Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — A Peculiar Bear-Trap. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiar Bear-Trap.

Of al tin Siberian traps so ■ bears none is ’- or n nnous ordisplays a more delicate and far-seeing sense of combination tha t the lasso and the block ” A lor g c rd, very strong and several yards loin, i- attached at one end to a huge og of wood and at Its other exremity a running noose Is rigged and artfully < opc a ed in the center of a mass >i brush an ' leaves. This noose is so arranged that bruin, n order to get at a pecu iarly tempting mess of ra pbe rles which his gluttonish - s see not la away, must put his head thr uih It. The noose falls loosely about is i.ei k and does not trouble him until ho bog ns to move away, when the weight of the log of wood tightens the rope and bruin find> he cannot breathe fte two or three angry trials to pull ihvad, like a dog attached by a rope when walking with his master, the b, ar grow s and follows back the rope until he comes to the log. He picks It up and bites It, shakes It, lights It, throws it down and starts off again; but anew the fatal cord tugs at his windpipe and his eyes are starting irom their sockets Twice or three times he goes back to fight the log of wood. Then finding that this does not help him, ne takes up the log and carries It off in his arms or in his forepaws. Then he looks about for a high precipice or a lofty rock from which to throw the offending log. The moment he finds One he pitches the log violently over, and is, of course, pulled over after It and killed by the fall, or so choked that be h ea dly captured: