Daily camera., 1897-12-08
From the Mems. IndiandpOlis, Ind.

Sol. Yewell of 96 Hill Ave, Indianapolis,
Ind, who is well known to the dramatic pro-
fession when boy seventeen years old en-
listed in Company II, 18th Indiana Nolun-
teer Infantry, the first three years regiment
that marched to the front from the Hoosier
State In the fall of 1862 he was honor
ably discharged because of disabilities con-
tracted in the service After short time
spent at home he went to New York and
entered college. He was bright young tel-
low, dligent student and great future
seemed opening before him. But he again
heard the bugles and the fires of patriotism
were again aglow in his bosom. He enlisted
as recruit in Company NJ of the Second
Harris Light Cavalry, Kilpatricll's famous
old regiment and was soon again at the
front. There was great demand for cavalry
in Virginia, and the active young trooper
found plenty of fighting up and down the
Shenandoah Valley and in the various cam
paigns on the Potomac. In 1864 he attracted
the notice of the dashing and dauntleSs
Custer. and was selected as one of his famous
body guard, in which he served until the
close of the war.
After the war Mr. Yewell began to be
known as a skilled newspaper writer and
correspondent and he was later in demand
as theatrical writer and press agent, a pro-
tession in which he achieved signal success
He was hero in private life as he had been
on the field and in the camp, and few of
those who know the genial and versatile
Sol Yewell had any idea that he was q
great sufferer from diseases and disabilities,
contracted during the war. Such, however,
was the fact. He suffered from rheumatism,
hemorrhods and chronic tonsilitis for years.
GAS if these were not enough said Mr..
Yewell the other day at the Marion Home,
relating his experience to the reporter, l
was doomed to fall a victim to the grip in
1890. This last fell monster accentuated all
my previous troubles and added, seemingly
half dozen new ones. 1t was in November
of that year that l was compelled to give
up work and came to the Marion Home.
Creeping paralysis, or locomotor ataXla de-
veloped, and in 1892 went to the hospital
! where I remained for several months My
condition became so alarming that the sur
geons here, who are my very good friends,
were compelled to admit they could do moth
ing for me. My locomotor ataxia was at
tended with vertigo and I was liable to fall
1t any unexpected moment. The surgeons
having nothing else in mind recommended
that last resort-a change of climate. So in
May, 1894, ! went to Boston, Mass. | had
secured employment at the Columbia Thea
tire there as press writer, as | was determined
TO do something. l remained there two
seasons.
'My vertigo and paralysis continued to
distress me greatly. l consulted number
of eminent physicians in Boston and became
a patient at the Harvard College clinic on
Bennett Street. The surgeons there appeared
to desire to make much of me as a patient
and was willing. One day a doctor there
gave NE box of pills. The wrapper and
all identifying marks were gone. but the coat
ing of the pills was OF a pink color.
az had scarcely used the box before much
to my surprise, found that the locomotor
ataxia was leaving me. On the second box
the Vertigo entirely disappeared, my para.
lvsis or locomotor ataxia was gone and
begun to have my old-time confidence in
myself. Yes, all these ailments under which
! had sufered were leaving me. used