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- Two country kids decide to scare the city chap who has won their sweetheart. One dresses up in a bear skin. While the other joins the group of children, a real bear happens along and nearly scares the life out of the bogus bear, who immediately takes refuge in a tree, the real bear following. After an exciting chase, the bogus bear dashes into the group of children, followed by the real bear. A stampede follows, in which the girl is lost. Later, the boys meet and a search for the girl starts, which results in their finding her feeding the bear sugar. She then refuses to have anything to do with the boys, who have proven themselves to be cowards.
- Olive and her sweetheart leave school. Olive's mother, giving her some bread and jam, makes her mind the baby on the porch. Her sweetheart comes for her. They go away and leave the baby. They play around the corner and the baby creeps away. She makes the acquaintance of a bulldog and creeps on toward a cliff on top of which she sits and plays. The mother, now anxious, discovers that the baby is missing. She arouses the neighbors to help her look for her. Meanwhile, the dog decides that he wants some jam. He runs to the baby, follows him off to the base of a tree. After feeding him jam, she falls asleep. The mother, finding the shoe which the baby left on top of the cliff, imagines that she has fallen over. The neighbors help her climb down the cliff. After a series of mishaps, they discover the baby.
- Springtime. Everything in nature is awakening. A pretty girl in a boat is drifting. Sterling sees the girl and becomes infatuated. At the same time another man sees the girl and he, too, falls in love. They pursue her in boats, each unaware of the other. The girl escapes on shore, where the two men meet and the rivalry begins. By a peculiar ruse Sterling manages to best the other rival and win the girl. He brings her to a lawn dance and makes a hit with the guests by bringing such a pretty girl. The other man in the meantime makes the acquaintance of a Salome dancer and surprises the party by appearing with her. The shapely form and grace of the beautiful dancer completely unbalances Sterling's mind and he rushes madly to her. The rival naturally objects and a sword duel is the result. The rivals turn out to be terrible cowards, and the affair of honor turns out to be a fiasco. In the mix-up that results the Salome dancer escapes into a public park, with the park police in hot pursuit, trying to cover her up. They are chased to a bridge where the rivals, in mortal combat, pitch headlong into the water sixty feet below. The efforts to save the rivals from drowning result in the most comical incidents imaginable.
- Billy's mother finishes making pies and sets them in the window to cool. Observing this, Billy decides to steal one. He offers his friend Chandler part of it. Walking along, the pair observe Carmen, who has just finished a ride with Gordon. Chandler offers Carmen part of his pie; Gordon, jealous, knocks it from her hands. For this Carmen is angry. While Gordon and Chandler fight, Billy pushes his suit with the girl. Later, Billy's mother discovers one of her pies missing, finds the guilty Billy, takes him home, and puts him to bed. That night Billy dreams of Gordon trying to force his attentions upon Carmen, of Chandler rebuking him, and of Gordon's threat to secure the girl at all costs. In his dream he sees Gordon abduct the girl, carry her away on a handcar, and tie her to the track when she refuses to marry the villain. Billy, enlisting the help of a friend and his racing car, starts to the rescue. There is a wild ride, a race between engine and motorcar. Billy, in the car, dashes before the onrushing train and saves Carmen and restores her to Chandler. Then Billy awakens.
- A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.
- Olive and Margie are playmates. They are at the breakfast table and mother allows them to go out and play marbles, telling them first to be sure to keep clean. While playing, they spy three of their friends on the other side of the street also playing marbles. "Tough guy" Jack, Harry, and tiny Billy run across the street and soon they are all playing an animated game. They throw the marbles which they have won in a cigar box at one side and little Billy cautiously helps himself to as many as he can get into his chubby hands. He has a deal of fun throwing them one by one in a hole in the fence and pretty soon no marbles are left in the box. So that ends that game. Then someone suggests that they "make boats." So they run along and stop by the wayside and take off their shoes and stockings. They jump into a dirty pond and come out bespattered with mud from head to toes. Of course, they are afraid to go home looking like that, so they creep into the bathroom without mother seeing them. Soon the bathroom and bath tub are black and dirty from their clothes and grimy bodies. They manage to get into their bedroom and then ensues a pillow fight. One of the pillow cases bursts and soon the room is filled with feathers. Mother, however, comes to the rescue and everything ends well.
- Billy's mama leaves him in charge of the baby, after giving each a slice of bread and jam. Billy leaves the baby to take a stroll with Carmen and Chandler through the woods. The baby wanders off to the edge of the lake. Meanwhile, Billy and Chandler find a bird's nest, which they steal. When they show it to Carmen, she becomes angry and demands that they replace the nest in the tree; God is not pleased that they've stolen it. Chandler, knowing he has displeased Carmen, tries to win her favor by placing the nest back in the tree, pretending he is hurt in falling down. The plan works well and all are happy again. Billy suddenly remembers the baby and goes back, and can't find her. Later, finding her shoe at the edge of the lake, he becomes terribly frightened and falls into deep despair. The baby has been saved from falling into the water by a strange dog; Billy finally finds the dog guarding the baby. Filled with joy, he succeeds in getting her back home just as his mother comes to look for them. After mama takes the baby, Billy wipes the perspiration from his brow and resolves never to leave that kid alone again.
- Reuben catches his wife flirting with the farmhand. Sore, he leaves for business. Arriving at the store, he finds his clerk flirting with the customers. He calls the clerk down and tries to wait on the customers himself. In comes a traveling salesman. Reuben's wife finds she needs something at the store. When she arrives she finds her husband too busy to wait on her. She looks around and flirts with the traveling salesman. When the customers leave, Reuben sees the salesman and his wife flirting. He kicks the salesman out. The wife naturally feels sorry for the salesman. He apologizes for the trouble he has caused her. The constable sees them talking and informs Reuben. Reuben shoots the place up. The salesman escapes. In the meantime, a burglar, dressed similar to the salesman comes out of the window. The constable starts on his trail. He rung into the salesman who is about to take a swim. The constable takes the salesman's clothes. The salesman escapes. Running to the house he jumps through a window and sneaks under the bed. Reuben comes home and starts talking to his wife about her past doings. To his surprise he feels hands on his foot. Pulling the salesman out from under the bed, he starts shooting. The salesman escapes, but is pursued.
- Carmen is washing her doll-baby's clothes. Radcliff, a gunman, approaches her, teases her, and tries to kiss her. She slaps his face with the wet clothes; he angrily plans revenge. Carmen goes into the house. Radcliff sneaks up and throws mud at the clean clothes. Carmen returns and finds her day's work spoiled. She begins to cry. Chandler, who has been watching, comes over to console her. He offers to wash the clothes over. Radcliff makes fun of Chandler. A fight commences. Radcliff shoots at Chandler. The bullet misses its mark and crashes through a window, hitting a servant girl. She looks out of the window and observes a man with a gun. Thinking he fired the shot, she throws a rolling pin at him and knocks him down. The gun is exploded. The bullet hits a painter and knocks him from his ladder. The painter, sore, throws his paint just as the servant girl rushes in. She gets the paint in the face. A fight ensues among the neighbors. The children run off and later make up.
- Billy and Olive are sweethearts, Desmond is also in love with Olive, and on numerous occasions Olive has turned down Desmond's lovemaking and finally slapped him in the face and ordered him away. Desmond, angry, swears revenge. He follows the lovers while they take a gondola ride and follows them from there to the rollercoaster. Billy and Olive get inside the coaster and start to play. Desmond looks around; seeing no one in sight, gives the coaster a shove, which starts it off on its journey. The coaster races around the track at a high speed and the children scream to attract the attention of one of the attendants. But the machinery becomes unmanageable and he calls for police assistance. The police come to the spot and after several funny and unsuccessful attempts to stop the coaster, they get into another and give chase. After several funny situations they finally get it away and give chase. Meanwhile, Billy and Olive's coaster has slowed down and it stops in an obscure spot; they jump out and get away. The police find that they cannot stop their coaster. The coaster gains speed and the other attendants who have arrived on the scene are unable to stop it. Meanwhile, Desmond grows horrified at his rash act and flees the scene. Billy takes Olive among the rocks on the beach and the picture closes with Olive's head resting on Billy's shoulder.
- Mr. Craig has a dispute with an Italian organ grinder and receives a threatening note which worries him considerably. Later, Craig's baby gets stuck up with jam and leaves the imprint of his hand on the front door and all over the house, then finally wanders off to the attic and goes to sleep. Craig comes home and, finding the black hand sign upon the door and his little son missing, becomes frantic. He summons Skylark Fumes, a famous detective, to find his child. The detective arrives and after seeing many black hand marks decides there must be at least a thousand black handers in the gang. He immediately summons the entire police force by means of trained police pigeons. The police, after many mishaps, arrive and, after many deductions and clever police work, the child is finally found.
- Two hallroom boys decide to attend a dance in their hotel. They possess but a single suit each and get busy "fixing" up. Harold sends his suit to be pressed, but Percy presses his own, and while so doing burns a hole in the seat of his trousers. He sees a bellboy returning with Harold's suit and at once "cops" it Harold, in the meantime waiting for his suit, grows impatient and sneaking into the hallway learns of Percy's theft. He grabs the first cover at hand and sneaks down near the ballroom, trying to regain his suit. Percy is having troubles of his own in the ballroom, however, for a hurriedly discarded cigarette causes a hole to burn in the suit he is wearing and his efforts to put it out cause him to seek seclusion in a corner, where he is found by Harold. The rightful owner of the suit demands it, for he is clad in his underwear and a portier, but Percy objects to return it. A fight for possession of the suit follows and in it both young men lose their coverings, and are carried into the ballroom where the fright and fight grows till both boys forswear dancing and ballrooms forever.
- Looie is forced to accompany his wife to the beach. He misses the car. He is running after it when another car picks him up on the fender and carries him away. Mrs. Myer, arriving at the beach, sees Looie come in on the fender. She instructs him to wait on the sand while she changes into her bathing suit. He observes a shapely leg sticking out from under a parasol. When he tries to move towards it he is stopped by his wife. The leg belongs to a beautiful bather. Looie tries to flirt. He is repulsed. She enters her bath house, which is next to Mrs. Myer's. Looie decides to kidnap her. He leaves to get a horse to pull the bath house away, first tying a handkerchief to the wheel. Looie returns, hitches the horse to the bath house which he thinks belongs to the fair bather, and drives away with it. On reaching a secluded spot, he discovers his wife to be in the house. He shuts and locks it. Meanwhile, the other wagon has floated out to sea; the bather, on top, yells for help. Looie runs to save her, but her real sweetheart comes along and makes the rescue. She points out Myer to him and he immediately beats him up. The horses take fright and dash away with Mrs. Myer's wagon. It is smashed and Mrs. Myer is thrown out. However, she rescues her husband and they take the trolley home.
- Snookee, to revenge himself on his hated rival, invokes the aid of the instructor in hypnotism. He uses his new-found powers with great success. He runs for the preacher and hastens the preparations for the wedding. All goes well until the hypnotist encounters the rival and releases him from the spell. The rival comes on the scene just as the minister is tying the knot for Snookee and the girl. Then real trouble starts with fast and furious fun in evidence every moment.
- Billy and Bob love Olive, but the dainty Miss prefers Billy. One day Bob comes upon her as she is embroidering Billy's initial on a handkerchief, which she presents to him later. Bob is angered by her open preference for Billy and he shows it. She, undaunted, runs him from her presence with the point of her sewing needle, and a short time later is content to find her true lover. Billy, basking in her smiles. To revenge himself upon her, Bob steals her unguarded doll, and with true villainous intent, casts it into the waters of a nearby cave. Then, in his exultation, he sends her a note by a boy telling her what he has done. The note is intercepted by Billy, however, who dismisses the messenger and sets out to rescue the doll himself. The messenger returns to Bob and tells him everything is all right, and the young villain smilingly awaits results. Meantime Billy, with his constant companion, hip dog, arrives at the cave, but in his anxiety slips and falls into it. He finds himself upon a ledge just above the water, in which the doll is floating and, in a quandary, he at last decides to send his dog for help. He throws the handkerchief up out of the cave, and the waiting dog gets it and takes it to Olive. She follows the dog back to the cave, but is unable to help Billy. Olive then sends the dog for a rope which he gets and after some severe pulling and tugging by both the dog and Olive, Billy is pulled from the cave. He has the rescued doll with him which he secured with the aid of those above and the rope, and Olive once again smiles as she hugs her wet treasure to her breast. Bob, smiling in anticipation of his revenge nearby, is seen by the lovers, and Billy sends his dog who chases the young villain away, which leaves the sweethearts happy and contented.
- Dot and her family are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Snitz, the groom, but he fails to appear. Her father phones to him and awakens him from a long sleep. Snitz, worried over his failure to be prompt runs from his home half dressed and hurries to keep his appointment at his sweetheart's home. On the way he encounters several other pedestrians who are in a hurry and after bumping into several is chased by a vengeful mob After much excitement he arrives at his sweetheart's home. They find they have forgotten the most important part of the wedding, the minister. Snitz calms the waiting guests and hurries off to find one. He finally overtakes the minister on the road and puts him in the hack. The horse suddenly rejuvenates and runs away. Snitz falls from the hack while the minister remains inside getting the roughest ride of his life. Horse, hack, minister and all go over a steep cliff. Snitz leaps over after him, and after much hard work finally reaches his bride's home with the minister, only to find that his rival, a milkman, has eloped with her. The guests and Snitz chase them wildly to the depot, just in time to see the train swiftly pull out with the happy milkman and Dot waving a jaunty farewell from the rear platform.
- Heinze, a bakery foreman, is put in charge of the bakery when his employer leaves on business. Heinze assumes the duty of clerk, and as fast as lady customers appear he dates them for a four o'clock meeting on a nearby corner. In his excitement, however, he makes the dates for three of the ladies at the same hour and when he goes to meet them they conclude he is a heartless flirt and start to avenge their outraged dignities. In the chase that follows Heinze rushes back to the bakery shop, where he attempts to hide. He is pursued by the three irate young women and dodges from box to barrel till he is finally lost when he takes refuge in the huge baking oven. In the meantime the other bakers have got into the mix-up with the same three ladies and come out the worse for the encounter till, scrambling to the shop above, they drop a barrel of flour down the stairway which swamps the pursuing women, while Heinze. sadly mixed with pies and tarts, remains in the oven.
- The proud and haughty police chief of Pumpkin Center rules his force with an iron hand. After much drilling he departs for home intent on signing some valuable papers. While doing this, one of the papers is blown into the room of a girl, whose sweetheart is one of the Chief's Lieutenants. The only way to recover the paper is to crawl into the girl's room by the window, which the Chief does. While there the girl returns and the Chief takes refuge in a folding couch. The girl, hearing the noise, mistakes the Chief for a burglar, and her screams soon bring her policeman sweetheart. The Chief is roped on the couch, bundled into the patrol wagon and is taken to the police station. They finally arrive and the couch bursts open. The policemen are all horrified at discovering their prisoner is no other than their Chief. He immediately takes revenge on all concerned in the affair.
- The Pokes and Jabbs families, neighbors, live across the hall from each other in the same apartment house. The fearless Mr. Pokes is very much bossed by his wife, a suffragette, while Mr. Jabbs is the ruler in his own home. Mrs. Jabbs has just been presented with a new coat by her husband, and. meeting Mr. Pokes in the hall, asks his opinion of it. While Pokes is admiring the coat, his wife, hearing his voice in the hall, peers through the keyhole and mistakes his admiration of the coat for affection for Mrs. Jabbs. Jabbs, at the same time, also hearing voices in the hall, looks through the keyhole and decides to punish Pokes for his familiarity with his wife. Jealousy is aroused in both families and Jabbs and his wife quarrel, the result of which is that she leaves to go to her mother. Mrs. Pokes leaves home to attend a suffragette meeting and Jabbs, learning of a mask ball, persuades Pokes to go as his escort. Jabbs dresses as a woman. Arriving at the ball, they learn that the ball has been postponed. Disgustedly, they start toward home. A policeman gives them quite a chase, but they elude him by dodging into a saloon. The kindly bartender gets in wrong by offering his services and when they beat a hasty exit through the side door, they are confronted by another policeman. Pokes gets rid of him in a peculiar fashion. after several mishaps they arrive home. Jabbs has forgotten his keys. Pokes, becoming brave immediately, offers to put him up for the night. They proceed to retire without removing their clothes. The suffragette meeting being over, Mrs. Pokes returns. A horrible discovery meets her gaze upon entering her bedroom. Jabbs, in female attire, occupies her bed. Wild with rage, she rushes to the Jabbs apartment to inform Mr. Jabbs of his wife's actions. Jabbs, hearing the clatter on the door, beats it out the window to the fire escape. About this time. Mrs. Jabbs returns repentant. Entering her own apartment, she sees a woman lying on the couch and fails to recognize it as her husband. With a piercing shriek, she rushes to the hallway and faints. Jabbs again aroused, makes his exit through the window, and for the fire escape to the Pokes' apartment, begging Mr. Pokes to hide and protect him. Mrs. Pokes arrives on the scene and Jabbs makes for the hallway, but in so doing leaves his skirt clutched in the hand of Mrs. Pokes. Explanations follow, and what at first appeared to be a horrible catastrophe, turns out an innocent prank.
- Billy, Olive and other children are playing on the lawn when the picture opens. Billy is unusually downhearted; he is muchly smitten with Olive and she, on the other hand, will have none of him. The other children have sweethearts; Billy has none. About this time an old soldier, who has seen service in the war, observes Billy and wonders at the close resemblance of the child to his own who has just died. His old heart softens to Billy and, giving the children some sweets, he takes Billy to his home, where he shows him the toys which belonged to his dead son. He gives Billy the toy rifle and drills him to become a soldier. Billy's mother, looking for him, meets the other children and they inform her that Billy was taken away by an old man. The mother becomes frantic and she seeks the assistance of the neighbors to find the boy. Meantime the old soldier arranges the toy soldiers on the floor and commences the story of his life, how, when he was a boy, he was stationed at a small fort on the plains when it was attacked by Indians. He was in love with his Colonel's daughter, but it was not until he had shown his heroism by going for assistance when the fort seemed doomed that the Colonel consented to the match. Billy listened to this story with eyes and mouth wide open. During this time the mother and neighbors have been hunting furiously for Billy. The old soldier and Billy, tiring of the play, finally drop off to sleep. Billy dreams of what the old soldier has related. He sees himself arrive at the fort and become smitten with the Colonel's daughter, and the same incidents which the old man experienced the boy goes through in his dream. The mother has located the house belonging to the soldier and dashes in. What she finds is her son fast asleep in the lap of the old man with his arms fast around the old man's neck. She understands and tiptoes out of the scene as it fades.
- Billy is in love with Carmen despite of the fact that she is several years older and considerably larger than he is. Carmen, on the other hand, admires Gordon, who is her ideal for a lover. Gordon experiences little difficulty in taking Carmen from Billy. As Billy watches her going with the other fellow, he wishes he had a girl who would remain true. Starting home he observes Olive and decides to make love to her. To win her he buys a rabbit and presents it to her. As they are talking together the rabbit escapes. The pair give chase; Billy follows it into a hole. He captures the animal, but is unable to get out of the hole. Olive hears his cry for help and brings Gordon and Carmen, who are passing nearby. Gordon, with the aid of a rope, rescues Billy and the rabbit. Billy, in his pleasure at being free, forgets his hatred of Gordon and the four walk home happily.
- The locale of the story is laid around a trap shooting club, and while burlesquing the various incidents and manners that are common to the aristocratic shooting club and its members. Snitz and Hans are members of a trap shooting club. Snitz and Hans are rivals in love; each seeks the hand of pretty Emma. Emma is undecided which one she loves best and so finally, after many funny situations, proposes a shooting contest between the two men. the winner to secure her hand in marriage. Snitz and Hans agree. They retire to secretly practice with their shotguns in preparation. The day of the contest arrives. During the contest Hans, who is the best shot, runs far ahead in the scoring. Snitz conceives the idea of bribing Louie, who manages the shoot, to extract the shot from Hans' gun. This is done. Hans, thereafter, does not shoot a bird, while Snitz kills every one in sight. He beats Hans by one point. In the meantime Emma becomes smitten with Louie. Louie demands payment from Snitz. Snitz is too busy with the girl, and so ignores him entirely. Louie becomes angry, and exposes the plot to Hans. Hans vows to kill Snitz, and with his shotgun he starts in pursuit. This is the signal for war between the factions, ending in a general fight among the contestants and many ridiculous incidents and situations.
- Max calling upon his sweetheart Dot finds another rival has won her heart. Max is furious and declares she shall never be the wife of another. Going to a drug store, he orders some poison. The clerk, surmising something wrong, sells him powdered sugar. Max, after mixing the supposed poison with some candy, sends it to his former sweetheart. Dot, in the meantime, is thrown over by the new lover, who proves a flirt, falling in love with every girl he meets. Dot's love returns to Max, and she sends him a note. Realizing what he has done, Max starts on a mad dash to his sweetheart's home to prevent her from eating the candy. Dot has received the candy, and, after eating some, she exits into another room, where she is frightened by a rat and falls in faint. Max, arriving at Dot's home, finds the candy partly gone and frantically phones for the ambulance, which starts on a mad dash. Max enters the other room and is heartbroken at finding his sweetheart apparently dead. He thinks he is a murderer and decides to end it all by eating the remainder of the candy. This he does, and immediately imagines he is dying and is going to the infernal regions and is being greeted by his Satanic Majesty. Dot, upon reviving, appears in the doorway and Max, seeing her. thinks it is her spirit which has returned to haunt him. About this time the ambulance wagon has been mixed up with a construction gang and is blown up with dynamite. Back in the house, Dot has convinced Max that she is real flesh and blood, things are explained and both are very happy.
- Dot, who is Mrs. Jones' maid, has an infatuation for brass buttons and flirts with ail the policemen in the neighborhood. Charles learns of her preference for a uniform and determines to borrow or steal one at the first opportunity. He soon finds one belonging to a police sergeant and exchanges his clothes for the uniform coat and helmet and returns to see Dot. Dot is entertaining Ernest, her policeman admirer, when Charley appears, and Ernest takes him for his own sergeant and runs away, leaving his rival a fair field. The imitation policeman's wooing is interrupted, however, and he is forced to take refuge in a clothes closet. On the arrival of the sergeant, looking for his uniform, Mrs. Jones mistakes Charley for a burglar. Mr. Jones' sudden plunge into the situation and the policeman's mad desire for vengeance, makes it too hot for Charley. He cannot leave the wardrobe, so he takes it with him, and in the chase that follows the wardrobe leaves the house, with Charley's feet protruding from the bottom. It continues a zig-zag course till at length it falls blindly over a cliff, leaving Charley a much shattered but wiser man, with a determination to forswear brass buttons and uniforms in the future.
- Snitz is so ardent an admirer of the stage that he overlooks such small trifles as rent. The landlady asks his wife for the rent. After strong persuasion from the landlady's husband, who is also too strong to work. Snitz starts in search of a job. Naturally he turns to the stage as an appropriate vocation. He applies at the local temple of Thespis, but in spite of his showing samples of applied histrionics, he is cruelly turned down. He returns home discouraged. In the meantime the leading man of the troupe, which is about to play Virginius, becomes incapacitated through too frequent visits with John Barleycorn. The stage manager is in desperation and takes the costume and part to Snitz with instructions to prepare for the matinee performance at once. Snitz rehearses with so much enthusiasm that the people of the house decide that a murder is being committed and call in the police. Snitz escapes and runs to the theater, where the audience is impatiently waiting for the arrival of Virginius. Virginius arrives, followed by the police, with exciting results both to Snitz and the audience.
- Bill and his wife, a happy (?) couple, get along like a couple of hungry lions together. Bill, on his way to the office, sees an old-fashioned closet which he buys and sends home. In the meantime wifie has gone to market. Two prowling burglars enter the house and pack everything in sight that isn't nailed down. The closet is delivered and on wifie's return the burglars secrete themselves in the same. Wifie orders the closet closed and returned to the store, then notices, after same is removed, that all her silverware has been stolen; telephones the police. Mounted (on mules) the force arrive and gives chase to the furniture men, who are removing the closet, with the burglars on a truck. The police force give chase, and when they run out of ammunition, seize a piece of field artillery in order to stop the retreating furniture movers. The field artillery, of antiquated design, is fired at the closet, after, however, the furniture movers and burglars have made their escape from the truck. Truck and closet, including the spoils that the burglars had acquired, are all blown to atoms.
- Mr. Heim has a daughter engaged to marry Schultz, the baker. Miss Heim, getting ready for the marriage, finds her slippers need repairing. Going to the cobbler shop she is admired by Mier, the cobbler, who forces his love on her. She resents and leaves. During this time Schultz finds his shoes need mending. Going over to Mier he tells him of the wedding, and inviting him, shows the picture of the girl. Mier is sore, and swears revenge. Finished fixing Schultz's shoes, he goes into the side room to polish them. He discovers an idea smelling his Limburger cheese. He puts it in Schultz's shoes. When Schultz arrives at the wedding everything goes lovely till the minister drops his book at Schultz's feet. Getting the smell from the shoes the minister looks Schultz over. Mier, arriving, takes this all in from the other room. Miss Heim, excited and nervous, drops her handkerchief at her lover's feet. In picking it up she smells and then the trouble starts. She stops the minister, telling him she can't marry the man. The father grabs Schultz and throws him out. Schultz takes his shoes off and finds the trouble. Going to the window he sees Mier, the cobbler, getting married to his sweetheart. He takes the cheese and throws it, starting a general fight. The minister runs out and calls the police. But the smell is too great for them. They retreat and seek refuge in a wagon with a sign "Limburger Cheese" on it.
- Grousmeyer, a lazy bowling "nut," loafs around the house reading bowling news, while his wife visits a neighbor. The neighbor's husband, Schmaltz, visits Grousmeyer, and the fans immediately get into an argument concerning methods of bowling. The argument develops into a scrap and the house is wrecked. Both belligerents rush to the nearest bowling alleys to prove their individual contentions. Schmaltz demonstrates successfully his superiority over his rival. Grousmeyer resolves to get revenge, and succeeds in smearing soft soap on the alleys. Schmaltz, discovering the deception, goes tor Grousmeyer and a fight ensues in which everyone present, including the spectators, takes part. In the meantime, Mrs. Grousmeyer returns, and finding her house wrecked, starts a fight with Mrs. Schmaltz on whose husband she puts the blame for the state of her home. The fight carries them over to the bowling alleys, where they are caught in the big royal battle.
- John Smith, farmer, has two daughters, one pretty and the other fat and unattractive. The farmer wishes to marry off the fat daughter to Reuben, a neighbor. Lizzie and Reuben think well of the match until the pretty daughter, May, returns from a visit. Reuben throws over Lizzie and bestows his attentions on May. Lizzie complains to her father who kicks Reuben out. Reuben hires two ruffians to kidnap his lady love. The kidnappers become confused and kidnap the wrong girl. Meantime May's real lover arrives and urges her to go auto riding with him. Reuben is waiting at the justice's office. The kidnappers are pursued by the farmer. Funny situations pile up during the chase. Arriving, Lizzie recognizes Reuben and makes a dive for him. Reuben realizes that something is wrong and attempts to escape. Father and the neighbors arrive, but when the father discovers it is Lizzie that has been carried off and not May, he holds the crowd back to allow the marriage to take place. Reuben throws Lizzie out of the window, the father shoves her back again. There is a wild scramble until Reuben makes his escape and bikes it down the road.
- Three hoboes arrive in a box car. They demand that the little tramp ask for a handout. He refuses, and the other two beat him up, leaving him. A collector, demanding payment on a furniture mortgage from extravagant Mrs. Jones, leaves, threatening to bring the sheriff. Mr. Jones, coming upon the scene at this moment, hears the squabble, and tells his wife that he will draw the last of his savings out of the bank and will pay the claim. The two tramps hear this and follow him. Mr. Jones draws the money in the shape of a thousand dollar bill, which he puts in his hatband for safe keeping. As he gets outside the tramps attack him, and he starts to run. His hat blows off, striking the hoboes. They throw it to one side and the little tramp, who has been in the background, puts it on. Mr. Jones falls exhausted as the tramps come up, and he tells them the money is in the hat. They make a break for the little fellow, who gets on a handcar to escape them. They pursue on another handcar. Jones runs into a parade of police, and when he explains the situation, the cops chase after the tramps, using a wagon. The little tramp comes to a drawbridge, which he passes over safely, but his pursuing companions fall into the river. The hat flies through the air, the tramps still chasing it. It finally flies right into Mrs. Jones' hands, just as the sheriff is threatening her. He starts his men moving the furniture out, when she observes the money and pays off the mortgage. The tramps come upon the scene, and start tearing the hat up in a vain quest for the money. The police arrive and arrest them. Then hubby demands that the furniture be again moved into the house, and peace reigns.
- Chandler and Jimmie are rivals for Charlotte's hand. Chandler takes her out for a walk of an evening. Jimmie calls to serenade is chased by Charlotte's mother. Jimmie meets the couple in the park and the two youngsters arrange for a fight, Billy to be Chandler's second. Jimmie is beaten and seeks refuge behind his lady love's skirts. Chandler and Billy carry the girl off and start a game of hide and seek. Jimmie approaches the girl when she is alone and offers her ice cream as a solace. Charlotte's stomach gets the best of her and she accepts Jimmie's offer. Chandler approaches and denounces her for her duplicity as well as the worthy rival. Chandler picks up a handful of mud and throws it at Jimmie, but it strikes Charlotte in the face. Jimmie washes the face and the two go for a ride in a boat. Chandler pushes them into the stream without oars. Then, realizing the danger he has placed them in, he rushes for help. Billy rushes to tell Charlotte's mother. After passing through a series of novel adventures, the children are rescued and everything ends well.
- Because Fanny, his sweetheart, has proven fickle, Myer determines to commit suicide. He is prevented by Arthur, his roommate. In the fight for possession of the revolver, they arouse the resentment of Count Gasco. On learning of Myer's trouble, the Count, however, forgives and suggests a plan. Myer poses as dead. Fanny is informed and calls to see her dear departed. Both Arthur and the Count, unknown to each other, fall in love with Fanny. Arthur decides that with Myer out of the way, he can win her. Clamping the lid on the coffin, he starts a wild dash for the graveyard, while the Count makes love to Fanny in the kitchen. Dropping the coffin in the grave, Arthur covers it and dashes back to the house to find that Fanny loves the Count. Realizing Myer must be dying, he rushes back to save him. Myer has succeeded in extracting himself from the grave, however, and is on the way to see the girl. He is wild with anger when he finds her in the arms of the Count, and starts back to the graveyard to end his life. There he finds Arthur, and accuses him of attempted murder. They start to fight and fall into the grave.
- The estates of Miss Jones and Mr. Smith are divided by an English brick wall. Mr. Smith's nephew arrives from boarding school. After Mr. Smith has some words with Miss Jones concerning some chickens he chased over the wall into her back yard, the nephew carries on desperate flirtations with Mrs. Smith's niece. They start to climb over the wall but are caught by their respective guardians and warned never to attempt it again; however, they find a way to get together. In the midst of their little flirtation they are caught by the guardians, who soften at this picture of childish bliss and decide to be friends.
- Mabel, a new arrival at the hotel, is annoyed by the attention of Arthur, a flirt, and Mr. Stue, both guests at the same place. Deciding to leave, she goes to her room to pack her trunk. Mr. Stue follows. She takes refuge in the room across the hall. Hearing footsteps, she hides under the bed; the owner of the room, who happens to be Arthur, enters. Noodles, the porter, is sent up to Mabel's room to bring down her trunk. Upon finding Mr. Stue in possession, a fight starts. Mr. Stue is thrown into Arthur's room. He rolls under the bed and is delighted to find Mabel there. He is dragged forth and in the free-for-all fight Mabel escapes and Stue falls into her trunk and is made a prisoner by Noodles, who performs his mission by falling down the steps with the trunk. The trunk bursts open and Mr. Stue pops out decorated with different pieces of lingerie. It winds up with Stue and Noodles falling into the fountain, where Stue falls peacefully to sleep.
- Noodles' wife rules their home with an iron hand. Her one ambition seems to be to make her husband's life miserable, he being a meek dismal sort of a being. After standing as much abuse as any person possibly could, he decides to run away. Taking advantage of his wife's absence he musters up enough courage to write her a note, informing her that he has decided to leave her for good. He then hurriedly leaves. Mrs. Noodles returns home, and after reading her husband s note, she is heartbroken, realizing that he was a good husband after all, and now that she has lost him, she returns to her mother, after renting the house to a newly-married couple, who take possession immediately. Noodles, upon leaving home, goes to a saloon to drown his sorrow. After many rounds of drinks he then sees him troubles in a different light and decides that his wife is a pretty good woman after all, and as there is no place like home he starts for there and arrives after the new couple have retired. Noodles quietly sneaks into bed beside a form which he thinks is his wife. All is well until he goes to pat his wife's face and finds a face with whiskers. Brown rolls over, and getting a whiff of Noodles' breath, becomes conscious immediately; both sit up in bed and the two strangers face each other. A fight starts. Mrs. Noodles having missed her train returns home just in time to get a few hard bumps, but she does not mind just as long as she has her hubby back with her again.
- Billie is flirting with Olive when he sees Carmen. He leaves Olive to go with Carmen. Carmen tells him she wants a doll, so Billie steals Olive's and gives it to Carmen. Olive gets angry and Billie is forced to procure a doll for her, so he looks about for one until he comes upon some Black children; he steals a doll from one and gives it to Olive, who is not satisfied with it and throws it away. The Black children chase Billie to a place where Olive disposed of the doll, and he returns it to the Black children. He then returns to Carmen, lures her from her sweetheart, and takes her to an ice-cream stand, where he treats her. He finds he has no money to pay for the ice cream, but quite undaunted he goes to the sweetheart he stole from and borrows a dime, with which he returns to the stand and pays for the sodas. The sweetheart, watching him, sees his nervy trick and gets angry. He at once rushes upon the young gallant and proceeds to "mix" this in a lively fashion. Billie comes out of the encounter much the worse for wear and now scorned by both Carmen and Olive.
- This comedy picture has, in addition to several other big features in the story, a terrific explosion when a house and barn are destroyed. Another main feature will be an automobile dashing over a cliff, tumbling headlong down the mountainside and crashing to pieces at the bottom. Immediately after this, a motorcycle, which is madly pursuing this automobile, follows in its wake, landing in the middle of the wreckage at the bottom.
- Heinze and Meyer are neighbors, a delicatessen owner and a grocer, respectively, and one day Meyer visits Heinze's grocery store where the old cronies sit and drink hard cider, while they discuss the probabilities of a treasure chart, one of them has accidentally discovered. As they sit sipping the cider they fall asleep and dream. They find themselves on board of a ship bound for the cannibal islands to hunt for the treasure. After a series of mishaps they land upon the island and are captured by the cannibals. Meyer is at once selected to fill the cannibal menu, and is immediately made ready for the feast. The cannibal queen falls in love with him, however, and saves him for the time being. The cannibals thereupon grab Heinze and place him in the pot. Meyer cannot desert his old friend, however, and prevails upon the queen to help him rescue his friend. One of the cannibals seeking driftwood for the fire, unconsciously picks up some dynamite that has drifted ashore and dried on the beach and when it is placed under the pot an explosion occurs which shatters Meyer's contemplated rescue and hurls the two adventurers from the land of dreams to the floor of the grocery store where a fire started from Heinze's cigar and which adds heated realism to their sudden awakening and causes them both to forswear hard cider in the future.
- Ford secures the consent of his sweetheart to marry him, but sweetheart's fond parents insist that Ford find himself some kind of work to do before he attempts to take a wife. Now Smith has a lunch wagon. Jones, his waiter, is a single man and will, in spite of the boss' objections, flirt with the girls. Smith's wife finally objects, insisting that Jones should have a married man working for him. Ford hears of this and applies. When asked if he is married, Ford replies in the affirmative, thinking that he will be married shortly after he gets the job. Ford gets the job. Peggy comes to the lunch counter, glad that her fiancé has now secured work and anxious to congratulate him. Ford suddenly finds himself in an embarrassing position; he cannot talk with Peggy on account of the boss's rule. When she persists, Ford finds himself under the necessity of treating her roughly and finally throwing her out of the place. Jones finds Peggy weeping and to comfort her, asks her to marry him. Peggy consents and they act upon the decision. They return to the lunch counter, after the knot has been tied, where Ford observes them making love. This is more than Ford can stand; he leaves his counter and reprimands Peggy for her actions. Smith discovers that his waiter, Ford, is neglecting his work. When Ford returns, bitter at the discovery that his girl has gone and married another man, Smith fires him and gives the job to Jones who applies for the position on the ground that he is now married. Of course, a fight results; the lunch wagon runs away; the gas tank explodes; the police are called and it ends in a general rough-house.
- Dot and Gus are much in love. Gus asks Dot's father for her hand, but is told that he is too far beneath her station, father's choice being Max, who holds a mortgage over him. Gus returns home heartbroken and is surprised to find a letter stating that he has fallen heir to $50,000. He immediately informs Dot and they mount a sprinkling cart nearby and dash to the minister's. They are seen by Max who, in a rage, tells Dot's parents, who dash after them in their machine, followed by Max, but the pursuers are baffled by the elopers, who sprinkle the street, thereby causing much skidding by the pursuers' machines. In the wild ride Gus loses his letter, which is found by the father who, upon reading it, finds that Gus is the wealthier of the two suitors, settles the question by beating up Max and tearing up the mortgage. Father and mother then dash into the minister's and Gus, on hearing them coming, prepares to defend his bride with his life, but is much surprised when his father-in-law greets him like a long lost brother.