ANOTHER GRACE DARLING.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3361, 30 September 1879, Page 2

ANOTHER GRACE DARLING.

A heroine in humble life hai just died at Kinghorn, in Fife. Her name wu ..-, Helen Petrie, and she was a ajfive of \- TJnst, Shetland. Ob a day of Terrible storm in May, 1856, a fishing-boat eon*. ';. taining four men, was capsised as it was .;„ making for that island, and,-while two of ■ , the men were swept away and drowsed, . ; < the other two clung to the keel of the; boat. The bravest fisherman refused to > ■■•* put off to their rescue in tbe terrific Mi ' that was running, whereupon Helen-'' pushed a boat into the water and called tor volunteers. saying that, if no one else v ■■ would accompany her, she would go by herself to the rescue of the .drowning - - men. Her . sister-in-law^ immediately jumped in beside her and took the other oar, and her father, finding his efforts — to turn her from her purpose to . be unavailing, got in' to steer though he was brer 70 years, and Lad . one hand disabled.- The gallant effort,., . was successful, though one of the mea was saved just in tbe nick of time, as he . - had relaxed his hold and fallen into the ,-.\, sea, whence Helen dragged.him by thei^Jj hair of the head. For her noble' eonduet^^ she deservedly received the silver medal ~ . of the Iloyal National Institution for r saving life from shipwreck. Two years later she saved three lives in very similar circumstances. For the last twenty years of her life she lived in Leith, where she / was employed as a domestic servant.. In i appearance she is described as having .-.,. been "a thin, wiry womnn, of no great r physique, but possessed of a conntenanee ; > that in every lineament expressed firm ;- \ ; determination," and in character at ' < having been " a simple-minded, straight* ;'• forward, strictly pious woman." i; For several weeks an exchange kept .; the following conspicuously at the headef „ its local column:—•« A boy wanted at this ,\\ office." A few days since the editor's - .;■/ wife presented him with a "boy," whiek J'[ in a highly significant manner shows the , value of advertising. A negro preacher described hell as ice cold, where the,tricked are froaen to all fetemity. Asked why, he said, "Caase I 1 don't dare tell em riuffin else. Why if I say hell is warm, some deu dam ole rheumatic aJlfccrs be wantin' to start down dere velf fas free.