The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-25
NOISY
BOTH DAY, NIGHT
CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT HAS
ALSO BROUGHT CHANGE
in PEOPLE.

Kansas City Journal II is difficult
20 grow accustomed to the new Petro
grn The character of the city has
changed
Once stiff, taciturn and rather mo
rose. Il suddenly has become loquacious
and noisy. The hum Of argument, Har
Old Williams tells the London Chron'
icla hever ceases day or night. Hun
dreLtongued rumor is the field OF
batde royal.
Politics pursue one everywhere. You
cannot buy hat or a packet of cigar
ettss or ride in a cab without being
entcei into political discussion. The
servants and house porters demand ad-
vice as to which party they should vote
for in the ward elections. Every wall
ul lhe town is placarded with notices
of meetings, lectures. congresses and
electoral appeals ana announcements
nat only in Russian but in Polish,
Iitruanian Yiddish and Hebrew.
Meetings are crowded and who does
nor speak at meetings now? There are
ministers, workmen, returned eXlles'
soldiers, officers, students, escaped
prisoners of war, crippies. sailors, Eng
lshmen. Frenchmen. Serbs, YBelgians,
IlGlns. Americans There is fierce ar
guinent between the parties, violent
apphuse. violent kissing The battle
ol the meetings flows over into the
uaceasing buzz ana murmur ana per
u,,ual cut and thrust Of the streets and
ths trans and the workshops and the
hlrracks Two men argue at street
corner and are at once surrounded by
ar excited crowd Even at concerts
nle the music is diluted with political
sn.r,hes by widely known orators.
Nevsky Prospect Changed
Nevsky Prospect has become a
I.si of Quarter Latin Book hawkers
line the pavement. and CRY sensational
u,t.phlets about Rasputm and Nicho-
IT,. and who is Leniue. ana how much
lana UiI the peasants get. Returned
evues ait through the crowd. recog-
nt-be by the Rue Bertholet cut Of
their clothes and their hair
Even tblt ancient institution, the .
O'Clock procession Of Chinopiks going
home from government. offices has lost
H., lyuical coloring One misses at first
the saij. familiar ilsuress til one sud
denly realizes that those rather long
haired young men. swinging or slith-
eriug along with portfolios under their
arms must. of course be the new Chi
rpWiks
awsboys used 90 carry papers in a
hlE Now there are so many papers
au6 such a demand for them that the
lrwF ars have had 10 improvise stalls
90 the street corners and one may
u1ase there and watch the play Of po-
Euc8I sympathies and antipathies as
the hari-faced young workman buys
The NaNimalist Pravia. or the dreamy
student buys the Radical Den. or some
stout elderly gentleman buys the No
woe Vsmya with a melancholy air Of
rcsi grafton.
.PrOCessionS Arc Frequent.
Tban on certain days the streets fill
with PROFESSIONS. and the pulse Of dis
puati4n beats more strongly Recent
iy. crossing from the other side Of the
N.pl ! saw near Kszensinka's house a
meeting OF Leninites Next door the
salvation ARMY was holding a service.
Crossing the bridge was a long church
procession with ikons and crosses and
gtttrring banners and a sweet, slow
chanting Of ancient prayers. But in
front OF the procession the red flag was
waving
ON the Nevsky the scene changed
again Here was o procession OF armed
but tamelooking anarchists. with black
flg ami black coffin while a troop Of
Cosucks followed at a distance. Fur
ther mp near the city han a Salvation
Arm band was crashing out some sick
iy western air. and plain clothes
mftamnn leaned ON bis arm and lis
toned
have been absent from Pctrograd for
a time. and listening to the talk Ia the
streets notice "a change The frank
JOY OF the early state Of the revolution
has given place 10 bitter party strife
oui growing resentment against the
eytgrnism and disturbers OF order The
dasir. for order Be- becoming a passion
with the crowd. and the national in.
suuct at FIRST baGled and stunned by
the vehement outcry OF preachers OF
Immediate socill revolution. IS beginning
e. re'ssert itself