Related article: whom it was intended. I allude to the death of Will Hurrell, whipper-in to the Puckeridge, through a fall in a very mysterious way, leaving a widow and child unprovided for. The poor lad had neglected to enrol himself as a benefit member of the Society which was formed to save his family from want Aleve With Aspirin under the very circumstances that have un- happily occurred. In this case, doubtless, voluntary effort will to a Aleve Ibuprofen great extent allay the widow's need, yet nevertheless we have here an object lesson which we may well lay to heart. Ought not every hunt servant on his en- gagement be encouraged, if not obliged, to join this Society in his own interest as well as that of the profession to which he belongs ? In putting this important ques- tion I may not be speaking directly to the hunt servants themselves, who seldom, I fear, read the pages of your Magazine, but I shall, at all events, be bringing the question before the eyes of their masters, and also before those of thousands of their friends and well-wishers, the hunting men and women of the United Kingdom, That by this means pressure may be brought to bear on many a young man who is donning the hunt uniform for the first time to induce him to provide for a rainy day, accident, or sickness. Perhaps also the Society may be induced to form a junior branch for its younger members, and increase their en- couragement to join it. If I take this opportunity of calling attention to this excellent Society, it is certainly due to it that I should give to the sporting world some particulars of its growth, its Advil And Aleve scope and present condition. For does it not Aleve And Aspirin form one of the pillars of hunting ? Established in 1872, its growth has been most remarkable, con- sisting as it now does, after only twenty-six years existence, of eighteen hundred honorary mem- bers, contributing either ;^i a year to Aleve And Ibuprofen its funds, or being constituted honorary members for life through a donation of £s* The income by this means assured to the So- ciety was in 1897 ;^782 2s. 6d. In addition to this, the Society has an income of £i^S5^ ^^s. from well-invested funds with which to meet its liabilities and benefit members, who number at present four hundred and twenty, and their subscriptions amount to ;f94i 1 6s. gd. per annum. These sums, with those in the bank and in the hands of officers, bring the Ibuprofen Or Aleve total income of the Society up to about ;^3,6oo. The Society is threefold in the means it employs in dealing with these funds. (i) It gives a weekly allowance of 15s. in case of sickness or accident. BAILY S MAGAZINE. [January (2) An annuity at the rate of 15s. a week after the age of sixty or sixty-five years. (3) A provision of £^^0 or £\^o (as circumstances admit) for widows, orphans, or other rela- tions. No fewer than 102 hunt servants Aleve Naproxen Aleve Aspirin have during the year 1897 Aleve Advil received sick and accident pay amounting to ^792. Whilst twelve hunt servants are enjoying annuities in their old age amounting to £w^ 15s., Death has entitled the surviving relatives of six hunt servants to the sum of ;^i,ooo during 1897. Now let us see what economy the hunt servant is called upon to exercise in order to participate in these three permanent advantages. If a lad enters at fifteen years, he has to pay iis. 9d. a year in order to participate in the sick- pay fund ; at the age of twenty-one I2S. 6d., and so on up to the age of fifty-five years, when it amounts to £1 4s. iid. The lad of fifteen years who wishes to insure his life for ;^i7o or ;^i5o has to pay £1 IIS. 4d. a year, or if he is twenty-one, £\ i6s. 4d. a year, and so What Is Aleve on up to fifty-five years, when his premium is £% is. 3d. The lad who wishes to secure an annuity of 15s. a week after sixty must pay £\ 13s. a year, or Ibuprofen Aleve if twenty-one years £7. 4s. lod., Aleve And Advil and so in proportion up to fifty-five years. Considering the excellent wages paid to hunt servants and the tips that the majority get, the annual deductions required by the Hunt Servants' Benefit So- ciety are by no means heavy. Happy indeed ought the hunt servant to feel that in joining this Society he is aided by no less than 1,800 sportsmen and women vol- untarily each year, and conse- quently in a comparatively short existence, as compared with other friendly societies, his society has become one of the most flourishing and beneficent societies in the United Kingdom. There are about 240 packs of fox and stag-hounds in the United Kingdom, and these must employ quite 600 hunt servants, to whom this Society offers its assistance. So that at the present time there are at least 100 hunt servants who are still not benefit members, and participate in Aleve Or Ibuprofen no way in its advantages. Is it going too far for me to remind masters of hounds that they may not be exceeding their duty in insisting on their servants becoming members when they join their establishments, provided they have not already done so ? For be it remembered that by joining the Society when a man is young gives him the im- mense advantage of a small annua) payment rather than a larger one, and above and beyond this there is the incentive for the young man, having chosen this as his walk in life, to stay in it, and strive for improvement and Advil Aleve suc- cess, rather than lose the benefits, which as a hunt servant he thus Aleve D enjoys. On looking carefully into the Society's Advil Or Aleve list of benefit members, it is somewhat striking to notice that only 94 out of the 420 benefit members subscribe towards all three funds, and are entitled to sick pay, an old-age pension, and an insurance. The great majority content themselves by Naproxen Aleve subscribing solely to the sick-pay fund, which I venture to point out to them is somewhat short-sighted policy, because if in addition to this they insured their lives for ;^i50, or made provision for old Is Aleve Ibuprofen age, or both, they are making the future safe for Aspirin And Aleve their widows and children as well as themselves. Had poor Will Hurrell done this when he Aleve Or Advil donned the Pucker idge uniform, his widow and children would not. 1899.] HUNT SERVANTS — ^THEIR BENEFITS.