Show yr up XV 27 T P 71 e r 4 eften Z I 1 t ait ta 7 0 o 11 f k r 1 I 1 Z ra r 4 e 0 ile 10 V if ri M alexandar ir te isal ib only on who wh has a bed fw for effi B boyls td is abc is about fawl t n 3 LL fir ff 1 I I 1 of con m C at LATEST Sun PRISM the magician catches rifle eifes balls fired by government soldiers 0 what do you think of this the san francisco examiner tells of the latest trick of that wonderful herrman just how low a man can stand twenty five feet in front of a six krag jorgensen rifles aud and let half a dozen crack shots blaze away at him and lie he suffer no injury is something that professor herrman could explain for he does it so no explanation however is forthcoming I 1 ng the spectator simply sees the professor face what looka like certain death and then smilingly present 0 to o the gaze six bullets that according to all laws of mechanical anical force if the laws are not mysteriously befooled befouled be fooled ought to have gone clean th through rought him now here is what herrmann did at r rehearsal hear sal how he did it is a matter 0 involving conjecture A squad of picked men under command of sergeant patterson Patt eison consisting of privates baker mccarthy wiles viles henry Vh hitney itney and jachn marched out upon the he stage they the had been secured b by y pey permission mission of general forsythe For rythe who had first to refer the matter to general miles and they are sharpshooters after the squad had marched and countermarched counter marched they lined up for inspection herrman Herr caan went along the line examining each gun and then retired to the background where he remained sergeant patterson took a common chins china plate and every soldier took one cartri cartridge doe 7 from his bis belt and dropped it on an the plate with a clink the sergeant holding the plate before him went among the spectators and general forsythe Por sythe police commissioner agunat alt alf bouvier and others selecting a bullet apiece marked it and dropped it back on the plate next nest the sergeant went back to his men still holding the plate in front of him and in plain sight of everybody each sharpshooter reached reache i d out took a cartridge cort ridge between hn hia thumb and finger loaded his bis rifle at the word command the squad marched olt olit on a temporary platform erected in front of the stage I 1 and twenty live five feet away every a movement was made with military precision and dignity kelchin Ke Rea achin ehing the temporary platform the soldiers about faced forming in two ranks those in front kneeling herman herrman came forward to the center of the stage perhaps he looked a little nervous he held in his hands a fragile dessert plate it was in the position of a breastplate breast plate held close to the body ile he nodded that all a I 1 was in readiness there were the quick words of the sergeant a roar like the roar of a cannon herrmann leaned backwards backward bracing 0 himself as if alot A figlie wind recovering bim himself belf he be brought the desert plate to tb the e horizontal on this plate were six six bullets they were hot too hot to handle but the men who had marked six bullets while herrman II errman was at the rear of the stake examined them eagerly in each case the mark was quickly recognized A trick well professor herrmann has hag beba known to do a trick or two but none so completely bewildering and yet it is not devoid of danger apparently for the insurance company which issued a large policy to the professor has notified him that for the time the policy is void and that if he wants to invite soldiers with krag jor gensen rifles to kill him it must be at his own risk only twice before in his long career lias has hery mann essayed this thia feat once was in havana and there he was almost mobbed by people who thought his bulletproof bullet proof condition a reflection on their soldiery they wanted to try a machette on him but he got away |