator, Philip Morbray, concerning their next novel, Ruth Sterling offers one thousand dollars wager that within a month she will have found a new sensation. Philip laughingly agrees and the bet is made. She goes away to a small fishing village in Maine and stays at the home of one of the coastguards, David Skelton and his mother. Here she is treated as if she were one of the family, and a bond of affection soon springs up between Ruth and the old lady. Being thrown constantly into the society of Ruth, David falls in love with her, a fact which is soon discovered by the lady. In order to hasten his declaration of love, she one day pretends to sprain her ankle and allows him to carry her to the house. When he takes her up into his arms he tells her of his great love for her and she replies to him with a soft kiss. The next day Ruth receives a telegram from Philip asking about the wager and telling her that the month is up. She replies to his message by another telegram, asking him to meet her at dinner the next day. A busybody sees her message at the telegraph office and tells David what is in it. The result is that when Ruth tells him and his mother that she must go to New York, he decides to follow her and find out who Philip may be. David, watching through a window of Ruth's house, sees her meet Philip Morbray and hears Ruth tell him of how she fooled the coastguard into loving her. He at once enters the room and denounces the young lady is no measured terms as a false and heartless woman. When Ruth sees David she realizes that, in spite of the way in which she has used the man, she really loves him. She holds out her arms to him and begs him to forgive her, but he will not listen to her. David leaves the house telling her that he hopes never to see her again, telling her that his trust in women is forever broken. After he has gone Ruth tears up the check given her by Philip, who agrees that he has lost his wager, and sinks mournfully upon a couch, broken-hearted because of the wound she has inflicted on the man that she now really loves,

When the Civil War breaks out, Alan Kendrick, an army officer born in the South, stays in the army to fight for the Union, but his sweetheart Maryland sides with the South. She soon discovers that Alan was captured by Confederates in a battle near her home and is to be executed. Although he's fighting for her enemy, she can't bring herself to let him be killed and devises a plan to help him escape.

A damsel-in-distress Western melodrama and a stirring picture of railroad construction and the mining country, with a Snidely Whiplash villain performing dastardly deeds, a spunky and gritty Polly Pureheart heroine and a brave Handsome Harry hero...and filled with action, romance, adventure, bravery...and perils.

"Love me, love my dog," does not appeal to Billy Hallock. He is very jealous of his wife's attentions to her dog "Jean." Florence Hart and Dick Green, a couple of young friends who are engaged to be married, call on Billy and Sue Hallock, and during this visit, they call Billy's attention in a casual way to his wife's fondness for "Jean." Shortly after this incident, Billy and Sue, having engaged seats for the theater, are about to take their departure, when the maid is unexpectedly called away and Mrs. Hallock refuses to go out and leave her dog alone. This convinces Billy that she cares more for her dog than she does for him, and he informs her that it is time for them to separate. He leaves her. Some months later, "Jean," who notices the lonesomeness of his mistress and the different atmosphere of the home, grows very restless and seems to grasp the cause of it all. During the separation of Billy and Sue, "Jean" has occasionally met Mr. Hallock, and she formulates a plan to reconcile her mistress and former master. Mrs. Hallock is sewing on some tiny garments in preparation for the reception of a little stranger when ''Jean," unnoticed, steals one of the tiny garments and runs off to where she knows she will find her master, and insists upon presenting it to him. Billy suddenly realizes what it all means. He hastily follows "Jean" to the home of his wife, where he lovingly and tenderly enfolds her in his arms and asks for forgiveness for his uncalled-for and foolish jealousy of the thoughtful and faithful "Jean."

At the Embassy Ball, Leona, daughter of Mr. Bryce, meets Tagisha, a wealthy Japanese. He becomes infatuated with her, but she refuses his advances. Mr. Bryce dies from grief and worry over financial troubles and Tagisha employs a spy to follow Leona, who, left destitute, becomes a model for Richard Manley, an artist. Later, she marries the artist and they go on their honeymoon to Japan, visiting Richard's friend, Harold Marsden, Consul to Tokio. Tagisha, after an unsuccessful attempt to stab Richard, follows them to Japan. As they are about to return to America on the steamer "Americus." /1 Tagisha, by a clever ruse, succeeds in kidnapping Leona. Her husband does not miss Leona, supposing her to be in their stateroom. Leona, although carefully guarded by Tagisha's spy, finally attracts the attention of a Japanese boy, throws him a Japanese coat given her by Harold, with a note appealing to whoever finds it, to direct the boy to the steamer "Americus." The boy arrives after the steamer has sailed. Harold sees him with the coat, reads the note, and after a terrific struggle with Tagisha, who is killed, he succeeds in rescuing Leona. Leona sails on the following day aboard "The Mikado," Harold sending Richard, on the "Americus," a wireless to that effect. "The Mikado" strikes an iceberg and is wrecked with a loss of many lives. "The Americus'' receives a wireless call for help from the sinking steamer and goes to the rescue. Richard knowing Leona is on that steamer, is nearly frantic. "The Americus" arrives in time to rescue some of the "Mikado's" passengers. Leona is missing and her husband is grief-stricken. Holding to a piece of wreckage, she is picked up by a Japanese fisherman and brought back to Japan, where she notifies Harold of her safety. He sends word to Richard, but he has left his old haunts, believing Leona dead. Leona returns to America, but cannot locate her husband. He has become a recluse. After six years he comes back and sees in the paper an account of a strange woman risking her life to save a picture painted by him. He decides to visit the hospital where she has been taken and there Leona and he meet, face to face. After the first shock and their recognition, they are soon clasped in each other's embrace.

John Sark is the owner of a piece of land coveted by Henry Murden, leader of the band of "White Riders," who has purloined the information that a railroad wishes to buy the property. Sark is a naturalist and has for an assistant Rose Ember. He discovers one of the rider's masks which is made of one of Rose's handkerchiefs, and this introduces a mysterious element into the love affair. The mask belonged to her father. The riders try to force Sark's hand, but are obliged to capture him. Rose, seeing Sark lead away, dons a mask and riding close to his horse, cuts his bonds. Sark kills Murden, and, finding that his savior was Rose, is once more happy in his love. - Moving Picture World 1919.

Colonel Cavendish's wife has an extravagant interest in Army Lieutenant Billy Brinkley, the hero of the Army/Navy Game. When he is assigned to the Colonel's command, her attentions to him are noted and reproved by her husband, who fears gossip. Billy is in love with her sister, Joy Grayson, whom Captain Sutherland also wishes to marry, although he is carrying on a clandestine affair with the Sergeant's wife, Jane Smedley. His presents to Jane are discovered by the Sergeant and she defiantly acknowledges them. Billy and Joy's engagement arouses the jealousy of both Mrs. Cavendish and Sutherland. At a card party, Sutherland's bad feeling toward Billy crops out and they are only prevented from conflict by the other men present. Billy returns to his quarters to find Mrs. Cavendish awaiting him there. She pleads that she can't give him up to her sister. Billy quiets her and insists upon showing her home. Smedley goes to Sutherland and the same night to beg him to cease his dishonorable attentions to Jane. Sutherland replies insultingly. They quarrel, Sutherland springs upon Smedley. In the struggle between Sutherland and Smedley, Smedley stabs Sutherland, killing him. The murder is discovered at once. Billy suspected and found absent from his quarters. Confronted upon his return, he realizes that he cannot prove an alibi without compromising the Colonel's wife. He is arrested by the civil authorities and at the Central Criminal Court the evidence is strongly against him. Mrs. Cavendish finally breaks down and confesses to her husband that she was the woman with Billy. He demands a public confession from her, in court, to clear Billy. As she is about to confess to the court, Smedley. conscience-stricken, rushes in ahead of her and admits that he killed Sutherland. Billy is accordingly exonerated, and he and Joy are united. Mrs. Cavendish's good name is preserved and Smedley receives his just punishment.

In order to make money, a man hires a bum to pretend to be a mummy, so he can sell the "body" for scientific experiments.