The Arizona champion., 1890-11-22
PURSUING A SLAYER.
Remarkable Effect of an
 Eighty Ton Shell.
7s,Oou SOULS MEET MGGIRTpS FATE
The Lemon Eared Nellie" Buried
 From Sight Forever,

''I attended Uncle Toms Cabin at the Park theatre the other day." said Patrolman Streight to the Ananias club. ''and as 1 sat in the gallery and watched Eliza canter across the ice-made of canvas-just ahead of four or five dogs that might as well be made of canvas, so far as caninology goes, it brought back to my mind an incident in my career that should live to be as old as Magu- selam"-
 "Who?" asked Sergt. Joyce.
 "Maguselam, the guy who existed on a certain earth for 10000 years. l say, fellers, if I should live to his age I shall not forget it. I can't remember the exact date, but it was less than a hun dred years ago that was in command of the French man-of-war Sein, and my mission on the high seas was to look out for and capture African slave traders. OneEmoonlight night as we were blow ing the swelling Atlantic at the nominal speed of seventy-five miles an hour the lookout at the mast head reported a sail on our lee quarter. I ordered the helm thrown down hard and -ns SlaO 4--ss0-5i1iT oDeyed the rudder her steel prow killed nearly 1900 fish. But we had more at stake than fish, and we did not stop tC take any of them up. In a short time we were headed for the strange sail, and it wasn't long until from the quarter deck could see her plainly.
 "The smoke stacks of the Sein became red hot, and one of them melted to the decks, but I called for water, and the ship was saved from destruction. We did not lessen our speed for little thing like that, but continued to split the ocean open. Soon a long, sinuous black smoke ascended high above the masts of the chase. Then I knew what We were after Hastily beating the men to quar- ters I, in the deliberate voice use on the Lincoln Lane gang, told them that there was fun ahead. The vessel 200 miles ahead of us was slave dhow, and for the honor of ourselves particularly, and France as a matter of course, we must capture her. And when we do,' says I, you fellers know your business For two days and nights we chased the strange craft, and during that time did not sleep a wink or eat mouthful of food, was so excited. At six bells on the third day we were in shooting range, and ordered the ten ton rife cannon to be fired. The eighty ton shell fell ahead of the slayer nearly two miles.
 ''The effect on the water was terrific You notice said the shell weighed eighty tons, and as it fell into the ocean it ex- ploded. The water raised in solid wall that was, I should judge, 900 feet thick to an altitude of 1000 yards. It made a hole that you could put the state house, court house, insane asylum, blind asylum and Union station into all at one and the same time-that is, of course, if you had them there. The slave ship plunged against, at and into this wall, and then came a mighty crash-a crash that was caused, as I afterward learned, by an island sixty miles distant being washed from its base by the waves. The ship penetrating the wall caused it to break and the upheaved water fell in torrents, while the slayer teetered on the brink of Iuo AuSO dOg oo 4O1 d HO1lCuG oiIlu G1cu fell bow first into the hole, and the scat tered fragments of the broken wall falling upon her buried her from sight forever
 ''In a few hours the sea was calm and for two months we cruised in that vicin- ity, but not sign of the lost slayer was found. Two years after we picked up on the coast of Zanzibar water soaked book that I am satisfied was the log of the lost ship. According to the book the dhow that we destroyed was the Lemon Eared Nellie, from New Brunswick, and she had 75,000 slaves aboard, all of whom were drowned. felt so bad about this that resigned my place in the French navy and got a job on the Indianapolis police force with more pay and less work. k."-Indianapolis Journal