Mr. Stout and his family learn through the papers that he is a candidate for election of County Judge. His daughter and Alfred, of a neighboring family, are sweethearts. Mr. Stout receives a letter from his cousin advising him that his ...See moreMr. Stout and his family learn through the papers that he is a candidate for election of County Judge. His daughter and Alfred, of a neighboring family, are sweethearts. Mr. Stout receives a letter from his cousin advising him that his Nellie is now the proud mother of a little one which will soon be brought him to see. Mrs. Stout reads the letter when Alfred's mother calls, and in her anguish urges her to read it. Alfred's friend, a reporter on a radical newspaper, takes advantage of the assumed scandal and a degrading article against Mr. Stout appears in the nest issue. Mr. Stout is censured by his political constituents, while Mrs. Stout is obliged to resign from a charity society. Amid all the turmoil that follows, Alfred and his sweetheart are still true to each other. His father and mother disapprove of their love affair and go to the Stout home where Alfred had been seen entering. They arrive to take away their son, who is soon found with the girl. During the heated discussion between the two families, cousin Frank arrives with the innocent cause of all the trouble. Nellie's little one is a pretty, little spaniel puppy. Written by
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