The story tells of Snakebite Gideon, who is a blot on the fair name of his home town which boasts of a beanery run by sisters, remarkable examples of nature's capriciousness, in that one is as pretty as the other is homely. The despicable Snakebite delights in making Humble Jake the object of his meanness, and Jake, being of docile disposition, submits. Word reaches the town that the homely sister has been left a large inheritance with the stipulation that she acquire a better half before one o'clock. Gideon sees a chance to live in clover for the rest of his life, but when he tries to find his self-annexed spouse, he learns that she has taken Humble Jake off to a picnic in the woods. From this point forward the story gathers speed and in the end old shoes and rice fly thick and fast.
—Motion Picture News, October 27, 1917