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Show EUROPE PRESERVED BY TRIFLE, Vanity of Muaa Kept Him From Leading Lead-ing Moslems at Tours. The most striking case in history of tho importance of trifles Is furnished fur-nished by the story of Musa, tho lender lend-er of the Moslem host which won from Christendom In three and a half years dominions which It took tho soldiers sol-diers of .the, cross twenty generations to win back. Ho hnda red beard; this was a trifle. Musa, though n very great gcnernl, was n very vain man, and ho dyed his heard black. This was n'nother trlflo. Ono of his captains chaffed him on tho subject and Musa forthwith had him stripped and scourced. For thin, at tho very height of his conquering career, ho was recalled by tho cnlliti iind disgraced. This mado It impossible for him to command tho Moslem nrniy at tho battle of Tours on tho Issuo of which', ns all historians histor-ians agree, tho destinies of Europo. and perhaps of tho whole human roco doronded. It is almost certain that,, If tho genius of Musa had replaced tho Incompetence In-competence of tho half-dozen tribal leaders, whoso dissensions mado victory vic-tory possible, tho forces of Islam, would havo Joined hands from tho west to the east and Inclosed Europo In their grasp. Stray Stories. |