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- Sid smith aided by his dog chase away all the suitors of Duane Thompson. He proposes to her and she says she will never marry any man until he has his own home. So he promises to build one. He buys a lot on the edge of a cliff and with the help of another man starts to put up a ready-made house. After a great deal of trouble the flimsy house is finally erected and a minister is brought to the house by Duane, the bride. Just after the ceremony is performed the helper accidentally pushes the house over the cliff.
- Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The Prince," when her employer, Trent, an unscrupulous politician, attempts to seduce her. Mildred begins to work at the mission and falls in love with Farrol. Farrol is accused of arson when a fire started by Trent destroys the mission. However, he escapes when the train he rides crashes. Farrol assumes a disguise, and gets a position in Trent's household. During a party, Trent's child falls from a window and is believed to be permanently crippled, but Farrol, with "divine power," is able to cure her.
- Joe wears a convict outfit to a masquerade ball, but is mistaken as an escaped convict by the police.
- As the winner of a popularity contest, Sid goes to Hollywood, where he has some difficulty getting into a moving picture studio.
- Sid, as a street photographer, takes pictures and gives the customer the finished specimen immediately afterwards. Only the pictures, unfortunately, don't always resemble the person they're supposed to. The second reel is devoted to Sid's efforts to help a school teacher (Duane Thompson) to get her truant scholars back to the classroom.
- Sid is in love with a girl whose father thinks that Sid is not worthy as a husband because of his timidity. Therefore he decides to test his courage by refusing the hand of his daughter until Sid has proved his valor in the hunting of big game. The father sends Sid on a hunting expedition with a friend who is famous as a hunter. They go into the woods where Sid shows plainly the fact that he is a novice but by strange set of circumstances or perhaps through luck alone, he comes out much better than his companion. Going home, he claims the girl and marries her.
- Sid arrives home from college, meets father and mother. Lot of gags where he kisses baggage men in excitement and shades hands with man giving traffic signal, copy, etc. Takes family home in Ford and sees girl and falls out of oar. Dogs and chickens rush to greet him at home and a lot of fun at supper table. Goes out to get a chicken for dinner but has tough time, chasing hen up street. In pool room his worthless brother playing pool. Goose lays egg on table in place of ball-egg hit by cue lands in eye of village slicker. Gang beats up brother. Sid tries to get him home through window with rope. Girl appears. Brother revives and drags Sid from upper window. Lot of mishaps and he finally takes the family and girl away happily in the car.
- Joe comes to the rescue of his sweetheart's father (who is going broke in the hotel business) with a clever scheme for attracting guests.
- A nearsighted bookkeeper completely wrecks the office with an ax while chasing a butterfly, but when he unexpectedly comes into some money, he is seen at a fashionable seaside resort trying to win the heart of a beautiful girl.
- Sid Smith has just become a lecturer and reformer in a tough neighborhood but he is unable to find an audience that will listen to him preach on the benefits of prohibition. While trying to help some poor people in his neighborhood he gets into trouble with two crooks over a girl and is hit on the head. While staggering about he comes upon prohibition officers emptying liquor into the street. He slips and falls into the liquor but finally gets up and visits a brother lecturer who has a fairly large audience. The audience immediately leaves and follows Sid when they smell his booze soaked clothes. Sid leads them into his tent to lecture them on prohibition. When they .ind that drinks will not be dispensed, they desert him. A little later he again meets the two crooks and the girl who seem to be in a quandary. The girl asks him to go to the train and get a black bag from a confederate and bring it to her. He finally agrees and is given the password. He gets the bag and is bringing it back when he reads a billboard stating that there is a large reward for the man who recovers such a bag which contains stolen securities. Sid believes that he is holding the bag described and tries to get rid of it in a number of ways bu ways unsuccessfully. Finally, just as he has gotten rid of it another almost identical bag is put in his hands from a window he is passing. This too he tries to loose and in doing so excites the suspicion on the police who chase him over the housetops until when they ore about to catch him, he sees the crooks for whom he got the bag standing below and throw it to them. The bag, which contained dynamite explodes upon reaching the ground. The police take the crooks away and Sid is left with the girl.
- A blacksmith's helper in Hickville gets kicked in the head by a horse and rendered unconscious. He dreams he goes to the city and learns a thing or two. Returning to Hickville, he is in the process of modernizing the town when he wakes up.
- The adventures of a messenger boy sleepwalker, who mends his way to the edge of the roof of a skyscraper, doing a marathon back and forth on the gutter of the edge of that roof with a regiment of blue-coats and others giving chase.
- The difficulty in finding an apartment is satirized in this comedy in which Joe solves the problem by building a house on the chassis of an auto.
- Sid arrived home in wee small hours on top of hansom cab with lot of boisterous companions from party. Old man refuses him admittance and he gets a linen duster and goes down to waterfront deciding to leave. On board liner, girl there also. Seasickness and gags attendant thereon. A whale is sighted, excitement; storm at sea and ship explodes. Sid and girl on crate in ocean-crate has silk hats for which Sid's father is agent. Pelican is pulling the crate along. Land on island. Cannibals. Step on stones which are cannibals heads - buried in ground. They arise and surround girl and Sid, Pelican interferes with savage about to shoot Sid and they get away. Finally return to civilization after hats have made a hit with savages. Sid forgiven and all ends happily.
- The boy is dressing for his wedding and the girl is waiting for him with her family. Just after shaving he accidentally puts hair grower on his free and his beard grows immediately. After vainly hunting for a barber, he mistakes a dentist for one. The dentist gives him laughing gas. Then no matter what happens, the boy laughs. He finds a barber and while he is being shaved, the barber thinks he is flirting with his wife. The boy goes to the girl's house, still laughing and the he is late, he makes no apology. The father requests him to leave. He goes back to his apartment and meets the barber and his wife. A row ensues and the barber taker his wife to a cafe to which the girl and her parents have gone. Finally the boy also comes in and sits with the barber's wife. The barber beats the boy up and a reconciliation is reached between the boy and the girl.