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the salt, the sugar, the grain, the tea, 

 the coffee, the meats, and everything 

 else upon the tables ? How did all these 

 things get upon your table ? Who 

 brought them from every corner of the 

 globe ? What was the power by which 

 your family set in motion the whole ma- 

 chinery of commerce, of banking, of 

 transportation, to bring to you your 

 breakfast, dinner, and supper?" An- 

 swer, "The almighty dollar," provided 

 it is a good dollar, which meets Cernus- 

 chi's definition — "That only is good 

 money which is worth as much after the 

 coin is melted . or hammered smooth as it 

 purported to be worth in the coin. ' ' To 

 that measure of the dollar or dollars each 

 head of a family can command, each 

 family controls the services of all the 



THE ZIEGLER POLAR EXPEDITION 



MR WILLIAM ZIEGLER is send- 

 ing north this summer a large 

 party to carry supplies to the Ziegler 

 Polar Expedition. The party will sail 

 from Norway about July i on board the 

 Terra Nova, a powerful whaling vessel 

 which Mr Ziegler recently purchased 

 for this purpose. Mr W. S. Champ, 

 the general manager of Mr Ziegler' s 

 Arctic expeditions, will be in charge. 

 They will try to reach Franz Josef Land, 

 where the Ziegler expedition is expected 

 to meet them. In case the ice is as 

 heavy as it was in 1904, Mr Champ will 

 force the Terra Nova as far north as 

 possible, and then allow the vessel to 

 be frozen in. The party will then push 

 across the ice to Franz Josef Land. 



The Ziegler North Polar Expedition, 

 which, it will be remembered, set out 

 in 1903, is "being made under the au- 

 spices of the National Geographic So- 

 ciety, whose personal representative, 

 Mr W. J. Peters, is in charge of the 

 scientific work and second in command. 

 It was expected that the expedition 

 would return in 1904, but the ice was 

 so thick that they could neither get 



merchants, tradesmen, bankers, steam- 

 ship lines, railways, farmers, and man- 

 ufacturers of the world. The only rea- 

 son and motive for the existence of all 

 these forces is to supply food, clothing, 

 and shelter to the multitude. All that 

 we get in or out of life in a material 

 sense are our shelter, clothing, and 

 food. 



I think that text would develop some 

 lessons in geography. Is not the right 

 end to begin the one which is right at 

 the hand of every youth in the land ? 

 Work backward from a single fact relat- 

 ing to any substance, and one may de- 

 velop, as I did in untwisting the strand 

 of cotton, the geography, geology, cli- 

 matology, and the chemistry of the soils 

 and conditions of the globe. 



out nor could an auxiliary party reach 

 them. They are abundantly supplied 

 with provisions, and no anxiety is felt 

 on that score. 



Mr Ziegler will also send a repre- 

 sentative on board the Belgica, which 

 is to proceed about July 1 to Shannon 

 Island, on the east coast of Greenland, 

 to make sure that none of the party 

 who made the polar dash have been 

 carried there by the polar drift. Sev- 

 eral years ago a large stock of provis- 

 ions was established at this point in 

 case the men making the polar dash 

 were prevented by the drift from re- 

 turning to Franz Josef Land and were 

 landed on the Greenland coast. 



EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL GEO- 

 GRAPHIC CONGRESS 



THE proceedings of the Eighth In- 

 ternational Geographic Congress 

 will appear in book form about Septem- 

 ber 1 , forming a volume of about 800 

 pages. The work is to be published by 

 the United States Government pursuant 

 to the following resolution, which 

 passed the Senate February 21 and the 

 House of Representatives March 3 : 



