Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-24
TOBE, THE INDIAN DOG.
He Wins the Profound Esteem of Four Hundred Men Who once Re- ViIed Him.

He Wins the Profound Esteem of Four Hundred Men Who once Re-
 viIed Him.
 From the New York Sum-
 When Arizona John'' Burke came on here from the far West last year he brought with him an Indian dog that he gave to Jo Schmidt, proprietor of 1.-The Opera" on Fourteenth street. Everybody said at first sight of the dog ''Tobe" that he was the most unmitigated cur, and the worst mon grel and the most manifestly worthless beast ever seen east of the Missouri and that it was no wonder the Indians were such low-down ornary cusses if they habitually associated with that sort of dogs. Tobe's cobra blackish gray or grayish black-was against him; his shape was unprepossessing; his coat was wiry and laid in so many differ ent directions that it made him look ragged; :; he walked always with slouching turk; his tail was always ready to drop between his legs as he scooted behind the bar to dodge an ever-expected kick. At least four hun dred actors and circus men, frequenters Of the place, coinclded 1n the verdict that Iob1 was ''no good"
 One cold, wet morning in early winter, when the barkeeper opened the front door, miserable, bedraggled. half-frozen little kit ten, so young that it had barely got it's eyes open, feebly tottered in and crawled to the stove Tobe watched it with intense inter est At first the barkeeper suspected him of an intent to end it's wretched existence by a single nip of his long, sharp teeth, but the suspicion was cruel wrong to the kind soul of the homely dog. His feeling was one of pure sympathy for the thing that seemed so much weaker, more unhappy and frlendless than himself A saucer was filled with milk nd 1,ahj a a place where kitten would be safe from accidental tread ings about the stove, and the poor little beast was set down before it. Its only desire, however, seemed to be to get warm, and 1t wobbled and tumbled back under the stove. Tobe saw a duty before him and was equal to the occasion That kitten, he evidently reflected, must have food as well as warmth, or it would die; it was too young and weak to know what was good for 1t; he had more time to attend to it than anybody else had, and he at once assumed the responsibility of saving the kittens life. Gently, but firmly, he picked it up, carried it back to the milk, and. when it refused to drink, dipped it's nose into the fluid. Perhaps, too, he argued the question in some dog lingo that the kit ten understood. At all events he did more made it drink. When, in his judgment, it had had enough food, he carried it back to the stove and laid himself down around it in such a way that it would have the animal heat of. his body to help revive it, and at the same time it would be shielded from stray ing fest. When it occurred to him that the kitten should be fed again he once more took it up by the nape of its neck, carried it to the saucer and when it had fed lugged it back to the stove again. One of the things that Tobe particularly likes is milk, but he was never guilty of touching that set apart for the kitten, and would watch to that the saucer was kept full, tugging at the bar