The Century Co.

Announces an educational competition. It is on a most interestiq and original plan. Thirty-five prizes, amounting 81,000 (first prize $500), will be given for the best answers to 150 questions. The topics selected deal with mattere of general information; they are not scholastic, but are educational. Your training at school was only mental drill; you may have forgotten all you learned Qii fff there but " r'eading, writing and arithmetic." tpl,UUvi You will never forget the information derived from answering these questions, because every IN 35 PRIZES one deals with a living and useful fact. No cube-roots, no parsing, no memorizing of dates; instead the learning of things that everybody ought to know. If you make an honest attêmpt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, PiOn secure most valuable information, and stand a pJvJ'v-F good chance of making $500 (perhaps 11,000: ddt7ü see below). If you gain first prize, the know rlKM rnlAJl ledge you have acquired will be worth more to you than the S500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and QMATT MHNTHTV Cvclopedia, because these like thousands of ÖMALL, MUflinLi otjierg can begt be answei.ed by reference to T) rnQr(x this great work. If you do not already possess jTciy Illullt'O. a set, you can easily procure one. A limitad , ïmmber of clubs are now being formed for tle I purchase of sets at the lowest wholesale price. Each person joinin:, j ing a club (and those wlio apply at once can join) secures his set at ï reduction of 40 per cent, and has the further privilege of paying for it in small monthly payments. A first payment of $5.00 will bring you the work and en'able you to try lor the first prize of $500, as well as the supplementary prize of 8500 more. The 150 questions are divided into tliree sets of 50 each. A month is allowed to answer each set. Try rpu fpiitiiw them at home. They will be an intellectual iLLy ciituijf recreation for you and your family; also a good DÍctÍOHa.Py test of your ability to deal with words and facts. ANt Have your children try them; it will be a real rWrlrkT-karHs education for them. Write to us for sample yClupeuicl, questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a descrij tion of the work. $5OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competitor who, lay ing aside The Century, answers, and ansivers most successfully , 90 per cent oj these questions f rom' ten other works of reference, no matter in how many volumes each is published. This offer is made for the purpose of showing that The Century il superior not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. THE CENTURY CO., (Dep't R o.) New York.