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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.
- Tiny's father objects to Jerry's suit for his daughter's hand, and orders the butler to throw Jerry from the premises. In the melee the butler strikes the father and is discharged. Thereupon father 'phones a detective agency intending to ask them to send him a detective to watch Jerry, a maid to watch Tiny, and a butler to serve his household. But the detective agency's manager is too busy making love to his stenographer to answer the 'phone, so father writes the agency a note. Jerry sees him putting the note in the post office, extracts it therefrom, and after gleaning father's message decides to put a new scheme into being. Jerry visits his friends, Tom and Dick, and prevails upon Tom to dress as a detective and Dick to dress as a butler, while Jerry himself dresses as a maid. Thus dressed the three repair to Tiny's home. When they arrive father is commanding Tiny to be "nice" to Hank, his favorite suitor for his daughter's hand. Jerry seeing this contrives to separate Tiny from him. He succeeds and follows Tiny to her room, accompanied by Tom and Dick. Jerry tells Tiny that he and his friends are movie actors, and that they will be glad to stage a scene for her delectation. Their acting, however, causes a lot of racket in the house, and father and Hank hurry to Tiny's room to learn the trouble. Seeing they are about to be caught in a trap, for Jerry has lost his wig in the acting scene, they scatter just as father and Hank break in. Seeing the deception that has been practiced upon him father gets his shot-gun. A lively time follows, but Jerry and his friends are fortunate beings and escape, the picture closing with a scene of Jerry rushing down the road, his footfalls beating an accompaniment to a rainfall of bullets.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tired of his irksome jail sentence Jerry contrives a clever scheme by which he eludes two guards and escapes after an interesting chase. At last in safety he sits down for a rest. Two Indians approach and make him captive. He is brought before Chief Pain-in-the-Face who decrees that he shall die. The Chief's daughter, Moonlight Princess, falls in love with Jerry at first sight and successfully pleads with her father for his life. She is told to have him painted and dressed like an Indian and she may marry him. Thus arrayed and bound Jerry is about to give up all hope when a professor of natural history, endeavoring to buy an Indian to accompany him on a lecture tour, arrives and negotiates the purchase of Jerry. The prisoner is overjoyed at the prospect of release, but not so with the Princess, who is taken struggling and protesting to her tent. Jerry is taken to the professor's home that night and left alone in the library while the professor goes on an errand. The other occupants of the house, the professor's son, his daughters and his housekeeper, are asleep. Jerry makes himself thoroughly at home and is enjoying himself immensely when the Princess, who has followed, bursts in upon him. A racket follows, the household is awakened, and there is an exodus from the rooms of the members of the family. The Princess chases Jerry from room to room, startling the professor's bewildered daughters and housekeeper into hysterics. The son, however, more collected, calls for the police, who arrive at the same time as the professor. Jerry is immediately recognized by the officers, exposed as an impostor, and again taken into custody, much to his delight after his experience with the Princess.
- 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, 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 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.
- 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.
- George's sporty ways at college are opposed by his father. George decides to go home for a visit and invites Harry, his chum, to accompany him, but commands Harry to taboo the sporty clothes and be introduced to his father as a minister's son. Harry agrees and dons a ministerial appearing suit. Father is so pleased with the sanctified appearance of his son's chum that he almost forgives George's bad record at school. An unlooked-for element, however, crops up in the form of George's sister, whose reading of novels has inflamed her mind with a longing for a masterful and powerful lover. Harry apparently being anything but that type, fails to excite any interest at all. Shortly after the boys arrive, the neighborhood is startled to learn of a wild man being at large in the vicinity. Billie, George's sister, at once proclaims that she could love a man like that. This gives the boys an idea. Harry is to disguise as a wild man, capture Billie by rough means and cure her of her wild desires. Harry disguises in skins and a beard and capturing the unfortunate Billie, forces her to prepare and cook a meal for him. Later her brother, disguised as a wild man and holding her in servitude, is worsted and beaten by Harry. Billie is carried away by Harry. She acknowledges him a hero. The next day Billie discovers the skins and beard and sees she has been duped. About this time, the real wild man having been shot at by an old farmer is skulking in the vicinity of Billie's home. As she comes away angry, the real wild man pounces and attempts to force her to go with him. She, thinking it was another bluff, resists. Harry, who is discouraged with his failure, decides to return to his own home. As he is leaving he sees Billie struggling with the wild man. He rescues her and is thereafter a real hero.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Jerry is a "movie" actor making pictures on a farm. Jerry spots the farmer's daughter and proceeds to flirt. Hank, while professing love for the farmer's daughter "falls" for the leading lady. She repels Hank. He becomes enraged when he sees Jerry making love to his girl. Hank's jealousy finds expression in a fast fist fight. Hank is fired by the farmer, but Jerry promises him a job in a movie company provided he will drive him to town. Hank agrees, but insists that his girl elope with him. They leave for the city. Hank and the daughter take rooms in a tenement. Jerry calls on daughter during Hank's absence and she cries for food. Hank returns with sandwiches. Jerry hides under the table; a cough betrays him, and Hank opens fire with a big revolver. Police are attracted by the shots and Hank is jailed, while Jerry offers his protection to the daughter. The whole action is just a few scenes of a picture in the making. The camera is rolled back, showing the director congratulating the cast for their good work.
- While strolling down the street, Amos meets Betty, who induces him to join her, as she is going to a meeting of the anti-tipping society. He is made president and wears a badge which reads, "I Don't Tip." On his way to the barber shop Amos meets his old friend, Dave, who laughs at the badge. He has a terrible time in the barber chair, barely escaping alive, as the barber reads an item in the paper to the effect that Amos is president of the anti-tipping society. From there he goes to the restaurant, where he can't get the waiters to wait on him, as they too have read the item. He kicks the waiter and rushes out to the check room to get his coat. The check boy gets even by slipping him the wrong coat, which happens to be Dave's. Amos is arrested for stealing Dave's coat and has to tip the Judge to let him off. He writes Betty a letter telling her that he is the victim of foul play at the hands of Dave and will be up to see her to explain. Betty and Dave are walking along and Betty sees a cat which she would love to have, so Dave decides to get it for her. The owner of the cat ties a string around its neck and places it on the porch. A tramp comes along and steals it. He meets Dave, who buys the cat for Betty and brings it to her. The owner of the cat misses it and she and a policeman trace it to Betty's home. Dave is arrested and once more Amos and Betty are happily reunited.
- 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.
- Wild Bill, an inmate of Prof. Nutt's asylum, weary of confinement, escapes detention by climbing down the side of the building wall. His actions, once he has gained freedom, are unconventional and terrorize the peaceful citizens of the city in which the Nutt institution is located. Bill reaches the Littleford mansion and peers through one of the windows. The contortions of his face as it is pressed against the glass frightens pretty Evelyn almost into hysterics and she calls to her father for help. Littleford. to protect his daughter against possible harm, phones to Luke Sharpe, the human bloodhound, and enlists his services to catch Bill, offering him a reward of $5,000. Seeing a chance to make money easily and quickly, Sharpe returns to his rooms and has Jiggers, his aide, make-up as Bill. He orders Jiggers to meet him at the Littleford home, to which he precedes the impostor. After he has made his little speech about catching the terror, Sharpe goes to the door to bring in Jiggers. That worthy, however, is late. Bill, the real quarry, is seen climbing through the window of the house next door and Sharpe, believing him to be Jiggers, crosses the lawn and goes after him. Once face to face with Bill. Sharpe sees that he has a madman to deal with, and makes an ineffectual effort to escape. Meantime Jiggers has arrived and enters the Littleford home via the window. Making himself perfectly at home, he jauntily stalks into the room where Evelyn is taking a nap. She awakens at his strokes over her hand, screams and brings upon the scene her father, who is armed with a revolver. Littleford chases Jiggers, who rushes from the room and hides behind a chair. Littleford sees Bill in the house on the other side of the areaway, and believing him to be the man who was in his home but a moment before, fires away. Sharpe, who is with Bill, gets most of the effect of the fire. When the smoke of battle has cleared away Sharpe pounces upon Bill and succeeds in landing him. He carries the unconscious form to the door-step of the Littleford home and then steps in the house alone to tell his client that his quest is successful. Meanwhile Jiggers escapes the house and comes face to face with Bill. The two begin a fight which ends with Jiggers being vanquished and left behind in Bill's place. Sharpe, of course, turns over Jiggers as the real madman, collects his money and is about to depart when a policeman enters with Bill. The jig is up. Sharpe's little scheme is exposed. Littleford takes back his reward and turns it over to the policeman, while Jiggers, followed by Sharpe, exits in sorrow.
- Jerry takes his girl out "flivvering" and they have a "blow up," but nobody is hurt. Jerry attempts to repair the damage, but the girl is "peeved" over the delay. A prize fighter, "Big Noise Bill, The Human Dreadnaught," taking his morning's exercise, arrives on the scene trotting ahead of his racing car and offers to take her home. Jerry wants to interfere, but has neither the nerve nor size to get away with it. He gives up his repair work and proceeds to tow the car home by "man power," his own. He might have succeeded, if a constable had not attempted to arrest him for blocking traffic. Believing a fair exchange is no robbery, Jerry makes his escape on the constable's wheel. In the meantime, Big Noise Bill has arrived at the girl's home and made himself obnoxious. Jerry arrives and suffers several indignities at his hands. The father, who had not favored Jerry's suit, now tells him although he does not approve of fighting he will consent to the marriage, if Jerry will give the big bully a beating. As Big Noise is meeting all comers nightly, Jerry has the opportunity provided for him. He therefore provides himself with a rubber bulb loaded with ammonia. A whirlwind match ensues, in which Jerry injects the ammonia into his opponent's nostrils and lands several apparently knock out blows. Not satisfied he also puts the referee on the mat and in his efforts to escape, administers the same dose to a policeman. Jerry then has a narrow escape from the hands of his pursuers by leaping from a telephone pole into the tonneau of his sweetheart's automobile.
- 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.
- Jerry is thrown from the premises by father and the count, when he comes to call on Tiny, and realizing that persuasion has little effect upon father, who insists that his daughter marry the count, he decides upon different tactics. He hires four ruffians who kidnap father and take him to a deserted shack, where father, still under the influence of chloroform, is deprived of his clothing and Tim, one of the ruffians, makes up to represent him, and is taken by Jerry and the ruffians back to Tiny's home. There he imbibes freely and is sent to bed by Tiny's mother, who never suspects the deception. Jerry now has easy sailing. Meanwhile the real father recovers, and, discovering his lack of clothing, decides to stay. He finds a bottle of whiskey and before many minutes is under its influence. Finally, remembering his home, he staggers away. His reappearance in his own home startles everyone. No one except Jerry knows which is really the master of the house. The butler, believing ghosts have arrived, summons a policeman. Tiny's mother faints and there is general excitement. Tim, now thoroughly sobered, jumps from the window and joins his pals who are waiting with an automobile. The policeman recognizes Jerry and, suspecting him to be the cause of the trouble, boots him from the scene.
- 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 again gets in trouble with the police and gives them a merry chase. For safety he darts into a building and then into one of the apartments, the musty home of an organ grinder and a monkey. The organ grinder attempts to put him out but Jerry gets his sympathy by explaining his plight. As the police arrive a happy idea strikes the organ grinder. He will masquerade Jerry as a monkey, to take the place of his sick monk, and not only escape the law but have a means of making some money by the transformation. Jerry assents and the police are fooled by the change. After the departure of the officers the organ grinder and Jerry, as his monk, start out to earn some of the wherewithal. Money is flowing steadily in the tin cup until Jerry's weakness crops out. In the window of the fourth story of a building he spies the pretty face of a girl and loses no time in climbing up the side of the building and into the room. The girl is maid to a wealthy woman and Jerry is about to embrace her when the mistress enters. The organ grinder tugs at the rope to which Jerry is tied at the other end, causing Jerry to embrace the mistress. Her husband enters and uses a gun with painful effect. Without hesitation Jerry jumps from the window and does a zig-zag from window to window all the way from the fourth floor to the street. Jerry and the grinder hurry to another section of the city and arrive just in time to see the Rajah and the Prince abducting a girl. The two grab hold of the back of the automobile in which the kidnappers and their victim are speeding away and are taken within the gates of the palace. Jerry gets into the Rajah's harem and is having the time of his life when the police, who have traced him and his partner, arrive. They are about to arrest Jerry when he tells them of the kidnapping of the girl by the Rajah and the Prince. The girl is produced and released, the two kidnappers arrested and Jerry complimented for his work. The police leave with the kidnappers and the victim while Jerry and the organ grinder, now perfectly safe, remain in the harem, the grinder playing music while Jerry dances for the fair inmates.
- 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 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 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 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.
- 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.
- Jerry got himself in bad with the authorities, and with three cronies landed in jail. To explain his absence he writes his sweetheart that he is holding down a government position. Disliking the job of cracking stones to which he was assigned, Jerry plans his escape. His opportunity comes when the attention of the guard is distracted. Picking up a stone he whirls it at the guard who falls with a thud into unconsciousness. Changing clothes with the senseless man he goes forward and meets his cronies, whom he liberates. Upon returning to his senses the guard raises a cry and pursuit is immediately started after the escaped convicts. Jerry spies on the wayside an automobile belonging to a motion picture company out on a "location" and bidding his comrades enter he takes the wheel and makes off at full speed. In the car the four discover four elaborate sets of military costumes intended for use in the picture people's scene. Donning these Jerry with his friends starts for his sweetheart's home, wiring ahead the news of their coming. The receipt of Jerry's message causes great rejoicing and plans are immediately made for an elaborate reception. Jerry and his cronies drive up to sweetheart's home. The grounds are lavishly decorated and the interior of the house is a triumphal arch for the returning hero. Jerry is asked to tell of his experiences. This he does, sorely taxing his imagination. In the meantime the motion picture director has discovered the loss of his car. Meeting the guards, who are on a hunt for Jerry, he enters a complaint. Given the car number they have little difficulty in tracing the active Jerry. When the reception is at its height the guards enter. The three cronies, having imbibed freely from the punch bowl, have fallen into the accustomed prison lockstep. Whatever doubt may have existed in the guard's mind as to the identity of the group is immediately dispelled by this action and they collar the three and handcuff them. Jerry, having had no time to escape, is treated in the same fashion. All prisoners, again in lockstep, are then marched off to the police auto and driven away, while the guests show great indignation towards the members of the family and leave. Jerry and his cronies are returned to the prison, put in stripes and again set to work, this time, however, with ball and chain attachments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jerry, in a quarrel with a policeman, is rescued from a pummeling by kindly old Col. Smilax, who witnesses his plight and pleads for his release. He then takes Jerry to his home and introduces him to his family. His daughter, the head of an amateur theatrical society, recognizes in Jerry the very type required for a part in a play which they are to produce, and prevails upon the director to enroll his services. At rehearsals Jerry is the center of attraction but particularly so in the case of an angular old maid who is quite effusive in expressing her regard for Jerry and his accomplishments. On the night of the performance the house is crowded. Jerry is stricken with stage fright, much to the delight of the audience, whom a policeman attempts to silence by mounting the stage and addressing them. Jerry has a natural antipathy for policemen, and the actions of this particular one being especially displeasing, he gives vent to his feelings with the result that the officer lands heavily in the drum head. Jerry's fellow players, in their efforts to straighten out matters, turn the stage into a scene of unrehearsed excitement, which is quelled only when officers take Jerry to a safe cell in the station.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In this picture Jerry has a serious duty to perform, that of rescuing his girl from a "perfectly horrid" boarding house where her father has taken her. True to his character, Jerry causes mix-ups in which the landlady, the father, the policeman and Hank figure prominently. The first difficulty into which Jerry projects himself is a melee with the police in which the latter get the worst end of a garden hose encounter. Jerry escapes and disguises himself as a woman. In this garb he goes to rescue the girl. He cannot resist the temptation to have a little fun out of the cop, the boarder, and the father, who are misled by his costume and make love to him. But Jerry's fooling on the job and neglecting the serious business in hand finally gets him into trouble and at the end he suffers for his pranks.
- 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 loves a girl and the girl loves Jerry, but her father does not. The old man wants her to marry a wealthy East Indian Prince, who also wants to buy the family jewels. "Boston Bill," a high class crook, who has made the old man's acquaintance, posing as a financier, also wishes to marry the girl, and likewise has designs on the family jewels, but has no intention of buying them. The Prince is to arrive on a certain day, but is delayed and sends a telegram which is intercepted by "Boston Bill" and later stolen from him by Jerry, and the two are thus made aware of the non-appearance of the East Indian potentate. "Boston Bill" decides to have his "pal," "Flash Jack," impersonate the Prince and Jerry, overhearing their plans, figures out a scheme to frustrate them and impersonate the East Indian himself. He informs his sweetheart of his plans and then starts to work. He watches "Flash Jack," sees him receive his costume, and then, by means of a subterfuge, he switches bundles with him and substitutes one that "plants" him as an international spy. He then informs the authorities. Jack is arrested, the incriminating evidence discovered, and Jack landed in jail, where he is recognized as a much wanted crook. Jerry, disguised as the Prince, calls on papa-in-law, foils the other crook, "Boston Bill," in his attempt to steal the jewels, and winds up by locking him in the vault where the jewels are kept. But, unfortunately, when the police arrive and arrest Bill, they unmask Jerry as the bogus Prince.
- 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.
- Jerry is in love with Claire Alexander, the daughter of a wealthy man. But Jerry is not alone in his passion. George George, disguised as a Russian Prince, has felt the lure of romance. Jerry, with the aid of Claire, manages to stick close to his beloved's side. He disguises himself as a Russian and gets the post of chauffeur to the Prince. Each realizes the other is a fraud, but each can say nothing. Jerry, after many adventures, discloses himself in his true identity to the Prince and the daughter's father. Thereupon the prince plots to send Jerry to the bandits. Greatest idea in all the world, thinks the father, but arrived at the haunts of the bandits, the father finds that he, too, is to suffer. The Prince holds the elderly man for ransom. There follow trick upon trick, but in the end virtue and innocence win out with Jerry winning everything, including the blessing of the father.
- 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.
- 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 lands a job as a gardener. His work is suddenly interrupted when he spies the pretty daughter of his employer and at once falls in love. Jack, a lieutenant in the army, in the girl's sweetheart, and when he sees Jerry attempt to embrace his sweetheart he is furious and reports the episode to the father. The girl tells Jerry that she will love only a soldier, and Jerry prepares to enlist. At a recruiting station, Jerry is rejected because of his size. After forcing his way past the corporal who is guarding the entrance he enters the recruiting room. Lieutenant Jack suddenly appears and Jerry attempts to seclude himself behind a gun rack, but is detected. He is informed that there is absolutely no chance of his joining the army because he is so small. Jerry argues and sees a free-for-all fight is in progress. During the brawl Jerry grabs a uniform and a gun and rushes out. Attiring himself in full military style, Jerry comes back to the station in time to fall in line with the recruits who are not through a drill. He is soon discovered by Lieutenant Jack and as he is being elected he starts a fight. The police arrive and they mix in with the soldiers and Jerry again escapes. Jerry goes to the home of his late employer and now, a soldier as far as dress is concerned, he presses his affections with the girl. She is different in her attitude toward him and believes him real gallant and brave. The father also has changed his attitude toward Jerry. Jerry's hoax is not successful for soon the lieutenant appears. He recognizes Jerry and attacks him. While they are fighting the father calls the police and Jerry, in possession of a sword, pretends that he is the superior officer. He orders the police to arrest the lieutenant and they obey. They march Jack away and Jerry goes behind, all puffed up and promising his sweetheart that he will return as soon as he has placed the lieutenant in the guardhouse. The girl has fond daydreams of her new hero as Jerry passes from view, she waiting for his return.
- 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.
- 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'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.
- 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.