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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan 1 



the lawyers unraveled the conflicting testi- 

 mony, and held all the facts in the case up be- 

 fore the light of day. A young lawyer who 

 looked as if he might be a Christian, from his 

 fairness and evident sincerity, strongly im- 

 pressed me, and he gained his case. The 

 jury, greatly to my surprise, gave Green a ver- 

 dict of $50.00 damages. The railway com- 

 pany had, as a matter of course, two bright 

 and skillful attorneys. I admired them too, 

 and I thanked God in my heart again and 

 again for the lawyers of our land — that is, if 

 those I heard that day were a fair specimen of 

 the legal profession. 



The judge, J. G. Beattie, of Warwick, N. Y., 

 is an exceedingly able, fair-minded, and kind 

 gentleman. I watched him with the keenest 

 scrutiny to see if I could detect any bias on 

 his part, either one way or the other. Ernest 

 will give you a picture of him in due time. 

 Now, then, for the point of my story. 



The above are not the exact words, but as near 

 as I can remember in substance; and during the 

 whole trial not a word or suggestion was 

 made by any witness or lawyer, by way of re- 

 flection on the colored people because they 

 were colored. The State of New York cer- 

 tainly ignores color in the administration of 

 law and justice. Long live the Empire State 

 — in this one particular at least. Three color- 

 ed people, if not four, had more or less to do 

 with the affray, and there were a good many 

 more colored people in the car, as it appeared 

 from the witnesses ; but although I kept ex- 

 pecting it every little while, not one word was 

 dropped to indicate that the fracas was caused 

 by a lot of drunken negroes on a car during a 

 Sunday excursion. 



By the way, I wonder if Sunday excursions 

 do not alwaj'S go with beer and drinking ; and 

 I wonder, too, if it is not true that, if we 

 break down one, we shall break down the oth- 



CIvASS OF GIRI.S LEARNING BEEKEEPING. 



The attorney for the railway company, in 

 his opening words to the jury, said something 

 like this : 



" Gentlemen, let me impress on your minds, 

 at the very outset, that the fact that this man 

 is black, instead of white, must not in any 

 way prejudice you against him one hair's 

 breadth. He is in no way responsible for the 

 color of his skin. He is, however, responsi- 

 ble, like all the rest of us, for his behavior 

 and character before the world. Give him 

 just as good a chance in your minds as you 

 would give the whitest man that ever lived. 

 He has just as good a right to life, liberty, and 

 the pursuit of happiness, as any one of us. 

 The only question is in regard to his behavior 

 and general character." 



er. If we stop Sunday excursions the beer- 

 drinking will stop — at least to a great extent ; 

 and if we stop the sale of beer on Sunday, is it 

 not true that we shall stop the Sunday excur- 

 sions ? This unfortunate man declared from 

 his own testimony that he had had two glasses 

 of beer and one of whisky. His wife said she 

 had one glass of beer, and that was all. His 

 colored comrade, who was at the bottom of 

 the whole disturbance, had beer and whisky — 

 we do not know how much ; but we do know 

 that when he felt in his pocket he could not 

 find even a nickel left to pay his fare. How 

 are we as a nation going to deal justly, love 

 mercy, and walk humbly before God, while 

 we run Sunday excursions, carry colored peo- 

 ple and everybody else, then permit the brew- 



