The Century Co.

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 selected 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 tfj- (fkr there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." pl,ULFvJ You will never ibrget the information derived tm or DDÍ7CC ll0m answei'in these questions, because every 1JN O rnlZbS one deals with a living and useful fact. No cube-roots, no parsing, no memorizing of dates; instead the learning of things tliat everybody ought to know. If you make an honest attempt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, eharpen your wits, ÍÜPíOí"! secure ' most valuable information, and stand a t)OUU good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: see below). If y.ou gain first prize, the FIRST PRIZE ledge you have acquired will be worth more to you than the 8500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SMAH MDNTHIY Oyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to Pgvmonío this great work. If you do not already possess 1 Ctj JJuCllL'O. a set, you eau 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 paymets. A first payment of $5.00 will bring you the work and enable you to try lor 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 inonth is allowed to answer each set. Try rpi_ them at home. They will be an intellectual ine leniUry recreation for you and your family; also a good DÍCtÍOn&lV test of your ability to deal with words and facts. AND Have your children try them; it will be a real p i ,q education for them. Write to ns for sample yClOpeClia, questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a description of the work. $SOO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competitor who, laying aside The Century, answers, and answers most successfully, 90 per cent o these questions frorn ten other works of reference, no matter in how many volume each is published. This offer is made for the purpose of showing that The Century is superior not to any one other ivorh of reference, but to any ten others. (Dep'tRo.) New York.