Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-21
ACROSS AFRICA IN AN AUTO IN
 AUGUST
PruSsian Officer Will Make the First Attempt to Traverse the Dark Continent in a Very Powerful Machine.
Especial Cable to Review.)
 By Waller Dunkirk.

By Walter Dunkirk.
 BERLIN. July 2O.-The first at- tempt to cross Africa in an automo- bile will be made in August by Lieu tenant Paul Graetz, of the Prussian Army.
 For this daring trip the lieutenant has had built a specially powerful machine. which he has shown to the Kaiser, explaining the details of his project. The car is of 45 h. D. with four cylinders. It is built very high, with four-foot wheels, and can carry
 supply of petrol for 700 miles and large supply of provisions. The ex- petition will also carry photograph ic outfit, and it will be armed with Browning pistols. Lieutenant Graetz, who will drive himself. will be accompanied by machinist, Casper Neuberger, a cook and a Swaheli ''boy" completing the party.
 The route to be taken is from Oar es-Salaam, German East Africa, west
 ward, passing through German East
 Africa, British Central Africa, Rho- desia. and German Southwest Afri- ca, ending at Swakopmund on the
 West Coast. With good luck, Lieu tenant Graetz expects to do the trans continental run in about six weeks. A novel by a Princess is having big sale at all the German book
 stores. Its author is Princess Feodo- Ia of Schleswig- -Holstein, youngest sister of the Kaiserin, who has writ ten several books. although this is her first novel. It is entitled Hahn Berta," and tells the story of poach- CT and his daughter
 Princess Feodora. who is 34, has remained unmarried for the sake of her dead fiance, Duke Frederick of Mecklenburg-Schwe who, it will be remembered, was drowned with his crew, in the wreck of the torpedo boat which he commanded.
 Princess Feodora has had many of. fers of marriage, and might even have become Queen of Italy if she would have changed her religion as well as broken her VOWS to the mem cry of Duke Frederick. She is now one of the brightest women at the Berlin Court. and a favorite of the Kaiser, who admires her wit and ! judgment.
 The large number of serious cases of ill-treatment of soldiers which ! have recently been reported have i caused a considerable scandal in Aus tria.
 Within the last few days three cav airy soldiers belonging to different
 regiments have committed suicide on | account of cruel treatment. One of l them, hussaT, shot himself within hearing of Archduke Josef, who was reviewing his regiInI-It at the time. The archduke ordered an immediate inquiry into the circumstances. \ young recruit in the dTagoOns
 wrote a pathetic letter to a Bohemian newspaper. describing how he was constantly beaten and knocked about because he could not ride.
 ''The officers continually call us cattle and swine and treat us as such" The letter concluded, 'I am going to kill myself before this letter can be printed, as l can stand it no longer" The letter and the notice of the mans suicide appeared at the same time.
 American visitors to Vienna will soon be spared the bother of the
 three waiter system at the restau- rants. In every Viennese cafe the GUS toner has to tip three waiters-the head waiter, who presents the bill, the waiter proper, who brings the food. and the boy known as the pie colo" who brings the wine and beer.
 This. complicated system exasper- ates the stranger in Vienna who does not understand why he cannot give one tip to cover the whole service | But now it is proposed to introduce the ordinary system of one waiter having exclusive charge of number of tables.
 Count Klelmansegg, governor of Lower Austria, who interests himself in the work of attracting tourists to the country. has been asked for his approval of the change, which he is sure to give readily.
 The Kaiser is kind to the kodak | fiend, even at the expense of the Kaiserin's feelings. At Kiel, where the Emperor and Empress visited a motor-boat show. they were surround l ed by small army of snap-shotters, discharging "click" volleys until the Kaiserin complained that the ordeal was getting on her nerves.
 Instead of calling up his guards and having the kodakers arrested, the Kaiser mildly remarked that he could l not be angry with the citizens of Kiel for wishing to get souvenirs of the royal visit. and asked his wife to let the photographers get all the snapshots they wanted. The Empress che ao.s .. if sho uaa tbo or1,, one