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- Spartacus sold as a slave rises up and battles the evil Crassus.
- The story relates how Salambo, daughter of Amilcar, ruler of Carthage, and Priestess of Tanit, is the keeper of the Sacred Veil "on which human eyes must not gaze." She falls in love with Matho, a slave, who becomes the leader of a band of mercenaries, fighting for Carthage against Rome. Matho steals the sacred veil and Salambo is ordered by the priests to reclaim it. The lovers meet in Matho's tent and Salambo recovers the sacred veil. Matho is made a prisoner by the Carthaginians through the treachery of Narr Havas, who is rewarded by Amilcar for his treachery by the hand of his daughter, Salambo. Matho escapes from prison and death, and the Oracle of Tanit is made to declare, by the instrumentality of Spendius, Matho's faithful slave, that Matho is acceptable to the God and one day shall govern Carthage. Salambo, who has protested against her marriage to Narr Havas, whom she does not love, is thereupon given by Amilcar, her father, to Matho and the marriage ceremony is celebrated with much pomp.
- Mr. Starry, a banker, has been successfully selling stock in a company to work a gold mine in Mexico. The editor of the "Daily Truth" has received information which warrants him to expose the scheme of Mr. Starry, who has become enormously wealthy by the sale of this fraudulent stock. George Ferguson, a war correspondent on the "Daily Truth," while returning 4from the Balkan service, forms the acquaintance of the banker's daughter, Margaret, and falls in love with her. On his arrival his editor informs him of this stock jobbing scheme and tells him that he must proceed with all haste to Mexico and make a thorough investigation. Banker Starry has been informed of the "Daily Truth's" activeness, and his prospective son-in-law, James Park, makes a very attractive proposition to Ferguson to induce him to give up his trip, which results in a duel. Park is slightly wounded and then and there decides to precede Ferguson to Mexico to prevent him at all hazards from sending anything but a good report of the mine proposition. He visits all the dives and makes the acquaintance of many bandits and lion tamers who will serve his purpose. On the arrival of Ferguson, Park arranges to have him directed to the lion tamer's camp where Ferguson is taken prisoner and placed in a cage divided in two parts, one part is occupied by ten lions. Park has provided a table, pen, ink and paper and has lighted a candle, informs his prisoner that he must make up his mind before the candle burns out to write up a glowing account of the mines to be sent to the "Daily Truth," or he will pull the chain that will lift the door allowing the lions in to devour him. Ferguson's guides have located him by this time and have determined that the only way to save him is to set fire to the building. This they do and amid the roar of the lions and the licking of the flames he makes a miraculous escape and arrives back in London to the office of the "Daily Truth," which denounces the fraudulent gold mine proposition in glowing headlines. Banker Starry and his beautiful daughter, Margaret, make a sudden departure for Switzerland. James Park lost his life amid the lions and fire. Ferguson resigns from the staff of the "Daily Truth" and leaves for Switzerland, where he finds the banker and his daughter, who has refunded every cent to the stockholders of the gold mine scheme through the "Daily Truth." The banker's daughter is now Mrs. Ferguson.
- Based on the Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel. Set in the shadows of Mt. Vesuvius just before its famous eruption.
- Mrs. Josette Percy is left a large legacy by her rich uncle, James Gordon, and the only clew he left as to where it may be found is contained in the following abstract of his will: "I bequeath to my niece, Josette Percy, my entire estate, which is safely hidden in a place indicated by the directions written in my hand in ink that only becomes legible when subjected to heat. The writing will be found on the back of my prehistoric Egyptian parchment X.L.B. in my strongbox on the library table in my house in Paris." This parchment she finds has been stolen. She is in despair until, while reading the morning paper, she sees an account of the liberation of the famous Lupin from prison. It takes a thief to catch a thief so she appeals to him to recover her fortune. The accommodating Lupin soon decides the famous Egyptian collector, Sir Rhulend, would know if it had been offered for sale, and sure enough Sir Rhulend has bought it. In the night-time he cleverly picks the safe and secures the document, but disturbed by a noise leaves the safe door open. A trusted servant steals the priceless antique jewelry also kept there, and Lupin is forced to set about tracing this too. He identifies the servant's thumb prints on the safe door with those on the bottom of a smoked plate and shadows the thief to his confederates' den. The thieves capture him, but he cleverly makes his escape, not forgetting to take the jewelry. He replaces the real stones with imitation ones and returns them to Sir Rhulend, wins Mrs. Percy's love and flees with her, leaving poor Sir Rhulend a gently sarcastic note to console him for his loss.
- This is the story of a poor hunchback who is in love with a beautiful girl, but is thrown over by her because of his deformity. He tries in every possible way in his despair to rid himself of this disfigurement, by throwing himself on the floor, rubbing against iron railings, and all sorts of ridiculous ways, hut finally goes to a witch and purchases from her, with an immense fortune, the secret of taking away his own hump and giving a hump to others. Hastening to his bride's house he finds her in the midst of the wedding ceremony and just in time puts a hump on her and all the assembled guests. They plead with him on bended knees, hailing him as a master of all the black arts to rid them of this sudden visitation and he does so at the price of obtaining the bride from the unwilling father.
- Raffles reads in the newspaper of the return by the police to the Earl of Essex of a valuable diamond. He determines to obtain this prize ; at the same Lime, another shady character comes to a similar resolve. Raffles writes to the Earl telling him he will come and take the diamond at 2 o'clock that night. Tapping the telephone wire, he overhears the message the Earl sends to a famous detective and lays his plans accordingly. The detective hails a motor-car and fills it with policemen, but on the way to the Earl's house it breaks down, and while everybody looks for the cause, the chauffeur, who is no one else but Raffles in disguise, goes off at express speed, and in one of his secret haunts, transforms himself into a creditable imitation of the detective and several of his confederates into policemen. Greeted cordially by the Earl, Raffles posts his men at various points and then lies down on a sofa to wait until 2 o'clock. An unexpected adventure occurs with the arrival of the other thief with two confederates, but Raffles and his men soon overpower them. The Earl thinks he has Raffles captive, and the latter leaves with his profound thanks-and with the diamond, which he has abstracted from the case when it was entrusted to him by the Earl's daughter.
- A couple is prevented from marrying by a local tyrant, and they are not reunited until after a number of misfortunes, including pestilence.
- This drama tells a most thrilling story of the daring attempt of the noblest and best of Italian blood, aided by France to throw off the Austrian yoke in the year 1863, and their escape from death through the courage and heroism of a child. The scene opens with the secret meeting of the chiefs of the revolution in an old house. They are receiving the last news from the sub-committees of the other districts before the signal to attack the Austrian government. Rinaldo Ramardo, the private secretary of Prince Paul, the leader of the revolutionary movement is introduced as a new member, he is desperately in love with the Princess Paul, and when his love is repulsed he plots revenge. Prince Paul trustingly shows the new member Rinaldo, the secret exit from the house to be used in case of emergency. Rinaldo, driven by his insane passion, informs the commander of the citadel of the plot against the government. When the conspirators are surprised in their next meeting they make their escape with the loss of only one member, but he unfortunately carries the list of the leaders. They are fill quickly run to earth, Prince Paul among the number. He had trusted for his escape to the secret exit from his house, but the traitor, Rinaldo, has stolen the key. He bids a touching farewell to his devoted wife and little boy Victor. Overcome with grief at the lengths to which his passion for the Princess had driven him, the traitor kills himself and begs forgiveness with his dying breath. The Prince is quickly condemned to death and a proclamation posted in the city announcing the execution of the political prisoners at dawn the following morning when the bell from the Red Tower rings the signal, but on the morning of the execution, little Prince Victor, his son, passes the sentinels, climbs the old belfry tower and swings from the clapper of the citadel's bell, preventing the death signal. He is brought before the Austrian Commandant and pleads together with his mother for his father's life, but without avail. In the nick of time a dispatch is brought in declaring peace between the French and Austrian armies, and little Victor has saved his father's life.
- Raffles plots with a number of confederates to obtain money from the Earl of Lazar. Two of the confederates make an attack upon the Countess and her daughter, and Raffles comes to the rescue, and is invited to the Earl's house. He becomes a regular visitor, and uses his opportunities so well that he becomes betrothed to the girl he has " rescued," and one night leads her to the garden. Plans have already been laid, and a band of ruffians leap at the two, blindfold and bind Raffles, whom they leave on the ground, while they carry off the girl and confine her in a cellar, where they divide the jewels she wears amongst them. Then a note is sent to the Earl, demanding that £20,000 be put in the ruins of an old bridge. Raffles offers to accommodate the Earl for half the amount, and it is placed in the desired position. The girl is taken in a motor-car to a street in a distant part of the town and there left. Raffles, who has placed on his finger the ring reserved for him by his confederates. now desires to get out of his engagement to the Earl's daughter, and to this end instructs his typist and confederate to come to the Earl's house while he is there and claim him as her husband. Discovery, however, comes in the moment of success, for on offering the girl his hand in parting she recognises the 'ring, and by this small oversight Raffles finds himself defeated and seized by the police.
- A grocer has placed a label bearing the word " Gratis " against a pile of leaflets outside his shop. A clumsy person knocks it down and carelessly replaces it on the stall against a tin of biscuits, and a number of small boys have a feast until the shopman discovers them and hurls the card away. It lands by accident just by the side of a dummy figure displaying a suit of clothes outside a tailor's shop, and a tramp dons the garments and confronts the police, when the shopman summons them, by pointing to the label. The latter is again thrown away, and this time it lands on the sun-blind of a restaurant, just under the word " dejeuner," so that the restaurant is filled with a ravenous mob. When bills are presented there's trouble, and the notice takes another flight and lights on a cab, the driver of which is asleep, but is wakened to find his cab full, and drives off, unconscious of the surprise in store for him.