Emery County Progress | 1906-02-24 | Page 3 | Europe Preserved by Trifle

BY TRIFLE vanity of musa kept him from lead ing mos ems at tours the nos n os kins king case in history ot of the importance of trifles Is fur dished by the story ot musa a the lead er of ite tle moslem host which won from CI rist endom jn in three and a halt half years kears dominions which it took the sol diers of the cross anty generations to win back he had a red beaida this was a trifle I 1 musa tho gh a ery great general was a very vain man and he dyed h s beard black this was another trifle one of his captains chaffed him on the subject and musa forthwith had bim stripped and scourged for this at the very height of f his conquering career he was recalled by the caliph and d this made it impossible for him to command the moslem arn ya at the battle of tours on the issue of which as all bistor ians tans agree the destinies of europe and perhaps of the who e human race depended it is almost certain that it the genius of musa had replaced the in competence of the halt half dozen tribal leaders whose dissensions made vie tory possible the forces of isla islam m would have joined hands from the west to the east and europe in their grasp stray stones stories