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. ïlie 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 1 OOO there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." EP-i.,vJLFLF You will never forget the information derived TM ïK DDÍ7CC rom answering these questions, because every 1JN O rnlZllo 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 fo know. If you make an honest attempt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, Qïflf"! secure most valuable information, and stand a SpOUU good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: see below). If you gain first prize, the know FIRST PRIZE edge you have acquired will be worth more to you than the $500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material iu The Century Dictionary and SMALL MONTHLY J'dopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to Psirmonfo this great work. If you do not already possess 1 Ctj lllölllo. a set, you can easily procure one. A limited number of clubs are now being formed for the parchase 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 n small 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 supplementary prize of $500 more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A monlh is allowed to answer each set. Try mi, rö-, + ,, them at home. They will be an intellectual Alie eniUFy recreation for you and your family; also a good DictiOüaPV .est of your ability to deal with words and facts. AND ' J Have your children try them; it will be a real r 1 i education for them. Write to us for sample yClOpeuia. questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a descripion of the work. $6OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $500 to the competitor who, laying aside The Century, answers, and answers most. successfully, 90 per cent o hese questions from ten other works of reference, no matter in how many volume ach is published. This offer is made for the purpose of showing that The Century is uperior not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. THE CENTURY CO., (Dep'tR.0.) New York.