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Show VILLAGE ESCAPES ELECTION UPROAR LONTJON, Nov, 11 (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) While most of the towns and districts In the British isles ore In the throes of electioneering and Icltir.ens have dally to listen to and read the utterances of the various candidates candi-dates on the stump, there is one spot in th" kingdom where the ordinary j routine of life is more Important than etastloneering This is the Sciiiy isles,! where nobody is ever h'-ard talking politics; where th.re are no posters.! and where elections never cause ex-1 cltoment The cable from Pensancej being out of order perhaps assists th"' (prevailing calm, but It Is recorded that; ln the last election the polling booth! ;at St. Martin opened at 8 o'clock in tthe morning and the officer presiding sat five hours before any one ap-peared. ap-peared. Ho hopes that things will liven UP this year, but with only SO voters, on the rotator he Is likely to have a! quiet time |