Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — One Other. [ARTICLE]

One Other.

During Mr. Lincoln’s canvass of Illinois for the senatorship in 1858 he made a spteech in Rushville, a small town in the interior of the State, which was listened to with great interest by a young woman who sometimes wrote for the local paper, the Schuyler Citizen.

The next number of that paper contained an article from her pen, In which she said:

“So many people had told me that Mr. Lincoln was a miracle of homeliness that I expected to see the ugliest man in Illinois. Instead of that I saw a man whose face lit up in the moat extraordinary way when he talked, and I don’t care what anybody else’s opinion is—l want to say that I consider Mr. Lincoln .one of the handsomest men I ,ever saw!” A copy of that paper was sent to Mr. Lincoln, with the article marked. He showed it to his wife, a queer smile wrinkling his rugged features the while. “Mary,” he said, “I have always thought until now that you were the only woman bn earth who considered me a handsome man, and I have not been absolutely certain about that, but it seems there is one other.”