My manager, Mr. Harris, always manages to look serious and business-like when this part of the entertainment is transpiring. He says that he works on the rules of suggestion. I believe that he does; that every good business man does. And I wish that more were like Harris. He realizes that the way to make the best suggestions is sometimes to cease suggesting. To be plain, suggestions are often taken and acted upon when you appear as though you were offering the opposite thing. That is the way many good gold bricks are sold. The buyer takes the goods because he believes that the purchase of them is a profit. He doesn't buy the gold brick because his reason is asleep, but because the smooth confidence man has got his mind working along the wrong channel.

So it is with Harris. He walks about paying no attention to the crowd. His gaze, his interest, his every move points to myself and my subject. He is not bigoted enough to want the public to look at him. He knows that he can aid the real interest of the show if he can get them looking at me. So he goes about doing everything in an off-hand, business-like manner and the people take the suggestions and act upon them without further thought.

To Belleville, I face a vast throng. The average resident would scarcely believe that there ever could be a much greater gathering. I can hear one old man telling a boy that he "onct knew a crowd as much as seven times this size when the governor spoke at Lexington".

Follow me, student, for I am going to treat this crowd with suggestion, to be delivered in their waking state. We will see how well they take these suggestions and how they act upon them.

"Ladies and gentlemen," I say, speaking in a slow, clear voice, for the voice must be thrown so that all can hear. "In a few minutes more, I shall place this boy, Master Albert Turner, in a sleep, in which he shall remain for a period of over twenty-five hours, to be awakened tomorrow night on the stage of the Belleville Opera House. During that time he will be in the casket which has been on exhibition in this store window for a day past. I wish to call your attention to several facts. The first one is this: In the hypnotic sleep the subject does not change from a human being to something supernatural. He is still a human being and subject to the same things that he would be subject to in his natural, waking state. That is, he could be bruised, even though he did not feel it for the time being. He could be maltreated even though he remained in a state of anaesthesia. He is still human no matter how deep his sleep. So when I place him in this casket he will move during the night just as you or I would move in our sleep. When he becomes tired of one position, he will assume another one. Do not think by this sign that he is awake. He will remain in front of you during all that time. There will never be a time during his sleep in which he will be obscured from the view of those who would look. You may ask how it is that his heart, liver and kidneys can be controlled when his moving from side to side cannot be. That movement of the body could be stopped, but it would then be necessary to put the subject in a cataleptic sleep, which is a severe strain on the nerves when it is done day after day.

"I carry two subjects with me, so that I can give each one a rest.

Muster Turner will be put in the sleep to-day, and Friday the other hoy will he put to sleep. There is no injury of any kind following this experiment. Yes, I save the board bill for this boy, which may be my real object in placing him in this sleep! But I do it for one main, chief purpose, and that is to advertise my work".

Here I stop and look over the crowd; they are listening intently, hut it is best to stop before I touch them on the financial question. I want to give them an opportunity to absorb the majesty of these words which I have recently spoken! Plainly, I want to make an impression and cast about me an air of mystery.

"Four years ago I placed this same subject in a sleep for a period of eight days, during which time he was buried under six feet of earth. There was an air shaft running to his tomb to keep him from suffocating, and I visited the grave once each day to see that everything was all right. The experiment was carried out under the supervision and by the permission of the city authorities at Louisville. Two guards were on duty night and day to see that the experiment was prefectly fair. There were also a great many people present night and day and the grave was not deserted for a moment. During that time Master Turner did not eat, drink or move, remaining in the cataleptic sleep all the time. When, on the eighth day, I had the tomb opened, and there were officials to immediately arrest me should any harm have come to the subject, there was scarcely a sound among the ten thousand people gathered, except the noise the men made in digging up the casket. The box was drawn carefully up and the subject was awakened amid the cheers of this vast multitude. Since that time I have buried him in many different cities and the experiment has always proven a success.

"Tomorrow night I shall awaken this subject on the stage before the audience. After that will proceed the usual entertainment. I will entertain, amuse and instruct all for a period of two hours. The mysteries of hypnotism will be fully explained. The seats are now on sale, reserved for fifty cents apiece. The door prices will be twenty-five and thirty-five cents. The performance will commence at eight o'clock.

"I now call your attention to the store window, where I will put this subject to sleep, sewing his lips together with a common needle and white cotton thread".

The audience cheer and they all crowd forward eagerly to watch the process of putting the subject to sleep.

I get into the show window and Master Albert Turner comes forward clothed in an oriental robe. He has removed his waistcoat and suspenders. He wears a belt and has removed his shoes. This will ensure comfort and the robe will cover this change. I place him carefully in front of the casket, directing him to stand erect while I hypnotise him. This, of course, is not necessary, but I do it merely to give the best ....... to the crowd that I possibly can. Should I wave my hand and he immediately pass into sleep, they would say that it was a fake. Few there would be who could reason out the difference between the placing of a new subject under and using the old one. So I passed as I would way hypnotising a new one.