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 scholaslic, but are educational. Your training ai school was only mental drill; you may have forgotten all you learned Üs1 fff there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." tpx,JJJ You will never forget the information derived tm qk DDÍ7CC rom answering these questions, because every 1JN dO rnlZtiö 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 wit.=, (UKrin secure most valuable information, and stand a tpöUU 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 S500 you receive. ïo find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SMALL MONTHLY W'dopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to "PsnYnOYl'f'Q this great work. If you do not already possess 1 Ojj IlluIIL'O. a set, you 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 yon the work and enable you to try lor the first prize of $500, as well as the supplementary prize of 500 more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A monlh is allowed to answer each set. Try rph rö + nw them at home. They will be an intellectua'l AI1" eillUry recreation for you and your famïly; also a good DictiOïlciPV test of yourability to deal with words and f'acts. and ' Have your children try them; it will be a real - , . education for them. Write to us for sample vyClOpeClla, 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, lay ing aside The Century, answers, and answers most successfully, 90 per cent o these questions f rom 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 work of reference, hut to any ten others. (Dep't k. o.) New York.