The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-25

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ran. Hendricks, thinking she was
mortally wounded, followed her. He
had not gone far before the bear
turned on him with great fury and
threw him down. She was about to
chew him up when, with remarkable
presence of mind, he thrust his two
fists into her mouth and held her at
bay until George rushed up and
finished her with his hunting knife.
Hendricks carried the scars on his
arms the rest of his life.
The pioneer women could make
themselves useful in an emergency.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Archibald, living
in Clark township, Perry couneiry
treed bear one day not far from their
cabin. Mr.. Archibald proceeded to
cut the tree down, intending to shoot
the bear, but in falling the branches
of the tree pinned him to the ground.
The bear started to run, and Mrs.
Archibald seizing the gun. pursued it.
The brute soon treed again, and the
woman shot it dead. Returning to
her husband, she found him with a
broken leg. With an ak she cut the
branches and released him. She
helped him to the cabin, set his
broken bone, dressed the wound and
then went and brought in the dead
bear.
One day while Ebenezer Richard
son, of Perry county, was hunting his
stock in the woods he heard his hogs
squealing, and hurrying in the direc-
tion of the sound he found they had
been attacked by two bears. He
killed one at first shot, and following
the other a short distance killed it
also. The two were hauled to his
cabin and yielded ten gallons of oil.
The last bear killed in Lawrence
county was in 1925. A man named
John Sutton was hunting his hogs
near the present site of Mitchell when
he discovered fresh bear tracks in the
snow. Being mounted he rather
rashly decided to follow the trail, and
did so until he suddenly came on a
huge bear. The animal at once rose
on its hind feet, which is BEARS
fighting posture. Sutton's S horse, bad
ly heightened, reared and threw him
in the snow almost in the bear S
paws. Sutton was too badly scared
to move. The bear let himself down
on all fours, and after nosing and
smelling of the prostrate man he
turned and trotted away. Later he
was killed.
Deer was much more numerous
than bears in the central and southern
portions of the State. 1t was not an
unusual thing for a hunter to kill so
or 100 deer in a season. Beer meat,
venison and wild turkeys were the
main reliance of the pioneers in the
way of meat. A favorite way OF
cooking them was to hang piece of
venison or turkey beneath piece Of
bear meat and allow the dripping
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venison or turkey and thus season
them with the rich grease of the bear.
This was rather primitive way of
Harding" roast meat, but it tanswered
the purpose, and whatever was lack
ing in French sauce or seasoning was
supplied by the pioneers appetite.
Deer continued to be numerous i'll
some localities until about 1850. AS
late as 1S4S Samuel Graham, of Spen-
Ger county, killed six deer and three
wild turkeys in one day. The latter
were often captured alive by decoying
them with trial of corn into a pen
constructed of rails or branches and
closed at the top. A path was scooped
out in the ground by which the
turkeys entered the pen from below,
and once inside they looked only
above for means Of escape without
noticing the opening by which they
had entered.