The Century Co.

The Century Co. Announces an educational competüion. It is on a most interesting and original plan. Thirty-five prizes, amounting $1,000 (first prize $500), will be giren for the best answers lo 150 questions. ïhe toüics selected deal with matters of general information; they are not ' astic, but are educational. Your training at school was only mental drill; you may have forgotten all you learned 1 Onn there .but "reading, writing and arithmetic." tpx,yjJKJ You will never forget the information derived TM QL DDr7üc irom answei'inS these questions, because every llN öO rnllü one deals with a living and useful fact. No cube-roots, no parsing, no memorizing of dates; instead the learning of things that evervbody ought to know. If you make an honest attempt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, d?Kr"k secure most valuable information, and stand a pOUU good chance oí' making $500 (perhaps $1,000: see below). If you gain first prize, the know 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 peuic maienai in rne Uentury Dictionary and SM ALL MONTHLY Cyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to PsnnYlOfftc this great work. If you do not a'lready possess 1 dj lllCllijO, 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 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 well as the supplementary prize of 1500 more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each A inonth is allowed to answer each set. Try mi them at home. They will be an intellectual ine veiltUry recreation for you and your familv; also a good T)iístinnaT7test of your ability to deal with worde and facts. ." y Have your children try them; it will be a real i ,. education for them. Write to us for sample vyClOpeOlia. questions, to see how instructiva and useful they are, or for a description of the work. $8OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competüar who, lay ing mide The Cenlury, answer, and answer most successfully, 90 per cent o these questions from 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 Cenlury is superior not to any one other work of reference, hut to any ten others. (Dep't R. o.) New York.