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the whole proposition. It made Del--mar feel good to witness the happi ness of the poor old couple who own ed the farm, at receiving sufficient to make them comforjtable for life. And then he was unmasked. The old couple were the uncle and aunt Elsa Vane had often told him about Her voice had failed her. and she had come home disappointed, but willing to take up again the duties of an humble life. He met her in vast surprise one day, as Mr. Smith. She blurted out his real name at first welcome. She looked proud of him when she knew how it had come about And, having found his place in the world, Delmar naturally sought an attendant solace love. "I can't marry you under a false name," he told Elsa one day, "so I am going to confess all to the town offi cials," which he did, with this re sult: "Smith, Jones or Brown," was the vehement announcement of the wor thy mayor, "you've got to stay with us, at double salary, if you say the word." o o MOVIE GOSSIP Gladys Brockwell has returned to Universal City and will play leads with Robert Leonard. Jack Kerrigan has finished the last scenes of "Son of Immortals," a five reeler soon to be released. Charles Chaplin has commenced work at the Climax studios in Holly wood on his first picture for Mutual. Kleine announces that Billie Burke is to appear in a 20-episode serial called "Gloria's Romance," to be re leased in May. Cleo Madison does some fine work in her latest picture, "Her Bitter Cup," a story of a woman's sacrifice for her people the poor. o o TOPAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY April 24, 1809. Ninian Edwards was appointed governor of the terri tory of Illinois by Pres. Madison. STRING TO FORTUNE LEFT THE "YAMA" GIRL, I Mrs. Richard Harding Davis. She inherits the $250,000 estate of j her husband who died recently, but loses it again if she remarries before her'baby daughter is 21. Mrs. Davis was formerly Bessie McCoy, the orig inal "Yama Yama GirL" TRUE TO THE LAST He was a man of perfect health and it was his boast that he never had employed a physician and it was quite remarkable that his death came so suddenly that although a physician was called life was extinct before he arrived. Richford Note in Tioga County Herald. o o No European diplomat has any thing on the girl who receives three young men callers on the satae even ing and keeps them all good-natured. m j&ridgjfete.Na.Sa!ase3fc.J