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- Syd's wife asks him to feed the hog. He carefully places his cigar on the edge of the windowsill and does as he is bid. On his return to the house, he is greeted with the dishwater which his wife is just throwing out, and after an argument, Syd goes in to resume his smoke. His wife, seeing smoke coming out of the window, thinks the house is on fire and rushes for a bucketful of water which she throws in on Syd. Then they discover that the curtains have caught fire, and both run for more water. A nearby cop, seeing the smoke, arrives on the spot in time to get a good drenching and after a lively little spat between him and Syd, the cop is finally thrown out of the place. Syd's wife then starts him out to buy a new pair of curtains. On the way, Syd meets a friend who is going fishing, and forgets all about the curtains and joins his friend. While waiting for his friend, who has gone to get some bait, a lady friend leaves her baby with Syd, asking him to mind it till she does some shopping. Syd's friend comes back and together they march off, taking the baby along with them. The mother returns, and misses her child and runs to Syd's house. She and Syd's wife start out on the warpath to find Syd, and arrive on the scene just in time to see the baby-buggy go over the edge of the pier. The mother faints and Syd makes a dive into the water to save the child, but comes ashore with no baby. While they are trying to comfort the mother, along comes Syd's friend holding the baby and explains that he had taken it out of the carriage and laid it in a shady place to sleep. The mother grabs the child, while Syd and the cop gives the friend a pummeling for having caused so much excitement.
- A young man, overwhelmed in debt by the extravagance of his wife, to forget his worries joins a poker game with several of his friends. One of the men wins continuously. His way home leads through the woods. The young husband, aware of this fact, advises him to carry a revolver and thereby hands him one. It is unloaded. He decides to take a short cut through the woods and hold his friend up, as he knows he will not be injured, the revolver being unloaded. Meanwhile the other man has met a party of friends who advise him to see whether the revolver is loaded. Finding that it is not, they load it up for him and send him on his way. When he is held up, not realizing who the highwayman is, he fires a shot and kills him. When the wife learns of her husband's death, she admits that it was her folly and extravagance that caused the tragedy.
- Tom Skinner gets in with a band of discontented workmen who plan to hold up the pay train. During her canter through the woods, Mary (Skinner's young wife) overhears two men plotting the train holdup and rushes to the sheriff's office to report what she has heard. The sheriff is not in, so Mary leaves instructions on the slate, and hurries back to the scene of the intended holdup. She races along on the railroad tracks on a handcar, and flags the fast approaching train with her red skirt, bringing it to a stop in time. The passengers alight, and the workmen discover the mistake they made in trying to hold up this particular train which happens to contain the traffic manager and the president of the road. The sheriff arrives with his men and while Mary is being made a heroine and complimented on her bravery by the president, she suddenly sees her husband among the men being led away, and is filled with dismay. The president insists on rewarding Mary, and she tells him the only reward she desires is the pardon of her husband. It is granted together with a substantial sum of money, and Mary and Tom go home, where Tom vows that he will live the life of a law-abiding citizen.
- Percy de Gink decides to give the Hotel de Hobo a trial. He registers and is shown to his room by the head bellboy. Well satisfied with the interior of his future domain, he looks out of the window to observe his outside surroundings. He is soon absorbed in watching an old maid across the way relieving herself of several interesting articles of her wearing apparel, but she catches him spying and hurls a pitcher at him. He is just about to get back at her when somebody above drops a bottle on de Gink's projecting head and he quickly withdraws to safety. Percy then desires a bath but when he reaches the bathroom he finds Harold de Hobo has beat him to it, and has fallen asleep in the tub. He throws a wet sponge in his face, but Harold resents such harsh treatment and chases Percy. They run into a scrubwoman who throws her pail of water at them. After this excitement, Percy returns to his room, and looks out of the window to get some air. Three bottles of beer standing in a row on the windowsill below catch his eye. He gets an idea. Tying one end of the sheet to the bedpost and the other to his left foot, he lowers himself out of the window, head first, reaches out for the beer and soon empties the bottles. But he doesn't know how to get back to his room, and there he hangs in midair all night. Next morning, Harold sees him there and saws the sheet from the bed post, whereupon Percy drops into the snow on top of a sleeping policeman. The cop chases him, but has a hard time catching Percy. De Gink stops to call up the fire department, and merrily continues on his way, but at last the cop catches him and treats him to a good walloping.
- The sheriff of a small western town, in love with Stella, is being jollied because of his inability to locate a horse thief who is causing a great deal of trouble in the neighborhood. Stella meets the horse thief, and not knowing who he is consents to go to a dance with him. The sheriff seeing them together becomes jealous. Going home from the dance he sees a fellow put a note under the wheel of an abandoned wagon. When the fellow has left he takes the note, reads it and discovers that the fellow Stella is infatuated with is the horse thief. Stella is taken home by the thief and he takes her to his cabin. The sheriff follows and is shot in the arm by the rustler. The sheriff, sitting at the table, rolls a cigarette, throws the tobacco in the thief's face, blinds and overpowers him, then turns to the girl. The posse arrive and lead the thief away, while the sheriff and his sweetheart embrace each other.
- This is a farce, showing the mishaps of two brothers who look alike. The one brother is married and he introduces his brother to a widow, hoping thereby to make a match. The brother, who has been introduced to the widow, is suddenly called out of town and his married brother visits the widow. She, thinking it is the single one, makes love to him. His wife catches them. After the brother's return from the road matters are straightened out.
- Cupid, bent on mischief, sends an arrow through the heart of Myrtle, an old maid, and at the same time sends another dart to Syd, a man of all work. Syd finding his "missing rib," immediately starts lovemaking. Myrtle tells Syd that before he can steal her heart, he must become famous. Syd leaves in search of fame and as a parting gift sends his lady-love a string of sausages, which is duly appreciated. Syd meets a hypnotist who makes him believe he is a great poet, whereupon Syd creates "An Ode to his Dog Schneider." He recites this to several people with disastrous results. Then he tries it on his girl, who drenches him with water and orders him out. Syd promptly returns to the hypnotist and gives him a good thrashing for getting him "in wrong." Syd then meets an actress who suggests he seek fame through acting and takes him to a moving picture studio. Syd is given a try-out, and is soon taught how to kiss a pretty girl. Meanwhile, Myrtle repents her harsh treatment of Syd and starts out to find him. She runs across the hypnotist, who, wishing to get even for the beating he received, tells her Syd has gone to the studio with an actress. Myrtle breaks into the studio just as the scene in which Syd is kissing the girl is being taken, and taking Syd firmly by the ear, she leads him out and marches him to the Justice of the Peace, where they are married on the spot. Cupid chances to pass a little while later, and realizing he is the cause of all the trouble, Syd promptly gives chase, followed by Myrtle. Syd catches Cupid, pulls off his wings and destroys his bow and arrow, when Myrtle again catches up with him and leads him away by the ear.
- Thelma Monsby is in love with Agnes Cameron but her father, who is in financial difficulties and who has borrowed money from Jack Davenport, a wealthy young man who is in love with Thelma, is anxious that she marry Davenport. Finally, the girl's parents persuade her to accept Davenport and he and Thelma are married. Thelma, however, is not happy, even after the birth of her little girl, and does not take an interest in her home ties. She persists in going out into society frequently, and continues to accept the attentions of her former lover, Cameron. On one occasion she wishes to go to a dance, but her husband pleads a toothache as an excuse to stay at home, whereupon she calls up Cameron and asks him to take her. That evening, Cameron calls and takes her to the affair. After she has gone, Davenport whose toothache has not grown any better, applies some poison on the gums to deaden the pain. While he is otherwise occupied, his little daughter picks up the bottle and drinks of the contents and becomes sick. A doctor is hastily summoned and through the night nurses the little one past the danger stage. Finally, the mother returns home and seeing her child almost at death's door, a sudden realization of her foolishness and the great wrong she has committed by neglecting her home duties dawns on her. As the crisis passes and her daughter extends her arms and kisses her, love is born in Thelma's heart for her husband and child, and she resolves in future to devote herself entirely to them.
- Syd, the village Beau Brummel. is preparing to go and call on his sweetheart when his nephew pushes him into a tub of water where his aunt is washing some clothes. Syd leaves the house with the back of his pants wet and meets Ann, a girl friend of his. They talk a few minutes and then Syd continues to his sweetheart's house. He asks her father on the porch where Marty is and the father tells him that she is out in the yard feeding the chickens, where Syd promptly goes to find her. He frightens the chickens and she throws some chicken feed in his face. Later Syd asks Marty to go for a walk. The father objects, so Syd straps him into his invalid wheelchair and takes him along by force. In the meantime a tramp has robbed Ann and she tries to find Syd to tell him. While Syd is trying to steal a kiss from Marty, a cowboy in an automobile lassos the wheel chair, dragging it along with Marty's father in it. As Syd and Marty see what has happened, Ann comes up and all start after the chair. Finally the chair becomes loose from the auto and continues its flight into a creek. Syd and Ann fall in after it and get it out. The father beats Syd and he and his daughter leave Syd and Ann, who say goodbye and go home. In the meantime the tramp has come to Syd's home and attempted to steal a pie but is frightened away by the dog. Syd, on arriving home, eats the pie and blames it on the tramp, whereupon his Aunt drives the tramp away with a hose. The tramp returns and steals Syd's pants while they are out to dry and Syd is compelled to wear one of his Aunt's dresses when he goes out to make an apology to Marty and her father. They drive him away, however, and Syd then goes to Ann's house. She receives him encouragingly. Whereupon Syd and Ann embrace and Syd pops the question. One evening Jones tells his wife that important business will detain him at the office, although in reality he and two friends engage in an absorbing game of poker. To dispel the loneliness, Mrs. Jones goes to the theater with a lady friend. Sue, her maid, seeing the coast clear, brings her sweetheart, Joe, in the dining room, and they embrace and kiss in fashion "a la Jones." Mrs. Busybody, seeing the slim shadow of a man and the graceful shadow of a woman upon the blind, concludes that Mrs. Jones is entertaining a strange man, as she is familiar with Jones' shadow which is a bulky one. In consequence, she waits for Mr. Jones to arrive and fills his mind with suspicions of his wife. Mr. Jones, on reaching the dining room finds cigarette smoke, and a mysterious pair of pants. Suffice it to be said that a serious disruption takes place in the Jones' household. Mr. Jones goes to Mrs. Jones' bedroom and drags her out of bed. He accuses her of infidelity. Following this the fun waxes fast and furious to a most ludicrous finish.
- Lucille, daughter of the owner of the Worst Luck Mine, is in love with Stalwart Steve and endeavors to persuade her father to give his consent to their engagement. Father, however, is inclined to believe that his daughter is intended to raise the family socially, and looks to the day when he can take her abroad and have her introduced among the nobility. The advent of Reginald Percival Scrubbs seems like a Heaven-sent blessing to father, especially as Archie immediately becomes enamored of Lucille, when he sees the pile of nuggets the Worst Luck Mine yields daily. Steve gains Archie's hatred and through his influence, father sends Steve into the desert to hunt for new mines and confines Lucille to her room in punishment for ever having loved such a common person as Steve. Archie presses his suit without avail until he learns from Lucille's lips of the oath she has made never to marry anyone while Steve lives. Archie then sets out to find Steve. He locates him in Undertaker's Gulch, thirty miles from water and treacherously steals his Thermos bottle, leaving him without any means of getting supplies. Going back to Lucille, he tells her Steve is dead, and shows her the bottle as proof. Steve, however, bethinks himself of a way out of his danger. He pins a message for help on his noble burro and sends it back to the mine for aid. Lucille gets the message, takes the family hose, connects it to the hydrant and sets out through thirty miles of cactus to take the lifegiving water to her sweetheart. Placing the nozzle in the dying miner's mouth, she returns home again to turn on the water. Meanwhile, Archie has discovered the hose and is about to cut the line. Lucille arrives in time and a struggle ensues. Father, while the fight is raging, finds that Archie held five aces on him the night before and joins the fray, taking sides this time with Lucille. Archie is discomfited. Lucille turns on the water and Stalwart Steve, thirty miles away in the desert, is revived and returns home to receive Lucille as his bride.