An Arcadian Maid

A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.

A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
In Colonial America a doctor refuses to “waste time on an Indian” whose daughter is ill. The doctor’s wife secretly travels to the Indian village to administer medicine. After the child’s recovery, the young Indian mother wears the medicine bottle…

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.

Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.

A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do likewise. She sneaks out…
Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman’s uniform, and is approached by a wife who needs help with her drunken husband.

Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city.…

A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper’s offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to…