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 al school was only mental drill; you may have forgotten all you larned 3Ï1 nnO there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." - èpi.,vLf J. 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 lo know. If you make an honest attempt to win, .you will learn to concéntrate your mind, shíirpen your wits, mprnA secure most valuable information, and stand a tpOvJvJ good chance of 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 500 you receive. To fiad the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SM ATT MONTHTY Cyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to PoTTTilüTifc this great work. If you do not already possess X cij IllöilL'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 you the work and enable you to try for 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 month is allowed to answer each set. Try qu ranlimw them at home. They will be an intellectual mv VeilLUry recreation for you and your family; also a good DictiOüafV test of your ability to deal with words and facts. AND Have your children try them; it will be a real Pxrfl nnprH a education for them. Write to us for sample VyClOpeClld.. questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a description of the work. $5OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 lo the competitor who, layinc) aside The Century, answers, and answers 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 Century is superior not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. THE CENTURY CO., (Dept r O) New