Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-09-02

instantly ohliterated, and tiny Jets al.
Napcr from the hole itself betrayed the
presence OF the fiery object beneath. His
boyish curiosity being thoroughly
aroused. he drew an old sack over hi.
head and shoulders, unlocked a dool
which led into the yard from tiny soul
lery, and cautiously approached the place
where the meteor had plowed its way
INTO the ground. The stones were lit
tered with debris. but the velocity of the
heavy mass had been so great that
| comparatively clean cut was made
through the pavement The air was
warm. with the hot breath of an oven.
and II was as much as Philip could bear
when he stood on the brink of the hole
and peeped in. At a good depth, nearly
/ half his own height he estimated. he saw
a round ball firmly imbeided in the
earth. 1t was DULY red. with It's surface
all cracks and assures as the result of the
water poured onto il. Much larger than
football. ii seemeu to him. at first sight
TO be the angry eye OF some colossal
demon glaring up at him from a dark
socket But the boy was absolutely
stranger to fear He procured the handle
of a mop and proddcd the meteor with it,
The surface felt hard and brittle Large
sections broke away, though they did
not crumhle, and he received a sharp re-
hinder of the potency of the heat still
stored below when the wood burst into
sudden flame.
This ended his investiga tions for the
night. He used the sacking TO block up
the window, replenishe1 the fire, set his
coat to dry, and dragged his mattress
from the bedroom to the front of the fire.
The warmth within and without the
house had made him intolerably drowsy,
and he fell asleep while murmuring his
prayers, a practice abandoned since the
hour of his mothers death.
In reality. Fmnp was undergoing
novel sort of Turkish bath and the per-
spiraUon induced thereby probably saved
him from a dangerous cold He slept
long and soundly There was no need
to attend to the fire Long ere the coal
in the CRATE was exhausted, the presence
of the meteor had penetrated the sur
rounding EARTH and the house was far
| above its normal temperature when he
awoke
The sun had risen in a cloudless sky.
A lovely spring morning had succeeded
night of gloom and disaster, and the
first sound that greeted his wondering
ears was the twittering of the busy spar
rows on the housetops. OF course he
owned neither clock nor watch. These
articles. with many others, were repre-
| scented by a bundle of pawn tickets
| stuffed into one of the envelopes of his
mothers packet Of letters But the ex-
| pericnce of even a few weeks had taught
| him roughly how TO estimate time by the
| sun, and he guessed the hour to be 8
o'clock, on thereabouts.
| His first thought was Of the meteor.
| His toilet was that of plimeval man, be-
| ing a mere matter of rising and stretch
| ing his stiff limbs. While lacing his
boots he noticed that the floor was lit
| tered with tiny white specks, the largest
of which was not bigger than a grain
of bird seed. These were the particles
which shot through the broken window
| during the previous night. He picked
| up few and examined them. They were
| hard, angular, cold TO the touch, and
dull white in color.
On entering the yard he saw hundreds
of these queer little rough pebbles, many
of them as large as peas, some the size
of marbles and few bigger ones. They
had evidently flown on all sides, but, en-
countering lofty walls, save where they
forced a way through the thin glass of
the window. had fallen back to the
ground, lnterspersed with them he
| found pieces of broken stone and Jagged
humps of material that looked and felt
| like iron.
BY this time the meteor itself had
cooled sufficiently to reveal the nature
of its outer crust. 1t appeared to be an
| amalgum of the dark ironlike mineral
and the white pebbles Through one deep
| assure he could still see the fiery heart
of the thing, and he imagined that when
| the internal heat had quite exhausted
itself the great ball would easily break
into pieces, for it was rent in all direc-
tions
His first exclamation was one of thank
| fulness.
Il am Jolly glad that thing didn't fall
on my head" he said aloud forgetting
that had its advent been delayed sec
ond or two, the precise locality selected
for its impact would not have mattered
much to him
Il wonder what it is" he went on. as
it worth anything? Perhaps if l dig it
| out, / may be able to sell it as a curl
| esity.'
TO BE CONTINUED.
Womeu NurSac