The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-30
WILL END IN MAY
MYSTIC STICKS OF JAPANESE
PROPHET SHOWS FUTURE.

PROPHET SHOWS FUTURE.
WILSON'S future bright
Shortest Day Of the Year is Selected
By Dodama to Learn Secrets of the
Future-Presents His Observations
on the Armies and NaYies Now En-.
gased-Rooseyelt Has Finished.
Following a custom that was i'm
ported into Japan from China ages
ago, Densho Kodama, a japanese
prophet and diviner, prayed before a
fruit trimmed altar for two hours
Wednesday at the Nippon club, in
New York. While ne prayed Kodama
held in his hands bundles Of slender
sticks and occasionally he would
burst the bundle apart, holding a por-
ton in each hand. He would count
the sticks and then he would write
in his book Of divinations.
At l o'clock, when the ceremony
was concluded, Kodama gave out
1915 prophesies concerning the war,
including the date Of its ending, con-
cerring the future OF President VIII
son, which was bright, and the future
of Col. Roosevelt, which was rather
gloomy.
Kodama chose Wednesday for his
prayer because it was the shortest
day Of the year. For many years on
this day, it has been his custom, he
said, to ask of the Almighty Power
about national and international
events and to announce his prophe-
cies.
"But this year I was away from
my own land" he. explained, "and
so / made my devotions and sought
answers to my questions here in the
Nippon club of your city. The pro-
phetic power which invoked was not
taught to me as part of the Shlnto
religion Or any other religion. 1t
came to the Japanese before the
standard religions did. In Japan l
would have erected on my altar a
plain piece of wood on which would
have draped decorations Of white.
But here / chose little green tree
and deeked it in white and put fruit
near it and lighted candles. Tne
white decorations represent truth and
the power and purity Of the Almighty
Power"
A question submitted to Kodama
had to do with Col: Roeseyelt's imme-
date future.
"It was d picture Of a stream run
ming placidly down fill," he answer
ed. mo tendency to run uphill, or
torrentous tendency. That means that
Col. Roosevelt will be going down all
next year and never going up at all.
It also means that he will submit to
it. saw this picture once before. l
asked what would happen to Vlcto-
riano Huerta in Mexico. He was then
at the height Of his power, but he ran
down hill after that as I rrophecied
he would"
Kodama announced the picture he
saw when he Inquired about PresI-
dent Wilson. II saw a man rowing a
boat across rough water, he said,
"and saw Rim reach the other shore
in safety. This means that Presi-
dent Wilson will fsee troubles, put
viii solve them all right. I predict
that he will meet three big problems
next year, two q them domestic and
one connected with foreign affalrs;
He will settle them all right and
when he has done so there will come
an end to his unpopularity. The peo-
pie will like him for doing it.. One
will come to him from the Southwest.
I would say from Mexico.
"When asked about the end OF
the war / saw a picture which en-.
ables me to predict that the war will
end next May by the Intervention OF
a powsrfu1 nation. Since one Of the
problems i saw brought to President
Wilson came frem abroad I feel that
he may be the powerful force which
intervehes to end the war"
Kodama said that six OF the twen-
ty-one questions he asked as he pray
ed had to do with the armies and ma
yies of the warning countries. In ex-
planning the predictions he was will
ing to venture that all must be tu!-
filled before May, since that month
was to see the war ended.
In the first place, he said, 1.-The
British feet will do a very daring and
bold thing in the spring. 1t Will RAID
the German naval base and will sue
cessfuliy assault it. The battle will
be one of the greatest ever fought IN
naval history-one to be remember
ed, and it will end in the complete
destruction of the German naval base
in spite Of the mines guarding It.
The German army, however, will be,
fore this time perform sof1e orlltlant
exploits in Russia. The British cav
airy will win victories greater than
the artillery and infantry, while the
French artillery and infantry will ex
ceed in skill the Freich cavalry.
"The French losses will be more
staggering than the English because
the Germans will centre their as
saults more directly upon the French
than the English. I saw, when
asked about the English army. a oos
swallowing young chicken. The dos
was very sick as it had strangleo
upon a bone. This meant that the
Germans would have much trouble
trying to down the British. When
asked about the British navy So"
rod being struck into the midst o.
breaking eggs. In that way the BTU
ish navy will smash the German.
saw a man being stabbed in the oact
when I asked about the French navy
I predict for it surprises where 1t l!
not prepared. One such surprise,
believe, awaits it in Mediterraneal
waters. 1 saw hunter hunting
mountain over for q prize Wnen