The Fall of Deacon Stillwaters

The Anti-Sin League elects Deacon Stillwaters as president. When the league learns of the disgraceful illegal prize fights that are going on they decide to take the matter into their own hands and appoint their honorable president to put a stop to the shameful outrages. Deacon Stillwaters is forced to go to Ramany Hall, where these terrible fights are held. There the deacon is received a hearty and cordial welcome and finds Jess McDuffy, the champion, a princely fellow. It is not long before he has the deacon interested all the technicalities of the great science of prize fighting. And so enthused becomes the deacon that he is finally induced to get in the ring himself. But it so happens that on this very night the police raid Ramany Hall. Many are caught, but the deacon, minus his coat and shirt, is among those who escape and take refuge in McGuire's Café, one of the toughest joints in town and a place noted for its spicy cabaret girls. Now it also happens that on this same night, Miss Crobar and other ladies of the Anti-Sin League have started a reform movement for chorus girls, and begin with the girls at McGuire's Café. They are at this time waiting in the girls' dressing room for the girls to finish their wootchie-goo-wootch dance. Elsie, the prettiest of the cabaret girls, greatly admires Stillwaters, for she adores prize fighters. She protects him from the police and the two become the best of friends. When Miss Crobar sees the deacon at McGuire's she thinks he has come to protect her, but she soon learns the horrible truth and hurries off in mortal agony from such vile people. The A.S.L. break up for want of encouragement and a president. Their once-beloved now becomes a regular fellow and is already planning his honeymoon with Elsie.