esults, gave full security to American
commerce in these waters, and greatly exalted the character of the
government of the United States in the opinion of European nations. A
portion of its navy had accomplished, in the way of humbling the rulers
of the Barbary States, and weakening their power for mischief, what the
combined governments of Europe had not dared to attempt. Decatur was the
most conspicuous hero in the war with the Barbary States.

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

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WHAT THE BUTTERFLY SAYS.

Through all the sunny summer days
I wander here and there,
And hardly ever stop to rest
A moment anywhere.
There are so many things to see,
And time is rather short with me.

I only have a month or two,
And time soon runs away
When one is seeing something new,
Or sporting every day.
And how the little people try
To catch me as I flutter by!

But I know what they want me for--
It's not to use me right;
It's not to give me sunny fields,
With daisies sprinkled white;
But just to pin me on the wall
To show their friends, and that is all.

THE SHIP OF THE DESERT.

BY A. E. T.

Unlike other ships, this one begins by being a very feeble and helpless
little craft indeed. For the first week after its launch on the great
sea of life it requires much careful watching on the part of the owners.

Strange as it may sound, in very truth a baby camel is every whit as
helpless as a human baby. It can not stand alone; without help it can
not so much as take its own food even; while its long neck is at first
so flexible and fragile, that unless some one were constantly at hand to
watch, the poor little creature would run every risk of dislocating it.

Those who have closely observed camel nature tell us it is never known
to play or frolic like lambs or colts, or like most young creatures of
the earth, in fact; but that in its babyhood it is as grave and
melancholy as in its old age, born apparently with a deep sense of its
own ugliness, and a mournful resignation to a long and joyless career.

When it has reached its third year the humpbacked animal is counted old
enough to begin its life of labor. The trainers then take it in hand.
They teach it to kneel and bear burdens, which gradually they make
heavier and heavier, until their charge is supposed to have come to the
full strength of camel maturity. This is not until it is about eight
years old.