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- Peace prevailed in the Newlyweds household. An announcement from Mrs. Newlvwed's mother that she is coming to teach the young people how to run their house does not appeal to Mr. Newlywed and he consults his friend the doctor, who offers him but little consolation. Mother-in-law arrives and at once sets about running things. Mr. Newlywed. unable to stand it, comes home only after mother has retired. This state of affairs is not to be tolerated and when mother sees an ad in the paper of a discovery by Prof. Pill she fancies she sees a way out of the difficulties. The serum discovered by Prof. Pill when injected into a wayward husband makes him gentle and home-loving. Mother goes to see the professor and arrives in his office as he is in conference with the doctor. Overhearing the plot against Newlywed, the doctor, while the professor and mother are viewing the laboratory, substitutes plain water for the serum. Later hubby is put wise and when mother stabs him with the "hypo" he at once begins to meow and purr in a most feline manner. Mother and wifie are horrified as hubby laps the cream from his saucer. Finally mother calls Prof. Pill to restore her son-in-law to reason. Ere he can do so the adoption of three kittens by hubby causes both the wife and the doctor friend to upbraid mother so terribly that she grabs her belongings and hurriedly leaves for home. Mother's departure with the aid of a small tablet given him by the doctor friend has a wonderful effect on hubby and he once more is sane. The peace and happiness of the Newlywed household is restored.
- Wifie wants Hubby to spend a quiet evening at home with her. Hubby's friends want him to join them in a poker game, so they send a fake policeman over to arrest him and take him away. Meanwhile, there's an escaped lunatic lurking around the neighborhood, and a real policeman looking for him.
- Mr. Morton, a wealthy man, has decided to take his wife and daughter for a vacation on their farm. Neal, a young artist, has selected a spot in the canyon where he is painting. Betty, the daughter of Morton, meets Neal, who, mistaking her for a real country girl, asks her to pose for him. Betty consents. After a few sittings Betty and Neal are in love. Neal proposes and Betty accepts under the condition that father's consent is secured. Neal goes to Mr, Morton at once. But when father reveals his name and tells Neal that no poor artist shall ever marry his daughter, Neal walks away. Betty pleads with father, who finally says that he will give his consent if the artist paints something good enough for him to buy. Betty tells the good news to Neal. Encouraged by Betty's hopes Neal starts to paint his masterpiece. The day the masterpiece was presented to father Neal knew his fate, and when father said: "This is the worst I've ever seen," he walked away, heartbroken. Harry, a friend of Neal, was on his way with two girl friends to visit him. In a few words Neal told them the whole story. Ethel, a quick-witted girl, saw a way out and taking Neal apart, explained her scheme. She gave her Kodak to Neal and walked away. Father was fishing in the creek when Ethel approached him, and soon father was engaged in a flirtation with her. At the moment he kissed her a Kodak was at work. The next day Neal was seen putting the finishing touches to an enlargement of the scene of Ethel and father. Betty was with Neal, and together they go to see father. Betty hides in a bush and Neal goes to father and offers him his painting for the amount of $10,000. What was the use of arguing? Betty came just in time to see the check father handed to Neal, and when Neal kissed Betty father wanted to object, but they held him to his bargain. What a delight it was to see father, dodging mother, sneak in the backyard and put a match to that masterpiece of damaging evidence.
- Harry and Neal are financially hard pressed and decide to spend the summer at the beach. They gain employment as clerks at the Seabright Hotel. Days pass and still no pretty girls come to the hotel and the boys are getting discouraged. Finally one day a peach arrives with her mother and at once the boys attempt to get in solid. Neal succeeds in making a date with her, and she promises to meet him on the beach in the afternoon. Here Neal's hopes are wrecked, for the peach meets the sun-kissed hero of the beach, the lifeguard, and immediately she loses interest in Neal. Harry, although he sees no chance of winning the peach himself, is not willing to resign in favor of the lifeguard. He learns that the hero of the beach is married, and going to his house tells his wife of his attentions to the fair sex on the beach. She, accompanied by her four children, are very indignant and go with Harry to see her husband's behavior for herself. Arriving at the beach, Neal frames with an old fisherman for a false rescue and shows up the phony lifeguard, who refuses to go after the fisherman. Neal makes the rescue and at once becomes the center of attraction for all the girls. Harry and the lifeguard's family arrive just as a fitting climax to the day's happenings, and while the disconsolate guard is taken away by the wife and numerous progeny, Neal attempts to force his attention on Betty, whose interest is now centered in the half-drowned Joe. She exists with him, leaving both her erstwhile lovers disconsolate.
- A minister who is about to leave the city for a small country town where he is to have charge of a pastorate makes the unforgiveable mistake of asking Jerry to watch his grip while he buys a ticket. Coincidentally a squad of police seize the minister and drag him off to Jail. Jerry, not caring to enter into conversation with policemen, appropriates the grip, examines its contents and finds therein a minister's paraphernalia. Jerry conceals himself in a box car, which is soon made up into a train and starts on its journey. When Jerry arrives in the little town he finds a welcoming delegation headed by Deacon Jones and Sara, an old maid. He is conducted to his abode, which happens to be a rooming house also housing the deacon and a motley array of his flock. Jerry flirts with a young girl, is discovered by Sara and policy demands that he pay her a certain degree of attention. Surprises come to a head when Jerry, dressed as the minister, breaks in upon the deacon playing a friendly game of poker with a gathering of old cronies. Their fear is dissipated when Jerry agrees to take a hand with them. Jerry proves to be a wizard with the cards and soon has relieved them of their money and most of their personal belongings, such as watches, rings, etc. Meanwhile the imprisoned minister has proven his innocence and makes his way to his congregation. He arrives upon the scene just as Jerry makes his getaway. The vision of a holy card hanging behind the table at which he has made his winning streak, "The Lord Loves a Cheerful Giver," causes Jerry to make a substantial donation to a winsome Red Cross nurse.
- Jerry and his sweetheart, Bossie, a-picknicking go. With them go Hank and Flossie. Hank is the husband of Flossie, and naturally Hank feels aggrieved when Jerry attempts a flirtation with his (Hank's) wife. But not to be outdone, Hank opens his own battery of allurement on Bossie, which pleases Jerry not a bit. Jerry tells Hank that Bossie is to be his wife and that Hank must restrain himself. As they eat, Jerry's eyes light on the tabasco bottle. The tabasco goes into Hank's wine and thus into Hank. Whereupon Hank loses all control of himself and dashes in search of water to heal the "anguish" in his interior. Hank believes he is on fire and the first spring he comes to invites him to seek "solace." Hank splashes and spouts like a whale. Bossie feels sorry for Hank and goes to him. Jerry breaks into tears. Flossie joins him, for her husband has been injured. The two mingle their tears as Bossie helps Hank in his suffering. The two are joined by Jerry and Flossie, and Jerry is kicked out of the way by Hank. Flossie and Hank leave and Bossie is left alone. But Flossie is without a coat and night is falling fast. Thinking Bossie has gone home with Jerry and left her coat behind, Flossie puts it on. It effectually disguises her. Hank is all contrition now for having flirted with Bossie and takes Flossie in his arms, seeking forgiveness. Jerry sees and thinks it is Bossie who is receiving all the affection, for he sees Bossie's coat. He trails the pair, determined upon vengeance, into Hank's bungalow. He sees them in silhouette on the window shade and prepares to break into the house with crowbar and ax. Meanwhile Bossie, waiting patiently for Jerry to come to her, has fallen asleep at the picnic grounds. She is found by a policeman, who proceeds to take her to Flossie's house. In the meantime Flossie has gone to sleep on the couch in her house. Thinking his sweetheart is Flossie, Jerry breaks into the house, takes her in his arms and is astounded when his dear burden screams. Hank dashes to his wife's rescue, but Flossie intervenes before serious harm can be done. At the critical moment Bossie and the officer arrive at the house, where all is explained.
- It was in the dawn of civilization and Heela Hoola was the belle of Stonycave. Her admirers loaded her with beads and bear claws. Now a certain rich citizen of Stonycave, named Stony Kone, although he owned the largest cave in the city, could never get a mate and his only admirer was Miss Stone Hatchet, who was neither beautiful nor young. It chanced that Willy Walla, who was a young swell of the town, saw Heela Hoola, and his heartbeat violently against the wolf skin which clad him and he decided then and there to have Heela Hoola for his own. Among the domestic unhappiness in Stony Cave the most violent was that of Leaping Loo, and to increase it was the fact of the "other man," Little Big Club, whose infatuation tor Leaping Loo was the gossip of every cave in the town. Willy Walla having made a good impression with Heela Hoola, is knocked on the head by Stony Kone and the fair Heela Hoola is violently dragged away to Stony Kone's cave. Meanwhile Little Big Club has taken a violent fancy to Leaping Loo and pursues her with his love. Her husband, Hairy Hand, is furiously jealous, and, not knowing where his mate is, goes in search. He is told by Miss Stone Hatchet that Stony Kone has a woman in his cave and Hairy Hand goes in to see if it is his own woman. A terrific battle ensues and Hairy Hand emerges fr«m Stony Kone's cave bearing Heela Hoola, whom Stony Kone had captured. He turns Heela Hoola over to Willy Walla and together they go to Willy's cave in great happiness. Stony Kone's heart and bruises are healed by Miss Stone Hatchet, and the fair Leaping Loo elopes with Little Big Club and leaves Hairy Hand to shift for himself.
- The town of Mosquite is excited over the exploits of a bandit, known as Terrible Pete. The Sheriff of Mosquite has a daughter and a loving wife, but his one weakness is cards. Many hours he spends in the Long Horn saloon, playing poker with the boys. Betty, his daughter, a romantic girl, hears of the daring of Terrible Pete, and vows to her two ardent swains that the man who wins her must be as brave and daring as this bandit. The boys accept this challenge and Neal, the Timid One, and Dave, the Brave, decide to do and dare for their fair lady. Neal procures a couple of fierce looking guns and from a piece of black cloth makes himself a mask. Being now ready for his desperate attempt he rides forth to hold up the stage. Dave, the Brave One, decides to loot the very house of his sweetheart. The Sheriff, meanwhile, under the watchful eye of his wife, finds it impossible to get away and join the little game at the Long Horn. The attack made by Neal on the stagecoach proves a failure as the driver and the guard fire on him. He flees like a frightened rabbit and takes refuge under the bed in his room. The passengers report the attempted robbery to the Sheriff and he is liberated from his wife. Not finding a trace of the bandit, he retires to tho Long Horn for a little game. Dave, armed and with a sack for the plunder, now enters Betty's house and at the point of a revolver forces her to give him her pocketbook. He proceeds to load the sack with all the valuables he can find. Betty's mother hears the noise and running with the burglar is forced to hand over her rings. About this time Neal, the Timid, plans to rob Betty's house. Sneaking there, he enters through the window and chasing mother into the next room runs into the masked Dave. One burglar now chases the other. Dave is victorious and Neal dives through the window, Dave takes his loot, places the sack on the back porch, and re-enters the house. The Sheriff meanwhile has lost at cards and returning home sees the sack of loot. He examines it and finds Betty's pocketbook. He extracts this and hikes back to the Long Horn saloon. Dave now unmasks and tries to impress Betty with his bravery. She sees the joke and demands her purse. Dave goes to get it, and finds it's gone. Mother, angry, takes his gun and accompanied by Dave and Betty, sets forth to find the thief. Meanwhile, Neal, discouraged, has gone to the Long Horn and in the game has cleaned a big roll. The Sheriff on leaving meets mother, Dave and Betty. He suddenly gets an idea and goes back into the saloon. He promises Neal that if he will loan him enough to replace Betty's money he will swear Neal was the brave robber. Neal agrees and when the purse is returned and Dave out-forced by the Sheriff's statement. Neal sees visions of future bliss as Betty gazes at him in hero worship.
- Mr. and Mrs. Parker had been married almost a year, when one morning a friend sent to Mrs. Parker a poodle. The letter announced that the dog was high bred and valuable and the Parkers were pleased. A letter from Mrs. Parker's mother announced that she would shortly return from Europe and hopes that she might be the proud grandmother she has longed to be. Shortly after her return she was informed of the arrival of Snooky in the world at the Parker home. Mother imagined that Snooky is a baby of the human species and never dreamed he is only a poodle. She communicated the glad tidings to Mr. Parker senior. He and mother started to see the baby. They bought some baby clothes and arrived at the Parker home. By luck, however, the Parkers had taken Snooky for a walk and were not in. When the maid was questioned she told them that they had taken Snooky out, so the fond parents laid out their gifts in the living room. The maid saw the baby clothes and at once surmised the mistake. She rushed after Mr. and Mrs. Parker and told them what did happen. The Parkers at once realized their danger of being disinherited and started on a search for a baby. Mrs. Miller, wife of a photographer, was passing with her baby and agreed to loan her baby to the Parkers for the afternoon. Mother and father had taken advantage of the Parkers' absence and went shopping for toys and clothes. Mother saw the Miller studio and she and father made arrangements to have baby's photo taken. The Parkers arrived home with the baby. Its mother was concealed in the kitchen. The fond parents arrived and all went well until baby became hungry and cried. The anxious Mrs. Miller heard her child cry and could hardly restrain herself. Mrs. Parker brought her the baby and it ceased crying. The photographer arrived and as he posed the child he recognized his own infant. He at once claimed it and the secret was out. Mrs. Miller rushed in and she and her husband departed with their offspring. Mother and father were furious and demanded explanations. The real Snooky was produced to the disgusted parents. Mrs. Parker, however, whispers a little word to her mother about an interesting coming arrival and all was forgiven.
- Jerry gets into trouble in a woman's suffrage stronghold and finds himself on trial before a woman jury. The ladies powder their noses, talk fashions, fix their hair and generally show interest in everything but Jerry's case while the evidence is being taken. They return a verdict of guilty and Jerry gets one year to live, but escapes in a suit of the judge's clothes lifted from the jurist's chambers. The judge runs Jerry down and he is marched back to prison through a cordon of mocking femininity.
- Jerry becomes a movie studio executive. He persuades a rich woman's maid, whose employer is out of town, to let his company use the mansion, including the woman's expensive wardrobe, to shoot his next picture. The maid consents, but after they begin shooting, the house's owner shows up. Complications ensue.
- Nathan Grey and his daughter, Betty, live in the suburbs. Betty is in love with Jimmie Gordin, a young fellow of small means but great attraction. All goes well until the villain, Olden Rich, of vast wealth, appears. He falls in love with Betty, and Nathan favors the wealthy suitor. Betty disobeys her father, who swears she shall marry Rich before another week. Betty communicates with Jimmie and they devise a plan. She will go to visit an aunt in a distant city. Jimmis is to call and they will marry before she returns. They did not reckon on the craft of the villain Rich, and he follows on the same train on which Betty leaves. In the distant city Betty sends a telegram to her lover to come at once. This message is intercepted by Rich and he wires to father. In trying to regain her message Betty scuffles with Rich. The police come up and Rich announces that Betty is a harmless lunatic whom he is taking to an asylum. The police believe him. By bribing the superintendent Rich has her placed in the asylum. Father, on getting Rich's wire, leaves for the city and by chance Jimmie also leaves on the same train. Father joins Rich and they go to the asylum, where father informs Betty that she will either marry Rich or never leave the asylum. Despite Betty's protests, they send for a minister. Jimmie arrives in the city and while waiting around the hotel meets a young physician, an old college friend, who is in charge of the asylum. He invites Jimmie to come up and look over the place. Jimmie goes with him and he discovers that Betty is incarcerated in the asylum. The minister arrives and the ceremony between Betty and old Rich is about to take place. The young physician and Jimmie frame a plot and Jimmie has the doctor declare the father and Rich are insane. The minister is now called to unite Jimmie and Betty. Father, seeing all is useless, blesses his children and leaves old Rich to pace his cell in baffled rage.
- The co-ed college is kept lively and the lady principal and professor are kept alert by the pranks of the lively boy and girl students. Ringleader among the boys is Harry; Billie among the girls. It being a sober college town, prize-fighting and such inhumane sports are tabooed. Harry learns that there is a secret prize fight held. He tells the boys and all decide to go. Billie and the girls decide to break the monotony of life with a feed in their dormitory and invite the boys to come. Harry sneaks from the football practice grounds and Billie from the basketball court and the two hold a little love feast by the wall which separates their school grounds. Prof. Snitch, who is by no means a favorite with the boys, misses Harry and suspects where he is. He at once sends the rest of the boys to their rooms and goes to the basketball court, where he reports to the lady principal, who misses Billie and at once accompanies Prof. Snitch to the wall where the guilty parties are found and sent to their dormitories for twenty-four hours. This happens the very day of the fight. Harry declares he will go nevertheless. The girls' feed schedule is for the same evening. Boys send the message that they cannot come, as they are going to the fight. Billie wishes the girls could go and the boys say they will take them if they will wear boys' clothes. They decide to do so and in male attire all sneak out of the dormitory and go to the fight. Prof. Snitch also decides to sneak to the fight. The police are apprised of the fight and the place where it is held is raided and all the students with Prof. Snitch land in jail. A phone call brings the lady principal and faculty to the jail, where the young folks are released. Prof. Snitch, who loves the Lady Principal, is rejected by her and is left weeping by the wall. The girls end their eventful day with a pillow fight.
- Deacon Squibbs, pillar of the First Church of the Strict Principles is informed by the family lawyer that there is one important document to be read in the presence of the Deacon and his nephew Jimmie. This document is nothing less than the will of Jimmie's father, which leaves his entire fortune to his son, provided the son marries and settles down directly after his twenty-fourth birthday. Another provision of the will appoints the deacon as sole judge of the young lady to be selected. Jimmie is already in love with a young widow whose father is an old veteran of the wars. Upon sight of her photo in Jimmie's watch the Deacon becomes interested and wants to go to see her. He learns that she is a widow and, according to the laws of the First Church of Strict Principles, cannot marry a man under forty. This news breaks the widow's heart but the deacon bids her hope as he himself is just a mite over the required age. To save Jimmie's fortune the widow agrees to an engagement between herself and the deacon with the mental reservation that the deacon will be glad to break his engagement soon. The deacon spreads the news of his engagement among the brothers of his church. They are amazed and not a little doubtful. Jimmie learns of what has happened, but is reassured by the widow and her father, the gruff old colonel, that there is a plot behind it which will result in happiness to all. The church committee are short one member for their lawn social and the deacon volunteers the services of his fiancée. She states that she has a little society dance that she will do for them and the deacon is delighted. The day of the social arrives and the people of the First Church are congregated full of pleasure and anticipation. Brother T. Winkels' mouth organ solo was successful and all was well until they announced the widow's number. Jimmie, at the organ, plays an Oriental strain. The widow glides on in shimmering beads and a few yards of gauze. She twisted and shook and jarreted in a way to shock the whole congregation. She retired amid glares from the crowd, leaving the helpless deacon a target for all unfriendly comments. The next day the deacon breaks his engagement and offers Jimmie $5,000 to wed the widow and take her from the city. Jimmie, now enjoying the fun, refuses. The father challenges the deacon to a duel with swords. In the cold gray dawn of the following day the deacon with his backers of the church face the father of the widow, Jimmie, and the doctor. Tearfully the deacon begs Jimmie and the widow to accept his check and call off the duel. Finally the colonel and the widow are pacified and Jimmie holds the check and tells the deacon that he and the widow were married the day before. The deacon swoons in the arms of his brethren.
- Jerry has a wonderful horse, named Oneta, which does everything but talk and, when in the open western country he sleeps beneath his mount, which thus serves both as shelter and guard. Jerry is much in love with the daughter of a rancher and has a rival for her affections the person of Chuck Farley, who is in reality a member of a notorious band of outlaws and horse thieves. The sheriff of the county has placed a reward on their apprehension and arrest. Chuck becomes jealous of Jerry's standing with the girl and also envies him the beautiful horse, so plots with his outlaw band to waylay Jerry and take him to their mountain camp. Here his faithful steed rescues him by untying his bonds. Jerry rides away, gets the girl and hurries to the sheriff and his posse, whom they lead to the successful capture of the gang. The girl's dream comes true when Jerry is presented with the reward, which he hands to the horse, who, in turn, gives it to the girl.
- Jerry becomes enamored of a maid servant in the home of a wealthy newly married couple. His flirtation is interrupted by the arrival of Jack and his bride. Jerry sticks around while Jack opens a letter from Bill, a wild-eyed gun man who is enraged at Jack's marriage to Bess. Bill threatens Jack's life and Jack writes a note to the police demanding protection. He gives the letter to Tilly who has been granted an afternoon off. Jerry meets Tilly and promises to mail the note. Tilly leads Jerry to a dressmaker's where several dummies appeal to his sense of humor. Jerry and Tilly select a seat in the park where they expect seclusion but, the inevitable cop drives Jerry from his new found love. Jerry opens the letter he promised to mail. A sergeant appears. Jerry peaches on the amorous cop who is fired. Jerry runs to the dressmaker's where he steals a dummy. Returning, he throws the dummy in the lake, rushes up to the humiliated cop and points to the dummy and tells him it is Tilly. The boy discards his uniform, leaps in the lake and drags the dummy ashore while Jerry dons his uniform and applies to Jack as preserver of the peace. Tilly recognizes Jerry, serves him a repast. in the kitchen while Bill and his chum Pete arrive and make matters uncomfortable for Jack. His bride covers Pete while Jerry, roused to action, covers Bill. The real cops arrive, ending the family's and Jerry's troubles.
- Harry and Billie make a flying trip for the train and reach the station just in time to see it start. The station agent suggests that they might hire old Si Scudder's auto and catch the flyer at Burbank. As his auto was the only one in town Si charged Harry $13.00 for its use. The machine does not start, so they hire a farmer's horse and hitch it to the auto. At last they arrive at Burbank. Here the agent informs them that the flyer is two hours late. Two hours is not long but Billie gets hungry. The expense so far has drained their joint resources to one nickel. Harry gets an idea and as a blind man gets a his bill from a lady. The banquet over the flyer arrives and they are off for the city. Arriving, Harry puts Billie in a taxi and she goes home. He goes to see Mr. Barry, with whom he has a business engagement, and Mr. Barry invites him to dinner and to meet his wife. Mrs. Barry, who has repeatedly warned her husband about bringing home unexpected guests, flies into a rage and immediately goes home to her mother. Barry grasps the only hope left and, going next door, asks Billie to play his wife during the dinner. She consents and all seems well until she faces Harry. Mrs. Barry, meanwhile, repentant returns home. When Mr. Barry answers her ring he is aghast. Fearful of the scene he acts in a way to convince Mrs. Barry that he has been drinking. Harry and Billie meanwhile are alone in the dining room where Billie throws her arms about Harry sobbing. He is in terror of Mr. Barry's return; breaking away he goes into the parlor where he tells Barry in his real wife's presence that his wife in the dining room wishes him to return to his dinner. This excites Mrs. Barry, who flounces into the dining room to meet face to face her friend from next door. Harry and Mr. Barry follow and explanations clear the atmosphere and all is serene.
- Jerry follows a beautiful girl into the park, but is interrupted in his avowals of love by a park policeman. Father and the Count arrive in time to see Jerry chased away, and they decide to take daughter to the beach. Jerry is "tipped off" as to the plans and is on the sands when father, daughter and the Count arrive. Jerry gets busy from the start, much to the annoyance of beach policemen and the utter disgust of father and his titled friend. Jerry has a fine time with a bevy of lovely girls and enjoys himself immensely when he secludes himself in their dressing room. When they discover him, daughter shields Jerry from their pummeling, but ever-watchful police make things warm for him. Jerry's best tact is applied to getting father and the Count into a fight with the police. Jerry then signals daughter to "beat it." They escape in an automobile stolen from a parking station, but they are pursued by father, the Count and a force of policemen. The chase comes to an end when Jerry drives his "flivver" into an automobile service station. A gasoline explosion, caused by the entrance of Jerry blows him into jail.
- The old professor, accompanied by his daughter and the young professor, arrive home from a trip, bringing with them a full-blooded young Indian, upon whom the old professor intends making certain experiments. Jerry has been informed of their intended homecoming and is at the train to meet them, but receives anything but cordial greeting from the old professor, who intends marrying his daughter to the young professor. Jerry and the girl, however, are not discouraged and try to plan a method of meeting. Chance favors Jerry by placing him in possession of the Indian's "other clothes'' and the girl, supplying the paint from a box of watercolors, he is soon the actual duplicate of the real Indian. They then inveigle the Indian into the wine cellar and taking advantage of his taste for "fire water,'' soon have him enjoying what he believes is his "happy hunting grounds." The only trouble with the plan is that he does not remain where they put him and "leaves the reservation." Then things happen and keep on happening, everyone, including even the girl, taking Jerry for the Indian, or the Indian for Jerry, until the aid of the law is called upon to straighten out the tangle, and then even the law gets tangled.
- Jerry, without position or wealth, finds an obstacle in his efforts to win the hand of a pretty daughter of a land owner, in the person of a French Count. The girl favors Jerry, but her father, to better his position in society, insists that she accept the Frenchman. Jerry is pleading his love when the nobleman arrives. Fearing the wrath of her father, the girl receives the foreigner. Jerry argues with the Frenchman and the latter challenges him to fight, after slapping Jerry's face with his gloves and pulling his nose. The father is attracted by the noise of battle, and when Jerry sees the old man coming, he beats a retreat, followed by the girl. That night Jerry plants himself outside of the old man's home, writes a note, ties it to a brick and throws it through an open window. The brick strikes the father and lays him low. The girl obtains and reads the note, which suggests they elope. She hurriedly prepares to escape from the house and join Jerry. The Count unexpectedly arrives on the scene, accompanied by two henchmen. They detect Jerry waiting and as the girl comes out to meet him, she is made a captive by the Count and his henchmen, who throw a robe over her head and carry her off. Jerry follows the abductors. In the meantime the father has regained consciousness. He telephones the police and a search is made for the girl and Jerry. The girl has been carried to a lonely house and cast into a deserted room, to which Jerry later gains an entrance. He is discovered by the henchmen and the Count and is lured to a position over a trap door. While he is talking with the Count the trap is sprung. Jerry lands in the cellar below. The police arrive at the house and one by one they are sent below to join Jerry. Jerry gains the confidence of the cops and they plan get upstairs to save the girl and to capture the Count and his henchmen. They make their escape from the cellar and surprise the party upstairs. Just then the father arrives and Jerry is tempted to send him through the trap door, but on second consideration decides to lead the father to his daughter and thereby gain his favor. The reunion takes place and the police are about to depart when the Count again appears. Jerry springs the trap and the Count as his henchmen disappear. The father, realizing that the Count is of no account, turns to Jerry and places the hand of his daughter in that of her persistent suitor. Then the trio depart for the minister's house, while the Count and his henchmen are placed under arrest.
- After viewing an enlistment poster, Jerry decides to fight for his country. On his way to the recruiting station he becomes an interested spectator of a preparedness parade. Indeed, so interested does he become that it requires the services of two policemen to quiet his ardor. When he explains that he is on his way to enlist, they release him. At the recruiting station he is told he is too small, and he combats this statement so strenuously that he has to be chased away. Tired by his exertions, he lies down and dreams of the "Spirit of '76," he having seen the picture at the recruiting station. Seeing himself as the drummer in the picture, fires his zeal anew, and he is playing the part and the drum to perfection when he is awakened by another policeman who wants to know what ails him. When Jerry explains his desire to enlist, the officer takes him to the recruiting station and the matter is fixed, and Jerry takes his place with a squad of rookies. But unfortunately he gets into an argument with another rookie, and during the melee which ensues Jerry runs off to avoid being put in the guard house. The training camp is near the border and Jerry, unconsciously running in that direction, is made prisoner by a Mexican bandit chief. He is taken to their headquarters, and there meets a beautiful girl and her father, who are also prisoners. Then Jerry is tied to a tree and sentenced to be shot, but the girl manages to elude her captors and comes to Jerry's aid, and his Mexican guard is made to change clothes and places with him and is almost shot in Jerry's stead. Jerry and the girl then rescue her father, and the three make their escape and are met by the soldiers who have been seeking Jerry as a deserter. But, instead of being treated as one, he is regarded as a hero.
- Jerry, pursued by the police, makes his escape by boarding a train. The first stop is a small town, and as Jerry alights to view his surroundings he is detected by a conductor and turned over to the constable. About to be imprisoned, the prisoner gets possession of the "law's" club; beats the constable, and, locking him in a cell, escapes. Jerry is attracted by Daisy, who is strolling through the fields with Hank, her sweetheart. Jerry's eyes begin to work and Daisy is a victim. This aroused Hank, who subdues the mischiefmaker only to be the unfortunate one in the end, when Jerry crashes a brick over his head. As Hank recovers, Jerry is forced to flee. Jerry's speed carries him into the hills and he comes across a band of counterfeiters. He is admitted into the band when it is decided that he is not dangerous. But the huge stacks of new currency tempt Jerry and he is caught in the act of storing a lot of it in his pockets and ejected from the camp. Government officers searching in the district for the money "floaters," come across Jerry. They are about to arrest him when he reveals the hiding place of the counterfeiters and offers to lead the men to the place. A raid follows and the entire band is taken away, leaving Jerry in possession of everything.
- Tired of city life, Jerry seeks work on a ranch. Dressed in real cowboy fashion he arrives at the railroad station in a small western town. Louise, an heiress, and her maid, Elsie, are expected by the village folks, Louise being the owner of the big E.Z. ranch. Things have gone wrong at the ranch and at the advice of her attorney, Louise has disguised herself as a maid and Elsie substitutes as the heiress. Jerry is bewildered when he sees all the ranch hands waiting for the arrival of the owner and he is a little timid in his search for work. The train brings the expected heiress, who, dressed as a maid, does not receive the attention that the maid dressed as the heiress receives. Jerry, however, assists the "maid" with her luggage while the townspeople make much over Elsie. As the two women are seated in a small automobile there is an explosion and the machine starts off without a driver. Jerry leaps to his mule and gives chase and overtakes the automobile. He is the hero of the excitement, but his work is successful only because all the gasoline has been consumed. At the ranch, Louise finds that things have been neglected by the men, the foreman being unable to handle them. There is no harmony and a number of fights are started because of the antics of Jerry. No one realizes, however, that Jerry is the cause of many of the clashes during the visit of the owner. Elsie, believed to be the heiress, is made much of. Louise is placed in the background by everyone excepting Jerry. The ranch hands dislike Jerry and one day while he is being cuffed about, Louise arrives. She decides to reveal her identity and does so as she commands that the men stop annoying Jerry. Everyone is surprised to learn that Louise is the heiress and Elsie the real maid. Louise then assumes control of things and discharges all of the employees, excepting the foreman. She then asks Jerry to be her partner and he consents. Elsie, now in her original capacity of maid, is made much over by the foreman. Elsie and her new sweetheart find a quiet little spot in the ranch house, while Louise and Jerry find refuge under a big tree where they have a love scene.
- Father and mother quarrel at the breakfast table at a time when May and June, twins, are quite young. May, being "mother's child," sides with mother, and June, being "father's child," sides with father. Father leaves the home with June without mother's knowledge. After a lapse of years May marries Jack and, accompanied by mother, goes on a honeymoon trip, which includes a visit to a mountain resort. Simultaneously with their arrival father and June also become guests of the same hotel. On the way to the hotel June spies, Jerry, her sweetheart, father objects to Jerry and takes occasion to assert himself. Shortly after Jerry appears at the hotel and finds May in the lobby. Taking her for June he embraces May, protesting his love, in spite of the father. May resents and is rescued by her husband, who gives Jerry a knockout blow and then proceeds to register. While father is taking a nap June sends a note to Jerry asking him to call. Jerry's greeting is somewhat boisterous and awakens father, who throws him out, landing him in the bridal chamber across the hall occupied by May. Partially dazed and when able to sit up Jerry is astonished to see May (who he thinks is June) and he attempts to embrace her. This disturbance attracts the attention of Jack coming up the hall, who settles it by throwing Jerry out of the room. June, having been attracted by the cry for help from May, as she runs down the hall, comes out in time to see Jerry thrown out and she helps him to his feet. Jack, also going into the hall to see the result of his work, sees June, whom he believes to be his wife. May, succoring the man he has just punished for bothering his wife. Indignant, he pushes Jerry out of the way, picks up June and carries her into the bridal chamber, with June struggling violently and Jerry looking on in astonishment. June escapes and falls into her father's arms. In this position Jack finds them. Believing June to be May and not knowing his father-in-law, he compels the old gentleman to defend himself with a revolver. The mix-up might have gone on indefinitely but mother enters the scene and solves all the complications. In the end father goes to mother, June to Jerry and May to Jack.
- Jerry overhears two roughs plotting to hold up with empty guns a wealthy man and his daughter. Jerry follows them and at the psychological moment makes his appearance, and daring them to shoot, puts the robbers out of commission with the aid of a club. As a reward the man, who is a gouty invalid, engages Jerry as an attendant and takes him home, and what Jerry does not do to him and his wheeled chair is not worth reporting. But if only the daughter had returned Jerry's love, Jerry would not have minded so much what happened to him afterwards.
- The town of Red Gulch was to be favored with a show. Pete, a tough of the town, liked a good show and happens to be at the station when the troupe arrives. Billie, Nolan and Eddie are the leading actors. Nolan and Billie are in love, but Eddie also loves Billie. A quarrel starts at the station between Nolan and Eddie and finally the troupe reaches the theater. At the stage entrance Pete intervenes and threatens Eddie. After many controversies each actor is assigned to his room. Pete meets a friend and tells him about Billie and the show, and they decide to attend the performance that night On the stage, Bob and Mac, two stagehands, are working and abusing Gus, the property man. In the meantime Nolan has gone into Billie's room, where they are disturbed by Eddie. Eddie, being ejected, swears revenge. Harry is a sleepy man and decides to go to the show. Pete, with his friend, join the audience. Harry comes and sits next to Pete and sleeps. All is ready for the big show. Billie and Nolan are on the stage looking through the curtain. Gus is fixing the props. Eddie gets into trouble again over Billie, and walking away, goes to see Bob and Mac. He gives them money and promises them some more if they queer Nolan every time he goes on the stage. In the meantime the curtain goes up. The stage represents a living room. George is acting the part of an old man; Billie is his daughter. Eddie, who plays the part of the villain, proposes to Billie, who says that her heart belongs to Jim, the Westerner. Eddie threatens to reveal something about papers held by Billie's father. A fight between George and Eddie ensues. Billie, frightened, calls for help. Nolan wants to come to the rescue, but from behind the stage Bob and Mac hold Nolan's coat, much to the amusement of the audience. Nolan is doing his best to go to Billie's rescue, and finally pulling out of his coat, he comes on rolling on the stage. The curtain falls and the actors try to understand what happened. Eddie is satisfied with this first result. The second act, entitled "The Chasm of Death," opens with Billie on the stage. The scenery is composed mainly of a chasm and a bridge over. Eddie comes on and starts with Billie to cross the chasm. A slight accident to part of the scenery sends Billie and Eddie back on the stage. Finally Eddie and Billie are on the bridge, when a voice from behind says: "Be brave, Mabel. I'll save you." Nolan, rushing on the stage, puts his foot on a dolly, placed there by Bob and Mac, and comes rolling on the stage, and for the second time he falls. Nolan gets up again and starts for the bridge. Eddie and Billie are on the other side and Eddie destroys the bridge. Nolan finds a rope and starts to swing across the chasm. He succeeds and starts a fight with Eddie. Eddie falls into the chasm and Nolan tries to get on the other side of the chasm, he and Billie hanging on the same rope. But from the other side of the stage Bob and Mac let a sandbag loose, which, hitting Billie, throws her into the chasm. A second swing of the same bag disposes of Nolan. The audience is disgusted with such a rotten show. The curtain falls and the actors start to blame Nolan for all that happened. Eddie gains favor with Billie. Finally the curtain rises on the third act entitled, "Where Virtue Triumphs." The villain gets arrested by the sheriff and the marriage ceremony between Nolan and Billie is taking place. But here again Eddie's money had bribed the stagehands and after having a rope to Nolan's belt, they pull up the back curtain and up goes Nolan. This was the last straw and the audience exits in disgust. But Pete wants revenge and he rushes towards the stage. In the meantime Bob and Mac have been discovered and fired, and at the moment Eddie was gaining Billie's favor they come to Eddie and ask him to pay them, having lost their jobs doing his dirty work. Eddie tries to escape, but Pete comes on, gun to hand, and shoots after Eddie. Eddie tries to escape, upsetting scenery finally gets out of the theater, pursued by Pete, still shooting. And Nolan and Billie make up and embrace, and hope for better days.
- After numerous vicissitudes in an effort to enter the studio Jerry obtains a job as an actor with a motion picture company. He examines everything, and soon gets into trouble. The company proceeds into the slums to take some exteriors. Jerry, playing a detective, with a shining badge pinned to his coat, is very proud and shows off before a pretty girl who appears at a window. The girl flirts with him and following her he gets into a den of thieves. The girl believed him to be harmless but upon seeing the badge surmises he is an officer. She summons her brother crooks, who attack Jerry and throw him Into a closet, believing him unconscious. But Jerry has divined that his assailants are crooks, and climbing out of a window he summons a policeman, who telephones for a patrol. Meanwhile the director has requisitioned the services of one of the crooks. The police find the crook and arrest him. Jerry and other officers go into the house and soon emerge with the crooks and loot; and all are carted off to the police station. The zealous cameraman photographs the entire proceedings. At the police station the difficulties are unraveled and Jerry, to gain the good will of the policemen, photographs them, though not with much success, as the exposed film rolls into his pocket instead of the camera magazine.
- Being a plebeian, Jerry makes no impression upon Lady Isabelle with his love making and she accepts Archy, a man of title. Disconsolate, Jerry goes to a park and is approached by a man who introduces himself as a lawyer and who tells Jerry he has inherited a title and is rich. Jerry accompanies the lawyer and is paid two dollars, the remainder having gone for legal fees. He advises Jerry to dress befitting his rank and he buys an outfit which he thinks is O.K. Archy and Lady Isabelle are married and Jerry is invited to the wedding and does the wrong thing at the wrong time. Lady Isabella has a wayward brother who comes to her for financial aid. Archy sees her giving money to him and his suspicions are aroused. Further evidence warrants him doing something desperate and he hires Jerry to put the man out of the way. Jerry is unsuccessful and in despair Archy leaves. Lady Isabelle sends for Archy and he returns at night. He spies his wife's brother sleeping under the bed, and Jerry, who is hiding behind the screen, while there is the maid reposing in the cradle. Horrified he calls Lady Isabelle to account. Explanations are made and all ends happily.
- Jerry for once is in right with his sweetheart's father. All progresses well until one unfortunate night Jerry takes her to a movie show and here she meets Flashy Joe. His gaudy raiment and apparent wealth wins her heart from Jerry. Some time later she completely overthrows Jerry and goes auto riding with Flashy. Jerry determines on revenge patterned on the movie they had witnessed together, "The Sandbagger's Romance." He goes to the hardware store to purchase a deadly weapon but finds them too expensive. He gets an idea and buys iron washers. He takes these to his room and loads a sock with sand and the iron. Following Flashy to his apartment he lays in wait but is discovered by Flashy from the upper window window and knocked out by a water pitcher which Flashy drops on his head. While groggy, the girl's father happens along and pours a drink of high voltage whiskey down Jerry's throat. The effect is sudden. Jerry sees a revolving world and dancing elephants. Flashy meanwhile drops the washbowl but strikes father instead of Jerry. Coming to, Jerry sneaks up the back fire escape and as Flashy looks out again drops the skylight on his head. This knocks Flashy to the sidewalk, where he sits gazing blankly at lather, whose head protrudes through the washbowl. The girl happens along. Jerry confronts her, and, realizing what a hero he is, she accepts him again.
- Luke Sharpe. a private detective, and his assistant, Jigger, are very much down on their luck or so represent themselves to Beto, the proprietor of a ten cent lodging house, so they acquire accommodations for both for a dime, and turn in. When Jigger sees Luke is asleep, and having a little change in his pocket, he sneaks off to a cabaret. There he notices a crook, one very badly wanted by the police and for whom a handsome reward is offered. He also notes that the crook has designs on the purse of a woman (the woman crook) seated at another table. He returns to the lodging house, wakes up Luke, tells him of his discovery; both return to the cabaret, state their profession to the proprietor, the object of their mission, to capture the crook, and arrange to be engaged in the place. The proprietor helps them to disguise themselves, Luke as a waiter and Jigger as a pianist. Luke thinks more of the bar than the demands of his business as a waiter, and after trying to inflict on the patrons a song and breaking all dishes while waiting on them, he suddenly notices the crook snatch the lady's purse and run. He calms the excited patrons by telling them that he and his associate are detectives, to leave the matter in their hands and they will capture the thief. The statement is received with derision, and the proprietor having had enough of them anyway, is ably assisted in ejecting them. They return to their lodging house, and after accusing and abusing one another for the fiasco at the cabaret they drop into their cots. They have not been asleep very long when the crook arrives and gets into a bed close to them. Luke, who has the habit of sleeping with one eye open, notices the crook, and decides when he is asleep to capture him for the reward, but not to say anything to Jigger about his plan. He goes into another room and proceeds to disguise himself as an old miser. Jigger, however, has also noted the crook, and plans to do the same thing as Luke proposes, but remains in the same room to make up his disguise. The crook wakes and sees Jigger making up and determines to settle him. Luke enters as a miser, goes to his cot and engages in the characteristic pastime of counting his money. Jigger, not knowing his partner through the disguise, thinks he is a real miser, and by a trick gets the money. Luke, to keep up the character, so noisily grieves over his loss that he wakes up all the lodgers. The crook tells him that Jigger is the man who robbed him, and commands the miser to take his (the crook's) knife and kill Jigger. During this Jigger has again gone to bed, but with his feet where his head ought to be. Luke has noted this. He stealthily creeps up to the bed and plunges the knife through the open space between Jigger's feet and into the mattress. Jigger jumps out of bed, giving a scare to the crook, while Luke assumes to be scared. At this instant police, who had been chasing the crook, break into the room. The crook being by the door, escapes as they enter, not noticed by the officers. They approach Jigger about the crook. Jigger, still greatly agitated over the attempt on his life, answers, "He's gone, but arrest that man," pointing to Luke, who snatches the long gray-haired wig off and discloses his identity to Jigger. Jigger also removes his disguise and they embrace. This is not the end, for the officers now recognize the two bum detectives and place them under arrest.
- Jerry's family is in dire straits. His mother is sick, rent is due and there is no money to meet current debts. Father works but refuses to support his family, and spends all his earnings at the saloon. Jerry and his sister decide that both shall go to the saloon and bring father back, leaving their infant brother in charge of Jerry's pet elephant as the nurse. Father refuses to listen, so Jerry hits upon a new plan. He takes the elephant to the saloon. The occupants scatter and the elephant starts on a course of destruction, ending by picking up the cash register and carrying it home. Father, who has preceded Jerry, begs forgiveness, and receives it upon condition that he promise never to drink again. With the money in the cash register Jerry pays the doctor and the landlord and buys a sumptuous repast, of which all, including the elephant, partake with relish.
- Jerry falls in love with an army officer's daughter and although the Colonel protests vigorously, the girl and Jerry steal away and are having a pretty love scene when a policeman's attention is attracted. The cop is also smitten with the beauty of the young woman and he decides to scare Jerry away so that he may make up to the girl. An argument follows and Jerry slips away and gets a long rope, which he throws over the telegraph wires overhead, tying one end to the cop's belt. Jerry then hoists the bluecoat up in the air, fastening the end of the rope to the pole and leaves the guardian of the law suspended between heaven and earth. A squad of brother officers arrive and they promptly release their commander and give chase to Jerry, who seeks refuge in an abandoned fort, and hides himself behind the half broken-down walls. Jerry's ammunition consists of a lot of bricks. When the cops swoop down upon him, firing at random, Jerry responds with volleys of bricks, and one by one the policemen are knocked unconscious. The Colonel passing by sees the fracas and admires Jerry for his bravery and after hostilities cease he congratulates him and as a reward he promises to permit Jerry to marry his pretty daughter. They proceed to the Colonel's home and there Jerry is announced as the prospective son-in-law. Everything runs along smoothly until the Colonel is stricken with the gout and Jerry's clumsiness gets him in bad. A shower of blows upon his head and body dealt out by the Colonel causes Jerry to throw the old man in a rolling chair and dash out into the street with his captive. In and out among a mass of automobiles he rides the Colonel until at last a collision takes place and the enraged soldier is thrown into the gutter. A policeman witnesses the event and prevents Jerry's escape and arrests him. A squad of officers escort the Colonel to his home and Jerry is denounced. All chance of his marrying the pretty daughter is upset and while the girl makes love to the policeman that started the first argument with, Jerry the little fellow who had but a few hours previously established himself so solidly with the Colonel for his brave work against an army of policemen, is made an outcast and locked up in jail.
- Jerry's sweetheart is cook for a newlywed family and she "tips him off" to the fact that they have just discharged their gardener and need a new one, advising him to apply at her employer's office. Jerry acts upon her advice and arrives at Newlywed's office just after Newlywed's fat brother has arrived on a visit. As Mrs. Newlywed has never met the "little brother," Newlywed writes him a letter of introduction to his wife. He then hires Jerry as gardener and writes a letter for him to his wife. Owing to a "clerical error" the letters get mixed up and Jerry gets the brother's and the brother gets Jerry's. Then things begin to happen. Jerry is received by the young wife with open arms as her husband's brother. The "little brother," who is cursed with a terrible appetite, is put to work in the garden and, driven by hunger, proceeds to help himself to eatables and gets into a row with the housemaid. The young wife's attentions to Jerry arouses the cook's jealousy, and not knowing the reason for said attentions, she attacks Jerry with a loaded sugar bowl and puts him temporarily out of commission. She then telephones the husband and he, in turn, filled with murderous jealousy, arrives on the scene and fills Jerry, the brother and an intruding policeman full of bird shot, before the mistake in the letters is discovered and nobody killed.
- Jerry has lost his job in the movies and is chased out of the United States into Mexico. He sneaks back over the line. His only support is a tree against which he is leaning. Here he reads and appropriates for future use a notice tacked thereto which offers a reward of $500 for the capture of Black Gomez, a bandit. At the boundary line post, one side reading "U.S." and the other "Mexico," he meets Farmer Brown who is staggering along the road under a heavy load of trouble. Jerry learns that Gomez has captured Brown's daughter Agie and robbed him; if Jerry saves his daughter he may have her for his wife, and Brown produces her photo. Jerry throws a sickly smile when he looks at it. With the reward in mind Jerry promises Brown, leans exhausted against the sign post, which, not being well secured, turns as he keeps turning with it, until the signs are in reverse position. Jerry reaches a Mexican roadhouse which happens to be owned by Gomez. Gomez has brought in Agie and sent her to a room. All the girls fall in love with the flirtatious Jerry, but Juanita takes him to herself and entertains him royally. On reaching his room Jerry writes a note to Juanita saying he will be at her window later and fly with her. By mistake he slips the note under Agie's door. Garbed in a female costume he finds in his room, Jerry boldly attempts to leave the house through the only exit, the barroom, but is chased by the irate Gomez and his pals. He evades them, returns and plants a ladder at what he believes Juanita's window. Just as he reaches the top of the ladder Juanita lets fly the contents of a water pitcher onto his head. Thinking he had made a mistake in the room, Jerry plants the ladder at another window, which proves to be Agie's, for she had found the note and was ready to flee and is heavily veiled. Close to the United States border they are held up by Gomez. Jerry points to the sign, Gomez is astonished to read "U.S.," weakly yields his gun to Jerry and obeys orders to step over the line, but really into the land of the free. Meeting a constable a little further on Jerry tells him about Gomez being in the United States, aids in his capture and gets the reward. With Agie still veiled Jerry hurries to a Justice of the Peace, but when she raises her veil he is almost prostrated, but manages to make a safe getaway on a constable's bicycle.
- Jerry selects a railroad track for a quiet siesta. He is interrupted by the whistle of an onrushing engine. He jumps to safety. Section hands give Jerry a hard job from which he escapes by jumping on a hand car. Arriving at a bridge, Jerry seeks shade under a buttress. Here he finds a fuse leading to a charge of dynamite. He hurls the bomb away just as it explodes. The section hands seize Jerry and haul him off to jail. Jerry falls in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who is the object of the affections of Hank, a railroad man, and Joe, a half-wit. In confinement he finds that his prison adjoins a storeroom to which Joe has a key. Jerry watches through a knothole and sees the half-wit plugging an apple with cyanide. He realizes that Joe is going to give this deadly poison to the daughter. Jerry makes his escape to where Joe is teasing daughter with the poisoned apple. Jerry strikes it from his hand and they fight. The battle rages until father and the section hands, attracted by daughter's screams, separate them, but not until Jerry has been felled. They carry him into the house where, finding his heart has stopped, they place him on a couch and fold his hands across his chest. Jerry has been experiencing a nightmare. Sleep had overtaken him while waiting his call for a movie part.
- Disappointed over his failure to marry Marie by reason of the ruling of the Eugenic Bureau, Jerry's only consolation is a large and growing accumulation of postage stamps he received in answers to an advertisement he inserted in a daily paper for a wealthy wife. Jerry meets several candidates for his lot in life and leads them to the Eugenic Bureau, where one after the other they are disqualified. Jerry finally makes the mistake of his life and sends for six girls to meet him at one time. He leads his collection of would-be brides to the examining physician who promptly rejects all but one, a large, healthy but heavy maiden. The disappointed girls are determined to wreak vengeance upon Jerry with their fists and umbrellas, but he races with his abundant prize to the minister. All seems clear for a happy ending when the minister demands Jerry's certificate. He rushes to the bureau for examination. He is immediately rejected.
- Jerry becomes affected by the wiles of a flirt who has been lavishing attention upon a large and enthusiastic collection of bench-warmers, to say nothing of several park policemen. Jerry presses his suit, but when discovered by one of her policemen friends, is temporarily routed. Jerry finds a telephone wagon nearby where he procures a coil of rope and succeeds in lassoing the cop and the girl and pulling them into a deep pool. A whirlwind chase ensues, participated in by the entire police force. Jerry drops from the second-story window of a house into the vacant saddle ordinarily occupied by a mounted policeman and dashes away to freedom. The cops in their flivver run out of gasoline, but make the grade by hoisting a sail, and continue the chase. Jerry rides headlong into the arms of Shoot-em-up-Bill, a bad man, who exhibits a $5,000 sack of gold. "Shoot-em-up" commandeers Jerry and his horse and together they ride into town. Shoot-em-up puts the gold in a safe, and Jerry runs to a room overhead. Safe-crackers blow up the safe, the force of which shoots the gold up through the floor into Jerry's arms. The mast on the flivver waiting below provides the means of Jerry's escape from yet another difficulty.
- The fashionable Ferndale section is thrown into a state of excitement by a series of daring robberies. At breakfast one morning Mr. Goodrich learns from the morning paper that the night before the neighborhood had again been visited by burglars and thousands of dollars in money and jewelry carried away. Determined to guard his house against intrusion he writes to a private detective agency for men. His daughter Goldie is commissioned to deliver the note, but, meeting Jerry and Hank, two admirers, she suggests that they take the place of two detectives. The job, giving them an opportunity to be near their inamorata, Jerry and Hank accept. Having the freedom of the house, Hank sees how easy it is to rob it and succumbs to temptation. He dispatches a note to Bill, a rather tough customer, and instructs him to play burglar, promising to show him the way. The proceeds are to be divided fifty-fifty. Jerry learns of the plan and decides to foil it. That night Bill enters the house and is being escorted to the safe by Hank when he clumsily falls over a chair. The noise awakes Mr. Goodrich, who, armed with a rifle, starts after the conspirators. In the meantime a real burglar has entered the house. The shots meant for Bill and Hank make him seek cover and he wraps himself around with a pair of draperies. But Jerry has witnessed the act and decides to prove himself a hero. While Mr. Goodrich is telephoning for the police Jerry keeps a close watch on his quarry. When they arrive Hank and Bill have escaped, but Jerry, being an outsider, is collared as the burglar. He insists that there is a mistake and calls for Mr. Goodrich to prove it. To the rich man he explains that the burglar is hiding and points out the place. Then with a rush he captures him and turns him over to the police. Mr. Goodrich is delighted with Jerry's watchfulness and wishes to reward him. Jerry spurns money. He asks for the hand of Goldie. Mr. Goodrich gives his consent, but suggests that Jerry first consult Jack, Goldie's husband. As Jerry turns to Goldie he is amazed to see her in the arms of her husband, who has just entered. With one parting look he falls into a faint.
- Jerry and the daughter of a well-to-do family are very much in love with each other, but the father objects to Jerry's attentions. Jerry's persistence causes the old man to take his family for an automobile tour, but before doing so he has an encounter with Jerry. The family starts away; the girl is in tears. Jerry, who is not to be outwitted, leaps on the rear of the automobile. Some distance out in the country they are halted by a motion picture company, which is working, the director having asked the motorists to stop so as not to interfere with the scene. A number of genuine cowboys have been engaged to pose in the picture which is being produced. Jerry peers out from his place of concealment to see what is going on, and when several policemen appear he immediately becomes frightened, fearing that his old enemies are after him. They are only motion picture cops, but Jerry does not know that. He runs off and hides. He witnesses a scene wherein a cowboy is choking a girl in a melodramatic way, the girl screaming for help. Not realizing that that is only for the camera, Jerry goes hurriedly to the girl's assistance, Jerry is handled roughly by the cowboys and the father, seeing Jerry's plight, is elated and rewards the cowboys for their good work. After the family starts away, leaving Jerry behind, a bright idea occurs to him. His sweetheart's family are to give a reception in the near future, and Jerry hastily writes a note to which he signs the father's name. The note is an invitation to the cowboys to attend the reception in the costumes they are wearing that day, as the father wishes to surprise his guests. The night of the reception arrives, the guests are all assembled, when the cowboys, following instructions, ride into the house and proceed to shoot things up, the guests fleeing in alarm in all directions. The cowboys proceed to make merry with the liquid refreshments. The contents of the punchbowl being too weak for their taste, they permit their horses to drink the punch. Father and mother seek refuge under a bed, and are kept prisoners by one of the horses who proceeds to feed upon the mattress. Jerry's sweetheart is as much frightened as the other guests, but Jerry finds and reassures her. Appropriating one of the cowboy's horses, he mounts it and, with the girl behind him, rides off, too late for the irate father, who has been rescued by the police, to prevent the elopement.
- Jerry, ever alert to pretty girls, comes in contact with the maid of a wealthy family. She has been to market and Jerry relieves her of her burden. He is about to accept her invitation to dine with her when the policeman on the beat, who is also infatuated with the maid, appears. The officer hurls Jerry to the ground and then follows the maid to the kitchen. Jerry determined to gain an entrance to the place, starts for the door again, when Hank, the janitor, appears and another fight starts. Jerry is pounded again and Hank goes inside. A fight starts between the janitor and the bluecoat, the latter using his club freely and throwing the janitor downstairs to the cellar. Jerry is lost as to what to do when he spies the police captain. He hurries to him and tells his tale of woe and the Captain decides to go after his subordinate. Jerry follows in and while the two officers are fighting Jerry opens the door leading to the cellar and throws them both down to join the janitor. Jerry is progressing nicely when the master of the house comes in. He is also smitten with the girl, but before he sees Jerry the diminutive one hides under the table and is further shielded from view by the maid's apron. The master is having a love scene with the girl when his wife appears and she loses no time, crashing a bottle over the unfaithful one's head. The maid faints and as the wife rushes out Jerry goes to the girl's assistance. He picks her up just as the three in the cellar appear. Jerry runs to the hall and there he is confronted by the husband. Jerry throws the girl into the arms of the master and runs upstairs just as the wife appears. Seeing her husband with the maid in his arms the angry wife smashes a big vase over her husband's head, dropping him with the maid in his arms. The police and janitor appear on the scene and there is a general mixup. All decide to get Jerry and a chase leads to the top floor. Jerry climbs out of the window and aided by the drain pipe reaches the ground while the police and janitor climb down behind him. He is caught at the bottom by the husband, who is in waiting and held for the police, then to be severely clubbed and taken away to jail, leaving Hank the janitor in possession of the troublesome maid.
- Jerry again escapes from his tormentors, the police, only to land in the clutches of a couple of burglars, who are plotting a robbery. The lawbreakers compel Jerry to accompany them on their depredations, and he is about to be implicated in the robbery of a vault in a rich man's house when he, through the use of some muscle and a quick wit, succeeds in locking one of the robbers in the vault and assisting in the arrest of the other. He is then overwhelmed by the gratitude of the wealthy man's family, which includes a pretty daughter, and is also made the recipient of a handsome reward in cash.
- Jerry arrives in Tyrol with a wallet stuffed with "moving picture money" and riding a "trained and educated" bicycle. He is held up by bandits and robbed of his wallet and bicycle. He succeeds in creeping away from his captors and whistling to his trusty wheel. It comes to him and he makes good his escape. He meets a gouty, retired army officer riding in a wheel chair pushed by a surly attendant. The officer is accompanied by his daughter. The attendant, through carelessness, injures the old man's gouty foot and is discharged. Jerry is engaged to take his place. The bandits have, in the meantime, gone to the nearby inn to spend their ill-gotten gains and are having trouble over Jerry's bogus money. He arrives on the scene on an errand and routs the bandits. They fall in with the rascally attendant, and guided by him, make the old officer and daughter prisoners. Jerry outwits and defeats the bandits and rescues them. He then takes the bandit chief prisoner and ties him in the wheelchair. The path is a steep one. The chair breaks away and runs off the edge of a high cliff. The chair is utterly demolished by the fall, but the chief rises unhurt from the wreckage.
- Jerry goes to the beach for a rest. He sees Mme. Bada Tara, whom he admires and is told she is a screen vampire. Jerry follows her until she enters her limousine and is driven away. Jerry wanders over to the sand and falls asleep. He seems to awake and walks along the sand near the water's edge. He finds a ring washed up by the sea and discovers it is magic; all he needs to do is wish for anything and it is his immediately. He wishes at once for money and his hands become full. Jerry hastens to a café and orders an immense feed. The women smile and he is quite a lion. The vampire and the villain enter and decide to ensnare him, so the villain withdraws. Jerry joins the vampire and after the supper they go to her apartments. Here she pulls real vampire stuff while the villain directs her efforts from the portieres. As the vampire embraces Jerry the villain comes in, acts the part of the injured husband and demands all Jerry's money as damages. Jerry refuses and they have a fight, in which the villain knocks Jerry down and the vampire pulls his ear. He awakes with a start to find a big lobster biting his ear and realizes it was a dream. He is last seen devouring a hot dog on the boardwalk.
- Tess and Jerry contract the movie fever, and decide to enter the profession. Tess' parents object and lock her up in her room. Tess communicates with Jerry, and the latter aids her escape. Jerry secures a rope and attaches one end to a stone which he throws into Tess' room. Just then the butler enters the room with her midday meal on a tray, when the stone hits him on the head and he falls senseless to the floor. Jerry climbs up into the room, and, assisted by Tess, they put the butler to bed, and put a woman's wig on his head to represent Tess. Both then escape by way of the window, and delightedly proceed to the studio where they offer their services. Jerry gets in wrong right away with Hank, the janitor of the building, and the manager, so he is not admitted to the office. The manager, however, is very much taken up with Tess, and leads her into his private office for a conference. While Jerry is peeking through the key hole, Hank comes along and joins him, a mixup follows, and Jerry finds a handy brick and throws it through the glass window hitting the manager on the head. When Jerry sees the effect of his act he hands another brick to Hank and makes his debut. A general chase ensues all through the studio, wrecking sets and causing general disorder, the result of which is that Jerry is ejected and told never to return.
- Jerry again has the police on his trail and wanders through the park. Here he sees a mounted policeman strolling along with his arm around a girl's waist and leading his horse. Jerry cuts the bridle reins, mounts and rides off, the policeman being too engrossed to discover his loss until some time later. Shorty and Madge are lovers. Shorty leaves a note for Madge in their private "post office" in a big tree at the side of the road, asking her to meet him that evening. She writes a note consenting. This little exchange of notes is witnessed by Lewis Hayden, Madge's father's favorite for his daughter's hand. He purloins the note left by Shorty and takes it to Madge's father. Jerry also has seen the entire proceeding and, impelled by curiosity, ascertains the cause for the state of ecstasy and surprise of the young people just as Shorty comes up. A wordy battle between Shorty and Jerry ensues, but is smoothed over when Jerry explains Hayden's visit, and the two become friends. At home Hayden shows Father the note, who calls Madge and insists that she marry his choice. Madge creates a rumpus. Father and Hayden decide to punish Shorty, whom they have never seen, but for whom they mistake Jerry. They gloat over the surmised fact that he is only "four feet tall and easily licked." Madge informs Shorty of her father's plans and also of his mistaking Jerry for Shorty. The friends decide that they will go forward, anyway, and meet the foe. At the trysting place Shorty dons Jerry's clothes and, after sending Jerry up into the tree, Shorty kneels alongside to appear the height of Jerry. Father and Hayden arrive with clubs to pounce on him, but Shorty is too quick. He rises like a shot to his full six feet two, grabs each by the hair, batters their heads together and sends them off. The next morning Father is up early, and so are Shorty and Jerry. In order to insure against Madge's escape Father nails strips of lumber across her window. Resourceful Jerry suggests to Shorty that he (Jerry) dress to represent Madge, tell Father that daughter is to be married, and while Jerry rides away dressed as Madge Father will follow, and Shorty and Madge can have the marriage ceremony performed during his absence. The scheme is carried out as planned. After a hard chase Father catches up with Jerry, whom he supposes to be Madge, takes her home, only to find Madge there with Shorty, just married. A disentanglement of all difficulties, wherein the policeman gets back his horse, Madge is forgiven and Shorty accepted as a son-in-law closes the picture.
- Jack receives a letter saying his aunt is to visit him. As they have never met, he conjures up a vision of a sour visaged old maid with a battle-axe on her shoulder. He decides to escape the ordeal of her entertainment, plans a trip and also to select someone to impersonate him. The first man he encounters is Jerry, whom he finds sitting on the curb and out of a job. Jack explains to Jerry that he is going away for a time, that he shall take charge of his home, and gives him a big bunch of money to start with. Once in possession of the magnificently furnished bachelor home and Jack off Jerry supplants the half-dozen servants with three of his cronies, who make a sorry sight even in the spic and span livery. The aunt proves a comely woman of middle age; her companion is a severe looking old maid. Jerry swoons away when he sees her, believing her to be the aunt, but when identities are explained he becomes extremely interested and very attentive to the aunt. While Jerry is gallantly escorting her over the grounds he spies Jack coming up the street, so he cuts short his hospitality in that direction and takes his guest into the house. Jack has forgotten his bank vault keys and has returned for them. He persistently rings for admission. Finally Jerry goes to the door and kicks him off the porch. A plain clothesman and a uniformed cop come along and prepare to arrest Jack for disturbance. He explains he is trying to get into his own house and they agree to help him in order to prove his statement. Failing to get an answer to their ring, Jack and the detective climb into the house through a window and enter a room where Jerry is found making violent love to the aunt. Jack demands recognition, instead Jerry calls his new servants and on his orders Jack is thrown out. This for a time satisfies the detective that Jerry is the master of the house. Jack returns to find Jerry playing host to the detective. Again the servants are called on to eject the intruder. As they proceed to carry out the order the cop enters. The servants recognize an old enemy and rush away. Jerry, also seeing the cop, ceases his braggadocio and flees, knocking down the others. Jerry runs blindly, evidently, for he finally tears into the police station, into an empty cell and has locked himself in before the officers arrive, when he hands them the key. At the house Jack explains away all the questionable and astonishing happenings to his good-looking aunt and they become friends.
- After enjoying a hearty meal on the veranda of a swell café, the wherewithal for which has been obtained by a new means of appropriation, Jerry dispatches a note to his sweetheart, Bessie, requesting her to meet him at "the bench" at 3 o'clock. The note falls into the hands of Mrs. Weston before it reaches her husband and, engaged at Jerry's nonchalant references to her provider, makes preparations for Jerry's reception. After locking Bessie in her room, Mr. Weston proceeds to the bench designated by Jerry and there, heavily veiled, awaits his coming. Too intent to notice anything amiss, Jerry proceeds to embrace the veiled woman, whom he assumes is Bessie. He is soon brought to a realization of a mistake, however, for Mrs. Weston uses a rolling-pin with telling effect. Jerry's cries attract the attention of Mr. Weston, who has been entertaining Mr. Ashton over liquid refreshments served in the summer garden. Armed with empty beer bottles, they rush to the scene. Their efforts to quell the disturbance are not quite successful, for in its course Mrs. Weston is knocked out, Mr. Weston suffers several smashes as does Mr. Ashton, and Jerry escapes. Bessie, in the meantime, has been busy. She has a note delivered by her maid advising Jerry that her mother has planned a long auto trip and adds that he might come to her rescue if he loves her. Accordingly Jerry assumes right to a burro standing conveniently near and starts off on his mission of rescue. Along the road Jerry spies Cyclone Pete, a Mexican bandit. The sight of him forebodes evil, so Jerry dismounts and hides. Hardly has he done so when the Weston auto party comes into view. Pete quickly springs from his hiding place, covers the party with a gun and then compels them to drop their valuables into his hat. Jerry sees a chance to become a hero. Creeping back of the unsuspecting Pete, Jerry uses an improvised billy quite well and succeeds in recouping the lost valuables. Mr. Weston congratulates him and invites him to take the trip with them, but Mrs. Weston rescinds the invitation by throwing Jerry out of the car. By this time Pete has started to revive. Noticing this, Jerry takes the Mexican's horse and is off on a whirl while Pete starts back on the burro. A stop is made at a country hotel. Pete arrives a little later, finds his horse in the stable and immediately starts out for Jerry. Jerry is elusive, so there is nothing for Pete to do but to use his gun. In a few minutes' time he has the occupants of the place panic-stricken and is well on the way towards accomplishing his revenge when the police call an end to the riot.
- Jerry, who is taking life easy in the park, is attracted by a scene between a mother and her baby. Jerry watches the happy woman fondling her child, and as he reflects over his past follies he pictures the day when he, too, will have a wife and a little child to love. Weary at heart, he goes to another bench and sits beside a sleeping tramp, where he, too, is soon fast asleep. He dreams that he is married and that he is the proud father of a family. As he caresses his baby and wife he awakens to find himself kissing the dusty tramp and a fight starts. The police hear the rumpus and as they start after Jerry, he runs away and takes refuge in a tool house near some construction work. The foreman of the work sees Jerry go into the house and quickly follows him. He ejects Jerry and warns him to keep away from the place. The foreman puts dynamite in the little storehouse for safe keeping until the following day, and as he walks away he drops the key of the shack, an incident which Jerry observes from his hiding place. Jerry gains possession of the key and enters the house, ignorant of the fact that it contains explosives. Seeing the police coming, Jerry proceeds to walk away with the house. Down the road a big auto truck is approaching, loaded with picnickers, consisting of policemen and their families and sweethearts. Jerry tries to get out of the way with the shack he is carrying, but unable to do so there is a collision, the explosives are set off and Jerry is sent flying through space. When he lands he is captured and handcuffed to the wheel of the truck. The merry picnickers go in swimming, but one of the women takes pity on Jerry and releases him. He meets four tramps, old friends, and they have a joyous reunion. Jerry and his friends spy the policemen's uniforms which were discarded for bathing suits when they went into the water, and no time is lost in appropriating them. The tramps and Jerry leave their discarded clothing behind and when the cops discover what has happened they rush from the water only to see Jerry and his cronies speeding away in the auto truck. The cops don the tramps' clothing and give chase only to run into the hands of the local sheriff, who mistakes them for tramps he is looking for. Jerry and party see the incident, understand the situation and hurry to the sheriff's aid and help him to take the enraged police to the lockup. The cops protest in vain and while they argue with the sheriff and his men, Jerry and his party motor off to a secluded spot, open the lunch baskets and enjoy their repast while the picture fades out.
- Jerry is "in bad" with a sheriff of a western town and is ordered out of the place. Jerry puts an outlaw to flight who is holding up a wealthy man, his wife and daughter, and is invited to ride with them. Later the bandit captures them, takes Jerry and the girl prisoner, and orders the chauffeur to drive on with the parents. That night Jerry has a dream in which Indians are torturing him when the girl comes to the rescue and throwing herself before him is shot and killed. He is glad when he wakes up to find it all a dream. The next day Jerry and the girl are rescued by the sheriff. Jerry is hailed as a hero, is congratulated by the sheriff, and wins a wealthy father-in-law.
- Jerry and his sweetheart, Amy, secure a vantage point in order to view a passing military parade. Amy, quite a flirt, is attracted by a first lieutenant and waves to him, but not without notice of the jealous eyes of Jerry. They have a wordy quarrel, long drawn out and extending until after the ending and disbursing of the parade and which leads to Amy accepting the company of the lieutenant (met during their later stroll), and the dismissing of Jerry in a very unceremonious manner. Injury is thus added to insult, by the lieutenant kicking Jerry out of the way, so he has just cause for revenge. Walking along, planning dire punishment for the lieutenant, Jerry comes up to the residence of Professor Knutt, a hypnotist, who places him under his spell, makes him do most ridiculous things and tells him what he has been doing when he returns to consciousness. Jerry is astonished, and inquires how the Professor does it. He is told it is the ring the Professor wears that is the influence. Jerry gets the ring in his own inimical way and without expense. With the ring on his finger, Jerry accomplishes much to his own amusement before entering on the program he had in mind when he determines to secure it. He makes passes on a couple of cops and gets them into a fight; he makes a cigar store clerk give him a bundle of bank notes in change for a mythical small coin; he casts his spell over the lieutenant, who commits breaches of the peace that land him in jail; intercepts a prince as he steps out of his equipage to make a call on his sweetheart's father and here he appropriates the prince's raiment and, using the prince as a servant, is admitted as the dignitary. As they enter Jerry pulls the prince's only covering off him, disclosing him as sans breeches and underwear, but wearing a corset and hightop boots. Such a costume at a reception riles Father, who uses a double-barreled shotgun to expedite the nondescript's exit. Jerry, alarmed at the belligerent action of Father toward a counterfeit, also runs off, fearing his duplicity may be discovered, but this act proves his undoing, for later he is sought for by the Professor, with the aid of officers, to punish him for taking forcible possession of the Professor's magic ring. The result is that Jerry's revenge proves a boomerang when he is locked up in the same cell with the lieutenant and the rightful prince.