Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-16

much attention from those artistically Tn clined represents broken kettledrum rest.
 ing on wrecked gun carriage wheel. Quite elaborate and handsome is silver cling the top and with the bottom chased tc represent wicker basket.
 A unique and effective silver pen dish rep resents the curved feather of an ostrich. Al
 one corner of the receptacle an odd appearing
 owl with averted head is perched.
 A helmet of fifteenth century armor, hand somely chased, makes beautiful ornament in silver. The pointed visor at the front, ou being opened, discloass cut glass inkstand reposing in bed of puffed silk. Prominent silverware dealers say that bright repousse work will soon predominate over the dull and oxydized articles of last season. Some very handsome styles in thil class of ornamentation ara being produced.
 A useful and pretty ornament for the smoking table is silver oblong tray bearing three spiris lamps of dull finished metal. Etched on the surface of the tray is line of music with the words, ''It was my last cigar"
 A decidedly handsome and tasteful lace pin represents two sprays of clover held to- gether by trailing vine of the same mate- rial. The petals of the flowers are divided into two sections, one of smooth old gold and the other of open fligree work.
 BUFFALO STAMPEDE.
 The Living Wave That Was as Ter.
 rfble as Water or Fire. From the Detroit Free Press.] It is high noon on the great plains of csn- tral Nebraska. An enigrant party, oom- posed of dozen wagons and as many fam1- lies, has halted on the Loup Fork of the Platte river to cook dinner and rest their an innals. It is midsummer and tho creek has almost disappeared. Here and there few barrels of water are left in deep hole, and again the bed of ths creek Is dry, for a hun dred rods. The suns of July and August beat down on the great plains witha terrible effect. Creeks run dry, rivers sink into in- significance, the grass is killed to it's roots, and great cracks open in the baked earth to give convenient shelter to insects and rep- tiles. Then woe to the man or beast who is far from water. Thirst will craze him in g few hours. 3;-=s 9s!IE
 There is water here for the emigrant, such as it is, but the quantity is reduced to one. half before the thirsty horses have had thei1 fill. The men look up and down the bed o1 the creek, but as far as the eye can see in either direction there is no more water. Last May this Loup Fork would have foated 6 ship in it's channel, but the mountain snows have melted and no rain has fallen for weeks.
 As the camp fires are lighted and the din- ner made ready, let us fly north dozen times. A hundred miles away is the Niobrara river, rising in the mountains far to the west, flowing in the same eccentric manner, and its bed also just as dry at this season of the year. Five or six days ago 8 herd of
 fill at the Niobrara as they crossed 1t, work ing to the south in fear of the Indian buffalo hunters, who were abroad on the Dakots line, and in hopes to find richer pasturage along the forks of the Platte.
 Here and there as they have progressed water has been found in small quantities, but for thirty hours past not an animal has had drop. The grass is scorched and dead, the ground hot to the feet, and the almost solid mass, covering acre after acre, are al. nest quiet at this soonday hour. Here and there one losses his head in anger as thirst torments him, and the others give utteranees to their sufferings by long drawn sighs and moans.
 Every animal has listless look, and you would say that it would require something beyond the ordinary to cause single one oi like ball of fire. The stirring of 50 many feet has filled the air with fine dust, to add still another torment to the situation. The OK or the horse would long ago have falle1 to tho earth to die.
 Sesl Near the center of the herd grea bull suddenly throws up his head aId scent the air. He is a magnificent speeimsn-on of the kings of the herd. Does his keel scent bring the presence of water over tn dozen miles of scorched plaina Ia ther l something to make him afraida He wheel around and around, he uttsrs hoarse bsllow 1 which excite the animals around him, and il | two minutes half the herd is in state o | agitation. Of sudden, with massive head held loy [, xrsk xr;k rJo of foam flying from the corners of hi mouth, with ferceness of demeanor whicl clears path for him, he heads to the wes and charges through the herd. He is fol lowed by ten, thirty, one hundred, on thousand, by every animal which can move
 and now begins stampede. A mighty liv ing mass rolls over the plain, body more tt be dreaded than tidal wave sweeping il l from the sea. Movement incites to new en ergy, rivalry to roach the front, sort O madness which knows no fear of obstrue 1 tion.
 The emigrants are at their dinner ant | their horses are feeding about them, whel an alarm is sounded. One of the horse 1 raises his head, looks hxedly to the east ant
 utters shrill neigh of anxiety. The mel look up. The sky is clear and there are n, signs of Indians about. They make light o l the warning and sit down, but a momen
 
 lariats, there is trembling of the earth, an, l a man whose face is paler than death leap 1 up to shout:
 sA buffalo stampede Take to the wag onsl"
 There is room for ali and time for all, bu as the men look to the east and see tha l great living wave, two or three miles lon 1 and mile wide. bearing down upon tn l camp, they shout in dismay and cry out il
 despair.
 Nearer-nearer-comin straight on 1 naddened by their thirst and terrified b. l their own conduct, and there is @ chorus o shrieks and shouts-the reports of two Q | three rihes-a series of crashes which blen' l into one, and the camp has been plotted out 1 As the great wave itself hurls into the be-
 of the Loup and beyond, there is no sign Q l the camp, no sight of the wagons-nothin
 to toll of the thirty human beings alive an l well and full of hope only two minutes be
 fore. All have been wiped out-blotted o' l tho fana of fhA earth