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Show Reached Enemy's Heart Through His Stomach Mrs. Laura Fruser, the original Becky Thatcher of Mark Twain's stories, sto-ries, related shortly before her death at Hannibal, Mo., how she had once gou? through an experience as thrill ln as any that Twal l had created for his fiction. During the Civil wai Mrs. Fraser's husband was a strong southern sympathizer and as he was a doctor he defied federal authorities In treating wounded Confederate sol diers. He finally was put in prison about the time that Gen. Jot.a McNeil came to Hannibal to suppress the southern sympathy and camped In Mr Fraser's front yard while he picked out ten prisoners of Confederate lean ings to be "converted" by 1 firing squad. Mrs. Fraser. feaii.ng the Inclusion In-clusion of her husband, invited the general to a specially prepared dinner din-ner nnd hi was so overcome with culinary cul-inary delights that he ordered Fraser's release. But he reconsidered the next day nnd had hlin re-arrested, though he spared his life. Detroit News, |