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At that time the Russian General Kaufmann was operating on the northern border of Afghanistan with a force of fifteen thousand men and sixty guns, and the Ameer had reason to think that he could rely on Russian cooperation against the English, who, with a force of forty thousand men, promptly invaded his dominion.
When Gortschakoff returned from Berlin to St Petersburg with his version of 'Peace with Honour' Bessarabia and Batoum thrown in Kaufmann had to countermand the concentration of troops that had been in progress on the northern frontier of Afghanistan.
These showed that Shere Ali had been invited to form a close alliance with the Russian Government. General Kaufmann had advised Shere Ali to try and stir up disaffection among the Queen's Indian subjects, promising to aid him, eventually, with troops. Finding that this scheme was impracticable at the moment, Russia dropped the Ameer, who fled from the scene of his misfortunes, and died soon after.
When Houghton was disposed to consider a college man for a vacancy, Kaufmann had always been ready with his "practical man dot has vorked hiss vay." And the college applicant had been sent away. Young Johann Kaufmann graduated from grammar school. Houghton suggested high school and college. "Vat? Nein!" said the elder Kaufmann. "I show him how better the gum to make." And he did.
Brainard hesitated. "Well, it seemed to me that Pepper is trying to do two things that are antagonistic: be 'élite' and sell chewing-gum. The fact is that élite people don't chew gum. I'd like to know how the statement, 'Old Tulu Best by Test, will make a kid on the corner with a cent in his fist have an attack of mouth-watering." Kaufmann roused himself. "It is true. Our gum is the best."
Pepper at the salary he demanded "any old thing to start the ball rolling." And now had come the information that the senior partner's long-desired experiment had ended in failure. Young Kaufmann turned to his work with the air of one who has given a child its own way and seen it come to grief. "I I suppose," Houghton said slowly, "we'll have to let Brainard go."
It was Kaufmann. "Yes." There was a pause. Then Houghton spoke. "I can't tell you how much this disappoints me, Brainard. The fact is, for years I have tried to shut my eyes to the development of college training. In my time there was not the call for practicality that there is today. Yet it seems to me that the training in our colleges has grown less and less practical.
For the German this answer was enough. It placed him in the merchant class. I asked him what sort of a Kaufmann he was. He then told me he was president of a large electrical company. Of course, with us he would have answered first that he was president of the electrical company, but being a German he simply disclosed his caste without going into details.
Green for this country, Augustin Thierry, Michelet, and Luchaire for France, Kaufmann, Janssen, W. Arnold, and even Nitzsch, for Germany, Leo and Botta for Italy, Byelaeff, Kostomaroff, and their followers for Russia, and many others, have fully told that tale.
Wolf gave them an important place in his work: "I consider them," he wrote to Kaufmann, "the most original and perfect of my compositions." As for the Michelangelo Gedichten , they were interrupted by the outbreak of his malady, and he had only time to write four, of which he suppressed one.
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