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Modeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty.

A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to leave her father, but soon she too is departing for a new home. Then comes a cold hard fact of life. The son-in-law claims his right to make a home alone for his wife. In his bitterness and anger, the father denies them both the house. Several years later the lonely old man meets at the gate a babe in arms. When he learns whose baby it is, heart hunger craves another sight, and sought, brings with it the only natural result.

A British archaeologist finds an ancient village that opens the door to a story of a Druid Ministre Airell in the time Christ and religious upheaval, revealing the mysteries of Briton, the Druids, the coming of a new world.

A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.

The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.

A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.

The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.

Ramona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. There is at once a feeling of interest noticeable between them which ripens into love. This Senora Moreno, her foster mother, endeavors to crush, with poor success, until she forces a separation by exiling Alessandro from the ranch. He goes back to his native village to find the white men devastating the place and scattering his people. The Senora, meanwhile, has told Ramona that she herself has Indian blood, which induces her to renounce her present world and go to Alessandro. They are married and he finds still a little shelter left from the wreckage. Here they live until the whites again appear and drive them off, claiming the land. From place to place they journey, only to be driven further until finally death comes to Alessandro just as aid comes in the person of Felipe, the Senora's son, who takes Ramona back to Camulos.

A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.

An unscrupulous and greedy speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.

Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the younger woman of having an affair with her husband, and soon afterwards the husband dies suddenly. The three women must then continue their journey amidst the growing tensions caused by the wife's desire for revenge.

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his concubine, remorse drives him to find his wife...

Although some scenes were re-enacted after the fact, this is a real documentary on the struggle of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to overthrow dictator Porfirio Díaz . Directors Christy Cabanne and Raoul Walsh took a camera crew to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution of 1912 and traveled with Villa, filming footage of his army on the march and engaged in battle with federal troops (director Walsh confirmed in an interview the long-rumored story that Villa insisted on the filming of execution by firing squad of several dozen federal prisoners, but that when he returned to Hollywood the studio thought the footage too grisly and cut it out).

A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.

An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon has to hold off a pair of ruffians who are bent on stealing the payroll from an arriving train.

A very pretty girl is always surrounded by many male admirers, much to the dismay of one very shy fellow, who gets his chance to impress her when two burglars break in.

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart during the perilous times which are to follow. But the brother weakens and fails to be true to his trust. He permits her to believe that her lover is dead. Caught in the neighborhood, however, between the lines of the enemy, the brother appears before them at the crucial moment. In retaliation the false brother turns informer. Both forces are aroused to arms and during the attack upon the girl defending her wounded lover and family alone in the negro's cabin retribution comes in the form of a stray bullet.

Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.

The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before she inherited her fortune, plans to burglarize that very house, unaware of the occupants or the trap.

A young, and fickle girl ( Mary Pickford ) dumps her admiring boyfriend ( Edwin August ) because she views him as a coward. Meanwhile a ruthless convict ( Alfred Paget ) has escaped and takes the girl as his hostage. After a harrowing automobile and train chase, the ex-boyfriend rescues the girl and he immediately becomes her hero, which she seals with a kiss.

Miss Louise Leroque was one of those charming young ladies, born, as if through an error of destiny, into a family of clerks, and after she married John Kendrick, she suffered an incessant yearning for all those delicacies and luxuries she felt were her due. John was a bighearted, indulgent husband whose every thought was for his wife's happiness, and while Louise was a devoted wife, still there was the strain of selfishness ever apparent, for she who studies her glass neglects her heart. She yearned for ostentation, and poor John was in no position to appease this desire. However, an occasion presents itself when they can at least bask in the radiance of the social limelight, in an invitation to attend a reception tendered a foreign prince. John is in the height of elation, hut Louise meets him with that time-honored remark, "I've nothing to wear." Well, he feels the strength of her argument, so goes and pawns his watch and chain to procure her a gown fitting for the occasion. The gown emphasizes the absence of jewel ornamentation, so they visit their friend and neighbor, who lends them a handsome necklace. At the reception she makes quite a stir and is presented to the prince, who becomes decidedly attentive. Arriving home after the affair, Louise rehearses the incidents of the event, when suddenly she stands petrified with horror. "My God! The necklace is gone." High and low they search, and even back to the ballroom, but without result, for we have seen it stolen from her neck by a sneak thief while she is talking with the prince. Unable to find the necklace, they swear to give their fingers to the bone, their life's blood until it is paid for. But then there is the humiliation of not returning the jewels, so they hunt for a duplicate. At the jeweler's they find one, in appearance an exact copy, but the price is $20,000. Twenty thousand dollars to ones in their condition meant a large fortune. However, John borrows money on his salary, gets loans from his various friends and is granted a large advance by his employer, giving notes for same: in fact, mortgaging his very life as the result of vanity. With the money he purchases the duplicate and gives it to their friend, who is unaware of the substitution. Meanwhile, the thief has taken the necklace to a pawnshop and finds it is a worthless imitation, and so throws it into the rubbish heap. Five years later we find the couple toiling, toiling, but still in bondage; after night in the endeavor to make a little extra above his ordinary salary. Ten years we find them, still hounded by the note collectors, aged and broken in health, yet determined. Twenty years, and the last penny on the necklace is paid, but at the expense of their bodily strength. Having cleared up his debt with his employer, he is discharged, being too feeble to do the work. As a last resort they write to their friend, confessing the substitution of the jewels, and their plight as a result, begging that she give them some slight assistance. Their friend, of course, is amazed, she cognizant of the worthlessness of her property, so hastens to give Louise back the jewels, arriving only in time to put them about her neck when she sinks back dead. John, poor fellow, is found sitting in a chair at the head of the bed, also dead. They had received vanity's reward.

While in New Orleans, Matthew Culver introduces Lucille Ferrant, an old sweetheart, to Robert Gray, a lawyer. Lucille falls in love with Gray and when he contracts the fever, persuades the doctor to allow her to nurse him. The doctor tells Gray that his recovering is due to Lucille's nursing. Gray has grown fond of Lucille, but does not love her. Out of gratitude he asks her to marry him and she consents. While gathering flowers in the garden Lucille meets Culver. She tells him of her engagement to Gray. He begs her for one rose as a last token. He then grasps her hand and kisses her. Gray having witnessed this scene, denounces Lucille and breaks the engagement. Gray and Culver are rival candidates for the office of United States District Attorney. They both seek the aid of Senator Rutherford. Lucille and her aunt receive an invitation to spend the winter with Major Putnam and his sister at Newport. Mrs. Ives issues invitations for an amateur theatrical and Lucille and her aunt are invited. Gray, who takes part in the play, falls in love with Helen Truman. Culver, anxious to disgrace Gray, arranges with an editor friend of his for an article to be published to the effect that Gray cruelly abandoned a woman in New Orleans. Lucille agrees to aid Culver. Culver shows the article to Rutherford who doubts its authenticity. He speaks to Lucille and she confirms the story. Senator Rutherford is also in love with Helen, and asks her father for her hand. Rutherford calls Gray in to show him the article. Gray is prevented from striking Culver, whom he believes is responsible for the story. Helen finds the paper and believes Gray has deceived her. Lucille tells Helen that Gray deserted her. Helen breaks her friendship with Gray and when Senator Rutherford proposes she accepts him. Gray, broken-hearted, leaves for New York. He is ill when Helen marries the Senator and does not read the wedding announcement. Months later he attends a ball given by Senator Dexter in Washington and meets Helen for the first time since her marriage. Rutherford receives Gray warmly and leaves his wife to entertain him. Helen accuses him of having wronged Lucille. Gray convinces Helen that he is innocent and she is overcome. Gray prevents her from falling by catching her in his arms. Lucille, who has seen Helen in Gray's arms, informs Culver, who, in turn, tells Rutherford. The story soon becomes known and Gray accuses Culver of having circulated it. They have a violent quarrel. Culver is requested to report at the Senator's apartment after the ball. Rutherford asks Gray to follow him to his home and to bring Lucille with him. He urges Helen to retire as he has urgent business to transact. Lucille and Gray arrive and are concealed behind the portieres when Culver makes his appearance. Rutherford accuses him of having spread the falsehood, which Culver denies until he is confronted by Gray and Lucille. Lucille accuses him and he confesses. Before Gray departs he confesses to Rutherford that he still loves Helen. Helen comes down to see what is keeping her husband and he questions her about Gray and asks her if she loved Gray when she married him. She collapses. Gray receives a telegram congratulating him on his appointment as United States District Attorney. Culver disgusted, leaves for the West Indies. The engagement of Major Putnam and Mrs. Ives and Jack Dexter and Kitty Ives is announced. Rutherford treats Helen with every consideration, but does not speak of his love. He accepts a mission to St. Petersburg and Helen realizing that she does love her husband, begs him to take her along. This convinces him that his devotion is reciprocated and they leave together.