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Show IT [ Des Desert rt Dustj'lii Dust DustBy DustI j'lii jlii ' II IIBy I By JohnstonII Johnston JohnstonAccording II , I'cording Icording ' " : - According t to history and the bible biblearound , I around about 5000 years ago there therewere therewere therewere were two t\\O t O too \ cities In Palestine that had hadbecome hadbecome become the centers of v . wealth caIth , , wicked wicked- wickedness wickedness wickedness hadII - II sortsiThese ness , , cussedness and evils of all nIl sortsi sortsThese sorts , These rnesc two iwo towns mwiis v.ere vere were . cre Sodom ouaom ana anaGomorrah and andGomorrah anaGomorrah Gomorrah They had reached the thepoint thepoint thepoint point to where they was running the thewhole thewhole thewhole whole show ' , some people laugh at these theseancient theseancient theseancient ancient stories , but If you want to Te- Te re- re TeA reallze re realize - A alize allze llze j1l just < ; t how much truth there is in inthem inthem inthem them just take a slant at some of our ourv.ealtn ourwealth ourwealth v.ealtn vealtn wealth . centers of today It seems that thatthe thatthe thatthe the Lord got fed up on these centers centersof centersof centersof of ofIckedness ' \ wickedness \\Ickedness Ickedness , , andarned and ' \ warned \\arned arned them that thatthey thatthey thatthey they must mend their ways , but It was wasa wasa wasa a very few that paid any attention to tothe tothe tothe the waining waming warning Of or course there were weremrny \ wereminy ere erem'1ny m'1ny m1ny mrny ' good people there , , but many ereI at of atthem ofthem oTthem I them I suppose suppoce suivoee : were too busy trying trymg ' tomake to tomake tomake make a living l1vi1"g l1vi1g Iivir " ' to heed the warning warningThere warningThere warningThere There , was . as one fellow there by the thename thename thename name of Lot He had been getting gettingthIs gettingthis gettingthis thIs inside informition inform\tion inform tion inform'ition ' \ ' and he took tookit tookit tookit it serious , he gathered a little l1ttle flock flocktogether flocktogether flocktogether together , took his wife by the handand hand handand handand and left while the leaving was good goodIt goodIt goodIt It seems they were instructed not to tolook tolook tolook look back Well W.ell . , about the time the theLord theLord theLord Lord started to raining fire and brim brim- brimstone brimstone brimstone - stone on these two cities Lot's Lots ' wife wife.like wifelike . . like most any v . woman oman , , got curious and andlooked andlooked andlooked looked back For that disobedient act actshe actshe actshe she was turned into a pillar of salt saltinstantly saltinstantly saltinstantly instantly But ' . ' inyway 1.nyway 1nyway 'anyway anyway , the Lord rain raln- raln rain- raln'cd rained rained - 'cd cd ' ed brimstone "and and hd 111d " fire f1re from out of ofHeaven ofHeaven ofHeaven Heaven , and and he overthrew those two twocities twocities twocities cities and all a11 the plain and all the in- in inhabitants inhabitants in inhabitants ofI - I habitants of those cities Several years yearsago yearsago : ago I was with a sea sen faring farmg man One OneI Oneday Oneday I ; day he was showing showmg me a lot of trink trink- trinkets trinkets trinkets - - : ets and relics rellcs from different parts of ofthe ofthe ofthe the world , among other things he hehanded hehanded hehanded handed me a little piece of rock salt saltWhlle saltWhile saltWhile Whlle While I held the piece of salt in my myhand myhand myhand hand , , he explained to me that he had hadpaId hadpaid hadpaid paId an Arab ' guide g'Ulde gUlde one dollar for that thatpiece thatpiece thatpiece piece of salt , he said that the guide guidegwe guidegive guidegive gwe give him a guarantee that this piece pieceof pieceof pieceof of salt was some small part of Lot's Lots Lot'swIfe Lot'swife Lot'swife Lotswife ' wIfe Well , that piece of salt would wouldfirst wouldfirst wouldfirst first get hot and then turn cold , I Icould Icould Icould could not figme ffgme figure out what to do dowhether , , whether to drop it , throw it away or orkiss orkiss orkiss kiss it I was just lust about ready to g'O gO g'Ointo gointo ' gointo into a bad case of spooks , when whn { ) he told toldme toldme me not to get excited , he said he had hadI hadmet hadmet I , met other sailors sa110rs who had pieces of ofsalt ofsalt salt with the same sort of a guarantee guaranteeas as this one had and he knew it to be a afact afact afact fact that these pieces of salt were pick pIck- pIcked picked picked - ed up a thousand miles apart So Sothere Sothere Sothere there must be a few petty crooks there thereyet thereyet thereyet yet Now , science tries 10 to explain allthis all allthIS allthis thIS by telling te1l1ng us that they had an anearthquake anearthquake anearthquake earthquake in that country and opened openedup openedup openedup up the gas and oil 011 stratum , then light light- lightning lightning lightning - ning set spt it on fire That , I guess is all alleery all\eiy all eiy \ eery ' \ eIY probable but it is a cinch cmch the theLord theLord theLord Lord had to have something to do it itlth itwith itwith \\lth lth with \ \ and Ife if ' \ we \\e e are to believe what we weread weread weread read , , he done it But the Standard StandardOIl StandardOil StandardOil OIl no doubt studied both botp boti ' sides of the thestory thestory thestory story , , anyway they arc are there and reap reap- - ing reaping a han harti esf est from gas and oil- oil on oft oilKnow - Know Know- Knowmg Knowing Knowing - ing mg who is there , it would not be sur- sur surprising surprising sur surprising - - prising if that particular spot is knock knock- knocked knocked knocked - ed for a row of sod houses hOllSes any minute minutelD'ain minuteagain minuteac'ain minuteacain lD'ain lDain again : ' ' : It 1t It ; gives one the jitters to thInk thInkof thinkof thinkof of the time when the Lord finds fmds tIme tImeto timeto timeto to look some of our centers of wealth wealthover wealthover v/ealthover v ealthover / over , , for that reason I have never had hail hadany hailmy hadany any my desire to see any world worlds s fair , or oreven orven oreven even : ven get any where near any of our ourgreat ourtreat ourgreat great treat eastern harbors , , , unless I can getn get in bigblast n on the sight seeing seemg after the big blast blastI blastThe I The professor smothered his wrath wrathand wrathand wrathand and went down cellar . 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