Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — His Personal Appearance. [ARTICLE]

His Personal Appearance.

As Virginia Carvel enters. Mr. Lincoln’s presence:“Could this fantaa-

tlcally tall, stooping figure before her be that of the president of the United States? She stopped, as from the shock he gave her. The lean, yellow face, with the masklike lines all up and down,the unkempt hair, the beard —why, he was a hundred times more ridiculous than his carlcaitures. He might have stood for many of the poor white-trash farmers she had seen in Kentucky—save for the long black coat. “But the little rebel Is soon made to forget all that In the sadness of that

voice—the Ineffable sadness —the sadness and woe of a great nation. And the sorrow In those eyes, the sorrow of a heavy cross borne meekly-r-how heavy none will ever know. The pain of a crown of thorns worn for a world that did not understand.” —The Crisis.