The Century Co.

Announces an educational competition. It is on a most interesting and original plan. Thirty-five prizes, amounting $1,000 (first prize $500), will be given for the best answers to 150 questions. The topics selecled deal with matters 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 Oía fff there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." tpi.,vvlLI You will never forget the information derived DDr7UC lrom answering these questions, because every IN oO rKIZho 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 attempt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, qj[-rv secure most valuable information, and stand a tpOUU good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: see below). If you gain first prize, the FIRST PRIZE ledge you have acquired will be worth more to you than the $500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SMALL MONTHLY Oyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to "P QtnYl O Tl "f"C this great work. If you do not already possess JtCtj LÜUULlo. a set, A'ou can easily procure one. A limited number of clubs are now being formed for the purchase of sets at the lowest wholesale price. Each person joining ing a club (and those who apply at once can join) secures his set at a 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 enable you to try for the first prize of $500, as weil as the supplementary prize of $500 more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A month is allowed to answer each set. Try rpi, „ fiA„i11OTr them at home. They will be an intellectual 1Iie eillUry recreation for you and your family; also a good DÍCtÍOHHlV test of your ability to deal with words and facts. AND Have your children try them; it will be a real - _i education for them. Write to us for sample vyClOpGCllil, questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a descrip" tion of the work. $5OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competitor who, laying aside The Century, answers, and answers most successfully , 90 per cent of these questions from 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 is superior not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. THE CENTURY CO., (Dept e. o ) New York.