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2 PUZZLE CONTEST! USE YOUR WITS! WIN A WATCH! What mythological \Deity? SIX more watches wore awarded today to six fortunate juniors for the correct solution of the fascinating Junior Call 'puzzles, and a new purzle is presented this week which is cure to prove as in teresting as those wliich have preceded it.- The editor was surprised to note the vast number of answers to last week's puzzle which contained one or more errors, and is inclined to think thet in their enthusiasm the juniors do not take sufficient time to think the puzzles out. Those puzzles are not 6O very difficult, but they require a little thought, and when one apparently cor rect interpretation /ias been arrived at you should continue thinking to see if What kind of tree? another and a better one can not be found. Send in your answers to . this \u25a0week's puzzle so they will reach the office of The Junior Call not later than Wednesday afternoon, in the following manner: No. 1 is , No. 2 'is — , and so on. Six watches will be awarded to six correct answers showing the greatest neatness and care. This contest is for juniors between the ages of 10 and IS* years. -The younger juniors will find their contest on the fourth page. The correct answers to the puzzle presented in last Saturday's Junior Call arc: 1. Webster; 2, Brush; 3, Rose Stalil; 4, Bread; 5, Pencil, and, 6, Dick ens. » 'H . The juniors to whom prizes have been awarded for the correct solution of this puzzle are: Jerome Hushes. San Anselmo; Adah Mac Wollitz, 1556 Moss avenue, Elm hurst; William & Cannon, 1214 Forty-^ ninth avenue, San Francisco; Isabel Hodklns. 1041 Adeline street, Oakland; Milton A. BequhL Rio Vista, and Chris tina M. Wright, 4 Twenty-seventh street, San Francisco. Names of the other juniors who sent in _ the correct answers appear on the following roll of honor: Harold Crane, 2936 Howard street, San Francisco. Malcolm Beanchamp. Hotal Arlington, ' San Francisco. Rhea Schuyler, 2024. Brook street, Oakland. - . • Marjory Towle, S9S South Ninth street. San Jose. Helen Clothier, La Honda. Frank Henderson, San Anselmo. »t . \u25a0 i . \u25a0 ORIGIN OF THE BUBBLING SPRING JOHN O'BRIEN YOfU have all s_een at some time or other while in a quiet, out of the way nook in the country a spark ling litCle stream flowing out from under a mossy- rock. You have no doubt won dered wjiy It was bubbling away so merrily, why it was so clear and cold and where all the water came from anyway. Let me tell you a little story. We will ; imagine we are on a quiet, shady hill side somewhere near a forest. Just ! above us and at the foot of a great : weather beaten rock we see a sparkling ; little pool. In the damp earth all ' around the mossy basin are many small • footprints; evidently this little babbling ' spring is the meeting place for all the : sqfuirrels and chipmunks of the vicin ity. Now let us turn and look far up : the vaJley. Do you see those hazy, ; shadowy mountains away off in the dis- ! tanoe? Well, on a certain day not ! very long ago great puffy dark clouds ] slowly gathered over those bleak peaks. Gradually the sun was obscured; it grew dartter and darker until finally i the birds, thinking that night was ap- ! proaching, flocked to their nests. , The 1 little chipmunks and squirrels hurried : to their, castles high "in the swaying ! trees and, peeping out, watched thei < bears and rabbits scurry by on the way i to their underground homes. -..., '."••] The clouds grew thicker and thicker. ! darker and darker became the day, and ; amid the whistle of the wind could be j heard the deep booming and .rolling," of j far off thunder. Harder blew the wind. ( deeper came the thunder and brighter ] iiiiiiiit-- * * * r .-'.. T .. r r T T A Pelican Who Plays Ball and Stops Street Cars at Will A UNIQUE friendship exists at Santa Barbara between a big pelican and a small 'dog, and the antics of the two make this oddly assorted pair a source of unceasing interest to the townspeople. Jim, the pelican, appeared, first upon the scene;, then, his master having, dis covered that Jim was an adept at play ing ball, but needed a" partner in the game, secured a clever fox, terrier puppy as a playmate for the big bird. Before the. advent of the puppy^ Jim had an unfortunate habit of playing ball with small chickens, -who yielded up their ' short, .uneventful lives try- Ing to furnish him with amusement.; As soon. as ho spotted a chicken the small, downy morsel of life would be tossed In the. air by the .long, bill, -and' then, standing with open* pouch, he would pocket it as neatly as an expert , ball player pockets a. ball." This was rather disastrous for . his master's attempt at chicken raising, and so the little, restless fox terrier was secured to keep the bird but of mischief. * y At first Jim. tried to play the same game with the puppy, that he had with the chickens,: but the puppy was heavy and- besides, ..objected to being treated so unceremoniously. "He will ; circle the pelican six times while the. bird se-. dately waddles '\u25a0 around •.one,* and - the only relief he , can* get from, his; tor mentor is to open his : basketlike'aper ture arid apparently swallow the'puppy." A truce is : then i formed and + the bird' and the « puppy,* proceed ' to \ the \u25a0' housed 4 from the side'of which dangles a rope attached to a bell.:" The ; puppy; jumps, grabs * the . rope J . in _. : his . 'mouth-* and! violently rings the bell until some one appears." -.The puppy; and; the Ibird! are -bathedj : together and during . this proceeding? play, 'tricks, upon -each iother ; like Ja . couple 'of \u25a0mischievous very ' gravely " upon s a 1 box while" their master plays; the J hose uponUhem. Jim i , pushes the.puppy'andUhe dog retaliates: by pretenfllng to; hip? Jini' from? behind. ' knowing that ! if the ' bird i tries >to * turji ' around on the smai; box he will-fall off.. \u25a0 But ball : is • the 'favoriteVgame, "and the rivalry ; between ) the* dog.and v the; "pelican is* veryXk'een. r Tlie;biarn.yard' gossip \\s that r Uhe : two are. /training for outfield positions iin the Fur v and ; Feather.: team' '-of.* tlfp £ Domestic ilelg'ue^'. At any rate the rivalry , is' actual" and'; of convincing, Intensity. 'The 1 sfght" of ;a baseball lis : that' is .'needed StoV fan; the ' ever, smoldering, : fire into a-; fierce ; flame.' Toss the- ball in. the "direction of the : pelican i and the' dog Twill/ beton? hand, and vice, versa. The -pelican -is the better, player," however, - arid can fee- San.feucisco' Call Saturday What acfress? Margaret Cronin, 314 Madrid street, ;. San I<rancisco.' Aretta Pushard, 1171 East Twenty- .' second street, Oaklarid. , , ' Miriam Mendizabakm, 1126 Union street, Alameda. Gregory Harrier, care L. G. Harrier, Chronicle building, Vallejo. \u25a0 .-. Clifford Somers, 2330 Webster street, Berkeley. •\u25a0:' Evelyn Hubert, McKendric street, San Jose. • J . Frances Day, 1232 First street, Mon terey. • v Xellie Honeyman, 995 Pago street, San Francisco. William/ - r Macdonald, 2622: Regent street, Berkeley. ' „ • " MaryiTrade, 3956 Nineteenth street, San Francisco. , . ---\u25a0•-.•\u25a0 Eda Kelly, 569 Fourth avenue; San Francisco- . '\u25a0..': '\u25a0 \u25a0 . Willard E. Sullivan. 308 Miller ave nue. South Ban Francisco. • Eva L. Fairbank, Angels Camp. > Gertrude Bartrand, P." O. box 525, Fresno. / • * - - '. . •* Philip B.: Kimball, Belvedere. Paul Sales, 722 Third street, Peta- . luma. - \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.-\u25a0•. - - Oscar Emig; 1041 Sherman street, P. O. box 74, Santa Clara. Ruth Han lan, £$25 Utah street, San Francisco. Arilla Hanlan. 1255 Nineteenth ave nue. San Francisco. - .-. ....... Carroll Cambron, Mill Valley. Helen Fisk. 700 Hayes' street, San Francisco. • " . \u25a0 Clifford Somers, 2330 Webster street,- Berkeley. . -.....< Nwman Egilbert, 519 West street, - Redding.; Gladys Morrison, 634 Clayton street, { San Francisco. . - -'\u25a0 Madeline Armstrong, R F. D.' route ' ? Xo. 1, box 344, Fruitvale. Marion Archer, 30^ Merritt street, San Francisco. / • Elva McKimmins, 1 557 Oak street, Alameda. ] flashed the lightning, until suddenly, as if the^ heavens had opened, the' storm broke overhead. The rain came down in sheets and torrents. Soon pools and puddles .collected, and these, quickly Joining, formed the little streams and brooks which* hurried down the moun tain side to 'swell the river in the valley. But here is where we see something that interests us. Although great quan tities of rain- had run off in the streams and brooks, a very large part soaked into the ground. This gradually de scended through the surface soil and, going deeper and deeper, finally reached a bed of clay. You have, all seen clay—that awfully sticky. solid mass, like putty— well, the first water to reach this layer found it conld not sink any, further,- so a -pool was formed. As more water came % down from the surface this pool grew and grew, until finally, under the pressure of- the ever increasing supply, it stretched out over the'clay bed in the form of a little underground brook. -Now this clay bed is spread through the earth like a chocolate layer in a cake. .The little stream, therefore, fol lowed the upper .surface of the bed through hills and valleys, under-towns and villages and across counties and states. At times the course led through caverns and tunnels dark and deep and. unlike surface streams, it often ran up* hill, just lifte the, water in the pipes at home. It traveled through sand that; ELCtlnglike a filter, cleansed it; through mineral beds .that purified and; gave to it that nice: taßte, and through deep aark caverns, in which it was cooled. Finally the clay bed reached the surface piayalljday .without. an error. ; ; , ': .-':'•*< i'ln j the 'days the advent of elec tric'icars2at; Santa Barbara i Jim ,had - : mm * I |s'^ ii n terestihg ; experi ences with- the .< horsecars. , ItVwasvorie of.Hhese . cars : t ha t . ,' he; first 'en co un te red '.. o n 4 h i b"! initial J; trip -down; State": street. teririg leisurely adown.' the; tracks that seemedUhe eaaieVtnvalklngVwhenia.car;. appeared} gbiiifelint the"? opposite tion. The ! driver* clanged •luslbell . vig- - orously, but Jim \u25a0> never,-" budged.: ~ In stead; he "slowly^lifted 'iorie! biir," wliite <; wing/aridlbegan-'tb^preenihisjfcathers;^ This Nvas.too much- for' the horses.V They \u25a0 What summer, game? French, 3011 Capp street, Fruitvale. \u25a0 . l Irene Purcell, . 365 Day street, San Francisco. , Willie Broder, 919 Capp street," San Francisco. • -. Celia Grimm. 930 North Baker street, Stockton. " Henry Weldey. Stockton. \u25a0 Adelbert Cheney;'- 599 Lafayette street, Santa/Clara.-, v ,- - Doane, 1219 Tenth avenue, San Francisco. , • ' Charles Peck, S3O Castro street. Jessyl B. Jacobs, 1319 Pacific avenue, Alameda. ~_ - : Arthur Poulin, 1640 Hayes street, San Francisco. . ' PHOTOS OF PRIZE WINNERS You see today on tills page the portraits of fire; boys and five girls who hare won watches in the contests conducted by The Junior Call. If you are one of the fortunate winners and hare not already sent : in your picture, please do so at once, as The Junior Call wishes to publish the pictures of all the sac cessful contestants in the contests for, the older juniors. A number of pictures win appear each , vreek. Write your name and address plainly on the back of the picture, and state whether or not you wish it returned to you. — that yellow bank just below is it — and like the layer of chocolate it comes to an end. At last the little stream after its. weary journey has found its way to the sunlight. See how It bub bles and sparkles, laughs and sings for very joy. At. last the rain that soaked into the soil away over there in the mountains has found an outlet in"this little bubbling spring, in this leak -in the hills Me. . . A A Summer Invocation ~ O, gentle, gentle summer fain,' Let not the silver lily pine,.-,-. _ The drooping lily pine in vain: '.':\u25a0• .\u25a0"•.. \u25a0'\u25a0 To fee^, that dewy touch of thine—^ To drink thy freshness once again, O, gentle,. gentle summer rain! • -" _'\u25a0'. In heal the landscape quivering lies; The cattle pant beneath the tree; Through parching air and purple skies The earth looks up In vain, for" thee; For thee— for thee, -lit looks in vain,' O, gentle, gentfe summer rain! Come thou, and brim the meadow \u25a0 • "streams,-. •• " >\u25a0""•. \u25a0 And soften all ! the hills . with mist, O, falling dew; from burning dreams By thee shall ' herb and- flower be kissed; ... ,•'=•' And earth shall bless thee. yet again, O, gentle, gentle' summer rain! —William Cox-Bennett. One day at dinner grandpa, having so much larger a % family than usual, was somewhat -absent minded "and waited on all' except. Helen." She. sat quietly^ back in her-chair and said very demurely: . . "- . \u25a0. "Poor "little glrliJ Poor little Helen!" •began ;to* back away 1 from the ghost 11 ke ; figure, f but.' finding 4 this • Impossible, 5 sat:; down .to " think!" itVover;> and" then just as -suddenly; concluded i,; that; per-; haps they, could vision^ if they stood* {upon' -theii^Jhinalegs'i and stirred; the •.atmosphere :-withJ.th'eir(f ore-: legs.:,-!; Nevertheless^: in ;\u25a0 spite? of -their ; maneuvers;' Jim' eontinueditojholdttie fort, or/ rather.'- the s track," .while \ the driver : keptToHripgihgS the" Ijpll.v- Jim apparentlyiliked : the souruT of jthatlbeltf and .lie "soeTiu'di'to "know thaClfe^; had • managed.' to;" tie 1 itp:, Santa. -Barbaras--' streetcar JiheYus successfully: as tliou^>r : Jerome \u25a0 Simon, Hotel Irving, San Francisco. _ Minnie JlcPeek. 1136 East Twenty . second street, Oakland. V Jack Martin, 1649 Hayes street, San ' Francisco. \u25a0- : ;;-v .'.. . . , - - \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 May Carroll, 3948 Twenty-fifth street," San -Francisco.. \u25a0 .- .- Maud A. ; Banks, 3715 Twentieth j Street; San Francisco! ' Letha Beck, . 259- Fourteenth street/ San -Francisco. . ' \u25a0 . • . '. Naomi Mears. 712 Kentucky street, .Vallejo.- v - .-/ \u25a0 . - . i •' Edith /Hlght." 1822 -Felton street, Berkeley. . - ' "*»**.; v->. y-- Gladys Waibel, \u25a0 1763 Hayes street, \u25a0\u25a0San Francisco. . ' Constance Waibel, 1763 Hayes street. San Francisco. \u25a0%-\u25a0-. V Marie Gianotti. 3639 Twenty-fifth street. San Francisco. Fred. Waldo, 1939 Union street. San Francisco.- \u0084 ; John Downey, Menlo' 1 Park. ' Florence Ingram, 723 Marin street,* Vallejo. ' . • Leo Simon, Hotel Irving, San Fran cisco. - ' - _ Mary" I. Taylor. 15.01 South Grand avenue, Los Angeles. .- .-; : - , - . Dorothy de Young, 1349 Regent street Alameda. \u25a0 : • Howard E. Davies, 1374 Grove street, San Francisco." •Gerald Mahoney,*B'63 Guerrero street, San Francisco. ; . • . Kenneth McEacher, 309 Seventh ave nue, Sart Francisco. . Julia Haggood, 1373 Fountain street, Alameda. * ' \u25a0Hazel . Koster, S5 Noe' street, San Francisco. \ .: ; Hazel Fenn, 125 B street, San Fran cisco.;- \u25a0\u25a0; \u25a0;\u25a0-•"' ''\u25a0-;•-'- .- \u25a0 •- Kendall Hathorn, 2797 Clay street, San Francisco. ~. " . Harold Cullinane, 686 South Eighth street, San Jose. - . ', < •Ada 'Fischer, 2102 Sutter street, San 'Francisco. . . .\u25a0.••--\u25a0-. \u25a0.••--\u25a0- - - CATCHING A TIGER SHARK By ARTHUR H. DUTTON V C HARKSof"all kinds havelongbee^h <-J jecognized as among the worst pests of thesea, foes not only to food fishes but to human beings as \srelir Of the several kinds, of shark the most dangerous,' the ugliest and the most pugnacious is the tiger shark, so named \u25a0 because of his tawny skin with trans verse stripes around his body. " He is strong, grows sometimes to a length of 15} to- 20 feet, and has a cavernous mouth. quite large enough. to take in a man's head and sometimes "his whole upper body at one gulp. Off the Central American coast tiger sharks : are" particularly . numerous ]j and sailors in that region take Tevery op portunity -to,' slay them,' so 'dangerous are- they. ;A popular way is to bait a large meat hook with some sort of meat; then use a cork life preserver or some good substitute as a float, sus pending the baited hook beneath it. A long> stout line is then carried from the float to the vessel or rock where,, the shark fisher^is stationed. C.The .rest of the play' is just like ordinary fishing in principle, but very, different in the de gree of excitement^ The moment the. shark nibbles the. hook the excite-, meht Is tense*-; When he swallows the bait 1 and gets caught the j struggle; be- \u25a0 gins, and a genuine struggle it is. These sharks are powerful fellows, and when, they find themselves hooked their : '.lij; -.. :-;V;.;.:.-..-,' \u25a0 -. - \u25a0-. . \u0084 - \u25a0 L"9i we re;aj dissatisfied-laborlunion. : The passengers,-" hot having any :. ferry to ca tch,; 7 weref; amused iby^the^ luflicrous situation i and>laughed? a*hd i madQ f jokes \u25a0 at ; the expense 6f-the driver/; who ;flnaUy jJ^t'lt^'car^aridCwentflri'seafch^oflthe' owner * of : thexpellcari," who T was "able to .induce ;vthe;b.igTblrd; v the;b.igTblrd ;tQ.. waddle lpeace- > fully.homeward; and traffic was allowed \u25a0 toi proceed/-, \u25a0'.^v^' :^ i : :: " 'v-. ; -'\u25a0''--"- V- ' - .. , ;After .that^adventui : e,i..wnenever the •Sate^was.lopen;fJimi-w^uld- sneak; out ; and J?" e P ca t|hisiKttle;joke/;untinflrially »peoploj^egaHito|t«fke;Hirn*int6|consid-^ their •ehgagemerits» - Found J3R. the breakfast table. -Edna : Grotheer, 103 John street, Salinas. . . : . Margaretta "Wilson, 23«1 Ward street. : Berkeley. : " . > Emalyne. Alsing, 3296 Washington - street, Alameda. \u25a0 / ' Darrell. Kull, 1370 Eleventh avenue, San? Francisco. * - xOna. C. Hyde*. 323 Nineteenth street. 1 Oakland. . - ."-"Amelia' Hoffman. 916 , Hampshire street. San ' Francisco. - . . Walter TT. Witt, 610 Ninth avenue. Oakland. - ' • . - Ella. McGuire,; 1201 Treat avenue. San Francisco. -~ ' \u25a0Eunice V. Miller, 219 West Acacia, street,- Stockton. James C." Go w, 14 Harcourt street, San Rafael. Edna Vogal, 1640 Hayes, street, San i Francisco. , Steve Burke, 1648 Hayes street, San Francisco. \u25a0\u25a0 . Ruth. E. Dixon, 210"% Pine street, San Francisco. ~^.«,ks*3ff^i3*joflßßß| Grace M.Renfro.^T. Carl street, San Francisco. .. - • Rose .Heaphey, 4052 Twenty-sixth street. . ' - Margaret Wood. 821. Fell street, San Francisco. * Eugenia Farmer. 334. Eleventh ave nue, San Francisco. T- -v ' Helen Simons, Hayward. . Miriam' Vollmar, 1183. Regent street, Alameda. ~ j. \u25a0 ."- -.. Margaret Brown, 1760 Twelfth ave nue,-East Oakland. - ~ , Alice Rae, .2611". FQlsom : street, San Francisco. - ". "* "' Frank Roberts, 173 Dorland street, San Francisco. -_ Clara Powers, 876 South Ninth street. San Jose., Camilla -F. Smith, 2401 Eighteenth street. San Francisco. ' Marjorie Stuart, 2440 Haste street, Berkeley. - > Constance Topping. 2631_ Charming way, -Berkeley. \ Juliet Wood, Towle. rage is great. . Thsy . go into a "flurry" which lashes the \water Into foam. It .is necessary to have the_ line made fast to some staunch object on the-shore or ship, for a man, or even two 'or three men, ' could riot hold it against the shark when In his full strength. Every effort is; made to keep the shark near the surface of the water, and when he is in sight instead of gartinsr him like a sturgeon or salmon he is shot at with a rifle. It is_ astonishing how much lead a healthy tiger shark can hold and still keep up the fight.. Dozens of .shots may be poured into him before he weakens .sufficiently to .be pulled ashore or on board. Even then his vl tality.is remarkable. With wounds all over. hjm. even' with his head split with an ax, he .will -yet, in his death throes, 'strive'.; to bite his captors. The. tiger shark two rows . of double teeth, with saw edges. -as white and hard as the purest ivory. They are so fixed that they can be -folded back to permit, the passage of food, but unhinged • and thrown forward for fighting.' Tiger sharks' display, great cunning. Nowise fish of the forest streams Is so wary o( a hook and line as they. The older, more. experienced ones, who have had narrow escapes in their lives, are so dexterous that they often take. away bait" after baft ! without touching .the hook. Unlike other varieties of shark, the tiger shark ;;ls 4 , npt a coward. If. hungry, .or if he thinks he_ is attacked, he will brave any danger and pounce upon , a swimmer- like a flash. Many are the natives who have been slain by them along the Central American coast, and all efforts; to exterminate them have thus far. proved unavailing. ' "I 1 shall t. meet you at 10 o'clock to morrow.-mornins.if Jim is not on the track: again,'.* 'one lady would '*ay to another. * •\u25a0 i < '\u25a0''-. \u25a0\u25a0 - -'. " ' -rjC' - \u25a0\u25a0' -> -But,' like many another^ joker. Jim joketfonce ; too "of ten: \u25a0; ' In* thel course of :tirrie:eiectric powers was substituted for the sleepy^ambling.hofses.Tahd'it coat Jim a: broken: leg.a' dislocated' jaw and sundry .minor X ix\ j uries ; before ? he? real izetl \u25a0 that he* could U not hold," up the streetcar service with.t he s»mV facility as'of'.yore.'; ; Now, "a- sadder 'and .a wiser ;bird,^he'Ysteers ,clear s -'of tracks.; : -"\u25a0 " •-;.. : ;.; .- - : - • • -. 'W&at* boy's name? Donald F. Whistler. ISIS Park street, Alameda. - Helen La> Shelle. Suiaun. Amelia Pauline. Tiburon. Madelina Scranton,< 230» Ashby ave nue, Berkeley:j3KMl Acnes, Retrte. 1433 Stevenson street. San Francisco. Corday Cather. 3352 Clay street. San Francisco. .' Genevieve HoardoftT 1453 Stevenson street, San Francisco. ,:,-*-; Edward Bisslnger. Lorapoc. Harry Maxwell, 3041 Tremont street, South Berkeley.' . Katharine Geldermann, 92S Lafayetto street, Alameda. : » Verona Crowley, 327 Howard street, Fresno. Josephine Chase, Elmira. Ruth 7 Kinkead, 2600 Piedmont are nue, Berkeley. - Addie Woodman, Pescadero. : „