Equipped for Service

  DURING the Civil War a Patriot¹ was passing through the State of
Maryland with a pass from the President to join Grant's army and
see the fighting.  Stopping a day at Annapolis, he visited the shop
of a well-known optician and ordered seven powerful telescopes, one
for every day in the week.  In recognition of this munificent²
patronage³ of the State's languishing⁴ industries, the Governor
commissioned him a colonel.