Tom and Jack are chums and come into the rooms of the Good Fellows' Club rather the worse for liquor. The plea of Tom's mother and sweetheart that he is ruining his young manhood with "the filthy stuff" falls on heedless ears. But while Tom and his chum carouse at the club, a plan is on foot to cure the young man of his vice. Ruth, his sweetheart, has read in the morning paper of a young man who was cured of drinking by seeing a snake run across his path as he journeyed along a country road. She tells the news to Tom's mother and together the two women pay a journey to the circus and rent there the animals with which they intend to accomplish Tom's salvation. Among the animals is a snake, a lion, hears, monkeys and a leopard. Tom comes home from the club little better than a dummy as the result of too many drinks and things begin to happen. Snakes come over the transom door, lions enter through the door, snakes appear mysteriously in his bottle of whiskey and monkeys play queer pranks on him. He tries to call for help and a great rat, the size of a pig, appears. He tries to get out of the door but finds his way blocked by hideous shapes. He decides that there is nothing in "the drink habit" and swears off. Of course his mother and sweetheart are delighted at the success of their ruse and the wedding ceremony is performed with the groom an avowed teetotaler for life.
—Moving Picture World synopsis