——————————— WISHES, omni Sa com —— I asked a little ohlid one day. A child intent on joyous play. “Aly little one, pray tell to me Your dearest wish : What may it be?" The little one thought for a while, Thon answered with a wistful smile ; “Tho thing that I wish most of all 1s to be big, like you, and tall.” J askod a maiden sweet and fair, Of dreamy eyes and wavy hair What would you wish, pray tell me true, That kindly fate should bring to you?" With timid mien and downcast eyes Aud blushes deep and gentle sighs, Her answer came: “All olse above, 1'd wish some faithful heart to love,” 1 asked a mother, tried and blest, With babe asleep upon her breast: ‘0, mother fond, so proud and fair, What is thy inmost secret praver?” She raised her calm and peaceful eyes, Madonna-like, up to the skies “My said she, ‘That God may spare my child to me.” dearest wish is this,” Kad Again, I as Io whom the » woman old, seemed hard and cold ( thou blest in years,’ world “Peay tell me, What are thy hopes, what arethy fears?" Abit th folded hands aad head bent low answer made, in aces remains but PARTY, IRPRISE af HER'S gwine to be y good hard frost night," said Dea- on Cummings, he pulled the rag- ged wuffalo robe over his knes 8, set tled the tub of lard in frontof him, and touched up Old Dicl the point of his las lithe easta burn- § ing planet glowed like a point of ar the western sky vorgreens tossed to and fro cainst an orange background, and the air was full the faint, sweet perinme of dead leaves. And Clara, nestling close Jo her father's side, re wembered the days of her childhood when went nutting on Barrack Mountain amid just such sweet scents as with extreme t} of sho old.” eves inte is ¢ assented Clara, her tly fixed on the evening star The deacon was grim featured, with a one of Cape Cod . darian Lila and hard- nose that reminded on the map, and a | second birthday, a brief while age he Aly Amina te a Vill Led, Tren, y good Parson Potter used to be when 1 was o child!” Ten dollars!” echoed the “In money!" of me?” “Yes, ten dollars—and in money. It's my own, isn't it, to spend or keep, as I please?” “It's a downright flingin’ away of money!" gasped the deacon. dollars! 1s the gal crazy! Why, I deciare to goodness, it's enough to make a man's hair stand on end !” “Here we are!” eried Clara, joy- ously springing over the wheel. “‘And the firelight shining out into the road, as if the old back-log had never left off crackling since I was here last, and Prince barking, and the big red lily in bloom on the window-sill! Oh, it does geem 80 nice to be at home again!” Mrs. Cummings hurried, smiling, deacon, Be my ears a-deceivin’ gonr enough as he drovearound to the barn. “I hadn't thought tered Mrs. Cummings. “But yon must go, o' going!” fal- mother!” said around her finger. “I hain’t nothin’ to take.” “There's that loaf of plumeake that you baked for Sunday's ten. Nothing in the world could be nicer.” “I've got a piece o' blue gingham { three yards—that T hain't made up| into aprons yet. Would that do?” | wistfully questioned the poor woman. “It wonld be just lovely!" pro-| tested Clara And then she confided to her mother the secret of the ten-dollar gold prec “You B04 | sad she, ‘“] feel how ns if I were debt to those ear old who worked HOM paving ® people, havi 20 hard all these vears fcr pitiful = And I've put the money in the little, flat shopping-bag just like the one I gave you, dear and I shall slip it into Mrs. Potter's hand, Won't she be surprised when it?" Rowever, KO salary . M had an weet filial confidences $1430 hanging up back of the kitchen the a-temptin’ Providence! Ten-dollar gold pieces! Ginghams! Loaves o' cake, not to say nothin’ of the dried apples I was oal- -ulatin’ to fetch! I—don't—see—" Suddenly the deacon’s dull eyes brightened. He came to a dead stand- still on the stairs, The deacon had m she knew. his old door, had to 0 deacon, harness, “It's himself sinful,” said deacon “absolutely { Bi idea. “The very thing!” he muttered to himself. (Going softly to his wife's burean, he abstracted the little leather reticule | which Clara had given her on her fifty- | y, and EN "Sem at “Ten | to the door; but the deacon looked | Clara, with the bow of ribbon twisted | wonder if Clara didn’t leave the taller candle burnin’ in her room, an’ the eat knocked it over? And there was that hundred dollars, Doctor Petti- bone paid me for hay, in the house, 1 swan to gracious I'll put it in the bank vdore I'm a day older. 1 dunno how I come to be so careless, Polly, look here,” to kis wife; ‘do yon see that blaze? My oyes ain't as good as they | was. Is it anywheres ont our way?’ | “La, no, deacon!" eid his wife, | “It's only little Peter Pettibone’s bon- | fire. The doctor said he could hev | one to-night of those dead trees an’ | brush on Catsmount Pond. Our house is clear west o’ that.” “I'm glad on 't,” said the deacon. “Polly, what did you do with that hundred dollars I give yon to keep for me till I zot a chance to bank it?" Mrs. Cummings looked puzzled. “I put it in my little reticule—the one Clara gave me,” said she ‘in the | burean drawer. It's safe locked up, | I looked arter it the last thing before | I left the house. Where you goin’, | deacon?” The dencon turned as many as a dying dolphin. “I jest remembered that I didn't fodder the cows afore I started,’ said he. ‘I guessl'd better jest step home colors an’ look arter "em. Gimme the key of | the bureau drawer, Pol'y.” On the outer doorstep he paused, however. There was a little buzz and hum of gossip in the air. “Mrs. Potter has been cryin’ ever | the Widow Purkiss, nooine joy, you know, how can't get over it ! Idon't s'pose @ all together WAS mMArried. Cummings that to Green's Mills, since,” said . I's Ars 0 Shs real, gi BOI hundred dollar seen so much Im time little C ] school oney On since she fr lara m teaches over Folded away in a leather bag w ith steel | trimmins’.” For NB cond or so the de acon stood Then he into the house, | he, ““ther’ ain't home to git them I may as well stay It's like to cost motionless as the Sphinx turned and went back a mutters my g foddered. my guess," nn use In oattl ont me enough.” Clara's face was come to bre ak fast and yet it little overclouded like the san behind a golden Novem- Der mist, “Father, said strange things have happened ! Harrison has ssked me to wife." Mrs. Commings kissed her daughter. “And,” added Clara, “our {wo leather reticules somehow got mixed up lest night, and instead of the ten- dollar gold piece I bad intended, I gave Mrs. Potter mother's bag with a haprdred dol ? a an’ supper. radiant when sho WAS B&B such A 1¢ ck be Lis she, ‘two leaned over and Clara was plump and pretty. with | ever, placing in its ontside pocket a | for the gold piece was gone out of the skin like a rose-leaf, long-lashed eyes, and a dimple which no one had ever been able exactly to locate, Clara might grow old one days. but she never would grow the i attern of the descon’s old age Hey!" said the “What's that air in your Clara? A band box I didn't buy nothin’ that would likely be packed in a bandbox.’ “No, 1 know yondidn't,”” said Clara, a bine gleam of mischief coming int “It's a bonnet for mot! Thera's the surprise party, yon | at the parsonage to-night, aad going to trim np something d for her to wear.’ ‘“‘A—bonuet!” The deacon jerked the reins in a way that had nearly collided Old Dick with the churchyard wall. ““Ain’t your mother got a bon net? It does seem, Clara, as if money burned a hole in you young folkses pocket.” The soft pink on Clara's cheek had changed into deep rose by this time. ‘““Giot a bonnet? Of course got a bonnet!” retorted she, years, those into Ol deacon. lat ing . her eves, now I'm ecent she's “The same she's had for five until I'm sick of the brown satin bows and | the black poppies ou it. Mother's a real pretty old lady, father, or she would be, if you'd give her a chance.” “And who's to pay for all this ry?’ demanded the deacon, after ominous silence, “Tt isn't finery. father, its only bare dec And I'm going to pay for it,” said Clara. ‘Humph?' grunted the deacon. “I'm glad you feel so rich. I don't Get np, Dick, or I'll let you know I'm bere, ye lazy, idle ereetur’.” “Tvs bonnet was only fifty cents 8 reat good straw,” pleaded Clara. “And the ribbon was a quarter, and I'm going to trim it myself with some purple asters off my last spring's hat, I conldn’t let mother go to the sur. prise party with that horrid old brown thing!" “Hamph !" again uttered the deacon, who had by this time urged Dick into a spasmodic canter. ‘I don’t myself uo ocossion for goin’ gelliventin arotind to surprise parties—the hull kit an’ us, I mean! Of soarse folks expect to see me there, veins I'm a deacon.” ““And everything clse will be ther., an au ney. seo baodle of quickly retorted Clara, “‘and I don't | mean nother shall stay at home. She gote so fow chances to see anything or | asuybody! There! you tipped over the vinegar jug, father, with Dick can- tering in that absurd fashion. [knew something would happen!” Whou, Dick--whoa!” bawled the old man. Ther’ ain't nothin’ broke, luckily, 1 didn’f realize we was goin’ so fast, au’ the romds is froze pretty stiff. You see, I'd calkilated to carry a-nice bag o dried apples for my share, an’ if your mother goes’ Clara shrugged Lier shonlders, “f dare say we can find something for mother to earry,” said she, ‘even if it's no more than one of her deli cious pumpkin pies or » loaf of gin. gerbesnd, i Fig hin " tau dabiae gold piece. My Was wat Bk. amd 1 alll eoor forget Bow ‘ squarely-folded one-dollar bill. “That'll be a deal more suitable,” thought he, and Clara won't know the And I'll keep this ‘ere gold-pice, to wards, the shinglin’ of tie bara ruff Goodness knows, I need money a great Parson Potter aint wo to wasteful and extravagant.” And he went down stairs, chuckling softly to himself. “Ain't supper ready?” said he “What ! cold corned beef and parsnips? Aud biscuit? There wan't no need of anything but bread and cheese, seein’ wi goin’ to hev a slap-up supper to Bnt women hain't no difference. leal more than loes, and Clara business be so the parsonage, judgment, on the shelf for breakfast to-morrow mornin’. An’ set them preserves back in the closet. Humph! we'd all fetch up in the poorhouse if we went ahead this fashion.” Mrs. Cummings would have enjoyed | her evening st the parsonage, if her husband had not glared so severely at her new bonnet. “Gloves, eh?’ said he, as she climbed mt of the wagon. ‘Squire Silleck’s wife don't wear no gloves. I'll go bail | them cost fifty cents! Humph!™ “But they're mended, father—and | I've had "em a year!” “Hamph!” was all the reply he | vonchaafed. The parson, a withered little man in a threadbare black suit, received his guests in a traly Christian spirit of resignation. “I hope there'll be enough for them to eat,” whispered he to hic better half, a tall, pale woman. “I guess likely there will,” she re- sponded. “Most of 'em has brought victunls—and very little else. I do | wonder how they knew it was our wed- ding suniversary! I tried all I conld do to keep it secret.” Everything was thers. Plates and dishes, which matehoed nothing; brass warding pans, of no use except for senseless decorations; tissue paper flowers, and gruesome worsted work ; painted banners, and embroidered “splashers ;" crochet lace, and dam- aged tidies; and as they kept arriv- ing, Mrs. Po der's heart sank corre- spondingly. Presently, howover, she came to | Clara with tears in her faded eyes {ean I thank yon enough for your kind- ness yon noble generosity 7 Mr, Pot- tor is a= grateful as 1 am, but his voice | issimply gous. He can’t spenk. ’ The deacon hugged himsell, “I knowed that dollsr bill would be n plenty,” said he, ‘‘Bloss me! there's | that young Lawyer Harrison, the par- | son's nephew, goin’ off to the study with Clars. He once had quite a no- tion to the gal. Wonder if thiy'rs ! goin’ to company japin again? Kind 'o' singular he shonld be here tonight. | Folks says it was him who rong the , handsome black walnut desk in par- [son's otady, Strange how oxtravagant folks will be! Specially young folks, Eh! what's thet thoy're sayin? A fire~and in our direction! Now, 1 “The bags is just alike | Here, Clara, put this meat | “Oh, Clara!” she faltered, ‘how | | other bag. Father, dear, it was a | noble act, and I shall explain it all to Mrs. Potter.” “No, don't do that!” precipitately uttered the deacon. “Jest let things be as they are I-—-1'd rather not hev y more said about it!” And he could not repress a sepul- chral groan. “I always knew father had a gener- ons heart,” said Mrs. Cummings ““And the Potters deserve it, if any- body does, And now, Clara dear, we must talk over your wedding things” From that day on, the deacon kept his own counsel, but he always had a lurking suspicion that Clara had fathomed his policy. “The least said, the soonest mended,” said Deacon Cummings. ‘One thing's plam' sartin,’ though. You won't never catch me at no more surprise parties |" —Saturday Night. EE ———— An Island That Grows, In the Missouri River, near Leaven- R, t + 1 worth, there is an island which has | furnished the land law officers of the Government a novel problem. This island was on the Missouri side when it was surveyed in 1868. Now it is a legal part of Kansas. But that is not | the queer thing abont it. Islands in | legianoe. two Leavenworth men, Skillings and | Diffendorf, took out patents for the whole island the amount of land put in the patents was 500 acres. But the island Jas been growing through all of these years in a way Missouri River islands have a fashion of doing. There are now 1400 seres in the island. A econl-bed, it has been discovered, runs noder the island, and that tends | make the land more valuable. | contly squatters have tried to take | possession of the surplus over and above the B00 acres claimed by the patentecs. The Istter set up a claim ' to the growth. the Government, after taking plenty | of time to think about the case, have | decided that Skillings and Diffendorf | are entitled to the whole island under their original patents. St. Louis (lobe-Democrat, i ———————— A Cure for Waris, It is said to be fairly established that the comnion wart, which is so un- sightly and annoying on the hands and face, can be easily removed by moall internally. M. Colrot, of Lyons, has drawn attention to this extraordinar Siresgrai donts of Epsom ii morning and evening, were prom i mp Aubert cites the onse of X the next morning, 4 the Missouri frequently shift their al- | The trouble with this isl- | and is that it has been growing. When | the Oovernment officers surveyed it | they found 500 acres, and that was the | | amount entered in the records. When | Re- | The land lawyers of@ doses of sulphate of magnesia taken es dea YOUNG CALVES MUST BE PROTECTED, The first year of a ealf’s life deter- mines to a great degree its value as an animal for profit. If it is permitted to run with the cows, steers and older eattle, where it will be jostled about and made the feed until such a time as it ean get to take up the refuse left after the stronger have their choice, an un- profitable, stunted ealf will be the re- sult, — Western Plowman, IRRIGATION AND THEE CULTURE, The necessity for tree culture is equally imperative with irrigation, and the arid lands question will never be satisfactorily settled without the recognition of this principle in its solution, America ean ill afford to ignore the « xperience of other Nations in this respect, and forestry should receive equal consideration with irri gation, It historic times some has bh en « seven millions of the shores of the fertile, worthless mics slong Buare M Inve dite rranean, been deserts, on highly ato and for nearly two thousand years the inhabitable portion of the has door ! i { 3500 square change earth nsed at he average This has been produced by the direct agency of due to ed almost exclusively destructiois of land protecting rate O miles, aan, the vi eing chiefly that ! ¥ Ameriea should set eclaiming desert increase the earth's 3 supporting the Irrigation and tree culture must go hand and hand in this work. Colman's Bural World, human PRUIT GROWING FOR PROFIT. The best land for fruit growing is a loam with some gravel init, but good drainage is indispensable for success Plums and pears will do better heavier soils than other fruits. Ther« is no doubt of the profit of either of these two fruits, but both are difficult of enlture, and skill and extrome ear are necessary to succeed. Both are liable to diseases and attacks of injuri- ous enemies that must be most care fully guarded against. Then either ruit may pay several times as much fit an k : The on raits, but apples may be planted in thie fall quite as well as in the spring. In choosing varieties it is well to con sult the nurserymen from whom the trees are purchased, as they will know the best kinds for the locality snd soil. Otherwise any experienced fruit grower of the neighborhood may ix consulted As a rule, it is best to procure the trees from the nearest nursery, and thus avoid the risks of delay in transportation Pears arc sot twenty feet apart, and plums need about the same space It has been found profitable to set ont dwarf pears between the rows of the standard trees, os they will begin to bear the third year, and by the time the others be gin to bear they will have repaid all the cost of planting, snd, under favorable circumstances, a respecta- ble profit. When the planter has the experience and skill needed, there is uo more profitable agricultural enter prise than fruit growing. —New York Times, The various methods adopted by florists to increase the number of their shrubs and trees are all simple, such | as the soft wood cuttingsin the green- | house in the winter and layering in | the summer, but the hardwood propa- to stand back from | | made any time this winter. gation in fall or spring is the method that should be considered at this time of the year. If the cuttings are to be planted out in the spring they may be Where | winters are severe the planting should | does | | oF timated that within | ! animal and its butter value as determ- | never take place until spring, buf where the weather is not very cold it not | plantings are made in the fall, winter spring. The cuttings that are gathered in the winter shoald be tied Miss Ortencia E. Allen Salem, Mich, Liver and Kidney | » | Eight weeks I lived on brandy The doctor sald be had not & ray of + §iny recovery. 1 rallied and commenced matter much whether the ! and from the first felt better, | am now able to assist my mother i in loose bundles, and be set in damp | sand in a frost proof cellar where they will keep until needed in the spring. As soon the soil dries out in the spring they should be planted. The young shoots of last season should be selected for these cuttings, and they shonll be cleft the main bushes so that they will be about one foot long. These are n« arly all buried in the spring in deep, rich soil, leaving nH f irom only four inches of the tips ve the ground. The soil must be trampled down firmly around them. They will begin to start almost im- mediately, and a young orchard of trees or shrubs will soon prove a great blessing. Not only fruit bearing trees will succeed in all trees, easiest way of that can be abo this way, but nearly It is probably the starting yi devised shade Quince orchards should be started uvery few years if a good erop pected annuaily, and there is no esmier, 15 €X~ quicker and surer way than selecting the euttings in the winter months, when there is plenty of time, and then starting them out early in the spring. Meanwhile, the land on whieh they have been started can be planted the same as usual for a season terward, or two af- American Cultivator, HIGHEST PROFITS IN Ten cows were fed a ration ning with eight pounds of twelve pounds of hay, sand gradually increasing up to sas high nineteen pounds of grein and twenly-seven pounds of hay per day and head, and then gradnally decreasing to the or- iginal amount. ai of the of milk produced food. the by each sinount and cost amount ined by t he Babeork test, Perhaps the most striking lesson the demonstration given of the profit there is in liberal feeding. The cheap- est ration used cost 18.8 cents per day snd produced butter valued at 26.5 cents, making a net profit of 7.7 cents per day per cow. An increase cents per day per cow in the cost of this ration made the daily value of the butter 31 cents, and the net profit 9.3 cents per day, or a difference of 1.6 cents per day per cow in favor of the more costly ration. In other words, the farmer who attempted to econo- mize by feeding the cheaper ration, wonld, with a herd of twenty-five pows, save $217 per year on his feed bills, but would lose $337 worth of butter that he might have produced with the more costly ration, so that his il-judged sttempt at economy is | would result in a net loss of $120, RSSENTIALS IN STRAWBERRY GROWING, Professor Lazenby, before the Co- Inmbus Horticulture Society gave the following summary of essential points to be kept in mind The most profitable varieties for the commercial grower are those not eas ily influenced by differences in soil | and climate. Those which succeni well on wide areas are usally better | than those which have sa more looal reputation, Pistillata varieties, when properly fertilized, are more productive than the sorts with perfect flowers, The valne of a variety for fertiliz. | ing pisiillate flowers does not depend so much upon the amount as upon the potency of its pollen, The cheaper ration, moreover, what would ordinarily be considered a good ration, and the majority of dairy- men would be likely to feelless, rather | than more, yet the results show con- clusively that with such cows as these { pestion, © | Stiff Meck ung trees trouble caused to suffer all but death, me and beef len, hope for faking Hood's Sarsaparilla I continued and n her house- work. owe my iife to Hood's Farsaparilia.™ donrexcia E. Avex. HOOD'S CURES. Hood s Pills 1 ure natises, sick headache, 00 Hote ’ R. R. R. ADWAY’S READY RELIEF Coughs Heoarseness Bronchitis Headache Rheumatism BoM by ail { Colds, Sore Throat Catarrh Toothache Neuralgia Asthma Bruises Sprains Quicker Than Any Knowa Eem:liy, matter how violent sxeracisiing ¢ pain the wv uffer, RADWAY'S READY RELIEF Will Aflerd Justant Ease, INTERNALLY A half | ful in hall a tumbler of water il cure Cramps SPpasins, dour minute : Heartbhur Stan Yao: bt y Nansen, Vomiting i Sleeplessaoss, Sick Headache, Dhiarrhioes, | that will HIGHEST PREDING, | begin- | grain and | Throughout this test | mabiha Banner sania of 2.9 | is | i | the more expensive ration was really | the more economical. A farther increase of the cost of the ration, however, to 25.1 cent per day gave no further increase in the butter cent loss than with the cheapest ration of the three. In other words, the ex- periments indicate that there is certain | medium ration for each cow which will give the greatest net profit, and that any attempt to economize by feeding {less than this will result in a loss, The Sowers of pistillate varieties are | while, on the other hand, it is possible less linble to be injured by frost than the flowers of perfect varieties, i Varieties that ae neither very early | nor very iate in point of maturity, are the most productive and have the iongest fruiting season, As un rule, varieties that have the | most vigorous and healthy foilage are | the least productive, waile those with | a weaker prowth of foliage and a! greater susceptibility to leaf blight are usually the more prolific, i Winter protection may be dispensed | with upon well drained soils, bat ap- pears to be a necessity upon heavier ones, The loaf blight may be checked by naing the Bordeaux mixture, beginning | just as soon as the leaves appear, an continuing the applieation every few weeks throughout the season, —Col- man's Rural World, WINTER CUTTINGS, In the winter time cuttings from shrubs and small fruits should be made for early spring planting. In this wey trees and shrubs ean be tly incressed in nombers, and ¢ large orchards oan be given an ly start withont any expense other han the lnbor required to make the ngs and plant them. Currants, ries and ornamental shrubs | to feed a cow too much as well be grown upon nearly sll farms, as too little, Generally, however, there is much more danger of feeding too lit tie than to much.—New England | Homestead. PARM AXD GAKDEN NOTES, Fatten your sheep before selling. It will never pay to feed poor cows, Have the colts thoroughly broken to | harness when young. Clive the young pigs sll the skim milk they will ‘drink. Cleanliness is as necessary to the sheep as food and shelter, The less water there is in butter the fewer odors it will absorb. Quality rather than quantity should ba the motto of all breeders, Narrow door and gate ways are frequent causes of eapped hips, Milk set to cool where smells exist absorb snch odors very readily, A small flock of sheep, well eared for, is a source of continual profit, Clean stables will add much to ths health and comfort of your horses. The usual time for weaning is when the foals are four ur five months old. Too much corn is the source of many he disorders to which hogs are sub- 1 | product, and the net profit was thereby | | out down to 4.9 cent per day, or 1.8 Fistulency and all internal pains There is not a remedial agent in Lh cure Fever and Ague and all Malarious, Bilious and other fevers aided } RADWAY'S PILLS, wquickiyss RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF, Fifty counts per Bottle, Sold by Draggiste BE SURE TO GET RADWAY'S, felt by users of Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil with Hypophos-| phites. Good appetite begets! good health. is a fat-food that provides its own tonic. Instead of a tax up- on appetite and digestion itis a wonderful help to both. Scott's Emulsion ar-| rests the progress of Consumption, Bron- chitis, Scrofula, and other wasting diseases by raising abarrier of healthy Hesh, strength and nerve. ————— » Prepared by Keott & Bowne, N.Y. All draggiets. "THE JUDCES = WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION Have made the HIGHEST AWARDS (Medals and Diplomas) to WALTER BAKER & CO. On each of the following named Srticles: BREAKFAST COCOA, . . + ill Premiom No. 1, Chocolate, «+ « Vanilla Chocolate, « « « + + German Sweet Chocolate, -w Conon DHIIEE, « » =» + + For “purity of material,” “excellent Savor) - sind “uulform even com | i 4 fl { Li WALTER BAKER & CO., DORCHESTER, MASS. | ] About twenty-five years Alte L was afflicted with a Send for Teeative on Wood and b | Bin Dienmmes snide free SFT SERED... 5. 5S. S. for sale by the Sant Pav EH ——-— & Dour RAlLnoad Company in Minnesota, Send for Maps and Clreo~ lars, They will be sent to you Adirow HOPEWELL CLARKE, Land Oommisioner, B. Paul, Minn, FREE Lyrae Yo wore hawpety: 3 Real Bargains, aE tt a Rew Yorr PATE bh Sethe
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers