Reel Life (Sep 1913 - Mar 1914)

Reel 9 Sydney Ayres and Moonshiners in "The Power of Light" American the moonlight with him to look down into the depths of the valley below. Taking her into his arms, he kissed her tenderly before he swung up into the saddle. "After a day or two, you'll begin to love it here, Kits. There's room to breathe. It's a cleaner, bigger, honest life. For us, Dear, it's the morning of another day." C. H. N. The Power of Light Jan. 5, 1914 CAST Cliff Jackson Sydney Ayres Tom Jackson, his father Jack Richardson Dr. Stockton Harry von Meter Jimmie Bentley Jacques Jaccard Jennie Bentley Vivian Rich Maud Stockton Charlotte Burton Mother Bentley Mrs. Coxen Mrs. Jackson Caroline Cooke Caroline Thomas Violet Neitz U. S. Deputies, moonshiners, etc. Cliff Jackson was "different" from other mountaineers. He was determined to get an education — and 'he longed to convert the moonshiners to an honest way of earning a living. His father, the ringleader of the illicit liquor distillers, misunderstood his son's instincts as defiance of his authority — and Cliff gladly left home to seek schooling in the city. There he meets a poor family of Bentleys — with a very lovely daughter — and also becomes intimate with the family of a kindly pastor, who helps him to get an education. The pastor's daughter, Maud, fascinates him — but Jennie Bentley, he knows, is the girl to love his people and help him in the work he is preparing to do among the mountaineers. When he goes back home — after several years' absence — he takes Jennie with him as his bride. En route, he is wounded by a stray bullet, from the gun of a government officer on the trail of the moonshiners — and carried, helpless, to his father's cabin. In spite of his suffering, he rallies his family and their confederates about him — and by sheer spiritual force, and a will inflexibly fixed on the right, wins them over. The community takes ifp cattle raising — and lawbreaking and dishonesty become things of the past. ^> ^> Ilsllliic:© Seeing Stars and Stripes. Dec. 31, 1913. Casey Murray, a grocer, burns sulphur in his store one night. When he reaches home, he finds the door locked, and is obliged to climb in the cellar window. His irritation is not improved when he finds a note from his wife — which she has forgotten to put outside — telling him that she has gone to her club, and has left the key under the door mat. He tosses the note out of the window, and a runaway convict gets it. Casey retires in high dudgeon — only to be robbed of all his clothes while asleep, and then to be awakened with cries of fire. He tumbles into the only clothes in sight — the convict's suit which he has left behind — and rushes down the street, to find a crowd around the store. The firemen are turning on the water in volleys — and Casey's stock is in ruins. His cries of protest only call the attention of the police to his convict suit, and he is wildly chased. Meanwhile, the convict, in Casey's clothes, is sitting in the rear of the store, waiting his chance to make a haul — when Mrs. Casey comes along, and mistaking him for her husband, rushes up and puts her arms about him. Discovering her mistake, she runs for help, and the thief plunges into the store. Mrs. Casey identifies her husband in the convict suit — and then the real convict overcome by the sulphur fumes, comes tumbling out of the store, into the arms of the police. Casey claims his clothes — and the whole mess is straightend out.