The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-25
Office of Udolpho Wolfe,
SOLE IMpoRTER OF THE
SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPps

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-
deavored 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, aud
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 circular, requesting a 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 unanimously favorable.
Such q preparation, they said, had long
been wanted by the profession, as no reli-
anco could be placed on the ordinary
liquors of commerce; all of which were
moro or lcss 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, q marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulant as a dluretic,
tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from pro-
fessional men of tho highest rank wero
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
for the article, the label was copyrighted,
a fac simt!e 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-
the introduction of Wolfe's 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
trict of New York during that year.
1t might be supposed, by persons unac-
pirates who prey upon the reputation of
honorable merchants, by vending delete
rious trash under their name, that the
projections so carefully thrown around
these Schnapps would have precluded the
lntroductions and sale of counterfeits.
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
ments paraphrased, his circulars copied,
and, worse than all, dishonorable retailers.
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 cover for poison.
The public, tho medical profession and
the sick, for whom the Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps is prescribed as remedy, are
equally interested with the proprietor in
the detection and suppression of these ne
Iarious practices. The genuine article.
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-
9ualled purity. BY q 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 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 frequently
palmed of upon tho 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 tho
hands of the most distinguished men of
science in America, proofs unanswerable
OF tho 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 ho 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 unadulterS ted (;
that he has challenged investigation,
analysis, comparison, and experiment in