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- Episode One: Jessie Emerson, a young American society belle with a serious turn of mind, has adopted wireless telegraphy as a hobby. While experimenting she is visited by Von Prague, a social adventurer, who is really the chief of America's enemies within, although posing as a loyal citizen of his adopted country. A code message picked up by the young woman operator attracts his attention and he suggests that she copy it and turn it over to Lieutenant Blake, an inventor who has been working upon a marvelous invention which promises to overthrow the traditional methods of warfare. Securing the confidence of Jessie, Von Prague copies the message and then directs one of his agents to steal the secret code used by the government. That night a group of plotters meet at the Von Prague home and, with the aid of a map, enter into a detailed discussion of spy and intrigue activities in the United States, such as I.W.W. agitations in the West, the destruction of munitions factories in the East and the inauguration of pro-German propaganda in the Middle West. The code message stolen by Von Prague proves to be from the War Department ordering Captain Taylor to begin the work of hunting down spies and plotters. In the meantime one of the plotters, disguised as a workman, plants a bomb which destroys a factory with loss of life, and escapes. Captain Taylor meets Jessie, who offers her aid in tracking down the enemies of her country. Captain Taylor obtains for her a position in a private wireless station where she will be able to intercept suspicious messages. She reports for duty at a time when the air is filled with mysterious code messages flashing across the seas and over the continent. Episode Two: Lieutenant Blake, having completed the model of his theoscope, invites his cousin, Jessie, to witness the initial test. This remarkable invention enables its user to pry into secrets hidden by walls and distances. Word of its completion is speedily carried to Von Prague by Blake's assistant, a spy. Looking through the theoscope, Jessie observes a battleship sailing for action in foreign waters, and in the air a government aeroplane performing unusual stunts. She also finds that she can peer through the walls of an apartment house, and is so enthused over the invention that she urges her cousin to give it to the government at once. The following day Blake meets General Norton, who becomes interested in the theoscope and arranges to send Blake to Washington with it that night. Von Prague hears of these plans and determines to learn the secret of the invention which would make secret military operations, night raids and aeroplane bombardments impossible. Two false bluejackets meet Blake at the pier. He finds too late he is not being taken to his ship. The sailors overpower him and take him to the den of the plotters, where he is offered the choice of giving up the secret of his invention or death. He chooses the latter, and then the spies offer him money. This, too, is refused, and in the fight that follows Blake knocks down Von Prague and is about to escape when he is set upon from behind and knocked out. He is dropped through a trap into the river. Jessie, with the aid of the theoscope, locates Blake in the den of spies, and immediately rushes to the river to rescue him. [Plot summaries for episodes 3-12 were not published.]
- A. Wall Nut and his wife, Hazel, are a happy young people, but the specter of gray hair threatens to mar their happiness. The young husband is sent to Europe by his firm and cautions his wife not to dye her hair in his absence or he will divorce her. But the sight of fresh gray hairs is too much for her and she goes to the hairdresser to have her locks retouched. Falling asleep, she is frantic to find on awakening that her hair has been dyed a deep and lasting black, and decides to go to California with her sister until the dye wears off. A Wall Nut is recalled by his firm and wires his wife that he is returning. The Swedish servant receives the message and answers it, cutting down the cable until it reads: "Your wife died. It was terrible. Her sister has taken her to California." Wall Nut receives the message and is overcome. He writes a letter enclosing some money and gives it to a loiterer in the hotel lobby to mail. The latter is a thief and is run down while making off with the letter and money and mistaken for A. Wall Nut. Word is sent to Hazel that her husband has been killed. On the way home Nut tells Mrs. Winslow, a friend, of his wife's death. In the meantime Hazel, waiting at the dock to receive her husband's body, meets Mr. Winslow. Through glasses they see Nut and Mrs. Winslow apparently in close embrace. The boat docks, mutual explanations follow and the reunited Nuts wend their way home.
- Dan is instrumental in forming a home guard. The wives of the members form a league of peace and lock their husbands out, refusing to give them any dinner. Complications are caused by the arrival of a beautiful woman to whom the guard pay considerable attention. However, all is satisfactorily adjusted when the wives learn that the lady is lecturing on national defense.
- Billie, the chauffeur, has won the heart, but not the hand, of Sussie, the daughter of his employer. Bibbs, a prude, has the parental approbation of his struggle for Sussie's hand. When Sussie shows that she has something to say in the matter, the parents decide it is time to send their daughter to a discipline school. Billie is on the scene at the moment of her departure and receives a note from Sussie telling him she is being packed off to school and begging him not to desert her. While Sussie is introduced into the school, Billie is trying to find an escape for her. He hits upon the plan of getting all the girls out by inviting them to a show. The girls climb out of the windows in their pajamas, dress on the lawn, and leave for the show. When they get to the box office, Billie and Sussie sneak away to get married. In the meantime, Miss Prim discovers their absence and notifies the police, apprising them of the clue left by the program which had been found. Billie and Sussie arrive on the scene just before the police, and Billie manages to fool them while they are seeking the other runaways. Billie then tells Sussie's father that they are married and Dad makes the best of a bad bargain.
- Stephen Wilstack, a young designer of ladies' costumes, is sent by his firm to a quiet town to work out a series of fashion designs. A fort is located in the town, and Stephen chooses a spot overlooking the fortifications for his sketching. Zeb Hunger, a wise village constable, jumps to the conclusion that the young fellow is a spy. One night Zeb follows Stephen to his cottage and the young man, surprised at seeing him peeking in the window, points a gun at the constable who, badly frightened, disappears. Stephen laughs while Zeb tells his companions that the city fellow was about to fire when he saw his badge and dropped the gun. One day Stephen sends a message to his firm saying that he is working hard on the fortification grounds. Zeb makes the boy give up the message. His suspicions being confirmed, he rushes madly to the fort and tells the commander that a spy is making sketches. Stephen is arrested. Zeb seizes the drawings and thrusts them in front of the commander's face. The latter drops back bewildered as he finds himself looking at a sketch of a new corset. Stephen explains the situation and the constable is ejected from the house.
- Pokes runs a clothing store but business is dull, Jabs come by. Showing Pokes the war news in the day's paper, Jabs suggests that he (Pokes) lay in a profitable stock of munitions. Pokes is further inspired by conscripts full of the war spirit coming to him to ask for uniforms. He lays in a supply and business becomes brisk. Suddenly Pokes is called to the front as their commanding officer. In many thrilling skirmishes at the front Pokes is singled out by the enemy. A new invention, a chasing bomb overtakes Pokes, and blows him into the enemy's camp, where he fights a hand to hand battle with the champion of the foe. His troops, witnessing the conflict from afar, decide to rescue him. A lasso is thrown to snare the foe, but Pokes is caught instead and dragged over rock and rill - until he awakes and finds Jabs pulling his necktie to rouse him to another war bulletin. Pokes, after his dream, is through with war, and decides that Sherman was right.
- After the boys are released from prison, Pokes decides to follow the straight path and Jabs goes back to his thieving ways.
- Pokes is a sport when his wife is not around - when she is, he is meekness itself. A game is going on at the club and Pokes is phoned for, but his wife gets the message and Pokes is sent to bed. Jabs, the policeman, is a sweetheart of Jennie, the maid, and calls for his daily refreshments. Meanwhile Mrs. Pokes has gone out and Pokes wanders into the kitchen. He sees Jabs' coat and hat and hastily donning them escapes to the club. Getting back is more difficult, however, but after exciting experiences with several cops and a burglar, Pokes manages to get home, only to be confronted by Mrs. Pokes. The bold story he tells fails to convince his irate wife, who proceeds to massage him with a wooden lower extremity. Pokes is now studying the game of "Old Maid" and trying to learn to tell the truth and once more make friends with his wife.
- Pokes and Jabs ship with Captain Bates as first-class seamen. When the captain wants his bearings they are both asleep but are soon aroused. Up aloft Pokes is amazed at the sights that greet his eye through the telescope. Jabs takes the telescope and wonderful things appear, among them some dancing girls at the county fair. They decide to take French leave, and are soon at the fair. The captain's wife and two daughters are there also, and while the girls accompany their gentlemen friends about the grounds, mother decides to have her palm read. In her haste she leaves her handbag on the bench and Pokes and Jabs discover it, and their joy is supreme when they find in it a roll of bills. They proceed to the fair, and Pokes gives a wonderful exhibition of archery. Mother and the girls witness the arrow shooting and recognize the handbag. Pokes takes to his heels, and just as Jabs is about to be taken off by a policeman the wild animals break loose. Jabs is singled out by one of them and a race for life begins, ending at the hatchway of the ship. Jabs is about to give up when he gets the surprise of his life. "Did the bear eat Pokes or did Pokes eat the bear?"
- Jabs runs a female gymnasium and his motto is, "Get all the trust you can and pay no one." His landlord notifies him that if he does not pay the back rent it will be collected by force. Numerous collectors try but all fail. Pokes finally gets the job and starts out to collect. Whether it is his winning ways, his dogged persistence, or his bulletproof armor that caused his success is unknown, but the landlord is telephoned for, and when he arrives at the gymnasium he finds Pokes calmly sitting on Jabs' chest, with Jabs' sweetheart on his lap counting the roll to see if it will cover the amount owed.
- Henry Brown, a traveling salesman, with sporty inclinations, buys a pair of gloves in a department store and gets instead a pair of silk hose, while Marie gets the gloves, the exchange being made by the cash girl. Mrs. Brown discovers the stockings in her husband's pocket, and, supposing they are for her, leaves them. Henry pleads a business engagement, and goes off for the night. He meets Marie and gives her her stockings. Meanwhile, Mrs. Brown looks for the silk hose, and is surprised to find they have disappeared. Naturally suspicious, she at once decides that her husband is buying stockings for other girls. Her ire is aroused, and she manages to find out where her husband is dining and follows him to the restaurant. Meanwhile, Brown is having the time of his life with Marie and several boon companions. Mrs. Brown just misses them and returns home baffled. The next night she intercepts a note to Henry saying his gloves will be at the Royal Café that evening. She trails her husband to the café and is horrified to see a young lady wearing the identical silk stockings her husband had carried. Mrs. Brown pounces on her husband, a wild mix-up follows, but Henry manages to explain about the exchange of parcels, and his wife leads him from the café by the ear.
- The female member of a vaudeville team, out of a job, accepts a position as teacher in a country school. All of the men fall in love with her; and her partner, disguised as a peddler, sells her fake stage jewelry to them, and they make her a present of the different articles. There are quite a few humorous situations coupled with considerable watermelon and vegetable throwing.
- Pokes and Jabs are behind with their board and are held up by the boarding housekeeper at the point of a pistol. Jabs tells her that they have money hidden in their room and she agrees to wait till they go up and get it. Mrs. Ham goes to market and returns just in time to catch the delinquents about to skip. Jabs escapes, but Pokes is caught by the hair of his head and made to work out the double board bill as cook, waiter and scrub woman. Pokes tries to escape one night, but Mrs. Ham hears the commotion and, mistaking it for burglars, notifies the police. The cop arrives just as Pokes drops out of the window. They grapple and in the scuffle the cop loses his helmet, revealing Jabs. Mrs. Ham from the window recognizes the pair and is furious. Looking about for a weapon of vengeance, she seizes the packed trunk and hurls it at them. It hits Pokes in the head. Jabs does his duty and arrests Pokes, who appears in court the following morning a wiser and smaller man.
- Kate and Bill, living on a farm, dream of the joys of high life. Finally Kate answers an advertisement for a maid to attend a wealthy foreigner and secures the position. Kate soon sees a chance to realize her dream. Miss Adair receives an invitation to a weekend party, and is obliged to send her regrets, giving the letter to Kate to mail. Kate re-writes it, sending an acceptance, and, after her mistress has left town, Kate goes to the party as Miss Adair. Meantime Bill also gets a job with the De Nice family, which is giving the party. He is ordered to take a drink to the baron's room, and spills the liquor on the baron, who promptly hits him. Bill wallops the baron and puts him out of business; then, donning the baron's clothes, he joins the guests and, in the boisterous festivities, gets by. Kate, meanwhile, has made a great hit with a Russian count. Bill insults Kate before the count, who demands satisfaction. Bill has to be dragged out to the field of honor. When the swords clash, Bill gets scared and flees. A long chase follows, and finally Bill is caught in the middle of the big ball room. The count drags Bill over to Kate, demanding an apology, when in comes the real Miss Adair, and with a dramatic gesture says, "She is my maid." At this point the real baron enters and exposes Bill. Both Kate and Bill are thrown out bodily, and the Russian count says, "never again." When they recover their faculties, Bill and Kate admit they have had enough of high life and embrace. Moving Picture World, November 17, 1917
- Kate, a maid in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Trude, is in love with Billy, the iceman. One morning, while serving breakfast, Billy appears, and Kate entirely neglects the family, giving all her attention to the little iceman. Their love-making disgusts Mr. Trude, and he leaves for the office without his breakfast. Later in the day he is induced by a friend to have a drink. Meanwhile Kate and Billy continue to make violent love, and finally Kate escorts him out to the ice wagon. Still unable to separate, they sit on a cake of ice, and the horse starts carrying through the busy streets and finally returns them to their starting point without either of them knowing it. At length Billy succeeds in tearing himself away, promising to return in the afternoon and take Kate to the movies. He enters a saloon with a cake of ice, and clumsily drops it on the foot of a man at the bar who proves to be Mr. Trude, who is not exactly sober. A quarrel ensues, but Billy buys the drinks, and they become friends. An organ grinder enters with an educated gorilla, which creates so much amusement that Mr. Trude and Billy buy the animal, and Mr. Trude decides to take it home. Cautiously approaching the house they see Kate all dressed waiting to be taken to the movies, and Mrs. Trude awaiting her husband's return to dinner. The men stealthily go upstairs to a bedroom. The gorilla's actions cause such a commotion that the women downstairs start to investigate, and entering the bedroom find Billy and Mr. Trude in the arms of the gorilla. Horrified, they rush to a nearby police station, and a squad of policemen are sent out. They rush into the house expecting to find a burglar, and, when they behold the gorilla, make a swift retreat. Finally the owner of the gorilla appears and buys it back. As he leaves the women rush upstairs, and, discovering their dear ones unhurt, all is forgiven. Moving Picture World, December 8, 1917
- Pokes is quite a pool shark, and at the club gives a demonstration of his skill to the amazement of the other members. Jabs, the newly appointed Chief of Police, puts his wife and two daughters into an auto and starts them off on a motoring tour. Before going Mrs. Jabs leaves her valuable pearl necklace with her husband for safe keeping. During the pool game, Billy Berlin, one of the members, rushes in with a copy of the daily paper and shows the members, including Pokes, the defy the new chief has published for the benefit of honest people and the downfall of the crooks. Pokes takes it as a joke, and discounts the ability of Jabs to do what he has promised. Pokes writes Jabs a note stating that he can get anything, any time, any place. Jabs goes at once to the club, where he meets Pokes. Producing the pearl necklace, Jabs wagers that he will place the necklace in a certain house, and defies Pokes to find it and bring it to the club. The necklace is placed, and Pokes starts out to get it. After thrilling experience and hair-breadth escapes Pokes is cornered in the cellar of the house by the chief and a squad of officers. They search him, but fail to find the necklace. Pokes, with a smile, leads the chief back to the club followed by the others. There Pokes takes off a wig, which no one knew he wore, produces the necklace, and claims the reward. But to Pokes' surprise the "chief" removes a false mustache, and remarks calmly, "I am not Jabs." Pokes, nonplussed, tries to sneak away when Jabs appears from behind a chair, where he has watched the whole affair, and meets Pokes. The laugh is on Pokes, and while he stands there ashamed and thinking that honesty is the best policy, Jabs, with the necklace in his hand, gives him the laugh. A great metamorphosis takes place, which causes Jabs to remark, "Darwin was right."
- Late one night Bragg gets a message that a poker game is in progress at a friend's, and manages to leave the house without waking his wife. Soon after a burglar enters the house, followed by a con. The burglar gets into the twin bed vacated by Bragg and when the cop appears says, "Hist. don't wake my wife." The policeman leaves the room, determined to wait for the burglar. In the meantime the poker game is raided and all are arrested except Bragg, who escapes and arrives home only to be captured by the con. He protests that he is Bragg, but his wife, half asleep, says that her husband is in the next bed, and Bragg is led away. Later Mrs. Bragg finds out her mistake and the real burglar is taken by the police. At the station the members of the raided poker party, who are all in one cell, discover that in the scrimmage a pack of cards has been saved and, with additional partners, the game is continued.
- The Jabs and Jenks farms adjoin each other and Jennie Jenks and Jabs are sweethearts, much against the wishes of their fathers. However, it takes a lot of watching to keep the lovers apart. Pokes, rudely tossed from his side-door Pullman, arrives on the Jabs farm as old man Jabs, who is stuffing a scarecrow, has goon to the barn for more hay. He takes the scarecrow's place and nearly scares the old man into fits. From then on the place is in an uproar. An article in the paper concerning spooks convinces the villages that devils infest the Jabs and Jenks farms. The police force is summoned and a lively chase follows, but Pokes gets away by converting one of the farm implements into a motorcycle. Jabs and Jennie get married and all live happily ever after.
- Sally and Rube, lovers, go to the city to see the fair. Unaccustomed to city ways, they meet with many accidents and have trouble with the traffic cop, but finally reach the fair grounds. They saunter past a tent on which is a sign reading, "Kiss the Prettiest Girl in Springfield for 50 Cents." Rube breaks away from Sally and goes in. He shows the "prettiest girl in Springfield" a wad of money that he has saved during the past year, and she at once accepts his invitation to see the fair with him. The manager, disgusted at losing his vampire, goes outside, sees Sally and drags her in to take the part. In comes a dandy who becomes stuck on Sally. She refuses to kiss him and proceeds to tell him how she came to be there. Finally Rube's money becomes exhausted and the girl becomes frigid and leaves him. Rube is bewildered, but cured. He sees Sally and her new friend stroll by and appeals to her, but they laugh at him and, crossing the street, enter an automobile and drive off. Rube leaves the fair disconsolately.
- Jabs get work on a railroad, Jabs as chief baggage smasher and Pokes as assistant. Pokes does all the work, while Jabs gets the tips and honors. A messenger from a bank with a million dollars in his grip arrives at the station, followed by Lanky Luke, a crook, and also by a female detective to see that he is not molested. The detective's and messenger's grips get mixed, and when the detective goes to the waiting room to doll up she finds she has the wrong grip. Meanwhile the crook, having knocked out the messenger and taken possession of the grip which he thinks contains the million, is waiting for the train, when the detective accosts him. After a fight, the detective is overpowered and placed on the railroad track. The train is approaching when Jabs, seeing the form on the track, summons Pokes to the rescue. Pokes returns to the station with the fainting female in his arms and is met by Jabs, who relieves him of his burden and carries her into the station where he receives the hearty congratulations and applause of the crowd. Pokes gets down behind the ticket rail and murmurs: "What's the use of being a hero, anyway?"
- Pokes is a firm believer in the saying, "All things come to him who wait," but his landlady apparently gets tired of waiting for the room rent, and Pokes is obliged to move. Wishing to take life easy he becomes a burglar. But as all first-class burglars have assistants, Pokes seeks out Jabs, the champion sledge thrower. Jabs insists that Pokes show his metal before he joins him, so Pokes allows Jabs to break several sledges over his head to prove he is solid. Jabs now consents to become Pokes' assistant. They break into a house which is filled with measles, only to break out quicker. Next they enter the house of athletic Edna, who has long waited to try out a new knockout blow. When Pokes and Jabs come back to life they are protected by Big Mike, the cop, who allows them to play golf for the rest of their lives on the rock pile.
- Percy Hitch, having been ejected from the house by the father of the girl he loves, goes to a den of crooks and solicits their aid. The next day at the breakfast table Mr. Gold receives a black-hand letter, and the whole family become panic-stricken. Two detectives, Pokes and Jabs, are summoned, and they both fall in love with Jennie, the daughter, and it becomes a three-way fight between Pokes, Jabs, and Percy. Pokes wins and the engagement is announced. The wedding day arrives, and when the parson says, "If anyone knows any reason why this couple should not wed, etc.," a tall, stout woman, with nine children, rushes in and throws herself on Pokes' breast, while the children cry, "Pop. O, Pop!" Unable to explain, Pokes beats it, followed by the children, and when all is quiet the woman lifts her veil, disclosing Jabs, who chuckles to himself, "If I can't win her, you shall not have her either."
- Jabs, who is suffering from an attack of speeditis, is hustled off to Dr. Dippy's sanitarium, while Pokes, another auto enthusiast, wanders at large without a car. On the day of the world's championship auto race between Oldfield and DePalma, Jabs escapes and follows the crowds to the race. Pokes goes also and invites himself to ride in Lotta Wealth's speedster, but is ejected. Just then Jabs happens along and with his aid Pokes gains admittance to the race track, but Jabs is left outside. Seeing the guards on his trail he beats it back to the sanitarium. The race takes place and after many incidents Oldfield wins. Lotta Wealth remarks that she could beat Oldfield's record. Pokes doubts it, so off they went, through fences, over hills, through valleys and over bridges, until they finally run through an open draw. As they are swimming for shore Pokes remarks to Lotta, "I knew when we started you couldn't do it," but her reply is lost in the noise of the waves.
- Bangs, a faithful employee in the office of Brewster, a rich merchant, is overjoyed one day to receive a note from the boss inviting him to his country home and stating that he is to be taken into the firm and likewise into the family. Bangs starts off in high spirits and is received with open arms. Next day he is introduced to Brewster's sister, Matilda, and it dawns upon him that he is expected to take Matilda off Brewster's hands. The next morning, in desperation, he tries to escape by the window. Matilda sees him and a wild chase starts through the country. He takes refuge in the river and Matilda follows. Hiding in a clump of bushes, he is set upon by an escaped convict and made to exchange clothing. Matilda, mistaking the fleeing convict for Bangs, overtakes him after a long chase. The prison guards come upon them and proceed to drag the convict back to prison, followed by the angry spinster. They come upon poor Bangs and take him along too. At the prison Bangs discovers that the superintendent is a brother lodge member, and he prevails upon him to send him to jail to escape the clutches of Matilda. Finally, Mr. Brewster's sympathy for Bangs induces him to call his sister off and Bangs remains in jail, a happy prisoner, safe from the pursuing female.
- Jabs is a trick rider on his bike, and Pokes, jealous of his fame, tries in vain to imitate him to impress his girl.
- Dick and Ethel are in love and want to get married, but their fathers Mr. Hollis and Mr. Sturgis decide to tease them until the young couple out wit the old businessmen.
- Billy Barlow sends Sally a note inviting her to go motoring but drops it, and his sister Betty puts it in his overcoat,. Billy finds Sally out, and thinks she does not love him. Meantime Bob Temple and Grace Gilmore have planned to elope and ask Billy to help them. On the night of the elopement Sally gives a stag party for her girlfriends and Betty provides herself and several others with clothes from her brother's wardrobe. Billy is astonished to find his clothes gone. Finding Betty's invitation to the stag party he sees a chance of getting even with Sally and phones the police a description of the clothes, saying the thieves are at Sally's house. He starts out in his pajamas and overcoat, but is arrested for speeding. He phones Bob to bring him some clothes. Meantime the police arrive at Sally's and they are all brought to the station house. Billy has been released, and hearing of the raid, he and Bob race to the station house. Explanations follow and Bob, Grace and Billy hasten to the minister's, Grace still wearing male clothing. At the depot Grace and Bob pick up the wrong suit case and discover on their arrival at the hotel that Grace has a bag full of men's clothes while Bob has the bag containing Billy's pajamas. After mutual explanations, Billy and Sally race to the minister's and are married.
- Wheeler and Bruce, law partners, go to the Beauty Show where they meet Trixie Davenport, a soubrette. Trixie has been informed by her manager that some big publicity scheme will have to be framed up, as business is bad. The partners escort her to her hotel, exacting a promise that she will drop around to their offices to see them. Trixie and her press agent see possibilities of glaring headlines, and soon the partners receive a telephone message that Trixie is about to pay the expected visit. They suspend work and send the clerks home for the day. Trixie arrives, wine is opened and all cares forgotten. Her press agent, in the meantime, has informed the wives that they are needed at their husbands' offices, and soon the partners are informed by the private telephone operator that their wives are in the outer office. Trixie is hastily togged out in various articles of the men's wearing apparel in the hope that she will pass through unnoticed, but she is careful to disclose her sex to the waiting wives, who are shocked beyond words, and are only prevented from tearing her to pieces by the press agent, who has just entered. The attorneys, hearing the rumpus, take refuge on some rigging which is taking up a safe outside the window. The wives follow, cut the rope, and all land on the sidewalk below, where Trixie and her press agent arrive in time to tell a policeman that it is all just a little publicity scheme which will be explained in tomorrow's newspaper. Having accomplished their purpose they merrily beat it, while the wives take vengeance on their misled husbands. Moving Picture World, January 12, 1918
- In a fishing hamlet Captain Peters and Captain Hankins, retired sea captains, are old cronies. Mrs. Scribbler, a widow and writer of sea stories, comes to the town to get atmosphere. On her arrival both old captains fall in love with her and a strong rivalry springs up between them. Captain Hankins proposes a sail down the bay and the widow accepts. Captain Peters bribes Clarence, a hoodlum, to bore a hole in the boat. He then makes a daring rescue of the widow from the sinking yawl, to the discomfiture of his rival. Captain Hankins learns that Captain Peters is responsible for the leaky yawl and determines to get even. Learning that Captain Peters is to take the widow out driving he fixes it with the liveryman to give them a balky horse and later relieves Captain Peters of his prize and turns the tables. That night a duel is proposed, the choice of weapons being harpoons at twenty paces. Just before the signal to begin is given the widow and Jack Martin, who has been trying to induce the lady to marry him, rush in and matters are explained. The two captains make up and Jack leads his widow away.
- Pokes goes to a bar for a free lunch, which that day is devilled crabs. They turn out to be spoiled, and he begins having dizzy spells and visions, including of the Devil himself (Jabs), who torments him further.
- Tom Winters and May Summers marry and remove to the city. They are joined later by Jerry Summers, who marries Miss June Fall a year later. On the wedding day Jerry joyfully telegraphs his mother that she has a new daughter. On the same day, Tom telegraphs his mother, announcing the arrival of a new baby. The telegrams arrive together, and are misdirected by the local operator. Mrs. Winter receives Mrs. Summer's telegram, and vice versa. The horrified mothers at once set out for the city, where, after an amusing scene, everything is explained.
- "No. 17" is the only name of Gladys Claypool, an orphan in the unhappy charge, with others, of a brutal superintendent. However, he freedom is sought by financiers eager for the possession of some valuables to which she is entitled. A nurse agrees to help them in exchange for a sum of money, and the superintendent intervenes, hoping for a cut of the nurse's profit. The girl suffers greatly, and her life is threatened; but she meets a young man who helps her. He goes West, and the plotters try to remove him in a train wreck, but he survives to find the girl's grandfather and proof of her clear title to the disputed property.
- Mrs. Gotrox, an enthusiast over the civilization of the Indian, has contributed liberally toward their education, and after the graduation exercises at the agency the commissioner decides to send two chiefs, "Rolling Thunder" and "Tossing Ball," to thank her in person. Mrs. Gotrox plans a novel reception for them. All the decorations are to be Indian, and the guests are to wear Indian costumes. Pokes and Jabs are seated on a freight car enjoying their scant morning repast, when the Indians arrive and ask to be directed to the Gotrox mansion. Pokes and Jabs, mistaking their actions for threats, take to their heels, followed by the two Indians. Finally they find two coupling pins, and when the Indians come up they quickly overpower them. Finding the introductions to Mrs. Gotrox, they decide to become Indians. At least long enough to satisfy the cravings of the inner man. The reception is in full blast when Pokes and Jabs arrive. As a bit of realism, Jabs proceeds to scalp the colored butler. Pokes, not to be outdone, drains the punch bowl and chases the guests and ends by scalping his hostess, exposing her bald head to the company. The two chiefs, hearing the women scream, rush in. A wild fight follows, and Pokes and Jabs flee, followed by the trusty arrows of the Indians.
- Jabs is an aviation instructor. Pokes loves fluffy-haired Jennie Buchdough. Her parents think Pokes is just about right. She does not return his affection. Life holds no further charms and he seeks the river but finds the water too cold. He decides to join the army and die on the battlefield. That will melt her heart. But the physical examination is too strenuous. He finally arrives in front of Jabs' aviation field, and Jabs takes him for a flight. While they are in the air Jennie and her parents arrive at the field. When the aeroplane lands Pokes is too wobbly to leave the machine. Jabs hurries to Jennie's side and she gives him a rose and her photograph. He tells her of his new pupil, does not mention Pokes' name, and says, "Watch me loop the loop." He and Pokes ascend. Jabs loops the loop and does other stunts. Pokes says he'd rather get out and walk. Jabs takes Jennie's photo and kisses it. Pokes sees it and learns Jabs is his rival. He grabs Jabs and they fight labs is thrown out and lands at Jennie's feet unhurt. Pokes has a terrible time alone They beg Jabs to save him. Jabs agrees, loads the aero-torpedo cannon and shoots. The machine is blown to atoms, but Pokes floats gracefully down with his umbrella, through the skylight into the laboratory. The rest run out but Jennie remains. Pokes recognizes her and folding her in his arms remarks, "Jabs is a good shot but I win the prize."