Show 1 EUROPE PRESERVED BY TRIFLE Vanity of MUM Kept Him From Lead ing Moslems at Tours The most strikIng case In history of the Importance ° rtanco of trifles Is fur nished by tho story of MUM the lead er at the Moslem host oat which won from Christendom In three and a halt years dominions which It took the sQl titers of the cross twenty generations to win back Ho had a red heard this was a trifle Mtisn though a very great general was a very vain man nnd ho dyed his beard black This was mother trille One of his captains chaffed him on the subject and Mona forthwith had him stripped and i scourled For this at the very height of his conquering career ho was recalled by the caliph and disgraced This mado It impossible for him to command the Moslem army at the battle of Tours on the Issue of which as all hlstor Inns agree tho destinies of Europe and perhaps of tho whole miman race depended It Is almost certain that It tho genius of Musa had replaced the incompetence In-competence of the halfdozen tribal traders whose dissensions made vic tory possible tho forces of Islam would havo Joined bands from tho west to tho east and Inclosed Europo In their grasp Stray Stories |