According to Miss HARRISON the gombeenman is the curse of Ireland, the serpent whose presence, if only he can be reduced to being an absentee, warrants us in regarding Ireland as a possible Eden.

[Obs.]; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi. emptiness &c adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa [Lat.]; exemption; hiatus &c (interval) 198; lipotype^. truant, absentee.

But now all of us were alive and kicking, strait-waistcoaters and others; in fact, not one absentee was reported upon the entire roll.

There was one absentee.

The new social alignment was complete, with the idle, absentee landlord at one end and the migratory and possessionless lumber jack at the other.

Later came "The Absentee," "Belinda," "Helen," the "Tales of Fashionable Life," and the "Moral Tales."

In due course "Skilly" presented an absentee and unidentifiable spouse with five bouncing baby kittens.

But the fact that she has been surpassed, gives her an additional claim to our respect and gratitude; for in truth we owe to her, not only Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla, but also Mansfield Park and the Absentee.

This estate belongs to Count Freeman, an absentee proprietor.

An overseer who was disposed to manifest the most liberal bearing towards his apprentices, and who had directions from the absentee proprietor to that effect, was yet effectually prevented by his attorney, who having several other estates under his charge, was fearful of losing them, if he did not maintain the same severe discipline on all.

This estate belongs to Count Freeman, an absentee proprietor.

A great many estates are managed by attorneys for absentee proprietors.

We regret to state, that a deep combination was formed by many of these middlemen to grind the peasantry to the dust, and to induce, if possible, the acceptance of remuneration which, by affording no inducement to the peasant cheerfully to labor, would have entailed pauperism on him and his family, and ruin on the absentee proprietor.

Some of our would-be great men are, I am sorry to say, harassing the poor free labourers shamefully; and should it prove, as I think in some cases it must, of serious injury to the absentee proprietors, I shall publish the cases of grievance brought me, together with the names of the estates, owners, attorneys, overseers, &c., and leave all parties to form their own opinion on the subject.

But the governor appointed by this absentee master was liable to be more devoted to his interests than to those of the people, and the civil service was seriously damaged by worthless favourites sent over from England for whom the governor was expected to find some office that would pay them a salary.

Day (Ferquhard), the absentee from the clan Chattan ranks at the conflict.

" So turned the talk upon the long-time absentee, and instances were cited of those outbreaks of utter nonsense which were wont to come from him in awful moments: gibes with which no one reporting them to the uncle could ever make the "old man" smile.

Toward Europe they are as absentee landlords.

MR. CHESTER HENDERSON, an absentee.

Absentee ownership and business enterprise in recent times; the case of America.

In 1361 all absentee landowners, already amounting to no less than sixty-three, including the heads of several of the great abbeys, were summoned to Westminster and ordered to provide an army to accompany Lionel, Duke of Clarence, whom he had decided upon sending over to Ireland as viceroy.

But dreams remain amidst the new disaster: There shall be visions when the firelight burns Squads of recruits for ever doubling faster, Fresh clothing-issues from the Quartermaster And audit boards and absentee returns.

Many examples might be found where managers and resident directors have wished to pursue a more liberal policy than absentee shareholders would permit. § 2. #Need of common action among wage-workers.

It was during the Parnell agitation in Ireland that an anti-Parnellite, criticising the ways of tenants in treating absentee landlords, exclaimed to Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia: "Why, it looks very much like treason.

Of this nature is the following anecdote, which I am assured is genuine:A minister in the north was taking to task one of his hearers who was a frequent defaulter, and was reproaching him as a habitual absentee from public worship.