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.