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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18th, 1928.

THE KEEPER OF THE DEAD,

PALERMO'S GRIM "SHOW PLACE."

(BY SIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.]

PALERMO (Sicily). Somehow one expected: a jolly friar, his plump face creased in a perpetual smile. This monk was fat_but_grim Eis air was at once gloomy and forbidding-His straggling black beard- half-hida sour mouth, and his hard, black eyes surveyed me coldly as he emerged, still yawning, from the little lodge whence he had been summoned by the layman on the monastery gate.

He said nothing. He was there for one purpose, and he fulfilled it dourly, mechanically, with the de- meanour of a man who disdained all the things of this life, and most of the curiosity of his fellow men. He acknowledged my salutation by a eur bod, and motioned with the key in his hand for me to follow

bim.

A few feet away little children were playing in the sunshine. Two lazy cabinen argued shrilly over a lottery. The gatekeeper snored again, propped against the open door that marked the frontier of the world F had left behind.

Beyond a stone-dagged chamber was another door, black and mas sive, set in framework like an up- ended bier. The Capuchin unlock ed it and followed down & steep staircase. The laughter of the children outside was swallowed up in dreadful silence. Down and down we went, the monk going on before, his shaggy head bowed, one arm twisted in the folds of his brown habit, his sandalled feet silent on the smooth stone steps.

We turned. At the bottom was a deep, dim corridor or gallery that ̈reminded me vaguely of a "long- deserted museum. Dust lay every where. It was filled with fantastic and terrifying shapes. One could almost hear the echo of mocking laughter, The monk waved his hand, and thus introduced me to the Company of the Dead. V

peaded from the walls by bits of rope tied around their tattered and erumbling shrouds.

There are said to be 8,000 of them

What process of mummification they have gone through I do not know. To all my questions the the head. He uttered only five monk returned a gloomy shake of words during our slow walk around the four sides of the subterranean cloister, the only illumination of which comes uncertainly from little apertures near the vaulting.

He paused fret and said : * Men.” Undoubtedly they had been

men.

Some clung to a grotesque semblanco of a vanished life, Tiers of them all grinning starkly, some with their heads tilted pen- sively on one side, some turned waggishly towards the staircase. One wore gloves and the rogs of a frock cost. One had a flaming One had below his red moustache. bony hands a dusty and faded photograph of a partly genial per- sonage with fine whiskers-the man it was until Death called, 61 rears ago.

Wamen, said the monk.

There was a young girl in a crumbling bridal gown, with A broken and withered crown of arti- ficial flowers on what had beer ber bead. It was the custom to bury unmarried young women of good character in such a manner. There was an old lady in a silk dress, with a bonnet tied under her chin, her shrivelled hands folded peace: fully across her breast. There were little children of all ages deposited casually in odd niches on the stone benches and in corners,

"Priests," said the monk.

They hung in rows like bundles of old clothes, the dead and gone parish priests of Palermo, still wearing their cassocks and sur- plices, and with their birettas still fixed firmly to their parchment-like heads. One had been there just a hundred years. The last members The sheer horror of it takes one's of that mournful company could be breath away. This Company of the easily recognised by their parishion- Dend is a community the like ofers. Anyone may see them. Rows which cannot be found anywhere of them, dangling from rusty nails. else on the habitable globe.

Monks," said the Capuchin.

I have seen the dead Kings of Portugual in their glass-topped coffins in the cloister of a Lisbon convent, still very human and re- taining even there a semblance of regal magnificence. I have seen the ancient Kings of Egypt displayed like curios in glass cases in the Cairo Museum, and they, too, have kept in those ignoble surroundinga a shred of pathetic dignity. I have seen in other places strange and futile attempts of humanity to pre- serve the poor relics of the dead that they might be looked on by future generations.

"But here in the gloomy vaults of the Capuchin monastery, on the out- skirts of Falermo, is literally an army of the dead-a whole town if you will-mobilised and maintained in the disordered and decaying gar- ments of everyday life, in a casual, indiscriminate way that is simply appalling.

His brethren of the brown habit lined that particular corridor, lined it in the same nonchalant, hap- hazard fashion; adorning the walls like the characters in a vast tableau of the Dance of Death, and propped below that grim tapestry in care- free attitudes, and stretched, on crumbling coffin beds.

The disorder, the "careless dis- regard for the dignity and comfort of the dead were more dreadful than the mere sight of these poor bodies themselves. Their only me- morial was a bit of paste-board, such as one might tear from the lid of a box, on which was scrawled in faded ink the name and the year of death. This was pinned to the shroud is a price mark is pinned to a secondhand coat

"Finished," said the monk, with another glance at his dead brethren, He ascended the staircase, his head still bent, his arm still twisted in the folds of his brown habit.

They were just ordinary townfolk -business men, oficials, soldiers, On the threshold of the living parish priests; wives, mothers, world I offered him a coin. He took sweethearts, young girls and child-it, inspected it carefully, and with ren who died prior to 1881 and were out expression or gesture tucked it brought here to be perpetuated in in his gown the form of mummified semi-skele- Here they rest in tragic con- fusion, some in coffins open at the top or side, but most of them sus,

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Little children were still playing around the open door, and the cab men were asleep as I came back into the blessed sunshine.

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