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- A prince must woo the now-wealthy dancer he once abandoned, to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.
- A carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.
- A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.
- A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a persistent suitor. Judy and her jealous husband have an argument that leads her back to the city, a drunken, amorous Tom, and tragedy.
- Huns carousing at headquarters refer to America's war plans as a joke, and state that after Paris, New York will fall. American troops suddenly appear and wipe out the Huns. The American general discovers his men are without ammunition. An orderly announces that the Fourth Liberty Loan drive is on, and the general shouts "This means victory and the end of the war." The camera is moved showing the action has taken place on a stage. The General advances for a curtain call and presents a liberty loan plea, and shouts "Banzai" (hurrah).
- Prof. Howe knows more about antiques than he does about love affairs and consequently he declares that Dick, his daughter's sweetheart, is a nuisance. Howe purchases an ancient Egyptian mummy and Dick observes the delivery of the huge case. A daring scheme occurs to him. With Arvilla's assistance he takes the place of the mummy and when Howe opens the case he hears a sepulchral voice exclaim: "Let your daughter marry whom she chooses. Rameses demands it." Arvilla says she chooses Dick, and Howe, grasping his daughter by the hand, hastens to Dick's house to satisfy the mummy. Dick has the time of his life in making a wild dash to his home before the arrival of the professor. Then he is induced (?) to listen.
- Episode 1: "The Mystic Message of the Spotted Collar" Zudora, 18, has a guardian, Hassam Ali, a disciple of Hindu mysticism. Hassam Ali was a fakir with a small caravan circus. Zudora's mother was his sister and the rope walker. Zudora's father remained in a small mining town where he prospected for gold. As the story opens Zudora, her mother and Hassam Ali, her uncle, are visiting the town of Zudora's birth and where Zudora's father is still prospecting. Zudora's father finds that the Zudora mine yields a wonderful run of gold. He becomes over-zealous and is killed in an explosion. He wills the entire mine, which is valued at $20,000,000, to Zudora, when she reaches her eighteenth birthday, and in the event of Zudora's death, going to the nearest heir-at-law. Zudora's mother receives information of her husband's death when she is about to ascend the rope and give her performance. She falls to the ground, and with a dying gasp turns over to Hassam Ali the guardianship of Zudora. Zudora reaches her eighteenth year. Hassam Ali has set himself up as a mystic, but his one purpose in life is to rid himself of Zudora, so that the mine will be his. He is also anxious to rid himself of John Storm, Zudora's sweetheart. He has kept from Zudora the information about her inheritance. He at last arrives at one plan that seems safe. Zudora has evidenced quite wonderful powers of deduction. He tells her that since she has always been so anxious to incorporate herself in his work, he will give her the next twenty cases he is called upon to solve. He says: "If you win, you may marry John Storm. If you lose on any one of them, you renounce him forever." Zudora's sweetheart is involved in a great case for the city. Opposed to him is one Bienreith, a prominent lawyer. The case is going well for John Storm. Hassam Ali decides that after eighteen years of waiting it is time to use heroic measures. He denounces Storm in front of Zudora, and then tells her about the twenty cases. The very first thing in the courtroom, Storm slaps the face of Bienreith, after a particularly insulting speech, and is invited to a duel that night. An hour later the newspapers are full of her sweetheart's trouble. Zudora rushes to his side and finds him practicing with a revolver. She plans to keep him from meeting Bienreith. She purchases a drug, and drops it in a glass of drinking water. Next morning the papers tell of Storm's disappearance. The great mystery of it is that Bienreith has been found dead in his room and the blame placed upon John Storm. Storm is arrested. Zudora rushes to her uncle and begs that this be her first case. When she goes to Bienreith's home that morning she finds the collar that he had worn when killed. It has queer markings on it. She studies the lines carefully, but can make no headway. Storm is formally charged with the murder. She reaches the courtroom just in time to say, "Stop, he is not guilty...," and falls into a faint. Hassam Ali and Burns, a confederate, watch as the girl recovers and explains that she has solved the mystery. Burns is placing a revolver, equipped with a silencer against her neck, when she turns suddenly and takes a pencil from his pocket to prove her contention to the court. She realizes, in looking at the mark, that there is a similarity between the markings of Burns' pencil and the markings on the collar. Court is adjourned. Zudora induces Burns to accompany her home. Under hypnosis he confesses to killing Bienreith. Zudora had placed two lawyers behind the curtains and they hear the confession. Zudora has solved her first case and Hassam Ali congratulates her. In the courtroom Zudora clasps Storm in her arms as the judge proclaims him free.
- Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invaded by German soldiers, and her family has been taken away. Two officers enter her room and as she struggles to get away she wakes up. Her relief is so great that she puts all her money in Liberty Bonds.
- William S. Hart dreams he is called before the War Council as an expert gunman and is directed to 'remove' the Kaiser. In Berlin, he sees the Kaiser on a rocking horse, in a rage over the 4th Liberty Loan. Bill fires and the Kaiser falls. Bill is captured and is about to be bayoneted when he wakes up.
- Charley and Edna are feeling very pleased with themselves and their new car. They decide to share their good fortune and offer to take six underprivileged children out for a fun day at the carnival. Unfortunately, the children come from Juvenile Hall, and each one is more trouble than the last.
- All are dwelling in peace until Prussianism overcomes Liberty. Democracy, undaunted by Propaganda, comes to her aid. Prussianism throws a bomb, and the explosion rings the Liberty Bell. America sends men and fire hoses with the help of the Fourth Liberty Loan, and makes headway against the blaze. The armies rescue Liberty and Prussianism makes his escape, hiding in the Hall of Justice. Democracy discovers Prussianism in hiding and using the fire hoses, washes him down the sewer.
- During the early Christian era, Karma, a very spiritual and virtuous High Priest of the Temple of India, resists with all his religious fervor, Quinetrea, a beautiful and fascinating enchantress. Quinetrea eventually conquers and Karma falls a victim to her wiles. She triumphantly taunts him, and outraged at her cruel deception. Karma curses her, and Quinetrea is transformed into a huge snake. Fifteen hundred years later, Karma appears, reincarnated in the personality of Leslie Adams and loves the beautiful heiress, Lillian White. Together they visit the ancient Temple of Karma and are shown the reptile, which every hundred years resumes human form. While Leslie gazes fascinated, the snake uncoils and Quinetrea stands before him in all her bewitching charm. She holds him with her hypnotic power and forces him to accept an amulet for his betrothed, upon receiving which Lillian falls dead. Karma beholds a vision of his former self as High Priest, again curses Quinetrea, and drops dead across the prostrate body of his betrothed.
- One hundred years ago a sailor is cast away on the Australian coast, reaching shore on a raft. Almost the only thing left to him is a chart in a thin case. When attacked by natives he uses this as a weapon, and the savages shrink away in terror, thinking the object to possess some evil power. The sailor makes full use of this superstitious dread to save his life. He is befriended by a native boy, who reveals to him a hidden water hole and gets him food. But this brings on the fierce enmity of his own people and he is eventually killed when showing the sailor a place where alluvial gold could be picked up. The sailor, unable now without the boy's help to find nourishment, dies, but writes on the chart with his blood where the gold exists. Fifty years later the skeleton of the sailor is found hugging the chart case. The natives have still preserved their superstitious fear and shunned the spot as accursed. Two prospectors and a woman, wife of one of the men, are the discoverers of the skeleton. They read the words on the chart and find the gold deposit. Attacked by the natives, the woman remembers the words on the chart which told of its powerful influence over the aboriginal minds. Thus she saves the party's lives. She also rides to mining headquarters to register the claim, escaping the savages, and there follows a rush of miners to the golden gully before which the black tribesmen fade away.
- The husband of a small family is about to invest his savings in a business deal, when his wife dreams the Huns attack their home and butcher the children, and tie her husband to a riderless horse, which drags him over the prairie. The husband breaks the bonds and mounts the horse. The animal is shot, and the husband with a rope makes a bridge over a chasm, but falls headlong over a steep cliff. The wife wakes, tells her husband of her dream, and he decides to invest the savings in Liberty Bonds.
- A cannon awakens the players and they hustle off to the nearest bond booth. They whiz through the air, bowling over pedestrians. Ben takes the American flag away from a citizen who is not buying bonds and takes him away. The scene changes to the Kaiser's dugout in Berlin, where the German flag is lowered, and the Stars and Stripes is raised in its place.
- Giuseppe, an Italian singer, reads an ad printed in a local paper, wanting a man with an exceptional voice. Giuseppe applies for the position at Rosen's Café. Rosen is impressed with Giuseppe's voice, and sends a letter to Mr. Bummerstein, a theatrical magnate, to come and hear him. Bummerstein arrives, and after trying out Giuseppe's voice, gives him a contract for five hundred dollars a week to appear in his opera. Giuseppe is introduced to Rosen's daughter, who is smitten with him. Being out of funds to buy his wardrobe, Giuseppe borrows some money from Rosen and signs a note for the loan at twenty per cent. The following week the Rosens take a box at the opera. Giuseppe's family also have a box. To the surprise and humiliation of everybody, Giuseppe is a complete failure. Mr. Rosen had told Giuseppe that after the first performance he would give his daughter Rosie and Giuseppe a banquet. Now that Giuseppe has been a failure, the Rosens decide to have the banquet alone. Giuseppe with his family, invade the banquet hall and a row is started. A policeman passing Rosen's Café discovers a fire. Rosen is notified. Giuseppe dashes from the banquet hall into the burning café and rescues Rosen's insurance papers and the note. Rosen, delighted with having saved the valuable papers, tells Giuseppe that he can have his daughter as long as the papers have been rescued, and emphatically says, "I should worry?"