The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-29
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
SOLE IMPORTER OF THE
ScHIEDA,I AROMATIC ScHN.pps

| When the pure medicinal restorative.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S SCHIE-
DAM SCHNAPPS, was introduced into the
world, under the endorsement of 1000
leading members Of the medical profess
sion, some twenty years ago, it's proprie-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deavorcd to invest it with the strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeiters,
and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
hcult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
| to distinguished chemists for analysis, and
pronounced by them tho purcst spirit ever
manufactured. Its purity and properties
having been thus ascertained, samples of
the article were forwarded to 1000 physi-
clans, including ali the leading practition-
ers in the United States, for purposes of
experiment. circular, requesting trial
OF the preparation and report of the re-
suit, accompanied each specimen 1000
of the most eminent medical men in the
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
OF the article were u animously favorable.
Such a preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
ance could be placed on the ordinary
liquors of commerce; all of which were
more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes. The peculiar
excellence and strength of the oil of juni-
per, which formed one of the principal in
gradients OF the Schnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of the alcoholic
element, give it, in the estimation of the
faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulant as diuretic.
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men of tho highest rank were
published in a condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnapps.
as one of the guarantees of its genuine
ness. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
Tor the article, the label was copyrighted,
aJac st'nae of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that of the prepara-
tion were embossed on the bottles, and the
corks were sealed with his private seal.
No article had ever been sold in this coun-
try under the name of Schnapps prior to
the introduction of Wolfes Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the United
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlot OF New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
quainted with the daring character of the
pirates who prey upon the reputation OF
honorable merchants, by vending delete
rious trash under their name, that the
projections 80 carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
lntroductlons aud sale of counterfeits
they seem, however, only to have stimu-
lated the rapacity of imposters. The trade
mark OF the proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam
Aromatic Schnapps alone received from
the medical profession has been claimed
by mendacious humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been initiated, his advertise
ments paraphrased, his circulars copied,
and, worse than all, dishonorable retaiIers'
after disposing of the genuine contents of
his bottles, have filed them up with com
mon gin, the most deleterious of all
liquors, and thus made his name and
brand a cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps ls prescribed as a romedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
raaious .an pracsices. The genuine article,
undersigned, in Schiedam, Holland, is dis
titled from a barley of the finest quality,
ana 1iavored with an essential extract of
the berry Of the Italian juniper, of une-
9ualled purity. BY process unknown in
the preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corro-
sive element.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians and families in the
Southern States, of the sale of CHEAP imi-
tations OF the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps in those markets; and travellers.
who are in the habit of using it as an anti
dote to the baneful influence of unwhole-
some river water, testify that cheap gin.
put up in Schiedam bottles, is freouentIy
palmed off upon the unwary. The AGENTS
Of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and TO
forward to him the names of such parties
as they may ascertain to be engaged in
the atrocious system of deception. In
conclusion, the undersigned would say
that he has produced, from under the
hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable
OF the purity and medicinal excellence of
the Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps; that he
has expended many thousand dollars in
surrounding it with guarantees and safe
guards, which he designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent
limitations; that he has shown it to be the
only liquor in the world that can be uni.
formly depended upon as unadulterated;
that he has challenged investigation,
analysis, comparison, ard experiment in