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- Swift Wind, a young chief, loves Dancing Fawn. In their ramblings they, too, see white wolves, which is an object of fear and veneration among the Indians, and return to the village. The two are betrothed by the old chief, but old Red Nose, the medicine man, demands her hand for himself. The chief, fearing his magic powers, considers. Dancing Fawn runs away to her lover. Swift Wind is taught a secret by an old trapper, "If a trap is baited with an animal's own hair the iron jaws will never fail to catch it." The Indian decides how he will overthrow his rival. At his instruction Dancing Fawn cuts off a lock of hair from the sleeping medicine man. With it Swift Wind baits the trap. The next day a wolf is caught and as the Indians approach the trap the beast turns into the medicine man. The hand of the great father has proven his love again and Swift Wind and his sweetheart are united.
- Poor Major Wright was feeling thoroughly out of sorts, for of late, Hiram Ciders, the town constable, seemed to be making considerable progress in his courtship of Miss Judith Mullen. But could the Major have read the wealthy spinster's feelings aright, however, he would have found no cause for alarm, for so busy had the good lady been in looking after her niece, Flossie, that she had found little time for aught else. Not that "auntie" had any objection to Dick Morgan, as her niece's suitor, but she considered the girl too young to wed. Indeed, so closely did she keep watch on Flossie, that Dick, coached by the girl's governess, determined to put an end to their stolen meetings by boldly proposing for his sweetheart's hand. To Dick's consternation, "auntie," wishing to frighten away the young man altogether, pretended that she believed he was proposing to her, nor did she dismiss the boy until she had given him two very uncomfortable hours. Dick's turn for revenge came, however, when he met "auntie's" two admirers, and told each that the other had just proposed to the fair Judith. The result was a quarrel, ending in Major Wright challenging Hiram Ciders to a duel. Dick and James Hurley, who had been asked to act as seconds, had no intentions of having any bloodshed, and therefore carefully extracted the real cartridges from the combatants' revolvers and replaced them with blanks, then, sending a note to Miss Judith Mullen of her admirers' intentions, mentioning the time and place, they calmly awaited the appointed hour. Not so, Hiram Ciders, for Major Wright was far too good a shot to permit him to be calm. Nevertheless, owing to James Hurley's vigilance, the shivering constable was unable to slip away, as had been his intention, and was led pale and trembling, to the "field of honor." While the backs of the group were turned, he made a wild dash for liberty, so that when "auntie" arrived, she found only the hardy old Major. And so pleased was that lady at her hero's gallantry, that she promptly accepted him then and there, and Dick instantly seizing the favorable moment, was at last overjoyed to receive "auntie's" consent to his marriage with her niece.
- The prologue shows Cyrus returning from his club with some of the members, and the next morning, he finds the following note on the table, "Cyrus, I have endured your intemperance for the last time. I am taking the twins and going where you will never see me again. Matilda." Little Alma, his favorite twin, entered as her father was reading the note, her mother having returned to get the other twin's hat, and so Cyrus hurried her to the train with him and they were soon on their way out West. Matilda searched diligently for Alma, but hearing nothing from either Cyrus or the child, decided that they were both dead. Many years later, Cyrus and Alma, now "full grown" are seen in the west, while Elma, the other twin (also full grown) now married, starts west on a visit with her husband and mother. Chance brings them to the same town and trouble begins. Alma's friends mistake Elma for her sister, while Patsy, Elma's husband, after quarreling with his wife on this account, follows Alma home, and enters her abode to beg forgiveness. Her screams bring Cyrus to the scene, who throws Patsy out and turns him over to an officer. The next morning the twins and their father and mother arrive at court and a general reunion takes place.
- Mrs. Glendon, proprietress of Hotel Glendon, as businesslike and sensible as she appeared, was still a woman and, therefore, curious. In vain Nell had protested with her for examining the Howard's things, but Mrs. Glendon, feeling confident that father and son would remain downstairs to play a game of cards, went smilingly forward in her tour of inspection, until Mr. Howard's step sounded in the hall. With a spring, Nell succeeded in getting into the closet, which divided the Howard's rooms, and, slamming the door, left poor Mrs. Glendon to brave it out as best she could. But panic was in the air, so finding herself alone and all means of escape cut off, Mrs. Glendon hastily crouched behind a settee. Nell had intended making her escape through Bob Howard's room, but, as she looked through the keyhole, she beheld the young man comfortably smoking a cigar, So donning a coat and hat which she found in the closet, the girl waited until the old gentleman had turned out his light. Then, creeping softly out, she made a dash for the door and succeeded in gaining her own room unrecognized. Mrs. Glendon attempted to follow suit, but her exit was cut off by Mr. Howard springing from his bed and locking the door, so she was forced to retreat into the closet. From here, she might have later on adopted Nell's method of escape, had the girl not dropped a coat-hanger, in her haste, and sent Bob scurrying to the office to tell the boys of the "burglar" in their closet. Armed with various weapons, the party crept cautiously up to Mr. Howard's room, where the recent commotion seemed to have taken place, but that gentleman absolutely refused to open the door until he was warned that they would break it down. This reluctance on Mr. Howard's part was entirely misconstrued, when Mrs. Glendon was taken from the closet in a fainting condition, and it was only his nimbleness of foot which enabled him to keep ahead of his pursuers, as down the stairs and around the hotel they ran. At last he succeeded in dodging them, and again sped upstairs, only to mistake Nell's room for his own. It proved, however, to be Nell, who, seeing a man under the bed, fled downstairs and brought up the crowd. But no sooner had they dragged him out, than she recognized the old gentleman and hurriedly informed her mother that they must now make a clean breast of the matter. And, although somewhat uncomfortable for all concerned, it proved an excellent lesson for the proprietress. Nothing could again induce her to meddle with a guest's belongings
- The first Universal motion picture released: dying Will Barton has to go to the mountains in search of health and is distracted thinking about leaving his beloved daughter, Netta, behind.
- Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself. The next morning he goes, leaving his father a note: "Dear Dad, I am going out West and try to make a man of myself. I hope some day you will be proud of me. Your son. Bob." His father relents and, after tracing him to the station, buys a ticket for the same place. In the meanwhile, Rob has arrived, and reading a notice that cowboys with outfits are wanted on the Carter ranch, he buys an outfit from a man near the station and starts for the Carter ranch. However, the foreman will not have him, as he confesses that he cannot rope, so Bob rides on until he comes upon an Outlaw's Camp, and is glad to accept their rough hospitality. In the meanwhile, the ranchman, Joseph Carter, receives his new automobile, but being unable to take his daughter, Jessie, sends her with the foreman for a ride. The machine breaks down and the chauffeur returns for parts, while the foreman takes his opportunity to force his attentions upon Jessie, her cries bring Bob and the outlaws to the scene. The foreman recognizes the outlaw chief and returning to the ranch, starts out at the head of the cowboys to capture the band. Bob has loaned Jessie his horse to return home, and the outlaws have just broke camp, so when the foreman and the boys return they only succeed in capturing Bob and hustle him off as an outlaw. Jessie arrives at the ranch, learns where the boys have gone, so together with her father, rides to the rescue, arriving just as his father comes along. The two fathers learn that they are old friends. The man at the station recognizes Bob, and general rejoicing takes place.
- It was moving day for the Greens and Mr. Green could do nothing to please his better half. The only thing that pleased him was the sight of his charming neighbor, Mrs. Smith. His wife is upset by the effect of the pretty neighbor across the hall and drags her reluctant consort back to work. They have no supper ready, so Mrs. Green says she will borrow some across the hall. While she is gone Neal hears that his lodge has an important meeting that night. In the Smith apartment Ray talks to Ethel while his wife is getting a tray of food for the Greens. She thinks that Ray finds the newcomer much too interesting. and this leads to a quarrel. Neal, in evening dress, tries to sneak away to lodge, but Ethel is hurt at his desertion. Ray has left his wife in a huff and she has cried herself to sleep. Twelve o'clock comes and all is still in the two apartments. Neal comes home, very gay, and goes into the wrong door, just as Ike, the second-story man, tries to force his way in. Billie wakes to find a strange man in her room, while Ike is stealing her silver in the dining room. Ray comes home and is startled to find Neal's hat and stick in his room. There is a general mix-up of Neal, Ike and Ray, and Billie's screams for help soon add the presence of an officer to the complicated scene. Ethel has heard the disturbance and enters. There is a general explanation; Ike is arrested; Neal is hauled off to curtain-hanging and Ray and Billie make up as the film ends.
- Mabel Russell, on her return from Europe, is informed by James Leonard, administrator of the Russell Estate, that it was her father's dying wish that she should marry Billy Jones, the son of William Jones, her father's schoolmate and lifelong friend. Mabel, however, has ideas of her own and rather resents being disposed of like a parcel of goods, so when Billy calls upon her, she takes advantage of the fact that he has not seen her since she was a child, and induces her maid (a young woman who has a good figure and passable manners, but is extremely homely), to impersonate her, while she dresses up as the maid. Billy comes ready and willing to fulfill his part of the program, but at first sight of the maid, whom he supposes to be Mabel, he retreats hastily. Some months later, Billy receives word that Mabel will stop at his ranch en route for California, and, remembering the lady with the homely features whom he met when he called, and hoping to head her off, he sends word to his attorney (who is Mabel's legal adviser), that he was married a month before. Mabel is notified and she decided to offer her congratulations in person and see what a real ranch is like at the same time. She notifies Billy, who is panic stricken, for he realizes he will have to find a wife on short notice and there is not a woman within twenty miles of the ranch. The cowboys come to his rescue and Joe is finally selected, much to his disgust, to act the part of the bride. When Mabel arrives with the maid and a chaperone, Billy is made aware of the joke which has been played upon him when he called to see her in New York. He is tempted to explain matters as he finds himself getting really attached to the girl, but he holds off. The cowboys invite everyone for miles round to attend the ball to be given "To meet the new Mrs. Jones." During the hall, Joe, dressed as the wife, gets into an argument with a cowboy owing to the latter having stepped on his train, and acts in a most unladylike manner, knocking his tormentor down. A short fight is stopped by Billy, but Joe has lost his wig as well as his dignity. Explanations follow and Mabel and Billy are ready and willing to carry out the wishes of their parents.
- Pete, the cook, is thrown out of the cook-house. The boys declare that they will quit, but are pacified when the foreman writes an agency to send them a good female cook. The foreman goes to the station but no cook. In despair he hurries to a nearby ranch, but the ranchman will not part with Mandy, his female cook. He, however, offers Fatty, the assistant cook. The foreman must have a woman. Then Mandy gets the idea of dressing Fatty up in her clothes. After tipping him liberally Fatty agrees, he and the foreman arrive at the ranch and are agreeably received by the boys until Brown decides that he will go in and kiss the cook. He is kicked out, so the foreman, to show how he stands with the cook, starts for the door, his back is turned to the door, so Fatty helps him out with his boot. The boys, however, see his trousers under the female dress and drag him out and send him down the road in baste. In the meanwhile the real cook arrives, and gives the boys such an excellent dinner that they are in fine spirits. As soon as night falls Fatty returns for his clothes. He enters his former room, but hears someone coming, hides under the bed. The cook enters, sees the bed move, calls for help. The boys enter, drag Fatty out, and about to help him from the place more strenuously than before, when the foreman arrives and confesses.
- Wilkes is the owner of a department store from which a great many things have been stolen, and he tells his manager that it has got to stop. He notifies the famous detective, Potts, who comes to the store to investigate. Potts arrives at the store, and after several mistakes gets to work to find the thief. In the meanwhile Elsie, the boss's daughter, who is a kleptomaniac, arrives and asks Eddie, the manager, to show her some necklaces. When his back is turned she gently slips one of them into her pocket, but Potts sees it and takes both her and Eddie before Wilkes. But on the way up Elsie manages to slip the necklace into Potts' pocket. Potts finds it and is terrified to think that they may accuse him. So he, in turn, slips it into Eddie's pocket and Eddie gives it to the old man. Then Elsie confesses her weakness, and when the old man finds the jewels in his pocket he thinks that, as he does not remember them, the disease must run in the family. So Eddie marries Elsie to take care of her, and Potts is engaged as a permanent caretaker for Wilkes.
- Eddie, calling on his girl, hears her father state that he needs the great Majah ruby to complete his collection. Eddie leaves and comes to store, where he sees a big ruby. He buys the ruby and goes home, where he gets Lee to impersonate a Hindu jewel vendor. They then go to the girl's house, where father treats Lee with great respect. Meantime a real Hindu, looking much like Lee in his disguise, has learned that the cheap ruby Eddie bought is the genuine article, and he has followed the boys. He gets in the house and suddenly comes face to face with Lee. The Hindu knocks Lee out and takes his place at the banquet table. Lee, recovering, gets into a mess in the antique room and the crowd rush in to see the trouble, leaving the Hindu and the girl alone. The Hindu now tries to get the ruby. Lee comes in and the Hindu is forced to run. He leaps out a window and hides in bushes outside. Girl explains what has happened. Lee walks into the trouble and is accused of attacking the girl. Lee runs, the crowd after him. The chase leads back to the room, where Eddie is consoling the girl, and here Lee is cornered. He is trying to make himself understood, when the real Hindu returns and is caught by Eddie. Eddie now learns the truth and the situation is explained to the girl's father, who is grateful for having the ruby saved, and the Hindu is taken away, while Lee is left to congratulate Eddie and the girl.
- Robert Lee is deeply in love with Margaret Ellison. Both are undemonstrative, and Robert, not feeling quite sure that he possesses Margaret's heart, delays his proposal. He is called imperatively to New York and writes a letters to Margaret asking her to be his wife and this he places in his pocket to mail. But his valet points out that he has his wrong coat on. He changes it hastily and starts for the railroad station. Arriving in New York, he awaits patiently for the answer which never comes. Robert is terribly grieved and decides that Margaret did not love him sufficiently to marry him. He instructs his valet, Parker to close the house, to remove everything to New York and to offer the place for sale. Margaret wonders why she has neither seen nor heard from the man to whom she is so deeply attached and is shocked when she sees the empty house and the "For Sale" sign, as she drives up to inquire the cause of his absence. The years pass and Margaret accepts a rich suitor, who later dies She still cherishes the memory of Robert, who also is constantly thinking of days gone by and of her. One day he decides to rummage through old trunks, and finds the letter be wrote to Margaret thirty years ago. He decides to call upon her and in her own home to at least explain. The years have not stolen any of Margaret's charm. She is surprised and pleased to see him. He explains the missing letter. They decide to remain inseparate forevermore.
- Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is. She knows the house well and can go about it without making a break. Clara proposes to get the valuable for him. He agrees, but inwardly decides to watch her every move. Feverishly Clara goes to her dresser and draws forth all her jewels. The patient grows restless and she soothes and caresses him till he's quiet again, then she glides silently out of the room in search of the burglar. The midnight visitor, however, is not a bad sort. He has seen, and the woman's brave deed brings back to him that spark of manhood long since departed. He refuses to accept her sacrifice, and vanishes into the night ashamed of himself and determined to lead a better life. Clara returns to her husband's side and hugs him for very joy.
- In order to get a job as a cook on a ranch, a young girl disguises herself as a boy. Problems arise when several of the young women at the ranch fall in love with "him".
- When a man is about to get married he sees all things in a happy light and such was the outlook of the groom on the day before his wedding. His friend Neal was to be best man and the hours fairly flew by. The bride-to-be is make preparations for the happy occasion, while her parents are congratulating themselves on getting such a nice son-in-law. In a seaport nearby, there is "trouble in the camp." Three of the sailors fall out with Captain Blunt and in a "peeve" desert the ship. When the captain learns he is short three men, he tells the mate to get three men and it doesn't make any difference where they obtain them. The mate leaves on his errand and locates one man in the person of a hobo. The arrival of one man soothes the skipper's wrath somewhat, but he sternly informs the mate to get busy and capture the others. Neal meanwhile has been assisting Ray in get ready for the ceremony and the two set out for the house of the bride, where all is ready for the wedding. Unfortunately they cross the path of the mate from the schooner and he tries to take the two friends to fill the vacancy on the ship. They resist and in the scuffle Neal escapes while poor Ray is taken to the ship and set to work. Neal tells of the bold abduction and the wedding party sets out to rescue the unlucky groom. Captain Blunt decides that he can do with the two men and the ship leaves. When the party arrive at the dock the ship is some distance out, but they charter a launch and set out in pursuit. Ray is ordered to furl the sails and in spite of his protestations is forced to climb into the rigging. From this point of vantage he sees the pursuing launch and is happy that he is about to be rescued. The skipper, thinking the party are coming to take one of his men, has Ray hidden below and when finally they board the ship he cannot be found. Ray finally manages to escape and reaches the launch alongside. The wedding party returns to land and go on with the delayed wedding. When the ceremony is started, the best man is missing and all realize he is beyond their aid. The happy bride and groom are united while the unhappy best man is forced to manipulate a mop on the deck of the fast disappearing ship.
- Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. Her brother, a dissolute fellow, is left out of the inheritance, but at his solicitation and promise to reform, she takes him with her. At the mine they meet Wallace, a thoroughly independent American, who dislikes peerage on general principles. He has had entire charge of the mine subsequent to the death of the uncle. The brother and Wallace instinctively dislike each other. The Countess likes Wallace, but resents his independence. Later, Wallace comes upon the brother at the café, and a fight ensues. The brother is beaten and Wallace promises not to tell his sister. Shortly following this incident, Wallace is alone in the office. With revenge foremost in his mind, the brother places a charge of dynamite under the house, lights the fuse, and retires to a safe distance to watch. When it is about time for the dynamite to explode, the Countess enters the office. Wallace and the Countess leave the office by the rear door. The brother is caught in his own trap and killed. The Countess looks to Wallace for comfort, and finds it.
- Eddie leaves on the train for his uncle's place to meet the girl who has been picked out for him to marry, much to his displeasure. Victoria sets out for her aunt's for the same purpose and takes the same train. Neither knows the other and has no idea in what the other looks like. The fat man and his wife and three children board the train. Finding that they have left the baby's nursing bottle behind, the wife gets off to buy another and misses the train. At the next stop the fat man gets off to telegraph to his wife, leaving the children in charge of Eddie, who is his friend. Eddie meets Victoria, and after a short courtship they are married by a minister on board, not knowing they are fulfilling the wishes of their respective aunt and uncle. The porter comes to Eddie's assistance in caring for the children, not without having trouble with everyone aboard. Victoria arrives at her aunt's before Eddie, and they are pleasantly surprised to find they have already been married, which brings the story to a happy conclusion.
- Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed receive an invitation to a mask ball to be given at the Clarendon Hotel, and a prize is to be given for the most novel and unique costume. In order to surprise each other they refuse to divulge what their respective costumes will be until the night of the ball. Mrs. Newlywed has her costumes already picked and Mr. Newlywed is puzzled what to wear. Upon going to the office that morning he passes a "Weary Willie" and is immediately impressed with his make-up. He induces him to go into a saloon with him and have a drink. Newlywed's idea is to get a suggestion for his make-up for the costume ball. That night while the ball is in progress Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed make up in their costumes for the ball. The tramp also arrives, and while Newlywed is away for a moment Mrs. Newlywed mistakes the tramp for her husband, and taking him to the ball, starts complications, which cause the tramp's arrest. Newlywed is afterward arrested by the police and they all meet in the police station. Explanations make everyone happy.
- A cartoon version of the Little Tramp character gets thrown off the boxcar in a cow town. He seeks employment as a farm hand, but is disappointed to learn that hard work is involved.
- Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal. That night at the club Neal cannot get the pretty nurse out of his mind. He pretends illness, and is rushed off to the hospital, but, much to his disappointment. Stella is assigned to him. He throws pillows at her and altogether gives the impression that he is violent. A new nurse is put on the case, but when Neal discovers that it is not Billie, he again raves. Harry and Stella try to soothe him and Harry promises to give him another nurse, but again Neal is disappointed, and the two start fighting. He decides that he will leave the place. As they have taken his clothes he wraps a sheet around him and starts out. A chase follows through the ward which disturbs the patients very much. Billie is attending a woman in a private room. Harry and the others finally capture Neal and tie him in bed, but he manages to get loose again. In the hall he encounters one of the attendants and the two grapple. Another chase follows through the ward, and back into the hall. Neal knocking down a couple of cripples and Harry. Neal finally manages to barricade himself within one of the rooms and escapes through the window, but his escape is soon noted and the attendants give chase. Neal hides in an apartment house, and from there runs to an alley. Billie, who has left her patient, is walking along the street when Neal spies her, and oblivious to everything, rushes up to her and commences to talk. The attendants soon come on and they take him back to the hospital, where Billie is installed as his nurse.
- David Miller, a western farmer, is betrothed to Marie Mantell, an eastern girl. He is addicted to drink and his constant imbibing of whiskey brutalizes his nature. He goes east and marries Marie, bringing her to a desolate western farm. He continues drinking and his young wife suffers much cruelty at his hands. A half-breed cowboy, who is employed at the ranch, becomes devoted to her to the extent of protecting her at crucial moments when the farmer, in a drunken state, threatens to strike her. Phillip Hall, an easterner, comes west for his health and is given work by Miller. He is hurt in a round-up and nursed by Marie. He is a ray of light in her desolate life, and the easterner's heart is full of pity for the young wife. David goes on a drunken rampage and destroys Marie's little garden, which she has nurtured tenderly. When she remonstrates with him, he menaces her life. The half-breed again puts himself between them and David knocks him to the ground. The half-breed picks himself up and the sight of the weeping woman makes him swear Indian vengeance. Getting a rifle, he follows the farmer, who had mounted his horse, and rode away, and shoots him. Miller falls near Philip, who has been reading in the woods, and when his calls bring the sheriff and his men, he is accused of the crime. The half-breed has returned to the house, and when the sheriff stops at Miller's ranch with his prisoner, the half-breed maintains an Indian stolidity until Marie and Philip, in the stress of the situation, divulge their love for each other. He confesses it was he that killed the farmer and makes a dash for liberty, with the posse in chase. They gain on him when a shot rings out. The half-breed prefers death at his own hands rather than give himself into the hands of the law.
- Eddie and Lee are two reporters in Turkey. Their main task is to interview the Sultan, but just before the great ordeal, Lee decides that he wants to look at some curios, so Eddie has to go ahead to see the Sultan alone. At the palace he is well received by the Sultan, and is shown the harem. In the harem there is one girl, Nita, who particularly makes an impression on Eddie. And the strange part of it is, that just as he is going out, she slips a note in his hand, saying that she is held captive, and asking for help. So Eddie makes Lee dress up like a girl, and to the Sultan they go. He is at once struck by her beauty and asks Eddie his price. Eddie says that he is reluctant to part with her, but is willing to exchange her for Nita. The Sultan balks at this, but finally they agree to toss for the two girls on the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose basis. Of course, Eddie quickly strips the Sultan of the girls and soon has the harem, and even the throne. In the meanwhile, Lee, in the costume of a dancing girl, has fallen into trouble in the harem, when they discover his true sex, and one of the attendants is after him with a knife. Eddie at once pardons his friend, and after picking out a good-looking girl for Lee, they leave, after explaining to the Sultan that the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose game works only one way.
- An Easterner wins the girl of his choice in a Western ploughing contest.
- The night before the wedding, Eddie and his pal, Lee Moran, indulge in wine too freely and are hardly able to get to Eddie's apartments. On their way home they get in an argument with the Italian fruit vendor. While they are talking, a sneak thief tries to rob the cash register. In the fight that followed Lee and Eddie knock the crook out. A policeman finds their watch, pocketbook and other things they have dropped. The next morning they awaken to find the room in disorder. They read the headlines in the paper saying that murder has been committed the night before and they jump to the conclusion that they have committed murder. The policeman calls with their belongings and they think he is after them so deny the ownership. Lee and Eddie at last end up at the police station and decide to give themselves up. They show the judge the paper and confess to the murder. The judge finds that the paper is about a year old and gives them the laugh. About this time Miss Dean and the others rush in and find Eddie well and happy. It is decided to have the judge perform the ceremony and all ends well.
- Gordon must take a boat trip but misses the boat; during his wait for the next one his friend Eddie persuades him to to play a little game. His wife and her friend decide to go slumming that night. The police also decide to make a raid, and catch Gordon and his friend, and in spite of their protests, take them off to jail and lock them up for the night. In the opium joint in which the wife and friend are, the police come and arrest the whole bunch, but the wife manages to hide behind an officer and makes her escape. The next morning the wife is astounded by the news that the ship upon which her husband was supposed to have taken passage had been sunk. She dons widow's weeds and sympathizing friends send flowers. Gordon and his friend are in a quandary when they hear the news, but decide they will tell the wife that he is the only surviving passenger. She is overjoyed to hear this, but just at this point her friend appears with a later edition which announces that the ship has arrived safely in port. The wife is very angry and is berating her spouse when the maid announces a policeman at the door to see her. She is obliged to confess to her husband that she had evaded arrest in the opium joint on the night before. When the officer is admitted, he gives the wife her purse, which she had dropped while shopping. "Never again" now seems the young couple's favorite motto.
- The foreman of the O.D. Ranch is having the "deuce and all" of a time with his cooks. The last edition fires herself while in her usual unsober condition. The foreman plans a treat for the boys and engages a real live French cook. The boys are expectantly awaiting results and have brought a large appetite along with them. M. Caspar is introduced and greets one or two of the boys in enthusiastic style, leaving them wiping their faces in disgust, The course dinner is served in small portions and the finger bowl water duly drunk and the boys ask tor something to eat. Caspar is enraged, and goes. The boys adjourn, drink long and deep and hie themselves to a box car to talk it over. Deep slumber overtakes them and breaks up an interesting debate. The box car lands them in a seaport town. The captain of the "Nancy Lee" is over particular about the polishing of his deck and brasses. The seamen don't like the job and they desert in a body. The captain and the mate go ashore. They cannot sail without a crew. Disappointment drives them to a saloon, and there they find a bunch of mystified cowboys trying to find out where they are and why. A bright idea strikes the captain, and for a slight consideration the barkeeper adds something to the grog, which sends them into dreamland once more. When they awake they are confronted by the captain and his mate, are forced to don togs and holystone decks and clamber into the rigging. They do it unwillingly and ungracefully. The boys concoct a plan. They wait their chances and lasso the captain and the mate and force the man at the wheel to steer for terra firma. Arriving, they take the first train home and are received with open arms by the puzzled foreman and two delightful girls, who are assisting the repentant and reinstated cooky "of the first part" in the culinary department.
- An actress is recuperating at the beach, and is attended by her doctor who is in love with her. Eddie bids Betty, his sweetheart, goodbye, as she is going to the beach. Back at the store Eddie is told to take wax model No. 46 to the same hotel, to a salesman there. Betty and her father see him arrive at the hotel and think that the model is another woman. In the meanwhile Eddie takes the model to the salesman's room which is next to the actress's, and after leaving it there, he hastens down to Betty. She at once asks for an explanation, so he goes up to get the model. But the poor fellow gets in the wrong room and is detained there so long that Betty comes up and finds him in the arms of the actress. Of course the whole mix-up is explained away in the end, and Betty and Eddie as well as the actress and the doctor are all reconciled.
- Held and Brady are fellow officers of the mounted police, and both love the same girl, while Brady's affection is overshadowed by a deep hatred for his rival. The two men are dispatched into the surrounding forests to look for timber fires. Brady's hatred comes to master him and when Reid bends over a stream to drink, his rival strikes him on the head with his revolver butt and leaves him there for dead. An old hunter finds Held and nurses him back to life. In the meantime, Brady returns and tells the girt that Reid was accidentally killed. He continues to press his suit and she repulses him. One night, during a big storm, Brady comes to the girl's hut drunk. He takes her in his arms by force, and as the man and woman are straggling. Reid arrives from the forests. He sees the struggle through the window, lifts his gun to fire, but a bolt of lightning strikes Brady dead before Reid can execute his purpose.
- Jack returns from college and is told by his father that he is going to start him in business as his partner. Early the next morning Jack reports for work and finds that he is to learn the game from the ground up, and is accordingly made apprentice to the boss plumber. While on the first job he learns the art of loafing, and on returning to the shop is called up by his girl, who invites him to an afternoon reception. He agrees to come, but Spike forces him to stick to the job. At the girl's home a miniature fountain, which has been arranged on the dining room table, fails to work, and the butler sends for the plumber. Spike and Jack are assigned to the job. Jack is compelled to crawl under the table, while Spike turns the water on in the kitchen, where he gets to flirting with the cook and forgets Jack's predicament. The guests gather around the table and Jack is unable to escape without disclosing his identity. After various difficulties with the fountain, in which Jack's rival, as well as Spike himself gets a soaking, Jack is dragged forth, where explanations follow and Jack attends the party in his overalls, while Spike makes himself solid with the cook and likewise enjoys a good meal.
- Complications arise after a quiet marriage of two college students.
- A country cousin, reportedly to be depressed and having lost his appetite, visits his cousin and her husband and then proceeds to eat them out of house and home.
- Aunt Jemima and her nephew, Neal, are in the garden reading when they notice a newspaper article saying that she has inherited a large fortune. Auntie promptly faints and Neal goes into the house for a pitcher of water just as Betty, his sweetheart, calls him on the phone. Neal returns to the garden and revives his aunt. Uncle Jasper also sees the article and shows it to Betty, who is delighted. Captain Obadiah, an old sea captain, also notes the article and the two men decide to win the hand of the rich aunt. Both buy flowers and meeting on the way, go to her house together. Each is jealous of the other and Aunt Jemima tries to keep peace between them, finally telling them that she is too young to marry. Both men are angry and leave. Neal meets Uncle Jasper at the gate and tells him of his own engagement to Betty, but the uncle says there will be no wedding for them, as Aunt Jemima will not consent to marry him. Neal starts plotting. Knowing that Uncle Jasper is nearsighted, Neal dresses in one of his aunt's dresses and hats and goes into the garden, where he tells Betty of his plans. Uncle Jasper comes in and mistakes Neal for Aunt Jemima and starts making love to her. Neal pleads with uncle to allow the young folk to marry. Neal sees the captain coming and tries to break away from uncle. He finally succeeds in doing so and later joins Betty at the curb, where a man has left his bicycle. This Neal mounts and rides away after knocking down the captain and other bystanders. About this time Aunt Jemima, who has been shopping, comes on and questions the man who owned the wheel. An officer comes on and arrests Stella. On the way they discover the captain, but he refuses to say a good word for her, and she has to go on with the cop. They finally meet Uncle Jasper, who takes her in his arms and the two officers leave. Meanwhile Neal has returned home, changed his clothes and has hunted up Betty in the garden. They have a hearty laugh over the situation. As they look off they see uncle and auntie in the swing, which breaks. Nothing daunted, the two old folks kiss and embrace.
- Eddie and the girl are neighbors and sweethearts, but on the last day of their vacation they are parted by a lover's quarrel over a tennis game. The next day each leaves for college. Upon arriving at college, she is greeted by the professor, who is hated by the girls on account of his strict ways. The professor of languages fails to show up, so the principal writes to a college nearby for a substitute. Eddie arrives at his college and is greeted kindly. He is offered the post of professor of languages and accepts. Eddie's new job is very pleasant, as he deals exclusively with the girls, and he makes a hit with the principal by the strict way he deals with them. Elsie has heard all about the new professor, how handsome he is and how all the girls rave over him. but she takes little interest in the matter. In the first class, under the new professor, she is late for class and is reprimanded by her teacher, who recognizes his estranged sweetheart. She recognizes Eddie, and can't understand why he is there. The professor, although outwardly stern and strict, is secretly carrying on a love affair with one of the pupils, and has several narrow escapes from being caught. Eddie has the upper hand over the girl, in being her teacher, and tries every way to force her to beg his forgiveness, while she, thinking he is to blame, remains unforgiving. Eddie at last relents and slips a note under Elsie's door, telling her to meet him at the bridge at eight that night. Now Professor Sneeks has had a misunderstanding with his lover and writes her a note to meet him at this same bridge at eight the same night. Both Lochinvars are nearly caught slipping the notes under the door, but successfully escape. Elsie finds her note and is overjoyed. She is the first to slip out that night, and is seen by the principal, who follows her. Arriving at the bridge, she sees the professor there, and just as he greets her the principal arrives and gives them a "bawling out." Eddie is late, so is the other maid, and they arrive in time for the finish. Explanations follow, each chooses his maid and the principal is put to flight by the arrival of Dan Cupid.
- The story is of the two husbands, one rich, the other poor, both confronting matrimonial disaster. The rich man is about to lose his wife because she is unworthy. He comes to hate all humanity and contemplates suicide. The other husband is about to lose his wife through poverty and illness. He contemplates robbery. The poor man is driven to the last ditch. He leaves his hovel with the intention of committing robbery. He breaks his way into the house of the rich man. The owner has a revolver in one hand and a vial of poison in the other. He is debating which road he shall take into the grave. The rich man hears a burglar. He turns the revolver upon the intruder. The poor man then tells his story. The rich man thinks it a lie invented for the occasion. To test the truth of the burglar's statement, he hands him the poison with the words, "This drug will not prove fatal for an hour. Prove your love for your wife and children by taking this and I'll give you $1,000." The rich man pretends to pour the poison in the glass, but instead turns it upon the table. The poor man drinks what he thinks is the poison. The rich man is touched by the other's nobility. He keeps his promise to the poor man and begins life anew.
- Mr. Cutter, proprietor of a shoe store, finds business very slack. Billie and Ray are in the throes of their honeymoon and while seeing the town, the girl decides she needs a new pair of shoes. They wander into Cutter's establishment to select a suitable pair. Customers being few and far between, Cutter waits on the newcomers himself and his effusive politeness rankles in the bridegroom's chest. The bride appreciated the personal attention given her by the proprietor, but Ray takes her away and refuses to allow her to trade there. They go down the street quarreling. Mrs. Newlywed finally breaks away from her husband and returns to the store and buys a pair of shoes, leaving them at the store. The next day Ray meets his lawyer for a business conference. As they leave the office Ray sees Cutter loaded down with a mass of boxes and begins to suspect that Cutter is paying attention to his wife. His wife, meanwhile, has phoned the shoe store and requested Cutter to bring the shoes she had left. He not only takes the pair she selected, but also various others, an assortment, thinking he may sell her more shoes. In order to be sure of his suspicions Ray phones the shoe store and one of the clerks tells him that Mr. Cutter is fitting a particular lady customer at her home. The husband imagines the worst, and securing a gun, he hurries on home. He bursts into the house and finds Cutter fitting a pair of shoes to his wife's feet. He does not wait for explanations but begins shooting and he and Cutter have it up and down all through the house. Cutter escapes for a wonder, but still the irate husband pursues him and it is only when he reaches the protecting bulk of a traffic policeman that he stops to draw a breath. They explain to the officer their versions of the affair and the officer is successful in making peace between them. Cutter returns to the house for his shoes and as a peace offering presents the bride with a beautiful pair of shoes. Ray apologizes for his roughness and promises Cutter that all their trading will be done with him in the future.
- This time Mutt and Jeff are not over-prosperous (a financial state of affairs to which they are no strangers) and, as is their usual wont, they get busy devising ways and means to make an easy living, the easier the better. Traveling organists have no difficulty in getting money; and as Mutt always was musically inclined, he undoubtedly could grind out the same quality and the same quantity of music that energetic Italian mountaineers regale us with. But what is organ music without a monkey? How to get a monkey, that's the question. Mutt's think-box gets in motion. It takes more than a little persuasion on his part to get little Jeff to impersonate the much-needed monkey. Organist Mutt and collector-monk Jeff soon begin making noise and incidentally some money. Business, however, does not meet with Mutt's most sanguine expectations, and, of course, he takes it out of the monkey. The dog-catchers, a tender-hearted bunch, free Jeff from Mutt's brutal clutches and take him away with a motley assortment of stray dogs. What does Mutt do without his monkey? What does Jeff do in the dog den? What do the dog-catchers do? They cut up such a lot of uproariously funny monkeyshines as to keep both young and old doing the continuous laughing performance till the climax is reached.
- Following the old advice, "Go West, young man," the boy who was formerly a soda dispenser goes West to seek a gold mine. In the town of Red Dog lives Betty. She owns and runs the Long Horn Saloon, and her chief admirer is Dick Dare, the gambling sheriff. About this time Two Gun Harry has escaped jail and is holding up stagecoaches all over the county. When the boy first enters the saloon with two big guns protruding from his pocket, the cowboys think he is dangerous. He leaves the saloon after his lemonade and strolls down the road. He rolls a cigarette, and while searching for a match, the stagecoach drives up. The boy says "Stop" as he intends to get a match. The passengers, thinking the boy is Two Gun Harry, shell out, and the stage dashes into the town to report. The Sheriff and posse start out for the bandit. The boy, meanwhile, takes a short cut, and coming back to the saloon, he tells the girl of the strange people who gave him all these things. She hides him in her cabin and when the Sheriff and posse trail him there, she conceals the boy in the loft. All would have been well, but the nervous boy tips over a jug of vinegar. The Sheriff, frightened of the record of Two Gun Harry, calls his posse and they are about to deal out justice to the boy when a messenger comes in with the news that Two Gun Harry was captured in another town. All inquire who he is, and he proudly tells them he is the best soda clerk west of Chicago. The girl engages him for a bartender and all ends well.
- Mutt and his dear colleague Jeff have the blues. While Jeff falls to thinking, Mutt, being in doubt as to what to do, takes a shove. Most of the time he manages to wipe his razor on the face of the shining dome of the hard-thinking partner. Once, however, he uses a piece of newspaper, and an advertisement, "Police Wanted," meets his gaze. Mutt promptly decides to join the force, much to Jeff's displeasure. At Police Headquarters he is thoroughly examined, physically and otherwise. Mutt becomes a guardian of the peace. Jeff is disconsolate and lonely. He, too, yearns for the blue uniform; but nature has been unkind to him. Roaming about the streets, he comes to a telegraph office. A large sign, "Messengers Wanted," causes him to halt and think. He finally decides to become one of the boys in blue. While "showing off" at the Police Headquarters, Mutt is astounded to see his confrere in uniform chatting pleasantly with the captain. Jeff has just delivered a message apprising the police officer of a planned robbery for that evening. Mutt is promptly detailed on the job. He starts out like a conqueror, but the burglars go about their work with Mutt as a witness. He does not arrest them because, well, because they refuse to believe him a policeman. At the station, when the facts are known, the captain and other policemen gently pick up Mutt and tenderly throw him out. Full of life and energy, Jeff comes upon his friend lying bruised and hurt on the sidewalk. He offers consolation, but Mutt will have none of it. Was it not Jeff and the message he delivered that caused his downfall? Mutt must be revenged. They're off! Stick in hand, Mutt chases Jeff over the marathon route. A friendly telegraph pole ends the run, for Jeff scales to the top and waves an affectionate adieu to his foiled chum below. And now, Mutt and Jeff no longer have the blues!
- Desperate Desmond wants beautiful Rosamond, and wants her at any cost. He's desperately in love with her, which fact causes him to do desperate deeds. At the psychological moment, he abducts her with the aid of two minions. Claude Eclaire, Rosamond's hero and sweetheart, manages to train the villain, and, after some thrilling adventures, saves the girl and with her bravely plunges into the sea to escape Desmond and his myrmidons. The desperate fellow, however, pauses just long enough to curse the luck and then starts in pursuit with Gomgotz and another wild man from Borneo. Despite the brave efforts of both Claude and Rosamond, the hunters gain ground, or rather, water, for the scene is laid over the briny wavelets. The fugitives soon repair to a semi-submerged, friendly house. There, from the chimney top, they bold the fort. Unable to make any headway, Desperate Desmond conceives and executes a diabolical plan. He puts a bomb in a box, lights the fuse and sends it by the water route on its errand of destruction. Luck does not relish being cursed, and smiles upon the lovers. The faucet is open and the sink running over. The box with its smoking burden tries to navigate under the sink, but the falling water holds it there and renders the bomb harmless. Claude captures the bomb, relights it and, thus armed, turns the tables on his pursuers. With his beloved Rosamond he leaves the enemy stranded and boards the ship to freedom and happiness. Desperate Desmond, defeated and crestfallen, swims back to the ship, but the anchor is as far as he can go, curse the luck!
- An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of the savage, and agree to meet at sunset. The chief of the tribe to which the girl belongs, covets and demands her of her father. The father consents, but the girl rebels. At sunset, she meets her lover and tells him what her fate is to be. He tells her that when the moon shines, he will come for her and take her away. Their clandestine conversation is overheard by an unfriendly Indian and carried to the covetous chief. The lover is taken prisoner and taunted by the chief. Finally the chief raises a weapon to strike the prisoner dead. The girl jumps between and receives the blow, which wounds her mortally. The lover breaks his bonds and demands trial by conquest. This is granted. He fights with and kills the chief, and is himself elected chief of the tribe. But his heart is with the girl. He takes his own life, and the spirits of the two are seen to reunite in the Happy Hunting Ground.
- The King of Smearcase passes away, leaving no male heir to the throne. The Princess hears the news and the Prime Minister takes up with her the matter of another king. They find that the next in the royal line runs a delicatessen store in America. Jerry, the proprietor, is busy when the news comes. He finds that to succeed to the throne he must be unmarried. He has a wife, but decides that he win try to get the kingdom anyway and say nothing of his previous attachment. On the dock, as he is about to take the steamer, he meets Jack, an old friend of his, whose firm is sending him to Europe on business. He tells him of his new kingdom and invites his friend to run over any time he gets a chance and he will have the Royal Army march around for him. Back in Limberg, the capital, everything is made ready for the coming of the new king. King Jerry arrives. He is pleased with the Princess he is to marry, but is disturbed by thoughts of the wife at home. The Princess is not favorably impressed with the King and refuses to marry him. The Prime Minister endeavors to settle this difficulty. Jack, King Jerry's friend, calls at the palace. He flirts with the Princess, whom he meets in the palace grounds, and she thinks favorably of the American. A maid-of-honor oversees the affair and tells the Prime Minister, who has Jack arrested and brought before the King. The old friends shake hands and Jack is turned loose. He meets the Princess again and she suggests that he disguise himself as an officer in the army of the King and that then they will be able to see each other every day. They are caught together again and Jack is again arrested and imprisoned. The Princess and one of his assistants plan to free him. They disguise him and he is given a position as Royal Guard to the Princess. Jerry decides to pay a visit to his future Queen but finds that Jack is there before him and beats a hasty retreat. Suddenly there is an uproar at the outer gate. At last Jerry's wife and children have searched him out. The outraged wife dashes into the presence of the King and informs the court that she is the King's wife. It therefore becomes impossible for Jerry to occupy the throne and he is led out by his irate wife. The wise heads decide they must have a King and the Princess suggests Jack. It is finally decided that Jack shall be made King and the Princess is at last happy, while Jerry starts back to America with his wife and numerous offspring.
- On her deathbed, Renee's mother confides to her daughter the troubled history of her life. She was wealthy and she was loved alone for her riches. She was to be married; on her wedding day the bridegroom married another woman he really loved. She married her second choice of men and after two years, he left her. When Renee was born she swore an oath to the effect that her baby, Renee, would be a siren and break a heart for every tear she had shed. With this confession Renee's mother dies and the daughter takes the fulfillment of the oath upon herself. Finally she picks out Dick Northrop, the eldest of two brothers. Dane, the younger brother, admonishes Dick to beware of her. But Dick is young also. He proposes to her and is accepted. On his wedding day he receives a note which reads: "I despise you. I never intended to marry you, you fool. Renee." Dick commits suicide. Then it is that Dane swears to repay the siren in her own coin. She promises to marry him. On her wedding day she receives a note: "I despise you, I never intended to marry you, you fool. Dane." Once again Renee and Dane meet. She is at her mother's grave. He is at the grave of Dick. Over all the madness and folly which is buried in those two graves Renee appeals to Dane for forgiveness. He turns away and leaves her in the darkness with her dead.
- As Tetona sat before the camp-fire gazing at the sweet fact of the white woman in her locket, she pondered for the millionth time as to the owner of that face. Her foster-father, the old chief, professed total ignorance on the subject, but Tetona found that her skin was only darkened when exposed to the sun, and that, together with the locket and apparent inborn abhorrence for some of the Indian customs, caused her to sometimes question whether, after all, she was a real Indian Princess. Since Tetona, then Elletta Barnett, had been carried off during the attack on the prairie schooner, nine years ago, the chief bad been kindness itself to the "Princess Tetona." Only now he commanded her to wed the Prince, his son, creeping cautiously from her tent. Tetona stole quietly toward the woods. She could not, she would not marry the young brave. Fate favored her, for, ere the pursuing Indians could drag her back, Dick Morley galloped past and seeing the maiden in distress, caught her up on his horse and made a mad dash for the Barnett Ranch. The mother's instinct, Tetona's face, and locket thoroughly convinced Mrs. Barnett that at last she had found their long-lost daughter, and, overjoyed at the wonderful discovery, she went to call her husband. The Indians, however, had followed close upon the cowboy's heels, and the instant they observed their Princess alone, crept softly behind her and throwing a blanket over her head, bore her hastily outside. Here again Dick might have saved her had not the crafty Prince attacked him from the rear. He revived sufficiently, however, to tell the distracted father and mother which way the Indians had taken their daughter, but as Barnett ran to get the cowboys to rescue Tetona, the Indians surrounded him, and taking him captive, hurried him before their chief. To vent his wrath upon the maiden would have been unbecoming his dignity, but when the chief found Barnett in his power, his anger burst forth. Tetona, seeing the tribe engaged in a war dance around the unfortunate man, mounted the horse they had taken as they returned with her to the camp, and galloped back to the ranch. Luckily the cowboys lost not a moment in responding to her call, for the infuriated chief had stripped Barnett to the waist, painted a target on his breast, and had his braves drawn up to take aim, when they dashed to the rescue, and would gladly have placed the chief in his place, had not the girl told them of his unvarying kindness to her, and insisted upon giving him his freedom.
- They called him Tahnidge the miser, and spoke in whispers of the golden hoard hidden away in his little cabin where no one was ever invited; they drew pictures of the old miser greedily counting this gold by a single candle, and wonder how his daughter, the fair Niada, managed to appear so happy. But could they have peeped into that same little cabin, they would have wondered no longer, for Smith Tahnidge fairly worshiped Niada and delighted in his gold chiefly for the protection it would give his daughter when she should be left alone. Then, the girl had still another cause for happiness; she and Bob Homer had been secretly engaged for weeks, and now awaited but the approval of her father, which, when he knew Bob thoroughly, Niada felt sure they would obtain. The miser, in going in search of his daughter, was passing Jim's saloon when the lovers appeared. Instantly a quarrel arose between the men and the result was one of Tahnidge's heart spells. This gave Will Danvers, gambler and all around crook, an opportunity to help the old man to his home. But his advances proved quite as fruitless with him as they had with the daughter, and he was compelled to leave without as much as a glance inside. That night, however, in peeping through the keyhole, he discovered where the old miser had hidden his hoard and. from then on, waited but for an opportunity to find the cabin alone. The opportunity came the next day, for, after intercepting a note to Niada from Bob and learning when she would be away, Danvers stationed himself at the side of the house and the instant Tahnidge stepped outside to call Niada, the gambler darted into the house. He had no sooner seized the gold, however, than the old man returned, a fierce struggle ensued, which might have proven fatal for the miser had not Bob arrived, for, being told by the boy that Danvers had read his note, the young man had hurried to the cabin to find out his motive. Tahnidge had scarcely time to thank his rescuer when he sank into unconsciousness, and the gambler, believing he was dead, ran to the saloon for the boys, telling them that Bob had killed the old man in an attempt to rob him. But as they started away with Bob, Niana appeared, and after restoring her father to consciousness, Tahnidge not only righted matters by sending the posse off with Danvers, but gladly gave his consent to the young people's marriage.
- Clarence is a timid man and as a consequence does not find favor in the eyes of his sweetheart's mother, who desires a bold, brave man for her daughter, "Spike," while little, is very "loud," and even has the nerve to put a professional prize fighter "to sleep," when the latter interferes with him. He and Clarence meet each other accidentally and Clarence suffers from the meeting. Professor Giblets, an eminent scientist, has made a marvelous discovery in his laboratory. By the combination of an electric battery and the ultraviolet rays, he can transform the attributes of one animal to that of another, even a human. Clarence takes his girl for an outing in the park and they are having a real nice time when Clarence is greatly frightened by a swan eating out of his hand. "Spike," wandering about, comes to their rescue Clarence is discouraged with life and is about to end it all, when he is rescued by Prof. Giblets. Clarence tells his troubles and the professor comforts him with the assertion that by means of his invention Clarence will become a new man. The apparatus is arranged and the machinery set going. At one end of the tube sits Clarence, while at the other end is a ferocious brute of a lion. The experiment is completed. Clarence runs to the side of the lion and cuffs him on the ears. The professor is roughly thrown aside and Clarence rushes out. Clarence wanders into a saloon, throws out all the loafers, spits in the bartender's face and acts "bad" generally. Wandering to the park, he finds his girl and "Spike." "Spike" is given the surprise of his life and beats a hasty retreat. Clarence takes his girl home, and on the way bends iron lamp posts for the fun of it. Mother is surprised at his breezy entrance, but after a short "argument" he is acknowledged lord and master, and as the story ends, Clarence is comfortably installed in a large chair, while his wife and mother-in-law hasten to do his bidding.
- A company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.
- Wandering figure of Charlie (known from the Chaplin films). After visiting a second-hand bookshop, Charlie dreams that he has kidnapped the Queen of Sheba. Yet there is no beautiful woman behind the veil of this Turkish lady.
- Two tramps take the places of a political candidate and his secretary and are feted by the inhabitants of the town.