The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-22
SAVED BY A SONG
CALvE SANG FOR FAMOUS sUR-
 GEON,
pr. William T, Bull, America's Most Noted Physleian, Rallied at the Music and May
 Recover.

Dr.. William T. Bull. sick unto death from cancer for several weeks in the Hotel Plaza, says a New York special to The Chicago Record-Herald, sat straight up in bed ten minutes after Mme. Emma Calye, the prima dQHna, had gone through, several songs ta cheer what she believed was a dying man.
 I'm going to get we'll" hs said, ss his face glowed with life. He talked and laughed with his wife and the doctors who had believed his death was certain "We will prepare at once to go to Europe. 1 want to make a trip to Germany, where ] can live quietly and fully recover.'
 He was a new man.. The voice of the singer had aroused him from his despair. It had turned his thoughts in a new direction, and he not only had hope-he. had conviction that he had conquered the disease that had bound him to what had been believed was his deathbed.
 Physicians Are Amazed.
 The doctors were amazed. Mrs. Bull was almost startled The transforma- ton was so strange that they could hardly believe what they saw. New ertheless 1t was real.
 "Dr. Bull Is better than he has been DGIOISs SA1Q L1Is D4dACR NuO AdS DGcA in constant attendance on him. His rheumatism which had complicated the trouble over the cancer has gone. He is showing more nerve"
 When the famous surgeon was re- moved from his home to the Plaza, be- cause he believed rooms in the hotel at great height where there was pure air and no noise would help him, there was little chance for his recovery. His In. EE-. L Al. to die, and he himself had little hope. He was in that condition when. he, heard some one mention the name of Mme. Calve. }
 T would like to hear her sing again" said, the stricken man. hardly able to turn on his pillow. Mme. Calve had long been a friend of the doctor and his wife and had visited them often. ''If heard her sing" he continued, T believe 1t would help me"
 CalVe Comes at Once.
 Mrs. Bull, who had been in constant attendance on her husband night and day and had left him only at short in- tervals for sleep since ho had been In the hotel, slipped out, leaving the nurses and doctors in charge. She went straight to Mmes Calve. The doctor says 1t would help him if you would sing for him." said she.
 T will so at once. sald the singer.
 In the meantime Mrs. Bull telephon ed to the hotel office to have a piano moved into the rooms. It was put in so noiselessly that 1t did not disturb the sick man. and in short time she arrived with Mme Calve.
 The great singer sat at the piano and for more thap an hour she went over all the favorite songs of the doctor. She went through German. Italian. Spanish and French opera. The doctor loves French, and she sang him many songs in that language. Then she sang some of the popular songs of the day Nine CaIve knows them all. By that time he was sitting in bed, propped up with pillows. He had taken on new life. and as Mme Calve watched the effect she suddenly ran off into rag time. and the patient began fo ap- plaud her.
 By the time she had finished ne seemed to be a changed man. An hour later he began taking nourishment like a man who was hungry and does not intend that gloom shall pervade his sickroom again.