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children, by a ruse, made him leave it for more commodious 

 quarters. 



A man of such broad activity in his own profession oi such 

 lively interests for the welfare of others, could not help being- 

 noticed and respected all over the country. Thus it was with 

 Gustav Ramsperger. To know him was to love him. Those of 

 us who were regular attendants of the meetings of the American 

 Pharmaceutical Association, will recall that in all the little excur- 

 sions that were made through the country, where plants or flowers 

 were to be found, Ramsperger was always surrounded by a circle 

 of inquiring friends. He knew every plant, he knew the history 

 of every plant, he knew everything that could lie known about the 

 plant, and the older of us will also recall that another respected 

 German, a type similar to Ramsperger, Professor Maisch, of 

 Philadelphia, was generally with him at such occasions, and the 

 two were good and dear friends. Of Ramsperger it may be said 

 that he had no enemies. His amiable disposition, his smiling eyes, 

 his cheerful words, always acted as a soothing balsam on unrulv 

 spirits. He could not say a harsh word to anybody. He never 

 offended anyone, and if he took a dislike to anyone, he simply 

 avoided him. Thus he stands before us, one of the leaders of 

 our profession, and it may be well worth while to put the example 

 of his life before the younger generation, who often believe that 

 the accumulation of money alone stands for success. Ramsperger's 

 life was a shining example of a great man of his profession, not in 

 the sense of glittering arid boasting, but in the sense that the 

 greatest man is he who does the greatest good to his fellow men. 



He was a typical American of German birth, of the best calibre. 

 While he remained a German in many of his ways, and preferred to 

 speak German to any other language, and was proud of being a Ger- 

 man, still he was thoroughly American, and understood the customs 

 and laws of this country in a noble and ideal way. He was an Ameri- 

 can, not by birth, which often means by accident, but by choice ; he 

 loved the country to which he had emigrated and was proud to be a 

 good and useful citizen. Therefore he kept all that was good, all that 

 was true of his fatherland, and brought it with him to this country as 

 a valuable treasure and gave this treasure to his new country in ex- 

 change for liberty and independence that he found here. The devo- 

 tion to his work, his strong vigor in doing the right thing at the right 



