Show sword and share combined yankee hands forged thio thie swords with which all cubans are armed the machete aronou pronounced need macchetty ma chetty which Is the implement tor for all needs needa throughout spanish america has long been made by the thousand at hart tord ford conn and sold to all american sh speaking neighbors this blade to Is first cousin to the saber ot of our cavalry but while the saber serves series only one purpose the machete serves many and Is as useful in peace as aa la ia m war ar almost every spanish amei lean male above the age ot of childhood carries a machete the tha laborer has it because with the machete he cuts sugar cane prepares firewood and trenches the ground tor for his crops the horseman wears vears the machete because with it he cuts his way through the woodlands during journeys over rough country it la Is sword spade and hedging bill axe are hatchet and pruning knife the hidalgo wears weare it with silvered hilt and tasse tasseled led scabbard his humbler neighbor Is content to carry it bare and bitted billed with horn wood ol 01 leather the machete may be had bad la in nearly thirty different forms the blade which varies in length from ten tea to twenty eight inches may be either blunt or pointed curved or straight broad or narrow the favorite with the laborer Is IB the machete ot of medium length with unornamented handle and broad straight blade the spanish american hidalgo bears a scabbard edl ed machete long straight or curved a taste prompts |