SCIENCE OF THE AGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 291, 7 December 1900, Page 6

SCIENCE OF THE AGE.

The modern army draws upon the latest inventions of nearly all known sciences. Chemistry has given it smokeless powder; and this, with the magazine rifle and the rapid-fire field gaiiT, has vastly increased the power of the defence, and rendered a mistake In strategy disastrously costly. Hence the importance of devices for giving and transmitting intelligence—the balloon, the field telegraph, and even the telephone, besides the heliograph and the electric searchlight. The balloonist uses photography for recording- his observations, and wireless telegraphy for sending- messages. ° The scientific soldier is also experimenting with the bicycle, the traction engine, and the automobile.with armoured trains, portable shields for infantrymen, and steam ploughs for throwing up hasty entrenchments, Terrible and deadly as are the weapons of to-day, war is not likely to be more destructive of life, because troops are less exposed, and battles depend on science as well as valour. In fact, statistics of our war with the Boers show that the greatest mortality among- our brave soldiers was from disease, caused by exposure and the severe life incidental to warfare.

Science is here rescirted to, and provides us with a defence that does not fail, and greatly lessens mortality, especially among- those of onr heroes who are attacked by kidney d'sease. This scientific remedy is Warners Saie Cure. It has a twenty-one years* reputation behind it. It has been tried by all classes in all countries. and is no experiment. Mr Ge rge Rayner, o£ 297 Moray Street, South Melbourne, gives evidence of the permanenc3 r of the benefit derived from taking1 Warner's Safe Cure. Writing on the 15th August, 1900, he says: "Some eiglit or nine years ago both myself and my .-wife suffered from kidney disease. W^ were advised to try Warner's Safe Cure, and after taking some six or seven bottles we were botn completely restored to our former health. Since then I have always kept a bottle in the house, and if any of the family feel,..at all out-of-sorts they take some as a tonic." Science, triumphed in this instance, as it always will.