Arthur Hotaling

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another telegram telling her the inheritances is only $25. All her new 'friends' desert her, except her poor boyfriend. (imdb)

Billie Reeves comedy produced by Lubin.

Ollie is a love-struck private who is drilled by his unsympathetic lieutenant at reveille. The colonel of the regiment wants his daughter to marry the lieutenant but she has her heart set on the chubby-faced Hardy, who himself is in love with another woman. He is thrown into a cell for disobeying orders, where he later escapes with the assistance of his sweetheart, and a casual touch of assault when he bumps the guard with his large stomach. (imdb)

A tramp puts on a police uniform and is still a hopeless slob.

Rastus is an odd jobs man, that is he does odd jobs when he has to, but when there are a few small coins in his pocket he prefers to sleep. He is looking for a soft spot when the scene opens and the picturesque banks of a small stream attract his fancy. It is in the open sunlight, but a darkey likes warmth and he composes himself to take a nap. In his dreams he rises and makes his way down to the water from where there are always to be found cotton bales that make the finest sort of couches. (imdb)

Rastus Johnson, a happy-go-lucky coon, after eating a large meal, lies down on the dock to take a nap. While he is slumbering three roughs happen along and see him, and knowing a sea captain who is in need of men to fill out his crew, they seize Rastus and shanghai him. He is placed aboard the ship and the voyage started. The vessel is wrecked off the African coast, and poor Rastus is the only survivor. While wandering along the beach he is seen by the Zulus, who immediately give chase.

Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.

Willie is made up as a cannibal for a movie. His sweetheart visits the studio, but doesn't recognize him, and flirts with Fred, Willie's rival. Still in makeup, Willie goes on a rampage. Fred runs off, leaving her in the hands of the cannibal. Willie reveals his identity and his sweetheart agrees to marry the 'cannibal.'

Sam Johnson & Raskus Hudson are suitors for Mandy Jones. When Raskus Bug get's the 'cold shoulder', his negro blood is aroused. Raskus & his gang steal a chicken and plant it in Sam's house, and put chicken feathers in Sam's shirt. Sam gets thrown into jail. Mandy gets Sherlock Jackson Holmes, the great detective of International fame, who finds a trail of chicken feathers which leads to the gang's den. The gang gets sent to the dungeon freeing the innocent Sam.