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- Ethel was to be married and father had figured the expense down to the last cent and really couldn't see how he was to meet it. Those things didn't bother son any and he and his chum helped themselves plentifully to wines and other good things, and were only restrained after father had kicked them out of the kitchen. Uncle John had arrived for the wedding and was temporarily staying away from his club and card games. About this time a burglar scare is started in the neighborhood and the family becomes worried about the wedding presents. George, the son, and Billie, the sister of the bride-to-be, decide to use a novel burglar alarm and go to a nearby store, where they purchase a quantity of flypaper. This they distribute around the house and especially around the wedding presents. Uncle John had wind of a very interesting card game, and while pretending to retire early, in reality he sneaks away to the club. Ethel and Billie retire and all seems peaceful. Uncle John, returning from the club, is held up and his watch, to which was attached his keys, taken by the robber. Rather than disturb the household, Uncle John gains admittance through the window and becomes helplessly entangled in the fly paper. His efforts to release himself arouse George, who, gun in hands, descends the stairs, encountering much flypaper on the way. In the dining room he encounters Uncle John, whom he supposes to be a burglar, and a fight ensues. The noise arouses father, mother, Billie and Ethel, who descend to the dining room. A policeman is attracted and arrives in time to prevent any tragedy. When Uncle John is finally relieved of his fly paper mask, the two youthful geniuses, Billie and George, are severely spanked.
- While strolling down the street, Amos meets Betty, who induces him to join her, as she is going to a meeting of the anti-tipping society. He is made president and wears a badge which reads, "I Don't Tip." On his way to the barber shop Amos meets his old friend, Dave, who laughs at the badge. He has a terrible time in the barber chair, barely escaping alive, as the barber reads an item in the paper to the effect that Amos is president of the anti-tipping society. From there he goes to the restaurant, where he can't get the waiters to wait on him, as they too have read the item. He kicks the waiter and rushes out to the check room to get his coat. The check boy gets even by slipping him the wrong coat, which happens to be Dave's. Amos is arrested for stealing Dave's coat and has to tip the Judge to let him off. He writes Betty a letter telling her that he is the victim of foul play at the hands of Dave and will be up to see her to explain. Betty and Dave are walking along and Betty sees a cat which she would love to have, so Dave decides to get it for her. The owner of the cat ties a string around its neck and places it on the porch. A tramp comes along and steals it. He meets Dave, who buys the cat for Betty and brings it to her. The owner of the cat misses it and she and a policeman trace it to Betty's home. Dave is arrested and once more Amos and Betty are happily reunited.
- Mr. Morton, a wealthy man, has decided to take his wife and daughter for a vacation on their farm. Neal, a young artist, has selected a spot in the canyon where he is painting. Betty, the daughter of Morton, meets Neal, who, mistaking her for a real country girl, asks her to pose for him. Betty consents. After a few sittings Betty and Neal are in love. Neal proposes and Betty accepts under the condition that father's consent is secured. Neal goes to Mr, Morton at once. But when father reveals his name and tells Neal that no poor artist shall ever marry his daughter, Neal walks away. Betty pleads with father, who finally says that he will give his consent if the artist paints something good enough for him to buy. Betty tells the good news to Neal. Encouraged by Betty's hopes Neal starts to paint his masterpiece. The day the masterpiece was presented to father Neal knew his fate, and when father said: "This is the worst I've ever seen," he walked away, heartbroken. Harry, a friend of Neal, was on his way with two girl friends to visit him. In a few words Neal told them the whole story. Ethel, a quick-witted girl, saw a way out and taking Neal apart, explained her scheme. She gave her Kodak to Neal and walked away. Father was fishing in the creek when Ethel approached him, and soon father was engaged in a flirtation with her. At the moment he kissed her a Kodak was at work. The next day Neal was seen putting the finishing touches to an enlargement of the scene of Ethel and father. Betty was with Neal, and together they go to see father. Betty hides in a bush and Neal goes to father and offers him his painting for the amount of $10,000. What was the use of arguing? Betty came just in time to see the check father handed to Neal, and when Neal kissed Betty father wanted to object, but they held him to his bargain. What a delight it was to see father, dodging mother, sneak in the backyard and put a match to that masterpiece of damaging evidence.
- Harry and Billie make a flying trip for the train and reach the station just in time to see it start. The station agent suggests that they might hire old Si Scudder's auto and catch the flyer at Burbank. As his auto was the only one in town Si charged Harry $13.00 for its use. The machine does not start, so they hire a farmer's horse and hitch it to the auto. At last they arrive at Burbank. Here the agent informs them that the flyer is two hours late. Two hours is not long but Billie gets hungry. The expense so far has drained their joint resources to one nickel. Harry gets an idea and as a blind man gets a his bill from a lady. The banquet over the flyer arrives and they are off for the city. Arriving, Harry puts Billie in a taxi and she goes home. He goes to see Mr. Barry, with whom he has a business engagement, and Mr. Barry invites him to dinner and to meet his wife. Mrs. Barry, who has repeatedly warned her husband about bringing home unexpected guests, flies into a rage and immediately goes home to her mother. Barry grasps the only hope left and, going next door, asks Billie to play his wife during the dinner. She consents and all seems well until she faces Harry. Mrs. Barry, meanwhile, repentant returns home. When Mr. Barry answers her ring he is aghast. Fearful of the scene he acts in a way to convince Mrs. Barry that he has been drinking. Harry and Billie meanwhile are alone in the dining room where Billie throws her arms about Harry sobbing. He is in terror of Mr. Barry's return; breaking away he goes into the parlor where he tells Barry in his real wife's presence that his wife in the dining room wishes him to return to his dinner. This excites Mrs. Barry, who flounces into the dining room to meet face to face her friend from next door. Harry and Mr. Barry follow and explanations clear the atmosphere and all is serene.
- M.T. Dome out of a job spies a sign in the window of a piano salesroom, stating that they want a boy. He disguises his age by turning up the legs of his trousers, applies for and secures the position. He is immediately put to work cleaning up and is supplied with pail and brush, but misunderstands his instructions and at once proceeds to scrub a costly and highly polished piano. The manager interrupts Dome in his ruinous occupation and sets him to work washing the show windows. He gets into difficulties with his long handled brush and the passing pedestrians. He is subsequently sent out with the piano tuner to assist him on a job and which happens to be at the home of the proprietor of the piano emporium. Upon their arrival the lady of the house leaves in order to escape the horror of the incessant banging incident to the tuning of the piano. They start to work and M.T. Dome having an ear for music takes command of the job, creating havoc to the piano case with his careless handling of the tools. The daughter of the house, not able to stand the discord, disregards her mother's instructions and goes for a walk and then the fireworks begin. M.T. Dome falls into the upright piano and emerges amidst a tangled mass of wires and other wreckage. Not table to get at the works to his satisfaction, he opens a way with saw and ax. About this time madame returns and finds her piano on fire, Dome having carelessly thrown a lighted match in the works. The boss is phoned and arrives on the job in double quick time and hastily and forcibly fires Dome from the premises. Picking himself up, and after running several blocks to escape his infuriated employer, he observes the daughter approaching and in rubbering after her witnesses her run down by an auto. Inspiration comes into his bonehead and he rushes to the rescue, commandeers a passing auto and takes her home, where he is forgiven by father and mother and handsomely rewarded.
- M.T. Dome has just established his new bride in a cozy little flat, and to lighten the burden of housekeeping decides that his wife must have a maid. He visits an employment agency and, man-like, selects the maid because of her looks rather than for her qualifications. Returning home with his prize, M.T. Dome cannot understand why his young wife is not enthusiastic over his selection, but the new bride naturally resents the good-looking servant being made a member of the household. Dome is satisfied, however, and loses no time in starting a flirtation with the new bride's maid. He is caught in the act of showing a fatherly interest in the maid and the first quarrel between the newlyweds occurs, resulting in M.T. Dome seeking the comforts of his club. His old bachelor friends welcome Dome's return to the fold and time passes only too quickly for rebellious bridegroom, so that at two A.M., on his way home, Dome does not realize how late it is. Meeting some friends, and by this time in a very convivial mood, he insists upon them accompanying him home, where they all arrive in high spirits. The M.T. Dome's reside in a semi-apartment hotel, which provides a general reception room for its tenants, and here Dome insists that his guests make merry. One of the rules of the establishment is that there shall he no music after ten P.M., and, although it is now three A.M., Dome's hilarious spirit will not be denied, so he sets back the clock and starts in to entertain his friends to the annoyance and distress of the tenants. In a mad dance, Dome falls against the stair rail, carries it away and alights, with the wreckage, one flight below. By this time the entire apartment house is aroused, including the landlady, whom Dome placates by promising to stop his noise and repair the damage he has done. Keeping his promise, Dome loses no time in looking up a carpenter, whom, together with his assistant, he bribes to come and do a very urgent job at that hour in the morning. The noise created by the mechanics is even worse than that made by Dome and his friends, so the tenants, in a body, fall upon the disturbers of their sleep and throw them out doors, Dome meanwhile having been singled out by his bride and is given a beating by this outraged young lady.
- Nolan and Harry are temporarily financially embarrassed, and Mrs. Prune, the landlady, is not a person to be trifled with; her keen nose detects the odor of the cooking coming from the oil stove concealed in the boys' suitcase. She bounces in and demands her money by noon and the boys decide to pack their clothes and quietly leave. The landlady is too sharp for them and holds their belongings until she gets her money. Homeless and friendless, the boys go out to face the world, and in search for work Nolan meets his sweetheart Billie, and carrying her parcels forgets to give her a bag of doughnuts. This furnishes a feed for the two pals. They discover an ad in the paper that the New Hotel Honeymoon will give a week's board to the first married couple to arrive Saturday, May 25. This gives Nolan an idea and he insists on Harry being the bride. Harry reluctantly consents and has to part with his best suit of clothes for a bride's outfit. Billie's friend Ethel is the stenographer at the hotel and invites Billie down to the opening. Billie accepts and leaves for Hotel Honeymoon. The bride and groom arrive and are welcomed as the first couple by the host and shown to the bridal chamber. Cupid, however gets busy and the bride falls in love with the fair stenographer. By threats of disclosure he forces the groom to loan him his suit of clothes, and Harry goes to further his acquaintance with Ethel. He pretends to Ethel that he is a friend of the bride, and all goes smoothly until Billie arrives with the news of the bride being ill. Harry hastens back and learns that Nolan, during his absence, has put on the bridal dress and attempted to go for a smoke. He runs into Billie and dashes back to his room, causing Billie to think "she" has a fit. The constable of the town gets a notice that a desperate hotel crook, known as "Dolly, the Dip," a man who disguises as a woman, is likely to come to the new Honeymoon Hotel, and he is on the lookout for the crook. Dinner time arrives and Nolan and Harry, who is again the bride, go into the café. The bride drinks copiously of beer and after an argument she and her husband go into the lobby. Here their scrap continues and in the scramble the bride's wig comes off. The constable sees this and at once arrests the bride as "Dolly, the Dip." Billie identifies the boys, and Ethel, the stenographer, is very pleased. The host of the hotel forgives all if the four will marry and spend their honeymoon at his house.
- Their business of detecting having been nil, Luke Sharpe and his assistant, Jim, are entirely without funds and are about to be ejected from their lodgings when a telegram from a neighboring chief of police arrives calling them into case. The message says that E.Z Marks, his wife and daughter are on a train bound for the famous Hot Springs and that in their wake follows Slim Pete and his wife, noted jewel thieves, who are intent upon purloining some precious stones which Marks carries in his trunk. Luke and Jim are instructed to capture the thieves. The telegram reassuring the landlady that her rent will be forthcoming Luke and Jim are again happy and start on their mission. They disguise themselves as baggage smashers and go to the depot to meet the train on which the diamond thieves and their prospective victims are scheduled to arrive. Luke and Jim place themselves prominently in evidence when Pete and the Marks arrive and obtain from them the checks for their baggage, promising to bring the trunks to the hotel. After a series of difficult maneuvers they get the trunks into the hallway of the hotel just outside of the owner's rooms, and an ambitious and tip-loving porter carries them inside. Unintentionally he mixes them since the trunks look exactly alike, so that the Marks get Slim Pete's trunk, and vice versa. Luke has suspected Marks of being Slim Pete and he takes the rich man to the baths to make certain of his suspicions. They prove unfounded, however, and Luke starts out to find another clue. He peeks through the key-hole of one of the doors and catches a man in the act of disguising himself with false whiskers. Of course he conjectures that the unknown man is Slim Pete, and he hurries to the hotel lobby to announce to the assembled guests that he is about to capture the notorious crook and his wife. Meanwhile the real Slim Pete and his wife have not been idle. They enter Marks' room, take the trunk they find laying there, have it placed in an automobile and while away with it till they reach the country. Upon stopping to open it, however, they discover they have been tricked for the trunk they have is their own. Luke and Jim, in the hotel lobby, are anxiously waiting behind big marble pillars for the bewhiskered man and his wife to leave their room. As they are seen to approach the assembled group holds its breath. Luke makes a flying leap, captures the man, and Jim gathers in the lady. The joy of capture is short-lived, for the man soon proves himself a detective and Luke and Jim are ejected from the place to the tune of rapidly striking boots.
- The town of Red Gulch was to be favored with a show. Pete, a tough of the town, liked a good show and happens to be at the station when the troupe arrives. Billie, Nolan and Eddie are the leading actors. Nolan and Billie are in love, but Eddie also loves Billie. A quarrel starts at the station between Nolan and Eddie and finally the troupe reaches the theater. At the stage entrance Pete intervenes and threatens Eddie. After many controversies each actor is assigned to his room. Pete meets a friend and tells him about Billie and the show, and they decide to attend the performance that night On the stage, Bob and Mac, two stagehands, are working and abusing Gus, the property man. In the meantime Nolan has gone into Billie's room, where they are disturbed by Eddie. Eddie, being ejected, swears revenge. Harry is a sleepy man and decides to go to the show. Pete, with his friend, join the audience. Harry comes and sits next to Pete and sleeps. All is ready for the big show. Billie and Nolan are on the stage looking through the curtain. Gus is fixing the props. Eddie gets into trouble again over Billie, and walking away, goes to see Bob and Mac. He gives them money and promises them some more if they queer Nolan every time he goes on the stage. In the meantime the curtain goes up. The stage represents a living room. George is acting the part of an old man; Billie is his daughter. Eddie, who plays the part of the villain, proposes to Billie, who says that her heart belongs to Jim, the Westerner. Eddie threatens to reveal something about papers held by Billie's father. A fight between George and Eddie ensues. Billie, frightened, calls for help. Nolan wants to come to the rescue, but from behind the stage Bob and Mac hold Nolan's coat, much to the amusement of the audience. Nolan is doing his best to go to Billie's rescue, and finally pulling out of his coat, he comes on rolling on the stage. The curtain falls and the actors try to understand what happened. Eddie is satisfied with this first result. The second act, entitled "The Chasm of Death," opens with Billie on the stage. The scenery is composed mainly of a chasm and a bridge over. Eddie comes on and starts with Billie to cross the chasm. A slight accident to part of the scenery sends Billie and Eddie back on the stage. Finally Eddie and Billie are on the bridge, when a voice from behind says: "Be brave, Mabel. I'll save you." Nolan, rushing on the stage, puts his foot on a dolly, placed there by Bob and Mac, and comes rolling on the stage, and for the second time he falls. Nolan gets up again and starts for the bridge. Eddie and Billie are on the other side and Eddie destroys the bridge. Nolan finds a rope and starts to swing across the chasm. He succeeds and starts a fight with Eddie. Eddie falls into the chasm and Nolan tries to get on the other side of the chasm, he and Billie hanging on the same rope. But from the other side of the stage Bob and Mac let a sandbag loose, which, hitting Billie, throws her into the chasm. A second swing of the same bag disposes of Nolan. The audience is disgusted with such a rotten show. The curtain falls and the actors start to blame Nolan for all that happened. Eddie gains favor with Billie. Finally the curtain rises on the third act entitled, "Where Virtue Triumphs." The villain gets arrested by the sheriff and the marriage ceremony between Nolan and Billie is taking place. But here again Eddie's money had bribed the stagehands and after having a rope to Nolan's belt, they pull up the back curtain and up goes Nolan. This was the last straw and the audience exits in disgust. But Pete wants revenge and he rushes towards the stage. In the meantime Bob and Mac have been discovered and fired, and at the moment Eddie was gaining Billie's favor they come to Eddie and ask him to pay them, having lost their jobs doing his dirty work. Eddie tries to escape, but Pete comes on, gun to hand, and shoots after Eddie. Eddie tries to escape, upsetting scenery finally gets out of the theater, pursued by Pete, still shooting. And Nolan and Billie make up and embrace, and hope for better days.
- Luke Sharpe. a private detective, and his assistant, Jigger, are very much down on their luck or so represent themselves to Beto, the proprietor of a ten cent lodging house, so they acquire accommodations for both for a dime, and turn in. When Jigger sees Luke is asleep, and having a little change in his pocket, he sneaks off to a cabaret. There he notices a crook, one very badly wanted by the police and for whom a handsome reward is offered. He also notes that the crook has designs on the purse of a woman (the woman crook) seated at another table. He returns to the lodging house, wakes up Luke, tells him of his discovery; both return to the cabaret, state their profession to the proprietor, the object of their mission, to capture the crook, and arrange to be engaged in the place. The proprietor helps them to disguise themselves, Luke as a waiter and Jigger as a pianist. Luke thinks more of the bar than the demands of his business as a waiter, and after trying to inflict on the patrons a song and breaking all dishes while waiting on them, he suddenly notices the crook snatch the lady's purse and run. He calms the excited patrons by telling them that he and his associate are detectives, to leave the matter in their hands and they will capture the thief. The statement is received with derision, and the proprietor having had enough of them anyway, is ably assisted in ejecting them. They return to their lodging house, and after accusing and abusing one another for the fiasco at the cabaret they drop into their cots. They have not been asleep very long when the crook arrives and gets into a bed close to them. Luke, who has the habit of sleeping with one eye open, notices the crook, and decides when he is asleep to capture him for the reward, but not to say anything to Jigger about his plan. He goes into another room and proceeds to disguise himself as an old miser. Jigger, however, has also noted the crook, and plans to do the same thing as Luke proposes, but remains in the same room to make up his disguise. The crook wakes and sees Jigger making up and determines to settle him. Luke enters as a miser, goes to his cot and engages in the characteristic pastime of counting his money. Jigger, not knowing his partner through the disguise, thinks he is a real miser, and by a trick gets the money. Luke, to keep up the character, so noisily grieves over his loss that he wakes up all the lodgers. The crook tells him that Jigger is the man who robbed him, and commands the miser to take his (the crook's) knife and kill Jigger. During this Jigger has again gone to bed, but with his feet where his head ought to be. Luke has noted this. He stealthily creeps up to the bed and plunges the knife through the open space between Jigger's feet and into the mattress. Jigger jumps out of bed, giving a scare to the crook, while Luke assumes to be scared. At this instant police, who had been chasing the crook, break into the room. The crook being by the door, escapes as they enter, not noticed by the officers. They approach Jigger about the crook. Jigger, still greatly agitated over the attempt on his life, answers, "He's gone, but arrest that man," pointing to Luke, who snatches the long gray-haired wig off and discloses his identity to Jigger. Jigger also removes his disguise and they embrace. This is not the end, for the officers now recognize the two bum detectives and place them under arrest.
- George's sporty ways at college are opposed by his father. George decides to go home for a visit and invites Harry, his chum, to accompany him, but commands Harry to taboo the sporty clothes and be introduced to his father as a minister's son. Harry agrees and dons a ministerial appearing suit. Father is so pleased with the sanctified appearance of his son's chum that he almost forgives George's bad record at school. An unlooked-for element, however, crops up in the form of George's sister, whose reading of novels has inflamed her mind with a longing for a masterful and powerful lover. Harry apparently being anything but that type, fails to excite any interest at all. Shortly after the boys arrive, the neighborhood is startled to learn of a wild man being at large in the vicinity. Billie, George's sister, at once proclaims that she could love a man like that. This gives the boys an idea. Harry is to disguise as a wild man, capture Billie by rough means and cure her of her wild desires. Harry disguises in skins and a beard and capturing the unfortunate Billie, forces her to prepare and cook a meal for him. Later her brother, disguised as a wild man and holding her in servitude, is worsted and beaten by Harry. Billie is carried away by Harry. She acknowledges him a hero. The next day Billie discovers the skins and beard and sees she has been duped. About this time, the real wild man having been shot at by an old farmer is skulking in the vicinity of Billie's home. As she comes away angry, the real wild man pounces and attempts to force her to go with him. She, thinking it was another bluff, resists. Harry, who is discouraged with his failure, decides to return to his own home. As he is leaving he sees Billie struggling with the wild man. He rescues her and is thereafter a real hero.
- Jerry goes to sleep while driving his flivver, is arrested and fined, but having no money the judge holds his car. Jerry appropriates the constable's motorcycle and makes his get-away, and is chased by the representatives of the law. The chase ends disastrously for Jerry, but lands him in the midst of a complicated scheme of the villain to elope with the daughter of the judge. The villain has robbed the judge's safe, but Jerry succeeds in foiling the villain and stopping the elopement.
- Simpkins and his friend, Jigger, are awakened one morning by the noise of much hammering and shouting. Arising from their soft bed in a fence corner they are surprised to see a small traveling circus getting ready for business nearby. Curiosity leads to the scene. The most attractive object to Simpkins is Nina, daughter of the owner, Bigguts. Simpkins also loses his heart, when Nina gives him more than a friendly look. Then and there he decides to be nearer this charming girl. He asks Bigguts for jobs for himself and Jiggers, and they are employed. Simpkins gives more attention to Nina than to his work. Tonno, the clown and strong man, who is himself in love with Nina, notes this, informs Bigguts, and Simpkins and Jiggers are ordered off the lot. They take refuge in the fence corner; Simpkins in his misery ever sees the face of Nina. Both manage to get into the night show without benefiting the box office. Seated well up in the stands, Simpkins is overjoyed when Nina appears to do her act. A mad rush over the spectators, and he lands in the front row. The disturbed spectators raise a strong protest. Nina, turning to see what the row is about, observes Simpkins. Ah, she loves him! With outstretched arms she goes to him. The people demand her to go on with her act. Bigguts and Tonno rush in and throw Simpkins and Jiggers out. Nina refuses to go on and returns to her dressing-room in tears. Simpkins, who has been wandering around outside, passes Nina's room and hears her sobs. Under the canvas he goes, but his joy is short-lived, for father and mother enter. Father chases Simpkins and they run back into the big tent. Tonno has gone on with his act and has made a failure; spectators hiss him. Into the ring rush Simpkins and father. Simpkins does several stunts while being chased, and is vociferously applauded. Bigguts is amazed at his work and offers him a job at his own price. Simpkins replies the price is Nina. Here Tonno and mother raise a row, but Bigguts accepts the terms. Tonno determines revenge. Simpkins is doing a trapeze turn. Tonno cuts one of the ropes, but does not get out of the way quick enough and Simpkins falls on him and lays him out. His act cut out for the night, Simpkins retires and is met in loving embrace by Nina. Suddenly Simpkins wakes up to find that he has been embracing Jiggers, and it was all a dream.
- Peace prevailed in the Newlyweds household. An announcement from Mrs. Newlvwed's mother that she is coming to teach the young people how to run their house does not appeal to Mr. Newlywed and he consults his friend the doctor, who offers him but little consolation. Mother-in-law arrives and at once sets about running things. Mr. Newlywed. unable to stand it, comes home only after mother has retired. This state of affairs is not to be tolerated and when mother sees an ad in the paper of a discovery by Prof. Pill she fancies she sees a way out of the difficulties. The serum discovered by Prof. Pill when injected into a wayward husband makes him gentle and home-loving. Mother goes to see the professor and arrives in his office as he is in conference with the doctor. Overhearing the plot against Newlywed, the doctor, while the professor and mother are viewing the laboratory, substitutes plain water for the serum. Later hubby is put wise and when mother stabs him with the "hypo" he at once begins to meow and purr in a most feline manner. Mother and wifie are horrified as hubby laps the cream from his saucer. Finally mother calls Prof. Pill to restore her son-in-law to reason. Ere he can do so the adoption of three kittens by hubby causes both the wife and the doctor friend to upbraid mother so terribly that she grabs her belongings and hurriedly leaves for home. Mother's departure with the aid of a small tablet given him by the doctor friend has a wonderful effect on hubby and he once more is sane. The peace and happiness of the Newlywed household is restored.
- Wild Bill, an inmate of Prof. Nutt's asylum, weary of confinement, escapes detention by climbing down the side of the building wall. His actions, once he has gained freedom, are unconventional and terrorize the peaceful citizens of the city in which the Nutt institution is located. Bill reaches the Littleford mansion and peers through one of the windows. The contortions of his face as it is pressed against the glass frightens pretty Evelyn almost into hysterics and she calls to her father for help. Littleford. to protect his daughter against possible harm, phones to Luke Sharpe, the human bloodhound, and enlists his services to catch Bill, offering him a reward of $5,000. Seeing a chance to make money easily and quickly, Sharpe returns to his rooms and has Jiggers, his aide, make-up as Bill. He orders Jiggers to meet him at the Littleford home, to which he precedes the impostor. After he has made his little speech about catching the terror, Sharpe goes to the door to bring in Jiggers. That worthy, however, is late. Bill, the real quarry, is seen climbing through the window of the house next door and Sharpe, believing him to be Jiggers, crosses the lawn and goes after him. Once face to face with Bill. Sharpe sees that he has a madman to deal with, and makes an ineffectual effort to escape. Meantime Jiggers has arrived and enters the Littleford home via the window. Making himself perfectly at home, he jauntily stalks into the room where Evelyn is taking a nap. She awakens at his strokes over her hand, screams and brings upon the scene her father, who is armed with a revolver. Littleford chases Jiggers, who rushes from the room and hides behind a chair. Littleford sees Bill in the house on the other side of the areaway, and believing him to be the man who was in his home but a moment before, fires away. Sharpe, who is with Bill, gets most of the effect of the fire. When the smoke of battle has cleared away Sharpe pounces upon Bill and succeeds in landing him. He carries the unconscious form to the door-step of the Littleford home and then steps in the house alone to tell his client that his quest is successful. Meanwhile Jiggers escapes the house and comes face to face with Bill. The two begin a fight which ends with Jiggers being vanquished and left behind in Bill's place. Sharpe, of course, turns over Jiggers as the real madman, collects his money and is about to depart when a policeman enters with Bill. The jig is up. Sharpe's little scheme is exposed. Littleford takes back his reward and turns it over to the policeman, while Jiggers, followed by Sharpe, exits in sorrow.
- Wifie wants Hubby to spend a quiet evening at home with her. Hubby's friends want him to join them in a poker game, so they send a fake policeman over to arrest him and take him away. Meanwhile, there's an escaped lunatic lurking around the neighborhood, and a real policeman looking for him.
- Deacon Squibbs, pillar of the First Church of the Strict Principles is informed by the family lawyer that there is one important document to be read in the presence of the Deacon and his nephew Jimmie. This document is nothing less than the will of Jimmie's father, which leaves his entire fortune to his son, provided the son marries and settles down directly after his twenty-fourth birthday. Another provision of the will appoints the deacon as sole judge of the young lady to be selected. Jimmie is already in love with a young widow whose father is an old veteran of the wars. Upon sight of her photo in Jimmie's watch the Deacon becomes interested and wants to go to see her. He learns that she is a widow and, according to the laws of the First Church of Strict Principles, cannot marry a man under forty. This news breaks the widow's heart but the deacon bids her hope as he himself is just a mite over the required age. To save Jimmie's fortune the widow agrees to an engagement between herself and the deacon with the mental reservation that the deacon will be glad to break his engagement soon. The deacon spreads the news of his engagement among the brothers of his church. They are amazed and not a little doubtful. Jimmie learns of what has happened, but is reassured by the widow and her father, the gruff old colonel, that there is a plot behind it which will result in happiness to all. The church committee are short one member for their lawn social and the deacon volunteers the services of his fiancée. She states that she has a little society dance that she will do for them and the deacon is delighted. The day of the social arrives and the people of the First Church are congregated full of pleasure and anticipation. Brother T. Winkels' mouth organ solo was successful and all was well until they announced the widow's number. Jimmie, at the organ, plays an Oriental strain. The widow glides on in shimmering beads and a few yards of gauze. She twisted and shook and jarreted in a way to shock the whole congregation. She retired amid glares from the crowd, leaving the helpless deacon a target for all unfriendly comments. The next day the deacon breaks his engagement and offers Jimmie $5,000 to wed the widow and take her from the city. Jimmie, now enjoying the fun, refuses. The father challenges the deacon to a duel with swords. In the cold gray dawn of the following day the deacon with his backers of the church face the father of the widow, Jimmie, and the doctor. Tearfully the deacon begs Jimmie and the widow to accept his check and call off the duel. Finally the colonel and the widow are pacified and Jimmie holds the check and tells the deacon that he and the widow were married the day before. The deacon swoons in the arms of his brethren.
- The Newlyweds' peaceful household is thrown into happy excitement by the announcement that their rich uncle John has decided to accept their invitation to a dinner given in honor of his birthday. Uncle John is an extremely nervous and fussy old gentleman, but his wealth makes it imperative for his nephews and nieces to court him. Another nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Wise, had bidden for Uncle John's company on his birthday at their house, but he refuses them to attend the Newlyweds. The Newlyweds' cook is a regular cook and has a cop for a sweetheart. When Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed go to the opera, the cook entertains her boy in blue. When the Newlyweds return home, the sounds of mirth and loud laughter coming from the kitchen attract their attention, and upon peeking through the window, Mr. Newlywed is surprised and indignant to find the cook and the cop with many empty beer bottles about enjoying a high jinks. Mr. Newlywed and his wife enter the kitchen and after ejecting the guardian of the law, begin to lecture the cook. She leaves next morning. No cook and Uncle John's birthday dinner that night. Mr. Newlywed decides to prepare the dinner himself since it is quite out of the question for his wife to do so, since she has never learned the culinary art. Mr. Newlywed, however, has not reckoned on the revenge of tho cook who before she left mixed salt and sulfur, wine and vinegar and in all ways possible messed things up. Mr. Newlywed proceeds with the dinner and by six o'clock all looks well. Uncle John arrives, his temper slightly riled by stumbling over the dog. To add to his discomfort the Wises run in to greet him. The Newlyweds are also disconcerted for fear the dinner, adequate for three, may not prove sufficient for five. They decide to make the best of it and the Wises are invited to stay. After much fuss and worry Mr. Newlywed eventually gets dinner ready. The guests, meanwhile, have gone into the garden and Mr. Wise trips over the hose, getting his hands dirty. He washes them at the hose which he leaves running. The family all seat themselves and dinner is started. The sweetened salt and the vinegar flavored wine play havoc, and to add to their panic a tramp enters the kitchen door and steals the roast turkey. The ejected cop passing the Newlywed house sees the hose running and taking advantage of the city ordinance proceeds to arrest Mr. Newlywed for watering his lawn outside of hours. The cook has softened towards her former employers and decides to return. She enters the dining room as her lover is about to drag Mr. Newlywed away. She remonstrates and Mr. Newlywed is freed. The Wises retire in bad order, and as the cook embraces Uncle John the Newlyweds are again happy.
- The co-ed college is kept lively and the lady principal and professor are kept alert by the pranks of the lively boy and girl students. Ringleader among the boys is Harry; Billie among the girls. It being a sober college town, prize-fighting and such inhumane sports are tabooed. Harry learns that there is a secret prize fight held. He tells the boys and all decide to go. Billie and the girls decide to break the monotony of life with a feed in their dormitory and invite the boys to come. Harry sneaks from the football practice grounds and Billie from the basketball court and the two hold a little love feast by the wall which separates their school grounds. Prof. Snitch, who is by no means a favorite with the boys, misses Harry and suspects where he is. He at once sends the rest of the boys to their rooms and goes to the basketball court, where he reports to the lady principal, who misses Billie and at once accompanies Prof. Snitch to the wall where the guilty parties are found and sent to their dormitories for twenty-four hours. This happens the very day of the fight. Harry declares he will go nevertheless. The girls' feed schedule is for the same evening. Boys send the message that they cannot come, as they are going to the fight. Billie wishes the girls could go and the boys say they will take them if they will wear boys' clothes. They decide to do so and in male attire all sneak out of the dormitory and go to the fight. Prof. Snitch also decides to sneak to the fight. The police are apprised of the fight and the place where it is held is raided and all the students with Prof. Snitch land in jail. A phone call brings the lady principal and faculty to the jail, where the young folks are released. Prof. Snitch, who loves the Lady Principal, is rejected by her and is left weeping by the wall. The girls end their eventful day with a pillow fight.
- Nathan Grey and his daughter, Betty, live in the suburbs. Betty is in love with Jimmie Gordin, a young fellow of small means but great attraction. All goes well until the villain, Olden Rich, of vast wealth, appears. He falls in love with Betty, and Nathan favors the wealthy suitor. Betty disobeys her father, who swears she shall marry Rich before another week. Betty communicates with Jimmie and they devise a plan. She will go to visit an aunt in a distant city. Jimmis is to call and they will marry before she returns. They did not reckon on the craft of the villain Rich, and he follows on the same train on which Betty leaves. In the distant city Betty sends a telegram to her lover to come at once. This message is intercepted by Rich and he wires to father. In trying to regain her message Betty scuffles with Rich. The police come up and Rich announces that Betty is a harmless lunatic whom he is taking to an asylum. The police believe him. By bribing the superintendent Rich has her placed in the asylum. Father, on getting Rich's wire, leaves for the city and by chance Jimmie also leaves on the same train. Father joins Rich and they go to the asylum, where father informs Betty that she will either marry Rich or never leave the asylum. Despite Betty's protests, they send for a minister. Jimmie arrives in the city and while waiting around the hotel meets a young physician, an old college friend, who is in charge of the asylum. He invites Jimmie to come up and look over the place. Jimmie goes with him and he discovers that Betty is incarcerated in the asylum. The minister arrives and the ceremony between Betty and old Rich is about to take place. The young physician and Jimmie frame a plot and Jimmie has the doctor declare the father and Rich are insane. The minister is now called to unite Jimmie and Betty. Father, seeing all is useless, blesses his children and leaves old Rich to pace his cell in baffled rage.
- Flirtatious Jerry "makes a mash on" pretty Gladys while both are viewing a billboard displaying handsome posters of Julius Caesar, advertised for production in a ten-twent'-thirt' house. Particularly impressed is Jerry with the resemblance of the picture of a beautiful Roman maiden to Gladys. Agreeing to meet again, they separate, Gladys for home, Jerry for a nap, which he proceeds to enjoy in a straw-filled packing case he finds in a nearby alley and (as it must happen for always-getting-into-trouble Jerry) alongside the cache of a lot of loot hidden there by a couple of burglars. Jerry dreams he is a Roman emperor and that he and Gladys are having a great time, winding up with his slaves putting him to bed in the royal chamber. It is this handling of him, the patting of the royal bedclothes about him, that wakes him, and be discovers that someone is really handling him, for a couple of policemen are putting handcuffs on him, believing him to be the burglar they are looking for. This is not the end, however. He proves an alibi, his release, and joins in the search of the cracksmen. Then follows some thrilling as well as comical scenes. Jerry discovers the robbers' den, valiantly attacks them; they knock him unconscious, set fire to the place, and escape. Jerry revives when a flood of water is poured on him from the firemen's hose, and the instant he escapes from the building there is a terrible explosion caused by combustibles in it. Jerry keeps going after the crooks, gets them; the loot is recovered; it had been stolen from Gladys' home, and Jerry makes himself solid.
- It was in the dawn of civilization and Heela Hoola was the belle of Stonycave. Her admirers loaded her with beads and bear claws. Now a certain rich citizen of Stonycave, named Stony Kone, although he owned the largest cave in the city, could never get a mate and his only admirer was Miss Stone Hatchet, who was neither beautiful nor young. It chanced that Willy Walla, who was a young swell of the town, saw Heela Hoola, and his heartbeat violently against the wolf skin which clad him and he decided then and there to have Heela Hoola for his own. Among the domestic unhappiness in Stony Cave the most violent was that of Leaping Loo, and to increase it was the fact of the "other man," Little Big Club, whose infatuation tor Leaping Loo was the gossip of every cave in the town. Willy Walla having made a good impression with Heela Hoola, is knocked on the head by Stony Kone and the fair Heela Hoola is violently dragged away to Stony Kone's cave. Meanwhile Little Big Club has taken a violent fancy to Leaping Loo and pursues her with his love. Her husband, Hairy Hand, is furiously jealous, and, not knowing where his mate is, goes in search. He is told by Miss Stone Hatchet that Stony Kone has a woman in his cave and Hairy Hand goes in to see if it is his own woman. A terrific battle ensues and Hairy Hand emerges fr«m Stony Kone's cave bearing Heela Hoola, whom Stony Kone had captured. He turns Heela Hoola over to Willy Walla and together they go to Willy's cave in great happiness. Stony Kone's heart and bruises are healed by Miss Stone Hatchet, and the fair Leaping Loo elopes with Little Big Club and leaves Hairy Hand to shift for himself.
- Needing sleep badly, Jerry tries to obtain it in the park, but the police department and some wicked boys make it difficult. When he finally does fall asleep, he has a dream of blowing up a lot of his enemies, the police, but awakens to find he has been made the victim of an explosion planned by the boys. He is arrested by the police who accuse him of causing the explosion. At the station house he makes his get-a-way and "butts in" on a five pointed mix-up between Roxie, the cook for the Mills household, her two rival police lovers and her master and mistress. Jerry saves the lives of the lovers, one from being roasted, the other from being frozen to death, but involves Roxie in a jealous row between Mr. and Mrs. Mills, and lands himself back in the clutches of the law.
- Disguised as an army officer, Jerry finds himself close to the Mexican border. He gets in trouble with Lieut. Jack and the police interfere. At Jerry's command Jack is placed under arrest, although he protests. Jack's sweetheart sees the fight, but before she arrives her lover is taken to the guard house. Jerry then returns to the girl's house to plead his love. In the meantime Jack manages to get in touch with the Colonel and he is released. Jerry is progressing nicely with his love scene when Jack enters. Another mixup follows and as Jerry rushes from the house he takes a photograph of the girl with him. Jack follows and soon the two are at it again. They decide to end the quarrel over the girl in a duel. As they measure off the distance they are suddenly aroused when a band of bandits pounce down upon them. Both are made prisoners and taken to a cell. When Jerry is searched the picture of the girl is found and the chief of bandits orders Jerry to write her a note, telling her he is ill and needs her. He is forced to do this and then with Jack is cast into a dungeon. One of the bandits delivers the note to the girl and she hurries to the scene. She is greeted by the chief, who ties her hand and foot and then takes her to the dungeon to display his prize to the two men. He next orders Jerry and Jack removed to another cell and then he places the girl in a room and locks her up. One of the bandits drops a gun and Jerry grabs it, quickly he disarms the rest of the band while Jack ropes them together. Leaving the band helpless, Jack and Jerry start out to find the girl and they rescue her when Jerry stands on Jack's shoulders and lifts her from a window. As the trio start to escape Jerry finds some hand bombs and when another squad of bandits start after the trio they are blown to bits by the bombs which Jerry throws among them. Mounting horses, Jack, Jerry and the girl rush back to the zone of safety and the girl is returned to her worried parents. There Jerry gives up his efforts to win her, places her hand in Jack's and, giving his blessing, bravely goes forth to fight the bandits alone.
- Jerry and his sweetheart, Amy, secure a vantage point in order to view a passing military parade. Amy, quite a flirt, is attracted by a first lieutenant and waves to him, but not without notice of the jealous eyes of Jerry. They have a wordy quarrel, long drawn out and extending until after the ending and disbursing of the parade and which leads to Amy accepting the company of the lieutenant (met during their later stroll), and the dismissing of Jerry in a very unceremonious manner. Injury is thus added to insult, by the lieutenant kicking Jerry out of the way, so he has just cause for revenge. Walking along, planning dire punishment for the lieutenant, Jerry comes up to the residence of Professor Knutt, a hypnotist, who places him under his spell, makes him do most ridiculous things and tells him what he has been doing when he returns to consciousness. Jerry is astonished, and inquires how the Professor does it. He is told it is the ring the Professor wears that is the influence. Jerry gets the ring in his own inimical way and without expense. With the ring on his finger, Jerry accomplishes much to his own amusement before entering on the program he had in mind when he determines to secure it. He makes passes on a couple of cops and gets them into a fight; he makes a cigar store clerk give him a bundle of bank notes in change for a mythical small coin; he casts his spell over the lieutenant, who commits breaches of the peace that land him in jail; intercepts a prince as he steps out of his equipage to make a call on his sweetheart's father and here he appropriates the prince's raiment and, using the prince as a servant, is admitted as the dignitary. As they enter Jerry pulls the prince's only covering off him, disclosing him as sans breeches and underwear, but wearing a corset and hightop boots. Such a costume at a reception riles Father, who uses a double-barreled shotgun to expedite the nondescript's exit. Jerry, alarmed at the belligerent action of Father toward a counterfeit, also runs off, fearing his duplicity may be discovered, but this act proves his undoing, for later he is sought for by the Professor, with the aid of officers, to punish him for taking forcible possession of the Professor's magic ring. The result is that Jerry's revenge proves a boomerang when he is locked up in the same cell with the lieutenant and the rightful prince.