Jim Barratt, a baking powder salesman, arrives in the town of St. Charles and finds that business is miserably slow. Barratt originates a clever scheme by which he will not leave empty handed. He writes a note, stating that Charles, the grocer, had not found the $100 bill that had been packed in one of the cans of baking powder. This Barratt accidentally drops on the street. One of the villageites picks it up. The news spreads fast, in an hour both grocers are completely sold out of the celebrated baking powder. Barratt “happens” by and is given a splendid order by Charles, the grocer, and Joseph, his competitor. Barratt enters the hotel bar, where he informs several men seated about, of his clever ruse, and how it worked. The tables turn, however when the men discover that their wives had been “stung.” Just see what happened to the baking powder salesman.