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- A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.
- After viewing an enlistment poster, Jerry decides to fight for his country. On his way to the recruiting station he becomes an interested spectator of a preparedness parade. Indeed, so interested does he become that it requires the services of two policemen to quiet his ardor. When he explains that he is on his way to enlist, they release him. At the recruiting station he is told he is too small, and he combats this statement so strenuously that he has to be chased away. Tired by his exertions, he lies down and dreams of the "Spirit of '76," he having seen the picture at the recruiting station. Seeing himself as the drummer in the picture, fires his zeal anew, and he is playing the part and the drum to perfection when he is awakened by another policeman who wants to know what ails him. When Jerry explains his desire to enlist, the officer takes him to the recruiting station and the matter is fixed, and Jerry takes his place with a squad of rookies. But unfortunately he gets into an argument with another rookie, and during the melee which ensues Jerry runs off to avoid being put in the guard house. The training camp is near the border and Jerry, unconsciously running in that direction, is made prisoner by a Mexican bandit chief. He is taken to their headquarters, and there meets a beautiful girl and her father, who are also prisoners. Then Jerry is tied to a tree and sentenced to be shot, but the girl manages to elude her captors and comes to Jerry's aid, and his Mexican guard is made to change clothes and places with him and is almost shot in Jerry's stead. Jerry and the girl then rescue her father, and the three make their escape and are met by the soldiers who have been seeking Jerry as a deserter. But, instead of being treated as one, he is regarded as a hero.
- Jerry loves a girl and the girl loves Jerry, but her father does not. The old man wants her to marry a wealthy East Indian Prince, who also wants to buy the family jewels. "Boston Bill," a high class crook, who has made the old man's acquaintance, posing as a financier, also wishes to marry the girl, and likewise has designs on the family jewels, but has no intention of buying them. The Prince is to arrive on a certain day, but is delayed and sends a telegram which is intercepted by "Boston Bill" and later stolen from him by Jerry, and the two are thus made aware of the non-appearance of the East Indian potentate. "Boston Bill" decides to have his "pal," "Flash Jack," impersonate the Prince and Jerry, overhearing their plans, figures out a scheme to frustrate them and impersonate the East Indian himself. He informs his sweetheart of his plans and then starts to work. He watches "Flash Jack," sees him receive his costume, and then, by means of a subterfuge, he switches bundles with him and substitutes one that "plants" him as an international spy. He then informs the authorities. Jack is arrested, the incriminating evidence discovered, and Jack landed in jail, where he is recognized as a much wanted crook. Jerry, disguised as the Prince, calls on papa-in-law, foils the other crook, "Boston Bill," in his attempt to steal the jewels, and winds up by locking him in the vault where the jewels are kept. But, unfortunately, when the police arrive and arrest Bill, they unmask Jerry as the bogus Prince.
- Jerry 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Marie, a little orphan girl living with a tavern keeper called M'sieu, brings happiness into the lives of M'sieu's patrons with her sayings and songs which have the effect on people of replacing their evil thoughts with good ones. She becomes the constant companion of Absinthe, an old musician who now plays at the tavern, but who earlier had accompanied a great singer until he was dismissed because of drinking. One day Marie finds Claire, the daughter of the now deceased singer, at the river bank, contemplating death. Marie brings Claire to the inn, where she helps out and eventually falls in love with Philip, a frequenter of the tavern, due to Marie's effort to rehabilitate Philip with her singing.
- Jerry is seated in the railway station waiting for his train, when a woman approaches him and asks that he hold her baby for a few minutes. Jerry does her the favor. The minutes, however, stretch into a long period of time, and getting tired of his job, Jerry places the baby in a basket which has been placed on the bench beside him by two crooks. Thinking his troubles are over Jerry starts to leave, when a colored woman asks him if he would mind her baby for a few minutes while she goes in search of her husband. Again Jerry hasn't the heart to refuse. The first mother returns, and takes the colored baby from Jerry believing it to be her own. It is wrapped in covers, and she does not open them. The train on which this mother's husband is due to arrive pulls into the station. The husband knows Jerry, and urges him to come along to his home. Jerry refuses the invitation and thanks him, but the husband insists, and Jerry is forcibly carried away. Meantime the crooks have taken away the basket containing the white baby, and are now out on the high road on their way to the scene of their next job. The colored woman returns to the station to claim her baby, and finds Jerry and her baby gone. She screams, bringing a policeman to her side. She explains her plight to him, and he advises her to go to the police station. Arriving home, the husband lifts the cover from the baby's face. Consternation reigns when he discovers that they have the wrong baby. The mother explains that Jerry had been entrusted with their baby, and that any mistake is due to his carelessness. The father starts after Jerry, but he is nimble of foot and gets out of harm's way. A lively chase follows, Jerry is finally caught and led to the police station. The two couples meet at the station, and while they are trying to thrash out matters the crooks enter with the white baby. They had discovered the nature of their burden, and have returned to turn it over to the police. Matters :are then adjusted, and the picture closes with Jerry crooning to the mite of humanity he is permitted to hold in his arms, this time under the watchful eye of the baby's parents.
- Jerry from the top of a tree is making love to his girl at the window opposite. A policeman interferes and is put to sleep when Jerry falls on him. Jerry appropriates his clothes and enters his girl's home, arrests her father, who has been peppering him with a gun, and has him sent to the police station. Jerry gets his autoped and starts with the daughter for a ride. In the country they are discovered by Bad Bill and his outlaws. They take Jerry and the girl to a cabin where a fight ensues as to who shall have possession of the girl. It is finally decided that the bandits shall draw cards. Jerry objects and is locked in the attic. He escapes by climbing down the wall. Entering the cabin, he crawls along the floor, frisks the bandits' guns from their holsters and makes the bandits back against the door. Meanwhile the policeman has recovered consciousness and with his brother officers starts on Jerry's trail. They arrive at the cabin as Jerry is about to flee. The girl's father has also been released and comes upon the scene in a motor car. A melee follows, but Jerry escapes with the girl and jumping into father's car compels the chauffeur to depart. Father and the police follow in the police motor patrol. Divining the route Jerry will take, the police use a short cut. The machines collide at a fork in the road, with a loud report, followed by splinters and debris flying high in the air. Jerry wakes, having fallen off the park bench which he was using for a bed. Finding himself intact he lies down again, covers himself with paper and is soon fast asleep.
- Jerry 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, 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's sympathy is aroused by a blind man who is playing an accordion. He is about to donate to the unfortunate's tin cup when the musician winks an eye and Larry gets suspicious. He informs a policeman about the fakir and as the guardian of the law arrests the beggar Jerry runs off with the accordion. He serenades his sweetheart. The discord of Jerry's singing and the weird sounds of the instrument attract the father and he investigates. At the same time, Hank, the gardener, rushes to remonstrate with Jerry. In the meantime the father has armed himself with a large vase and just as he drops it from a third story window, directed at Jerry's head, Hank appears and he is the target and is knocked unconscious. Jerry tries to revive the stunned man with music from the accordion, but before he has administered much treatment the father has summoned the police and Jerry takes to his feet. His flight carries him to a secluded spot where there is in hiding a band of blackhanders. The "lookout" spies Jerry and at the point of a gun orders him to enter the "shack of mystery." The chief of the band is getting ready to send an anonymous letter to a wealthy merchant and plans are being perfected to install an infernal machine in the man's house. The band decide to force Jerry to carry the letter and the machine to the house. Jerry is astonished when he finds that the merchant is the father of his sweetheart. Urged on by two blackhanders. Jerry arrives at the house. He fights his way past the butler and when he sees his sweetheart he fears for her safety. The father appears and .Jerry hands him the letter. A general mix-up follows and Jerry rushes up stairs and he locks himself in a room with the daughter. Suddenly he remembers that he has a dangerous infernal machine with him and he rushes out to the hall. The father, butler and mother give chase and Jerry, not desiring to injure the girl he loves, runs out of the house, carrying the machine with him. He hurries back to the blackhanders' shack, escaping the police as the two members or the gang who were guarding him are arrested. Gaining an entrance to the shack, Jerry places the machine in front of the chief and starts to run when he is hustled back by the other members of the gang. The chief remembers the hour of the expected explosion and with his henchmen rushes out of the building, leaving Jerry alone. A moment later there is a terrible explosion, the building is blown to pieces and Jerry sent sailing through the air, only to land in the path of the two policemen who are searching for him.
- After numerous vicissitudes in an effort to enter the studio Jerry obtains a job as an actor with a motion picture company. He examines everything, and soon gets into trouble. The company proceeds into the slums to take some exteriors. Jerry, playing a detective, with a shining badge pinned to his coat, is very proud and shows off before a pretty girl who appears at a window. The girl flirts with him and following her he gets into a den of thieves. The girl believed him to be harmless but upon seeing the badge surmises he is an officer. She summons her brother crooks, who attack Jerry and throw him Into a closet, believing him unconscious. But Jerry has divined that his assailants are crooks, and climbing out of a window he summons a policeman, who telephones for a patrol. Meanwhile the director has requisitioned the services of one of the crooks. The police find the crook and arrest him. Jerry and other officers go into the house and soon emerge with the crooks and loot; and all are carted off to the police station. The zealous cameraman photographs the entire proceedings. At the police station the difficulties are unraveled and Jerry, to gain the good will of the policemen, photographs them, though not with much success, as the exposed film rolls into his pocket instead of the camera magazine.
- After a "watery" encounter with a policeman, Jerry receives a note from his sweetheart delivered by her kid brother. He meets the girl, but their tete-a-tete is interrupted by the girl's father and the father's favorite suitor for the girl's hand. When Jerry picks himself up, he meets the girl again, and, with the aid of the kid, they lay plans to elope. The boy is to disguise himself in the girl's clothes and lead the pursuers astray, while the girl, in the boy's clothes, is to meet Jerry and get married. The scheme would have worked if only the kid brother had not been caught trying to go in swimming, and if the minister had not been out of town when the young couple called. Thus it is that Jerry and the girl are forced to go to a hotel, and the landlord tells them there is only one room vacant. Jerry excuses himself with the landlord from occupying his share of the room by declaring that his "little brother" snores. While he is trying to make himself comfortable in the hotel office, Alkali Pete arrives, and at the points of his guns demands a room. In desperation the landlord is forced to give Pete the half of the room occupied by the "kid," and then things happen; Jerry, the girl, Alkali Pete, the girl's father, and the favored suitor, who arrive on the scene, the landlord, and the landlord's wife get into a mixed up running fight, which ends by Jerry and Pete being led off under arrest, and the girl receiving a proper spanking by her father's slipper.
- Tiny's father objects to Jerry's suit for his daughter's hand, and orders the butler to throw Jerry from the premises. In the melee the butler strikes the father and is discharged. Thereupon father 'phones a detective agency intending to ask them to send him a detective to watch Jerry, a maid to watch Tiny, and a butler to serve his household. But the detective agency's manager is too busy making love to his stenographer to answer the 'phone, so father writes the agency a note. Jerry sees him putting the note in the post office, extracts it therefrom, and after gleaning father's message decides to put a new scheme into being. Jerry visits his friends, Tom and Dick, and prevails upon Tom to dress as a detective and Dick to dress as a butler, while Jerry himself dresses as a maid. Thus dressed the three repair to Tiny's home. When they arrive father is commanding Tiny to be "nice" to Hank, his favorite suitor for his daughter's hand. Jerry seeing this contrives to separate Tiny from him. He succeeds and follows Tiny to her room, accompanied by Tom and Dick. Jerry tells Tiny that he and his friends are movie actors, and that they will be glad to stage a scene for her delectation. Their acting, however, causes a lot of racket in the house, and father and Hank hurry to Tiny's room to learn the trouble. Seeing they are about to be caught in a trap, for Jerry has lost his wig in the acting scene, they scatter just as father and Hank break in. Seeing the deception that has been practiced upon him father gets his shot-gun. A lively time follows, but Jerry and his friends are fortunate beings and escape, the picture closing with a scene of Jerry rushing down the road, his footfalls beating an accompaniment to a rainfall of bullets.
- Jerry has a wonderful horse, named Oneta, which does everything but talk and, when in the open western country he sleeps beneath his mount, which thus serves both as shelter and guard. Jerry is much in love with the daughter of a rancher and has a rival for her affections the person of Chuck Farley, who is in reality a member of a notorious band of outlaws and horse thieves. The sheriff of the county has placed a reward on their apprehension and arrest. Chuck becomes jealous of Jerry's standing with the girl and also envies him the beautiful horse, so plots with his outlaw band to waylay Jerry and take him to their mountain camp. Here his faithful steed rescues him by untying his bonds. Jerry rides away, gets the girl and hurries to the sheriff and his posse, whom they lead to the successful capture of the gang. The girl's dream comes true when Jerry is presented with the reward, which he hands to the horse, who, in turn, gives it to the girl.
- Jerry is living in a theatrical boarding house, where everybody, including himself, is in debt to the landlady. The landlady is going right after her collections in regulation "strong arm" style, and the boarders are resorting to every device known to escape from her clutches with their belongings. Jerry is not slow in his methods of making a getaway, but has hard luck in carrying them out. He finally gets into a mix-up with the landlady, the janitor and a policeman, but after a whirlwind scramble upstairs and downstairs, through second story windows and back doors, up and down ladders and ropes made of bedsheets, he succeeds in distancing his pursuers and escapes up an alley with his trunk.
- Disconsolate, with only Pete, his old-time chum, for companionship, Jerry reads of the recent wedding of a man to a millionairess, effected through a newspaper want ad. To him comes the thought that he might be able to put through a similar deal. Jerry writes an ad calling for a beautiful wife, accomplished and affectionate, and clearly states he has no objection to one of wealth. Jerry selects the picture of Marie as his prospective bride and wires her to come. Marie joins Jerry and together they go to a minister. Jerry offers his stamps for his fee. The ceremony is about to be performed when the clergyman demands Marie's eugenic certificate. They agree to visit the Eugenic Bureau. Marie is put through a severe test that results in her rejection by the physician. She departs for the railroad station to return to her home, while Jerry decides that matrimony is a pretty tough proposition.
- Jerry 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 is a "movie" actor making pictures on a farm. Jerry spots the farmer's daughter and proceeds to flirt. Hank, while professing love for the farmer's daughter "falls" for the leading lady. She repels Hank. He becomes enraged when he sees Jerry making love to his girl. Hank's jealousy finds expression in a fast fist fight. Hank is fired by the farmer, but Jerry promises him a job in a movie company provided he will drive him to town. Hank agrees, but insists that his girl elope with him. They leave for the city. Hank and the daughter take rooms in a tenement. Jerry calls on daughter during Hank's absence and she cries for food. Hank returns with sandwiches. Jerry hides under the table; a cough betrays him, and Hank opens fire with a big revolver. Police are attracted by the shots and Hank is jailed, while Jerry offers his protection to the daughter. The whole action is just a few scenes of a picture in the making. The camera is rolled back, showing the director congratulating the cast for their good work.
- The picture opens with George Ovey entering a picture show. There, on the screen, he sees himself playing his character of Jerry in a story which takes him into the moonshine country, where he has a series of thrilling adventures. When the story fades out Ovey is discovered in his seat, asleep. The show is over and a pretty girl usher taps him on the shoulder, awakening him.
- Jerry arrives in Tyrol with a wallet stuffed with "moving picture money" and riding a "trained and educated" bicycle. He is held up by bandits and robbed of his wallet and bicycle. He succeeds in creeping away from his captors and whistling to his trusty wheel. It comes to him and he makes good his escape. He meets a gouty, retired army officer riding in a wheel chair pushed by a surly attendant. The officer is accompanied by his daughter. The attendant, through carelessness, injures the old man's gouty foot and is discharged. Jerry is engaged to take his place. The bandits have, in the meantime, gone to the nearby inn to spend their ill-gotten gains and are having trouble over Jerry's bogus money. He arrives on the scene on an errand and routs the bandits. They fall in with the rascally attendant, and guided by him, make the old officer and daughter prisoners. Jerry outwits and defeats the bandits and rescues them. He then takes the bandit chief prisoner and ties him in the wheelchair. The path is a steep one. The chair breaks away and runs off the edge of a high cliff. The chair is utterly demolished by the fall, but the chief rises unhurt from the wreckage.
- Disguised as an army officer, Jerry finds himself close to the Mexican border. He gets in trouble with Lieut. Jack and the police interfere. At Jerry's command Jack is placed under arrest, although he protests. Jack's sweetheart sees the fight, but before she arrives her lover is taken to the guard house. Jerry then returns to the girl's house to plead his love. In the meantime Jack manages to get in touch with the Colonel and he is released. Jerry is progressing nicely with his love scene when Jack enters. Another mixup follows and as Jerry rushes from the house he takes a photograph of the girl with him. Jack follows and soon the two are at it again. They decide to end the quarrel over the girl in a duel. As they measure off the distance they are suddenly aroused when a band of bandits pounce down upon them. Both are made prisoners and taken to a cell. When Jerry is searched the picture of the girl is found and the chief of bandits orders Jerry to write her a note, telling her he is ill and needs her. He is forced to do this and then with Jack is cast into a dungeon. One of the bandits delivers the note to the girl and she hurries to the scene. She is greeted by the chief, who ties her hand and foot and then takes her to the dungeon to display his prize to the two men. He next orders Jerry and Jack removed to another cell and then he places the girl in a room and locks her up. One of the bandits drops a gun and Jerry grabs it, quickly he disarms the rest of the band while Jack ropes them together. Leaving the band helpless, Jack and Jerry start out to find the girl and they rescue her when Jerry stands on Jack's shoulders and lifts her from a window. As the trio start to escape Jerry finds some hand bombs and when another squad of bandits start after the trio they are blown to bits by the bombs which Jerry throws among them. Mounting horses, Jack, Jerry and the girl rush back to the zone of safety and the girl is returned to her worried parents. There Jerry gives up his efforts to win her, places her hand in Jack's and, giving his blessing, bravely goes forth to fight the bandits alone.
- Being a plebeian, Jerry makes no impression upon Lady Isabelle with his love making and she accepts Archy, a man of title. Disconsolate, Jerry goes to a park and is approached by a man who introduces himself as a lawyer and who tells Jerry he has inherited a title and is rich. Jerry accompanies the lawyer and is paid two dollars, the remainder having gone for legal fees. He advises Jerry to dress befitting his rank and he buys an outfit which he thinks is O.K. Archy and Lady Isabelle are married and Jerry is invited to the wedding and does the wrong thing at the wrong time. Lady Isabella has a wayward brother who comes to her for financial aid. Archy sees her giving money to him and his suspicions are aroused. Further evidence warrants him doing something desperate and he hires Jerry to put the man out of the way. Jerry is unsuccessful and in despair Archy leaves. Lady Isabelle sends for Archy and he returns at night. He spies his wife's brother sleeping under the bed, and Jerry, who is hiding behind the screen, while there is the maid reposing in the cradle. Horrified he calls Lady Isabelle to account. Explanations are made and all ends happily.