Show I v t-v s O a SS A p 0 Nearby and Yonder u By T T. T Tr MAXEY f. f S O S 'S n The Mason Masan End Dixon Line Tins THIS line which h for tor gens gen gen- trill Ions served ed to 10 mark a distinct In III national thought wu had It Its In III the boundary hO line bet be- be t t 11 and aud No Nu other real n-al or Imaginary line In America Amen Ameri ca cn has been heen co so frequently that Its political po Va was wan hotter holler Known than Its lIs geographical hu Un Li to It was US run h by two Iwu English ioU kur sur kurM surveyors I ICOr COr M- M OIN Charles Mason and Jeremiah ii In lit 1703 to 10 settle nn an nn SO 80 leer jour pur I 1 dispute pul between tho rho families of lit William Penn nn and Lord Tord Baltimore In these i R dars was vas a somewhat some some- what region between Maryland Mary Mary- laud land and New Tim The line wits was marked by hy milestones slon brought front from rum I Englund e every ery ry fifth one Ull carrying the coat coat of of Penn on one Ulle side nod of on un the ether After carrying It over the mountains to a point tulles miles from the Delaware river they came upon un an Indian war path leading through the forest and their Indian escort told them that It was the will of the till Indian nations that th they y return As 11 obedience appeared to bo lIe the better part of dt f wisdom Mason and DIxon le- le turned to Philadelphia In 1707 and were discharged tn In ordinary usage the line tine begins begin ata nt at nta a n triangular post of granite Its sides I lettered 11 M D and P respectively ut at the line between Delaware Maryland and Pennsylvania and ex extends tends tads westward over mountain through valley alley and across across plain a plain a I of nt stones siones through the woods wood I It t E l IUT 7 ro Newspaper Union UrIc |