The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-28
Sfbiebanl Sfbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDoLPHO WOLFE.
Sole Enpo, ter of The Sehiedam Aromatic Scinapps,
No 22 Beaver-street.
NEW YORK, November 5, 1868.
To the People of the Southern States:

To the People of the Southern States;
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE.
now so widely known as WOLFE'S sCHIEDAM
SCYNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement Of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession twenty years ago, its
proprietor was we'll aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useful
preparations. He therefore, endeayored TO invest it
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feicrs and to render all attempts 20 pirate 1t dill
cult and dangerous. It was submitted to distin.
eushed chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them the pures spirit ever manufactured Its puri-
ty and properties having oeen thus ascertaned, sam
pies of the article were forwarded to ten thousand
physicians including all the leading practitioners in
the United States, for purposes OF experiment. a
circular requesting trial Of the preparation and
report OF the result, accompanied each specimen.
Four thousand of the most eminent medical men IN
the Union promptly responded Their opinions OF
the article were unanimously favorable. Such
preparation, they eaid, had long been wanted by
the profession as reliance could be placed on the
ordinary liquors of commerce, all OF which were
more or less adulterated. and therefore unit LOT
medical purposes. The peculiar excellence and
strength Of the oi of juniper. which formed one OF
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps. together
with an uralloycd character Of the alcoholic ele-
ment, give 1t, in the estimation OF the faculty.
marked superiority over every other difusire stnu
liant as q diure,ic, tenic and restorative.
Those satisfactory credentials from professional
mon Of the highest rank were published In con-
densed form, and enclosed 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 for the article the
label was copyrighted, fac simi OF the proPrieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
cover hls name and that of the preparation were en-
Tossed on the bottles and the corko were sealed with
his private SEAL No article had ever been sold In
this country under the name of schnapps prior to
the introduction Of Wofe's schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was deposited, as
his trade mark in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York during that
year.
It might be supposed by persons una:quained
with the during character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation orhonorable merchants BY vend-
ing deeterous trash under their name, that the pro-
tectsns SO carefully thrown around those schnapps
would have precluded the introducions and sale OF
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity Of impostors. The trade
mark Of tn, proprietor has been stolen the nderse-
ment 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 advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than ALL
retailers after disposing cfthe genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gn the most dele.orious of all liquors. and
thus made his name and brlnd O cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick.
for whom the schiedam Aromatic schnapps s pre-
scribed as remedy, equally intereste with the
in the detection and suppression OF these
practices. The genuine article, manuiac-
tured at the establishment Of the undersigned in
Schiedam, Holland, is distilled from barley of the
finest quality and Favored with an essential extract
Of the berry of tho Italian jusipe, Of uncqualed pu
rity. BY process unknown in the preparation -
my other liquor, it is freed from every acrimonious
md corrosive element.
Complaints have been received from tho leading
physicians and families in the Southern States of
the sale Of cheap mutations Of the Schedam Aro-
who are in the habit of using it antdote to the
baneful influence of unwholcsome river water. tes-
fy that choap gin. put up in Schiedan bottloR, is
frequently palned off upon the unwary. The
agents of the undersigned have been requested to
institute inquiries the subject, and to forward to
him the names Of such parties as they may ascrr-
lain to be eneoged in the atreceus system of decep-
hon. In conclusion. the undersigned would say that
be has produced, from under the hands Of the most
men Of science in America, proofs un Z
answerable Of the purity and medicinal excel
ence Of The Sehicdan Aromatic SchnaFps; tHzt
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding it with guarantees and safeguards, which
hs desisnea should protect the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown it
10 be tho only liquor in the world that can be uni
ferrly deponded upon uuadulterated; that he has
investigation. analysis, comparison and
experiment in all lis forms; and from evory ordeal
the preparation whi bears his namc zeal aud trado
mark has come of triumphant. He, therefore, feels
il duty he owes to his ielloweitiz.ns generally to
the - edical procession and the sick to denounce
and expose the charatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes OF identity. and he calls upon the press and
The ublic to aid hm in his efforts TO remedy great
an evil.
The following letters and certificates from the
leading physietans and che nist4 Of this city will
prove 10 the reader that all goods sold by the under
signe are oil that thoy arc repre- entcd TO be.
UDOLpHO WOLFE.