The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-27
JAY eouLn,s SISTER.
she Teaches School. and Eis Old sweet
heart Neepa Ioardern.

heart keeps Boarders
The miId-looking, rather petite. but
dignitied. woman just passing. must
have been quite pretty in her youth.
though She never probably could have
been called handsome. There is Il Ger.
tain something, however, about her---a
sweetness in her looks and manner
tisat is more charming in woman oi
her years, than any remains of physical
beauty would be. She Is very simply
attired in black. and a black hOanei
modestly covers her silvery gray hair.
Who is sheP
She is JAY Gould's sister. She has
come over from her home in Camden-
quiet little town across thp river--to
do some shopping, probably. One
often meets her in the bnsy stceets. hui
n her identity is known to few. she
escapes the ogling and s.ammeat tina.
-sae would othsrtsiSa- be sngj jdets.e- Is.
She is not rich, by any means. indeed,
aside from q moderate allowance that
he specnlatiug CroeSus makes her,
>he derives her living from a school fn,
girls that her daughters conduct The
school, it is said, IS an excellent one.
and, Gnnld-iike. it gets the cream of
the business in South Jersey.
The school house was erected at JAY
Gould's expense. JAY knew that his
sister had not married we'll from .
financial point of view. aud that hen
daughters were struggling for a living
but he was too busy piling up his mill
ions 10 give the matter much persona.
attention But his wife had her eve on
the girl. and she was So pleased with
her eaTnestness that she brought tn,
mater 10 the attention of her husband
and insi ted on his building the girls a
! school. Could dill NOT object. and.
now that his attention was directed To
the matter he gave orders that no cx-
pense should be spared in making the
building 4 model one in every respect.
He himself takes as much pride in il
and in the success OF the nieces as any
one whenever he permits himself the
luxury of five minutes thought ON =
subject 50 far removed from stocks and
bonds. His sister and the girls were
spending part of the summer up a,
| Piattsburg. y. Y, with Jav Could :
| ,igst love, who keeps a boarding house
up there. She is elderly and gray
haired now. and is not Strikingly hand
some, but in her day she was blithesome
and pretty. She was the daughter ol
a country store-keeper. JAY Gould.
after leaving his fathers farm. went te
work in the store and promptly fell in
love with the rosy-cheeked maiden.
| Bat the old man had much highe,
| views Of his daughters future than :
| marria ge with n young man in his owr
shop would realize. He not Gnlv CAV,
Young Gould TO understand that s
marriage was out Of the question. but
| dispensed with his services rs well
| JAY took his rejection philos ophicall,
enough and gaze himself up to In,
| work of making a fortune While ht
| was growing richer and richer. ant
piling million on million. his old Low,
was vainly trying to battle with mis-
fortune. Her fa her, who had plumeC
| himself so proudly on the ownership o
/ MS general store.' failed; the hus
| band whom she took after JAY Goul,
had gone away brought little to her
| and so at the end she endeavors e
eke ont an income by opening he
house to summer boarders. She has
wondrous amount of philosophy in he
makeup and very little envy. She j
bright. good-natured and contente,
! with what fortune has brought-or
ought one TO say left-her. Some .
Jay Goulds relatives spend a FEY
weeks at her farm house every year
but JAY himself never goes there. -
Cor. Chicago T1f5une