The Century Co.

Announces an educational competition. It is on a most interesting and original plan. Thirty-five prizes, amounting 11,000 (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 (fri fff there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." J),Lj xJKJ You will never forget the information derived tm 9R DDr7rc lrom answerinS these questions, because every IN ö0 rruZho 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 wits, (JíPOO secure most valuable information, and stand a tpOUU good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: see below). Jf you gain first prize, the FIRST PRIZE ledge you have acquired will be worth more to you than the $500 you receive. ïo find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SM ALL MONTHLY fyc'0Peclia, because these li'ke thousands of others can best be answered by reference to "P Q T YY1 On "f C l''s reat work. If you do not already possess JTctj illclll'o. a .set, you can easily procure one. Á limited number of clubs are novv 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 Dring 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 mu rmi them at home. They will be an intellectual A II 6 leniUry recreation for you and your family; also a good DÍCtÍOIiarV est of your ability to deal with words and facts. " AND [lave your children try them; it will be a real r i ,1 education for them. Write to us for sample yClOpeülB. juestions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a description of the work. $500 MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competüor who, layin;i aside The Century, answers, and answers most successfully, 00 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 or not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. THE CENTURY CO., (Dept r. O) New York.