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STAROSTS.                MARIA TOLSTOI.        MISS KUZMINSKY. CONSULTUING THE STAROSTS.

Tolstoi’s “putting in funnels” meant, then, the relief of
those overlooked by the officials, and whatever might be done
to remedy these defects. It was not easy. Even the discovery
of the most needy was far from being as simple as it looked.
To our notions, all the mushiks would have qualified en masse
under that heading, but to the Russian workers there were
grades, “and in the lowest depths a lower deep”! Another
obvious idea was to apply to the starosta (head man of the
village), or to the pope, but alas! the starosta is not always
one in whom there is no guile, nor is the pope always a
saint. The only reliable method was for the Count and
his assistants to go into the villages themselves, and compile
from individual inquiries the lists of names and details
needed for wise and efficient aid. Then these were verified
by the calling together of the entire village community, or
mir, when the lists were gone through and discussion held

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