The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-01-07


OF the alcoholic clement give it, in the estimation
OF the faculty, a marked superiority over every
other diffusive stimulant as q dluretc, tonic and
restorative.
These satisfactory credential. from professional
men of tho highest rank published in a
condensed form, and enclosed with each bottle
OF the Schnapps, one OF the guarantees of it's
Senuineness Other precautions against fraud
were also adopted; patent was obtained Cor the
article the label was copyrighted, n fac Sitle of
the proprietor s autograph signature was attached
to each label and cover, his name and that of the
preparation embossed on the bottles and tho
corks wero 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
Scalcdam Aromatic Schnapps, in 1851; and the
label was deposited. his trade mark in tho
United States District Court for the Southern Dis
trlct OF New York during that year
IL might be supposed, by persons unacuuaintcd
with the daring character Of the pirates VINO prey
npon the reputation of honorable merchants, by
vending deleterious trash under their name, that
the projections 80 carefully thrown around these
Schnapps would have precludcd the introduc.;0ns
and sale of countcrfcits. They seem, however
only to have stimulated the rapacity of impostcrs
Tho trade mark of tho proprietor has been stolen:
the endorsement which his Schiedam Aromatic
Schnapps alone received from the medical pro-
tession has been claimed by incndacious humbugs:
his labels an bottles have been initiated his ad,
vcrtisements paraphrascd, his circulars copied.
and, worse than all, dishonorablc retailers after
dsposinS OF the genuine contents of his bottles
have Tiled them up with common gin, the most
dcleterious of all liquors. and thus made his name
and brand n cover for poison.
The public, the medical profession and the sick
Ior WnOm the GcnleQam Aromatic Schnapps ia
prescribed as remedy arc equally Interested with
the proprietor in the detection and suppression of
these nefarious practices: The genuine article,
manufactured at tho establishment of the under,
signed in Schicdam, Holland, is distilled from a
barley OF the finest quality, and favored with an
essential extract of the berry of the Italian
jumper, or unequalled purity. BY process
known in the preparation OF any other liquor it is
freed from every acrimonious aid corrosive ce-
mcnt
Complaints have been received from the leading
PHYSICIANS and families i'll the Southern States,
OF the sale of cheap limitations of the Schicdam
Aromatic Schnapps i'll those markets; and travel
ers, vino are in the habit of using an antidote
to the bancfu influence of unwholesome river
water, testify that cheap gin put up in Schiedam
bottles, is frequently paimed off upon the uuwarv
heagents OF the undersigned have been II uuestcd
to institute inquiries on the subject, and to for
may ascertain to be engaged in the atrocious
system Of deception in conclusion, the under
signed would say that he has produced, from under
the hands of the most distinguished men of
science III America proofs unanswerabe of the
purity and medicinal excellence of the Schedam
Aromatic Schnapps; that he has expended many
thousand dollars in surrounding it with guarantees
and safeguards, which he designed should protect
the public and himself against fraudulent imita-
tIohs that he has shown it to be the only liquor in
the world that can be uniformly depended upon
as mnadulturatcd; that he has challenged investi-
CATION analysis, comparison, and experiment in
all Its forins and from every ordeal the prepa-
ration Which bears his name, seal and trade mark
has como off triumphant He, therefore, feels it a
duty he owes to his fcllow-ciiiZcns generally, to
the medical profession and the sick, to denounce
and expose the Cbarlatans who counterfeit these
evidences of identity, and lie calls upon tho press
and the public to aid him in his forts to remedy
great evil.
The following letters and certificates, from the
leading physicians and chemists of this city, will
prove to the reader that all goods sold by the
undersigned arc al! they represented to be-
UDOLpHO WOLFE.
feel bound to say, that regard your Sclnapps
as beng III every respect, prc-cmincntly pure
ana deserving OF medical patronage. At all events
it is the purest possible article Of Holland Gin
heretofore unobtainablc and Us such, may be
safely prescribed by ply 'icans.
DAVID l.. MOTT. NJ. D.
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York
DC PINE SrRYET Ery Yor,. N,v 1897