Show AWAKES FROM LONG SLEEP little town of Koenig koenigstein stain hat hac a brief resumption of military glory of the past on oil the great main route iati between n frankfort I and cologne tin the little town tonn of lias has enjoyed an unusual though hough not unprecedented all imury altar importance tin s summer onan wins to the f fact ct that lint general mangin lias has made it ills headquarters the destruction st oil of its it for fortress tres the lie building railways of railways and stean steamships iship for the rhino nil theo had shorn tvan of its onetime one time ume importance and during the alie last years but for the bu butle bustle tle and laughter lau of if tile Per perIo lolle Hc holiday maker tho the little town deenis to liue hae fallen asleep TI through rou uh gently and falling country past gardens de s which are arc a colored tangle of cli leibing geraniums and other blowers ll ill the e tr acler comes upon koenigstern and instantly his attention is ai rested arrested by the great ruin silent misshapen upon the ba hill forca forcing upon the present inexorably the memory of the past here owing to the treachery of one of his messenger the french general meunier surrendered to the prussians in 1792 here the french returned four years later in triumph only shortly after to destroy and then abandon their little city encompassed en compas 1 I by its powerful walls lest the approaching pro pron aching ching enemy should once more himself there today in times of peace a great french soldier walks beneath the shadow of tile alie fortress s while his men in their picturesque tur esque azure uniforms climb inconsequently about its shattered terraces and through its broken doorways |