Ferdie, tired of his wife’s love for the foxtrot, fakes an injury to get out of dancing.

Bella Butts enlists the help of the mayor’s wife to enact a ban on tobacco.

A fisherman discovers a young woman on what should be an uninhabited island who gives him the ominous warning that those who land on Dead Man’s Isle do not have long to live.

When her father dies of the plague, Kate sends her servant for help, but the message is lost when Wamba is killed by a lion.

Billy tries to win over his girlfriend’s father, who imagines himself to be a great hunter, by disguising himself as a man-eating bear.

Charley gets rich selling stocks in a bunk gold mine while his wife funnels it all into the hot new investment everyone is buzzing about.

The Honeypets must quickly hang their rich Auntie’s portrait after she arrives for an unexpected visit.

Georgie’s ex-convict father is suspected of stealing a valuable stack of bonds from the Grants.

The president of a notorious railroad fights dirty against a lawsuit while, aboard one of his trains, his daughter unwittingly speeds toward her doom.

Frank Winslow, having deserted the Confederate army, learns of vital Union war plans and must decide whether to return or stay in hiding.