Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1910 — No Market for Umbrellas. [ARTICLE]

No Market for Umbrellas.

Former Secretary of State S. M. Taylor, of Urbana, now United States consul to Peru at Callao, Is home on the first leave of absence from his .post since he was assigned to Callao three years ago. “We like life in Peru,” said Mr. Taylor. “While my office is in Callao, I live in Lima. Callao is the seaport, a place of about 35,000 population, while Lima, seven miles distant, has a population of 150,000. We are 11 degrees south of the equator, so that this is their summer, but it Is never very hot there. They get the sea breeze and it rarely gets ever 85 degrees Fahrenheit, while the lowest temperature is about 65. Of course, frost never occurs there. “The climate is one of perpetual sunshine. It never rains. All agricultural operations must be carried on by means of irrigation. A Peruvian girl came up to Panama with me, and, though she was almost a woman, she had never seen rain. When We encountered a thunderstorm in Panama she was badly frightened. It was the first thunder I had heard for three years.”