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- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Father does not approve of Jerry's solicitous interest in his daughter and tries his mightiest to end their growing affection for one another. In order that they may be near each other Jerry suggests that his sweetheart play sick and he play the doctor attending her. They put the scheme into effect. An epidemic of smallpox breaks out in the neighborhood and father believes that his daughter has contracted it. Jerry attempts to disquiet his fears but to no avail. Father leaves the room and then Jerry and daughter have a laugh over the trick they played. The laughter is so boisterous that father becomes suspicious and decides to put Jerry to test. He gives his daughter a sleeping powder and then decorates her face with spots of red ink to imply she has smallpox. Jerry, who has left, is then recalled and finding the girl so marked and in a comatose state flees in fright. As he leaves the house he meets Dr. George, from whom he appropriated the garb of a doctor. Dr. George collars him and takes him back to the patient's home where he is imprisoned in a room. The master of the house tells Jerry that the place is quarantined. He protests violently against the enforced imprisonment but is subjected and forcibly chloroformed. His face is then decorated with smallpox spots and the conspirators leave the room, locking the door. Daughter's features are then washed of the ink spots. Jerry revives and after no little effort escapes. He is nabbed by the gardener, but that individual, noting the tell-tale spots, quickly releases him and flees. Jerry has the same experience with half a dozen other people, including several policemen, and surmises that everybody is afraid of him, that he is a real hero. The fright-stricken police hurry to the station and inform the sergeant of their experience. He rouses a squad and orders them to capture Jerry by throwing a lariat over him. There is an exciting chase, the lariat finally lands around Jerry's neck and he is led back toward the station. To make a short cut to town a stream is crossed and horse and Jerry are compelled to swim. Again on dry land they pass the home of a country doctor who inquires about the dangerous looking prisoner. The police tell him that Jerry has the smallpox. Doctor looks at Jerry's now clean face, all the paint having been washed off by the swim, and tells the officers that they are much mistaken. Officer looks at Jerry, agrees with the doctor, confesses his mistake, and to square himself tenders Jerry a roll of bills to buy his silence as well as to salve his hurts.
- Jerry again has the police on his trail and wanders through the park. Here he sees a mounted policeman strolling along with his arm around a girl's waist and leading his horse. Jerry cuts the bridle reins, mounts and rides off, the policeman being too engrossed to discover his loss until some time later. Shorty and Madge are lovers. Shorty leaves a note for Madge in their private "post office" in a big tree at the side of the road, asking her to meet him that evening. She writes a note consenting. This little exchange of notes is witnessed by Lewis Hayden, Madge's father's favorite for his daughter's hand. He purloins the note left by Shorty and takes it to Madge's father. Jerry also has seen the entire proceeding and, impelled by curiosity, ascertains the cause for the state of ecstasy and surprise of the young people just as Shorty comes up. A wordy battle between Shorty and Jerry ensues, but is smoothed over when Jerry explains Hayden's visit, and the two become friends. At home Hayden shows Father the note, who calls Madge and insists that she marry his choice. Madge creates a rumpus. Father and Hayden decide to punish Shorty, whom they have never seen, but for whom they mistake Jerry. They gloat over the surmised fact that he is only "four feet tall and easily licked." Madge informs Shorty of her father's plans and also of his mistaking Jerry for Shorty. The friends decide that they will go forward, anyway, and meet the foe. At the trysting place Shorty dons Jerry's clothes and, after sending Jerry up into the tree, Shorty kneels alongside to appear the height of Jerry. Father and Hayden arrive with clubs to pounce on him, but Shorty is too quick. He rises like a shot to his full six feet two, grabs each by the hair, batters their heads together and sends them off. The next morning Father is up early, and so are Shorty and Jerry. In order to insure against Madge's escape Father nails strips of lumber across her window. Resourceful Jerry suggests to Shorty that he (Jerry) dress to represent Madge, tell Father that daughter is to be married, and while Jerry rides away dressed as Madge Father will follow, and Shorty and Madge can have the marriage ceremony performed during his absence. The scheme is carried out as planned. After a hard chase Father catches up with Jerry, whom he supposes to be Madge, takes her home, only to find Madge there with Shorty, just married. A disentanglement of all difficulties, wherein the policeman gets back his horse, Madge is forgiven and Shorty accepted as a son-in-law closes the picture.
- Trouble ensues when Jerry is surrounded by his enigma, the police, and in his haste to evade their clutches he bumps into a peddler carrying a tray of phony jewelry, which, with the onslaught, is scattered on the ground. One of the jewels appeals to Jerry and he pockets it, not knowing that its possession forebodes trouble. Alone, he examines the acquisition. While gloating over his sudden wealth two Hindoos appear suddenly before him. They inform Jerry that the jewel he has had been stolen from an idol in their temple and that they have been requisitioned to find the possessor, and return him with the jewel to India, where the owner was to be made a slave. Not being able to compromise the trouble, Jerry is carried to India, where he is taken before the Royal Kazabo, who orders him punished. Jerry, however, anticipates punishment and turns the tables by punishing the Hindoos. Thus he gets out of one room but in doing so he rushes into another occupied by the members of the Kazabo's harem and his favorite wife. To the latter Jerry is at one attracted. This attraction is Jerry's undoing for he spends too much time with her and the Kazabo and his guards are given time to revive. They start on Jerry's trail, capture him and throw him into jail where he has an exciting time. But he neatly escapes and in a rowboat starts back for the good old U.S.A.
- Father and mother quarrel at the breakfast table at a time when May and June, twins, are quite young. May, being "mother's child," sides with mother, and June, being "father's child," sides with father. Father leaves the home with June without mother's knowledge. After a lapse of years May marries Jack and, accompanied by mother, goes on a honeymoon trip, which includes a visit to a mountain resort. Simultaneously with their arrival father and June also become guests of the same hotel. On the way to the hotel June spies, Jerry, her sweetheart, father objects to Jerry and takes occasion to assert himself. Shortly after Jerry appears at the hotel and finds May in the lobby. Taking her for June he embraces May, protesting his love, in spite of the father. May resents and is rescued by her husband, who gives Jerry a knockout blow and then proceeds to register. While father is taking a nap June sends a note to Jerry asking him to call. Jerry's greeting is somewhat boisterous and awakens father, who throws him out, landing him in the bridal chamber across the hall occupied by May. Partially dazed and when able to sit up Jerry is astonished to see May (who he thinks is June) and he attempts to embrace her. This disturbance attracts the attention of Jack coming up the hall, who settles it by throwing Jerry out of the room. June, having been attracted by the cry for help from May, as she runs down the hall, comes out in time to see Jerry thrown out and she helps him to his feet. Jack, also going into the hall to see the result of his work, sees June, whom he believes to be his wife. May, succoring the man he has just punished for bothering his wife. Indignant, he pushes Jerry out of the way, picks up June and carries her into the bridal chamber, with June struggling violently and Jerry looking on in astonishment. June escapes and falls into her father's arms. In this position Jack finds them. Believing June to be May and not knowing his father-in-law, he compels the old gentleman to defend himself with a revolver. The mix-up might have gone on indefinitely but mother enters the scene and solves all the complications. In the end father goes to mother, June to Jerry and May to Jack.
- 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 and Grace are in love but the latter's father frowns upon this match, preferring I.M. Short for a son-in-law. Grace protests strongly. Jerry writes his sweetheart a note planning an elopement but before reaching its destination it is discovered by the butler and given to the father. Grace is locked in her room and a plan of action is formulated to prevent the elopement. The elopement fails but with results not anticipated by the father. Next morning Grace sends a note to Jerry and plans means for escape. In a very amusing manner she eludes her father and meets Jerry at the appointed place. Here unknown to the lovers two toughs spy them and hide behind them. While Jerry is preparing for a little osculatory exercise and Grace has her eyes closed in anticipation each tough steals a kiss, Grace opening her eyes sees the toughs and she and Jerry run off in a panic. In the meanwhile the father, discovering the disappearance of his daughter, starts out after the runaway couple accompanied by Mr. Short who has come to ask for Grace's hand. While the toughs are congratulating themselves on their experience the father and Mr. Short appear. The latter are held up, forced to exchange garments and are started on their way by a couple of shots from the toughs' revolvers. These shots attract the attention of nearby hunters. The tramps plan to escape suspicion and one of them falls to the ground pretending to be hurt. When the hunters come up the other tramp informs them that his comrade has been shot by the fleeing parties and the hunters immediately give chase. Meantime Jerry and Grace are enjoying themselves at a picnic with a great crowd of friends when into their midst rush the father and Short pursued by the hunters. One of the hunters accidentally drops his gun and Jerry immediately seizes it firing it off promiscuously. Alarmed by the havoc he has wrought, Jerry rushes out to the road and here sees the tramps. Realizing the situation he marches the toughs to the picnic grounds at the point of the gun. There the father and Short are rehabilitated in their proper garments, the toughs are taken into custody and Jerry and Grace receive the parental blessing.
- Strolling through the park, Jerry finds a wad of money. Though he needs money badly, he claims honesty as one of his traits, and returns the wad to the rightful owner, who, in an outburst of generosity, rewards the finder with a genuine quarter. Jerry is disappointed at such little appreciation, but without the quarter he could not buy the meal he so anxiously looked forward to. In the restaurant Jerry finds the service bad, the food worse, and the rules of deportment so lax that his quarter is stolen. So when the time comes to pay the bill he has to stand for the usual rush through the door and into the street. Angered at the whole proceeding, Jerry fights back and wins. But he has to run for his life, for the waiters soon get on their feet and pursue the fleeing Jerry. He takes refuge under a table in the back room of a café, where two blackmailers are discussing their plans. They have just dispatched a note to wealthy Colonel Biff demanding $1,000 in cash by six o'clock that evening or be blown up by an infernal machine. As Jerry's pursuers, now enforced by the police, enter the blackmailers throw the machine under Jerry's table and rush out. The crowd follows the blackmailers, leaving Jerry with the box, which, because of the ticking of the clock set to explode the machine, he believes to be filled with watches and other jewelry. The police return and arrest Jerry, but Col. Biff, passing by, straightens things out by passing around $4 and takes Jerry to his home to be put to work to pay off the debt. Jerry meets Biff's daughter, falls in love with her, gets into a mess of trouble as a result, and ends up at the police station. It is now lacking a few minutes of six o'clock. Jerry is before the desk when the blackmailers are also brought in. They notice Jerry carries their machine and yell in terror, but before they can make themselves clear the bomb has exploded, wrecking the room and sending the occupants to all corners. When the dust clears away Jerry is seen hanging from the chandelier.
- Jack receives a letter saying his aunt is to visit him. As they have never met, he conjures up a vision of a sour visaged old maid with a battle-axe on her shoulder. He decides to escape the ordeal of her entertainment, plans a trip and also to select someone to impersonate him. The first man he encounters is Jerry, whom he finds sitting on the curb and out of a job. Jack explains to Jerry that he is going away for a time, that he shall take charge of his home, and gives him a big bunch of money to start with. Once in possession of the magnificently furnished bachelor home and Jack off Jerry supplants the half-dozen servants with three of his cronies, who make a sorry sight even in the spic and span livery. The aunt proves a comely woman of middle age; her companion is a severe looking old maid. Jerry swoons away when he sees her, believing her to be the aunt, but when identities are explained he becomes extremely interested and very attentive to the aunt. While Jerry is gallantly escorting her over the grounds he spies Jack coming up the street, so he cuts short his hospitality in that direction and takes his guest into the house. Jack has forgotten his bank vault keys and has returned for them. He persistently rings for admission. Finally Jerry goes to the door and kicks him off the porch. A plain clothesman and a uniformed cop come along and prepare to arrest Jack for disturbance. He explains he is trying to get into his own house and they agree to help him in order to prove his statement. Failing to get an answer to their ring, Jack and the detective climb into the house through a window and enter a room where Jerry is found making violent love to the aunt. Jack demands recognition, instead Jerry calls his new servants and on his orders Jack is thrown out. This for a time satisfies the detective that Jerry is the master of the house. Jack returns to find Jerry playing host to the detective. Again the servants are called on to eject the intruder. As they proceed to carry out the order the cop enters. The servants recognize an old enemy and rush away. Jerry, also seeing the cop, ceases his braggadocio and flees, knocking down the others. Jerry runs blindly, evidently, for he finally tears into the police station, into an empty cell and has locked himself in before the officers arrive, when he hands them the key. At the house Jack explains away all the questionable and astonishing happenings to his good-looking aunt and they become friends.
- With Curlock Bones, the detective, hot on his trail for a series of misdemeanors he has committed, and since his customary plans of operation for relief in such a crisis have proved ineffective, Jerry finds it incumbent upon himself to adopt some unusual method to evade the clutches of the pugnacious sleuth. Stealthily creeping through a park, cudgeling his brain for an avenue of escape, he chances upon two girls who have been harassed by members of the police force, each of whom is strenuously striving for recognition. They beseech Jerry to take a place as their maid so that they may avail themselves of his masculine powers in case the policemen insist upon carrying on their annoying tactics. Seeing in it an opportunity to outwit Bones, Jerry accepts the job. For a while Jerry has the time of his life flirting and toying with the police officers. But his desire to play pranks eventually proves his undoing. In the spirit of fun he chides the master of the house. That unsuspecting individual takes the impersonator in his arms just as his wife enters. She, enraged, strikes the homebreaker and her unfaithful spouse with a handy flower vase. Jerry's wig falls from his head and his identity is exposed just as Curlock Bones enters. The game being up, Jerry permits Bones to escort him to jail, adding another coup to the detective's long list of triumphs.
- While crossing Farmer Weed's premises, Jerry is spied by the farmer's daughter. Evidently disliking Jerry's appearance, the dog trees the intruder. Jerry's yells attract Farmer Weed, who rescues him. Over in the chicken yard Goldie takes in the merry situation. Jerry has one look at the girl and is caught. It is a case of love first sight. Pleading that he is hungry Jerry is served by Goldie with two of her home made pies, and in a shady nook of the yard hungrily tests them. At this moment Terrible Tom, the villain, passes by in his car. Himself in love with Goldie, he resents Jerry's presumption, and pushes him out of the way. In retaliation Jerry uses the pie with telling effect and with Goldie by his hand rushes from the scene. Intent upon punishing Jerry for his outrageous conduct, Tom visits his henchmen and formulates a plan of revenge. They capture Jerry and Goldie, take the former to a deserted shack, chain him to a stout pillar, and set a lighted bomb beside him. Goldie is taken to the railroad track and tied to it. Given strength by desperation Jerry breaks his bonds, throws the lighted bomb from the window just before it explodes, and then starts on a search for Goldie. Meeting a police officer he requisitions his aid. In just the nick of time Jerry arrives to rescue Goldie from sure death before a swiftly moving train. Having saved Goldie, Jerry, with the policeman, starts after the gangsters. A pitched battle follows, but in the end Jerry is triumphant and the conspirators turned over to the authorities.
- After enjoying a hearty meal on the veranda of a swell café, the wherewithal for which has been obtained by a new means of appropriation, Jerry dispatches a note to his sweetheart, Bessie, requesting her to meet him at "the bench" at 3 o'clock. The note falls into the hands of Mrs. Weston before it reaches her husband and, engaged at Jerry's nonchalant references to her provider, makes preparations for Jerry's reception. After locking Bessie in her room, Mr. Weston proceeds to the bench designated by Jerry and there, heavily veiled, awaits his coming. Too intent to notice anything amiss, Jerry proceeds to embrace the veiled woman, whom he assumes is Bessie. He is soon brought to a realization of a mistake, however, for Mrs. Weston uses a rolling-pin with telling effect. Jerry's cries attract the attention of Mr. Weston, who has been entertaining Mr. Ashton over liquid refreshments served in the summer garden. Armed with empty beer bottles, they rush to the scene. Their efforts to quell the disturbance are not quite successful, for in its course Mrs. Weston is knocked out, Mr. Weston suffers several smashes as does Mr. Ashton, and Jerry escapes. Bessie, in the meantime, has been busy. She has a note delivered by her maid advising Jerry that her mother has planned a long auto trip and adds that he might come to her rescue if he loves her. Accordingly Jerry assumes right to a burro standing conveniently near and starts off on his mission of rescue. Along the road Jerry spies Cyclone Pete, a Mexican bandit. The sight of him forebodes evil, so Jerry dismounts and hides. Hardly has he done so when the Weston auto party comes into view. Pete quickly springs from his hiding place, covers the party with a gun and then compels them to drop their valuables into his hat. Jerry sees a chance to become a hero. Creeping back of the unsuspecting Pete, Jerry uses an improvised billy quite well and succeeds in recouping the lost valuables. Mr. Weston congratulates him and invites him to take the trip with them, but Mrs. Weston rescinds the invitation by throwing Jerry out of the car. By this time Pete has started to revive. Noticing this, Jerry takes the Mexican's horse and is off on a whirl while Pete starts back on the burro. A stop is made at a country hotel. Pete arrives a little later, finds his horse in the stable and immediately starts out for Jerry. Jerry is elusive, so there is nothing for Pete to do but to use his gun. In a few minutes' time he has the occupants of the place panic-stricken and is well on the way towards accomplishing his revenge when the police call an end to the riot.
- With their funds entirely exhausted, Jerry and Hank are in a quandary to obtain further means of sustenance. They have tried several methods without success. Disconsolate, they wander to the town depot, arriving just as a troupe of Uncle Tom's Cabin players step from the train. Anxious to get business the company manager commissions Jerry to pass out heralds among the townspeople. The work is distasteful to Jerry, who decides that the heralds can be used to better advantage. He and Hank follow the actors to the hotel and with the heralds as credentials proclaim themselves as members of the troupe to the gullible hotel proprietor, who forthwith provides them with a meal. While Jerry and Hank are disporting themselves the manager enters, and looking at the register, inquires how Jerry and Hank's names happen to appear there as with his company. The light dawning upon him, the hotel man drags the impostors from the dining room. As they reach the desk another commotion is on. Little Eva and the Angel of Death quit and leave. Without the pair there can be no performance and to starve off such an event the manager hires Jerry and Hank to play the parts. After a lot of adventures Jerry and Hank arrive at the theater that night and are made up for their roles. Their make-up is funny, but their performance funnier and it ends up in a riot, with the audience, such as there is of it, egging them on. The other performers, angered because the show is broken up, start after the disturbers, who by this time have reached the street. In their queer garb they seek shelter in a house which is occupied by a spiritualistic medium and enter just as a séance is at its height. The spiritualists assume that Jerry and Hank are real spirits and bow their heads before them, while the medium stands triumphant at the head of the group. Then the illusion is spoiled, for the Uncle Tom actors have followed Jerry and Hank and enter at this moment. A merry time follows, but Jerry and Hank get out of the enemy's clutches and are last seen running full speed down the road.
- 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.
- Jerry strikes up a flirtation with Miss Smith who permits him to act as her escort. On a walk they meet Duke Earlton, her fiancé, for whose company the girl dismisses Jerry. Stunned for the moment by her action, Jerry watches the chatting couple continue onward, then, recovering, he starts on a run after them. He attempts to induce the girl to desert her newfound escort, but that individual, becoming annoyed, pushes Jerry aside. Picking up two boulders Jerry starts after his enemy but before he can use them in the desired way, the Duke takes the initiative and Jerry is sent sprawling into the street. As he lays an automobile rushes over him. The occupant. Count O'Zowie, turns back. Finding Jerry unharmed he congratulates him on his fortunate escape, and gives him his card with an invitation to call. The card gives Jerry a happy idea. Armed with it he calls at the home of Dr. Gray, Miss Smith's uncle, whom she is visiting. Believing Miss Smith to be the doctor's daughter, he sends in his card for her. When he is ushered into the reception room he is dumbfounded at the sight before him. Instead of Miss Smith, he sees a girl weighing only about two hundred pounds and whose form of diversion is boxing. Without much ado she captures Jerry, takes him to the gym, and in a few seconds knocks him out. Jerry calls the Duke, who has just entered the house with Miss. Smith, and induces him to put on the gloves with the athletic girl, after putting horseshoes in the girl's gloves. Of course, one blow and the Duke is in dreamland. He then chloroforms Miss Gray and places her on a chair beside the Duke with her arms about the unconscious man's shoulders. He then calls Miss Smith to the gym. Seeing the Duke in such a compromising position with Miss Gray, Miss Smith breaks her engagement and at Jerry's insistent urging consents to elope. Meanwhile, the Duke has revived and. suspicious at Miss Smith's and Jerry's absence from the house, 'phones the police, who start in pursuit of the eloping couple. As they cross a shallow stream Jerry falls from the horse and the police, immediately in the rear, have no trouble in picking him up. Miss Smith continues on her ride, but Jerry is escorted away by the police.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jerry, pursued by the police, makes his escape by boarding a train. The first stop is a small town, and as Jerry alights to view his surroundings he is detected by a conductor and turned over to the constable. About to be imprisoned, the prisoner gets possession of the "law's" club; beats the constable, and, locking him in a cell, escapes. Jerry is attracted by Daisy, who is strolling through the fields with Hank, her sweetheart. Jerry's eyes begin to work and Daisy is a victim. This aroused Hank, who subdues the mischiefmaker only to be the unfortunate one in the end, when Jerry crashes a brick over his head. As Hank recovers, Jerry is forced to flee. Jerry's speed carries him into the hills and he comes across a band of counterfeiters. He is admitted into the band when it is decided that he is not dangerous. But the huge stacks of new currency tempt Jerry and he is caught in the act of storing a lot of it in his pockets and ejected from the camp. Government officers searching in the district for the money "floaters," come across Jerry. They are about to arrest him when he reveals the hiding place of the counterfeiters and offers to lead the men to the place. A raid follows and the entire band is taken away, leaving Jerry in possession of everything.
- Tired of city life, Jerry seeks work on a ranch. Dressed in real cowboy fashion he arrives at the railroad station in a small western town. Louise, an heiress, and her maid, Elsie, are expected by the village folks, Louise being the owner of the big E.Z. ranch. Things have gone wrong at the ranch and at the advice of her attorney, Louise has disguised herself as a maid and Elsie substitutes as the heiress. Jerry is bewildered when he sees all the ranch hands waiting for the arrival of the owner and he is a little timid in his search for work. The train brings the expected heiress, who, dressed as a maid, does not receive the attention that the maid dressed as the heiress receives. Jerry, however, assists the "maid" with her luggage while the townspeople make much over Elsie. As the two women are seated in a small automobile there is an explosion and the machine starts off without a driver. Jerry leaps to his mule and gives chase and overtakes the automobile. He is the hero of the excitement, but his work is successful only because all the gasoline has been consumed. At the ranch, Louise finds that things have been neglected by the men, the foreman being unable to handle them. There is no harmony and a number of fights are started because of the antics of Jerry. No one realizes, however, that Jerry is the cause of many of the clashes during the visit of the owner. Elsie, believed to be the heiress, is made much of. Louise is placed in the background by everyone excepting Jerry. The ranch hands dislike Jerry and one day while he is being cuffed about, Louise arrives. She decides to reveal her identity and does so as she commands that the men stop annoying Jerry. Everyone is surprised to learn that Louise is the heiress and Elsie the real maid. Louise then assumes control of things and discharges all of the employees, excepting the foreman. She then asks Jerry to be her partner and he consents. Elsie, now in her original capacity of maid, is made much over by the foreman. Elsie and her new sweetheart find a quiet little spot in the ranch house, while Louise and Jerry find refuge under a big tree where they have a love scene.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 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 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 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.
- 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.
- The co-ed college is kept lively and the lady principal and professor are kept alert by the pranks of the lively boy and girl students. Ringleader among the boys is Harry; Billie among the girls. It being a sober college town, prize-fighting and such inhumane sports are tabooed. Harry learns that there is a secret prize fight held. He tells the boys and all decide to go. Billie and the girls decide to break the monotony of life with a feed in their dormitory and invite the boys to come. Harry sneaks from the football practice grounds and Billie from the basketball court and the two hold a little love feast by the wall which separates their school grounds. Prof. Snitch, who is by no means a favorite with the boys, misses Harry and suspects where he is. He at once sends the rest of the boys to their rooms and goes to the basketball court, where he reports to the lady principal, who misses Billie and at once accompanies Prof. Snitch to the wall where the guilty parties are found and sent to their dormitories for twenty-four hours. This happens the very day of the fight. Harry declares he will go nevertheless. The girls' feed schedule is for the same evening. Boys send the message that they cannot come, as they are going to the fight. Billie wishes the girls could go and the boys say they will take them if they will wear boys' clothes. They decide to do so and in male attire all sneak out of the dormitory and go to the fight. Prof. Snitch also decides to sneak to the fight. The police are apprised of the fight and the place where it is held is raided and all the students with Prof. Snitch land in jail. A phone call brings the lady principal and faculty to the jail, where the young folks are released. Prof. Snitch, who loves the Lady Principal, is rejected by her and is left weeping by the wall. The girls end their eventful day with a pillow fight.
- Jerry and the daughter of a well-to-do family are very much in love with each other, but the father objects to Jerry's attentions. Jerry's persistence causes the old man to take his family for an automobile tour, but before doing so he has an encounter with Jerry. The family starts away; the girl is in tears. Jerry, who is not to be outwitted, leaps on the rear of the automobile. Some distance out in the country they are halted by a motion picture company, which is working, the director having asked the motorists to stop so as not to interfere with the scene. A number of genuine cowboys have been engaged to pose in the picture which is being produced. Jerry peers out from his place of concealment to see what is going on, and when several policemen appear he immediately becomes frightened, fearing that his old enemies are after him. They are only motion picture cops, but Jerry does not know that. He runs off and hides. He witnesses a scene wherein a cowboy is choking a girl in a melodramatic way, the girl screaming for help. Not realizing that that is only for the camera, Jerry goes hurriedly to the girl's assistance, Jerry is handled roughly by the cowboys and the father, seeing Jerry's plight, is elated and rewards the cowboys for their good work. After the family starts away, leaving Jerry behind, a bright idea occurs to him. His sweetheart's family are to give a reception in the near future, and Jerry hastily writes a note to which he signs the father's name. The note is an invitation to the cowboys to attend the reception in the costumes they are wearing that day, as the father wishes to surprise his guests. The night of the reception arrives, the guests are all assembled, when the cowboys, following instructions, ride into the house and proceed to shoot things up, the guests fleeing in alarm in all directions. The cowboys proceed to make merry with the liquid refreshments. The contents of the punchbowl being too weak for their taste, they permit their horses to drink the punch. Father and mother seek refuge under a bed, and are kept prisoners by one of the horses who proceeds to feed upon the mattress. Jerry's sweetheart is as much frightened as the other guests, but Jerry finds and reassures her. Appropriating one of the cowboy's horses, he mounts it and, with the girl behind him, rides off, too late for the irate father, who has been rescued by the police, to prevent the elopement.
- 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 starts out to celebrate the Fourth. He starts off by blowing up a stand of fireworks after he has appropriated a number of giant crackers to himself. Pursued by the proprietor of the stand, Jerry seeks refuge in the part. He comes across a policeman slumbering on a bench and rudely awakens the guardians of the law by exploding one of the big firecrackers. A chase follows and Jerry almost runs into the police station. A small runabout attracts his attention and as an angry squad of police close in on him he leaps into the automobile and speeds away. Arriving at his sweetheart's home he takes pride in describing his new automobile, but when the father sees it he orders Jerry away. Jerry goes for a spin in the country and comes across a settlement of Indians. A happy thought comes to him to sell the machine to the chief and with the money buy a better car so as to win over the consent of the parent of his sweetheart. The chief pays a fabulous sum for the car. In the meantime the entire police force turns out to find Jerry. They soon discover him talking with the Indians. In the mix-up Jerry escapes, and steals the auto. The police and Indians fight over the ownership of the small car, the former finally starting off with it with the Indians in hot pursuit. Jerry is overtaken as he enters his sweetheart's home. The Indians have flocked about the house and a battle is in progress between the police and the angry warriors. Jerry pretends he has been shot and drops at the feet of the father. The girl is heartbroken until Jerry winks at her. Jerry is unable to carry his ruse out and he is observed by the officers. The house is in an uproar but Jerry at last leaps from the top floor of the building to the gardens, runs to the street and speeds away in the big car. The Indians gain possession of the car their chief bought, and they, too, speed away leaving the entire police department defeated.
- Mr. and Mrs. Parker had been married almost a year, when one morning a friend sent to Mrs. Parker a poodle. The letter announced that the dog was high bred and valuable and the Parkers were pleased. A letter from Mrs. Parker's mother announced that she would shortly return from Europe and hopes that she might be the proud grandmother she has longed to be. Shortly after her return she was informed of the arrival of Snooky in the world at the Parker home. Mother imagined that Snooky is a baby of the human species and never dreamed he is only a poodle. She communicated the glad tidings to Mr. Parker senior. He and mother started to see the baby. They bought some baby clothes and arrived at the Parker home. By luck, however, the Parkers had taken Snooky for a walk and were not in. When the maid was questioned she told them that they had taken Snooky out, so the fond parents laid out their gifts in the living room. The maid saw the baby clothes and at once surmised the mistake. She rushed after Mr. and Mrs. Parker and told them what did happen. The Parkers at once realized their danger of being disinherited and started on a search for a baby. Mrs. Miller, wife of a photographer, was passing with her baby and agreed to loan her baby to the Parkers for the afternoon. Mother and father had taken advantage of the Parkers' absence and went shopping for toys and clothes. Mother saw the Miller studio and she and father made arrangements to have baby's photo taken. The Parkers arrived home with the baby. Its mother was concealed in the kitchen. The fond parents arrived and all went well until baby became hungry and cried. The anxious Mrs. Miller heard her child cry and could hardly restrain herself. Mrs. Parker brought her the baby and it ceased crying. The photographer arrived and as he posed the child he recognized his own infant. He at once claimed it and the secret was out. Mrs. Miller rushed in and she and her husband departed with their offspring. Mother and father were furious and demanded explanations. The real Snooky was produced to the disgusted parents. Mrs. Parker, however, whispers a little word to her mother about an interesting coming arrival and all was forgiven.
- Luke Sharpe. a private detective, and his assistant, Jigger, are very much down on their luck or so represent themselves to Beto, the proprietor of a ten cent lodging house, so they acquire accommodations for both for a dime, and turn in. When Jigger sees Luke is asleep, and having a little change in his pocket, he sneaks off to a cabaret. There he notices a crook, one very badly wanted by the police and for whom a handsome reward is offered. He also notes that the crook has designs on the purse of a woman (the woman crook) seated at another table. He returns to the lodging house, wakes up Luke, tells him of his discovery; both return to the cabaret, state their profession to the proprietor, the object of their mission, to capture the crook, and arrange to be engaged in the place. The proprietor helps them to disguise themselves, Luke as a waiter and Jigger as a pianist. Luke thinks more of the bar than the demands of his business as a waiter, and after trying to inflict on the patrons a song and breaking all dishes while waiting on them, he suddenly notices the crook snatch the lady's purse and run. He calms the excited patrons by telling them that he and his associate are detectives, to leave the matter in their hands and they will capture the thief. The statement is received with derision, and the proprietor having had enough of them anyway, is ably assisted in ejecting them. They return to their lodging house, and after accusing and abusing one another for the fiasco at the cabaret they drop into their cots. They have not been asleep very long when the crook arrives and gets into a bed close to them. Luke, who has the habit of sleeping with one eye open, notices the crook, and decides when he is asleep to capture him for the reward, but not to say anything to Jigger about his plan. He goes into another room and proceeds to disguise himself as an old miser. Jigger, however, has also noted the crook, and plans to do the same thing as Luke proposes, but remains in the same room to make up his disguise. The crook wakes and sees Jigger making up and determines to settle him. Luke enters as a miser, goes to his cot and engages in the characteristic pastime of counting his money. Jigger, not knowing his partner through the disguise, thinks he is a real miser, and by a trick gets the money. Luke, to keep up the character, so noisily grieves over his loss that he wakes up all the lodgers. The crook tells him that Jigger is the man who robbed him, and commands the miser to take his (the crook's) knife and kill Jigger. During this Jigger has again gone to bed, but with his feet where his head ought to be. Luke has noted this. He stealthily creeps up to the bed and plunges the knife through the open space between Jigger's feet and into the mattress. Jigger jumps out of bed, giving a scare to the crook, while Luke assumes to be scared. At this instant police, who had been chasing the crook, break into the room. The crook being by the door, escapes as they enter, not noticed by the officers. They approach Jigger about the crook. Jigger, still greatly agitated over the attempt on his life, answers, "He's gone, but arrest that man," pointing to Luke, who snatches the long gray-haired wig off and discloses his identity to Jigger. Jigger also removes his disguise and they embrace. This is not the end, for the officers now recognize the two bum detectives and place them under arrest.
- Financially embarrassed, Jerry attempts to avoid paying for the sumptuous meal he has just had, and for his troubles he is thrown out. Much to his surprise, a large bundle follows him, the waiter believing that it belonged to Jerry, when it was really the property of the celebrated detective, Padlock Bones. Jerry opens the bundle and finds a book, "How to Become a Detective," and also a collection of disguises, including the attire of a Chinaman. There is also a note telling of a band of Mongolian smugglers, and after reading this with much interest, Jerry decides to dress up like one of the natives of the Orient and try his hand at running down the smugglers. In the meantime the detective discovers the loss of his bundle, and after a heated argument with the waiter, starts off to find Jerry. Impersonating a Chinaman, Jerry walks along a roadway when he is struck by an automobile, but instead of being knocked to the ground, he is lifted up on the hood of the machine and he rides for some distance before the occupants of the car take any particular notice of him. Jerry recognizes them as some of the conspirators of the smugglers and interests them by saying he is a cook out of a job. They take him to their mansion and employ him as cook. He at once starts in by making love to the maid, and when the gardener sees this he starts a fight, in which the whole household takes part and which ends up in an uproar. When things arc quieted, Jerry persists in his lovemaking. He is making good headway with the maid when the landlady appears. The maid rushes away and Jerry continues on his course with the woman of the house without knowing what he is doing. The husband arrives and another mix-up puts things in an uproar. Jerry is ordered to get to work in the kitchen, and his inexperience with a gas stove results in an explosion. A fire follows and Jerry plays a prominent part with the hose. Jerry manages to get a line on the smugglers at about the same time that Padlock Bones learns of Jerry's whereabouts, but before the would-be detective arrives, Jerry, in the attire of the maid, starts out with the chauffeur and for the water where he has information the smugglers, a band of Chinamen, are about to do their work. He arrives in time to see them in a rowboat, but all the time Padlock Bones and a lot of police are on the trail of Jerry. When the police arrive, Jerry surprises them by pointing out the smugglers, who are captured, and the gardener, believing Jerry to be the maid, starts making love. He learns that it is Jerry and starts a chase after him, while the smugglers are arrested and all start for the police station but Hank, the gardener, and Jerry, who are still doing a marathon.
- 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.
- 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.
- Out of funds and unable to pay his long overdue board bill, Jerry is in a bad way. To make matters worse he is not permitted to even see his sweetheart, her father having voiced the decision that he wants no penniless son-in-law. In seeking a way out of his precarious financial predicament Jerry gets himself into trouble with two policemen and his landlady. He succeeds in vanquishing the officers, but the landlady is more sturdy and knocks out poor Jerry. She leaves him on the floor, dead to the world, to answer the postman's ring. A letter arrives addressed to Jerry. Curiosity getting the better of her, the landlady steams open the envelope and is amazed to learn that Jerry is heir to three million dollars. Forgetting her past differences she returns to him and. being leap year, proposes. Jerry decides there is safety in flight and rushes out of the house, grabbing the letter as he speeds away. Alone and in safety he reads the letter and, overjoyed at the news, hurries to his sweetheart's home to tell her of his good fortune. The butler, who has been instructed by father not to admit him. attempts to bar his way, but Jerry pushes through the lines. The master of the house is called and armed with a revolver starts after the intruder. As he approaches Jerry seeks safety in a cabinet. Unknown to anyone a burglar is hiding in the clothes closet in the same room. He has locked the door and the father of the house naturally surmises that it is Jerry who is within. Father fires through the door, creating confusion in the household, of which Jerry is quick to take advantage as an opportunity of escape. He dashes out into the street and into the arms of the two policemen, the very two with whom he has previously had trouble. They take him back to the house, where they are met by astonished father with the burglar. One of the officers takes charge of the burglar and the other takes Jerry. While this is happening the landlady receives a telegram stating that the news of Jerry's riches is a mistake. Just as she finishes reading it the policeman comes up with Jerry, who is handed the telegram and so overcome that he faints away.