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- Mr. Craig has a dispute with an Italian organ grinder and receives a threatening note which worries him considerably. Later, Craig's baby gets stuck up with jam and leaves the imprint of his hand on the front door and all over the house, then finally wanders off to the attic and goes to sleep. Craig comes home and, finding the black hand sign upon the door and his little son missing, becomes frantic. He summons Skylark Fumes, a famous detective, to find his child. The detective arrives and after seeing many black hand marks decides there must be at least a thousand black handers in the gang. He immediately summons the entire police force by means of trained police pigeons. The police, after many mishaps, arrive and, after many deductions and clever police work, the child is finally found.
- The Pokes and Jabbs families, neighbors, live across the hall from each other in the same apartment house. The fearless Mr. Pokes is very much bossed by his wife, a suffragette, while Mr. Jabbs is the ruler in his own home. Mrs. Jabbs has just been presented with a new coat by her husband, and. meeting Mr. Pokes in the hall, asks his opinion of it. While Pokes is admiring the coat, his wife, hearing his voice in the hall, peers through the keyhole and mistakes his admiration of the coat for affection for Mrs. Jabbs. Jabbs, at the same time, also hearing voices in the hall, looks through the keyhole and decides to punish Pokes for his familiarity with his wife. Jealousy is aroused in both families and Jabbs and his wife quarrel, the result of which is that she leaves to go to her mother. Mrs. Pokes leaves home to attend a suffragette meeting and Jabbs, learning of a mask ball, persuades Pokes to go as his escort. Jabbs dresses as a woman. Arriving at the ball, they learn that the ball has been postponed. Disgustedly, they start toward home. A policeman gives them quite a chase, but they elude him by dodging into a saloon. The kindly bartender gets in wrong by offering his services and when they beat a hasty exit through the side door, they are confronted by another policeman. Pokes gets rid of him in a peculiar fashion. after several mishaps they arrive home. Jabbs has forgotten his keys. Pokes, becoming brave immediately, offers to put him up for the night. They proceed to retire without removing their clothes. The suffragette meeting being over, Mrs. Pokes returns. A horrible discovery meets her gaze upon entering her bedroom. Jabbs, in female attire, occupies her bed. Wild with rage, she rushes to the Jabbs apartment to inform Mr. Jabbs of his wife's actions. Jabbs, hearing the clatter on the door, beats it out the window to the fire escape. About this time. Mrs. Jabbs returns repentant. Entering her own apartment, she sees a woman lying on the couch and fails to recognize it as her husband. With a piercing shriek, she rushes to the hallway and faints. Jabbs again aroused, makes his exit through the window, and for the fire escape to the Pokes' apartment, begging Mr. Pokes to hide and protect him. Mrs. Pokes arrives on the scene and Jabbs makes for the hallway, but in so doing leaves his skirt clutched in the hand of Mrs. Pokes. Explanations follow, and what at first appeared to be a horrible catastrophe, turns out an innocent prank.
- A police officer attempts to steal a go-cart from a child.
- Andy is very strong for the landlady's daughter, who likes him, although the landlady objects. Upon the count's arrival on the scene, the landlady picks him out as a possible suitor for her daughter. Andy, for revenge, picks up Snitz, who works in the park, and introduces him to the landlady as the Baron von Glutz. He dresses him beforehand in the count's uniform, so that he will look the part. He has an understanding with Snitz that when the latter cuts out the count he will retire in Andy's favor. Snitz, however, likes the new title so well that he refuses to retire when the proper time comes. Andy, in revenge, tells the count that Snitz is wearing his uniform, which arouses him to fury, with disastrous results to Snitz.
- Billie is flirting with Olive when he sees Carmen. He leaves Olive to go with Carmen. Carmen tells him she wants a doll, so Billie steals Olive's and gives it to Carmen. Olive gets angry and Billie is forced to procure a doll for her, so he looks about for one until he comes upon some Black children; he steals a doll from one and gives it to Olive, who is not satisfied with it and throws it away. The Black children chase Billie to a place where Olive disposed of the doll, and he returns it to the Black children. He then returns to Carmen, lures her from her sweetheart, and takes her to an ice-cream stand, where he treats her. He finds he has no money to pay for the ice cream, but quite undaunted he goes to the sweetheart he stole from and borrows a dime, with which he returns to the stand and pays for the sodas. The sweetheart, watching him, sees his nervy trick and gets angry. He at once rushes upon the young gallant and proceeds to "mix" this in a lively fashion. Billie comes out of the encounter much the worse for wear and now scorned by both Carmen and Olive.
- The villagers and village boob prepare to see the circus which has just arrived in town. While one of the elephants is taking his bath the boob annoys him. Bill, the trainer, warns the boob, but too late; the elephant has taken a quantity of water in his trunk and gives the boob a bath. The boob tells the manager, who is a rival of Bill for the love of one of the performers. They get into an argument. Bill throws the manager into the water. The manager swears revenge and exits. Bill ties one end of a rope to the elephant's harness and the other end to the lemonade stand outside the circus tent. When the elephant walks off, he pulls down the stand and throws lemonade over the manager. Meantime the show is going on in the tent. The audience is disgusted and commence to throw rotten vegetables at the performers. Then the fire-eater appears. Everything seems well until he takes a drink out of a bottle which he supposed to be filled with water. His assistant. when filling the bottles, made a mistake and poured gasoline into the bottle. The fire-eater spits the gasoline out. It ignites the flames of hot coals which he uses in his act, setting fire to the stage. The rural fire department arrives and in attempting to put out the fire nearly drowns the audience. Bill and the manager are fighting on the stage and as the people run out, they get the water from both sides.
- Billy's mama leaves him in charge of the baby, after giving each a slice of bread and jam. Billy leaves the baby to take a stroll with Carmen and Chandler through the woods. The baby wanders off to the edge of the lake. Meanwhile, Billy and Chandler find a bird's nest, which they steal. When they show it to Carmen, she becomes angry and demands that they replace the nest in the tree; God is not pleased that they've stolen it. Chandler, knowing he has displeased Carmen, tries to win her favor by placing the nest back in the tree, pretending he is hurt in falling down. The plan works well and all are happy again. Billy suddenly remembers the baby and goes back, and can't find her. Later, finding her shoe at the edge of the lake, he becomes terribly frightened and falls into deep despair. The baby has been saved from falling into the water by a strange dog; Billy finally finds the dog guarding the baby. Filled with joy, he succeeds in getting her back home just as his mother comes to look for them. After mama takes the baby, Billy wipes the perspiration from his brow and resolves never to leave that kid alone again.
- Bobbie, a cabman, bids his wife an affectionate good-bye and drives to his stand, where he finds Noodles, a rival cabman, already on the job. After much fighting over a fare between the rival cabmen which results in both losing it, Noodles goes into the saloon for a drink and while there his sweetheart arrives. She and Bobbie start a flirtation, which results in Bobbie inviting her for a drive. She, admiring his hansom outfit, readily consents. Bobbie places her in the cab, then goes to the saloon and hires Noodles to drive for him. All is well; Noodles driving the hansom while Bobby huddles close and has the time of his life, with his new-found friend. Finally Noodles' curiosity gets the best of him and he decides to take a peep at Bobbie's friend, and is horrified to recognize her as no other than his own sweetheart. Noodles is so enraged that he whips up the horse and starts on a wild ride, which results in the horse running away. In the wild ride Bobby's wife sees her husband's predicament and follows on horseback. Finally, on a hillside the horse breaks loose from the cab, which results in the cab and occupants continuing the mad flight down the hill, out on the pier and overboard. A party of dockmen go to the rescue and in the excitement Bobbie's wife appears on the scene and is accidentally pulled overboard. After many failures in rescuing the people in the water the dockmen become disgusted with their job and walk away, leaving all concerned in the water.
- Billy, Olive and other children are playing on the lawn when the picture opens. Billy is unusually downhearted; he is muchly smitten with Olive and she, on the other hand, will have none of him. The other children have sweethearts; Billy has none. About this time an old soldier, who has seen service in the war, observes Billy and wonders at the close resemblance of the child to his own who has just died. His old heart softens to Billy and, giving the children some sweets, he takes Billy to his home, where he shows him the toys which belonged to his dead son. He gives Billy the toy rifle and drills him to become a soldier. Billy's mother, looking for him, meets the other children and they inform her that Billy was taken away by an old man. The mother becomes frantic and she seeks the assistance of the neighbors to find the boy. Meantime the old soldier arranges the toy soldiers on the floor and commences the story of his life, how, when he was a boy, he was stationed at a small fort on the plains when it was attacked by Indians. He was in love with his Colonel's daughter, but it was not until he had shown his heroism by going for assistance when the fort seemed doomed that the Colonel consented to the match. Billy listened to this story with eyes and mouth wide open. During this time the mother and neighbors have been hunting furiously for Billy. The old soldier and Billy, tiring of the play, finally drop off to sleep. Billy dreams of what the old soldier has related. He sees himself arrive at the fort and become smitten with the Colonel's daughter, and the same incidents which the old man experienced the boy goes through in his dream. The mother has located the house belonging to the soldier and dashes in. What she finds is her son fast asleep in the lap of the old man with his arms fast around the old man's neck. She understands and tiptoes out of the scene as it fades.
- Billy and Gordon are brothers; Carmen is Gordon's sweetheart. Gordon excuses himself from Carmen when he must milk the family cow. Billy happens along and makes fun of Gordon milking. This enrages Gordon and he squirts Billy in the eye. Passing a water trough, he sees Olive trying to reach the pump. He assists her to get a drink and asks for her company home. They part at a cross road. Gordon walks along the road, and hearing a yell and seeing a cloud of dust, runs up, thinking that a passing automobile has run down Olive. He finds it is her doll that has been hurt. He sits down beside her and tries to mend it. Meanwhile, Billy decides to go back to find out where Olive lives. His jealous anger rises as he sees Gordon kiss her on the cheek. He runs and finds Carmen and shows her Gordon's perfidy. Carmen is heartbroken, and when she sees Gordon, she snubs him. Billy gives him the same welcome. Mutual explanations ensue and all ends happily.
- Olive and her sweetheart leave school. Olive's mother, giving her some bread and jam, makes her mind the baby on the porch. Her sweetheart comes for her. They go away and leave the baby. They play around the corner and the baby creeps away. She makes the acquaintance of a bulldog and creeps on toward a cliff on top of which she sits and plays. The mother, now anxious, discovers that the baby is missing. She arouses the neighbors to help her look for her. Meanwhile, the dog decides that he wants some jam. He runs to the baby, follows him off to the base of a tree. After feeding him jam, she falls asleep. The mother, finding the shoe which the baby left on top of the cliff, imagines that she has fallen over. The neighbors help her climb down the cliff. After a series of mishaps, they discover the baby.
- Looie is forced to accompany his wife to the beach. He misses the car. He is running after it when another car picks him up on the fender and carries him away. Mrs. Myer, arriving at the beach, sees Looie come in on the fender. She instructs him to wait on the sand while she changes into her bathing suit. He observes a shapely leg sticking out from under a parasol. When he tries to move towards it he is stopped by his wife. The leg belongs to a beautiful bather. Looie tries to flirt. He is repulsed. She enters her bath house, which is next to Mrs. Myer's. Looie decides to kidnap her. He leaves to get a horse to pull the bath house away, first tying a handkerchief to the wheel. Looie returns, hitches the horse to the bath house which he thinks belongs to the fair bather, and drives away with it. On reaching a secluded spot, he discovers his wife to be in the house. He shuts and locks it. Meanwhile, the other wagon has floated out to sea; the bather, on top, yells for help. Looie runs to save her, but her real sweetheart comes along and makes the rescue. She points out Myer to him and he immediately beats him up. The horses take fright and dash away with Mrs. Myer's wagon. It is smashed and Mrs. Myer is thrown out. However, she rescues her husband and they take the trolley home.
- Jim, a gangster, asks Lena to attend the Dutch picnic with him. It so happens the gang, holding forth in Lena's neighborhood, are at outs with Jim; he has stolen their "crap" money. When they observe him asking Lena they rush off to tell Heinie, who is also smitten with Lena. Heinie rushes to the scene to start trouble with Jim. Result, he is knocked down. Lena resents the brutality of Jim and promises to accompany Heinie to the picnic. On the following day Heinie and Lena start for the picnic grounds. As they are about to enter Heinie discovers that his hands need washing. Excusing himself and leaving the money with Lena, he makes for the river. Meantime, Jim, on his way to the grounds, is hit by a croquet ball. He pursues a man in a checkered suit as the guilty party. The chase fails. Jim returns, meets Lena and enters into a conversation. Heinie, while washing, falls in. Looking for something dry to put on, be finds a checkered suit left by someone in bathing. He puts it on and starts hack. As he approaches Jim and Lena he hears him declare he will kill every man wearing a checkered suit. Heinie takes refuge behind a tree. Jim catches sight of him and commences firing. There is great excitement; the ambulance is called in. Then Jim runs out of bullets. Heinie, by this time, discovers two revolvers in the pocket of the checkered suit and commences shooting. A chase follows with Heinie coming forth as the hero of the day.
- Snitz is so ardent an admirer of the stage that he overlooks such small trifles as rent. The landlady asks his wife for the rent. After strong persuasion from the landlady's husband, who is also too strong to work. Snitz starts in search of a job. Naturally he turns to the stage as an appropriate vocation. He applies at the local temple of Thespis, but in spite of his showing samples of applied histrionics, he is cruelly turned down. He returns home discouraged. In the meantime the leading man of the troupe, which is about to play Virginius, becomes incapacitated through too frequent visits with John Barleycorn. The stage manager is in desperation and takes the costume and part to Snitz with instructions to prepare for the matinee performance at once. Snitz rehearses with so much enthusiasm that the people of the house decide that a murder is being committed and call in the police. Snitz escapes and runs to the theater, where the audience is impatiently waiting for the arrival of Virginius. Virginius arrives, followed by the police, with exciting results both to Snitz and the audience.
- Carmen is washing her doll-baby's clothes. Radcliff, a gunman, approaches her, teases her, and tries to kiss her. She slaps his face with the wet clothes; he angrily plans revenge. Carmen goes into the house. Radcliff sneaks up and throws mud at the clean clothes. Carmen returns and finds her day's work spoiled. She begins to cry. Chandler, who has been watching, comes over to console her. He offers to wash the clothes over. Radcliff makes fun of Chandler. A fight commences. Radcliff shoots at Chandler. The bullet misses its mark and crashes through a window, hitting a servant girl. She looks out of the window and observes a man with a gun. Thinking he fired the shot, she throws a rolling pin at him and knocks him down. The gun is exploded. The bullet hits a painter and knocks him from his ladder. The painter, sore, throws his paint just as the servant girl rushes in. She gets the paint in the face. A fight ensues among the neighbors. The children run off and later make up.
- Mr. Heim has a daughter engaged to marry Schultz, the baker. Miss Heim, getting ready for the marriage, finds her slippers need repairing. Going to the cobbler shop she is admired by Mier, the cobbler, who forces his love on her. She resents and leaves. During this time Schultz finds his shoes need mending. Going over to Mier he tells him of the wedding, and inviting him, shows the picture of the girl. Mier is sore, and swears revenge. Finished fixing Schultz's shoes, he goes into the side room to polish them. He discovers an idea smelling his Limburger cheese. He puts it in Schultz's shoes. When Schultz arrives at the wedding everything goes lovely till the minister drops his book at Schultz's feet. Getting the smell from the shoes the minister looks Schultz over. Mier, arriving, takes this all in from the other room. Miss Heim, excited and nervous, drops her handkerchief at her lover's feet. In picking it up she smells and then the trouble starts. She stops the minister, telling him she can't marry the man. The father grabs Schultz and throws him out. Schultz takes his shoes off and finds the trouble. Going to the window he sees Mier, the cobbler, getting married to his sweetheart. He takes the cheese and throws it, starting a general fight. The minister runs out and calls the police. But the smell is too great for them. They retreat and seek refuge in a wagon with a sign "Limburger Cheese" on it.
- Grousmeyer, a lazy bowling "nut," loafs around the house reading bowling news, while his wife visits a neighbor. The neighbor's husband, Schmaltz, visits Grousmeyer, and the fans immediately get into an argument concerning methods of bowling. The argument develops into a scrap and the house is wrecked. Both belligerents rush to the nearest bowling alleys to prove their individual contentions. Schmaltz demonstrates successfully his superiority over his rival. Grousmeyer resolves to get revenge, and succeeds in smearing soft soap on the alleys. Schmaltz, discovering the deception, goes tor Grousmeyer and a fight ensues in which everyone present, including the spectators, takes part. In the meantime, Mrs. Grousmeyer returns, and finding her house wrecked, starts a fight with Mrs. Schmaltz on whose husband she puts the blame for the state of her home. The fight carries them over to the bowling alleys, where they are caught in the big royal battle.
- Mabel, a new arrival at the hotel, is annoyed by the attention of Arthur, a flirt, and Mr. Stue, both guests at the same place. Deciding to leave, she goes to her room to pack her trunk. Mr. Stue follows. She takes refuge in the room across the hall. Hearing footsteps, she hides under the bed; the owner of the room, who happens to be Arthur, enters. Noodles, the porter, is sent up to Mabel's room to bring down her trunk. Upon finding Mr. Stue in possession, a fight starts. Mr. Stue is thrown into Arthur's room. He rolls under the bed and is delighted to find Mabel there. He is dragged forth and in the free-for-all fight Mabel escapes and Stue falls into her trunk and is made a prisoner by Noodles, who performs his mission by falling down the steps with the trunk. The trunk bursts open and Mr. Stue pops out decorated with different pieces of lingerie. It winds up with Stue and Noodles falling into the fountain, where Stue falls peacefully to sleep.
- Snitz is detailed to capture the moonshiners. He is fairly successful until he meets the moonshiner's daughter. This comes about through rescuing her from a perilous position. She shows her gratitude for his kind deed, which her mountain sweetheart has witnessed. When the girl leaves Snitz, her sweetheart decides to kill him. He enters. A fight ensues. Snitz escapes. The girl, observing his plight, hides him in a whiskey barrel. The lover dashes up, guesses that Snitz is in the barrel, nails it shut and gives it a shove. It rolls down the hill and hits the moonshiner's cabin, causing an explosion which wrecks the place. The moonshiners discover Snitz is a secret service man and pursue him. Snitz has "planted" his aids in the mountains. He now rushes towards them with the moonshiners in hot pursuit. They follow him into the trap. They are captured after a fierce fight. The girl rushes into Snitz's arms, declaring him her hero.
- The restaurant is crowded with hungry patrons and the proprietor is frantic at the absence of his chief chef, Debean, who is late as usual. Soon Debean arrives and after affectionately bidding the pretty cashier good morning he slowly draws off his kid gloves and majestically surveys the hungry crowd. The proprietor greets him like a long-lost brother and proudly escorts Debean to the kitchen, where the army of helpers await their chief's arrival and things soon start to hum. Soon Mr. Millions, a millionaire grouch, who is very particular about his meals, enters the café. The proprietor to show his great esteem for Mr. Millions decides that the millionaire shall give his order direct to the chief chef. Debean is called and on getting the order he retires to the kitchen and alter many mishaps the steak is garnished, fit for a king. Debean is so pleased with his work that he decides he will serve the meal himself. Debean waits on the millionaire in grand style, loads the table with good things to eat, then retires to the kitchen with the idea that he is the greatest chef in the world. His dream does not last long, for Millions having a peevish grouch that morning finds fault with everything, which results in a fight between himself and the proprietor in which the steak is used as a deadly weapon, people being knocked right and left with it. After much damage is done, Millions is finally ejected. The proprietor then scolds the chef, which results in the chef and his force quitting their jobs. Later the chef sees the proprietor make love to the cashier; the chef in a jealous rage sneaks into the kitchen and plants a bomb in the broiler and in his mad haste to get away he becomes locked in the kitchen, which results in an explosion blowing the chef, pots and pans in all directions.