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Copyright by Junes Elverson. LIABSO, or lariat, is the Spanish name for a rope made of raw hide or __ horse hair, generally about sixty feet i|£B|i long, with a loop on the end of it, H^HJ and is used to catch cattle and. horses, and sometimes bears. The lasso is used in all parts of Spanish America, both North and South, and in the hands of an expert is a very useful instrument in a stock-raising country. The lasso, to be thoroughly efficient, has to have several other things, without which it id no better than an ordinary piece of rope. First, a horse trained to stand and pull in any direction which the rider may wish; secondly, a saddle of peculiar make and strength, which has a horn on the front of it, and is used to wind the end of the lasso round, while the horse holds or pulls, laying all his weight and strength on the strain. Also a bit and bridle, of different make from the ordinary, of such strength and pow er that the most vicious horse is completely under the control of the rider. Rocky Mountain bears, when they come out in the spring to feed on the yourig grass and berries, are lean and hungry, and are ugly customers to meet. Sometimes they are eeen by a party of vaqueroa (Spanish for cowboys), who saddle up and dash after them. If the bear is a grizzly he stands and shows fight. The hunters surround Bruin, who rears himself on his haunches and awaits the attack, when, quick as a shot, the lasso is dropped on his head or on one of his outstretched paws; the others follow in quick succession. The little horses now tug and strain, all pull ing in different directions, l'oor grizzly bear haa a hard time to keep on his feet, and is rolled over and over and tangled up and laid out flat on the ground, without a move in him except his heavy breathing and panting sides. Bruin glares at his enemies with angry and bloodshot eyes, and, seeing them within reach of his dreadful paws, makes one more effort for revenge on his enemies. He is bound fast and tangled up in the folds of the raw hide, which buries itself into his shaggy coat and sinks into the muscles of hiu neck, stopping his breath. His struggles are all in vain; the mustangs, with out stretched necks and with feet planted firmly in the ground, hold him down, and the baf fled grizzly ha* to see his captors within a few feet of him, and he helpless as a rabbit. Taken altogether, the trapping of a grizzly bear is as exciting a scene as one can see west of the Rocky Mountains, where these ferocious animals attain their greatest size and weight. The California grizzly is very (powerful and, notwithstanding his clumsy form, is remark ably active and can use bis pawa with the agility of a cat. Once I was stopping with a camping-out party, in one of the northern counties, and in our excursions through the forest we came on some hunters building a trap in the woods. They had an order from a zoological garden in the East for some good specimens of grizzly, and as two had been seen and had made raids on the hunters' little grain crops, they were determined tOk.trap them if possible. The trap was a large box, twelve feet by five, and four feet and a half high, placed be tween pine trees, and composed of four-inch Keep Your Mouth Shut '.'-¦ 'C* Copyright by James Blreraon. ;,./.*; W' W*~~^EI L/I just am going to do it," said Luther Stewart, loudly. ' •>• ' "-. ° c jjj— i?; "Are you?" • asked Wilfred Dun tißgg ring, in some doubt. "How do you fFP > r9 ' know?'.' - ¦ •:; ¦'• '" •-.'; '•• •' '• ' V '¦ " ¦¦¦ '~\V'K ' .-: "Because I know I will," replied Luther, firmly. "In > two years '-: I i will ... be through school, then \I \ will go through ; col lege, and after I graduate, I am going to study for the bar, and then I'll be a great lawyer. c "Luther!" called out Uncle Frank, from the porch, where he had been sitting unobserved. Luther walked up quickly to his uncle,'! ex pecting to be sent on an errand, in which^case he would be well paid for going. : ;^ -'?• 1 But i Uncle Frank only leaned over the rail ing, and said, quietly: v^^v - V T< Keep your mouth shut! .. :, /._ ". Luther looked at bis uncle in surprise. - Then his face .-; brightened, ;¦¦•; and ¦; he » said, i with • a ¦¦$. know what you mean now. - I was read ing the < other : day 5 what -a . noted : physician said v about I people breathing ) through ; their mouths— how it was so injurious to the vocal organs and the air passages.' ¦• read the "Yes," assented Uncle Frank. "I read the same article, and -it is sound 1 advice; but 1 1 was : not | thinking lof that when '¦ I ' spoke. I meant to ; warn you to keep your mouth shut in another. sense." ¦' ; •' ' ' • •,:-.•, "I don't. understand what you mean, said Luther, blankly. • .. "Didn't I : just hear you tell ¦ Wilfred \ Dnh ring v what ; you ¦ were : going <to do six or eight years from now?" ',-. J «¦• -. : " ." ¦£' "So I am," Luther maintained, stoutly. i :_• ¦¦¦¦ i "You ' don't know anything about it," said Uncle Frank, with ; a laugh. "I have | noticed that ¦ you • have ¦a 1 habit ;of ' boasting t of . your plans for the future, as if they were settled. Don't ' you • know .; that ,' you . had I better;- keep your mouth ] shut • rather ', than ; make ! yourself ridiculous?" ;^",': v . '-' - 1 : ¦¦• •".-. , .; ' -'• C "There's Sno danger of : that." . v ',-tJ' ¦¦¦'."' s "Yes, there ¦ is. ,i Something ; may happen so Lassoing the Grizzly (planks, with a door which dropped down in a groove, and an iron hoop nailed all round on the inside edge of it. bo as to give liruin no chance to us.- bis teeth or claws aud make the beginning of a big hole. After the trap is all ready for setting, the hunter or his party set out in different di rections, and when they think they have gone far enough away, they return in a zig zag manner toward the trap, dragging a piece of meat or an old sack or a salt codfish after them, tied to the saddle. The old sack is smeared all over with 'molasses, and liruin has as sweet a tooth as any school girl. When the hunters arrive at the trap, one or all the baits are tied to a peg at its farthest end. Bruin goes in, and, pulling in the peg that you will '¦ be • debarred ' from ' college, and,' instead of a i lawyer, you ¦ may , become ,an or dinary; workman, < and . never be ! celebrated ; at all. r ; £.; ¦.;¦¦.-.-:.....,¦.• ~*.,-l i>srf"^r, -'».;.; ,-; J)That's : so," replied Luther, thoughtfully .V- ¦¦• I m ( not speaking •so much lof • your boyish boasts, M continued j Uncle : Frank,- "as of your future life. J; If you do not rid youraelf of this trait, and learn to keep your mouth shut, you *iU never succeed in business." - ¦¦'¦¦¦- ¦> (< Why?" queried ; Luther, ¦ quickly. „ > :;> Because, if your plans are good ones, some one < else ; will I catch I them jup and -bel in > the fleld in time to divide the advantage with you. 1, on the other hand, they are not good, you may Jbe J certain ) no I one | will point out \ the errors : in .them ; so : that ! you : cannot " ! possibly gam i anything ¦, by a your ; talkativeness. U Now suppose you were a great general, do you think V0L£!!!a A : "!?* ¦ win I * ny ha^ tlea ;«* you I told everybody what you" were going to do?" V— •ti3 1 P< M? ™ & whipped every time,'.'.ad mitted Luther, with a laugh. - . f H? y w n 6^ *> y° u would deserve to be. Well, rf you, were a great lawyer— as you aspire /to be— ypu could no more succeed than a general, if you di 4 not keep your mouth shut,untjl the Proper time came to open it. Sd'thi/th l^ bvusiaMs . you^ould ted that the &ep who listen well, and are not I^^^^itt n £KL < *lf i? ,S wn sec . retß . »«> t h e ones ? -, g^efally^geralotig in the world." "i.- * jvt f? """J 111 1 with my. mouth shut," objected | Lulher, "people will say -¦ I am • s y and mean and treacherous." -¦ ¦¦,--¦ -..; '¦ .." ,', >, "Not > necessarily. I only mean that : you should keep « your mouth \ shut , when ' you are inclined to boast of what you have done, and, rtiore particularly, what you are - going to i do! Let : somebody else praise '< you. And, ? strange to say, you . will s find , that : the ! less you talk about yourself the more other people will talk [ -about you. ' •:-;>•¦ *- *v" V "Maybe I might not like that," said Luther, reflectively. :;;¦;'.;:.,,-: : ;.- :>: > -. Vi . "¦' "It wouldn't hurt you if' the talk was good, and it couldn't be very . bad if . you ; kept your mouth shut."/: ' •¦;• ,;'•--:...-; ¦/-¦*¦' | which holds a looped rope, slips it off, and ; the door, which ia held up by a rope, falls behind him and shuts him in. He struggles hard to break his prison, but there he must wait if the walls are sound and well made. At last he bears the foot steps of the hunters and the baying of the dogs, but he is spared the trouble of a run for life. He puts his nose to a small space which has been left open, when, if it is not desired to capture him alive, the rifle touches his shaggy head, and the monarch of the Cali fomian mountains falls, never to rise again. While we were looking at the hunter— whose name we learned was Knowles — my companion asked him if, when be caught the bears, be wculd let us know, as we wished to see on« in all his native wildness. A few days afterward the whole camp was aroused up about 4 o'clock in the morning by Knowles dashing in among the tents and brash-houses, telling all hands to wake up, that he had caught the bears, and he would wait and go dowiwwith us. ; After a hurriedTSreakfast, horses were got ready, and a gallop of three miles brought ns to the trap, but no bears were there. The birds hatf " Wn. "Are ',^a sure, Mr. Knowles," I asked, "that you heard them inside the trap when you passed this morning?" "Why, yes, and the dogs knowed as how they war inside better than myself." "Oh, here it is," said one of our party, who had gone around to the other side. "See they have dug themselves out.'' And, sure enough, there was a hole and a tunnel bored under the floor of the trap. The door beinjr now lifted and propped up, we went in and found a large Dole cut in thr boards and the chips lying about, some as large as if they had been taken off by an axe. "Well, now," said Knowles, "that thar is my own fault. Thar war some auger holes in the floor of that trap, and I guess he got his claws in and took a slice out, and the rest was all easy, 'cause you see a bear is a var mint as has got mighty powerful claws, and if they get their teeth in anything that ain't iron they are bound to take a slice out of it. Old Zack Bennett told me to plug up them thar auger hole* or I would lose my beam, and he was right. Old Zack knows a mighty ot about varmints of all kinds. The fact of a four-inch plank having been eaten through in a few hours did not seem to surprise him in the least ,as he was evidently ike his friend Zack, and knew a great deal about varmints. After some examination of the tracks and signs we came to tho conclusion that it was only the she bear that had been inside. And, comparing the size of the hole in the floor and the tunnel under it, we knew that the old fellow did not go in; but finding his mate imprisoned, he dug his way in the soft earth and leaves, underneath the floor, while ¦he was cutting her way out through the planks, and escaped. So much for the saga city and strength of a griczly. ¦