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CHRISTMAS AT LITITZ.
C. B. Todd, a representative of the
New York Evening Post, spent Christ-mas
among us and wrote up the follow-ing
interesting article, which is correct
in most-every particular :
" L I T I T Z !" The brakeman cries in a
cheery way, yet tbe name has a quaint
old-world sound, and as we wander
about the quiet streets, we find a quaint
old-world town. There are heavy, low
eaved houses of brick and stone, with
many dormer-windows in the roof, side
by side with cottages of the latest
architectural device, neat brick pave-ments,
arched stone bridges over the
creek, street signs in both Gernfan
and English, and men and women in
the quaint costume of Fatherland, still
clinging to the gutturals of the Teuton
as their mother-tongue— all reminding
the curious visitor that he is in the
midst of that peculiar people vulgarly
known as the " Pennsylvania Dutch,"
whose clannishness and obstinate re-tention
national customs through a
century and a half of colonization
form one of the most interesting social
studies of the age.
Lititz was one of the early outposts
of the Moravian missionaries in Penn-sylvania,
founded by the courtly Count
Zinzendorf in 1742, and still a strong-hold
of the faith, for which reason we
had run up there from Lebanon (four-teen
miles south by rail), to view the
beautiful Christmas ceremonies of the
Church. It was Christmas Eve. At
6 o'clock a bell summoned us to the
" love feast" which opens the Christ-mas
ceremonies. The sacred edifice,
with its Gemeinhaus or parsonage ad-joining,
fronts on a pretty square with
two large, sombre fire shadowing its
porch—a square roofed structure with
a cupola in the centre, otherwise quite
bare of ornament or architectural finish.
The large square room is crowded as
we enter, but apace, is made for the
yisitor about half-way up the middle
aisle—an excellent position for sight
seeing. The church was richly and
tastefully draped with evergreen, and
in the recess behind the pulpit was an
altar-piece, well executed, representing
the deciples gazing in rapt> adoration
upon the ascending Christ. We
were more interested in the congrega-tion.
The children of the Sunday-school,
with their teachers, occupied the entire
front of the square body of pews, and
the smaller boys were seated on the
alter steps. Of the women, the young-er
were attired in modern costomes,
but the older wore the ancient Mora-vian
dress—poke-bonnets, gray shawls
without any fringe or ornament and
plain black dresses. They were sweet
faces among both ' lasses. Babies
were numerous, too, and all fat, rosy,
and good natured. The exercises
opened with singing, prayer, and read-ing
of the Scriptures ; then several
brothers and sisters appeared—the lat
ter with little white caps on their heads
—bearing trays of pretzels, or rather
buns, which were distributed among
the congregation. They then retired
and soon returned with the trays filled
with small white mugs of coffee, of
which each person took one.
These, eaten and drunken amid soft,
low music, constitute the Moravian
love feast, a ceremony intended to
strenthen the bonds of christian love
and fellowship, and to emphasize the
fatherhood of God and the brother-hood
of man. No exhortations or "ex-periences
" were given, as in Methodist
love feasts, although I believe this was
formerly the practice. The exercises
of the evening consisted chiefly of
singing by the choir, the congregation
and the children sometimes in unison,
sometimes separately or in chorus.
The music was impressive and beauti-ful
in the highest degree, as might
have been expected in a German-set-tled
town of 150 years' growth. The
hymns—not the music—were printed
on four-page leaflets, and given at the
door to each worshipper.
The responsive service between the
children and the choir was the most
beautiful of all.
After a short address from the
pastor, in which the significance of the
light as typical of Christ, the Light of
the World, was pointed out, the exer-cises
closed with a benediction.
Next morning at 10:30 we read with
the people the beautiful service of
Christmas Day given in the Moravian
ritual, and listen to the Christmas
sermon—a plain, straightforward dis
course appropriate to the day and the
occasion. A Christmas tree for the
children and another service of song
at 6:30 in the evening completed the
Christmas services.
We lingered for some time in the
village, curious to know more about
its history and customs. We were
fortunate in meeting a learned and
courteous gentleman who was glad to
answer the questions we were eager to
ask. Lititz and its church we learned
were founded by that courtly gentle-man
and Christian knight errant,
Count Ziuzsndorf, one of the unsung
heroes of the world. He was " a Count
of the Saxton shore," of princely
fortune, so imposing that the laborers
in the street instinctively lifted their
hats to him, and at home in the Courts
of Louis XIV, and of the h'nglish
Kings. Yec on being converted by
the Ancient Brethren of Moravia, to
whom he had given shelter at Hernhut,
we find him relinquishing titles and
fortune to become a despised apostle
of the new faith to savage tribes and
scattered peasants in a distant colony.
Zinzendorf reached America on this
mission in 1739, and began his labors
with the Cherokees of Georgia. In
Savannah he met the Wesleys, who re-ceiyed
from him pretty much all that
was peculiar in Methodism, as well as
in its temporal economy. Not being
very successful in Georgia, he came to
Pennsylvania, where the neglected
spiritual conditions of German emi-grants
who had settled in the valley
of the Susquehannah attracted his
attention, and he went among them as
an itinerant preacher, forming at each
little settlement classes or " choirs " of
the devoutly iuclined, whom he visited
and preached to at stated periods ; as
they increased he providing pastors
for them from the Brethren, who at
this time came to America in large
numbers. At the same time he found-ed
many successful missions among the
neighboring Indians.
After some years of these labors
Count Zinzendorf decided to return to
Saxony, and in the course of a farewell
visitation to the churches came to Lititz.
On a cold December evening in 1743 he
preached at a farmer's house about a
mile out of the village. The farmers next
door neighbor was George Klein, who
had been invited to be present, but
having a prejudice against the evan-gelist,
he declined ; and that night say
the old chronicles, he was so disturbed
in conscience that he followed Zinzen-dorf
to Lancaster, heard him preach
in the court-house there, and became
an earnest and zealous convert. By
his aid and that of others a church
was established at Lititz, which soon
became a centre of religious influence
for the county, and was presided over
by a number of pious and able men,
amoug them the famous missionaryj
Christian Henry Rauoh.
There was so much about the Mora-vian
church and its customs that was
distinctive and peculiar that a brief
description of them may be found in-teresting.
There were, first, the bish-ops,
with a succession dating back to
the Waldenses, and whose episcopacy
had been acknowledged by the English
Parlidment; other orders were pastors;
chaplains, deacons, deaconesses, and
overseers. The most distinctive feat-ure
was " the choir," or class, into
which the membership was divided,
according to sex or condition, the
young children in one, the older boys
and girls, the unmarried men, the
maidens, the widows, and the widow-ers
in others ; frequent special services
were held for each class, and for close
oversight and the cultivatian of spirit-ual
fellowship a pfleger, or pastor, was
assigned to each, the women having
one of their own sex. These classes
were instituted in furtherance of the
Moravian idea of the importance of
the individual soul and the need of
close spiritual sympathy. Another
peculiar institution of this early
Church was " the Brother's House "
and "Sisters' House," semi monastic
in character, into which the children
of the community, on reaching a cer-tain
age, entered, to be instructed in
the useful trade?, as well as religion
and letters.
These houses were conducted on the
community plan, i, e., the members
ate at a common table and slept in a
common dormitory. All were expect-ed
to labor, and the fruit of such, labor
went into common stock ; but no vows
of fealty or celibacy were taken, and
members on arriving at maturity were
free to go or stay. On marrying, the
newly- wedded pair left the houses and
took up a residence in a home of their
own. These marriages wera arranged
on a plan entirely novel in this country
—although still practised in Germany
and Austria, I believe—which, in these
days of marital infelicity, might be
returned to, perhaps, with happy
results. It was marriage by lot.
When a young man had mastered a
trade audihad given evidence of ability
to support a family, he went to the
pastors of the community and told them
he wished a wife, at the same time stat-his
preference, if he had any. The
elders, after due consideration, named
such young women as they thought
suitable, and after prayer the matter
was decided by lot. Neither party
was bound to abide by the decision,
yet it is said that cases where the
verdict of the lot was set aside were
rare, both parties regarding it as the
will of the Lord.
In a new community these commun-al
houses were of great value. They
were schoolhouses and Sunday-schools.
All the trades were carried on in them;
for instance, in the houses at Lititz
there were a smith, tailor, baker, nail-maker,
tanner, mason, tilemaker, tin-smith,
saddler, linen and wool weaver,
gun and locksmith, bookbinder, potter,
shoemaker, carpenter, and wheel
wright, while the sisters wove stock-ings,
made chip hats, and linen cloth!
and embroidery that was in great
demand in the Eastern cities. Anoth-er
office of the Brother and Sister
Houses was to provide safe homes for
those whom the casualties of border
life left friendless and homeless. A
famous artisan who did not dwell in
the houses, but in the village, was
Brother David Tanuberger, the organ-maker.
In the church records, under
date of November 17, 1768, it is
recorded that various musicians came
from Lancaster to inspect Brother
David Tannberger's new organ built
for a church in Maxatany.
We find from loose memoranda that
besides supplying places in Pennsyl-vania
bis organs were sent to Baltimore,
Madison, Ya., and Salem, N. C.
He also made pianos, the cost of one
being given as £22 10s. He also fur-nished
the organ for the church in
Lititz at a cost of £350. It is also
recorded in these old books that on
November 17, 1762, the corner-stone
of the Gemeinliaus (common house)
was laid' by Bishop IlehJ, Bishops
Spangenberg and Boehler assisting.
The document placed in the stone at
that time was dated " i n the second
year of the reign of the most glorious
George I I I . of Great Britain, and in
the 306th year since the building of the
aneient Brethren's settlement of Lititz
in Bohemia." There were present
fou r bishops,two ordinarii (presbyters),
sixteen deacons, six male acolytes
(laymen engaged in some form of
church work), five female elders (wives
of the bishops) eight deaconesses
(wives of deacons and the pflegerin of
the single sisters), six female acolytes,
three stewards of the congregation,
the superintendent of the farm, and
the financial superintendent of the
single brethren's economy—the whole
being a pretty complete list of the
orders of this church.
CONCERNING HUMAN NOSES.
I n j u r i o u s Cigarettes.
While the war has raged with vary-ing
fortune over the question of tobac-co
from the issuance of King Jame's
counterblast to the present time, no
defender of the Indian weed has been
found who would venture to assert that
it is innoxious to youths and children.
On the contrary, all writers who have
studied the question agree that the
effect of tobacco and especially of cigar-ettes
is uniformily injurious to the
young, and that under no conceivable
conditions can it be harmless to them.
It has been d emonstrated that tobacco
checks the physical growth of children,
clouds their minds and impairs their
intellects, ând developes a kind of
heart trouble, which often results
fatally. So well is this known and
understood that candidates for admis-sion
to the United States Military or
Naval Academy are now examined with
special reference to disorders produced
by cigarette .smoking, and a large
proportion of those who are rejected
owe their failure to pass the physical
examination to the injuries and func-tional
disorders caused by cigarettse.
It is no uncommon thing nowadays
to see children scarcely out of dresses
puffing at a cigarette with all the non-chalance
imaginable : and such cigar
ettes, too, as they generally are. The
babies'means are so limited that they
can buy nothing but the cheapest and
vilest kinds of cigarettes, such as no
man who knows anything about tobac-co
would look at, much less smoke ;
and with these indescribably nasty con-coctions
these youngsters proceed to
poison themselves.
The Only Compromise.
" When I married," said McPelter,
my wife and I held different political
seutiments. So to prevent any future
unpleasantness we talked it over and
agreed to banish political argument."
" Which you found rather difficult
to do, I imagine," observed a friend.
" Not in the least," replied McPel-ter.
But noting his companion's look
of incredulty he added : " You see, I
agreed to vote just as she told me."
P a p a w a s R e a d i n g h i s Paper.
Bobby (reading)—" Pa, what is the
meaning of homo genus ?"
Father—" Let me see—it means
that Homer wa's a genius."
Bobby—" Well, who was Homer ?"
Father (irascibly—"Didn't I just
tell you that he was a genius ?"
Mother (coming to the old man's
assistance)—" Bobby, you musn't
bother your father when he is reading
his paper."
Curious Things About'the Proboscis—
Literary and Historical Associa-tions.
People of all ages have written on
them—in classical time9, in the middle
ages, in the glorious seventeenth cen-tury,
and of late years—so I see no
reason why (says the writer of an
article in the Echo) why I should not
prepetuate the strain. Perhaps the
finest essay' on the nose was delivered
by Taglicozzi in 1579, when he wrote
on the dignity and authority of noses.
To him they were the only feature of
the body worth noticing, giving pleas-ure
to the entire frame by means of
taste and smell, conveying to the mind
the most subtle and satisfactory of
sensations, and endowing the face with
what majesty it possesses. And then
you have all read Sterne's essay on
noses in " Tristram Shandy." But we
will keep clear of these gentlemen, and
consider the nose from our own point
of view. I hold, for instance, that by
looking at a man's nose one can tell a
great deal about his character. The
large, heavy nose, to me denotes
strength of character ; the upturned,
pretty, retrouse, a frivolous, soft yield-ing
mind; the sharp, ill-shapen, turned
up pug, a quick, bad temper, and the
proboscis with-defined liueSj as indica-tive
of a weak, ill-balauced intellect.
Yet here Thomas Moore differs from
me, for he writes, quite • oblivious of
Lavater :
I n v a i n we f o n d l y s t r i v e to t r a ce
The s o u l ' s reflection i n t h e face;
I n vain we dwell on l i n e s a n d crosses
Crooked nose a n d s h o r t proboscis,
Boobies h a v e l o o k e d as w i s e a n d b r i g ht
. As P i a t o a n d t h e s t a g e y r i t e:
And m a n y a sage a n d l e a r n e d s k u ll
Has peeped t h r o u g h windows dark
and dull.
Nose3 have, however, been held in.
respect for many reasons by the learn,
ed. As an oracle, the old writer held
that it was invaluable for telling of
love; for if it bled it was a sure sign
of faithful aflection. Writes Boulster :
" Did my nose bleed in your company?"
And, poor wretch, just as she said this,
to show her true heart, her nose fell a-bleeding."
Bleeding of the nose did
not always indicate this, however, as
the learned Grose pleaded, for he held :
" I f a nose bleed one drop only," it
forebodes sickness; if three drops, the
omen is still worse." While Milton,
who wrote the " Astrologist " said " If
a man's nose bleeds one drop at the left
nostril it is a sign of good luck."
Dekker, on the the other hand, held
that.the principal use of the nose was
to foretell the coming of strange
guests:
We shall ha' guests to-day—
My nose itchefch.
There are lots of expressions in
popular parlance, too, to show how
important the nosa is considered. For
instance, one speaks of a dupe as person
who is " led by the nose," and Iago
says of Othello:
He was led b y t h e no3a as assas a r e.
"Paying through the nose," again,
is held to be a condition of too much
trustfulness, and Grim says that this
saying had its origin in an old practice
of the King Odin, who levied a "tax of
a penny on every nose or poll. "Tweak
ing" the nose indicates not only a nose'
owner who is weak enongh to let
people wring his proboscis; and not
only did Papists in the old days slit
the noses of Protestants and Round-heads
slit the nose of Cavaliers, but
in the war of 1877-78 the Montene-grins
generally cut off the noses of all
the Turkish prisoners that they
chanced to take. Still, though suffer-ing
the occasional indignity of a
"tweak-," a good nose only belongs to
to the clever man, a man who is able
to find out secrets. For, as the Latin
poet says:
N o n c u i c u n q u e d a t um e s t e h a b e r e n a s um
Which, freely rendered into English,
means :
" I t is not g i v e n to e v e r y b o d y to have a
n o s e . " (keen wit).
Still, as I have remarked, the nose is
not treated with the respect that I
should be, and this is possibly because
it is often the medium's of ridicule.
You will remember Barham's lines:
The sacristan expressed no words.
To i n d i c a t e a doubt,
But he put hig t n u n i b into his nose
And spread h i s fingers out.
Naturally the hands placed " tandem"
in front of the n)33 put the organ
itself in some peril, and hence it gets
hit occasionally in a fight, as witness
Hudibras, who notes that—
Those who i n q u a r r e l s interpose,
Must o f t e n wipe a bloody nose.
But I will conclude with a little
anecdote showing a new use to which
a no3e can be put. There came into a
Western American town where I was
staying a ramping, roaring, drunken
cowboy, who said he was " on the
shoot," and wanted b'ffiod. A qui
Englishman, known as Bill, happened
to come into the saloon, and " getting
the drop " on the Roarer of the prairie
with his revolver, ordered him to give
'up his pistols. Then making him
stand with his back to the wall, he put
a lighted cigar end into the nose of
the Roarer, and told him if he moved
till it went out he would kill him. The
Roarer of the prairie did not move
while Bill was there and when he had
gone, went quietly to another town.
He did not like the way noses were
treated in Los Angeles county in those
days.
Wit a n d Humor.
The man of brass is always ready
to show his mettle.
At a hanging the sheriff and his
subject always get in accord.
A great many people who are crazy
to get into the social swim are drowned
before they can get out.
" A blow in the dark," is the blow
that has been used to put out the candle
that lights one to bed.
Fortune telling by cards is almost
impossible; but it is easy enough to
lose a fortune by playing cards.
The people in the audience who
talk continually during the progress
of a play should learn the deaf and
dumb alphabet.
Saccharin, the product from tar,
is said to be 300 times sweeter than
sugar. Sing hey the merry maiden
and the t a r!
It is said that in Kansas City there
is a corner, in boney. This may be
nothing but one of Kansas City's
advertising dodges, however.
He—" This must be the place." She
-" Stopi don't ring ; this doesn't look
like a boarding-house." He—" Oh,
yes it is. I smell the onions."
Michigan makes more shingles than
other State in the Union, but,
curiously enough, it has no more than
the usual percentage of good boys.
An interesting exchange asks : " Did
you ever see a left-handed idiot or a
baldheaded fool?" We have seen
the baldheaded fool. He spent half
the money he made for hair restorers.
Visitor (at insane asylum)—" Who
is that who jumps and yells so when-ever
the door bell rings ?" Keeper—
" Oh, he used to be night clerk in a
drug store. There are lots of those
chaps in here."
A brave prophet—The time will
come, and much sooner than you ex-pect,
when the cider barrel will''be
used for water and the beer and wine
kegs will be in the back yards for
slop buckets.
Several diamonds were found in a
meteorite which fell in the town of
Krasnoslobodsk, Russia. They will be
given to the individuals who are able
to pronounce the name of the town.
Now is the time to get up clubs.
The P u r e Quill.
A farmer living a distance from town
bought a gallon of whisky as he was
trading the other day, and while he
was absent from his wagon some one
substituted a jug filled with water.
Back he came next day, with the jug,
and setting it down with a bang he
exclaimed :
" Here's that whisky, and it's frozen
as solid as a rock !"
" No!"
" Try it and see !"
The man took a stick and jabbed
away until satisfied that such was the
case and then said :
" Well it's queer, aud I'll make it
all right. That must have come from
that I sell for medicinal purposes !"
Always Prepared.
" Did you ever have a lady hand
you a lead quarter ?" was asked of a
store keeper yesterday.
" I have."
" Nicely dressed, high-toned ladies?"
" Just so. There were several who
used to hand me lead quarters."
"Aiid you didn't feel like saying
anything to them ?"
" There was no need to. I always
had four lead nickles ready to return
for change."
S t a t e Items.
Minnie Kieper had her leg broken
while coasting on Saturday at Shamo-kin.
William Murdoch, an old and well-known
citizen of Pittsburg, was on
Saturday victimized by " bunco men"
out of 110,000.
The managers of the Carlisle Shoe
Factory decided to discharge Foreman
Keiter, and the striking girls resumed
work on Monday.
Joseph Hillscher, a brakeman on the
Philadelphia and Erie .Railroad, fell
under a train near Lock Haven on Sat-urday
and was killed.
Patrick Moore, Treasurer of the St.
Aloysius Temperance Society at
Wilkesbarre, left two weeks ago for
parts unknown, with $550 of the so-ciety's
money. The society will hold
his bondsmen for the amount.
Judge Cummin last week, at Wil-liamsport,
filed an opiuion sustaining
the case against the MayorandCounci-lers
of that city, who has been arrest-ed
aud put under bail some weeks ago
for failing to keep East Third street in
proper repair.
A 6-year-oid child of Mrs. Lincoln
Stevenson, of New Castle, was burned
to death on Saturday evening. During
the absence of the mother in. another
room the little one brushed against
the grate, and its clothing was a mass
of flames in ah instant-
General News.
At Shamokin, Conrad Graeber,
president of the First National bank,
died from neuralgia of the stomach.
Mr. Graeber was 65 years old.
Four young women were expelled
from the public schools of Hamilton,
111., for attending a ball and their
parents threaten to carry the case to
court.
Connecticut is experiencing the
coldest weather it has ever known.
Billy Dempsey, of Brooklyn, drop-ped
dead in a prize fight with Simon
Besser, ^otherwise known as " Swipes
the Newsboy" at Fort Hamilton, L. I.
Walter M. Gibson, the Southern
negro who became prime minister of
the Sandwich Islands,-died in San
Francisco of consumption.
The two thousand employes of the
Albany and Renssalaer steel and iron
works in Troy, New York, are still on
strike against the ten per cent, reduc-tion.
Notices have been posted sus-pending
work at the company's blast
furnaces on Feb. 1st.
The K n i g h t s o f Pythias.
CINCINNATI, January 21.—The
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Knights
of Pythias, were to-day suspended
from membership in the Supreme
Lodge of the United States. The
court of trial was held here to-day.
There were present Supreme Chancel-lor
Douglass, Supreme Representative
John C. Burns, of Mansfield, Ohio;
A. II. Brondt, of Atlanta; W. W.
Blackwell, of Henderson, Ky. The
charge was refusing to obey the laws
and mandates of the Supreme Lodge
of the United States. The representa-tives
of the Pennsylvania body did
not deny that they had refused to
obey the Supreme body, but claimed
that the Supreme Lodge had no right
to make laws for their government.
After hearing both sides the Penn-sylvania
Grand Lodge was unanimous-ly
suspended. The lodge which has
been cutoff from the main body of. the
Knights of,Pythias numbers 40,000
members. It was decided by the court
to call what is known as the loyal
lodge to be composed of representatives
from the uniformed rank. This loyal
lodge will determine what further
aetion shall be taken. It is probable
the present Pennsylvania body will
be wiped out and another lodge
organized in that State,
A B i t t e r Liquor War.
A despatch from Kingston, Ont.,
says: " I n retaliation for the hard
fight being made by the temperance
people of'Leeds county, 11 buildings
have been burned at Irish Creek, the
Methodist church and a tannery have
baen destroyed at Kemptvilie and 5
constables have been stoned and as-saulted.
Dr. Ferguson, M. P., and 3
others, one of them a minister, were
assailed and threatened with murder
and two deacons of a Baptist church
have been warned to dismiss their
minister or have their church
burned. The temperance .people
are undismayed, however, and
have 40 or 50 tavern-keepers fined;
have sent 3 offenders to the penitenti
ary and have had the assailants of the
constables fined$830."
ST. ELMO HOTEL, N o s . 317 a n d S10
A.rch street, Philadelphia.—Rates re-duced
to $2 D«:r day. The traveling
public will «till find at this hotel the
same liberal provision for their come-fort.
It is located in the immediate
centre of business, and places of amus-ment
and the different railroad depots,
as well as all parts of the city, are
easily accessible by street cars con-stantly
passing the doors. It offers
special inducements to those visiting
the city for business or pleasure. Your
patronage is respectfully solicted.
J O S E P H M . F E G E B ,
oc71y- Propr
Tar a n d Feathers.
When Oscar L. Dearborn, left his
wife and three children last summer
to run away with the wife of Nelson
Robinson, the people of North Salem,
N. Y., agreed that if ever the pair
eame back they would make the place
too hot to hold them. Last Wednes-day
the couple were seen on a New
York and Harlem railroad train by
persons who knew them. He got off
at Purdy's station. Then lie got a
horse aud sleigh and drove to Brews-ter's
only a few miles distant, and took
her in, and both drove to North Salem.
On Thursday the villagers put their
threat into execution by tarring and
feathering Dearborn, and then started
the unwelcome visitors out of town.
Since the elopement Mr. Robinson lias
obtained a divorce from his wife and
married Miss Lilly Van Tassell.
The Wild Man of Susses.
John Kutchley, known iu New
Jersey aa the " Wild Man of Sussex,"
who was captured after roaming the
woods of Frankfort township, Sussex
county, and was brought to Reading
by officials from that county, belongs
to Adamstowu, Lancaster county.
When brought here he was sent to the
Almshouse for treatment. Since then
it has been shown that he has no rela-tives
here, aud the Directors of the
Poor will send him to Lancaster, where
the officials will have to provide for
his keeping, as it is not safe for him to
run at large.