Jack and Jim, according to the story, are in love with the same girl, and each is endeavoring to use all the arts of persuasion to win her over. Jack is stout and jolly and Jim is thin and prides himself upon being an amateur hypnotist. At a house party Jim displays his cleverness to good advantage and succeeds in keeping the guests amused. This angers Jack, who stoutly maintains that the hypnotic spell is simply a fake and that he defies anyone to place him under the influence. Jim accepts the challenge and proceeds to do the Svengali act with his rival. There is immediate action. The portly Jack is made to believe that he is a gallant soldier, and after being supplied with a military cap and toy musket marches throughout the house in quest of the imaginary enemy. He encounters all sorts of obstacles and manages to overcome them through the medium of demolishing almost everything in sight, although human life is spared. The warfare of the "general" might have gone on for an indefinite period had not Jim been notified of the dilemma. At that precise moment the amateur hypnotist was courting the girl in the story, and at her behest he consents to awaken Jack from his hypnotic spell. The finale is amusing, and, of course. Jack accepts the inevitable when he is told of the depredations he has committed while under the spell of hypnotism.
—Moving Picture News - August 23, 1913