Show native son sends letter and an old hawaiian legend shields who la is in far away honolulu occasionally thinks of the old home town and its people as Is shown by the following letter and also the Iii islands ands legend which wua was received by tho the editor early this week mr shields joined the hawaiian medical corp over a year ago and since that time has haa been at honolulu it Is A 4 opportunity morris is enjoying for so young a man ills his letter rends reads deir dear mrs hamblen one year ago were there was a little notation lu in the kane county standard mentioning my departure tor for the Haw liall Is islands laDds ever since that hat time I 1 have boon been sparing with the intention of writing some sort afan of an article about the islands Island and sending it to you some time ago I 1 read bread a little legend told and retold here in the islands last night I 1 suddenly became full of ambition and wrote a short sketch of it whether it will be suitable for publication or not I 1 do not know but it news new ss Is as hard to get axx in kanab as it probably Is my little article may be omo as a space filler at any rate I 1 am sending it to you for your app approval royal in the future if there might be any information you think you could use in the paper either dealing with the islands themselves the L D S churches churchea here or anything you maybe may be interested in having baying I 1 will le be more than glad to write it up tip and send it to you at your request hoping that this finds you enjoy ing a very happy holiday season I 1 nm am respectfully yours morris shields because a girl was waa killed the bhe gods leei weep Kauhl til jealousy the rillie god cost coat of anger j more than in any other tir seen to linger around lovely manoa valley honolulu the rains are the tears of the gods shed for a lovely daughter of the Islat islands ids and the rainbow is a symbol of her and the tragedy that came to her or so at least lon st an old legend says in the dilys days long ago the chief of the district had bad a very beautiful daughter called who in childhood had bee been d betrothed by her parents to kauhl the young son of I 1 the chief of kaneohe Kane ohe huta hula and Wal manalo so lovely was the girt that the dignified old gods kane and kanaloa themselves fell lit in love with her and sent a rainbow to play iday continually around lie lier r home hoine as a sign that sho she was favored by the high gods of old hawaii but two mountaineers dwelling in their little grass huts huta in the eastern corner or of manoa heard beard tho the chants sung in the praise of tile the little ChIC feSS and acquired some nome sort of a wital wild love for tills this girl gill they had never neer seen they went about bragging that the lovely maiden had given them kind glances and at times eyen even went so BO far as aa to tb assert that she had bad pledger herself to each of them the corles finally reached the ears cars of kauhl the betrothed of kahalepuna and he be being behig of a jealous and suspicious auspicious nature felt that lila pride had been severely wounded and that only death would avenge the insult so without saying a word to his parents lio lie set oft off for manoa when he reached the homo home of the girl he demanded that she lie ret return juull him over the mountain the girl knowing that she gho had been afcan cled to him for so long readily a grix giova d to accompany him halt half way up tip the slope kauhl struck tile girl a single blow with a L lunch ill n IC h of hala nuts which lie he h had ad carried along for that purpose she died almost instantly and he covered her body with coarse leaves and continued on his way butche god had seen the murber murder and pushed tho the leaves aside kissed the girls wounds and restored reB reo torea her life tto ito her being very strong in the knowledge sf of her innocence the girl called to kahihi lie ile pretended to believe her ina and called to her to come to him she obeyed buethe but ibbe moment after aff cr they met he was so overcome with anger that he again struck ani and killed her retho TI fold id really n i aff their maiden had bad been mur murdered derk decreed that the rains should fall dally daily in this valley of be beauty nifty their tears in memory of her and the rainbows should ever arch above the green green slopes that am the world might remember such exquisite beauty had once walked on the earth |