The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
Great Interest Displayed in American People and
 Customs
WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA
 AND JAPAN IN FIVE YEARS
Russian Emperor Declares He Does Not Oppose Tunnel Under Behrine Strait and He Respects
 American Opinion.

St Petersburg, October 5.-(Special Cable e.)-Countess N. Tolstob near relative of the famous Russian noVel- ist, Count Leo Tclstoi, and daughter or a former great statesman, recently had an interview with the Czar and his family.
 This is the first interview with the Czar since the beginpirg or the war and revolution written directly Tor newspaper.
 ..f was invited by the private seere- tary of the Czarina to be the guest at Iea of her majesty at Peterhof in the last month and she said l should bring with me some interesting things per taining to my travels in America Tor their majesties would be very much interested in what you tell about the American life and news took every thing I had and went
 "I had not begun my talk before the Grand Duchess Tatiana shouted: Please, Countess tell me about the negro and Indian girls whom you saw ia America ana what ttcy said to you
 ..The Czar put his Land on her mouth. saying: My dear child, do not disturb the Countess. She herself VIII leuow best what to tell
 T toll of the skyscrapers in New Work and of the great freedom prevail ing in every place Business matters seemed to interest the Czar very much and re appreciated the American bnsi- ness spirit. Th" elections ci the state and federal officers was new thing 10 hin. ard he asked me for some pie lures of tho most popular political flg- urcs. Most of all he asked about tho personalities of Roosevelt, Bryan, lsdi- son and Hearst He said he had the photographs of all of these men ln his caninet.
 But please tell me of the American love stories. marriages and hivorces' sad the Czar. I have heard that man or woman in America can marry and divorce as many times as they like, and there are peorlo who have oeen fifteen times married and divorced. Is it true that there is near New York a so-called Cnnev Island, where the peop!o may go and be married even in the cafes and hotels by the clerks ana saIoonKeepers aud the mairiege IS it;- gal? \ The King Of England told me that men and women go to Coney ls- land to marry and divorce in ieW 6ays.
 ...While I was the Czarevitch dreamed much of going to America and witnessing the marriages on Coney Island but my father did net like this idea, fearing I would not return, for l " very ad- yenturous at that tme 1 thought 1t would not be so very bad to marry the daughter of multi-milionaire.'
 '.The Czar was greatly interested Tn tae talk of trouble between the United States and Japan and he said he would be satisfied with an alliance between tho limited States against the growing power of Japan. He expressed the opinion that a war between Russia and Japan Would be sure to come in the next five years:
 It is not true that l have opposed the idea of q railroad connection through a tunnel under the Behring sea with Au1erlca.' the Czar declared. I nave or dered a committee to investigate this question and inform me of the results. 1 would like to see trains connecting the two largest countries in the world. Not the letter of Roosevelt induced me to make peace with Japan but my respect for public opinion in Amerca. ain very sorry that in the course of the last revclts and the massacres of Jews the public opinion in that great country has been turned against me. l am not guilty of all those troubles. l think the Jews. themselves, incite the mob to attack them. The time will come when the Americans themselves will hate the Jews and regard them not as a nation of great intelligence and isolated from the others through their religion, but as the worst type of business men and money makers All the revolts during the past two years have been agitated by the Jews. A Jew in common life may be good, but Jew in politics is worse than any one else'"