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Show I TREE THAT TALKS. Kpntucklan Declares That It Harps on Buried Treasure. PADUCAH, Ky., Fob. 7. "There arc treasures burled at my roots." These are tho wordy which Immense crowds which dally gather under tho "talking tree," near Heath, In this county, listen to with awe and trembling. The voice which seems tq emanate from the gnarled trunk can be distinctly heard. Thousands aro willing to make affidavit that the words are Intermittently uttered In mournful cadence. It makes no difference differ-ence whether or not tho wind Is blowing, Many students of tho phenomenon aro plain, matter-of-fact people, unlmaglna-tlvo unlmaglna-tlvo and never inclined to believe In the occqlt. All tell the samo story. A party consisting of tho most rellablo citizens of tho county vl-slted tho tree to i ' make a thorough investigation of the I nqlses being heard. They listened patiently pa-tiently for several hours, when, after a sudden crash which has been heard many times before, came tho marvelous production pro-duction pf a human voice. Tho mystery remains unsolved and so great haa the number of pcoplo been who havo gpno thero In the last several months that the tree Jo now dead, be-i be-i cause of the continuous tramping upon the earth surrounding it. The only theory that has been suggested by the residents is that the voice Is that of a man who was killed under tho tree in 1E62. Whlo many do not believe In "spirits," tho facts arc so plain and the ' voice can be so distinctly heard that they : aro fast becoming converts to a change " of Ideas", I |