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...tariff. Her power, however, will probably be overthrown in the near future by a general revolt of the Arabian tribes. The whole future of Arabia rests on the question whether or not she will exchange her present religion for Christianity. English and American missionaries are trying to solve this problem, and if they continue to equal the splendid devotion of the pioneers in the work, they will undoubtedly solve the problem successfully...
...SEMITIC CONFERENCE. "The Problem of the Book of Job." Professor Kellner, of the Episcopal Theological School. Room 2, Semitic Museum...
...McAdoo, in speaking of "The Guarding of the City," said that in New York City, which contains four and onehalf millions of people, representing every race, tongue, and clime, the greatest problem of government is to keep up a thoroughly honest and efficient police force. Could such an organization be maintained there, New York City, the most cosmopolitan and the wealthiest community in the world, would be an orderly, safe, and law-abiding place. As New York is the biggest city in America, its police force should be the best, because the police are the medium through which the ignorant...
...Echegaray, who is also noted as a mathematician and statesman, high rank is universally accorded among the play-wrights of our own day. Not long ago he was awarded the Nobel prize, as a tribute to his artistic powers. It is to the problem play that Echegaray has given his greatest attention, and the fullest measure of his success in this direction may be seen in the piece which Mr. Faversham now offers in a form somewhat different from that in which Mr. Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last...
...hear much of the slum. The slum is just a question of the per cent. you will take. If 5 per cent. there is no slum problem; if 25, it looms large. It pays to build bad tenements that wreck the home. That is the reason of the fight. As I said, it is just a question of greed and of the cold indifference that asks "Am I my brother's keeper?" In that war the generation that is coming has to take sides. Which side...