no OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
year dispute as to where each ended; and when this 
finally reached a settlement, an actual line, three hun¬ 
dred miles long, had been drawn upon the surface of 
the earth, separating them positively and finally for 
all time. North of this line lay the grant of William 
Penn, the Quaker, and south of it the Mary-Land of 
George Calvert, the Catholic—each gathered to his 
fathers long before. 
And in cutting this line, through forests, down into 
valleys, across gullies and streams, up over mountains 
and ever straight on, into the west, two obscure men, 
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, carved their 
names deep into the records of the nation. For Ma¬ 
son’s and Dixon’s line, purely imaginary and follow¬ 
ing nothing but the true curve of a line of latitude 
belting the earth, has marked something greater in the 
history of the land than the boundary of two provinces 
or states. Unalterable and fixed as the stars by which 
it was determined, it seems strangely enough to have 
defined the limits of something within the people them¬ 
selves, to have indicated in a tangible way, differences 
that set them apart almost as widely as separate races. 
Yet in the founding of the two Colonies Lord Balti¬ 
more and William Penn each entertained a similar 
ideal, each cherished a similar hope, each was working 
towards the same end—a state based upon the highest 
ideal of religious liberty, a state wherein men of vary- 
