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- Mr. and Mrs. Love, with their young son, are so happy that hubby is usually late for work. The stenographer in Mr. Love's office who is in love with the bookkeeper places a note and handkerchief in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. Hubby spills some of baby's milk on his coat and when wifey is cleaning it she discovers the note and demands an explanation from hubby, who knows nothing about it. Wifey decides that she must live in the same house with hubby on account of the baby, but apart. She puts a chalk line on everything in the house, even the maid, and tells hubby that the line is to be considered a six foot wall. A friend of hubby's calls and is much embarrassed when Mrs. Love ignores him when he speaks to her. It is then up to Mr. Love to explain that the chalk line is a six foot wall. The stenographer, in the meantime, is angry because the bookkeeper failed to answer her note and asks for an explanation. She is informed that the note was not in his pocket that it must have been placed in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. They decide to explain the situation to Mr. Love, and upon calling at the house are confronted by Mrs. Love to whom they explain everything. Mr. Love is holding baby and feeling a damp chill on his arm he places baby on the floor. Baby gets busy with its little body and rubs out the chalk line. Wifey returns to the room and is pleased to see the chalk line removed. She awakens hubby, who informs her that he did not remove the line. They miss baby and find him looking at them from under a chair and of course, due to the explanation from the stenographer and bookkeeper Mrs. Love apologizes to hubby, who forgives her.
- When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
- Pokes, the porter poses for Ethel, a struggling young artist. Ethel unfortunately is very short of ready money and in consequence is asked by her landlord to vacate her room at once. As a last desperate resort, Ethel tries to sell a painting of Pokes posing as an archer, but the rebuff handed to her by the critical and unsympathetic art dealer, is the final blow to her spirit, so she resolves to make a getaway from the apartments. She conspires with Pokes to smuggle her trunk from the studio and when the latter comes to remove the trunk he unwittingly locks inside it, the landlord, who, while inspecting its contents and hearing his wife's voice on the corridor outside, had taken refuge in the trunk. Pokes starts to carry the trunk to the railroad station where Jabbs, the baggage man is anxiously awaiting the arrival of a trunk containing a shipment of gold consigned to a local bank. Some crooks, who have learned of the expected shipment of gold mistake Ethel's trunk for that of the treasure chest, overpower Jabbs, and load the trunk with the unfortunate landlord inside, upon a truck which they have commandeered. Upon Ethel's arrival, Jabbs' plight is discovered, the alarm given and the pursuit of the fleeing crooks is started. The police follow the desperate thieves and overtaking them through the help of Pokes and Jabbs finally succeed in releasing the landlord from his perilous position.
- Plump and Runt leave their wives for a 'rest cure' at the seashore, where they meet two lovely young ladies. Unfortunately, their wives decide to follow them.
- Jabbs sends his only suit to be pressed before a big date, but the tailor shop burns down. Pokes breaks into Jabbs' room but he's discovered and Jabbs takes his suit to wear on his date.
- Hubby and Wifey part company and their divorce suit comes off. They arrive in the city and, unconsciously, put up at the same hotel. There is only one bath left, connecting between two rooms, and they are assigned to these rooms. The similarity of their names causes the house detective to watch the rooms. Wifey goes to take a bath and is scared away by Hubby's sneezing. Hubby enters the bathroom and locks the communicating door. Wifey, indignant, beats on the door. Hubby sniffs the perfume she has left behind, and thinks of his wife. He writes a note of apology and retires. Wifey sniffs the cigarette butt he has left and thinks of her husband. She also writes a note. The house detective, his suspicions aroused by the constant slamming of doors, enters and arrests Hubby for playing Bo-peep under the door. Then he goes to arrest Wifey. Each gets into the other's room and sees his or her photograph on the dressing table. With a cry of joy they clinch as they meet in the bathroom, and when the detective interferes they drown him in the tub.
- Pokes and Runt are in jail. Tired of the lockstep and hard labor, they try many times to escape, but meet with little success. Their latest trial, the rubbish route, lands them back where they started from when Runt gets a bright idea. With the aid of a burlap bag, they scale the walls and make their get-a-way. Fatty is taking a stroll by the river and, the day being hot, he decides to take a swim. He does so and hides his clothes under a tree. Pokes and Runt pass this spot and, seeing Fatty's suit, decide that "one suit will do in a pinch for two." Fatty finishes his swim and returns for his clothes. By this time guards have discovered the escape and are in hot pursuit of anything wearing stripes. They see an object among the underbrush and fire at it, chase it for some distance, but upon catching it find that it is not their quarry, but Fatty in a suit of striped B. V. D.'s searching for his clothes. Meanwhile Pokes and Runt have met a couple of fair charmers and, with the money they find in Fatty's suit, they are having a fine time. They go to the summer amusement park and try all the amusements. The guards, still in pursuit, also spy a couple of vivacious chickens and also seek the amusement park. When they see the guards, Pokes and Runt run for all their lives. After many mishaps and a watery plunge they surrender to the guards and are once more happy to receive the protection of the striped suits and stone walls and glad to return to the task of making little ones out of big ones.
- Comrades in many a midnight burglary and cellmates in the prison where they are spending their summer vacations, Pokes and Jabbs have formed a friendship that seemed unbreakable. When their sentences are served, Pokes tells Jabbs that henceforth he will follow the path of honest living. Scornfully, Jabbs parts from his old comrade, and hies himself back to the old surroundings. Pokes, however, seeks shelter in a boarding house to which he has been attracted by the charms of the landlady's daughter. Pokes, by his manner, quickly wins the smiles of fair Ethel, much to the disgust and envy of the other lodgers, especially two young men who have also sought to charm the capricious damsel. In order to secure revenge upon the man who has not only stolen away from them their shares of the meals and the affections of Ethel, the two roomers plant a dummy in Pokes' room and succeed in convincing the latter that a robber has entered the room. Frightened nearly to death after alarming all the other boarders in the boarding house and scaring them also, Pokes is induced by the two schemers to call the police. While seeking police assistance, Jabbs, who has reverted to his old profession of house breaking, has entered the room of Pokes, and has sought shelter in the closet. Pokes returns with a worthy representative of the law, and after exposing the dummy, berates Pokes for having sought to ridicule him. Pokes returns to the room with the dummy, discovers Jabbs hiding in the close and also learns that, in the absence of the household, Jabbs has purloined Ethel's beautiful pearl necklace. Ethel, discovering the loss of the necklace, gives the alarm and the policemen and others immediately suspect Pokes of the theft. Pokes has been struggling desperately in his room with the villain Jabbs for the possession of the necklace and succeeds in wresting it from the latter, then he hurls his old partner in crime out through the window. When the policeman rushes in the door, Pokes is in the act of admiring the necklace, preparatory to returning it to Ethel. However, circumstantial evidence causes it to look black for Pokes, and quickly realizing this fact, the would-be hero dives out through the window and away before the law can again fasten its grasp upon him.
- A professor has invented a special glue. As burglars are robbing his house, the laboratory explodes, catching the burglars, the housekeeper, and the housekeeper's two suitors in a sticky mess.
- Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
- After the entire staff quits, a desperate hotel manager hires a pair of street cleaners (Plump and Runt) as his porter and bellboy.
- All the workers at Runt's restaurant are distracted by the pretty cashier, and neglect their jobs. Runt hires Plump as a new chef, but soon discovers he's a better flirt than he is a cook.
- Kate, president of the Suredeath Street Railway Company, has a daughter, Ethel, who is the apple of her eye. Babe, an inventor of a safety device for the controller of a trolley car and possessor of a funny little wink, arrives to demonstrate his invention to Kate. Through the aid of Florence, his confederate, whom he has managed to install in Kate's office as a stenographer, Snorky, president of a rival traction company, learns a demonstration will be given on a certain date. Snorky plants a bomb underneath the car so that when the lever strikes a certain mark the bomb will explode. However, Babe has asked Ethel to accompany him on a trial spin a few hours before the demonstration, and their entrance blocks Snorky's escape. Finding himself trapped in the death car, Snorky raves and a desperate struggle takes place between him and Babe. Babe overpowers Snorky and hurls him off the roof of the fast-flying car just as the bomb explodes. The explosion throws Babe and Ethel high in the air, but with Babe's usual good luck, he and Ethel land safely in Kate's auto.
- Pokes is hit by a car, and instead of damages, the driver gives him the car. Pokes and Jabbs go out driving, but are mistaken for car thieves.
- A newlywed couple are forced to take a chaperone on their automobile honeymoon tour.
- Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
- Jane Higgs is admired by Pokes, who tries in every possible way to win her affections but to no avail. Jane is not only the village constable but also the head of the Fire Department, and the local Justice of the Peace as well. Being suddenly called to assist the sheriff of the adjoining county, Jane appoints Pokes as her substitute to take charge of the office in her absence. Jane has scarcely departed when Pokes receives word that Bad Jabbs is shooting up Thirsty Norton's Café. Putting on his police hat, Pokes starts off to capture Jabbs, but one look at the bad man and Pokes seeks refuge back in the office and emerges only at the call of fire from a nearby barn. While busy at the fire, Robin rushes in and demands that Pokes act as justice of the peace and marry him immediately. Pokes quits the fire and proceeds with the wedding service, but the call for help coming again from the dance hall stops the marriage while Pokes again rushes forth. Then the various calls coming for Pokes that are part of the duties of the many offices he holds keeps him rushing madly in all directions. He finally discovers that Robin has eloped not with his real sweetheart, but with her older sister who has disguised herself in Ethel's clothes. However, now that he has a couple of young people in front of him, Pokes is determined to fulfill the duties of the justice of the peace and is going to marry them regardless of Robin's vehement protests. By a clever scheme Pokes succeeds in capturing Jabbs and putting out the fire in the barn and proudly returns to the office with his prisoner. When Pokes arrives at the office, he finds that in his absence Jane has returned with Robin's real sweetheart, Ethel, and has already performed the wedding service, and instead of being praised for his daring capture of Jabbs, he sees his admired Jane clasp the bad man to her bosom and proclaim him as her long-lost husband. Picking up the presents he has given Jane, Pokes, heartbroken, wends his weary way over the hills to another village.
- Harry La Pearl, a rube, visits the grocery store, and as he is about to leave, is attracted by a pretty girl. In endeavoring to make a hurried exit he upsets things in general, including the flour barrel, fruit stand, etc. His wife, however, is close upon his heels and to make a getaway he steals a pig and rides through town, followed by his wife, the marshal and others. The pig finally finds his way back to the pen. Harry is captured by his wife and resolves not to look away from the straight and narrow path in future.
- Peggy Plump marries Pokes, but he deserts her after they move to the city and he finds a prettier girl.
- Mrs. Love and her sister, Helen, are told by the minister that every woman should be able to influence at least one man, and when he gives them each a copy of a pledge of total abstinence to get signed they promise to put his advice into practice. Rose loses no time in forcing her rather gay husband to sign and Helen finds it an easy matter to obtain the signature of her sweetheart, Jim. Unfortunately, Mr. Love is met by a number of old friends who insist upon him taking a drink before he goes home, in spite of the pledge, which they ridicule. He falls off the water-wagon and is soon in no condition to dine at home; he, therefore, phones his wife that he is obliged to work late. Jim, who really has to work, also phones that he cannot come. Helen thinks he is not telling the truth and a lonely evening is passed by both women. In the meantime Harry ends up the night by dining in a cabaret, and when it is time to leave he can hardly stagger. In a rather helpless condition he is found leaning against a post by Jim, who, having finished his work, is returning home. Jim consents to help Harry home. Harry insists upon being taken in through the kitchen, where he knocks over a table. The noise awakens Rose and her sister, who immediately think of burglars. Rose dons her husband's clothes and, with a pistol, the women go downstairs to face the burglar. Jim sees Helen with a man's arms around her and denounces her. Rose denounces Jim for having brought her husband home in such a condition. The next morning Harry explains that Jim had not been drinking but had met him and brought him home. Helen decides to ask Jim's forgiveness, and is informed over the phone that within ten minutes he will be a dead man. Helen, Rose and Harry rush to save Jim. When they arrive at his home they And him lying on the floor with a gas pipe in his mouth. They think that he is dead and while Helen is bending over him Jim rises and kisses her. He was only playing dead, and the pipe he had in his mouth was found to be attached to a water faucet.
- Even if he were certain that the act would cost him his life, Pokes would take a chance and flirt if a pretty girl happened to pass him. Therefore, it is nothing unusual when Pokes finds a beautiful handbag lying on the street that he should give it to the maid living next door and with whom he carried on a flirtation. Pokes little realized that this bag is one which his wife just purchased but lost on her return home. Later, however, when he meets Melba in the park, he regrets his hasty action in giving the bag to the maid and returns to gain possession of it. After securing the bag, Pokes meets Jabbs, the pride of the local police force, and terrified Pokes drops the bag and makes a hasty exit. Jabbs decides that the bag is just the thing he needs as a present for his wife in honor of her birthday. When the maid a few hours afterward espies Mrs. Jabbs displaying the bag, she recognizes it as the one which Pokes gave her, and sends him after Mrs. Jabbs to demand an explanation. Mrs. Pokes, in the meantime, having missed her bag, begins a frantic search for it and forces Jabbs to assist her. Coming upon Pokes and Jabbs struggling for possession of the bag, Mrs. Pokes proves her ownership to it and marches away in triumph, leading the unfortunate Pokes with her. Arriving home, she discovers that by mistake she has taken two bags, and sends Pokes back to the jeweler's with one of them. Pokes really intends to return it safely, but meeting Melba once more, he succumbs to her wiles and gives her the bag. But this time Mrs. Pokes catches him, and the result is anything but favorable to Pokes.
- Circumstantial evidence is not always conclusive and it is sometimes wiser to wait until sufficient proof is collected before one jumps to a conclusion. If Ethel had done this when she discovered her sweetheart, Jabbs, with his arm about a young lady in a public café, she would have learned that her fiancé was only trying to caress her. Instead of listening to an explanation, Ethel tells Jabbs that the engagement is at an end and that she will marry the first man whom she happens to meet. After several rebuffs she finally discovers Pokes, a tramp, who has been chased by a dog through the window of Ethel's house and into her kitchen, where he is making himself at home. Ethel places her proposition before Pokes, telling him that she will give him a good salary to marry her and to be her husband in name only. Pokes, thinking of the good food and easy money, consents, but balks when it comes to shaving and taking a bath. However, through the cajoling of Ethel's maiden aunt and the assistance of the butler, Pokes is finally cleaned up and looks fairly presentable. The possession of so much money turns Pokes' pocket, and his first thought is for a long drink to quench his thirst, so he sends the butler for a supply of liquid refreshments. The aunt catches him in the attempt and throws the beer away. Nothing daunted, Pokes makes a second and even a third attempt, but each time the aunt interferes so that poor Pokes is almost dying for want of his beloved beer. Finally, in a last desperate endeavor, Pokes thinks of a scheme whereby the butler, with the aid of a hose and funnel, can supply the cherished drink. The scheme almost succeeds until the last minute, when the entrance of the aunt and one of her old admirers spoils the well-made plans of Pokes and ends in the deluging of aunt and her sweetheart. On the night of the wedding, Jabbs reads of the coming marriage ceremony and makes a last effort to have Ethel listen to his explanation. Ethel, now too willing to be convinced, listens to Jabbs' pleadings and renews the engagement. The problem of what to do with Pokes confronts the happy lovers until Jabbs suggests that rather than disappoint the assembled guests they substitute Auntie and Pokes for the bridal ceremony. Pokes, who has been imbibing rather free in the interim, does not learn of the substitution until the last moment, when he raises the wedding veil and there discovers the aunt. In despair, he falls through the window, rushes back to his old haunts in the freight yards and leaves Jabbs and Ethel to the tender mercies of the minister.
- Mr. Barrett is jealous of his wife, who is establishing a law practice. A letter is received from a long-lost uncle who proposes a visit in the near future. He is an old bachelor, grown rich from the gold fields. Having endured many hardships, he is looking forward to rest and peace in Mr. Barrett's quiet little home. A just reward shall be theirs for kind treatment. His arrival at an inopportune time is attended with amusing, almost tragic incidents. Fortunately, however, all ends well with a lesson for Mr. Barrett.
- The fad that an unfortunate member of the canine race possesses n rather lurid appellation should not necessarily mean that the free passage of his breath ought to be prevented by means of a piece of hemp, Plump and Runt were jail birds. A religious revival hits a burled chord in their being and they reform in so much as they get jobs as a butler and as a chef. The same household shelters a wayward son, who is being bled by a woman of the world. To meet his demand for money his sister steals her friends' money and jewels, the blame falling upon our (this time innocent) heroes. How they emerge from the clouds of suspicion and finally bring the real culprits to justice is graphically told in the picture. The closing scenes show them, covered with virtuous indignation, vegetables and a few clothes, enthroned among the household gods.
- Plump and Runt steal some food and are forced by the sheriff to spend the night in a haunted house, which is really the hideout for a gang of counterfeiters.
- Plump and Runt are out sailing, but their boat sinks and they swim to an island. There they find a millionaire and his family camping nearby. When a disgruntled suitor kidnaps the millionaire's daughter, Plump and Runt have to rescue her.
- Ethel's father insists that she marry a rich Count instead of Jabbs, her true love. Jabbs disguises himself as the Count and woos Ethel. Meanwhile the real Count is held up by chicken thieves.
- Jabbs, the Chief, and Pokes, one of the members of the local police force, are both suitors for the hand of Ethel, the maid at the home of Mrs. Gothrox. While Jabbs is calling on Ethel they hear somebody at the door and, fearing the return of Mrs. Gothrox, Ethel locks Jabbs into the closet. To her dismay, it is Pokes at the door, and refusing to listen to Ethel's entreaties that he remain outside, the doughty policeman enters the kitchen, where he partakes of the repast set on the table for the Chief. Mrs. Gothrox having died, Ethel receives from her late mistress a legacy which causes Pokes and Jabbs to press their suits with still greater ardor. Taking advantage of his position as Chief, Jabbs discharges Pokes from the police force and wins Ethel. Later, when Jabbs and Ethel are having their new home renovated, a strike of paper hangers is called, and the men employed by the newly married couple join the strikers, leaving the house in an unfinished condition. Pokes, now broke and out of work, is pressed with a pal into service as a strike breaker and sent to finish the wall papering job at Ethel's house. Here Pokes and his pal succeed in papering the room according to their ideas of paper hanging, but in a fashion which would hardly be approved of by interior decorators. When Jabbs, who is now a poor henpecked husband, and Ethel return from a shopping trip they are horrified to see the condition of their once-beautiful home. Filled with rage, when he recognizes Pokes, Jabbs chases his former rival and his pal around the room, out of the window and into the water trough beneath.
- Though Ray's mother has a decided preference for blue blood, her daughter plainly showed that the old-fashioned color was good enough for her. Plump's life stream was red, while that of the count was supposed to be tinged with cobalt. To mystify mother. Plump and his pal. Runt, make up as "Bluebloods" and gain the old lady's approbation. All goes well until the real aristocrat appears on the scene and then blood of all shades flies about. Mother finally comes to the conclusion that the old tinge is the best and allows the willful maid to have her own way.
- Plump and Runt are idle schoolboys who like to flirt better than study. When the circus comes to town their girlfriend runs off to become a high diver.
- Pokes gets a job as an extra in the movies, but he can't take direction, and runs amok all over the studio.
- Plump and Runt are shanghaied by a group of sailors. They jump ship and swim to an island where they make themselves at home with a family of castaways.
- Plump and Runt fall asleep while fishing, and dream of an adventure where they rescue a damsel in distress from a gang of pirates.
- Believing his sweetheart, Ethel, has spurned him, Babe wends his way to a cabaret intent on drowning his cares. He falls victim to the wiles of Florence, a dashing vampire who has discovered that Babe will fall heir to a fortune if he is married within a certain time. She lures him into a mock marriage and then announces her intention of sharing his fortune. Later Babe learns that Ethel has really been the victim of circumstances and she intends to marry him at once. In a quandary, he endeavors to escape from his dilemma, but Florence holds him fast to his supposed marriage vows. The vampire, however, has been followed by Pussey Foot, the detective, who recognizes her and unearths the plot against Babe. Just as Florence and Ethel are about to battle for possession of Babe, Pussey Foot appears and denounces Florence, exposes the mock marriage and reunites the lovers.
- Plump's girlfriend is sent to boarding school. To stay close to her, he disguises himself as one of the girl students. Their plan to elope is almost ruined until a burglar causes great confusion at the school and they make their getaway.
- When Raymond's frivolous young wife informs him that household duties were too hard for her, they ask Kate, the cook, where a neat maid can be secured. Kate, being the proud possessor of the luxury of Plump as her husband, instantly sees a chance whereby she can keep the job in her own household and also force Plump to work for his daily bread. Informing the young couple that she knows a jewel of a maid, she hurries home and dresses Plump in some of her clothes. Both Raymond and his wife, impressed with the appearance of the new maid, try to make it as pleasant as possible for her. However, Kate's jealousy comes to the surface when she sees her loving man petted by the young wife and Plump, to his disgust, is forced to submit to the attentions of Raymond. Finally when the young wife discovers her husband flirting with the maid, her anger arises suddenly and she orders Plump out of the house. Raymond intercedes for the maid and matters rest until Kate again catches the wife petting Plump. In the confusion Raymond learns that the supposed maid is a man and Plump is done up to n frazzle.
- Mrs. Plump hides some money in her traveling coat, but it's stolen by tramps. On his way home, Plump is caught speeding and thrown in jail, where he finds the tramps, takes some money from the coat, and pays his fine.
- Although one of the leading bankers of the city, Jabbs, is also a member of the Mysterious Seven, an organization that passes out regular cash dividends to its members. Pokes has incurred the enmity of Jabbs by attempting to perform the wonderful mystic egg trick in Jabbs' new silk hat. Poor Pokes not knowing that his new sweetheart is the daughter of Jabbs, purloins from Mrs. Jabbs the new necklace that her husband has recently given to her. Pokes thinks only of re-establishing himself firmly in his sweetheart's affections and to further his suit, gives to Ethel the very necklace that he has stolen from her mother. When Jabbs and his wife meet Pokes, they quickly recognize him as the man who has caused them so much annoyance and Jabbs summons his trusty fellow members of the secret organization. They chase unfortunate Pokes up through the house to the rooftops from where Pokes succeeds in escaping, but only to stumble into the meeting rooms of the society. Here Pokes succeeds in turning the tables on Jabbs and his fellow conspirators and completely routs the entire society.
- Wifie reads that every woman must create an artistic atmosphere in her home to avoid becoming old. She thinks she already shows signs of age, and takes up painting, the first thing that enters her head. Hubby stands for the litter of artist's paraphernalia all over the house, but objects when Wifie decorates his collars with her landscapes, causing him to become the laughing-stock of the men in the office. When Wifie gets his best friend to pose as a model for "A Perfect Man," Hubby is fired for staying at home, jealously watching lest a love affair develops. Hoping a baby will cure her mania for painting, Hubby adopts one, only to find that babies are not in her line, and he puts it on a rich man's doorstep. A policeman is about to arrest him, but Hubby claims he was only going to change its diaper, producing his handkerchief to prove it. He takes it home, gets it to sleep, and goes out to look for work. Wifie tells him to get something artistic. He gets a job as butcher. Returning home, he sees the painting outfit flying out of the window, finding that Wifie has discovered a Caruso in the person of the baby. Hubby is overjoyed to hear that Wifie intends to find her "artistic atmosphere'' cultivating the baby's voice.
- Kate, the prize kitchen mechanic of the Goldrox home, has always envied the fair maids she has seen promenading the avenue, and resolves that, no matter what the cost be, she herself, is someday going to enjoy the life of a society leader. Babe, the driver of one of the city's garbage carts, also has daydreams of the life he would like to lead. In the park one day Kate, adorned in her best, encounters Babe, also attired in his Sunday best. The two entertain each other with stories of the thrills and bores of the lives they pretend to lead, greatly to the delight of the other. When the Goldrox are away for a day, Kate seizes the golden opportunity to indulge in the joys of living the life of the social grand dame of her dreams. With the help of the family servants she invites Babe to the house, where she proceeds to entertain him. Babe is greatly impressed and the affair is progressing rapidly, but on the following morning, Babe, dressed in his overalls, drives up to the back of the house to empty the garbage cans. He meets Kate coming out of the kitchen with the scraps of the morning meal, and each learns of the deception of the other.
- Pokes and Jabbs have been sent to the border to report events for a sensational daily newspaper, but things are quiet and news is scarce. A telegram, tolling them to send in some thrilling news items or quit arouses them to action. A Mexican is seen skulking through the woods clutching a jewel box. Their attention is attracted and they see visions of columns of thrilling news, so decide to follow the mysterious stranger. The trail leads to the foot of a tree, where the stranger digs a hole, plants the box and then departs. Pokes and Jabbs start to dig the box out and have almost reached their goal, when the stranger returns. They take refuge in a tree. The stranger, noticing that someone has discovered his hiding place, digs up the box and is about to depart when Pokes and Jabbs demand to know his business and the contents of the box. The stranger relates a wonderful and thrilling tale of persecution, privation and hardship. Pokes and Jabbs take down the main facts for publication, but when the stranger tells of his wife and two pretty daughters being held in captivity, they volunteer to rescue his loved ones. The stranger accepts their assistance, and agrees to lead them to the dungeon in which his wife and children are confined. The way leads through weird places and strange mishaps are encountered, but all obstacles having been surmounted, the three arrive at their destination, where Pokes and Jabbs are thanked for the return of Mysterious Pedro, whose mania is hiding empty jewel boxes in the sand.
- Spook, the barber, is in despair because he is unable to accompany his friend on a fishing trip owing to the fact that he has nobody to take care of the shop during his absence. In looking about for a substitute, he chances to see Pokes, the street cleaner, and mistaking Pokes' white wing suit for barber's clothes, he tries to press him into service for the day. Pokes is willing to accept the offer once he catches sight of Spook's daughter, Ethel, the manicurist of the shop, under whose charms he immediately succumbs. The unfortunate customers who happen to fall into the none-too-gentle hands of Pokes suffer all kinds of tortures, even Ethel herself receiving rather rough usage from him. Pokes is notified by the police to be on the look-out for a desperate convict who has recently escaped from jail, and whose chief mark of identification is the absence of one-half of his mustache. The police realize that the convict will head for a barber shop as soon as possible in order to remove the tell-tale half of his mustache, so hence after the warning to Pokes, they set in to watch the shop. The police warning gives Pokes the idea of securing revenge on Jabbs, Ethel's sweetheart, whose face is adorned by a beautiful hirsute growth of which both he and Ethel are inordinately fond. Finding Jabbs asleep in the barber chair, Pokes seizes the opportunity to shave off one half of his rival's mustache. This incident succeeds in getting Jabbs very much in wrong with the police who happen to see him walking from the shop and give chase. In the station house Jabbs finds Spook and his pal who have also been arrested on the charge of fishing on private grounds, and for a time things look black for the unfortunate trio, until the real convict who has been arrested in the meantime, is brought in. On being cleared of the charges, Jabbs accompanies Spook home where they wreak the full vengeance upon Pokes for the trouble that he has brought upon them.
- In front of a saloon and a private graveyard two cowboys are on the verge of a fight when Kate looms up in the doorway. The men immediately separate. In No Man's county everyone holds Kate in awe. In one instance, she takes drastic measures to stop a brawl in her saloon, and, as a result, another grave is added to the others in her private graveyard. On another occasion she demonstrates her marksmanship by hitting a reflection in a mirror. One day, however, she meets Bill, a man of iron will, who proves his caliber on his arrival by starting a little gun play after blowing smoke in the faces of a few strangers. As Bill goes to the saloon, he passes the graveyard and the epitaphs on the tombstones set him thinking. At the saloon he introduces himself and treats to drinks. When he refuses to pay. Kate starts a scrap in which Bill is victorious. In another encounter Bill is again the victor. Kate finally becomes submissive and marries Bill, who is very domineering and is in the act of scolding her when his wife wakes him with the aid of a rolling pin and Bill appeals for mercy.
- Mr. and Mrs. Plump are both prone to jealousy. When Mr. Plump is called back to the office late at night, she gets suspicious and follows him dressed in his clothes. When he comes home and finds her not there, he dresses in her clothes to tries to catch her with another man.
- Florence, the village belle and heiress, accepts the invitation of Runt, the local sport, for a ride in his new flivver, much to the heartache of Plump, her true but rustic sweetheart. Runt, by his tales of wonderful adventure to be gained in the city he himself soon plans to visit, causes Florence to yearn to be one of the myriad lights that help to make the Great White Way burn so brightly. When Runt reaches the city he falls into the clutches of a lawless gang and soon becomes one of its most ardent members. Scheming to gain possession of her riches, Runt writes to Florence telling her to come to town where he will show her the sights. Poor Plump is heartbroken at the departure of his sweetheart. Premonition tells Plump that his loved one is in danger. He hastens to the city where he finds a clue to Florence's whereabouts and follows her trail to the den where she is about to fall a victim at the hands of the gang's leader. Using all of his strength Plump routs the gang and rescues Florence.
- Squire Higgs is ordered on a vacation by his doctor. He asks Squire Perkins to substitute for him. Perkins is off on a fishing trip, and Jabbs, the gardener, whom he has left in charge, opens the telegram. Jabbs decides to act and, putting on a suit of the squire's, sets out for the village. On the way he passes a lake and goes in swimming. An escaped convict, named Pokes, steals his clothes and runs away. Jabbs is forced to don the convict's clothes. Pokes discovers the telegram in the squire's clothes and decides to act as substitute squire. A young policeman elopes with a girl and comes to be married. Pokes takes a fancy to the girl and abducts her. Jabbs finds the policeman's spare uniform and puts it on. Marching toward the squire's house he comes on Pokes with the girl, overpowers him and forces him to put on the prison clothes again. Pokes escapes and climbs unobserved into an automobile, which drives in at the prison gates, making him a prisoner once more.