Cabmen becoming members while under thirty years of age pay an annual subscription of 5_s._ and an entrance fee of 2_s._ If over thirty the entrance fee is 3_s._ There is also a Widow and Orphan Relief Fund, for which an additional subscription of 2_s._ a-year has to be paid. At the annual meeting of the Society in March, 1900, Benjamin Heppelthwaite, aged 74, was elected one of the annuitants; but, feeling that he was still able to work, he waived his right to the annuity, which was then given to the highest unsuccessful candidate. Heppelthwaite’s generous behaviour did not go unrewarded. The chairman, Viscount Duncannon, at once announced that he would give Heppelthwaite, for the next twelve months, a sum equal to the annuity which he had refused in favour of a weaker friend. In 1871 the London Cabmen’s Mission was started in premises adjoining the King’s Cross Station of the Metropolitan Railway, and during the thirty years of its existence has done much to improve the moral character of cabmen. Religious services for cabmen and their families are held at the hall at King’s Cross on four days in each week, and the missionary also visits the men on the ranks to talk with them and distribute bright, wholesome magazines. We read, frequently, in the daily papers, of cabmen being drunk while at work, and it will, therefore, surprise many people to hear that there is a large number of total abstainers among London cab-drivers. During the summer months a cabmen’s Gospel Temperance meeting is held every Sunday evening on the stand outside King’s Cross Railway Station. The speakers and singers are all cabmen. Last year they held, at the same spot, an open-air Harvest Festival. Fruit, flowers, vegetables and bread were displayed on the temporary platform, and a cabman sang, “Oh, what shall the harvest be?” At the conclusion of the service the fruit, flowers, and other gifts, were taken in cabs and given to a Rescue Home. The London Cabmen’s Mission also distributes among the men, woollen mufflers, cuffs and hosiery--presents which are greatly appreciated. One lady subscriber gave the Mission six dozen sun-bonnets for cab-horses, and thereby added to the comfort of the animals and the gaiety of the streets.