Science of the Age.

Southland Times, Issue 14814, 15 December 1900, Page 4

Science of the Age.

» Th« modern tray draws upon the latest invention* of nearly *U known sciences. Chemistry has given imokelesß powder; and thb with the magazine rifle and tbe rapidfire field gun, baa v&Btly increased the power of tbe defence, and rendered a mistake in j strategy disastrously costly. Henoe the Importance of devices for giving and transmitting intelligence— tbe balloon, tbe field telegraph, and even the telephone, beaidea the heliograph and the electric searchlight. The balloonist) uses photography for recording bis ob* ervatfona, and w ireleaa telegraphy for sending messages. The scientific soldier is also experimentlog with the bicycle, the traction engine, and the automobile, with armoured trains, 1 portable shields for infantrymen, and steam ploughs for throwing up hasty entrenchments. Terrible and deadly as are the weapons of to-day, war ia not likely to be more destructive of life, because troops are less exposed, and battles depend on science aa well as valour In fact, statistics of our war with the Boers show that tbe greatest mortality among onr brave acldiere wm from dUcaae, ' o»aeea by expoeure and the nevere life ' incidental to warfare. ' Soience is here resorted to, and provides [ us with a defence that dees not fail, and greatly leaaens mortality, especially among ' these of out heroes who are attacked by ' kidney disease. This totentifio remedy ia [ Warner's Safe Cure. It has a twenty-one year'e reputation behind it. It baa been ; tried by all olasßSß in all countries, and ie no experiment). Mr. George Bayner, of 297 ' Moray Street, Bouth Melbourne, giveß evi> , dence of tbe permanency of the benefit 1 derived from taking Warner'* Safe Cure. } Writing on the 15th August, 1900, ' he Bays: I"Some1 "Some eight) or nine ytars ago both myself ' and my wife suffered from kidney disease. 3 We were advised to try Warner's Safe Cure, 1 and after taking some six or seven bottles * we were both completely restored to our I foimer hatlth. Since then I have always 1 kept a bottle in the house, and if any of the { family feel at all out-of •sorts they take tome j as a tonic." Science triumphed in this [ inatance, as it always will.