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GOES TO CONGRESS WITH 200 PIECES OF LEAD IN HIS BODY AND A BIG PLAN IN HIS HEAD Congressman-elect Sant Kirk patrick, who turned the Sixth, Iowa district from a Republican to a Democratic state of mind, will carry 200 pieces of lead with him to congress. The lead is in his body; shot there by moon shiners, counterfeiters and other assortments of "bad men." Col. Kirkpatrick went through the entire civil war, never miss ing a battle his company was in, and never felt the sting of a bul let 'MS: After the war he entered the United States revenue service, and trailed moonshiners, "wild cats," counterfeiters, and other "bad men" of cities and moun tains. In 22 years of that he got : One glass eye, One hole in his leg, 200 pieces of lead scattered through his body. Three times he was so riddled with bullets that they left him for dead. He has been in a thousand battles with law viloators; "has had to throw up his hands, and has made lots of others stick up theirs. He has been tried and acquitted of everything from petit larceny to murder. He has made 20 ar rests to W. J. Burns' one, and has sent more men to prison than any other sleuth. "That man will fight anything from the devil to a buzz saw." said a notorious "bad man" after Sant had ridden out alone and taken him from his hiding place. Sant is getting old now; he's seventy, but for -all that he can put any man of his age on his back.in ten minutes, and with one eye, and that pierced ; by three buckshot, he can shoot off-a man's mustache at 50 yards- and never touch his lip He says so him self. Here's how the colonel collect ed 27 ;Of those 200 lpiecesof lead; He was chasing a .moonshiner; i'.tJJA. f Sant Kirkpatrick down in South Carolina. He tried to follow the man into a cabin when the moonshiner suddenly turned and, Sant continues, "emptied his shot gun in my face. "Blinded as I was, I put a bul let through his heart before I fell to the ground with him tumbling on top of me. The discharge in my face had totally blinded me for the moment, had torn a hole