The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-14
3 OF UdolDho WOLF.

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TO sas :. "A {a 09f ne sssoiai en- lS.dses.
Wheh the pure me sdicinai festosa atiye,
now SO Miueiy KnoWnas WOLFEB SOHIE-
DAM SCHNAPPH, was introduced into the
world, iunder the endorsement OF 1000
leading iiiombers OF the medical profes-
zion, Home twenty years ago, its proprie-
tor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape theipenalty at tached to all new and
useful preparations. he, therefore, en-
deavored to invest it with the strongest
possible safeguard against counterfeitera,
and to render all attempts to pirate it dif-
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 been 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. 4,G2G
of the most eminent medical men in tho
Union promptly responded. Their opinions
Of tho article were unanimously favorable.
Such preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
ancc could be placed on tho ordinary
liquors OF commerce; all of which wero
more or lees adulterated, and, therefore,
unfit for medical purposes. Tho peculiar
excellence and strength OF the oil of juni-
per, which formed one Of the principal in
gradients of the Sohnapps. together with
an unalloyed character of the alcoholic
clemert, give it, in the estimation of the
faculty, marked superiority over every
other diffusivc stmulant as dIuretic,
tonic and restorative.
Theso satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional mon OF tho highest rank were
published in q 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
for the article, the label was copyrighted,
aJdc simte 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 Wolfe's Schiedam Aro-
matte Schnapps, in 1851; and the label was
deposited, as his trade mark, in the Unitod
States District Court for the Southern Dis
trict OF New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
quainted with the daring character of the
pirates who prey upon tho reputation OF
honorable merchants, by vending delete-
rious trash uuder their name, that the
projections SO carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
lntroductions and sale of oounterfcits.
Ihey seem, however, only to have stlmu-
lated the rapacityof imposters. The trade
marx OF the proprietor has boen 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 retailers.
after disposing OF the genuine contents Of
his bottles, have Glled them up with com
mon gin, the most deleterious of all
liquors, and thus made his namo and
brand cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and
the 81 X, for whom the Echiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as a remedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
farious practices. The genuine article,
manufactured at the establishment of the
undersigned, in Schicdam, Holland, ia dir
titled from barley of the finest quality.
and Favored with an essential extract OF
the berry Of the italian juniper, OF rne-
qualled purity. By process unknown in
the preparation of any other LIQUOR; it is
freod from every acrimonious AID zorro
sivo element. 't'1ltlfI =
Complaints have been received from the
Leading physicians and families in the
Southern States, of tho eale OF cheap iini-
tations of the Schiedam Aroma tic
Schnapps in those markets; and travellers.
who are in the habit of using it as an an ii,
dote to the baneful influence of unghole-
some river water, teatify that eheap Gin.
put up i'll Schiedafn bottiesj is.frequeiitly
paimcd off upon the unwarg. Tho agents
OF tho undersigned have .besnreauested to
institute inquiries on the subject, and to
forward to HIM tho nameR nf anch .,artins
rs they may ascertain to be engaged in
the atrocious system OF deception. In
conclusion, tho undersigned would saw
that he has produced, from under the
hands OF the most distinguished men OF
science in America, pr6ofs unanswerable
OF the purity and medicinal excellence of
the Scliiedam Aromatic Schhapps; that ne
has expended many thonsard dollars III
surrounding it with guarantees and safo-
guards, Which he designed should protect
tho Dublic and himself aUainat fraudulent