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- The fashionable Ferndale section is thrown into a state of excitement by a series of daring robberies. At breakfast one morning Mr. Goodrich learns from the morning paper that the night before the neighborhood had again been visited by burglars and thousands of dollars in money and jewelry carried away. Determined to guard his house against intrusion he writes to a private detective agency for men. His daughter Goldie is commissioned to deliver the note, but, meeting Jerry and Hank, two admirers, she suggests that they take the place of two detectives. The job, giving them an opportunity to be near their inamorata, Jerry and Hank accept. Having the freedom of the house, Hank sees how easy it is to rob it and succumbs to temptation. He dispatches a note to Bill, a rather tough customer, and instructs him to play burglar, promising to show him the way. The proceeds are to be divided fifty-fifty. Jerry learns of the plan and decides to foil it. That night Bill enters the house and is being escorted to the safe by Hank when he clumsily falls over a chair. The noise awakes Mr. Goodrich, who, armed with a rifle, starts after the conspirators. In the meantime a real burglar has entered the house. The shots meant for Bill and Hank make him seek cover and he wraps himself around with a pair of draperies. But Jerry has witnessed the act and decides to prove himself a hero. While Mr. Goodrich is telephoning for the police Jerry keeps a close watch on his quarry. When they arrive Hank and Bill have escaped, but Jerry, being an outsider, is collared as the burglar. He insists that there is a mistake and calls for Mr. Goodrich to prove it. To the rich man he explains that the burglar is hiding and points out the place. Then with a rush he captures him and turns him over to the police. Mr. Goodrich is delighted with Jerry's watchfulness and wishes to reward him. Jerry spurns money. He asks for the hand of Goldie. Mr. Goodrich gives his consent, but suggests that Jerry first consult Jack, Goldie's husband. As Jerry turns to Goldie he is amazed to see her in the arms of her husband, who has just entered. With one parting look he falls into a faint.
- Tired of his irksome jail sentence Jerry contrives a clever scheme by which he eludes two guards and escapes after an interesting chase. At last in safety he sits down for a rest. Two Indians approach and make him captive. He is brought before Chief Pain-in-the-Face who decrees that he shall die. The Chief's daughter, Moonlight Princess, falls in love with Jerry at first sight and successfully pleads with her father for his life. She is told to have him painted and dressed like an Indian and she may marry him. Thus arrayed and bound Jerry is about to give up all hope when a professor of natural history, endeavoring to buy an Indian to accompany him on a lecture tour, arrives and negotiates the purchase of Jerry. The prisoner is overjoyed at the prospect of release, but not so with the Princess, who is taken struggling and protesting to her tent. Jerry is taken to the professor's home that night and left alone in the library while the professor goes on an errand. The other occupants of the house, the professor's son, his daughters and his housekeeper, are asleep. Jerry makes himself thoroughly at home and is enjoying himself immensely when the Princess, who has followed, bursts in upon him. A racket follows, the household is awakened, and there is an exodus from the rooms of the members of the family. The Princess chases Jerry from room to room, startling the professor's bewildered daughters and housekeeper into hysterics. The son, however, more collected, calls for the police, who arrive at the same time as the professor. Jerry is immediately recognized by the officers, exposed as an impostor, and again taken into custody, much to his delight after his experience with the Princess.
- Father does not approve of Jerry's solicitous interest in his daughter and tries his mightiest to end their growing affection for one another. In order that they may be near each other Jerry suggests that his sweetheart play sick and he play the doctor attending her. They put the scheme into effect. An epidemic of smallpox breaks out in the neighborhood and father believes that his daughter has contracted it. Jerry attempts to disquiet his fears but to no avail. Father leaves the room and then Jerry and daughter have a laugh over the trick they played. The laughter is so boisterous that father becomes suspicious and decides to put Jerry to test. He gives his daughter a sleeping powder and then decorates her face with spots of red ink to imply she has smallpox. Jerry, who has left, is then recalled and finding the girl so marked and in a comatose state flees in fright. As he leaves the house he meets Dr. George, from whom he appropriated the garb of a doctor. Dr. George collars him and takes him back to the patient's home where he is imprisoned in a room. The master of the house tells Jerry that the place is quarantined. He protests violently against the enforced imprisonment but is subjected and forcibly chloroformed. His face is then decorated with smallpox spots and the conspirators leave the room, locking the door. Daughter's features are then washed of the ink spots. Jerry revives and after no little effort escapes. He is nabbed by the gardener, but that individual, noting the tell-tale spots, quickly releases him and flees. Jerry has the same experience with half a dozen other people, including several policemen, and surmises that everybody is afraid of him, that he is a real hero. The fright-stricken police hurry to the station and inform the sergeant of their experience. He rouses a squad and orders them to capture Jerry by throwing a lariat over him. There is an exciting chase, the lariat finally lands around Jerry's neck and he is led back toward the station. To make a short cut to town a stream is crossed and horse and Jerry are compelled to swim. Again on dry land they pass the home of a country doctor who inquires about the dangerous looking prisoner. The police tell him that Jerry has the smallpox. Doctor looks at Jerry's now clean face, all the paint having been washed off by the swim, and tells the officers that they are much mistaken. Officer looks at Jerry, agrees with the doctor, confesses his mistake, and to square himself tenders Jerry a roll of bills to buy his silence as well as to salve his hurts.
- Jerry 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.
- With Curlock Bones, the detective, hot on his trail for a series of misdemeanors he has committed, and since his customary plans of operation for relief in such a crisis have proved ineffective, Jerry finds it incumbent upon himself to adopt some unusual method to evade the clutches of the pugnacious sleuth. Stealthily creeping through a park, cudgeling his brain for an avenue of escape, he chances upon two girls who have been harassed by members of the police force, each of whom is strenuously striving for recognition. They beseech Jerry to take a place as their maid so that they may avail themselves of his masculine powers in case the policemen insist upon carrying on their annoying tactics. Seeing in it an opportunity to outwit Bones, Jerry accepts the job. For a while Jerry has the time of his life flirting and toying with the police officers. But his desire to play pranks eventually proves his undoing. In the spirit of fun he chides the master of the house. That unsuspecting individual takes the impersonator in his arms just as his wife enters. She, enraged, strikes the homebreaker and her unfaithful spouse with a handy flower vase. Jerry's wig falls from his head and his identity is exposed just as Curlock Bones enters. The game being up, Jerry permits Bones to escort him to jail, adding another coup to the detective's long list of triumphs.
- After enjoying a hearty meal on the veranda of a swell café, the wherewithal for which has been obtained by a new means of appropriation, Jerry dispatches a note to his sweetheart, Bessie, requesting her to meet him at "the bench" at 3 o'clock. The note falls into the hands of Mrs. Weston before it reaches her husband and, engaged at Jerry's nonchalant references to her provider, makes preparations for Jerry's reception. After locking Bessie in her room, Mr. Weston proceeds to the bench designated by Jerry and there, heavily veiled, awaits his coming. Too intent to notice anything amiss, Jerry proceeds to embrace the veiled woman, whom he assumes is Bessie. He is soon brought to a realization of a mistake, however, for Mrs. Weston uses a rolling-pin with telling effect. Jerry's cries attract the attention of Mr. Weston, who has been entertaining Mr. Ashton over liquid refreshments served in the summer garden. Armed with empty beer bottles, they rush to the scene. Their efforts to quell the disturbance are not quite successful, for in its course Mrs. Weston is knocked out, Mr. Weston suffers several smashes as does Mr. Ashton, and Jerry escapes. Bessie, in the meantime, has been busy. She has a note delivered by her maid advising Jerry that her mother has planned a long auto trip and adds that he might come to her rescue if he loves her. Accordingly Jerry assumes right to a burro standing conveniently near and starts off on his mission of rescue. Along the road Jerry spies Cyclone Pete, a Mexican bandit. The sight of him forebodes evil, so Jerry dismounts and hides. Hardly has he done so when the Weston auto party comes into view. Pete quickly springs from his hiding place, covers the party with a gun and then compels them to drop their valuables into his hat. Jerry sees a chance to become a hero. Creeping back of the unsuspecting Pete, Jerry uses an improvised billy quite well and succeeds in recouping the lost valuables. Mr. Weston congratulates him and invites him to take the trip with them, but Mrs. Weston rescinds the invitation by throwing Jerry out of the car. By this time Pete has started to revive. Noticing this, Jerry takes the Mexican's horse and is off on a whirl while Pete starts back on the burro. A stop is made at a country hotel. Pete arrives a little later, finds his horse in the stable and immediately starts out for Jerry. Jerry is elusive, so there is nothing for Pete to do but to use his gun. In a few minutes' time he has the occupants of the place panic-stricken and is well on the way towards accomplishing his revenge when the police call an end to the riot.
- 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.
- Jerry and Grace are in love but the latter's father frowns upon this match, preferring I.M. Short for a son-in-law. Grace protests strongly. Jerry writes his sweetheart a note planning an elopement but before reaching its destination it is discovered by the butler and given to the father. Grace is locked in her room and a plan of action is formulated to prevent the elopement. The elopement fails but with results not anticipated by the father. Next morning Grace sends a note to Jerry and plans means for escape. In a very amusing manner she eludes her father and meets Jerry at the appointed place. Here unknown to the lovers two toughs spy them and hide behind them. While Jerry is preparing for a little osculatory exercise and Grace has her eyes closed in anticipation each tough steals a kiss, Grace opening her eyes sees the toughs and she and Jerry run off in a panic. In the meanwhile the father, discovering the disappearance of his daughter, starts out after the runaway couple accompanied by Mr. Short who has come to ask for Grace's hand. While the toughs are congratulating themselves on their experience the father and Mr. Short appear. The latter are held up, forced to exchange garments and are started on their way by a couple of shots from the toughs' revolvers. These shots attract the attention of nearby hunters. The tramps plan to escape suspicion and one of them falls to the ground pretending to be hurt. When the hunters come up the other tramp informs them that his comrade has been shot by the fleeing parties and the hunters immediately give chase. Meantime Jerry and Grace are enjoying themselves at a picnic with a great crowd of friends when into their midst rush the father and Short pursued by the hunters. One of the hunters accidentally drops his gun and Jerry immediately seizes it firing it off promiscuously. Alarmed by the havoc he has wrought, Jerry rushes out to the road and here sees the tramps. Realizing the situation he marches the toughs to the picnic grounds at the point of the gun. There the father and Short are rehabilitated in their proper garments, the toughs are taken into custody and Jerry and Grace receive the parental blessing.
- 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.
- Jerry and his sweetheart, Amy, secure a vantage point in order to view a passing military parade. Amy, quite a flirt, is attracted by a first lieutenant and waves to him, but not without notice of the jealous eyes of Jerry. They have a wordy quarrel, long drawn out and extending until after the ending and disbursing of the parade and which leads to Amy accepting the company of the lieutenant (met during their later stroll), and the dismissing of Jerry in a very unceremonious manner. Injury is thus added to insult, by the lieutenant kicking Jerry out of the way, so he has just cause for revenge. Walking along, planning dire punishment for the lieutenant, Jerry comes up to the residence of Professor Knutt, a hypnotist, who places him under his spell, makes him do most ridiculous things and tells him what he has been doing when he returns to consciousness. Jerry is astonished, and inquires how the Professor does it. He is told it is the ring the Professor wears that is the influence. Jerry gets the ring in his own inimical way and without expense. With the ring on his finger, Jerry accomplishes much to his own amusement before entering on the program he had in mind when he determines to secure it. He makes passes on a couple of cops and gets them into a fight; he makes a cigar store clerk give him a bundle of bank notes in change for a mythical small coin; he casts his spell over the lieutenant, who commits breaches of the peace that land him in jail; intercepts a prince as he steps out of his equipage to make a call on his sweetheart's father and here he appropriates the prince's raiment and, using the prince as a servant, is admitted as the dignitary. As they enter Jerry pulls the prince's only covering off him, disclosing him as sans breeches and underwear, but wearing a corset and hightop boots. Such a costume at a reception riles Father, who uses a double-barreled shotgun to expedite the nondescript's exit. Jerry, alarmed at the belligerent action of Father toward a counterfeit, also runs off, fearing his duplicity may be discovered, but this act proves his undoing, for later he is sought for by the Professor, with the aid of officers, to punish him for taking forcible possession of the Professor's magic ring. The result is that Jerry's revenge proves a boomerang when he is locked up in the same cell with the lieutenant and the rightful prince.
- Wild Bill, an inmate of Prof. Nutt's asylum, weary of confinement, escapes detention by climbing down the side of the building wall. His actions, once he has gained freedom, are unconventional and terrorize the peaceful citizens of the city in which the Nutt institution is located. Bill reaches the Littleford mansion and peers through one of the windows. The contortions of his face as it is pressed against the glass frightens pretty Evelyn almost into hysterics and she calls to her father for help. Littleford. to protect his daughter against possible harm, phones to Luke Sharpe, the human bloodhound, and enlists his services to catch Bill, offering him a reward of $5,000. Seeing a chance to make money easily and quickly, Sharpe returns to his rooms and has Jiggers, his aide, make-up as Bill. He orders Jiggers to meet him at the Littleford home, to which he precedes the impostor. After he has made his little speech about catching the terror, Sharpe goes to the door to bring in Jiggers. That worthy, however, is late. Bill, the real quarry, is seen climbing through the window of the house next door and Sharpe, believing him to be Jiggers, crosses the lawn and goes after him. Once face to face with Bill. Sharpe sees that he has a madman to deal with, and makes an ineffectual effort to escape. Meantime Jiggers has arrived and enters the Littleford home via the window. Making himself perfectly at home, he jauntily stalks into the room where Evelyn is taking a nap. She awakens at his strokes over her hand, screams and brings upon the scene her father, who is armed with a revolver. Littleford chases Jiggers, who rushes from the room and hides behind a chair. Littleford sees Bill in the house on the other side of the areaway, and believing him to be the man who was in his home but a moment before, fires away. Sharpe, who is with Bill, gets most of the effect of the fire. When the smoke of battle has cleared away Sharpe pounces upon Bill and succeeds in landing him. He carries the unconscious form to the door-step of the Littleford home and then steps in the house alone to tell his client that his quest is successful. Meanwhile Jiggers escapes the house and comes face to face with Bill. The two begin a fight which ends with Jiggers being vanquished and left behind in Bill's place. Sharpe, of course, turns over Jiggers as the real madman, collects his money and is about to depart when a policeman enters with Bill. The jig is up. Sharpe's little scheme is exposed. Littleford takes back his reward and turns it over to the policeman, while Jiggers, followed by Sharpe, exits in sorrow.
- 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 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Peacefully slumbering Jerry is disturbed, first by a cop and a nurse girl wheeling a baby, and then by a colored cop with a negro woman, who also has a baby. Incensed, Jerry determines to have his revenge and changes the babies. Jerry then comes upon a sergeant. He conducts him back to the park bench. Upon the appearance of the sergeant the two cops rush off. The negro woman exits with the white baby, while the white nurse leaves with the colored baby. Consternation reigns when the parents discover the substitution. The black cop and the white cop catch a glimpse of Jerry in the background. They soon catch him. A fight ensues. Two white cops rush up and in the general mix-up Jerry makes his getaway. He soon comes upon an aeroplane, gets into the cab and soars upward. Jerry arrives over an island inhabited by cannibals, who have all the modern improvements. The cannibals discover Jerry and notify their chief by telephone. Acting under the instructions of the chief, who arrives upon the scene in his racing car, the cannibals fire and the machine falls to earth. Jerry is carried to a large kettle and forced to witness a cannibal dance. He knocks the chief into the kettle and dashes off. In his mad dash for life Jerry comes to the chief's tent. Darting inside he comes upon a beautiful princess, whom the chief is holding captive. She hides him in a suit of armor. The chief enters the tent. While he is questioning the princess, Jerry prods him with a spear. The chief angrily accuses one of his men. Jerry then prods the other man and causes a general fight. Taking advantage of the confusion, Jerry escapes with the princess. The chief's racer is standing outside the tent. Jerry helps the princess into the car and drives safely away just as the chief and his men run out of the tent.
- Jack receives a letter saying his aunt is to visit him. As they have never met, he conjures up a vision of a sour visaged old maid with a battle-axe on her shoulder. He decides to escape the ordeal of her entertainment, plans a trip and also to select someone to impersonate him. The first man he encounters is Jerry, whom he finds sitting on the curb and out of a job. Jack explains to Jerry that he is going away for a time, that he shall take charge of his home, and gives him a big bunch of money to start with. Once in possession of the magnificently furnished bachelor home and Jack off Jerry supplants the half-dozen servants with three of his cronies, who make a sorry sight even in the spic and span livery. The aunt proves a comely woman of middle age; her companion is a severe looking old maid. Jerry swoons away when he sees her, believing her to be the aunt, but when identities are explained he becomes extremely interested and very attentive to the aunt. While Jerry is gallantly escorting her over the grounds he spies Jack coming up the street, so he cuts short his hospitality in that direction and takes his guest into the house. Jack has forgotten his bank vault keys and has returned for them. He persistently rings for admission. Finally Jerry goes to the door and kicks him off the porch. A plain clothesman and a uniformed cop come along and prepare to arrest Jack for disturbance. He explains he is trying to get into his own house and they agree to help him in order to prove his statement. Failing to get an answer to their ring, Jack and the detective climb into the house through a window and enter a room where Jerry is found making violent love to the aunt. Jack demands recognition, instead Jerry calls his new servants and on his orders Jack is thrown out. This for a time satisfies the detective that Jerry is the master of the house. Jack returns to find Jerry playing host to the detective. Again the servants are called on to eject the intruder. As they proceed to carry out the order the cop enters. The servants recognize an old enemy and rush away. Jerry, also seeing the cop, ceases his braggadocio and flees, knocking down the others. Jerry runs blindly, evidently, for he finally tears into the police station, into an empty cell and has locked himself in before the officers arrive, when he hands them the key. At the house Jack explains away all the questionable and astonishing happenings to his good-looking aunt and they become friends.
- The Newlyweds' peaceful household is thrown into happy excitement by the announcement that their rich uncle John has decided to accept their invitation to a dinner given in honor of his birthday. Uncle John is an extremely nervous and fussy old gentleman, but his wealth makes it imperative for his nephews and nieces to court him. Another nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Wise, had bidden for Uncle John's company on his birthday at their house, but he refuses them to attend the Newlyweds. The Newlyweds' cook is a regular cook and has a cop for a sweetheart. When Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed go to the opera, the cook entertains her boy in blue. When the Newlyweds return home, the sounds of mirth and loud laughter coming from the kitchen attract their attention, and upon peeking through the window, Mr. Newlywed is surprised and indignant to find the cook and the cop with many empty beer bottles about enjoying a high jinks. Mr. Newlywed and his wife enter the kitchen and after ejecting the guardian of the law, begin to lecture the cook. She leaves next morning. No cook and Uncle John's birthday dinner that night. Mr. Newlywed decides to prepare the dinner himself since it is quite out of the question for his wife to do so, since she has never learned the culinary art. Mr. Newlywed, however, has not reckoned on the revenge of tho cook who before she left mixed salt and sulfur, wine and vinegar and in all ways possible messed things up. Mr. Newlywed proceeds with the dinner and by six o'clock all looks well. Uncle John arrives, his temper slightly riled by stumbling over the dog. To add to his discomfort the Wises run in to greet him. The Newlyweds are also disconcerted for fear the dinner, adequate for three, may not prove sufficient for five. They decide to make the best of it and the Wises are invited to stay. After much fuss and worry Mr. Newlywed eventually gets dinner ready. The guests, meanwhile, have gone into the garden and Mr. Wise trips over the hose, getting his hands dirty. He washes them at the hose which he leaves running. The family all seat themselves and dinner is started. The sweetened salt and the vinegar flavored wine play havoc, and to add to their panic a tramp enters the kitchen door and steals the roast turkey. The ejected cop passing the Newlywed house sees the hose running and taking advantage of the city ordinance proceeds to arrest Mr. Newlywed for watering his lawn outside of hours. The cook has softened towards her former employers and decides to return. She enters the dining room as her lover is about to drag Mr. Newlywed away. She remonstrates and Mr. Newlywed is freed. The Wises retire in bad order, and as the cook embraces Uncle John the Newlyweds are again happy.
- 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.
- Mr. Goodrich, Mrs. Goodrich and their daughter, Jessie, arrive in a small western town just as a bad man is shooting up the place. Dead Shot Dick enters and protects the easterners. Dead Shot Dick is a gunman at loggerheads with the law's forces. Sheriff Gunning posts a notice offering a reward of $1,000 for his capture. Dick sees the notice and compels the sheriff to eat it. As monarch over all he surveys, Dick has no hesitancy in interrupting the spooning match of Jessie and Jerry, the latter having made quite a hit with the pretty easterner. Jerry is peeved and sets out for revenge. The Goodriches leave for home and invite Dick to visit them. Dick accepts and arrives in the east a few days later with Jerry on his trail. Both pay marked attention to Jessie. Dick orders Jerry out of the way. Jerry refuses and in the tilt that follows the lordly one is vanquished. The doctor is called to attend Dick. In the midst of the treatment Dick revives, grabs his brace of six shooters, and shoots up the room, Jerry, coming in for an extraordinary share of attention in commemoration of past performances. Dick compels him to swap clothes, then continues on his rampage. At the opportune moment Jerry, who has followed, applies a club to the head of Dick, who falls into dreamland. In Dick's pocket Jerry finds a copy of the notice offering the $1,000 reward for Dick's capture. With visions of the big reward, Jerry ties a rope to the ankles of the gunman, drags him to jail and turns him over to the authorities, who pay the $1,000. The sight of the $1,000 leaving his hands is too much for the judge, however, and he arrests Jerry on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, convicts him, deprives him of his hard-earned reward and then puts him in a cell with Dick.
- 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.
- 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 is permitted a moment's respite by the policeman when the law's guardian spies Baron de Long, a notorious fakir. Jerry appropriates his suitcase, which contains some articles of apparel and an invitation to attend a very exclusive party. He decides to impersonate the Baron. Bedecking himself in false whiskers and in the Baron's clothes, Jerry is welcomed with a great deal of pomp. Suddenly his attention is attracted by a commotion outside of the mansion. It is Baron de Long, who has been released, being ejected as an impostor. However, the Baron gains entrance to the house by means of a side window. He confronts Jerry. A general mix-up follows. The first impostor grabs a saber and jabs it into Jerry, who gives chase to his tormentor. Finally they come together on the top floor. The Baron, getting the upper hand, throws Jerry out of the window. In his downward flight he crashes through the roof of the massive conservatory. In the meantime someone has summoned the police. They run down the Baron. After looking high and low for Jerry they finally pull him out from under tons of glass. Jerry and the Baron are handcuffed together, taken to the ballroom, where the host and hostess apologize to the guests for the trouble caused by the two. And as the whole gathering jeers, the officers leave, Jerry and the Baron once more in the clutches of the police.
- Jerry's courtship of a little heiress is again interrupted by a French Count. Unable to gain his point because of the presence of the Count, Jerry decides to dispose of the intruder and he is successful with the aid of a brick. Jerry then escorts his lady love to her home, while the foreigner is arrested by two policemen who believe he is demented. Arriving at the girl's house Jerry is at once ousted by the father, and as he is attempting to escape the old man's wrath, he upsets a butler who is carrying a number of invitations to a masque ball to the mail box. The invitations are strewn all over the sidewalk and in picking them up for the butler Jerry places three of them in his pocket. The night of the ball Jerry ventures near the house. He is watching the festivities from outside, when he is attracted by two burglars, who are attempting to gain an entrance to the place by jimmying a window. A second glance reveals the fact that the crooks are old friends of Jerry's. Jerry calls to them and they recognize him. He tells them that he has invitations to the ball and that it will be an easy way for them to gain an entrance to the place. He offers them his assistance if they will furnish him with a mask. They agree. The trio go to the entrance of the house and Jerry presents the invitations and the butlers admit them. Announced as three distinguished guests, they attract considerable attention. Jerry soon discovers his sweetheart, and while he is dancing with her the Count learns who the diminutive one behind the mustache is. He rips Jerry's mask from his face and likewise the mustache and an uproar follows. While Jerry and the Count are racing through the house, the crooks discover the safe and decide to blow it. Jerry runs to the balcony on the second floor and the Count follows him. The two struggle and Jerry throws the Count over the railing and down into a big fountain in the center of the ballroom. The police arrive, simultaneously with the exploding of the safe and as they give chase after the two crooks they come across Jerry. He throws one of them over the railing and into the fountain and when he rushes down stairs he is confronted by others. The crooks are captured and taken away, and as Jerry is about to be arrested the girl pleads for him. As the policeman considers and attempts a flirtation with the girl, Jerry pushes him into the fountain and makes his escape.