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Show Row A mono Wooru'iiorrKus. Up l.iillo Cottonwood souui four miles little timber can still bo found, and I hero woodohoppoi's ply iho itxo with luMy .vinows -that is, poetically viewed, lilt! quito recently eontlieling interests: eamo in contact, and bloody-viMiged war put in mi iippeaniiieo. Two nnoiont worthies wo .suppress names for tho present with rising ire encountered in tieivo attack, and No 1 retreated dc-moraliu'd dc-moraliu'd but not discouraged. He called for his reserves from lower down in the canon, and they responded; but the reserves of Xo 2 also came, and tho battle was renewed with increased forces. How the bird of victory hovered first over one side then over tho other; how men stamped and "waded in" aud did dreadful deeds of determined valor; how women shrieked and children minglrd the shrill treble of their cries with tho hoarser sounds of tho combatants; com-batants; and how eyes grow black aud noses bloody wo leave for tho futuro historian to tell. But there was a oom-bat oom-bat aud such a combat! Tho forces of chopper No 1 remaining victors of the field. Like other great powers, when tho force of war has temporarily spent itself, it-self, we put in a pica for peace. Peaceful Peace-ful yet pugilistic woodchoppers, wo say to you, fighting doesn't pay, and it's hard work. Old mcu would bo better employed setting a peaceful example i than unrinu vounirer and more turbu lent blood to quarrel. Tho furnaco near you will use all the coal you can make by burning. Wash your faces, put raw beef poultices to your eyes, ' bathe your tempers in tho cooling j waters of sober reflection, chop the wood and burn charcoal, and you will be happier, live longer and make morel money, and this advice we throw iu1 with the year's subscription for the! Herald. j By-the-by this row is not the "trouble in Cottonwood" referred to yesterday morning. It was a different horse, much of the same color only a little more so. |