1 Thieving In China. According to a Chinese story a miser lad three sons-in-law; one was a tailor, another a jeweler, and the third a spend thrift, who did nothing at all. One day the miser called his third .son-in-law and said to him: "See herel Your two brothers-in-law are thrifty men, and are gradually add ing to the family fortune; the tailor, by cabbaging a little of his customers' cloth now and then, you know bless you, they don't know it! and the jeweler by well, by debasing the jewelry just a little, don't you see. But y ou !" exclaimed the miser, "what do you do?" J'Father-in-law," said the ne'er-do-well, "you say well. Give me a crow-bar; crow-bar; I will go out, and, watching my chance, I will break in merchants' doors, epen their tills, and bring you back thousands of pieces of silver whero my brothers-in-law bring you only paltry gains." ' "What! How?' exclaimed the miser, in terrible anger; fcan it be possible that you would actually be a Uuef?" Boston Herald.