The True Story Of Mazeppa

Nearly everybody is f.imiliar with the romantic versión of the life of Blazcppa. The starch is entirely taken out of it by a correspondent of tho New Yovk Times, wlu regently visited tho Roumaiiian city of Galátz, where the Ukraiue hero was burieü : " In tlic Cluu-ch of St. Mary is to bc seen the tomb of Mazeppa, the famous hetmán of the Cossacks, immortalized by Byron. His adventure, sung by the bard, wem in reality much inore commonplaco than as we have learncd to know them. Mazeppa was a young Cossack of the Ukraine, who, hoving been ennobled by the Enssians, declined to pay his taxes. For this Üie loo;ü Governor, Connt Talboski, ordered hini to bo stripped naked by his servan ts and tied to the back of his own horse, with Iiis head to the nnimal's tail. The horse wasdhen flogged, pistols were discharged olose to his eins, aud ai Ier being thus excited he was turnea loosr The rond leading to Mozeppa's house was a bndle path kadiug fchrough the woods, whiofa wexe partioularly fertile iu thorn ; bnshes and wild peor trees, and the ini fuiiat. a 1 isl, accUKtomed to follow this róut0 before, dashed oil as soou r.s hp wns nt libcrty,"h(imrw:iTd, whorc his mastcr arrived, very muoh Üu; worse for his journcy. He had, however, enough strength left to cali for the gato-keeper, who recognized his voice, and bpened the door, to eloe it again immediateiy, to keep out wliat he snpposed to be Mazeppaa ghost. At last other servauts, reoovering from their fear, eame to lus assistance and put himto bed, where he romained some months betweeu life and ileaüi trom the injuries lio liad received. When lie recovered ho exiled himself voluntarily to Poland, and, joining himself to the fortunes of Charles XII., was mortally wounded at Pultowa, andj dyïng ai lïamitzii, liia body was biought to and bnvicd ut (Jalatz."