The Liberal Farmer.


A farmer in one of the retired mountain towns of Massachusetts, began

business in 1818, with six hundred dollars in debt. He began with the

determination to pay the debt in six years, in equal installments, and

to give all his net income if any remained above those installments. The

income of the first year, however, was expended in purchasing stock and

other necessaries for his farm.



In the six next year
he paid off the debt, and having abandoned the

intention of ever being any richer, he has ever since given his entire

income, after supporting his family and thoroughly educating his six

children.



During all this period he has lived with the strictest economy, and

everything pertaining to his house, table, dress and equipage has been

in the most simple style; and though he has twice been a member of the

State Senate, he conscientiously retains this simplicity in his mode of

life. The farm is rocky and remote from the village, and his whole

property, real and personal, would not exceed in value three thousand

dollars. Yet sometimes he has been enabled to give from $200 to $300 a

year.



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