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- It was his wedding day, but he wandered from the wayside and dropped into one of his old haunts, where he partook of a little more than was good for him. The bride, knowing his haunts, after an hour or two of waiting, decides to call up his old place and find if he is there. She begged him to hurry home, but he was in no condition to be called sweet names and resented her interference. He wandered out into the park, where he found some girls to his liking, but hardly had he got started to making love before the husband of one of the girls, a very bad man, came on the scene and it was curtains for the groom. He hurried to the side of his fiancée, whom he knew he could bluff. The wedding was hastened with all speed and the groom immediately appropriated his little wife's hard-earned savings and back to Mike's place he went. The bride gives up her flat and returns home. The mercenary landlady soon afterwards rented the flat to a man who happened to be the bad man the groom bad encountered that morning in the park. Later at night the groom, after a hard evening, decided that he would return home to his little wife. Not knowing that his flat had been rented to others, he entered and got into bed with the bad man. There was some excitement. Wife and brother entered just in time to avert a murder.
- Phil is a corn-fed country boy, and Mert is pleasingly plump and mischievous. She rakes the meadows and Phil at the same time. Pop Snodgrass, her father, does not like Phil. He chases him up the windmill, and Phil gets caught in the fans, and whirls around at a great rate. Pop thinks he is rid of him for good. However, a change in the wind throws him into Mert's room, and then Pop is mad. Tinhorn Ted is in jail. However, he steals a saw from a passing workman, and escapes. He hides in a mail bag, and is delivered with the rest of the bags at Pop's place. Pop receives a letter introducing a famous artist, who is recommended to him by a friend. "He wants to paint a pig," says the letter, "so I sent him to you." Pop is delighted and says the artist shall be Mert's husband. Ted determines to impersonate the artist. He meets the real one, beans him and takes his outfit, locking the senseless artist in the hen house. Ted is then presented to Mert as the artist, and she plays and sings for him, to his great agony. They are spooning under a tree, when Phil puts a hen coop over Ted's head. Pop rescues him and spanks Mert. Phil and Mert then determine to elope. Phil is taking Mert out of her window down a ladder when Pop catches him and he runs off down the street balancing Mert on top of the ladder. Pop overtakes them and sends Mert to school. Ted meets his accomplice, Melba Sundae, at the school to kidnap Mert, the heiress. The girls are all in overalls, and Melba puts on a wonderful silk pair. Phil arrives, too, following Mert. The snobbish girls are horrid to Mert, but surround Phil. The mistress throws him out, so he disguises as a little girl and returns. Mert says he is her twin. The girls go to bed, and Melba stays up waiting for Ted. The mistress takes Phil to her room to comb his hair, and his wig comes off. He runs. Mert is kidnapped by Melba and Ted, and Phil follows them to the city. Mert is taken to a café below the street level, and Phil slides through a manhole to get in. Ted introduces Mert as the new dancer, and Phil comes to rescue her. There is a fight, and Mert is carried off in an auto. Phil takes a bicycle from a cop and gives chase. At last they are both caught in the safety fenders of a street car. Moving Picture World, August 11, 1917
- The Baron Wilhelm von Hasenpfeffer, a fat old coward, is anxious to show himself the gamest old sport in the country to the girl of his desire. He is favored by the girl's father, who, impressed with his wealth and position, uses a cane to drive off Wallace, a youthful and favored suitor. Nursing his sore feelings and limbs, young Wallace procures a bear skin, and, hiding on the back of the wagon which carries the Baron's hunting party to the mountains, gets into the skin in time to play bear for the ardent hunter. Driven by terror, the Baron falls over a precipice. Thoroughly frightened by the consequences of his joke, Wallace calls to the Baron, now hanging to the limb of a tree half way down the precipice, that he will bring aid. Still in the bear skin, he rushes for help, and only the drunkenness of the first man he meets saves him from meeting the fate of the bear whose part he plays. Coming to the call station of the mounted police, he turns in a call that starts the force out on the gallop. Discarding the bear's head, he rushes back to the family, awaiting the return of the hunter. They, too, start to the rescue. Fearing he has not sufficient help to meet requirements, he calls upon the storekeepers at the crossroad of the mountains, who start forth at high speed to lend their aid. The family arriving first, get a rope down to the struggling Baron, but their combined strength is not enough to raise him, even the tree about which they wind the rope is giving way. The mounted police arrive and add further to the excitement by one of their number falling over the precipice. To stop his terrific slide, he grabs the unfortunate Baron, and both are precipitated to a mud hole at the base of the precipice. The different parties of rescuers arriving at full speed lose their foothold on the slippery mountain side, and one after the other join the Baron in the mud hole, who finds himself a cushion for each arrival.
- Gertie is an incorrigible flirt. She is sitting on the bank of a lake, and two of her admirers are contending for her favor. She throws a rose into the water and declares, "Who gets the rose, gets me." There is a wet half hour after that. Her sweetheart comes along and asks her to go for a ride in his car. She is delighted and goes into the house to change her gown. While he is waiting for her, Hank slugs his chauffeur over the head, takes his cap and goggles, and gets into his seat. Reggie and Gertie climb into the tonneau and spoon while Hank, as the chauffeur, drives them all over the town. Finally, he drives right off the end of a pier and the joy ride ends in the ocean.
- A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets; she chases him down and exacts comic justice.
- A socially ambitious wife tries to persuade her husband to attend a society ball, even though he doesn't want to go. She finally convinces him by promising to take along a neighbor couple. However, in case he might need a little "comforting" at the ball, he takes along a flask of liquor. Once he gets there, he gets bored and starts taking "sips" from the flask. Pretty soon the flask is empty, and he's blitzed. Complications ensue.
- Dinty, a bum, had just alighted from his "pullman" when he went out on a hunt for cigars. But the men were smoking them very short that season, so it was a hard job to get a good smoke. At last he was run over by a machine as he was in the act of getting a good one, and the doctor took pity on the fellow and took him home. At the house of the doctor he revived and was asked to stay for dinner. During the meal he became flirty and began to write notes to the lady of the house under the table. After dinner he became a little more familiar and the doctor was angry. He ejected Dinty from the house, so the tramp swore revenge. Dinty telephoned the doctor to come to a certain house at once, and then, when the doctor went to the door, he stole the car. Calling for the doctor's wife in the car, he took her for a ride. But as a chauffeur Dinty was not a success and it was not long before the flivver was a thing of the past. It so happened that the smashup occurred just in front of the hospital, so that he was taken inside and given the best of attention. The doctor was at once sent for, as an operation was deemed necessary. But the doctor that came was the very one who was looking for Dinty. With fiendish glee he sharpened the knife and prepared to take his pound of flesh. Dinty managed to get away and led the surgeon a chase all over the hospital. Then the police arrived and things got even more complicated. Dinty got out and took refuge in an auto with the cops after him. The chase ended in the doctor's house again. Dinty entered the room of the doctor's wife and then the doctor came in. He was forced to hide in the closet, but at last was discovered by the irate man. The picture ends as the masher gets his true deserts.
- Dan, a bicycle rider, is entered for the six-day race. His rival is Jess Cuckoo, and both are determined to win, for both love the same girl. Dan trains vigorously as he is told he must reduce. The trainer is a bearded pedagogue, in whose luxuriant whiskers Dan finds a little bird. In a boxing bout the trainer gets decidedly the better of it, until Dan discovers a horseshoe and a hammer head in his gloves. Then everything comes Dan's way. Whiskers eats a huge meal, while Dan, who is on a diet, has to be satisfied with a biscuit and a glass of water. His rival, in the meantime, does most of his training in bed. Both go to call on their sweetheart. Jess has brought a piece of mistletoe, which he hangs on the chandelier. He stands under it and the girl kisses him. Dan sneaks in, hides a brick in the mistletoe, and attaches a string to it. Jess again stands under the chandelier, and Dan lowers the brick onto his head. But when Jess does the same to him later he does not find it so funny. The day of the race arrives. Dan has a patent arrangement, concealed by his dressing gown. There is a small gasoline motor attached to his bike. Jess discovers this and plans revenge. He fills the gasoline can with nitroglycerin. Dan returns for a renewal of gas, and fills the tank with nitroglycerin instead. He rides madly around the track, and the crowd flies in terror from the explosion. The police are called, and the chase proceeds through buildings and houses, until Dan ends in one last explosion, which lands him under a pile of debris.
- Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.
- The two hundred pounds of Ambrose was his mother's pride and joy. But his employer, Jack Frost, froze him with every look because he loved Rosabelle. Jack Frost most appropriately was in the ice business. He discovered Ambrose's secret vice - chocolates - the curse of his otherwise perfect manhood, and substituting brandied ones, he started Ambrose on a joy ride on a cake of ice. When Ambrose came to, he not only was disgraced, but the workmen were on strike. "Give us a steam-heated ice-house," they demanded. But Ambrose, who was foreman of the cold storage plant, believed in cold comfort. He fired them, and of course they had to have revenge. Another of Ambrose's cute little tricks was a hickory correspondence tree. Jack Frost knew this, and put a decoy letter in the old hickory, apparently from Rosabelle, asking Ambrose to meet her at three o'clock. In the meantime Frost had abducted Rosabelle and chained her to a cake of ice in his ice-house. When Ambrose discovered the perfidy he got so much speed up on the old Ford that he couldn't stop, and bored right through the ice-house.
- A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
- The police and fire chiefs are rivals in the bid to win the hand of the mayor's daughter.
- Where could you find a more toothsome trio to start a movie with than Henry Hash, Stephen Stew and Peter Pye? And where could you find an easier place to start something than at the crackshaft of a Ford ? And now all you have to do is to add three "his wives" and "Moon-struck" Mike, for spice, and things are moving nicely. If you've never had a lion in your front yard or in your library, try a Ford Lizzie. Enter, a private picnic, led by the romantic Mike - he, of the moonstruck soul. Having asked a damsel to ride with him on the speedway, he is turned down cold, whereupon an officer and a "big hippopotamus" give a lively tum to the action.
- Colonel Bingo had arranged with Major Godfrey that his son, Waldo, should marry the Major's daughter. But first Waldo had to be sent to college to cure him of his frivolous habits. The cure was successful and Waldo returns rather effeminate. The Colonel is disgusted and decrees that his son must go west to become a man or die. He goes to the ranch of his uncle. The cowboys select a "gentle" horse for him to ride. Waldo just manages to survive the ordeal. He writes home what a daredevil he has become and father and mother come out to see for themselves. Their disappointment is so acute that the result lands Waldo at the bottom of a cliff. Then father repents and goes after his offspring.
- Ima Knutt was the life saver on the beach and the idol of all the girls. He liked girls to be small and slim, and was much disconcerted when the biggest nut on the beach, an enormous lady in a black bathing suit, insisted upon having his services to teach her to swim. At the same time Knutt Sunday, the clerk at toe soda fountain, was regaling Hazel Knutt, his sweetheart, with the sweetmeat named after him. Ima much prefers Hazel to the fat lady. Into the bathhouse comes Krazy Knutt. H» decides to go in swimming. So does Hazel. Ima brings water wings for her and is delighted with the chance to teach her. He invites her to go for a ride in a beach chair. it runs away with them and Knutt Sunday gives chase. At last they return to the bathhouse. Krazy is pushed into the water, and Ima and the girl sit on the edge making eyes at each other. Krazy ties their shoelaces together, and they both fall in when they try to get up. Ima then seizes Krazy and makes him his assistant life saver. He then goes off with the girl to get some ice- cream. Knutt ties a weight to his leg as he is eating it and the weight drags him into the pool. Ima pulls Knutt in with him. They rush out onto the beach. Ima and the girl hide behind a beach umbrella. Knutt removes the umbrella and puts it over a hideous girl. Ima returns to her and is disgusted. Ima and the girl go for a ride in the flying boats and Knutt follows and spills Ima into the sea. A crab grabs him, and he rushes to the shore. He puts the crab on Sunday. Sunday determines to be revenged. He decoys Ima and the girl into a bathhouse and then chloroforms them with a bicycle pump through the keyhole. He hires two confederates to push the machine into the sea and drown Ima and the girl. The police see the suspicious characters and arrive in time to rescue Ima and Hazel. But the men make a mistake in the bathhouse and Knutt Sunday is drowned.
- The Sand Dow family are at breakfast. The janitor, called by his alarm clock, to which he had attached a feather which tickled his feet, slept underneath the tank in the gym and had a trap door through which he emerged. Gladys was the belle of the ladies' department, and Al of the men's. Sand Dow flirted with the girls, and Mrs. with the men. At last each had an idea. They called the janitor and told him to bring disguises in which they would look like each other. When they emerged even the janitor was completely fooled. It was too hot so they closed the gym and went to the beach. San Dow had a wonderful time with the girls, and Mrs. had a lovely time with the men. But the sweethearts were each planning a chance to get together. Each party got into swimming suits as quickly as possible. The men had brought a lunch, but the girls had none, so San Dow decided to go fishing. He used his own carcass for bait, and came up with fishes hanging on his person. The janitor was instructed to cook the fish, and the girls sat down to wait. The other party was lunching, and the janitor got mixed and threw the fish to the men instead of the girls. Sand Dow went to remonstrate and recognized his wife. He snatched Gladys and ran. Mrs. decoys Al. He opens a sandwich and puts sand in it, giving it to her. As she sputters he makes a getaway and rejoins Gladys. San Dow comes up and fights Al, while Mrs. fights him for Al. The husband and wife recognize each other. Dan beats it with Gladys and Mrs. follows. After a chase, the picture ends in a pie fight.
- In Chicken Center, Merta, the little fat rascal, dreams of love, but a 500-pound weight brings her back to life again. In the same neighborhood a distracted wife sits up, waiting for her husband's return from a "sick friend," while in the cold gray dawn of the same day a bank robbery is being enacted. The constable makes a raid on the sick friend's apartment, sending the chips and cards flying all over the room, while the bank president makes his escape unnoticed. Later the constable calls to inform him of the robbery, but mistaking his motive, the bank president grabs his wife and rushes her away. Once aboard the ship bound for Nowhere, Mr. President is satisfied that he has left the hounds of the law far beyond reach; but the captain receives word that the thieves are on board his ship and orders a search to be made. Merta's sweetheart, who witnessed the bank robbery, was thrown in the hold of the boat by the thieves, but succeeded in sending word to Merta of his danger. The boat starts, but Merta is persistent, and throwing a rope to the other side of the river, swings herself across and drops onto the deck of the boat. The bank thieves suspect danger and deposit the money with the bank president, but he in turn hides it in the smokestack. This incident is witnessed by his wife. She is about to take the money when Merta arrives upon the scene. She gives the lady a chase for the money, who, finding herself outwitted, jumps overboard, only to be followed by Merta, the daredevil of Chicken Center. At the bottom of the ocean Merta relieves her of the money and comes up smiling. She returns the bankroll to the rightful owner. With a clear conscience and an empty head, she rescues her lover, and promises to marry him at the first opportunity. Moving Picture World, December 22, 1917
- When O'Malley the bricklayer fell heir to $30 million, he had a violent attack of social aspiration for himself and his daughter, and nothing would do but for him to marry the widow Sophia Soapsud and for his daughter to marry a Duke. But the villains conspired with Wun Lung Woo to marry the daughter and secure the fortune. Wun Lung Woo practiced the gentle art of laundry in the front part of his shop, and the exact science of torture in the torture chamber in the rear. He had various devices such as mechanical beating apparatus, feather ticklers for the soles of the feet, and a wash-wringer adapted to taking the starch out of victims. But the victims survived the ordeals of this torture chamber, and came through triumphantly to the usual movie finale: a wedding, with all of the fuss that Ash-Can Alley could kick up.
- Phil and Bill love Gaby. Phil had the best of the bargain for he was the proud possessor of a real car while Bill only had a two-seated motorcycle. Bill called to take Gaby out and Phil came along and stole the girl away because he had a real car. But cars have their troubles and Phil stalled and Bill took a shot at the tires. He had no trouble in persuading Gaby to steal away with him, but he disregarded all speed laws and raced over the ill kept street and spilled Gaby into an excavation. Phil saw this and recovered the lost Gaby. Bill was too interested in the scenery to miss her for some time, but when he did he raced back looking for the missing Gaby. Phil had won her heart and hand owing to the fact that he had a real car. This angered Bill and he immediately purchased himself a large touring car and after some difficulty he learned to drive it. When he learned to drive well enough he went on a hunt for Gaby and found her, but alas, too late, for she was just coming out of the minister's home with her husband. This was too much for Bill. He immediately grew desperate and wanted to die at once. He invited the newlyweds to take a ride in his new car. Hardly had they got seated before he turned and told them it would be their last day on this earth. It was some wild ride and aroused the whole country. Cops in automobiles, cops on motorcycles and cops afoot were chasing Bill on his wild ride, and perhaps it would have been going yet had not Bill disregarded all auto ethics and headed for the pier and into the briny deep. This was Bill's finish for the car was a land car only and they all went to a watery grave.
- A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
- At a girl's school, two young men make efforts to elope with the same girl.
- The story of the downfall of a motor cop whose persistence in winning the affections of another man's wife leads to all kinds of complications.
- When Billie inherits a fortune of $75,000,000, he becomes so unmanageable around the house that his wife sends him to his sister to be reformed. On the train he flirts with a pretty girl, thereby inciting the jealousy of the troublemaker. He is chased from the train and arrives at his sister's house in his pajamas. There he again meets the girl and tries to win her from her sweetheart. He demoralizes the household, and in a battle that follows he is bested, and in trying to escape climbs a flagpole, falls from the top into a fire. He finally escapes a sadder but wiser man.
- Lazybones loved to sleep and smoke but most of all he loved his neighbor's wife. Loving a neighbor's wife is all right if you do not persist in being caught by her hubby, or forcing your attentions on her when she does not want you. Lucile wanted to do the right thing, but circumstances seemed against her. Hubby was a very jealous old man, and whenever he caught his wife talking to another man the blood boiled in his veins and he wanted to murder. Fate decreed that wifey should be placed in a peculiar circumstance, which almost verged on a tragedy, and Lazybones was the only one at hand to rescue her. But rescue was hardly made when hubby appeared on the scene and demanded an explanation. Hubby wanted to murder. The chase was terrible, over the roofs, up and down elevators. Lazybones was finally caught in a little house on the roof and hubby decided that he would end it all by shoving said little house over the edge to the hard street below. Lazybones, however, would not die alone and dragged hubby into the little house just as it was toppling over the edge, so wifey was left minus a husband.
- Bill was a bootblack, but that didn't stop him from having social aspirations. He rescued an heiress from a burglar at no particular risk to himself, but it looked big and Bill got away with it nicely, even meeting father and getting himself invited to call. But back at the shinorium, Bill's boss was getting peeved because Bill was so late and when Bill did return, the boss talked harshly to him. Meanwhile, father and the heiress needed a shine. Bill's stand was the one out of a thousand in a great city they shouldn't have picked out. But they did. Bill saw them first, though, and put on whiskers and a plug hat for disguise. This didn't help as the boss knew him and didn't care whether it hurt Bill's feelings to be seen shining shoes or not. He ran into a barber shop next door, but this didn't help him, as there were too many razors lying about and too many ill-tempered parties who didn't like Bill to wield them. Bill is slammed in the stomach and knocked clean through a brick wall. Papa and the heiress got lost in the shuffle. The boss pulls out a big knife but, through unforeseen developments, attacks himself from the rear.
- The stenographer was entirely too pretty for the equilibrium of the office force, and both clerks and the boss found themselves off balance. The boss had the advantage of authority in the office, but unluckily he didn't have the same at home, and when his spouse happened in and interrupted a little conversation he was having with the stenographer, said stenographer went out by express orders of the wife. This didn't help matters, however, as Gertie came back in boy's clothes, got her old job back, and also got Wifey stuck on her. The ensuing trouble is best left untold, with the exception of a secret meeting at the café, an intercepted note, and an important disclosure just at the wrong time. The whole affair would have been far better if Wifey had not attempted to take over the office under her management and Gertie had not imagined she could get away with the men's clothes effect.
- Eddie Barry and Harry Mann are the owners of a bird and animal store, of which Harry is the crooked partner. Arriving at the store one morning, Harry is unable to unlock the door because a monkey has inserted a hose nozzle in the keyhole, and plays the spray on Harry. Harry goes to Eddie's house for the key and gets into some awkward complications with Eddie's wife, and he also be comes the idol of Eddie's mother-in-law. Eddie and his wife have an argument over the mother-in-law, and they say they are going to break up their home. Harry Mann, by mistake, receives the two notes telling of their intentions to leave their home, so he rents Eddie's house to Harry Griffin and Bartine Burkett, a vaudeville team. Eddie has met Bartine in his store and has a picture of her in tights, without her face showing. Meeting her husband in the park, he shows him this picture, with the address, and then a chase ensues between the husband and Eddie. Everything is settled until Eddie and his wife decide to return to their home, which at the same time is occupied by Griffin and Bartine, and a great many complications result.
- Three suitors tried to serenade the girl all at the same time, but there was a discord in their regard for one another as well as in their instruments. In fact, the ill feeling grew so pronounced that a couple of them took refuge in a shed. This didn't relieve the situation, as the shed was blown up and they were taken to the hospital. On the way the ambulances ran over Billie, the only uninjured Romeo, and he had to go to the hospital too. Meanwhile, suitor Henric got chummy with a fat gentleman who was suffering from an overindulgence of liquor, and he imagined he was seeing things and started following a bomb. The unpleasantness and confusion was enhanced when the girl came to visit Henric, everything went wrong, and there was a big, unexpected explosion. The great question was, who suffered most?
- Hang got in a jam in the Hotel de Bunion with an ill-tempered husband and another two hundred pound gentleman. He pacified the fat gentleman and had almost conciliated the husband, but the latter's wife lost her skirt by accident and circumstantial evidence pointed strongly toward Hank. This caused husband to feel genuinely uncordial toward Hank, so much so that Hank had to go to bed to avoid the excitement. He forgot his hat, however, and went out in the hall to get it, but was locked out in his pajamas. He offended several parties by intruding on the privacy of their bedrooms and was also unfortunate enough to get back into the wife's bedroom to save himself from a sharp-eyed detective. He came out immediately followed by husband and two Krupps. Husband proved to be a great follower and stuck close behind through halls and stairways to the roof of a twelve-story skyscraper. Hank became overbalanced on the edge of the roof coping and an invalid who interfered, and likewise some cops who attempted to take a hand, started to teeter twelve stories above the pavement. The invalid was the only one who fell, but he lit on some peaceful pedestrians, whereas Hank and the husband fought on the edge and gave themselves black eyes and heart failure from contemplating the depths below. Meanwhile the lady who was the cause of it all sat in a room and read a magazine.
- There is no reliable documentation that any film bearing the title The Baron's Bear Trap was ever produced by L-KO or distributed by Universal at this time. It is another bogus entry from the error-ridden pages of Richard E. Braff's Silent Short Film Working Papers; most likely it is the same film as The Baron's Bear Escape (1914) q.v.
- Dan has the position of property man in a vaudeville theater. He has trouble in keeping the stars contented. They all want to have the star dressing room and he has a hard time to make them all satisfied. In the end he has to take the star and shift it about from one door to another in order to make each one think that he, or she, as the case may be, has the star room at the time. Dan becomes involved in an argument with an actor when he remarked that actors should not stay around the theater. Dan vows to get even. The show is started. In the second act it is necessary to have rain. When the actor calls for rain Dan turns on the hose and gives them a deluge. Another of the acts is a fake acrobatic act. The men are supposed to be holding each other up, but in reality it is Dan who is doing the supporting by means of a rope from behind the scenes. But just at the critical moment he lets the fly slip and the audience is allowed to see the act is a fake. Then comes the dance of the dying duck. But at his point in the performance Dan is standing behind the scenes eating a banana. He throws the peel out on the stage and the dance of the dying duck turns into a farce. The actors cannot keep their feet and slip so badly that the audience is about to leave when the curtain is pulled down. But the finale of the evening is when the high diver comes on. He is going to dive from the top of the theater into a little bucket of water. All goes well and the diver is just about to take the fatal leap when Dan nonchalantly takes the bucket away and the actor cannot hold himself back and so dives into the floor. He comes after Dan hot foot and Dan takes to flight. He calls for the police and these gentlemen arrive in a buggy. But by this time Dan has taken flight in a big car and the diver is following in a flivver. After a long chase it all ends when Dan throws his enemy into the river from the top of a high bridge and then himself makes a hurried exit.
- Ambrose is an immigrant who is mistaken for a detective by the president of a school for girls. He finds a diamond ring lost by one of the girls and is duly rewarded.
- A beautiful countess comes to this country to study rag-time music. She creates havoc among the masculine hearts at a certain hotel, and her jealous husband finds his hands full fighting off her various admirers. A crippled Ford car and a bathing pool are features, and the number winds up with an amusing auto chase.
- Lizzie was a country girl and the work imposed upon her by her cruel stepfather palled on her. She longed for the city life, and when two strangers from the big town came along she proved an easy victim. In addition to falling in love with one of them she stole her father's savings and eloped with them. This aroused father's ire. He let out a yell that was heard over the entire community, and gathered all his farm hands around him and went in pursuit of the gang. Lizzie, with her new-found friends, had to take refuge in an old abandoned house, where a hot battle ensued. The battle was a draw, as everyone was badly banged up.
- Dan, the Irish Terror, is attracted by the charms of Hot Dog Hattie, but she does not care for him, as her affections are set upon Battling Bull. Both are members of the Stock Yards Athletic Club, and Dan sends Bull a challenge, which is accepted. Dan decides to get a line on Bull's work. He goes to his training quarters, climbs up on a box and peeps through the transom. What he sees there disconcerts him so much that he kicks the box away from under him. The Bull sees him and shuts the transom on his fingers. But Dan escapes. The day of the fight arrives. Dan has arranged for some dirty work, which fails to operate against Bull, and Dan is knocked out. Dan sneaks away from the ring, and takes the gate receipts. He takes them to Hattie, who shuts her up in her own hot-dog booth, and pushes it off down the steep grade of the street. He clambers on top of it and dresses himself there. The booth falls over a bank, and Dan rescues Hattie from the ruins. They are chased, but he manages to board a western-bound train with her. Bull finds a lone hot dog which tells him of her fate. Out west, Dan's prowess soon makes him master of the town. Hattie still dreams of Bull, and when he arrives in town in the guise of a tramp she recognizes him. Bull challenges Dan to another fight. Hattie disguises herself as a cow-puncher in order to be present. She pours glue on the seat in Dan's corner, and revives Bull with dope when he threatens to collapse. Dan is knocked out of the ring and chased down the street, while Hattie and Bull fall into each other's arms.
- Rural chickens and Broadway chickens, pigs, cows, and every other variety of the barnyard family are used in this film. The comedy has been aptly named "A Rural Riot," which it is, from beginning to end, visualizing as it does the woman's bank--her stocking; the farmer's bank--his stove; the burglars, who, wise to the world, steal the hot stove and get away with it. Gale and Hughie are sweethearts in this comedy, and Hughie shows the extent to which a fat man goes for love.
- A pretty nurse makes an impression on Billie. Her flirtation arouses the jealousy of the crippled anarchist, who gets even by bouncing a basin on Billie's head. The young interne, also in love with the pretty nurse, makes a date to meet her, but Billie, waiting for another sight of his lady fair, forestalls him. The interne's jealousy aroused, he proceeds to punish Billie. Believing him dead, the frightened nurse and interne make off for the hospital. Found unconscious by a couple of policemen, Billie is restored by a whiff of his beloved gin. He is carried into the hospital, where his head is bandaged and he is prepared for bed. Turning into the ward he is treated by the anarchist. The ungrateful Billie manages to steal the bottle, but is not able to get away with the contents before the arrival of the nurse. Recognizing him, the nurse showers attentions upon him, much to the jealousy of the anarchist, who plants a bomb under the bed of the sleeping Billie. The anarchist, awaiting the explosion, is horrified to discover the nurse sitting on the bed with Billie. He endeavors to drag her away and the bomb is discovered. Thoroughly alarmed, the entire hospital force endeavor to throw the bomb out. In the confusion the anarchist is thrown on the bed of Billie, and together on Billie's little hospital bed they are blown through the roof, finally landing in the lake.
- Merry Mary has a couple of lovers, the sheriff and the Rube, but Rube is a drinker, and the sheriff makes sure that Mary knows it, and so Mary's affections waver. Then somehow a bottle is found on the sheriff and then Mary wavers no longer; she marries Rube. The wedding over, the pair settle into their little love nest, Mary only interested in making her Rube his favorite dish, pie. But alas, Rube meets a bottle. It is hard enough to know the sheriff's accusations were true, but in the midst of her discovery come the village bridal serenaders. Dreading their comments, Mary decides to hide the drunken Rube, and dumps him into an empty barrel. The neighbors see Mary and the limp form and send forth an alarm that the bride has killed her groom. Mary is hauled before the town justice, and upon her denying the crime is given a third degree that would make a cast-iron post confess murder. Rube comes out of his stupor and crawls forth from the barrel in time to save his Mary. Confronting the would-be prosecutors the tables are turned, the scene that follows giving the community sufficient excitement to form the basis of corner gossip for years.
- The police force round up a notorious pickpocket after exciting adventures.
- Mert, the station agent, loved Al the foreman, and Mert's father, the engineer, loved Al's mother, and Al loved Mert, and Al's mother loved Mert's father. However, Mert's father did not love Al, and Al's mother did not love Mert, so that kept things from being monotonous. Al invited Mert to the soda fountain, but when Mert found that he had no money she suspected that the attraction was Babe the dispenser of liquid refreshment. Herein she wronged Al's honest soul. Al found Mert's father making love to his mother and threw flour at them. Just then the train arrived, and with it Terrible Ted, the He-Vampire. Ma and Pa were sitting a truck, and Al sneaked up and tied it to the train as it pulled out. However, the end of the rope caught his foot and he was hauled along the track till Pa cut the rope and they all came home. Mert was making making eyes at Ted. His idea was to get into the safe while she flagged the train. He and his confederates had almost succeeded, when Mert managed to grab the bad in which they had placed the money and pull it up through a trap in the ceiling. They discovered her and pursued her to the roof. She jumped off, but they got her, and put her in a trunk. They then loaded the trunk onto a passing train. Al and Babe went to the rescue on a handcar. All of them arrived in the Great City, and the trunk with Mert inside was taken to a room. Al and Babe arrived, and Mert, looking out of the window, saw them. She wrote a note which she placed in the water pitcher and threw out of the window. Al snatched a bow and arrow from a child and shot a reply to her. He sent up a rope and Mert lowered the money to him. She then slid down the rope after tying it to the bed, and they all went off on the handcar, pursued by the villains in an auto. But the handcar reached the station first. Ted was not to be foiled, and be subdued them all with chloroform. She grabbed him, threw him off the train, and then returned with the money. Moving Picture World, October 27, 1917