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- Elias Simpkins, an energetic farmer, wishes to marry his daughter, Letty, to Notso Short, son of Judge Short, a banker. However, Letty and Hank Higgins, the industrious farm hand, have resolved to marry at the first opportunity, when Judge Short brings his son, Notso, to see Letty. Hank Higgins is instrumental in causing a riot which results in Judge Short leaving the old farm in anger. After a series of unfortunate circumstances, Elias Simpkins resolves to have revenge on his farm hand and orders Letty to remain indoors, while papa sees the bird men fly. Hank and Letty seize the opportunity to elope. Simpkins follows the train in an airship. He overtakes the fugitives but does not foil their purpose because he is thrown off the train by the irate commercial travelers.
- The one was a venturer; the other an adventurer--the one a man who wanted to see adventure, but who had never been beyond the city limits; the other a man who had seen adventure in all parts of the world, and who assured the venturer that things were just as monotonous every place in the world as in the city. So they met, each seeking for the unconventional on a New York street, and dined together as men out of luck, with two cents between them--and still nothing happened. They both had credit at the hotel. Then into their lives came the feminine influence: a sweet girl who lived in a house which was irrevocably a household. The adventurer hesitated--he had yet to satisfy his longing for the incalculable. Suddenly, love changed the venturer into an adventurer, and settled the adventurer into a venturer.
- Farm Alfalfa has a pup that causes life on the farm to be far from dull. Enjoying a quiet smoke one day the farmer lays down his pipe. The pup steals it and, taking it under the stoop, smokes to his heart's content, then retreats to the barn. The farmer takes a mallet and runs to the barn in search of his pipe. There he finds the pup chasing the ducks. In turn he chases the pup. He cannot catch him and returns to the barn. There he buys a wonderful game rooster from a neighbor. The rooster gets into a fight with the pup, which escapes the rooster's attacks for the moment. The rooster springs into the pail where the pup is hiding the moment the pup springs out. Thinking that the pup is in the pail the farmer makes a drive and kills the rooster.
- Bob loves Edna, but mother objects because he has no money. Chauncy, his roommate, has more money than brains, and thinks he adores Edna's maid. Bob is denied the house, but sees his pal being ushered in with ceremony, and thinks that he has betrayed him. In reality, mother is to blame, for she thinks that Chauncy is after Edna, and wants his millions in the family. Bob persuades Chauncy to act as a shield for his own courtship. Chauncy gets Edna from the house under the pretense of taking her to a matinee. Edna leaves a note for her mother, but the maid opens it, and learns that Edna has eloped with the man she loves. The maid thinks that the man is Chauncy, and is furious. Mother comes running up, and the two start after the couple. The elopers arrive first at the minister's, and the knot between Bob and Edna is tied. Then Bob runs to avoid mother's wrath. Chauncy is the only male in evidence, and mother is happy, for she thinks that the family has secured his millions. Edna then explains that she has married Bob, and the maid lights into Chauncy. Mother faints. While she is unconscious, Chauncy is united to the maid.
- Billy Barlow, American superintendent of the electric-lighting plant in the capital of Hayti, loves Claire Ducrot, daughter of Widow Ducrot in the little French-speaking city. The president of Hayti refuses to pay Billy's salary and the widow plans to give Claire to Paillard, a widower. Billy, desperate, shuts off the city's light supply by going to bed and refusing to get up until paid. As the day for Claire's wedding draws near, Billy plots how to outwit her mother and elope. On the day they are to elope, Billy finds himself unable to do so because the president once more failed to "come across" with his salary. About this time, an American warship with a moving picture company enters the harbor of Hayti. Billy arranged for the film star to visit the king's palace, wearing a naval uniform, and the monarch thought the day of settlement had come and forked over Billy's salary. The same night on which Claire is to marry the widower the electric light system of the city suddenly fails again and the next day it is found that Billy and his sweetheart had sailed away on the American warship.
- Smith, a butler in the home of Nelson, has his shoes mended, and the cobbler marked "L. X." in Roman numerals on the soles of the shoes. The butler is a smooth crook, and plans to steal Mrs. Nelson's diamond necklace, does so, makes it appear as if some one on the outside had performed the robbery. Detectives summoned discover a faint chalk mark on the window "L. X." Later they discover the marking "L. X." on the butler's shoe. This leads to a search of the butler's room, where evidences of guilt are discovered. Detective King remarks that the butler's watch has stopped. He opened the timepiece to find the works removed and the necklace hidden in the case.
- Cal Buchanan, of the frigate Virginia, and Betty Vance have plight their troth and plan soon to wed. Cal's only brother is captain of the Virginia. Before Cal and his sweetheart can be married the war breaks out between the north and the south. Cal has commission to secure plans of the Yankee fortification. Cal arrives at his destination in a load of hay, and is discovered and made prisoner. Later he makes his escape and boards the Congress. Betty Vance's brother gets seriously wounded. Because the crew of the Merrimac is not large, Betty steals her brother's clothing, disguises herself as a boy, and joins the Merrimac crew. During the engagement between the Monitor and the Merrimac, Cal Buchanan again meets his sweetheart, a supposed sailor boy. After the battle, the old saying that "only the brave deserve the fair" is proven true, for Carl and Betty again plan for their wedding.
- Otto, a young newspaper man, receives a letter offering him $10,000 a year as editor of an Alaskan newspaper and advising him to bring his wife. Otto lives in a Bohemian boarding house where there are several pretty girls, but after he has phoned for the minister and begun proposing, they all turn him down because he has left the precious letter at the office and can offer no proof of his good fortune. Meantime Eddie, a fellow boarder and in the same office, finds the letter and takes opportunity to offer himself to Matie, the handsome young artist who occupies the roof studio in Bohemia. Matie snaps at the bait offered and Eddie, to celebrate the event, starts drinking and loses the letter. One of the girls finds it, shows it to the other girls and all, including Matie, start in pursuit of Otto, while Eddie also starts after him with a gun. The chamber maid, always a secret admirer of Otto, saves his life and the minister marries them, to the sorrow of all the girls who have turned him down.
- Maud Muller is raking hay with her sweetheart, Jeremiah, when the Judge rides that way. He is not averse to a little flirtation. Maud and the judge are spooning near a beehive. Jeremiah punctures the hive, and the bees sally forth. Jeremiah is arrested, brought into court, and tried. The judge tells Maud that if she will marry him the offense of Jeremiah's will be condoned. Maud spurns him, and flirts with the jurors. The beehive is brought into court as evidence. Maud removes the covering, and the bees run amuck. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, and Jeremiah is sentenced to be electrocuted. The day of the execution arrives. The judge has gone fishing. Jeremiah is waiting in his cell. Maud discovers that bees cannot be held accountable for their criminal actions. She rushes to the wharf, mans a boat, and rows out to the judge. She shows him her authority and he writes her a pardon for Jeremiah. She hastens to the execution chamber, and saves him just in time.
- A lumber camp girl must marry quickly to gain an inheritance. Daisy Woods is the miss. The villain tries to win her and goes so far as to kidnap a minister to do the job. But the villain's wife and baby from the East appear on the scene. In the desperate hope that he will still be able to execute his designs, the villain LaRue wrecks their carriage, ties wife and the man who rescued her to a huge log saw platform and then starts the blade. As an added inducement toward their destruction, he sets the mill on fire. The little girl escapes and rides to the home of Daisy Woods, and halts the wedding in her own quaint way. She casually informs Daisy that her mother is now on the saw platform. Daisy rushes post-haste to the mill, saves the mother and marries the chap who first attempted the rescue. In the scene where Daisy and the daughter hurry to the mill, the two riding madly on one horse, they cross an old wooden bridge to the accompaniment of a bit of dynamite which the villainous husband jestingly places beneath it. Needless to say, the explosive accelerates their pace - first upward, then downward. The riders drop fifty feet into the water.