The Century Co.

.nnounces an educational competition. It is on a most interesting md original plan. Thirly-five prizes, amonnting 81,000 (iirst prize 500), will be given for the best answers to 150 questions. The topics ielected deal with mattere of general information; they are not scholistic, but are educational. Your training at school was only mental drill; you may have forgotten all you learned QM OOO thei-e but "reading, writing and arithmetic." Lpl.,vJUv 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; nstead the learning of things that everybody ought to know. If you nake an honest attempt to win, you will learn ;o concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, QOO secure most valuable information, and stand a pUJJ J íood chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: rTDCT DDT7r. iee below). If you gain first prize, the know r Iníil rnlri edge you have acquired will be worth more to you than the S500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and QMATT MONTHTV Cvclopedia, because these like thousands of om all muiNinu Qers can begt be answered by reference to "DotTTYi Airf c this great work. If you do not already possess 1 CtylflöllL'b. 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 ín small monthly payments. A iirst payment of $5.00 will bring you the work and eriable you to tfy for the first prize of 500, as well as the supplemenlary prize of 850Ó more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A month is allowed to answer each set. Try mi. ftiriiiwir them at home. They will be an intellectual -LJ1f "l'Uiy recreation for you and your family; also a good DictionaPV test of your ability to deal with words and facts. AND Have your children try them; it will be a real rTrslrT-orHa education for them. Write to us for sample J tiupeuid, 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 to the competitor who, laying aaide The Century, answers, and answers mout successfully, 00 per cent o these questions from ten other xuorks 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 E. o ) New York.