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Show TREASURE SEEKERS GO SOUTH Brazil la New Land of Promise That Oeckons Those Who Woo the Fickle Qoddess, Fortune. Treasure seekers aro turning the' eyes toward the old gold const again, rhls tlmo thoy aro not thinking ot th mnken hulks of ovorlondod ships three centuries under tho sea that might bj some mad miracle of luck still be salvaged. Nor hare thoy beard another scries of maudlin whispers of a hoard of pirate gold Just found by tho crew of a rum runner hunting a hidden harbor. Yollow gold and flat Blabs of feathered feath-ered cmorald engraved by Indians before be-fore the Spanish flag and the Catholic cross were carreld Into the Americas do not Interest them. It's the rcponted news of now diamond dia-mond fields that have been opened recently re-cently botween the mouth of the Mag-dalenn Mag-dalenn river and the headwaters of I the Rio Grando of Braxtl -that Is filling I tho veins of those who seek sudden I wealth with a fever to find a fortune 1 In blue clay beds or along tho banks I of streams that rlso somewhere Inland' 1 In mountain ranges that borde Jm Jungles, thoTfcw York Bun states. I Footloose adventurers everywhere, I are looking up ways and means ot I reaching a likely port along the gold I coast somowhoro between Caracas and Cayenne, or of arriving In Brazil some- where botwoon Ilnhln nnd Sao Paulo. I |