Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-06
FRANCOIS DELAUP.
IN. o. Denocrat.7


The columns of our esteemed contcm-
porary, the Bee of this city. came to us
yesterday draped in mourning and con-
tanning an announcement Of the death,
at the great age of eighty years, of Mr..
Francois Delaup, the founder of that
journal and, up to Il recent period. an
honored and venorated iaborer in one of
it's departments. In the Same issue of the
Bee there appeared most touching and,
and as we are informed, most truthful
tribute to his memory. We are assured
by those who knew the man that the
praise pronounced upon him by tho pro-
prletors and editors of the Bee was but 4
simple recognition, though most feeling
ly expressed, of the virtues which mark
ed the character aud conduct of their ce-
parted co-laborer and friend. One, in
whose statements VIC have confidence.
and who worked in the same office with
him for five years, tells us that even af-
ter the debility which nearly always at
tends great age had overtaken him, he
insisted upon going through the daily
routine of duties he had been accustom
ed to perform in the office of the Bee for
many years, and refused to be retired up
Oh q suitable allowance which the pro-
prietors of the paper honorably AID gen
erously offered to make to him. Mr.. De-
Iaup, it appears from this, was Il true la
borer and proposed to die in harness, #
owr efforts the family who were depend
ent upon him. AS his character i, de-
scribed to us, this modest, innocent and
simple old man might have said, as CORN
did to Touchstone: "Sir, am true
laborer; earn that I eat, get that wea.';
owe no man hate, envy no mans happi-
ness; glad of other mcus good, content
with my harm; and the greatest of my
pl ide is to see my ewes Craze and my
lambs: Suck" Mr.. De!aups characteris-
tics, we arc informed on the same au
thority are we'll and correctly described
by the Bee in the article to which we
have referred, and a translation of which
we publish in this issue OF the Democrat.
He is said to have been Il pattern of in
dustry and fidelity in the performance of
his duties; that ho was regular and
methodical in his movements and alb
stemious in his habits; that his presence
could be counted upon at his desk at the
same hour every day of his working life,
and that his friendlinesssof disposition
endeared him to all his colleagues
and fellow-]1borers; that no was
no intermelder in other mems matters,
and never indulged in gossips, much less
scandal that his life was quiet and I'M
obtrusive, and that he rendered to
| every man.his due. While he condnted
the Bee, it was marked then, we are
told, as has been eversince, by the same
judicious management, dignity of tone,
moderation of editorial utterancc and
general excellence as u newspaper, all
of Which qualities still characterize it.
We have penncd these lines less to culo-
| gize the departed than TO draw the atten-
ton Of young newspaper men to the prin-
| clples which guidedt he career of this
worthy father in the profession Of journ-
| aIism. Industry, integrity, simplicity
| and truthfulncss seem to'havc been tho
rules of his life, and we recognize that
| in the death of such {; man, the nswspa-
per press, to which he was an honor, has
suffered loss difficult to repair in these
degenerate times.