Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — RELIGION STAMPED ON HIM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RELIGION STAMPED ON HIM.

A Text Was Tattooed on This Young Frenchman’s Forehead. A man upon whom religion had left its mark ineffaceably was observed at Ellis Island recently, says the New York World. He was one of a number

of French immigrants brought before the commissioner for examination. He was a tall, handsome young man, a

skilled iron worker. Attention was drawn to his personal appearance by the fact that he wore his thick hair brushed down over his forehead to his very eyebrows. When he was asked by the commissioner the reason for this extraordinary coiffure, the French youth looked embarrassed ( for a moment, and then replied that he wore his hair in this manner to hide a mark on his brow. “What is the mark?” was asked. He tossed his hair back and exhibited a skillfully executed piece of tattooing, which, on examination, proved to be a text from the Bible, done in minute, but perfect letters. It was in French and read: “Dleu est mon Berger je n’aurals besoln de rein.” (“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want”) He stated that the tattooing was done at the request of a cranky aunt when he was a 12-year-old boy.

MAN WITH A MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD.