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- A young man studying the many species of monkeys in their habitats is alone in an African village where he hires a native guide to pilot him through the jungle. On the afternoon of his first day out he is surprised at finding the home of an old American and his daughter. Our sympathy goes at once to the young girl, who has grown to womanhood in this secluded spot; she is devoted to her father, who has been her sole companion since early childhood, and has taught her to observe and learn much about the inhabitants of the primitive jungle. This knowledge leads to an association with the young American student, which culminates in a pleasing romance. In searching for rare specimens not found in the mainland, the three go to an uninhabited island of the coast. The natives they have with them become frightened at a mysterious character that appears at the camp, and they desert the party in the dead of night, taking the boat with them. The natives and boat are lost in a storm and our three friends have no means of communication with the world. After three years we find them still on the island and they have made friends with the mysterious character that seems half man and half ape. All goes well until the ape man's pet, a chimpanzee of the jungle, steals the two-year-old baby and bestows on it almost human devotion. It is only through the powers of the ape man that the child is rescued. Signal fires finally attract a ship and the persons are thereby rescued.
- The Newlyweds are given the use of a friend's bungalow for their honeymoon. With suitcases bearing the inevitable "Just Married" labels, they arrive at their destination and begin on a period that bids fair to be full of bliss. But Fate sends Montmorency, a stranded actor, striding down the railroad tracks with his partners, Nap and Sallie, the chimps, and he and the Newlyweds are drawn together by a queer coincidence. Montmorency is seen by a circus man who covets the chimps, and the actor is forced to sell his partners. The circus man sends the chimps in an express wagon to the station to be shipped away but the express man is more interested in his book "Pity the Laboring Man" than in his charges, and the box with the monkeys in falls to the pavement before the house which shelters the Newlyweds. Nap and Sallie emerge from the broken box and take refuge in the nearest haven they find, which chances to be the attic of the Newlyweds' bungalow. Then commences a reign of terror. Mrs. Newlywed thinks that her husband is perfect except for his smoking, and he thinks that she is perfect except for her excessive eating so that when his cigar and her lunch vanish, each blames the other and a quarrel is the result. As a matter of fact, the chimps have made a raid from the attic and even at the time of the quarrel, Nap is smoking peacefully behind the hall rack and Sallie is enjoying a lunch in the attic. Finally mysteriously opened doors, laundry baskets that sway to and fro, a syphon that sprays them in the face as they open the kitchen door and the noise of soft footfalls where no persons are, lead the couple to the conviction that the house is haunted. They decide to leave, only to find that the house has been mysteriously fired by the stolen cigar which Nap has left on Mrs. Newlywed's best hat on the rack in the hall. The two rush to pack their suitcases. But Mr. Newlywed's umbrella persists in dancing about the room, carried by some unseen thing, and they flee into Mrs. Newlywed's room to find her nightgown waving aloft upon the arms of what is apparently an apparition with its head hidden in the white folds. Mrs. Newlywed faints at the continued horrors, and Mr. Newlywed is at his wit's end. But help comes in the shape of the circus man and the careless delivery man. The circus man has waited in vain for the chimps at the station and has found the driver, compelling him to drive him back over the road he has just traveled in order to try and find some clue to the missing animals. They ring at the Newlyweds' bungalow and Mr. Newlywed, in fright, drops his wife on the floor and she revives. They both rush to the door and upon hearing of the loss of the chimps, see an explanation of the uncanny happenings of the past several hours. The chimps are located in the attic and everybody is happy.
- John, a traveling salesman, and Sarah, an old maid, are in love. Both are residents of a hotel. When the story opens, the wedding day has dawned and a few hours will see the pair husband and wife. Their dream of love is slightly dimmed by overhearing an imitation of their recent love scene by Ben, the bellboy, who is regaling Nat, his chum, but they get the boys fired and proceed on to their rooms. But the bellboys harbor a scheme of revenge and chance throws coincidence in their path. After the boys have changed their suits and sauntered down street, they come upon Nap and Sallie, the chimps, who are tied outside the tent of a little sideshow, dressed for their act. Ben and Nat steal the chimps and carry them to their rooms in the hotel, where they pack Nap in a box addressed to John from Sarah, and Sallie in a box addressed to Sarah from John. They take the boxes to their respective rooms and wait for the fun to commence. Now John and Sarah have their Terrible Secrets. John wears a wig and Sarah has false teeth, but so far each has managed to keep the distressing fact from the other. But with the advent of Nap and Sallie matters take a turn for the worse. Neither dares to express his or her real feelings toward the chimps on account of the unloyalty implied toward the loved one, but each is frightened almost to death at the new pet. Sallie gets hold of Sarah's false teeth and disappears with them onto a painter's scaffolding out the window, and Nap takes John's wig and drops it downstairs on the head of one of the painters, who is busy flirting with the cook. The minister and the guests arrive, but the distracted couple who are to be married are wringing their hands over their misfortune. At last they know that the fateful minute can be put off no longer, so John seizes a high hat, and Sarah pulls her bridal veil over the place her teeth ought to be and they sally forth. The guests see the strange actions of the bride and groom, but attribute them to embarrassment and the ceremony progresses. Sallie dabs the teeth in a can of red paint and leaves them on the bedroom floor to hide under the bed at the approach of a chambermaid. The maid sees the teeth in a pool of red and decides that Miss Sarah has been murdered. She exits, shrieking and waving the teeth. Meanwhile, the owner of the sideshow has discovered the loss of his chimps and traces the boys and animals to the hotel. He confronts Ben and Nat, and he and the boys, the painter and the maid break in upon the wedding. Explanations are made to the amusement of the guests and to the shame of John and Sarah, but the two decide that they love each other in spite of the physical deficiencies, and fall happily in one another's arms.
- The Widow Billings is in despair over her bridge debts when she receives a communication from her uncle's lawyers stating the death of the old man and the fact that she will become heiress to his vast estate at the time his "little ones" become of age if, up to that time, she will give them the care and attention of a mother. She is delighted with the chance and telegraphs her acceptance of the conditions. She tries to be conscientious in her fulfillment of the conditions and fits out a lovely nursery for the "little ones." One afternoon the arrive, with their keeper. Uncle's "little ones" are the chimpanzees, Nap and Sallie, and the Widow Billings finds she has her hands full. She tries to keep the knowledge of the little ones from her society acquaintances, particularly from a wealthy bachelor, Mr. Richman, in whose wealth she sees an escape from the ridiculous chimpanzees. Her efforts to keep her suitor from a glimpse of the chimps lead to subterfuge after subterfuge and finally become almost an obsession with her. Mr. Richman begins to think that her mind is affected. She gets up and closes doors with the utmost haste, and no reason whatever, and one afternoon, just as the proposal is about to "happen," the hammock in which the lovers are seated falls and an examination shows a clean knife cut in the rope, which the widow is unable to explain. These things prey upon Mr. Richman to such an extent that he almost gives up the widow, especially as he thinks that he has seen huge and terrible monkeys upon the place on several occasions. But the widow is determined and finally when he complains that he sees the chimps, she hurries him away to her friend, a physician, with whom she has made an arrangement. The doctor advises Mr. Richman to marry and settle down, as he is a "very nervous man." Mr. Richman decides to take his advice and goes to propose. The wedding ceremony is performed immediately, as the widow takes no chances, but fate steps in and as the vows are about to be said the monkeys are seen through the draperies demolishing the wedding meal. The sight so terrifies Mr. Richman, who is at last certain that he sees realities, that he runs from the widow, leaving the Widow Billings, who realizes, in despair, that the chimps are now "the only hope."
- Tom and Jack are chums and come into the rooms of the Good Fellows' Club rather the worse for liquor. The plea of Tom's mother and sweetheart that he is ruining his young manhood with "the filthy stuff" falls on heedless ears. But while Tom and his chum carouse at the club, a plan is on foot to cure the young man of his vice. Ruth, his sweetheart, has read in the morning paper of a young man who was cured of drinking by seeing a snake run across his path as he journeyed along a country road. She tells the news to Tom's mother and together the two women pay a journey to the circus and rent there the animals with which they intend to accomplish Tom's salvation. Among the animals is a snake, a lion, hears, monkeys and a leopard. Tom comes home from the club little better than a dummy as the result of too many drinks and things begin to happen. Snakes come over the transom door, lions enter through the door, snakes appear mysteriously in his bottle of whiskey and monkeys play queer pranks on him. He tries to call for help and a great rat, the size of a pig, appears. He tries to get out of the door but finds his way blocked by hideous shapes. He decides that there is nothing in "the drink habit" and swears off. Of course his mother and sweetheart are delighted at the success of their ruse and the wedding ceremony is performed with the groom an avowed teetotaler for life.
- Lazy Lukins and Fat Perkins are in love with Widow Farmer. Lazy's nickname doesn't appeal to the lady in question as she is of a decidedly industrious character. Lazy is a detective but his ability to ferret out clues is lost upon the widow. She prefers the fat, but frugal, Perkins, who runs the delicatessen store. Nap and Sallie, the chimps, are Italian street vendors. One afternoon, they get into a scuffle and run off, leaving the contents of their trays scattered over the pavement. Lazy happens along. He tries to solve the mystery of the trays but finally stops his deductions to gloat over a necklace which he finds among the contents of one of the trays. He decides to forget the mystery in the case and bear his trophy to the fair widow. Meanwhile the chimps have made a raid on the delicatessen to the terror of the customers, the widow, and Fat Perkins. Lazy comes up but is scorned alike by the widow and Perkins. That evening Lazy endeavors to take the necklace to his love but Fat sees him as he lights a cigar before the delicatessen with the necklace hanging from his pocket. Fat thinks Lazy has been robbing the delicatessen and gains possession of the necklace after a squabble. He then hurries off with the jewelry, determining to beat Lazy to the widow with it. Lazy returns home. As he sits brooding, he decides upon a scheme which he carries out with the aid of Nap and Sallie. Nap steals a pair of Fat's shoes as he dreams of the widow. Sallie enters the widow's room by stealth, and steals the necklace which the widow has put away with kisses. Nap and Sallie meet in the old barn behind the widow's house and the necklace changes hands. Sallie returns to Lazy but Nap takes the necklace and, with Fat's shoes on his feet, returns to Fat's bedroom where he stuffs the necklace in one of the shoes and leaves. The next morning the loss of the necklace is discovered. The widow is in despair but Lazy comes to the rescue with his detecting paraphernalia, and he and the chimps succeed in locating the criminal. The widow refuses to hear Fat's protestations of innocence, and her heart turns to the clever detective who has recovered her necklace for her.