SOME observations made by United States Senator Depew at a recent dinner of the Bible class of Mr. Rockefeller, son of the Standard Oil magnate, show how strikingly the language of the apostle James in regard to the heaping together of treasure for the last days has been fulfilled in the last fifty years. Mr. Depew, who is a millionaire and an authority on questions which especially relate to the millionaire class in this country, advised the young men to be satisfied with “a modest independence,” rather than attempt to “rival and reach great fortunes.” Of the eighty millions of people in the United States there are, according to Mr. Depew, about one hundred thousand millionaires. But fifty years ago there were not more than one tenth as many, and at that time a man worth only one million dollars was a curiosity in nearly every part of the country. Now, said the Senator, “The million-dollar man has no rank or place or consideration in the ten-million class, and the ten-million chap is a little fellow in the fifty-million or hundred-million circle.” The millionaires of to-day were almost without exception poor and socially obscure a half century ago. All this enormous wealth has been piled up suddenly. There was never any parallel to it in the world before.