Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Passing of Ephratah’s Sisterhood. [ARTICLE]

Passing of Ephratah’s Sisterhood.

The death of Sarah Bowman at Ephratah, Pa., almost ends the existence of a peculiar sisterhood. It was organized at Ephratah 150 years ago on a communal theory, and was for a long time a flourishing institution. The sisters gradually strayed into the outer world, however. Some married, some died, until Sister Bowman, in her old age, found herself the eldest member, with only two companions.— New York Sun. Beecham’s Pills stimulate the ptyalln in the saliva, remove depression, give appetite and mako the sick well. The soldierly Duke d’Eperney became sick for hours if he saw a hare, and once kept his bed for a week because one leaped on him. W. H. GRIFFIN, Jackson, Michigan, writes: •Suffered with catarrh for fifteen year's. HaU’s Catarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Druggists, 75a. The total number of families in the United States in 1890 was 12,690,152.