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- Jerry sees two footpads hide a wallet beneath some bushes and appropriates it after they depart. The money is sought by the police, who see Jerry with it. They arrest him, but by a ruse he escapes and rides off on one of the cop's horses. Jerry arrives at a gypsy camp and is smitten with the daughter of the chief. Hank also loves the girl, who is known as "little sister." Hank wants to make away with Jerry, but the chief tells him to bide his time as he desires Jerry's horse, and has in mind trading his daughter, Ophelia, for the animal. The trade is broached to Jerry, who, thinking by the trade he will get Ophelia, readily agrees. But when Ophelia is brought in Jerry wilts, jumps upon his horse, and rides hurriedly away, followed by Hank. Hank reaches Jerry on a road overlooking a cliff. A fight follows and Jerry throws Hank over the cliff. Just as he thinks himself safe, Jerry is surprised by the appearance of other gypsies, who, to revenge Jerry's victory over Hank, pounce upon him and throw him over the precipice. Meanwhile, Ophelia rushes to the scene, and seeing Jerry at the bottom of the cliff contrives a way to rescue him by throwing him a rope. Jerry grabs it and reaches a point of safety again. Hank follows the climb. Ophelia attempts to make love to Jerry again, but Jerry has had enough of gypsies and rides off to the police station, where he returns the stolen money and the lost horse.
- Jerry is in love with Tiny, whose father prefers Bill, who, unknown to him, is a bad man. Tiny is captured by Bill and placed in a deserted cabin. She manages to let Jerry know of her predicament and he determines to use his pet elephants, Ena and Lulu, to rescue the girl. Tiny climbs on the back of one of the elephants, while Jerry gets on the back of the other. They ride into a restaurant, where the elephants start in to do the tango, and then they sit down to their dinner.
- Two I.W.W.'s offer Jerry five dollars if he will deliver a package to the police station. Jerry accepts. The police captain discovers it to be an infernal machine, but before he can cast it away it explodes, wrecking the building and piling the occupants beneath the debris. Jerry witnesses the explosion, appropriates a motorcycle and leaves the scene with the policemen following. On a country road his motor stalls as Bad Bill the outlaw, rides toward him. Jerry quickly starts the machine again, but Bad Bill compels him to stop and makes him change clothes also change the motorcycle for Bill's horse, the Flying Target, so called because it has a sign of a target on its head. Jerry continues his course and meets a stagecoach. The occupants assume him to be the outlaw and throw out their valuables. Jerry picks them up and goes into town. Meanwhile the police are having a hard time with their automobile. Arriving in town, Jerry is surprised to see the loungers scatter as soon as he comes into view. He enters the gambling house and another exodus follows. The stagecoach comes upon the police patrol and the passengers report having been held up by the Flying Target. As Jerry is in the gambling hall Bad Bill enters and demands the return of his clothes. Jerry attempts to escape and the outlaw fires after him, throwing poor Jane into a state of terror. For refuge she crawls under her bed. Jerry rushes upstairs into Jane's room and crawls under the sheets. Bad Bill starts after him. The police patrol arrives. Bad Bill also enters Jane's room and crawls under the sheets where he compels Jerry to change some of his clothes again. The police are frightened and none wants to enter. Straws are drawn and it falls to the captain's lot to lead the way. Jane, in hysterics, comes from under the bed, rushes to the closet and grabs a shotgun with which she covers Bill. Jerry makes his getaway by jumping from the window. The police enter, but they do not recognize Bill as the outlaw until Jane enlightens them. They take him away and inquire about Jerry. A road scene shows him astride his motorcycle riding up the road.
- 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, 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.
- Ethel was to be married and father had figured the expense down to the last cent and really couldn't see how he was to meet it. Those things didn't bother son any and he and his chum helped themselves plentifully to wines and other good things, and were only restrained after father had kicked them out of the kitchen. Uncle John had arrived for the wedding and was temporarily staying away from his club and card games. About this time a burglar scare is started in the neighborhood and the family becomes worried about the wedding presents. George, the son, and Billie, the sister of the bride-to-be, decide to use a novel burglar alarm and go to a nearby store, where they purchase a quantity of flypaper. This they distribute around the house and especially around the wedding presents. Uncle John had wind of a very interesting card game, and while pretending to retire early, in reality he sneaks away to the club. Ethel and Billie retire and all seems peaceful. Uncle John, returning from the club, is held up and his watch, to which was attached his keys, taken by the robber. Rather than disturb the household, Uncle John gains admittance through the window and becomes helplessly entangled in the fly paper. His efforts to release himself arouse George, who, gun in hands, descends the stairs, encountering much flypaper on the way. In the dining room he encounters Uncle John, whom he supposes to be a burglar, and a fight ensues. The noise arouses father, mother, Billie and Ethel, who descend to the dining room. A policeman is attracted and arrives in time to prevent any tragedy. When Uncle John is finally relieved of his fly paper mask, the two youthful geniuses, Billie and George, are severely spanked.
- 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.
- Simpkins and his friend, Jigger, are awakened one morning by the noise of much hammering and shouting. Arising from their soft bed in a fence corner they are surprised to see a small traveling circus getting ready for business nearby. Curiosity leads to the scene. The most attractive object to Simpkins is Nina, daughter of the owner, Bigguts. Simpkins also loses his heart, when Nina gives him more than a friendly look. Then and there he decides to be nearer this charming girl. He asks Bigguts for jobs for himself and Jiggers, and they are employed. Simpkins gives more attention to Nina than to his work. Tonno, the clown and strong man, who is himself in love with Nina, notes this, informs Bigguts, and Simpkins and Jiggers are ordered off the lot. They take refuge in the fence corner; Simpkins in his misery ever sees the face of Nina. Both manage to get into the night show without benefiting the box office. Seated well up in the stands, Simpkins is overjoyed when Nina appears to do her act. A mad rush over the spectators, and he lands in the front row. The disturbed spectators raise a strong protest. Nina, turning to see what the row is about, observes Simpkins. Ah, she loves him! With outstretched arms she goes to him. The people demand her to go on with her act. Bigguts and Tonno rush in and throw Simpkins and Jiggers out. Nina refuses to go on and returns to her dressing-room in tears. Simpkins, who has been wandering around outside, passes Nina's room and hears her sobs. Under the canvas he goes, but his joy is short-lived, for father and mother enter. Father chases Simpkins and they run back into the big tent. Tonno has gone on with his act and has made a failure; spectators hiss him. Into the ring rush Simpkins and father. Simpkins does several stunts while being chased, and is vociferously applauded. Bigguts is amazed at his work and offers him a job at his own price. Simpkins replies the price is Nina. Here Tonno and mother raise a row, but Bigguts accepts the terms. Tonno determines revenge. Simpkins is doing a trapeze turn. Tonno cuts one of the ropes, but does not get out of the way quick enough and Simpkins falls on him and lays him out. His act cut out for the night, Simpkins retires and is met in loving embrace by Nina. Suddenly Simpkins wakes up to find that he has been embracing Jiggers, and it was all a dream.
- 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.
- 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's sympathy is aroused by a blind man who is playing an accordion. He is about to donate to the unfortunate's tin cup when the musician winks an eye and Larry gets suspicious. He informs a policeman about the fakir and as the guardian of the law arrests the beggar Jerry runs off with the accordion. He serenades his sweetheart. The discord of Jerry's singing and the weird sounds of the instrument attract the father and he investigates. At the same time, Hank, the gardener, rushes to remonstrate with Jerry. In the meantime the father has armed himself with a large vase and just as he drops it from a third story window, directed at Jerry's head, Hank appears and he is the target and is knocked unconscious. Jerry tries to revive the stunned man with music from the accordion, but before he has administered much treatment the father has summoned the police and Jerry takes to his feet. His flight carries him to a secluded spot where there is in hiding a band of blackhanders. The "lookout" spies Jerry and at the point of a gun orders him to enter the "shack of mystery." The chief of the band is getting ready to send an anonymous letter to a wealthy merchant and plans are being perfected to install an infernal machine in the man's house. The band decide to force Jerry to carry the letter and the machine to the house. Jerry is astonished when he finds that the merchant is the father of his sweetheart. Urged on by two blackhanders. Jerry arrives at the house. He fights his way past the butler and when he sees his sweetheart he fears for her safety. The father appears and .Jerry hands him the letter. A general mix-up follows and Jerry rushes up stairs and he locks himself in a room with the daughter. Suddenly he remembers that he has a dangerous infernal machine with him and he rushes out to the hall. The father, butler and mother give chase and Jerry, not desiring to injure the girl he loves, runs out of the house, carrying the machine with him. He hurries back to the blackhanders' shack, escaping the police as the two members or the gang who were guarding him are arrested. Gaining an entrance to the shack, Jerry places the machine in front of the chief and starts to run when he is hustled back by the other members of the gang. The chief remembers the hour of the expected explosion and with his henchmen rushes out of the building, leaving Jerry alone. A moment later there is a terrible explosion, the building is blown to pieces and Jerry sent sailing through the air, only to land in the path of the two policemen who are searching for him.
- 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 sees Tilly being chased by, as he supposes, a vicious dog and, seeing a chance to play the hero, he goes to her rescue. The owner of the animal appears and proves that the animal is quite harmless, much to Jerry's chagrin. Tilly and the dog's owner then have the laugh on the disgusted Jerry, who talks to himself and goes through such strange actions that a cop, who has been watching and listening to him, decides he is crazy and starts to take him away. Tilly pleads with the cop to release Jerry, which he finally does. Jerry accompanies Tilly to the house where she is employed as servant and she invites him in and treats him to a glass of beer. Tilly sees one of her admirers, a husky Swede, cooling and hides Jerry under the table. The Swede sits down at the table and helps himself to Jerry's beer. Startled by the approach of someone outside, whom they believe to be the owner of the house, the Swede runs out the back way and Jerry emerges from under the table. The frightened Tilly barely has time to hide him in a clothes basket when Sam, a laborer, enters. The Swede retraces his steps and, finding that the intruder is Sam, throws him down the cellar. His rival thus disposed of he begins to make love to Tilly. Jerry ventures to raise the cover of the basket and look out but is discovered by the Swede, who makes a dash for him but the nimble Jerry is too quick for him and jumps into the dumbwaiter. The Swede, not to be thwarted, runs down the cellar but Jerry hears him coming and jumps into the furnace, which is the only place of refuge in sight. Not wishing to follow him into the furnace the Swede returns to the kitchen, only to be hit on the head with an empty beer bottle by the angry Tilly and knocked unconscious. Sam stars a fire in the furnace and Jerry is forced to crawl up through the pipe. Emerging from the furnace he scares the mother and daughter nearly to death and their screams bring the father, revolver in hand. He fires at Jerry, who being unable to find an exit, dives back into the pipe and falls unconscious on the cellar floor, his clothes on fire. He revives in time to escape the clutches of father, who chases him about the cellar until, somewhat blinded by the smoke from Jerry's clothes, the father runs upstairs, thinking Jerry has gone out that way. Jerry, however, jumps out of the window but is seen by the Swede who starts in pursuit. A chase takes place, which ends by the Swede chasing Jerry into a sawmill and on to the roof. Here a fight takes place between the two but Jerry is no match for the husky Swede, who picks him up and throws him into the midst of a bunch of loafers. The Swede is not content with this, but seeing that Jerry is uninjured he takes a chimney and buries it into the crowd, knocking them helter-skelter. Jerry has no trouble in inciting the crowd to capture the Swede and they all pounce upon him while Jerry stands back and applauds. While the fight is raging two policemen are seen coming and the crowd soon scatters headed by Jerry, and the Swede is left to be arrested and taken away by the police. Jerry, laughing in derisive triumph, is seen peering around a post as his enemy, the Swede, is lead protestingly away.
- After a "watery" encounter with a policeman, Jerry receives a note from his sweetheart delivered by her kid brother. He meets the girl, but their tete-a-tete is interrupted by the girl's father and the father's favorite suitor for the girl's hand. When Jerry picks himself up, he meets the girl again, and, with the aid of the kid, they lay plans to elope. The boy is to disguise himself in the girl's clothes and lead the pursuers astray, while the girl, in the boy's clothes, is to meet Jerry and get married. The scheme would have worked if only the kid brother had not been caught trying to go in swimming, and if the minister had not been out of town when the young couple called. Thus it is that Jerry and the girl are forced to go to a hotel, and the landlord tells them there is only one room vacant. Jerry excuses himself with the landlord from occupying his share of the room by declaring that his "little brother" snores. While he is trying to make himself comfortable in the hotel office, Alkali Pete arrives, and at the points of his guns demands a room. In desperation the landlord is forced to give Pete the half of the room occupied by the "kid," and then things happen; Jerry, the girl, Alkali Pete, the girl's father, and the favored suitor, who arrive on the scene, the landlord, and the landlord's wife get into a mixed up running fight, which ends by Jerry and Pete being led off under arrest, and the girl receiving a proper spanking by her father's slipper.
- Whenever anything happens, the police first blame Jerry on general principles and then proceed to find the real culprit. An incident of this kind results in a merry mix-up between Jerry and his enemies, the police, and, when the battle is over, they lead him to the police station. To the great humiliation of the officers, the Captain of Police finds Jerry in the possession of nearly all of the officers' clubs and about a dozen brick-bats. They proceed to put Jerry through the third degree and generally abuse him when they are interrupted by the arrival of an interested old couple who witnessed the altercation between Jerry and the officers. The old folks argue that there is something wrong with Jerry's head and induce the Captain to permit them to take Jerry and have his head examined by a phrenologist. After considerable difficulty, the old couple manage to land Jerry at the phrenologist's door where Jerry, unobserved, manages to create a small riot between the old man and the head examiner, resulting in the arrival of the police and the arrest of the old gentleman. Jerry is escorted into the office where the phrenologist, who in reality is a much wanted military spy, proceeds to hypnotize him, puts his clothes on Jerry and makes him up to resemble the spy, places incriminating papers in Jerry's pockets and makes his escape. The soldiers arrive and arrest Jerry, who is taken before the General at army headquarters. There they search and cross-examine Jerry and find it necessary to handle him in no gentle manner. With the aid of a few handy bottles and some extra fresh pies Jerry subdues his tormentors and makes his departure, only to be intercepted at the gates of the army post by other soldiers, whom he bowls over and makes his escape. Running across the aviation field, Jerry sees an aeroplane which he appropriates and sails away to safety in. In making a landing he accidentally comes upon the head examiner whom he holds up at the point of a gun and marches to the police station. Confident that his capture of the spy will result in his own pardon, Jerry boldly enters the stronghold of his enemies, only to be pounced upon and thrown into a cell.
- Out of work and sorely in need of funds, Jerry sits in a despondent mood on a park bench. He discovers a purse lying on the ground near him and picking it up is delighted to find it filled with money. But unobserved by him, two policemen have watched his action and as he returns to the bench the officers seat themselves beside him, take the purse away, divide the money among themselves, and return the empty pocketbook to Jerry. The perplexing problem of finance now still confronts him so he resolves to try the help want ad column of a newspaper. There he finds an advertisement for a valet and forthwith he hies himself to the address given. Arriving there he is annoyed to find a line of applicants ahead of him. So that he may be the first to interview the prospective employer (who happens to be a count) Jerry starts a free-for-all fight among the applicants. The house detective stops in to quell the noise, ousts the disturbers and when the count announces he is ready to see the applicants, Jerry is the only one left. Of course he gets the job. The Count sends word to friends that he is about to visit them and after ordering Jerry to pack his bag he starts off accompanied by his valet. At the home Jerry becomes smitten with the daughter of the house and tries to flirt with her. She leads him on, passing from one room to another, drawing the curtains after her. Jerry kisses her hand, which she protrudes through the curtains. By way of teaching this persistent young fellow a lesson, the girl then has the butler take her place, so when Jerry hastily pulls aside the curtains he is surprised to find himself in the arms of the butler. Enraged, he strikes at the butler but hits the Count, who has just come upon the scene. Realizing his mistake he rushes away only to rush into the girl's mother. The Count by this time has recovered his senses and through the curtains makes a kick at what he believes is Jerry's form. Instead he strikes the mother. She in turn strikes at Jerry, who ducks just in time to let the Count, who enters through the curtains, have the blow. Attracted by the noise, the father starts toward the scene and is greeted with a flying vase from the hands of the Count which was intended for Jerry, who runs away with the Count after him. The chase leads to the bathroom where Jerry causes the Count to have an involuntary bath, and then out to the street where Jerry climbs a telegraph pole with the Count pursuing. There they dangle until two policemen who see the unusual spectacle from a distance come up and drag them down. The butler, who has innocently helped cause the trouble, laughs as the two disturbers are carried away to a safer zone.
- 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 is unable to pay his rent and after the landlady has made her 'steenth demand he shows no uneasiness but smiles as she turns away. A moment later Jerry is confronted by the husky husband of the woman, who immediately starts action to throw the non-paying roomer out of the house. As they wrestle all over the room, Jerry backs Hank close to a window and in a flash the top-heavy is flying through the space to the street below. Two cops see Hank land on the sidewalk and then see Jerry laughing from a window above. They hurry to the scene, assist Hank and then decide to "get" Jerry. One guardian of the law enters Jerry's room but is sent sprawling to the floor by a well directed blow and remains prone in a semi-conscious condition as Jerry wraps a blanket about his head. Jerry tries to make his escape from the room but is cut off by the arrival of another policeman, Hank and the landlady. He rushes back to the room and hides. The stunned cop recovers and starts for the door, only to be knocked flat by a rolling pin brought down on his head by the landlady who believed that it was Jerry coming out. During the uproar which follows, Jerry makes his escape and finds a haven in the park. He comes across pretty Josie, who is brooding because of the rude attentions of a strange man, and Jerry consoles her. Friendship ripens and Jerry is invited to the young woman's home, gets in bad there when he strikes the young woman's father during a mix-up with the butlers, and while attempting to get out of the path of the infuriated father, he comes across two crooks who are about to blow the old man's safe. Jerry hides and awaits results. Hank has followed Jerry and as he is prowling around the house, Jerry sees him. Suddenly there is an explosion and a strong box containing a large amount of money flies through the air and lands in Hank's hands. The crooks, frightened, disappear. The police are attracted and as they arrive at the scene, Jerry grabs Hank and the money box and calls for help. Father, Josie and the cops arrive and Jerry turns Hank over to the police, as the would-be safe blower, and he gallantly hands the treasured strong box to the father. As the innocent Hank is taken away, Jerry is summoned by the gleeful father, who seats his daughter on one knee and Jerry on the other, to join their hands while he indicates he will give his consent to their marriage and likewise access to the box containing the wealth.
- 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 dreams that because he has not paid his rent his landlord has fastened him to a fence and has thrown knives at him, which come within an inch of taking his life. He awakens with a start and finds Hank, the landlord, rapping at the door. Not receiving money, the landlord throws Jerry across the hall through a door and across a room into the lap of a woman. The woman's husband finds Jerry in this position and throws a pitcher at the intruder,, but misses him. The pitcher strikes Hank, knocking him down. Soon a fight is going on between Hank and the husband. The police take the belligerents away, but they escape by throwing the officers into a pond. Jerry proceeds to make love to Tiny. When Hank returns and demands admittance to Jerry's room, Jerry and Tiny hide in Jerry's trunk. Hank breaks down the door and, hearing the noise in the trunk, throws it out of the window. It just misses a policeman. The trunk turns over and proceeds from whence it came. Hank hears the trunk coming back and starts after Jerry, who darts out of a window, pursued by the policeman. He eludes him and hides under a dummy figure in front of a pawn shop. The policeman stands beside the dummy. Jerry kicks him and the policeman strikes at the dummy and knocks off its head. Jerry, in the figure, runs off. He makes his way into a barroom, where one of the terrified customers throws a hatchet, which lands where Jerry's head ought to be. Jerry then raids a crap game and then returns to Tiny. Hank is making love to Tiny and dives out of the window when he sees the headless object. Tiny faints, but Jerry revives her and then removes his dummy figure to prove that all is well. Jerry is now free to carry on his love-making unmolested.
- 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 is in love with a girl whose father owns an antique shop and who is deeply in debt. The old man hates Jerry and wants his daughter to marry his bookkeeper. He relies greatly on the bookkeeper to rescue him from his financial difficulties and in order to bind him to his cause, he compels the girl to agree to marry him. In furtherance of his plan he commands her to write a letter to Jerry breaking off their engagement. Jerry receives the letter and, heartbroken, decides on suicide, but not having nerve enough to do the deed himself, he visits a professional murderer and makes a contract with him to kill him on sight. He then repents his bargain and is kept busy dodging his executioner. In the meantime the bookkeeper puts up a scheme in the shape of an auction sale and sends confidential telegrams to various wealthy people to buy everything marked with a double cross, as these things are very valuable. The girl, believing in the fake, meets Jerry and giving him some money tells him to buy double-cross articles also and they go towards the store. On the way, Jerry again falls in with the murderous gentleman and after a brief skirmish succeeds in landing him in the hands of a policeman. When they reach the store, the auction is about over, only one marked piece remaining, a large vase. Jerry buys it and then, after the money has been paid over, the bookkeeper gives him the laugh and explains the fake. Jerry hits the bookkeeper over the head with the vase, the vase is broken and among the pieces a roll of bills amounting to $10,000 is discovered. Thus Jerry and the girl are made independent and the bookkeeper loses out.
- Their business of detecting having been nil, Luke Sharpe and his assistant, Jim, are entirely without funds and are about to be ejected from their lodgings when a telegram from a neighboring chief of police arrives calling them into case. The message says that E.Z Marks, his wife and daughter are on a train bound for the famous Hot Springs and that in their wake follows Slim Pete and his wife, noted jewel thieves, who are intent upon purloining some precious stones which Marks carries in his trunk. Luke and Jim are instructed to capture the thieves. The telegram reassuring the landlady that her rent will be forthcoming Luke and Jim are again happy and start on their mission. They disguise themselves as baggage smashers and go to the depot to meet the train on which the diamond thieves and their prospective victims are scheduled to arrive. Luke and Jim place themselves prominently in evidence when Pete and the Marks arrive and obtain from them the checks for their baggage, promising to bring the trunks to the hotel. After a series of difficult maneuvers they get the trunks into the hallway of the hotel just outside of the owner's rooms, and an ambitious and tip-loving porter carries them inside. Unintentionally he mixes them since the trunks look exactly alike, so that the Marks get Slim Pete's trunk, and vice versa. Luke has suspected Marks of being Slim Pete and he takes the rich man to the baths to make certain of his suspicions. They prove unfounded, however, and Luke starts out to find another clue. He peeks through the key-hole of one of the doors and catches a man in the act of disguising himself with false whiskers. Of course he conjectures that the unknown man is Slim Pete, and he hurries to the hotel lobby to announce to the assembled guests that he is about to capture the notorious crook and his wife. Meanwhile the real Slim Pete and his wife have not been idle. They enter Marks' room, take the trunk they find laying there, have it placed in an automobile and while away with it till they reach the country. Upon stopping to open it, however, they discover they have been tricked for the trunk they have is their own. Luke and Jim, in the hotel lobby, are anxiously waiting behind big marble pillars for the bewhiskered man and his wife to leave their room. As they are seen to approach the assembled group holds its breath. Luke makes a flying leap, captures the man, and Jim gathers in the lady. The joy of capture is short-lived, for the man soon proves himself a detective and Luke and Jim are ejected from the place to the tune of rapidly striking boots.
- 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.
- The Newlyweds' peaceful household is thrown into happy excitement by the announcement that their rich uncle John has decided to accept their invitation to a dinner given in honor of his birthday. Uncle John is an extremely nervous and fussy old gentleman, but his wealth makes it imperative for his nephews and nieces to court him. Another nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Wise, had bidden for Uncle John's company on his birthday at their house, but he refuses them to attend the Newlyweds. The Newlyweds' cook is a regular cook and has a cop for a sweetheart. When Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed go to the opera, the cook entertains her boy in blue. When the Newlyweds return home, the sounds of mirth and loud laughter coming from the kitchen attract their attention, and upon peeking through the window, Mr. Newlywed is surprised and indignant to find the cook and the cop with many empty beer bottles about enjoying a high jinks. Mr. Newlywed and his wife enter the kitchen and after ejecting the guardian of the law, begin to lecture the cook. She leaves next morning. No cook and Uncle John's birthday dinner that night. Mr. Newlywed decides to prepare the dinner himself since it is quite out of the question for his wife to do so, since she has never learned the culinary art. Mr. Newlywed, however, has not reckoned on the revenge of tho cook who before she left mixed salt and sulfur, wine and vinegar and in all ways possible messed things up. Mr. Newlywed proceeds with the dinner and by six o'clock all looks well. Uncle John arrives, his temper slightly riled by stumbling over the dog. To add to his discomfort the Wises run in to greet him. The Newlyweds are also disconcerted for fear the dinner, adequate for three, may not prove sufficient for five. They decide to make the best of it and the Wises are invited to stay. After much fuss and worry Mr. Newlywed eventually gets dinner ready. The guests, meanwhile, have gone into the garden and Mr. Wise trips over the hose, getting his hands dirty. He washes them at the hose which he leaves running. The family all seat themselves and dinner is started. The sweetened salt and the vinegar flavored wine play havoc, and to add to their panic a tramp enters the kitchen door and steals the roast turkey. The ejected cop passing the Newlywed house sees the hose running and taking advantage of the city ordinance proceeds to arrest Mr. Newlywed for watering his lawn outside of hours. The cook has softened towards her former employers and decides to return. She enters the dining room as her lover is about to drag Mr. Newlywed away. She remonstrates and Mr. Newlywed is freed. The Wises retire in bad order, and as the cook embraces Uncle John the Newlyweds are again happy.
- Jerry and his boon companion Hank are in dire straits. The room rent is due, their hunger is unappeased, and they have not a "jitney" between them. Jerry, always full of ideas, suggests that they may at least get something to eat by the simple expedient of a free lunch counter. The barkeep doesn't mind donating one sandwich, but to supply a feast, never. So Jerry and Hank are thrown out of the place. At this juncture Wild Ike comes along. Bloodthirsty, he shoots up everybody and everything in sight. Unfortunately for Jerry and Hank they walk in his line of vision, but a rain of bullets prompts them to beat a hasty retreat. Wild Ike, now thoroughly aroused, pursues. They seek shelter in their rooms but the landlady becomes so pestiferous in her demands for rent that they flee to the woods. At one of the outposts they see a sign offering $500 reward for the capture of Wild Ike. A happy idea strikes them. Jerry is to make up as Wild Ike. Hank will turn him over to the sheriff as the genuine bandit, and Hank will collect the reward and split fifty-fifty with his co-conspirator. Ike, who has been wandering about, steals upon the plotters, overhears their plans and decides its a good one. He makes Jerry trade clothes with him and with visions of getting the reward himself escorts Jerry to the sheriff's office after blowing up Hank so that there will be no interference. But Ike failed to consider Hank's recuperative powers and just as he is collecting the $500 Hank rushes in, exposes the job, has Ike locked up, and with Jerry takes in the $500.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Father disapproves of Jerry's attentions to his daughter, his choice being a dapper youth for whom daughter cares not, and when he finds the young couple engaged in a spooning bee, he expresses himself rather forcibly on the point of his wishes. But Jerry is not to be turned away so lightly and when father, daughter and the favored suitor go automobiling, Jerry goes along undetected by hiding under the front seat. Two policemen decide to take a little dip. So do father and his protégé, Jerry, coming from his hiding place, suggests a ride in a rowboat with daughter. But a policeman decides otherwise and Jerry is left ashore alone. Disappointed, he wanders through the brush surrounding the lake. He stumbles across the clothes which father and Jerry's rival have divested and left unguarded. These he picks up and drops in father's auto standing nearby. Two tramps beg him for alms. His sympathies touched Jerry not only gives them father's wallet but the two bathers' raiment and besides, invites them to call at father's home promising them a job in father's bank. Again going through the brush Jerry spies the discarded uniforms of the swimming officers. He has a happy idea. Gathering up the uniforms he carries the bundle away to the spot where father's and the lover's clothes were hidden. Then retracing his steps he takes the old rags left behind by the tramps in favor of the superior outfit of father and his companion and places them in the spot where he found the officers' uniforms. When the bathers come from the water they are amazed at the costumes before them. There being no alternative father and friend make the best of the officers' uniforms, while the officers clad themselves in the tramps' patches. Coming upon the policemen Jerry explains that father and friend are the guilty men and they lose no time in rounding up and sending the two innocent ones to jail. Meanwhile Jerry goes to father's home. The tramps call. Jerry wines and dines them. In jail father and his friend are bemoaning their fate when a friend, who is visiting the prison, recognizes them and explains matters to the desk sergeant, who releases them. Arriving home they find Jerry and the tramps in the midst of an hilarious session, which is soon stopped and the disturbers turned over to the authorities. Needless to say Jerry's prospects for daughter's hand are at an end.
- Jerry decides he will discontinue the companionship of Slim and shoulder life's burden single handed. While the latter slumbers Jerry packs the combined wardrobe of the "firm" and attempts to make his exit by way of the window by means of a rope. But Slim is awakened by the noise. For a moment Slim watches the progress of Jerry and then decides to call him back. Halfway down the rope, Jerry is interrupted by his slender companion, who demands that Jerry return. The latter, showing no such desire. Slim cuts the rope and sends Jerry sprawling on the ground. Jerry, however, runs off. But Slim is soon after him. Jerry's flight is interrupted by a policeman, who becomes suspicious of him. Jerry is arguing with the cop when Slim arrives and soon the policeman is the target for a volley of blows directed at Jerry by Slim, Jerry neatly ducking each blow to finally run off, leaving the other two in a brawl. Jerry secludes himself in a nearby barn. He has scarcely hid himself when Zowie and Blouie, two "black hand" artists, enter the barn, one carrying a huge bundle of money and the other a suitcase. They spread the bills about and count it, while Jerry looks on. As Blouie and Zowie are about to place the money in the suitcase, Slim opens the door, sees what is going on and gets in unnoticed. The "money men" make their exit, thereby causing Jerry and Slim to come face to face once more. Another clash between the two is the outcome of the meeting, Slim coming out on top to hurry after the men with the money. Jerry soon falls in line behind the trio, this being unknown to Slim, Zowie or Blouie. The journey brings the four to a wood, where Jerry hides from view, as does Slim, while the two plant their suitcase of money. A moment later a powerful explosive is placed in the suitcase and the money removed by the mysterious Bill and Jim, dealers in explosives, unseen by Jerry or Slim, who are backing up to get the money. Jerry arrives first, replaces the suitcase containing the explosive with his own and hurries off, believing that he has made an easy fortune. Slim at last detects the suitcase that Jerry left, and, thinking it is the one left by Zowie and Blouie, is delighted as he walks off with it. Slim sights a restaurant and decides to treat himself to a royal dinner. Satisfying his desire, Slim opens the suitcase to pay for the food and is knocked speechless when, instead of money, he finds an old shirt and collar and two bricks. He is thrown out. Jerry arrives upon the scene in time to see Slim have the finishing touches administered. He is about to enter the food shop when Slim spies him and, believing Jerry has the suitcase with the money, he starts after him. The two race with Jerry leading easily until they finally come to the water's edge. Seeing no escape other than the water or on board of a liner which is about to depart, Jerry rushes up the gang-plank, bowls over the members of the crew who attempt to stop him and hides. Slim is a moment too late to make the ship, so he hails a couple of men in a small boat, tells the story of the suitcase of money and induces them to follow the liner. Jerry, seeing them coming, makes fruitless efforts to open the suitcase, and as Slim and the others come up a rope ladder on the side of the ship, Jerry plunges overboard and reaches the shore in safety, just as Slim and the others open the suitcase, causing an explosion which sends the liner to the bottom.
- Jerry is in love with Peggy. Her father objects to his courtship and favors a foreign gentleman, who hears the title of count. Peggy's birthday arrives, and the Count sends her a beautiful bouquet. Jerry is financially unable to send her a suitable present, but chances on an auction where unclaimed freight of an express company is being sold. He buys a trunk filled with silks and furs. From an absent-minded spectator he procures the necessary money to pay for his purchase, and hastens away to get an express man to deliver the package. While he is gone the trunks, of which there are several, are accidentally switched, and into an empty trunk a boozy individual falls and decides it is a good place for a nap. The wrong trunk is delivered to the girl's house. Jerry seeks safety in flight. At the corner he meets a motor cop, and seizing a motorcycle dashes away. Father summons the police. Eventually dashing down a hill Jerry sees before him a small shack marked "Powder House, Danger!" Unable to curb his speed he dashes through the walls. There is an explosion and Jerry volplanes through the air, eventually falling through the roof of the police station and landing on the sergeant's desk. They find that the individual in the trunk is not dead but merely intoxicated. The sergeant, in sampling the deadly carbolic acid, finds that it is merely Bourbon. Jerry makes love to the girl. Father discovers them in an embrace and vows vengeance as the picture fades.
- Disconsolate, with only Pete, his old-time chum, for companionship, Jerry reads of the recent wedding of a man to a millionairess, effected through a newspaper want ad. To him comes the thought that he might be able to put through a similar deal. Jerry writes an ad calling for a beautiful wife, accomplished and affectionate, and clearly states he has no objection to one of wealth. Jerry selects the picture of Marie as his prospective bride and wires her to come. Marie joins Jerry and together they go to a minister. Jerry offers his stamps for his fee. The ceremony is about to be performed when the clergyman demands Marie's eugenic certificate. They agree to visit the Eugenic Bureau. Marie is put through a severe test that results in her rejection by the physician. She departs for the railroad station to return to her home, while Jerry decides that matrimony is a pretty tough proposition.
- Jerry continues to woo the daughter of a millionaire, despite the objections of the parent. The father determines to put an end to the courting and summons the police. The presence of the policeman does not bother Jerry, but it causes a heated argument between the father and the persistent wooer, and when the guardian of the law attempts to interfere he is knocked unconscious by his own club, of which Jerry gains possession. Other policemen are attracted and they arrest Jerry and the millionaire. At the jail Jerry manages to get hold of another club, and as he is about to be cast into a cell he brings the club down on the keeper's head and manages to escape, after locking the father in a cell. Jerry appropriates the use of a patrol wagon to himself and drives off again to woo the girl. He comes across some men who are enjoying themselves at archery. Interested, Jerry happens to get in the way of the flying arrows and arouses the indignation of the sportsmen. They kick Jerry about and then start to fight among themselves regarding the manner of scoring the shots which struck the intruder. In the meantime Jerry grabs several bows and some arrows and escapes. As Jerry arrives at his sweetheart's home, he sees the father coming along. Jerry drives his patrol wagon behind the house and prepares a note for the girl, which he attaches to one of the arrows. Attracting her attention by whistling, he is about to shoot the arrow with the note to her when the father is attracted. The millionaire starts out of the house in a hurry to get Jerry, but he is held off by a volley of arrows. Jerry sends the note to the girl through the air, and it is a proposal of elopement. The girl makes a rope of the bed clothing, lets herself down from the second floor and with Jerry starts off in the patrol wagon for a minister. The father telephones the police, who hurry from the station house to respond to the call, but they are astonished when they discover that their patrol wagon is gone. As they hurry to the millionaire's home by foot, Jerry and the girl are speeding away, and they make their escape along the road to happiness without further interference.
- Mr. Goodrich, Mrs. Goodrich and their daughter, Jessie, arrive in a small western town just as a bad man is shooting up the place. Dead Shot Dick enters and protects the easterners. Dead Shot Dick is a gunman at loggerheads with the law's forces. Sheriff Gunning posts a notice offering a reward of $1,000 for his capture. Dick sees the notice and compels the sheriff to eat it. As monarch over all he surveys, Dick has no hesitancy in interrupting the spooning match of Jessie and Jerry, the latter having made quite a hit with the pretty easterner. Jerry is peeved and sets out for revenge. The Goodriches leave for home and invite Dick to visit them. Dick accepts and arrives in the east a few days later with Jerry on his trail. Both pay marked attention to Jessie. Dick orders Jerry out of the way. Jerry refuses and in the tilt that follows the lordly one is vanquished. The doctor is called to attend Dick. In the midst of the treatment Dick revives, grabs his brace of six shooters, and shoots up the room, Jerry, coming in for an extraordinary share of attention in commemoration of past performances. Dick compels him to swap clothes, then continues on his rampage. At the opportune moment Jerry, who has followed, applies a club to the head of Dick, who falls into dreamland. In Dick's pocket Jerry finds a copy of the notice offering the $1,000 reward for Dick's capture. With visions of the big reward, Jerry ties a rope to the ankles of the gunman, drags him to jail and turns him over to the authorities, who pay the $1,000. The sight of the $1,000 leaving his hands is too much for the judge, however, and he arrests Jerry on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, convicts him, deprives him of his hard-earned reward and then puts him in a cell with Dick.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jerry ducks his room rent once too often. He is ordered from the boarding house. In attempting to get away with his baggage he drops his trunk on a policeman's head and bumps into the landlady on his exit. He raises the price of a hotel room by exercising his wits in a barroom. He engages a room in a fashionable hostelry. He starts for the bathroom, attired in pajamas, and invades a room occupied by a newly married couple. He rushes to cover in a bathroom where he meets an old man who falls in a faint. He administers illuminating gas while he gets into his clothes. Escaping via fire escape, he runs into an interesting adventure with a squad of poker playing policemen, who catch him and put him in jail.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- Jerry is living in a theatrical boarding house, where everybody, including himself, is in debt to the landlady. The landlady is going right after her collections in regulation "strong arm" style, and the boarders are resorting to every device known to escape from her clutches with their belongings. Jerry is not slow in his methods of making a getaway, but has hard luck in carrying them out. He finally gets into a mix-up with the landlady, the janitor and a policeman, but after a whirlwind scramble upstairs and downstairs, through second story windows and back doors, up and down ladders and ropes made of bedsheets, he succeeds in distancing his pursuers and escapes up an alley with his trunk.
- Jerry is seated in the railway station waiting for his train, when a woman approaches him and asks that he hold her baby for a few minutes. Jerry does her the favor. The minutes, however, stretch into a long period of time, and getting tired of his job, Jerry places the baby in a basket which has been placed on the bench beside him by two crooks. Thinking his troubles are over Jerry starts to leave, when a colored woman asks him if he would mind her baby for a few minutes while she goes in search of her husband. Again Jerry hasn't the heart to refuse. The first mother returns, and takes the colored baby from Jerry believing it to be her own. It is wrapped in covers, and she does not open them. The train on which this mother's husband is due to arrive pulls into the station. The husband knows Jerry, and urges him to come along to his home. Jerry refuses the invitation and thanks him, but the husband insists, and Jerry is forcibly carried away. Meantime the crooks have taken away the basket containing the white baby, and are now out on the high road on their way to the scene of their next job. The colored woman returns to the station to claim her baby, and finds Jerry and her baby gone. She screams, bringing a policeman to her side. She explains her plight to him, and he advises her to go to the police station. Arriving home, the husband lifts the cover from the baby's face. Consternation reigns when he discovers that they have the wrong baby. The mother explains that Jerry had been entrusted with their baby, and that any mistake is due to his carelessness. The father starts after Jerry, but he is nimble of foot and gets out of harm's way. A lively chase follows, Jerry is finally caught and led to the police station. The two couples meet at the station, and while they are trying to thrash out matters the crooks enter with the white baby. They had discovered the nature of their burden, and have returned to turn it over to the police. Matters :are then adjusted, and the picture closes with Jerry crooning to the mite of humanity he is permitted to hold in his arms, this time under the watchful eye of the baby's parents.
- Jerry from the top of a tree is making love to his girl at the window opposite. A policeman interferes and is put to sleep when Jerry falls on him. Jerry appropriates his clothes and enters his girl's home, arrests her father, who has been peppering him with a gun, and has him sent to the police station. Jerry gets his autoped and starts with the daughter for a ride. In the country they are discovered by Bad Bill and his outlaws. They take Jerry and the girl to a cabin where a fight ensues as to who shall have possession of the girl. It is finally decided that the bandits shall draw cards. Jerry objects and is locked in the attic. He escapes by climbing down the wall. Entering the cabin, he crawls along the floor, frisks the bandits' guns from their holsters and makes the bandits back against the door. Meanwhile the policeman has recovered consciousness and with his brother officers starts on Jerry's trail. They arrive at the cabin as Jerry is about to flee. The girl's father has also been released and comes upon the scene in a motor car. A melee follows, but Jerry escapes with the girl and jumping into father's car compels the chauffeur to depart. Father and the police follow in the police motor patrol. Divining the route Jerry will take, the police use a short cut. The machines collide at a fork in the road, with a loud report, followed by splinters and debris flying high in the air. Jerry wakes, having fallen off the park bench which he was using for a bed. Finding himself intact he lies down again, covers himself with paper and is soon fast asleep.
- Jerry has boarded a freight and has successfully secluded himself from the watchful train crew. He is about to alight at a station when the town constable detects him. There is no way of escape and as he is about to give up, a bright idea comes to Jerry. He has with him a big roll of stage money and with it he bribes the "law." Making for the town tavern, Jerry believes that he can fool the man behind the bar with his fake money. Meanwhile, the constable gathers his cronies together and as they make merry the bartender discovers that the bill handed him by the guardian of the law is a fake. A fight results and in the mix-up Jerry escapes. In his wild dash for liberty Jerry comes across a settlement of moonshiners. He hides until all are out of sight, excepting the pretty daughter of one of the band. A flirtation follows and the girl accepts Jerry's advances. Soon the mother appears and the girl, frightened, runs away while Jerry is looking in another direction. The mother takes her place, as Jerry continues his scene, unaware that the girl has left. The father arrives upon the scene to find a strange man making love to his wife. Jerry sneaks off, reaches the cabin, and is admitted by the girl, but, fearing her father's anger, she induces Jerry to hide in the attic. The moonshiners join the father in the hunt for the stranger, but the girl will not betray her new flame. The angry men start firing off their revolvers in every direction and several bullets pierce the ceiling, one of which smashes a bottle of wine which Jerry is drinking. The liquor leaks through a crack in the floor and drips to the floor below, divulging Jerry's hiding place. The moonshiners rush upstairs, but as they show their heads above the flooring, Jerry greets them with bottle after bottle, well aimed. Revenue officers who are searching for the moonshiners are attracted by the shooting. Jerry sees them from a window and decides to escape, when, noticing the constable with them, changes his mind and comes downstairs, and, after a small riot manages to get out of the cabin, only to run into the arms of of the revenue officers. To save himself, Jerry offers to show them the way to the moonshiners' camp. His invitation is accepted, and the revenue men capture the moonshiners and the father. As they are led away, Jerry shows pleasure, believing that he will be left to woo the pretty daughter, but the constable recognizes Jerry as the man who gave him the bad money and a moment later our hero is also a prisoner. Jerry and the captives are chained together and carried away, while the daughter and mother tramp along behind, weeping bitterly.
- 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.
- Flirtatious Jerry "makes a mash on" pretty Gladys while both are viewing a billboard displaying handsome posters of Julius Caesar, advertised for production in a ten-twent'-thirt' house. Particularly impressed is Jerry with the resemblance of the picture of a beautiful Roman maiden to Gladys. Agreeing to meet again, they separate, Gladys for home, Jerry for a nap, which he proceeds to enjoy in a straw-filled packing case he finds in a nearby alley and (as it must happen for always-getting-into-trouble Jerry) alongside the cache of a lot of loot hidden there by a couple of burglars. Jerry dreams he is a Roman emperor and that he and Gladys are having a great time, winding up with his slaves putting him to bed in the royal chamber. It is this handling of him, the patting of the royal bedclothes about him, that wakes him, and be discovers that someone is really handling him, for a couple of policemen are putting handcuffs on him, believing him to be the burglar they are looking for. This is not the end, however. He proves an alibi, his release, and joins in the search of the cracksmen. Then follows some thrilling as well as comical scenes. Jerry discovers the robbers' den, valiantly attacks them; they knock him unconscious, set fire to the place, and escape. Jerry revives when a flood of water is poured on him from the firemen's hose, and the instant he escapes from the building there is a terrible explosion caused by combustibles in it. Jerry keeps going after the crooks, gets them; the loot is recovered; it had been stolen from Gladys' home, and Jerry makes himself solid.
- Jerry goes to sleep while driving his flivver, is arrested and fined, but having no money the judge holds his car. Jerry appropriates the constable's motorcycle and makes his get-away, and is chased by the representatives of the law. The chase ends disastrously for Jerry, but lands him in the midst of a complicated scheme of the villain to elope with the daughter of the judge. The villain has robbed the judge's safe, but Jerry succeeds in foiling the villain and stopping the elopement.
- Jerry is making preparations to be married, when, through a strong case of mistaken identity, he is led to believe his sweetheart faithless. Driven to desperation, he determines upon suicide. He tries several "routes" to oblivion by train, revolver, gas, and hanging, but all proving unsuccessful. He at last decides upon carbolic acid. Just as he is about to take the bottle from the shelf the telephone bell rings, and, his attention being diverted for the moment, he takes gasoline by mistake. The telephone call is from his sweetheart, who has just received his farewell note. When Jerry answers the phone he realizes his mistake, but, alas, it is too late. However, while there's life there's hope, and a doctor's office being near, Jerry makes an appointment to meet his intended there, and both rush off to keep it. Dashing through the line of the doctor's other patients, Jerry reaches the inner office, and begs for help. Deciding upon heroic measures, the physician lays Jerry upon the operating table, and inserting a tube in Jerry's throat he applies a match and soon relieves the situation, also Jerry's stomach. Then, a minister being among the patients, he is called into service, and, Jerry having his license, the ceremony is duly performed and everybody is happy.