The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-04
From the New York Globe.

from the New ! Ork GlODe.
Seems to be horse on Archie, all right.
More precisely, it is COW on Archie.
For Capt. A. w. De G. c. Butt, military
aide to the President has been directed
to hurry out and come back with COW.
Evangeline, the presidential mixer,
turned up her toes to the daisies the
other day. and the presidential table has
been serving highly commercialized milk
ever since. And that puts 1t up to Cap
tain Butt to make good with a cream crit
ter Of sorts. No skim milk cows need ap-
ply.
It's tough on Captain Butt, of course.
Cattle owners will hardly make as low
price to a gentleman who looks like
an Arizona sunset and behaves like a
yard of seraphim as to the ordinary ag-
riculturist who can sit and white during
the negotiations. 1t would not be befit-
ting the dignity of these United States
for Captain Butt to barter More than
that-setting the dignity or the United
States to one side-it would not fit with
Captain Butts own personal dignity,
which is quite some He didn't use to
be so altitudinous. But since he was as
signed to the task of furnishing local
color for the administration he has been
dressed up like horse. Also, he has
worked like one
A Good Peacemaker
Butt is the goat of all work at the
White House Anything that Is no part
of anyone else's duty falls to him. While
President Roosevelt lived at the other
end of Pennsylvania avenue he used to
| take Captain Butt out with him for a
walk. He said~he wanted pace-maker.
Being good pacemaker, Captain Butt
| used to climb through creeks and wade
over walls and pant hurriedly through
large forests until Colonel Roosevelt said
he could do with a little less pace The
colonel was notably a man of his legs,
but Captain Butt could finish the route
and be resting on a fence by the time
the President came along. When Presi-
dent Taft succeeded he fell heir to Archie.
Every one calls him by the first of his
I'VE names, so this isn't irrevererit,
though 1t may look So President Taft
didn't really realize to what an exalted
position he had attained until he saw
Captain Butt in his new uniform He
handed Archie a new job. 1t was the
military persons duty to accompany Mrs.
l..
Captain Butt did it-dressed in his new
suit of clothes.
Then President Taft went on the first
of his eating tours. Butt went along.
At first 1t was the Captains duty to give
the elbow to committeeman who wanted
to tell the President the true and anthem
tic story of their past lives BY and by
Butt got another job. He Is always get
ting them. He had to take the masters
OF the banquets off to one side and ex-
plain to them that the President was
really a very light eater. Only wanted
something mild and soothing, you know
and this business of serving nine courses
before they got to olives on the bill Of
fare must absolutely be cut out
Protects Newspaper Men
So the masters listened, and added three
more dishes with cream gravy to the
feed. And then 1t became Captain Butts
proud privilege to protect the newspaper
men assigned to the presidential party.
In his regalia Captain Butt looks SO
much like lieutenant Of police that the
ccprers obeyed him and ceased to chivy
the reporters. At the White House capt.