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- London settlement worker John Morton, Jr., is unaware of the existence of his twin brother, James Melvale, a Paris man-about-town. Frances Lloyd, the wealthy daughter of an American senator, becomes interested in John's work and falls in love with him; but his rival, Lord Warburton, makes Frances believe that John is also James. After many adventures in the underworlds of London and Paris, Warburton is exposed as an impostor and leader of crooks; the brothers are reunited; James reforms; and John finds happiness with Frances.
- A young man is kept under his mother-in-law's thumb until he joins the army. The sight of him in uniform works a welcome change in his domestic arrangements, both his wife and her mother being eager to wait upon the coming hero.
- In Mexico, the hero has to give an acceptable exhibition of the toreador's skill to win the hand of the fair maid.
- Out of a job again, Susie Speed sits in her room and scans the paper while consuming coffee and rolls. She reads an account of movie queen Sarah Slickford, whose salary is $400,000 a month, and contrasts it with her last job at $4 a week. Finding an ad "comedian wanted," she decides to go in for the movies and after a wild ride on a streetcar she reaches the studio. The director gives her a try-out, and she displays her ability by running up and down a tree, pulling a flat tire off an auto, blowing it up with her mouth, and slamming it back on again. She then jumps fences with the car, climbs poles and runs on telephone wires. She then races another car, but half way around the course her machine stalls and her opponent gets the lead. Not to be defeated, she fastens a chain to her car and tows it down the street. She gains on the other car and finally whips her flivver around on the chain and wins the race. The director now tells her he will try her out in a real scene. In the studio a set represents a café. The director explains that several roughnecks are to try to kidnap her and she is to resist. She puts up a terrific fight, beats up the gang, and smashes everything. She even knocks down an adjoining set where a dramatic company is working. The director now yells to the gang to stop her. They bear down on Sue, who retreats to a brick wall with an archway. As the gang approaches. Sue tears a brick out of the arch and throws it with such good effect that she repeats the trick. Soon she is tearing down bricks by the armful and bombarding the gang. At last the arch collapses and Sue is buried under the bricks. She is rescued by the director, who tells her the job is hers. She is delighted and has visions of a $10,000 salary, but when the director says $9 a week, she hits herself on the head with a brick and passes away.
- The competition between a rural jitney bus and a trolley car include lifting passengers onto cars with a derrick.
- Michael Brogan is a retired bricklayer whose wife has a strong ambition to enter into society. She wants her daughter Maggie, now known as Margarette, to marry a count. Maggie loves Sammy, who brings her flowers; in the bouquet was a bee, and Sammy is ejected. Mother receives a telegram from the Count telling of his arrival. Maggie learns that the Count will arrive and sends for Sammy to help her. Sammy goes to the station and recognizes the Count. He follows him through a field, where he knocks the Count out, drags him to a blacksmith shop, changes clothes with him and goes to the house disguised as the Count. Sammy intends to disgust mother and father with his actions. He is invited to dinner, and, much to the surprise of mother, he eats his soup reading a sheet of music, after which he pulls the chicken apart, serves it with his hands and throws it around the table. Mother and Father start after Sammy again, Sammy pulls down the curtain and swings on the chandelier, pulling plants and dirt down, burying Mother, Father, Maggie, and himself in the debris. Sammy makes his getaway, leaving the family by themselves. Mother, after all this, is cured of her society craze.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim, two typical hoboes, awake in a hay-stack and are chased out of the field by a bull. They arrive at a lunch-wagon near the far terminal of streetcar line and sit on the steps, pining for a meal. The lone street-car of the "Lazy Line" reaches the terminal and the crew, leaving their caps on the car, run into the lunch-wagon for a bite before starting back. A crotchety travelling-man, in a hurry to catch a train, paces up and down beside the car, looking for the crew. The tramps hear him say to himself "I'd give five dollars to make that 4.30 train." They get an inspiration, sneak into the car, put on the caps of the motorman and conductor [unreadable] the traveler, saying "Give us the five, we'll get" [unreadable] and speed down the track. People on the [unreadable] car and the boys decide they might as well get [unreadable] fares they can. A girl with a dog, an old lady with a cat, a fat man, an Irishman with a goat, a woman with two mischievous children, a dude, a loving couple, several pretty girls and many others get on the car and furnish many different kinds of trouble for the crew. Unable to back up for a passenger, they pick up the car and turn it around. Another time as Bill is helping a lady off, Jim starts the car and leaves Bill far behind. Bill seizes an old fashioned high bicycle from a small boy and chases after the car The car crosses a bridge and Bill rides up the girders and across the top of the bridge. He jumps from the bridge to the trolly wire and rides on that until he hits the trolly wheel of the car. This throws him off and he falls through the roof of the car and goes on about his business of collecting fares. When the real car crew find that their car has been stolen, they telephone the car barns and several car men are sent out with another car to stop the thieves. The two cars meet at full speed. A bad wreck seems inevitable. The tramps, however, jump their car right over the other car and continue on down the track. A broken bridge looms up ahead but the tramps fail to see the danger sign and the car crashes through the bridge and into the river. As a finish, the two tramps float down the river on the top of the broken car, dividing their profits from the trip. The foregoing story, A TROUBLESOME TRIP, was written and worked out by the following persons, all citizens of the United States of American, and all in the employ of the United States Motion Picture Corporation [unreadable] Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A. Richmond, William [unreadable] Harris and Horace G. Plimpton, Jr.
- A widow and a widower are neighbors, one owning a cat and the other a dog, and when the animals quarrel, the owners follow suit.
- The private trials of a young chap who has managed to have himself elected or appointed a judge and who uses his position to make his future father-in-law listen to reason after the old gentleman has refused to let his daughter marry the man of her choice. Father-in-law breaks the liquor law in company with a bunch of chorus girls. The judge finds it out and has him brought into court. When he realizes the situation, the prisoner is ready to say "Heaven bless you, my children."
- Charles, otherwise known as "Useless," is a helper in a blacksmith's shop in Chestnutville, and useless he surely was. He has a good time of life, however, especially when a customer enters with a baby carriage from which one of the wheels had been broken off. Charles does more than fix the carriage. He discovers that it really contained a "precious" load, and he drank until he staggered. But all good times must end sometime, and Useless fell in love with a girl. Naturally, when a city chap tried to beat him to it. Useless departs for the city to win fame, fortune and the girl. A fortune teller advises him to stake his luck on the horses and he gets a job at the track. He has heaps of mishaps until the day of the great race when he sees his girl with the villain among the spectators. The villain recognizes him and seeks to disable the horse which he thinks will be the winner. When Useless intervenes, he is thrown from the hay loft where he is sitting onto the back of the race horse; the horse becomes frightened, chases out, enters the race, and wins with flying colors. Charlie is showered with flowers but when he begins to demand the money, the fortune teller explains that he is still gazing in the crystal. Charlie smashes the crystal, is thrown out by the fortune teller, and alas, is compelled to hit the trail home again.
- Lamb's wife is visiting her parents and he decides to renew his acquaintance with Susie of the Follies. He writes two letters. One to his wife and one making an appointment with Susie. Upon meeting Susie he discovers he has mixed the envelopes and realizes his wife will get the letter intended for Susie. He telegraphs her he is dead and for her to return home. He rushes to the parents' home hoping to intercept the letter, only to find that it has been forwarded home. The wife, accompanied by her father and mother, return and are unable to locate Lamb's body. Father, who is somewhat of a sport does not seem to worry much. In the meantime Susie calls at Lamb's house. She proceeds to have a merry time with father, much to the old man's consternation. Lamb comes on the scene and feigns death when wife and mother appear. Father in desperation hides Susie, and the letter is delivered to the wife. Lamb in order to prevent her reading it comes to life, accuses father of harboring a woman and drags Susie from her hiding place. Father is getting his when Susie gives a plausible explanation of her presence and exchanges the troublesome letter, and everybody is satisfied.
- The beginning of a perfect day was for Phil to make his own breakfast, take his daily plunge, and be waited on by his valet, who happens to be Brownie the dog. Outside of being a gentleman, Phil was also a dancing professor and taught pretty young ladies how to twinkle their toes. Across the hall from him lived a modiste and her daughter. The daughter was pretty and that's where the story becomes interesting. A pretty girl, a next door neighbor and strict mother all go to make a very deliciously naughty situation. They are about to elope when mother returns and finds her daughter leaving home. She scolds her, and in the rush to get her into her apartment, leaves her grip outside in the hall. Phil grabs his grip and runs back into his room. In the meantime an ex-jail bird has managed to get away with a grip full of jewels; However, the police are right on his heels and chase him into the same house where Phil and the girl live. He rushes up into the hall where he sees the other grip, changes the grips and when the officer gets up to him and searches the grip, all he finds is a collar. The mother realizes the loss of her daughter's grip, goes out into the hall and takes the grip. A general mix-up of grips follows wherein some very funny incidents occur. After a very daring roof chase, the thief is caught and thrown back into prison. Mother forgives the professor and the finis fade out leaves every one in a happy contented mood.