New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1930, Page 31

s % AR R AR I it e R AR LW IR P AN PO KAWL e " I et AL 1 IR 811 erscommmmonin s ompmnc s A i .§, { i A1 00 70 " PTG rnnd Demnavsmmanli™ " animals with widely ® ANCESTRAL CASTLE “Cullen House”, Banffshire, Scotland, for Centuries the Home of the Seafield Clan. Here Countess Nina Spent Her Childhood. AS a noblewoman—and a very g one, at that to elope as any nopgirl or scullery-maid? estion was answe las of Rouma; mored, is gravely problemat For while her capricious offspring was thocking all England by her most uncountess-like behavior, the dear old Wmager was thousands of miles away, blissfully ignorant of the fact. At the very moment the “Baby” The Sow That Defeated a Ferocious Panther in a Battle to the Death Is Here Shown with the Litter She So Heroically Protected. By HARRY L. REICHENBACH. Fos OTHER LOVE,” goes an old saying, “will make a warrior out of a pollywog.” When, therefore, you read here that an ancient razorback mother, a com- mon variety of wood sow, held at bay and finally put to flight a full-grown panther, don’t think for an instant that some imaginative person is giving play to romantic conjecturing. Ants fight fire, moths refuse to de- viate from their course because of rivers, and millions of quadrupeds, such us stampeding elephants, die to be true to the instinct of direction. Is 1t strange, then, that the deeper in- stinct nother love should make an old razorback sow stand agd give bat- tle to protect its young against a fero- LlOue giant cat of the jungle? Guy Coffee, a Southern newspaper editor, recern witnessed such a fight while hunt n the swampy flatlands near Lake bfastin, Alabama. The battle between the razorback and the panther proved a conflict of differing weapons. The catamount boasts huge, sharp ojaws at the end of muscular limbs and has the speed of the wind. FAMILY CREST Coat-of-Arms_of the Seafield Clan Since the Middle Ages. to handsome young Mr. Herbert, her mother was riding about A n jungles on the lofty back of an_ele- phant and coolly viewing exotic sights through an aristocratic pince-nez, If the Dowager's reaction is any- thing like that produced in the ‘Baby” Countess’'s own domain by the o¥d- Seafield castle will protests of refined rage when her mother returns from n to what one congervative ish newspaper had to sa twenty-four-year-old C marriage to the young Guard “Fl-.ppanc of Seafield Bas with more orthrdox ways in the cele- bration of what is known as the hap- piest day in a young girl's “It was quite well known how the Exclusive Cluse-up of the Peaceful-Looking Sow Which “Went Dempsey”” When a Ferocious Panther Attacked Her Brood. The panther’s power to leap into the air, its prodigious teeth and Jaws, far outweigh in armament that of the The razo stiff legs epeed or agility, its lack of belligerenc seem to make it an ill fitted adversary 'for the catamount. However, there are two elements of dan- ger in the keup of \ the razorbac Its huge, powerful teeth and abi victim beneath its adversary nly methods of se or defense. Coffee was fortunate enodgh to come upon the sow, stiff and rather Agd. precluding leading her litter to breakfast just as the sharp menacing crp of the panther reverberated through the wood. The sow, after lifting its shout to sniff the alr, immediately began to coax her young into a nearby clay root pit. The young, assembled and com- paratively safe, the sow turned just as the panther cleared the briars fringing the clearing. Then the battle began, with Mr. Coffee a fascinated spectator. The panther began moving in a cir- cle to draw the mother from%wr brood, but instinct forbade the sow te leave the pit edge. The attacking wild beast, wort tail swishing to and fro in an- ipation, swopped, poised an instant end then lunged. Direct at the sow the golden body streaked and the fear-stricken mother, utterings a gutteral grunt, awaited Just sze Gay Old Grandpa, This ‘Baby’ Noblewoman Scampered Off with a Commoner---, Defying the World DEFIANT NEWLYWEDS and Her Guardsman-Husband, Whose Secret ondon Greatly Displeased the Press, Nobility The Countes: Marriage in and Public of Her Tradition-Worshiping Nation. Seafield tru stees, in d of their great a have always = most i ight nate and fr t \\nl rnsgfl his take a position in Ln“"fln heather of old Scotland may tu its nose in disapproval, but La field and he will try to struggle on best thi the attack grimly. The panther mis- judged the dis- tance, leaped too late and &chkly took advantage by e cat's paw in her v Extricating itself after bri Copyrignt, 1930, loternativanl P knife-edged claws twice down on pig’s face, tne, Graay e of a million being sole C faunted tradi e royal traces mony by elopi For, accordi nal grandfathe: Reidhaven, and la also participat herself address s of Reidhaven, Bar st estates nged to y” Countess was a truly amaz- Grant's so im- cowered T root pit and, rais gave went up again now the cat, Iso screamed e leay e ined the fray. As th for a concerted attack Mr. rg an the great cat leaped away vox.ed Britatn Rights Besacvad. | had ever pe SPURNED TRADITIONS Interesting Photograph of Nina Grant, Countess of Seafield, and Her Handsome Husband, Derrick Studley Herbert, Whose Recent Secret Marriage Aroused Indignation Throughout Scotland. v awarded charm- ga.I bat- own marriage r renar*r‘», the press and the glish nobility or even have no more effect’on her fut re than old Mr £ 1 " about her per- sonal liberty, dowager or no dowager. This Untameable Wildcat, First Cousin to the Southern Panther, Though Firmly Lassoed, I« Ready to Attack Anythxng That Approaches Him. ~THE ETERNAL FIGHT This is the first of a series of | weekly stories on this Harry L. henbach, a thoroughly metropolitan 2 whose business is with Jarge corporations as a pub- licity counsel, but whose has for rugged jour and wilds page b pleasure many He has t trated note of and combat , beasts and I present the f pect of great snakes, submarine monsters, infinitesimal insects, and frequently battles between mem. bers of d groups of animal Iife. He has journied up the Amazon where few have ever away dep and down been, and etrated tion of phot specimens is t vate museum a AT I 0 A W/ et o § R i e e ey Pt & L e 2 e T o s O PO IO A O I I I IR 1 Pz e i v i uH e LR