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- The piano player falls in love with the wife of the bad man. The bad man meets the piano player and tells him that his wife is in the east; and so they decide to go and find her, the pianist not realizing who the girl is. Later Ben, the pianist, becomes the leader of the orchestra and gets into a fight with the violinist. The comedy ends with a chase, a wrecked theater and a bomb explosion which sends them all sky high.
- Gypsy, the daughter of the widow Templeton, who keeps boarders, is wooed by both Paddy, the boarder in hard luck, and Arthur, the star boarder. Paddy fails to pay his board bill and does not appear at the office in time and is fired. He goes to the ocean to commit suicide. Meanwhile a bank has been robbed and the booty hidden in an old sock, near the ocean's edge. Paddy finds the sock. Paddy and the burglar struggle on a jack-knife bridge and both fall into the water. The burglar is caught and Paddy is complimented for capturing the desperado. However, he is soon in the depths of despair, when he finds Gypsy has married Arthur.
- A businessman's jealous wife suspects he is running around with other women. The tables are turned when a friend of the family involves her in a stock scheme. Her husband begins to suspect that she and her "partner" are involved in more than just business, not knowing that the scheme has gone bad and she has lost all the money she invested.
- Ben falls in love with Dora Darling, the star in a motion picture. He "finds" some money and starts for the studios. He is followed by the crooks, whose money he has appropriated. He is put to work in the studio as assistant property man, after giving them some of his money. Ben cannot make any progress with Dora because she and Demon Desmonde are already in love with each other. After many funny situations Ben is blown up by the crooks, but manages to escape alive; the crooks are arrested.
- Squire Laurie, the village skinflint, takes a circus tiger as security for a loan. Arthur, who loves Lillian, the old man's daughter, hates tigers, having bucked them, but when Laurie's tiger dies of despondency Arthur skins it, so that Ben, the keeper can pose in its skin before the half-blind miser and save his job, while Arthur warned off the premises by old Laurie, turns tiger occasionally so that he can sit in the cage and make love through the bars to Lillian, despite her hard-hearted Pa. When the old man becomes suspicious he is chased by the fake tiger until he consents to Lillian's marriage.
- Ben and his pal Paddy, a couple of drifting loafers and con-men, arrive in town via a "side-door Pullman" - a free ride in a boxcar. They set up a printing press, and start printing counterfeit money, get involved with a couple of swell-looking towns-girls (even when looked at crooked by Ben), and get highly inebriated.
- The gentlemen of a fashionable social club become annoyed when their guest, Ben, has their wives entranced with stories of his bravery battling outlaws in the wild west. They decide to teach him a lesson by having a club worker disguise himself with a bear skin rug and sneak up on Ben.
- A scientist invents an insidious bomb: It doesn't blow up, doesn't spread toxic gas, it doesn't kill. Instead, victims are thrown into uncontrolled fits of dancing which lead to their doom. And the enemy will stop at nothing to get it.
- Ben, proprietor of a small town restaurant and in love with his waitress, presents her with an engagement ring. About this time the waitress goes to the city to buy her trousseau. The cook receives word that a fortune awaits him in the city, and he and his wife leave. When the waitress arrives she finds that her aunt is not in town so puts up at the Chargealot Hotel. A drummer also decides to stop at the same place, but his room is given by mistake to the waitress. The cook and his wife get the rooms adjoining the waitress', and that night after the proprietor of the restaurant who has sold his restaurant and who has come to the hotel, arrives there, and things happen that sure keep everyone jumping, and finally a wild chase ensues, which results in the drummer and waitress bungling into the home of a preacher, where they are married.
- Ben, the butcher, is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his affections. He falls asleep and has a dream in which he threatens to foreclose the mortgage on the home of the girl he loves. He also makes a regular crook of the girl's brother by having his safe robbed and the money placed in the brother's pocket. Ben is aroused from his dream by his partner, who is beating him over the head with a slab of meat.
- Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hoping to protect her.
- Lawrence Bowes, a man-about-town, is the sweetheart of Rena Rogers, a dainty demoiselle of the lady barbers' union. In the popular barber shop works Paddy McGuire, the champion ladies' bootblack. Here is a chapter of accidents, each one of which is a screech. The Flirt is chased from one hiding place to another by Bootblack Paddy. A pair of painters do extraordinary acrobatic things from a swinging stage outside a tall building and with the aid of an extension ladder.
- Rube, a shipwrecked sailor, is cast upon an island, which is inhabited by a tribe of fire worshipers. The girls of the island take a fancy to him, which displeases the men, and they try to put him out of the way, but only succeed in getting hurt themselves. Finally they do catch him napping, and he is put in a cage to be offered as a sacrifice to the volcano on the island. The girls release him. He finds out that they are afraid of fire, and as the only thing that has been saved from the ship is a keg of powder and a couple of signal rockets, he has an idea. After he has exploded the powder and set off the rockets, they of the island think that he is the master of the volcano. All rush towards him to worship him. He thinks they are going to assault him and runs into the water. He wakes to find out that he has been asleep on a barge and has fallen into the water.
- An art collector purchases a rare painting and the picture pirate gets two rubes to help steal it. They drink poisoned whiskey and fall into a fit. Later the picture pirate pays Rube and Ben for the forgery, thinking it's the original.
- Rube has a Bowery belle for a sweetheart. He meets another girl and falls in love with her. As a result of the double love affair Rube gets mixed up in a series of complications. After cleaning up the dance hall Rube is hit with a bottle and knocked out. His spirit is seen to leave his body and ascend to a fanciful spot. There are a royal queen, dancing girls, wood nymphs, corpyhees, etc. Rube is welcomed and he proceeds to enjoy himself. After some time Rube awakens and finds himself on an operating table. He wrecks the hospital and is finally subdued by a policeman's club.
- A policeman tries to kiss a nurse girl and pushes the baby carriage away. The carriage rolls down the street and hits Rube. Then he goes to the hospital. When he regains consciousness he finds an awful looking nurse at his bedside. He starts to leave the hospital, but stops when he sees Madge, who is attending to Art, the star patient. Rube tries to get the attention of Madge and angers Art. This starts a fight which takes the whole hospital force to quiet. In the meanwhile the porter of the hospital gives one of the patients a drink of an antiseptic wash, then laughs at his spitting it out. The patient attacks him, and when he is rescued by the doctors, to protect himself, he blames the whole thing on an innocent party. This causes the innocent party to be ordered out of the hospital. He, smarting under the injustice of it, returns with a bomb. Rube takes it away from him and puts it under Art's bed. Art sees it and throws it back at Rube. The bomb is finally forgotten by Art and Rube when they start to fight, but the bomb soon explodes and blows up the ward.
- Moon is a lazy businessman. His wife sends the maid to call him and she enters the room just as the wind, blowing in the bedroom windows, blows the covers from the bed, exposing him in his underwear. The wife, hearing the maid's startled scream, enters the room, and swears the husband had an ulterior motive in appearing before the maid in his pajamas. To square himself the husband promises the wife a new suit and leaves for his place of business, where he meets Rudolph, who has called to collect the bill. Searching for his wallet he discovers it is lost, and explaining this fact, he is enraged that Rudolph questions his credibility. Returning home for his wallet, he finds the maid entertaining a cop, who has had his badge and gun stolen, and who is there in search of it. Incidentally he flirts with the maid, who hides him in a clock, which falls on top of the husband, and a fight ensues. Hurrying to Rudolph's place after he has disposed of the policeman, the husband finds his wife in Rudolph's private office, and the door locked. Peering through the keyhole he sees the tailor's arms around his wife and he starts to shoot up the place. The cop enters and recognizes the gun in hubby's hand as the one which was stolen from him. Things happen rapidly and after many ludicrous situations, hubby learns his jealousy is unfounded, and the cop finds that Rudolph's assistant is the thief who robbed him.
- Sammy, expert baker, is in love with Lena Schultz, daughter of his employer. Schultz, however, aspires that Lena shall marry a title. He encourages the advances of the Baron von Swindleheimer. Lena becomes suspicious of the genuineness of the "Baron's" claims to the nobility. So she advises her sweetheart of her father's conspiracy. Sammy interferes and finds himself thrown out of a job. Schultz advertising for a new baker, the lovers concoct a scheme. Sammy, in disguise, obtains the position and proceeds to ruin Schultz's business by putting too much yeast in the biscuits, over-doing the baking-powder act, and kneading limburger cheese in the bread. The customers riot. Schultz and the bogus baron go after Sammy with a gun. The baker, however, retaliates by browning von Swindleheimer to a fine crisp in the oven. Then he begins to shoot holes in the doughnuts. The baron is rescued, and shakes the flour from his soles forever. Lena persuades her father that the only way to save them now from bankruptcy is to reinstate Sammy. With the return of the expert baker, the same wonderful bakings bring back a bigger custom than ever. Sammy agrees to continue his services on condition that Schultz takes him into partnership and gives him Lena for his bride.
- Bungling Bill burglarizes a house, and in a struggle with Mr. Grouch, the occupant, he is wounded in the hand. Fearful of obtaining medical aid, lest he be traced, Bill fortunately reads in the paper an ad for a hospital orderly, and applying at the hospital he is hired. In the hospital is a young nurse named Rena, whom the superintendent looks upon with much favor, and when he finds her conversing with her sweetheart, Jack, he angrily informs her that she is interned for three months, and must have no communication with outsiders until the expiration of that time. Jack has this news conveyed to him in a letter. Lovesick and desperate, he falls before a passing automobile, is injured, and in this way accomplishes his purpose of obtaining admission to the hospital. There he meets Bungling Bill, who is nursing Mr. Grouch, who was accidentally shot in the foot by a policeman during the search for Bill in Grouch's home. Grouch tries to expose Bill without success, as the latter keeps him unconscious most of the time by striking him on the head with his blackjack. Jack in the hospital searches for Rena, and unintentionally enters the room of a sick woman, whose husband, a very jealous man, calls, and finding him there, starts to shoot up the hospital. Bill's identity is learned, and he is about to be captured when he cleverly makes the husband believe that the Superintendent is flirting with his wife, and while the latter is being chased by the husband, Bill makes his getaway. During the excitement, Jack and Rena, climbing down a fire escape, enter the room of a sick clergyman, and explaining the circumstances to him, win his sympathy and he marries them.
- Sammy can't make Sally, his sweetheart, love him because she is athletically inclined and Sammy is a little runt whose biceps are not up to her standard. He is in despair. But learning that the professor of the local gymnasium is hard up, he makes him a mysterious proposition, involving the exchange of a roll of bills. Sammy goes into training and in a few weeks has developed an astonishing amount of muscle. Sally, passing the gym, is surprised to see a large poster announcing the championship match between Sammy, "the wrestling wizard" and Nabisco, "the terrible Turk." Sammy happens to come out at this minute and he hands Sally complimentary tickets to the bout. The night of the great event, Sammy completely flattens out the Turk. Sally is convinced. She marries Sammy the next day.
- Two college boys, finding their funds low, meet a young girl and manage to "borrow" fifty dollars from her purse, without her knowing it. The theft is reported and the next day the boys write their fathers, asking them for money. The boys borrow fifty dollars from a pawnbroker and manage to slip it back into the girl's purse. The fathers of the boys arrive and are arrested as the thieves. The girl, however, gets the real thieves and they all meet at the police station. Here the girl finds her money is all intact and the matter is thought to be cleared up when the pawnbroker comes on the scene and demands his fifty. A chase follows and the boys are finally caught.
- It is a rainy morning, and only a few of the motion picture actors arrive at the Vogue Studio. Waterfalls in torrents on the stage, and the drenched actors file into the studio grounds. The leading woman, the leading man and the camera man are late. The manager calls up the leading woman on the phone, and she refuses to go to the studio unless they send a car for her. Out into the streets filled with water goes the auto. She is called for and delivered to the studio, but refuses to leave the car unless she is provided with an umbrella. The property room and dressing rooms are turned upside down to find an umbrella but none is forthcoming. Finally, the resourceful property man plays "Sir Walter Raleigh" and lays his overcoat down for the leading woman to alight on from the auto. Now that the company is assembled, the director arranges the set and starts the action. A dramatic scene is taken when the leading man saves the leading woman from the clutches of the villain, the starving chee-ild is fed, and when the director asks the footage of the scene, he learns that the cameraman forgot to put any film into the camera. The ill-fated director was revived when he learned that the sun was coming out.
- Madame Parlevoo, a foreign emissary is carrying a hat box in which a secret code is hidden and this information is contained in a letter addressed to Count Romany a spy in the employ of the army of the unemployed. Romany calls his chief lieutenant, Baron Pooh Pooh by name and orders him to get the code which Madame is carrying in the hat box. As Madame is stopping at the sea shore the spies go there and after many attempts Baron Pooh Pooh finally succeeds in purloining the coveted hat box. The theft of this causes him, in his attempts to escape, to enter the village of an Igorrote chieftain who declares the Baron's intrusion to be a violation of an inviolate law of their religion and the only atonement to appease the anger of their God is the blood of the Baron. The Igorrotes tie him to a lunging board and throwing spears at him are about to make the fatal lunge, when Count Romany appears on the scene, and interrupts the execution by stealing the hat box. The sacrifice of the Baron is abandoned until the Count is captured the Igorrotes overtaking the latter in an alligator farm, where he takes refuge in the section of an old alligator. They are about to lead him back to the village when the police intervene and learning of the theft, open the box to find it empty.
- Bungling Bill and Bloggie steal a letter and a Ford machine, and the owner and the police chase them. After a series of adventures these two bungling men take refuge in the apartment of Carmen Sapho, an adventuress, who holds them up at the point of a gun and searches them. Finding the stolen letter on their person, she reads the contents and learns therefrom that ten thousand dollars is to be shipped from Canarsie station on the limited train that afternoon. She hires them to go to the station and steal the shipment. Arriving in Canarie, they are arrested for illegal train riding and are forced to act as strike breakers during the strike which is then in progress on the road. This strike has been fomented by Malcolm Valentine, a villain, who revenges himself in this way upon the superintendent, who, with Jack Braveheart, a railroad detective, rescued Rena, an operator, from his clutches. Inciting the men to strike, Valentine defies the road, and it was this fact that caused Bungling Bill and Bloggie to choose between six months in jail or brave the anger of the strikers. They choose the latter. Dressed in brakemen attire, they go to take the tickets of the passengers boarding the limited with disastrous results. In the meantime Carmen has come, and learning the address of Daschundsky, the man who is making the shipment, she trails him from his house and sees him enter the bank with a bag. Duplicating the bag, she comes back and follows him into the office of the superintendent, where she switches the bags and is about to make off with the money when Valentine comes into the office. He, too, has learned about the shipment, and knocking the superintendent unconscious, he is about to leave the office with the worthless bag when he sees Carmen. He recognizes her as a woman he deserted and at a refusal to a reconciliation, she allows him to go with a bag filled with newspapers. At the station Valentine realizes he has been tricked and he has two tools board the train to steal the bag from Carmen. She has lost the bag that contained the money by absent-mindedly taking the bag Valentine rid himself of when he found the contents were worthless. The events that follow are fast and furious. The fights on the train with Bungling Bill and Bloggie finally obtaining the bag, the kidnapping of Rena, the race between a train and automobile, the mail bag snapped off the mail crane with two human beings inside, the final roundup of the culprits with the money bag finding its way back to the owner through the ingenuity of Jack Braveheart and his sweetheart, make this a snappy comedy.
- Bill Jenkins goes to sleep and dreams that he enlists as a soldier. He is a stupid subject and the commanding officer has to resort to violence to get him to obey orders. The general's daughter joins the regiment, much to the delight of Bill. When the call for mess is given, Bill is the first to arrive at the mess tent. As General Fairfax arrives with the troops, Bill is hastily devouring a pie. General Fairfax orders him to the guardhouse. Later the general notes a distant attack being made by one of the enemy's troops on his daughter. Bill, by a great effort, has parted the bars of his prison and volunteers to save the daughter single-handed. He dashes on horseback without weapons. After traveling some distance, by driving the horse backwards at a terrific speed, he spies a cool spot under a tree. Leaving his horse to browse he lays himself down to slumber. The daughter works out her own salvation and returns to the camp. When Bill returns he starts to relate wonderful feats he has performed. The general, knowing his tale to be untrue, orders him to the guardhouse again, while the daughter pleads for him in vain. Jenkins is to be shot at sunrise. The daughter, visiting the tents, removes the cartridges from the rifles, extracts the bullets and replaces the cartridges. Bill is marched to the execution grounds. He is aware of everything that has happened. The grave is dug. When the soldiers fire Bill pretends to be shot, and after dusting off the stretcher with his hat collapses upon it. Not wanting to be buried alive he springs away quickly and attempts to escape. Then he is put into the mouth of a cannon and shot into the enemy's camp. He escapes again and returns to General Fairfax, who decides to execute Bill himself. He starts to prod Bill with his sword when Bill wakes up from his dream and finds the saloon-keeper poking him in the ribs with a long stick.
- A political campaign is at its height just before the election that will decide the supremacy of either the reform party headed by a popular candidate or the old gang which is swayed by the rule of a typical political "boss." The reform candidate is heard making a speech in which he threatens to close the dives of the city, one of which is owned by the boss of the anti-reformers. Henchmen of the boss hear the speech and inform him. He decides to plot against the reform candidate. During the election excitement a vagabond walks into town. He gravitates to the dive of the boss and is offered a job. He starts out with paste bucket and bills announcing the slogan of the anti-reformers. A series of ludicrous mishaps follows, in which Paddy, the vagabond, attempts to paste bills in the most impossible places and succeeds in covering most of the city with paste if not with bills. Returning to the headquarters of the boss, he hears the plot being hatched to ruin the reform candidate, whom he met a few minutes before, having saved his daughter from the attack of two ruffians and the grateful girl having taken him to her home and introduced him to her father. The boss and his henchmen catch Paddy listening to their plot and throw him into the street, leaving to commit their low deed, which consists of luring the reform candidate to the room of a notorious woman, who is to fall and pretend to sprain her ankle just as the reform candidate comes along. All works well until Paddy recovers from the blow that he received when he was ejected from the dive of the boss. He runs to the home of the reformer and notifies his daughter, who has just refused a proposal of the boss's son, a wholesome young fellow to whom she objects on account of his father. All three hasten to the room where the plotters have just succeeded in getting the reformer and the woman together as planned. Paddy and the two lovers dash in; Paddy explains the plot in the presence of policemen and newspaper reporters. A fight ensues, the reformer and his friends are victorious, the lovers are united, the boss resigns from the election race and shakes hands with the reformer and Paddy, walks out of town after having accomplished a deed that squares him with the world for all the worthless days he has spent.
- Rube, the old resident, whose principal work is sitting around reading while his wife does the work, is engaged at his regular task one day, when the new neighbors move in. Rube hurries over to greet the wife. Alice, his wife, sees him over there and promptly chases him home. Arthur, the new neighbor, also objects to Rube talking to his wife, because he is jealous. Later, when they are settled, Rube and the new neighbor's wife have a flirtation from their windows. Of course, they are caught and punished by their other half. One day the laundry man makes a mistake and leaves the laundry for the new neighbor at the house of the old resident. While his wife is out, and the new neighbor is also absent, Rube takes the laundry over, but leaves a part of it at his own house. His wife comes home and finds this. The new neighbor also comes home in time to catch Rube and his wife together. In the meantime a couple of crooks that have seen an open window climb in and are going to rob the place. Rube, when he is caught, jumps out of the window. The new neighbor's dog chases him. Rube climbs in his own window and the dog follows him. The new neighbor and the wife of the old resident discover the crooks and chase them in a closet. The new neighbor goes for the police. Rube, failing to shake the dog in his own house, runs to the new neighbors. The crooks have gotten out of the closet and locked up the new neighbor's wife in it. Rube, to get away from the dog, gets in the closet and shuts the door on the dog. There he finds the wife. Then the husband returns with the police. Shots are fired through the door, etc. The crooks are caught by the dog. Rube convinces the new neighbor that he caught them, and everything is all serene.
- Rube and Evans, a couple of tramps, see a man and a woman seated on a bench in the park, and as they are short of money, they decide to let the man make up that deficiency. They rob the man. Later they meet a girl with whom they flirt, and while they are trying to cut each other out with the girl, a policeman appears. They both get nervous and leave. A flirtatious dentist has a large practice, and decides to put a sign outside of the house for an assistant. He does so, then goes inside and invites a girl patient to go out with him. As they are ready to go, Rube and Evans come along and see the sign. Both go in to get the job. Evans lands it. The dentist and the girl go out leaving the place in charge of Evans. Rube and Evans then proceed to rob the patients, while they are busy robbing one, the girl of the park enters the private office. Again they both try to make a fuss over her. She informs them that she is the wife of the absent dentist. In the meanwhile, the husband of the girl that the dentist is out with, sees his wife and the dentist, bawls out the dentist who hurries away and returns to the office. There he sees Rube and Evans trying to hug his wife. This is too much, so he pulls his trusty revolver from his pocket and starts shooting. Rube and Evans start to run from one room to another. Each of the patients whom they have robbed discover their loss and return, arriving in time to block them at the different exits. They finally get away and while they are dividing up their ill-gotten gains, they discover that they have seated themselves at the side of a sleeping policeman. He awakens, only to be caught by the dentist and pursuing patients. After being roughly handled, the policeman enters and gives the plunder to the patients, and everything is once again all right, with the exception that the run of hard luck has drive both Rube and Evans away.
- A paperhanger, much in love, arrives at the home of Madge, his sweetheart, to find another man defending her from a white rat. He immediately challenges the intruder to a battle. Art, the other man, is thrown out of the house and jarred up against his own lady love, Alice, who happens to be passing. Art schemes to get even by inducing Alice to pretend to flirt with the paperhanger. That evening the latter gentleman starts out to call on Alice. By mistake he enters the apartment of a Mr. Mack, a bibulous person, who happens to be out just then, but who on returning and finding a stranger in the company of his wife, draws his gun and shoots up the innocent manipulator of paste and paper. Meanwhile, Madge has written the paperhanger that at last she has father's consent to marry him. The note falls into the hands of the vengeful Art who attempts to forestall the wedding. The paperhanger, escaping from Mr. Mack, is waylaid by his other enemy and divested of his trousers. He manages to reach safety, however, via a dumbwaiter. Despite his undignified appearance, Madge receives him with open arms, and they are married, the groom's person draped in a convenient tablecloth.
- Art and Rube are both employed in the same café, Rube as a waiter and Art as a chef. They are both in love with Alice, a Spanish dancer, who is an entertainer in the café. They are bitter rivals for her favor and come to blows about her, much to the detriment of the service of the café. The proprietor settles this, and as he likes them both, allows them to continue in the service of the place. Madge comes to the café as a cashier. Art and Rube see her and fall for her. Madge being a flirt, encourages them both. They have a bitter quarrel about her, which winds up in a duel between them with meat cleavers as the weapons. As a climax to their struggles to win her favor. Madge is attracted by the brass buttons of a policeman, and falls in love with him. Alice, too, is charmed with brass buttons, so Madge and Alice leave Art and Rube and go with a couple of strange policemen who happen to come on the scene. Art is so disgusted that he polishes a frying pan, hands it to Rube. Rube then hits Art and himself on the head and they both pass away.
- When Rube visits the city he takes Alice, his wife, with him, not because he wants her along, but because she wants to go. Arriving at the hotel in the city, Rube sees Madge in the writing room and flirts with her. Art comes in and sees them. This, of course, starts a fight which Alice finishes when she comes looking for Rube. Rube, leaving her to fight his battle runs upstairs, and in his fright gets into the wrong room, which happens to be Art's. Madge chases him out. Art, who is just coming along the hall sees him. From then on it is one riot of laughter. There is a cross-eyed maid a monkey faced porter, a despondent man who tries to kill himself, several girls that are on the point of retiring, guests, etc. As a gloom chaser, and a grouch dispeller, it is all that, and more.
- The story opens with the man about town and his wife at breakfast. He has a big head from his celebration of the night before with the dog catcher's cabaret wife. The dog catcher starts on his daily work and encounters all kinds of mishaps in dog chasing and is quite a failure until he steals the man about town's wife's poodle. She takes him home to get the license money, where they are caught by the man about town's sudden return home. The dog catcher is shoved into an icebox, where he enjoys himself while hubby hunts for him. The cabaret singer suddenly comes on the scene, pushes her way into the house and demands her husband. A mix-up occurs. The dog catcher falls out of the icebox and is spied by hubby. He is chased with a gun and finally runs into the ocean as the picture ends.
- Paddy is a laborer who goes to sleep during his noon hour and dreams that he has been lifted to the rank of a political boss. His first official act is to enter a saloon where he is immediately the center of an admiring company of hangers-on, bums, etc., and the object of the particular attention of the bartender. Going down the street he encounters a widow who is in straitened circumstances and he furnishes her with money to supply the daily bread. Nearby he notes his political antagonist, Eddy Simpson, making a stump speech to a large crowd of factory hands. He immediately calls his henchmen, the police among the number, and starts a riot which results in breaking up the political mass meeting and scattering the crowd to the four winds. Paddy has a great pull at police headquarters and when some of the rioters are brought in, he shows his power by securing the release of his own sympathizers and throwing the ward heelers of the opposition into jail. Being a friend of the people, he is very hard on autoists who break the speed laws, etc. Consequently, the motorist who comes under the wrath of the court is very thoroughly fined and given the limit of the law. Paddy's office is located next door to the police station and constant communication is established by means of a chute through which various donations from those seeking political help come. Local merchants send various gifts of produce, meat, etc., in lieu of cash. The local butcher, from whom money is expected, makes the fatal mistake of sending Paddy a side of beef. Paddy's "meat inspector" consequently calls upon the unhappy butcher, finds his meat unfit for use and condemns the entire shop. Paddy is astonished to receive a coffin containing a dead man as graft from the undertaker. Supposed dead man, however, comes to life and smokes Paddy's cigar. Before Paddy can overcome his confusion the man escapes. When an important election comes up Paddy has completed a very strong organization which works for him at the polls with the result that there is very much adroit stuffing of the ballot boxes. When a voter in his booth starts to mark the wrong side of the ballot, the curtains part and Paddy appears with a large mallet. Unless the voter changes his mind and his vote, the mallet does terrible execution. As a result of Paddy's strenuous efforts, there are very few votes for the opposition and while he is gloating over his political power and success of his various methods, the one o'clock whistle blows surely. Paddy wakes up to find that his political triumphs have only been a dream.
- Blanch Whitney, heiress, reads with anger a notice that Jack Bryson, star reporter of the News, is going to investigate working conditions in the department stores. Her father being the owner of the largest store, she is not altogether pleased with this news. Showing the article to her father, he tells her he is negotiating for the purchase of that paper to try and stop the scurrilous articles Bryson is writing about them. Blanch then remembers an article that Bryson wrote about her and she resolves to work in her father's store as a shopgirl, hoping for a chance to meet Bryson and in some way revenge herself upon him. She is behind the counter when Bryson appears and starts quizzing her to gain some locale for his article. Lefty Jonas, a pickpocket, slips a watch in Bryson's pocket and Blanch sees the incident. In spite of herself she has taken a small liking for Bryson, and she takes the watch from his pocket and slips it in a basket with some articles a customer has purchased. The cash boy, taking the basket, passes Dowdy Donnelly, the store porter, and he, seeing the watch, takes it and thinks he will keep it for himself. The floorwalker has Jack arrested by a store detective. En route to the office they pass Donhelly, who, hearing that Jack is accused of theft, is afraid to keep the watch, and slips it back in Lefty Jonas's pocket. Jack is let go as the watch is not found. He threatens to expose the frame-up in the newspaper and leaves. Jonas tells Whitney that he put the watch in Jack's pocket, but Whitney is suspicious, and searching Jonas, he finds the watch, and with the aid of Donnelly, who despises Jonas, as he is his rival for Dot Kernan's hand, they throw Jonas out of the office. Jack returns and makes a date with Blanch. At the luncheon, she brings tears to his eyes describing how she lives on four dollars a week. He asks her to marry him right away and she consents to run away with him that night. He writes an article for the morning edition, entitled "The Shop Girl." while Blanch arranges with Dot Kernan and her father for Dot to elope with Jack. She would tell the town about it and make Jack the laughing stock among newspaper men. Jack, after writing his story, leaves to purchase a wedding ring. In the jewelry store window he sees a picture of Blanch and learns her identity. This makes him angry. Jack induces Donnelly to take his part in the elopement. That night from a doorway in the slums, he sees Donnelly take a heavily veiled girl from the tenement, and enter a waiting car with her. This car was provided by Blanch. Jonas, who discovered that Donnelly was to elope, suspected the girl was Dot, and he arrived with her father, and might have prevented the getaway, only Jack laid them both low. Jack went to the newspaper office and searched for his story of the shop girl, who turned out to be only a dream to him. He failed to find it and went home while Blanch discovered that she was the victim of her own joke, and her friends laughed at her expense. Donnelly, sore at having Dot mixed up in this kind of an escapade, was appeased when Blanch allowed the minister to marry them, and the completion of the ceremony was interrupted by the entrance of Jonas and Kernan, who followed on a tandem. They were thrown out of the house and Dot married the ideal of her dreams, the store porter Donnelly. Whitney, who had bought the newspaper that afternoon, resolved to discharge Jack in the morning for writing the shop girl story, and told Blanch so. She found the story on her father's desk that night and read it. She knew then that Jack was the man for her, as no one ever spoke of her except as a pillar of wealth.
- Strikeout Murphy, sensational pitcher of the Big League, comes to the ball grounds for his morning practice. His ingenious curving of the ball and his ability to strike out the hard hitting sluggers of the opposing teams have made him famous and he is admired by thousands, among whom is Rena, in love with little Jeff, a substitute pitcher on Murphy's nine. Jeff calls at Rena's house, and succeeds in inducing her to go to the ballpark, despite the objections of her rich father, who wants her to marry Lord Rawsberry, a fictitious nobleman. At the ball park Rena is fascinated by Murphy, and her love for Jeff wanes. Murphy cleverly has the ball thrown in the direction of Rena, and in this manner works his way into her confidence, while the other players laugh at the jealousy of Jeff. Rawsberry finds this out, and after many attempts finally induces the umpire to aid him in causing Murphy's downfall. At the opening game of the season, the umpire, faithful to Rawsberry, and inclined to be vindictive to Murphy, rubs arsenic on the ball as the strikeout man wets it with his saliva. This effects Murphy, and he gradually falls before the onslaught of his opponent's bats. Meanwhile little Jeff, who has been instrumental in defeating some nefarious designs of Rawsberry, has been kidnapped and makes his escape from the den in which he has been held a captive. Arriving at the ballpark just in time to go in the box, he is able to demonstrate his ability by saving the game. The umpire, who is assailed by the fans for calling every ball. Jeff threw a strike, confesses under pressure, that Jeff bribed him to do it, and instead of being a hero, Jeff was chased from the park, while Strikeout Murphy became a hero when the duplicity of Rawsberry and the umpire was exposed. He married Rena and is the idol of thousands, while Jeff is a mascot now in one of the Bush Leagues.
- The lion hearted chief objects to his daughter's sweetheart, and favors the star detective. Her sweetheart arranges a plot to make the chief think his daughter has been kidnapped, hoping to be assigned to the case, prove his ability, and win the chief's approval. The daughter leaves the house, and her sweetheart sends news of the kidnapping to the chief. The star detective gets the assignment. Upon reaching the rendezvous, the daughter is bound and gagged by a bandit and his accomplice. The star detective follows the scent, and reaches the haunt of the bandit, where he is forced to guard the chief's daughter. In this compromising position he is discovered by the girl's sweetheart and her father. The star detective is disgraced and the girl and her sweetheart receive the blessing of the chief.
- Miss Lillian Hamilton, a pampered child of fortune, longs for excitement. She prevails on her father to escort her and a party of her friends through Chinatown. They visit a Chinatown cabaret and partake of the oddities thereof in the way of food and refreshment, watch the entertainment, and as they depart the proprietor of the establishment steals Miss Lillian's dog. He does this to get the girl to return to the place in search of Fido, when he purposes to capture her. The place is the headquarters for all sorts of rogues. One set is preparing a big dynamite job, and hide their infernal machine in the kitchen, in a valise under a table. Owen Evans, the waiter, sees his employer steal the dog, and sympathizing with Miss Lillian, he intends to rescue the animal, which the proprietor has hidden in a valise and placed alongside the dynamite under the kitchen table. Evans slips his hand under the table and takes a grip (the one which he thinks contains the dog) and starts for her home. Meanwhile Miss Lillian returns to the restaurant, is captured and dropped into the cellar. The dynamiters return to get their valise and are surprised to see the dog jump out. It scents its mistress, chews the cords that bind her, thereby releasing her. She writes a note and gives it to the dog, which starts homeward. Evans arrives at Lillian's home with the grip supposedly containing the dog. He is greatly astonished when upon opening it he finds it contains an infernal machine. The butler grabs Evans while the old man phones the police. The dog enters with the note, which Evans sees first. Evans reads the note, makes his escape and follows the dog. The police arrive and follow Evans. Evans wrecks the Chinatown establishment, rescues Lillian, and instead of being considered a miscreant he is heralded as a hero. The criminals are taken into custody.
- Admiral Shimsky comes to the St. Clair Hotel to confer with Murray Sinclair, the Moth Ball Magnate, regarding the latter's invention, which affects or borders on the submarine. At the hotel, the head of the Limburger Navy is quite a social favorite. He becomes grossly interested in a certain married woman, whose husband shows his dislike of the Admiral's attentions by showering a succession of forcible incidents in which Shimsky comes off second best. Moon, a government agent, in love with Rena, the inventor's daughter, has unsuccessfully tried to buy the invention, and thinking to safeguard his country's interests, he employs two men to answer an ad which the hotel has inserted in a local daily. The requirements of this advertisement read and explained that the hotel needs the services of two ex-sailors to act in ship-shape order, while attending the wants of the Admiral. Moon promises these men a fortune, if, while acting as servants to the Naval Head, they can obtain a copy of the plans of this invention. Employed in this capacity, the bungling men finally obtain the much wanted papers, and also the wallet of Shimsky. Circumstances eventually expose the wallet as being stuffed with stage money by Shimsky, who is denounced as a faker. He flees, and the bungling men are not long following him. This is a rapid fire, slapstick comedy, in which the complications are too involved to detail.
- While Rube reads the morning paper, his wife telephones the butcher and gets into a mushy flirtation over the wire. Rube grabs the phone, hears the butcher's voice and starts for the shop. The butcher and his wife are going through a love scene, when the butcher is interrupted by a telephone call from Rube's wife, and his wife flirts with the errand boy. Rube breaks in on the scene and takes the place of the errand boy in flirting with the butcher's wife. The butcher returns to find his wife gone with Rube, and gives chase with revolver in hand. Rube and the butcher's wife go to a café to indulge in a little liquid refreshment. Their party is interrupted by the entrance of the enraged butcher, and another chase takes place. The butcher goes to Rube's home to avenge himself for Rube's attentions to his (the butcher's) wife, and Rube's wife joins in the chase, which leads to the bathhouse at the beach. There are much diving and swimming, and a duel at the bottom of the tank. The argument between Rube and the butcher is settled by the intervention of the errand boy, and all is peace and happiness.
- A jailbird is brought from his cell to the Warden's office, given $10 to go straight, and released, but not before the S10 has been picked from his pocket by the detective who slips it back to the Warden. At the jail gate the attention of the warden and detective is centered on the shapely ankle of a girl who is on her way to a pawnshop to obtain a loan on a necklace which her accomplice has stolen from the wife of the judge who sentenced the jailbird. While engrossed in this manner, the jailbird gets back his $10 bill from the Warden and also the watch of the crooked detective, which he later takes and pawns in the same shop that the girl is pawning the stolen necklace. The pawnbroker takes the necklace and is making out a ticket when the girl steals the necklace back from him and hides it in her muff, just as the jailbird enters to soak the detective's watch. The jailbird seeing this manipulation steals the necklace from the girl's muff, pawns the watch, receives a ticket for it and departs. Outside the pawnshop the judge is passing just as the girl emerges. He flirts and follows her, and the jailbird, escaping from the pawnbroker who has discovered his loss, jumps on the same car that the judge is in trying to flirt with the girl. Alighting from the car the girl tells her accomplice of the Judge's attentions, and he is promptly knocked down, and the jailbird helping him to his feet, recognizes him as the judge who sentenced him, and for revenge slips the pawn ticket for the detective's watch in his pocket. The Warden discovers the loss of the $10 bill and accuses the detective of double crossing him, and when later the detective discovers his watch he accuses the Warden of purloining it. The detective is summoned to the District Attorney's office, who is the sweetheart of the judge's daughter, where he hears the pawnbroker's tale of the robbery. Later in the park the girl discovers the loss of the necklace from her muff, and seeing the jailbird on an adjoining bench, they walk over to him, accuse him of the robbery and there is a fight. The detective locks the trio up, but not before the jailbird slips the necklace into his pocket, where it is found later in court. On trial, the judge discovers the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment that the detective finds the necklace in his. The judge calls the detective and whispering confidentially to him slips the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment the detective slips the pearls in his (judge's) pocket. The judge's wife who attends the trial, sees and grows fearful of the man who stole her necklace when she flirted with him (this man is the girl's sweetheart who pawned the necklace and whom the judge flirted with), and she cautiously begs him not to expose her as a flirt. The judge on the bench sees the girl (the accomplice of the crook), and he is afraid of exactly the same thing that is worrying his wife.
- Jack a college man, receives a letter from his father, a book publisher, that the old gentleman has found a wealthy bride for him. Jack, after reading the letter, writes his father that he must first see the photo of his bride-to-be. Father then visits the rich spinster (his selection for Jack) and not being impressed with her photographs, he steals the picture of the spinster's secretary, a little blonde lady. Jack, when he receives the blonde lady's photo is so smitten that he hurries home from college only to find that his bride-to-be is a homely gaunt old maid. He refuses to marry her and is disowned by his father. The little blonde lady that night writes a story which she submits to father the next morning for publication, and the story father reads is the life of his son married to the spinster. Many humorous situations happen in the blonde lady's story, with the result that father is brought to a realization that a handsome young man is no husband for a spinster, and he tells his son to choose his own bride. Of course he chose the little blonde lady.
- The village queen loves Ben, a hay baler. Paddy, a cowboy, loves the girl and is favored by her parents. Ben hides in the doghouse and it is lassoed by Paddy and given a thrilling ride, nearly ending disastrously. He escapes, however, and is pressed into a bale of hay by the cowboy. Gypsy's father steals the hay and Gypsy is starting to feed the horse when she sticks the pitchfork into Ben. The next day Ben is buried alive by Paddy. The girl is tied to the chair by her father, but escapes, and doing so, sets fire to the house. She is pursued by her father and Paddy. Ben, who has escaped and donned a diver's suit, which he has filled with air, causing him to ascend to the cloud, is shot and falls at the girl's feet. The constable comes upon them and later they are married, while Ben is chased by his former wife, a washwoman.
- Unknown to Kelsey and Ryan, two prominent actors, the show troupe to which they are sent by their booking agent, was driven from town by the Constable and his deputies. While waiting for their train the two actors stepped into the depot lunchroom and are seen by Rube and Ben, both out of employment. Rube and Ben steal the actors' suitcases, their wallet containing two dollars, their railroad transportation and their contract to join the troupe for which they are leaving. The actors finding their suitcases and wallet gone and being unable to pay for the food they have eaten, are detained by two roustabouts of the lunchroom long enough for Rube and Ben to leave on their train, and are then thrown out. Rube and Ben arrive in a small town. They pose as Kelsey and Ryan and are informed that the troupe has been driven from town, but inasmuch as all of their trunks, wardrobe and scenery have been kept by the manager of the opera house, they suggest that Rube and Ben produce a benefit performance and use the paraphernalia of the show troupe. In need of money, they consent. The night of the show brings a large audience and the first ac begins, finding Ben, the villain of the piece foreclosing the mortgage on the old man's home. Unable to receive payment, Ben offers the mortgage to the old man in return for his daughter's hand. She being in love with Rube, the leading man, refuses his offer. The old man insists and Ben carries her away, leaving Rube broken-hearted. The first act closes with a disinterested and disappointed audience. The lover of the girl, playing the part of the daughter, is sore and sneaks behind the curtain to watch the final act. The manager also comes to the stage to view the final act. The second act starts. Two years have passed and the daughter having left her husband, returns home with the baby, meeting her father and her former lover Rube. While Rube is acting, Ben substitutes his make-up box for the box of money, but is seen by Rube. Rube leaves the stage and Ben goes on. While he is working, Rube substitutes his make-up box for the money box which Ben has taken. Ben is on the stage demanding that the girl return to him, but the refusal causes Ben to set fire to the house. Rube then returns to the stage and the girl's real lover takes the money from the box which Rube and Ben have stolen, and puts it in his pocket. Rube and Ben start a duel, but are interrupted by the real Kelsey and Ryan, who have finally walked into town. Rube and Ren run off stage and grab the fire torches in an effort to hold the two actors off, but the torches are knocked out of their hands, starting a real fire. Rube and Ben both run to their dressing room, grab their make-up thinking they still contain the money, and run from the opera house, being chased by the two actors. They run up a ladder to the top of the opera house and jump through a skylight to the stage. The actors find them on the stage and demand the money from them. They discover that their boxes are empty. The lover returns and hands over the money to the manager. Rube and Ben run off, grab the fire hose and play it upon the crowd, chasing them away. The two actors still on the roof, throw down two large boxes, striking Rube and Ben upon the head, and knocking them unconscious. The hose which these two comedians are holding is thrown upward, and the force of the water knocks the other two actors off the roof.
- Count Ferdinand Jasbeau, refuses to wait for his bride in spite of the pleadings of her father, who tries to convince the Count that the rain and floods are delaying her, which was the truth of the matter. Through machinery trouble, Grace finds herself up to hubs in mud, and is assisted by a baseball pitcher who happens along in his Ford. While he is fixing the car, two crooks hold them up, and after being robbed, the baseball pitcher succeeds in not only overpowering the robbers, but also gets back his money and jewelry, which they took from him. How the baseball pitcher fought a duel with baseballs and proved to the girl that he was worthy of her, and how he exposed the Count as a faker, and proved he was also a crook and an associate of the hold-up men, is told in a breezy manner, in this picture.
- Arthur Tavares, a dishonest clerk, has been taking money from the firm and making false entries on the books. The boss discovers a shortage, and calls Art in to find out where it has gone. Art manages to stall him for a while. The Boss's daughter comes to the office and makes her father take her to lunch. While he is away, a lady customer comes to the office. Art takes her money. Instead of putting it in the vault and entering the transaction on the books, he puts it into his pocket. The stenographer sees him. Rube, the janitor, also sees this. The stenographer demands her fifty per cent, and gets it. Art then proposes to her that they take it all and make a getaway. She is willing. They go in to trim the safe. The old office boy returns from lunch and interrupts them. They leave the money in the safe and return to the outer office. The old office boy thinks that the safe is not safe, so puts the money in the vault. Art and the stenographer, thinking the money is in the tin box, knocks the office boy on the head, put him in the vault and make a getaway with the box. A crook comes in to see what he can steal and meets the janitor. They exchange the secret signs, for they are of the same lodge. They combine to steal the safe and tie it to an umbrella which they think will ease it to the ground. It is thrown out of the window. They run downstairs, scare Art who has stopped to break open the box and he runs away. The boss returns from lunch and discovers the loss of the safe. Rube and the crook arrive at the bottom of the air shaft and look for the safe. It is not there. Instead of the safe coming down it is flying around over the house tops. They start in pursuit of it. The office boy comes to, gets out of the vault in time to see the boss disappear out of the office. He follows him. The chase leads to the bank of the lake. The safe falls into the lake. Rube and the crook save it. Art and the stenographer, Madge and her father arrive. The safe is found to be empty, the tin box discovered to be the same. The old office boy arrives with the money and tries to hand it to the boss. Rube and the crook fall over into the lake. Art is thrown over by the boss. All three sink. The boss makes the money a present to the old office boy.
- Joshua Elliott, who loves the ladies, flirts with Rena, who is taking her baby to the park to see her father, who is the Park Commissioner. Elliott mistakes Rena's pleasantness for flirtatious inclinations, and he grabs and kisses her on the park bench. Her husband, Moon, discovers them. Snatching a camera from a child, he photographs the scene. He threatens to sue Elliott for alienation of his wife's affections. Desperate at having no money to offset the inevitable expose, should he be the defendant in a suit of this kind, Elliott schemes to find a way to obtain money enough to buy off Moon. Bungling Bill and Bloggie, two rogues, read in the paper that a prize is offered by the leading newspaper in the city for the most perfect baby. As the prize is of no little magnitude, being $50,000 they decide to get a baby and try for the prize. They see Moon and his wife enter their home with their child. Bill schemes to kidnap the kid. He engages Moon in conversation at the front door while Bloggie enters the house through the rear. Entering the parlor, Bloggie arrives in time to find that Rena is struggling with a burglar. The burglar floors Bloggie and makes his escape through the front door, bowling Moon and Bill over in doing so. These two then enter the house to find Bloggie with the fainting Rena in his arms. While Moon is flaying Bloggie for loving his wife, Bill steals the suitcase and the kid and safely makes his getaway to a field where he finds the contents of the suitcase are Rena's clothes. He puts them on to take the baby to the contest. Bloggie in the meanwhile flees from the ire of Moon and steals a baby carriage he finds in front of a house. He later discovers that the baby in the carriage is a pickaninny. The police apprehend the kidnappers and they find Elliott with Moon's kid in his arms. He met Bill and paid him to loan him the child, thinking Bill in the woman's garb its mother and pursue him. Elliott arrives on the scene where Bill and Bloggie are changing clothes. Bill offering to do this if Bloggie would let him take the child he has, the pickaninny, to the contest. Bill has scarcely departed for the contest, when Elliott gives Bloggie Moon's child and runs off. Bloggie, who has stolen from Bill the money Elliott gave him for the loan of the child, runs off followed by the police. He meets Moon who is shooting mad, and beating him, arrives at the baby contest, while the unfortunate park employee and cops search the town for a trace of the kidnappers. At the contest, Bloggie wins the prize with his son Oscar only to find the prize is offered to encourage the birth of babies in China, and for this reason the prize of $50,000 is paid in coin of that realm, equal in America to about ten cents. Bloggie shows to Bill the money he stole from him, but before the Bungling Man has time to wreak vengeance, he and his compatriot make a hasty retreat before the onslaught of the kidnapped children's parents.