The Century Co.

Announces an educational competition. It is on a most interesting and original plan. Thirly-five prizes, amounting $1,000 (first prize p500), will be given for the best ansvvers to 150 questions. The topics selected deal with matters of general information; thejT are not scholastic, but are educational. Your training al school was only mental drill; you inay have forgotten all you ldarned L1 Í"HIO there but ''reading, writing and arithmetic." tpl,wl_JLl You will never forget the information derived froni 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 lionest attempt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, Qílí"! secure most valuable information, and stand a ípOvvvJ good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: ;ee below). If you gain tirst prize, the know FIRST PRIZE edge you have acquired will be worih more to you than the $500 you receive. To find the ansvvers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SMALL MONTHLY Cyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to Pq"V7TY1D1tI"O this great work. If you do not already possess JTclj IIlcllL'o. a set, you can easily procure one. A limited number of clubs are now being formed for the ourchase of sets at the lowest vvholesale 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 n smal! monthly payments. A first payment of $5.00 will bring you ;he work and enable you to try for the first prize of $500, as well as the supplement ary prize of $500 more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A rronth is allowed to answer each set. Try rpi_ rnninmr them at home. They will be an intellectuál AI1 Veniury recreation for you and your family; also a good DÍCtÍOIlclly est of your ability to deal with words and facts. AND Have your children trv them; it will be a real i i education for them. Write to us for sample vyyClOpeaia, questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a description of the work. $6OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competitor who, laying aaide 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., (Dep'tRO.) New York.