He liked to see such men as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Graham Sumner, Charles W.Eliot, Frederic Harrison, Paul Bourget, and the like upon his title page--and here these and many other similarly distinguished authors appeared--but the greatest name could not attain a place there if the letter press that followed were unworthy.

Indeed Page's habit of throwing out the contributions of the great, after paying a stiff price for them, caused much perturbation in his counting room.

One day he called in one of his associates.
"Do you see that waste basket ?" he asked, pointing to a large receptacle filled to overflowing with manuscripts.

"All our Cleveland articles are there!" He had gone to great trouble and expense to obtain a series of six articles from the most prominent publicists and political leaders of the country on the first year of Mr.Cleveland's second administration.
It was to be the "feature" of the number then in preparation.
"There isn't one of them," he declared, "who has got the point.

I have thrown them all away and I am going to try to write something myself." And he spent a couple of days turning out an article which aroused great public interest.