THE COURIER. Instead of waiting Until the end of the season we inaugurate it at the bemnin. Value and cost cuts rt figure. All styles and patterns carried ovtr must go and go quickly OUR BG YURNYTViRE. SMit fcEfttS Mii THEfl That's what we hear from people who h iw got our prices. compared and returned here to buy IE 1 Anything Jand everything at prices to con form with cheapeness like this PHI Illlli H zij-m .n!s ' nHHIS3 I ill PARLOR GOODS, BOOK CASES. DINING R00 SEIS CHAMBER SOUS, ICE CHESTS EIC. At nearly ONE HALF its original value f Ft Oak Desk worth every hit of S 0.75 umv c'.UH) Is a record breaker RUG. OUR CARPET. CURTAIN The comparison prove superiority in quality. quantity and variety, linked to a positive saving of from '20 to 10 per cent is what pulls the trade here. Ingrain carpet, extra super warp, quite a nice lino of patterns? usually 10c now :25c Ingrain carpet, all wool patterns. cotton warp in good live patterns usually 70c now -121.. T- (ngrain carpet all wool extra super quality of tho very best fabrics usually 75c now 45 Tapestry Brussels, good styles positively worth Goc per yard now 15 ft. Tapestry hrussels, extra quality, all choice patterns worth SOe now 50 Oil cloth. Linoleum, Chinese and Japanese Mattings in a great variety of very handsome patterns at correspondingly low price'. Ill AH f Here is where we sell From 1-3 percent to 1-2 off on everything in these lines even on goods that have not been in our house three day. Nothing reserved and no one can ever expect to buy a nicer pair of curtains at these prices again. I EvhKYTHI.Mi IlKKK Has Kk(.'K1KI Not O.NK liLAUIC Evk Hit Two Having failed to dispose of our largo and magnificent line of stoves at wholesale and decided to discontinue this branch of our business, we propose to slaughter everything at retail, and the only way for you to find out how WONDERFULLY CHEAP it good stove can be sold is to come and see us at once. Every stove warranted to be all right in every respect. GRUETTER & JOERS. FURNITURE AND CARPET GO SOCIAL GOSSIP mSS A 1 T. II. McKinny and wife are in Chi cago. Webster Eaton is doing the City of Mexico. Mrs. A. Ti. Hoover is in Hutchinson, Kansas. Win. E. Knight went to St. Louis Tuesday. C. M. Jaques left Tuesday for a busi ness trip to Sterling, III. Mayor E. W. Brookings was in the city this week visiting A. T. Leming. Miss Valjean McCandless has gone to spend the winter in Canon City, Col orado. J. W. Deweese and Miss Lena Dc weese were in St. Paul, Mint:.; this week. Leonard II. Robbing, formerly of the State university, is now a sophomore at Princeton. Mrs. Fred Krone and family have gone to Galveston, Texas, where they will henceforth resids. Mrs. Geo. A. Clark, of Leavenworth, Kansas, is visiting her father, Mr. Wienn, of this city. Mrs. A. M. Trester and her grand daughter. Miss Lillian Trester, went to Denver Tuesday to visit friends. Mrs. E. R. Tingley has gone to join her husband, who will winter in the moun tains of New Mexico for his health. Mre. William Wakefield, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Flansburg. has returned to her home in Peoria, III. Miss L. C. Butler left Tuesday for Galesburg. III., where sho will spend the winter with her cousin, Mrs. Har rington. President William E. Chancellor of the Polytechnic will open the V. M. C. A. course of lectures at Omaha Monday evening with a talk on "American De mocracy and the Public Schools." The ladies of the Family club gave a reception at the Conservatory of Music to Chancellor and Mrs. MacLcan on Wednesday evening. Receptions to Chancellor MacLean are becoming fre quent Next week the Lincoln club will welcome him and soon after tho Patriarchs will try to do him honor. Tuesday evening the officers and mem bers of St. Paul's church tendered a re ception to Dr. C. C. La-by and wife and Elder II T. Davis and wife. The parlors of the church, in which the reception was held, were beautifully decorated. A short musical program was rendered and refreshments were liberally served. So numerous were those eager to offer their congratulations to the guests of the evening that the hand-sha'ring occupied more than an hour. Mr. George A. Adams made the address of welcome to the pastor and presiding elder. The university library has been pre sented by Judge J. R. Webster with a valuable collection of books on ancient religions. It comprises forty-six books of research into religion by ancient and modern scientists. The collection is worth one hundred anil fifty dollars. With the true spirit of a scholar Judge Webster wished the collection he has taken so much pleasure in selecting not to be scattered, but to be read and stud ied by others. The new university library is tire proof. The books are safer there than anywhere else in the state. Besides the donor wished to have the pleasure of giving the books himself. The university fraternities are now selecting their members, Tj be an acceptable member of a fraternity one must be a good dresser and must not be an habitual "Hunker." Occasionally several Greek letters want the same man. When this occurs all kinds of attentions are lavished on that man. He is invited to dinner, to the theatre, he can have anything that twenty or thirty devoted and rival boys can get for him. He thinKs the students a most po'ito unselfish, disinterested set of young men until he is initiated into one of the fra ternities, then the members of the other fraternities sunddenly "give him ice" and he realizes that the world is hollow. C. V. Smith made an entirely scien tific investigation of the Bowery and makes a report to Thk Coukikic: "Saturday night I went to the Uow ery." J always thought that the Bowery was some kind of a theatre and I was surprised to learn that it was the name of a street. It reminds me very much of White Chapel, Loudon. It is one grand blaze of light illuminating the shop windows, and the concourse of the middle classes and roughs who prom enade up and down the sidewalks. The place of greater interest here is Steve Brodie's saloon. Who has not heard of Steve Brodie- What! never heard Brodie? Well, I declare. Some time ago Steve Brodie stood on the dizzy heights of Brooklyn bridge, leaped into the air, and like a shot fell down, down, down to the waters of East river. He lived. This leap took Steve Brodie from obscurity ami secured him an en viable Msition among the men of the hour. When we entered the s:loon I there were four of us the three bar tenders all spoke together immediately on our entrance: "Now, gentlemen, what'l you have? Quick now, what'l it be?" 'lhey spoke in such decided and rather. I think, commanding tones, that we realized without much difficulty that it would be healthy for us to order something, and order it juick. too. We ordered four. The place is small; about .'U)xl5 feet. Not at all a gaudy place with handsome furnishings and the like, but the bar and all are wry com mon place. The four walls and ceiling furnish the attraction, being covered entirely with photographs of sports and pugilists from Adam down. It is, in deed, a curious collection, hardly tit for a Sunday school, but instructive never theless. There is besides a big blotch of blood on a white piece of paper in a small wooden frame with the inscrip tion, "Blood wiped from the floor after the Sullivan Corbet t tight at New Or jeans.' tie also has a piece of tiie shirt worn by a man who was electrocuted in New York. Also Hags given him by Corbatt and trophies from Sullivan and others. As a sport Steve Brodie is way up. and he probably is a power in pol itics. His saloon is headquarters for prize fighters and their coterie of fol lowers. But just imagine placing on