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- Squire Laurie, the village skinflint, takes a circus tiger as security for a loan. Arthur, who loves Lillian, the old man's daughter, hates tigers, having bucked them, but when Laurie's tiger dies of despondency Arthur skins it, so that Ben, the keeper can pose in its skin before the half-blind miser and save his job, while Arthur warned off the premises by old Laurie, turns tiger occasionally so that he can sit in the cage and make love through the bars to Lillian, despite her hard-hearted Pa. When the old man becomes suspicious he is chased by the fake tiger until he consents to Lillian's marriage.
- Clarence Montmorency, an effeminate sailor on shore leave, is walking along the street when he witnesses the fire engines passing by. He is so impressed with the bravery and fearlessness the firemen display, that he resolves to be a fireman. To use his own words, "a sailor's life is simply grand, but, oh, for the life of a fireman." He applies at the fire house and is engaged by the Chief. While performing the duties, and going through the routine of a fireman, he encounters many amusing situations, and later proves to be a hero at a factory fire where he is instrumental in saving the life of a very pretty factory girl. How he wins her, love in the face of numerous obstacles which are put in his way by the fire captain and a villain are told in a fast and breezy way.
- An art collector purchases a rare painting and the picture pirate gets two rubes to help steal it. They drink poisoned whiskey and fall into a fit. Later the picture pirate pays Rube and Ben for the forgery, thinking it's the original.
- Ben falls in love with Dora Darling, the star in a motion picture. He "finds" some money and starts for the studios. He is followed by the crooks, whose money he has appropriated. He is put to work in the studio as assistant property man, after giving them some of his money. Ben cannot make any progress with Dora because she and Demon Desmonde are already in love with each other. After many funny situations Ben is blown up by the crooks, but manages to escape alive; the crooks are arrested.
- Miss Lillian Hamilton, a pampered child of fortune, longs for excitement. She prevails on her father to escort her and a party of her friends through Chinatown. They visit a Chinatown cabaret and partake of the oddities thereof in the way of food and refreshment, watch the entertainment, and as they depart the proprietor of the establishment steals Miss Lillian's dog. He does this to get the girl to return to the place in search of Fido, when he purposes to capture her. The place is the headquarters for all sorts of rogues. One set is preparing a big dynamite job, and hide their infernal machine in the kitchen, in a valise under a table. Owen Evans, the waiter, sees his employer steal the dog, and sympathizing with Miss Lillian, he intends to rescue the animal, which the proprietor has hidden in a valise and placed alongside the dynamite under the kitchen table. Evans slips his hand under the table and takes a grip (the one which he thinks contains the dog) and starts for her home. Meanwhile Miss Lillian returns to the restaurant, is captured and dropped into the cellar. The dynamiters return to get their valise and are surprised to see the dog jump out. It scents its mistress, chews the cords that bind her, thereby releasing her. She writes a note and gives it to the dog, which starts homeward. Evans arrives at Lillian's home with the grip supposedly containing the dog. He is greatly astonished when upon opening it he finds it contains an infernal machine. The butler grabs Evans while the old man phones the police. The dog enters with the note, which Evans sees first. Evans reads the note, makes his escape and follows the dog. The police arrive and follow Evans. Evans wrecks the Chinatown establishment, rescues Lillian, and instead of being considered a miscreant he is heralded as a hero. The criminals are taken into custody.
- Madame Parlevoo, a foreign emissary is carrying a hat box in which a secret code is hidden and this information is contained in a letter addressed to Count Romany a spy in the employ of the army of the unemployed. Romany calls his chief lieutenant, Baron Pooh Pooh by name and orders him to get the code which Madame is carrying in the hat box. As Madame is stopping at the sea shore the spies go there and after many attempts Baron Pooh Pooh finally succeeds in purloining the coveted hat box. The theft of this causes him, in his attempts to escape, to enter the village of an Igorrote chieftain who declares the Baron's intrusion to be a violation of an inviolate law of their religion and the only atonement to appease the anger of their God is the blood of the Baron. The Igorrotes tie him to a lunging board and throwing spears at him are about to make the fatal lunge, when Count Romany appears on the scene, and interrupts the execution by stealing the hat box. The sacrifice of the Baron is abandoned until the Count is captured the Igorrotes overtaking the latter in an alligator farm, where he takes refuge in the section of an old alligator. They are about to lead him back to the village when the police intervene and learning of the theft, open the box to find it empty.
- "You'll have to ask father," declares Madge. Father, a redoubtable sheriff, is reading a poster promising a liberal reward for the arrest, dead or alive, of Slick-Fingered Matt. The poster shows a large, lifelike portrait of Matt. Rube interviews the sheriff, argues with him and finally fights with him. He is considerably worsted in the mix-up. The young couple decide to elope, but they lack money enough. The sheriff goes to the village and posts the reward notice, where it is viewed by Matt, whom the sheriff fails to recognize because Matt is using a baffling disguise, a large black moustache. Matt, however, is recognized by Rube, who decides to catch him and win the reward money. Matt knows the schoolteacher and sends a note to her telling her to dismiss school and meet him by appointment. The scene changes to the schoolroom, where Madge is blowing beans at the schoolteacher. She is in danger of severe punishment when Matt's note arrives and school is dismissed. Rube, in the meantime, arrives and flirts with the schoolteacher, but is settled by Matt, with a mallet. His prone form is concealed by the teacher. The sheriff arrives. The schoolteacher flirts with him and leads him on, all of which is seen by Madge at a window. In the meantime Rube revives and beats Matt, and Madge calls her mother, who finds the sheriff making undue advances to the schoolteacher. A general chase results, in which Madge follows the schoolteacher and Rube takes hotly after Matt. A posse of citizens, armed with brickbats, starts in pursuit. Matt gains a hayloft and the girl follows. Matt seeks to escape by a hoist, but, while he goes down one side, Rube goes up on the other, and vice versa, thus frustrating his opportunity to get away. Finally Madge jumps on a rope with Rube, and the crook is cornered, and both Matt and the schoolteacher taken into custody. Rube wins the reward money, which is more than sufficient for his elopement with Madge.
- Paddy is a laborer who goes to sleep during his noon hour and dreams that he has been lifted to the rank of a political boss. His first official act is to enter a saloon where he is immediately the center of an admiring company of hangers-on, bums, etc., and the object of the particular attention of the bartender. Going down the street he encounters a widow who is in straitened circumstances and he furnishes her with money to supply the daily bread. Nearby he notes his political antagonist, Eddy Simpson, making a stump speech to a large crowd of factory hands. He immediately calls his henchmen, the police among the number, and starts a riot which results in breaking up the political mass meeting and scattering the crowd to the four winds. Paddy has a great pull at police headquarters and when some of the rioters are brought in, he shows his power by securing the release of his own sympathizers and throwing the ward heelers of the opposition into jail. Being a friend of the people, he is very hard on autoists who break the speed laws, etc. Consequently, the motorist who comes under the wrath of the court is very thoroughly fined and given the limit of the law. Paddy's office is located next door to the police station and constant communication is established by means of a chute through which various donations from those seeking political help come. Local merchants send various gifts of produce, meat, etc., in lieu of cash. The local butcher, from whom money is expected, makes the fatal mistake of sending Paddy a side of beef. Paddy's "meat inspector" consequently calls upon the unhappy butcher, finds his meat unfit for use and condemns the entire shop. Paddy is astonished to receive a coffin containing a dead man as graft from the undertaker. Supposed dead man, however, comes to life and smokes Paddy's cigar. Before Paddy can overcome his confusion the man escapes. When an important election comes up Paddy has completed a very strong organization which works for him at the polls with the result that there is very much adroit stuffing of the ballot boxes. When a voter in his booth starts to mark the wrong side of the ballot, the curtains part and Paddy appears with a large mallet. Unless the voter changes his mind and his vote, the mallet does terrible execution. As a result of Paddy's strenuous efforts, there are very few votes for the opposition and while he is gloating over his political power and success of his various methods, the one o'clock whistle blows surely. Paddy wakes up to find that his political triumphs have only been a dream.
- Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
- A small town in the west is being terrified by a "peeping Tom" in the person of Bungling Bill. Dorothy's father is to be initiated into a secret organization, but his family object to being left alone when "peeping Tom" is in town. The father arranges for Dorothy's sweetheart, Joe, to come to the house in his absence to allay the fears of the family. Upon his return from the lodge, the father thinks he will play a joke on the household and is discovered peeping in a window. A detective who has been watching for "peeping Tom" thinks the father is the man he is after. The genuine peeper arrives on the scene and there is a mix-up of the father, the detective, Joe and the peeper, during which the peeper escapes, while father proves his innocent joke to the detective, and peace is restored to the family.
- Knockout Kelly, a champion pugilist, steals the cashier of a beanery from her sweetheart, Dowdy Donnelly, a waiter in the same place, who is in love with her. Learning from another waiter in the place that Kelly is winning her attentions he hurriedly visits a saloon, and in the back room pleads with her to return to him. She agrees to do this on condition that he challenges Kelly, and if he knocks out the Knockout Man she will marry him. Donnelly is aided by Kelly's manager, who, instead of receiving a condition for his services in the champion's behalf, gets a blow on the jaw when he asks what is coming to him. He trains and schools Donnelly and when the latter has a bad attack of cold feet, owing to unfavorable reports from Kelly's gymnasium, Dugan hits upon the brilliant idea or knocking out Knockout Kelly as follows: While Donnelly is fighting Kelly, Dugan will stand in an obscure corner of the club, and shoot Kelly in the seat of his tights with an air gun. When Kelly turns to see who shot at him then Donnelly is to knock him out while his attention is distracted from the fight. The plans works out O.K. after several mishaps, in which Donnelly gets the shot instead of Kelly, and finally when Kelly is floored the cashier incensed at the frame up, exposes Dugan and Donnelly and marries Kelly, while the conspirators have to flee from the ire of the fight fans.
- The piano player falls in love with the wife of the bad man. The bad man meets the piano player and tells him that his wife is in the east; and so they decide to go and find her, the pianist not realizing who the girl is. Later Ben, the pianist, becomes the leader of the orchestra and gets into a fight with the violinist. The comedy ends with a chase, a wrecked theater and a bomb explosion which sends them all sky high.
- Rooney, a politician, reads in the papers that Bloggie spends his noon hour telling the other employees that Rooney is a crook. Rooney later meets the father of the girl. When they reach the father's home they find the girl in the arms of her sweetheart. Rooney orders father to get rid of Moon. In the mix-up which follows, Rooney gets the worst of it. Rooney falls with an awful thud. Rooney has Bloggie arrested for murder. But father comes to, and Rooney promises him some money if he will pretend he is dead until Bloggie is found guilty and executed. Father, sore at his treatment, exposes Rooney, and is locked up for perjury.
- Blanch Whitney, heiress, reads with anger a notice that Jack Bryson, star reporter of the News, is going to investigate working conditions in the department stores. Her father being the owner of the largest store, she is not altogether pleased with this news. Showing the article to her father, he tells her he is negotiating for the purchase of that paper to try and stop the scurrilous articles Bryson is writing about them. Blanch then remembers an article that Bryson wrote about her and she resolves to work in her father's store as a shopgirl, hoping for a chance to meet Bryson and in some way revenge herself upon him. She is behind the counter when Bryson appears and starts quizzing her to gain some locale for his article. Lefty Jonas, a pickpocket, slips a watch in Bryson's pocket and Blanch sees the incident. In spite of herself she has taken a small liking for Bryson, and she takes the watch from his pocket and slips it in a basket with some articles a customer has purchased. The cash boy, taking the basket, passes Dowdy Donnelly, the store porter, and he, seeing the watch, takes it and thinks he will keep it for himself. The floorwalker has Jack arrested by a store detective. En route to the office they pass Donhelly, who, hearing that Jack is accused of theft, is afraid to keep the watch, and slips it back in Lefty Jonas's pocket. Jack is let go as the watch is not found. He threatens to expose the frame-up in the newspaper and leaves. Jonas tells Whitney that he put the watch in Jack's pocket, but Whitney is suspicious, and searching Jonas, he finds the watch, and with the aid of Donnelly, who despises Jonas, as he is his rival for Dot Kernan's hand, they throw Jonas out of the office. Jack returns and makes a date with Blanch. At the luncheon, she brings tears to his eyes describing how she lives on four dollars a week. He asks her to marry him right away and she consents to run away with him that night. He writes an article for the morning edition, entitled "The Shop Girl." while Blanch arranges with Dot Kernan and her father for Dot to elope with Jack. She would tell the town about it and make Jack the laughing stock among newspaper men. Jack, after writing his story, leaves to purchase a wedding ring. In the jewelry store window he sees a picture of Blanch and learns her identity. This makes him angry. Jack induces Donnelly to take his part in the elopement. That night from a doorway in the slums, he sees Donnelly take a heavily veiled girl from the tenement, and enter a waiting car with her. This car was provided by Blanch. Jonas, who discovered that Donnelly was to elope, suspected the girl was Dot, and he arrived with her father, and might have prevented the getaway, only Jack laid them both low. Jack went to the newspaper office and searched for his story of the shop girl, who turned out to be only a dream to him. He failed to find it and went home while Blanch discovered that she was the victim of her own joke, and her friends laughed at her expense. Donnelly, sore at having Dot mixed up in this kind of an escapade, was appeased when Blanch allowed the minister to marry them, and the completion of the ceremony was interrupted by the entrance of Jonas and Kernan, who followed on a tandem. They were thrown out of the house and Dot married the ideal of her dreams, the store porter Donnelly. Whitney, who had bought the newspaper that afternoon, resolved to discharge Jack in the morning for writing the shop girl story, and told Blanch so. She found the story on her father's desk that night and read it. She knew then that Jack was the man for her, as no one ever spoke of her except as a pillar of wealth.
- Montmorency Jones, a multi-billionaire, receives a warning from the Iron Saw, which states that unless the Octopus fifty-fifties his fortune, and lets his evil pursuer marry his daughter, he can expect naught but vengeance from the Iron Saw. Frightened, the billionaire confides in his daughter's sweetheart, Moon, who is a young detective. He swears he will capture the Iron Saw, and with this purpose in view he leaves the house. Jones and his daughter, Rena, then go to collect rents from their property, and while receiving them from the janitor in the hallway of a dingy building they own, they hear a fight in a room. This fight is taking place between Bill and Bloggie, who are washing and playing solitaire respectively. Jones, incensed because he got the worst of it from Bloggie, orders him off the premises and turns him out homeless in a cold, cruel world. Bloggie swears he will revenge himself, and when Moon is chasing the Iron Saw and his tools, Bloggie steals a bottle of fluid which he thinks is whiskey, and drinks it. This fluid is what has caused the Iron Saw to change his hand into so deadly a weapon, and taking like effect on Bloggie, he resolves to use his transformed hand in wreaking vengeance on Jones. He gets into the house to learn that Bungling Bill has been hired as a butler to protect Jones. Underneath the dining room table Bloggie performs while Jones and Rena are at dinner, with Bill getting the worst of it. The Iron Saw escapes from Moon, and comes to the house after Bloggie has been discovered. Seeking refuge in Jones' bedroom, Bloggie saws off the combination lock and hides in the safe. Bill finds the fluid, thinking it is whiskey, drinks some, only to have Bloggie lose his deadly weapon and Bill assumes it. Bill is thrown in the safe, and with his iron saw starts to saw his way out through the back, when the original Iron Saw gets the fluid and drinks it, with the result that Bungling Bill's hand is caught in the crack of the safe he has been sawing. Events follow in which the safe has to be dynamited by the police to release Bill's hand. While preparing to do this, they decide to throw Bloggie in that he might experience the rising sensation of being dynamited. The safe is blown up, but the two lovable rogues escape with only bruised anatomies and tattered clothes, while the Iron Saw is captured. Bill and Bloggie are seen speeding away in the distance.
- A political campaign is at its height just before the election that will decide the supremacy of either the reform party headed by a popular candidate or the old gang which is swayed by the rule of a typical political "boss." The reform candidate is heard making a speech in which he threatens to close the dives of the city, one of which is owned by the boss of the anti-reformers. Henchmen of the boss hear the speech and inform him. He decides to plot against the reform candidate. During the election excitement a vagabond walks into town. He gravitates to the dive of the boss and is offered a job. He starts out with paste bucket and bills announcing the slogan of the anti-reformers. A series of ludicrous mishaps follows, in which Paddy, the vagabond, attempts to paste bills in the most impossible places and succeeds in covering most of the city with paste if not with bills. Returning to the headquarters of the boss, he hears the plot being hatched to ruin the reform candidate, whom he met a few minutes before, having saved his daughter from the attack of two ruffians and the grateful girl having taken him to her home and introduced him to her father. The boss and his henchmen catch Paddy listening to their plot and throw him into the street, leaving to commit their low deed, which consists of luring the reform candidate to the room of a notorious woman, who is to fall and pretend to sprain her ankle just as the reform candidate comes along. All works well until Paddy recovers from the blow that he received when he was ejected from the dive of the boss. He runs to the home of the reformer and notifies his daughter, who has just refused a proposal of the boss's son, a wholesome young fellow to whom she objects on account of his father. All three hasten to the room where the plotters have just succeeded in getting the reformer and the woman together as planned. Paddy and the two lovers dash in; Paddy explains the plot in the presence of policemen and newspaper reporters. A fight ensues, the reformer and his friends are victorious, the lovers are united, the boss resigns from the election race and shakes hands with the reformer and Paddy, walks out of town after having accomplished a deed that squares him with the world for all the worthless days he has spent.
- The story opens with the man about town and his wife at breakfast. He has a big head from his celebration of the night before with the dog catcher's cabaret wife. The dog catcher starts on his daily work and encounters all kinds of mishaps in dog chasing and is quite a failure until he steals the man about town's wife's poodle. She takes him home to get the license money, where they are caught by the man about town's sudden return home. The dog catcher is shoved into an icebox, where he enjoys himself while hubby hunts for him. The cabaret singer suddenly comes on the scene, pushes her way into the house and demands her husband. A mix-up occurs. The dog catcher falls out of the icebox and is spied by hubby. He is chased with a gun and finally runs into the ocean as the picture ends.
- Count Ferdinand Jasbeau, refuses to wait for his bride in spite of the pleadings of her father, who tries to convince the Count that the rain and floods are delaying her, which was the truth of the matter. Through machinery trouble, Grace finds herself up to hubs in mud, and is assisted by a baseball pitcher who happens along in his Ford. While he is fixing the car, two crooks hold them up, and after being robbed, the baseball pitcher succeeds in not only overpowering the robbers, but also gets back his money and jewelry, which they took from him. How the baseball pitcher fought a duel with baseballs and proved to the girl that he was worthy of her, and how he exposed the Count as a faker, and proved he was also a crook and an associate of the hold-up men, is told in a breezy manner, in this picture.
- Bungling Bill dreams that he is chased by the police for a recent burglary and making good his escape he falls to sleep on the beach, where he dreams and later wakes to find some nymphs of the sea dancing around him. King Neptune, Ruler of the Sea, has a beautiful daughter, and when Bill sees her he attempts to flirt with her, but meets retribution at the hands of her lover, who has been expelled from the tribe because of his attention to Neptune's Daughter. Pirates later attack the island, and with plans they go to the hiding place of Neptune's gold, and are about to leave with it, when the Sweetheart of Neptune's Daughter asserts his right to marry her by driving the pirates off single-handed. This wins him the favor of Neptune and they go down in the sea for a wedding among the fish, but before going Neptune discovers the perfidy of Bill, when, while on a short visit, he placed Bill on his throne. Bill used this position to purloin some gold, and when he is later found with it, he is forced to escape from the island in the Pirates' boat. Awaking in his dingy room he finds it all a dream and is very happy as his many trials and tribulations were entailed with the hardest knocks he has yet encountered in his bungling career.
- Jack a college man, receives a letter from his father, a book publisher, that the old gentleman has found a wealthy bride for him. Jack, after reading the letter, writes his father that he must first see the photo of his bride-to-be. Father then visits the rich spinster (his selection for Jack) and not being impressed with her photographs, he steals the picture of the spinster's secretary, a little blonde lady. Jack, when he receives the blonde lady's photo is so smitten that he hurries home from college only to find that his bride-to-be is a homely gaunt old maid. He refuses to marry her and is disowned by his father. The little blonde lady that night writes a story which she submits to father the next morning for publication, and the story father reads is the life of his son married to the spinster. Many humorous situations happen in the blonde lady's story, with the result that father is brought to a realization that a handsome young man is no husband for a spinster, and he tells his son to choose his own bride. Of course he chose the little blonde lady.
- Bungling Bill and Bloggie steal a letter and a Ford machine, and the owner and the police chase them. After a series of adventures these two bungling men take refuge in the apartment of Carmen Sapho, an adventuress, who holds them up at the point of a gun and searches them. Finding the stolen letter on their person, she reads the contents and learns therefrom that ten thousand dollars is to be shipped from Canarsie station on the limited train that afternoon. She hires them to go to the station and steal the shipment. Arriving in Canarie, they are arrested for illegal train riding and are forced to act as strike breakers during the strike which is then in progress on the road. This strike has been fomented by Malcolm Valentine, a villain, who revenges himself in this way upon the superintendent, who, with Jack Braveheart, a railroad detective, rescued Rena, an operator, from his clutches. Inciting the men to strike, Valentine defies the road, and it was this fact that caused Bungling Bill and Bloggie to choose between six months in jail or brave the anger of the strikers. They choose the latter. Dressed in brakemen attire, they go to take the tickets of the passengers boarding the limited with disastrous results. In the meantime Carmen has come, and learning the address of Daschundsky, the man who is making the shipment, she trails him from his house and sees him enter the bank with a bag. Duplicating the bag, she comes back and follows him into the office of the superintendent, where she switches the bags and is about to make off with the money when Valentine comes into the office. He, too, has learned about the shipment, and knocking the superintendent unconscious, he is about to leave the office with the worthless bag when he sees Carmen. He recognizes her as a woman he deserted and at a refusal to a reconciliation, she allows him to go with a bag filled with newspapers. At the station Valentine realizes he has been tricked and he has two tools board the train to steal the bag from Carmen. She has lost the bag that contained the money by absent-mindedly taking the bag Valentine rid himself of when he found the contents were worthless. The events that follow are fast and furious. The fights on the train with Bungling Bill and Bloggie finally obtaining the bag, the kidnapping of Rena, the race between a train and automobile, the mail bag snapped off the mail crane with two human beings inside, the final roundup of the culprits with the money bag finding its way back to the owner through the ingenuity of Jack Braveheart and his sweetheart, make this a snappy comedy.
- Rube has a sweetheart. Madge, whom he is going to marry in the near future. One day when they are taking a walk, they see a gypsy man beating an old hag. Rube interferes and saves her. Later the Chief of the Gypsies sees Madge and has her kidnapped, sending her father a note telling him that if he does not come across with the sum of one dollar, that his daughter will kick the bucket. The father gathers all of his savings, which is only seventy cents, and takes it to the Chief. That is not enough, and Madge is condemned to be tied to a tree and blown up with a keg of dynamite. Rube tries to rescue her, but is foiled and tied up himself. However, the old hag releases him, and he pleads to be allowed ten minutes to return with the thirty cents that is shy. The Chief tells him that he will, but he lights the fuse as soon as Rube is out of sight. Rube has his money buried six feet deep underground. He digs it up and hurries back. He arrives just in time to throw the keg of dynamite after the fleeing gypsies and blows them up. They land in a hole that he has dug his savings from, so Rube just shovels the dirt in on top of them, and lives happy ever after.
- "Bungling Bill" is discovered asleep in his dingy quarters. He arises, breakfasts on salted onions, washes and exercises with a couple of empty wine bottles. He then turns to his morning paper and notes the arrival at the local hotel of the Western "Bad Man" who is reputed to be carrying a large quantity of gold nuggets. At the same time the young couple elope from the girl's home, escaping in an automobile, hotly pursued by the girl's irate father and a policeman, both mounted on motorcycles. The couple stop long enough to kidnap a minister, who is forced to marry them. The ceremony concluded, the couple release the minister and proceed on their way to a local hotel. Meanwhile the father and the policeman have had a bad spill. The motorcycle refuses to provide any more locomotion and in desperation they set out after the couple on a dead run. The next scene finds the young couple and the "Bad Man" registering at the same hotel. The view shifts to the room of the "Bad Man," who sits before a table sorting his nuggets with the barrel of his huge revolver. The call of a "mighty thirst" takes possession of him and with his revolver he fires at the bell, which registers a strong call for refreshments at the clerk's desk. "Bungling Bill" has taken time by the forelock and climbed up the fire escape of the hotel, invading the room of the young married couple long enough to carry away some rather startling articles of the bride's trousseau. Then going to the window of the room of the "Bad Man" he reaches in for the drinks just deposited by the bellboy and replaces them with the delectable articles of apparel. Refreshing himself, he seeks further adventure. A general mix-up follows the "Bad Man's" discovery of the loss of his drinks. During the excitement "Bungling Bill" enters the "Bad Man's" room and obtains a large bag of the nuggets. Returning via fire escape he enters the married couple's room and secretes himself in the closet. He disguises himself by putting on one of Mrs. Newlywed's outfits. While he is doing so, a general chase and search is made for the unknown thief. An accident occurs in the closet and "Bill" catches fire. In trying to escape he encounters a policeman. They struggle and fall through two floors to the hotel lobby on the main floor. By clever dodging "Bill" gains the street, then turns into an alley closely followed by the whole company. He finally eludes his pursuers. Arriving at his "residence" he lunches on salted onions and by raising his left hand high over his head, registers the time-honored resolution, "Never again."
- Madge's father, a retired millionaire, wants Madge to marry. She is willing to do so, but insists that her husband have a title, so her father brings her to the office of the matrimonial agent, and puts an order in for a Count. Bleary and Weary, a couple of tramps, awake one morning and as they are hungry and broke, they hold up the first ones they see. This happens to be a Count Bonehead and his valet. They take their clothes when they find out that the Count is also broke. Later, they see the sign of the matrimonial agent. Entering, they are informed that a Count is in demand, so they are brought to the home of Madge. There they are almost discovered as impostors, through the odd things that they do. However, all arrangements are made for the wedding to take place the morning following. Being broke, they are forced to lodge in a stable that night. In the morning, as payment for the lodging, they are forced to clean a horse, and are doing this while the guests and minister await them at the home of Madge. The real Count and valet awake from sleeping on the ground all night, and start up the street. They arrive at the stable at the moment of the leaving of the tramps. There is a battle from which the Count and valet come out second best. The tramps hurry to the home of Madge. The ceremony is almost over when the Count and valet arrive at the house. The tramps are exposed. Madge wants a title anyhow, and as the real Count wants her money they are married. The tramps on the outside are eating a long-deferred meal.
- This is all about a thousand-dollar bank note that the broker presented to his wife. She drops it, the butler picks it up and fearing discovery hides it in a can, which he throws into the alley. Later the can is tied to a dog's tail, it comes off and is picked up by a motorist and the bill drops onto the grass. A little boy ties it onto the end of his kite, and the kite breaks off and the bill is left dangling before the eyes of Paddy, the new butler in the broker's house. The broker has been carrying on a flirtation with a "chicken," so his wife gets the new broker to dress up and take her out for dinner. He has the broker's wife's purse and here she finds it. It is the reason for her attacking the chicken, with whom her husband is dining and then nestling in the broker's arms.
- Ben's wife is the boss of her house. Rube is the boss of his house and dominates his wife, a very timid woman. Upon leaving for work, both men are cautioned about coming home late, but they meet, proceed to a saloon and partake of about ten drinks. They clean out the saloon and start home, but after gazing in Ben's window, and seeing their wives throwing knives at a crayon drawing on the wall, decide the saloon is a safe retreat. The bartender has by this time summoned aid, and with the assistance of a few policemen, they manage to chase Tube and Ben to a pier, where they remove their coats and jump in. The cops find their coats and also Ben's address in one of the pockets. The officer returns the coats to the wives and tells them he believes the owners are drowned. However, Rube and Ben are rescued by the motorboat squad and are sentenced to thirty days for dirtying the water. They return home where their wives are in mourning, but are afraid to enter the house. While pondering as to what they should do, they read an article in a newspaper of a rich man losing his memory after inheriting a large sum and disappearing. His wife, finding him after thirty days, completely restores his memory. Rube and Ben on reading of this extraordinary case, plan to be a couple of nuts. An officer, seeing them acting queer, runs on to them and in the course of the argument, their wives come from the house and the officer is dismissed. But now they must explain to their wives. Rube starts an excellent tale of how they were walking along the street, and hearing a commotion issuing from a house nearby, they rushed to the window where they say they saw two thugs endeavoring to rob a rich man and his daughter. After describing many wonderful adventures, Rube's continuity gets tangled, so Ben takes up the story and tells the wives another version. It is a good yarn, but Ben's wife is suspicious, and asks questions. This takes them off their guard. At this moment, to cap the climax, an officer enters with a message from his captain to the effect that if Rube and Ben pull any more stunts they will receive another thirty days, whereupon the wives are assured that their story has been false and proceed to give Rube and Ben a good mauling.
- Rube, a shipwrecked sailor, is cast upon an island, which is inhabited by a tribe of fire worshipers. The girls of the island take a fancy to him, which displeases the men, and they try to put him out of the way, but only succeed in getting hurt themselves. Finally they do catch him napping, and he is put in a cage to be offered as a sacrifice to the volcano on the island. The girls release him. He finds out that they are afraid of fire, and as the only thing that has been saved from the ship is a keg of powder and a couple of signal rockets, he has an idea. After he has exploded the powder and set off the rockets, they of the island think that he is the master of the volcano. All rush towards him to worship him. He thinks they are going to assault him and runs into the water. He wakes to find out that he has been asleep on a barge and has fallen into the water.
- Rube (Rube Miller) and Ben (Ben Turpin), in charge of the castle poultry, learn that their ducks and geese have been changed into beautiful harem bathing beauties by the waters in a magical pool in a mysterious oriental palace. Then mysterious things begin to happen that draw the wrath of the emperor.
- A jailbird is brought from his cell to the Warden's office, given $10 to go straight, and released, but not before the S10 has been picked from his pocket by the detective who slips it back to the Warden. At the jail gate the attention of the warden and detective is centered on the shapely ankle of a girl who is on her way to a pawnshop to obtain a loan on a necklace which her accomplice has stolen from the wife of the judge who sentenced the jailbird. While engrossed in this manner, the jailbird gets back his $10 bill from the Warden and also the watch of the crooked detective, which he later takes and pawns in the same shop that the girl is pawning the stolen necklace. The pawnbroker takes the necklace and is making out a ticket when the girl steals the necklace back from him and hides it in her muff, just as the jailbird enters to soak the detective's watch. The jailbird seeing this manipulation steals the necklace from the girl's muff, pawns the watch, receives a ticket for it and departs. Outside the pawnshop the judge is passing just as the girl emerges. He flirts and follows her, and the jailbird, escaping from the pawnbroker who has discovered his loss, jumps on the same car that the judge is in trying to flirt with the girl. Alighting from the car the girl tells her accomplice of the Judge's attentions, and he is promptly knocked down, and the jailbird helping him to his feet, recognizes him as the judge who sentenced him, and for revenge slips the pawn ticket for the detective's watch in his pocket. The Warden discovers the loss of the $10 bill and accuses the detective of double crossing him, and when later the detective discovers his watch he accuses the Warden of purloining it. The detective is summoned to the District Attorney's office, who is the sweetheart of the judge's daughter, where he hears the pawnbroker's tale of the robbery. Later in the park the girl discovers the loss of the necklace from her muff, and seeing the jailbird on an adjoining bench, they walk over to him, accuse him of the robbery and there is a fight. The detective locks the trio up, but not before the jailbird slips the necklace into his pocket, where it is found later in court. On trial, the judge discovers the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment that the detective finds the necklace in his. The judge calls the detective and whispering confidentially to him slips the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment the detective slips the pearls in his (judge's) pocket. The judge's wife who attends the trial, sees and grows fearful of the man who stole her necklace when she flirted with him (this man is the girl's sweetheart who pawned the necklace and whom the judge flirted with), and she cautiously begs him not to expose her as a flirt. The judge on the bench sees the girl (the accomplice of the crook), and he is afraid of exactly the same thing that is worrying his wife.
- Bungling Bill burglarizes a house, and in a struggle with Mr. Grouch, the occupant, he is wounded in the hand. Fearful of obtaining medical aid, lest he be traced, Bill fortunately reads in the paper an ad for a hospital orderly, and applying at the hospital he is hired. In the hospital is a young nurse named Rena, whom the superintendent looks upon with much favor, and when he finds her conversing with her sweetheart, Jack, he angrily informs her that she is interned for three months, and must have no communication with outsiders until the expiration of that time. Jack has this news conveyed to him in a letter. Lovesick and desperate, he falls before a passing automobile, is injured, and in this way accomplishes his purpose of obtaining admission to the hospital. There he meets Bungling Bill, who is nursing Mr. Grouch, who was accidentally shot in the foot by a policeman during the search for Bill in Grouch's home. Grouch tries to expose Bill without success, as the latter keeps him unconscious most of the time by striking him on the head with his blackjack. Jack in the hospital searches for Rena, and unintentionally enters the room of a sick woman, whose husband, a very jealous man, calls, and finding him there, starts to shoot up the hospital. Bill's identity is learned, and he is about to be captured when he cleverly makes the husband believe that the Superintendent is flirting with his wife, and while the latter is being chased by the husband, Bill makes his getaway. During the excitement, Jack and Rena, climbing down a fire escape, enter the room of a sick clergyman, and explaining the circumstances to him, win his sympathy and he marries them.
- When Rube visits the city he takes Alice, his wife, with him, not because he wants her along, but because she wants to go. Arriving at the hotel in the city, Rube sees Madge in the writing room and flirts with her. Art comes in and sees them. This, of course, starts a fight which Alice finishes when she comes looking for Rube. Rube, leaving her to fight his battle runs upstairs, and in his fright gets into the wrong room, which happens to be Art's. Madge chases him out. Art, who is just coming along the hall sees him. From then on it is one riot of laughter. There is a cross-eyed maid a monkey faced porter, a despondent man who tries to kill himself, several girls that are on the point of retiring, guests, etc. As a gloom chaser, and a grouch dispeller, it is all that, and more.
- Moon, at the time of his uncle's death, receives as his share of the estate, an old dress suit. Considerably disappointed he sells the suit to a second-hand clothing dealer for a sum with which he buys some flowers for his sweetheart, whose birthday it is. While dickering with the clothing dealer, Moon's sale is overheard by Jerry, a crook, who must have a dress suit to get in the house that night, where a reception is being held in honor of a girl's birthday, and this girl is Dolly, Moon's sweetheart. Through is accomplice, the maid in the house, Jerry is to make a clean-up, but in order to avert suspicion, he must have the dress suit. Consequently he steals it from the clothing dealer, and after a chase he gets into his room. There he is examining it when his upper neighbor, Bungling Bill, falls through the floor on him and steals the dress suit while Jerry is unconscious. Bill is in possession of the suite, finds therein a letter telling him that a lawyer named Daniels has a will, which leaves him a mighty sum. He accordingly presents himself at the lawyer's office in the dress suit and is treated royally. The lawyer invites him to the reception that evening and there Bill has quite a time in playing up to the lawyer's daughter. Moon, having found out from the father of his sweetheart who is Bill's lawyer friend, that he is good for nothing but manicuring boulevards, resolves to elope with Dolly that night at seven thirty, which is the time the maid has told Jerry to be on hand to rob the house. Complications set in and Bill is exposed as a fraud when Jerry is eventually captured. Bill is forced to take refuge in his dingy room, where he resolves that dress suits were never made for him, and he cuts it off, revealing himself in the garb which fits his work better. Moon is restored to the fortune Bill accidentally fell into, and he wins Dolly, the lawyer's daughter.
- It is a rainy morning, and only a few of the motion picture actors arrive at the Vogue Studio. Waterfalls in torrents on the stage, and the drenched actors file into the studio grounds. The leading woman, the leading man and the camera man are late. The manager calls up the leading woman on the phone, and she refuses to go to the studio unless they send a car for her. Out into the streets filled with water goes the auto. She is called for and delivered to the studio, but refuses to leave the car unless she is provided with an umbrella. The property room and dressing rooms are turned upside down to find an umbrella but none is forthcoming. Finally, the resourceful property man plays "Sir Walter Raleigh" and lays his overcoat down for the leading woman to alight on from the auto. Now that the company is assembled, the director arranges the set and starts the action. A dramatic scene is taken when the leading man saves the leading woman from the clutches of the villain, the starving chee-ild is fed, and when the director asks the footage of the scene, he learns that the cameraman forgot to put any film into the camera. The ill-fated director was revived when he learned that the sun was coming out.
- The play opens in a beach grocery store run by Paddy. He is engaged in waiting on customers and passes odd moments in making love to the girls who enter. His wife sees him, and that is the beginning of the end. The clerk in the store stands talking to the cashier, and both are knocked into a box. Paddy rescues them and leads the cashier into the store. There he makes ardent love and is seen by the clerk, who calls Paddy's wife. She discharges the cashier and forces Paddy to scrub the floor. The clerk enters and robs the cash register. He goes out and meets the cashier and both go to a beach resort. Paddy discovers he is robbed and starts out in search of the two. He discovers them and picks the clerk's pocket, recovering his stolen money. The cashier sees him with the big roll of bills and immediately falls for him again. Together the two go to a roller rink, where skating in bathing suits is the rage. The clerk discovers them and telephones Paddy's wife. She and the clerk rush into the skating rink where they create excitement galore. Paddy and the cashier escape to a roller coaster. The clerk is a close second to them and as they leap into one of the cars he follows. A fierce fight starts and continues while the car is going at lightning speed. The wife and police run to the beach and watch them. The car goes up and up and around and around. Suddenly it crashes from the rails and tumbles with its occupants 250 feet into the ocean below. Paddy, the cashier and the clerk struggle from the surf, only to be met by the wife and the police. Paddy knocks them to one side and still holding the cashier's hand skates down the boardwalk. The two skate through the rear door of the store, coming up against the pillars with such a force that roof, walls and shelving fall in, burying them and the rest of its occupants beneath.
- A villain engaged in smuggling opium reads in the paper that a millionaire, the father of the girl he seeks to marry, is going to bequeath a million for the suppression of opium smoking. For revenge at the millionaire's interference in his business, the villain kidnaps his daughter with the aid of Hop Head Joe, and take her to the opium den and hold her prisoner. At this time Secret Service Sam, a government detective, is on the villains' trail, and in looking over his den he falls through a skylight and lands in the hop joint, just as Rena's sweetheart, disguised as a Chinaman, has found her in the den. The detective is made a prisoner also. Eventually the heroine is rescued and married by the hero, while the villain is captured by Sam.
- Bill Jenkins goes to sleep and dreams that he enlists as a soldier. He is a stupid subject and the commanding officer has to resort to violence to get him to obey orders. The general's daughter joins the regiment, much to the delight of Bill. When the call for mess is given, Bill is the first to arrive at the mess tent. As General Fairfax arrives with the troops, Bill is hastily devouring a pie. General Fairfax orders him to the guardhouse. Later the general notes a distant attack being made by one of the enemy's troops on his daughter. Bill, by a great effort, has parted the bars of his prison and volunteers to save the daughter single-handed. He dashes on horseback without weapons. After traveling some distance, by driving the horse backwards at a terrific speed, he spies a cool spot under a tree. Leaving his horse to browse he lays himself down to slumber. The daughter works out her own salvation and returns to the camp. When Bill returns he starts to relate wonderful feats he has performed. The general, knowing his tale to be untrue, orders him to the guardhouse again, while the daughter pleads for him in vain. Jenkins is to be shot at sunrise. The daughter, visiting the tents, removes the cartridges from the rifles, extracts the bullets and replaces the cartridges. Bill is marched to the execution grounds. He is aware of everything that has happened. The grave is dug. When the soldiers fire Bill pretends to be shot, and after dusting off the stretcher with his hat collapses upon it. Not wanting to be buried alive he springs away quickly and attempts to escape. Then he is put into the mouth of a cannon and shot into the enemy's camp. He escapes again and returns to General Fairfax, who decides to execute Bill himself. He starts to prod Bill with his sword when Bill wakes up from his dream and finds the saloon-keeper poking him in the ribs with a long stick.
- A businessman's jealous wife suspects he is running around with other women. The tables are turned when a friend of the family involves her in a stock scheme. Her husband begins to suspect that she and her "partner" are involved in more than just business, not knowing that the scheme has gone bad and she has lost all the money she invested.
- Ben, a struggling artist, is in love with the daughter of a wealthy widow. He is thrown out by the girl's mother and Baron Moon, a fake baron, is received royally. Ben discovers Moon is a janitor in a side show next to the concession where Paddy, as "Jasbo," the dog faced boy, works. Paddy quits his job and gets one as a model with the living models. Ben puts in a one-man circus and breaks up Paddy's show by letting loose a bunch of rats; then Paddy breaks up Ben's show, by squirting water all over everyone. The baron steals a necklace from Gypsy's mother and is finally caught. Then the mother gives Gypsy to Ben.
- The lion hearted chief objects to his daughter's sweetheart, and favors the star detective. Her sweetheart arranges a plot to make the chief think his daughter has been kidnapped, hoping to be assigned to the case, prove his ability, and win the chief's approval. The daughter leaves the house, and her sweetheart sends news of the kidnapping to the chief. The star detective gets the assignment. Upon reaching the rendezvous, the daughter is bound and gagged by a bandit and his accomplice. The star detective follows the scent, and reaches the haunt of the bandit, where he is forced to guard the chief's daughter. In this compromising position he is discovered by the girl's sweetheart and her father. The star detective is disgraced and the girl and her sweetheart receive the blessing of the chief.
- Star Eyes, an American Indian princess, who has received the benefits of an education, is loved by Grey Wolf, who is also educated but who retains the cruel, revengeful nature of his tribe, underneath the surface of refinement. Lord Harry, a member of an aristocratic English family, meets the girl, Star Eyes, and falls in love with her. Later they are married and go to England on their honeymoon. Grey Wolf discovers Star Eyes' family located in a beautiful home given them by the girl, but they are dressed in their old blankets and still retain their savage ways. Grey Wolf goes to England and there is welcomed into Lord Harry's home. He tells Star Eyes that her family is very lonesome for her and so his lordship sends for the Indian family to come and visit them. Lord Harry's mother is shocked at the terrible actions of the lazy, drunken Indians and finally the red skins are played upon by a fire hose, after becoming drunk and starting a war dance, and driven from the house. They leave Lord Harry and his bride to continue their honeymoon, undisturbed.
- Joshua Elliott, who loves the ladies, flirts with Rena, who is taking her baby to the park to see her father, who is the Park Commissioner. Elliott mistakes Rena's pleasantness for flirtatious inclinations, and he grabs and kisses her on the park bench. Her husband, Moon, discovers them. Snatching a camera from a child, he photographs the scene. He threatens to sue Elliott for alienation of his wife's affections. Desperate at having no money to offset the inevitable expose, should he be the defendant in a suit of this kind, Elliott schemes to find a way to obtain money enough to buy off Moon. Bungling Bill and Bloggie, two rogues, read in the paper that a prize is offered by the leading newspaper in the city for the most perfect baby. As the prize is of no little magnitude, being $50,000 they decide to get a baby and try for the prize. They see Moon and his wife enter their home with their child. Bill schemes to kidnap the kid. He engages Moon in conversation at the front door while Bloggie enters the house through the rear. Entering the parlor, Bloggie arrives in time to find that Rena is struggling with a burglar. The burglar floors Bloggie and makes his escape through the front door, bowling Moon and Bill over in doing so. These two then enter the house to find Bloggie with the fainting Rena in his arms. While Moon is flaying Bloggie for loving his wife, Bill steals the suitcase and the kid and safely makes his getaway to a field where he finds the contents of the suitcase are Rena's clothes. He puts them on to take the baby to the contest. Bloggie in the meanwhile flees from the ire of Moon and steals a baby carriage he finds in front of a house. He later discovers that the baby in the carriage is a pickaninny. The police apprehend the kidnappers and they find Elliott with Moon's kid in his arms. He met Bill and paid him to loan him the child, thinking Bill in the woman's garb its mother and pursue him. Elliott arrives on the scene where Bill and Bloggie are changing clothes. Bill offering to do this if Bloggie would let him take the child he has, the pickaninny, to the contest. Bill has scarcely departed for the contest, when Elliott gives Bloggie Moon's child and runs off. Bloggie, who has stolen from Bill the money Elliott gave him for the loan of the child, runs off followed by the police. He meets Moon who is shooting mad, and beating him, arrives at the baby contest, while the unfortunate park employee and cops search the town for a trace of the kidnappers. At the contest, Bloggie wins the prize with his son Oscar only to find the prize is offered to encourage the birth of babies in China, and for this reason the prize of $50,000 is paid in coin of that realm, equal in America to about ten cents. Bloggie shows to Bill the money he stole from him, but before the Bungling Man has time to wreak vengeance, he and his compatriot make a hasty retreat before the onslaught of the kidnapped children's parents.
- A scientist invents an insidious bomb: It doesn't blow up, doesn't spread toxic gas, it doesn't kill. Instead, victims are thrown into uncontrolled fits of dancing which lead to their doom. And the enemy will stop at nothing to get it.
- Arthur Moon, a champion archer, who has a medal which he values highly, lives in a fashionable apartment with his wife, Gypsy. Ben, the janitor of the building, who believes in letting his wife do all of the work, is in the hall sweeping up when all of the trouble over the medal takes place. Paddy, the peddler, seeing the curtains in Arthur's window swaying back and forth and thinking it is someone trying to flirt with him, climbs up the fire escape and enters Moon's apartment. Here he spies the medal and manages to get it just as Arthur's wife comes into the room. Paddy hides behind a screen and furtively watches Gypsy practice archery. One of the arrows accidentally hits Ben and he is brought into the apartment to recover from his fright. Arthur comes home, and finding Ben in the house, becomes jealous. He misses the medal and starts to search for it. Paddy manages to slip it into Ben's pocket and it is found. The medal falls into the hands of all concerned and finally to its rightful owner's, but not before a two-story brick factory building is destroyed and Paddy takes a sail through the clouds.
- Bungling Bill reads in the papers that the fashionable Hotel St. Clare requires the services of an experienced man as Hotel Detective, and applying for the position, he is hired to discover who is stealing money from the room of the guests. A bad man from the west registers at the hotel with his wife, and Bill, not impressed with his looks, follows him to his room and spies upon him. The Bad Man distills and causes Bill to make a hasty get-away down to the hall to the tune of his forty-four. As gunplay is out of Bungling Man's line he interviews the manager, and tenders his resignation. Upon the offer of a thousand dollars to get the Bad Man from the hotel. Bill is induced to continue on the job, and obtaining access to the room above the Bad Man he bores a hole in the floor and spies upon him in this manner. The plaster falling upon the gentleman from the wild and woolly, aggravates him so that he goes to the room above him and makes the occupant and innocent fat person dance to the music of his smoke wagon, while Bill is hiding under the Fat Man's bed. The Bad Man returning to his room accidentally enters the room of the soubrette and orders a drink from the bell boy. Bill, coming from under the bed, takes the wallet from the Fat Man and departs with it, and going down the stairs he learns of the Bad Man's flirtation and informs his wife of it. Things happen fast and furious after this, with the result that Bill us caught with the Fat Man's wallet, and forced to flee from the hotel, with police and guests pursuing him. As usual he doubles on his pursuers during the chase and makes a resolution to avoid all positions where the science of crime detection is required.
- Gypsy, the daughter of the widow Templeton, who keeps boarders, is wooed by both Paddy, the boarder in hard luck, and Arthur, the star boarder. Paddy fails to pay his board bill and does not appear at the office in time and is fired. He goes to the ocean to commit suicide. Meanwhile a bank has been robbed and the booty hidden in an old sock, near the ocean's edge. Paddy finds the sock. Paddy and the burglar struggle on a jack-knife bridge and both fall into the water. The burglar is caught and Paddy is complimented for capturing the desperado. However, he is soon in the depths of despair, when he finds Gypsy has married Arthur.
- Moon is a lazy businessman. His wife sends the maid to call him and she enters the room just as the wind, blowing in the bedroom windows, blows the covers from the bed, exposing him in his underwear. The wife, hearing the maid's startled scream, enters the room, and swears the husband had an ulterior motive in appearing before the maid in his pajamas. To square himself the husband promises the wife a new suit and leaves for his place of business, where he meets Rudolph, who has called to collect the bill. Searching for his wallet he discovers it is lost, and explaining this fact, he is enraged that Rudolph questions his credibility. Returning home for his wallet, he finds the maid entertaining a cop, who has had his badge and gun stolen, and who is there in search of it. Incidentally he flirts with the maid, who hides him in a clock, which falls on top of the husband, and a fight ensues. Hurrying to Rudolph's place after he has disposed of the policeman, the husband finds his wife in Rudolph's private office, and the door locked. Peering through the keyhole he sees the tailor's arms around his wife and he starts to shoot up the place. The cop enters and recognizes the gun in hubby's hand as the one which was stolen from him. Things happen rapidly and after many ludicrous situations, hubby learns his jealousy is unfounded, and the cop finds that Rudolph's assistant is the thief who robbed him.
- The gentlemen of a fashionable social club become annoyed when their guest, Ben, has their wives entranced with stories of his bravery battling outlaws in the wild west. They decide to teach him a lesson by having a club worker disguise himself with a bear skin rug and sneak up on Ben.
- Jack, in love with Rena, finds that her father has sent her to college for the purpose of keeping her out of his reach. He then tries, while dressed as a woman, to enter the seminary, but without success, as a frivolous professor and a designing janitor who want the attentions of all the girls, cause him to be keenly alert, and thwart any attempts of men, disguised as women, to gain access to what they consider are sacred portals. Jack, finding he has been discovered, returns that night to the seminary and gains admittance, and so does a burglar, who, by his attempts to rob the girls, gets into a mix-up. The janitor and professor likewise encounter a series of mishaps, which result in the professor's wife finding them in bed in one of the girl's rooms. Things happen fast and furious after this. The girls settle the burglar and administer a severe beating to him, and Jack finds the turmoil and confusion an aid to his plans, and elopes with Rena. Father comes upon them just as they have been pronounced man and wife, and after a realization of his own youthful pranks, he consents, and forgives the loving couple.
- Ben, the butcher, is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his affections. He falls asleep and has a dream in which he threatens to foreclose the mortgage on the home of the girl he loves. He also makes a regular crook of the girl's brother by having his safe robbed and the money placed in the brother's pocket. Ben is aroused from his dream by his partner, who is beating him over the head with a slab of meat.