Show i Ir loBer it is seldom that a convict turns thy conra of his enforced confinement tornch good purpose as an inmate of a maryland prison iHfe tenn of imprisonment ia thirteen years on a conviction of horse of which he insists he was in bj working overtime ahe asa framed anch sams of money as to enable mm to books of which his cell contain sio ver time ago when electric lesht wires were being prison he became inter ested in electricity and bought some i standard works on the subject the re bait was the of half a dozen different electrical appliances including i alarm which he has just com plated for the bedroom of the warden of ithe prison another result of his industry is a lock which is so arranged that hammering on it drives abe bolta deeper into their fastening te he exhibited a model of athla lock toi the warden who was so pleased with it that it waa at once adopted for use in the prison castings for the loda I 1 were made inthe in the prison foundry a lathe ap in the prisoners cell and he wa sreh eved of all other tasks so that his entire time could be devoted to the man nf of his locks with which in short time all the dormitories of tha poison will be provided exchange |