| Show RUSSIAN mendicants MENDI CANTS of the carffer Larf fer catl or the Knip lre on an average about two hundred and fifty mendicants mendi cants of both sexes are every week arrested in the streets of st petersburg while in moscow odessa warsaw and other populous centers the numbers taken by the police are proportionately large one reason for the existence of so numerous a swarm of mendicants mendi cants is the granting of passports to all alio have suffered terms of imprisonment no matter how short those periods may have been or for what trivial offenses they may have been committed the universal passport system which obtains in russia makes these indorse ments more prohibitory for the holders than actual police surveillance or than tho ticket of lacave system in england must always be produced and in ane case of domestic servants male and female laborers etc the passports remain in the employers keeping so long as the servants arc retained the raided mendicants mendi cants are returned to their birthplaces or becom bitted numbers of them are time after time expelled their native communes return to the large town and are again committed to prison son in which they spend the greater part of their lives |
