Calumniator

“ The word calumet is due to Father Marquette, and his description of this interesting Indian pipe and its uses among the Indians over two hundred years ago is best given in his own words:
“It now remains for me to speak of the calumet, than which there is nothing among them more mysterious or more esteemed. Men do not pay to the crowns and sceptres of kings the honor they pay to it. It seems to be the god of peace and war, the arbiter of life and death. Carry it about you and show it, and you can march fearlessly amid enemies, who even in the heat of battle lay down their arms when it is shown. ”

“ Well, Clamydes, then kneel down: here in our nobles’ sight, We give to thee that art our son the order of a knight; But, as thou wilt our favor win, accomplish my desire. Clamydes
Else never to your royal court, O father, I’ll retire. King of Suavia
Well, then, adieu, Clamydes dear: the gods thine aider be! But come, my lords, to have his hire, that caitiff bring with me. Subtle Shift
Alas and’t shall please you, I am Knowledge, and no evil did pretend! Set me at liberty; it was the knight that did offend. Clamydes
O father, sith that he is Knowledge, I beseech your grace set him free ”

“ Now will Clamydes me accuse a faithless knight to be, And eke report that cowardliness did daunt the heart of me: The worthy praise that I have won through fame shall be defaced, The name of the Knight of the Golden Shield, alas, shall be erased! Before that noble prince of might whereas Clamydes he Will show himself in combat-wise for to exclaim on me For breaking of my pointed day; and, Clyomon, to thy grief, Now art thou in a country strange, clean void of all relief, Oppressed with sickness through the rage of stormy blasts and cold:— Ah Death, come with thy direful mace! ”

“ The verb to calender, to press and gloss cloth, etc., is from Old Fr. calendrer (calandrer) , "to sleeke, smooth, plane, or polish, linnen cloth, etc." (Cotgrave) . This word is generally considered to be related to cylinder, a conjecture which is supported by obsolete Fr. calende, used of the "rollers" by means of which heavy stones are moved.
A craft, or association of masters, was once called a mistery (for mastery or maistrie) , usually misspelt mystery by association with a word of quite different origin and meaning. ”

“ We are dressed up like a scarecrow to gratify, on a large scale, the passions of curiosity, fright, and hatred. Something or other men must fear, men must loathe, men must suspect, even if it be to turn away their minds from their own inward miseries.... A 373 calumny against us first appeared in 1836, it still thrives and flourishes in 1851. I have made inquiries, and I am told I may safely say that in the course of the fifteen years that it has lasted, from 200,000 to 250,000 copies have been put into circulation in America and England. ”

“ So the Bold Tin Soldier and the Calico Clown climbed down off the toy counter and walked slowly, and a little stiffly, over the floor toward the elevators. The one light shone dimly, and by its rays they could see that no one was in the store—not even the watchman. He was down on the first floor, near the perfumery counter. He loved the smell of perfumery, did that watchman.
“No one is here!” said the Bold Tin Soldier, as he came marching back with the Calico Clown.
“Not a soul to watch us? That’s fine!” shouted the Monkey on a Stick. “Now I’m going to have some fun!” ”

“ As he did so he happened to punch the Clown in the chest, and of course the Clown banged his cymbals together, as he had been taught to do in the workshop of Santa Claus, where he had been made.
And as the cymbals tinkled and clanged the typewriter girl laughed harder than ever. Then the man happened to pull one of the strings, and the Clown kicked up his legs. The office boy was looking into the room just then, and, seeing this antic of the jolly red and yellow chap, the office boy laughed out loud.
"Dear me! I'm glad every one in this office is so good-natured," thought the Clown to himself. ”

“ Every time I grab up anything he doesn't want me to take, I have to climb a tree. He can't chase me up there, though he'd like to lots of times, I guess."
"I thought hand-organ monkeys had collars around their necks, and a long rope fast to that which their masters held," said the Clown.
"Well, I had that, too, but I took the rope off a little while ago, so I could run loose," explained the live monkey. "I want to have some fun. Can you do anything to amuse me?" and he looked at the cymbals on the Calico Clown's hands and at the strings which were fast to his legs and arms. ”

“ No invention, on being first brought out, created so general a sensation as the Kaleidoscope. Every person, who could buy or make one, had a Kaleidoscope. Men, women, and children—rich and poor; in houses or walking in the streets; in carriages, or on coaches—were to be seen looking into the wonder-working tube, admiring the beautiful patterns it produced, and the magical changes which the least movement of the glass occasioned. ”

“ They could move about and talk only when no human eyes were looking. As soon as you glanced at them they became as still and as quiet as potatoes.
But any one who picked up the Calico Clown could make him bang his cymbals together by pressing on his chest. There was a little spring, and also a sort of squeaker, such as you have heard in toy bears or sheep.
Besides being able to clap his cymbals together, the Calico Clown could also move his arms and legs when you pulled certain strings, like those on some Jumping Jacks. The Calico Clown was a lively fellow, as well as being very gaily dressed. ”

“ Ah sirrah, little knows Bryan that Clamydes my master is; But to set him free from prison I intend not to miss: Yet still in my mind I can do no other but muse What practice with my master’s apparel and shield he will use. Well, seeing I have played the crafty knave with the one, I’ll play it with the other; Subtle Shift for advantage will deceive his own brother. ”

“ Yet, like other semi divine personages connected with inspiration or culture, he obtains his powers by accident or by force. One myth, that of the cauldron, shows the former and Is parallel to the story of Flonn and the salmon;54 but In another, darkly referred to in a poem, he with Arthur and many companions goes overseas to Caer Sidi for the spoils of Annwfn, Including the cauldron of Pen Annwfn.5 Here, whether successfully or not, the gifts of culture and inspiration are sought by force or craft. ”

“ Your tongue-tied fellow I read easily. When I once know where he is, and then remember where he would be, I will readily foresee for you the trail he means to travel.”
“Calhoun is a silent man.”
“And Calhoun is a defeated man; his one chance is my death, which I have no mind shall happen. Calhoun is a silent, but not a secret man. He hides nothing, and can hide nothing by a still tongue. Who does not know how he is for Nullification and must live or die by it?” ”

“ The little clown explained his profession and his need of an engagement; and stood there, hat in hand, with tremulous knees.
The circus proprietor looked at him a long time in contemptuous silence, and then, with an ugly sneer, said:
"Have you ever had your heart broken?"
"Indeed I have," answered the clown. "For to have your heart broken is part of the business of a clown."
"How many times?"
"Six."
"Not enough," answered the proprietor, roughly, turning again to his lunch with the Columbine. "Get it broken again and come back; then perhaps we can talk business." ”

“ When smoking, after "lunch is cleared away,"
Thy face amid the cloud I seem to see;
When "that sweet mite with whom I used to play,"
Or "Araminta," or "the fair Miss P."
Recur to me, I think upon thy verses,
Which still my beating heart and quench my curses.
Ah, Calverley! if in these lays of mine
Some sparkle of thy radiant genius burned.
Or were in any poem—stanza—line
Some faint reflection of thy muse discerned:
If any critic would remark in fine
"Of C. S. C. this gentle art he learned;" ”

“ When Cagliostro came to France, he found the ground prepared for his magical operations. A society eager for distractions and emotions, indulged to every form of extravagance, necessarily welcomed such a man and hailed him as its guide. ”

“ The analogy, perhaps, might not have been perceived by anyone less intimately acquainted with Calumet, or by anyone who understood a horse less, but she saw it, and knowing Calumet's innate savagery, his primal stubbornness, his passions, the naked soul of the man, she began to feel that the black was waging a hopeless struggle. He could never win unless some accident happened. ”

“ An Indian child baiting warriors caught the attention of the old braves. They scanned him so closely that they saw the calumet at which he pointed. They hastened to throw down their bows and arrows in token of submission to the peace pipe. Magic calumet!
Anthony did not enjoy the visit which followed nor the meetings with other inhabitants of this group of villages. He had a constant desire to look behind him. There was often a queer weakness in his knees. He wanted to keep his curly scalp close to the white eagle feathers. ”

“ Then Colum cried, “O fishes of the Deep, who is your king?”
Whereupon the herring, the mackerel, and the dog-fish swam forward, and each claimed to be king. But the echo that ran from wave to wave said, The Herring is King.
Then Colum said to the mackerel: “Sing the song that is upon you!”
And the mackerel sang the song of the wild rovers of the sea, and the lust of pleasure. ”

“ For, as you have been told, the playthings cannot make believe come to life nor move about when any human eyes are watching them. They must wait until they are alone, which is generally after dark. That is why you have never seen your doll or your rocking horse moving about by itself.
But now, in the toy store, from which every one had gone, some strange things happened. The Calico Clown stood up near the Candy Rabbit and looked about. Then the Calico Clown banged together the shiny brass cymbals he held in his hands. ”

“ In another moment they were reinforced by the marshal and his other men, and then Calliope felt that in order to successfully prolong the delights of the controversy he must find some means of reducing the great odds against him. His eye fell upon a structure that seemed to hold out this promise, providing he could reach it.
Not far away was the little railroad station, its building a strong box house, ten by twenty feet, resting upon a platform four feet above ground. Windows were in each of its walls. Something like a fort it might become to a man thus sorely pressed by superior numbers. ”

“ Ah Knowledge, this hath me bound to be thy friend forever! Subtle Shift
A true servant, you may see, will deceive his master never.
[Opens the prison-door.] So, the doors are open; now come and follow after me. [Clamydes] enter out.
Clamydes
Ah heavens, in what case myself do I see! But speak, Knowledge, canst thou tell how long have I been here? Subtle Shift
These ten days full, and sleeping still; this sentence is most clear. Clamydes
Alas, then this same is the day the which appointed was By the Knight of the Golden Shield to me that combat ours should pass Before King Alexander’s grace ”

“ In most of these conveyances the thongs are tied across one way only, from short pole to short pole, forming a ladder-like arrangement.
Fig. 175.—Travois ready for camping outfit.
Fig. 176.—Different parts of straw calumet.
Fig. 177.—Calumet finished.
A chief must always have his
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Calumet,
or "pipe of peace," to smoke and pass around the council circle, when all the leaders of the different tribes meet to talk over important matters concerning the welfare of their people. Real calumets are generally large and of goodly length, some of them being four feet long. ”

“ The real editor of the Clarion woke one morning, in San Francisco, to find his paper famous. Its advertising columns were eagerly sought for—he at once advanced the rates. People bought successive issues, to gaze upon this monumental record of extravagance. A singular idea, which, however, brought further fortune to the paper, was advanced by an astute critic at the Eureka Saloon. "My opinion, gentlemen, is that the whole blamed thing is a bluff! There ain't no Mr. Dimmidge; there ain't no Mrs. Dimmidge; there ain't no desertion! ”

“ From a deep slumber, that seemed, indeed, death, for it was dreamless, the cavalier, at last, awoke, somewhat confused, but no longer delirious; and, though greatly enfeebled, entirely free from fever. A yellow sunbeam,—the first or the last glimmering of day, he knew not which,—played through a narrow casement, faintly illuminating the apartment, and falling especially upon a low table at his side, whereon, among painted and gilded vessels of strange form, he perceived his helmet, and other pieces of armour as well as a lute, of not less remembered workmanship. ”

“ Yet these cavillers are principally among the younger part of our auditors, who have not yet attained the piety of their fathers. They feel the winter's cold, or the summer's heat, more sensibly than the peril of their souls. ”

“ When the art critic went, it was Salemaker who was appointed to write that delightful column "Through the Picture Galleries." "And this," he said to me, "gives me great pleasure, for I have never before had it practically recognised that I know something about art." I could understand that, and told him so. I do not think he was quite so pleased when he was given a third column to do every week, because the third column was called "Notes for the Nursery." "However," he said, "one can always read up a subject." ”

“ Calla, with cries of joy, rushed to an old man, who was in full war-paint, and whose necklaces and bracelets of shells and beads and lofty head-dress of feathers seemed to denote a chief, and who held in his hand a rugged club, clotted with brains and gore, and kneeling down before him began a long and voluble speech, pointing the while to the two fugitive canoes. ”