Brains Equal To Courage

it was a aamp aay, bnt tne crowd etood and watched the blaok cat as it mewed plaintively and clnng to the trailing vine three stories above the street in front oí a four story brown stone dwelling. A long wire supported the vine, nearly reaching the roof. The cat, in a sportivo mood evidently, had climbed the long vine and at the third story stopped, as if fright had paralyzed fnrther efïorts. Every minute it mewed, and its appeal for help collected a crowd. A largo woman said : " Why don't some one climb up there and release that cat?" "Supposeyou try it, madam, " ehirped a dapper Mttle man, who looked npon the aiïair as a joke. "Well, if Ihad your small heft I would climb that vine. Men never do anything dangerous these days. " "Oh, yes, they do, madam I They catch cold, drink too inuch and stay out late at their lodges. " She gave the little man a look and ejaculated: "You think you are smart, don't you? You can talk, but you can't resoné even a cat. ' ' "You do me wrong. Watch me rescue that cat even at the peril of being insulted. Do not be frightened. I go, but I will return. " He ran across the street as the large woman shouted, "He is going to climb!" He rang the doorbell of the house, and when the servant sirl appeared he pointed to the cat above. The door closed, and a few minutes later a window in the third story openpd, and the girl, reaching her arm out, caught the cat and took it in. The erowd cheered, and the dapper man bowed, but the large woman Baid contemptuously : "Men have no courage. They eet