VE; or, Solving a Mystery.
47 BERTIE BLAND, THE DETECTIVE. A Tale of Curious Tricks and Surprises.
48 THE WEST POINT LIEUTENANT; or, Arkie, the Run-away.
49 FROM THE STREETS TO THE FOOTLIGHTS; or, Snap and Jenny.
50 THE DETECTIVE TRIO; or, The Story of Three Daring Country Lads.

A $2.00 Book for 25 Cents!

Old Secrets and New Discoveries.

Containing Information of Rare Value for all Classes, in all Conditions
of Society.

[Illustration: The mesmerist and his subject.]

It Tells all about _Electrical Psychology_, showing how you can
biologize any person, and, while under the influence, he will do
anything you may wish him no matter how ridiculous it may be, and he
cannot help doing it.

It Tells how to _Mesmerize_. Knowing this, you can place any person in a
mesmeric sleep, and then be able to do with him as you will. This secret
has been sold over and over again for $10.

It Tells how to make persons at a distance think of you--Something all
lovers should know.

It Tells how you can charm all those you meet and make them love you,
whether they will or not.

It Tells how Spiritualists and others can make writing appear on the arm
in blood characters, as performed by Foster and all noted magicians.

It Tells how to make a cheap Galvanic Battery; how to plate and gild
without a battery; how to make a candle burn all night; how to make a
clock for 25 cents; how to detect counterfeit money; how to banish and
prevent mosquitoes from biting; how to make yellow butter in winter;
Circassian curling fluid; Sympathetic or Secret Writing Ink; Cologne
Water; Artificial Honey; Stammering; how to make large noses small; to
cure drunkenness; to copy letters without a press; to obtain fresh-blown
flowers in winter; to make good burning candles from lard.

It Tells how to make a horse appear as though he was badly foundered; to
make a horse temporarily lame; how to make him stand by his food and not
eat it; how to cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind; how to put a
young countenance on the horse; how to cover up the heaves; how to make
him appear as if he had the glanders; how to make a true-pulling horse
balk; how to nerve a horse that is lame, etc., etc. These horse secrets
are being continually sold at one dollar each.

It Tells how to make the Eggs of Pharo's Serpents, from which, when
lighted, though but the size of a pea, there issues from it a coiling,
hissing serpent, wonderful in length and similarity