The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-20
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
SOLE IMPORTER OF
SCHIEDANr AROMATIC SCHNApPs.

| 22 BEAVER STREET, New YORK, Nov. 8, 6S.
To The People Of The Southern States.
When tho 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 profes-
sion, some twenty years ago, its propric-
| tor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and
useful preparations. He, therefore, en-
deayored to invest it with the strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeiters,
and to render all attempts to pirate it diff
ficult and dangerous. 1t was submitted
to distinguished chemists for analysis, and
pronounced by them the purest spirit ever
manufactured. Its purity and properties
having boen thus ascertained, samples Of
tho article were forwarded to 10, 900 physi.
clans, including all the leading practition-
ers in the United States, for purposes of
experiment. A 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 tho article wore unanimously favorable.
Such a preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
ancc could be placed on the ordinary
liquors of commerce; all of which wcre
more or less adulterated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes. The peculiar
excellence and strength OF the oil of iuni-
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 az d1urctic.
tonic and restorative.
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men of tho highest rank were
published in condensed form, and en-
closed with each bottle of the Schnapps,
as one OF the guarantees of it's genuine
neas. Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained
for the article, the label was copyrighted.
a fac si'e4e of the proprietor's autograph
signature was attached to each label and
cover, his name and that of the prepara-
ton 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 Wolfe's ScLiedum Aro-
matte schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the United
States District Court for tho Southern Dis
trict of New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
qaalnted with the daring character of tho
pirates who prey upon the reputation of
honorable merchants, by vending delete
rlous trash under their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these schnapps would havo precluded the
introductions and sale of counterfeits.
Thoy seem, however, only to have stimu-
lated the rapacity of imposters. The trade
mark OF the proprietor has boon stolen:
the endorsement which his Schedam
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.
ana, worse than all, dishonorable retailers.
after disposing OF tho genuine contents of
his bottles. havo filed thom up with COM
mon gin, the most dcletorious of all
liquors, and thus mado his name and
brand a covor for pcisou.
The public, the medical profession and
the 81 k, for whom the Echiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as remedy. are
equally interested with tho proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices. The genuine article.
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schiedam, holland, is dis
titled from a barley of the finest quality.
and favored with an essential extract of
the berry of the Italian juniper, of une-
qualled purity. BY process unknown in
tho preparation of any other liquor, it is
freed from every acrimonious and corro-
| sive element.
Complaints have been received from the
leading physicians aud 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
doto to the baneful influence of unwhole-
some river water, testify that cheap gin,
put mp. in Schiedam bottles, is frequently
psimed off upon the unwarv. The agents
OF the undersigned have been requested To
institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward TO him the namea of such parties