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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



School-teachers and Naturalists in 

 High Office- 



The editor of this magazine is a 

 school-teacher, an instructor of teach- 

 ers and incidentally a naturalist. He, 



a heart more interested in natural his- 

 tory reading than in any other kind. 

 I believe that in his heart he cares more 

 for his reputation as a naturalist than 

 for his popularity as president and in- 



WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS, BIG RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. 



therefore, rejoices in the prominence telligent worker along various other 



given to these occupations or profes- official lines. 



sions in recent years by some of the There is William Howard Taft 



highest official personages of the land, whose genial smile suggests his happi- 



Everybody knows that Colonel ness when a word is said to him about 



Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-president, has his leaving the presidential chair to be- 



