Show Japanese Soothsayer T Delves Into Future Predicts Predicts That Land of Rising Sun and United U States Will Remain Friendly Mediation Will End World War Wilson to Marry Widow Divination Professor Says the secret of oC fn dl embodied the Chinese Chin se I OUR THOUSAND years ago OUI of oC dl- dl known as as KinA YI r ng as this science atlon in a book t has hl H It was practiced vitiation known to and report nS I Is called rolled was Kodama by Con Confucius In Los Angeles AnEel R yesterday esterday Professor ProCessor Slit Shi Kai president of oC the Chinese re republic re- re Yuan adviser M to of ot Tokio formerly made of the use S twenty one an adept In this science public and rod for Cor twenty one years rs ancient a secrets to predict that William II IL Taft will bo ho elected re-elected d president In 1916 Peace will wUl bo be restored In Mexico next year The war In Europe will soon be halted b by me mediation laUon which will gradual gradually grad grad- into permanent peace wally ual be bo transmuted be bo at the expiration cx- cx will m not President Wilson 1 will be bc popular but his party part of his tern P Some time near March 1916 President Wilson will marry a n. widow which he will live JIve In New ew York The kaiser will not bo be crushed by hy the fortunes of war seven se years is restored he will wItt have rehabilitated his nation after Neither peace the allies nor the Teutonic alliance will gain or suffer much b by bythe the terms germs of ot peace peuco In Europe Europ but Turkey will sustain heL heavy losses I Japan and the United States will remain friendly As a n symbol of each ench nation he sees thunder but no lightning which being interpreted means means that there will be much talk and noise but no actual clash and In Ina Ina a a. few Cew years complete h harmony rmon will ill be established The great popularity of oC Theodore Roosevelt Is ended His symbol isa is a a. m man n going downhill his health will remain Rood good but he has lost the ear car carof of ot the p people He says he reads In the signs of ot the ekl eki that the kaiser and are not In accord about the war x and that there Is or has peen neen friction between be between between be- be tween them LOS AS ANGELES A Juno b. b b. b b Profess rr cr be prop Kodama doesn't appear to 10 a n et without honor In his own country He has a a. letter from the tha lito lato lan Mu lIls i Komura Komuro formerly J of ur foreign affairs and chief of oC the tho plenipotentiaries plenipotentiaries I negotiating n the th mouth lort I treat treaty of peace pence with lg H ia expressIng express express- sing s- s Ing leg admiration for his Ills skill and n accuracy accuracy curacy cu- cu racy In tho science of or divination and assuring the professor or that all predictions relative to Komura's affairs had come true He has similar expressions of tavor ta- ta fa favor a- a vor or from lr President Yuan Shi l' l Kal Kat ai the former emperor of oC Korea and t tits the vice Ice p of or th the Chinese republic Yuan Shi Kai Kni so 1 l Iwas was informed by bythe bythe th the interpreter T. T Takagi of oC l los ol An An- Kodama Ko does dos not d for e-for for Prore Professor ama English expressed English expressed sed th the greatest and gratitude for Cor the prophetic advice IY given n anti and recorded his o of favor In an Ideographic Ideo Ideo- graphic page pago to which was a affixed the presidents president's personal seal Any Anyone nF who can read It can see seo for himself Th The professor says that er Is IB i inot not an esoteric science that hat the study IB is II open to any and all who wish to take it Il up and that If It one Is naturally adapted for the work at the ens end of some somo three years ears o of hard continuous study one should be bo able to receive the messages messaged of the pod gods with some degree of accuracy He has been studying twenty one one years was as the favorite pupil of the late K K Takashi- Takashi ma and docs does not claim infallibility I myself am nothing Professor Kodama said I 1 Invoke th the God to whom hom I pray and he hl s sends mo me his message through symbols I interpret these symbols There are major symbols and minor symbols or words by b means fo to which the professor re- re his mess message Je and ho can con them b by rote roto backwards or As s I study more mor he went on tl rI become more proficient I 1 find Cind Iam I am now r usually right nine times out r of ten v Posed As Million Millionaire K who took Kodama as his disciple has been called the tho minded keenest d man In Japan which Is la putting It rather stron strong Buthe But Buthe Buthe he was better known in finance and commerce than as a di the tho Japanese Who ho bluntly ranks him as a a. millionaire anti and an It Is reported report report- ed ed cd that b by hs his gifts of ot prophecy ho lie was able to acquire his fortune It Is certain that he lie acquired the fortune and won such uch recognition that the and Empress ss of Japan themselves themselves them- them selves s paid visit a a. to private private vate vale which residence which in Japanese 1 etiquette is almost tho highest t courtesy courtesy cour cour- tes tesy a a. civilian can be shown Talc Talc- ashima also predicted tho the da day hour and minute of or his own death October death d October 16 1914 at 3 clock o'clock p. p pm p.m. m. m It was at I suggestion that Professor sor Kodama wont went to Pekin and met President Yuan It was T also at Taka- Taka shima's suggestion that Professor Kodama Kodama Ko Ko- dama undertook the tour of oC tho the United United United Unit Unit- ed States and Canada Just JURt a word more about Takashi ma In whoso whose household Professor ProCessor Kodama Kodama Kodama Ko Ko- dama lived for Cor years He lie had three daughters slaughters and m married ono one to a prince one to a n lb baron b ron and ard one ono to a general The gift of prophecy prophet ecy et Is said to have aided him there thereOn thereOn thereOn On another occasion ho he predicted an earthquake In a Japanese elt city and or ordered ordered or- or dered ered a a. hu huge e amount of lumber In advance td- td ad advance vance to prepare for It It and eo so succeeded succeeded suc suc- in getting most of ot the building building building build build- ing contracts after tho the earthquake came there thereby b adding greatly to his fortune Neither Professor Kodama nor his Interpreter Mr lr Takagi spoke of this But mention of It it may i r h r c found In Ina Ina ina a laudatory article in the Japanese Magazine Tokio March larch of this thin year car Professor Kodama uses the method of divination by rods which with the Bible Talmud and Koran for authorIty authority authorIty author author- ity ma may be considered perhaps the oldest method of attempting to seize facts prematurely from Crom the hands of tho the gods Sods The Bible Talmud and Koran all refer reter to and sometimes explain the method of ot divination b by consulting consulting- the tho rods of ot Aaron the arrows or spears of Ellsha Elisha the arrows of The Th-o course coure course of or study and training Is not required to learn to manipulate J late te the fifty lCt short slender bamboo rods used in but to be able to put the tho mind Into the proper re receptive receptive receptive re- re mood to receive the thc symbols symbol from Crom the gods The manipulation of the rods and blocks bloc Is largely a ceremonial ceremonial ceremonial cere cere- rite a sort of or prayer accompanying accompanying the invocation In The explanation of the tho rite as practiced by b Professor Kodama Is that hat tho the fUt fifty rods are taken from their vase of lacquer and gold and reverently raised toward towan heaven en then the ho forehead ad Is touched so that the Inspiration may de descend to the dl- dl viner One ro rod representing the tho Almighty Almighty Almighty Al mighty Spirit Is placed back in Sn the vase before beCore him Looking at this in intently intently intently in- in and rolling the other rods carelessly care care- carelessly Jes lessly h but methodically his face Cace is suddenly transformed his eyes close his hod body trembles as with intense emotion emoLion and a spasm of pain seems the face of a the face reflected d in his face dreamer He lIe suddenly separates the rods and instantly his composure Is regained Those in his right hand representing earth are laid aside those remaining in the left leCt hand are quickly counted by couples Including one rod that has hM been separated from the earth group and this rod Is held between the ring and the little finger finger fin fin- Inger In- In ger of or the left leCt hand pointing out outward out out- ward It symbolizes the one making making- inquiries of the Almighty Spirit Tho The remaining ro rods s are recorded by byo tho dice dominoes blocks of wood heavily lacquered and painted black broad A with strange symbols Inset red band runs runa through the tho center centor of oC one side of ot the tho blocks The Tho reverse i shows a thin re red line lino shaped like a n bellow square These cubes form tonn tho the magic hexagrams and as ns the they become grouped ac according to the laws of or the divided rods the they are easily translated through h the symbols which the student student student stu stu- dent must keep In mind Professor ProCessor It Jt must be admitted that Kodama is rather a good guesser esser If Ir f one is skeptical of his divining powers powers pow- pow ers eis Newspaper clippings s of ot months past show that man many predictions told when made have come true He Ito iJ would leave icu v Mexico n that iJ icu v n China Chino would yield to Japan without date approximate thu tho I fighting gave save for Cor outbreak of the European war I would come como cometo that unusual prosperity to the United States after the first i six months of or the war Some time Urn ago t 0 he hn had l divined that the tho Republican party part would be re restored restored re- re stored to office in 1916 Asking for fort forA 0 t list of possible po sl le candidates be he under under- 4 W 1 to tell t ll Il which will be ho elected I Senator Borah Senator Root and A Mr li limit r mentioned For Senator mit w were re Borah he got the symbol of ot a boat 1 out to sea sen with flying sails galls and then springing Bringing a n. leak l ak which he h that Borah's interpolated d as meaning Senator candidacy will not prosper Root he hr h said will have hae a n powerful Influence but will cx extend It to Taft Tart and after aCter th the election he aw saw Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Root Hoot being given a high place of authority In the government go Taft he heId said Id does dos not want to be he a candidate candidate candi candi- date but ho will reunite th the tha Progressives Progressives to the Republican party and will willbe willbo be bo elected Ia a Professor ProCessor Kodama was born thirty thirty- eight I ht years ago aJo at Obi alii in the island of ol of Kyushu and helon belongs s to the Samurl clan clem of oC Lord Ito llo He was left an orphan or orphan or or- phan at the a age e of ot 5 and ho he spent a lonely lonel childhood Almost from the thet t J he Is p. p vas WIlH attracted to the study of the Chinese classics and being of or a dreamy mystical nature began to toI lake 1 e up lilt Ills predictions I grew rew bolder holder more o accurate his hig J I knowledge of oC the ancient Chinese |