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- Jerry selects a railroad track for a quiet siesta. He is interrupted by the whistle of an onrushing engine. He jumps to safety. Section hands give Jerry a hard job from which he escapes by jumping on a hand car. Arriving at a bridge, Jerry seeks shade under a buttress. Here he finds a fuse leading to a charge of dynamite. He hurls the bomb away just as it explodes. The section hands seize Jerry and haul him off to jail. Jerry falls in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who is the object of the affections of Hank, a railroad man, and Joe, a half-wit. In confinement he finds that his prison adjoins a storeroom to which Joe has a key. Jerry watches through a knothole and sees the half-wit plugging an apple with cyanide. He realizes that Joe is going to give this deadly poison to the daughter. Jerry makes his escape to where Joe is teasing daughter with the poisoned apple. Jerry strikes it from his hand and they fight. The battle rages until father and the section hands, attracted by daughter's screams, separate them, but not until Jerry has been felled. They carry him into the house where, finding his heart has stopped, they place him on a couch and fold his hands across his chest. Jerry has been experiencing a nightmare. Sleep had overtaken him while waiting his call for a movie part.
- Jerry and Tiny are in love, but Tiny's father will not consent to his daughter's marriage to anyone but a military man. He therefore favors a lieutenant as a fine husband for his daughter. A happy idea strikes Jerry. He will become a military man and win the consent of Tiny's father. Accordingly he visits a second-hand shop and buys a complete outfit of military regalia. Dressed in it he visits Tiny's home, but father and the lieutenant, noticing the deception, drive him from the place. Tiny's father is booked to make an address in the town hall of a nearby village. His car is waiting outside of his home to take him on his journey. Jerry commands the use of the car and starts for the distant town. When Tiny's father is ready to leave he finds his car gone. The Colonel loans him the use of his own machine, and the two, accompanied by privates, proceed in it to the nearby village. As they arrive they spy father's car and hear the band playing and the crowd cheering, and immediately conclude that Jerry has been up to one of his tricks. They enter the town hall just as Jerry is in the midst of making a romantic talk in which he recounts his heroic deeds on the front. When the party enters Jerry sees he is doomed. At the Colonel's command Jerry is seized and placed in charge of the constable who takes his prisoner to the jail to lock him up. But Tiny will not stand by and see her lover imprisoned, and stealing the constable's gun she holds up the officer of the law, obtains Jerry's release, and before the amazed officer knows what has happened the loving pair make their way down the road in a machine safe from the law's arm.
- Jerry is seated in the railway station waiting for his train, when a woman approaches him and asks that he hold her baby for a few minutes. Jerry does her the favor. The minutes, however, stretch into a long period of time, and getting tired of his job, Jerry places the baby in a basket which has been placed on the bench beside him by two crooks. Thinking his troubles are over Jerry starts to leave, when a colored woman asks him if he would mind her baby for a few minutes while she goes in search of her husband. Again Jerry hasn't the heart to refuse. The first mother returns, and takes the colored baby from Jerry believing it to be her own. It is wrapped in covers, and she does not open them. The train on which this mother's husband is due to arrive pulls into the station. The husband knows Jerry, and urges him to come along to his home. Jerry refuses the invitation and thanks him, but the husband insists, and Jerry is forcibly carried away. Meantime the crooks have taken away the basket containing the white baby, and are now out on the high road on their way to the scene of their next job. The colored woman returns to the station to claim her baby, and finds Jerry and her baby gone. She screams, bringing a policeman to her side. She explains her plight to him, and he advises her to go to the police station. Arriving home, the husband lifts the cover from the baby's face. Consternation reigns when he discovers that they have the wrong baby. The mother explains that Jerry had been entrusted with their baby, and that any mistake is due to his carelessness. The father starts after Jerry, but he is nimble of foot and gets out of harm's way. A lively chase follows, Jerry is finally caught and led to the police station. The two couples meet at the station, and while they are trying to thrash out matters the crooks enter with the white baby. They had discovered the nature of their burden, and have returned to turn it over to the police. Matters :are then adjusted, and the picture closes with Jerry crooning to the mite of humanity he is permitted to hold in his arms, this time under the watchful eye of the baby's parents.
- Jerry has boarded a freight and has successfully secluded himself from the watchful train crew. He is about to alight at a station when the town constable detects him. There is no way of escape and as he is about to give up, a bright idea comes to Jerry. He has with him a big roll of stage money and with it he bribes the "law." Making for the town tavern, Jerry believes that he can fool the man behind the bar with his fake money. Meanwhile, the constable gathers his cronies together and as they make merry the bartender discovers that the bill handed him by the guardian of the law is a fake. A fight results and in the mix-up Jerry escapes. In his wild dash for liberty Jerry comes across a settlement of moonshiners. He hides until all are out of sight, excepting the pretty daughter of one of the band. A flirtation follows and the girl accepts Jerry's advances. Soon the mother appears and the girl, frightened, runs away while Jerry is looking in another direction. The mother takes her place, as Jerry continues his scene, unaware that the girl has left. The father arrives upon the scene to find a strange man making love to his wife. Jerry sneaks off, reaches the cabin, and is admitted by the girl, but, fearing her father's anger, she induces Jerry to hide in the attic. The moonshiners join the father in the hunt for the stranger, but the girl will not betray her new flame. The angry men start firing off their revolvers in every direction and several bullets pierce the ceiling, one of which smashes a bottle of wine which Jerry is drinking. The liquor leaks through a crack in the floor and drips to the floor below, divulging Jerry's hiding place. The moonshiners rush upstairs, but as they show their heads above the flooring, Jerry greets them with bottle after bottle, well aimed. Revenue officers who are searching for the moonshiners are attracted by the shooting. Jerry sees them from a window and decides to escape, when, noticing the constable with them, changes his mind and comes downstairs, and, after a small riot manages to get out of the cabin, only to run into the arms of of the revenue officers. To save himself, Jerry offers to show them the way to the moonshiners' camp. His invitation is accepted, and the revenue men capture the moonshiners and the father. As they are led away, Jerry shows pleasure, believing that he will be left to woo the pretty daughter, but the constable recognizes Jerry as the man who gave him the bad money and a moment later our hero is also a prisoner. Jerry and the captives are chained together and carried away, while the daughter and mother tramp along behind, weeping bitterly.
- Jerry, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- It was in the dawn of civilization and Heela Hoola was the belle of Stonycave. Her admirers loaded her with beads and bear claws. Now a certain rich citizen of Stonycave, named Stony Kone, although he owned the largest cave in the city, could never get a mate and his only admirer was Miss Stone Hatchet, who was neither beautiful nor young. It chanced that Willy Walla, who was a young swell of the town, saw Heela Hoola, and his heartbeat violently against the wolf skin which clad him and he decided then and there to have Heela Hoola for his own. Among the domestic unhappiness in Stony Cave the most violent was that of Leaping Loo, and to increase it was the fact of the "other man," Little Big Club, whose infatuation tor Leaping Loo was the gossip of every cave in the town. Willy Walla having made a good impression with Heela Hoola, is knocked on the head by Stony Kone and the fair Heela Hoola is violently dragged away to Stony Kone's cave. Meanwhile Little Big Club has taken a violent fancy to Leaping Loo and pursues her with his love. Her husband, Hairy Hand, is furiously jealous, and, not knowing where his mate is, goes in search. He is told by Miss Stone Hatchet that Stony Kone has a woman in his cave and Hairy Hand goes in to see if it is his own woman. A terrific battle ensues and Hairy Hand emerges fr«m Stony Kone's cave bearing Heela Hoola, whom Stony Kone had captured. He turns Heela Hoola over to Willy Walla and together they go to Willy's cave in great happiness. Stony Kone's heart and bruises are healed by Miss Stone Hatchet, and the fair Leaping Loo elopes with Little Big Club and leaves Hairy Hand to shift for himself.
- The old professor, accompanied by his daughter and the young professor, arrive home from a trip, bringing with them a full-blooded young Indian, upon whom the old professor intends making certain experiments. Jerry has been informed of their intended homecoming and is at the train to meet them, but receives anything but cordial greeting from the old professor, who intends marrying his daughter to the young professor. Jerry and the girl, however, are not discouraged and try to plan a method of meeting. Chance favors Jerry by placing him in possession of the Indian's "other clothes'' and the girl, supplying the paint from a box of watercolors, he is soon the actual duplicate of the real Indian. They then inveigle the Indian into the wine cellar and taking advantage of his taste for "fire water,'' soon have him enjoying what he believes is his "happy hunting grounds." The only trouble with the plan is that he does not remain where they put him and "leaves the reservation." Then things happen and keep on happening, everyone, including even the girl, taking Jerry for the Indian, or the Indian for Jerry, until the aid of the law is called upon to straighten out the tangle, and then even the law gets tangled.
- 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.
- M.T. Dome has just established his new bride in a cozy little flat, and to lighten the burden of housekeeping decides that his wife must have a maid. He visits an employment agency and, man-like, selects the maid because of her looks rather than for her qualifications. Returning home with his prize, M.T. Dome cannot understand why his young wife is not enthusiastic over his selection, but the new bride naturally resents the good-looking servant being made a member of the household. Dome is satisfied, however, and loses no time in starting a flirtation with the new bride's maid. He is caught in the act of showing a fatherly interest in the maid and the first quarrel between the newlyweds occurs, resulting in M.T. Dome seeking the comforts of his club. His old bachelor friends welcome Dome's return to the fold and time passes only too quickly for rebellious bridegroom, so that at two A.M., on his way home, Dome does not realize how late it is. Meeting some friends, and by this time in a very convivial mood, he insists upon them accompanying him home, where they all arrive in high spirits. The M.T. Dome's reside in a semi-apartment hotel, which provides a general reception room for its tenants, and here Dome insists that his guests make merry. One of the rules of the establishment is that there shall he no music after ten P.M., and, although it is now three A.M., Dome's hilarious spirit will not be denied, so he sets back the clock and starts in to entertain his friends to the annoyance and distress of the tenants. In a mad dance, Dome falls against the stair rail, carries it away and alights, with the wreckage, one flight below. By this time the entire apartment house is aroused, including the landlady, whom Dome placates by promising to stop his noise and repair the damage he has done. Keeping his promise, Dome loses no time in looking up a carpenter, whom, together with his assistant, he bribes to come and do a very urgent job at that hour in the morning. The noise created by the mechanics is even worse than that made by Dome and his friends, so the tenants, in a body, fall upon the disturbers of their sleep and throw them out doors, Dome meanwhile having been singled out by his bride and is given a beating by this outraged young lady.
- Jerry follows a beautiful girl into the park, but is interrupted in his avowals of love by a park policeman. Father and the Count arrive in time to see Jerry chased away, and they decide to take daughter to the beach. Jerry is "tipped off" as to the plans and is on the sands when father, daughter and the Count arrive. Jerry gets busy from the start, much to the annoyance of beach policemen and the utter disgust of father and his titled friend. Jerry has a fine time with a bevy of lovely girls and enjoys himself immensely when he secludes himself in their dressing room. When they discover him, daughter shields Jerry from their pummeling, but ever-watchful police make things warm for him. Jerry's best tact is applied to getting father and the Count into a fight with the police. Jerry then signals daughter to "beat it." They escape in an automobile stolen from a parking station, but they are pursued by father, the Count and a force of policemen. The chase comes to an end when Jerry drives his "flivver" into an automobile service station. A gasoline explosion, caused by the entrance of Jerry blows him into jail.
- Jerry sees two footpads hide a wallet beneath some bushes and appropriates it after they depart. The money is sought by the police, who see Jerry with it. They arrest him, but by a ruse he escapes and rides off on one of the cop's horses. Jerry arrives at a gypsy camp and is smitten with the daughter of the chief. Hank also loves the girl, who is known as "little sister." Hank wants to make away with Jerry, but the chief tells him to bide his time as he desires Jerry's horse, and has in mind trading his daughter, Ophelia, for the animal. The trade is broached to Jerry, who, thinking by the trade he will get Ophelia, readily agrees. But when Ophelia is brought in Jerry wilts, jumps upon his horse, and rides hurriedly away, followed by Hank. Hank reaches Jerry on a road overlooking a cliff. A fight follows and Jerry throws Hank over the cliff. Just as he thinks himself safe, Jerry is surprised by the appearance of other gypsies, who, to revenge Jerry's victory over Hank, pounce upon him and throw him over the precipice. Meanwhile, Ophelia rushes to the scene, and seeing Jerry at the bottom of the cliff contrives a way to rescue him by throwing him a rope. Jerry grabs it and reaches a point of safety again. Hank follows the climb. Ophelia attempts to make love to Jerry again, but Jerry has had enough of gypsies and rides off to the police station, where he returns the stolen money and the lost horse.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jerry seeks a "hand-out" at the back door of a hotel. The daughter of the proprietor "falls" for Jerry's pitiful plea, and is just handing him a "snack" when Father breaks in on the longed-for repast and refuses him one bite until he has earned it by chopping a man's size pile of wood. Father has been advertising the arrival of Count de Cuckoo with the result that his hotel has been deluged with requests for reservations. While Jerry is chopping wood the baggageman arrives with a load of the Count's trunks. Asking for help the baggageman is reinforced with Jerry's assistance. Jerry's help is so well appreciated that the baggageman permits him to carry all the trunks while his own particular efforts are applied to rolling a cigarette. A letter arrives from the Count protesting his great sadness that he cannot be a guest at the hotel. Father wilts into dejection at the upset plans but revives with the idea that he might secure Jerry's services in filling the role of a count. He promises Jerry liberal remuneration and seals his acceptance by handing him a quarter. Jerry enters into the spirit of the situation by donning the Count's clothes, and upon presentation to the guests "starts something" when he selects the hotel man's daughter for a dancing partner. In the midst of the festivities the real Count de Cuckoo arrives with his valet. He learns of the hoax, sends for swords and the duel is on. Jerry forsakes technique for practical results. He graduates into a sword hurler, punctures the Count with a carefully aimed throw, wins the daughter and together they leap into an automobile. Speeding away from the grounds Jerry and his winsome winnings chuckle at the hysterics of Father and the Count.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 gets into trouble in a woman's suffrage stronghold and finds himself on trial before a woman jury. The ladies powder their noses, talk fashions, fix their hair and generally show interest in everything but Jerry's case while the evidence is being taken. They return a verdict of guilty and Jerry gets one year to live, but escapes in a suit of the judge's clothes lifted from the jurist's chambers. The judge runs Jerry down and he is marched back to prison through a cordon of mocking femininity.
- After viewing an enlistment poster, Jerry decides to fight for his country. On his way to the recruiting station he becomes an interested spectator of a preparedness parade. Indeed, so interested does he become that it requires the services of two policemen to quiet his ardor. When he explains that he is on his way to enlist, they release him. At the recruiting station he is told he is too small, and he combats this statement so strenuously that he has to be chased away. Tired by his exertions, he lies down and dreams of the "Spirit of '76," he having seen the picture at the recruiting station. Seeing himself as the drummer in the picture, fires his zeal anew, and he is playing the part and the drum to perfection when he is awakened by another policeman who wants to know what ails him. When Jerry explains his desire to enlist, the officer takes him to the recruiting station and the matter is fixed, and Jerry takes his place with a squad of rookies. But unfortunately he gets into an argument with another rookie, and during the melee which ensues Jerry runs off to avoid being put in the guard house. The training camp is near the border and Jerry, unconsciously running in that direction, is made prisoner by a Mexican bandit chief. He is taken to their headquarters, and there meets a beautiful girl and her father, who are also prisoners. Then Jerry is tied to a tree and sentenced to be shot, but the girl manages to elude her captors and comes to Jerry's aid, and his Mexican guard is made to change clothes and places with him and is almost shot in Jerry's stead. Jerry and the girl then rescue her father, and the three make their escape and are met by the soldiers who have been seeking Jerry as a deserter. But, instead of being treated as one, he is regarded as a hero.
- 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, ever alert to pretty girls, comes in contact with the maid of a wealthy family. She has been to market and Jerry relieves her of her burden. He is about to accept her invitation to dine with her when the policeman on the beat, who is also infatuated with the maid, appears. The officer hurls Jerry to the ground and then follows the maid to the kitchen. Jerry determined to gain an entrance to the place, starts for the door again, when Hank, the janitor, appears and another fight starts. Jerry is pounded again and Hank goes inside. A fight starts between the janitor and the bluecoat, the latter using his club freely and throwing the janitor downstairs to the cellar. Jerry is lost as to what to do when he spies the police captain. He hurries to him and tells his tale of woe and the Captain decides to go after his subordinate. Jerry follows in and while the two officers are fighting Jerry opens the door leading to the cellar and throws them both down to join the janitor. Jerry is progressing nicely when the master of the house comes in. He is also smitten with the girl, but before he sees Jerry the diminutive one hides under the table and is further shielded from view by the maid's apron. The master is having a love scene with the girl when his wife appears and she loses no time, crashing a bottle over the unfaithful one's head. The maid faints and as the wife rushes out Jerry goes to the girl's assistance. He picks her up just as the three in the cellar appear. Jerry runs to the hall and there he is confronted by the husband. Jerry throws the girl into the arms of the master and runs upstairs just as the wife appears. Seeing her husband with the maid in his arms the angry wife smashes a big vase over her husband's head, dropping him with the maid in his arms. The police and janitor appear on the scene and there is a general mixup. All decide to get Jerry and a chase leads to the top floor. Jerry climbs out of the window and aided by the drain pipe reaches the ground while the police and janitor climb down behind him. He is caught at the bottom by the husband, who is in waiting and held for the police, then to be severely clubbed and taken away to jail, leaving Hank the janitor in possession of the troublesome maid.
- Jerry is in love with Peggy. Her father objects to his courtship and favors a foreign gentleman, who hears the title of count. Peggy's birthday arrives, and the Count sends her a beautiful bouquet. Jerry is financially unable to send her a suitable present, but chances on an auction where unclaimed freight of an express company is being sold. He buys a trunk filled with silks and furs. From an absent-minded spectator he procures the necessary money to pay for his purchase, and hastens away to get an express man to deliver the package. While he is gone the trunks, of which there are several, are accidentally switched, and into an empty trunk a boozy individual falls and decides it is a good place for a nap. The wrong trunk is delivered to the girl's house. Jerry seeks safety in flight. At the corner he meets a motor cop, and seizing a motorcycle dashes away. Father summons the police. Eventually dashing down a hill Jerry sees before him a small shack marked "Powder House, Danger!" Unable to curb his speed he dashes through the walls. There is an explosion and Jerry volplanes through the air, eventually falling through the roof of the police station and landing on the sergeant's desk. They find that the individual in the trunk is not dead but merely intoxicated. The sergeant, in sampling the deadly carbolic acid, finds that it is merely Bourbon. Jerry makes love to the girl. Father discovers them in an embrace and vows vengeance as the picture fades.
- Jerry is in love with Claire Alexander, the daughter of a wealthy man. But Jerry is not alone in his passion. George George, disguised as a Russian Prince, has felt the lure of romance. Jerry, with the aid of Claire, manages to stick close to his beloved's side. He disguises himself as a Russian and gets the post of chauffeur to the Prince. Each realizes the other is a fraud, but each can say nothing. Jerry, after many adventures, discloses himself in his true identity to the Prince and the daughter's father. Thereupon the prince plots to send Jerry to the bandits. Greatest idea in all the world, thinks the father, but arrived at the haunts of the bandits, the father finds that he, too, is to suffer. The Prince holds the elderly man for ransom. There follow trick upon trick, but in the end virtue and innocence win out with Jerry winning everything, including the blessing of the father.
- Jerry 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.
- 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.
- Jerry ducks his room rent once too often. He is ordered from the boarding house. In attempting to get away with his baggage he drops his trunk on a policeman's head and bumps into the landlady on his exit. He raises the price of a hotel room by exercising his wits in a barroom. He engages a room in a fashionable hostelry. He starts for the bathroom, attired in pajamas, and invades a room occupied by a newly married couple. He rushes to cover in a bathroom where he meets an old man who falls in a faint. He administers illuminating gas while he gets into his clothes. Escaping via fire escape, he runs into an interesting adventure with a squad of poker playing policemen, who catch him and put him in jail.
- Jerry for once is in right with his sweetheart's father. All progresses well until one unfortunate night Jerry takes her to a movie show and here she meets Flashy Joe. His gaudy raiment and apparent wealth wins her heart from Jerry. Some time later she completely overthrows Jerry and goes auto riding with Flashy. Jerry determines on revenge patterned on the movie they had witnessed together, "The Sandbagger's Romance." He goes to the hardware store to purchase a deadly weapon but finds them too expensive. He gets an idea and buys iron washers. He takes these to his room and loads a sock with sand and the iron. Following Flashy to his apartment he lays in wait but is discovered by Flashy from the upper window window and knocked out by a water pitcher which Flashy drops on his head. While groggy, the girl's father happens along and pours a drink of high voltage whiskey down Jerry's throat. The effect is sudden. Jerry sees a revolving world and dancing elephants. Flashy meanwhile drops the washbowl but strikes father instead of Jerry. Coming to, Jerry sneaks up the back fire escape and as Flashy looks out again drops the skylight on his head. This knocks Flashy to the sidewalk, where he sits gazing blankly at lather, whose head protrudes through the washbowl. The girl happens along. Jerry confronts her, and, realizing what a hero he is, she accepts him again.
- 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, who is taking life easy in the park, is attracted by a scene between a mother and her baby. Jerry watches the happy woman fondling her child, and as he reflects over his past follies he pictures the day when he, too, will have a wife and a little child to love. Weary at heart, he goes to another bench and sits beside a sleeping tramp, where he, too, is soon fast asleep. He dreams that he is married and that he is the proud father of a family. As he caresses his baby and wife he awakens to find himself kissing the dusty tramp and a fight starts. The police hear the rumpus and as they start after Jerry, he runs away and takes refuge in a tool house near some construction work. The foreman of the work sees Jerry go into the house and quickly follows him. He ejects Jerry and warns him to keep away from the place. The foreman puts dynamite in the little storehouse for safe keeping until the following day, and as he walks away he drops the key of the shack, an incident which Jerry observes from his hiding place. Jerry gains possession of the key and enters the house, ignorant of the fact that it contains explosives. Seeing the police coming, Jerry proceeds to walk away with the house. Down the road a big auto truck is approaching, loaded with picnickers, consisting of policemen and their families and sweethearts. Jerry tries to get out of the way with the shack he is carrying, but unable to do so there is a collision, the explosives are set off and Jerry is sent flying through space. When he lands he is captured and handcuffed to the wheel of the truck. The merry picnickers go in swimming, but one of the women takes pity on Jerry and releases him. He meets four tramps, old friends, and they have a joyous reunion. Jerry and his friends spy the policemen's uniforms which were discarded for bathing suits when they went into the water, and no time is lost in appropriating them. The tramps and Jerry leave their discarded clothing behind and when the cops discover what has happened they rush from the water only to see Jerry and his cronies speeding away in the auto truck. The cops don the tramps' clothing and give chase only to run into the hands of the local sheriff, who mistakes them for tramps he is looking for. Jerry and party see the incident, understand the situation and hurry to the sheriff's aid and help him to take the enraged police to the lockup. The cops protest in vain and while they argue with the sheriff and his men, Jerry and his party motor off to a secluded spot, open the lunch baskets and enjoy their repast while the picture fades out.
- Peace prevailed in the Newlyweds household. An announcement from Mrs. Newlvwed's mother that she is coming to teach the young people how to run their house does not appeal to Mr. Newlywed and he consults his friend the doctor, who offers him but little consolation. Mother-in-law arrives and at once sets about running things. Mr. Newlywed. unable to stand it, comes home only after mother has retired. This state of affairs is not to be tolerated and when mother sees an ad in the paper of a discovery by Prof. Pill she fancies she sees a way out of the difficulties. The serum discovered by Prof. Pill when injected into a wayward husband makes him gentle and home-loving. Mother goes to see the professor and arrives in his office as he is in conference with the doctor. Overhearing the plot against Newlywed, the doctor, while the professor and mother are viewing the laboratory, substitutes plain water for the serum. Later hubby is put wise and when mother stabs him with the "hypo" he at once begins to meow and purr in a most feline manner. Mother and wifie are horrified as hubby laps the cream from his saucer. Finally mother calls Prof. Pill to restore her son-in-law to reason. Ere he can do so the adoption of three kittens by hubby causes both the wife and the doctor friend to upbraid mother so terribly that she grabs her belongings and hurriedly leaves for home. Mother's departure with the aid of a small tablet given him by the doctor friend has a wonderful effect on hubby and he once more is sane. The peace and happiness of the Newlywed household is restored.
- Jerry overhears two roughs plotting to hold up with empty guns a wealthy man and his daughter. Jerry follows them and at the psychological moment makes his appearance, and daring them to shoot, puts the robbers out of commission with the aid of a club. As a reward the man, who is a gouty invalid, engages Jerry as an attendant and takes him home, and what Jerry does not do to him and his wheeled chair is not worth reporting. But if only the daughter had returned Jerry's love, Jerry would not have minded so much what happened to him afterwards.
- 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.
- Jerry finds himself hungry and broke, without an idea where to get his next meal. He succeeds in wheedling the necessary cash out of a police sergeant under false pretenses, but discovery is swift, and the policeman proceeds to "take it out of his hide." Jerry is chased by the indignant sergeant and half a dozen club swingers, finally escaping them. He gets work in a general store, makes love to the proprietor's daughter, but is discovered by Dad and chased again until he turns the old gentleman wrong side up in a water barrel. While the storekeeper is off watch the store is robbed, and Jerry helps to catch the thieves. This restores him to favor, and he marries the maiden with his usual abandon.
- Deacon Squibbs, pillar of the First Church of the Strict Principles is informed by the family lawyer that there is one important document to be read in the presence of the Deacon and his nephew Jimmie. This document is nothing less than the will of Jimmie's father, which leaves his entire fortune to his son, provided the son marries and settles down directly after his twenty-fourth birthday. Another provision of the will appoints the deacon as sole judge of the young lady to be selected. Jimmie is already in love with a young widow whose father is an old veteran of the wars. Upon sight of her photo in Jimmie's watch the Deacon becomes interested and wants to go to see her. He learns that she is a widow and, according to the laws of the First Church of Strict Principles, cannot marry a man under forty. This news breaks the widow's heart but the deacon bids her hope as he himself is just a mite over the required age. To save Jimmie's fortune the widow agrees to an engagement between herself and the deacon with the mental reservation that the deacon will be glad to break his engagement soon. The deacon spreads the news of his engagement among the brothers of his church. They are amazed and not a little doubtful. Jimmie learns of what has happened, but is reassured by the widow and her father, the gruff old colonel, that there is a plot behind it which will result in happiness to all. The church committee are short one member for their lawn social and the deacon volunteers the services of his fiancée. She states that she has a little society dance that she will do for them and the deacon is delighted. The day of the social arrives and the people of the First Church are congregated full of pleasure and anticipation. Brother T. Winkels' mouth organ solo was successful and all was well until they announced the widow's number. Jimmie, at the organ, plays an Oriental strain. The widow glides on in shimmering beads and a few yards of gauze. She twisted and shook and jarreted in a way to shock the whole congregation. She retired amid glares from the crowd, leaving the helpless deacon a target for all unfriendly comments. The next day the deacon breaks his engagement and offers Jimmie $5,000 to wed the widow and take her from the city. Jimmie, now enjoying the fun, refuses. The father challenges the deacon to a duel with swords. In the cold gray dawn of the following day the deacon with his backers of the church face the father of the widow, Jimmie, and the doctor. Tearfully the deacon begs Jimmie and the widow to accept his check and call off the duel. Finally the colonel and the widow are pacified and Jimmie holds the check and tells the deacon that he and the widow were married the day before. The deacon swoons in the arms of his brethren.
- Jerry's sweetheart is cook for a newlywed family and she "tips him off" to the fact that they have just discharged their gardener and need a new one, advising him to apply at her employer's office. Jerry acts upon her advice and arrives at Newlywed's office just after Newlywed's fat brother has arrived on a visit. As Mrs. Newlywed has never met the "little brother," Newlywed writes him a letter of introduction to his wife. He then hires Jerry as gardener and writes a letter for him to his wife. Owing to a "clerical error" the letters get mixed up and Jerry gets the brother's and the brother gets Jerry's. Then things begin to happen. Jerry is received by the young wife with open arms as her husband's brother. The "little brother," who is cursed with a terrible appetite, is put to work in the garden and, driven by hunger, proceeds to help himself to eatables and gets into a row with the housemaid. The young wife's attentions to Jerry arouses the cook's jealousy, and not knowing the reason for said attentions, she attacks Jerry with a loaded sugar bowl and puts him temporarily out of commission. She then telephones the husband and he, in turn, filled with murderous jealousy, arrives on the scene and fills Jerry, the brother and an intruding policeman full of bird shot, before the mistake in the letters is discovered and nobody killed.
- Nathan Grey and his daughter, Betty, live in the suburbs. Betty is in love with Jimmie Gordin, a young fellow of small means but great attraction. All goes well until the villain, Olden Rich, of vast wealth, appears. He falls in love with Betty, and Nathan favors the wealthy suitor. Betty disobeys her father, who swears she shall marry Rich before another week. Betty communicates with Jimmie and they devise a plan. She will go to visit an aunt in a distant city. Jimmis is to call and they will marry before she returns. They did not reckon on the craft of the villain Rich, and he follows on the same train on which Betty leaves. In the distant city Betty sends a telegram to her lover to come at once. This message is intercepted by Rich and he wires to father. In trying to regain her message Betty scuffles with Rich. The police come up and Rich announces that Betty is a harmless lunatic whom he is taking to an asylum. The police believe him. By bribing the superintendent Rich has her placed in the asylum. Father, on getting Rich's wire, leaves for the city and by chance Jimmie also leaves on the same train. Father joins Rich and they go to the asylum, where father informs Betty that she will either marry Rich or never leave the asylum. Despite Betty's protests, they send for a minister. Jimmie arrives in the city and while waiting around the hotel meets a young physician, an old college friend, who is in charge of the asylum. He invites Jimmie to come up and look over the place. Jimmie goes with him and he discovers that Betty is incarcerated in the asylum. The minister arrives and the ceremony between Betty and old Rich is about to take place. The young physician and Jimmie frame a plot and Jimmie has the doctor declare the father and Rich are insane. The minister is now called to unite Jimmie and Betty. Father, seeing all is useless, blesses his children and leaves old Rich to pace his cell in baffled rage.
- Jerry is hungry and broke. Meeting a hobo who is in the same fix they try to plan some method of obtaining a square meal. While they are talking they observe a detective removing a disguise and see him conceal it in the bandstand in a park. This gives them an idea and they proceed to put it into execution. The hobo puts on the disguise and Jerry enters a swell restaurant and orders a full meal. When he finishes eating he signals, as agreed upon, by dropping a plate out of the window. The hobo, disguised as the detective, then enters as Jerry is in an argument with the proprietor and the waiter over his bill and arrests Jerry. Telling the proprietor that "his troubles are his own,'' he drags Jerry away. Jerry and the hobo then reverse matters and Jerry puts on the disguise, and the hobo enters and orders everything on the bill. Jerry, however, meets his sweetheart and neglects to come to his partner's rescue, even when one plate follows another out of the window, A policeman, who has been interested in watching Jerry and the hobo, hearing a row in the restaurant, enters and arrests the hobo. Later Jerry, through a reward notice found in the disguise, succeeds in apprehending a notorious crook, saves his sweetheart from being robbed, and collects a large reward. He releases his hobo friend and everyone is happy.
- Mr. Morton, a wealthy man, has decided to take his wife and daughter for a vacation on their farm. Neal, a young artist, has selected a spot in the canyon where he is painting. Betty, the daughter of Morton, meets Neal, who, mistaking her for a real country girl, asks her to pose for him. Betty consents. After a few sittings Betty and Neal are in love. Neal proposes and Betty accepts under the condition that father's consent is secured. Neal goes to Mr, Morton at once. But when father reveals his name and tells Neal that no poor artist shall ever marry his daughter, Neal walks away. Betty pleads with father, who finally says that he will give his consent if the artist paints something good enough for him to buy. Betty tells the good news to Neal. Encouraged by Betty's hopes Neal starts to paint his masterpiece. The day the masterpiece was presented to father Neal knew his fate, and when father said: "This is the worst I've ever seen," he walked away, heartbroken. Harry, a friend of Neal, was on his way with two girl friends to visit him. In a few words Neal told them the whole story. Ethel, a quick-witted girl, saw a way out and taking Neal apart, explained her scheme. She gave her Kodak to Neal and walked away. Father was fishing in the creek when Ethel approached him, and soon father was engaged in a flirtation with her. At the moment he kissed her a Kodak was at work. The next day Neal was seen putting the finishing touches to an enlargement of the scene of Ethel and father. Betty was with Neal, and together they go to see father. Betty hides in a bush and Neal goes to father and offers him his painting for the amount of $10,000. What was the use of arguing? Betty came just in time to see the check father handed to Neal, and when Neal kissed Betty father wanted to object, but they held him to his bargain. What a delight it was to see father, dodging mother, sneak in the backyard and put a match to that masterpiece of damaging evidence.
- Jerry dreams that because he has not paid his rent his landlord has fastened him to a fence and has thrown knives at him, which come within an inch of taking his life. He awakens with a start and finds Hank, the landlord, rapping at the door. Not receiving money, the landlord throws Jerry across the hall through a door and across a room into the lap of a woman. The woman's husband finds Jerry in this position and throws a pitcher at the intruder,, but misses him. The pitcher strikes Hank, knocking him down. Soon a fight is going on between Hank and the husband. The police take the belligerents away, but they escape by throwing the officers into a pond. Jerry proceeds to make love to Tiny. When Hank returns and demands admittance to Jerry's room, Jerry and Tiny hide in Jerry's trunk. Hank breaks down the door and, hearing the noise in the trunk, throws it out of the window. It just misses a policeman. The trunk turns over and proceeds from whence it came. Hank hears the trunk coming back and starts after Jerry, who darts out of a window, pursued by the policeman. He eludes him and hides under a dummy figure in front of a pawn shop. The policeman stands beside the dummy. Jerry kicks him and the policeman strikes at the dummy and knocks off its head. Jerry, in the figure, runs off. He makes his way into a barroom, where one of the terrified customers throws a hatchet, which lands where Jerry's head ought to be. Jerry then raids a crap game and then returns to Tiny. Hank is making love to Tiny and dives out of the window when he sees the headless object. Tiny faints, but Jerry revives her and then removes his dummy figure to prove that all is well. Jerry is now free to carry on his love-making unmolested.
- Harry and Neal are financially hard pressed and decide to spend the summer at the beach. They gain employment as clerks at the Seabright Hotel. Days pass and still no pretty girls come to the hotel and the boys are getting discouraged. Finally one day a peach arrives with her mother and at once the boys attempt to get in solid. Neal succeeds in making a date with her, and she promises to meet him on the beach in the afternoon. Here Neal's hopes are wrecked, for the peach meets the sun-kissed hero of the beach, the lifeguard, and immediately she loses interest in Neal. Harry, although he sees no chance of winning the peach himself, is not willing to resign in favor of the lifeguard. He learns that the hero of the beach is married, and going to his house tells his wife of his attentions to the fair sex on the beach. She, accompanied by her four children, are very indignant and go with Harry to see her husband's behavior for herself. Arriving at the beach, Neal frames with an old fisherman for a false rescue and shows up the phony lifeguard, who refuses to go after the fisherman. Neal makes the rescue and at once becomes the center of attraction for all the girls. Harry and the lifeguard's family arrive just as a fitting climax to the day's happenings, and while the disconsolate guard is taken away by the wife and numerous progeny, Neal attempts to force his attention on Betty, whose interest is now centered in the half-drowned Joe. She exists with him, leaving both her erstwhile lovers disconsolate.
- Jerry is "in bad" with a sheriff of a western town and is ordered out of the place. Jerry puts an outlaw to flight who is holding up a wealthy man, his wife and daughter, and is invited to ride with them. Later the bandit captures them, takes Jerry and the girl prisoner, and orders the chauffeur to drive on with the parents. That night Jerry has a dream in which Indians are torturing him when the girl comes to the rescue and throwing herself before him is shot and killed. He is glad when he wakes up to find it all a dream. The next day Jerry and the girl are rescued by the sheriff. Jerry is hailed as a hero, is congratulated by the sheriff, and wins a wealthy father-in-law.
- Needing sleep badly, Jerry tries to obtain it in the park, but the police department and some wicked boys make it difficult. When he finally does fall asleep, he has a dream of blowing up a lot of his enemies, the police, but awakens to find he has been made the victim of an explosion planned by the boys. He is arrested by the police who accuse him of causing the explosion. At the station house he makes his get-a-way and "butts in" on a five pointed mix-up between Roxie, the cook for the Mills household, her two rival police lovers and her master and mistress. Jerry saves the lives of the lovers, one from being roasted, the other from being frozen to death, but involves Roxie in a jealous row between Mr. and Mrs. Mills, and lands himself back in the clutches of the law.
- 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.
- Father and mother quarrel at the breakfast table at a time when May and June, twins, are quite young. May, being "mother's child," sides with mother, and June, being "father's child," sides with father. Father leaves the home with June without mother's knowledge. After a lapse of years May marries Jack and, accompanied by mother, goes on a honeymoon trip, which includes a visit to a mountain resort. Simultaneously with their arrival father and June also become guests of the same hotel. On the way to the hotel June spies, Jerry, her sweetheart, father objects to Jerry and takes occasion to assert himself. Shortly after Jerry appears at the hotel and finds May in the lobby. Taking her for June he embraces May, protesting his love, in spite of the father. May resents and is rescued by her husband, who gives Jerry a knockout blow and then proceeds to register. While father is taking a nap June sends a note to Jerry asking him to call. Jerry's greeting is somewhat boisterous and awakens father, who throws him out, landing him in the bridal chamber across the hall occupied by May. Partially dazed and when able to sit up Jerry is astonished to see May (who he thinks is June) and he attempts to embrace her. This disturbance attracts the attention of Jack coming up the hall, who settles it by throwing Jerry out of the room. June, having been attracted by the cry for help from May, as she runs down the hall, comes out in time to see Jerry thrown out and she helps him to his feet. Jack, also going into the hall to see the result of his work, sees June, whom he believes to be his wife. May, succoring the man he has just punished for bothering his wife. Indignant, he pushes Jerry out of the way, picks up June and carries her into the bridal chamber, with June struggling violently and Jerry looking on in astonishment. June escapes and falls into her father's arms. In this position Jack finds them. Believing June to be May and not knowing his father-in-law, he compels the old gentleman to defend himself with a revolver. The mix-up might have gone on indefinitely but mother enters the scene and solves all the complications. In the end father goes to mother, June to Jerry and May to Jack.
- Jerry 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.
- Ethel was to be married and father had figured the expense down to the last cent and really couldn't see how he was to meet it. Those things didn't bother son any and he and his chum helped themselves plentifully to wines and other good things, and were only restrained after father had kicked them out of the kitchen. Uncle John had arrived for the wedding and was temporarily staying away from his club and card games. About this time a burglar scare is started in the neighborhood and the family becomes worried about the wedding presents. George, the son, and Billie, the sister of the bride-to-be, decide to use a novel burglar alarm and go to a nearby store, where they purchase a quantity of flypaper. This they distribute around the house and especially around the wedding presents. Uncle John had wind of a very interesting card game, and while pretending to retire early, in reality he sneaks away to the club. Ethel and Billie retire and all seems peaceful. Uncle John, returning from the club, is held up and his watch, to which was attached his keys, taken by the robber. Rather than disturb the household, Uncle John gains admittance through the window and becomes helplessly entangled in the fly paper. His efforts to release himself arouse George, who, gun in hands, descends the stairs, encountering much flypaper on the way. In the dining room he encounters Uncle John, whom he supposes to be a burglar, and a fight ensues. The noise arouses father, mother, Billie and Ethel, who descend to the dining room. A policeman is attracted and arrives in time to prevent any tragedy. When Uncle John is finally relieved of his fly paper mask, the two youthful geniuses, Billie and George, are severely spanked.
- Jerry from the top of a tree is making love to his girl at the window opposite. A policeman interferes and is put to sleep when Jerry falls on him. Jerry appropriates his clothes and enters his girl's home, arrests her father, who has been peppering him with a gun, and has him sent to the police station. Jerry gets his autoped and starts with the daughter for a ride. In the country they are discovered by Bad Bill and his outlaws. They take Jerry and the girl to a cabin where a fight ensues as to who shall have possession of the girl. It is finally decided that the bandits shall draw cards. Jerry objects and is locked in the attic. He escapes by climbing down the wall. Entering the cabin, he crawls along the floor, frisks the bandits' guns from their holsters and makes the bandits back against the door. Meanwhile the policeman has recovered consciousness and with his brother officers starts on Jerry's trail. They arrive at the cabin as Jerry is about to flee. The girl's father has also been released and comes upon the scene in a motor car. A melee follows, but Jerry escapes with the girl and jumping into father's car compels the chauffeur to depart. Father and the police follow in the police motor patrol. Divining the route Jerry will take, the police use a short cut. The machines collide at a fork in the road, with a loud report, followed by splinters and debris flying high in the air. Jerry wakes, having fallen off the park bench which he was using for a bed. Finding himself intact he lies down again, covers himself with paper and is soon fast asleep.