Show an ingenious Ingen loin prisoner it is seldom that a convict tarns turns the tho hours of his big enforced confinement to such good purpose as an inmate of a maryland prison ilia his term of imprisonment is thirteen years on a conviction of horse stealing of which he lie insists he lie was innocent by working overtime he has earned such sums of money as to enable him to purchase books of which his cell contains over A short time ago when electric electrio light wires were being placed in the prison bo he became interested in electricity and bought some standard works on the subject the result was the construction of half a dozen different electrical appliances in including c lading a burglar alarm which he has j just u t completed for the bedroom of the warden of the prison another result of his industry Is a lock alock which is so arranged that hammering on it drives the bolts deeper into their fastening he ile exhibited a model of this lock to the warden who was so pleased with it that it was at once adopted for use in the prison castings for the locks were made in the prison foundry a lathe was set up in the prison prisoners ees cell and be he was relieved of all other tasks so that hia his entire time could be devoted to the manufacture oj of his locks with which in a short time all the dormitories of the prison will bo be provided exchange |