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Show Sword and Share Combined. Yankee hands forged the swords with which all Cubans are armed. The machete pronounced "machetty" which is the implement for all needs throughout Spanish America, has long been made by the thousand at Hartford, Hart-ford, Conn., and sold to all American Ameri-can Spanish speaking neighbors. This blade is first cousin to the saber of our cavalry, but while the saber serves only one purpose, the machete serves many, and is as useful in peace as in "war. Almost every Spanish-American male above the age of childhood carries a machete. The laborer has it, because be-cause with the machete he cuts sugarcane, sugar-cane, prepares firewood, and trenches the ground for his crops. The horse-'man horse-'man wears the machete because with it he cuts his way through the woodlands wood-lands during journeys over rough country. It is sword, spade and hedging hedg-ing bill, axe, hatchet and pruning-knife. pruning-knife. The hidalgo wears it with silvered sil-vered hilt and tasseled scabbard; his humbler neighbor is content to carry it bare and hiked with horn, wood or leather. The machete may be had in nearly thirty different forms. The blade, which varies in length from ten to twenty-eight inches, may be either blunt or pointed, curved or straight, broad or narrow. The favorite with the laborer is the machete of medium length, with unornamented handle and broad, straight blade. The Spanish-American Spanish-American hidalgo bears a scabbarded machete, long, straight, or curved, as taste prompts. |