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- Chemist Donald Wallace is an atheist who believes science is the only God. He is loved by his cousin, Truth Eldridge, but is too self centered and too attentive to his radium experiments to notice her affection. Instead, he falls for Paula Roberts. When they come upon a lost little girl named Peggy, Wallace decides to take care of her until he finds her parents, but despite being a kind man, he insists to the girl that there is no God. James Dale, Wallace's assistant and Truth Eldridge's secret admirer, accidentally kills her when he tries to poison Wallace. Shortly after her death, Truth returns in spirit form to convince Wallace that God exists after all.
- With the blowing of the one o'clock whistle Waldo is awakened from his snooze on a park bench and dashes home. There he demands his dinner, but Sue, his wife, shows him the empty larder and tells him: "If you don't provide for me, I'll get a job for myself," and she starts out. She lands a job with the Dubb Detective Agency and is assigned to the case of a woman who wants to get evidence for a divorce. With a photograph of the faithless husband, Sue goes at once to his business address and stations herself by the door, where she watches every passer-by, comparing each with the photograph. Her patience is at last rewarded. She finds a man who resembles the photo and trails him. He turns into a restaurant and begins an earnest conversation with the cashier. Sue stands outside watching them and taking notes. When the cashier turns around and Sue gets a look at her ugly face she tears up her notes in disgust. There was surely no evidence in that. Her quarry tells the cashier: "Have your daughter communicate with me at once," and leaves. Waldo sees Sue waiting outside the restaurant. When she trails her man down the street, Waldo is overcome with jealousy and follows after. Her quarry goes to his office and Sue, finding the door locked, resolves to get in some other way. Closely watched by Waldo, she gets to the top of an adjoining building and walks out on some wires which lead to the office window opposite. Halfway across she loses her balance, and falls, catching her toes on two stories below. There she hangs until the wire breaks and she falls headfirst toward the pavement. She goes through the brick pavement. Waldo pulls her out and a huge bump swells on the top of her head. It burst with a loud report which causes a passing chauffeur to think he has blown a tire. Waldo accuses Sue of trying to kill him by falling on him. She resents this with her fist, knocking Waldo across the walk. He then collides with a horse, which he carries over with him. She goes into the office building again and a passing officer arrests Waldo for cruelty to animals. A messenger boy leaves her victim's door open and Sue slips inside and hides behind a screen just in time to hear him tell a girl over the phone, "Meet me at the parsonage and we'll be married at once." He hurries out, and Sue calls her client and tells her that her husband is a bigamist and to hurry to the parsonage. She starts there on the run herself, picking up a cop on the way. The suspected bigamist arrives at the parsonage with his intended bride and the marriage ceremony is almost completed when Sue and the cop burst in and place him under arrest. He objects but Sue scoffs at him. Her client rushes in and confronts the captive. With one look she dismisses him saying "That is not my husband; I never saw him before." and Sue realizes that she has trailed the wrong man.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim roll into a town in a box car on a cold winter's day. They look out of the box car and see a chicken yard in the distance. They are chased by the farmer when they attempt to steal a chicken but they make their getaway and build a roaring fire, over which they roast the juicy fowl. After their meal they fall asleep and his majesty appears from a cloud of smoke and says "you fellows have had hell enough on this earth, with the wishbone of the chicken in your possession your every wish shall be granted." With the aid of the wishbone the fortunate tramps enjoy luxurious food, ride in beautiful cars and enjoy the coming of bewitching maidens, and escape from the police several times by waving the magic wishbone. They do not proceed far in one of their cars when they crash into a street car and the auto is badly wrecked. They decide that the auto is no good and wish that a dump cart were transformed into a car. Their wish is granted and they drive to the railroad yards, find all their brother hobos and invite them out for a ride. They have a hilarious time until the auto crashes into a telegraph pole. The scene then fades back to where they both fell asleep devouring the chicken and they wake up extremely frightened, throw the wishbone away and decide that it is no good.
- The benefactor who made her father millions demands her hand in marriage as part of the bargain, but the daughter has her own sweetheart, who rushes to get a marriage license.
- Out of a job again, Susie Speed sits in her room and scans the paper while consuming coffee and rolls. She reads an account of movie queen Sarah Slickford, whose salary is $400,000 a month, and contrasts it with her last job at $4 a week. Finding an ad "comedian wanted," she decides to go in for the movies and after a wild ride on a streetcar she reaches the studio. The director gives her a try-out, and she displays her ability by running up and down a tree, pulling a flat tire off an auto, blowing it up with her mouth, and slamming it back on again. She then jumps fences with the car, climbs poles and runs on telephone wires. She then races another car, but half way around the course her machine stalls and her opponent gets the lead. Not to be defeated, she fastens a chain to her car and tows it down the street. She gains on the other car and finally whips her flivver around on the chain and wins the race. The director now tells her he will try her out in a real scene. In the studio a set represents a café. The director explains that several roughnecks are to try to kidnap her and she is to resist. She puts up a terrific fight, beats up the gang, and smashes everything. She even knocks down an adjoining set where a dramatic company is working. The director now yells to the gang to stop her. They bear down on Sue, who retreats to a brick wall with an archway. As the gang approaches. Sue tears a brick out of the arch and throws it with such good effect that she repeats the trick. Soon she is tearing down bricks by the armful and bombarding the gang. At last the arch collapses and Sue is buried under the bricks. She is rescued by the director, who tells her the job is hers. She is delighted and has visions of a $10,000 salary, but when the director says $9 a week, she hits herself on the head with a brick and passes away.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, two typical hoboes, awake in a hay-stack and are chased out of the field by a bull. They arrive at a lunch-wagon near the far terminal of streetcar line and sit on the steps, pining for a meal. The lone street-car of the "Lazy Line" reaches the terminal and the crew, leaving their caps on the car, run into the lunch-wagon for a bite before starting back. A crotchety travelling-man, in a hurry to catch a train, paces up and down beside the car, looking for the crew. The tramps hear him say to himself "I'd give five dollars to make that 4.30 train." They get an inspiration, sneak into the car, put on the caps of the motorman and conductor [unreadable] the traveler, saying "Give us the five, we'll get" [unreadable] and speed down the track. People on the [unreadable] car and the boys decide they might as well get [unreadable] fares they can. A girl with a dog, an old lady with a cat, a fat man, an Irishman with a goat, a woman with two mischievous children, a dude, a loving couple, several pretty girls and many others get on the car and furnish many different kinds of trouble for the crew. Unable to back up for a passenger, they pick up the car and turn it around. Another time as Bill is helping a lady off, Jim starts the car and leaves Bill far behind. Bill seizes an old fashioned high bicycle from a small boy and chases after the car The car crosses a bridge and Bill rides up the girders and across the top of the bridge. He jumps from the bridge to the trolly wire and rides on that until he hits the trolly wheel of the car. This throws him off and he falls through the roof of the car and goes on about his business of collecting fares. When the real car crew find that their car has been stolen, they telephone the car barns and several car men are sent out with another car to stop the thieves. The two cars meet at full speed. A bad wreck seems inevitable. The tramps, however, jump their car right over the other car and continue on down the track. A broken bridge looms up ahead but the tramps fail to see the danger sign and the car crashes through the bridge and into the river. As a finish, the two tramps float down the river on the top of the broken car, dividing their profits from the trip. The foregoing story, A TROUBLESOME TRIP, was written and worked out by the following persons, all citizens of the United States of American, and all in the employ of the United States Motion Picture Corporation [unreadable] Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A. Richmond, William [unreadable] Harris and Horace G. Plimpton, Jr.
- Michael Brogan is a retired bricklayer whose wife has a strong ambition to enter into society. She wants her daughter Maggie, now known as Margarette, to marry a count. Maggie loves Sammy, who brings her flowers; in the bouquet was a bee, and Sammy is ejected. Mother receives a telegram from the Count telling of his arrival. Maggie learns that the Count will arrive and sends for Sammy to help her. Sammy goes to the station and recognizes the Count. He follows him through a field, where he knocks the Count out, drags him to a blacksmith shop, changes clothes with him and goes to the house disguised as the Count. Sammy intends to disgust mother and father with his actions. He is invited to dinner, and, much to the surprise of mother, he eats his soup reading a sheet of music, after which he pulls the chicken apart, serves it with his hands and throws it around the table. Mother and Father start after Sammy again, Sammy pulls down the curtain and swings on the chandelier, pulling plants and dirt down, burying Mother, Father, Maggie, and himself in the debris. Sammy makes his getaway, leaving the family by themselves. Mother, after all this, is cured of her society craze.
- London settlement worker John Morton, Jr., is unaware of the existence of his twin brother, James Melvale, a Paris man-about-town. Frances Lloyd, the wealthy daughter of an American senator, becomes interested in John's work and falls in love with him; but his rival, Lord Warburton, makes Frances believe that John is also James. After many adventures in the underworlds of London and Paris, Warburton is exposed as an impostor and leader of crooks; the brothers are reunited; James reforms; and John finds happiness with Frances.
- Our heroine is obsessed with the idea that she can and must sing. Living on a farm she has lots of open space in which to exercise her voice, but is compelled to admit that not even the cows and chickens will listen to her. During an opportunity to sing in the choir, she awakens every living thing, among others a number of peacefully-sleeping congregants. From the city comes a smooth-talking man who promises her the world if she will only be his. They go to the big city where, at a trial given to her in a cabaret, she nearly causes a riot. Of course, everything ends happily. Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures, Third Edition.
- Charles, otherwise known as "Useless," is a helper in a blacksmith's shop in Chestnutville, and useless he surely was. He has a good time of life, however, especially when a customer enters with a baby carriage from which one of the wheels had been broken off. Charles does more than fix the carriage. He discovers that it really contained a "precious" load, and he drank until he staggered. But all good times must end sometime, and Useless fell in love with a girl. Naturally, when a city chap tried to beat him to it. Useless departs for the city to win fame, fortune and the girl. A fortune teller advises him to stake his luck on the horses and he gets a job at the track. He has heaps of mishaps until the day of the great race when he sees his girl with the villain among the spectators. The villain recognizes him and seeks to disable the horse which he thinks will be the winner. When Useless intervenes, he is thrown from the hay loft where he is sitting onto the back of the race horse; the horse becomes frightened, chases out, enters the race, and wins with flying colors. Charlie is showered with flowers but when he begins to demand the money, the fortune teller explains that he is still gazing in the crystal. Charlie smashes the crystal, is thrown out by the fortune teller, and alas, is compelled to hit the trail home again.
- Mr. and Mrs. Sweettooth were basking in the sunshine in Goofers Park. Their neighbors were having, a friendly spat in another part of the park. Philip de Glass the neighbor, had a hobby all his own of which he is about to par-take, when a policeman comes along and helps the good cause along. Both wives tire of sitting and start scrapping with their husbands. The husbands run away and both meet at the lake, where a pretty nurse girl starts a flirtation with them. She runs to the lake and tells them that the one that recovers the rose which she has thrown into the lake, can have her hand. While they are both straggling to get the rose, the cop, who is the nurse-girl's regular sweetheart, comes along. Great excitement follows and the cop throws them both out of the park. They land on a flivver which drives them right into a huge explosion and they go up into the air. In the meantime, the wives have made the acquaintance of Prof. Jim-Jam, whose specialty is shimmie-shaking. He has a class of beautiful girls whom he is supposed to introduce to a well known dancer that afternoon. He demonstrates to the wives a few steps and makes them eager to learn the new dance. The Powder Puff High School pupils are already in costumes awaiting for the big fete of the afternoon. They are prettily draped in veils, etc., and then some, when Philip De Glass and his friend land in the park near (where the girls are awaiting the arrival of the Professor and his friend. They discover some animal skins and when they find that their clothes are torn to pieces, they don the animal skins and then go out to the lawn, and the girls thinking they are the new Professor and his guest, proceed to entertain them with fancy steps. They are having a glorious time when suddenly the real Professor and the wives appear on the scene. Lots of funny situations follow and pretty effects are seen on the lawn.
- A young man is kept under his mother-in-law's thumb until he joins the army. The sight of him in uniform works a welcome change in his domestic arrangements, both his wife and her mother being eager to wait upon the coming hero.
- High Spigh, and ambitious but unsuccessful detective, arrives at his office and proceeds to look over his morning paper. In it he finds an account of how Herr Trigger, a scientist, has discovered a powerful explosive and that several foreign nations are bidding for the secret. While he ponders over this a girl enters the office. She tells him that she is Gretchen, the daughter of Herr Trigger, and that she wants him to find her father, who has disappeared. She tells him of the discovery of the explosive, how her father's assistant tried to steal the formula, how Senor Frijoles and a Spanish girl called at the house to buy the secret on the previous day and how, the next morning, she found the laboratory wrecked and her father gone. High Spigh takes the case and Gretchen takes him to her home where he finds a clue in the shape of a huge footprint. He follows the trail down the street till he runs into the owner of the foot, a big Mexican. On seeing the detective's badge the Mex runs. He seizes a bunch of toy balloons from a street vendor and floats off into the air with them. High punctures the balloons with shots from his revolver. The Mex falls through a skylight into a room with his explosives. When the big Mex announces that the police are on their trail, the gang seize Herr Trigger and all dive through the trap in the wall, sliding through a subterranean passage to the river. Meanwhile High leaps to the top of the building, drops through the skylight and finds himself in the den. There he carelessly drops one of the bombs and is blown up into the sky. He lands in the river from which he is rescued by Gretchen whom he sends to Frijoles' office to find the missing formula if possible. Frijoles sends the gang to their cave with Herr Trigger while he and the Spanish girl go to his office. He stops to buy a cigar and she enters the office which is on the thirty-fifth floor of an office building, and finds Gretchen opening the safe. She and Gretchen have a fight with bowie knives which ends as a mouse runs across the floor and both girls jump on a desk and hug each other for safety. Frijoles enters and he and the Spanish girl lock Gretchen in the safe and push it out the window. High Spigh enters just in time to see this. He turns and runs down the thirty-five flights of stairs and reaches the grounds in time to catch the safe as it lands. Releasing Gretchen, he sends her home and trails Frijoles, who orders a barrel of powder sent to the den. High hides in the barrel and arrives at the den. Frijoles and the Spanish girl capture Gretchen and take her to the den where they tie her and her father, set a fuse to the barrel of powder and leave them to their fate. Gretchen gets free, pushes the barrel down the mountain where it chases the gang up a tree. High comes out of the barrel and covers the gang with his gun. They try to resist and he shoots. A dissolve shows him at his desk, having dreamed of all this. His feet are on the desk in front of him, his gun in his hand. As he pulls the trigger he shoots his own toe, wakes up, and dances around the room holding his foot.
- Owata Hobo is a poor friendless tramp on the road to nowhere. In his travels he comes upon poor little orphaned Louise crying as if her heart would break. She explains that she is on her way to a farm and that she has been robbed by three bandits. Owata Hobo captures the bandits and gives Louise back her valuables. He carries her bags to the farm where she gives the farmer a letter of introduction and is immediately hired. Owata Hobo is so smitten that he works for nothing at the farm. The farmer who is a tyrant beats and mistreats poor Louise. He sends her to fetch to fetch a pail of water. While getting the water she discovers an artist painting a landscape. He asks her to pose for him which she does. In the meantime, Hobo has his troubles with the scarecrow and the farmer. Charlie brings a bouquet of flowers to Louise while she is posing. The artist takes the flowers from him, gives him 50c and tells him to beat it. The farmer discovers Louise posing and drags her back to the farmhouse. He starts to beat her when Hobo comes on the scene. He jumps on the farmer and knocks him out, grabs Louise, puts her on a buck-board and they race away. The artist has witnessed their escape, and follows in a racing car. The buck-board overturns and they are both pretty badly hurt. The artist takes the girl and rides away with her. Charlie gets up, shakes the dirt off himself and travels along his lonely way to nowhere.
- A widow and a widower are neighbors, one owning a cat and the other a dog, and when the animals quarrel, the owners follow suit.
- An artist becomes involved with a model whose husband is a husky sailor.
- Bridget, a cook, is in love with Clarence, the cop, whose affections are centered elsewhere although he occasionally makes love to Bridget for the sake of the pies and doughnuts which are always forthcoming at such times. One day as he is leaving the back door after a pie-feast, he accidentally drops a note out of his helmet which Bridget finds after he is gone and proceeds to read. The note pertains to an appointment for that afternoon and is signed, "your own sweetheart. Ellen". Bridget realizes that she is being "worked for a good thing" and resolves to go to the meeting place and spy upon her supposed lover. She conceals herself behind a signboard and watches as Clarence and Ellen meet in front of it. Ellen begs Clarence to take her to the carnival that night and although he is supposed to be on duty, he plans to dress in civilian's clothes, disguise himself with a moustache and meet her at the carnival at eight o'clock. Bridget hears all this and, being armed only with a frying-pan, she goes home to prepare a fitting revenge for that evening. The cop hides a suit of clothes and a big moustache under a bridge so that he can get them later. Moon Faced Mike, a crook finds the clothes, puts them on and throws his own ragged ones into the river. The crook wears a big black moustache and, attired in the Cop's clothes, he looks exactly as the Cop intended to look. The sergeant of Clarence's precinct steps under the bridge to light his pipe and stumbling on his way out he drops his revolver unnoticed to the ground. Shortly before eight, Bridget, armed with a huge revolver, starts for the Carnival grounds. Ellen is already there awaiting her lover and Clarence goes to the bridge. He finds his clothes gone and in looking for them he discovers the sergeant's revolver. He recognizes it and decides that the sergeant must have over heard his plan. So in fear of losing his job, he hurries back to his beat. Ellen is waiting in the Carnival grounds as the Crook drifts in, in search of pockets to pick. Ellen sees him, and mistaking him for the Cop in his disguise rushes up and throws her arms around his neck. The Crook is surprised but wholly pleases until Bridget rushes up and opens fire with her "Gatling". Not knowing what else to do, the Crook runs with Bridget close behind. A wild chase through the Carnival grounds ensues with some hair-raising stunts on a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel, after which the Crook leaves the grounds and seeks safety elsewhere, with Bridget, blazing away, just one jump behind. They run through a Chinese laundry leaving it in ruins and then through a saloon which they wreck completely. They climb a high chimney, leap from the top of that, several hundred feet to the top of a wireless station tower and run out on the "wireless" wires. The operator starts to send a message and Bridget and the Crook are shocked off the wires and fall to the roof of an office building. They chase around the roofs and jump to the group where Bridget pre-empts an automobile and gives chase in that. The poor Crook dives into the side window of a brick house. Bridget drives the car right through the brick wall and chases him throughout the house, smashing the furniture on the way and throwing inmates into hysterics, and tearing through the brick wall at the other end of the house, she chases the Crook on down the street. The police station looms up ahead and the poor Crook takes refuge there, running up a long flight of steps and into the judge's room. Bridget, in the auto, follows right up the stairs and, bursting into the run, confronts her supposed lover. He appeals to the police to save him. They recognize him as Moon Faced Mike, wanted for burglary and look him up. Clarence enters in uniform and Bridget seeing her mistake, throws her arms about his neck. "All's well that.... "etc. The foregoing story "Bridget's Blunder" was written and worked out by the following persons all citizens of United States of America, and all in the employ of the United States Picture Corporation. Rex A. Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A, Richmond, William Fables, James M. Harris, and Horace G. Flimpton.
- Two effete noblemen get slightly mixed up when two knights of the road obtain their passports and clothes, impersonate them, and lay a series of mischief and crimes at the door of the imported innocents.
- In Mexico, the hero has to give an acceptable exhibition of the toreador's skill to win the hand of the fair maid.
- Two hitchhikers that look alike hatch a plan to make a few quick bucks.
- The beginning of a perfect day was for Phil to make his own breakfast, take his daily plunge, and be waited on by his valet, who happens to be Brownie the dog. Outside of being a gentleman, Phil was also a dancing professor and taught pretty young ladies how to twinkle their toes. Across the hall from him lived a modiste and her daughter. The daughter was pretty and that's where the story becomes interesting. A pretty girl, a next door neighbor and strict mother all go to make a very deliciously naughty situation. They are about to elope when mother returns and finds her daughter leaving home. She scolds her, and in the rush to get her into her apartment, leaves her grip outside in the hall. Phil grabs his grip and runs back into his room. In the meantime an ex-jail bird has managed to get away with a grip full of jewels; However, the police are right on his heels and chase him into the same house where Phil and the girl live. He rushes up into the hall where he sees the other grip, changes the grips and when the officer gets up to him and searches the grip, all he finds is a collar. The mother realizes the loss of her daughter's grip, goes out into the hall and takes the grip. A general mix-up of grips follows wherein some very funny incidents occur. After a very daring roof chase, the thief is caught and thrown back into prison. Mother forgives the professor and the finis fade out leaves every one in a happy contented mood.
- The competition between a rural jitney bus and a trolley car include lifting passengers onto cars with a derrick.
- Lamb's wife is visiting her parents and he decides to renew his acquaintance with Susie of the Follies. He writes two letters. One to his wife and one making an appointment with Susie. Upon meeting Susie he discovers he has mixed the envelopes and realizes his wife will get the letter intended for Susie. He telegraphs her he is dead and for her to return home. He rushes to the parents' home hoping to intercept the letter, only to find that it has been forwarded home. The wife, accompanied by her father and mother, return and are unable to locate Lamb's body. Father, who is somewhat of a sport does not seem to worry much. In the meantime Susie calls at Lamb's house. She proceeds to have a merry time with father, much to the old man's consternation. Lamb comes on the scene and feigns death when wife and mother appear. Father in desperation hides Susie, and the letter is delivered to the wife. Lamb in order to prevent her reading it comes to life, accuses father of harboring a woman and drags Susie from her hiding place. Father is getting his when Susie gives a plausible explanation of her presence and exchanges the troublesome letter, and everybody is satisfied.
- The Duke of Ozsklopvitch is on his way to the country place of the Climbers to attend a week-end party. His roadster turns turtle and the Duke is knocked unconscious. One of the tires from the roadster rolls through the woods, where it lands around the necks of Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, hobos, who are taking a snooze under the trees. They rouse up, and following the path of the tire, come upon a view of the wrecked auto. Two men passing in a touring car rush the Duke to a hospital. The hobos find the Duke's trunk and dress themselves up in frock coats, high hats. etc. They discover in one of the pockets the Duke's invitation to the Climbers' week-end. A passing motorist offers them a lift, and lands them in front of the Climbers' estate. Mrs. Climber and her guests are seated on the veranda awaiting the arrival of the guest of honor. Jim being in front, Mrs. Climber assumes that he is the Duke and greets him. Jim introduces Bill as his valet, and Bill and the butler take the trunk into the house while Jim makes a triumphal entry. Attired in incongruous outing attire, the boys finally come down to the veranda. Bill picks out a pretty girl and proceeds to make love to her. When Jim sees this, he leaves the other guests, runs Bill out and takes his place on the bench. Bill sets a lawn sprinkler under the bench and turns on the water, breaking up the tete-a-tete. Jim goes in to change his clothes while Bill decides to take a drive. He finds a horse and tries to harness it. The horse objects and kicks Bill up into the air. Jim, coming out of the house in dry clothes, sees Bill in the air, and running with a wheelbarrow, catches him just as he lands. Jim then finds another pretty girl and takes her for a walk by the fountain. Bill finds a fat girl in a swing and gallantly offers to swing her. In so doing his hat falls off, and in stooping to pick it up the fat girl hits him as she swings back and knocks him across the lawn to where Jim stands at the edge of the fountain. The girl saves Jim from falling in, and he thanks her profusely, but as he stoops to pick up a handkerchief, she knocks him in and falls in herself. Both retire to the house for dry clothing, while Bill starts to fish in the fountain. Jim comes out in dry clothes again and Bill surprises him by hooking a fine bass. In swinging it out of the water he drops it into a bowl of punch that the butler is bringing out to the guests. Bill thinks he has caught a big fish, but as he holds it in his hand it shrinks down to a small minnow and Bill eats it whole. He and Jim see a milk maid crossing the lawn and stop her. They tell her she is too pretty to work and that they "will gather the milk for her." They take the milk stool and pail from her and start toward the pasture. Arriving there they set the pail under the cow and wait for the milk to flow. As nothing is forthcoming, they try to seat the cow on the milk stool so that she will be more comfortable. They are interrupted in this by a calf, and as they try to tie the calf up it runs away from them, dragging them across the pasture. They grab onto a tree and the calf, swinging around them in a circle binds them to the tree. They are rescued by the milkmaid and start back to the house. In crossing the lawn they are attracted by a gas-power lawnmower. Jim tries to run it and the mower runs away with him, mowing down trees and hedges, leaping over stables and stone walls, etc. Finally as the machine passes Bill, he grabs on to stop it, and he and Jim are dragged into the garage, where the mower plunges through a brick wall at the rear. The wall collapses upon them, and we leave them buried to the neck in bricks.
- Bob, cabaret entertainer, is always broke. He is in love with Dot, whose father sends her away to school. She writes Bob that she is sailing the next day. Although Bob hasn't the fare, he resolves to take the same boat. Taking wigs and make-up, he tries to get aboard. He hides in a box but is discovered, climbs to a porthole, but is knocked down by a pail of garbage; climbs a rope, but it is cast off by a sailor, and he falls into the water. Finally, he gives up and is waiting for a last look at Dot, when a porter, thinking him a belated passenger, hurries him on board. Dot is delighted but the purser checks short and starts to find the extra passenger. Bob makes up exactly like the captain. Later he disguises as a sailor, but is caught and put to work scrubbing the decks. Tiring of this, he makes up in exact duplicate of the Count de Brie. The purser discovers the two counts and brings them together, demanding to know "which is the impostor." Dot saves Bob by claiming he is the real count. The purser forces the count to stoke the fires while Bob enjoys himself with Dot. The count's wife sees them in an affectionate pose, and drags Bob away, beats him and throws him on the bed in the stateroom while she dresses for dinner. The count escapes, enters his stateroom to find Bob. The wife is horrified. The count starts after Bob. The purser and sailors join the chase, and Bob takes refuge on top of the smoke stack. The count shoots and he falls through the smoke stack and out of the furnace into the stoke hole. The chase continues, Bob finds Dot and drags her to the bow of the boat. The others are about to overpower him when the ship is torpedoed. Bob and Dot land on a piece of wreckage. The purser comes up out of the water and demands Bob's fare. Bob pushes him under and he and Dot float away.