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- Bender and his friend, the Widow Templeton, decide that bachelor life does not agree with Jenkins, consequently they search for a wife. When Jenkins sees the widow, however, all thoughts of any other flee, and he immediately proceeds to win her. Angered by this, Bender resolves to "get even," and presents the newly-married couple with a bottle of water, telling them that it will change color in the event of either one digressing from the path of fidelity. While traveling, Jenkins is attracted to a flashy young lady on the train. As they pass through a dark tunnel, he kisses her. Meanwhile, Bender has persuaded the wife to accompany him to dinner. He bores her with his advances. Later Bender pours ink in the clear water of the magic bottle, which is discovered first by Jenkins, who is panic-stricken. He tries to conceal the supposed symbol of his perfidy, but is interrupted and places the bottle back in the cupboard. His wife finds the blackened water next and also wants to conceal it. There is no place to pour the water save in Bender's high hat. Then she refills the bottle with clear water. Bender lingers to see the result of his plot and is surprised that things turn out all right. He puts on his hat to leave, and the inky water drenches him.
- Mike and Meyer had worked in perfect amity for many years. The little delicatessen store which began in a humble way, grew prosperous, and Mike and Meyer should have been happy, for their money began to accumulate. But when riches came in by the door, happiness went out of the window. Mike had a daughter; Meyer had a son. The parents were so proud of their offspring that jealousy broke out between them. And being jealous of each other they became, also, suspicious and each thought the other was trying to rob the business. So at night each slept on one side of the cash register. There came into the store by day as well as night, all kinds of people, over whom Mike and Meyer quarreled. Thus the once happy little store became the scene of unreasonable discord. So Mike and Meyer being unable to agree, agreed to differ, the result being that Mike and Meyer became hitter enemies and were put in prison as disturbers of the peace.
- Geoffrey Ladd, on the eve of his marriage, discovers that he is penniless. A gold mine in which he was interested proves to be merely a hole in the ground. A ship containing treasure is lost at sea. Unwilling to expose his bride to poverty and not willing to confers his condition, he is about to take his own life when he is restrained by Dr. Isidore Mullen, a scientist, who has discovered what he believes to be a panacea for hydrophobia. His laboratory tests have proven acceptable to other scientists, but everybody is anxious to see the stuff tried on a man. Mullen learns of the predicament of Ladd and makes him the following proposition: He will give Ladd $100,000 cash. In return, Ladd is to allow himself to be bitten by a dog inoculated with hydrophobia. The doctor is then to test his panacea upon him. He is keen upon having Ladd, as the latter is a man of reputation and position and the success of the experiment would establish his discovery on a firm basis. It is made a part of the agreement that in order to prevent the mind of Ladd from working and causing him to think he has hydrophobia that the bite shall he made surreptitiously. Ladd accepts the doctor's proposition and the latter gives him $100,000. The money saves Ladd. A new deal on the mine makes him a millionaire. The ship comes in and he's in fine shape. Then he realizes that, with everything to live for, wealth, a young bride and all sorts of happiness, he is in danger of death and his fear of dogs becomes morbid. A toy Pom can make him climb a tree. One day he meets a girl friend who springs a toy dog on him out of a muff. He runs away to her surprise. Next day he meets a girl who has a fur boa with animal heads on it about her neck. He mistakes one of these for a dog, and he thinks he is bitten. He tries to find Doctor Mullen and learns that the latter has disappeared. When he is half insane with fright, the doctor turns up. Ladd's relief turns to worse horror, when the doctor tells him that the serum has not been a success. He thinks his death is certain and almost imagines himself into hydrophobia when the doctor tells him he never had him bitten and the girl with the fur boa showing up. Ladd sees how he was fooled. He gives the doctor the $100,000 back and all bets are called off.
- Meyer is employed as a traffic cop for the city, leaving his friend, Mike, back in the small town delicatessen store. Meyer arrests speeders and when he discovers the ease with which the judge extracts money from the offenders, he communicates with his former companion, and they plan to institute a police force and court of their own. Going into the country they secure a shanty, and Meyer appoints himself judge and sends his constable out with orders to arrest everything on wheels and bring them before him. Anxious to obey the orders of his superior, Mike bounces upon an unsuspecting gentleman who is wheeling a baby carriage, containing twins, with one hand and struggling with the weight of a rubber plant and many bundles with the other. At the impromptu station house that unfortunate personage is fined and relieved of jewelry, money, etc., by the supposed authorities. The next alleged offender to fall into the clutches of the pretenders is a pickpocket, whom the false judge fines $40, but finding that the criminal has only $36, he sends him out to secure the other $4 after his own manner. In the meantime a young lady, afflicted with a winking eye, is pursued by a number of flirts. Mike also mistakes her affliction for a desire to become acquainted, and upon approaching her, receives a slap in the face, following which he arrests her and carries her before the judge. The young lady is fined. Angry at two disreputable young men who have been peering through the window of the courtroom, Mike and Meyer dash out after them. The rag-a-muffins jump on motorcycles and try to escape. Mike and Meyer spring into a small touring car and pursue them, much to their discomfort, for several real policemen in the city arrest them for speeding, and their brief period of authority is ended by a sentence of 90 days in jail.
- Mackenzie Finch thinks he is sick of many complaints but he is only an invalid in imagination. He quarrels with the doctors who tell him this, so he drives them from his home, until there is only one physician left in the town to attend him. This is David Harrison, who is in love with Finch's daughter, Maud. Harrison is poor, so Finch will not allow his daughter to become engaged to him. But being in fear of death he summons Harrison to attend him. The young doctor tells Finch he will die, but that he can save him on condition that he (Finch) will agree to his (Harrison's) engagement to Maud. A contract is made: if at the end of the year Finch is alive, he agrees to pay Harrison $500 and let Maud marry him. If either breaks the agreement he forfeits $1,000. Near the end of the year Finch, being well, tries to break his contract. Harrison discovers this and forces Finch to adopt disagreeable remedies under the terms of the contract. Finch is made so wretched that he unconditionally surrenders and the lovers are united.
- Phillip Page, a famous author, is unable to write a successful story unless he uses the backs of envelopes, which he has cut open himself. After his marriage, he is ashamed to tell his wife his weakness, and when he receives an order from his publisher to write a best-seller, he locks himself in a room to begin the novel. His wife, anticipating his comfort, has stocked the room with pens, ink and fine white paper, but no envelopes. Page is unable to write on the good paper and, not wanting to confess to his wife, begins opening the mail that comes to the house, addressing hundreds of letters to himself to replete the earth in envelopes. His wife learns of these actions and fears that he has gone mad. She sends for an alienist, who writes that he will call at three o'clock. Page opens this letter by mistake, and, thinking it to be from an admirer, decides to investigate. When he goes on watch at three o'clock and discovers an inoffensive messenger boy bringing his wife's shoes, he starts things. The alienist appears and a lively time ensues. Page is captured and bound, and the doctor concludes that he is the victim of a mental malady. It is some time before Page is able to explain and is released.
- Lionel Armstrong, a blacksmith, is in love with Nellie Sunshine, the village beauty, but Percy Saddlenose, who comes from Philadelphia, fascinates Nellie by his city ways. Percy has bought the village drug store and is a soda water fiend. Lionel's mother, Bedelia Armstrong, is a fashionable invalid, and to cheer her by his presence in the sick room, Lionel does all his fancy iron work in her boudoir. When Nellie visits the invalid, bringing cheer and cabbages, also frankfurters, it is seen that love and harmony exists between the blacksmith, his socially active invalid mother and the village belle. Later Nellie is sent to the drug store by the society invalid. Percy Saddlenose has no pharmaceutical training, but he has "something just as good." Nellie becomes infatuated with the stranger, little thinking he is addicted to soda water. The city ways of Percy Saddlenose win Nellie's affection from Lionel. The blacksmith, realizing that clothes do make the man, buys a suit of lion tamer's check from Gus, the square Clothier, and with this he receives a dollar watch, gratis. This magnificence of apparel has its desired effect upon Nellie Sunshine. She returns to Lionel. Filled with jealousy and soda water, Percy Saddlenose determines to out-dazzle the village blacksmith in the eyes of Nellie Sunshine. So he goes to the village five and ten cent store and buys a Ford. Meanwhile, prompted by the soda water, Percy Saddlenose has turned Lionel Armstrong's dollar watch into an infernal machine. It blows up when Lionel is giving Nellie "one minute to decide" between Percy's Ford and his dollar watch. Percy flees in the Ford with Nellie, but roused to consciousness and action, Lionel pursues on his knife grinding apparatus, which, as his mother tells him, "is a better machine than Percy's." He overtakes the soda water fiend and the infatuated maiden and wins back her affections for good and all, baffling the demon druggist and leaving the latter to his soda water addiction and a life of blighted bachelorhood.
- The story relates how Mr. and Mrs. Gramercy and their young niece, Mabel, live in the fashionable Gorham Hotel. Their friends, Mrs. Richman and her son, Frank, aged 25, also live in the hotel. They are wealthy, and the Gramercys are anxious to stand well with them, as Frank is in love with Mabel. The Gramercys, finding life in the hotel expensive, resolve to prepare breakfast in their apartment, so as to save two or three dollars a morning. They try to keep the idea secret, because it is against the rules of the hotel, and they do not wish the Richmans to know, fearing to appear cheap in their eyes. They have trouble in concealing the cooking utensils from the curious maid, and explaining away the smell of food in their apartment. Mr. Gramercy goes shopping and drops cereal on the floor of the hotel office. Mrs. Gramercy buys a tin of condensed cream and has holes punched in the top. As she carries it home, the cream leaks over her dress. She tells the Richmans it is face wash, but the cat eats it. They spoil the varnish on the table. They keep food on the window ledge. The birds steal the bread. The provisions fall from the ledge and smother pedestrians. Mrs. Gramercy's electric stove short circuits. The hotel takes fire and the fire department has to he called in. In the confusion, the Gramercys enter the Richman apartment and find them eating their own home-made breakfast. From Mrs. Richman they learn the approved method of "Housekeeping Under Cover," and Frank and Mabel become engaged.
- Professor Woodby Bugg collects rare moths, beetles and other insects. A friend in Egypt captures a specimen called "The Dancing Beetle" and presents it to the professor. The insect's bite is painful, and the person bitten is compelled to dance against his will. The professor cherishes the beetle, but a careless housemaid allows it to escape. Mrs. Montgomery, a wealthy woman, has received from abroad a pair of silk stockings upon which are embroidered gold beetles. The professor sees the lady's limb, but not her face, and catching a glimpse of the embroidered beetle on the lady's stocking while she has other ladies around her, causes some embarrassment to them and himself. All the time the beetle is on his own back, and at last the insect bites him. He recovers the precious beetle but cannot stop dancing and when pursued by indignant husbands, and taken before a magistrate he still cannot stop, and finally has to be taken to the hospital.