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- Bridget, a cook, is in love with Clarence, the cop, whose affections are centered elsewhere although he occasionally makes love to Bridget for the sake of the pies and doughnuts which are always forthcoming at such times. One day as he is leaving the back door after a pie-feast, he accidentally drops a note out of his helmet which Bridget finds after he is gone and proceeds to read. The note pertains to an appointment for that afternoon and is signed, "your own sweetheart. Ellen". Bridget realizes that she is being "worked for a good thing" and resolves to go to the meeting place and spy upon her supposed lover. She conceals herself behind a signboard and watches as Clarence and Ellen meet in front of it. Ellen begs Clarence to take her to the carnival that night and although he is supposed to be on duty, he plans to dress in civilian's clothes, disguise himself with a moustache and meet her at the carnival at eight o'clock. Bridget hears all this and, being armed only with a frying-pan, she goes home to prepare a fitting revenge for that evening. The cop hides a suit of clothes and a big moustache under a bridge so that he can get them later. Moon Faced Mike, a crook finds the clothes, puts them on and throws his own ragged ones into the river. The crook wears a big black moustache and, attired in the Cop's clothes, he looks exactly as the Cop intended to look. The sergeant of Clarence's precinct steps under the bridge to light his pipe and stumbling on his way out he drops his revolver unnoticed to the ground. Shortly before eight, Bridget, armed with a huge revolver, starts for the Carnival grounds. Ellen is already there awaiting her lover and Clarence goes to the bridge. He finds his clothes gone and in looking for them he discovers the sergeant's revolver. He recognizes it and decides that the sergeant must have over heard his plan. So in fear of losing his job, he hurries back to his beat. Ellen is waiting in the Carnival grounds as the Crook drifts in, in search of pockets to pick. Ellen sees him, and mistaking him for the Cop in his disguise rushes up and throws her arms around his neck. The Crook is surprised but wholly pleases until Bridget rushes up and opens fire with her "Gatling". Not knowing what else to do, the Crook runs with Bridget close behind. A wild chase through the Carnival grounds ensues with some hair-raising stunts on a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel, after which the Crook leaves the grounds and seeks safety elsewhere, with Bridget, blazing away, just one jump behind. They run through a Chinese laundry leaving it in ruins and then through a saloon which they wreck completely. They climb a high chimney, leap from the top of that, several hundred feet to the top of a wireless station tower and run out on the "wireless" wires. The operator starts to send a message and Bridget and the Crook are shocked off the wires and fall to the roof of an office building. They chase around the roofs and jump to the group where Bridget pre-empts an automobile and gives chase in that. The poor Crook dives into the side window of a brick house. Bridget drives the car right through the brick wall and chases him throughout the house, smashing the furniture on the way and throwing inmates into hysterics, and tearing through the brick wall at the other end of the house, she chases the Crook on down the street. The police station looms up ahead and the poor Crook takes refuge there, running up a long flight of steps and into the judge's room. Bridget, in the auto, follows right up the stairs and, bursting into the run, confronts her supposed lover. He appeals to the police to save him. They recognize him as Moon Faced Mike, wanted for burglary and look him up. Clarence enters in uniform and Bridget seeing her mistake, throws her arms about his neck. "All's well that.... "etc. The foregoing story "Bridget's Blunder" was written and worked out by the following persons all citizens of United States of America, and all in the employ of the United States Picture Corporation. Rex A. Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A, Richmond, William Fables, James M. Harris, and Horace G. Flimpton.
- High Spigh, and ambitious but unsuccessful detective, arrives at his office and proceeds to look over his morning paper. In it he finds an account of how Herr Trigger, a scientist, has discovered a powerful explosive and that several foreign nations are bidding for the secret. While he ponders over this a girl enters the office. She tells him that she is Gretchen, the daughter of Herr Trigger, and that she wants him to find her father, who has disappeared. She tells him of the discovery of the explosive, how her father's assistant tried to steal the formula, how Senor Frijoles and a Spanish girl called at the house to buy the secret on the previous day and how, the next morning, she found the laboratory wrecked and her father gone. High Spigh takes the case and Gretchen takes him to her home where he finds a clue in the shape of a huge footprint. He follows the trail down the street till he runs into the owner of the foot, a big Mexican. On seeing the detective's badge the Mex runs. He seizes a bunch of toy balloons from a street vendor and floats off into the air with them. High punctures the balloons with shots from his revolver. The Mex falls through a skylight into a room with his explosives. When the big Mex announces that the police are on their trail, the gang seize Herr Trigger and all dive through the trap in the wall, sliding through a subterranean passage to the river. Meanwhile High leaps to the top of the building, drops through the skylight and finds himself in the den. There he carelessly drops one of the bombs and is blown up into the sky. He lands in the river from which he is rescued by Gretchen whom he sends to Frijoles' office to find the missing formula if possible. Frijoles sends the gang to their cave with Herr Trigger while he and the Spanish girl go to his office. He stops to buy a cigar and she enters the office which is on the thirty-fifth floor of an office building, and finds Gretchen opening the safe. She and Gretchen have a fight with bowie knives which ends as a mouse runs across the floor and both girls jump on a desk and hug each other for safety. Frijoles enters and he and the Spanish girl lock Gretchen in the safe and push it out the window. High Spigh enters just in time to see this. He turns and runs down the thirty-five flights of stairs and reaches the grounds in time to catch the safe as it lands. Releasing Gretchen, he sends her home and trails Frijoles, who orders a barrel of powder sent to the den. High hides in the barrel and arrives at the den. Frijoles and the Spanish girl capture Gretchen and take her to the den where they tie her and her father, set a fuse to the barrel of powder and leave them to their fate. Gretchen gets free, pushes the barrel down the mountain where it chases the gang up a tree. High comes out of the barrel and covers the gang with his gun. They try to resist and he shoots. A dissolve shows him at his desk, having dreamed of all this. His feet are on the desk in front of him, his gun in his hand. As he pulls the trigger he shoots his own toe, wakes up, and dances around the room holding his foot.
- Two hitchhikers that look alike hatch a plan to make a few quick bucks.
- Being ten minutes late for dinner, the poor Window Dresser, refused admittance to his home by his aggressive spouse, is compelled to spend the night on the front porch. After a sleepless night he wearily wends his way to work and we next see him attempting to drape an elaborate gown about the waxen image of a beautiful maiden in a store window, upon which he has already placed the most dainty lingerie. He finds the effort too much for him, and has an inspiration. He casts the gown aside and in its stead covers the lady of wax with a more easily adjusted opera cloak. He falls asleep and has a terrible vision of his nagging wife and pleasant dreams of the waxen image, which comes to life. After dreaming of many adventures in which the wax image and his nagging wife play the stellar parts, he awakens to find himself wrestling with the figure which he has upset in his delirium.
- This story tells about "The Swede" and The Tad. "The Swede" sweeps the streets and The Tad drives a dump cart. While talking one day the fire department runs past and they envy the fireman. They stop the political boss and ask him to set them jobs with the fire department. He tells them to stick to their jobs. During the noon-hour they sit in the rear of the dump cart and finish the contents of their lunch pails. As they sit back to enjoy a smoke, their imaginations show them as fire chiefs surrounded by husky firemen. A political friend dashes up and informs them he has started an independent fire league and wants them to take charge of it. They are delighted, and he takes them to the new fire house. They are introduced to the firemen and at once take charge. They put the firemen to work and keep everything humming. The chief orders a fire drill after which all grab the pole and slide up to their dormitory. There the firemen undress by order. The helmets all come off at one count and are thrown across on their respective pegs on another. The shoes follow and are thrown into a corner where they arrange themselves in a row. The firemen jump backward into bed and are automatically covered up. The chief and his assistant retire to their own bedrooms where they undress, and hang their clothes on a rack. In the night the fire-gong awakes the firemen, who turn to a row of push buttons. They push No. 1, and the bed clothes fly off; No. 2 and the shoes fly out of the corner on to their feet. No. 3 tips the beds and lands the firemen on the floor. On pushing No. 4 their helmets fly off the pegs and land on their heads. No. 5 lines them all up at attention. The chiefs start for the door. As they pass the clothes rack they appear on the other side fully clothed. They dash into the dormitory and all slide down the pole. The horses are quickly harnessed and all start for the fire, the chief in a dinky roadster, the others on the fire engine, while the hose cart, pulled by a dried up little fireman, speeds up and passes the engine, runs up behind the chief's auto and jumps over it. At the fire they have many difficulties and finally seeing a girl at the fourth story window with the flames shooting out around her, they lasso her and pull her to the ground. She "bawls them out" and the boys decide that their methods of rescuing are wrong. Another girl appears at an upper window. The chief orders his men to play the hose just under the window. He jumps into the stream and slides up to the window, gets the girl and prepares to slide down again when the hose breaks. With his arms around the girl, and struggling against the flames he awakes to find himself seated in the dump cart with his arms around the street sweeper. He relates his dream and finishes by saying "I don't want to be a fireman," and they start for their afternoon's work.
- The Civil War was at its height. Donald and James Lorne were step-brothers. Donald, the elder, loved Dolly, the rich ward of his step-mother, but Mrs. Lorne was very anxious that her own son, James, should win the hand of the wealthy orphan. To bring this about, she arranged to send her step-son away. But the lovers frustrated her. Dolly and Donald were secretly married before he departed. The girl's guardian intercepted Donald's letters, and not aware that her ward was already married, made her a prisoner in her room in her efforts to force the girl to marry James. Donald, sorely worried at his wife's strange silence, returned unexpectedly. In answer to his demands to see Dolly he was told that she loved him no longer, and had pledged herself to his step-brother. Wishing for nothing but Dolly's happiness. Donald, with heavy heart, took James' place in the army, hoping to be killed and thus free Dolly so that she might wed the man of her choice. Dolly, still held a prisoner in her room, heard that her husband had returned, but was now gone to the war. She escaped and followed him to the training camp, only to find him gone. She was overcome with grief and fell unconscious. The minister who had married her was at the camp, and had her removed to a neighboring house. Mrs. Lorne and her son followed the girl, and found her dead, and a new-born infant in the doctor's arms. James, in order to get into his own, hands the dead mother's fortune claimed the child as his own and disappeared. Donald, at the front, was fighting in the armies of his country, in ignorance of the tragic fate of the woman he loved, and of the birth of his child. One night, while pacing the sentry line, he beheld a vision of Dolly. The specter lured him far from his post. He was found wandering about, and was arrested for desertion in the face of the enemy. At the court martial he was still so dazed that instead of making a satisfactory explanation he incriminated himself by his incoherent replies. He was sentenced to be shot at sunrise. However, a comrade who knew the circumstances saved his life. He returned to his native village. Here he met a Captain Walling who told him the true story of Dolly. Walling was later arrested for treason. He turned State's evidence, confessing that in partnership with James Lorne he had robbed the government on false contracts of fabulous amounts, and accused Lorne of double-crossing him. The U.S. Secret Service at once took up the trail of his accomplice. Twenty years rolled by. James had gone west, where he was leading a double life. With him lived Dolly's baby, now grown to young womanhood, and bearing her mother's name. She supposed that James was her father. In the hills near James' ranch, a mysterious shepherd lived a life of solitude. Old before his time, sad, gentle and kind, he exerted a strange influence over the impressionable girl, who often sought his company, and confided in him her troubles and innocent secrets. The false-hearted James recognized the shepherd as Don and planned by accusing him of stealing all the cattle that had been missed, to have him strung up by the outraged ranchmen. An Indian girl who had been wronged by James and cast off overheard the plot. She told Dolly, who rode to warn her friend. She reached the shepherd's hut just as the cowpunchers were about to lynch him. She begged for time, swearing that she could prove the shepherd's innocence. The men, respecting her word, left her with the hermit. In tears she told him that her father had forbidden her to see him again. As she was leaving she accidentally dropped her locket. The shepherd found and opened it. He was dumbfounded. It contained the picture of his wife, the Dolly of the past. The girl, discovering her loss, returned. He asked who the picture represented. "It is my mother," replied Dolly. "She died when I was born." Without telling her that she was his daughter, he went to his step-brother to claim her. During the controversy that followed matters took an unexpected turn. Walling, now a secret service agent, appeared on the scene. After twenty years of searching he had found his man. As he was about to place the handcuffs on his prisoner, an interruption occurred. An Indian chief, leading a girl of his people, confronted James. The guilty wretch, in desperation, broke away from his captors and fled. But the day of reckoning had arrived. The red-skinned maiden sighted him fleeing across the edge of a cliff. Seizing a rifle she fired. Horse and rider fell to death. The gentle shepherd advanced to the girl's side. As he drew her to his bosom, he pointed to the faded face looking sadly at him from the locket. "The mystery of my love for you is explained," he said, "Dolly, you are my own flesh and blood. The woman of the locket was your mother and my wife."
- Michael Brogan is a retired bricklayer whose wife has a strong ambition to enter into society. She wants her daughter Maggie, now known as Margarette, to marry a count. Maggie loves Sammy, who brings her flowers; in the bouquet was a bee, and Sammy is ejected. Mother receives a telegram from the Count telling of his arrival. Maggie learns that the Count will arrive and sends for Sammy to help her. Sammy goes to the station and recognizes the Count. He follows him through a field, where he knocks the Count out, drags him to a blacksmith shop, changes clothes with him and goes to the house disguised as the Count. Sammy intends to disgust mother and father with his actions. He is invited to dinner, and, much to the surprise of mother, he eats his soup reading a sheet of music, after which he pulls the chicken apart, serves it with his hands and throws it around the table. Mother and Father start after Sammy again, Sammy pulls down the curtain and swings on the chandelier, pulling plants and dirt down, burying Mother, Father, Maggie, and himself in the debris. Sammy makes his getaway, leaving the family by themselves. Mother, after all this, is cured of her society craze.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim roll into a town in a box car on a cold winter's day. They look out of the box car and see a chicken yard in the distance. They are chased by the farmer when they attempt to steal a chicken but they make their getaway and build a roaring fire, over which they roast the juicy fowl. After their meal they fall asleep and his majesty appears from a cloud of smoke and says "you fellows have had hell enough on this earth, with the wishbone of the chicken in your possession your every wish shall be granted." With the aid of the wishbone the fortunate tramps enjoy luxurious food, ride in beautiful cars and enjoy the coming of bewitching maidens, and escape from the police several times by waving the magic wishbone. They do not proceed far in one of their cars when they crash into a street car and the auto is badly wrecked. They decide that the auto is no good and wish that a dump cart were transformed into a car. Their wish is granted and they drive to the railroad yards, find all their brother hobos and invite them out for a ride. They have a hilarious time until the auto crashes into a telegraph pole. The scene then fades back to where they both fell asleep devouring the chicken and they wake up extremely frightened, throw the wishbone away and decide that it is no good.
- Out of a job again, Susie Speed sits in her room and scans the paper while consuming coffee and rolls. She reads an account of movie queen Sarah Slickford, whose salary is $400,000 a month, and contrasts it with her last job at $4 a week. Finding an ad "comedian wanted," she decides to go in for the movies and after a wild ride on a streetcar she reaches the studio. The director gives her a try-out, and she displays her ability by running up and down a tree, pulling a flat tire off an auto, blowing it up with her mouth, and slamming it back on again. She then jumps fences with the car, climbs poles and runs on telephone wires. She then races another car, but half way around the course her machine stalls and her opponent gets the lead. Not to be defeated, she fastens a chain to her car and tows it down the street. She gains on the other car and finally whips her flivver around on the chain and wins the race. The director now tells her he will try her out in a real scene. In the studio a set represents a café. The director explains that several roughnecks are to try to kidnap her and she is to resist. She puts up a terrific fight, beats up the gang, and smashes everything. She even knocks down an adjoining set where a dramatic company is working. The director now yells to the gang to stop her. They bear down on Sue, who retreats to a brick wall with an archway. As the gang approaches. Sue tears a brick out of the arch and throws it with such good effect that she repeats the trick. Soon she is tearing down bricks by the armful and bombarding the gang. At last the arch collapses and Sue is buried under the bricks. She is rescued by the director, who tells her the job is hers. She is delighted and has visions of a $10,000 salary, but when the director says $9 a week, she hits herself on the head with a brick and passes away.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, two typical hoboes, awake in a hay-stack and are chased out of the field by a bull. They arrive at a lunch-wagon near the far terminal of streetcar line and sit on the steps, pining for a meal. The lone street-car of the "Lazy Line" reaches the terminal and the crew, leaving their caps on the car, run into the lunch-wagon for a bite before starting back. A crotchety travelling-man, in a hurry to catch a train, paces up and down beside the car, looking for the crew. The tramps hear him say to himself "I'd give five dollars to make that 4.30 train." They get an inspiration, sneak into the car, put on the caps of the motorman and conductor [unreadable] the traveler, saying "Give us the five, we'll get" [unreadable] and speed down the track. People on the [unreadable] car and the boys decide they might as well get [unreadable] fares they can. A girl with a dog, an old lady with a cat, a fat man, an Irishman with a goat, a woman with two mischievous children, a dude, a loving couple, several pretty girls and many others get on the car and furnish many different kinds of trouble for the crew. Unable to back up for a passenger, they pick up the car and turn it around. Another time as Bill is helping a lady off, Jim starts the car and leaves Bill far behind. Bill seizes an old fashioned high bicycle from a small boy and chases after the car The car crosses a bridge and Bill rides up the girders and across the top of the bridge. He jumps from the bridge to the trolly wire and rides on that until he hits the trolly wheel of the car. This throws him off and he falls through the roof of the car and goes on about his business of collecting fares. When the real car crew find that their car has been stolen, they telephone the car barns and several car men are sent out with another car to stop the thieves. The two cars meet at full speed. A bad wreck seems inevitable. The tramps, however, jump their car right over the other car and continue on down the track. A broken bridge looms up ahead but the tramps fail to see the danger sign and the car crashes through the bridge and into the river. As a finish, the two tramps float down the river on the top of the broken car, dividing their profits from the trip. The foregoing story, A TROUBLESOME TRIP, was written and worked out by the following persons, all citizens of the United States of American, and all in the employ of the United States Motion Picture Corporation [unreadable] Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A. Richmond, William [unreadable] Harris and Horace G. Plimpton, Jr.
- A young man is kept under his mother-in-law's thumb until he joins the army. The sight of him in uniform works a welcome change in his domestic arrangements, both his wife and her mother being eager to wait upon the coming hero.
- Tom Logan was nearing the close of his prison term. The jail door opened and closed on him; this time he was on the outside, a free man. He started out to secure employment, but at every hand he was rebuffed and turned away. He drifted west. He was given work on a ranch, and soon by honest, intelligent service was promoted to be foreman. From the first meeting between Rose, the ranchman's daughter, and Tom, there had existed a sentiment of mutual interest which ere long developed into love. But the barrier of his past forbade him to speak of love to Rose, until he had laid the secret of his life before her father. At this time Red Conway, who had been confined in the same prison as Tom, escaped. After killing a man in a gambling house he fled west and sought work at the very ranch of which Tom now had charge. Tom, not recognizing his former fellow-convict, hired him. Soon afterward Tom, unexpectedly entering a room of the ranch house, surprised Red in the act of stealing money from the ranchman's desk. The foreman snatched the money from the robber's hands and was about to give the alarm when the thief turned upon him and threatened him with exposure. While Tom hesitated his employer and Rose suddenly entered. Red at once pointed to the green bills in the foreman's hands. Deaf to all words of explanation from the accused foreman, the men made him a prisoner in a hut, with Red Conway as his jailer. Late that afternoon cowboys from all the neighboring ranches for miles around assembled at the ranch house to hold a dance. Rose, who felt too badly over the evident downfall of her lover to take part in the merrymaking, started to visit some friends a few miles across the plain. But she turned back, determining not to forsake Tom in his hour of need. She was captured by a band of Indians. Tom from his prison window saw the treacherous savages stealthily approaching the ranch house. Battering down the door, he gave the alarm to the dancing cowpunchers. They seized their arms and rushed out. After a sharp battle the redskins retreated, hotly pursued by the ranchman for several miles. As Tom turned his horse to return, he saw Rose's hat at the side of the trail. Realizing that she had fallen into the hands of the redskins he started single-handed to rescue her. After a frantic search he discovered the dusky marauders' encampment, at the foot of a steep cliff he saw his sweetheart a prisoner. Attracting her attention he lowered a rope. Rose was about to fasten herself to it, when Dawn, an Indian girl whom Tom had befriended and who was in love with him, pushed the white girl aside, and was hauled upward in her stead. Tom spurned the Indian maiden's plea of love. Peering again he saw the red fiends tying the rancher's daughter to a stake to burn her alive. He was almost in despair, when he saw the boys from his own ranch and a squadron of cavalry approaching. Hastily telling them of the girl's deadly plight, the combined forces sounded the charge. The Indians were taken completely by surprise by the onrushing horsemen. Tom saved Rose just as the flames were leaping upward about her. Red Conway had received his death-wound, but before he died he confessed that it was he who had tried to steal the money. Tom, fully vindicated, was restored to his former position, and the rancher gave him the hand of his daughter as a reward for bravery and faithful service.
- The Duke of Ozsklopvitch is on his way to the country place of the Climbers to attend a week-end party. His roadster turns turtle and the Duke is knocked unconscious. One of the tires from the roadster rolls through the woods, where it lands around the necks of Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, hobos, who are taking a snooze under the trees. They rouse up, and following the path of the tire, come upon a view of the wrecked auto. Two men passing in a touring car rush the Duke to a hospital. The hobos find the Duke's trunk and dress themselves up in frock coats, high hats. etc. They discover in one of the pockets the Duke's invitation to the Climbers' week-end. A passing motorist offers them a lift, and lands them in front of the Climbers' estate. Mrs. Climber and her guests are seated on the veranda awaiting the arrival of the guest of honor. Jim being in front, Mrs. Climber assumes that he is the Duke and greets him. Jim introduces Bill as his valet, and Bill and the butler take the trunk into the house while Jim makes a triumphal entry. Attired in incongruous outing attire, the boys finally come down to the veranda. Bill picks out a pretty girl and proceeds to make love to her. When Jim sees this, he leaves the other guests, runs Bill out and takes his place on the bench. Bill sets a lawn sprinkler under the bench and turns on the water, breaking up the tete-a-tete. Jim goes in to change his clothes while Bill decides to take a drive. He finds a horse and tries to harness it. The horse objects and kicks Bill up into the air. Jim, coming out of the house in dry clothes, sees Bill in the air, and running with a wheelbarrow, catches him just as he lands. Jim then finds another pretty girl and takes her for a walk by the fountain. Bill finds a fat girl in a swing and gallantly offers to swing her. In so doing his hat falls off, and in stooping to pick it up the fat girl hits him as she swings back and knocks him across the lawn to where Jim stands at the edge of the fountain. The girl saves Jim from falling in, and he thanks her profusely, but as he stoops to pick up a handkerchief, she knocks him in and falls in herself. Both retire to the house for dry clothing, while Bill starts to fish in the fountain. Jim comes out in dry clothes again and Bill surprises him by hooking a fine bass. In swinging it out of the water he drops it into a bowl of punch that the butler is bringing out to the guests. Bill thinks he has caught a big fish, but as he holds it in his hand it shrinks down to a small minnow and Bill eats it whole. He and Jim see a milk maid crossing the lawn and stop her. They tell her she is too pretty to work and that they "will gather the milk for her." They take the milk stool and pail from her and start toward the pasture. Arriving there they set the pail under the cow and wait for the milk to flow. As nothing is forthcoming, they try to seat the cow on the milk stool so that she will be more comfortable. They are interrupted in this by a calf, and as they try to tie the calf up it runs away from them, dragging them across the pasture. They grab onto a tree and the calf, swinging around them in a circle binds them to the tree. They are rescued by the milkmaid and start back to the house. In crossing the lawn they are attracted by a gas-power lawnmower. Jim tries to run it and the mower runs away with him, mowing down trees and hedges, leaping over stables and stone walls, etc. Finally as the machine passes Bill, he grabs on to stop it, and he and Jim are dragged into the garage, where the mower plunges through a brick wall at the rear. The wall collapses upon them, and we leave them buried to the neck in bricks.
- Susie's fed up with her no-account husband who fancies himself a writer. She intends to run away, but he decides to go with her, hiding in her steamer trunk. Arriving in "The Big City" (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania!), she meets some lounge lizards in a big hotel who might do her some good. Her dimwit spouse, after being knocked about in the trunk, starts a fire by lighting his pipe inside it, causing panic.
- Bob, cabaret entertainer, is always broke. He is in love with Dot, whose father sends her away to school. She writes Bob that she is sailing the next day. Although Bob hasn't the fare, he resolves to take the same boat. Taking wigs and make-up, he tries to get aboard. He hides in a box but is discovered, climbs to a porthole, but is knocked down by a pail of garbage; climbs a rope, but it is cast off by a sailor, and he falls into the water. Finally, he gives up and is waiting for a last look at Dot, when a porter, thinking him a belated passenger, hurries him on board. Dot is delighted but the purser checks short and starts to find the extra passenger. Bob makes up exactly like the captain. Later he disguises as a sailor, but is caught and put to work scrubbing the decks. Tiring of this, he makes up in exact duplicate of the Count de Brie. The purser discovers the two counts and brings them together, demanding to know "which is the impostor." Dot saves Bob by claiming he is the real count. The purser forces the count to stoke the fires while Bob enjoys himself with Dot. The count's wife sees them in an affectionate pose, and drags Bob away, beats him and throws him on the bed in the stateroom while she dresses for dinner. The count escapes, enters his stateroom to find Bob. The wife is horrified. The count starts after Bob. The purser and sailors join the chase, and Bob takes refuge on top of the smoke stack. The count shoots and he falls through the smoke stack and out of the furnace into the stoke hole. The chase continues, Bob finds Dot and drags her to the bow of the boat. The others are about to overpower him when the ship is torpedoed. Bob and Dot land on a piece of wreckage. The purser comes up out of the water and demands Bob's fare. Bob pushes him under and he and Dot float away.
- Chemist Donald Wallace is an atheist who believes science is the only God. He is loved by his cousin, Truth Eldridge, but is too self centered and too attentive to his radium experiments to notice her affection. Instead, he falls for Paula Roberts. When they come upon a lost little girl named Peggy, Wallace decides to take care of her until he finds her parents, but despite being a kind man, he insists to the girl that there is no God. James Dale, Wallace's assistant and Truth Eldridge's secret admirer, accidentally kills her when he tries to poison Wallace. Shortly after her death, Truth returns in spirit form to convince Wallace that God exists after all.
- A widow and a widower are neighbors, one owning a cat and the other a dog, and when the animals quarrel, the owners follow suit.
- In Mexico, the hero has to give an acceptable exhibition of the toreador's skill to win the hand of the fair maid.
- The private trials of a young chap who has managed to have himself elected or appointed a judge and who uses his position to make his future father-in-law listen to reason after the old gentleman has refused to let his daughter marry the man of her choice. Father-in-law breaks the liquor law in company with a bunch of chorus girls. The judge finds it out and has him brought into court. When he realizes the situation, the prisoner is ready to say "Heaven bless you, my children."
- Two effete noblemen get slightly mixed up when two knights of the road obtain their passports and clothes, impersonate them, and lay a series of mischief and crimes at the door of the imported innocents.
- The benefactor who made her father millions demands her hand in marriage as part of the bargain, but the daughter has her own sweetheart, who rushes to get a marriage license.
- With the blowing of the one o'clock whistle Waldo is awakened from his snooze on a park bench and dashes home. There he demands his dinner, but Sue, his wife, shows him the empty larder and tells him: "If you don't provide for me, I'll get a job for myself," and she starts out. She lands a job with the Dubb Detective Agency and is assigned to the case of a woman who wants to get evidence for a divorce. With a photograph of the faithless husband, Sue goes at once to his business address and stations herself by the door, where she watches every passer-by, comparing each with the photograph. Her patience is at last rewarded. She finds a man who resembles the photo and trails him. He turns into a restaurant and begins an earnest conversation with the cashier. Sue stands outside watching them and taking notes. When the cashier turns around and Sue gets a look at her ugly face she tears up her notes in disgust. There was surely no evidence in that. Her quarry tells the cashier: "Have your daughter communicate with me at once," and leaves. Waldo sees Sue waiting outside the restaurant. When she trails her man down the street, Waldo is overcome with jealousy and follows after. Her quarry goes to his office and Sue, finding the door locked, resolves to get in some other way. Closely watched by Waldo, she gets to the top of an adjoining building and walks out on some wires which lead to the office window opposite. Halfway across she loses her balance, and falls, catching her toes on two stories below. There she hangs until the wire breaks and she falls headfirst toward the pavement. She goes through the brick pavement. Waldo pulls her out and a huge bump swells on the top of her head. It burst with a loud report which causes a passing chauffeur to think he has blown a tire. Waldo accuses Sue of trying to kill him by falling on him. She resents this with her fist, knocking Waldo across the walk. He then collides with a horse, which he carries over with him. She goes into the office building again and a passing officer arrests Waldo for cruelty to animals. A messenger boy leaves her victim's door open and Sue slips inside and hides behind a screen just in time to hear him tell a girl over the phone, "Meet me at the parsonage and we'll be married at once." He hurries out, and Sue calls her client and tells her that her husband is a bigamist and to hurry to the parsonage. She starts there on the run herself, picking up a cop on the way. The suspected bigamist arrives at the parsonage with his intended bride and the marriage ceremony is almost completed when Sue and the cop burst in and place him under arrest. He objects but Sue scoffs at him. Her client rushes in and confronts the captive. With one look she dismisses him saying "That is not my husband; I never saw him before." and Sue realizes that she has trailed the wrong man.
- Our heroine is obsessed with the idea that she can and must sing. Living on a farm she has lots of open space in which to exercise her voice, but is compelled to admit that not even the cows and chickens will listen to her. During an opportunity to sing in the choir, she awakens every living thing, among others a number of peacefully-sleeping congregants. From the city comes a smooth-talking man who promises her the world if she will only be his. They go to the big city where, at a trial given to her in a cabaret, she nearly causes a riot. Of course, everything ends happily. Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures, Third Edition.
- The competition between a rural jitney bus and a trolley car include lifting passengers onto cars with a derrick.
- Lamb's wife is visiting her parents and he decides to renew his acquaintance with Susie of the Follies. He writes two letters. One to his wife and one making an appointment with Susie. Upon meeting Susie he discovers he has mixed the envelopes and realizes his wife will get the letter intended for Susie. He telegraphs her he is dead and for her to return home. He rushes to the parents' home hoping to intercept the letter, only to find that it has been forwarded home. The wife, accompanied by her father and mother, return and are unable to locate Lamb's body. Father, who is somewhat of a sport does not seem to worry much. In the meantime Susie calls at Lamb's house. She proceeds to have a merry time with father, much to the old man's consternation. Lamb comes on the scene and feigns death when wife and mother appear. Father in desperation hides Susie, and the letter is delivered to the wife. Lamb in order to prevent her reading it comes to life, accuses father of harboring a woman and drags Susie from her hiding place. Father is getting his when Susie gives a plausible explanation of her presence and exchanges the troublesome letter, and everybody is satisfied.
- Charles, otherwise known as "Useless," is a helper in a blacksmith's shop in Chestnutville, and useless he surely was. He has a good time of life, however, especially when a customer enters with a baby carriage from which one of the wheels had been broken off. Charles does more than fix the carriage. He discovers that it really contained a "precious" load, and he drank until he staggered. But all good times must end sometime, and Useless fell in love with a girl. Naturally, when a city chap tried to beat him to it. Useless departs for the city to win fame, fortune and the girl. A fortune teller advises him to stake his luck on the horses and he gets a job at the track. He has heaps of mishaps until the day of the great race when he sees his girl with the villain among the spectators. The villain recognizes him and seeks to disable the horse which he thinks will be the winner. When Useless intervenes, he is thrown from the hay loft where he is sitting onto the back of the race horse; the horse becomes frightened, chases out, enters the race, and wins with flying colors. Charlie is showered with flowers but when he begins to demand the money, the fortune teller explains that he is still gazing in the crystal. Charlie smashes the crystal, is thrown out by the fortune teller, and alas, is compelled to hit the trail home again.
- Susie Speed loses her job n a lawyer's office and gets another one as waitress in a restaurant. Her slowness nearly drives the manager crazy. A chappie enters and sits at Sue's table without removing his high hat. After several attempts to remove it Sue places it on his chair and he sits on it. She then throws it through the service window, where it lands on a tray, and another waitress serves it to Herr Tonik, a scientist. He tries to eat it and on discovering his mistake, angrily leaves. Sue and Maggie start a fight. The manager throws Sue out. Sue sees a sign "Stenographer Wanted" at the "Chemical Research Laboratory" and applies for the Job. Herr Tonik engages her. As she dawdles over her typing he recognizes her as the girl from the restaurant and determines to speed her up. His experiments evolve a "speed powder" and he tries it out on a dog. The dog jumps out of a third story window, climbs a tree, sits in the branches and howls. Satisfied, Herr Tonik gives some to Sue in a box of candy. She speeds up, fairly burns the typewriter. Tonik dispatches Sue to the factory with a bag of the powder in his car. Falling to start the car by cranking, Sue gives it some of the powder, whereupon it goes so fast that it runs into a wooden Indian. Frightened, Sue gives the Indian some of the powder and he comes to life and threatens to take her. She escapes on a wooden horse which she brings to life in the same way. The factory manager refuses to believe the powder is as wonderful as Sue says. She throws a pinch of it into the street and the traffic begins to move like mad. She blows some toward the river and the boats go crazy. A ferry boat loops the loop and dives into its slip. The drawbridge opens and shuts in a flash as boats and trains dash by. This tickles the office boy. He wants to see real action and throws the bag out of the window. Sue escapes as the factory begins to rock and dashes out while the powder starts a cyclone which whirls across the city, tearing up trees and houses and destroying everything in its path. She reaches the laboratory just ahead of the cyclone and tells Herr Tonik. In the midst of this the office begins to whirl and Sue wakes up as Herr Tonik calls her down for sleeping on the job.