The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-11
Sfbifbam Stbnapps.
OFFICE OF UDOLPHo WOLFE.
Sole Impo, ter If The Schiedam aromatic SchnaPpS,
No. % Beavcr.street.
NEW HnpE NnYemhcr 8 1863.
To the People of the southern States:

| OFFICE OF UDOIPHU WOLfE,
| Sole Impo, ter If The Schieddm aromatic Sctndpps
No. % Beavcr.street.
NEW YORK, November g. 1863
To the People of the Southern States:
WHEN THE PURE MEDICINAL RESTORATIVE
now so widely known as WoLFE'S SCHIEDAM
| SCHNAPPS, was in reduced into the world under
the endorsement of four thousand leading members
of the medical profession some twenty years ago, it;
proprietor was well aware that it could not wholly
escape the penalty attached to all new and useiu
preparations He, therefore, endcaGored 10 invest II
with strongest possible safeguard against counter
feters, and to render all attempts to pirate it dill
cult and dangerous 1t vas submitted to d'stin
guished chemists for analysis, and pronounced by
them The pures spirit ever manufactured. Its puri
! ty and properties having been 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 ol
the article were unanimously favorable. Such q
preparation, they said, had long been wanted by
the profession no reliance could be placed on the
moro or less adulterated, and therefore unfit for
medical purposes. Tho peculiar excellence AND
strength of the oi of juniper, which formed one oi
the principal ingredients of the Schnapps, together
with an unalloyed character of tho alcshollc eie'
ment give it, in the estimation Of the faculty,
marked superiority every other diffusive sdmu
liant as diuretic, tonic and restorative
These satisfactory credentials from professional
men Of the highest rank we're published in con-
densed form, and enclosed with each bottle OF the
Schnapps as one of the guarantees Of it's genuine
nees. Other precautions against fraud were dlso
adopted; patent was obtained for the article the
label was copyrighted, fac simie of the proprieors
autograph signature was attached to each label and
covcr his and that of the preparation were en-
bosscd on the bottes and the corks 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 Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic
Schnspps, 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:qualn'ed
with tho d,ring character of the pirates who prey
upon the reputation ofhonorabe merchants by yend-
ing deeterous trash under their name that the pro-
tectons 30 carefully thrown around these Schnapps
would have precluded the introductons and sole Oh
counterfeits. They seem, however, only to have
stimulated the rapacity of impostors The trade
mark of tn, proprietor has been stoen the indorse'
ment which his Schiedam Aromatic schnapps clone
received from the medical profession has been
claimed by mendacous humbugs; his labels and
bottles have been inflated his advertisements para
phrased, his circulars copied, and worse than all,
dishonorable retailers after disposng Of the genuine
contents of his bottles, have filed them up with
common gin, tho most deleerous of all liquors, and
thus made his name and brInd cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick,
for whom the Schiedam Aromatic schnapps is pre-
scrtbed rs remedy, are equally interested with tho
proprietor in the detection and suppression Of these
neiarious practices. Tho genuine article, manulac-
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 the Ita,n uuipe, of uncqualed pu'
rity. By process unknown in the preparation OF
any other liquor it is freed from every acrimonious
and corrosive clement.
Complaints have been received from the leading
physicians and families in the Southern States OF
the sale of cheap limitations of the Schiedam Aro-
matte schnapps in those markets; and travellers,
who are in the habit Of using it as an dntdote to tho
baneful influence Of unwholesomc river water. tes-
tify that cheap gin. put up in Schedam bottles is
frequently palmed or 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 ascrr-
tain to be engaged in the atrocous system Of decep
tion. In conclusion the undersigned would say that
he has produced from under the hands of the most
distinguished men Of science in America, proofs un
answerable of the purity and medicinal excel
lence of the Schiedam Aromatic Schna2ps that
he has expended many thousand dollars in sur.
rounding 1t with guarantees and safeguards, which
he designed should project the public and himself
against fraudulent limitations; that he has shown it
to be the only liquor in the world that can be uu1-
formly depended upon as unadulterated that he hos
challenged investigation, analysis, comparison and
experiment in all It's forms; and from every ordeal
the preparation whi,h bears his name, zeal and trade
mark, has como of triumphant He, therefore, feels
IL duty he owes to his tollowcitz"ns generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the chaatans who counterfeit these evil
denotes of identity, and he calls upon the press and
The public to aid him in his efforts to remedy SO great
an evil
The following letters aud certificates from the
leading physicians and che mist! of this city will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the under
signc are all that they ore repre- ented to be.
UDOLpHO WOLFE.
Ifccl bound to say, that I regard your Selma BPS