Show TOLSTOI HOPEFUL berlin dec 2 the russian correspondent spon dent ot the Tage blatt had an interview with count tolstoi at hia homo and telegraphs as follows count tolstoi shows surprising optimism regarding the present condition of russia lie considers it la not dangerous and thinks the industrial labors in the few large play no role as against the peasants who constitute the great majority of tha russian people the peasants are not thinking about revolution and tolstoi regards tho newspaper reports about peasant up aa exaggerated lie says it la only a small party of revolutionary agitators who want to reverse the arcs ont order of things however tolstoi declines to make predictions saying it is impossible to know what will happen it la necessary in any case to get rid of tho existing government which hitherto has rested upon force and supplant it with a government supported by love goodwill good will and christian acts panama dec 1 the russian colony in has proved a failure tho government made every effort to help the colonists and the reason alvea for their failure Is that they had not directors tokio dec 1 delayed in transmission private letters from korea tend to confirm ahe recent report from hong kong that he korean emperor was practically forced at the bayonet into an agreement with the japans ie the emperors seal was affixed to li documents by others resulting in panic in tho palace and tho suicide of some of the officials the palace b been under increased surveillance fo the last two weeks |