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Show 1 Only Spent Three Cents a Year, Tho measuro of economy In expenses ex-penses possible in rural communities was Illustrated upon tho death recently re-cently of an old Dutch farmer in Dauphin Dau-phin county, Pennsylvania. Ho had for many years been rated as a "miser" by his neighbors, and nt his funeral it was learned that shortly bo-foro bo-foro his death he had boasted that he had only spent "thrco centB" In tho rreccdlug year. It wob also well at tested that beforo that he had spent seven cents, this being made possible only by tho fact that ho had lived exclusively ex-clusively upon the produce of tho small tract of land ho owned and cultivated. cul-tivated. Theso expenditures woro, of courso, exclusive of tho taxed on tho small plcco of land he lived or. |