Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-10-16

colossal Gemon eiurip, UP o, n.u from
Il dark socket Tt Tie 'Dg wa 3b
solutely Il STRANGER to fear. lie pro
cured the handle of a mog mi pro2ded
the meteor with it. Tn" surface felt
hard ana brittle. Large sections broke
away. though they did not crumble,
and he received sharp reminder of I,
the potency of the heat still stored he
low when the wood burst into sudden .
fame.
This ended his Investigations for the |
night He used the sackinG 70 block |
up the window, replenished 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 intol-
erably drowsy, and he fell asleep while
murmuring his prayers, practice
abandoned since the hour Of his moth
er'S death
In reality Philip was undergoing a
novel sort of Turkish bath, and the
perspiTation induced thereby probably
saved him from dangerous cold. He
slept long and soundly. There was no
need to attend to the fire. Long ere
the coal i'll the CRATE was exhausted
the presence of the meteor had pene-
trated the surrounding earth, and the
house was far above its normal tenn.
perature when he awoke.
The sun had risen in a cloudless sky
A lovely spring morning had succeed
ed a night of gloom and disaster, and
the first sound that greeted his Won
dcrin cl-a was the twittering Of the
busy sparr0wS on the hOusetops. OF
course he owned neither clock nor
watch These articles. with many 9th
erS wore represented by bundle of
pawn tickets stuffed into one of the
envelopes of his mothers packet Of
letters hut the experience of even
few weeks had taught him roughly
how to estimate time by the sun, and
!, he guessed lhe hour to be 8 O'Clock or
, thereabOuts.
= His first thought was of the meteor
! His toilet was that of primeval man,
, being a mere matter of rising and
p stretching his stiff limbs. While lac
a ing his boots he noticed that the floor
was Uttered with tiny white specks,
i the largest of which was not bigger
o than a grain of bird seed. These were
! the particles which shot through the
! broken window during the previous
f night. He picked up a few and ex-
4 amined them. They were hard, cold
, to the touch and dull white color.
h On entering the yard he saw hun
dreds of these queer little rough peb-
= bles, many of them as large as peas.
4 some the size of marbles and a few
! bigger ones. They had evidently
h flown on all sides, but, encountering
, lofty walls, save where they forced a
r way through the thin glass Of the
9 window, had fallen back to the ground
a Intarspersed with them he found
# pieces of broken stone and Jagged
% Jumps Of material that looked and felt
10 like iron.
@ BY this time the meteor itself hat
y cooled sufficiently to reveal the nature
of it's outer crust. 1t appeared to bt
n an amalgam of the dark ironlike min
,r eral and the white pebbles. Through
r. one deep assure he could still see the
i, fiery heart of the thing. and he i'm
ii agined that when the internal hea
10 had quite exhausted itoelf the grea
10 ball would easily break into pieces
,e for it was rent in all directions.
r. Ills first exclamation was one o
al til nkfulness.
or Il am jolly glad that thing didn't fal
" on my head" he said aloud, forgetting