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Show FIND SAFETY IN THE NAVV. Uncle Sim Unwittingly Shields Many Adroit Ciimtnnls on Ills Vessels ' I observe that the New York mps rorraled n bluejacket off the receiving-ship receiving-ship down at Norfolk on suspicion that he Is u buiglai the other dis " said an old-time ntuu-n -war s man. who Is now on the messenger nff of the Na) de-putment de-putment riies must have been pretty astute II) cops to have traied the man lo the recelMiig-shlp fm Ihe American navy Is n piVttv goo I hlilliiK-out plaie lu the old (1.1 J s In fait, the Culled Slates nnvs was about the llrst shelter made for b) fellows who hud done things to gel Ibc illr after them 'Ihe) would ship mid make a bit of a cruise and sla In the uniform until their bunch or shoie tumble had blown over or been fotgullen und then, ns llki as not. they would Jump the seiUi and go bin k In their tiefailous was of muktig u livelihood liveli-hood on Ihe beaih While 1 was Jam mltig aiiiuiid the map on the old frigates I met up with n lot tit such chaps 'One of them was n crackerjnclc In the counterfeiting lino and he hid slipped Into the service lo dodge the secret service men, who wete nfler him for manufiietiirlng u largo utimbci of exceedlngls c boh e nud nifty carl-wheil dollars Ibis fellow shipped as n llie- niun Aner six iiMiutlia nt ruing tins wan out on tho Asiatic station he begun be-gun to tire of the monotony of the separation fiom his counterfeiting pio-fesslon pio-fesslon and he begin lo do counterfeiting counter-feiting rlRht on board the American ship of win "1 lie counterfeiter rigged himself up u regular plint down below In one of the unused bunkers He had brought the dies along with him when he boarded board-ed thn ship, and he spent all of his time turning out phon) dimes and quarters and halves down In the din whlih he had rigged up for bis work "Not only that, but be passed the stuff In qu entitles In the foreign ports He would go ashore with a In id of the phonies lu the Chlneso nnd Japanese polls nnd get the 'American silver changed Into legitimate gold by the discounting dis-counting monc) lendeis and It Is certain cer-tain Hull he picked up it large amount lu tills was Ho went over the side of I lie ship In HoiiRkiing and fmgot to come back one das, ami It wnsn t long utter Ibut before his counterfeit up-parutiis up-parutiis was dug up ineii mc mones-c nangers negan in come aboard the ship with their innnns They had ascertained that the 'American 'Ameri-can sliver' wan bogus and they all wanted the pas master tn make good to them Ho was In shape tn laugh at them, of course, and he did The bluejacket blue-jacket counterfeiter was scragged In the I'nltcd Hlules u few scant later for again embarking upon bis profession of liiaiiiifactuilug t art-wheels, and he wua sent over tho loid for a long tenn "Hut one of tho most Ingenious cusses In the sh ipe of n fugitive thnt I ever was shlpmalrs wjth wus ic chup who had spent most of his life as a moonshiner in Kentucky He had been corralcd by nn Internal revenue man, who was taking him lo a Kentucky loik-up, but the.mooiishlner walled for the Internal revenue sharp to look tho other way for an Instant and then he grabbed the olllclals gun and plugged III Ml lip II lot "It was ii case ot run for It for him then, sure enough, and when he hud time tn take n long brenlh he found himself curled up In a hnmmnck In the I'nltcd Htnles navy He shipped as a coal heater and he made a pretty good one "His Ingenuity consisted In the fact that he used In manufacture a mighty effective nnd get-theio brand of corn liquor right on hoaid the ship He fixed up n mat miniature still In an oh-nUo coinei of oni of the bunkers, got tho , mi n hrniurlit aboard bv the bumbo it men In the different ports nnd did his inoonshlnlng In n mights scientific manner. He dldn t make tho whisky for prnlll, but Just bemuse he tvunled to keep his hand In, 1 suppose He moro Ihnn kept the nillcers ot the old frlgato puiilcd for over a sear. 'The ship would be at sea for ten days or two weeks, and set a dosen nt so of the 'black gang would be found slffllcated at all bourn of the day and night and unlit for duty The skipper and the 'llrst luff tried their best to Unci nut whero the hooio wns coming from but It was loo deep for them 'Ihi moonshiner himself never got orrcy-escd, orrcy-escd, but Just kept one n' these mellow buns on all the time, and so be was never snugged for being soused on duly lie decided In stay on tho bench one diy when nil hands went ashore for ilbcrty at Pensmola, ami In the cnurse of time his little coppei coals and ollui ndka-iiinhlng pirnpheinulla was turned up nnd the thing that had been such a profound msstery lo the men of the nfleidcck wus explained "Washington "Wash-ington Post |